cellar entry

Tie and I looked at each other, and he cautiously picked up the knife from the table behind him and leaned gently toward the door.

The knocking on the door continued, and a very low voice sounded outside the door: "Bei Bei, this is Shu Ke. Please call me back." As soon as I heard this voice, I had already greeted all his relatives and friends in my heart. No need for me to say anything. Tie opened the door for the other party, and Datou and Zhao Gu ducked in.

"Why don't you open the door? What secrets do you two have?" Da Tou smiled evilly and went to turn on the light, but I stopped him. I lowered my voice and said, "Stop talking nonsense. There is someone outside, so don't turn on the light."

"Huh?" Big Tou looked out in confusion. I said it was that group of people. Then I told them about the discovery of the tie and my guess. When Big Tou heard this, he became angry and cursed softly: "This is not a fucking scam. As for us, the people in charge of you are too unreliable."

I said: "Now I am not sure whether Tangkou betrayed us."

"What should we do?"

I thought about it for a while and analyzed: "Now extending one's head is a knife, and retracting one's head is also a knife. We might as well strike while the iron is hot. They will not be able to guess that we entered under their noses. According to the original plan, if we can enter the cellar, We got it done before dawn."

"Then what are you waiting for? Let's go." Big Head urged.

I prayed in my heart that we would be able to enter the cellar. At dawn, we would take Han Sheng to give each other a surprise and return to Beijing in a big way.

The rest of us got dressed, Zhao Gu and Tie all brought knives, Datou and I tucked in our flashlights but didn't turn them on. A group of people quietly opened the door and walked down the stairs. We walked to the backyard in the dark and found the location of the cellar under the guidance of our tie.

Although the cellar was found, it was difficult to open it. The cellar was dug in the backyard, with a square opening, and a lid welded on top with an iron plate. The sound of opening it would definitely be loud, which would definitely alarm those people.

We looked at each other in confusion, and the big head looked around in the yard, and finally brought over a quilt that someone else had dried to dry, and put it under the iron plate. The voice was indeed much softer. I gestured to him with an OK sign, and he was proud of it. A smile.

This kind of cellar needs to be opened and closed every day to get food, so there is no need to worry about insufficient oxygen inside. Below the cellar was a rusty iron ladder. The big end came down last. He stood on the ladder and pulled back the upper iron plate, leaving only a small gap, but you couldn't tell if you looked closely.

The cellar is not small, it is L-shaped. When we walked in, we saw many bags of sweet potatoes stacked up, and even more jars of white wine. We took a big sip of it, then covered it with our lips again, muttering about the taste. Not great.

We bent down and entered the passage and turned on the flashlight. Suddenly we saw a large mound of soil in the corner. I pinched it and it was new soil. It should have been buried by the people in the kitchen during the day. I compared the position again. , yes, it is facing east, and it is very likely that the call came from the house next door.

Zhao Gu used a hoe that came along the way to dig, and in three or two strokes, he dug up the pile of new soil, revealing a hole as thick as a calf. I explored my hand and said to them excitedly: "There is a way to survive." ah."

Since there was only one tool, the four of us took turns to work. The soil could not be transported out, so it was piled aside. When the big head was resting, I had to smoke. I patted him. The air under the cellar is limited and there is less pollution.

Zhao Gu and Datou are both experts at digging holes. The hole was not big enough for one person to pass through, so we pushed along the mouse hole. After digging for less than an hour, we estimated that we pushed more than ten meters in and turned around. After two turns, Zhao Gu called me inside and said he had discovered something.

The hole is not big, so we can only go in one by one. I climbed in front and asked him what was wrong. He said the soil was wrong, so he grabbed a handful and showed it to me. I looked with my flashlight and found that it was mixed soil, which was obviously the same as the excavated soil. It was two crops, indicating that there were traces of man-made work on it. He said: "The mouse hole goes further forward. It is not very deep above the head. It may be the stone slabs paved in the yard. Most of the soil was laid down when digging the foundation. What should I do? Forward or upward?"

Big head got in from behind me, took a look at the soil, and affirmed: "Xiao Zhao is right, it is the foundation soil, we really got it in."

I thought for a while and said: "Go forward, this position is not good. If we go out from here, we may still be exposed to the other party's sight."

Tie Tie and I dug two avoidance troughs in the middle of the tunnel. One was for making soil into it to save the front for transportation, and the other was for walking through and avoiding. Tie and I hid in, and Datou came up from behind to change shifts with Zhao Gu. Not long after, I heard Datou's "Hey" coming from the cave, and then I heard him calling me excitedly: "Xiao Cao, use your best skills in your life." Compliment me on my literary qualities." As we walked over, he squatted there, clapped his hands, pointed to a brick wall next to him and said, "Let's live together."

"Shit, it's not a tomb," Zhao Gu said in surprise from behind.

Datou patted the brick wall and said, "If this were a tomb, your second master would really be worthy of the name Cao Tomb, but it's a pity that it's not." He scraped away a layer of soil and gave us a closer look at the back. Brick: "Did you see it? They are all new bricks. They should be the foundation of some building in the house."

"Fuck him."

Since the mice had made a small hole in the bricks over the years, we started to build bricks around the gap. I warned: "You two, be careful and don't mess around. We won't even have a place to hide when it collapses." ."

Big Tou stuck out his butt and lifted the bricks, and said without looking back: "Don't worry, with our skills, we can even lift the bricks for the tomb of the King of Heaven. How can you worry about such a little thing?"

After a while, a half-meter-high hole was opened in the brick wall, and light poured in. Zhao Gu said from the front: "It's moonlight. It should be outdoors. What is this?"

We turned off the flashlights and lined up to go in. The space inside was not big, surrounded by brick walls and curved shape. Except for the top of the head, it seemed to be a closed space. Datou clicked his tongue and said, "It's a dry well."

I nodded, yes, judging from the specifications, it should be a well. There were some messy things under the well, and the moonlight was very hazy. We had been turning on the flashlight in the cave, but our eyes haven't adapted yet, so we couldn't see clearly what they were.

I looked up along the well wall to see if there were any iron stirrups on the bricks that I could climb up on. It didn't matter if I looked up. Through the moonlight, I saw a man leaning half of his body and looking down from above. I His whole body was agitated, and he seemed to have noticed that I was looking at him, and turned around and disappeared.

I whispered, and a few of them looked over. I pointed at the mouth of the well and said nervously, "There is someone."

"Where is it?" Datou and the others also looked over.

"It's gone, but I promise I saw it. It was right there just now."

"Is it the other party?" Zhao asked me.

I pulled them back into the cave first, and at the same time my mind began to spin rapidly, and I analyzed the current situation: "It doesn't look like it. First, from our previous analysis, the other party did not come in, they just monitored the house from the outside. Secondly, what a coincidence. Even if someone from the other side came in just after we went down, how could they find us by chance? We didn't turn on the lights, so we wouldn't be exposed at all. Unless..."

"Unless the other party was staring at this well from the beginning?" Datou said in surprise.

"Yes, I think that person was already there when we entered, but he didn't say anything. I guess it's not that group of people." I said.

"What's the point of being black and white, looking for inspiration for writing poems?" Datou started to make nonsense.

I said: "It's possible that we were discovered when we were digging this way."

"Do you have dog ears? You are so smart." Datou looked unconvinced.

"No matter what you look at, I think this person is the one who brought us here. He is the one who trapped Han Sheng." Zhao Gu guessed.

"It's possible that there are other people in the house. I've also thought about it. Those people's scruples can't be unreasonable. There must be some unknown dangers in the old house. We have to be very alert and don't let anyone break. At this."

I didn't expect to be discovered as soon as I came in. This was much worse than I expected. With our whereabouts exposed, we must be careful in our next actions. I sighed, having a hunch that tonight was destined to be uneventful. I hoped that God would bless us and successfully rescue Han Sheng.

The big head tilted his head and looked up, and said softly: "There is no one there. There are stirrups on the wall. You can climb up. What do you say, Er Ye?"

"Walk."

A few of us filed out, Zhao Gu took the lead with a knife in his pocket, and led the rear. We climbed up along the iron stirrups one by one.

Zhao Gu, who was the first to arrive, had already climbed to the wellhead. He slightly poked his head out to look around, then turned around and whispered to us: "No one is there." After saying that, he held the wellhead with both hands and turned over. The wellhead was six to seventy centimeters above the ground. Looking at the wellhead The workmanship was an old well. When Tie Tie and I came out, Zhao Gu and Datou had already hid under the wall of a house and were waving to us.

The two of us ran over quickly and pointed to the upper right corner behind the house. I took a look and it seemed that this house was a popular house. Our current location seemed to be in the backyard between the main house and the back house. , this well is next to the ear room. We hid under the eaves of the second room, just in the blind spot of the inn next door.

"How to get there?" Big Head squatted next to me and asked me.

I looked across the yard and saw a three-room back room. The doors and windows were closed, and it was pitch black. The yard was not big, and there was an old tree planted there, as well as a large vat and a few stone piers. I pushed He pushed the door next to him and found that it was unlocked, so he said, "Go in first, we don't know where the other person is, so hide yourself first."

Datou made an OK gesture, quietly opened the door, poked his head inside, and got in. We followed suit.

The wing room was filled with debris, including shovels, brooms, old cardboard boxes, plastic buckets, and an old-fashioned TV. They piled up into a small mountain. We didn't dare to turn on the flashlight fully, so we covered our heads with our clothes, and a little light came out. We quickly scanned the area and said, "No... Damn it, what is this?"