Chapter 35: Picking Up Rags-The Northern School Tomb Raider’s Notes

Uncle Kulok told a story about his first love, and I could hear some sadness in the tone of his storytelling.

When I heard this, I said: “People are like that, Uncle, I think you are doing fine now, your wife and children are hot, and you don’t need to worry about money, what happened back then is all over.”

Bean sprouts holding his chin, pretending to be deep, said: “This is youth, no one has a perfect youth, more or less with a little regret. At this moment I want to do a poem:Youth ah youth, youth ah youth, first love ah first love, my dream my dream.”

“Vomit!”

Xiao Xuan kept vomiting and said stop it, don’t be disgusting with your five-year compulsory elementary school education.

Bean Sprout Boy bristled in disbelief and said if you have the guts, you can have one too.

“What’s wrong?” Amidst the laughter, I saw the head of the handle frowning in a frown.

“Handle the head? Put the head?” I called out twice.

Turning his head back, he eeped softly and said, “Yunfeng you bring the needle over and look down here.”

I looked at where she was pointing and said, “That’s a big rock, what’s the point of suddenly dropping the needle, it’s not like you’re playing dunking.”

Put the head on and say try it, he thinks something’s wrong.

I said yes and ran the camel to pick up the dunking needle.

The Ming and Qing dynasties, more brick tombs, stone tombs in the previous dynasties, dunking needles also known as diamond needles, specifically used to deal with stone tomb tops, the northern school some people still use, while the southern school of part of the people have abandoned this tool to use explosives. The dunking needle one meter to one meter and a half of regular clothes have, the front part of the tip with a small hook, the use of stone tomb tops to draw a circle, cross hit two eyes on the top of the tomb can open a hole.

“Here?” I asked as I aligned myself.

The head of the handle said it was about right, and he called for Bean Sprout Boy to come over and give me a hand.

Found a stone as a hammer, set the point to start smashing, bean sprout boy inexperienced, the first few almost hit my hand, I moved down the hand, said bud boy you look at the point.

The dunking needles were so powerful in breaking rocks that I felt something was wrong within a few smashes as a result.

The boulder, which is hard on top and soft on the bottom, is not at all strenuous.

It’s weird.

I said what’s going on here, is it weathering from too many years in the desert? Another thing that was also strange was the dark, blackened color of the broken up rocks that came up from the fight.

“It seems I was right in guessing that this stone has been burned for a long time before.”

“Burned? Put the head do you mean ……”

Put the head stomped his foot and said: “This piece under our feet is sandstone, sandstone was burned by the fire hardness will be reduced, after how many years are like this, goose soft stone lapis lazuli type will not. It seems that this stone has experienced the fire in Blackwater City.”

We are not sure exactly what this stone was used for back then, it could be the load-bearing wall of a building somewhere in the city back then, or it could be the paving stones on the east and west avenues of Blackwater City, which means that we have already stepped into the bounded territory of Blackwater City.

Put the head of the previous study of the Blackwater City, he said from the few historical materials left behind, the original Blackwater City is rectangular, is the twelve supervisors of Western Xia Montenegro Weifu Division of the garrison, the city is divided into east and west parts, the west city is the government and military government agencies and Buddhist temples and monasteries, the east city is the civilian stores and residential areas, east and west of the city in the middle of the East-West Avenue, a dozens of meters wide, which runs through the whole city, the avenue on both sides of the tavern teahouse, brothels, grain shops, and hundreds of vendors, like what sells sugar gourds, sell brine, repair horses hoof repair, hair cutting, etc. Grain store, there are hundreds of small merchants and vendors, like what sell sugar gourds, sell brine, repair horseshoes, hair cutters and so on.

The past seven hundred years, and after the natural disasters and war sandstorms, when the Silk Road on the prosperous city has long since disappeared, leaving only a handful of yellow sand and gravel and some remnants of the walls in Alxa.