Chapter 209: Millennium Stone Coffin Finally Settled

After He Jiaxiao left with Chen Meng, the stone coffin temporarily settled down. Guo Wei and I circled the stone coffin twice, like two balls full of air, and if we threw them on the ground, we could jump very high.

The people of Laoyingzui Village were eyeing it like tigers, and their emotions were high. They talked about the things left by their ancestors, which should belong to the people of Laoyingzui Village. Why should the government dominate it? Just when it was a mess, Zhao the Half-Immortal was helped over with a cane, trembling, and threw himself in front of the stone coffin, crying and kowtowing.

Zhao the Half-Immortal's appearance made the situation even more complicated. The stone coffin placed in the yellow soil was left alone facing the sky, like an old man a thousand years ago, staring with terrified eyes, watching the later generations dancing and performing.

After Zhao the Half-Immortal cried for a while, seeing that Guo Wei and I had no indication, he fell in front of the stone coffin like a deflated ball, his hand touching the coffin wall, his breath depressed, and a ferocious expression appeared on his old face full of gullies.

"I said earlier that what the land temple worships is not the land god, but our ancestors." Zhao the Half-Immortal pinched his fingers and said: "The land temple has a history of hundreds of years. If you want to demolish it, you demolish it. You didn't burn a piece of paper money, didn't invite the god to leave the position, and violated the heavenly law."

Guo Wei and I looked at Zhao the Half-Immortal's clumsy performance coldly, without saying a word.

Zhao Dequan seized the opportunity to lean over, accompanied by a smiling face and said: "Secretary, Town Mayor, look, this is indeed the remains of our ancestors. Let's choose a good place to bury it. It's been a day of exposing the coffin, sorry for the ancestors."

Guo Wei asked coldly: "Why do you say it's your ancestor?"

Zhao Dequan looked at Zhao the Half-Immortal sideways, took out an ancient book from behind his butt, carefully opened a page, pointed to a line of text and said: "There is a record in the genealogy book that the fifth ancestor of the Zhao family is buried in Laoyingzui tomb mountain, sitting north and facing south."

"Fifth ancestor?" I laughed: "What generation are you now?"

"According to the genealogy book, I am the twenty-eighth generation." Zhao Dequan counted the generation ranking with his fingers: "Ancestral virtue benefits the world's fragrance. I am the generation of virtue, and there are three generations behind, and then, we need to re-repair the genealogy ranking."

I took the genealogy book from his hand. This was an old book with age, the paper was yellowed, and a few pages were damaged, so I couldn't see the content.

"Whether it is your ancestor, I don't count. Besides, it's been twenty-eight generations, and it doesn't have much to do with you." I closed the genealogy book, handed it to Zhao Dequan, and said earnestly: "Village Chief Zhao, you are a village chief, you have to see the situation clearly. The state has laws and regulations, and everything under the ground belongs to the state. I advise you not to stare at these things, and take everyone home with peace of mind. Even if it is really your ancestor, the state will give you an explanation. What do you want to do by surrounding here?"

Zhao Dequan was stunned by what I said, staring at me with wide eyes: "Even your own ancestors are considered the state's, which family's king's law is this?"

I smiled and didn't answer him directly. Guo Wei, who was standing on the side, couldn't hold back, pointed at Zhao Dequan and roared: "Zhao Dequan, don't think about having crooked thoughts. If something happens, you can't run away, and you will be the first to be arrested."

Zhao Dequan was not moved, and said in a muffled voice: "Can I control it?"

Suddenly, I heard a siren, and then I saw a motorcade driving over. The leader was a police car from the County Public Security Bureau, flashing police lights, screaming and rushing over. When the car stopped, more than a dozen policemen jumped out, fully armed, and quickly surrounded the stone coffin.

Hao Qiang seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, ran over to Guo Wei and me and said: "Secretary, Town Mayor, I called them, I was afraid something would happen."

Guo Wei and I looked at each other and smiled helplessly.

The County Committee Office Director personally led the team, leading a group of people with various strange instruments, first shaking hands with us, introducing that the people who came were all experts.

After a while of greetings, I remembered what He Jiaxiao said and tentatively said: "Experts, it is said that there is not only one stone coffin here, there should be an ancient tomb group. You measure it. If there is really one, you can't move it casually."

The experts looked at each other for a while, one of them took out the Chunshan County Annals, turned a few pages, and pointed to a poem: "

On the cliff of the cloud road,

Eagles fly in the strange danger.

The achievements of a thousand autumns are there,

Seeking in the stone for ten thousand generations."

Closing the book, he thought for a long time and said: "I didn't understand what this poem meant before, and there was no other thing to prove it. It seems that Town Mayor Chen is right. There may really be an ancient tomb group here. If there was only one stone coffin, there would be no need to leave such a poem in the County Annals."

Several experts gathered to discuss, and Guo Wei and I had our hearts in our throats. If it was exactly as He Jiaxiao said, there was an ancient tomb group under the ground, our new government's site selection would encounter heaven-shaking difficulties.

The thing I was worried about really happened. The County Committee Office Director announced that the construction site would be completely shut down. The Municipal Cultural Relics Management Bureau decided to fully excavate the Laoyingzui ancient tomb group. During the excavation, irrelevant personnel were not allowed to be at the scene.

The police who followed quickly set up a cordon, and Hao Qiang was responsible for dispersing the onlookers. People from four villages and eight townships heard that there was a treasure at the Laoyingzui construction site, and they all swarmed over, crowding the open space densely.

"You two leave one at the scene, and the others go back to work." The County Committee Office Director said to Guo Wei and me: "Two leaders, if you really dug up a treasure, you have made a great contribution. Secretary Guan has instructions to protect ancient cultural relics at all costs. Whoever dares to destroy them will have to bear legal responsibility."

Guo Wei and I discussed and decided that he would go back to organize work, and I would stay and be responsible for contacting the excavation site affairs.

The crowd was dispersed, and only Sun Demao's three excavators and our group of people were left at the construction site. Standing on this open space that had begun to take shape, we looked extremely small.

Because the original landform was destroyed, the experts from the Cultural Relics Bureau were so anxious that they didn't know where to start. Holding a map, they looked around blankly.

Based on my memory, I provided that there used to be three small water ponds here, arranged in a "pin" shape. Each pond was about three acres in size, the same size, the water was clear, and there were weeping willows by the pond, five in a group, all should be arranged.

The expert asked curiously: "Are there any iconic things?"

I shook my head, remembering that there was a land temple, half a person high, and now there was not even a tile left.

The expert pulled me to point out the specific location of the water pond. I walked to the side of the pond that had just been buried without thinking, pointed to the ground under my feet and told him that the water pond was under my feet, and there was nothing else.

The expert walked a few laps on the water pond according to my instructions, suddenly pointed to the water pond and said: "Fence this piece of land and dig here."

Lime circled a place of about ten acres on the ground, and three excavators roared together, and the mud that had just been filled was dug out bucket by bucket.

After digging for a long time, the excavator's bucket suddenly sparked a string of sparks. The expert who had been staring at it waved his arms excitedly, demanding the excavator to stop, jumped to the bottom of the big pit in one step, grabbed a handful of white mud, and shouted excitedly with tears in his eyes: "Found it, found it."

We jumped in with him. At the bottom of the pit, we saw a thick layer of white mud, flat and solid,

"You are right." The expert grabbed my hand, tears blurred his eyes with excitement: "Just by this layer of mud, there must be a cave under it." ===== CHAPTER 210 =====