Chapter two hundred and ninety nine twists and turns
There is still a difference between the acres of the past and the current bricks. Before the acres of the acres of the kiln is released, cold water should be used to soak the water on the top of the kiln. The bricks fired in this way are black and blue, which is particularly strong and durable.
However, firing acres of earthen bricks is too troublesome. A kiln brick takes a day and a night, and then people have to stay on the top of the kiln to soak the water. The immersion process is even more cumbersome. It is not just about pouring water on it. You must always grasp the heat and the amount of water. If you use too much water, it is likely to extinguish the kiln fire, and the bricks will be burned into raw materials. If you use too little, the red bricks will be produced.
Therefore, it is both hard and laborious to burn bricks in a kiln, and it takes at least three or five days. In order to catch up with the kiln factories, no one has done this.
Now all the bricks used in the town are red bricks, and it is understandable that the younger generation cannot recognize this thing.
According to Lao Niu Tou, in the early years, Liujiagou not only made clay pots, but also bricks. This big guy should have been burned at that time. Even if the ordinary bricks are crispy, they will not be so outrageous. At most, the bottom part is made into glass bricks, and the upper layer is quite good. This situation can be said to be rarely encountered in front of you. I guess I forgot to burn paper and incense for the Lord of Land when the soil was started, so all the bricks in a kiln were burned. As for the incense burner bowl that Liu Qihua had just dug, it must have been for the mud at that time for the Lord of Land.
The young people naturally don’t believe those ghosts and gods, but they all know that the older generation trusts them very much. Although they don’t agree with them, they don’t argue.
"Hurry up and fill the playground and dig a pit so deep. If the student falls down, it won't be done well." Ermazi saw that it was not a problem to stay on the playground, so he asked everyone to fill it again.
They were very strong when they were digging. Now they felt that they had no strength when they were hit by the old bullhead. But at least they were much lighter than digging. In less than ten minutes, the soil pit was filled with half.
If you dig out such a large glazed brick, you will definitely not be able to fill the pit when you get down, and you must pull the soil outside. Considering this situation, Liu Junhao went back early to pull his cart over to fill the soil. There were a lot of people and the work was done quickly. In half an hour, the playground returned to its original appearance.
However, everyone disagrees with the whereabouts of the glazed brick.
The old bullhead meant to find a place to bury it again, but as soon as he said it, the young people all opposed it. They dug it, filled it, and didn't bring such trouble.
"Xiaohao, why not like this. Let's clean up the bricks and stand them in your yard as rockery?" Mr. Wang loved strange stones. He felt that the bricks looked very beautiful. With a little decoration, it would definitely be no less than those in the park.
"What are you doing in our yard? You still take up space..." Liu Junhao scratched his head and finally refused. He was quite disappointed now. He originally thought that this thing was a rare treasure, but who knew it was just a burnt brick. After digging for a long time, he only made a pile of waste bricks. If he didn't disappoint, he would definitely be lying to himself.
"You..." Lao Wang was speechless. He knew that this man didn't understand art at all, so he told him that he was completely playing the piano with a cow.
"Move to the edge of the ditch, it's good to be a rockery," Professor Zhao also thought the shape of this thing was very strange.
"Okay, then I'll listen to you two." Anyway, it's better to place it on the playground, so it's better to move the lower position. After knowing it was a brick, Liu Junhao no longer had the intention of cherishing it. He happened to pull the cart here, so he called out and asked Liu Qiyong and others to help transport it back.
The six people did not use other auxiliary tools, but only grabbed the edges and corners next to them with their hands and easily removed them. Only then did someone think of a question: "Why are bricks so light?"
"Purely normal," the old bullhead explained with a smile, "After the bricks are crispy, the inside is empty, full of bubbles. I have seen bricks floating on the water."
That would be a slumber on the water? A group of people were sweating when they heard it.
When the bricks were transported to the doorstep, Mr. Wang began to plan. According to him, this thing should be placed in the middle of the Huotou Pool, with mountains and waters being the best scenery.
Of course, before this, you have to go up the mountain to find some stones to match.
Lao Wang wanted to go up the mountain immediately, but Liu Junhao didn't move without saying that, mainly because he was too tired.
"You boy..." Without help, the old man had to find another opportunity.
It was still early, so Liu Junhao invited the two of them into the yard for tea. Who knew that as soon as he poured the hot tea on, his cell phone started to ring.
"Xiaohao, fossils have been found in the village. Come over quickly." The phone call was connected, and Ermazi's anxious cry was heard.
"Uncle Guangxi, don't mess with me. I know that thing is a glass brick." Liu Junhao couldn't answer with laughter and cry. He only admitted his mistake once and was joked back and forth by the villagers. It was a bit embarrassing.
"You naughty kid, what are you doing? You really discovered fossils. When you dug a lot of black stones for me the sweet potato well you dug for me the next year, the stones were seen by experts from the city. He said that the thing was fossils. Come and take a look..."
"Really" Liu Junhao still didn't believe it.
"If you believe it or not, you can tell if you come here and take a look." After Ermazi said that, she hung up the phone directly.
"What's the matter?" Professor Zhao came over and asked. He had just heard the fossil mentioning on the phone.
"Uncle Guangxi said that his family found fossils and let me go now."
"No, can fossils be found in his family?" The two old men obviously didn't believe it.
"Let's go, let's take a look in the village." Although Liu Junhao didn't believe it, he still planned to go there. As for the black stones that Ermazi mentioned just now, Liu Junhao remembered it very clearly. At that time, when he was digging a sweet potato well for his house, he suddenly dug a large nest of black stones from the soil. Both of them were very strange. This kind of black stone is rare in Liujiagou.
"Can it be iron ore?" Ermazi thought about the beauty of getting rich all day long. When he saw this thing, he thought that he might have dug up the ore veins.
His guess was not unfounded. In the early 1980s, the province sent experts to this area for inspection. I don’t know what happened. Not long after the experts left, people rumored that iron ore was discovered in Daqingshan, and the province was preparing to develop it immediately. Within a radius of more than ten kilometers, all people in the town moved to other places. The news was so clear that it was clear that each household had subsidies. At that time, the road in Daqingshan had not been built and the news was blocked. This was a bit ridiculous. Many people thought that they would move away anyway, and the crops would definitely be destroyed by the time they were gone. So they didn’t even care about the crops in the fields and just waited for the subsidies to be issued.
Later, the leaders of the village felt that the situation was serious and sent people to the village to refute the rumors. However, even so, many people still firmly believed that there was an iron ore in Daqingshan.
Liu Junhao laughed at him for being crazy about getting rich, and finally pulled all the strange stones with a basket. Ermazi didn't give up and took some stones to show the local blacksmith afterwards. He said that the stone was not iron ore at all, so he completely gave up his thoughts.
When they arrived at Ermazi's house, there was already a large group of people there. The expert stood in the middle of the crowd holding a stone of a fist in his hand and explained: "This fossil should belong to an extinct fossil of a marine brachiopod. It was initially speculated that it was a 'Stone Swallow'. This creature probably lived between the late Permian and early Jurassic periods, and it had a history of about 200 million years. Its individuals were generally about three centimeters long and were a common marine shell on the bottom of the sea. There were many of this creatures at that time. After they died, they cemented each other and turned into rocks. The fields changed. Later, this generation turned into land. The rocks were weathered one after another. After the shell fossils were stripped out, they rolled into the soil and accumulated and buried."
It's really a fossil... Liu Junhao found that he didn't know what to say. It was really "planting flowers intentionally but not growing, and planting willows without intention to become shade." Things went through twists and turns and finally ended in a comedy.
He also squatted on the ground and picked up a small stone the size of a coin to observe. When he was digging the sweet potato well, he felt that this thing was loose and didn't usually see anything. Now he looked carefully and looked for a long time... he still couldn't see any deepness. The surface was gray-black, with slightly raised middle, and some fish fin-like markings. In addition, it was completely like a stone. He now doubted whether this expert was fooling everyone, as if he could not see the characteristics of the fossils.
"Expert, is this thing valuable?" As soon as he heard that it was old, Ermazi started to whisper: Could it be that his ancestors really appeared? He planned to sell the fossils he got, so he should make a small profit.
"Haha, fossils are non-renewable resources and are difficult to measure with money," the expert smiled and shook his head, and then explained, "Shiyan is a common marine invertebrate and is a standard fossil for identifying strata. At present, many places in our city have found it. It has certain scientific research value in the field of geology, and it is good to keep it for memorial."
A certain scientific research value means that the value is very low and not worth anything at all. Ermazi understood this, but he still did not give up. Many Shiyan fossils were found in other places, but Liujiagou is definitely the only one and can be sold as a souvenir.
"It seems that my family dug this thing when they were digging the foundation. They were all in a nest, and there were tens of thousands of them. At that time, my father thought it was in trouble in the yard, so he pulled it into the ditch behind the village with a cart... "At this time, Liu Qihua suddenly spoke, his family renovated the house and dug a lot from the ground before the New Year.
"No, I dug it out when I was digging the vegetable garden. It was exactly the same as this one. I said why did it look familiar?" Liu Junqi interrupted.
After hearing what others said, Ermazi completely gave up his little thoughts.
Although the process of discovering fossils was a bit tortuous, it was not worth the trip. Before leaving, reporter Guo took a lot of photos, but he also said that this news might be difficult to get on, and at most he wrote a newsletter online.
Liu Guangju didn't care about so many things. He caught Liu Junhao as soon as he sent the expert away and said, "Xiaohao, go back and take a camera and take a few photos and post them online, saying that a large number of paleontological fossils were found in Liujiagou. You call on everyone to come here to pick up fossils."
Chapter completed!