Chapter Seventy-Seven: Treasures of Heaven (Part II)
A few days ago, Zhang Nan used a metal detector to probe it, and the location of the east and west had already been determined, and he was covered with the large military tent bought from the labor insurance store. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Double insurance, not only is there a fence wall to block the view, even if there are enthusiastic villagers to take a look, nothing can be seen.
At noon that day, I had lunch at the village chief's house, and as soon as I returned to the "research base", I immediately locked the door!
Now the villagers are completely accustomed to locking the "research base": this is what the village chief wants to lock, even if they pass by when they go to work in the fields, they don't bother to look at it.
There is no need for a hoe axe, but there are more suitable tools for digging - the newly bought hoe, and the handle of the hoe is still made with the help of the villagers.
Engaged in agriculture, how can you do it without a good hoe!
According to the detectors, the thing is about 1 meter below the surface, although the distribution seems to be a bit scattered.
Guan Xingquan is very strange: how can the things below be buried in a pile in the east and west in the range of about two meters in diameter?
Zhang Nan was not surprised at all, and then he would understand why this was happening.
Zhang Nan held the hoe and threw off his arms, Guan Xingquan covered the wind outside the tent, and occasionally used a camera to shoot rape and a magnifying glass to look around.
Sometimes I walk around the fence, and I don't leave my notebook, I observe the growth of rape from time to time, and I write something in my notebook, which really looks like it.
Zhang Nan is not so comfortable! This is hard work, to dig a big pit with a diameter of at least two meters and a depth of one meter, and Zhang Nan will be tired like a dog!
Stop and stop, more than an hour of work, Zhang Nan completely lay down!
I cleaned myself up, washed my face, and went outside the tent to be my own researcher.
Zhang Nan sat on the chair and was free, and it was Guan Xingquan's turn to be a coolie inside.
The speed of the two was fast, and the pit had reached a depth of seventy or eighty centimeters in a few hours.
Guan Xingquan can't be allowed to do it now-Zhang Nan took out one of the special tools he used when he was a tomb robber: a probe rod that he had sharpened with local bamboo two days ago.
The shape is no different from a bamboo chopstick, but the length is about 40 cm long, and it is slightly thicker.
Especially where the hand is held, the fat on both sides is a large section, which is conducive to holding: if you can't find tough bamboo to do this kind of play, you can make do with a pair of chopsticks.
This is a delicate job, Zhang Nan imagined the bottom of the pit in front of him as a large plane, and on top of it was a square grid with a diameter of 10 cm.
Facing one of the corners of the grid, the probe rod is vertical, forcefully but evenly slowly inserted down, with the feel, feel whether the probe head is touching a strange hard object.
It's a technical job, no practical experience, and you can treat stones as treasures!
And unless you have to, you don't need to use metal iron objects such as long tapers, although those things are more penetrating - if you are not careful, you will not regret going if you touch fragile porcelain jade or thin bronze!
Bamboo is not a big problem, in the hands of veterans, even the most fragile jade will not be a problem.
Probe and dig a section, so that you won't end up smashing the pot with a hoe because you don't know the specific location and distance of things!
When the first "cavern" was inserted more than 20 centimeters, the probe rod seemed to be blocked by something!
Twisted the probe rod, then paused, and with a slight force of his hand, the probe came with a feeling similar to slipping.
I pulled out the probe rod and looked at the probe head: there were traces of being polished by an object with a smooth surface, which should be porcelain.
If it is a bronze object, this will burr the probe rod head, and there will be residues such as patina.
I took an incense stick and inserted it into this small cave.
The incense sticks have been prepared for a long time, and the people who will burn incense and worship the Buddha already have them, and they can be easily bought, don't be surprised.
However, when buying incense sticks, Guan Xingquan wondered why he wanted to buy this toy, Zhang Nan just said that it was used to finalize it.
In fact, Zhang Nan was lazy - each incense stick was 40 centimeters long, he was too lazy to prepare a large bundle of thin wooden sticks of the same length, and the chopsticks were a little shorter.
More than an hour later, Zhang Nan called Guan Xingquan into the tent: the secret hemp incense sticks were long and short and densely covered at the bottom of the pit!
Guan Xingquan, who had been a soldier, only glanced at it and understood why Zhang Nan said that those incense sticks were used to "stereotype"!
An oval-shaped "arc bag" about two meters long and about six or seven meters wide at its widest point appeared in front of Guan Xingquan's eyes -- the location of the buried objects below and the distance from the bottom of the pit were all vividly reflected.
"How's it going out there?"
"There's already someone cooking dinner in the village. ”
Hearing Guan Xingquan's words, Zhang Nan said: "Let's open an opening first." ”
The tools are ready, pull out a few incense sticks and set them aside, and the sapper shovel first shovels off the top 20 centimeters of soil, and then carefully takes the soil with a small shovel like the one used to plant flowers.
After a while, an artifact appeared on the edge of the "arc bag" - this is a blue-glazed amphora, with a straight mouth, a slender neck, and a double piercing ear near the rim.
And just around this bottle, secret linen, layers upon layers of various porcelains are stacked together in the soil!
Even if Guan Xingquan is used to seeing life and death, he was shocked by the scene in front of him: such a big movie, how much is this?!
And when Zhang Nan took something from the wall of Aunt Liu's room a few days ago, Guan Xingquan was there to help, and he saw a bottle similar to the porcelain vase in front of him.
At that time, Zhang Nan told him that it was bought on the black market in Shanghai, and it cost 100 yuan, and the price after 20 years only God knows - it was a fine piece of Southern Song Dynasty porcelain!
"Anan, our car is estimated to be unable to be transported!"
Porcelain is not gold, you can use things casually - classified packaging, but also to prevent the 2,000 kilometers of car transport running down accidental damage, this protective outer packaging must be reliable!
Guan Xingquan estimated that there would be a number, and this volume must not be small!
A small area was cleaned, except for the amphora, Zhang Nan did not take out any other porcelain, only removed the soil covering the upper layer.
There are not only porcelain, but also bronze here, and now Guan Xingquan can figure out why the reaction of that detector is so strange!
There is a question: but this is obviously a cellar, and the bronzes of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period are basically impossible to be buried with the porcelain of the Song Dynasty!
In fact, because these bronzes that appear to be the style of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period at first glance, they were actually cast in the Song Dynasty: imitation of bronzes from ancient times was very popular in the Song Dynasty, but copper was almost equivalent to money at that time, so those bronzes were also extremely valuable items in the Song Dynasty.
Zhang Nan was already starting to pack up his tools, covering a large piece of colored rain cloth over the big pit and pressing it with clods of soil around it.
"Let's do it tomorrow, it's easy to make mistakes at night. Call my brother-in-law and ask him to drive the car, and we will move the things to the hotel in the next few days, and pull them away together when the time comes. ”