Chapter 161: Divine Water
Professor Wen's scream did not frighten anyone else, but first frightened his godfather Dong Pianfang.
"What's wrong? Professor Wen!"
"Old Dong, you picked up a treasure. This is an ancient well!"
In fact, there is no need for Professor Wen to say that godfather Dong Pianfang has been mentally prepared for a long time, but when it comes to the matter, he still cannot restrain his excitement. "Professor Wen, which dynasty is he from? Can you tell?"
"At least it's from the Song Dynasty!"
"Ah!" The students around him exclaimed.
"Look at the well circle and the bricks below, they are undoubtedly from the Song Dynasty." Professor Wen added.
"Professor Wen, why don't you get some water and see if the water from this well is still edible?" Godfather Dong Pianfang was a little worried. If this is really an ancient well that has lasted for thousands of years and has not decayed, wouldn't it be empty if the water is not edible?
Have fun.
Before godfather Dong Pianfang could find the rope, Gu Maolin had already run back to the room, found his backpack and tied a bucket on it. "Professor Wen, please continue."
Professor Wen raised his body, took the bucket, and put it down carefully. He felt that the water was very strong, and after putting it down for a few meters, he heard the sound of water. The bucket was quickly brought up, but how deep was the ancient well? What was the water under the ancient well?
Whether it can be eaten or not, no one really knows.
Facing this small half bucket of water, Professor Wen squatted on the slope and looked at it for a long time. He saw that the water was different from the water pressed out of all the pressure wells in Nanshao Village, and had a little bit of the color of the blue sky.
He stretched out a finger and dipped it in the bucket. The water was very cold. Professor Wen put his finger into his mouth and sucked it to taste it.
On the edge of the pit, godfather Dong Pianfang squatted there and asked anxiously, "How are you doing? Can you eat it?"
Professor Wen ignored him. He was still tasting the water from a thousand years ago. It had a hint of sweetness, but more of a coolness. Finally he raised his head and said, "Old Dong, if I am not wrong in my judgment, maybe
In the entire Xishan Mountains, only the water in this well is weakly alkaline, with a pH value between 8 and 9."
"What, what is weak alkalinity, what is ph value? Is there something weird?"
Faced with this strange question, Professor Wen made an analogy. "What is weak alkalinity? If you smoke and drink, and then drink some well water, you can directly neutralize the acidic toxins in it, prolong life, stay healthy and eliminate diseases." Old Dong
,This is really a treasure well!”
When godfather Dong heard the prescription, he couldn't hold back the joy in his heart, but he hadn't gotten the answer yet. "Professor Wen, how do you know? Is it weakly alkaline?"
That's right. Your Professor Wen's mouth is not a ph test paper. "Old Dong, you can tell if you boil a pot of porridge. Is the porridge sticky? Is the porridge fragrant? You are so watery. I think the elderly and children
You can drink it directly. If you use it to brew traditional Chinese medicine, it can also increase the curative effect a lot."
These words made godfather Dong Pianfang very excited. Wang Ke had told him before that if he found this ancient well, he would be able to directly make donkey-hide gelatin. "Quick, quick, quick, what are you doing here?"
Lift this slate up." As he said that, he took a step forward and worked together with Gu Maolin to speed up the pulling. The small gourd quickly lifted up the large slate, which weighed four to five hundred kilograms.
At this time, everyone gathered around and took another look. Below was a well circle made of solid bluestone. The well wall was circular and the outside of the well platform was octagonal. The well platform was also paved with bluestone slabs. Professor Wen was already lying on the floor.
On the edge of the well, look at the words on the wall of the well: "The treasure was established in the year of Jianlong Qiande, and it was rebuilt by the descendants of the Dong family on the Double Ninth Festival in the fifth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty."
"Hey, dear, this is still the time of Song Taizu." Professor Wen said while watching. Some students around him took out their cameras and some took out their notebooks to draw the pattern of the well.
"Who is this Emperor Zhengde?" Ye Pianqian held it in for a long time before finally adding a word.
Professor Wen raised his head and glanced at her, "This Zhengde Emperor is Zhu Houzhao, Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty. This kid was too dissolute and did not do serious things. He only lived for thirty-eight years. However, this emperor also did one decent thing in his life. Then
In the twelfth year of Zhengde, a young Mongolian prince invaded the border. He personally led the army and won a great victory in Yingzhou. From then on, Mongolia did not dare to invade again for decades."
Just listen to the "swishing" writing sounds of the surrounding students and colleagues.
"Okay, everyone takes turns to come down and take a look. Don't drop the soil on the edge of the pit into the well. After reading this, Old Dong, you first find something to cover the well mouth. After measuring the water in the well,
Let’s see how to renovate this ancient well, or just build a new well house.”
Here, the students took turns to go to the slope one by one to observe the ancient well up close, and godfather Dong Pianfang was already grinning from ear to ear. The words on the wall of the well are enough to prove the historical heritage of the old Dong family.
There are thousands of years. I would like to ask, is there any family tree in Nanshao Village that surpasses the old Dong family? The Dong family and the Shao family can now be tied!
The discovery of this ancient well not only made godfather Dong Fangfang feel good, but also made Professor Wen feel good. Although it is just an ancient well, it can not only take away a few buckets of water, but also a brick or a piece of mud, but the scientific value of the ancient well is not
Here, you can not only reveal the historical changes in the geological structure of Nanshao Village over the past thousand years, but you can also understand the history and culture of that year from this ancient well.
Professor Wen spent this morning at Dong Pianfang's home. According to Professor Wen's suggestion, this ancient well, including the well rim, platform and wall below, should not be damaged. A custom-made one with a diameter of more than one meter and a length of more than one meter can be made.
A cement pipe ring of more than nine or ten meters is directly enclosed on the ancient well. Then a well house is built and a small water pump is installed.
Professor Wen said seriously: "You have heard that there is a kind of mineral water in foreign countries that can be directly drank, but it is definitely not as good as the water quality of this well. One day, you can also put the water from this ancient well in a bottle.
In buckets, put in bottles and sold as medicine, sell as milk.”
Of course, when everyone heard what Professor Wen said, they thought it was a joke, praising the water. Who would have thought that in the 21st century, there would really be people selling water to make a fortune.
There was inevitably another drinking session at noon, and Professor Wen also drank a bowl of corn grits porridge cooked with water from the well with the help of his wine bladder.
Wang Ke and Gu Maolin did not dare to drink it. This was water from a thousand years ago. Who knows if it is poisonous? Even if it is not poisonous, if a bowl of water has been left for a thousand years, would you still dare to drink it?
After dinner, Wang Ke took Gu Maolin and Ye Qianpian to the reservoir construction site in the west of the village to help the old village chief and see the rocks in the diversion dam that even explosives could not blast.
When I got there, I saw that this place was indeed different from other places. It was a piece of reddish sandstone.
Before the old village chief came, the village cadre leading the team introduced: "Several drills have been broken, and the blast holes just can't be drilled."
Wang Ke didn't understand this. He was also looking at him with big eyes and small eyes. Ye Qianqian was happy to see this, "I have seen this kind of stone. It belongs to the sedimentary rock type. The iron ions in the sandstone are oxidized to form iron oxide, which makes it produce
The shape is red, so it is called red sandstone. In fact, it is a kind of iron ore."
Wang Ke suddenly remembered that Ye Qianqian used to pull this kind of iron ore when he drove a heavy truck.
"Teacher Xiaoye, you have an idea, right?"
"I have no choice, but to deal with this kind of rock, either borrow a rock drill or drill slanted holes. Never drill holes vertically," Ye Qianqian said.
"Is there any difference between beating diagonally and vertically?" More and more people gathered around, and at this time the old village chief also came.
"Anyway, I can't say for sure. When I was hauling ore in Xishan, that's what they did there."
"Fortunately, this section is not very big. If it can be solved by blasting holes diagonally, let's try it." The old village chief also said something.
The small reservoir in the west of the village has already taken shape and will be basically completed in more than a month.
The three of them walked south along the diversion dam and arrived at the factory site of their godfather Dong Pianfang. One floor a day, the three of them walked up to it, and people on the second floor had already started to climb the floors.
If godfather Dong Pianfang is on a business trip to northwest Shanxi on Monday, the task of visiting the construction site that night will definitely fall on Wang Ke and Gu Maolin.
"Teacher Xiaoye, I don't know if there is a place to test water quality in Ding County. If there is, please bring a bottle with you."
Ye Xianqian shook his head. A place like Dingxian County is still a bit small. If you want to test the water, you have to at least go to Jinmen City or the provincial capital.
In the afternoon, because Professor Wen drank too much again, the students didn't know what to do. As a teacher, Ye Qianqian, except for arranging two students to help guide the village's sand mining site to continue pushing sand, she continued to organize the notes of the morning inspection.
But Wang Ke took Gu Maolin to find the old village chief. Why did he want to find the old village chief? He wanted to know about the ancient legends in the village. Why did he want to know the ancient legends? It was because Gu Maolin found the flower bag and
Those colorful stones.
There are still many mysteries that have not been solved! The two people walked around in a big circle, but could not find the old village chief. In the end, they did not expect that the old village chief was actually at the home of his godfather Dong Pianfang.
It turned out that the news that godfather Dong Pianfang had found an ancient well at his home spread like wildfire, and people came to see it in an endless stream.
Godfather Dong Pianfang had already covered the well with several large wooden boards. In fact, nothing could be seen, but it was enough to see the pit.
At the beginning, everyone just came to watch the fun, but as they looked, they found that the color of the water was indeed different from the color of the pressed groundwater, and it was very cold and had a unique smell. Standing by the well for a while
You will feel refreshed.
Later, I don’t know who spread the word, saying that the water from this thousand-year-old well can prolong life, cure difficult and complicated diseases, cure incurable diseases, enable infertile people to have children, make blind people regain their sight, and can restore the natural beauty of people.
The lame man can be cured and the mute can speak.
As a result, more and more people come to seek water from the thousand-year-old well.
The word spread to ten, and by the time three or four o'clock in the afternoon, people from other villages also came. When Wang Ke came back, there were still many villagers gathered around the edge of the pit, some carrying bottles.
Some were carrying thermoses. Godfather Dong Pianfang and the old village chief were explaining to everyone.
"This water must not be drunk before it is tested. You cannot bear the responsibility for eating dead people."
But the more he said this, the more and more people asked for water. Later, they couldn't even enter the yard, and there was a long queue at the door.
Although Dong had already drank a bowl of porridge cooked with well water at noon, this situation still surprised him. But the more things you can't ask for, the more people ask for them.
Later, someone actually knelt down and asked for a bowl. If that didn't work, he could just pay for it.
This is superstition. Drinking some well water can cure your disease?
"Let's go, let's go, I don't believe it no matter what I say, am I going to harm you?" Dong Pianfang, the godfather who never gets angry, started to get angry. It's not that he is unreasonable. You can't drink this water casually until the ingredients of this water are clear.
Because the yard was full of onlookers, the donkeys in the donkey pen kicked wildly in shock, and the chickens all over the yard flew around.
Godfather Dong Pianfang was so angry that he closed the courtyard door.
"If this doesn't work, I'll send more people to build you a water house overnight and seal the well first," said the old village chief.
This is the only way to go. Godfather Dong Pianfang originally wanted to postpone it for a few days, but he didn’t want to buy any cement culverts. He just built them with bricks. He transported two thousand red bricks from the clinic yard next door overnight and built them.
A well circle with a depth of ten meters was then covered with a stone slab weighing four to five hundred kilograms, and a side house was built around it. A well room of more than ten square meters was built, the door was locked, and the place was temporarily sealed.
An ancient well.
Chapter completed!