Cao Cao called me to rob a tomb

Chapter 736 Stench (4000)

quarry?
Wu Liang was stunned.

Just now he was still thinking, if this hill is a jade mountain, its value must be immeasurable.

And because the opening time of this place is extremely limited, if there is no quarry here, and preparations must be made in advance, otherwise the stone bricks for Tian Heng's mansion will not be obtained at all.

As a result, when he turned his face, a quarry appeared in front of him.

And the emergence of this quarry.

Especially those rows of small stone houses of similar size, it is not difficult for Wuliang to associate it. This place is definitely not only visited by Xu Fu alone, but a group of dozens or even hundreds of craftsmen have settled here, and they are still here. for a longer period of time.

The only problem is.

So many craftsmen came here to settle down, and built such a quarry that took shape, it must be to exploit the special jade in this hill in batches.

But as far as Wu Liang knew, similar jade had never appeared in the history of the Celestial Dynasty.

The archaeological world of later generations has never discovered such ancient jade or ancient jade products that are always cold throughout, so where did the jade mined here go?

Don't say it can't be shipped out.

Since Tian Heng was able to get so many stone bricks to build a mansion on Yuzhou Mountain, it is not a problem to ship jade in batches...

"Go down and have a look."

With such questions in mind, Wu Liang immediately walked towards the quarry down the mountain.

His interest in jade is actually just that, and now there is basically no need to bring back a large amount of materials in order to gain credit from Boss Cao. He just wants to find out the historical background of this quarry and the story behind it.

Now he had reason to doubt.

I am afraid that this place is not only closely related to Xu Fu, but may also have a great relationship with the pre-Qin Qi State. After all, many details known so far show that Tian Heng, who is also an aristocrat of the Qi State, also knows this place.

of course.

Wu Liang did not forget to take out another piece of dried meat to reward the old macaque king during the descent. It can indeed provide some help for this operation, and it is also smart enough, which makes the method of domestication immediately effective on it. Now It is the perfect time to establish this partnership with it.

"Ah!"

The old macaque king was really not simple, he yelled twice excitedly after getting the jerky, and a stiff grin appeared on his face as red as his buttocks, and upon closer inspection, the smile was a bit shameless. Seems like I've seen it somewhere...

"Look, the macaque is very smart, it is imitating your previous expression!"

The witch pointed at the old macaque king inappropriately and said, although it was not the kind of unspeakable excitement of seeing the New World, but it was quite pleasantly surprised.

"Why not imitate you?"

Wu Liang suddenly realized, then glanced at the witch and asked coldly.

"I don't smile like this, and among the people I've met, there are very few people who smile like you..."

Witch Hu explained to Wu Liang seriously, but halfway through the sentence, she suddenly realized why Wu Liang refused to admit it, and quickly shut her mouth in embarrassment.

"go!"

Wu Liang didn't bother to tangle with her on this issue anymore, so he pulled the rope violently, causing the old macaque king to stagger and nearly fall to the ground. He couldn't keep that shameless smile, so he continued to Go down the mountain.

"..."

The witch Hu Ze followed silently, not daring to say anything else.

But only took two steps.

"Library!"

A strange voice came from behind, and Wu Liang and the old macaque king looked back together, only to see the witch Hu was covering her mouth, her pretty face was red, she looked extremely uncomfortable, but she couldn't hide the smile in her eyes.

Seeing Wu Liang looking over, the witch immediately cleared her throat again, put on a serious expression, and said without silver 300 taels here: "Don't blame Wu Taishi, I accidentally choked on my saliva just now."

"Ha ha."

Wu Liang didn't even bother to expose her, so he turned around with a smile and grabbed the old macaque king and continued on his way.

It took three more steps.

"Ku...Ku!"

A similar voice came from behind.

Wu Liang turned his head again, but Miko Hu had a serious face and asked doubtfully, "Wu Taishi, what do you always look back at me for?"

"Laugh if you want to, don't hold back."

Wu Liang glanced at her and said angrily.

"I didn't laugh. As a witch, I have received strict etiquette training since I was a child. No matter how funny it is, I will never laugh. I must always maintain the majesty of a witch."

The witch explained solemnly.

The voice just fell.

"Ku... Kukuku!"

A similar voice came again, and this time Wu Liang could see clearly that it was indeed not the witch who was laughing.

"?!"

Wu Liang was shocked!
Fuck, what's the situation, there shouldn't be any dirty things in this place, right?
However, when Wu Liang immediately followed the voice to look.

"Kukuku!"

But he found that the old macaque king was squatting on the ground at the moment, with one paw tightly covering his mouth, looking extremely painful, his body was still twitching, and the laughter just now came from it. Loose fingers continued to spread.

"Master Cao Ni, get lost, you dead monkey!"

Wu Liang suddenly felt that he had been greatly insulted, and when he raised his leg, he kicked the old macaque king's red face, causing him to roll several times in a row.

Don't ask him who Uncle Cao Ni is, it doesn't matter.

"Pfft...hahahaha, I can't help it anymore, I'm sorry Wu Taishi, I didn't mean it, I hahaha!"

Finally, Miko Hu couldn't bear it any longer, and burst out laughing in an instant. She even knelt on the ground covering her stomach, wiping her tears and slapping the ground.

……

In a world where only the old macaque king was injured, Miko Hu was not sanctioned by Wu Liang in the same way.

Wu Liang chose to deal with it coldly, completely ignoring the witch who was lying on the ground laughing helplessly, and led the old macaque king all the way down the mountain.

After the witch laughed for a while, seeing that Wu Liang and the old macaque king had gone far away, she had no choice but to wipe away her tears and trot along the way to follow.

When I came to the gate of the quarry in this way.

Two people and one monkey have converged.

The gate of the quarry was open, but Wu Liang did not enter in a hurry, but walked forward first to observe the wooden gate made of logs arranged and fixed.

The gate is mainly fixed by some relatively thick hemp ropes, and a few bronze nails are nailed in some places. These hemp ropes have not rotted, and those bronze nails are not completely rusted, but they look a little old.

Besides.

Wu Liang didn't see any traces of cutting with knives and axes on this wooden door, which means that there has never been a fight between humans here, and this wooden door and the fence around it should not be used to resist foreign enemies. Yes, at most it is used to guard against the animals on the island.

After reviewing these details.

Wu Liang felt a little relieved, and walked to the village with the witch Hu and the old macaque king.

Just now he couldn't see clearly from the mountain, but now that he entered the village, Wu Liang soon found many iron forging and chiseling tools next to a pile of rubble when he entered the gate of the village.

These iron tools also look old, and have many pits that have been hammered.

Needless to say, it must be the traces left by the stones used to forge and chisel them.

Judging from the number of these tools, there must have been more than a hundred craftsmen in the village at the time, and judging from the orderly arrangement of these tools, these craftsmen should be quite disciplined.

But so far.

Wu Liang has not found any traces of people or human corpses here. Have all the craftsmen who came here have evacuated safely?

Come to think of it, the odds are actually pretty low.

Those who can organize such a group of highly disciplined craftsmen to come here must be powerful in any era, and the value of such a jade mountain is incalculable in any era, and we must be careful not to be revealed... Wu Liang thinks differently, if If it were him, he would definitely not teach the artisans here to evacuate. Even if one day all affairs on this island had to be terminated, these artisans must stay here forever.

And where there are people, there will be some traces of life...

The Chinese characters appeared very early, and iron smelting technology appeared in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, and it was the Warring States period that iron ware officially replaced bronze ware and became popular in daily life.

The iron forging and chisel tools found here are quite sophisticated, and it should be after the middle Spring and Autumn Period at the earliest.

Therefore, Wu Liang has reason to speculate.

The time when those craftsmen mined Yushan here should also be after the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. Even if the scripts of the various countries in the Celestial Dynasty have not yet been unified, they have already formed a complete system, so it is very likely that they will leave relevant written records here.

For Wu Liang, the relevant written records are the most important and the most opportunity to restore everything that happened here clearly and intuitively.

go further inside.

Wu Liang found another well near the center of the village. Not only was the rim of the well built, but a special well wheel was also installed on it.

This once again confirmed Wu Liang's previous speculation.

Because things like water wells and well wheels were invented by Lu Ban. Lu Ban lived in the Spring and Autumn Period between 507 BC and 444 BC, and water wells and well wheels could only appear after that.

This discovery naturally made Wu Liang narrow down his speculation on the time period of the village's existence.

The earliest can only be built 600 years ago.

"Wu Taishi, have you found anything?"

Witch Hu can definitely be regarded as an expert in the Celestial Dynasty in the Wa Kingdom, but the knowledge she knows about the Celestial Dynasty, except for some information about Xu Fu that Wu Liang does not know, the rest is not enough at all.

So after entering this stockade, following Wu Liang and watching him touch this and that, sometimes frowning and sometimes thinking, the witch felt that Wu Liang must have obtained some information, but she had gained very little, so she could only open her mouth. Ask Wu Liang.

"There are no major discoveries yet."

Wu Liang shook his head.

"If Wu Taishi discovers anything, you can tell me. Although I am not as knowledgeable as Wu Taishi, there may be some secrets in the shrine that can help me a little."

The witch said unwillingly, obviously not completely believing Wu Liang's words.

In fact, Wu Liang didn't fully believe her, especially in this place where Xu Fu had been here before and might appear in the secrets of the Japanese Shrine, there was very likely some information gap between him and the witch.

therefore.

Wu Liang also had to keep some reservations and create some information gaps that Miko Hu didn't know, so as to prevent Miko Hu from using the information gap to do anything against him.

"What Miss Hu said is very true. Now you and I are like grasshoppers on a rope. We should work together without reservation. If I find out any valuable information, I will share it with Miss Hu immediately."

Wu Liang smiled, and then said the irrelevant information, "Now I can only be sure of one thing, that is, the time when this quarry was built should be at most 600 years ago."

"That can only be built in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, the Qin Dynasty or the early Han Dynasty..."

The witch said in a hurry.

"Almost, I don't know if there is any record of this quarry in the documents of the Japanese Shrine."

Wu Liang asked tentatively.

"That's not true, but Qin Zhixu Jun's records related to 'Zuzhou' did not mention information such as quarries, but only mentioned a piece of Qiongtian. Judging from what we have seen so far, my A piece of Qionggou jade should be produced here."

The witch frowned and pondered, but her beautiful eyes kept looking at the Qionggouyu that Wu Liang was wearing on her chest, and said, "Can I ask Wu Taishi to find out if this Qionggouyu has warmed up now?"

"No, it's still cold."

Wu Liang touched Qiong Gouyu and answered directly.

He no longer believes in the legend that this Qionggou jade will warm up when it is near the Qionggou jade that Xu Fu carried with him. After all, the source of Qionggou jade has been found. Although this is a rather strange jade, it seems There was nothing special about it, and Prince Chamu didn't see any aura on Qionggouyu either.

On the contrary, Wu Liang's "Taigong Seal" has undergone obvious changes since he arrived at Tian Heng's mansion. This is the strangest thing.

"It seems that although Xu Jun of Qin Dynasty came here, he didn't come back here in the end."

The witch said in a slightly disappointed voice.

"..."

Wu Liang glanced at her but didn't respond.

Anyway, he will not easily draw this conclusion now, unless he has explored every place here...

The topic has since ended temporarily.

After Wu Liang took the witch Hu and the old macaque king to look around the village, they didn't find anything more, so they had to walk towards the rows of neatly arranged small stone houses.

But these small stone houses are not the only places left to explore in this quarry.

Wu Liang has already discovered a suspected mine hole at the foot of this jade mountain. This stone hole extends into the mountain, and it is unknown how deep it is.

Wu Liang put the cave to the end before going to investigate.

He brought a man and a monkey to the door of a small stone house, pushed open the tight wooden door, and then...

"It stinks!"

Wu Liang immediately retreated extremely vigilantly, trying to avoid inhaling the foul-smelling gas in the room as much as possible.

(End of this chapter)