On the horizon, a group of seven people gradually appeared, and the horses ran and stopped when they reached the intersection of the forest and the grassland.

Based on his feelings, Kitano Longyin judged that this place might be close to the Greater Xing'an Mountains.

This place is rarely visited, deserted, and the grass on the ground is lush. Looking from a distance, you can see at the end of the grassland and on the edge of the forest, there is a low wooden house standing alone. From a distance, it blends into the dense and tall forests behind it.

The young man surnamed Zhang nodded to everyone, "It's here."

Boss Du squinted his eyes and looked at the cabin, whispering in a broken voice: "Why are there anyone in the house? The forest ranger?"

On the chimney of the wooden house, misty blue smoke faintly emerged.

Du Lao Er jumped off the horse, grabbed the long cloth bag on the horse's back and shook it, revealing a rifle inside, and slammed the bolt. He was very skillful in his movements. After the bullet was loaded, he raised the gun and aimed at the wooden house.

"Don't shoot!" The young man surnamed Zhang reminded him, "There are the people we arranged inside."

"It's your people again? How many people have you brought in?" Boss Du said with a shaking head. He heard that someone came in to share food, which made his boss unhappy.

"Let's go!" The young man surnamed Zhang squeezed his horse's belly with his legs, drove his mount forward slowly, and everyone followed one by one.

Mo Laosan approached Long Yin and gave him a look in a slight look - Long Yin ignored him. In fact, he had already discovered it on the way that the Du brothers of the "Three Tigers Outside the Frontier" were carrying guys! But he didn't take it seriously.

It is common for people walking on the underworld outside the northern border to protect themselves with weapons. On the one hand, there are often ferocious beasts in the wilderness, and on the other hand, they should be guarded against some bandits.

Although the country has been liberated, there are still some bandits who missed the net in some remote areas. Legend has it that in the depths of the Greater Xing'an Mountains, some Japanese invaders who refused to surrender during the War of Resistance and swear to be loyal to the Emperor to the death. Some herders once discovered that they were appearing like savages in the mountains.

Everyone walked to the wooden house, and the crooked wooden door opened with a creaking sound, and an old man with a messy body and a messy hair walked out of it. He rolled his eyes and looked at everyone with a expressionless face.

"This is the gravekeeper we arranged here." said the young man surnamed Zhang, nodded to the old man, and handed him the reins.

"What can you do if you can keep a bad old man?" Du Lao Er murmured, threw the reins at the old man's hand, and turned sideways into the room.

As soon as I entered, I said "Wow".

Everyone went in one by one, and were also surprised at the same time.

The whole wooden house is actually a cover, with no windows on the four walls and it is empty inside. There is a simple earthen stove made of mud blocks near the door. There are some dilapidated cotton wool piled next to it. It must be the place where the gravekeepers spend the night. Apart from that, there is no furniture in the house.

There is a large tilt downward pit in the middle of the house. The deepest part of the pit is more than 4 meters. There are two dark red doors standing upright. The doors are closed and look very thick.

Xiao Zhang introduced: "Some time ago, this old man, the forest ranger Lao Liu, was patrolling the mountain and his horse fell into a soil nest and accidentally discovered the ancient tomb. After reporting to his superiors, the archaeological team sent someone to check it and found that the structure of the tomb was very strange. With the manpower at that time, it could not be opened, so they could only send someone to take care of it first, and then dig it after preparing sufficient human hands and tools."

Kitano Huxiao, one of the "Twin Heroes of Mobei", carefully observed the wooden house. It was built very sloppy, and the wooden stakes were broken and new. You could smell the fragrance of the tree trunks. It seemed that it took only ten days to build it.

He turned his head and asked, "So we are helping the archaeological team work?"

Boss Du laughed: "Help the archaeological team work? They are nothing. What money can I make for helping them work? Big brother, you are still a little too young. This is obviously Boss Zhang who works by himself before the archaeological team comes back. When the authentic archaeological team comes, the place has been hollowed out by our brothers and others. Haha!"

Seeing Kitano Hu Xiao’s face was unhappy, Boss Du touched his bearded man and continued, “We don’t know what you brothers do normally, but our Du family’s threehu have never done a loss-making business-do you think? Boss Zhang?”

The young man surnamed Zhang smiled slightly and continued to introduce without any comment:

"After the archaeological team dug the door, they tried every means to push it open. The old mage in the team said that he had excavated so many ancient tombs in his life and had never seen such a style before, so he had no idea."

"Why do you need so much trouble to open the door? Just just make a thief hole next to you!" Boss Du walked to the bottom of the pit and knocked on the door with his hand. It turned out to be a solid stone door.

Mo Laosan, who was touching and looking at the "Tiantian Ruler" who was shook his head and said, "It's useless."

Turning back to see Boss Du’s face, he hurriedly smiled and said, “Boss Du, I don’t mean that! I know that your Northern Sect is good at making holes, and it’s a unique skill to make holes, but this ancient tomb is extraordinary. I guess, the entire tomb is sealed with huge rocks, and it’s definitely impossible to get in by digging holes.”

Xiao Zhang nodded and said, "Mo Sanxia guessed it right. At that time, the archaeological team had also drew thieves around, but they all encountered huge rocks one after another, so they could not move forward at all."

"Then let's fuck it - you said it earlier, let's get more explosives!" Du Lao Er complained. This guy is also a bad temper.

Mo Laosan shook his head, "It's useless. This door seal stone is at least half a foot thick, not to mention the surrounding Vajra wall. Putting explosives is just a blasting nest..."

"Just you say so much!" Boss Du turned his neck and beat Mo Laosan around.

Xiao Zhang said: "Mr. Mo is right. If you use explosives, it will be too loud. If you collect so many explosives at once, you will be noticed by the relevant departments - and it is too late now.

It has been more than half a month since the discovery of this tomb. Because the place is too remote and excavation is troublesome, the archaeological team does not pay attention to it, so we gave us time, but I guess they should take action now - we don’t have much time."

Boss Du squatted by the pit and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, nights are long and dreams, go down quickly. But how can you do this? The stone gate is probably weighing thousands of pounds. Only those of us can probably not push it if we hold it up."

After saying that, he looked at Mo Lao San and said, "As soon as you come in, you just know a lot, but you talk about how to go in and fight. You can't tell me, brothers and others will kill you!"

Mo Laosan was frightened by him, and he looked at Xiao Zhang helplessly and asked for help silently - everyone was responsible for robbing the tombs in the end.

Xiao Zhang ignored him at all, as if he had agreed with Boss Du's proposal.

Mo Lao San had to bite the bullet and said, "Then I have to guess boldly, but if you guess wrong, don't blame me..."

"Quick chicken steak said, look at you showing off."

Mo Laosan cleared his throat: "Hehe, in our tomb robbers, all tombs from all dynasties have their own characteristics. As the saying goes, "The Qin burys the ridges and the Han burys the slopes"..."

"Damn it, you're serious, don't drop the book bag from me." Boss Du grabbed a handful of soil and sprinkled his face.

"Cough cough" Mo Laosan, who was standing at the bottom of the pit, was scattered with his head, wiped the soil on his face, and continued to speed up his speech: "Tombs from all dynasties have their own characteristics, but this tomb, judging from the current situation, is not related to the tomb structures of all dynasties. From the perspective of Feng Shui, the terrain and direction of this choice are not reasonable, and it is difficult to determine the dynasty."

Mo Laosan said and glanced at Longtou, "I learned about the situation with Mr. Zhang before. They had made holes in several directions around them, and all encountered the Vajra Wall. In terms of the direction of the holes and met the Vajra Wall, the underground palace is very large. Such a large underground palace can still afford such a sealed stone. That is not something that ordinary tombs, tombs and tombs can afford. Only imperial tombs and bedrooms have such status."

Boss Du stood up when he heard this: "You said we dug up the emperor's tomb?"

Seeing his excited eyes shining, Mo Laosan said timidly again: "It is not necessarily true that there are very large mounds of imperial tombs - many mounds of imperial tombs are entire mountains - but the tomb we encountered is flat on top, not like there is a mound. Judging from the sealing gate below, the underground palace should not be very deep..."

Boss Du scratched his head and said, "Hey! It's a weird thing. Which dog emperor is running away with nothing to do to dig such a broken pit?"

Kitano Longyin, who had been silent all the time, said: "Brother Mo speculated that the reason why this tomb is so strange is that it is not buried inside of Han people at all - this is the tomb of the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty!"

-----rain-----

Twenty years later, Lijia Village.

Li Ziyang sat in the classroom and stared blankly at the continuous drizzle outside, habitually distracted.

The old math man on the podium was writing formulas with one stroke at a time, and it was time to get off school after he finished writing, Zi Yang thought to himself.

At this time, a piece of paper was suddenly hit on his head. Li Ziyang turned his head and found that A Chong was shaking his eyes at him. There was a smug smile on his face. He pointed at the foot of his feet - a half-sagged ball with his skin.

A Chong is Zi Yang's best playmate. Although he is just a teenager, he is precocious than his peers. Except for being more lively with Zi Yang, he doesn't talk much to others. When he doesn't play with everyone, he is even a little gloomy. He has both parents died since he was a child, and lives with his uncle with intellectual defects, and lives with the help of the village.

Zi Yang's parents like A Chong very much and treat him like his godson. They often leave him at home for dinner and overnight.

The old math man finally finished writing the blackboard, then put the Shanghai quartz watch on his wrist to everyone and looked carefully, saying, "Well, get out of class is over."

A group of children shouted and rushed out of the classroom, frightened the kind old man and staggered, and shouted tremblingly behind the children: "Slow down, the sky is cloudy, the road is slippery, be careful of falling..."

A Chong hugged Zi Yang's shoulder and said with a gaze: "The rain has stopped. Let's go back later. Let's go to the playground to play ball."

A Chong was very appealing among the children. With a shout, a dozen wild boys rushed to the earthen playground behind the school. They were stunned. The familiar open space had turned into a swamp, with water everywhere, and the deep water could not reach the knee.

When everyone was at a loss, Achong took off his clothes and pants with only a pair of shorts left on his body. He jumped naked to the puddle and kicked the ball up, "Let's play water polo."

A group of children immediately cheered and followed the example, and some people simply jumped into the water with their bare butts. On the muddy playground, there were only a dozen naked children running around.

Suddenly Achong said, "Hey, it seems that bubbles are coming out in the water over there." Following the direction of his finger, a puddle in the middle of the playground was gurgling, and bubbles were turning out.

A Chong smiled and said, "I'll touch a fish for you to show you!" As he said that, he bent down and fumbled in the knee-deep water. Suddenly, his face changed and darkened, "Step in a hole, there is something underneath! Alas, something catches me!"

"Pu" A Chong staggered into the water, choked on two mouthfuls of muddy water, and while struggling, coughing and shouting, "Come and pull me."

Seeing that he didn't look like a joke, Zi Yang rushed over and hugged A Chong's waist and dragged it back, but felt a huge force pulling A Chong into the water.

Zi Yang hurriedly turned around and called other children to "come here and help", and the timid people were already crying in fear.

A Chong's whole body was almost lying in the water, his face turned red and shouted: "Is there... something holding my arm, hey, it hurts so much!"

Some of Zi Yang held hands with a few children, and some hugged their waists, using a tug of war. After shattering his strength, he dragged it back but failed to get A Chong out. He felt a strange force was dragging A Chong into the water.

Suddenly, Zi Yang felt the force in his hand relaxed, and with a clamor, A Chong was pulled out like a radish, and everyone fell into the water with their backs and forked.

Zi Yang hugged A Chong and dragged him to the open space. The two of them lay on the ground as if they were exhausted. The children all ran up and stood there tremblingly and at a loss.

"It's dark, my mother is going to scold me," said an older child with a crying voice, picked up the clothes and pants on the ground and ran away, and the others scattered one after another.

There were only two people in the empty playground, Zi Yang and A Chong. Zi Yang touched A Chong's hand and said, "I, let's go too." As soon as he said that, he didn't feel like he was making a sound.

A Chong lay down on the ground, and said exhausted, "I can't walk anymore and I have no strength."

Zi Yang put A Chong's arm on his shoulders, held A Chong's waist with one hand, and held the clothes with the other hand, dragging them towards the village. While walking, they felt the air conditioner rising from the back of their heads and trembling all over.

When I walked to Zi Yang's doorstep, it was already completely dark.

As soon as he entered the house, Zi Yang's father, who had a dark face, kicked the two mud children away with one leg: "It's so late, where are you going crazy? Ah, the new clothes that I had just worn for two days are so dirty?!"

Zi Yang's mother was just waiting to continue the conversation. When she saw the two children curled up on the side without saying a word, she immediately changed her face and slapped Zi Yang's father on the arm, "You old man don't know the depth, what should I do if you break my child?" As she said that, she came over with the oil lamp to take a closer look. It didn't matter. The oil lamp in Zi Yang's mother's hand almost fell to the ground. The two children's faces turned pale and their lips were bloodless.

Zi Yang's mother was anxious and twisted Zi Yang's father's ear with one hand and twisted it down desperately, "You broke my child! You broke my child!"

Zi Yang's father was also frightened, letting his ears be pulled half a foot long and said in a panic, "I didn't use much force..."

"Mom, it wasn't my dad's beating it," Zi Yang said stutteringly: "We were playing on the playground just now, A Chong was caught by a water ghost..."

Zi Yang didn't know how to describe what happened just now, but he vaguely remembered that if the old man scared his child not to go to the pond to play, he would be caught by a water ghost.

Zi Yang's father slapped Zi Yang in the head and said, "I'm really good at pretending, I'm scared. How could there be a water ghost on the dry land of the school playground?"

Zi Yang hurriedly defended: "I was really caught by the water ghost. Look at A Chong's hand." As he said that, A Chong's hand lit up to show it to his parents. It didn't matter if he saw it, and even Zi Yang himself was shocked.

I didn't notice it just now, A Chong's right hand had swollen, as if he had been caught by some wild beast. From his wrist to his forearm, he was covered in black and slight fishy smell.

Zi Yang's mother said with distress: "Has she fought with someone again?"

Zi Yang was so anxious that she almost cried: "I really didn't fight. I was really caught by the water ghost. If you don't believe me, go and ask Xiaochun and the others..."
To be continued...