The joint investigation and archeology of the ancient well achieved great success.
It was originally scheduled to take three days to clean the entire ancient well, but it had to be postponed for another seven days. The team asked the local fire department for help and dispatched fire trucks to regularly deliver drinking water to Tunliu Village every day.
Finally, the bottom of the ancient well stopped at 160 meters. It is sixty meters high from the overflowing hole.
And judging from the depth of this well, it should be more than forty meters lower than the underground river. The springs below are densely covered with abundant water, and it doesn’t look like a place lacking water at all. The spring water gushing out below is cool and crystal clear. And when you drink it, there is still a hint of sweetness in your mouth.
This cleanup, if managed properly, will not require cleaning for at least a hundred years.
In the large amount of silt collected from the ancient well, in addition to the extremely precious arrowhead, water measuring vessels from all dynasties were also found. From the analysis of the sediments at the bottom of the well, it seems that this well was not dug during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Its history can be even earlier, even dating back to the Shang Dynasty.
It took more than half a month to deal with this pile of garbage.
During this period, Wang Ke specifically asked for leave to visit the company. He reported to the company leader and platoon leader Hu Zhijun on his work in cooperation with the joint inspection archaeological team. He also went to the Division Chief to pay his two-month allowance of 14 yuan (he was a two-year soldier and already had a monthly allowance of 7 yuan), as well as 90 kilograms of food stamps and one kilogram of gas stamps, which he had to hand over after he returned. Joint inspection and archaeological team.
Platoon leader Hu Zhijun's calligraphy became better and better. He re-wrote the poem he wrote last time, framed it and hung it in his house. Platoon leader Hu Zhijun was particularly happy to see Wang Ke.
The two chatted all night, but during the conversation, Wang Ke felt that platoon leader Hu Zhijun hesitated several times.
He and platoon leader Hu Zhijun were sleeping head to head on the bed.
"Platoon leader, do you have something to say to me?"
Platoon leader Hu Zhijun sighed and said quietly: "Reconnaissance squad leader, we may have to separate."
When Wang Ke heard this, he stood up. "Platoon commander, are you going to be transferred?"
Platoon leader Hu Zhijun smiled and said, "There is no such thing as a feast that lasts forever. We are destined to be together in the future. Fortunately, the transfer is not too far this time, otherwise I would have asked you to be taken away."
"Platoon leader, where are you transferred to?" Wang Ke asked. This news was so shocking and unexpected.
"I have been transferred to the second platoon to be the platoon leader. The new platoon leader will be arriving soon. You must work hard in the future and pay attention to cooperation, and I cannot contact you too much, otherwise the new platoon leader will have ideas and It's stressful. If there are any obstacles that you can't overcome, you can discuss it with Wireless Monitor Huang Zhonghe. He is a veteran and knows you very well."
Wang Ke's tears immediately flowed down. He and the platoon leader Hu Zhijun had a life-long friendship. From the time when the recruit company got off work, he was brought out by platoon leader Hu Zhijun. He taught him the skills of calculating soldiers step by step. The farm was snow-covered, earthquake relief, and training in Xishan. This friendship is comparable to that of brothers.
"Okay, okay, why is the young man still crying?" Platoon leader Hu Zhijun turned on the light, sat up, got off the kang, took out a towel and handed it to Wang Ke.
Then he took down the poem he had written on the wall and adapted it from the poem by Ma Huaisu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty. He rolled it up into a roll and put it next to Wang Ke's luggage. He said: "Remember to bring it with you tomorrow morning. I framed this piece. It is also one of the paintings that I am quite proud of, and I will keep it as a souvenir.”
Seeing that Wang Ke's mood had stabilized, he added: "We are in the same company anyway, so we will see each other without looking up from now on. You go to join the joint inspection and archaeological team first. When you come back, I guess I should join the second platoon as the platoon leader." ”
"Platoon leader, I have a question for you. Did you make a mistake? Otherwise, how could you be transferred from the command platoon leader to the artillery platoon to become the platoon leader?" Wang Ke thought of the ups and downs of joining the organization and is still blocked. Outside the organization's gates, the experience of the platoon leader was exactly the same.
"Reconnaissance squad leader, what you said shows that you are not mature enough. We are all platoon leaders, how can we distinguish between high and low? And my superiors may have other training for me." This is exactly the same as what Lu Zeran, the deputy company commander at the time, said, " Don’t say this again in the future, okay, let’s go to sleep.”
A night of silence.
The next day, Wang Ke returned to Tunliu Village with the calligraphy given to him by platoon leader Hu Zhijun. After entering the house, he handed over his food expenses, food stamps, and gas stamps to Ye Pianpian, who was in charge of the food.
"You're really good at it!"
Ye Qiangan didn't expect that Wang Ke's monthly subsidy was only seven yuan. In the past, when she drove a heavy truck, her daily subsidy was seven yuan.
"You don't have to pay this money. I'll help you pay it from the funds for the archaeological inspection."
"That won't work, if you don't take advantage of the masses."
"Wang Ke!"
"arrive!"
"Don't come here, let me tell you, I have already told Uncle Wen that I will give you a field subsidy of 80 yuan every month."
"What? This is absolutely not allowed."
"You are stupid, Brother Bing! We all have it."
"That's not okay. I don't take advantage of the country! If you send it to me, I will hand it over to the company."
"You!" Ye Pianqiang was so angry that he was speechless. He twisted his face and stopped paying attention to Wang Ke. This person was too stubborn.
Next, it’s time to conduct an investigation and archeology of the underground river, or even explore it.
Professor Wen now wants to add two new topics to the investigation and archeology of underground rivers: Why is there a lack of water on the surface of the entire Xishan area? And where does this underground river come from and where does it flow to?
The cave halfway up this ancient well is the only passage discovered so far that leads to the underground river.
But entering this cave is not easy. The ancient well has a small mouth and a large bottom. At 100 meters in mid-air, like swinging on a swing, first aim at the hole. After swinging in, it must be fixed with a rope so that people behind can enter. And there is a 60-meter-deep well below. If something falls if you are not careful, there is no way to fish it out.
In addition, the hole leading to the underground river is too small, and many larger equipment cannot enter. For example, it is difficult to enter two side-by-side oxygen bottles and diving equipment. Larger kayaks, radar detectors, etc. cannot get in at all. They can only be disassembled into parts, taken into the hole, and then assembled by the underground river.
The crane basket that has been dismantled is installed again. It took half a day to transport the huge cave exploration equipment and archaeological investigation facilities.
In the end, only one comrade from the institute was left at the mouth of the well. Professor Wen, Professor Ye Rongguang, comrades from the Provincial Institute of Archeology, Ye Xianzhan and Wang Ke, as well as an expedition team member and a diver who came for reinforcements, a total of seven comrades entered the cave.
Entering the cave, everyone was immediately attracted by the fantastic underground scenery. This underground river is the highest point of a large cave, which can reach more than ten feet. It's like a natural concert hall.
Under the illumination of several 500-watt incandescent lamps that have been installed, the gurgling water of the small river made a whirlpool here and flowed into the distance.
Professor Ye Rongguang suddenly called out, "There are fish in the river."
Yes, there are small fish in the river that Wang Ke feels very familiar with. During his field survival training, he once caught seven to eight hundred kilograms of these fish in one go. The little fish is small, silvery white, with a black line on its back. The difference is that this black line is much lighter than the black line on the fish Wang Ke caught at that time.
"This fish is delicious. We caught a lot of it in the river in the mountains." Wang Ke also shouted excitedly.
"Brother Bing, are you bragging?" Ye Pian smiled, pursed his thin lips and said, "This is underground, in a river more than a hundred meters deep underground."
"I'm not bragging, it's just this kind of fish."
Watching the quarrel between the two young people, Ye Rongguang suddenly asked: "Xiao Wang, how far is the place where you train from here? In what direction is it roughly?"
Wang Ke thought for a moment and said: "It's about thirty or forty kilometers away from here. It seems that at the nineteen o'clock direction of this location, there is basically an inaccessible virgin forest."
Professor Ye Rongguang picked up the water scoop, fished it out of the water, and picked up one. "Look carefully, is it this kind of fish?"
"Yes, but the fish there is fatter and darker than this one." Wang Ke said, reaching out to pick up the fish, put it in his mouth, and took a crunchy bite, "Well, the taste is about the same. "
Ye Qianqian frowned, "Brother Bing, you are so disgusting. Why do you eat raw fish?"
But Wang Ke didn't take it seriously. When he ate the small fish raw, it was to eat the internal organs of the small fish and add salt. "Professor Ye, yes or no, the texture and taste of this fish are the same as what we ate at that time."
"I understand." After hearing this, Professor Ye Rongguang turned to Professor Wen and said, "From a biological point of view, I believe what Xiao Wang said. There is a certain relationship between this underground river and the river where Xiao Wang and the others trained to catch fish. Origin relationship. Seeing the mark Xiao Wang just put on the map and the direction of the river, it is probably the upper reaches of this underground river. The fish here swam from there. "
"It is entirely possible. It seems that if the guess is correct, the river is at least thirty or forty kilometers upstream to here. When we finish this period of archaeological inspection, we should also go to the place where Comrade Xiao Wang and his friends were training at that time. There will be new discoveries.”
"good."
The two professors quickly unified their thoughts and planned to start from the area around the river and focus on investigating two contents. The first is where does this underground river eventually flow? The second is the small stone house Wang Ke mentioned.
"Dad, come and take a look at this river..." Ye Zaipian shouted, pointing to the river not far away, where there were several steps.
"What's wrong, girl?" Professor Wen picked up another handheld incandescent lamp next to him and walked towards her. There is a wire net around this light bulb. to prevent collision.
"These steps seem to have been carved manually." Ye Qianqian said.
She was indeed right. There were man-made marks all around these steps.
"There's nothing surprising about this. Didn't you notice when we came down from the cave just now? There are also traces of manual chiseling on the cave wall, and there are also marks." Professor Wen obviously observed more carefully than Ye Xianqian. "There are signs of human activity here. We will go to the stone house that Comrade Xiao Wang mentioned later. This step must have been carved out at that time for water and laundry."
"Uncle Wen, you are saying that there are people living in this gloomy underground. This is too depressing." Ye Pianxi stuck out his tongue, turned around and said, "You won't be lonely unless you live here with the one you love. "
"Okay, my dear, you and Comrade Xiao Wang will stay here tonight. Let's all go back, hahaha!" After Professor Wen said this, he couldn't help laughing.
At this time, Ye had already run far away, her flashlight had been shining on the stone house, and she ran up the steps.
"Wow..., come on!" Her screams spread far in the underground cave, causing a series of echoes.
