Chapter 37 Chapter Thirty-Five

Xie Huiren looked around the main hall. There are four pillars in the hall, and the bottom of the pillars is a simple platform. In fact, even the simplest temple should be made into an upside-down lotus-shaped Xumizuo, but this place is obviously not simple, but simple. .The top of the column meets the beam.It can be clearly seen that the pillars have also been artificially damaged, and there are traces of cutting with knives and axes on the surface, revealing the fine wood inside.This is not something that can be cut down with a few axes.Xie Huiren thought to himself. After thinking for a while, Xie Huiren asked Sally, "Brother, which pillar do you think may be buried under it?"

Sally looked around and said helplessly, "Four, it won't take a day to dig it up. It's just luck." "We are lucky. There is a Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, and there are nearly a hundred stone pillars in its Purple Cloud Hall." Sally stuck out her tongue playfully. Xie Huiren didn't speak, and took a hoe and walked straight to the nearest pillar, that is, a pillar on the side of the door, and carefully looked at the situation on the ground.He first kicked away the messy debris on the ground with his feet, exposing a few floor tiles around the pillar.Those were poor blue bricks, the surface was not smooth, and the color was even less likable, a little disgraced.He still remembered that such bricks were not laid firmly. When he was a child, he had seen young masters lift out the broken bricks with sticks, and then replace them with newer-looking bricks in the corners.

Xie Huiren wedged the sharp corner of the hoe into a relatively large brick crack, and shook the hoe handle vigorously.Open one piece to expose the side, and the rest is much easier. Just tap the side of the green brick lightly with a hoe, and the brick will jump as if a person is suddenly stimulated, and the surrounding soil will loosen. You can dig them out by hand. Sally is coming to help.Xie Huiren quickly motioned for her to hide away, this is not a girl's job.He tried again, and this time the brick was visibly looser.He adjusted his body, changed the angle, and tried harder, and one corner of the brick had been lifted up.

All right.Xie Huiren cheered on himself secretly.He wedged the brick with a hoe to prevent it from falling down, then squatted down, and with his not-so-strong hand, he pulled out the brick. A few bugs fled in panic under the bricks. Xie Huiren thought of Master, every time he sprinkled some white powder in the hall, he would spend a long time doing homework.The master told him that those powders were used to prevent termites, which are insects that eat wood. For the sake of temple production, they had to get some medicine to poison them, but in this way, they also harmed living beings.This is a dilemma.Therefore, the master never let others do it when spraying the medicine, even some junior masters were not allowed to watch. Afterwards, he would chant scriptures for these termites to die.

Thinking of this, Xie Huiren secretly felt a little sad, and his hands and feet were much lighter. The rest of the work is much easier. In the place where a blue brick is missing, knock the adjacent bricks and stones. After knocking loose, dig a brick with a hoe, and a brick will come out.In half an hour, he dug away all the bricks around the pillar, exposing a square meter of soil. Xie Huiren looked at Sally and smiled at her, "Haven't you seen me doing this kind of work?" "You're not doing too badly." "Hehe, I saw municipal workers doing this when they were repairing sidewalks. It looks easy, but it is difficult to do."

With that said, Xie Huiren squatted down and looked at the land carefully.Sally also came over and squatted beside him, but she obviously couldn't see what was weird about it, so she had to look at Xie Huiren again, and asked in surprise, "What are you looking at?" "Look at the color of the soil. If something is buried, the color will be different, and the soil will be looser." "Oh..." Sally also cast her eyes on the soil again, but she was quickly disappointed. The soil was all the same color, and it was pressed very flat by the blue bricks. Only the joints between the bricks were slightly soft. . "If you look at it like this, you can't see anything. It's been twenty or thirty years."

Xie Huiren suddenly realized, no, if the master buried something here, it would have been so many years, he didn't know if a qualified archaeologist could see any clues, at least he couldn't see anything. "Come on, don't bother, let's dig first." They stood up, and Xie Huiren took the hoe in his hand, and was about to swing it, but stopped, and turned his head to smile at Sally. Sally looked into his eyes, they didn't need to talk much, it seemed that what was in each other's mind could be understood just by looking at each other.This tacit understanding is innate, and only those who know how to love will be born with it.

She smiled contentedly and took a few steps back. Only then did Xie Huiren pick up his hoe and dig. Not born for this.While digging, Xie Huiren blamed himself for being too stupid.I thought that I could dig out a large piece of soil with a single hoe, but the moment it hit the ground, the hoe would inexplicably tilt its head, like a large excavator always digging out the mud with its claws.What's more terrible is that he exerted a lot of strength, but instead of achieving any effect, his arm was numb due to the reaction force.He was still wondering, watching the farmer's hoe flying, the movement was very rhythmic, and he didn't seem to be tired at all, but he was like swinging a heavy machine, not to mention his arm was sore, the important thing was that it didn't work.

Sally was amused as she watched from the sidelines, she almost couldn't laugh out loud. Xie Huiren adjusted his posture again, luckily.At this time, he felt that he had found the correct way to use the hoe, so he took a breath and picked it up again.Not bad, this time the hoe burrowed into the soil impartially, but it popped out immediately, bringing a piece of soil with it, and flew to his feet. He obviously felt that the hoe had hit a hard object and was bounced off. Great!Xie Huiren cried secretly, there is indeed something under the soil! This discovery made him very excited. He took a step forward and looked at the traces he had just hoeed, but he couldn't see anything yet.This time he decided not to use so much strength, and only used 50% of his strength to hoe loosen the soil and then push the soil aside.

Sally also noticed that Xie Huiren's movements were different from the beginning, and seemed to find something unusual, so she moved to his side.When Xie Huiren was dealing with the loose soil, she called out first, "Is there a stone slab underneath?" Xie Huiren smiled at her, which meant that there really was something. Sally continued to exclaim, "There must be treasures under the stone slab, it's said in the books, brother, hurry up and dig." "Well, maybe there really is a letter hole underneath." Xie Huiren put in more effort and finally exposed the stone slab.

"No, we have to dig bigger. This stone slab is not small." Xie Huiren motioned Sally to step back. He felt that he had to dig out some blue bricks. At first he thought there was a small box buried in the ground. I didn't expect it to be a letter hole, and the area of ​​one square meter is definitely not enough. This time Xie Huiren had already mastered the skills of doing this rough work, and after a while, he exposed an area of ​​more than two square meters on the stone slab. The more Sally watched, the happier she became, but Xie Huiren became more disappointed the more she worked.No, there may be nothing underneath. This stone slab may have been the ground before, or the base of the main hall building, and some mud and blue bricks were later laid.After all, this stone slab is too big, and there are no traces of holes on it. Xie Huiren stopped, squatted on the stone slab, and hit it with a hoe. It was a solid sound! "What's wrong?" Sally also noticed something was wrong and walked over. "Isn't it right?" "Well, something is wrong, the bottom is not empty." Xie Huiren thought for a while, "Sally, please go outside the door and see if the platform outside the door is level with the ground inside the hall." Sally understood what he meant, she hurried to the door, and before she went out, she knew that Xie Huiren's guess was right, she shouted, "Brother, the stone floor outside is much lower than inside, and the threshold was raised after entering. " Sure enough, the interior of the hall was re-paved with blue bricks, and this stone slab was obviously the foundation of the building, and the bottom should be a solid foundation such as rammed earth. Xie Huiren sat wearily on the stone slab, and he didn't care whether the ground was clean or not. He was indeed too tired. The most important thing was that his energy was drained all of a sudden, and he couldn't cheer up.