Chapter 226
We didn’t bring a bucket, so we had to rely on Uncle Hulu’s help. He helped us weave two straw frames from branches. The weaving was very good. As long as we spread a layer of cloth at the bottom of the straw frames, it worked smoothly and basically prevented any soil leakage.
Several of us men took turns to go down into the well to load soil, while the rest of us used ropes to pull out the soil from the well. It didn’t matter who worked for how long. When we were tired, we would change people.
It was Dou Sprout's turn to go down the well, and I saw this boy mumbling in the well: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry everyone, this is a mass burial well, the feng shui is not good, I will send you up in batches, I’ll send you up to wash, dry, and tidy up.”
I yelled at Dou Sprout to stop talking nonsense and hurry up and get to work.
Most of the bones were picked out from the soil brought up from the bottom of the well, and more and more bones were piled up. We planned to dig a hole and build a grave before we left to collect and bury these bones.
It's better than staying in a dry well in the dark.
"Go, what is this?" Dou Sprout suddenly shouted excitedly: "Come and see, I found a treasure!"
Bean Sprout turned over an oval seal the size of a child's fist. Wash it with water. You can see Xixia characters at the bottom of the seal.
Dou Yazai asked excitedly, "What is written on the seal? Is it the official seal of a high official? Is it valuable? How much can it be worth?"
What does the Tangut script engraved on the seal mean? No one can answer this question.
Because no one present knew Tangut.
There are more than 6,000 characters in Xixia script. There are so many strokes that it is difficult to recognize. Some characters have more than a hundred strokes. Xixia script was a dead character before the end of the Qing Dynasty. I don’t think even the old researchers at the Yinchuan Museum can recognize a few of them. . There are more than 6,000 words. If you can recognize more than 100 words, you will be considered great.
This seal later sold for more than 30,000 yuan. Looking back now, I feel that it was a huge loss. I would not sell it for even one million yuan now.
The work of cleaning this dry well cannot be completed in a short time. We camped at night and suffered without tents and sleeping bags. The temperature difference between day and night in Alxa was too great. It was too hot during the day and too cold at night. In addition, be careful to avoid any invisible reptile poison on the ground.
On the third day of the cleaning work, the big shipment finally came out.
Qin Xingping brought up a basket of soil from the well. Without turning the soil over, he could see that there was a gilt bronze Buddha statue in the soil.
The gilt is quite worn. It is a Buddhist statue of a protector, about twenty centimeters in length, with a pair of small wings on its back. The Buddha's face looks like a glaring Vajra, with protruding eyeballs and upturned lips. There is something special about it. Although the face looks like a man's, But the Buddha statue has a graceful figure and is indeed a female protector from Tibet.
We didn't know this female protector at that time, because we didn't know it, and things are rare, which means they are valuable.
How much is it worth?
Worth 600,000...
If you are interested, you can check out the 2002 Jiade autumn auction of high-quality Buddha statues. At that time, the statue was labeled as a 12th-century Dakini protector statue. The starting price was 12 yuan, and the final hammer price plus commission was more than 60 yuan. Yes, the Buddha statue market only started to rise sharply after 2008. The price of good things has been increasing year by year. Before 2008, especially the period from 2000 to 2005, it was the cold winter for Buddhist statue art. Yong Xuanguan, who is not good at it, Just a statue
Later, I asked a friend, who told me that Dakini is indeed the protector of Tibet. Dakini is translated as Chajini in Sanskrit, which means a woman walking in the air. It represents wisdom, strength, cheerfulness, and compassion. The legend is like this in the world. If there is a suffering woman in the world, you can recite the Dakini mantra thirteen times under the mulberry tree, and the Dakini will fall from the crown of the mulberry tree and lead the suffering earthly believers to a blissful life.
