The night wind blew up in Alxa, so we lit candles in the mine hut and sat together with the candles in our hands.
I watched Uncle Liao slowly open his backpack.
He took out a ball of mud, a tape measure, a knife, a piece of white paper, and a small porcelain box from his bag, and placed them on the ground in order.
Looking at these simple tools on the ground in front of me, I asked: "Uncle Liao, what are you doing with this pile of things?"
Uncle Liao smiled and said, "This is a secret way of eating that has been handed down from our ancestors. How could it be leaked to outsiders? I just don't feel comfortable taking it out for inspection. Fortunately, I brought everything with me."
Sister Yu said before leaving that we need to wait once Uncle Liao comes.
And this wait lasted another two days.
Late that night, after we fell asleep, I came here secretly. He was carrying a small bag and a flashlight, stepping on the sand all the way, and followed the little white flags to find them.
Those white flag road signs were not only responsible for leading the way for Uncle Liao, they were also responsible for leading the way for the leader.
You must know that Alxa is no better at night than during the day. It is very easy to go astray without seeing reference objects. People in the industry say that Wang Xiansheng appears to be indifferent on the surface, but in fact he is the most cunning and scheming, always hiding his back tricks, just like the water on Liangshan Mountain. The wise multi-star Wu Yong.
When I saw the boss again, I was very excited.
But to put it another way, when I turned my head, I felt that his whole body was highly nervous, his face was solemn, and his whole body was like a tight rope.
"Yunfeng, Yazai, Xuanxuan."
He glanced at his cell phone and said solemnly: "You did a good job with the white flag road signs, so I didn't take the wrong path. Now I don't have time to worry about family matters. I only have fifteen minutes to get here."
"Brother Liao, thank you for your hard work." He nodded and saluted Uncle Liao, who nodded in greeting.
After saying hello, he opened his backpack with his head, as if holding the apple of his eye, and carefully took out something from the bag.
This thing comes in a double waterproof black plastic bag.
"Plop...Plop..."
The atmosphere was tense. I could hear my own heartbeat and Uncle Liao's breathing.
Xiaoxuan clenched her fists nervously.
With everyone watching, he nodded his head and opened the black plastic bag.
Inside the bag is a carved porcelain statue, similar to porcelain and similar to pottery.
The porcelain carving is in the shape of a lying bird with two large wings, but with a human face and hands, and a crown on its head. There is a small hole in the crown, and a circle of swastika-like symbols is carved around the hole.
The lying bird man's face is open, his eyebrows are lowered, his lips are smiling, and there are red and green colors on his body that have not completely fallen off.
The right arm of the porcelain carving is gone, but it still maintains a clasped hand. It looks a bit funny from a distance, but after a closer look, you can feel a trace of sadness in the smile on its face, as if it is pitying the world and us. Everyone present.
No exaggeration.
Looking at it at that moment, I suddenly wanted to cry.
Blackwater City has a big product!
This is the national treasure of Xixia, Lingwu Miaoyinniao...
This was what Li Xian tried so hard to take away back then!
The original Wonderbird.
Once this thing leaks out, I don't even dare to think how much it can be sold for!
Uncle Liao's eyes were wild. He slowly stretched out his hand to pick up the carved porcelain and looked at it quietly.
The boss didn't stop him and just let him see.
After watching for three or four minutes, Liao Bo suddenly woke up from his dream and took a deep breath. From the frown on his face, I could tell he was stressed.
Uncle Liao put down his hand gently, then he opened the tape measure and carefully measured every size, and then drew a rough sketch on the paper. He used a knife to carefully scrape a little powder from the broken hand of Melody Bird, and put it on Put it in the box, and finally took out the small camera in the bag to take detailed photos.
There were some things that he could only rely on his memory, such as the color area of the remaining mineral paint on the body of the Saraswati Bird, the position of the severed hand, the small hole on the top of the head and the number of the Buddha... There were too many details that needed to be paid attention to.
"I don't have time, I'll leave the rest to you." He covered his head with clothes, carefully wrapped Miaoyinniao and put it in his backpack.
Uncle Liao's face turned pale, hesitantly sighed, and said: "Xian Sheng, we are lucky enough to see such an important weapon of the country with our own eyes. Even Emperor Qianlong has not seen anything that is not even in the Qing Palace." You and I have mastered something that we have never experienced before, and it is really a worthwhile trip."
"This job...I, Liao, took it."
Covering his head and face, he put on his bag and stood up, bowing to Uncle Liao.
"Where are you going, head!"
Seeing that he was about to leave, Dou Sprout said eagerly: "Why are you going back? You take the national treasure bird and run with us! We will hide it after selling it!"
"Yes, head, why are you going back?" Xiaoxuan said with red eyes.
He shook his head and said that Yunfeng would take good care of them and I was leaving.
"Head!"
"When can we see you?" I asked.
He turned his head away from us and said, "Come on, wait until everything is settled."
The head just left, and the time he appeared was no more than fifteen minutes.
It was only after I saw the boss that night that I fully understood the meaning of that text message.
Let's sort it out.
Prepare a month's worth of food and water, either for others to eat or drink, or for ourselves to eat and drink.
Thirty small white flag road signs guided Tou Tou and Uncle Liao to shorten the time greatly. There was no mobile phone signal in the desert, so it was impossible to communicate with mobile phones. This seemingly old-fashioned method worked wonders.
All these arrangements were made for the short fifteen-minute meeting that night.
The boss asked Uncle Liao to make a fake Wonderbird. I asked Uncle Liao how confident he was.
Uncle Liao couldn't say, so he could only try his best. High-level counterfeiting of cultural relics involves all aspects. After firing, it must be covered with original soil. The previous mineral pigments need to be constantly selected and matched. Not only must they deceive the human eye, but also Try your best to fool the machine detection, similar to the carbon 14 test.
Now it is 2021, and the Miaoyinniao is quietly placed in the most conspicuous position in the Ningxia Museum. There are several statues, including yellow ones, green ones, and white ones, all with the same shape. The official statement is that it is the King of Xixia Architectural components unearthed from the mausoleum area.
You can think about it carefully. The area around the Xixia royal tombs has been visited by dozens of generations of tomb robbers since the fall of Xixia. The powerful tomb robbers are no worse than archaeological experts. How can they keep this thing? (Representing only personal views).
After we left, we stayed in Alxa for a few more days. Liao Bo left that night. Before he left, he asked us for a few bottles of water and asked for my mobile phone number. He said he would contact me when the things were ready. The head should have returned from Blackwater City by then.
besides.
I originally thought that Sister Yu would send our camels back, but the group of them never showed up and I don’t know where they went.
The four of us ate and drank, and saw that the food and water were dwindling day by day. I really couldn't wait any longer, and I couldn't get through on the phone. How long would it take to sit back and have nothing?
So Douyazai and I put together the remaining things and decided to go back.
