Chapter 23 A first exploration into the city, mysterious artifacts emerge from the water
Wipe off the mud and take a closer look.
This large blue and white plate has a circle as wide as a double blue circle. In the middle of the plate, there are several ancient figures wearing armors fighting on horseback. Each figure holds swords, guns and sticks of different shapes in their hands. The overall blue and white plate is bright.
The color is excellent, the diameter is large, and it is well preserved, just like brand new, with not a single scratch on it.
Looking at this plate, the texture of the fetus is as white as glutinous rice paste, the soles are like the back of a loach, and the blue and white hair are bright blue. The theme of the picture is "Sword and Horse Man", which is called "Tight Skin and Bright Glaze Emerald Blue", which is a door-opener at a glance.
, typical early and middle Kangxi objects.
In the past, there were many temple fairs in Old Chun'an, and there were also many opera singers. Opera themes such as Dao Ma Ren were very popular in the local area. This plate has a large diameter. In the past, it was easily deformed when it was fired in a pure wood kiln, so the yield rate in one kiln could reach 10%.
That's good. Ordinary people can't afford this kind of plate. Only wealthy people can have it. I guess it is used by the rich to serve vinegar fish before the New Year and festivals.
At that time, large Kangxi plates like ours were not expensive, worth about fifty or sixty thousand yuan. Now they are expensive, and those in perfect condition can be easily sold on the market for hundreds of thousands.
Not to mention that the Echo Duck has great eyesight underwater. We passed by here several times before and didn't miss this big plate. The water area in this area belongs to the outer city of the ancient Lion City. According to the description in the old county chronicle, this area was all over the place hundreds of years ago.
It's a bungalow and a crop field, so it's possible that this plate came out of a house in the city.
I read some comments on the Internet that the houses under Qiandao Lake were all built in the 1950s and 1960s, and there are no antiques inside.
This is completely wrong. Think about it, it's a very simple logical question. If there are no valuable antiques, then why did the Zhejiang Cultural Relics Bureau later designate this place as a key cultural protection unit.
Remember what I say, no matter where in the country there are cultural protection units with the iron-branded name, they usually have something big to offer, but don’t think about poaching cultural protection units now, it’s too late.
There is a kind of "electrical box" installed on the telephone pole or on a tree. The white iron box has a secret location. This box can not only detect people, but also receive slight micro-vibration signals from the ground. This means that even if the tomb robber bypasses the infrared probe detection, as long as you shovel it into the ground,
This box will automatically alarm, and the police station will be connected to the Internet in real time.
I don’t know who invented it. The scientific name of this new technology is "Ancient Tomb Security Perimeter Alarm System". It has been widely used in many places in Xi'an, Changsha, Shaanxi, and Henan. I have done research on this thing, and it was developed by HD
It consists of an infrared camera, a ground wave vibration sensor, an underground communication node, an audible and visual alarm, an eviction horn, etc. This thing seems to have no solution, but it actually has loopholes. That is to wait until it snows in winter to steal it. Once it snows, the soil layer will be damaged.
If it freezes, the sensor buried in the ground will fail. Then take an electromagnet and stick it on the white leather box. That's it. No one will be seen and the alarm will not be triggered.
Having said that, after putting away the blue and white plate, a group of us swam to the vicinity of the ancient city gate. The small iron coins we found earlier were found here with a metal detector. We saw the big lion head carved on the city wall. Through the transparent mask, we looked into the eyes of the head.
He showed a look of shock.
I pointed at myself, meaning everyone should follow me.
As a northerner, I am full of curiosity about this mysterious ancient underwater city in the south. How should I describe what I saw?
Looking out through the mask, the water in my eyes was all light green, and I could see a layer of floating objects, like broken snowflakes, as if it was snowing in the water.
The flashlight could illuminate the mottled stones and the city wall bricks covered with water plants. I groped for the city gate and swam northwest, and soon came under the city gate.
The city gate is curved and has a large number of broken bricks scattered around.
Head, I don’t know what these leftover bricks were used for back then. Even with a strong flashlight in deep water, the field of view is very limited. You can probably see more than ten meters.
After passing through the city gate, the ground was covered with long stone slabs. This should be an ancient street. Some of the slabs were buried in the mud, and some were exposed. Suddenly, the Echo Duck seemed to find something, and it swam to the southwest at great speed. We
Follow the duck there.
I saw a large stone lion standing here. The Echo Duck kept circling around the stone lion, as if it wanted to tell us something.
Animals can’t speak, so we can only try to understand the signals they convey. I thought Echo Duck regarded this stone lion as a treasure. At first glance, the workmanship of the stone lion dates from the late Ming Dynasty. We don’t want this thing. It’s too heavy to carry.
move.
Or maybe we should say that Brother Yu understands the echo duck. Brother Yu immediately gestured to his head, which means that the duck is reminding us that there is something sitting under the butt of the stone lion.
This thing weighed at least four to five hundred pounds. We worked together to move the stone lion and immediately saw a "copper object".
I'm sure it's an old thing, about the same age as the stone lion.
This thing is made of pure copper, about half a meter in diameter, with patterns engraved on the surface. There is a small round hole in the middle, and above the round hole is a right-angled lifting beam.
This thing didn't look like a stove or a tripod. I didn't know what it was. I immediately looked at the boss and shook my head to show that he didn't know it either.
Because there was a round hole in the middle of this thing, I stretched my hand down to see if there was anything inside, but I found that my hand was too big and was stuck, so I couldn't reach it in.
I shined a headlight on it, and it seemed that it was full of mud and water. I asked Xiaoxuan to try again, but Xiaoxuan couldn't put her hand in.
I pointed my head forward, meaning forget it, I don’t know what this thing is, maybe it’s What remains of an ancient building? We should hurry up and find other valuables.
Just as it was about to leave, the Echo Duck became anxious. It quickly swam in front of Brother Yu and pecked Brother Yu's mask with its beak. Then the duck swam back and tried hard to drill its head into the hole.
Seeing that Echo Duck was behaving abnormally, I thought this thing might be complicated. Brother Yu and I tried the weight and it should be able to be handled by two people.
Because of the deep dive, it is best not to go into the water for more than forty minutes at a time. Immediately under the command of the leader, we put a rope on the handle of this thing, and then Brother Yu and I dragged the thing while Xiaoxuan used it from behind.
Push by hand.
The whole thing made us so tired that we lost all strength. We couldn't see clearly under the water just now. Now we wiped this thing and saw the words "Kangwang Temple" engraved on it.
I wiped my face and asked doubtfully, "Botou, is this something used in temples?"
Xiaoxuan frowned and said, "I didn't see any temple. If it was something from the temple, why was it pressed under the stone lion?"
I smiled and said, "Who knows? Maybe someone stole this thing from the temple and wanted to take it away. But later, for some reason, he couldn't take it away and temporarily hid it under the stone lion."
"Ah sneeze!"
Dou Sprout sat down next to the fire wrapped in a quilt and sneezed. He opened his mouth and said, "Look up, I had a strange dream just now. I dreamed that we fished a gold box from the water, and we opened the gold box."
, which contains a box full of golden watermelons."
"Golden watermelon, golden watermelon, can you be more realistic? You didn't notice that we were studying serious business, but all you think about is gold all day long!"
Douyazai yawned, he nodded proudly and pointed at the copper object we were studying and said, "Fengzi! Thank you for your nickname of Shenyanfeng! I, Lu Ziming, can recognize this thing at a glance.