After we were sure it was not fake, we rushed to the small stone house.
About two or three miles away, we arrived at this place an hour later.
Not a mirage in the desert.
A stone house really appeared in front of us. The stone house had a square roof. From the outside, it looked like it was built up of rocks.
When I walked in, I saw two stone doors outside the stone house. The stone doors were full of small holes, which had been severely corroded by the wind and sun. Some knife marks could be faintly seen on the stone wall above the stone door. I am not sure this is man-made.
The carving marks are still caused by natural weathering and corrosion.
At first glance, this stone house is not a modern building.
Stone houses have stone doors. In the past, most of them were underground palace structures, like the underground palace of the Ming Tombs. Open the diamond wall and you will see the stone door. No living person lives in such a house, and it is very tiring to open and close the door.
We have been deep into Alxa for more than ten days and have long since entered the uninhabited land. What is this stone house for? Standing here alone, exposed to the wind and sun, who built it?
These aroused my curiosity.
I tried pushing it now, but it didn't work.
There was a gap between the two stone doors. I lay down on the door and looked in. It was so dark that I couldn't see anything.
I put my backpack on the ground and called Dou Sprouts to come over and push it together. Xiaoxuan also helped me.
"Fuck... try harder." Dou Sprout's face turned red from holding back.
Then, we pushed the stone door open little by little.
It was very dark inside when I entered, so I turned on my flashlight for lighting.
Shaking the flashlight back and forth, I saw a thick stone table on the left. There was a stone statue on the stone table. There was a black pottery bowl in front of the stone statue. Both the stone table and the statue were covered with a thick layer of dust.
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"Isn't this really a temple?"
Reaching out to pick up the pottery bowl, I saw that half of the bowl was filled with black solid matter.
When I hit it with a flashlight, I found that the stone sculpture behind the bowl was a sheep's head. The sheep's head stone sculpture was inserted into a thin stone pillar. The stone pillar was connected to the circular base underneath to support the weight of the sheep's head.
The knife carved three circles.
The Arabic numerals 03, 5, and 26 are engraved in the center of the circle.
"Is this sheep's head valuable?" Dou Sprouts stretched out his hand to get it.
I hit him, frowned and said don't move yet, I haven't studied it clearly yet, I don't even know what dynasty it is from.
Douyazai said, "You should study it slowly, and I'll see if there's anything valuable elsewhere."
In the antique shop, animal-shaped stone sculptures are the hardest to date.
You can open the face of the human statue to see the cutting technique of the decoration. The sheep head does not look like the shape of the Central Plains area. I infer that it is probably something from a few tribes or nomads. As for the year, I can only say that it was probably before the Yuan Dynasty.
, because it is close to Heishui City, it is also likely to be from Xixia.
"Come on, come on, there's something else here." Dou Sprout shouted.
"Fengzi, what do you think this is?"
Dou Sprout found a rotten copper basin in the northwest corner. There was less than half of a black-red solidified object in the copper basin. Dou Sprout put his hand in and poked it, and it touched his finger and smelled it.
"Huh? This smell..." I saw Dou Sprout squinting his eyes, with a serious expression on his face.
"Does it smell? What kind of smell?" I asked him nervously.
"I lied to you, it doesn't taste like anything, haha." Dou Sprout said with a smile.
"Fuck off, I don't have time to argue with you."
At this time, Xiaoxuan tugged on my clothes and whispered, "Let's go. It feels eerie here and I feel uncomfortable staying here."
I said okay, let's go, I also felt that it was a bit eerie here.
The stone-carved sheep head may be something for sacrificial offerings, but I don't want to take it, firstly because it's heavy, and secondly because it's not very expensive in the market.
"If you don't take it, you don't take it, Fengzi, I'm a sheep, and this sheep's head looks good to me. If you don't want it, I'll take it," Dou Sprout said and wanted to take the sheep's head off.
He took it and found that he couldn't move it.
Upon closer inspection, I found that the base supporting the sheep's head and the stone table were integrated. To put it bluntly, the stone table and stone sheep were made from the same stone.
Dou Sprout's face turned red from suppressing it. He wanted to take the sheep's head away and sell it for money, but he couldn't take it off with both hands.
"Fuck, I don't believe I can't get it!"
Bean Sprouts got angry, so he stepped up and started kicking violently. He kicked several times in a row, and finally broke the stone pillar and the connecting base with one kick.
Seeing that the sheep's head fell off, Dou Sprouts reached out to pick it up with a look of joy. When he took it, he found something was wrong, a black hole appeared on the stone table.
Why is this stone table hollow in the middle and double-layered? Isn’t the stone solid?
I said Yazai, please get out of the way and I'll see what happens.
I looked over with a flashlight and found that the middle of the stone table was indeed hollowed out, and there was something like a wooden board placed in the middle. I don't know how it was stuffed in. If Dou Sprout hadn't kicked it in half, we wouldn't have discovered it at all.
