Chapter 29: Digging the Berlin Wall!
Jia Lei thought very thoughtfully, the garbage dump is so big, at a glance, there is everything in the endless garbage mountain, and it is not possible to find the things that have been buried for half a year under this garbage mountain without anyone to guide them.
"Novan, you go and call the staff at the junkyard and ask him to point us out the approximate location first. Jia Lei looked at the endless mountain of garbage and said.
"Good boss. Novan went at once.
"Dr. Val, do you think the situation here is suitable for excavation, and do any of your people want to quit?" Jia Lei asked.
Although Jia Lei has equipped everyone with masks and protective shields, but standing on the edge of the garbage dump, he can still smell a faint smell, fortunately it is February, the weather has not warmed up, and the smell is not big.
"Let me ask them again, after all, we are people of country D who advocate democracy and freedom, and everything must be based on personal will. Dr. Val said.
"Students, you can also see, this is the working environment we are facing! It's dirty, smelly, and undignified, and if anyone wants to quit, they can come out now, and we respect everyone's opinions. Dr. Val said. In this excavation operation, many students heard that they were going to come to the garbage dump to dig the Berlin Wall, and they quit without signing up.
"I ...... I want to quit the doctor. A female student glanced at the mountains of garbage that were dozens of meters high.
Although the archaeology industry is very dirty and hard, she originally wanted to overcome the difficulties to participate, after all, it is a rare opportunity for a student to participate in such a meaningful archaeological excavation activity, but when she saw the endless mountains of garbage, she still flinched, and if she wanted to excavate here, she was afraid that she would not be able to eat for a week.
"Mary, you promised me that you would take part in the excavation work seriously!" Dr. Val said with an ugly face, this was his proud protégé, he didn't expect Mary to escape, Dr. Val exuded cold air with a straight face, and the scene suddenly became nervous.
"Of course, young lady, you don't have to be embarrassed! It is difficult for a strong man to let a girl dig up garbage, and girls should sit in a gallery or museum to sort out or identify all kinds of ancient artifacts instead of running into the garbage heap to rummage through the garbage! If I let you do this, God will punish me, and this kind of dirty and smelly work should be handed over to us men who are also dirty and smelly!" Jia Lei hurriedly came out and said in a round.
Jia Lei's small size but insisting on pretending to be a gentleman was really full of laughter, Mary saw him take off his hat and bow and apologize, and the atmosphere of the scene finally eased.
"All right, gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, if anyone else wants to quit, come out quickly! When you enter the field and dig, I will not allow you to quit even if you want to. Jia Lei clapped his hands vigorously and announced, sure enough, three more women and two men came out of the school's archaeological team one after another.
"Simak, won't you come with me, how can a family like us go to the garbage dump to pick up garbage!" one of the boys who chose to leave shouted to his friend.
"No, I'm going to stay, if I leave now, I won't get practice points at the end of the semester. Simak said with a serious face, he and the person who left were both from noble backgrounds, so the two have had a good relationship since childhood.
"You're the only girl left with Yurenia, why don't you come with us?" said the two girls who had run outside, turning back to the only girl left in the group.
"No, I'm not leaving, it's a great archaeological activity! It's a memorable thing, it's an honor to be able to participate in this archaeological excavation, and I won't leave anything. Yurenia said with a look of yearning.
"Alright, now that it's time to go, let's get to work. Jia Lei clapped his hands and said.
"It's the same with you, if anybody wants to quit just say it now! Jia Lei said to the workers in uniform at the back that he had invited them at a great price.
"The income of a hundred marks a day is higher than that of white-collar workers, and we will not leave. A worker took the lead and said. The others laughed and nodded, they were not students who had never seen the world, basically the remaining fifty or so workers here had been to the garbage dump that day, so they naturally did not dislike the environment here.
"Alright! Jia Lei waved his hand and said.
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"Is this here?" asked Jia Lei, pointing to a mountain of garbage seven or eight meters high.
"It's definitely here, I've been working in the garbage factory for more than ten years, and I will never admit it! There was so much garbage at the Berlin Wall that we had to set aside a large piece of space in the garbage dump that day. Said the administrator of the dump.
"What do the others say?" asked Novan.
"I've asked, and they all say it's here. Novan replied.
"Don't worry, boss, you can't be wrong! You see that there is no broken sofa at the foot of the garbage mountain next to it, the sofa turned out to be on the ground, I was tired from picking up the fragments of the Berlin Wall that day, and I moved it over and rested on it for a while. A worker said.
"Now that the location is set, let the forklift in. Jia Lei ordered to go down, and then an excavator rumbled over.
"This is it!Dig it!" Jia Lei said, pointing to the small garbage mountain.
I saw the long arm of the forklift stretched out the big shovel to shovel into the ground, and the garbage mountain immediately lost a corner, and the garbage dump here did not need to hire other vehicles to transport garbage, and it would not take half an hour to bulldoze here, and the forklift continued to dig, and then dug a half-meter-thick layer of soil and a piece of wall fragments with concrete leaked out.
"Stop!" Jia Lei hurriedly ran to the front of the excavator and waved his hand, and the excavator driver saw the pre-agreed signal and quickly stopped.
"Is this the Berlin Wall?" asked Jia Lei, jumping under the big shovel of the forklift and wiping the dirt off the wall debris with his sleeve.
"I'll see!" Dr. Val jumped into the pit to take a closer look, and the other workers came closer.
"This is the Berlin Wall! I'll never forget the steel bars in it!" said an East German in his 60s, touching a piece of exposed wall with tears in his eyes, which had fenced off the original barbed wire border with reinforced concrete elements more than 20 years ago in order to prevent people from escaping over the barbed wire fence to West Berlin. The walls of the Berlin Wall have appeared!
"Let the forklift step back and change to manual work!" Jia Lei hurriedly waved his hand and said, don't look at these are just ordinary bricks and stones, but they are real cultural relics.
The Berlin Wall is not only a historical artifact of Berlin and country D, because of news and historical reasons, the Berlin Wall appears in textbooks of almost all countries in the world, which means that the Berlin Wall is a world-class historical artifact - antique!
"Dr. Val has your students instruct these people how to dig up artifacts, they don't understand that if no one guides them, they will dig things up. Jia Lei hurriedly said, and Dr. Val immediately asked his students to come down.
"Boss, you can't help down there, it's still in the way, you better come up!" Pete shouted outside the pit, Jia Lei looked at a fifty or sixty-meter-long pit, and there were seventy or eighty people squeezed in it, and he couldn't even turn around, so he had to give up digging with his own hands and crawled out of the pit.
"Click, click!" The sound of a shutter button kept coming to mind, and several reporters were digging the scene and taking pictures.
"Hey, Mr. Reporter, can I ask you about something?" Jia Lei leaned over and asked.
"What's the matter?" asked Philips.
"I've heard that there are only two Berlin Walls now, right? Do you know anything about those two places? I heard that one of them is still broken. Jia Lei leaned over and asked, the 2017 partially rebuilt wall at the Berlin Wall memorial north of Bernauer Strasse is still incomplete and does not count.
"Yes, the only longer remaining part of the Berlin Wall is near the Oberbaum Bridge on the banks of the River Spree, where there is a large amount of graffiti often referred to as the East Side Gallery. Reporter Philips said.
"Where did the graffiti come from?" is it the original graffiti on the Berlin Wall?" asked Jia Lei.
"No, those graffiti are paintings on different themes created by 180 artists from 21 countries on September 28, 1990 on the 1,316-metre-long Berlin Wall, which has since been known as the East Side Gallery. Philips said.
"Thank you! I'm a foreigner, and I don't know much about this. Jia Lei hurriedly thanked him.
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"Oh! There are many painters in the world, and there must have been a chance that the Berlin Wall painting last year would have caught up, and if I took out a section of the Berlin Wall and invited these painters to paint! I don't have to spend a dime if I am willing to give it!" Jia Lei thought with a small calculation in his heart.