Chapter 8: Confrontation or Strife (10) (4)
At this time, a group of people with pickaxes and shovels and other household goods had gathered next to the sacred stone, a total of more than 20 people. In the crowd, most of them are elderly, and most of them are women, all of whom are solemn and pious. Among them, there are sour apricot women and Maosheng. This morning, Mao Sheng got up early and cooked his meal. At that time, Muqin and Jing'er were busy in the factory and had not yet rushed home for dinner. He didn't wait for his family to get it together. To be exact, I don't dare to wait for my family to get together. He hurriedly pulled a bowl of porridge, stuffed a pancake into his stomach, sneaked out of the door like a thief, and went straight to Beishan. He was afraid that his family would bump into him, and he would want to get entangled with him and dissuade him from participating in the construction of the temple.
Zhenshu saw such a manpower, and his heart was very flustered. At this point, he had to barely cheer up, muster up his strength, and beckoned everyone to divide the labor and share the task. It was almost ten o'clock, and Zhenshu preemptively ordered someone to light the firecrackers. It is nothing more than taking the lead and grabbing the jackpot. Then, according to the baseline drawn by Sixi, he took the lead in cutting the first pickaxe. Subsequently, more than 20 people also picked up picks and shovels and did their best.
Because it is at the foot of the mountain, the soil here is not deep. With just a few pickaxes, he touched the hard rock. The pickaxe slammed against the rocks, splashing from time to time to cremation, and accompanied by a piercing sound, the tiger's mouth was numb. After a while, everyone was panting and sweating profusely.
Mao Sheng is used to doing heavy farm work, and he still doesn't feel tired. He took off his coat, bare his back, rounded his pickaxe, and riveted himself into the depths of the earth. The tip of the pickaxe touched another rock. The huge force of the shock was transmitted back through the pickaxe, and the pickaxe in his hand almost came out. He also said that he came across a large rock again. He pushed the tip of his pickaxe into the surrounding dirt and rocks, but the range of the touch was unexpectedly large. He beckoned Shiki to come and help, and made a concerted effort to lift the boulder outward, but he did not touch the edge of the stone.
The two of them muttered, "When you get up this stone, I'm afraid you'll be at the bottom of the foundation."
As he was talking, the four seasons suddenly said, don't worry, don't worry. It's not like a stone. How can the rocks be so smooth.
Mao Sheng looked at it carefully, and it was really not an ordinary mountain stone, like an artificially carved stele. It has an artificially carved puffy cloud-like pattern. He was surprised, how could there be such a thing, it was really strange.
Their actions caused the people around them to stop their belongings, gather over, and probe their heads to watch. Zhenshu also ran over, wiped the floating soil on the stele with his sleeve, and looked at it carefully for a long time, but he couldn't guess what it was. He shouted to his limited number of male laborers to come and raise the strange stone. After a while, a large and heavy monument was raised. It is rectangular in shape, like a lotus seat where the statue of the god in the temple sits. There are ornaments, there are clouds, and it looks delicate and good-looking. It's just that when Maosheng first probed, he used too much force, and one of the horns was shaken off by the pickaxe, and the rest was intact.
Zhenshu seems to understand something. He told everyone to hurry up and continue to dig deep in the place where the stele was unearthed, and there must be some kind of rare things.
After more than half an hour, two stone tablets were finally excavated in the deep soil not far from here. These two monuments were originally one piece, but they were broken into two at some point. After checking, although the broken stubble was badly worn, it was still a relatively intact stele. [End of Chapter]