"Steamed Bun, wait for me, I'll come with you." As I was talking, I started to climb onto the boat. The boat was not high, only four or five meters at most, so it didn't take much effort to get up. .
Just as I moved my front legs, Jiao Ba and Chang Shan climbed up on my back legs. After the three of us climbed onto the stone boat, Mantou got a little excited and said, "You should have come up a long time ago. Look at this box." , there must be treasure inside.”
That’s when I saw it. The deck of the stone ship is piled with wooden boxes, almost covering the deck. These are all ancient wooden boxes. Each wooden box must be more than one meter high, and the length and width must also be one meter, which is about the same. It's just a big boxy box, but the lid is slightly curved.
The color of the boxes is uniformly dark red, with some patterns on them, and a copper lock in the middle. This kind of wooden box was used in ancient times to store gold, silver or pearl agate treasure boxes. It would be unimaginable to think that there would be so many treasures on this stone ship, and that every box would be filled with treasures.
If I could take these things back, I wouldn’t be able to spend them all in dozens of lifetimes, let alone a few lifetimes, and I could even be as rich as the country. At this moment, I was also confused by the scene in front of me. I just have to fantasize about my beautiful days in the future.
Jiao Ba touched me at this time and said, "Brother Yi, don't be stunned, let's go and take a look inside the cabin."
I responded, and the four of us walked back to the cabin of the stone ship. This stone ship has no hatch, and you can enter directly along the deck. When we walked into the cabin, everyone was shocked again.
Inside the cabin, the wooden boxes were placed around the cabin, one after another. They were almost piled up to the ceiling. Only the middle left a place for walking. The other places were piled tightly. Yes, there are wooden boxes everywhere.
“Oh my God, there are so many boxes here?” Chang Shan looked around and said with a surprised look on his face.
"Hey, let me tell you, there must be treasures here. You guys are not in a hurry. How about it? Am I right?" Mantou said proudly beside him, his eyes almost shining.
Jiao Ba frowned, "There seems to be something wrong. Why are there so many boxes? If there are treasures in these boxes, it is simply unimaginable. Moreover, this is only for one stone ship. What about the other stone ship?" The boat hasn’t been counted yet.”
Jiao Ba’s words. It is not unreasonable. Even the emperors in ancient times did not necessarily have so many burial objects. Except for a few emperors, most emperors did not have as many burial objects as here. This stone ship alone must have nearly 1,000 burial objects. More than a hundred wooden boxes, not counting another stone ship.
"Jiao Ba, you are just suspicious. It's obvious. Why is it so strange?" Mantou looked at Jiao Ba with disdain and said with a big mouth.
Jiao Ba turned his eyes and said, "No, it's definitely not right. We have to open the box and have a look."
I nodded and said, "Well, we'll know after opening it to see if there is any treasure. , let’s go to the deck.”
Most of the wooden boxes in the cabin were piled together in four or five, which was very difficult to move, so we had to go back to the deck. The wooden boxes on the deck were all side by side, not three or two. are placed together, it is relatively easier to move.
We found a relatively nearby wooden box, and four people carried it to the middle of the deck. The wooden box was so heavy that it took the four of us a long time to lift it out of the box. The inside was taken out.
When the wooden box landed, Mantou said excitedly, "Look, how heavy this box is. It must be filled with gold." Both of his eyes glowed green. Like a hungry wolf finally seeing a little sheep.
"You'll know when you open it." I squatted down, grabbed the copper lock, and pulled it down hard. I thought that after so many years, the lock would have been scrapped long ago, but I didn't expect that it was still like this. It's so strong. I spent a long time and couldn't pull it away.
"You can't open it with your hands, so let me do it." Jiao Ba squatted down, took out a diving knife, jammed the inside of the copper lock with the knife, and pried it out hard. With a sound, the copper lock and the lock nose all fell off.
After the copper lock fell, the four of us glanced at each other. It could be seen that the big guys were a little nervous at this moment. When Jiao Ba slowly opened the box, we were all dumbfounded, completely dumbfounded. , Steamed Bun’s face was even more ugly, almost turning black.
No wonder this box is so heavy. What kind of gold and jewelry are contained in it? Feelings are actually a box of useless rubble. This joke is a bit too big.
Jiao Ba grabbed a handful of stones, looked at them, sneered and said, "I just said, it's not that simple. Ordinary stones are useless at all."
"No way. Ah, how could it be a stone? Jiao Ba, take a closer look, take a closer look." Steamed Bun was a little crazy. He was so excited just now that he was beaten down from the world. .
Jiao Ba stood up and said, "You can't be mistaken, the rocks on this mountain are useless at all."
"So, it's possible that these boxes contain useless stones?" Chang Shan said with wide eyes. Apparently he didn't understand what was going on. There were stones in the boxes for funerary objects. It's quite strange.
"I think it's about the same." Jiao Ba was very calm, with a calm face, without any disturbance at all.
"How could it be a stone? I don't believe it, I absolutely don't believe it."
After Mantou finished speaking, he went to move other boxes, and a few of us had to go over and help him. After opening four or five boxes in a row, Jiao Ba's statement was verified. These wooden boxes were filled with gravel. They were all useless stones from the mountain and were not worth a penny.
"Hey~ It seems that the wooden boxes on this stone ship are all filled with stones." Chang Shan sighed and said helplessly.
Mantou had a painful expression on his face. He squatted on the ground, covered his face with his hands and said, "How could this happen? How could this happen? Shouldn't there be treasures? How could it be stones? How could these useless stones be there? What?"
I held his shoulders and said, "Forget it, it's okay. The truth is in front of you, you can’t help but believe it.”
Suddenly, Mantou raised his head and said, “I know, this is a deception, it must be a deception, the surface is just a layer of stone, there must be treasure inside. ." As he spoke, he used his hands to dig out the stones in the wooden box.
Chang Shan was about to stop him when I stopped him. I looked at him, shook my head gently and said, "Let him dig, otherwise he will not give up."
Mantou dug through all the wooden boxes we opened. He almost hollowed out the stones inside, and he couldn't dig out a single grain of gold.
In the end, he sat on the deck of the stone ship with squinting eyes and said to himself, "How could this happen? How could this happen? Isn't it said that there is a treasure? But where is the treasure?"
< br>Seeing the steamed buns like this, I suddenly felt very uncomfortable. Our purpose of going to sea was originally for money, but now let alone money, there is only a pile of useless rocks.
"Forget it, steamed buns, maybe this stone ship doesn't exist, there is another stone ship." I really couldn't think of any good way to comfort him, so I could only say this.
As soon as Mantou heard this, he got up immediately, "Yes, yes, Zhongyi, you are right. Maybe this stone ship does not have it, but there will definitely be another stone ship." I suddenly It feels like Mantou's spirit is a little abnormal, he seems crazy.
At this moment, Mai Lao and Li Xin climbed onto the stone ship. When they saw the scene on the deck, they quickly understood what was going on without us having to say anything.
Li Xin said in amazement, "What does this mean? Stone? This"
She didn't know what to say in the end. Most people can't understand this. In such a large underground palace building, the funerary objects inside are actually By pretending to be a stone, is this a living person trying to fool a dead person? Or are you deliberately playing tricks on future generations? I really can’t understand it.
"Why are they all filled with stones? Zhongyi, how many boxes did you check?" Mai Lao looked at me and asked, his expression was extremely serious, almost like a steamed bun.
I pointed my hand and said, "Aren't these all here? I opened six of them in total. They are full of gravel and nothing else."
Mai Lao had a sullen face, almost After a few seconds, he said, "These boxes can't represent anything? I'm afraid there's a scam. We have to open all the boxes here and check them. I don't believe they are all stones."
Jiao Ba and I looked at each other, and he said, "Mr. Mai, there's no need. There are hundreds of boxes in here. It would take too much time to open them all."
"If you don't open them all, you How can we know if there are stones in other boxes?" Mai Lao sealed Jiao Ba in just one sentence. Jiao Ba was just inferring, but he meant practice.
"Yes, yes, Mr. Mai is right, you must open them all." The steamed buns were now full of energy again.
“Okay, let’s open them all and take a look.”
Then Li Xin called Jenny and Shunzi up, and all of us started opening boxes one by one. I don’t know how long it took to check, an hour, maybe two hours, I can’t remember. I only remember that after all the wooden boxes were opened, they were still full of gravel. No one was an exception. The wooden boxes on the stone ship were filled with these rubbles. I sat down on the wooden box tiredly and said, "I have checked everything, and there is nothing except stones. I have found nothing."
Everyone is a little disappointed, and everyone's expression is not very good. We have wasted a long time, but what we got is worthless rotten rocks, which makes people a little angry. Among all the people, only Jiao Ba was expressionless. He was very calm, because he had already said that there would be nothing else in these wooden boxes except stones.