Chapter 60
"Chen Tugong, what are you doing? What are you hiding here?"
He dug hard at the soil, looked back at me, and said, "It's a jade axe. I picked it up accidentally. It's made of gold and silver. It has a small map that I can't understand engraved on it. He Damn it, where did it go? I can still run away on my own."
"Yue" is a kind of ritual instrument popular in the late Shang Dynasty and the middle and early Western Zhou Dynasty. Most of them are made of bronze, and a few are made of jade. Its status is equivalent to that of the later tiger charm, and it is a very high-level instrument.
The emperor has nine tripods, four horses, and one axe. This is a system that ordinary princes and kings would never dare to surpass, let alone the middle and early Western Zhou Dynasty when the country was strong.
If what Chen Jiansheng said is true and he discovered the yue, that would explain one thing.
The owner of the tomb is not afraid of Emperor Zhou.
If the owner of the tomb is that mustard, in short, if he ignores you, Emperor Zhou, I will jump over the rank myself and use Jiuding, Four Horses and One Yue.
But there's one thing I can't figure out. How could Chen Jiansheng pick up such an important thing so casually? He also said that there was a map engraved on the axe. What kind of map was it? Could it be a map for getting out?
All this cannot be determined before seeing the real thing. Maybe he lied, which is also possible.
"Holy shit, where the hell did it go? I even marked it, but it's gone!" Chen Jiansheng rummaged through the mound, but he couldn't find what he was talking about.
I wondered: "Chen Tugong, is it possible that you remembered it wrong? Did you mistake something else for a yue? If you weren't the Emperor of Zhou, there wouldn't be that kind of thing in the tomb."
"Fuck," he glared at me: "I have been in the industry for more than ten years, how can I still admit my mistakes in that kind of thing!"
Sister Hong also nodded in agreement, "It's empty talk."
Seeing that I didn't believe him, he also got angry.
"Pull it down. Believe it or not, I still can't believe it!" He was about to dig up the soil again.
I shook my head and turned to look around.
The light is not good now and the surroundings are dim.
I couldn't see clearly. In the blur, I seemed to see a short black figure wearing a hat under a big tree about a hundred meters ahead. He was hiding behind a tree and peeking at our group.
"who!"
"Who's there!" I turned on the flashlight in panic.
"What's wrong, Yunfeng, what did you see?" Sister Hong was startled by my sudden voice.
Looking at it, there is nothing under the tree now.
"Sister Hong, I saw a black figure wearing a hat. He was very short, less than 1.5 meters tall," I said anxiously.
"The black shadow wearing a hat? Very short? Yunfeng, are you too tired and your eyesight is dazzled?" Sister Hong glanced under the tree and shook her head, obviously not believing me.
I know my own situation best, so I firmly said that I was right, that I was not hallucinating, and that there was just a dwarf with a hat peeking at us.
Finally, I convinced Sister Hong and we decided to go to the big tree to investigate.
When we got to the place, there was nothing but flowers and plants around, and we didn't see any dwarfs wearing hats.
"Boy, I think you are just dazzled. What dwarf is there? Is there even Snow White?" Chen Jiansheng teased me.
I was so angry that I just wanted to refute him.
"Wait." Sister Hong interrupted me.
"You... look, what are those? Are they footprints?"
Looking where Sister Hong was pointing, I saw a pair of very small footprints left on the soft soil. They were one size smaller than a three-inch golden lotus and looked like those of a five- or six-year-old child.
There are no shoes on these footprints.
There are only four toes and one thumb is missing.
