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Chapter 45: Submission

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  "Old Two, Second Master! I know you don't have a single hair in your pocket, and I didn't ask you to pay for food at home. But we do have hands, can't we go out and earn some money?!" As he spoke, Fatty gave Ye Qiu a sly glance while continuing to pour the intoxicating soup: "How about this, you come with me to do a business deal, and in a few years, we won't have to worry about food and drink. At that time, Master can also focus on finding a solution for Little White, and we can also treat Little Yi's brain problem. What do you think?"

  Ye Qiu listened and felt that Pangzi's words seemed reasonable, but... He turned his head and glanced at the Kong family mansion: "Then if we leave, what will he do?"

  "Old Two, you really are stupid. I'm impressed by your foolishness. Did you think I asked you to follow me to work? We don't need to do that useless thing. Listen to me, it's just for one afternoon. Anyway, Old Zhang got drunk at noon and will be asleep until we're done with our job. You found a door in that cave today, didn't you? I reckon there are some valuable things inside. We won't take much, just pick a few pieces and I'll sell them outside. Our incense money is guaranteed. Those things would go to waste if left there anyway. This is between you and me, heaven and earth know it too. Don't worry, I won't leak out half a word."

  Ye Qiu took a glance at the mountain opposite and said to Fatty, "Let's go."

  Fatso said that he was short of money, which wasn't a lie. Maintaining the expenses of such a large family was quite difficult for him. He had been relying on his old savings for a long time. In fact, he had wanted to make a big score for a long time. Why? The village of Hongcun looked like a remote and poor rural area, but there were actually many good things here. Take the pig trough at Wang Danni's house at the entrance of the village, for example. It was made from a whole piece of hemp stone with a hole in the middle, and each end had an ear, one shaped like a dragon and the other like a phoenix. The entire thing was carved with cloud patterns. Fatso had taken a liking to it at first sight, thinking that it must have been from before the Han Dynasty. However, the owner just left it in the pigpen for the pigs to use as a feeding trough.

  Another thing, many families in Hongcun have some jars and bottles at home, used for storing water or pickling vegetables. Those jars are of the highest quality in terms of shape and glaze color. Where did these things come from? Many of them were left over from old houses when people moved away, and no one wanted them. Just recently, a so-called "chicken coop cup" was auctioned off in Shanghai for 280 million yuan, said to be a Chenghua doucai porcelain. At the time, my father was watching TV and casually said, "When I was young, we had a bowl similar to this at home, but it was used as a food bowl for our cat." He also asked me, "Is this thing really worth that much money now?"

  The two of them went up in broad daylight, and as Fatso said, there was nothing to be ashamed of. He was going down to pick something up, not to "steal" it. Along the rope, the two of them descended one after the other, and the entrance to the cave went straight down. However, on the wall, you could see that every few steps there were small grooves indented inward, and some places even had wooden pegs inserted into the wall. It seemed that in the past, people really did go down from here.

  As soon as the fat man landed, he began to mutter: "It's so cold here, why didn't you tell me to bring some clothes?" Indeed, the temperature here was abnormally low. The fat man shivered with cold as soon as he arrived. He had never done this kind of work in a cave tens of meters deep before. After exploring around, he finally saw the door that Ye Qiu mentioned.

  The cave can hold about three people, and the leftmost position has a arched recess in the mountain body. There is a large black stone slab covered with moss that blends into the surrounding walls, making it difficult to notice if you don't look carefully.

  Ye Qiu pushed forward and gave a push. The door was heavy. He lightly knocked on the door handle with his knife, and a "thud" sound came from behind the door.

  These two are experts, exchanging a smile, no problem, this back must be empty! For fat men like him, as long as the door is locked in his eyes, it's just an obstacle to making a fortune. Violence and destruction for a tomb raider is simply child's play. For this trip, he has invested heavily, that guy went to the village early in the morning to meet the new militia commander and got a shovel, this thing can chop, split, and smash, in the eyes of a tomb raider it's just like the Luoyang shovel, a divine artifact.

  He spat on both hands and said, "Ptoo, ptoo, Second Brother, you'd better retreat a bit. I'm afraid the stones will splash onto you later."

  "Clang", a burst of flames splashed everywhere, and the fatty only felt his wrist trembling, with his entire arm going numb. That guy, looking at the stone gate again, had left behind a small white mark. This guy, the fatty suddenly got angry: "I don't believe in evil spirits, I'll knock open this big door of yours."

  Here is the translation:

  "Yah!" he shouted, and a loud "clang" was heard in the air. Perhaps it was because he used too much force, or perhaps the old army shovel that had been serving for many years was indeed old, and the handle suddenly broke into two pieces. This time, Fatty was completely embarrassed, looking back at Ye Qiu with a toneless expression, his earlier arrogance gone. Pitifully, he grasped his own shattered wrist and said: "Let's just go back and get some explosives to blow it up once and for all..."

  Cha Wenbin looked up at the sky, then down at the small area under his feet. Judging from Baozi's personality, he would probably use several dozen kilograms of black gunpowder. After igniting it, one could imagine the result - the people in the well would likely be blown out directly from below like fireworks.

  "Let me try."

  Ye Qiu squeezed Pangzi behind him, making Pangzi feel extremely humiliated. He knew Ye Qiu was very strong, stronger than him. Originally when they were doing labor as educated youth, his ranking was himself, Cha Wenbin, and Xiao Yi, but later he became the oldest, and Xiao Yi's brain was more useful than his. Later Ye Qiu came, and now he thought he would at least have a place to retreat to, but unexpectedly that guy was completely a monster. Seeing Ye Qiu push him with his hand several times without reacting, Pangzi actually felt much more relaxed.

  He was just about to advise Ye Qiu to give up and go back to get explosives, but unexpectedly Ye Qiu said: "This door can be opened, but it will take some effort. This is a broken headstone. As long as we push it up from the bottom, we still have a chance."

  Ye Qiu squatted down and began to dig with Han Yue, quickly reaching the bottom along the lower edge of the stone gate. It turned out that this cave had been closed for too long, and dry branches and broken stones had buried the lower half of the door. Ye Qiu's digging revealed the bottom, and the smooth stone was polished very smoothly, revealing a very fine seam between the door and the ground.

  He inserted the blade of Han Yue's knife into the gap, slowly pushing it in bit by bit, and with each push, he would exert force to lift it up a bit. At first, the stone gate remained motionless, relying on Ye Qiu's brute strength, but later, when it had moved more than an inch, he grasped the hilt of Han Yue's knife with both hands and suddenly lifted it upwards with great force.

  "With a creak, the door moved slightly, and the gravel on both sides flowed down with a rustling sound. Every time he lifted it up a bit, Han Yue followed closely behind, taking a step inside. It was like this, lifting and moving, Ye Qiu managed to push half of Han Yue's body inside, Bao Zi watched with his eyes wide open, stunned. This was too awesome, it was simply a human-powered hydraulic press!"

  "When I lift it up later, you help me prop it up with your hand. If the door can be opened, find a stone and use that shovel to wedge the door open."

  "Can it be moved?" Fatso couldn't help but doubt, this door's weight was estimated to be around a thousand kilograms, otherwise the shovel wouldn't have had no reaction when it hit, although he knew Ye Qiu had some strength, but this seemed a bit too strenuous.

  "Or just forget it..." Fatso really wanted to retreat, thinking of going back to get some explosives, which would be more reliable. But Ye Qiu had already started to exert himself, his legs spread wide apart, his arms stretched straight out, and suddenly he let out a loud shout: "Ah!"

  Pangzi saw Ye Qiu's neck suddenly seemed to have thickened by a circle, like a cobra, and it was already wider than his face. The skin instantly turned bright red, and the swollen veins were like snakes wrapped around his neck.

  "Ka, ka!" As Ye Qiu's roar continued, the door also started making this sound nonstop. Fatso was stunned as the crack at the bottom of the door slowly grew larger. It was hard to say whether it was because of the knife being so effective or if Ye Qiu wasn't human after all. When the opening reached about a finger's width, he even managed to free up one hand and shouted at Fatso with his palm: "Faster!"

  "Oh...!" The fatty finally reacted, hurriedly searching for stones around him, throwing them in while constantly looking up at the monster. His expression was ferocious to the extreme, just like an enraged bear. No, even a bear wouldn't be this fierce. Taking advantage of the fatty's stone-throwing, Ye Qiu took a deep breath and inserted his other hand as well, then let out a series of heavy breaths: "Huff...huff, General Stone, get ready, I'm about to lift!"

  "Good... good..." Fatso was completely speechless at this point, and just as he was catching his breath, he himself went up to try and help, but he almost used up all his strength, yet the stone gate still didn't budge by even half a millimeter.

  Ye Qiu paused for about a minute, roughly enough time to rest, and in an instant, he suddenly let out a loud "Ah!" Then, that guy's arm muscles began to bulge rapidly, and at that moment, Ye Qiu was no longer human. Fatso heard the sound of "zip zip" as Ye Qiu's clothes were instantly torn apart by his body's explosive force.

  From thigh to waist, from waist to arm, from arm to back, wherever the clothes have fabric seams, they are all torn apart. The man who looked even a bit thin on ordinary days has now completely subdued the fat man.

  Inch by inch, Ye Qiu's body trembled all over, from head to toe, every inch of his strength was used up. When that guy slowly lifted the stone slab of unknown weight upwards, the dim world finally revealed a long-awaited dawn to them...

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