Chapter 041 New Discovery
Xia Xiaoshu's office is naturally much better than the environment in the warehouse. Miss Xiao Xin was waiting for charging there while lowering her head and playing with her mobile phone.
Xiaoxia was a little tired from writing programs, so she politely gave up her seat to Miss Xiaoxin.
"Then where are you sitting?"
"There's a bench over there, the same thing." As she spoke, Xiaoxia moved a long bench from the corner, placed it next to the stove and sat there to warm herself up.
"Then thank you!"
"You're welcome!"
"Are you alone here tonight?"
"It's just me."
"To be honest, were you scared when you first came here?"
"That's not true. Uncle Luo takes good care of me and comes over to see me from time to time."
"When I came here just now, I found a lot of birds perched on the trees in the courtyard, and some of them looked quite scary."
"It's okay. They have long been accustomed to coexisting peacefully with others, and they won't affect each other."
"What's this on your wall? Insulation?"
"Yes! There is also a layer on the outer wall, which can indeed play a role in thermal insulation. When I first came here, it was quite cold here at night. Anyway, the surroundings were empty and there was no shelter.
It’s quite different from the city.”
"Yeah! I can see that you are quite capable of enduring hardship."
"Can't talk about it, haha!"
While the two were chatting, a female colleague who looked to be in her thirties came over and asked Xiao Xin to go back and check some data.
Listening to the two of them talking, that woman should be the leader of Xiao Xin's group.
"It's still a little cold in the warehouse. Can I work temporarily at your place for a while?" Miss Xiao Xin is a smart person. If conditions permit, she will not just accept the situation.
"No problem! You can use that computer too. There's nothing important in it."
"Your computer has been obsolete a long time ago. We have a laptop, so I'll bother you for a while." After saying that, Miss Xiao Xin trotted back to the warehouse and picked up a box of things to prepare for overtime work.
Xia Xiaoshu saw the "copper climbing dragon" ornament at a glance.
"As expected, they are indeed a pair." Xiaoxia thought to herself.
Miss Xiao Xin was very serious and careful when working. She took notes and checked the dimensions. When she was playing with the pair of "copper climbing dragons", she looked at them carefully for a long time, seeming a little worried.
Seeing Miss Xiao Xin frowning and thinking, Xiao Xia casually asked: "What's the matter? Is there something wrong?"
"That's not the case. Tell me, how should I estimate the volume of these two 'copper crawling dragons'?"
"This is easy, let me try it." As she spoke, Xiaoxia got up and walked to the corner, took a few bunches of "edelweiss", divided them into several strands of filaments, and then trimmed both ends of them neatly with nail clippers.
Xiaoxia played with these thin grass threads around the pair of "copper climbing dragons" for a long time, and casually wrote down the measurement results on a piece of scratch paper.
Miss Xiao Xin has all kinds of rulers here, and they are all very precise measuring rulers.
Xiaoxia borrowed various rulers, checked them twice, and calculated the volume of the pair of "copper climbing dragons" without much effort.
"Wow! You are actually accurate to two decimal places. To be honest, our team leader is so rigorous, and she has never estimated the things we excavated as accurately as you. You are really good at mathematics.
Good enough! Where did you graduate?"
"Me? Dongqi University."
"I'm telling you! You don't look like ordinary people." Miss Xiao Xin couldn't help but look at Xiao Xia in a different light.
"No way, haha... The reason why I am accurate to two decimal places is because I want to know whether the pair of bronze vessels are solid or hollow. In addition, I guess they are yin and yang, so this should be a pair."
"Ah?! Why do I feel that you are more professional than me?" Miss Xiao Xin asked in surprise.
"No, I'm just guessing. Let's try to calculate its specific gravity."
"I'm going to get the electronic scale." As she spoke, Miss Xiao Xin got up and prepared to go back to the warehouse to get the electronic scale.
"It's so late, there's no need to run back and forth." As she spoke, Xiaoxia stretched out her hands, weighed them, and wrote down two data.
"Isn't it? This can all work?! What kind of magical skill are you doing? Is it accurate?"
"It's almost the same. Let's calculate its specific gravity first. I feel it should be made of alloy, not pure copper." As she spoke, Xiaoxia began to calculate.
Sure enough, it's an alloy.
"Are you too awesome? No, I have to go back to get the scale to check." As she spoke, Miss Xiao Xin went to get the scale.
After double-checking with an electronic scale, the results were almost exactly the same as those calculated by Xiaoxia.
"Wow! You are really amazing!" Xiao Xin was really convinced.
"Weight is yang, lightness is yin. The 'Crawling Dragon' piece on my hand should be classified as 'yang type', and the one on the table should be classified as 'yin type'. They should be a pair."
Xiaoxia said with a smile.
"Do you understand all this? To be honest, I also half understand. Why do I feel that you are more professional than me? It's incredible."
"I just said casually that this alloy artifact should be a measuring tool from ancient times, not an ordinary jewelry." Xiaoxia explained casually.
"Really? I really don't understand this. What did people of that era use to measure things?"
"It has many uses. If my guess is correct, it is mainly used to measure water canal projects and has positioning functions. The reason why it divides yin and yang is that it can also be used to measure astronomical phenomena, such as measuring the sun's shadow and measuring the sun's shadow.
Moon Phases.”
"Ah?! Hearing what you say, it's really a treasure!"
"It should be so. At least for mathematics, it is indeed very rare. Anyway, this is the first time I have seen it."
"Don't talk about you, Captain He probably hasn't seen him either."
As we talked, it was getting very late that day. The female team leader was a little worried and came over specifically to ask Miss Xiao Xin to go back and rest.
"Let's leave the 'Bronze Climbing Dragon' here with you for now. You can study it later and return it to me tomorrow."
"That's not appropriate. The value of this thing is currently immeasurable. If something goes wrong, I can't bear the responsibility. I'd better help you get it to the warehouse." As she spoke, Xiao Xia helped Xiao Xin.
The girl organized the things, followed behind the two of them, and helped move the box of things back to the warehouse.
In the dead of night, Xiao Xia sat in front of the computer and pondered for a long time. He felt that the place where Captain He and the others excavated this time should be an astronomical observation point in the old times, or a place with special significance. It was not ordinary anyway.
Considering that the warehouse environment was not good, Xiaoxia brought a bundle of "edelweiss" to Captain He and others.
"You can use these 'edelweiss' pads under sleeping bags to prevent moisture and keep warm. It's a good thing!" Xiaoxia said with a smile.
"Thank you so much! You are so thoughtful. Shall we put out the fire now?" Captain He was still a little worried. It would be colder in the middle of the night. He must not let his colleagues get intoxicated by gas again.
Poisoned.
"Okay, be careful." As she spoke, Xiaoxia helped Captain He extinguish all five small stoves.
Chapter completed!