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- There is still a difference between the adobe bricks of the past and the bricks of today. Before the adobe bricks leave the kiln, they need to be soaked with cold water on the top of the kiln. The bricks fired in this way are dark green in color and are particularly strong and durable.
¡°But firing adobe bricks is too troublesome. One kiln of bricks takes a day and a night, and then people have to be on top of the kiln to soak them in water. This soaking process is more cumbersome. It is not just a matter of pouring water on top. The heat and the amount of water must be controlled at all times. Excessive use of water may extinguish the kiln fire and turn the bricks into stubble. Use too little and the result will be red bricks.
Therefore, it takes at least three to five days to bake bricks in a kiln, which is laborious and laborious. In order to keep up with the work in those kilns, no one has done this for a long time.
The bricks used for construction in the town are now all red bricks. It is understandable that the younger generation cannot recognize these bricks.
According to Lao Niutou, in the early years Liujiagou not only fired earthen pots, but also fired bricks. This big thing should have been fired at that time. Even if ordinary bricks are burned to a crisp, they won't be so outrageous. At most, the bottom part will be glazed bricks, and the upper layer will be considered good. It can be said that situations like this are rarely encountered. It is estimated that when the ground was started, the land owner forgot to burn paper incense, so all the bricks in the kiln were burned. As for the incense burner bowl that Liu Qihua just dug, it must have been used by the earth master at that time.
Young people naturally don¡¯t believe in those ghosts and gods, but they all know that the older generation believes it very seriously. Although they disagree in their hearts, they don¡¯t open their mouths to argue.
"Hurry and fill up the playground. Dig such a deep pit. It will be difficult if a student falls in." Er Mazi saw that it was not a problem to leave the hole on the playground, so he ordered everyone to fill it in again.
They were very strong when they were digging, but now that they were hit by Old Niutou, they all felt that they had no strength. However, filling with soil was much lighter than digging. In less than ten minutes, more than half of the pit was filled.
With such a large glazed brick dug out, the pit will definitely not be filled up, so earth must be pulled outside. Considering this situation, Liu Junhao went back early to pull his own cart over to load the soil. With more hands, the work can be done quickly. In half an hour, the playground was restored to its original appearance.
However, everyone disagreed about the whereabouts of the glazed bricks.
Old Niutou meant to find another place to bury it, but as soon as he said it, the young people objected one after another. Dig and fill, fill and dig, there is no such thing as tormenting people.
"Xiao Hao, how about this? Let's pack up the bricks and set them up as a rockery in your yard?" Mr. Wang loves strange stones. He thinks the rough appearance of these bricks is very beautiful. With a little polish, it would certainly be no less impressive than those in the park.
"What are you doing in my courtyard? It's taking up space" Liu Junhao scratched his head and finally refused. He was quite disappointed now. He originally thought this thing was a rare treasure, but who knew it was just a burnt brick. After digging for a long time, I only got a pile of waste bricks. If I say I'm not disappointed, I'd be kidding myself.
"You" Lao Wang was completely speechless. He knew that this person didn't understand art at all, and telling him was completely nonsense.
"Move it to the ditch. It can be used as a rockery." Professor Zhao also felt that the shape of this thing was very strange.
"Okay, then I'll listen to what you two say." Anyway, it will take up space on the playground, or it may be moved to another location. After knowing it was a brick, Liu Junhao no longer cherished it. He happened to be pulling a cart here, so he said hello and asked Liu Qiyong and others to help transport it back.
The six people did not use other auxiliary tools, just grabbed the edges and corners next to them and easily moved them away. Only then did someone think of a question: "Why are bricks so light?"
"It's completely normal," Lao Niutou explained with a laugh, "After the bricks are cooked, they become empty and full of bubbles. I have even seen bricks floating on water."
???????????? That¡¯s not like iron palms floating on water? A group of people sweated after hearing this.
As soon as the bricks were delivered to his doorstep, Mr. Wang started planning. According to him, this thing should be placed in the middle of Huotou Pond, where there are mountains and water, which is a good scenery.
Of course, before that, we have to go up the mountain to find some matching stones.
Lao Wang wanted to go up the mountain immediately, but Liu Junhao refused to move despite his words, mainly because he was too tired.
"You kid" Without help, the old man could only find another opportunity.
Seeing that it was still early, Liu Junhao invited the two of them into the courtyard to drink tea. Who knew that as soon as he poured the hot tea, his cell phone started ringing.
"Xiao Hao, a fossil has been found in the village. Come over here quickly." When the call was connected, it was Er Mazi's urgent voice.
"Uncle Guangxi, please don't be rude to me. I know that thing is a glazed brick." Liu Junhao couldn't answer whether he was crying or laughing. It was a bit embarrassing to only admit my mistake once and be teased back and forth by the villagers.
"You naughty kid, I'm so rude to you, what are you doing?"??, fossils are really discovered. When you dug the sweet potato well for me the year before last, didn't you dig out a lot of black stones? The stones were seen by an expert from the city, and he said they were fossils. You kid, come over quickly and take a look"
"Really" Liu Junhao still didn't believe it.
¡°Believe it or not, you¡¯ll know if you come over and take a look.¡± Er Mazi hung up the phone immediately after saying that.
"What's the matter?" Professor Zhao came over and asked. He just vaguely heard the mention of fossils on the phone.
"Uncle Guangxi said that fossils were found in his house, and he wants me to come over now."
"No, can fossils be found in his home?" The two old men obviously didn't believe it.
"Let's go and have a look in the village." Although Liu Junhao didn't believe it, he still planned to go there since what he said was correct. As for the black stones Er Mazi mentioned just now, Liu Junhao remembers them very clearly. At that time, I was digging a sweet potato well for his family. When I dug it to a depth of more than two meters, a large nest of black stones was suddenly dug out from the soil. Both of them were surprised that such black stones were rare in Liujiagou.
"Could it be iron ore?" Er Mazi thought about the wonderful things of getting rich all day long. When he saw this thing, he thought that he might have dug a vein of ore.
His guess is not unfounded. In the early 1980s, the province sent experts to inspect this area. I don¡¯t know what happened, but not long after the experts left, people spread rumors that iron ore had been discovered in Daqingshan, and the province was preparing to develop it immediately. The entire area within a dozen kilometers was designated as a mining area, and all the people in the town were relocated elsewhere. The news was spread in an orderly manner, and it was even clear how much subsidies each household received. At that time, the road in Daqingshan had not yet been built, and there was no news. The rumors became more and more outrageous. Many people thought that if they had to move away anyway, their crops would be destroyed. So they didn't even care about the crops in the fields and just waited for subsidies from above.
Later, the leaders of the township felt that the situation was serious and sent people to the village to refute the rumors. But even so, many people still firmly believe that there are iron ore deposits in Daqingshan.
Liu Junhao laughed that he was crazy for wanting to get rich, and finally used a basket to pull up all the strange rocks. Er Mazi didn't give up, and even took some stones to show to the local blacksmith afterwards. He finally gave up the idea once it was revealed that the stone was not iron ore at all.
When they arrived at Er Mazi's house, a large group of people had gathered there. The expert was standing in the middle of the crowd with a fist-sized stone in his hand and explained: "This fossil should belong to an extinct marine brachiopod." , it is initially speculated that it is the 'Stone Swallow'. This creature probably lived from the late Permian to the early Jurassic, and has a history of about 200 million years. Its individuals are generally about three centimeters long, and it is a common sea creature on the seabed. There were many such creatures at that time. After they died, they cemented together and turned into rocks. After the sea changed, this generation turned into land. Those rocks were weathered one after another. After the shell fossils were peeled off, they rolled into the soil and were piled up and buried. stand up."
It¡¯s really a fossilLiu Junhao found that he didn¡¯t know what to say. It¡¯s true that ¡°the flowers planted intentionally do not bloom, but the willows planted unintentionally create shade.¡± Things have twists and turns, and finally end in comedy.
He also squatted on the ground and picked up a small piece of stone the size of a coin for observation. When he was digging the sweet potato well, he thought it was just an ordinary thing and didn¡¯t reveal much. Now that he has carefully observed it, after looking at it for a long time he still can¡¯t see anything profound. The surface is gray-black, slightly raised in the middle, with some fin-like markings. Other than that, it looks like stone. Now he was a little doubtful that this expert was deceiving everyone, as he seemed to be unable to identify the characteristics of the fossil.
"Expert, is this thing valuable?" As soon as he heard that it was very old, Er Mazi wondered: Could it be that his ancestors really showed up? He planned to make a small profit by selling the fossils he obtained.
"Haha, fossils are non-renewable resources and are difficult to measure in terms of money." The expert smiled and shook his head, then explained, "The stone swallow is a common marine invertebrate and is the standard fossil for identifying strata. , currently found in many places in our city, it has certain scientific research value in the field of geology, and it would be good to keep it as a souvenir.¡±
A certain scientific research value means that the value is very low and not valuable at all. Er Mazi understood this, but he still didn't give up. Many Shiyan fossils have been found in other places, but Liujiagou is definitely the only one and can be sold as souvenirs.
"It seems that I also found these things when I was digging the foundation of my house. They were all in nests, with tens of thousands of them. At that time, my dad thought they were piled up in the yard and were a nuisance, so he used a tractor to pull them to the ditch behind the village and dump them. "It's" Liu Qihua suddenly said at this time, his family renovated the house a few years ago and dug out a lot from the ground.
¡°No, I dug it out when I was digging a vegetable garden, and it was exactly the same as this one. Why does it look familiar?¡± Liu Junqi interjected.
After hearing what others said, Er Mazi completely gave up that little thought.
Although the process of discovering fossils is a bit tortuous, it is not a worthwhile trip. Reporter Guo deliberately took a lot of photos before leaving, but he also said that it would be difficult to get news about this, so he would at most write a newsletter online.
Liu Guangju didn't care so much. As soon as he sent the expert away, he grabbed Liu Junhao and said, "Xiaohao, go back and get your camera to take some photos and post them online. Say that a large number of paleontological fossils have been found in Liujiagou. You call on everyone to come here to pick up fossils." "
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