Chapter 6 Section VI

Xia Mingruo bared his teeth and urged, "Quick...quick...my waist is going to break..." "Little Chen!—" Xiao Chen seemed to have regained some sanity, and after fumbling for a while, he replied with a changed voice: "I touched...I touched it." "Then hold on to the cave wall and come up," Chu Haiyang said, "Hurry up! Don't believe me, you will persevere!" Xia Mingruo wailed: "The car is cracked—comrades—" "Come... come... come, come," Xiao Chen said hastily, "Come up right away! Just... come up!" But in the next second, he heard his howling again, and then Comrade Xiao Chen flew into the sky and bounced out of the hole alive.

Xia Mingruo was dumbfounded: "Oh..." Xiao Chen ran wildly and shouted: "Damn——!" Xia Mingruo was dragged all over the ground by him, Chu Haiyang had no choice but to slap Xiao Chen on the head with a shovel. Xiao Chen fell down with a bang, and Chu Haiyang hurriedly helped Xia Mingruo up, only to see that he was not broken from top to bottom, and there was a bloodstain on his waist that was especially serious. "You are too magnificent, don't believe it." Chu Haiyang untied the hemp rope around his waist, "Old Huang should lick it!" Xia Mingruo gasped in pain: "I'm poisonous. Even if Lao Huang is a cat poison, he will die if he licks it! My clothes are finished, and they're still quite new, without a single patch."

"So it's a Gu, and you're a demon. Why do you guys care about clothes?" Chu Haiyang said, "I have medicine in my bag, please bear with it for a while." Xia Mingruo said angrily: "I don't care, but my mother does. How long has she saved up for cloth tickets to make me such a suit? My dad can't even wear it. Xiao Chen, you bastard! Pay me!" "What did you see?" Chu Haiyang approached the hole where Xiao Chen stumbled. The hole is about 50 centimeters in diameter, barely enough to squeeze an adult in. The shape of the hole is very irregular, obviously it was chiseled by hand.The entrance of the cave was covered by a fragment of a coffin. Chu Haiyang and Xia Mingruo avoided it out of instinct to protect cultural relics, but Xiao Chen kept his eyes closed, so he accidentally slipped.

Chu Haiyang shined a flashlight into the cave, and after a long silence, he said to Xia Mingruo, "It was really gunfire last night." Xia Mingruo pointed down the hole: "Is there a corpse?" "Standing corpse," Chu Haiyang nodded, turned to pack his tools, "I'll go down and have a look." Standing corpse is their term, and corpses that can stand up are basically grave robbers. In the excavation of many ancient tombs, you can also meet standing corpses. The tomb robbers got the property and climbed up from the robbery hole. Dead, stuck in the robbery hole, gloriously became a standing corpse.

Of course, the man in front of him is not. From a serious trace point of view, he was beaten to death and stuffed into the hole, but it is scary enough for Xiao Chen, especially when his head is still blooming. Xia Mingruo rolled up the frayed trousers to his knees, and Chu Haiyang crawled into the hole one step at a time: "I let a dead man do me such a bad job." Chu Haiyang said, "Wait..." Xia Mingruo let out a low cry. Chu Haiyang ran over: "What's wrong?" Xia Mingruo raised his head, the top of his head was only a little below the entrance of the cave, his face was pale: "Hai Hai, is there really a dead person down here?"

Chu Haiyang said, "Ah." But a dead man doesn't grab a man's ankle. Xia Mingruo looked down, only to see a pair of eyes in the darkness. Those eyes were also fixed on Xia Mingruo, and then a hoarse voice seemed to come from the ground: "My God, mother..." Xia Mingruo froze and insisted with amazing perseverance to finish saying "I am your father" before scrambling and fleeing out of the cave: "Ocean!" Chu Haiyang supported him, raised his gun and aimed at the hole: "Come out." There was silence in the cave. Chu Haiyang said, "Hurry up, I will shoot in three seconds."

A gun is a gun, even if there are no bullets, it still has a deterrent effect. The man below started to move: "Don't shoot! Don't shoot! My own!" Chu Haiyang leaned forward and dragged him up. This man was also wearing an old military uniform, wearing a pair of liberation shoes with bare feet, a rope around his waist, his hands were empty, and his face was smeared all over his face. No wonder it was fake. He looked at Chu Haiyang and Xia Mingruo in turn, and finally said to Xia Mingruo: "Little comrade, one of my own!" It's a pity that he made a mistake in judgment and chose the wrong person. Xia Mingruo gave him a cold look, grabbed the Pan Chi knife and slashed at his neck.

The man was startled: "No, no, no," he looked at Xia Mingruo again, "Wait." Xia Mingruo frowned and said, "Really?" The man panicked: "Ah? What?" Chu Haiyang said: "Really, when you are old, you will rob tombs, why are you hesitating?" The man grinned and said, "Come with me!" Xia Mingruo shook the certificate away in front of his eyes. The man looked at it carefully: "That's great, it's still state-owned." Xia Mingruo put on a tiger face, and the man hurriedly dodged, and suddenly he said earnestly: "Little comrades, tomb robbery is wrong."

Chu Haiyang and Xia Mingruo squatted beside him at the same time and picked their ears: "Ah? What are you talking about?" The man said: "Comrades, our country's law clearly stipulates that all cultural relics left in the ground, inland water and territorial waters within the territory of the People's Republic of my country belong to the state. No unit or individual is allowed to excavate without authorization. So comrades, come back and do it." Chu Haiyang pressed his hands to signal him to stop: "I understand very deeply." "Thank you, little comrade." The man's eyes were very sincere, "I promise I won't steal it again next time."

"I'm too lazy to beat you," Chu Haiyang said, "Go, lie down with Xiao Chen, don't believe you tied him up." "Uncle, I'm sorry, I have to tighten up. By the way, please take care of Xiao Chen, don't let him harm others again." Xia Mingruo twisted his hands behind his back, tied them with hemp rope, and tied them with a bow. The uncle said: "Yes, it should, it should." He was quiet for a while and then asked Xia Mingruo, "Little comrades, are you still going down into the cave?" Xia Mingruo said: "Go down." The uncle asked, "Can I go down with you too?"

"Didn't you just come up?" Chu Haiyang fixed the light on top of his head, "Hey, uncle, did you kill that person down there?" "How can it be," said the uncle, "when I saw him he was dead! I saw that he was stuck in the hole with only one foot dangling outside, and I was trying to move him out of kindness, but the top suddenly fell down. A boy came down and yelled like a pig, I was almost scared to death myself!" Xia Mingruo said sadly: "Uncle, we are really brothers and sisters, we have to have a drink if we say anything. But now please wait for me patiently, if you say one more word, I will knock you out." The uncle said: "Oh, little comrade, I can tell from your posture. We are all workers of ancient tombs, so why rush to each other." Xia Mingruo said politely: "Oh, uncle, we don't have any free time like you. We just packed our things and left. We still have to take pictures, draw pictures, repair registers and write reports. You are lucky." "Don't believe me," Chu Haiyang said, "Let's go down." Chu Haiyang lowered half of his body into the cave, supported the cave wall with his feet, and gestured to follow.Xia Mingruo was about to get off, but the schoolbag strap was hooked by the uncle. "It's empty below," the uncle's face turned serious, "but it's dangerous." Xia Mingruo leaned close to Chu Haiyang's ear and asked, "Do you believe him?" "Trust," Chu Haiyang thought for a while, then suddenly laughed, "I'm the easiest to trust people. Uncle, tied hands won't affect your actions, right?" "Don't underestimate people." The uncle happily stood up. It took a few more minutes to determine the order, and finally it was decided that the uncle who was familiar with the situation would lead the way. The wounded Xia Mingruo was in the middle, Chu Haiyang led the formation, and the three crawled into the cave. The standing corpse in the cave has been removed by the uncle, and the uncle didn't bother to control the speed, shrunk his shoulders, almost slid to the bottom of the cave with a bang, and came out of the hole below with a bang, and shouted after landing: "Come down!" The sound came out from the darkness, and the echo hummed continuously. It seemed that the space below was not small. Xia Mingruo didn't dare to follow his example of rubbing off the stone wall, but squirmed cautiously, complaining as he moved, "Damn it, my knees hurt so much, and so do my arms. This time I've dedicated myself to the archaeological cause of my motherland." Chu Haiyang didn't speak, and wriggled slower than Xia Mingruo. When Xia Mingruo got away, he was still struggling in the cave.For no other reason, it got stuck. "Both of you have bone shrinking skills?" He asked helplessly. Xia Mingruo turned to ask the uncle: "Do you have any?" The uncle said, "No, who did you hear that from?" Xia Mingruo raised his head and replied: "You deserve it, are you so high-ranking? This is the end." "I'm squeezed to death!" Chu Haiyang complained, he struggled hard and finally got out of the sea of ​​suffering, but just as he tried to stand up straight after taking a breath, he bumped his head again. Xia Mingruo and the uncle grinned at the same time, and laughed unceremoniously.Chu Haiyang took turns to shine on them with a flashlight, his expression was quite frightening, and the two immediately became serious. "Cough..." the uncle said, "Comrades, please take a look, this is the inside of the empress grave." "Ah, is this really the Empress' Grave?" Xia Mingruo asked. "Yes, this is the only big tomb in Yongcui Mountain." The uncle said, "I guarantee it with my personality." "Great hanging coffin." Chu Haiyang corrected, holding a flashlight and walking forward slowly. The hole on the second floor is still in a downward trend, and it is several times larger than the one on the upper floor. Walk towards the middle of the bag.The temperature in the cave was extremely low, Xia Mingruo had just taken off his ragged clothes on top, and was only wearing a thin vest, shivering from the cold, he walked up to the uncle and said, "Uncle, take off your coat for me." Chu Haiyang took off his shirt and threw it to him: "Wear mine." The uncle was very envious: "Revolutionary friendship..." Chu Haiyang asked: "Uncle, do you really want to be beaten?" The uncle immediately turned his head in an aggrieved manner. The flashlight was their only source of light, and the ground was uneven. The three of them walked very slowly. When the uncle couldn't take it anymore, he said, "Comrades, I have candles in my pocket. Please light them up." Then he sped up his pace a little. .The problem is that it’s useless to walk too fast. As the uncle said, this is a hollow with potholes on the walls, which looks like it was formed naturally. "No," Chu Haiyang said, "This is indeed a natural cave, but it was processed by people." The flashlight pointed to his feet: "There used to be a stalagmite here, but it was chiseled out." Xia Mingruo stroked his chest and said, "Phew, thinking of the one I crushed, I'm mentally balanced." The flashlight pointed to the top of the cave again: "There should be traces left by stalactites here... Oh, don't believe it." "what?" Chu Haiyang said, "There are petroglyphs on the roof of the cave." Xia Mingruo squinted his eyes and said he couldn't see clearly. Chu Haiyang put the flashlight in his hand and picked him up, Xia Mingruo rode on his shoulder.