Gao Zixuan also smiled and said, "Then what are you two waiting for? Hurry up and dig. You don't want me to do it, do you?"
Xu Da said, "Don't be in such a hurry. It looks like we need to tear down the wall. Let me see how we can do it." Then he started to look at the north wall.
Li Rui put his hands on the broken bricks around the hole and shook them hard. He found that none of the bricks could be moved. He praised, "The quality of this ancient building is really good. The bricks have been corroded to this extent but nothing can be pulled out." Xu Da said, "Then we can only tear it down by force. Let's go down the mountain and get the tools. "
Gao Zixuan was anxious when he heard this and said, "If you two go down the mountain, what about me?" Li Rui said, "You wait for us here." Gao Zixuan pouted his beautiful cherry lips and said coquettishly, "No, I'm scared." Li Rui laughed and said, "What are you scared of? There's no one else here. "Gao Zixuan said," I'm scared if there's no one else. "Li Rui smiled helplessly and said," Then brother, you accompany Zixuan. I'll go down and get it. "
Xu Da said, "Forget it. You accompany Zixuan. I'll go down and get it. I'm fast. Just give me the car keys."
Li Rui didn't refuse. He took out the car keys and gave it to him. He told him to be careful on the way down the mountain. Xu Da nodded and went down the mountain.
Li Rui watched his back disappear behind the two cypress trees. When he turned around, he saw Gao Zixuan looking at him with an ambiguous expression. He couldn't help but laugh and said, "Why are you looking at me like that? Do you have some evil intentions towards me? "Gao Zixuan laughed and scolded," Get lost. Don't think too highly of yourself! You're the one who has ulterior motives. You even dreamed of doing that with me, and you still have the face to say that I have ulterior motives. " Li Rui laughed awkwardly. Seeing her smiling face like a flower, tender and moving, he could not help but have an appetite. He took two steps forward to stand in front of her and reached out to embrace her. Gao Zixuan pushed him with a smile and said, "Hey, don't be so shameless. Let me tell you, who is the one with ulterior motives?"
The two of them laughed and joked around. Although they didn't have any intimate actions, they were both in a sweet mood. Needless to say, they were extremely happy, just like a man and woman in love.
However, the two of them didn't fool around for too long, and soon separated. After all, Xu Da could come back at any time, and it wasn't good to be seen by him.
In less than three minutes, Xu Da came back with all the tools. Li Rui quickly stepped forward and took the pick from him. Xu Da put the other tools on the ground, and took a large steel bar in his hand. The two of them walked to the half of the north wall, bent down, and began to dismantle the wall.
Those who had dismantled walls before knew that it was easier to dismantle walls from the top down. However, the current situation was that the base of this half of the north wall had been mostly corroded. Compared to the undamaged top of the wall, the base of the wall was vulnerable and easier to dismantle. Therefore, Xu Da and Li Rui began to dismantle the base of the wall.
Xu Da held the pry bar tightly with both hands, and used the sharp end to aim at the entrance of the fox's nest at the base of the wall. Like holding an iron spear, he used all his strength to stab at the bricks inside. He was very strong, and every time the pry bar hit the bricks, it would make a muffled sound due to the impact. The wall also seemed to shake, and the corroded bricks inside could not withstand such a strong force, so they fell apart when the pry bar hit them. Some of them directly shattered, and some of them split into two pieces. The two pieces that split would fall down with the next pry. Like this, he continuously poked at the bricks more than ten times, and with a crashing sound, the wall was pierced through.
The purpose of piercing through the wall was to better remove the bricks near the entrance of the fox's nest, so that the entrance could be exposed as soon as possible.
While Xu Da was busy, Li Rui was watching from the side. Because the entrance of the fox's nest was at the base of the wall, the area was too small for two people to use their long tools. One person could only do it, and the other person could only watch. He saw that Xu Da had been working for a while, so he asked him to sit down and rest for a while. He used the pick in his hand and began to remove the bricks at the entrance of the fox's nest. His strength was not small, and he often moved one brick at a time. Then, he used his hand to pinch the brick and fiercely pulled it out. The brick was pulled out, and he casually threw it to the side. His speed was very fast, and in a few moves, he removed the bricks to the entrance of the fox's nest. The entrance of the fox's nest was two layers of bricks above the ground. When he removed all the bricks outside the cave, the foundation was exposed, and at the same time, a hole that led underground appeared.
There really was a hole!
The hole was an irregular long oval shape, and it was about the size of an adult's palm. It could be seen that this hole was not the entire entrance, and the rest of the hole was still covered by the bricks on the west side of the wall. The entire hole was covered by half of the northern wall. If he had not removed the bricks, perhaps no one would have discovered this hole.
The six eyes of the three people all stared at the hole. Everyone was beaming with joy, and they looked at each other with great joy.
However, Li Rui's smile quickly froze on his face, because he discovered that the part of the hole that was exposed was too small. At most, it would only allow a small animal like a fox to crawl in. Since the northern wall, which was a foot wide, could cover this hole, the widest part of the hole was only half a foot wide. It was impossible for a person to crawl in such a small hole. If a person could not crawl in, how could they hide the treasure? Could they just randomly stuff the treasure into the hole? But then again, before they could see the entire hole, they could not easily make a judgment. Instead of letting their imagination run wild, it was better to see the real thing.
He muttered to himself for a moment, then said, "Continue removing the bricks and reveal the entire hole." As he spoke, he continued to remove the bricks on the west side of the hole. In about five minutes, the hole was completely revealed.
It was as Li Rui had expected. This was a long and narrow oval hole. It was about a foot long, and the widest part was only a little more than half a foot wide. That was why the hole was completely covered by the northern wall, which was more than a foot wide.
After the hole was completely revealed, a very obvious smell of fox urine wafted into the air, and there was also a very strong dampness. The smell of fox urine was easy to understand, since this was a fox's nest. As for the dampness, the hole was probably not shallow.
Xu Da picked up the branch that he had used earlier, then said, "Let me see how deep this hole is."
He squatted down and slowly lowered the branch into the hole. The hole did not seem to be straight up or down, because he quickly frowned. He used his right hand to press the branch down a few times, but the branch bounced up every time. Later, he tilted the branch's angle, and the branch continued to go deeper. Soon, the branch disappeared into the hole, and then his hand also reached in.
Li Rui quickly stopped him. Good lord, this was not a joke. Who knew if there were other animals in this hole besides foxes? Even if it was a fox, it would not be fun to suddenly bite his hand. This holiday treasure hunt did not have a program to go to the hospital to get a rabies vaccine.
Xu Da said excitedly, "The hole is very deep, and there are steps inside." Li Rui was shocked and shouted, "What? There are steps? " Xu Da nodded, "Yes, steps. There are at least two steps, and it's facing … Let me see … It's facing south, which is towards the bottom of the temple." Li Rui was overjoyed, and said, "The steps are for people to walk on. If this hole can be dug with steps, it means that the hole is not small. If it's a place to hide treasure, then it's a very proper treasure trove. "
Gao Zixuan interrupted, "Then why are you two still talking nonsense, hurry up and continue digging, no one can enter this hole. Haha, I didn't think that we would find the entrance so easily, it's like a dream, I can't believe it. "
Li Rui and Xu Da nodded and began to check the details of the hole, trying to find a way to open the hole. The two smelled the scent of success, and were full of energy and confidence. The fatigue from tearing down the wall had been swept away.
Xu Da said, "Let's first clean up the outside of the hole, including the broken bricks, weeds, and so on. Then we'll dig up the foundation in the south and see what's underneath. The steps in the hole are facing south, which means that the foundation is hollow. If we dig down, we might be able to find a hole that people can enter. "
Li Rui nodded repeatedly, indicating that he agreed. The two started to work together, first cleaning up the debris around the entrance, then clearing out a square meter of ground south of the entrance. Then they used shovels and pickaxes to excavate the foundation.
The surface of the foundation was a layer of sand, stone, and soil that was almost a foot high. When Li Rui reached the bottom of this layer, he heard a "peng" sound when he swung his pickaxe down, and then the handle of the pickaxe violently jumped, almost jumping out of his hand.
"Stone?!"
Li Rui frowned, feeling that he had just hit a stone.
Xu Da said, "From the sound of it, it seems to be stone, but even if there are stones, it's hollow below. Continue digging."
Li Rui nodded and continued to swing his pickaxe, carefully digging out the top layer of the foundation. Xu Da didn't stay idle, and used the shovel to shovel out all the sand, stone, and soil, forming a one-meter square and one-foot deep hole. After all the sand and soil in the hole were cleared out, a surprising scene appeared in front of Li Rui and Xu Da.
They were three clearly distinguishable rectangular stone slabs, placed side by side from east to west. Each of them was less than a meter long and half a foot wide (one foot ten inches, about thirty-three centimeters, half longer than a small ruler of twenty centimeters). As for the thickness, for the time being, he didn't know. The three stone slabs were firmly embedded in the ground of the mountain, and their surfaces were level with the mountain. The places where they met and the gaps between the stone slabs seemed to have been poured over by something, grayish-white, similar to the color of the mountain rocks. If it weren't for the fact that the poured material had fallen off, it wouldn't be possible to see the existence of the three stone slabs, and people would have thought that it was a whole mountain.
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