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Chapter 73 An ancient jar

"It's out!"

"What! I knew there was a treasure!"

The rain flowed down the brim of the hat, and Douya wiped his face and his eyes shone.

There were hundreds of little toads jumping around at the bottom of the cellar pit, and I accidentally stepped on several to death.

There was something wrong with moving the big jar away.

There is a small hole hidden under the tank, which looks very deep. Douyazi concluded that there must be treasures hidden underneath.

He was brave and reached out to touch him directly. I didn't stop him, and I was curious.

"Is there something?"

"have!"

"I feel like I've touched a big deal!"

Douyazai said half of his body lying on the ground.

After fumbled for a few seconds, Douyazi slowly took something out of the hole.

What's this?

I can't tell, the package is very tight.

Layers of rags were tied with iron wire, and the outermost layer of fabric was oxidized, almost as fragile as paper, and broke with a slight touch.

"Is there anything else in the hole?"

"It's gone, just this thing, what's this Fengzi?"

The rain was getting heavier and water began to accumulate in the cellar. I was afraid of collapse, so I said I would go up and look at it first.

It was strange that as soon as we took out this thing, the little toads stopped jumping into the pit, and noticed this detail with their heads and frowned immediately.

I ran back with my stuff in my arms, and with the candlelight, I was about to turn it on.

"Don't open it..."

The snake girl's mother suddenly spoke, and she grabbed my arm.

This old lady rarely speaks along the way, and does not actively communicate with us. Sometimes, we even think she is a mute.

"What's wrong with the aunt?"

The old lady suddenly gasped continuously. She covered her chest and said hoarsely: "This thing gives me a bad feeling!"

The snake girl asked: "Mom, what's the bad feeling? It's not opened yet."

The old lady shook her head repeatedly: "I don't know, I can't describe it...! I suddenly felt very scared in my heart! The last time I had this feeling was the time when the Quanzhou earthquake in 1994, which collapsed the Snake King Temple. My wife died in that earthquake."

"If you have to open it, I won't stop it, but my daughter and I can't stay here, we're going out."

"Daughter, go!"

The old lady said a few words and forced the snake girl out, leaving us to see each other.

The old lady is a snake girl from Zhanghu Town, Nanping. Seeing that her reaction was a bit evil, I asked if she could still open her head?

He said with expressionless expression: "Open."

After putting my head on, I opened this thing with a knife.

One layer, two layers, three layers!

The wrapped rag was peeled off layer by layer, and this thing actually contained more than ten layers of ancient clothes in front and back!

The last thing exposed was a small three-leg painted clay jar.

It was as tall as a beer bottle, and one of the three legs fell off.

Most of the paintings drawn throughout the clay pot are still there, and some human-shaped outline patterns and dozens of strange symbols can be seen.

In the most conspicuous middle part of the clay jar, an animal with stretched limbs was drawn, which obviously depicts a toad.

"Take your head, what kind of thing is this?"

Intuition tells me that the era of this painted clay pot is far greater than that of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Looking left and then, he said uncertainly: "I don't know, it can't be broken. I have never seen this painted clay pottery intact. It may be of the same era as the Hongshan culture, or it may be earlier than the Hongshan culture."

I have seen countless antiques in my first life. For the first time, I heard the three words "I don't know".

Then this jar may belong to the ancient times, including Hongshan culture, Yangshao culture, Liangchu culture, Neolithic period, Qijia culture... there are too many, and there are still many undiscovered.

Bronze ware from the Shang and Zhou dynasties can be auctioned at Hong Kong auction houses, but this thing cannot be bought. Whoever sells it will break the law, it will start in 5 years.

This ancient cultural relics were single and clumsy in shape. All we could see were stone tools, pottery, clay and crude jade tools.

It is two extremes, either worthless or no one picks up the roadside, or it is very valuable and belongs to a first-class cultural relic.

At that time, there was no clear tomb system, so tomb robbers rarely encountered this kind of goods. Master Yao finally failed. The biggest reason was that he wanted to sell Hongshan Jade Pig Dragon to pay the bet.

Ancient people also had the awareness of collecting. In other words, this painted toad pottery jar must have been brought by the Xixia people. It is purely a coincidence that we can find it.

I wrapped it in a broken newspaper, wrapped it with tape, and gently placed the clay jar in the corner of the wall.

I don’t know how much it can be sold. None of us has ever sold such things, but since we have dug it, we will definitely take it away.

"Brother Xiang, can you come out?"

"What's wrong?" I went out and asked.

"My mother asked what that thing was?"

I smiled and said, "It's nothing, just a mud-burned painted jar, which may be more than 4,000 years old. There are some symbols, human patterns and a big toad on it."

"Brother Xiang, I know I shouldn't say these words, but I still have to say them."

"You throw that jar away, the farther you throw it, the better. My mother said that that thing will bring disaster."

I said I won’t throw it away. You are superstitious. What kind of disaster can a clay jar for thousands of years bring?

Besides, the toad pattern appears earlier than the dragon pattern.

It was originally the totem of some ethnic minorities, because people at that time believed that the toads could predict the changes in the weather, and the toad's big belly was like a pregnant belly of a woman, white and fat, so people believed that it represented the "birth of life".

Therefore, it is normal to appear toad patterns on ancient cultural relics.

Seeing that I disagree, the snake girl stopped persuading her.

The campsite was muddy and could not live in people, so we slept separately in the stone house.

Xiaoxuan and the snake girl had a conflict and couldn't live in the same room. She squeezed and slept with me. The one on the end was Yu Ge Douyazi. Xiaoxuan was in the middle, and Master Zhe was watching the night at the door.

"Stop moving."

Xiaoxuan's hands were not honest, I winked, saying that Brother Yu is here.

She glared at me, turned around, and ignored me.

Looking at the clay jar containing the newspaper quietly placed in the corner of the wall, I slowly fell asleep.

Crazy...

Crazy...

Just as I was sleeping soundly, I suddenly heard the sound of running water in my ears. I opened my eyes suddenly and found that I was lying by the river!

In front of us is the small river flowing from Dulong River, not far from the camp, and sometimes we come here to get water and wash.

"Yun Peak!Yun Peak!"

"Where is this?! We are not sleeping in the house? Why did we get to the river!"

I looked back and saw that it was Xiaoxuan.

In addition to Xiaoxuan, there were also Douyazai and Yu Ge, and the others were also confused.

I pinched myself hard and could feel the pain!

Is this a dream? But why do you still feel pain?

"Brother Yu! Are we dreaming? What time is it now?"

Douyazi scratched his head and said, "My God! I see you every day, and I can dream of you!"

After thinking about it, I smiled and said, "You must be fake if you think about it on the day and dream about it on the night. This is my dream. I should be able to make the decision, call me brother."

He was surprised and said, "What did you say?"

"Call me brother!"

"Call me Brother Xiang! Did you hear it?"
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