Chapter 14: The Floating Tower
After driving a "new car" for a few days, Zhao Xuan was able to adapt to such a "van".
The van that accelerates to 000 in less than 4 seconds must be the only one in the world, and the difference is not too big compared with the previous 000 that had to step on the accelerator for three minutes.
In addition, there is good news for Zhao Xuan, that is, the training is not so intense.
After all, there is only so much content that can be done quickly, and the rest has to be done slowly.
It was like this until Saturday, but Zhao Xuan, who was lying in bed, was woken up by the phone, and took the phone to see Zhang Yuan.
"Dead fatty, it's only past eight o'clock......" Zhao Xuan picked up the phone in a daze.
"Zhao Xuan, Pan Jiayuan, come by car, hurry up." It was Cheng Shuman's voice that came from the phone.
Zhao Xuan thought that he was in a daze, and took the mobile phone to his eyes, which was indeed Zhang Yuan's number.
"What's the matter?" Zhao Xuan has a lot of spirit, this pair of dog men and women, there is something strange!
"Don't rob, don't rob, I'll tell you...... Hey, why do you still bite, you belong to a dog. This time it was Zhang Yuan's voice on the phone: "Pan Jiayuan, I found a good thing, I have to pull it back to the office." ”
Zhao Xuan didn't talk nonsense, asked for the detailed address, hurriedly took care of it and went out.
Since Zhang Yuan said that he wanted to pull back to the institute, there must be something abnormal.
Zhao Xuan arrived at the place, and as soon as he bought a pancake fruit at the intersection, he saw Cheng Shumann waving to him not far away, and Zhang Yuan was also beside him.
"What's the situation?" Zhao Xuan walked over to the two, said hello casually, and asked while eating.
"Talk as you go." Zhang Yuan led Zhao Xuan forward and said, "I didn't see the problem, but Cheng Shuman said that there is, and the probability of six or seven percent is true." ”
"I said yes, and that's 100 percent." Cheng Shuman was unconvinced.
"Okay, okay, 10% okay." Zhang Yuan dealt with Cheng Shuman, and continued to say to Zhao Xuan: "I can't move, so I have to call you to pull it." ”
Zhang Yuan stopped and pointed to a stone in front of him.
The stone was the size of a millstone, half a man tall, and was covered with dry soil, with some patterns faintly visible.
"It's got to be more than a ton, right? Can we get it done? Zhao Xuan wasn't sure.
"I tried it, a few hundred pounds, it's not that heavy." Zhang Yuan suppressed his voice: "Hollow, go back and say." ”
Zhao Xuan saw Cheng Shuman bargaining with the shopkeeper on the side, and pulled Zhang Yuan aside: "Okay, this is a date?" ”
"Dating a fart! Just know about! Zhang Yuan was anxious: "I was also brought in to be a strong man!" Little Lori actually thinks I can get this thing back by myself! ”
"What do you two say?" Cheng Shuman paid the money and turned his head to ask the two.
"Weather!" "Breakfast!" The two don't get along.
"Neuropathy." Cheng Shuman didn't bother to pay attention to the two, picked up an oil painting next to him, and kicked the stone: "Pull it away!" ”
"This one too?" Zhao Xuan carefully looked at the oil painting in Cheng Schumann's hand, Van Gogh's "Sunflowers", but it was obviously freshly baked, and it didn't look like it was abnormal.
"It's not." Cheng Shuman glanced at Zhao Xuan: "What do you think I'm doing here?" ”
"Ahem." Zhao Xuan shifted his attention.
Zhao Xuan and Zhang Yuan borrowed a board car from the boss, and bought two nylon ropes from the grocery store next to them, and it took a lot of effort to pull the stones onto the car.
"Luckily it's a van." Zhang Yuan sighed.
"I'm in a hurry with you to pick up the van again." Zhao Xuan was particularly sorry for this incident.
"Tell me about it." While driving, Zhao Xuan grabbed Zhang Yuan's hand stiffly: "My brother! It's a self-destruct! It's not that you don't know, don't move. ”
"Cheng Shuman came to buy oil paintings." Zhang Yuan regretfully retracted his hand, pointed behind him, and said: "I just saw this stone, just call me, I didn't see anything abnormal, but this thing is definitely newly unearthed, if there is an abnormality, it is estimated that we will have a difference." ”
"Cheng Shuman, how do you see it?" Zhao Xuan had been looking at the stone before, but he didn't find any problems.
"Intuition! A woman's intuition! Cheng Shuman shook his fist proudly.
"Can you call it intuition...... Zhang Yuan was about to refute, Cheng Shuman reached out from behind and strangled Zhang Yuan's neck, which made Zhang Yuan's face red, Zhang Yuan quickly changed his words: "Intuition intuition, absolute intuition." ”
Zhao Xuan didn't pay much attention to it, just thought it was a fight between the two.
drove the car straight to the entrance of the research institute, Director Zhang, Song Shaofeng, and Song Shaozhen were all waiting.
"Hand on, pull things down first." Zhang Yuan jumped out of the car and called Song Shaozhen for help.
On the way back, Zhang Yuan had already explained the situation in general, and Song Shaozhen was even ready for the board car. Before the stone was stabilized on the cart, Director Zhang came over.
"Uncle, I'll see it later, pull it in first." Zhang Yuan said to Director Zhang.
"Working hours, called duties!" Curator Zhang glared at Zhang Yuan, continued to look at the stone, and then deducted a piece of soil from the stone, crushed the thumb and index finger of his right hand, and his left hand was below, caught the dust, and looked at it in front of him.
"New pit, old dirt." Curator Zhang sighed heavily, gritted his teeth, and said, "Damn." Grave robbers again. ”
Several people pushed the stone into the research room, and Song Shaozhen used a small shovel to scrape the soil on the stone into the plastic bag. In the same way, some soil was scraped in several other places, and marks were made on the bags.
Only then did he turn his head and say to a few people watching next to him: "Enough, I'll go and measure the age, you can clean it up, it's better to collect all the soil." ”
Song Shaozhen pointed to the tools that had been prepared on the table, and he was not polite, and turned around and walked out of the room.
The remaining few people made a cameo appearance as archaeologists, holding brushes and shovels, peeling off the floating soil from the stones little by little, collecting them into plastic boxes, numbering them according to their positions, and then wetting the surface of the stones with a watering can and wiping them clean with a rag.
Gradually, the stone revealed its true face, and a lotus flower appeared in front of everyone. Although it is somewhat weathered, even the veins on the petals can be distinguished.
The overlapping petals are supported by a lotus canopy, and there is a gap between the lotus pod and the petals. The sides of the lotus pod are evenly distributed with three round holes the size of cup lids.
After cleaning up the floating soil, Zhao Xuan didn't know what to do next, just stood aside and looked at the stone lotus.
However, Zhang Yuan and Curator Zhang's uncle and nephew were carefully observing the lotus, taking a tape measure to measure the size from time to time, and recording it in the notebook.
"Floating Tower." Curator Zhang patted the stone lotus and sighed.
"What's that?" Zhao Xuan didn't understand.
"Shengzao Seventh-level Floating Slaughter knows, right?" Zhang Yuan said to Zhao Xuan in a contemptuous tone: "This thing is the floating slaughter of the 'seventh-level floating slaughter'. ”
"This is the tower?" Zhao Xuan looked at the half-human-tall lotus flower on the ground.
"Read some books!" Zhang Yuan hated that iron could not become steel: "This is the lotus seat!" ”
"This is the base of the Floating Tower." Director Zhang was more gentle, and explained to Zhao Xuan: "Generally speaking, the top should be a layer of tower type, with Buddha statues carved around it, and if it is seven layers, it is what is usually called a 'seven-level floating slaughter'." However, in terms of shape, square ones are more common, and round ones like this one are rare. ”
"Proportionally, it's either seven or nine floors, and if it's split, it's hard to find." After Curator Zhang finished speaking, he sighed heavily.
Zhao Xuan nodded in understanding, and then asked, "Then this is not abnormal?" ”
Curator Zhang touched the gap between the lotus flower and the lotus canopy: "Here, there is a mechanism. I guess there's something hidden inside. ”
When several other people heard that there was a mechanism, they became interested and gathered around to try to untie it. But fiddling around, there was no progress other than to make the round lotus pod turn successfully.
"The results of the C14 identification of organic matter in the soil layer are out." Song Shaozhen took a few pieces of A4 paper, pushed the door in, and said, "About 1,600 years ago. ”
"It's similar to what I guessed, it should be the Northern Wei Dynasty." Curator Zhang nodded.
"What are you doing?" Song Shaozhen handed the report in his hand to Director Zhang, looked at the few people who were circling around the stone lotus, and asked.
"There's a mechanism in the rosette, why don't you try it too?" Director Zhang flipped through the report and said without raising his head.
"I'll take a look." Song Shaozhen was also very interested, and he also leaned in, looked around, and said, "Isn't it very simple?" ”
"You come, you come......" Zhang Yuan gestured with both hands, his face full of unconvinced.
"It's just a bit of a hassle, you have to help." Song Shaozhen measured the size of the round holes around the lotus pod, and then took out three steel pipes from the shelf next to them, inserted them into the holes, and tried to tighten them.
continued: "You guys help lift it. ”
Song Shaozhen commanded Song Shaofeng, Zhang Yuan, and Zhao Xuan, carrying the lotus canopy to the left and right, up and down, and drawing pictures on the paper from time to time.
After a while, the three of them really removed the lotus pod from the lotus base.
"It's just an invisible labyrinth." Song Shaozhen waved the manuscript paper in his hand.
Zhao Xuan took the manuscript paper and saw that there was a maze painted on it, and then compared it with the lines on the lotus base that were three fingers wide and five or six centimeters deep, it was not bad at all.
Song Shaozhen commanded a few people to turn over the lotus canopy, and there were three protrusions inside the hollow lotus canopy.
Song Shaozhen pointed to the position of the bulge and explained: "These three bulges are stuck in the groove, and they go from the lowest to the highest along the groove, and they are taken out, but the process is not simple to engrave the same maze three times." ”
After speaking, he followed the pattern on the lotus base, and stroked all the way down the groove to the top from the bottom.
"It's not difficult, is it?" Song Shaozhen withdrew his hand and asked Zhang Yuan.
Zhang Yuan pursed his lips: "The blind cat meets the dead mouse." ”
"Huh." Song Shaozhen didn't argue with Zhang Yuan, and pointed to the vacancy in the Lotus Center: "Let's see what's inside." ”
Director Zhang waved away the crowd and went into battle in person.
Curator Zhang looked inside, found a pair of long tweezers, and carefully pinched out some black crumbs from it, I don't know if it was cloth or paper, and put them in the prepared plastic box one by one, and Song Shaozhen helped number them next to him. Then he reached out and slowly took out a porcelain jar that resembled a flower pot from inside.
Put the jar on the table, then he breathed a sigh of relief, and explained to everyone: "A simple anti-demolition device, the porcelain jar is tightly pressed against the stone, if it is disassembled by violent means, the porcelain jar is easy to break......
"That's not right." Halfway through Director Zhang's speech, he suddenly paused and stared at the porcelain jar in front of him.
The porcelain jar is about the same size as the ordinary flower pot, with a wide mouth and a big belly, the mouth of the jar has a lid, and it is sealed by yellow mud, and the whole body is cyan, although it is a little yellowish, but it looks crystal like jade, and it is definitely a fine product.
"Celadon ......," Director Zhang muttered to himself.
"It's Yue Yao, what's wrong?" Zhang Yuan didn't understand on the side.
Director Zhang ignored Zhang Yuan, and just said to himself: "Although the Yue kiln celadon existed before the Three Kingdoms, this color and purity will not be available until at least after the Sui Dynasty!" Wrong! At least don ......"
In other words, in a Futu tower of the Northern Wei Dynasty, there is a porcelain jar from the Tang Dynasty!