Chapter 44 Yellow Croaker
Jiang Baocheng looked at Yang Jinsheng with appreciation and gave him a thumbs up, "Finally it's of some use."
Well, it’s not that Jiang Baocheng is unhappy, it’s just that seeing his petite little sister paired with such a big black guy, he just feels uncomfortable no matter how he looks at it. Of course, his second brother-in-law is not much better.
Jiang Xinlan was the first to shine the flashlight in her hand towards the cave entrance. It was pitch black and there seemed to be no bottom to be seen.
"How do we get down here?" Jiang Xinlan was a little scared. Who knows what's in this cave?
Jiang Baocheng picked up a small stone from the ground and threw it into the cave. He soon heard an echo. He clapped his hands and said, "I estimate it should be about five or six meters deep. So how should we get down now?"
Li Fengyue remembered what her grandfather wrote in his notes. She paused and said, "My grandfather said that there is actually a mechanism in the cave. Just now, Brother Yang pressed the left earlobe of the statue. Now why don't we try the right earlobe." After she finished speaking, she reached out and touched the backpack on her back, thinking that if it didn't work, she would use the rope to go down.
After hearing what Li Fengyue said, Yang Jinsheng quickly climbed onto the stone statue and pressed the statue's right earlobe again. Press it once, huh? No response. Press it again, still no response.
"It doesn't seem possible." Yang Jinsheng said as he jumped down from the stone statue. As soon as his feet touched the ground, he heard a crackling sound, and a retractable staircase slowly extended downwards from the edge of the hole that had just been opened.
Zhao Yitai looked at the cave entrance and said in amazement: "It's amazing, there is actually a staircase. Shall we go down now?"
"Wait, generally speaking, there is little air in places that have been sealed all year round. You will get poisoned if you go in rashly." Jiang Baocheng has been to the north. The cellars there are like this. Every time you go down, you have to open them first to ventilate, otherwise no one will know if you faint in there.
Then, he took out a stick from his backpack with several pine cones tied to it, and said, "Jinsheng, light it with a match."
"Okay, good." Yang Jinsheng took out a box of matches from his pocket, lit it carefully and moved closer to the pine cone. Soon, the pine cone on the top of the wooden stick was burning, like a candle.
"Hey, third brother, where did you get this? It looks quite realistic." Yang Jinsheng looked around the wooden stick. It seemed that the pine cone on the top would not burn quickly, as if there was oil in it.
"That's right. I poured pine oil from pine trees into the pine cones, so they can burn longer. Wait, I'll light the fire in the cave first," Jiang Baocheng said as he put the fire stick into the cave. After burning for about two minutes and seeing that the fire was still there, he nodded with relief, "Okay, it's okay, let's go!"
"Then let's just leave the statue standing like this? If someone comes in and sees us once we're inside, won't they know what's going on?" Zhao Yitai pointed at the statue and then at the cave entrance, "Or should we leave someone guarding it?"
Yang Jinsheng hesitated and said, "Even if you guard it, you can't do anything if someone comes, right?"
At this time Li Fengyue spoke, "It's okay, let's go down first. There is a mechanism below that can be restored." If the mechanism is still okay, she added silently in her heart.
"Okay, I'll lead the way, and Jinsheng and Yitai will follow." After Jiang Baocheng made all the arrangements, he held up the fire stick and walked down first. When he got to the bottom, he adjusted himself a little, then shouted upwards, "Come down, it's okay."
Yang Jinsheng pulled Zhao Yitai and whispered, "Third brother looks very familiar with this. It's right to let him come."
Zhao Yita also nodded. If they were to rely on themselves, they would probably have to go back home. The black hole alone was enough to dissuade them from doing so.
After everyone had walked down, Li Fengyue asked her sister to hold up a flashlight and reach out to touch the wall on the left. She soon touched a bulge and pressed it hard. The hole on top slowly closed and the retractable staircase also retracted.
"We should be able to get out later, right? Haha," Yang Jinsheng looked up and asked uncertainly.
No one answered him. Everyone turned on the flashlights in tacit understanding. Jiang Baocheng, who was walking in front, still held a fire stick, so that they would have time to react in case there was not enough air.
"Feng Yue, how did your grandpa think of hiding things in the temple? There is such a big cave in the ground, and the mechanism is quite complete. I guess there were people coming and going in the past. Isn't he afraid that others will find it?"
Jiang Xinlan shone the flashlight on the wall and found it was quite smooth. She thought it must have taken a lot of effort to dig it out.
Li Fengyue answered as they walked: "This temple was built with money donated by my grandfather. This mechanism was specially made when it was first built. It contains the things left for my mother."
"What about your grandpa?"
"He passed away. At that time, my grandfather donated money and materials, but there was actually nothing left. My mother was the only surviving child of his. His two uncles also died in the war, so he gave the notebook to my mother before he passed away."
Thinking of this, Li Fengyue was glad that although her mother was weak, she listened to her grandfather and never told her father where the money was hidden, otherwise, haha.
"Hey, what about your dad? Didn't he say he went abroad? Why didn't he take you with him?" Yang Jinsheng was also a short-sighted person. When he heard this, he suddenly remembered that the Li sisters had never talked about their father.
"Don't mention my dad. He ran away with my second mother and the others." Li Fengxing couldn't help it. In the past, she might have missed her father who was abroad, and thought that he would come back one day, or that he could ask someone to take them abroad. But no, there was no news from him in the past six months. She knew that her father had given up on them just like her sister said.
Yang Jinsheng was a little embarrassed and consoled her dryly, "Well, you unfaithful man, it doesn't matter if you don't want her. Your mother is glad to have you two caring daughters. It's better for you to live a good life than anything else..."
"We're here. There's a door with a lock. Li Fengyue, do you have the key?" Jiang Baocheng extinguished the fire stick and asked while shining a flashlight on the big lock on the door.
"Yes, I'll do it." Li Fengyue quickly squeezed to the front and pulled out a red rope from her neck. There was a key hanging on it. She aimed it at the keyhole in the light and twisted it gently, and the lock opened.
As soon as the door was opened, what came into view were wooden boxes. The material appeared to be quite good and they did not seem to have rotted after so many years.
"Here is kerosene. Let me light it." Yang Jinsheng took a match and lit it. In an instant, the whole room was lit up.
Jiang Xinlan reached out and touched the box in front of her. "There is also a lock on the box, Fengyue, can you open it?"
Li Fengyue nodded and used the key to open the boxes in front of her one by one.
"Wow, big yellow croakers, a whole box of them. Let me count how many there are. One, two, three, four... Wow, twenty. Oh my god, how much are they worth?"
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