watched the ground being dug up layer by layer, and soon after, dense stone statues emerged, so spectacular that the audience in the live broadcast room was dumbfounded for a while, staring blankly at those stone sculptures.

Here, there are all kinds of stone beasts, such as stone lions, stone horses, stone elephants, and so on. This was followed by various statues, including the Stone Buddha.

"Look, that horse actually has wings, Pegasus?" Qi Hongye asked.

I saw a tall and mighty stone horse, but it was a bit special, and it actually had a pair of wings.

This stone horse is three or four meters high, with its front feet jumping up and its back feet straightening, as if it is preparing to fly into the sky, and its momentum is extraordinary.

Hu Yang looked at it and explained, "This is not a horse, don't you see horns?"

Only then did some people notice that there was a horn on the beast's head: "Could it be a unicorn? Was there such a mythical beast in ancient China? I always thought that the unicorn was imagined in the West." ”

"This is Tianlu, a mythical beast in ancient China. The body resembles an ox, the feet are horseshoe, the tail is connected with the seat, and there are wings, which is a deformation of an imaginary deer, so some people call it Tianlu. Hu Yang said.

In the eyes of the ancients, the deer was an auspicious animal, and it was replaced with the body of a cow to be loyal and kind, and diligent, and put on the horse's hooves to make it travel thousands of miles in a day and 800 at night, and then added wings to be able to rise in the air.

"This kind of divine beast is divided into one-horned and two-horned. The one-horned one is called Tianlu, and the two-horned one is to ward off evil spirits, which can eliminate disasters and be safe forever. The ancients placed them in front of the tomb, not only to pray for the protection of the ancestral tomb, the meaning of eternal peace in the underworld, but also as a seat for ascending immortals. ”

As for the unicorn, there are legends in both the East and the West.

However, in ancient Chinese myths and legends, there are so many mythical beasts that unicorns are not very famous, and they also have specific names, such as Tianlu、?? Unlike the West, there is only one general name for a unicorn.

Hu Yang told everyone: "In the Tang Dynasty, there was a similar stone carving, that is, the winged horse. ”

After speaking, he no longer paid attention to Tianlu, but turned his gaze to the stone Buddha. Among the many stone carvings, the stone Buddha is the most artistic value and a kind of carving with collection value.

When Andy pointed the camera at other positions, Hu Yang squatted down and carefully dug out a statue of Guanyin Buddha that was only about 50 centimeters tall from the soil.

Guanyin Bodhisattva has a dignified and plump face, both ears and shoulders, thin clothes and close to the body, wearing Yingluo, jewelry solemn whole body, standing barefoot on the lotus throne. Guanyin Bodhisattva holds a poplar branch in his left hand, and his right hand naturally hangs down to hold a net bottle.

Such a meticulous stone carving is quite rare, and Populus euphratica can be sure that this is definitely the work of a master carver. Among the many stone carvings in the entire Tang Dynasty, it is also outstanding and very precious.

He took the opportunity to hand the stone statue of Guanyin to the village chief and did not speak.

The village chief immediately realized it and quickly asked people to hide. This kind of small one is exactly what they want, and it is easy to keep it private, and the possibility of not being discovered is a little higher.

He asked softly, "Is it worth such a small one?"

Hu Yang replied quietly: "The carved works are often small and fine, and you may not know anything about the village chief." This stone statue of Guanyin is even more valuable than many carved with jade. I estimate that if it were to be put at auction, this stone statue of Guanyin would be at least this number. ”

As he spoke, he opened a slap.

"Five million?" the village chief exclaimed in a small exclamation with wide eyes.

Because Populus euphratica said that this small but fine one is more precious, then it must be more valuable than a stone lion, right? A stone lion is also worth 500,000 yuan, so if Populus euphratica opens a slap, it should not mean 500,000 yuan, but more.

Hu Yang nodded: "Yes, at least five million! However, this is talking about the auction." If we find buyers ourselves, we don't necessarily have so many. This kind of put on the auction, the risk is still a little bigger, and it is easy to be checked. Be quiet, let everyone be smart. I'll pick one for you later, and then I'll leave it alone. Village Chief, have you called the relevant departments?"

The village chief was excited, expressed understanding, and hurriedly nodded: "Listen to you, it has been notified." The leader above instructed us not to move, not to dig again, and to let the professionals of the cultural relics department come and excavate.

By the way, he also said that the government would compensate for the loss of the ancestral hall caused by the excavation. ”

"Okay, then don't dig it. I've already seen another one, the Buddha head over there, just that one, and it should be worth more than two million. Hu Yang pointed ahead.

"There is only one Buddha head, and it is worth so much money?" the village chief was a little puzzled.

"The head of the Buddha is the essence of a Buddha statue, so in the past, when the devils beat us in China, when they saw the Buddha statue, they often knocked off the Buddha's head and took it away. ”

Hearing this explanation, the village chief no longer hesitated, and hurriedly made eye contact with a villager next to him and asked him to go and take the Buddha head away quietly.

Just these two pieces, plus the two stone lions in front, the village has earned seven or eight million. This huge amount of money can do a lot of things and benefit all the villagers, so the village chief is basically satisfied and no longer has other ideas.

Sometimes, the end of lack of greed is very tragic, and the village chiefs all understand it.

Andy knew that Brother Hu was talking to the villagers about some shady things, so he deliberately moved the camera to other places, and only transferred back when the conversation was over.

Seeing the camera shift back, Hu Yang smiled and popularized it with the audience in the live broadcast room: "Have you seen those Buddha statues?

In addition, look over there, it looks like a stone tablet from a distance, but on the stone tablet, there is a Buddha statue carved, which is a peculiar stone Buddha statue work in the Tang Dynasty.

The stone Buddha statues are made into stone tablets, and then these Buddha statues are processed on the stone tablets, generally there can be two forms of processing, the smaller ones can be used in the processing method of hollow carving, and the others are generally displayed in the way of relief carving and sinking carving processing. ”

The carving process on this stele was formed, and people have a three-dimensional portrait feeling for this beauty, and after the processing of the grotto, these relief and sinking carving techniques are becoming more and more mature, and it can be very easy to place this at home.

Generally speaking, this kind of stone Buddha statue tablet is generally carved with a Buddha statue, or a Bodhisattva, some are a Bodhisattva, and then there are two Bodhisattvas next to it, the most common is Shakyamuni Buddha and Manjushri Bodhisattva and Puxian Bodhisattva.

Hu Yang was introducing here, and suddenly a villager not far away shouted: "Village chief, come and take a look, there is a discovery." ”

Is there a discovery? It's worth making such a fuss, isn't this scene shocking enough?

Their curiosity was also aroused.