When I heard it was safe, I turned to Dou Sprout and said, "Hurry up and take off your pants."
Dou Sprout scratched his head and said, "I'm gone Fengzi."
"Can you do something serious? I didn't let you drink three bottles of mineral water before you came here?"
"I'm sorry, I waited for you for too long. I couldn't hold it in and even finished peeing." Douya chuckled.
"Fengzi, let's try this. I think there should be no stones underground."
There is no way, and I don’t have any, so I can only try hard now.
Turning on the flashlight, aiming it at the shovel head, I started to tighten the screws and connect the poles.
After the brick house, we chose two places to explore.
I raised the shovel with both hands and struck it down. The soil felt hard, too hard.
Because it was so cold, it was freezing.
In winter, this kind of frozen soil is usually about one meter deep. As long as it exceeds this depth, it will be easier to drill. Dou Sprout and I used all our strength to shovel down in turns. Little by little, we drilled a small hole in the ground behind the brick house.
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After going down for more than one meter, I passed the frozen soil layer. I was unlucky and didn't hit any rocks.
At this time, the walkie-talkie in my pocket suddenly turned on a red light.
"Be careful, someone is passing by."
I quickly took back the shovel and hid in the corner with Bean Sprouts.
Waited quietly for a few minutes.
"Let's go, it's okay."
We continued to explore further.
Then the situation I was most worried about happened.
When we went down more than three meters underground, the shovel encountered an obstacle and hit a stone. In this case, we had no choice but to change the location and dig the No. 2 exploration point.
The No. 2 exploration point I set is more than ten meters away from the No. 1 exploration point. If I do it here during the day, I will definitely be seen by others. Fortunately, it is night now, and Jiang Yuan is still keeping an eye on me.
After changing to No. 2 exploration point, I speeded up. Every time I brought up a shovel, I would look at the soil layer to see if there was any flower soil or living soil.
If it's not enough, take the pole.
It's not enough, I can't get it, I'm trying to pick it up.
Soon Dou Sprout said: "It's gone, Fengzi, I only brought four of them, what should I do?"
I thought for a while, then gritted my teeth and said, "You go back and get it now, and it will be delivered to you within an hour. The sooner the better."
Dou Sprout looked at the time and said, then find a place to hide and don't get caught. I'll be back as soon as possible.
Jiang Yuan asked on the intercom.
"Hey, why is that guy named Douzi gone?"
I said my estimate was wrong. He went back to get something. Come here and hide here for an hour so no one can see him.
There was a night shift in the factory, and the wind picked up in the middle of the night, causing pain on people's faces. Jiang Yuan put on a monkey hat and squatted in the corner to take shelter from the wind. I didn't wear a hat, and seeing no one around, I lit a cigarette to keep warm.
"Hey, you're not asleep, are you?"
She was wearing a monkey hat and couldn't see her face, so I saw her eyes closed.
"I didn't sleep," Jiang Yuan opened her eyes and said.
"Let me ask you something, does your Jiang family have the practice of performing sacrifices backwards? Do you know where this rule comes from?"
She thought for a while and said: "We have always been like this. It has been going on since I was a child. I heard from my grandpa that it seems to be a rule passed down from the elders. I have never met my great-grandmother. I heard from my grandpa that one day during the war, my great-grandmother
I walked backwards at night to worship my ancestors, and even scared a little devil to death."
"Did your great-grandmother scare the little devil to death?"
When I thought about it, maybe this was really possible, because Jiang Yuan almost scared me to death that night.
After careful questioning, it turned out that her great-grandmother's generation was a big landowner before the Jiang family. Her great-grandmother married Liu Tang, and Liu Tang's father was Liu Chunlin, the number one scholar in Jiachen Enke in the late Qing Dynasty in 1904, who was also a feudal scholar.
The last number one scholar during the period was considered a prominent person in the local area.
Jiang Yuan said that the Japs came at that time, and everyone in the village had to close their doors at night, and every household did not dare to go out, because the Japs were killing people, and everyone was afraid.
One night in December, Grandma Jiang Yuan couldn't sit still. She ignored Liu Tang's persuasion and insisted on going to the grave to offer sacrifices. She did not dare to break the rules passed down from her ancestors.
So her great-grandmother took the risk and went out with a lantern at around twelve o'clock in the evening.
In 1940, the Xi'an Sulfuric Acid Plant was still a wasteland with no one living there. It was said that all the dead children in the family were buried here.
From time to time, several dogs barked nearby. Under the faint moonlight, young Mrs. Jiang Yuan, dressed in white and holding a red lantern, slowly walked backwards on the dirt road.
At that time, the Japs were stationed outside the village. The leading officer called Xiaoji Taiyuan, and everyone in the village shouted "Chicken Taiyuan." This Japs soldier got up at night. He saw the red lantern from a distance and immediately shouted: "Baga, Baga!
Die, die, it’s the flower girl’s! It’s the job of catching the flower girl!”
Xiaoji Taiyuan immediately led three Japanese soldiers and ran to catch Grandma Jiang Yuan.
Who would have thought that when they arrived at the place and saw it, they were frightened to death!
It turned out that Grandma Jiang Yuan had brought a basket with her before she went out. The basket was filled with tribute paper money. Since it was inconvenient to hold a lantern in one hand, she hung the basket around her neck.
When the wind blew, the paper money in the basket flew out and got on her hair. Since her grandmother was walking slowly and backwards, she couldn't see the back, so she groped around in her hair with her backhand, trying to find the paper money and take it out.
A Japanese soldier had a bad heart. When he saw this scene, he burped and couldn't breathe. He had a heart attack and was frightened to death.
Koiso Aoyuan was also scared away, even throwing away his gun, and led his troops to withdraw during the day the next day.
Jiang Yuan finished telling the story of his great-grandmother.
I said it's amazing, but I didn't expect that your great-grandmother is also an anti-Japanese hero.
After waiting for a short time, Dou Sprout came running over, sweating profusely. He threw the bag to me and gasped, "Hurry up and hurry up. Xiaomi also said she would come, but I didn't let her come."
I didn't talk nonsense. After making sure the surroundings were safe, I continued to pick up the Luoyang shovel.
One cut, two cuts, and it was very difficult for me to catch the second cut. My wrist was so sore that I couldn't swing it, and my speed also slowed down.
"I'll come, you take a break," Dou Sprout took over.
After more than two hours of exploring the cave, when the pole was connected to the third section, I found that the color of the soil I brought up was wrong.
"Red soil?"
"Why is there red soil underground?"
I separated the soil layer and looked carefully for a while with a flashlight.
It's not completely red, but half black and half red. The black part is sticky and sticks to your hands. The red part is the strangest thing. It's the same color as blood, translucent and bright red, as if it's dyed with paint.
I have seen flower soil, black soil, green soil, and white soil, but what is this kind of soil? I have never seen it before, and I have never heard of it.
There is also a piece of connecting rod in the bag. After connecting it, I can drive it down. At this time, one person can no longer lift the soil because it is too deep. So Dou Sprout and I grabbed the rod and pulled it up hard.
The result is the same.
The shovel head brought up a layer of half-red and half-yellow living soil from dozens of meters underground.
There must be something buried underground, I don't know what it is.
This soil has a faint smell. I had a cold and my nose was blocked. I couldn't smell the specific smell. I picked up a plastic bag of instant noodles and filled a bag of this red soil.
"Hey, Fengzi," Douyazai said, "This is a sulfuric acid plant. Could it be that the sulfuric acid flowed into the ground and corroded the soil like this?"
I shook my head, grabbed a handful and put it up to Dou Sprout's nose. I asked him to smell it and see if it smells sour.
Dou Sprout's nose twitched, he smelled it and shook his head and said, "No, it doesn't smell of sulfuric acid, but it smells like brown sugar."
Brown sugar smell? I really didn’t smell it.
I said, taste it and see if it's sweet or not.
Dou Sprout stuck out his tongue and licked a little.
"Bah! Bah!"
"It's so sweet! It's not sweet! It's bitter!"
I looked at the time and said, "It's getting late. I'm here tonight. It's not a waste of time. At least I'm sure there's something here. The three tomb robbers said they'd open a hook machine to dig here next week. We have to get there before them.
Go down and get the treasure."
Douyazai shook his head and said with a grimace: "It's not easy to do. It's almost thirty meters deep, and oil is almost coming out of the ground. Even if one of us grows eight hands, we still can't dig out the oil."
I frowned and fell into thought.
It's thirty meters underground, so deep. If the tomb collapses as the three tomb robbers said, we wouldn't be able to get in at all, let alone the location in a factory with so many people.
Unless I become a Tu Xingsun who can escape from the earth and dive headfirst.
What to do
After thinking for a long time, I couldn't think of a good solution, so I simply gave up.
I asked Dou Sprout to put the shovel away and why it was still stuck on the ground. I’ll think about it when I get back.
Dou Sprout said "oh" and turned around to collect the shovel.
"who are you!"
"What are you doing!"
Suddenly, a flashlight shone on my face, which made me unable to open my eyes!
"do not move!"
"What it is!"
Only then did I realize that we were so focused on studying the underground that we forgot about the sky!
I made a big fucking mistake!
Eight sections of Luoyang were connected with shovels, and the standing height far exceeded the height of a red brick house!
If you look at it from the outside.
Because we were hiding behind the red brick house, we couldn't see any of us, but we could see a metal pole coming out.
Just like Sun Wukong’s sea-fixing needle.
Soaring into the sky!
Seeing that I was discovered by the workers at the sulfuric acid plant, Jiang Yuan immediately threw down the walkie-talkie and ran away without even looking at me or Dou Sprout.
