Artisans in Tunli

Chapter 162 The Hole in the Mine

Jiang Shan and I, after exhausting all our efforts, finally packed Zhou Peng into a taxi and prepared to go home.

In the car, thinking over Boss Wang's words over and over again, I'm sure that the person he mentioned must be my evil uncle.As for how he got into prison, there is no way of knowing.

After settling Zhou Peng down, Jiang Shan and I were exhausted and wanted to take a bath to relieve fatigue.Leaning on the refrigerator, I asked Jiang Shan if what Boss Wang said might be false.Or, who deliberately asked him to reveal this information.

"I don't think it's necessary. We're not regular visitors to his house. We stumbled in by mistake. Besides, the news isn't bad for us, right?"

Jiang Shan's weight has really soared recently, and she doesn't know if she will become a little chubby after having a child in the future.Just leaning on it like this can push the refrigerator a little.

"Daughter-in-law, shouldn't you lose weight? Take a look, this refrigerator has made you rely on it."

"Are you talking again?" She stretched out two fingers and made a pinching motion.

"Yo, I'm not allowed to say it, I just said it."

When the two of us were playing, we inadvertently caught sight of the feet under the legs of the refrigerator out of the corner of our eyes, and hurriedly stopped, intending to see what the feet were.

"Don't make trouble, look, what is this?" I pushed her hand away, and went to touch the stepping.

Sitting on the ground, she gasped and said, "What else could it be? I haven't seen paper before. You, don't try to run for your life. Take it! Ha!" After finishing speaking, she climbed onto me again and pinched my face vigorously. .

"I was wrong, I was wrong, why does this paper look so familiar to me?" After finishing speaking, I lifted the refrigerator a little harder, "Take out the paper quickly and let me have a look."

The slightly yellowed paper looks like it has aged.However, looking at the refrigerator in front of me again, it seems to be older than me, and the humming sound of the motor can be heard clearly in the bedroom.

"Open it up and see what's written inside!"

Under Jiang Shan's urging, I lightly opened the yellow paper folded into four squares. The process was like dismantling a bomb, for fear of accidentally tearing up the fragile paper.

"Oh, I remember."

Holding the yellowed paper in my hand, I got up and walked into the bedroom, turned on the light and searched for the notebook left by the master in the package.

When Jiang Shan saw the note in my hand, she was surprised and asked me what it was.I explained that this is the epitome of Master Xingxia's life.

Then I gently opened the next few pages to check, and it didn't take long to find traces of a few pages being torn off.

I met Jiang Shan's eyes, and I tried to relax and said: "I hope, there are words in this stack of paper."

Sure enough, it was exactly as I imagined. After opening it, I found that there were indeed many words written on these thin pages, but the handwriting was not the master's own.

This character is written with Yan Jin Liu Gu, phoenix dances and dragons fly, very strong and powerful. Comparing with the characters in the master's notes, it is like the comparison between a calligrapher and a kindergarten child.

"Don't bring someone who dismisses your master like this. As the old saying goes, a son does not talk about his father."

"No, let's call it an objective evaluation, okay? Say it yourself, the difference between the two people's characters can be seen by a blind person."

Jiang Shan gave me a blank look, snatched the torn pages from her hand, turned her head aside, and read it by herself.

"Hey, why are you like this, or you can read it out."

Jiang Shan raised her head and thought for a while, then turned her head and said maliciously: "Auntie is telling you a story, do you want to listen to it?"

Seeing her arrogant face, I really want to slap her, but it's just thinking about it.

Jiang Shan told me to lie down, patted my chest with one hand, and began to read the contents of the paper, completely ignoring my contemptuous eyes now.

As I listened, a dim picture appeared in my mind.

In spring, it was raining lightly that day.As the old saying goes, spring rain is as precious as oil. The seeds that have just been sown are longing for a hearty rain, and God is generous in giving it and the hope of spring.

The writing of this paragraph reminds me of the first time I came into contact with prose, but the content recorded in a few sheets of paper is only this paragraph, which is written in this way, and it is more inclined to describe narrative later.

After she finished reading, I knew that the person who wrote these pages was my uncle, Zhong Zhengshan.

In 1980, the uncle who was far away from BJ returned to his hometown in Northeast China.And he didn't come back alone, he was accompanied by another person, that is the cruel Zhao Bai.

At the beginning, I learned from my grandfather that the uncle has always been in BJ, but it is not the case.As mentioned in this paper, the uncle actually only stayed in BJ for two short years.

And I have been to almost all the cities and places I have been to before. Although the order is different, it does not have much influence.

They were nothing more than going to various bases to find the precious information left by the Soul Sect before.Here, the uncle mentioned Qian Hong.

Although Qian Hong didn't participate in it, she has always been inextricably linked with these things.

Going back to the Northeast is not simply a visit to relatives.Instead, they got the news that when the "Bijiashan" coal mine was fired, a mysterious cave was accidentally hit and blown out.

I had heard about this incident before, but I didn't expect that my grandfather was also involved.

It was at that time that the mine planned to continue digging down according to the progress, so they asked the blasters to go underground to operate.The project was proceeding in an orderly manner, but after the blasting was over, the blaster noticed something strange.

One set of detonators did not sound.

This situation is very dangerous, the reason is that no one can tell whether the cannon is not inserted properly, or for other reasons, if you approach rashly, you may be blown up by the delayed detonator.

At that time, the foreman on the front line was relatively experienced, and ordered everyone to withdraw first and wait for the instructions from above.

But at that time, there was a courageous coal digger who went to see it by himself regardless of the obstruction.He said that he just waited and watched from a distance, and he also had a bottom line in his heart.

This coal digger has a nickname called Huang Bold.In this way, the foreman reluctantly allowed him to go over to see the situation, but he must not touch the detonator.Before the dust was exhausted, the kid took a closer look, and sure enough, the set of detonators were lying on the ground straight.

However, a dark cave leaked out of the blasted rock layer.Driven by curiosity, he went up to check it out.

At this time, the dust had cleared away, and he could clearly see the scene inside the cave by the light of the headlamp.In addition to the bottles and jars placed on the ground in the cave, there seemed to be other things.

Xin said, could this be some kind of tomb accidentally blown up?
This old bachelor who was nearly forty years old had a crooked idea.After going back, he could exaggerate as much as possible, scaring the big guys, saying that the explosives seemed to be blown up at any time, and told everyone to go up and discuss again.

And he took the opportunity to go out, rode his small motorcycle, rushed to the city, contacted his good buddy who had just been released from prison for a few years, tried to find a way to go in and see if he could steal something useful, maybe in the future, Just eat and drink without worrying.

But I didn't expect that Zhao Bai would find out about this matter.

Zhao Bai contacted Huang Bold and said that they were collecting antique artifacts and they could give him a good price.However, there is a premise that they have to go down and have a look.

The uncle saw that Huang Bold was a little scrupulous, so he took out 500 yuan and stuffed it in his hand.Although going down the well is a very lucrative job, and 500 yuan is nothing, but seeing how generous my uncle and Zhao Bai are, I put down my guard and agreed to their request.

That night, the four of them sneaked into the mine.At that time, the government was very strict. The coal mine had been shut down frequently due to incomplete procedures, and there was also a stinky cannon incident, so there were not many people in the mine.

In fact, Grandpa doesn't know what Zhao Bai is looking for, as long as he doesn't hurt people's lives, he doesn't care about other things.

When I heard Jiang Shan read this, my impression of the uncle changed in my heart, but I dare not conclude in vain that he has never done anything outrageous.

The group of them came to the previous cave, carefully bypassed the unexploded detonator, and hid in the cave.

The space inside the cave is very spacious, except for the earthen pots on the ground, they saw a mummy in a dark corner.

Judging by the clothes, this person is a Taoist priest.But the strange thing is, how did he get here?The uncle inspected the firmness of the surrounding soil and analyzed that it had not been opened for at least 80 or [-] years, so he couldn't help feeling a little worried.

The mummy was sitting cross-legged on the ground, its body was hunched, and it seemed a little hunched.The right arm is bent to one side, tightly clenched into a fist, while the left hand is likened to a sword finger.

"It looks like he's still left-handed." The uncle said to himself after looking at him.

He got up and looked around several times, but he didn't see any traces of artificial excavation, and he was puzzled for a while.After a few minutes, Zhao Bai didn't care too much, and directly pushed the mummy aside.

I wanted to stop it, but it was a step too late. Everyone said that the dead are the greatest. Such a rude behavior made the uncle feel disgusted, but it was hard to say anything.

After the mummy moved, a dry animal skin appeared under him.Zhao Bai picked up the animal skin and looked at it, then threw it on the ground again, his eyes were drawn to the fallen mummy again.

The uncle didn't care what he was doing, picked up the animal skin by himself, and saw a scribbled painting on it.

The painting depicts two people entering a cave.One of them has a cow's heart hair on top of his head, and it can be seen intuitively that he is a veteran.

The person behind him was painted to look like a devil.The two pointed horns on the head and the fangs in the mouth can prove this.

But apart from this, there is nothing else recorded on the hide.The uncle searched carefully on the animal skin, hoping to see other pictures, but Zhao Bai kept squatting and playing with the mummy.

After searching to no avail, the uncle walked into Zhao Bai's side, wanting to see what he was doing.

And that Huang Daudao and his brother were looking at the earthen jar on the ground, calling them to go and see what was inside.

"It's just an ordinary mercury stone elixir, it's nothing to worry about, don't put it in your mouth, it's highly poisonous."

After the uncle finished speaking, he continued to stare back at Zhao Bai. He faintly felt that Zhao Bai must have discovered something if he was so serious.

Sure enough, Zhao Bai lifted his head down suddenly, hooked his fingers at the uncle, and a sly smile appeared on his face.

After the uncle approached, he saw that Zhao Bai had opened the mummy's hand without knowing when, and a few fingers were probably broken by Zhao Bai's excessive force.

Originally, the uncle was a little angry with Zhao Bai's behavior, but when he saw that he disrespected this senior so much, he was about to explode.But Zhao Bai mysteriously handed the uncle a kit, the smile on his face remained undiminished, and he whispered:

"I finally found it."

(End of this chapter)