"Steamed buns, wait for me, I'll come with you." As I was talking, I started to climb up the boat. The boat was not high, only four or five meters at most, so it didn't take much effort to get up.
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Just as I moved my front legs, Jiao Ba and Chang Shan also climbed up on my back legs. After the three of us climbed onto the stone boat, Mantou said a little excitedly, "You should have come up a long time ago. Look at this box. There must be treasures in it."
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Only then did I see that the deck of the stone ship was piled with wooden boxes, almost covering the deck. These were all ancient wooden boxes. Each wooden box must be more than one meter high and long.
It also has to be one meter wide, almost like a large square box, except that the lid of the box is slightly curved.
The color of the boxes are uniformly dark red, with some patterns on them, and a copper lock in the middle. This kind of wooden box was a treasure box specially used to hold gold, silver or pearl agate in ancient times. I didn't expect that there would be one on this stone ship.
There are so many, it would be unimaginable if every box was filled with treasures.
If I could take these things back, I wouldn't be able to spend them all in dozens of lifetimes, let alone a few lifetimes, and I could even be as rich as the country. At this moment, I was also confused by the scene in front of me, and I could only imagine my future.
Beautiful days.
Jiao Ba then touched me and said, "Brother Yi, don't be stunned, let's go inside the cabin and have a look."
I responded, and the four of us walked back to the cabin of the stone ship. This stone ship had no hatch, and we could enter directly along the deck. When we walked into the cabin, everyone was shocked again.
Inside the cabin, the wooden boxes were placed around the cabin, one after another. They were almost piled up to the ceiling. Only the middle left a place for walking. The other places were piled tightly, and there were wooden boxes everywhere.
box.
"Oh my god, there are actually so many boxes here?" Chang Shan looked around and said with a surprised look on his face.
"Hehe, let me tell you, there must be a treasure here, why don't you worry, what do you think? Am I right?" Mantou said proudly beside him, his eyes almost shining.
Jiao Ba frowned, "There seems to be something wrong. Why are there so many boxes? If there are treasures in these boxes, it is simply unimaginable. Moreover, this is only for one stone ship. What about the other stone ship?"
The boat hasn’t been counted yet.”
What Jiao Ba said is not unreasonable. Even the ancient emperors did not necessarily have so many burial objects. Except for a few emperors, most of the emperors' burial objects were not as numerous as here. Just this stone ship alone
There must be nearly a hundred wooden boxes, not counting another stone ship.
"Jiao Ba, you are just suspicious. It's obvious. Why is it strange?" Mantou looked at Jiao Ba with disdain and said with a big mouth.
Jiao Ba rolled his eyes and said, "No, it must be wrong. We have to open the box and take a look."
I nodded and said, "Well, if there is any treasure, you will know after opening it. Let's go to the deck."
Most of the wooden boxes in the cabin were piled together in four or five, which was very difficult to move, so we had to go back to the deck. The wooden boxes on the deck were all side by side, not three or two.
If they are placed together, it is relatively easier to move them.
We found a relatively nearby wooden box, and four people carried it to the middle of the deck. The wooden box was so heavy that it took the four of us a long time to get it out.
When the wooden box landed, Mantou said excitedly, "Look, how heavy this box is. It must be filled with gold." Both of his eyes glowed green, like hungry wild wolves.
It was like finally seeing a little sheep.
"You'll know when you open it." I squatted down, grabbed the copper lock, and pulled it down hard. I thought that after so many years, the lock would have been scrapped long ago, but I didn't expect that it was still so strong. I was scrapped.
After a long time of effort, I still couldn't pull it away.
"You can't open it with your hands, so let me do it." Jiao Ba squatted down, took out a diving knife, jammed the inside of the copper lock with the knife, and pried it out hard. There was a "click" sound, and the copper lock
The locking nose and the whole thing fell off.
After the copper lock fell, the four of us glanced at each other. It could be seen that the big guys were a little nervous at this moment. When Jiao Ba slowly opened the box, we were all dumbfounded, completely dumbfounded.
, Steamed Bun’s face was even more ugly, almost turning black.
No wonder this box is so heavy. What kind of gold and jewelry are contained in it? The feelings are actually a box of useless rubble. This joke is a bit too big.
Jiao Ba grabbed a handful of stones, looked at them, sneered and said, "I just said, it's not that simple. Ordinary stones are useless at all."
"Impossible, how could it be a stone? Jiao Ba, take a closer look, take a closer look." Steamed Bun was a little crazy. He was so excited just now that he wanted to die, but now it's given to him from all over the world.
Beaten down.
Jiao Ba stood up and said, "You're right, the rocks on this mountain are useless."
"So, it's possible that these boxes contain useless stones?" Chang Shan said with wide eyes. Apparently he didn't understand what was going on. There were stones in the boxes for funerary objects.
It's quite strange.
"I think it's about the same." Jiao Ba was very calm, with a calm face, without any disturbance at all.
"How could it be a stone? I don't believe it, I absolutely don't believe it."
After Mantou finished speaking, he went to move other boxes. A few of us had to go over and help him. After opening four or five boxes in a row, we verified Jiao Ba's statement. These wooden boxes were filled with gravel.
They are useless stones on this mountain, not worth a penny.
"Hey~ It seems that the wooden boxes on this stone ship are all filled with stones." Chang Shan sighed and said helplessly.
Mantou had a painful expression on his face. He squatted on the ground, covered his face with his hands and said, "How could this happen? How could this happen? Shouldn't there be treasures? How could it be stones? How could these useless stones be there?
Woolen cloth?"
I held his shoulders and said, "Forget it, the facts are already in front of you, you can't help but not believe it."
Steamed Bun suddenly raised his head and said, "I know, this is a deception. It must be a deception. The surface layer is made of stones, and there must be treasures inside." As he spoke, he used his hands to dig out the stones in the wooden box.
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Just when Chang Shan wanted to stop him, I stopped him. I looked at him, shook my head gently and said, "Let him dig, otherwise he won't give up."
Mantou dug through all the wooden boxes we opened. He almost hollowed out the stones inside, and he couldn't dig out a single grain of gold.
In the end, he sat on the deck of the stone ship with squinting eyes and said to himself, "How could this happen? How could this happen? Isn't it said that there is a treasure? But where is the treasure?"
Seeing the steamed buns like this, I suddenly felt very uncomfortable. Our purpose of going to sea was originally for money, but now let alone money, there is only a pile of useless rocks.
"Forget it, steamed buns. Maybe this stone ship doesn't exist, but there is another stone ship." I really couldn't think of any good way to comfort him, so I could only say this.
As soon as Mantou heard this, he immediately got up and said, "Yes, yes, Zhongyi, you are right. Maybe this stone ship doesn't have it, but there will definitely be another stone ship." I suddenly felt that Mantou's spirit was a little bit...
It's not normal, it seems crazy.
At this moment, Mr. Mai and Li Xin climbed onto the stone ship. When they saw the scene on the deck, they quickly understood what was going on without us having to say anything.
Li Xin said in amazement, "What does this mean? Stone? This..."
She didn't know what to say in the end. Most people couldn't understand this. In such a large underground palace building, the funerary objects inside actually contained stones. Is this a living person fooling the dead? Or is it deliberately playing tricks on future generations? It's true.
I can't understand.
"Why...why are they all filled with stones? Zhongyi, how many boxes have you checked?" Mai Lao looked at me and asked, his expression was extremely serious, almost like a steamed bun.
I pointed my hand and said, "Aren't these all here? I opened six of them in total, and they were full of gravel, and there was nothing else."
Mai Lao had a sullen face and said after a few seconds, "These boxes don't mean anything? I'm afraid there's a scam. We have to open all the boxes here and check them. I don't believe they are all stones."
Jiao Ba and I looked at each other, and he said, "Mr. Mai, there's no need. There are hundreds of boxes in here. It would take too much time to open them all."
"If you don't open them all, how can you know whether there are stones in other boxes?" Mai Lao sealed Jiao Ba with one sentence. Jiao Ba only inferred, but he meant practice.
"Yes, yes, Mr. Mai is right, you must open them all." The steamed buns were now full of energy again.
"Okay, let's open it all and take a look."
Then Li Xin called Jenny and Shunzi up, and all of us started to open and inspect boxes one by one. I don’t know how long it took, an hour, maybe two hours, I can’t remember.
I just remember that all the wooden boxes were packed
After opening it, the inside was still full of rubble, with no exception. The wooden boxes on this stone ship were filled with these rubbles. I tiredly sat down on the wooden box and said, "I've checked everything.
There is nothing but stones, nothing."
Everyone is a little disappointed, everyone's expression is not very good, we have wasted a long time of effort, but what we got is worthless rotten rocks, which makes people a little angry.
Among all the people, only Jiao Ba was expressionless. He was very calm because he had already said that there would be nothing else in these wooden boxes except stones.