When Liu Handong heard this, he understood that Uncle Hu should be a faculty member of Jiang University, otherwise he would not call himself a classmate. He asked: "Teacher, which department are you from?"
Uncle Hu said: "What other department could it be? Of course it is the history department."
Liu Handong and Wang Xing looked at each other in awe. It turned out that he was an old professor in the Department of History who studied archeology. It would be no problem to ask him to rob the tomb. Digging for the gold hidden in Yanzhi would be a piece of cake.
Uncle Hu then asked: "I remember seeing you in the history department teaching building. Are you with that tutor?"
Liu Handong knew that the other party had misunderstood. He should be a doctoral candidate at his age, but he was actually an undergraduate student. How embarrassing it was.
"Mr. Hu, I am an undergraduate student." Liu Handong explained with shame, "I just said that I seem to have seen you somewhere. I have never attended any of Mr. Hu's classes. I'm really sorry."
Uncle Hu smiled: "It's just that you haven't taken my class, and I don't teach."
"Then you are?"
"I work in the logistics department and am responsible for cleaning."
Liu Handong was shocked, and Wang Xing also smiled bitterly. The co-author is a janitor from the history department.
"Don't underestimate your Uncle Hu, he is the sweeper of Jiang University's History Department." Wei Shengwen snorted dissatisfied.
Liu Handong and Wang Xing both chuckled.
The four of them took two cars to the Langya base. Liu Handong and Mr. Hu drove the Wuling Light. Along the way, Uncle Hu kept smoking and talking loudly. He talked about the wild history of Hong Chengchou's daughter Dorgon having sex. Liu Handong frowned as he listened.
head.
At ten o'clock at night, they arrived at the Langya Team's patriotic education base in the wilderness. It was far away from the main road and far from the scenic area management committee. The leaves were rustling, the moonlight was shining all over the ground, and there was no one in sight.
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Liu Handong pulled off the seal on the door, drove the car in, unloaded the diesel generator, and Uncle Hu opened the wooden box. Inside were nine Luoyang shovels of different shapes and sizes wrapped in oilcloth.
"This is a flat shovel, this is a heavy shovel, this is a rolling fork, this is a skimmer, some shovel soil, some break bricks, some dig sand..." Uncle Hu introduced them one by one. These Luoyang shovels are extremely well maintained.
Good, the copper shines under the light.
Wang Xing asked: "Do we need so many guys?"
Uncle Hu said disdainfully: "Of course it's not necessary, I just want you juniors to open your eyes and gain insights."
He took a Luoyang shovel with the simplest shape, connected it to the back with a white wax pole, walked back and forth in the yard a few times, stood in the center, took out a compass from his canvas bag, and muttered something.
Liu Handong and Wang Xing looked at each other in confusion: "What are you doing? Are you a master of dance?"
Uncle Hu finished reciting the incantation, lit a cigarette and said: "This is no different from archaeological excavation, there is no Feng Shui to talk about, but there are also rules for hiding treasures. You must have a reference object, otherwise you won't be able to find the place in a few years.
Wouldn't you be caught blind?"
The terrain of the Patriotism Education Base is complex. There is a parking lot paved with hollow floor tiles, cement roads, flower beds and green belts, and a large field field with hundreds of trees planted. When it comes to reference objects, there are reference objects everywhere.
There's absolutely no way to start.
Wei Shengwen couldn't control his anger and said, "Popular euphratica, quickly locate your position and stop showing off."
Uncle Hu put the Luoyang shovel back and took out a thing that looked like a mine detector. There was a metal circle in the front, with wires connected to the back. The long pole was held in his hand, just like the engineers who cleared mines in the movie. He was not
Instead of going into battle in person, he commanded Wang Xing to explore.
Wang Xing scanned the land inch by inch with a metal detector. When he reached the flower bed, a buzzer suddenly sounded. Uncle Hu stepped forward quickly, inserted the Luoyang shovel, pulled it out, and carefully inspected the soil. He shook his head and said it was wrong.
"Don't worry about whether it's right or not, let's dig it first!" Wang Xing picked up a shovel, spit on his hand, and started digging. He was sweating profusely when digging, and the shovel finally hit a hard object.
"Yes!" Wang Xing was ecstatic, threw away the shovel, and began to dig the soil. The other three people also looked forward with flashlights, and saw a spindle-shaped metal object slowly revealed in the pit, stained with rust and aged.
long time.
"Holy shit! Mortar shells." Wang Xing shouted bad luck. This thing was probably left over from the Anti-Japanese War. Maybe the fuse and explosives hadn't expired yet, so they quickly threw it into the pond.
After a while, let's continue the detection. This time, Liu Handong is on the move, clearing the whole yard for mines, while the other three are sitting and smoking and chatting.
When we reached the parking lot, the buzzer rang again. We all started working together, using hoes to lift up the hollow floor tiles. We dug hard with shovels, and after digging down fifty centimeters, we hit something.
Liu Handong stretched out his hand to push away the soil and saw the upper cover of the crate. He picked up a pickaxe and smashed open the crate, revealing a dark mass inside. He tried his best to pull it out. It was a long object wrapped in oilcloth.
, it was tied tightly. He took out his Swiss Army knife and cut open the oilcloth. What was hidden inside was a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle and dozens of yellow bullets.
The parts of the rifle are covered with butter and are in good repair. There is no rust. It is probably a weapon secretly kept by Yan Xiaojun, a military fan.
The four of them were stunned. They were obviously here to dig for treasures, but why did they turn into weapons? They dug again to see if there were any other treasures. They dug further for a while, but found nothing. It seemed like this was the only gun.
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First put the gun aside and continue to detect. This time it's Wei Shengwen, so let's change your luck.
Wei Shengwen scanned the sky for a long time and found nothing, not even a scrap of metal.
Uncle Hu said, "I'll do it." He didn't use a detector, but used a Luoyang shovel to poke east and west, without any rules, and made the yard look like a prairie dog's home, with holes everywhere.
Before I knew it, dawn broke in the east, and a whole night passed like this.
When everyone was yawning, Uncle Hu laughed proudly: "You can't find anything even if you wear iron shoes. It takes no effort to get here."
The three of them all looked down upon him and said, "I've been digging all night and haven't worked hard yet. Isn't this nonsense?" However, they still ran over quickly.
Uncle Hu stood at the end of the field garden, holding a Luoyang shovel in his hand and said: "Look, the soil layer here is different from other places. It must have been filled in later. That's right, dig!"
The four people took turns picking up shovels and went into battle. The encouragement of the treasure made them not tired. The shovel wheel was like a windmill, and soon dug a big hole, revealing a black wooden board.
"It's out, it's out." The four of them were very excited. Wang Xing jumped into the pit regardless of the muddy water, stroked the board and said, "It's still good sandalwood, tsk tsk."
Wei Shengwen's expression changed: "Nah! This is a coffin."
Liu Handong still had illusions: "Maybe the gold is hidden in the coffin."
Continuing to dig, the top of the coffin is basically exposed. This is a very elegant sandalwood coffin. The country has been conducting cremation for some years. This must be the tomb in the 1970s and 1980s at the latest, but no one would use extravagant coffins at that time.
Sandalwood coffin.
Uncle Hu looked at it carefully and said, "This is a coffin from the Qing Dynasty."
Wang Xing said: "There won't be any big red-haired rice dumplings, so hurry up and get the black donkey's hooves."
Uncle Hu said: "No, at most it's a rotting corpse. Do you want to see it? It's best to find something to cover your nose. The smell may be stronger."
Wei Shengwen said not to open the coffin. It has no archaeological value anyway, so why disturb the deceased's eternal rest.
Wang Xing insisted that there might be valuable funerary objects inside, so he must open them and take a look.
After a stalemate, four people voted, three to one, and Wang Xing had to obey the majority and pile the dirt back.
It was already morning, and the garden was in a mess. It cannot be said that nothing was found, but the most important thing was not found. Everyone was very frustrated and decided to go home and look for clues again.
Suddenly Liu Handong had an idea and said I had a plan.
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At 7:30 in the morning, Yan Xiaojun was still sleeping soundly at home. Suddenly his cell phone rang. He didn't answer it.
"Fuck you!"
"Yan Xiaojun, you are quite capable." A strange voice sounded, probably synthesized by software. The voice was so distorted that you couldn't even distinguish between male and female.
"Who are you? Don't do this. Be careful if I find out your details and I won't kill you!" Yan Xiaojun was not afraid of this kind of threat, but the other person's last words made his hair stand on end and made him break into a cold sweat.
"You have hidden a lot of good things." The other party said slowly.
"What do you mean?" Yan Xiaojun took a deep breath and asked.
"I don't mean anything. You have hidden a lot of good things in your patriotic education base, right." After saying this, the other party hung up.
Yan Xiaojun sat blankly for a while, then suddenly jumped up, put on his clothes, went out, got in the car, and drove his Wrangler straight to the Langya base.
When he came outside the base, he saw that the seal on the gate had been torn off. Yan Xiaojun felt cold and hurried in. He saw that the whole courtyard was full of dug holes. The big hole in the parking lot was the most glaring. He subconsciously went to the pond.
After checking it carefully, I felt a little calmer, but still worried, so I called to make arrangements: "Xiao Wang, help me arrange a water pump. You contact me first, and then call me after you find it."
After making this call, Yan Xiaojun went into the house to check. As soon as he entered the door, he was slapped and fell to the ground. He was covered with a black hood and his hands and feet were tied tightly with tape.
Liu Handong returned to the yard and said, "How about it? My plan works. The treasure is in the pond."
Wang Xing exclaimed: "Right under our noses, we didn't even expect that it was true to the old saying, ten thousand people can't find what one Communist Party member hides."
Wei Shengwen said: "Stop talking nonsense and pump water quickly. There are diesel engines and water pumps in the Populus euphratica car and rubber pipes in the garden. Hurry up and get started."
The four of them started working together and started pumping water. There was not much water in the small pond. The water level slowly dropped and gradually bottomed out. The bottom of the pond was not mud, but a layer of cement. There was an iron chain in the center.
Waterproof cabinet, the cabinet door is screwed shut with iron wire.
Liu Handong jumped down, smashed the door handle with a hammer, and opened the cabinet door. His eyes almost fell out. He was stunned for a few seconds before he let out a heartfelt admiration: "Holy shit!"