It's said on the streets that this man is a gambler. I didn't say anything, just sighed in pity. Eleven Shang Dynasty bronze artifacts, even the most common ones without inscriptions, like the three-mold line round ding, would be worth hundreds of thousands together.

"Cut it out, Aji! When will you stop playing? Get some real work done!" Seeing that Aji was still engrossed in his phone, Douzi couldn't help but scold him.

Aji played with his phone and let out a sound, he looked up and asked Hu Lu Shu, what was the situation inside? Did he still remember the stone carving plaque they found there?

Hu Lu Shu got up and pointed to the front, saying something.

"Uncle said that if we keep going, there's an ancient well ahead. That stone carving was originally the well cover. He found it interesting and brought it back."

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An ancient well?

Digging a well in the desert?

We locked eyes, both seeing the confusion in each other's gaze.

This is illogical.

No one in modern times would come to this place to draw water, so it must be an ancient well.

You know, digging a ten-meter deep well in the desert is pointless, it can't hold water at all.

Even if it were necessary to dig a well hundreds of meters deep underground, and ancient people did not have specialized well-drilling equipment, it would be extremely difficult.

After everyone finished eating and packed up, we continued on our journey. Hutou has a good memory; he used several dead poplar trees along the way as landmarks. We led the camels for about two hours, until we reached the dried-up well Hutou had mentioned.

Qin Xiping sighed: "It's really a dry well. It's so strange to be in this godforsaken place."

The exposed part in front is indeed a wellhead, but it's severely weathered and damaged. The wellhead is built of stones, very rudimentary. I roughly estimated the width of the wellhead, and the stone carving board should be able to cover it.

Hu Shu said that the stone slab was a well cover, but if he said that, then another problem arose.

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Since Li Yuanhao founded the Western Xia, Buddhism has been highly regarded. Buddhism is the state religion of Western Xia.

To put it this way, using a Guanyin statue as a manhole cover would be extremely disrespectful. Anyone who knows about ancient artifacts understands this point. For example, in antique markets, some isolated bronze Buddha heads or stone Buddha heads have smooth, cut-off necks below the head. Even without looking, one can tell they are fake.

Throughout history, ancient people have revered Buddha. Throughout all dynasties, there has never been a standalone Buddha head statue created on its own. Real ancient Buddha heads always have an uneven break below the neck because they were violently destroyed and removed separately.

Then, the little sprout fetched a flashlight and shone it into the well for quite a while.

I said, Yazai, what did you see?

"It's all sand and rubble, oh well, wait a minute."

The sprout lay at the mouth of the well and suddenly said, “I think I see a bunch of rusty pieces of metal.”

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