Chapter 236: Fossils from 500 Million Years Ago
"Yes, yes, both of them are very smart, you can tell me what you want. I want to have it in the village, uncle will send you!", Xu Ling handed Du Zihe to Yuhu, and he was already ready to hug it. But Du Zihe was unwilling, grabbed Xu Ling's collar and was unwilling to let go, and was about to cry, Xu Ling hurriedly hugged and gave Du Nian to him, the little boy seemed to be more sensible and didn't cry.
"In this way, I will do a magic trick, come, Zihe will go back to my mother's hands, and say, what do you want?", Xu Ling asked. The two of them unanimously want to eat fruits, especially grapes, Xu Ling seems that these two children may have been thinking about it after tasting it, and they don't have to open their mouths to come!
"Okay, today Uncle will have a big change of grapes. I'm looking for a prop, I can't peek!", after saying that, he pretended to run into the yard of the dumb uncle and aunt, said hello to them, took a piece of Buhe and a basket and came out again.
"Look, is there nothing in the basket? A miracle is coming!", Xu Ling first asked the two children to look at the empty bamboo basket, then covered it with a cloth, and let the two of them blow into it, Xu Ling opened it suddenly, and two strings of crystal clear red grapes suddenly appeared in the basket, not only the two children were happy, but they kept writhing on the two of them. Even Du Qing, Nian Zihe, and Yuhu were amazed, because they didn't see Xu Ling taking grapes at all, and there were only a few clothes on their bodies, and it was impossible to hide them. But thinking about the magician's magic, they also let go of the speculation in their hearts, these should be the magician's secrets.
"We were about to go to Master Xu's house to buy some wood carvings and brocades, but we didn't expect to meet you here. Du Qing took the child in Yuhu's arms, and several people simply entered the courtyard of the dumb uncle and aunt together.
Under the big tree in the north corner of the courtyard, not only the dumb uncles and aunts were busy, but also a few tourists sat next to them and watched. I saw that between the sharp carving knife in the dumb uncle's right hand, pieces of sawdust fell, and a fist-sized hardwood pier was becoming clearer and clearer, and this time it was a mouse carved. The mouse carved by Uncle Dumb no longer makes people feel uncomfortable, but looks like Mickey Mouse. Du Qing next to them was dumbfounded, but they didn't expect that an ordinary artist in the countryside could carve a semi-finished product to life in less than half an hour. It's breathtaking!
The two children smiled at their parents, and when the carving was finally completed, the two of them still puffed up their tender little hands, so that the dumb uncle stood up happily and gave it directly to Du Zihe, saying that he would carve another one to send to the little boy Du Nian.
These tourists may be waiting for the carvings of the dumb uncle. But he was embarrassed to rob with the child, so he didn't speak. And there was a little girl who stood up and wanted to hug the two of them, but the child didn't want to. The girl had a disappointed look on her face, and finally kissed them on the cheek before going back to sit down.
Xu Ling saw that the dumb aunt was weaving a 60 by 60 medium brocade, and her hand speed was very fast. At her pace, it is estimated that it should be able to be completed in two days. This is not cheap, but people are handmade, tourists are looking at it, and no one says it is expensive for two or three thousand yuan!
"Xu Ling, what show are you going to perform at night?" A tourist asked. The news that Xu Ling was performing under the banyan tree at night spread throughout the village as early as noon, and no one came to gather around Xu Ling to ask for autographs. But the number of group photos has increased, and Xu Ling has not shirked, these are all gods!
"Let's watch it in the evening, if I say it now, you won't be in the mood to look forward to it!", Xu Ling replied with a smile, "You guys sit, I'm still a little ahead of schedule." After Xu Ling finished speaking, he looked at Yuhu, and the two left here together.
"Tomorrow, before I go to Confluence Town, I will go to the township and county construction sites to have a look. How's the county demolition going?". Although Xu Ling heard last time that those social bastards were sorted out, those who should be arrested, those who should be reformed through labor, and some of them are directly fugitives. They are all caught, but when the forest is big, there will be any kind of bird! This is a normal phenomenon in society, and it is inevitable!
"Than the expected Shun lì. Later, a group of people organized to want more national policies, but Xu Dong was not the second leader of the previous term, and you were born and raised in Baimadu. I know these people well. It only took two days, and it was all settled. I even heard later that the elders of those people went to the government to find Xu Dong to ask for guilt!", Yuhu said admiringly.
"Uncle Xu, I don't dare to say anything else, but for the sake of the county's economic development of the desire, I can say that there is no one who can compare with the second and second masters! When I graduated from high school and left here, he was still in the Education Bureau, full of black hair, and his body was elegant and elegant! But now only four or five years have passed, not only is he less than forty years old and full of white hair, but he is also very old!", Xu Ling couldn't help but sigh, it was really difficult for this poor housekeeper.
"It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice, my old man is not the same, worrying about this and that every day, and not being home all day long. My mom has told me several times. I don't know how long he'll be able to keep going if he continues like this. Especially the fact that he went out of Confluence Town made him not even sleep well recently. Yuhu's face was full of worry.
"Don't worry, things will pass. I'll check it out tomorrow. Xu Ling comforted Yuhu.
"By the way, did Professor Long say when he would go down to Horseshoe Lake to investigate?", Xu Ling knew that Long Hai would come back, but he didn't expect it to be so soon, it might be a matter of Confluence Town, so that the above would end the investigation early.
"Anyway, I wanted to wait for you to come back, but as soon as this thing comes, you have to wait. Professor Sima made some discoveries in their research on dragon heads, and with the help of Professor Jetson's instruments in Uncle Sam's National Real Yàn Room, they found an exciting thing: the fossil skull is at least 60 million to 70 million years old, and it is equivalent to the isotope carbon 12 real yàn result. However, an examination of other bone fragments in the skull found that there were both near and far. You can't imagine that there is a snake, let's put it this way, because it is an unknown species, and the age of the fossil has reached a terrifying 500 million years ago!", Yuhu showed a look of amazement on his face, and Xu Ling did not expect that there would be such a big discovery among those fine bones.
"500 million years ago, what age was our earth??", Xu Ling frowned and thought for a while, and finally retrieved some information from his memory about that long era.
The period of 540 million to 250 million years is the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, and Permian periods. A large number of marine vertebrates and main vertebrates of the animal kingdom appeared on land and sea, and among the plants, ferns, stone pines and other pines and cypresses also began to grow wildly, laying a good foundation for the emergence of dinosaurs later!
But around 250 million years ago, life on Earth flourished to a peak. It was at this point in time that a mysterious mass extinction occurred. And on the eve of the mass extinction, the evolution of the terrestrial animal and plant kingdom suddenly slowed down, as if to make way for some animal! while marine life began to grow faster, especially mollusks, like octopuses!
"Things from 500 million years ago, and bones?" Xu Ling was really shocked at this time, you must know that before the 540 million Cambrian period, it was the world of mollusks, and it was normal for creatures with shells to have shells, and shells and bones were not the same concept at all!
Professor Long and they are also very curious, if it can be determined that it is a million years, then it can be said that this is another heavy archaeological discovery, which will more completely complement Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin's research was actually surprised by the Cambrian period, as if our ancestors and many animals suddenly appeared overnight. Although many scientists say that skeletal organisms appeared before the Cambrian period, they have not been found. This time it's a miracle!", Yuhu said with a smile. Since coming to this village, Yuhu has found that he has not remembered his previous drunken life. Every day, every event, every discovery he witnessed here made his life so fulfilling!
"What happened 540 million years ago?", Xu Ling muttered to himself with a frown. What led to the sudden explosion of life overnight? This is simply a myth in scientific geological research, and people are puzzled! You must know that the time of this eruption lasted only a few hundred or tens of millions of years from the available evidence, but what about the evolution of dinosaurs? It was only a few thousand years in tens of millions of years. The gap between heaven and earth is definitely the gap between heaven and earth! The species that erupted in the Cambrian period, many fossils appeared, and new species were discovered every year!
Then Xu Ling smiled bitterly, this is not a problem for himself to consider. There are those archaeologists who bother. After figuring it out, Xu Ling let go of the thoughts in his heart, and suddenly felt light. I feel that the sun in the sky seems to be less dazzling, and the trees near and far are more green and vibrant. Annoying birdsong and dog barking will no longer distract you!
Passing by the office building, Xu Ling found that the pharmaceutical factory was still in production, which was inevitable. Before the county pharmaceutical factory was built, it was the only production base. The tonic distillery is already on the right track, but it is a pity that the cultivation of the golden silk red back eel is difficult, and the blood of the eel in January is limited, even if the production of wine and medicinal materials goes up, it cannot be expanded.
Xu Ling still had an idea in his heart, and he was going to replace the ordinary glutinous rice with the more precious blood glutinous rice at the end of the year! In this way, there would be no problem in raising the sales price.
At this time, it was noon, and the shop on the first floor of the office building specializing in selling tonic liquor was closed, but there were still thirty or forty tourists lining up outside, holding small umbrellas and fanning small plastic fans. Xu Ling frowned a little, there is no way to go on like this, in case someone suffers from heat stroke or something, it will be a blow to the image of the village and the company.
Passing by from the square, Xu Ling didn't go in, and Wen Yuhu next to him said, "Is there any way?" I heard that there are scalpers who not only sell wine, but also sell queue positions!" )