A dragon gives birth to nine sons, each of the nine sons is different, and only one of the nine sons is the true son of heaven. And Ao is also one of the dragons. Ao is also called a turtle, and some people call it turtle fall. It has a huge tortoise shell, and the head is in the shape of a dragon, and even more special is its tail, which has a unicorn tail. In front of many temples, it is usually used to make sculptures, and then add a tablet on the back of the turtle, and it is said that its greatest ability is to carry weight.

It is precisely because of its weight-bearing ability that the ao has no limbs. Legend has it that when Nuwa mended the sky, she cut off Ao's limbs as four pillars to support heaven and earth, so Ao always looked like he was lying there. Because it has no legs, Ao can't become the true son of heaven, but its contribution and sacrifice to heaven and earth are great.

In order to thank Ao for his sacrifice, it has obtained the longest lifespan between heaven and earth, and it has the same lifespan as heaven and earth. Therefore, there has always been a saying among the people that the thousand-year-old turtle is ten thousand years old. Now there is a dragon on the Huabiao, and there is also a dragon with a turtle body at the entrance of the emperor's temple, this magical totem symbolizes longevity and eternal life.

There is a head here, which is easy to explain, and most of the monuments in front of the temple are placed on the body of this thing. But the largest of those is only a scalper, and the material is only made of stone, where can there be such a large bronze head, and it is buried in the ground.

Zhuo Xiong said: "Look at this soil, it seems that there are traces of fire. ”

The space below isn't huge, half a room's size, but the surface of the soil is unusually dry and smooth. Laterite has a very important use in the folk is to burn bricks, this kind of soil is extremely viscous, and it will be very strong after being fired in a high-temperature kiln.

Cha Wenbin touched the smooth soil, and suddenly had an idea in his mind, whether this would be a kiln, because the color of the soil had become dark black. He tried to scrape the soil layer with a sharp weapon, and found that the soil was still mixed with traces of straw, which were used to increase the stickiness of the soil, and it was impossible to appear in the underground layer twenty meters above the ground out of thin air, which was deliberately arranged by hand.

Chaozi touched the soil, and suddenly remembered the nameless fire in the ravine of the Qinling Mountains, and he asked, "Brother Wen Bin, don't you think this wall is smooth, like waxing?" ”

Cha Wenbin originally had a little idea in his heart, but he didn't say it, he used his sword to hang a layer of soil on the surface, which was something very close to paraffin. I put it under my nose and smelled it, and there was a faint sour smell in it.

"What you said should be right, this is corpse wax, and this pit is a kiln."

"Burn or something? Porcelain? ”。 Za Brown didn't know much about the culture of Middle-earth, so he studied it for a long time, and finally he came to a conclusion: the devil shape of Middle-earth is too fancy!

"Burn people!" Chaozi suddenly said this with a gloomy face, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly blocked it on his chest with a demon pestle, which made Chaozi laugh.

Cha Wenbin ignored their fighting, but drew a circle on the wall and said, "Chaozi, you and Zhuo Xiong try to make a hole in this position." He also advised: You can't use explosives, you can only rely on manual labor."

"Good!" In the past, this kind of thing was handed over to Dashan, but now that he is gone, it will be handed over to the two brothers.

The loess was already hard after being burned by fire, and the weight of the ground above it made the wall chisel with a dagger. Anyone who has ever seen a kiln knows that the soil is smoked out by extreme heat, and is as hard as a stone. It took two people a long time to dig out a hole with a diameter of less than half a meter, and the depth was only one meter.

"I can't pull it anymore, it's like I've hit a stone."

"Is it a stone?" Zhuo Xiong didn't feel like a stone, because the sound of the dagger was a little harsh.

"It doesn't seem to be." Chaozi wiped off the outer layer of loess with his hands, and slowly, a piece of metal was exposed, and there was a sound of tapping.

Cha Wenbin said: "Keep digging and see how big it is." ”

It wasn't until about six o'clock in the afternoon that a metal block with an area of nearly five square meters was revealed, and this was far from the tip of the iceberg, and the volume of this metal object was much larger than they thought.

The exposed metal object has a large diamond-shaped pattern that is clearly visible, and it is still spreading out to both sides, with a certain curvature. The discovery of large metal artifacts in this kind of place, and it is also underground at a depth of more than ten meters on the surface, is very shocking.

Back on the ground, a few people cooked some noodles, and everyone had a different idea about what they found today. Chaozi believes that this is a noble tomb, and the metal object below is a large funerary object. Although the bronzes of the Spring and Autumn Period have been unearthed in the northwest of Zhejiang, the volume is very small.

Cha Wenbin has another idea, he thinks: this is a kiln, and to fire bronze, you need to use clay to make abrasives, and then pour melted bronze water into clay abrasives for pouring. Judging from the hardness of the soil under the pit, it must have been baked by a long fire, and the hard soil outside is regarded as an embryo, so the metal utensils exposed inside are the finished products. It's just that this finished product was not taken out, it was directly covered by a temple.

His judgment came from the severed head, and from the inference of the head, it is very likely that there was an unimaginably large bronze crow underneath, and the exposed metal objects they saw were the body of the crow, and those diamond-shaped patterns were the armor of the crow.

It was too late to completely clean out all the utensils, the amount of work was too large, and they didn't have enough manpower and time, so they decided to start with the broken pipe, which was relatively close to the ground and relatively small.

That night, Cha Wenbin slept in his dormitory and had a dream in which he dreamed that a group of women dressed in red carried a white sedan chair and walked over on the playground of Yangcun Middle School. He went to stop the sedan chair, and the women in red suddenly disappeared again, and when he opened the sedan chair, he saw that there was no one inside, only a big black coffin. He opened the coffin, and it was not a human being lying inside, but a big turtle.

Ao was very fierce, and he was about to bite his hand when he opened his mouth, but Cha Wenbin swung his sword and cut off Ao's head, and then reached out to grab the back of the Ao. But he didn't want to, a human face suddenly appeared on the back of the turtle, revealing a mouthful of black teeth and biting his hand tightly, no matter how he shook it, he couldn't shake it off.

Maybe the dream was too realistic, Cha Wenbin shook his hand hard, and smashed it on the bed stall with a "clang", and as soon as the person was in pain, he woke up, and then he knew that he had a dream.

Turning on the light and rubbing the back of his somewhat swollen hand, Cha Wenbin suddenly found that a row of faint tooth marks appeared horizontally on the back of his hand, and those tooth marks looked like they had just been bitten. Thinking of the dream he had just had, Cha Wenbin was shocked, and he had already remembered the knock on the door outside.

It was Chaozi who knocked on the door, and Zha Brown and Zhuo Xiong came in together, and the three of them sat beside Cha Wenbin with a dejected face.

Cha Wenbin saw that the faces of the three of them were not very good, so he asked, "Why don't you sleep?" ”

Za Brown said solemnly: "There are many devils in this place. ”

Chaozi glared at Zha Brown, and thought to himself, don't you claim to be the reincarnation of a living Buddha, why are you afraid of the devil: "Brother Wen Bin, the three of us seem to have had nightmares and woke up together." Anyway, it's almost dawn, and I can't sleep, so I'm coming to you. ”

Cha Wenbin's heart chuckled, he just had a nightmare, could it be that everyone dreamed together? He asked, "What did you dream about, and it scared all three of you here?" ”

"A group of red-clothed women singing opera, carrying a white sedan chair!" Za Brown said first, and Chaozi also nodded. Cha Wenbin looked at Zhuo Xiong again, and Zhuo Xiong said: "I'm like them, I also dreamed." ”

"Go on." Cha Wenbin did not interrupt, but motioned for Za Brown to continue.

"When I saw the sedan chair stop in the open space in front of me, I reached out and lifted the curtain, and when I saw that it was not a person, but a coffin, and I was about to pry open the coffin to see, when I heard a 'bang', and then I woke up."

Cha Wenbin looked at Chaozi and Zhuo Xiong and asked, "What about the two of you, the same?" ”

Both of them nodded, and the three of them dreamed of the same scene, they both saw the coffin, and then woke up.

Only then did Cha Wenbin stretch out his hand and said, "I also dreamed, just like you, the difference is that I opened the coffin." ”

"What's in there?" The three of them asked in unison.

"An Ao, and then there is a big face on the back of the Ao!"