gifted collector

Chapter 341 Discovery!

The sun was scorching hot, pouring flames on the ground like a brazier, and it was even more so in the desert, especially the endless sand that made the heat a few degrees higher out of thin air.

Fang Ming wiped the sweat from his forehead and stood up, but at this moment Sima Xiangqin's voice came from behind:
"how do you feel?"

Fang Ming shook his head and said, "This... is really hard work."

After discussing the new direction of excavation with Sun Ming and others last night, Fang Ming took the initiative to ask to participate in the excavation today, but after this participation, he discovered that the seemingly simple things were not simple at all.

Archaeological excavation is complicated and complicated, and simple is really quite simple: just take a broom or a shovel and clean it inch by inch carefully, but it is also because of this that it looks particularly hard .

After half a day of hard work, maybe even a hand-sized area can’t be cleaned out. This is not an interesting thing. If you imagine that such work has to be carried out day after day, it will definitely not be easy.

Standing beside Fang Ming, Sima Xiangqin nodded and said, "Yes, it's true, it's not easy."

Although Sima Xiangqin doesn't take part in the specific excavation work very much now, she is only in charge of it, but she also experienced three years of "apprentice" excavation. When she thinks about it, she sat on a small bench or simply squatted on the ground an inch When cleaning the ground inch by inch, she felt a little bit "the past is too bad to look back".

"However, this kind of work always needs someone to do it. Forget it, let's not talk about it. Is there any gain after working for a long time?"

Sima Xiangqin was most concerned about this.

Shaking his head, Fang Ming said, "No."

Fang Ming took the initiative to participate in the excavation, the main reason was because he wanted to verify whether his Pixiu's ability could really identify the age.Originally, he wanted to borrow antiques for identification, but what he didn't expect was that when he went to the antique stalls in the nearest town, he couldn't find a suitable antique. He missed two pieces, but they were only from the Tang Dynasty. Fall short of purpose.

Thinking back to the time when his brave ability was able to identify the soil layer, he wanted to try again.

However, after a whole morning, Fang Ming did not find the soil layer he was looking for.

Picking up a handful of soil, Fang Ming glanced at the color of the Pixiu on the back of his right hand, shook his head slightly, and said, "This...is soil from the Tang Dynasty, so this should be a tomb from the Tang Dynasty. There are cultural relics unearthed, and I guess they are only from the Tang Dynasty."

"Ah? Can you tell by feeling?"

Sima Xiangqin has many years of experience in excavation, but she has to admit that she does not have such skills.

"Well... I'm a bit more sensitive in this regard. Heh, this is actually the same as picking up antiques. Induction, as long as I feel it, I know it's a leak. In other words, whether it's antiques or soil layers That’s okay, different ages have different feelings, as long as you find such a feeling, there will be no problem.”

Sima Xiangqin dubiously squatted down and picked up a handful of soil like Fang Ming did. She first rubbed it with her fingers for a while, then spread it out again, carefully looking at the soil in her palm, she wanted to see something, but after a long time Then it was still on the side of the hand, shaking the soil to the ground.

"Isn't the dirt still dirt? Can you tell which age it is from?"

Fang Ming laughed and said, "This is experience, Mr. Liang can do it too."

Sima Xiangqin glared at Fang Ming and said, "Mr. Liang has decades of experience. Do you have this experience?"

Scratching his own hair, Fang Ming decided not to talk about it. It would be impossible to say that he has decades of experience. Do you want to say that he has the ability of brave?

"The area here is too large. I'm afraid it will be impossible to find what we want in a while."

Speaking of this matter, Sima Xiangqin also had a headache. It was directly related to the fact that he, Sun Ming and others had been here for such a long time and still got nothing.

Sighing, Sima Xiangqin said: "There is no way to do this, and now it seems that we can only grope inch by inch."

Although the focus of the new excavation has been set last night - to find out the soil layers of different ages, and then carry out in-depth excavation, but the future is bright and the future is tortuous. Finding such a layer of soil is not an easy task.

The simplest reason is that apart from Liang Bo and Fang Ming, no one else has the ability to know the age of the soil layer at a glance, which brings great difficulties to the job search.

"um, yes."

Fang Ming didn't have much to do, "By the way, we found the tomb with layers of soil from three dynasties. Is there any possibility of further excavation?"

"No."

Sima Xiangqin shook his head and said: "In fact, I just came from there. Just now, Ma Tian and I re-examined the tomb, including drilling some holes to see the soil samples on the front, and the depth of the excavation. It has been close to ten meters, and nothing has been found."

The original tomb is already nearly five meters away from the ground. If it is drilled down another ten meters, it will be about 15 meters. Considering the reasons of ancient engineering technology, this is already the limit, so if something is found, then It really doesn't make any sense.

"This... It seems that we are really helpless now."

Fang Ming raised his head and looked forward, except for the sand that filled his eyes, he couldn't see anything anymore: the endless sand was like the difficulty he was encountering at this time, and there was no solution for it.

"take it easy."

Sima Xiangqin has relatively rich experience in this area, and has encountered too many such things, so he is more optimistic.

After clapping his hands, Fang Ming said, "Let's go, go back and drink some water, this job... I can't do it anymore."

Sima Xiangqin laughed, nodded, and said, "Okay, let's go back and have a rest."

Fang Ming and Sima Xiangqin walked slowly towards the tent, but before they reached the tent, they heard cheers coming from afar!

"Ah? What's the matter? What happened?"

Fang Ming looked up to where the sound came from, and found that there seemed to be many people running to the same place in the distance.

Sima Xiangqin showed a happy look on his face, and said while running quickly: "Something must have been dug up, go quickly, let's go and have a look."

As soon as Fang Ming heard it, he immediately ran over.

If something is dug up, it can only be a cultural relic or an antique.

The distance wasn't too long, but because the weather was a little too hot, Fang Ming and Sima Xiangqin were already sweating profusely when they arrived.

However, they were not the first to arrive. On the contrary, many people had already turned around, and they couldn't see what was going on inside.

"This...what the hell is going on? Excited like this?"

Fang Ming saw a lot of people surrounding them, and they all seemed to be dancing, especially the cheers from time to time, which could explain the problem even more.

"Fang Ming, Xiangqin, what happened?"

Fang Ming looked back, and found that Liang Bo and Sun Ming were standing behind him at some point, and they must have come trotting from their panting looks.

Shaking his head, Fang Ming said: "I don't know, we just arrived, and seeing how tightly surrounded by people, we couldn't squeeze in at all."

Sun Ming didn't care about 21, and immediately strode forward, saying loudly as he walked: "Let's go, let's go, let me see what's going on."

Hearing Sun Ming's voice, the crowd immediately parted.

"Ms. Sun, I found something good."

"Ha! Teacher Sun, I think it might be a breakthrough this time."

……

Hearing these words, Sun Ming's expression was very calm. After all, he had encountered too many such things.

Sun Ming walked in, Liang Bo followed behind, Fang Ming and Sima Xiangqin saw it, why would they hesitate?Immediately followed and walked in.

Among the crowd was a three-meter-square earth pit, which was not too deep. At this time, there was a person squatting in the pit. When I looked carefully, I found that it was Ma Tian!
"Ah? Ma Tian, ​​why are you here?"

Sima Xiangqin was the first to call out. It was clear that he and he were checking in the tomb before, but now he appeared here.

Sima Xiangqin's exclamation "woke up" Ma Tian, ​​raised his head and said with a smile: "You go to Fang Ming's place, I'm here, and I continued to clean up the small hole I dug before, but I didn't expect it to happen. A good thing."

Fang Ming kept staring at the pit. Previously, he couldn't see what was inside because of his position. Now that Ma Tian raised his head, he gave up his position, and the bottom of the pit shone with golden light under the sun.

gold?

A thought flashed through Fang Ming's mind, and then he took a step forward, lowered his head to look inside, and immediately realized that he was right.

The bottom of the pit is full of sand, and a small part has been cleaned up, but it can be seen that it is definitely gold, and it may be because of the relatively dry climate, even if it has been buried in the soil for many years. , is still golden.

"Ma Tian, ​​why are you still in a daze, clean up the things quickly."

Sun Ming gave a low snort, and he also saw clearly what was in the pit.

"it is good."

Ma Tian responded and lowered his head again to clean up carefully.Worried about causing damage if he was not careful, Ma Tian moved very slowly, like sweeping grain by grain with a sweeper, so he didn't move until the sun was about to set and the sky was about to completely darken. Carefully take something out of the pit.

"Go! Go back to the tent and talk."

Sun Ming, who had been waiting by the side, waved his hand vigorously, then separated from the crowd and walked towards his tent.

"Fang Ming, please stay and help me arrange the protection work on the spot."

Just as Fang Ming wanted to leave, Sima Xiangqin stopped him.

"Row."

Fang Ming thought that he really wasn't in a hurry, so he nodded and stayed.

(End of this chapter)