Chapter 353: Stone Carvings
Lao Wu bent down and picked up the stone on the ground, it felt a little strange in his hand, this stone should have been artificially polished, and there was a side carved like a text-like thing, but this word Lao Wu didn't know, and after studying for a long time, he felt that this was definitely not a coincidence and was naturally formed, it must be artificially processed, so he looked in the direction where the stone rolled down. The fourth and Xiao Qi climbed to the nearby hillside, the entire hillside was covered with gravel, when he saw the stone sitting under the fourth child's buttocks, he was startled, and quickly ran over, dragged the fourth from above, and asked Xiao Qi, who was rummaging for the stones, to stop, and dragged the two brothers to the side to stand, while he looked at the stones carefully.
The fourth child was about to take a break when Lao Wu was stunned and dragged aside, stepped on a stone under his feet and almost fell on his head, so he asked Lao Wu a little strangely: "Hey, what are you doing?" What's wrong? ”
But Lao Wu didn't respond, but pushed the stone that the fourth child was sitting on a few times, and then shook the stone in a circle with the strength of the shaking, so that the position was reversed. At this time, the fourth and the seventh understood what was going on, it turned out to be a cyan stone carved human head of more than 100 catties, because it was face down at the beginning, so they didn't notice that there was such a thing.
"What is this?" The fourth child stepped forward and asked.
Lao Wu squatted on the ground and gently touched the stone carving with his hand, and said: "It is estimated that this is a statue carved from a whole stone, and there should be a body, hey, look at this head is not small, it is estimated that the stone statue must be three or four meters high, this workload is too great, and this thing is not like the most recent, it is not an old thing!" "The old things in Lao Wu's mouth refer to the large size of the old funerary goods in the tomb, which are far more than those small objects, but there is a very real problem. If something is too big and people are few, it can't be moved at all, so it's called an old thing or a broken thing.
The fourth child naturally didn't understand what Lao Wu meant, and looked around the stone sculpture with a grin, and suddenly squatted beside Lao Wu, shocking Lao Wu and thinking that there was something going on around him, and he didn't wait to look up. was grabbed by the fourth hand.
"I said, hey, old Wu, since it's an old thing, is it valuable?" The fourth child stared at the surroundings like a thief, and kept shaking Lao Wu. Lao Wu was a little confused by him, but when the fourth child reminded him like this, he suddenly turned his eyes to look at the stone carving, and had a question in his mind. What the hell is this? There is not even a ghost shadow in this barren mountain range, and I have not heard of any ancient monuments or anything like that around here, where did it come from?
A series of question marks appeared in his mind, but none of them could be figured out, so Lao Wu pushed away the fourth child who was dangling him next to him, squatted in front of the stone sculpture and carefully looked at the bun and face. He had been robbing tombs with the old fox Hu Wan for several years, and although he was only a coolie digging holes, he would definitely enter the tomb every time. In fact, most of the tombs have no traps, and often the biggest danger comes from the collapse of the robbery cave and their own people eating black. So I didn't encounter anything dangerous in those years, but I learned a lot from Hu Wan, but those things are useless at all in normal times, but this time is different, Lao Wu looked at the stone carving in front of him, and he faintly felt that this thing had something to do with the mausoleum.
Lao Wu's mind was spinning for a long time. Through observation, he felt that this severed stone sculpture should be the guardian tomb in a large mausoleum garden. In ancient times, the tombs of the emperors and princes were built extremely large and extravagant, compared with ordinary people, at most they made a coffin to pretend to be dead, found a good place to bury it, and set up a tombstone to build a dirt bag, which was completed. But this class identity is different. The nobility of the identity must be highlighted everywhere, and this posthumous event is also extremely unusual. The reason why a mausoleum is called a mausoleum instead of a tomb is that the difference lies in the word mausoleum.
The mausoleum can be said separately, the tomb is usually a huge underground chamber, some of which are more than ten meters deep, and this depth is only the height from the ground to the top of the tomb, and the tomb below is also divided into several layers and several meters deep. And this mausoleum refers to the ancient palace-like place composed of buildings, gardens, and walls on the ground of the tomb, and the imperial mausoleum is not inferior to the palace where he lived during his lifetime. On both sides of the cemetery road, there are all kinds of stone statues of people and animals that are alive and vivid, and the number of them can be lined up from the main gate several kilometers away to the tomb gate where the mausoleum is sealed, this kind of stone carving is called the tomb guard. Thinking that in the past, many poor people often didn't even have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, but these so-called emperors and nobles were so extravagant before and after death, how could they not attract the hatred of future generations, how could they not let people detain the grave and pull out the body to whip the corpse.
The fourth child was entangled in whether this stone sculpture that came out of nowhere was worth it or not, whether it was an antique or not, but Lao Wu looked at the stone carving with straight eyes, and his thoughts didn't know where to fly for a long time. After a long time, this old Wu reacted vigorously, raised his hand and patted the top of the stone carving, and was about to say to the fourth child, this thing is not valuable, no one wanted it in the old days, let alone the new China now, and no one has the money to buy this thing? This is bought back as a stool? Unexpectedly, Lao Wu didn't exert much strength in his hands, and he actually shook the stone carving with only one head left.
The stone carving is placed on an inclined plane, and there are many small pieces of stone below, and a pile of stones that may be stepped on if you don't pay attention to your feet roll down the slope, especially this round stone carving, which can't be put down, Lao Wu wanted to talk to the fourth, but when he reacted, he was pushed away by the fourth and fell on the slope covered with stones, and then he only felt that there was an important crushing stone that made a clicking and cracking sound, and it rolled down all the way down by his side. Lao Wu stabilized his body and looked for it, it turned out that he had just accidentally pushed the stone carving that was originally placed in an unstable place, and he was about to roll down, thanks to the old four hands and eyes to push him away, otherwise he would have to be run over by a hundred or ten pounds of head.
With a muffled thud from below the hillside, the stone sculpture slammed into a boulder, shattering into several pieces and scattering in all directions.
"It's over! That's it! Shattered! Old Wu, you, oops! Waste something! The fourth sat on the slope and patted his thigh and shouted. Lao Wu went to see Xiao Qi having an accident for the first time, but the children reacted much faster than them, and they all dodged to the side, bending their necks to look at the smashed stone carvings.
Lao Wu grabbed the relatively small stones that he was pressing down, put them in front of his nose and sniffed the smell, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he patted the fourth man who was still complaining next to him and said, "I feel sorry for a fart!" Don't you know that the bigger the less valuable? Where are all your eyes gone? Good stuff down here! As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed to the slope below. (To be continued......)