Jianjian's face turned slightly red, but she still said stubbornly: "You... you just said yes, you have to... you have to open it before it counts..."
"Hmph! It's just a secret door. Do you think you can beat me, old ghost? I will open this door now and convince you!" After the old ghost said this, he turned around and started searching around the cave wall.
He must be looking for a mechanism to open the secret door. Wen Qingshan turned to us and said, "Let's go over and have a look too!"
A few of us gathered around and searched around the stone wall, but found nothing because everything looked so natural and there was no trace of artificial polishing.
I couldn't help but wonder, could Biangui have been right? The old ghost was really making a fool of himself? However, when he knocked on the stone wall just now, there was indeed a "dong dong" echo, which showed that the inside of the stone wall
It was hollow. From this point of view, it didn't look like he was talking nonsense. It couldn't be such a coincidence. The old ghost randomly found a stone wall and knocked on it. It happened to be hollow.
While I was thinking about it, the old ghost suddenly walked over to the side.
Everyone felt strange and followed him closely, not knowing what he was going to do.
He stopped when he was seven or eight meters away from the stone wall, and focused on a large stone that was about two feet tall and was completely brown.
We looked at each other and walked over. Wen Qingshan asked: "Senior Old Ghost, have you discovered something?"
The old ghost raised his finger and pointed at the big stone and said, "This stone should be the mechanism that opens the secret door of the imperial mausoleum!"
When Jianjian heard this, he laughed and said: "I just said you were lying! You actually said that this stone is..." Before he could finish his words, I quickly patted him on the shoulder and said: "You
You can't say less! Why do you have to argue with the old ghost senior!"
Jianjian immediately shouted: "I'm the one arguing with him! Am I not allowed to question such a nonsensical statement?"
The old ghost turned his head and glanced at Jianjian, and said coldly: "Boy, don't be so arrogant! Just be prepared to kowtow to me."
Jianjian said tit for tat: "Huh! I can't decide who should kowtow to whom!"
Seeing that the two were about to get into a fight again, Wen Qingshan hurriedly smoothed things over and said, "You two, don't argue anymore. If this stone is a mechanism for opening the secret door, you will know if you try it!"
Jianjian immediately agreed: "That's right! Since you said this is the mechanism to open the secret door, then you should open the secret door and show it to everyone!"
The old ghost lowered his head and glanced at the stone, and said calmly: "The opening mechanism is pressed under this stone, but this stone weighs at least one or two hundred kilograms, and I can't move it with my old bones.
Move, you just need to help me move the stone, and I can open the door."
When Jianjian heard this, he immediately shouted: "Damn it! One moment you said that this stone is the opening mechanism, and the next time you said that the opening mechanism is under this stone, I said you are treating us like monkeys! You have to move yourself
We won’t move!”
I was also doubtful about what the old ghost said. I turned around and glanced at Wen Qingshan, but he seemed to trust the old ghost's judgment and said, "Since the old ghost has spoken, let's move this stone away."
After Wen Qingshan finished speaking, he asked everyone to come forward and move the stone together. Of course, Jianjian refused to do it, but Long Jiansheng seemed to be deaf and ignored Wen Qingshan's words completely. In the end, I was the only one who could do it.
He and Niu Fatty followed Wen Qingshan to move the rocks.
In fact, this stone is not too big. I thought that if the three of us moved it together, it would be easier. But what I didn't expect was that the weight of the stone was much heavier than I thought. It took a lot of effort for the three of us.
After a lot of effort, he finally lifted the stone off the ground and moved it about half a meter to the side. Then he felt that his strength was a bit out of control, so he quickly put the stone down.
I turned around and looked at the spot where the stone had been pressed. I was slightly startled to see that there was a round hole about ten centimeters in diameter.
Seeing this round hole, everyone else was shocked, especially Jianjian, whose eyes widened. The old ghost glanced at Jianjian proudly, and said with a smile: "Boy, why don't you kowtow to your grandpa quickly?"
Apologize!"
Jianjian was stunned for a moment before she came back to her senses, and argued with a red face: "This... this door hasn't been opened yet, I... Who am I to kowtow to!"
"It seems that you kid won't shed tears until you see the coffin. Grandpa, I will make you convinced of your defeat!" The old ghost said, squatting down, stretching out a hand, and carefully reaching into the round hole.
In a short time, his entire arm was almost completely inserted into the round hole, and half of his face was already on the ground, but he still could not open the secret door.
Seeing this, Jianjian immediately regained his energy and urged from the side: "Hey! I said you should hurry up and open the secret door! What are you doing there?"
The old ghost raised his head and glanced at Jianjian with a dark face, but this time he did not refute him. Instead, he took his arm out of the round hole, turned to me and said, "Hey! I see your arms are quite long.
, come and try!”
"Me?" I was a little surprised. I was stunned for a moment before I realized. It turned out that the reason why the old ghost couldn't open the secret door was because his arms were too short. He probably couldn't touch the opening mechanism at all. My arms were longer.
, so let me try it.
I walked forward and took a look into the round hole. It was very deep inside, but I didn't see anything special. I asked the old ghost, "Senior Old Ghost, what do you want me to do?"
The old ghost said: "Put your hand down to the bottom. There should be a handle-like thing on the wall of the round hole. Just grab the handle and pull it out, and it's done."
"Is it that simple?"
The old ghost nodded: "This kind of mechanism seems simple, but it is often the most unexpected."
I lowered my head and looked into the round hole again, wanting to see where the handle the old ghost mentioned was, but I saw nothing. The old ghost said: "Don't look, the handle is embedded in the wall of the cave. From above
It’s impossible to see it, you can only feel it with your hands.”
I calmed down and was about to put my hand into the round hole, but Jianjian suddenly came over, grabbed me and said, "Brother! Don't be careless, be careful of fraud!"
When the old ghost heard this, he glared at Jianjian and said coldly: "Do you think Grandpa, I will use this method to plot against you young boys? If word spreads, it will ruin my reputation."
"It's hard to say, you just attacked me sneakily!" Jianjian is still brooding over what happened when the old ghost threw him to the ground just now.
I was afraid that the two of them would continue to quarrel, so I hurriedly said to Jianjian: "Stop fooling around, we have limited time. It has been more than an hour and we still haven't been able to enter the imperial mausoleum. How long are you going to fight with the old ghost senior?"
Woolen cloth!"
Jianjian had no choice but to let go of my hand and stood aside sadly.
I took a deep breath and slowly stretched my hand into the round hole.
The round hole is really not that deep. Even though my arms are relatively long, I almost stuffed my whole arm into the round hole before I finally reached the bottom of the round hole. I groped at the bottom for a while, and sure enough I felt it.
One was about three inches long and looked a bit like a handle. I held the handle and pulled it out hard, and immediately there was a "click" sound. Then, there was a burst of sound coming from underground.
It sounded like a machine starting up.
Upon hearing this sound, everyone was slightly startled, and immediately turned their heads in unison to look at the flat stone wall. After a while, the sound of the mechanism starting up suddenly stopped, and with a loud "boom", the sound on the other side
Sure enough, the stone wall was like a door, which sunk inward and slowly slid into the stone wall on one side. An artificial arch hole nearly two meters high and one meter wide appeared in front of everyone.
The old ghost turned his head, looked at Jianjian and said, "Boy! It's time to kowtow to your grandfather."
Jianjian looked straight at the arched hole and said in a daze: "This is really the entrance to the secret passage..."
"Stop talking nonsense! Why don't you kowtow to your grandpa quickly!"
"Huh! Kowtow, just kowtow!" When Jianjian said this, she turned to me and asked: "Brother, have you brought any incense?"
I didn't react for a moment: "What kind of fragrance do you bring?"
"It's just the incense used to burn incense!"
"Why should I bring that thing with me? We are not going to the temple to worship Buddha."
Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished speaking, the fat man beside me said, "I brought it!"
I couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Why are you still carrying this thing!?"
Fatty Niu blushed and explained: "I... I was thinking that Qin Shihuang was the only emperor of all time. If I really wanted to see his coffin, why... I would have to put a stick of incense on him."
After listening to Fatty Niu's explanation, I couldn't laugh or cry, but Jianjian immediately said: "Don't worry about offering incense to Qin Shihuang, the old man. Anyway, the oxygen content in it is low, and you can't light it even if you want to offer incense to him. First, give him some incense."
I’ll use it.”
Fatty Niu said "Oh" as if he didn't understand, he took off his backpack very honestly, took out a handful of incense wrapped in yellow paper money from the backpack, and handed it to Jianjian.
I was very puzzled and asked, "Why do you want incense?"
Jianjian took out three sticks of incense, took out a lighter from nowhere, and replied without raising his head: "I have to kowtow to my grandfather, so of course I have to burn the incense first. I just happen to have this paper money, so I can burn it later."
A few."
Hearing him say this, I immediately understood his intention. He was deliberately squeezing the old ghost. The old ghost took a moment to react and immediately became anxious: "Wait a minute, you are cursing me to death."
!”
Jianjian said calmly: "Who cursed you? It was you who asked me to kowtow to you to admit my mistake, and you also claimed to be my grandpa. My grandpa passed away when I was a child. Kowtowing to the dead grandpa will naturally earn three points."
Bow nine times, burn incense and turn it into paper..."
Before he could finish what he said, the old ghost hurriedly interrupted him and said angrily: "Come on! Come on! Stop kowtowing to me! What a damn bad luck!"