Chapter 124: Into the City
Wangcai and I were cautious, fifteen buckets of water in our hearts, seven up and eight times nervous, and our hearts were also cranky. Look what's in that round box. When Wangcai uncovered the last layer of cloth and unscrewed the lid of the box, Wangcai and I both plopped and almost fell to the ground, and we couldn't help but hit the donkey with the cucumber, and half of it was missing. I never dreamed that there was nothing in the box except a rag the size of a handkerchief!
I was so angry that I said to Wangcai, "I'm afraid we are the most unlucky tomb robbers in the world, and we haven't seen anything or caught anything."
Wangcai also rolled his eyes and shook the round box and rags in a pile of dejected and wilted. It's really frosted grass, caged birds, deflated balls, dead pickled beans.
I pointed to Wangcai and said, "You kid is destined to suffer, and you always want to make a fortune, so in the future, you should do something down-to-earth, and think about it all day long." ”
Wangcai sighed and said: "There is no need to force it in life, the blessed don't be busy, and the unblessed are panicking." Then he collapsed on his cot. Although I said something unhappy, I didn't take it seriously at all, and I didn't take it to heart at all.
I poured a glass of water, sat down at the table and drank it, and picked up the box again in boredom. The small box is quite delicate, with the pattern of a dragon wind sculpture on it, the edge is a cloud map, and the wooden box is wooden. The lid of the box is inlaid with two red agate, which looks like a jewelry box. I pondered for a long time, how could such a delicate box contain only one rag?
So I picked up the rag, which was yellowed with raw edges, and looked at it, which made me frown. It was a rough piece of cloth, larger than a handkerchief, and I didn't pay much attention to it when it was folded, and when I opened it to look closely, it was densely painted with things. I hurriedly summoned Wangcai and asked him to see what was written on it.
Wangcai got up suddenly, I dragged the lamp and Wangcai looked, Wangcai said in surprise: "This is a picture, you see the obvious landmarks on it, villages, village trees, rivers, temples and so on." "I looked carefully, and sure enough, it was, but many of the characters were traditional characters, and they were written in small block letters. The main reason is that the age is too long, and a large part of the words on it are simply unrecognizable, and there are still some words under the picture, and they are not very clear.
Wangcai and I looked at it for a long time and didn't know what it was, so I thought for a long time and said, "Could this be a treasure map?"
Wangcai shook his head and said: "No, we don't have any legends here, there are any treasures, but there are real, I can't read so many words, and I can't figure out what's going on!"
"So what should I do? I have to find someone who understands, I can't waste this thing, right? Wangcai said a little anxiously.
I thought for a while and said, "Well, I can't see this thing through technical equipment, so I can just hand it over to the county cultural relics department." Maybe it will work for them".
Wangcai said with some worry: "Let's go to the cultural relics department and then investigate our responsibility, saying that we dig graves and steal cultural relics, we are tantamount to throwing ourselves into the net." ”
"No, we just stole any artifacts by mistake, and we shouldn't be at fault for reporting what we found!" I said.
"Then let's go to the county tomorrow to see what the cultural relics department says, do some technical processing, and see what is written on it." Wangcai agreed with me.
Without further ado, the next morning I went to the county with Wangcai, found the cultural relics department, a leader of the cultural relics department received us, the leader was a gray-haired old man, polite, very politely asked us to come, when we took out the small jewelry box and this piece of cloth with pictures, the old leader suddenly paid attention to it, found out the magnifying glass and looked at it for a long time, his face was excited.
"Young man, your actions may be a major discovery for the archaeological work in our county, and I can't do it now, so I can only report to the province to decide. But one thing is for sure, you have made a great contribution to the archaeological work. I'll call my superiors right away, and you go home and wait for the news, and I'll tell you something!" the old leader said, holding my hand.
Wangcai and I are also very excited, as long as that map is useful, it proves that we have not worked in vain, at least we have done something meaningful to the government.
After finishing the errand, I said that I wanted to go to Lin Ying's place, and I hadn't seen Lin Ying for a few days.
When he arrived at Lin Ying's place, Wangcai slipped out to go shopping, he said that he wanted to eat tofu brain pancakes, and I didn't ask him to come back earlier.
Lin Ying inevitably lingered for a while when she saw me, and whispered. She asked about the growth of the roots in the field, and I told her that everything was growing well, about 20 centimeters, and there were not many dense insects, but there were some cabbage worms in some plots. I have been medicated, and it will be normal after a few days.
Lin Ying said: "If we can succeed this year, in recent years, bulk medicinal materials have risen to the market, and we will develop melons, codonopsis, safflower, grass seeds, etc., which are suitable for planting in my area, and their income is several times higher than that of grain and cotton." As long as we arrange it well, there will definitely be good benefits. ”
We carefully studied the next step for a while, and I said that my cattle would be slaughtered in two or three months, and that in the future all the loans would be repaid, and there would be profits, and we would discuss the matter of marriage.
Lin Ying said embarrassedly: "I'm all your people, what are you busy with, by the end of the year, we will all make a name for ourselves." I can't run again!"
"I'm not afraid that your father will find you a rich kid again! I said.
"Don't worry, I'm in charge of my business, but more importantly, we can bring everyone to get rich, and he won't have anything to say, he is afraid that his daughter will suffer in the village, and he should understand their psychology. ”
I nodded, thinking to myself that if I only did it with my heart, I could make a career anywhere.
Wangcai came back, bought some messy things, burped, greeted Lin Ying and joked: "Xiaoying is getting more and more beautiful, look at this dress, it's so soft and ......." Saying that he was moving with Lin Ying, Lin Ying smiled and grabbed his wrist, twisted his back slightly, and said with a smile: "It's okay if I'm beautiful or not, your eyes are getting more and more evil!"
I laughed and shouted, "Come on, catch the hooligans, catch the hooligans!"
"Fuck, let everyone see, there are such passive hooligans, you two can do it!"
We all couldn't straighten up laughing, and Wangcai sat on the ground grinning.