Chapter I： Discovery

Time:1947 year

Location:On a vast grassland in Qomran, Israel

A boy with a whip was crying anxiously among the sheep.He moved anxiously back and forth among the sheep, waving his whip at the same time.After the sheep were driven to a tree by him, he quickly tied each sheep to the tree!

After tying up the sheep, he counted the sheep and said, "1, 2, 3...", and then he suddenly looked heavy and worried: "Why is a sheep missing?".

He took a breath of cool air and stepped back a few steps: "How should I tell you when I go back?" It seemed that he was frightened by the boy's behavior! "Where did the sheep go? Where did they go?"The boy sat on the ground and sighed with his head in his hands.

After two minutes, the boy suddenly stood up, and his expression was not so heavy! He reconfirmed that he had tied up the sheep, and then took the whip and walked to the way he had come. As he walked, he looked around and shouted. He saw that he was getting farther and farther. Suddenly, he exclaimed, "It should be there!" He thought that he was in different lines now, so he turned and ran to a path!

He came to a road blocked by a small hill, and saw him climb up the hill smoothly. He stood at the top of the hillside and followed his line of sight to see that several sheep were quietly eating grass at the lower end of the hillside!

At this time, the boy's mouth rose with a smile, "It's found."The boy immediately slid down the small steep slope beside the hillside!

When the boy went down to the bottom of the slope and waved the whip with his skillful hand to drive the sheep, the sheep slowly moved towards the hillside path with the man's whip. Suddenly the little boy stopped and counted the sheep again, "Why is there one less?"The boy said to himself in doubt.

At this time, there was the cry of sheep in the distance. The sound was heard along the boy's position, and it could be seen that the sound was coming from the three holes of the opposite side. The boy immediately drove the lost sheep to the cave entrance, picked up a stone at the roadside and threw it into the cave.

At this moment, only the sound of "Dang" like a stone hitting the glass came out of the cave, and a sheep walked out of the cave slowly with the sound. "Baa, baa" shouted as he walked, "why is there a cave here? I have never found it before.

"Why is there a cave here? I have never found it before." The boy said to himself in doubt.The boy tied all the sheep around him to the tree stump at the mouth of the cave, and picked up the dead branches at the mouth of the cave to make a torch.

Take out the flint from your pocket and light the torch, and go straight to the cave. It may be driven by curiosity. After all, children are full of curiosity about everything.After all, when you look at the cave from outside, you always feel that it is so ghostly cold. If you change into a normal adult, you should immediately leave with a sheep. Along with the place where the boy's torch passed, there were many symbols and many incomprehensible and fantastic paintings on the wall of the cave. The boy walked cautiously forward. In a moment, the boy had reached the end of the road, and there were many pots on the ground.

The stone that the boy had just dropped into the cave fell right here, and the wall behind the pot was painted with a large picture. Several tall people were surrounded by many people who were smaller than them. These small people were kneeling down and worshipping them. The tall people held something like spears and shields in their hands.One of the tall people half knelt and stretched out his hand to the people who knelt and worshipped them. He seemed to have an object in his hand. It looks like a cube with a symbol like a snake winding around a scepter.

The boy looked at the scene in front of him and exclaimed, "These paintings are really wonderful". The boy was about to lean over and watch the mural carefully, but he was accidentally tripped by something under his feet. The torch and the boy fell to the ground at the same time. "Ah! It hurts..." The boy pulled out a stick from his buttock and put it in front of his eyes to meet the fire.

The object was clearly seen through the firelight. It turned out to be a scroll. Judging from the damage degree of the scroll, it should be many years ago. The boy stuffed the scroll into the cloth bag he carried. He picked up the torch and scanned over the earthen pots on the ground, except for several earthen pots that were completely sealed by the earth. Other pots have been broken, and the ground is littered with reels and broken pots. The boy picked up an open scroll and looked at it, although it was written in Arabic. But the boy could not understand a word. "What is written in it?" The boy was a little disappointed.

"The time should be late. It should go home. Otherwise, they will worry again." The boy took several reels and stuffed them into his cloth bag. He turned around and left the cave with a torch. The boy immediately drove the sheep out of the cave.

"These things should be sold at a good price in the market." The boy said to himself while driving the sheep. At this time, the sky was already setting.

Soon the boy came to the place where the sheep were tied and skillfully untied the ropes of the sheep. After counting the sheep, he drove the sheep back to the sunset and disappeared in the distance. The time did not know how long it was. The day was approaching dark. The boy drove the sheep home. After the sheep rushed into the sheepfold, the boy hurried to his room. When the boy walked across the yard, a man called out, "Why did you come back so late?" Obviously, this man should be the boy's father. The boy stopped to look back, "Because some sheep have been lost, but I have found them!" Then he ran into the room with his hand covered by the cloth bag.

The boy came to the room and couldn't wait to look at the ancient scroll he had brought back. There were about four ancient scrolls he had brought back. There is one scroll made of sheepskin and three scrolls made of papyrus. The sheepskin scroll is relatively intact. Obviously, the papyrus scroll is damaged. The boy opened the scroll and looked at it carefully. Except for one scroll which he could recognize, the other two scrolls were not at all recognizable. So the scroll that the boy can't recognize should be non-Arabic. The boy looked at it as if he could read it, but he didn't know a word at all. The boy's family condition is not very good, so he has never studied. His father has never studied. So no one in the family knows words, which can be seen from the environment of his family. The sheep at home are still others', and they just help others herd sheep. After a while, the boy lost and put the scroll away. For the boy, it should be more happy to understand the contents than to exchange them for money.

The next day, the boy came to Bethlehem, the business center nearest to his home, carrying a cloth bag with a scroll. He wants to try to change these scrolls into money, after all, money is more important to him. Because Israel was a turbulent society in 1947, it was better to have a full meal than anything at that time. The boy asked many stores but no one wanted them until the boy was ready to give up. An antique dealer named Salahi took a fancy to the scroll in the boy's hand. Although the antique dealer could not understand what was written in it, according to the boy's description and his years of experience in business, it would be a good and valuable antique. But the merchant's creed also reminded him that he could not buy things that he could not understand even if they were lost, because if they were rotten in his hands, they would be worthless. So the smart antique dealer asked the boy to go home and wait for two days, because he had to use this time to contact his old customers. Let's see if anyone is interested in such antiques. If anyone is interested, buy the things in the hands of the little boy directly, which will minimize the risk.

After Salahi contacted all his old customers in the following time, an Armenian businessman finally offered to help Salahi ask if a friend of an archaeology professor was interested. Through the Armenian businessman, Salahi met a man named Elizar Lipa Sukhnik, who said he was willing to buy, but only if Salahi took these scrolls to Jerusalem. At that time, no one was willing to go to Israel because of the war and turbulence. Salahi refused at first. But after Elizar Lipa Sukhnik heard the origin of the ancient scroll and some of the words in the ancient scroll provided by Salahi, Elizar Lipa Sukhnik called Salahi many times to try to persuade him to bring the ancient scroll out of Israel.

Two days later, the boy came to Salahi's antique shop again and reached a deal. Salahi bought the boy's scroll as promised and took the scroll to Yale Salem and handed it to Elizar.Lipa.Sukknik.