Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 217 The Oldest Refrigerator
After hearing my surprised question, Lao Yan came over and walked around the box a few times, not knowing why, so he hurriedly called Professor Xu, who didn't know what he was studying, to come and have a look.

Hearing this, Professor Xu put down the things in his hands and surrounded him. Then his face became serious, he took out gloves from his bag, stroked the box little by little, and murmured: "This thing doesn't look simple. , the craftsmanship alone can be classified as a national treasure!"

"But what's the use of this thing?" I reached out to touch it, but Professor Xu slapped it away, telling me not to leave any marks on it.

I shrugged my shoulders, retracted my hand and stood aside, watching Professor Xu touch every crack on the box, and then breathed out: "I decided to open it, Old Yan, you light the lamp for me."

Hearing this, Lao Yan adjusted the flashlight to the brightness that Professor Xu wanted, and shone it on the box. Professor Xu took out a flat screwdriver, carefully inserted it into the gap between the box cover and the cover body, and carefully scratched it in a circle.

Ding Dong!

When the crisp voice came, Professor Xu breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not closed very tightly."

After he finished speaking, he stuffed the screwdriver in his belt, supported both sides of the lid with both hands, and lifted it up gently.

I saw that the inside of the box was double-layered, and there was a square pot inside. The distance between the square pot and the wall of the pot was about two fists wide, and there was still a lot of water in it.

Seeing this thing, I felt even more confused: "This...thing that holds water also has such a big fight?"

"It's not for water." Professor Xu shook his head. If I wanted to ask any more questions, he signaled me to shut up. Then he took out a small spoon to scoop some water out of the box, put it on the tip of his nose and smelled it, and then He touched it carefully with his hand.

Lao Yan hurriedly asked him what it was, and Professor Xu also said with some doubts that it should be ordinary water, but the location of this water is a bit strange.

Professor Xu poured back the water in the spoon, wiped the spoon carefully with a cloth, and put it away: "Look at this square pot."

He slowed down and lifted the lid of the square pot, and a strong smell of wine came out immediately.

"Is there wine?" I looked at it with my head, and there was still more than half of the wine in the jug, and it was still clear, but it smelled like alcohol.

pat.

The lid of the pot fell from Professor Xu's hand and hit the body of the pot with a crisp sound. The frightened Lao Yan hurriedly asked him what's wrong?
Professor Xu didn't have time to pay attention to him, so he picked up the pot lid again with heartache, looked left and right, and after making sure that the lid and body of the pot were not damaged, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Old Yan, we have made a great contribution this time!"

"This tomb has made us great achievements, so don't be surprised." Lao Yan didn't think so.

Professor Xu gave him a blank look: "Why did your brain regress as soon as the white team appeared? If you take a closer look, what exactly is this?"

"What could it be? A jug for wine, with a bronze box for water inside..." Lao Yan said, his eyes widened, and he squatted down, wishing he could get down on the ground and see all the details of the box. Into the eyes, half a day later, he said: "Is it really that?"

Professor Xu nodded excitedly: "It must be, the water was still a little cold when I touched it just now."

The two of them were playing riddles, but I was at a loss. I didn't understand that besides the exquisite workmanship, what else is worthy of praise for such a wine vessel?
Hearing what I said, Lao Yan smiled: "Don't talk about you, I almost lost my eyes just now, thinking that such a thing looks good, but it's not very useful, in fact, it's not, Chang'an, you used the refrigerator ?"

"Refrigerator?" I was even more stunned, unable to understand what it was.

Old Yan grunted: "That's right, it's just the refrigerator! Putting things in it can keep them fresh, and you can also drink iced wine in summer, which is very comfortable."

I shook my head. Where did I see this kind of thing when I came out of the countryside and went directly to the army? It’s just that he mentioned this now. Could it be that the thing in front of me is a refrigerator?
"That's right, look at the design, the gap between the jug wall and the jug should be for ice cubes, and the ice will turn into water when it melts, so this thing should be used for ice wine." Professor Xu continued to explain: "No related cultural relics have been unearthed yet, so this is the first case in ancient and modern times!"

I laughed and said that ever since I entered the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, this national treasure has been seen everywhere, as if it was free of money.

Lao Yan and Professor Xu also responded with a smile: "Maybe we can finish guarding this tomb, we can have a good rest for a while!"

I nodded. Although archaeology is hard to tell, generally speaking, it is very rare to find several large tombs in a short period of time.On the one hand, due to technical limitations, it usually takes a long time to find a large tomb. There are very few such as the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng that were directly blown out; on the other hand, because a large tomb was excavated, the later The workload is so huge that there is no time to do other burials.

Our excited news attracted the white team and the others. Professor Xu introduced the entire copper box as if showing off a treasure, and finally concluded: "This copper box can be named 'Copper Bing Jian', what do you think? "

This name is naturally good, and the name of this national treasure is determined in this way.

"In addition to ice wine, this copper ice mirror should also be able to freeze fruit, you see..." The white team motioned Professor Xu to take the hip flask away, and saw that the base under the hip flask was a deep concave hole. Putting a little less fruit is no problem at all. The base is obviously dug deep on purpose. It seems that the white team is right.

Lao Yan asked Team Bai how he knew?

Team Bai smiled and said that she was just guessing. After all, the emperors in ancient times pursued enjoyment. They could even come up with ice wine. have other functions.

We couldn't laugh or cry when we heard her say that, is it okay to guess like this?
"Don't underestimate the so-called 'guessing'. Most of the time, the reason why you can guess is just a reflection of experience. Otherwise, no matter how you guess, it will be useless." The white team smiled.

I nodded my head as I was taught, and looked at the Bingjian again, only to find it miraculous that something that I have never used a thousand years ago has already existed in ancient times, and I have to sigh again for the wisdom of the ancients!
Lao Yan put a sign in front of the copper ice mirror, and then asked others if they found it.

Team Bai said that she only saw some exquisite jade pendants and some sandalwood products on the dragon bed. Although they are precious, they are not at the level of national treasures, and they can be used as a reference for studying Zeng Houyi.On the contrary, Yazai said that he found something, but he couldn't see it clearly because it was embedded in the wall.

"Inside the wall?" I suddenly became interested: "Did you remove those cloths?"

(End of this chapter)