"How come you don't make any noise when you walk? You're trying to be scary, right?"
When I turned around, I suddenly saw Dou Sprout's smiling face.
"Haha, Fengzi, I didn't want to scare you. I just saw you looking around. What are you looking for?"
I ignored him with a dark face.
Not long after, Brother Yu also slid down the rope. Brother Yu said that he wanted to leave his head on top to let the wind flow, together with Xiaoxuan.
In our industry, ventilation is very important, and whether we can ship or not is the second most important thing, but safety must be guaranteed.
Xiaoxuan has basically been given all the outdoor work, but the cave is too deep and steep right now, and it may be dangerous if you are not careful.
Baotou is not as young as us, and we don’t want him to take risks. What if a person is too weak to hold the rope? So I have no objection to Brother Yu’s arrangement, and I support it with both hands.
If the leader is not there, then I will be the leader.
Seeing the darkness ahead, I immediately ordered: "The three of us should stay in formation and walk together without being separated. Ya Zai, you go in front to open the way. Brother Yu, you are responsible for breaking up the rear, and I am in charge of the middle."
"Why should I go ahead? Mineko, you can't go ahead?"
"Come on, who's in charge now? You can do whatever you want."
"It's most dangerous to walk in the middle. If something happens, those in front and behind will be able to run away first, and those in the middle won't be able to escape in time."
"Don't delay, hurry up."
Under my command, Dou Sprout walked at the front reluctantly to clear the way, holding a strong flashlight in his hand.
Before coming down, we faintly heard the sound of water, so we walked in that direction.
It was okay at first, but not long after, there were gravels everywhere as far as the eye could see, and the soles of my feet felt uncomfortable when I stepped on them.
After walking for a few minutes, Dou Sprout suddenly shouted to stop.
He shined his flashlight on a place and said, "Fengzi, look, are those white things there bones?"
When I went over to take a look, I saw that it was really a bone, like a pig's thigh bone. Judging from the degree of calcification of the bone, I guessed that it was quite old.
But finding animal bones doesn't mean much. Maybe the wild boar accidentally fell down and died in the mountains in the past. Just when we were about to continue exploring, Brother Yu kicked the gravel with his foot, revealing something rusty.
At first I thought it was a broken helmet, but when I turned it over, I saw it was an iron pot.
This pot is oval in shape and has two ears. It is placed upside down with gravel on top, and the embroidery has been rotted into disarray.
"Yunfeng, it seems that someone came down here like us before, and even made a fire to cook meat here. Do you think it could be the traces left by the activities of the rebels back then?"
I looked at it carefully and shook my head: "The marching pots in the Song Dynasty were very deep, with four or six ears, which are convenient for threading ropes. They don't look like this. Brother Yu, look at the burrs on this pot. This is impure iron.
, indicating that it was cast using native methods. This pot is from the Qing Dynasty, and it is from the late Qing Dynasty, Guangxu or Daoguang period."
"More than a hundred years ago?"
"Yeah." I nodded.
As we walked further, the sound of running water became louder and louder, and a hazy place suddenly appeared in front of us. The three of us were shocked by the sight in front of us.
This is actually a huge natural hot spring pool! There are bubbles in the middle of the pool, mist gathers around it, and there is a pungent smell in the air.
Dou Sprout tested the water temperature, then immediately withdrew his hand and said, "I didn't expect there to be such a big hot spring here, and the water temperature is just right. Fengzi, please hold it for me. I have to wash my face."
Dou Sprout handed me the flashlight, and I tried it. It was about thirty degrees Celsius.
"Fuck! My phone!"
Dou Sprout had just laid down and hadn't washed his face yet, so the cell phone in his coat pocket accidentally fell into the hot spring.
He immediately took off his shoes and wanted to go fishing.
I stopped him and said, "Forget it, who can you blame if you are not careful? If you lose it, just lose it. Your broken phone is not worth a few cents anyway."
Dou Sprout took off his clothes and pants at the speed of light, threw them to me and said loudly: "That's a new mobile phone! I bought it at the Yinchuan Department Store at that time!"
I was speechless: "How many years have it been?"
Brother Yu also said forget it, it's not worth much money, and it probably won't be usable after it's been soaked in water.
Douyazai said anxiously: "It's still usable even if it's not guaranteed! Even if it doesn't work anymore! It's better to repair it than to spend money to buy a new one!"
After Dou Sprout finished speaking, he jumped directly into the hot spring pool and made a huge splash. Then he dived down to find his mobile phone.
Brother Yu and I looked at each other and smiled helplessly. If Xiaoxuan’s last revelation was true, then Dou Sprout Zai was the owner of a deposit of 20 million, which was much more than I had. As a result, a broken mobile phone that had been used for three or four years was still repaid.
Reluctant to throw it away.
This is a purely natural hot spring pool, not the fake artificial hot springs on the market. There is a layer of "white steam" floating on the entire surface of the pool, which looks like clouds at first glance, so Brother Yu and I couldn't see anyone else after Dou Sprout entered the water.
where.
After two minutes, Brother Yu frowned and said, "Why haven't you come up yet? Will there be any accidents?"
"No, Brother Yu, don't worry, I'm waiting."
Douyazai claimed to be a man who had bathed in the Pacific Ocean, so the small hot spring in front of him naturally did not pose a threat to him.
After another minute, Bean Sprouts came up as expected. He was holding his mobile phone in his left hand and wiping his face with his right hand. He shouted excitedly: "Fengzi! Brother Yu! I have made a major discovery! There are two stone sculptures under this hot spring.
!”
"What?"
"Stone sculpture? What does it look like?"
Dou Sprout looked excited: "It looks like a big horse and a big cow! I didn't look carefully just now! But it's a pity that they have no heads!"
"The water is not deep, Fengzi, come down and take a look! Maybe we can find other valuable treasures!"
I was also curious about what kind of stone sculpture it was, so I took off my clothes and handed it to Brother Yu. Then I put on a waterproof headlamp and followed Dou Sprout to the bottom of the hot spring to find out.
The surface hot spring water is about 30 degrees Celsius, and the water bottom is about 20 degrees Celsius, but the water stings the eyes and hurts.
I reluctantly opened my eyes, and sure enough I saw the stone carving that Douyazai mentioned.
They were two dilapidated animal stone sculptures that seemed to have been destroyed. One was white and lay in the mud, with only half of its body exposed. The other was black and stood at the bottom of the water. It looked like a cow and
a horse.
Although the heads of the two stone sculptures are missing, if a flashlight is shined on their bodies, the surface will reflect the precious light in a sparkling way.
I endured the discomfort in my eyes and scanned the surroundings, but could not find the severed head of the stone sculpture.
Not daring to take a closer look, I gestured to Dou Sprout and swam up quickly because my eyes hurt so much that I couldn't bear it.
After coming up, Brother Yu asked me about the situation and wanted to go down and have a look. I said there was no need to look, these were not two ordinary stone sculptures, they should be two jade sculptures.
"What did you say, Fengzi? A jade carving! You said someone that big is a jade carving!"
I don't know whether it was because he was soaking in the hot spring or because he was excited, but Dou Sprout's face was all red at the moment.
In fact, I was very excited. After working for so many years, it was the first time I saw such a large jade carving, and I had harvested it right after I came down. How could I not be excited?
But as the leader at the moment, I need to stay calm no matter what good things I see. Only by being calm enough can I avoid making mistakes in judgment.
"Fengzi, are you sure you read that right? It's not a stone, it's really jade?"
I took a deep breath and nodded: "It's 100% from the late Song Dynasty. The themes of the carvings are white horses and black cows. The materials are not pure stone or pure jade. The white one should be made of high-quality white marble, and the black one should be made of high-quality white marble."
It’s black gold jade.”
Dou Yazai immediately asked me: "I know white marble, but what is black gold jade?"
Brother Yu said: "I know that there is a Buddha statue in Bodhidharma Temple of Shaolin Temple made of black gold jade. I heard it seems to be a kind of jade produced in Shanxi."
I nodded: "Yes, Brother Yu, it is a kind of Shanxi local jade with very high hardness. In ancient times, it was called black jade or black gold jade, and in modern times, it is called Hengshan black jade."
"Is it valuable? I just care about whether it's valuable or not." Dou Sprout asked.
"Of course it's valuable. Even if it's such a big piece, it's still valuable even if it's not jade! What's more, it's a genuine jade! Although it's incomplete, one can easily sell for hundreds of thousands."
"Then what are we waiting for! Let's do it!"
"Easy for you to say? How come you didn't think about how heavy those two things are?"
I looked around and frowned: "I now fucking suspect that these two white horses and black cows were standing on both sides of the hot spring back then. Later, when someone discovered them, they took the heads away and pushed them into the pool."
In the past, especially during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, many people liked to cut off the heads of large stone sculptures and Buddha statues and sell them individually for money. Those in the Northern Qi and Northern Wei Dynasties were the hardest hit areas. A large number of exquisite Buddha heads that are now living overseas were stolen by people during that time.
Got rid of it.
"What are you looking for?"
Seeing Dou Sprout rummaging through his backpack in a hurry, I asked him.
Douyazai didn't even look back and said, "What else can we do? Put a rope on it and pull it up! My mobile phone cannot be sacrificed in vain."