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 and looked down with a flashlight. I was both stunned.
This thing looks like a little toad.
It looks a bit like a frog, I've never seen it before.
It's yellowish brown and about the size of half an orange. What makes me wonder is, isn't the frog naked? The toad's back 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's this? Three-eyed frog? It's 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. It might be a cave frog I had never seen before. This underground cave was damp and dark. No one had set foot in it for many years. Who knew what the hell was there.
There is actually a basis for what I said. Many new species are discovered around the world every year, of which cave creatures account for a considerable proportion. Eyeless fish, dragon-like white worms, giant tadpoles that continue to grow in their larval state, etc., there are many .
"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 be itchy. After itching for a while, it will be fine."
"Well... I hope so."
Brother Yu said again: "Come down a little bit and scratch your lower back for me."
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 a glare.
"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 someone who is light to explore the road. Which of us is the lightest?"
Everyone looked at Xiaoxuan subconsciously.
Because she only weighed more than ninety pounds and was not as heavy as two bags of weight.
Dou Sprout and I have more than a hundred and thirty. As for Brother Yu and Hongyan, the two of them together have almost half a ton.
Xiaoxuan took two deep breaths and said, "Then I'll 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 stoneware 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 confirming 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 take 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 safe to walk.
"Get ready, catch this piece." Brother Yu threw the second board in.
Xiaoxuan knelt on the wooden board and reached out to receive it. However, her movements were too wide and she lost her center of gravity.
"Careful!" I shouted.
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, he took back the first board and walked back and forth on the board backwards.
Use the cyclone shovel to hit it. After confirmation, Xiaoxuan will mark it and gradually form an S-shaped route.
Xiaoxuan grabbed a bronze square pot, and after looking at the location, threw it towards us.
Dou Sprouts held on to his clothes and hurriedly ran to pick them up.
After catching it, the bronze fell right on his clothes.
Brother Yu took away the bronze square pot, and Dou Sprout hurriedly went to pick up the others.
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 have the same three-legged round 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 handle.
It took more than half an hour for Xiaoxuan to reach the coffin, where there was an earth wall that 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, step on the ground 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.
While we were talking, I saw Tian Sanjiu moving.
Without any hesitation, he followed the marks left on the ground and walked steadily to the opposite side without any pause.
I pushed Dou Sprout Boy 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 for now, 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 certain that it was not used by the owner of the tomb. Moreover, the wood has collapsed and flattened due to rot, and the lid and bottom of the coffin are touching. .
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."
"Old plan, blow it up for me."
