Chapter Eighty-Three: Rising in the Lake

The next day, the weather was even more gloomy, and at seven o'clock in the morning there was already a light snowfall, the snowflakes were not big, and they were fluttering one after another, and the sky and the earth seemed to be covered by a layer of hazy mist, which was not clear from a distance.

The brothers led six engineering vehicles to Hengzhong Lake, the road is sparsely populated, the road is also smooth, due to the light snow today, part of the road in the lake is slightly muddy, but fortunately, several cars are engineering vehicles, not to be trapped.

Came to yesterday's position, optimistic about the position, drew a circle on it, the diameter is fifteen meters, deep digging is not a well, there is no straight up and down, so even if you know that there are only five or six meters of things below, the upper excavation can be expanded a lot, according to the diameter of fifteen meters or consider the maximum climbing ability of those engineering vehicles plus there are engineering vehicles pulling and pushing back, otherwise this point is so deep that the pit can not climb up at all.

The modern construction is simple excavation very fast, two excavators dig, a bulldozer pushes the excavated soil to a farther place, the big pit is gradually dug and more than 5 meters down in more than 1 hour.

"Dig slowly, and then dig down a meter" Wang Chao looked down with his eyes when they were digging, only to see that he had dug out a diameter of about 7 or 8 meters, and it was still mud and sand when he dug here, but it was not a common fine sand, and what came out was a thick gravel and soil with pebbles.

Wang Chao asked people to pause, moved the stone up, and then let one of the excavators climb up from the bottom of the pit, leaving only one below.

Then he dug for about a meter, Wang Chao hurriedly shouted to stop, and under the perspective, he found that there was the "bowl" less than a foot thick under this layer of soil.

Pulled by another excavator, the one finally climbed up from a pit 6 meters deep after a long time. Wang Chao took the shovel and took a few drivers down, followed the direction of his finger, dug out the soil on the outer edge of the "bowl", and then dug down half a shovel and half a shovel, and heard a "bang", and the tip of the shovel seemed to touch something.

Wang Chao hurried over, took the shovel and gently shoveled away the soil above, revealing a flat iron tool below, and then asked everyone to be careful. Dig around.

After about half an hour, this thing slowly revealed its true face, from above, as if a huge bowl was buckled on the ground, everyone was amazed, came to touch it with their hands, felt cold in their hands, and then gently tapped, making a "buzzing" sound. It seems that this thing is not porcelain, but metal, but it is difficult to say what exactly the metal is, and there are several large characters engraved on the bottom of the bowl. It's a pity that none of the people present know each other.

But since I knew that there was something underneath, it wasn't a mess, so the spirits came up, and it was already noon at this time. Wang Chao asked everyone to stop and eat something first.

Before I came this time, I had prepared hot water and some cooked food and flatbread, but it was still a little warm when I opened it at this time, and they sat on the ground one after another. Flatbread rolls sausages, drink hot water, the light snow has already stopped, the sun shows a red face, shining on everyone, and I feel a little warm.

Wang Chao was not in a hurry to eat, he went down to the deep pit to carefully observe this "bowl", the picture above has mountains, water, birds and beasts, although I don't know how many years it has been buried under the soil, but there is still no sign of rust, gently wipe off the soil outside, bright as new.

After eating, I took a little rest, and then several people took turns to dig, such a big "bowl", eight people took shifts, and it took three hours to dig the bowl mouth below, only to see from the bottom of the bowl to the mouth of the bowl, it was 5 or 6 meters deep, and I couldn't help but be shocked by the huge size of this bowl.

It took about another 1 hour, and at this time it was getting dark, and the soil around the bowl was completely removed.

Fortunately, Wang Chao took into account the huge size of the bowl, so he found a crane that could carry 50 tons of it, and even so, when such a huge "bowl" staggered out of the bottom of the pit, the crane's tires sank into the mud for about half a meter - this is easy to do, and then let the bulldozer or excavator pull it up.

The rope was stretched straight, Wang Chao was still worried that the rope would break, but fortunately it was lifted to the ground smoothly, and then the flatbed truck was driven over and placed on it.

Wang Chao jumped down into the pit again, and saw that there were many shapes of stone tools and bronze tools buckled under the big bowl, and it seemed that they were deliberately buried underneath, and they were not in a hurry.

Lift these things to the ground again, at this time it was already dark downstairs, let people take a flashlight, Wang Chao continued to search at the bottom, to see if there was any omission, "hey" in the middle of the soil under the small tripod found a small tripod that has shrunk countless times, this tripod is smaller than Wang Chao's three bronze tripods, only about three inches high, more than an inch of tripod mouth, three legs below, carved with mountains and rivers and other pictures, too late to take a closer look, Wang Chao put it into the bag he carried, and then let the crane lift him up.

When I got to the top, I saw that it was completely dark, but looking at the headlights, I didn't feel dark, so I asked the bulldozer to push the soil back into the pit, and I was busy for more than an hour to finish, at this time it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, and everyone drove straight to the company.

When the company's engineering vehicle drove in, Wang Chao asked people to find a tarpaulin to cover the big "bowl", and then asked Wang Zheng to book a restaurant, and a group of eight people went to eat first.

During the meal, Wang Chao gave everyone a reward of 1,000 yuan, and asked them to keep it secret and not allowed to spread it, and everyone agreed in unison, but Wang Chao also understood that this kind of promise was unreliable, and it could be concealed for a day.

After eating, everyone left one after another, Wang Chao and Wang Zheng opened a room in the hotel next to the company and moved in.

After taking a hot shower, the two of them lay on the bed

"Wang Chao, how do you know that there is such a thing so deep underground?"

"Hehe, I only knew it after reading some historical materials", in order to strictly guard the secrets on his body, Wang Chao thought of an excuse to deal with it in advance.

"Oh, what's it called? What is it for? ”

"Well, according to historical records, this thing is called'Dome' symbolizes the meaning of the sky, don't you see that the underground of the dome below is a square pool, these two symbolize the 'round sky'", paused and continued, "Actually, I don't believe it either, the legend is in ancient times, after King Yu ruled the water." In order to suppress the earth's atmosphere, we summoned the world's skilled craftsmen, which lasted nine years, collected the world's fine iron, cast into nine tripods, and divided the world into Kyushu, we are the head of Kyushu."

"Ah, it's from a legend. Are all the legends true? ”

"No one can say for sure, you know, when I was in school, I liked to read some books on world mysteries, legends and the like, so I actually believed in some things in legends, but unfortunately there was no way to prove it. The time when our Hengzhong Lake became a lake was more than 4,000 years ago, and it was recorded in the "Historical Records". Later, combined with some legends and other books, I basically determined that there should be a tripod buried here in Hengzhong Lake, so I organized people to excavate it."

Wang Chao reluctantly explained his reasons, and Wang Zheng did not continue to ask after listening. Knowing that Wang Chao must have some special way to determine it, otherwise how would he know that he was in that position, but he didn't continue to ask, and then the conversation changed. "This tripod has also been dug up, what are you going to do with it?"

"I want to keep it for myself for the time being, if the government department doesn't look for us, forget it, and if you find it, you have to hand it over. I'll pull this thing to Yanjing tomorrow. I'll find a place to store it for a while."

"It's okay, I'm really a little worried about putting it here."

Wang Chao thought about it and called Zhao Dahai. Let him be sure to rush to Hengzhong City before five o'clock tomorrow morning, and the other party agreed.

"I'll find someone from Yanjing to come and drive away from this thing, and I won't need your driver here."

"Okay, whatever you want"

There was nothing to say all night, and at four o'clock in the morning the next day, Zhao Dahai called, he had already gotten off the train, the two got up, and then Wang Chao went to pick him up, and Wang Zheng went back to the company to wait.

It was past four o'clock in the morning, and the sky was still dark, and the darkness before dawn gave people a darker feeling psychologically.

After picking up Zhao Dahai and returning to the company, Wang Zheng was waiting in the communication room at the gate, and there was no delay after coming in, Zhao Dahai drove the flatbed truck directly and left, the tarpaulin cover on the car was tight, and nothing could be seen outside.

Wang Chao also said goodbye to Wang Zheng, did not go back to his hometown to see his parents, and followed Zhao Dahai out and got on the highway directly.

Arrived at Yanjing at about 8 o'clock in the morning, Wang Chao let Zhao Dahai go to the Sixth Ring Road and went straight to Heqi Lake.

Finally drove into the courtyard, Wang Chao breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling like a dream, except for the three-legged tripod, other stone tools and other things were all put here, and the time of the past two days was really a bit busy.

"Mr. Wang, I suggest that you have better build an open roof in the yard for this car, otherwise it is very likely to be damaged early when the tarp is lifted and exposed to the sun, wind and sun."

Wang Chao nodded in agreement, this is indeed the truth, this thing has been covered under the soil for thousands of years, and this sudden contact with the air and light of the outside world is likely to cause immeasurable losses, so he asked Zhao Dahai to find Chen Jingxuan to build this factory shed first.

The two of them drove back to Duzhou, and asked Zhao Dahai to find Chen Jingxuan, and he went back to Duzhou first.

I got home to eat something, and then took out the little ding.

This small tripod is detained under the big tripod, which should be of some use, so I am going to study it first.

Although the appearance of this Xiaoding is similar to the previous three, but the material is not the same carefully, Wang Chao took out the magnet and tried it, but he couldn't absorb it, proving that there was no iron in it, but he found that it was not bronze in comparison, and the smelting technology was almost zero for thousands of years, otherwise he would not have excavated so many stone tools.

There is a high mountain painted above, and there is a river below, the river is meandering, the mountain is winding, the mountain is like a dragon, the dragon head is the beginning of the mountain and the beginning of the river, and then under the intersection of the mountains and rivers, there are nine small dots of the mark, I don't know what it means.

Ding, only about three inches high, more than an inch at the mouth of the tripod, these scenes carved on such a small tripod, specific and slight, it is difficult to imagine what height the carving skills of the ancient people have reached.

It was not clear what the meaning of the picture was, Wang Chao had to hold his breath again and concentrate on the past, and found that under the perspective, this small tripod emitted a colorful color, this color had hardly been seen before, even those superb jadeite, under the perspective, only emitted emerald green, and there were not so many colors. Therefore, in order to ensure Xiaoding's safety, he first cleaned it up, and then took a photo, ready to show it to professional archaeologists.

Temporarily stored it in the safe, and then took out the nine small boxes that were brought out of Prince Yi's underground secret room last time, opened them one by one, and suddenly the room was bright, and under the light against the backdrop of the round beads, green jade, red agate, white crystal, and yellow gold nuggets, Wang Chao was dumbfounded, but he didn't expect to harvest so much.

I picked up a necklace made of a string of pearls, but I saw that the beads were round and jade, delicate and smooth to the touch, with a large bead in the middle, and thirty-six small beads were worn on both sides, a total of seventy-three, and I knew what the meaning was, but such a large string of beads was indeed a "burden" to wear on the neck.

After playing for a long time, I thought about it and put it in the bag I carried with me, and then I took out a string of pearls like a bracelet, which was also made of pearls with a diameter of less than one point, and wore it on my wrist.

Put it back and take out a piece of jade, this piece of jade is square, engraved with a dragon, the dragon ball position is set into a string of rope holes, put it on the chest, suddenly feel that the chest is first cold, and then a warm spread throughout the body, feel refreshed, the fatigue of the whole body is swept away.

"It seems that they are all good objects" Wang Chao sighed, and then put some pearls, jade, and jadeite together, and put all the gold bricks and silver blocks together, respectively, 6 boxes and 3 boxes, and made up his mind that these gold and silver can be taken out for auction, and these jewels are temporarily put away.

Wang Chao didn't know that taking out any of the jewels and jade items he was now storing in the room was no less than an earthquake in the antique collection world, and it might even attract the attention of the Museum of the Late Communist Party.

By the time all the nine boxes of jewels were put away, it was hard to say that they were put away, but they were placed in an inconspicuous place, and there were so many that the safes could no longer fit them, and it seemed that it was time for Heqihu to consider the renovation of his own villa.

The decoration of the villa focuses on the renovation of the basement, focusing on sealing, confidentiality and safety, and considering the installation of constant temperature and humidity equipment in advance to ensure that every collection in it can be intact.

While I was cleaning up, the phone rang suddenly,...... (To be continued......)