Professor Wen's scream did not scare 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, Professor Wen didn't need to tell him that godfather Dong Pianfang had already been mentally prepared, but when it came to the matter, he still couldn't restrain his excitement. "Professor Wen, which dynasty are you from? Can you tell?"
"At least it's from the Song Dynasty!"
"Ah!" The surrounding students exclaimed.
"Look at the well circle and the bricks below, they are undoubtedly from the Song Dynasty." Professor Wen added.
"Professor Wen, please bring some water up 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 the backpack strap, and tied a bucket. "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 when he lowered himself a few meters, he heard the sound of water. The bucket was quickly brought up, but no one really knew how deep the ancient well was and whether the water under the ancient well was edible.
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 my judgment is correct, the water in this well may be the only one in the entire Xishan Mountains that 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 gave an analogy. "What is weak alkalinity? If you smoke, drink, and 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!"
Godfather Dong couldn't hold back his joy when he heard the prescription, but he didn't get the answer yet. "Professor Wen, how do you know? Is it weakly alkaline?"
That's right, Professor Wen's mouth is not a pH test strip either. "Old Dong, you can tell when you make a pot of porridge. Is the porridge sticky? Is the porridge fragrant? I think the elderly and children can drink this water directly. If you use it to make traditional Chinese medicine, you can also increase the amount of water. Quite a few therapeutic effects.”
These words made godfather Dong Fang 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, why are you still standing there? 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 little gourd quickly lifted up the large stone slab, which weighed four to five hundred kilograms.
At this time, everyone gathered around and looked again. Below was a well circle made of solid bluestone. The well walls were round and the outside of the well platform was octagonal. A circle of well platforms is also paved with bluestone slabs. Professor Wen was already lying on the edge of the well, where he looked at the words on the well wall: "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 Pianzhi 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 Ming Wuzong Zhu Houzhao. 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, let's all take 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 testing the well water, Let’s see how to transform 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, while godfather Dong Pianfang was already grinning from ear to ear. The words on the wall of the well are enough to prove that the history of the old Dong family has been passed down for thousands of years. I would like to ask, is there any family tree in Nanshao Village that exceeds that of Lao Dong’s family? The Dong family and the Shao family can now have a tie!
The discovery of this ancient well not only made godfather Dong Pianfang 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. However, the scientific value of the ancient well does not lie here. It can not only reveal the historical changes of the geological structure of Nanshao Village over the past thousands of years, but also learn from this well. Gujing understands the history and culture of that year.
Professor Wen spent this morning at Dong Pianfang's home. According to Professor Wen's suggestion, this ancient well, including the well rim, well platform and well wall below, should not be damaged. A custom-made one with a diameter of more than one meter and a length of A cement pipe circle of more than nine meters or more than ten meters is directly enclosed on the ancient well. Then build a well house and install a small water pump.
Professor Wen said seriously: "You have heard that there is a kind of mineral water that can be directly drank abroad now, but it is definitely not as good as the water quality of this well. One day in the future, you can also put the water from this ancient well in a bottle. In buckets, put in bottles and sold as medicine, sold as milk.”
Of course, when everyone heard Professor Wen's words, they all thought it was a joke and he was praising the water. Who would have thought that in the 21st century, people would actually make a fortune selling water.
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 didn't dare to drink it. This was water from thousands of years ago. Who knows if it's poisonous? Even if it is not poisonous, if you leave a bowl of water 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 Xianqian 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 came around, and at this time the old village chief also came.
"Anyway, I can't say for sure. When I was pulling ore in Xishan, that's what they did there."
"Fortunately, this section is not big. If it can be solved by blasting the hole at an angle, 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 followed the diversion dam southward and arrived at the factory site of their godfather Dong Pianfang. One floor a day, the three people walked up to it, and everyone on the second floor had already started to climb the floor.
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 is still a bit small. If you want to test the water, you have to go to Jinmen City or the provincial capital at least.
In the afternoon, because Professor Wen drank too much again, the students didn't know what to do. As a teacher, Ye Qianqian continued to organize her morning inspection notes except for arranging for two students to help guide the sand mining site in the village and continue pushing sand.
But Wang Ke took Gu Maolin to find the old village chief. Why are we looking for the old village chief? He wants to know about the ancient legends in the village. Why do we need to learn about ancient legends? It’s because Gu Maolin found the floral bag and those colored stones.
There are still many mysteries yet to be solved! The two people walked around in a big circle, but couldn't find the old village chief. Unexpectedly, the old village chief was at the house 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 there was an endless stream of people coming to see it.
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 watched, people 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, make infertile people have children, can make blind people see again, and can make people born with natural diseases 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.
One word spread to ten, and ten spread it to hundreds. By three or four o'clock in the afternoon, even people from other villages came, waiting for Wang Ke to come back. There were still many villagers gathered around the edge of the pit, some carrying bottles and some carrying thermoses. Godfather Dong Fangfang and the old village chief are 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, they could just pay for it.
This is superstition. Drinking some well water can cure the 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." The old village chief said.
This is the only way. Godfather Dong Pianfang originally wanted to postpone it for a few days, but he didn’t want to buy any cement culverts and just build 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.
After all this is done, it will be daybreak.
