Suddenly something shook out from my trouser leg. I didn't have time to take a closer look, so I subconsciously stepped on it with my foot.
"Dog basket! What the hell!"
Brother Yu was only wearing small underpants. He stood up cursing and scratching his itch. I saw bloody marks on his arms.
I let go of my feet, looked down with a flashlight, and was stunned.
This thing looks like a little toad.
It looks a bit like a frog, which I have never seen before.
It's yellowish brown and about the size of half an orange. What makes me wonder is, isn't the frog naked? The back of the toad is covered with pimples, and this thing has three protruding bumps on its back, as if it has three legs.
A scab.
Upon closer inspection, these scabs look like smaller human eyes.
What is this? A three-eyed frog? Just like a person squinting his eyes and opening them a little.
"What is this?" Brother Yu asked.
I shook my head and said I didn't know, maybe it was a cave frog I had never seen before. This underground cave was damp and dark, and no one had set foot in it for many years. Who knew what the hell it was.
What I said actually has a basis. Many new species are discovered around the world every year, and cave creatures account for a considerable proportion. There are many eyeless fish, dragon-like white worms, giant tadpoles that continue to grow in their larval state, etc.
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"Quickly, scratch me, my back is still itchy."
"here?"
"A little to the right, right there."
I helped scratch my back, and Brother Yu exhaled and said it felt good.
I was too energetic just now, and the strange frog was trampled to death and burst into pulp. Brother Yu was a little worried, he was afraid that this thing was poisonous.
I comforted him and said, "It should be fine. Maybe this thing is just like an ordinary toad. If the pimple on the toad's back is accidentally broken, it will itch, and it will be fine after a while."
"Well... I hope so."
Brother Yu said again: "Come down a little bit and give me a scratch on your lower back."
A few minutes passed.
Suddenly someone came over with a flashlight. We had been out for too long and were worried about something going wrong, so we asked Dou Sprout to come to us.
"You...what are you two doing? Why did you take off your clothes? Fengzi, you are still squatting there." Walking closer, Dou Sprout asked with eyes wide open.
"Go away, didn't you see that I was tickling Brother Yu?"
"Where's the board? Tell me to speed up."
"Okay, it's not itching anymore," Brother Yu said while putting on his pants, "I'll get it right away."
After more than twenty minutes, the three of us returned to the tomb carrying two dismantled boards.
Tian Sanjiu was already a little impatient with waiting.
He asked: "Find a light person to explore the road. Who among us is the lightest?"
Everyone looked at Xiaoxuan subconsciously.
Because she weighs just over ninety pounds and is not as heavy as two bags of weight.
Me and Dou Sprout are more than one hundred and thirty, and as for Brother Yu and Red Eyes, the two of them together are almost half a ton.
Xiaoxuan took two deep breaths and said, "Then let me do it."
Tian Sanjiu pointed to the floor of the tomb and said some precautions. Xiaoxuan listened very carefully.
Xiaoxuan has two tasks. One is to pick up intact bronzes and throw them out. We don't want broken ones, nor do we want stonewares or pottery pots. Those things are not worth much and are heavy in weight.
The second is to find a way out, which should avoid all obstacles.
After putting on a headlamp and putting a small stone in her pocket, Xiaoxuan carefully laid the wooden planks into the tomb chamber.
After stepping on it tentatively and making sure that there was no problem, Xiaoxuan knelt on the wooden board and crawled forward slowly.
After climbing to the end, she turned around and waved.
"Got it right."
"Go on!" The cyclone shovel was thrown head-first by Brother Yu.
Xiaoxuan reached out and caught the shovel firmly.
She struck with the shovel, like a blind man walking.
It can be heard that after tapping, the echo from the underground is different, and there are several places where it sounds empty.
Tian Sanjiu ordered: "Little girl, make a mark, then pick up the board and continue walking forward."
Xiaoxuan took out a small stone from her pocket, used a wooden board as a ruler, and drew two white lines. The road between the two white lines meant that it was walkable and safe.
"Get ready, catch this piece." Brother Yu threw the second board in.
Xiaoxuan knelt on the wooden board and reached out to pick it up. However, her movements were too wide and she lost her center of gravity.
"Careful!" I shouted loudly.
Xiaoxuan caught the board with both hands, held the board in her arms and fell forward, lying directly on the board, gasping for air.
It was a near miss, and I breathed a sigh of relief.
After resting for two minutes, Xiaoxuan slowly stood up and knelt down, laying down another board.
After crawling over, take back the first board and just walk backwards and forwards on the board.
Use the cyclone shovel to tap and after confirmation, Xiaoxuan will mark it and gradually form an S-shaped route.
Xiaoxuan grabbed a bronze square pot and after looking at its location, threw it towards us.
Dou Sprouts held on to his clothes and hurriedly ran to pick them up.
I caught it and the bronze fell right on my clothes.
Brother Yu took away the bronze square pot, and Dou Sprout hurriedly went to pick up the other ones.
Bronze vessels were thrown out one by one. Once you have handled such things, you will know that they are not heavy, far less heavy than copper and iron. There is a saying that the older the bronze vessels, the lighter they are. This sentence is not completely correct.
But there is some truth to it.
If you don’t believe me, you can go to a large museum and take a look. There are signs posted in front of the bronze display cabinets. Many of them have height, width and weight written on them. They are the same size and three-legged tripod. The ones from the Western Zhou Dynasty are lighter than those from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.
The light in the tomb was very dark, so she just glanced at it and put it into a sack. If some things were out of reach, she would hit them with a shovel.
It took more than half an hour for Xiaoxuan to reach the coffin. There was an earth wall there and it had reached its end.
"Come here! You can leave!" She stood in the corner and shouted to us.
Looking at the marks on the ground, Dou Sprout gulped, and hesitantly asked me in a low voice: "Is this okay? Don't let us walk away and fall down. This might be a knife."
"What? You don't believe Xiaoxuan?" I asked.
"Hey, it's not that I don't believe it..." Dou Sprout said hesitantly.
The two of us were talking when we saw Tian Sanjiu moving.
Without any hesitation, he followed the marks left on the ground and walked safely to the opposite side without any pause.
I pushed Douyazai away, "How about it, do you believe it?"
"What about these, should we put them here or take them over?" Dou Sprout pointed at the two sacks.
I said to leave it here first, we can just carry the bag, since we have to leave later, and we will take it away then.
Then everyone passed by one after another.
When they reached the corner, Master Ji suddenly pointed at the almost rotten coffin and said, "Should we open this coffin and take a look? Maybe there are a few things in it."
This coffin should be made of hardwood, unpainted, and the quality can only be said to be average. It is definitely not used by the owner of the tomb. Moreover, due to the rot of the wood, it has collapsed and flattened, and the lid and the bottom of the coffin are touching.
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Tian Sanjiu stretched out his hand and kept knocking on the wall. When he heard this, he turned around and said, "Don't look, it's a waste of time. This tomb is just a cover-up. Likewise, there will be no important burial objects in the coffin."
"This wall is very ordinary. If there is a last diamond wall, it must be hidden behind this."
