Chapter 298: Bricks
"Either the students should go home first, and it's almost time for school to end. Zhang Qian saw that this thing couldn't be dug up for a while, so she discussed with Teacher Wang to let the students go back first.
"Hmm" Teacher Wang also meant, she shouted at the group of little ones a few times, telling them all to disperse.
These children like to watch strange things the most, and they don't want to go back one by one. However, due to the pressure of the teacher, I had to run quickly towards home, ready to come over early after dinner.
"I don't have my phone...... Give it to me and take a few pictures. Before leaving, Zhang Qian specially asked Liu Junhao for his mobile phone, and then slapped the blue-brown thing a few times.
She was going to wait to look it up on the Internet, and when she first saw it, she wasn't sure what it was, after all, it was the first time she had seen it. Mr. Wang only said, "Could it be a fossil?" As a result, the students spread false rumors that fossils had been found in the school. In front of a large group of students, Zhang Qian was embarrassed to say that she didn't know, so she could only keep her doubts in her heart, and she defaulted to "fossils".
Back home, Liu Junhao was just about to invite his wife to taste the soup. Who knew that Zhang Qian threw the lesson plan on the table and turned on the computer directly.
"Husband, come over and take a look, how does this picture not look like a fossil on the Internet?" Waiting for the computer to turn on, Zhang Qian directly searched for fossils. She compared the images she found online with those she had taken. The difference was significant.
Liu Junhao also leaned over to check, and saw the description from beginning to end, and did not see the same picture, the only similar thing was the drill fossil. As explained above, boreholes are holes made by certain animals for feeding, attachment, and hiding, often on fossils of petrified shells, wood, and other organisms. However, the hole is more regular, generally in the shape of a tube or a garden hole, which is completely different from this one.
"Don't study, hurry up and eat, and find a few people to dig out and study it after dinner......" Liu Junhao is quite depressed now, and it is easy to prepare to show his hand at noon, but the soup is a little dusty, and his wife's mind is not on it at all.
"Hmm...... You serve me a bowl of rice, and I'll look it up, and I'll make sure I find out what this thing is. Zhang Qian is now ready to break the clay pot and ask to the end, and when the students ask again in the afternoon, they will have an explanation.
Get...... Seeing that his wife was so devotive, Liu Junhao could only carry out the service to the end.
"Hmm...... What kind of soup, so fragrant? As soon as she smelled the smell, her attention immediately shifted.
"Guess" Liu Junhao sold Guanzi.
"There are bamboo, fungus, vermicelli...... I don't know the rest, it's definitely not fish. After almost a minute of identification, Zhang Qian didn't recognize what kind of meat the milky white thing was.
"How does the stone chicken you caught from the backyard taste in the morning?" He was relieved to see that his wife had finally turned her attention to food.
"Stone chicken, stone chicken can be eaten...... This stuff tastes so good, let's make it at night. After Zhang Qian tasted the Zhusun stone chicken soup, she was also full of praise. Previously, when Liu Junhao planned to raise stone chickens, she also expressed her opposition, saying that stone chickens were protected animals. There's guilt in eating this. Without thinking of a meal, her position changed, if during the war years, she was definitely a hardcore surrenderer.
Before the meal was finished, there were already tourists coming to the door.
Liu Junhao thought that people had come to buy yellow eels, so he hurriedly moved out the chairs and asked them to sit down in the courtyard.
"No need to sit, Liu Junhao, I heard that you dug up fossils in the school playground in the morning?" It was Zheng Jianxue who said this, and he rushed to Liujiagou with his wife in the morning. At noon, I heard the children in the village say that the school had dug up fossils, and the two of them were interested and ready to go over to take a few photos, and Wen Xia even wanted to wait to get two pieces of collection.
As soon as they went out, they saw that other people were also talking about it, so they rushed to Liu Junhao's house together to ask what was going on.
"You all know so soon......" Zhang Qian heard the movement and also walked out with a bowl.
There is no need to ask the source, it must have been said by the group of bear children in the village when they came home.
Since everyone came to see the fossils, Liu Junhao did not delay and led them directly to the school playground.
"This thing is a fossil?"
"It's not like a fossil ......"
"It doesn't seem to be a stone, I've never seen a stone like this......"
When these people saw such a big stone, they all began to argue. The main thing is that its shape is a little too strange, and it looks rough. It looks a lot like an unpolished birdcage. The point is that those fist-sized holes are many and arranged in a certain pattern. It's a bit like a carved carve, but it's more natural.
"It should be regarded as a kind of rockery that has not yet been discovered, you look at the traces, it is very similar to the honeycomb on the Taihu Lake stone......" Zheng Jianxue circled around the thing, and then said his speculation.
Taihu Lake stone, also known as hole stone, is mainly composed of limestone. Limestone is easily eroded by weathering by external forces, and the soft and loose stone is peeled off, and the harder places are preserved, so that a tortuous and rounded form is formed.
"Don't say it, it's a bit like," he said, and two people agreed.
"Is Taihu stone this color? Besides, the Taihu stone is very rough, and this stone is too smooth, just like black jade. Wen Xia opened her mouth to refute.
"It's also ......" someone immediately agreed with her.
This thing is troublesome, no one knows it, everyone can only guess around the stone.
"Dig first, and when you dig it out, you can find the people in the village to take a look" Professor Zhao couldn't say why for a while, and buried himself in waving a shovel.
Liu Junhao saw that the amount of work this time was not small, so he called the village and asked Er Mazi to call a few people to come over to help. In less than ten minutes, seven or eight rod laborers walked into the campus with shovels.
"Uncle Guangxi, have you seen this thing?" When they approached, Liu Junhao hurriedly gave up his position.
"What is this? I haven't seen it either, it's definitely not a stone on our mountain! Er Mazi looked at it for a while, and finally shook his head again and again, saying that he didn't know him.
I originally thought that with a few more people to help, this thing should be able to be unearthed quickly.
The situation is not as everyone thinks, after digging for more than half an hour, a large earth pit with a radius of one zhang and almost two meters has been dug around. But the guy didn't show his true face.
Er Mazi dug and dug and muttered in his heart, always feeling that this thing was a bit evil. He stopped, pulled Liu Junhao to the side and whispered: "Xiao Hao, I think let's stop, I feel that this thing is probably not a good thing, what if something goes wrong?" ”
"It's okay, Uncle Guangxi, just a stone." Liu Junhao is an atheist, so naturally he doesn't believe that there is anything strange about this thing.
"I dug up a jar ......," suddenly Liu Qihua exclaimed.
Hearing him shout, the two hurried over, only to see a clay pot-shaped thing appear in the soil, and what made people feel strange was that half of the jar was stuffed with fine sand.
Liu Qihua dug a few shovels down, and the jar was completely displayed in front of people, with three legs at the bottom of the jar.
"This is an incense burner bowl,......" Professor Zhao recognized at a glance. It should have been used by people to kowtow and burn incense in the past, but the material is quite rough and has no collection value.
"Let's stop, don't let God blame" Er Mazi was more convinced of his guess just now...... For no apparent reason, an incense burner bowl will appear in front of this thing. Don't think about it, it's definitely for godliness.
"Guang Xiye, you kowtow and burn incense so piously every month, and you haven't seen a fortune ......" Liu Qihua didn't believe this thing either, and opened his mouth to mock.
Ermazi's family is godly and pious Liu Jiagou Everyone knows that it is an ancestral heirloom. It is said that at first, his father planned to start renovating the house the next day, but he began to dream at night. In a dream, he saw a phoenix landing on the edge of a weir pond not far from his house.
"The phoenix does not fall without treasure" The old man thought it was a dream of his ancestors, and just woke up the next day and called his two sons to discuss the old house not to be renovated, and to build a new house directly, and the location was chosen at the Huangluo. And since then, incense has been offered on the first day of every month to pay homage to the ancestors.
The old man has been respecting for a lifetime, but there is no effect, and after he dies, the house will be given to Er Mazi and his father.
When the house reached the hands of this old man, he also maintained the tradition of offering incense on the first day of every month. It is said that because of this, he was also fought during the Cultural Revolution. Although he burned incense for a lifetime, his father did not make a fortune and drove a car for a lifetime. As a result, when he was dying, he shouted and saw a large group of golden rooster babies pecking at children in his yard.
"You bear child, when you suffer a loss, you will know what it means to 'don't listen to the old man and suffer a loss in front of you', anyway, I don't dig ......" Er Mazi screamed, saying nothing and not moving the shovel.
At this time, it was almost afternoon class time, and Zhang Qian thought that the progress of today's class was not completed, so she completely drove the students into the classroom. But where could the children sit still, and from time to time they secretly turned their heads to look out the window.
More and more people gathered on the playground, and no one knew each other after seeing the real thing. However, the speculation is getting more and more outrageous, and some people say that it is like a cornucopia.
A dozen or so people were busy for nearly an hour, and finally dug to the bottom.
Liu Junhao stood on the edge of the big pit and looked at it, this thing was about four meters tall and estimated to weigh thousands of pounds. Standing at the bottom of the pit, there is no way to lift it up, so it can only be pulled with a rope.
"Xiao Hao, you go home and bring the well rope, this thing can't resist at all" Liu Laosan also has this plan.
When the well rope was brought in, several people wrapped themselves horizontally and vertically around the "fossil", and then lifted it out vigorously at the same time.
Hey...... Almost everyone has this feeling, that is, this thing is too light, and seven or eight people don't use much effort at all.
They effortlessly moved the "fossil" to the ground, and the thing finally showed its true face: the blue-brown body looked a bit like a delicate pagoda from a distance, but when it got closer, it felt very abrupt, and there seemed to be countless dragons coiling up and down. The layers of holes are arranged along a certain pattern, which makes people feel extremely mysterious.
This thing is neither like a plant fossil, nor like volcanic rock, or even a stone at all. But what it was, none of the people present could say.
"Let's let's let, let's let go, reporter Guo led the experts to see the fossils." At this time, Liu Guangju's shouts came from the crowd.
This man...... Liu Junhao couldn't cry or laugh, and he didn't know anything for sure, so he hurriedly summoned the reporter. But it's better to have an expert, at least people can recognize what it is.
"It's not a fossil, it's supposed to be artificially fired." The bespectacled expert only looked at it for two minutes before drawing conclusions.
"Manually done...... What the hell is it, is there a question in the words, he has always thought that the expert is the "brick family".
"Then I don't know, this thing can't be buried in the ground for no reason. It doesn't seem to be a long time ago, and some people in your village may know it. The expert shook his head, then put away the instrument in his hand. People study paleontology, not cultural relics experts.
After he mentioned this, everyone thought that this was the case. Old people should be able to recognize this thing.
So, someone rode to the chicken farm to call Liu Wuye and others.
"My mother, Xiaohao, I won't take your car in the future, I'm so scared that I almost have a heart attack." Along the way, Liu Junhao rode fast, and before he reached the school gate, the old bull head hurriedly asked him to stop, preferring to walk over by himself.
"I haven't seen this thing," Liu Wuye looked at it twice and shook his head.
"I've seen it, and if you look at the color, it's probably brick." The old bull carefully observed this thing for a while, and finally came to a conclusion.
"It's a brick?!" When the old bull head told the origin of this thing, a group of people were a little incredulous: the old man can't be nonsense.
From the top to the bottom, and then from the left to the right, this thing doesn't look like a brick. Besides, is there such a big brick? A cylinder three or four meters high.
"That's right, it should be, this should be fired from the kind of earthen kiln in our village before." The old bull head shook it twice with his hand, and finally replied in the affirmative.
"What are these bricks for?" Reporter Guo asked curiously.
"I just said a little less, the clay kiln burns bricks, a brick needs to burn a pound of firewood, generally speaking, a kiln of bricks can be burned in only 24 hours. If you burn hard, the bricks will be crispy......"
"No, it's like a brick hair." Liu Wuye reacted immediately, no wonder he felt familiar just now.
"The bricks are boiled into water in the kiln, and when the fire is extinguished, the bricks are taken out like fermented steamed buns. But this one must have taken longer, and the bricks were all sticky together. When I was younger, I worked in a kiln factory, and this happened a lot. ”
The bricks were boiled into water, and a large group of people felt like a fantasy.
"It's not unusual, the main component of the soil is silicate, and the firing of bricks is mainly a physical change. At the sintering temperature, the surface of the soil reaches the melting point, and then after being cooled by water, it becomes a brick with high strength and hardness. Of course, beyond the melting point, it will completely melt into a liquid ......" At this time, the paleontologist followed behind to explain.
This explanation makes some sense.
After making it for most of the day, it was just a pile of bricks that failed to be fired, and everyone's disappointment can be imagined. Especially the few people who went down to dig the pit just now, they all felt that they had no strength at all