Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 299 Bricks
"Should we let the students go home for dinner first?" Looking at the time, it was almost the end of school.Zhang Qian saw that the thing could not be dug out for a while, so she discussed with Teacher Wang to let the students go back first.

"Yeah..." Teacher Wang also meant the same thing, she yelled at the group of little guys a few times, telling them to disperse.

These children like to watch strange things the most, and they all dawdle and don't want to go back.However, due to the pressure from the teacher, I had no choice but to run home quickly, planning to come over early after dinner.

"Have you got your phone... Use it for me and take some photos." Zhang Qian asked Liu Junhao for his phone before leaving, and then snapped a few snaps at the blue-brown thing.

She was going to look it up on the Internet later. She was not sure what it was when she saw this thing just now, after all, it was the first time she saw it.Teacher Wang only said, "Could it be a fossil?" As a result, the students spread rumors and said that fossils were found in the school.In front of a large group of students, Zhang Qian was too embarrassed to say that she didn't know, so she could only keep her doubts in her heart, and the default was "fossil".

Back home, Liu Junhao was just about to treat his wife to some soup.Unexpectedly, Zhang Qian threw the lesson plan on the table and turned on the computer directly.

"Husband, hurry up and take a look. Why does this picture look different from the fossils on the Internet?" When the computer was turned on, Zhang Qian searched for fossils directly.She compared the pictures she found on the Internet with the ones she took, and found that there was a big difference.

Liu Junhao also leaned over to check, and read the description from the beginning to the end. He didn't see the same picture, and the only similar one was the drilled fossil.According to the above explanation, boreholes are holes made by certain animals for food, attachment and hiding, and often appear on petrified shells, wood and other fossils of living organisms.But the hole in others is relatively regular, generally in the shape of a tube or a hole, which is completely different from this one.

"Stop researching, eat quickly, find a few people to dig out after eating, and study it well..." Liu Junhao is quite depressed now, and he finally prepared to show his hands at noon, but the soup was a bit dusty, and his wife's thoughts were not on it at all.

"Hmm...you give me a bowl of rice, and I will continue to investigate. I must find out what this thing is." Zhang Qian is now going to break the casserole and ask the bottom line, so she will have an explanation when the students ask again in the afternoon.

Well... Seeing how devoted his wife is to checking, Liu Junhao can only carry out the service to the end.

"Hmm... What kind of soup is so fragrant?" As soon as she smelled the smell, her attention was immediately diverted.

"Guess" Liu Junhao played tricks.

"There are bamboo fungus, fungus, vermicelli... I don't know the rest, it must not be fish." After identifying it for almost a minute, Zhang Qian did not recognize what kind of meat that milky white thing was.

"How does the rock chicken caught in the backyard this morning taste?" Seeing that his wife finally turned her attention to food, he was very pleased.

"The rock chicken, the rock chicken can be eaten... This thing is really good to drink, and we will make it at night." After Zhang Qian tasted the bamboo fungus rock chicken soup, she was also full of praise.When Liu Junhao planned to raise chubby, she objected, saying that chubby is a protected animal, and she felt guilty about eating it.She didn't expect her position to change after a meal. If it was in the war years, she would definitely be a hardcore surrenderist.

Before the meal was finished, tourists had already come to the door.

Liu Junhao thought they were here to buy rice field eels, so he quickly moved out chairs for them to sit in the yard.

"Don't sit still, Liu Junhao, I heard that you dug fossils in the school playground this morning?" Zheng Jianxue said this, and he rushed to Liujiagou with his wife in the morning.At noon, I heard from the children in the village that the school had dug up fossils, and the couple became very interested. They were going to take some photos. Wenxia even wanted to get two pieces for collection later.

As soon as they went out, they saw other people talking about it, so they rushed to Liu Junhao's house to ask what happened.

"You all know so soon..." Zhang Qian also came out with a bowl when she heard the movement.

Don't ask the source of the news, it must have been said when the brats in the village came home.

Since everyone came to see the fossils, Liu Junhao led them directly to the school playground without delay.

"Is this thing a fossil?"

"It doesn't look like a fossil..."

"It doesn't seem to be a stone, I have never seen such a stone..."

When these few people saw such a big stone, they all started to argue.The main reason is that its shape is a little too strange. At first glance, it looks like an unpolished birdcage.The key is that there are many fist-sized holes, and they are arranged in a certain order.There are some traces of artificial carving, but more of it is natural.

"It should be regarded as a kind of artificial rock that has not been discovered by anyone. Looking at the traces, it is very similar to the honeycomb shape on the Taihu stone..." Zheng Jianxue walked around this thing, and then expressed his speculation.

Taihu stone, also known as cave stone, is mainly composed of limestone.Limestone is easily weathered and eroded by external forces. The soft and loose stones fall off, and the hard parts are preserved, thus forming a curved and round shape.

"Don't say it, it's really a bit like it," he said, and two people agreed.

"Is the Taihu stone this color? Besides, the Taihu stone is very rough. This stone is too smooth, just like black jade." Wen Xia retorted.

"Also..." Someone immediately agreed with her point of view.

This is a big deal, no one knows, everyone can only guess around the stone.

"Dig first, and then ask the villagers to have a look after it is dug out." Professor Zhao couldn't tell why when he saw it for a while, and then he buried his head and waved the shovel.

Liu Junhao saw that the amount of work this time was not small, so he called the village and asked Er Mazi to call some people to help.In less than 10 minutes, seven or eight laborers walked into the campus carrying shovels.

"Uncle Guangxi, have you seen this thing?" When they approached, Liu Junhao hurriedly gave way.

"What is this? I haven't seen it before. It must not be a rock from our mountain!" Er Mazi looked at it for a while, and finally shook his head repeatedly, saying that he didn't know it.

I originally thought that a few more people would help, and this thing should be able to be dug out soon.

The situation was not as everyone imagined. After digging for more than half an hour, a large pit with a radius of one foot and almost two meters had been dug around, but the guy did not show his true colors.

Er Mazi murmured in his heart as he dug, always feeling that this matter was a bit sinister.He stopped, pulled Liu Junhao aside and said in a low voice: "Xiaohao, I think we should stop, I feel that this thing is probably not a good thing, what if something goes wrong?"

"It's okay, Uncle Guangxi, it's just a stone." Liu Junhao is an atheist, so naturally he doesn't believe there is anything weird about this thing.

"I dug up a jar..." Suddenly Liu Qihua screamed.

Hearing his yell, the two of them hurried over, only to see a clay pot-like thing appearing in the soil, what made people feel weird was that the jar was half filled with fine sand.

Liu Qihua dug a few more shovels down, and the jar was completely displayed in front of people, with three legs on the bottom of the jar.

"This is the censer bowl..." Professor Zhao recognized it at a glance.It should be used by people to kowtow and burn incense in the past, but the material is quite rough and has no collection value.

"Let's stop, don't let the gods blame us." Er Mazi was even more convinced of his guess just now... an incense burner bowl appeared in front of this thing for no reason.Don't think too much, it must be used for worship.

"Master Guangxi, you kowtow and burn incense every month and month so devoutly, and you never get rich..." Liu Qihua didn't believe this thing, and opened his mouth to taunt.

Everyone in Liujiagou knows that Ermazi's family is devout, and it's a family tradition.It is said that his grandfather planned to start renovating the house the next day, but at night he began to dream that a phoenix landed on the edge of the weir pond not far from his home.

"The phoenix does not fall without a treasure land." The old man thought it was the ancestor's dream, and when he woke up the next day, he called his two sons to discuss that the old house would not be renovated, and he would directly build a new house, and the location was chosen in Huangluo.And since then, every first day of every month, incense will be offered to respect ancestors.

The old man worshiped him all his life, but it didn't work. After his death, the house will be given to Er Mazi's father.

When the house was passed on to the old man, he also kept the tradition of offering incense on the first day of every month.It is said that because of this incident, he was fought during the Cultural Revolution.Although he burned incense all his life, Er Mazi's father didn't make a fortune, and he drove a cart all his life, but when he was dying, he clamored to see a large group of golden chicken babies pecking at his yard.

"You brat, when you are at a disadvantage, you will know what it means to 'don't listen to the old man's words and you will suffer a disadvantage'. Anyway, I don't dig..." Er Mazi yelled, and said nothing to move the shovel.

At this time, it was almost afternoon class time. Zhang Qian thought that the progress of today's class had not been completed, so she drove the students into the classroom completely.But the group of children couldn't sit still, and secretly turned their heads to look out the window from time to time.

More and more people gathered on the playground, and no one knew them after seeing the real thing.However, the speculation is getting more and more outrageous, and some people say it is like a cornucopia.

A dozen or so people were busy for nearly an hour, and finally dug to the bottom.

Liu Junhao stood by the side of the pit and took a visual inspection. The thing was about four meters high and probably weighed over a thousand catties.Standing at the bottom of the pit, there is no way to lift it up, but to pull it with a rope.

"Xiaohao, go home and bring the well rope, this thing can't resist at all." Liu Laosan also had this plan.

When the well rope was brought, several people wrapped around the "fossil" in a haphazard manner, and then lifted it out at the same time.

Huh... almost everyone has this feeling, that is, this thing is too light, and seven or eight people didn't use much strength at all.

They moved the "fossil" to the flat ground with little effort, and the thing finally showed its true face: the blue-brown body looked a bit like an exquisite pagoda from a distance, but when it got closer, it felt very abrupt, and it seemed to have a difference in up and down. Countless horned dragons coiled horizontally.The layers of holes are arranged according to certain rules, which makes people feel extraordinarily mysterious.

It didn't look like a plant fossil, it didn't look like volcanic rock, it wasn't even stone at all.But what exactly it was, none of the people present could tell the truth.

"Give way, everyone, reporter Guo is leading experts to look at the fossils." At this time, Liu Guangju's voice came from the crowd.

This person... Liu Junhao couldn't laugh or cry, he didn't know anything, so he hurriedly called the reporter.But it's better to have experts, at least people can recognize what it is.

"It's not a fossil, it should be artificially fired." The expert wearing glasses only looked at it for 2 minutes and came to a conclusion.

"It's artificial...what is it? Is it a cultural relic?" Zheng Jianxue said with doubts. He always thought that experts were "bricks".

"Then I don't know. It's impossible for this thing to be buried in the ground for no reason. It doesn't seem to be very old. Someone in your village may know about it." The expert shook his head and put away the instrument in his hand.They study paleontology, not cultural relics experts.

After he mentioned it like this, everyone thought it was the case.The old people should be able to recognize this thing because they have a lot of experience.

Ever since, someone rode a bicycle to the chicken farm to call Liu Wuye and others.

"My god, Xiaohao, I won't ride in your car from now on. I was so scared that I almost had a heart attack." Liu Junhao rode very fast along the way. Walk over by yourself.

"I've never seen this thing before." Wuye Liu took a look and shook his head.

"I've seen it before. Look at the color, it's probably a brick." The old bull looked around the thing carefully for a while, and finally came to a conclusion.

"This is a brick?!" When the old bull told the origin of this thing, a group of people couldn't believe it: the old man couldn't be talking nonsense.

From top to bottom, and from left to right, this thing doesn't look like a brick.Besides, is there such a big brick?A cylinder three or four meters high.

"That's right, it should be. This should be fired in the kind of earthen kiln that used to be in our village." The old bull's head broke it with his hands twice, and finally answered affirmatively.

"What is this brick used for?" Reporter Guo asked curiously.

"I didn't say much just now. To burn bricks in an earthen kiln, one pound of firewood is burned for one brick. Generally speaking, it only takes 24 hours for a kiln to burn bricks. If the bricks are burnt too hard, the bricks will become crisp..."

"That's not it, it's the same as Brick's hair." Liu Wuye immediately realized, no wonder he felt familiar just now.

"Brick hair is burnt into water when it is crisp in the kiln. When the fire is extinguished, the bricks are like fermented steamed buns. But this must be longer, and the bricks are all sticky together. When I was young, I I have helped workers in the kiln factory, and I often encounter this situation.”

Bricks burned into water, a large group of people feel like a fairy tale.

"It's nothing unusual. The main component of soil is silicate, and the firing of bricks is mainly due to physical changes. At the sintering temperature of our adobe bricks, the surface of the soil reaches the melting point, and after cooling with water, it becomes a higher strength. Bricks with the same hardness. Of course, if the melting point is exceeded, it will completely melt and become a liquid..." At this time, the paleontology expert followed behind to explain a few words.

This explanation makes some sense.

After working for a long time, it was just a pile of bricks that failed to fire. The disappointment of everyone can be imagined.Especially the few people who went down to dig the pit just now felt that they had no strength at all.

(End of this chapter)