Chapter 702 (1/2)
When Laura saw O'Connor leaving alone, she didn't take his words to heart. She went straight up to Chen Yulou and said in harsh Chinese, ”Hello! Do any of you speak English? I'm an archaeologist from Britain. My name is Laura.” as the best female archaeologist in contemporary Britain, Laura can speak seven languages, although she doesn't speak Chinese very well, But it's OK to barely communicate with the Chinese.
On the contrary, Chen Yulou was jumped by the ”foreign woman” who could speak Chinese. He immediately reacted and said in Xiangxi Dialect: ”did Miss Laura just understand what we were talking about?”
Chen Yulou didn't know how much these foreigners understood. Now he remembered that it was careless to talk about his old business in front of these foreigners. Fortunately, the Xiangxi dialect was used in the unloading gang. The sly light in his eyes flashed past, so he tried to test Laura.
China has a vast territory, different sounds in ten miles, different customs in a hundred miles, and many dialects. China still dare not say that she can understand all of them. Besides, Laura is a foreigner, so Laura naturally shows a puzzled expression and says with difficulty: ”can you speak slowly? I can't understand...” Chen yuliou is old in the Jianghu and naturally observes words and colors, Laura felt that her words were not false, so she relaxed slightly.
In order to take care of Laura, he slowed down and explained in Mandarin: ”Miss Laura, when Marshal Feng of Beiyang contacted us, he didn't say that foreigners would join the archaeological team. Although we are only civilian husbands hired by Marshal Feng, we also know that Chinese treasures can't be left in the hands of outsiders. Although we are contemptible, we also know that deceiving teachers and destroying ancestors is a great crime, so please forgive me, Miss Laura. We can't let you enter the construction site.”
Laura vaguely understood half of it and tried to explain: ”We won't steal the cultural relics left by your ancestors. We only want one thing in it. Someone stole something from our country and put it here. So we need your help to bring it out. Otherwise, not only we British, but also the kind-hearted people all over the world will face a great disaster...”
Laura struggled to explain in Henan Mandarin. Halfway through the explanation, O'Connor in the distance called her back and said she had made an important discovery, so she could only simply end and say, ”my companion is calling me, but please believe me. We need to build trust and cooperation. Bye!”
With these words, Laura turned and left the construction site.
The old man with gray hair came to Chen Yulou's ear and whispered, ”what should we do, young Lord? If the British drove Feng Yuxiang's people to blockade here, we have to make wedding clothes for others, and now foreigners are involved. The first imperial mausoleum is unpredictable, and Feng Yuxiang and foreigners are eyeing... Are we going to do this?”
”Feng Yuxiang invited us. We never mentioned that foreigners would also participate. It can be seen that they are not kind. They want to use us to crack the organs and Feng Shui dangerous areas of the Shihuang mausoleum. We also want to build a plank road to hide our position, bypass their line of sight, touch the main tomb first and get a good thing out. We unload linglishi, always only for wealth, regardless of black and white good and evil...”
Chen Yulou's eyes twinkled and hesitated: ”The first imperial mausoleum is large-scale and close to Xi'an city. On weekdays, we dare not touch the tiger's ass of Lishan Mountain, but now with Feng Yuxiang's support, we can dig the imperial mausoleum on a large scale. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. As for foreigners, how can foreigners understand the beauty of Chinese Feng Shui mechanism under the tomb? At that time, if they want them to live, they will live, and if they want them to die, they will die, He came to China and told him to meet a big zongzi. ”
”Now let's stay still so as not to disturb the 'sting Dragon' below. There are insect eggs under the ground. Once all the eggs are hatched in the wind, people within a radius of tens of miles can't live!”
”What if the foreigner makes a rash move?” the old man worried.
”Keep everyone away from the foreigners. It's hard to deal with the British in a battalion! I'll frame them once if they don't move. If they move, they'll ask for trouble and let people prepare more firewood. Then we'll set up a fire dragon array on the East Highland and rest assured. I'll go to the partridge whistle to discuss it. Don't move first. Feng Yuxiang urges them down , you say, ”open the grave and worship God. If you don't worship, don't start!”
When Laura returned to the tent where the party were, she heard O'Connor say: ”Now the British Empire is stuck together. Today's telegram says that the plague has swept all counties in England. Even Ireland has found the disease. The dead have hit Birmingham. The survival of the British Empire is at stake. We have no time to work according to the normal archaeological process. We must make progress as soon as possible.”
O'Connor's eyes twinkled and suddenly said, ”now there are three tons of explosives in the camp. With the support of the engineering camp, we can open a channel in the unimportant place of the mausoleum below and use explosives to lift the soil covering the upper layer of the underground palace. In this way, we can dig the whole mausoleum in only two days!”
Laura was shocked and quickly objected: ”it's impossible. It will cause immeasurable damage to the ruins below. If the underground palace collapses and is buried in the worst case, the time to clean up the underground palace will be delayed to at least three months, which is too risky. We should get the support of local explorers and formulate a more reasonable plan to take action.”
Indiana Jones hesitated for a moment after hearing the two men's tit for tat speeches. He agreed with O'Connor's decision, but what Laura said was also reasonable. If the explosives failed to open the soil layer and blow up a gap in the underground palace, but let the underground palace collapse, the whole operation would be dealt a heavy blow, although Jones did not know the Chinese saying that haste makes waste, But I still understand the similar truth.
”If we buy General Feng at a high price and ask him to send a large number of migrant workers to dig the tomb at all costs, the efficiency should be improved to a level we can accept.”
Indiana Jones's meaning is very clear. The so-called ”at all costs” is to let the Chinese risk their lives to work. Like the Zhongdong road and the Western Railway of the United States, let the Chinese do the most dangerous work, pave a road to the tomb with human life, not study traps and mechanisms, but use living people to test and let the Chinese risk demolition.