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He had used a metal detector to check the place a few days ago. The location of the item had long been confirmed. It was covered with a large military tent that he had bought from the labor insurance store.
There were two layers of insurance. Not only were there dense wires and cornfields blocking their vision, but even if enthusiastic villagers came to take a look, they would not be able to see anything.
After lunch at the village chief's house, he locked the door as soon as he returned to the research base!
Now, the villagers were completely used to locking the research base. This was something that the village chief wanted to lock. Even if they passed by when they were working in the fields, they would not be bothered to take a second look.
He didn't need hoes and axes. Instead, he used a Luoyang shovel and a tool that was more suitable for digging. He bought a new hoe, and the handle of the hoe was made by the villagers.
How could an agricultural person not have a good hoe?
According to the detector, the thing was about one meter below the surface, but it seemed to be scattered. The geological movement must have caused the tomb to collapse.
Long Zhixi was confused,[Why are the things buried in the ground less than two meters in diameter? How did they get buried?]
Qin Shi wasn't surprised at all. He would understand why it was like this when the time came.
Qin Shi held his hoe and swung his arm to work. Brother Long stood guard outside the tent, occasionally taking photos of the corn with his camera and looking around with a magnifying glass.
Sometimes, he would even walk around outside the iron wire wall. He would never leave his notebook. From time to time, he would observe the growth of the corn. He would even write something down in his notebook. He really acted like he was serious.
Qin Shi, on the other hand, wasn't so comfortable! This was hard work. He had to dig a pit that was at least two meters in diameter and one meter deep. He had to stop and work for more than an hour before he could completely lie down! He was as tired as a dog!
She tidied herself up, washed her face, and went to work as a researcher outside the tent.
Sitting on the chair leisurely, it was Brother Long's turn to be a coolie.
The two of them were fast. In a few hours, the pit was already 70 to 80 centimeters deep.
Qin Shi couldn't be reckless now. He took out a bamboo pole.
Its appearance was no different from bamboo chopsticks, but it was about 50 centimeters long and slightly thicker.
Especially the place where his hands were holding, the sides of his hands were plump, making it easier to hold. If he couldn't find a tough bamboo to do this, he could just find a pair of chopsticks.
This was a delicate job. Zhang Nan imagined the bottom of the pit in front of him as a large flat surface with a square grid with a diameter of 15 centimeters.
Facing one of the corners of the grid, he placed the probe rod vertically and inserted it down slowly with force but at a constant speed. He relied on his hand to feel if the tip of the probe rod had touched something strange and hard.
This was a technical job. Without any practical experience, how could he treat the stone as a treasure?
And unless it was absolutely necessary, he would never use a metal tool like a long screwdriver, although that thing had a stronger penetrating power. If he was not careful and touched fragile porcelain, jade, or thin bronze, he would not regret it!
Bamboo was not a big problem. In the hands of an old hand, even the most fragile jade wall would not have any problems.
He would dig a section after a section so that he wouldn't fail because he didn't know the exact location and distance of the thing!
When the first probe hole was about 25 centimeters deep, the rod seemed to be blocked by something!
He twisted the rod and paused for a moment. Then, he exerted a little force with his hand, and the rod felt like it was slipping.
He pulled out the probe and looked at the tip. There were traces of being polished by a smooth object, which should be porcelain.
If it was made of copper, the tip of the rod would have a few barbs and some rust would have remained.
He took a plastic colored flag and inserted it into the small hole.
The plastic colored flags were prepared long ago. There were already people who knew how to draw strings. They could easily buy them. Don't be surprised.
However, when he bought the colorful flag, Brother Long wondered why he wanted to buy this toy. At that time, he only said that it was used to shape it.
In fact, he was just being lazy. Each colored flag was 30 centimeters long. He was too lazy to prepare a large bundle of thin sticks of the same length, and the chopsticks were a little too short.
After more than an hour, he called Brother Long into the tent. The incense sticks were long and short, covering the bottom of the pit!
Guan Xingquan, who had been in the army, only needed one glance to understand why those colorful flags were used to "shape"!
An oval-shaped circular bag about two meters long and 1.67 meters wide appeared in front of him. The location of the buried object and the distance from the bottom of the pit were all reflected.
"How is it outside?"
"There are already people cooking dinner in the village.”
Hearing Brother Long's words, he said,
"Let's make an opening first."
The tools were already prepared. He removed a few colored flags and put them aside. He first shoveled off a layer of soil that was about 30 centimeters thick. Then, he used a small shovel used for planting flowers to carefully extract the soil.
After a while, an object appeared at the edge of the circular bag. It was a green glazed amphora with a straight mouth, a slender neck, and a pair of ears near the mouth.
And around this bottle, there were layers and layers of all kinds of porcelain stacked together in the soil!
Even though Long Zhixi was used to life and death, he was still shocked by the scene before him. Such a large area, how many were there?
Half a month ago, when Qin Shi was helping Auntie Liu retrieve something from the wall of her room, he had seen a bottle similar to this one.
At that time, Qin Shi had told him that he had bought it from the black market in Sijiu City for 300 yuan. Only God knew how much it would fetch in 30 years-it was a fine piece of porcelain from the Song Dynasty!
"Qin Shi, I don't think our truck can take it away!”
Porcelains were not gold, and could be packed with anything. They had to be packed in different categories, and they had to be protected from accidental damage during the 3000-kilometer journey. The protective outer packaging had to be secure!
Brother Long knew that it was definitely not small!
After clearing a small area, Qin Shi didn't take out any other porcelain except for the amphora. He only removed the soil covering the upper layer.
Not only were there porcelain, but there were also bronzes. Qin Shi finally understood why the detector had reacted so strangely!
There was a question, but this was obviously an ancient tomb from the Song Dynasty, and the bronzes from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period could not have been buried together with the porcelain from the Song Dynasty!
In fact, these bronzes that looked like they were from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were actually cast in the Song Dynasty. During the Song Dynasty, it was very popular to imitate ancient bronzes, but copper was almost equivalent to money at that time, so those bronzes were also extremely valuable items during the Song Dynasty.
Qin Shi had already started packing his tools. He covered the pit with a large piece of rain-colored cloth and pressed the ground around it.
"Let's do it tomorrow. It's easy to make mistakes at night. Give Brother Han a call and ask him to drive a car over. We'll move the things to the hotel in the next few days and take them away together.”
"Go ahead. I'll watch from here. Otherwise, I won't feel at ease.”
Long Zhixi was worried.
"Are you afraid that thieves will steal? Caught Kacha! Don't tease Brother Long. Let's go. Are you waiting to feed the mosquitoes?”
However, in the end, she couldn't win against him. He decided to come back alone to keep watch after it was completely dark. He said that he had a way to scare away the thieves who might come, but he did not dare to go around talking nonsense.
As for mosquitoes, there was incense in this era.
Returning to the hotel room, he took out the slender neck amphora and admired it again. The design was beautiful and could probably be rated as a first-class cultural relic!
However, Qin Shi didn't treat it as a treasure. He didn't wash it either, but put it away in a cardboard box.
Looking at the time, she guessed that Sister Ping and the others had already returned home, so she called them using the phone in the hotel room.
Although C City wasn't big, it was still a prefecture-level city. The government guest house already had a program controlled telephone and could make long-distance calls.
"Hello, Brother Han, I…Okay, the car has arrived?…We live in C City…Car license plate…Don't worry, you can arrive in five days…"
After a series of instructions, Fang Yan hung up the phone. Tomorrow afternoon, after Brother Han finished his work at the company, he would call his comrade who had resigned and drive a new Liberation.
As for the pilot's comrade, even if he was on a business trip, he could still go to the old army for two days and then take the train back to Sijiu City.
The next morning, Qin Shi drove back to the research base. Sure enough, it was a peaceful night. Brother Long even slept on the recliner in the tent for a few hours.
Brother Long could only help out today." First, he removed the soil covering it step by step, and then he dug out the soil as he did so.
Brother Long caught them by the pit. He didn't wash them. He wrapped them in plastic bags and put them into the cardboard boxes that he had prepared.
It was best not to wash the porcelain that had just been unearthed. It was also best to wrap it in plastic wrap as soon as possible after it was exposed to the air. Then, it would be handled in a cool place for a while.
This way, the porcelain would not be exposed to the air, which would cause the glaze on the surface to evaporate and fall off. However, he couldn't find any plastic wrap to sell, so he could only use plastic bags.
The longer the porcelain was buried, the faster it would be!
However, those who knew the art knew that the archeological team would slowly dig up some porcelain from the Jin Dynasty. They would never be in a hurry.
As for Qin Shi, who had been a grave robber, he would never let the porcelain be exposed to the air for too long. One had to know that in just a few minutes, the sudden exposure to oxygen could reduce the price of a porcelain that was originally worth tens of thousands by dozens of times! Similarly, it was the same principle to not immediately cleanse it.
This was a huge oval-shaped porcelain and bronze cellar, a large area of green and jade white! All kinds of porcelain and bronzeware were neatly placed inside. All the utensils were basically arranged from bottom to top, from big to small.
Two days later, Qin Shi and Long Zhixi finally finished cleaning up the pit. They even made a note: There were a total of 985 items of various sizes, including 962 pieces of porcelain!
The other 15 bronze items and 8 stone statues.
Qin Shi could tell that these porcelains included Longquan celadon, Jingdezhen bluish-white porcelain, Ding porcelain, Yaozhou porcelain, and so on. Most of them were daily necessities and were of high quality!
962 pieces of porcelain, almost all of them were first, second, and third-grade cultural relics. Among them, there were 40 first-grade cultural relics of the Chinese Dynasty, more than 300 second-grade cultural relics of the country, and more than 500 third-grade cultural relics!
The green glazed lotus leaf-shaped lid jar was cleaned out. The base was white and delicate, and the plum green glaze was applied on the outside. The glaze color was soft and elegant. The instrument has a short neck, round shoulders, bulging belly, raised in the center of the cover, with a melon pedal-shaped button, the edge of the undulating lotus leaf curl shape. It was 31.3 centimeters high, 23.8 centimeters wide, and its largest girth was close to 1 meter. It was the largest piece of Longquan celadon porcelain in the Southern Song Dynasty!
However, even with this size, it shouldn't be so heavy!
When it was taken out, this jar was placed in the middle of the bottom layer of all the artifacts. From this, it could be seen that the owner of the artifact valued it very much.
Nowadays, most of the existing lotus leaf jars were found in the Yuan Dynasty. The one in front of them should be the only lotus leaf lid jar in the Song Dynasty. It was the only one in the world and could be called one of the three national treasures of Chinese porcelain!
Why is it so heavy?"
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