Rebirth 13, starting from the big demolition treasure hunt

At this time of year every year, after the National Day holiday, the weather will turn cooler after the rain.

When it wasn't so hot anymore, Wu Yuansheng drove to some places in the suburbs to look for possible "opportunities" in some landfill.

Anyway, such things do not require any cost. Everything you find is yours. All you need to spend is some effort and time.

The landfills and road construction sites that used to be everywhere in the suburbs are now rarely seen, which makes him feel depressed.

If things continue to develop in this way, I estimate that in a year or two, there will be no place to play.

Currently, the place that is closer and has a better environment is still the area where the riverside park is being built in the old street of XZ District.

Building roads and green belts will not happen so quickly, and the project here is expected to continue until next year.

On the morning of October 10, Wu Yuansheng went to the site of the river embankment construction in Lao Cai again.

Unlike the previous few days, today the rubble is being transported here.

The excavation location is the village that was demolished next to the district shipyard and the nearby area close to the river.

The brick residue in the village had long been dug up and crushed to make roads. The soil being dug now is used to build green belts, and the excess soil exceeds the planned height.

Seeing a truck dumping rubble, of course he had to go over and take a look. Considering that there might be something there, he brought two snakeskin bags with him.

As soon as he got there, he found a smashed half-length ceramic Buddha statue on one of the rubble piles.

The Buddha statue is the upper body, about half a meter high, and is badly damaged, with many damages on the head and body.

Even though it was damaged, made of clay, and not very old, only dating back to the Republic of China period, he still picked it up and put it in one of the snakeskin bags.

After looking at the soil layer, I found a lot of glass bottles, jars, broken porcelain fragments, corroded dry batteries, plastic caps and other household garbage from the 1960s and 1970s.

It is obvious that the debris dumped here is from a special era.

Without hesitation, Wu Yuansheng went to the rubble pile and looked at it.

Some of the bottles in the pile of dirt were in good demand a few years ago. You could buy them at antique markets or online, but now basically no one is buying them.

However, he still picked up those that looked like they dated back to the Republic of China period, had many bubbles inside, or had strange shapes or colors.

Anyway, it's a piece of cake and it's from the Republic of China period, so it still has collection value.

In addition to glass products, he also picked up fragments of porcelain and fine porcelain.

Because there was no iron pick and the construction noise was loud, there was no one else here, not even someone to direct the dumping of soil.

The dump trucks were dumping soil one by one.

After picking for a while, he found a rather damaged porcelain statue of "Maitreya Buddha" on a pile of rubble.

The damaged part is below the belly. This porcelain statue also dates back to the Republic of China period.

After putting it away, Wu Yuansheng continued searching.

He suddenly found a pottery jar from the Makou Kiln next to another pile of rubble not far from the "Maitreya Buddha" porcelain statue.

The jar is very ordinary, nothing special, but there are a few green, round things at the filling point.

Seeing this, his first thought was copper coins.

I picked up a few round objects and took a look at them. They were not copper coins, but Yuan Datou coins.

He leaned closer to the mouth of the jar and took another look, and saw that the surface was still showing Yuan Datou coins.

This discovery made his heart beat faster.

Since he retired from the business of treasure hunting and stopped using a treasure detector, Wu Yuansheng hasn’t seen the cache for a long time.

He looked around and found that there was no one else, so he quickly packed the jar from the Makou Kiln into a bag.

The jar is not small, about 40 centimeters high.

When he picked up the jar, he felt its weight and found it was about seventy or eighty pounds.

If it were filled with Yuan Datou coins, the number would definitely be more than 1000.

Without stopping, he put the bag that contained the Buddha statue and other sundries aside, picked up the snakeskin bag containing the silver dollar jar, and went straight to where the van was parked.

After putting the things away, he took two snakeskin bags and returned to continue searching.

In the following time, I was not so lucky and all I found were ordinary items.

Soon, he had searched all the piles of earth.

Because he didn't have a metal detector, he couldn't find the items in the soil. Considering that it might not be safe to leave the silver dollars in the car, he took the "groceries" he found and put them in the car, and then went straight home.

After putting away his belongings, he thought that the Laojie Riverbank Park was still dumping waste, so he drove there again.

But before going, he still put on a metal detector.

Although he had planned to retire before, when he encountered such an opportunity, he decided to use the machine.

Wu Yuansheng always had that idea:

Some things, rather than being buried, are better to be discovered and found out.

Even if you get something of extremely high value, you can hand it in or donate it in exchange for 500 yuan and a certificate.

The machine had not been used for several years, and the batteries must have been out of power. Passing by a store, he stopped the car, bought a few batteries, and assembled and debugged the detector.

After debugging, it is placed directly in the car so that it can be used directly when it arrives at the destination.

When the car arrived near the old street, he looked at the time and it was almost 11 o'clock, so he simply found a self-service fast food restaurant, which was the former Mao Jiu fast food restaurant, to eat.

However, with the rise in prices, the current price of vegetables is no longer 99 cents, but 1.61 yuan per ounce.

The chef at this fast food restaurant is very skilled and the food is delicious. He plans to come here in the future, and if he doesn't go home for lunch, he can eat here.

Lunch didn't take long, about a quarter of an hour.

When we arrived at the dumping site again, the excavators and dump trucks had all stopped, and the workers had just left for get off work.

It was lunch time and there was no one else here.

This would definitely be better. While he was alone, Wu Yuansheng took out the detector, turned on the switch, and swept the soil surface.

Although he hasn't used this thing for a long time, he must be familiar with it after operating it for so many years.

There is a lot of scrap metal material in this rubble pile. Although the iron removal mode has been set up, there are still many places where noises occur.

It doesn’t matter, it’s just a small noise, he just ignores it.

I brought the machine here with the intention of looking for large items or hidden treasures.

We swept seven or eight mounds in succession, but did not find any objects with particularly strong signals or large areas.

But he didn't mind. If he couldn't find it, he would keep looking. Treasure hunting all depends on luck.

When sweeping to the twelfth mound, the detector signal range was somewhat large and at the same time quite strong.

It took less than two minutes to dig out the object, which turned out to be a gold-plated Buddha statue.

This Buddha statue, also in the shape of Tathagata, is about 35 centimeters tall and shows no signs of having been smashed. It must have been secretly thrown away before.

(During special times, many items related to "superstition" were secretly thrown away, especially various Buddha statues, which were quite common.)

Bringing the machine here finally yielded some results.

After putting the Buddha statue in the car, Wu Yuansheng returned to continue exploring.

During the time he went back to put things away, the dump truck dumped about 20 piles of soil.

While sweeping through the newly turned over pile of dirt, Wu Yuansheng was not in a hurry to pick up some porcelain pieces or other bottles and other miscellaneous items.

During this period of noon, the main focus should be on looking for metal objects.

After clearing all the piles of earth, he detected a small jar of copper coins.

The copper coins were placed in a medicine jar, all of which were Qing coins, weighing about 10 kilograms.

After searching the pile of soil where the dump truck had dumped the rubble, he went to where the excavator was digging and swept the garbage dump from the special era for a while.

The depth of the excavation over there is also not very deep, only about 2 meters. If we dig deeper, we don’t know how deep it will go.

After searching there for a while, no large objects were found, but a silver chopstick, a silver hairpin, a silver bracelet and two silver dollars were found that were exposed on the surface or buried not very deep.

Feeling that the excavator operator and the dump truck driver might be coming over, he put the detector back into the van.

Treasure hunting, for him now, is a private matter, and he does not intend to continue with it when there are outsiders around.

After the excavator started working in the afternoon, Wu Yuansheng was still searching at the place where the soil was dumped.

Only a small portion of the rubble from a special era was dug out here. At around four o'clock, the digging went beyond the boundary and reached the soil layer on the other side of the previously demolished village.

Although there are some things in the soil layer, they are basically just porcelain pieces.

His harvest in the afternoon, not counting porcelain pieces and other worthless miscellaneous items, included a complete small blue and white porcelain jar, a broken stone Buddha head, and a stone lock used for practicing martial arts on the earth pile.

The small blue and white jar is very thick, only about 15 cm high. The patterns of swordsmen and horses painted on the surface date back to the Qing Dynasty. It is not from an official kiln, but a fine product from a folk kiln.

The stone Buddha head is the size of a grapefruit and has some damage. If the Buddha statue were intact, it would be about 1.34 meters tall and would date back to the Qing Dynasty.

The bluestone lock weighs fifty kilograms, is rectangular, relatively complete, and dates back to the Republic of China period.

In the evening, at the riverside, where the earth was being dumped, after the excavators and dump trucks stopped, some people were walking back and forth along the riverside. Wu Yuansheng did not take out the metal detector to check.

After searching on the pile of dirt, he drove home.

(At this time in his previous life, he did not encounter these things. After all, he died of overwork at the end of July in the 23rd year.

And here we are, at the end of October, after having lived longer than ever before.)