The weather was still very cold in January, and the soil on the playground was frozen.
It's hard to shovel, but that's what I expected.
The night was as dark as ink. Mr. Qin lowered a leather barrel from the fourth floor. It was actually the original urine bucket. The bucket contained the concentrated salt water I had prepared two days ago.
Pour salt water on the soil and wait for a while, the frozen soil will become much softer.
In order to improve efficiency and reduce the amount of excavation, I deliberately made the hole very small, just big enough for a person to get through.
Filling a bucket with soil and tying it to a hook, I jiggled the rope.
At this time, the fourth man on the roof began to pull up.
During the ascent, in order to prevent the leather bucket filled with soil from hitting the outer wall and making noise, Mr. Qin used the main beam of the centipede ladder to push the rope outward. He stood by the window on the fourth floor, concentrating on it without blinking. Watching the whole playground having fun.
The gatekeeper here probably couldn't have imagined that someone would be so bold as to dig a tunnel, and all the soil dug out would scatter to the sky.
The three of us didn't speak to each other, and at most we only communicated with gestures.
It was obviously the first time to cooperate, but it was exceptionally smooth. There was only one reason for this phenomenon.
We all want to get out.
Not long after, the thief went down more than half a meter.
I jumped into the hole and squatted down, gesturing with my thumbs, aiming with one eye, and looking at a place a hundred meters away.
Soon, an L-shaped underground horizontal shaft structure diagram appeared in my mind.
This is my ability. Even if I cannot see the situation underground, even if there is no positioning measuring instrument at the moment, the horizontal well I dug will not shift.
"superior!"
I shook the rope, but strangely the bucket didn't move. Instead, a clod of soil suddenly fell from upstairs and landed next to me.
I immediately squatted against the wall and stood on my head with all my hair in fear!
This is a unique code between us. If you see someone, throw a clod of earth down to give a warning.
You can hear needles all around.
After waiting for a minute or two, the door of the mental hospital suddenly opened, and a red Jinbei car with its lights on drove in.
At this moment, the distance between the Jinbei car and me is about sixty meters.
The three of us hid in the darkness, afraid to speak out.
The driver of the Jinbei truck had a cigarette in his mouth. He got down and opened the door and lifted bags of cabbage onto the steps of the gate guard room.
I was relieved when I saw this scene. It turned out that I was delivering food to the hospital canteen.
Seeing that the door was open, I suddenly felt an urge to run out, but my reason told me that I couldn't do this.
While I was thinking wildly, I saw a woman coming out of the house. She was watching the driver unloading vegetables and talking to someone. She was too far away to hear the conversation.
Damn...this girl is so tall.
From such a distance, I could see that this woman’s head was almost flush with the glass on the door frame. She must be more than two meters tall! ...
The food delivery man had to raise his neck when talking to the woman. His height was probably only about the woman's shoulders.
After unloading the dishes, the tall woman signed a signature, and then she bent down and returned to the house. The Jinbei car turned around and left, and the door was locked.
Seeing this, I hurriedly shook the rope, indicating that I should seize the time and continue working.
I use the professional shoveling method of the Northern School, which is called three horizontal shovels and one vertical shovel. This way the dug holes are neat and more labor-saving.
I concentrated on it and turned on the horsepower to the maximum. Even if the best earthworkers from the north are here now, they may not dare to say that they are faster than me.
It was about 4 o'clock and the work was finished on time. I am very familiar with how to cover up the holes.
Use four sticks to build a platform and cover it with the table board prepared in advance. Three horizontal layers and one vertical layer are evenly sprinkled with floating soil, then lightly step on it twice with your feet. Finally, step on it with your hands. Smooth the footprints so that they look like other places and will not attract attention.
It is four stories high. For ordinary people, it is a bit difficult to go up with a rope, but for me, it is a piece of cake. It is just the depth of a Western Zhou Dynasty tomb, and I am used to it.
After the people went up, they quickly installed the windows. I asked the fourth child, had the soil on the roof been covered?
He whispered that they were covered with sheets and weighed down with stones so that the wind would never blow them away.
"That's right, you should go back," I whispered, "remember to change your clothes and shoes tomorrow, they are all covered in dirt."
"Understood, then we will withdraw."
I whispered see you later and continue tomorrow night.
Then Mr. Li and the fourth child quietly returned to their wards.
There was still more than an hour before dawn, and I was so excited that I couldn't sleep at all.
According to this progress, if five meters are dug in one night, it will take up to 25 days to dig through the tunnel.
Days here are almost like years, and I have begun to daydream about the outside world. After I go out, I will smoke a bag of flowers, then go for a comfortable full-body oil massage, and then eat a roast chicken and five bananas.
....
The next morning, in the chess and card room.
"Dumbo!"
"Fuck you? You look like you have eight legs? You can still walk straight!"
"Hurry up and deal the cards! I must win them all back!"
Listening to the noise around me, Mr. Qin handed me an unfiltered official cigarette.
"Master Qin, do you have any other cigarettes?" I asked.
"What, do you think it's a low level? Should you quit?"
"No, forget it! My throat hurts."
I don’t know how to explain it. You can’t say that I have a relationship with a Guanting cigarette, right?
Because I promised Jenny that I would no longer be in the government office. If I said this, others would definitely treat me as a mental illness.
"Don't be stunned, it's your turn."
I casually made a pawn and said in a low voice: "Master Qin, who was the tall girl on the playground yesterday?"
He also took a step forward and replied in a low voice: "One of the gatekeepers, Xu Xiaoqing, is born with supernatural power and has reached the pinnacle of hard qigong. She is nicknamed the Judge of the Water Department in Jianghu. The West District is mainly managed by her."
I was very surprised: "Hard Qigong, can women also do Hard Qigong? The kind from Shaolin Temple?"
Brother Yu can also do hard qigong. Brother Yu can use his head to open angle irons and break red bricks. I have seen this with my own eyes.
"None of the gatekeepers are easy to mess with. Don't treat her like a woman. None of the old people here treat her like a woman." Mr. Qin made the next move and said with a solemn expression: "There are rumors in the world that Xu Xiaoqing's palm power is still strong." Above Lord Ma, she is truly the number one person in charge of the show today."
I took a breath when I heard it.
Hanging the door is the old martial arts practice of the past.
She is number one in hanging doors, and her palm strength is stronger than that of Lord Ma. Coupled with her terrifying height, my scalp goes numb just thinking about it.
Fortunately, he wasn't discovered last night, otherwise he would have been dead.
"Master Qin, I want to ask you a question. After we go out, what do you want to do most? Or who do you want to see most?"
He held the chess in his hand and hesitated for two seconds before he said: "If I can get out alive, I have a biological brother outside, and I want to visit him."
"Don't worry, Mr. Qin, we will definitely be able to go out, and you will definitely be able to see your brother as you wish."
"I hope...can you promise me one thing?"
"Master Qin, tell me."
