Putting the white turtle in the bucket on the side, Wang Ke first thought of giving it to one person. Strictly speaking, he entrusted it to one person, that is Wu Xiangyu, and asked her to help him raise it.
And this matter cannot be allowed to be known to more people. The Millennium Turtle must be spiritual.
Next, start dredging. It moves really fast. The safety frame was lowered three or five times, and it was quickly cleared to 11 or 2 meters. By midnight, the bottom below was still not cleared.
No matter how clean it is, the water pipe of the water pump is not long enough. That’s it for now!
After asking for instructions from Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran, everyone began to hoist them up one after another. Next, they removed the safety frame, dismantled the motor, and hoisted the last batch of tools. In the end, only the electric lights underground, Wang Ke and Hu Yanlou were left. Two people.
"Hu Yanlou, you go up first and talk to the deputy company commander. I'll go take a look at the hole. I'll be up in a moment."
The hole is now about ten meters high from the bottom of the well.
"Okay, squad leader, be careful."
Hu Yanlou tied a rope and slowly hung up. When the rope came down again, Wang Ke took on his military dagger and pony lantern, and carried his shoulder bag, which contained a thousand-year-old white turtle. Holding a light bulb and a roll of wire in his hand, he slowly hung up. When he reached the entrance of the hole, he swung his legs into the hole. He stretched the rope downwards, and the twisting stopped.
Wang Ke took off the rope from his body, tied his backpack, rain boots and other bundles to the rope, and slipped inside with the electric light and pony lantern.
The cave inside is getting bigger and bigger, and the sound of the water is getting louder and louder. Under the illumination of the electric light, Wang Ke was surprised to find that the hole was not natural, but man-made. Except that the bottom was a little slippery, the top and surrounding areas were relatively dry. There were actually some holes on the walls of the cave that were slowly going downwards. Artificially drawn arrows.
Then, these caves were able to squat half down. Wang Ke held a light in one hand and a wire in the other. He walked forward for about seven or eight meters. There was a step below. He used the lamp to shine down. More than one meter below So high, it turned out to be an underground river.
And in the river, under the reflection of the lights, there were many small silver fish.
The cave suddenly opened up and was more than ten meters high. There were various stalactites hanging from the cave, which was hideous and terrifying. The underground river has abundant water and is flowing forward slowly. No wonder the wells in Tunliu Village couldn't produce water. It turns out that there is such an underground river under the mountain. But the ancients were never greedy and allowed the excess spring water to pass through the river and return it to the mountains.
At this time, the wires were still about ten meters away. He walked along the underground river. Suddenly, he found a stone house, two meters high from the river, with more than a dozen steps leading directly to the rectangular door. "There won't be any treasure hidden here!"
Wang Ke put down the lantern and walked up the steps holding the electric lamp. As soon as you enter the stone house, you find a skeleton. There were indeed several boxes inside, but they had long since rotted and their contents rolled to the floor. Most of them are ancient coins such as knives and coins. Only next to the skeleton is a pile of almost completely decayed slips, and next to it is an oil lamp-like thing that has collapsed into a pile of mud. I illuminated the slip with a light, and I didn't recognize any of the few characters that were vaguely visible.
Wang Ke squatted down silently and looked at the skeleton, his heart filled with infinite respect. This person must be a descendant of Jing Ke from the Yan Kingdom, and he is silently guarding these wealth. Until the last moment of life.
As for the people in Tunliu Village, who would have thought that there would be such an ancestor of the Yan Kingdom more than a hundred meters underground, dying next to a book underground, unwilling to come out of the well to survive.
He picked up a knife coin and stood up to leave. Suddenly he saw a black and shiny thing in front of the man's sternum.
Wang Ke picked it up and wiped it on his clothes. It turned out to be a dark green stone tablet. The small holes on it are very large, and the material used to fasten the stone plaque can no longer be seen. However, the owner cherishes it so much that he always wears it on his chest. It must be a treasure.
Wang Ke picked up these two things and put them in his coat pocket, quickly stood up, went down the steps, picked up the lantern, looked around the large natural cave again, and walked back quickly. The people above must be impatient.
Following the original path, he came to the entrance of the cave where he had just entered. He quickly tied up the hemp rope, put on his shoulder bag and rain boots, and fixed the pony lantern. Then he picked up the lantern, swung it towards the mouth of the well, and shook the rope again. At this time, below The water in the well has seeped out very quickly and is almost close to the entrance of the cave where he is.
The well windlass above began to twist the rope slowly upward.
When he came up, Wang Ke had already made up his mind not to talk about everything in the well, nor to mention the skeleton and the piles of Yan Kingdom's ancient coins. This will become a lifelong secret. He doesn't want anyone to disturb the peaceful soul again, so he should continue to guard Tunliu Village and the underground river.
"Hard work, hard work." As soon as the edge of the well emerged, Deputy Company Commander Lu Zeran reached over and grabbed Wang Ke's hand.
"Squad leader has worked hard, squad leader has worked hard." The other soldiers at Jingkou cheered together, as well as the village chief and other fellow villagers. The wooden barrels, iron barrels, pottery, pots and ropes that were cleaned up by the well almost piled up into a hill.
A smile appeared on Wang Ke's lips, and he looked specifically at the new recruit Hu Yanlou, because he knew that he had successfully blocked the footsteps of his life, so that Hu Yanlou could become a comrade in this life, instead of being separated by yin and yang.
Early the next morning, Sunday morning, when Wang Ke, who had regained his composure, led the entire platoon to the deep well and prepared to clean up the rubbish found at the mouth of the well, he discovered that there was very little left in the mountain of rubbish. The pottery, pots, and broken wooden and copper barrels were all brought home by the villagers who had heard the news and offered them as offerings. After all, these were things that our ancestors had buried underground for thousands of years. Not only is it an antique, it is also a mascot. May you be safe every year!
Tunliu Village has completely solved the drinking water problem.
Oddly enough, since the well was dug, it has been rainy and rainy for days and days, so the resident training had to stop and study in situ.
Wang Ke asked for leave from the platoon leader Hu Zhijun, took the car that sent the squad leader of the engineer company back, and planned to go to the division hospital and collect a thousand yuan sent from home.
In solving the water problem of Tunliu Village, Wang Ke not only became the hero of Tunliu Village, but also became the talk of the whole company after dinner. Especially the big-mouthed Song Ruimin, who combined what he saw and heard at the bottom of the well with his own descriptions and speculations, and his stories were astonishing. All the officers and soldiers in the company knew that the command platoon reconnaissance squad had completed an extremely thrilling operation of 100 meters underground.
But the fellow villagers in Tunliu Village actually wrote a letter of thanks, stamped with hundreds of fingerprints from the whole village, and sent it to the division headquarters, praising the artillery company for solving the drinking water problem for the fellow residents during the training period. Ichiban.
For this reason, the division issued a special notification to commend the artillery company. Deputy company commander Lu Zeran and all soldiers in the reconnaissance squad were notified and commended. As a result, a reporter from Taihang Daily made a special trip to write a wonderful newsletter and published it as a full page. The title was: "The Red Star Shines on the Taihang Mountains."
As a result, as soon as the Taihang Daily report came out, the military could not sit still. The artillery unit was awarded the third-class collective merit for the year, and Wang Ke was awarded the third-class merit again.
These are all things for later.
He took a car out of the mountain in the rain, and he broke up with the squad leader of the engineer company because the regiment headquarters and division headquarters were not in the same direction.
Wang Ke had to take a bus from where he left the mountain to Dingcheng and collect money before he could go to the division headquarters.
But it happened to be a place out of the mountains, and there were no buses. Wang Ke carried his backpack and strode forward along the road. He walked for more than an hour before walking less than ten miles. According to this method, it will take at least 10 hours to reach Dingcheng.
Wang Ke took off his military cap and scratched his head. In the satchel is the thousand-year-old white turtle, the knife coin and the dark green card.
When setting off, Wang Ke made the most complete preparations. He carried a military kettle of boiling water for himself, and the cooking squad leader Zhou Daguang also wrapped 4 steamed buns for him in newspapers.
A truck loaded with stones drove over in the distance. Wang Ke stood on the roadside and waved to the truck to stop it.
But the truck honked its horn and sped by without any intention of stopping. This made Wang Ke feel very unhappy. Isn't he just a driver? What's so great.
Wang Ke continued to walk forward, thinking as he walked, how can I stop these cars? Although I was out of the mountain, if I put myself in my shoes, I would see people blocking cars all the time on this road. If I were the driver, I probably wouldn’t stop easily.
After thinking about it again and again, I still couldn't come up with any good solution.
After holding back enough energy, I walked forward. Even if there is a heavy truck coming, I don't dare to wave my hand to stop it easily.
Walking and walking, an idea suddenly flashed in my mind, this method might work!
There was a rumble of trucks, and a larger red heavy-duty truck drove over from behind. Hahaha, there is only one driver inside.
Wang Ke stood confidently on the roadside, looking at the car a few hundred meters away. When the driver saw him, he stood at attention with a "pop" towards the car, then raised his hands and saluted the driver. , and paused for a while with his hand on the brim of his hat, and then waved slowly.
"Squeak..." The truck driver obviously didn't expect that the young soldier on the roadside would salute him to stop the truck. This was too unusual, so he braked to a stop without even thinking about it.
Wang Ke cupped his hands and raised them to his waist. After a while, he ran to the driver's cab and stood next to him. He raised his head and gave the driver another military salute.
"Master, can you give me a ride?" The heavy-duty truck was actually five or six meters tall.
The young driver looked down at Wang Ke, with a belt tied around his waist and a bulging shoulder bag slung across his back. The tops are buttoned in style and tightly. He nodded and chatted to the other side of the cab.
Wang Ke was overjoyed when he saw it. This is a trick to salute and stop a car, and it actually stops as soon as you stop it. What a unique trick.
This heavy-duty truck with a Jinmen door was too high. To get to the passenger door, you had to climb a three-step ladder. Wang Ke climbed up, opened the door, and sat in the passenger seat. He nodded to the young master next to him and said, "Thank you, master. I'm going to Dingcheng." As he said that, he put his satchel on his knees as if he were holding a treasure.
The young driver was wearing overalls and a baseball cap. He said nothing, just nodded and started the car.
After driving for a while, the driver suddenly asked, "What's in that bulging bag of yours?" The voice was clear and gentle.
Ah, this driver turned out to be a woman!
