Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 4533 What kind of strange thing is this?
"Qing'er, be careful." Yang Huazhong urged, stepping aside.

Yang Ruoqing and Luo Fengtang came to the place where Jinshan had dug the soil, the soil was not very deep, probably as deep as Yang Ruoqing's knees.

The soil is very tight. From the excavated section, you can see a lot of broken stones, grass roots, tree roots...

When Yang Ruoqing bent down to inquire, the earthy smell came over her face.

She rolled up her sleeves, stretched out her hand, and wanted to touch a depression that was about the size of an adult's hand, but Luo Fengtang grabbed her wrist.

"Don't move with your hands, I'll do it!" he said.

The two got up immediately, Luo Fengtang looked around, and then said to Yang Huazhong: "Father-in-law, lend me the shovel in your hand."

Yang Huazhong quickly handed over the shovel.

Luo Fengtang looked around, the others couldn't understand what he was looking for, and then saw him take three steps towards the northeast of the hole, stop, go down with a shovel, and brought out a black Things were overturned to the ground.

The black thing was covered with mud, and when Luo Fengtang fell to the ground, it made a muffled sound.

Obviously it wasn't the dirt, it was the dirt that had been smashed to pieces long ago.

It's not a stone either, because a stone doesn't move, but that thing does.

"What is this?" Everyone was amazed and surrounded the thing, but no one dared to step forward.

This place is a mass grave. Who dares to move the living things dug out of the mass grave?

Yang Huazhong took a branch, squatted down and stretched his arms, and gently pulled the thing a few times.

"The whole body is covered with mud, you can't tell what it is at all." Yang Huazhong said.

"I come!"

Yang Ruoqing's voice came suddenly, and she was holding a bucket filled with water.

This was the water that the long-term workers brought up from the river and was ready to wash their hands at any time. Yang Ruoqing hurled herself on top of that thing.

When she put down the empty bucket, a sharp-eyed person in the crowd immediately recognized it and called out: "It's a bastard!"

"What? Bastard?"

"Don't talk nonsense, bastard's thing grows in the water and in the mud, but it's in the mountains, or it's hidden in the soil!"

"Are you talking nonsense, you don't know how to look at it? You see, the bastard's head is exactly the same as the one I raised last time. If it wasn't for the bastard, I would chop off my head and use it as a stool for you to sit on!"

"..."

The big guys started arguing excitedly, Luo Fengtang squatted down, picked up something on the ground and looked it over: "This is a turtle, you can call it a bastard in our dialect, but there are still differences between the tortoise and the bastard on the back of the shell. Something different."

The long-term worker who yelled 'Big Ba' first became even more excited.

"Did you hear that? The general said that this is bastard. Who dare to question me?"

"But the general also said that the tortoise and the bastard are not the same after all, so you are still wrong."

"What's wrong, they are all relatives anyway, right?"

The big guys didn't have time to argue, and a pair of curious eyes fell on the turtle that Luo Fengtang was carrying in his hand.

"This bastard is really big, at least he must weigh more than ten catties?" someone asked.

Luo Fengtang weighed it up: "It's a bit heavy, I'm afraid it must weigh thirteen or fourteen catties!"

The crowd was stunned.

It was also the first time for Yang Ruoqing to see such a big tortoise hidden under the ground in the mountains. She thought it was the size of an adult's palm when she saw the hole where she escaped, but she didn't expect it to be so big when she grabbed it.

It's like... just like a big sauce pancake spread on the bottom of the pan!It's just that the tortoise is oval in shape, and there are patterns on its back, as if engraved with years and annual rings, giving it an indescribably vicissitudes of life.

"This Wang Ba is probably older than my third uncle at first glance. Look at the back shell, it's as hard as a stone, and it's all black!" Another person said in the crowd.

"A thousand-year-old king with an 8-year-old tortoise, haven't you heard this? The ages of our group add up, and I'm afraid they may not be older than this thing!" Another humane said.

Although it was a mass grave, the general and his wife were there, and the general held the big tortoise in his hands, so the courage of the big guy gradually grew, and you talked about it.

Yang Huazhong couldn't help asking Luo Fengtang and Yang Ruoqing: "It's so strange to dig out such a big ghost from the ground, what should we do next?"

Before Luo Fengtang could make a sound, someone in the crowd shouted: "If such a big turtle is sold in the tile market, it will surely fetch a lot of money. If it is slaughtered and stewed to eat, it is said that it is also a great tonic..."

"Shut up!" Yang Ruoqing suddenly cut off the long worker's words, her eyes were sharp and her face was gloomy, she didn't seem to be joking at all.

The long-term worker was frightened immediately, he smiled sarcastically, shut up and hid behind the crowd.

Regarding Yang Ruoqing's sudden change of face, the long-term workers were too frightened to continue joking.

But Yang Huazhong and Luo Fengtang looked at her in surprise.

Yang Ruoqing said to the two of them: "Father, Tang Yazi, look carefully at this turtle."

"Not only is it smaller than other tortoises, but it also has thin scales on its claws."

Following Yang Ruoqing's guidance, not only Yang Huazhong and Luo Fengtang, but also other people around discovered this.

"Not only are there scales, but the claws are also very sharp." Luo Fengtang added.

Yang Ruoqing nodded, "The Five Beasts of the Heavenly Palace mentioned in "Huainanzi" are the most terrifying and boundless magical beasts, namely Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, Xuanwu, and Huanglong!"

"Xuanwu, also known as Xuanming, is a combination of ghost and snake. It is the god of water. It lives in the North Sea. The turtle has a long life. Xuanming has also become a symbol of immortality."

"Xuanwu can also be used for divine divination and yin and yang. Whether it's the sorceress of the Li family village or the Bao Banxian of the Bao family village, the magic tools used for divination in their hands are all made of tortoise shells."

"Xuanwu is also known as Xuantian God, Emperor Zhenwu, and is the god enshrined in Taoism."

"So, my suggestion is to release the animal, then pour chicken blood on the place where it was found, and burn incense. Father, Tang Yazi, what do you think?" Yang Ruoqing asked.

No matter from the perspective of life or superstition, Yang Ruoqing didn't want to harm the life of this big turtle.

At this time, Luo Fengtang was completely attracted by what Yang Ruoqing said, and he couldn't recover for a long time.

Yang Huazhong had a look of fear, and when he looked at the big turtle in Luo Fengtang's hand, his eyes and brows were all respectful.

The same is true for the other long-term workers. The few people who were teasing earlier felt guilty for a while, and almost knelt down, for fear that the big turtle would suddenly appear and turn into Emperor Zhenwu to punish them.

Yang Huazhong said: "It just so happens that what we are going to build is also a Taoist temple. It is true that the flood has rushed into the Dragon King Temple. What are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and release the animals!"

(End of this chapter)