the last priest

A dragon gave birth to nine sons, and the nine sons are different, and only one of the nine sons is the true son.And Ao is also one of the sons of the dragon.Ao is also called Bixi, and some folks call it Guitiao.It has a huge tortoise shell and a dragon-shaped head. What's more special is its tail, which has a unicorn tail.In front of many temples, this thing is usually used to make sculptures, and then a monument is added on the back of the turtle. It is said that its greatest ability is to bear weight.

It is also because of its load-bearing ability that the Ao has no limbs.It is said that when Nuwa mended the sky, she cut off the limbs of the Ao to serve as the four pillars supporting the space between the heaven and the earth, so the Ao always looks like lying there.Because there are no legs, the Ao will not be able to become the real man, but it has made great contributions and sacrifices to the world.

In order to thank Ao for his sacrifice, he got the longest life span between heaven and earth, and he lived the same life as heaven and earth.Therefore, there has always been a folk saying that a thousand-year-old tortoise is a million-year-old bastard.Now there is also a dragon on the Huabiao in Beijing, and there is also a dragon with a turtle body and a dragon head at the gate of the emperor's temple. This magical totem symbolizes longevity and eternal life.

The Aotou appeared here, which is easy to explain. Most of the steles in front of the temple are placed on this thing.But the largest ones are no more than a yellow ox, and the material is only made of stone. How can there be such a large bronze head, and it is still buried in the ground.

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

The space below is not very big, the size of half a room, but the surface of the soil is extremely dry and smooth.One of the most important uses of red clay in the folk is to burn bricks. This kind of clay 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 an idea came to his mind, could this be a kiln factory, because the color of the soil has turned dark black.He tried to scrape the soil layer with a sharp tool, and found that there were traces of straw mixed in the soil. These things were used to increase the stickiness of the soil, and it was impossible to appear in the underground layer 20 meters above the ground out of thin air. Here It is artificially arranged.

Chaozi touched the soil, and suddenly thought of the nameless fire in the valley of the Qinling Mountains. He asked, "Brother Wenbin, don't you think the walls are smooth, as if they were waxed?"

Zha Wenbin already had this idea in his heart, but he didn't say it out. He used a sword to hang a layer of soil on the surface, which was very close to paraffin wax.Put it under your nose and smell it, there is a faint sour smell inside.

"You should be right. This is corpse wax. This pit is probably a kiln."

"What are you burning? Porcelain?" Zha Bei didn't know much about the culture of Middle-earth, so he studied the head for a long time, and finally he came to a conclusion: the shape of the devil in Middle-earth is too fancy!

"Burning people!" Chao Zi said suddenly with a sullen face, and Za Bei was so frightened that he quickly covered his chest with the subduing magic pestle, which made Chao Zi laugh out loud.

Cha Wenbin ignored their quarreling, instead he drew a circle on the wall and said, "Chaozi, you and Zhuo Xiong try to make a hole in this position." By artificial. "

"Okay!" In the past, this kind of thing was left to Dashan, but now that he is gone, it is left to the two brothers.

The loess is already hard after being burned by fire, and coupled with the weight of the land above, this wall can only be chiseled with a dagger.Anyone who has seen the kiln knows that that kind of soil is smoked out by extremely high temperature, and its hardness is comparable to that of stones.It took the two of them a long time to dig out a hole with a diameter of less than half a meter and a depth of less than one meter.

"I can't pull it out anymore, as if I hit a stone."

"Is it a stone?" Zhuo Xiong didn't think it was a stone, because the sound made by the dagger was a bit harsh.

"It doesn't seem to be true." 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 knocking.

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

Until around six o'clock in the afternoon, a metal block with an area of ​​nearly five square meters was exposed, and this was far from the tip of the iceberg. The volume of this metal object was much larger than they thought.

There is an obvious huge diamond pattern on the exposed metal object, and it is still extending to both sides, with a certain curvature.Large metal objects appeared in such a place, and they were still underground at a depth of more than ten meters. This discovery is very shocking.

Back on the ground, several people cooked some noodles, and everyone had different thoughts about today's discovery.Chaozi thinks this is a noble tomb, and the metal object below is a large burial object.Although bronze wares from the Spring and Autumn Period have been unearthed in northwestern Zhejiang, they are very small. Take the largest Simuwu Ding in China as an example, it is nothing compared to this.

Zha Wenbin has another idea. He believes that this is a kiln. To burn bronze, you need to use clay to make abrasive tools, and then pour the melted bronze water into the clay abrasive tools for pouring.Judging from the hardness of the soil under the pit, it must have been baked by a long fire. If the hard soil on the outside is regarded as the embryo, then the metal objects exposed inside are the finished products.It's just that the finished product was not taken out, and was directly covered by a temple.

His judgment came from the broken head of the hawk. Based on the figure of the hawk, it is very likely that there is an unimaginably large bronze crocodile underneath, and the exposed metal objects they saw were Ao's body, those diamond-shaped patterns are Ao's armor.

It was too late to completely clean up all the utensils, the project was too big, and they didn't have enough manpower and time, so they decided to start from the broken pipe, which was closer to the ground and had a relatively small area.

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

The Ao was very fierce, and opened his mouth to bite his hand. Cha Wenbin cut off the Ao's head with a swing of his sword, and then stretched out his hand to grab the Ao's back.Unexpectedly, a human face suddenly appeared on the back of the turtle, revealing a mouthful of black teeth, biting his hand firmly, unable to shake it off no matter what.

Maybe the dream was too realistic, Cha Wenbin shook his hand vigorously, and hit the bed rail with a "bang dang", and he woke up as soon as he felt the pain. Only then did he know that he had a dream.

Turning on the light and rubbing the somewhat swollen back of his hand, Zha Wenbin suddenly found a row of faint tooth marks appearing horizontally on the back of his hand, as if he had just been bitten by someone.Reminiscent of the dream he had just now, Cha Wenbin was startled, and there was already a knock on the door outside.

It was Chao Zi who knocked on the door, and Za Bei and Zhuo Xiong came in together, and the three of them sat beside Cha Wenbin with dejected faces.

Seeing that the expressions of the three of them were not very good, Cha Wenbin asked, "Why don't you sleep?"

Zahu said solemnly: "There are many devils in this place."

Chao Zi glared at Zha Bei, and thought to himself, you claim to be the reincarnation of the living Buddha, so you are afraid of the devil anyway: "Brother Wen Bin, the three of us seem to have had a nightmare and woke up together. Anyway, the sky is about to dawn I can't sleep, so I came to find you."

Cha Wenbin's heart skipped a beat. He himself had a nightmare just now. Could it be that everyone had a dream together?He asked: "What did you dream about? It scared the three of you to come here."

"A group of red-clothed women singing opera, carrying a white sedan chair!" Zha Brown spoke first, and Chao Zi followed suit.Cha Wenbin looked at Zhuo Xiong again, Zhuo Xiong said: "I, like them, also dreamed about it."

"Continue." Cha Wenbin did not interrupt, but signaled Zha Brown to continue.

"I saw the sedan chair parked in the open space in front of me, so I stretched out my hand to lift the curtain, and saw that there was no person inside, but a coffin. I was about to pry open the coffin for a look, when I heard a 'dong', and then I woke up."

Cha Wenbin looked at Chao Zi and Zhuo Xiong and asked, "What about you two, the same?"

The two of them nodded. The three of them had indeed dreamed the same scene. They all saw the coffin and then woke up.

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

"What's inside?" The three asked in unison.

"A turtle, and there's a huge face on the turtle's back!"