Cat Gu Notes

With Xia Xiubai here, the students can listen to less nagging, and everyone is happy.

The rain is getting heavier, and the ordinary farmers are busy planting seedlings, and the tea farm is not idle. They go to work every morning at five o'clock and come back after dark, because after the rainy season, it will be midsummer, and the tea leaves will become thick and thick. Old tea is not worth picking, and the season of good tea is over.

The rainy day is also the most unsuitable time for archaeological excavations. If you insist on working during this season, that is performance art, called the dance of mud and water, soul and model workers. They are not allowed to go to the ground, so this is not considered.

The rain continued unabated the next day, so everyone discussed it, or should we take a look first?It's not an option to stay at the elder's house drinking tea and gossiping all the time.Li Changsheng ordered Xia Mingruo and Xiao Shi to look for overshoes and bamboo hats.

Xiao Shi quietly asked Xia Mingruo: "Did you hear any strange noise last night? It was on the ceiling."

Xia Mingruo gave him a meaningful look, and replied, "Yes, but it should be due to the thermal expansion and contraction of building materials or the running of mice."

"How can it be?" Xiao Shi said, "Why do I sound like a whisper, you think there must be ghosts?"

"Shi Weidong, when I looked at you, I thought of a sentence—compared with the power of thousands of years of belief, the education of atheism pales. If you live in a room and hear a sound in the middle of the night, you will call it a ghost. You are an archaeologist. Is the correct attitude of a worker? Shame on you!"

Xiao Shi said: "Fuck you, don't believe Xia."

Xia Mingruo sent Xiao Shi to look for shoes in the warehouse of the tea farm not far away, and ran to the tea garden in the rain to meet Wang Yuexiang, who was busy picking tea, and said angrily, "What? Will you admit me today?"

Xia Mingruo said: "Oh, Auntie, we really have to deal with difficulties. Please quickly help me find seven or eight sets of coir raincoats and bamboo hats, overshoes and so on."

Wang Yuexiang said that they were all in the attic, and the ladder was in the hall, so she went to get it by herself.Xia Mingruo said: "It's not a problem for you to keep keeping the house-protecting fairy cards left by your ancestors in the attic."

Wang Yuexiang said: "Don't mention it, those cards and seats were apparently taken to the 'Four Olds' during the 'Cultural Revolution', but somehow they were sent back. I heard that on the day the spirit cards were taken, there was a The rebels drowned suddenly in the river, and another drowned the next day, and another drowned the next day. They were terrified. Your uncle was afraid that people would say that we sabotaged the revolution, so he had to hide, and he has been hiding until now. "

She talked with her mouth, but her work didn't stop.The more than 20 people in their tea farm are almost all female workers, and all of them are skilled workers. They are used to tying blades on the index fingers of both hands, and the picking speed is much faster than ordinary tea workers.

Xia Mingruo saw through the rain curtain a worker not far away who seemed to be a young man. Wang Yuexiang said, "You don't remember him? He is my nephew Wang Xin. You played together when you were young. He has been outside for a few years." I didn't mix well, I just came to the tea house."

Xia Mingruo scratched his head and thought about it, "I really don't remember much."

At this time, Xiao Shilong shouted from the top of the mountain: "Don't believe it—! There is only tea in the warehouse—where did you get the shoes—?"

Xia Mingruo shouted: "Here we come." Wang Yuexiang said: "Go quickly, don't get caught in the rain." Xia Mingruo walked a few steps, then looked back at Wang Xin a few more times.

The attic was tidied up by Wang Yuexiang. Xiao Shi helped Xia Mingruo hold the oil lamp. He looked around and saw the tablets and portraits of the ancestors of the Xia family lined up on two walls, and said with emotion: "It's such a big family, why is the surname Xia? "

Xia Mingruo said, "Coincidence."

Lao Huang jumped up to the attic lightly, meowed a few times to the ranking, rested for a while, scratched his ears and scratched his cheeks, and meowed a few more times.Xiao Shi felt a chill down his back, and couldn't help asking: "Is Lao Huang talking to someone?"

"Old Huang, don't make trouble!" Xia Mingruo scolded, and said with contempt for Xiao Shi, "You are only on the same level as it."

The two of them took the rain gear and came down. As soon as everyone was dressed and walked out, Xia Mingruo heard someone calling him, and when he looked back, he was a plain-looking young man with pimples all over his face.

Xia Mingruo said, "Wang Xin, what's the matter?"

Wang Xin ran over: "Are you going to that ancient tomb? Auntie asked me to come and show you the way."

"It's not an ancient tomb, it's a village site." Li Changsheng, the team leader, corrected, "Thank you, young man, for taking up your time."

Wang Xin seemed to be a very introverted person. He lowered his head a little shyly, showing discomfort to the old man's politeness.

A group of more than ten people came to the ruins under heavy rain for performance art, and found that it was a highland only a few hundred steps away from the river, three or four meters above the surrounding ground, and about 25 meters above the river bed.The top of the highland is fairly flat, covered with shrubs and weeds, and the total area is about [-] square meters from the discovery of stone tools.It is not uncommon to see flat land in the mountains. If the local cultural center hadn't found out, no one would have guessed that there are cultural relics tens of thousands of years old underneath.

There are only two staff members in the local county cultural center. The curator, Lao Wang, is in his 50s; the librarian, Xiao Song, is in his early twenties.Although the two men were incapable of digging, they obviously still had pursuits. Not only did they clear a lot of vegetation by hand, but they also drove hundreds of wooden stakes on the ground, marking out the exploration plan one by one.Li Changsheng patted the old and the young on the shoulders and encouraged them to say "hard work, hard work", and the two men muttered and complained that a bunch of bureaucrats did not support cultural undertakings, otherwise they only need to give 5000 yuan of funds, and they alone can turn the ruins into ruins. dig it out.Hearing that Li Changsheng's students rushed to shake hands with them, they said that the tiger-wolf spirit of archaeologists in the new era is really touching.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, Xia Mingruo persuaded Li Changsheng: "Let's go back and come back when the weather clears. Anyway, no one will steal the ruins here."

Li Changsheng looked around and said: "Back to the mountain and face to the water, with the left arch and the right guard, there may indeed be an ancient tomb in this place."

He just said it casually, and no one knew that it would become a fact later.

The next day it was still raining heavily, and the radio said that the rain would stop in the afternoon, but who knew that instead of stopping, it turned into a thunderstorm.Li Changsheng stood at the gate and looked up at the ruins from the Xia's house, for fear that something might happen.Xia Xiubai drank tea like a god, and even said: "Don't worry, it's easier to dig out when the water is soaked."

Li Changsheng grabbed Wang Yuexiang and asked her if there would be a landslide there, but Wang Yuexiang couldn't guarantee it, so he sent his nephew to see it early the next morning.After a long time, Wang Xin came back and said that a small piece had really collapsed, and he also picked up a strange thing on the river beach.When everyone saw the bronze mirror in his hand, they all screamed as if they had seen a ghost.

"This is from the Warring States Period." Li Changsheng held up a magnifying glass and looked at it inch by inch. "You can see that this craft is called wrong gold and silver, which only appeared in the middle and late Spring and Autumn Period, but the shape of this mirror is from the state of Chu during the Warring States Period. It is called wrong gold and silver. Fengniaoyunlei Bronze mirror with patterns. The local area belonged to Yue State in ancient times, so don’t underestimate this mirror, it was also an imported product at that time.”

He turned the mirror over: "It's a pity that there is some rust, but it's not serious, it just needs professional treatment."

Xia Xiubai said excitedly, "Show me! Show me!"

Li Changsheng handed it to him and told him to be careful.

Xia Xiubai snatched the mirror, using an excuse to find a place with good lighting so he could slip away alone, Xia Mingruo followed and said in a low voice, "What? Want to drop your bag?"

Xia Xiubai said, "What are you doing? Don't ask too many questions, children."

Xia Mingruo said: "Dad, be more honest. Old Li still thinks you are a cultural person when everyone is watching."

"Turn your elbows out." Xia Xiubai said angrily.

"I'm doing this for your own good." Xia Mingruo said, "This one is going to be shot. You're not that old bachelor Yu Wenji, you still have my mother and me."

He forcibly took back the bronze mirror and handed it to Li Changsheng. Li Changsheng said, "Don't look at it anymore?" and then got together with the students to study it.It took a full hour or two before they came to their senses and asked why a bronze mirror of the Warring States period appeared in the wilderness for no reason?There must be something weird about that place!So I rushed to that area in a hurry, and when I arrived, I found that there was nothing abnormal except for a little landslide on the edge.

Later, I wanted to search the river beach below, but the water was too big to go down, and I couldn't find the source of the bronze mirror after countless rounds.After lunch, the rain subsided, and they dragged Wang Xin back. Wang Xin pointed to a piece of mud and said that the mirror he saw there was only half exposed, and the color was sooty. He thought it was the lid of a pot.It has been raining continuously for half a month, and the water level of the Qinglu River has been much higher than usual, and the flow rate is also larger than usual. The turbid yellow water is rushing downstream in rolls, and the momentum is so loud that it makes people feel a little creepy.

Li Changsheng and others squatted by the river, puzzled.

In the end, Xia Mingruo was careful, and found a small hole on the high ground where the rainwater poured into it. The diameter was only more than ten centimeters, and it was hidden deep in the grass.They used the hole as the center of the circle to estimate the range, and they went down to Luoyang with shovels, and it didn't take long before they found the seal of the ancient tomb.

So a group of students began to bury the teacher and apprentice of Tai County Cultural Center again, saying what is called a real cow, and a real cow can find Neolithic sites ten meters below the surface, but they cannot find the Warring States tomb three meters below the surface.

Everyone asked Li Changsheng what to do with the Warring States tomb, and Li Changsheng asked Lao Wang, "What do you think?"

Curator Wang said decisively: "Dig!"

Li Changsheng waved his hands and said, "Don't be restless. If the work of archaeology is not prudent, it will be a real sabotage." He saw Xia Mingruo and Xiao Shi still tirelessly touching the river, so he called out: "Come up quickly, the water!" Big, don't get washed away!"

Unexpectedly, those two boys suddenly shouted: "There is more! There is more!"

Li Changsheng asked: "What else?"

two people from the water