Chapter 51: The Mysterious Pyramid-Shaped Artifact
Happy Little Jumping Frog: Hey, hey.
Chen Dazhong, Fudan Institute of Ancient Books: As a famous literati in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, a first-class literary critic, and a "star" in the literary and artistic circles, Jin Shengsi's manuscripts have high research value. This manuscript, judging from its contents, is consistent with the commentary of Jin Shengxian that has been handed down. Although whether it is genuine or not, it still needs to be identified. But since you found it by Lao Han, you can't leave it for eight or nine.
Happy little jumping frog: I'll look for you in Jiangcheng in a few days, and help me identify it again.
Chen Dazhong, Fudan Ancient Books Institute: Okay. When the appraisal is over, we will still eat the Little Northeast.
Happy Little Jumping Frog: Okay.
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Han Zhou turned off WeChat.
I opened the safe and read the text on the manuscript for myself.
Watch carefully, experience carefully.
Jin Shengsi's small words written down with a pen gave him a wonderful experience, as if dreaming back hundreds of years ago and seeing the back of that strange man buried in writing.
As if he was tired of writing, he grabbed a small handful of peanuts and put them in his mouth, and then used chopsticks to pick up a little dried tofu, chewing and pretending to be ham.
Reading the handwritten manuscripts of famous literati does have this unique function of "taking people through time and space".
In recent years, various literati manuscripts and manuscripts have also attracted much attention.
There is a famous autobiography, "Six Tales of Floating Life", written by Shen Fu in the Qing Dynasty.
I chose a famous passage from the Chinese book "Childlike Fun".
"One day, I saw the two insects fighting the grass, looking at it, Xingzheng was thick, suddenly there was a behemoth, pulling up the mountain and falling the tree, covering a shrimp and toad, and the tongue was spit out and the two insects were swallowed. Yu was young, Fang was distracted, and he was startled. God is determined, catch shrimp and toads, whip dozens, and drive them to other courtyards. ”
This is Shen Fu's experience when he was young.
Later, he wrote about the experiences of his later adult life. The love with his wife Chen Yun in adulthood, and the lonely and desolate old age after the loss of his wife.
"Six Tales of the Floating Life" is known as the "Dream of Little Red Mansions" and has unique literary value.
Unfortunately, only 4 volumes have survived.
Volume 1 "Memories of the Boudoir", volume 2 "Memories of Leisure", volume 3 "Memories of Ups and Downs", and volume 4 "Wandering Notes".
The versions circulating in the market, as well as the fifth volume of the "Zhongshan Chronicle" and the sixth volume of the "Health Record", are all forgeries and were not written by Shen Fu himself.
The famous scholar Lin Yutang regretted this, and once said: "I am guessing that there must be a complete book in the Suzhou family collection or used bookstore, and if there is this blessing, it may be found for us." "It's a pity that I couldn't wait for this day all my life.
In 2005, a man named Peng Ling found a notebook of Qian Yong, a Qing Dynasty scholar, in Nanjing.
Qian Yong is also a great talent, the word Liqun, the number Taixian, the No. 1 Meixi, the Qing Dynasty Jiangsu Jinkui (now Wuxi) people. He has been a guest for a long time, and his footprints have traveled all over the country. Gong poems, seals, li, fine engraved tablet editions, good at calligraphy and painting, printed three bridges (Wen Peng), Yibu (Wu Zhen) style. There is a small Han monument, a collection of various small Tang stele stone carvings.
Under Qian Yong's pen, Peng Ling discovered the entry of the "canonization of the Ryukyu Kingdom" in the thirteenth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, discovered the names of Qi Kun, Fei Xizhang, and Shen Fu, and found many detailed records of Ryukyu customs, including the Red Clothes Pavilion (brothel) and the Red Lady (prostitute), as well as Shen Fu's life history and the titles of the volumes of the Six Records of the Floating Life.
Peng Ling speculated that it was impossible for anyone else who went to Ryukyu with Shen Fu to write these words, and that Qian Yong, who had not been to Ryukyu, was obviously unable to write such an account.
It can only be Shen Fu.
He further came up with a bold conjecture:
Could it be that this is the text of "Six Tales of the Floating Life" Volume 5 "Tales of the Sea Kingdom"?
In June 2008, Peng Ling's masterpiece "Shen Fu Volume 5 Essays" was serialized in five issues in Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po, which shocked people at home and abroad.
At that time, it had been 200 years since Shen's comeback to make the Ryukyus.
(Ryukyu is now RB Okinawa.) The Ryukyu Kingdom has completely disappeared, and no one can speak the Ryukyuan language. Modern Ryukyuan people only speak Japanese. )
Even manuscripts that have been copied by humans are valuable for research.
What's more, what Han Zhou found this time was a silver point of light, which should be the original manuscript, so that it is worthy of the value of the silver point of light.
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The next day, Han Zhou drove to continue looking for another spot of light.
Drive to the countryside again. It's not so much the countryside as the wilderness.
It is a deserted rocky mountain.
Han Zhou climbs the mountain.
Climbed a few dozen meters and looked at the treasure map.
The golden dot of light is right in front of you.
Han Zhou looked forward.
It's a big rock.
Boxy and standing on the ground.
About half a person tall.
One meter long and wide.
"Could it be that the golden treasure is this stone?"
Han Zhou was a little confused.
Further zoom in on the treasure map, and the scale is very large.
"Not true. ”
Han Zhou found that, according to the map, this point of light was much smaller than the big rock.
"Is the treasure in the stone?"
Han Zhou thought about it, and turned the multi-functional shovel he carried with him into a hammer.
He knocked it lightly and lightly on the stone.
Clang~
A long echo.
Immediately, Han Zhou found that some cracks appeared on the surface of the stone.
Han Zhou knocked more than a dozen times.
bell, bell, bell
Click.
It's like the sound of walnuts being crushed.
The stone cracked.
Something rolled out of it.
Han Zhou fixed his eyes.
It was found to be a four-sided cone, like a small pyramid.
The material is metal. The color is a deep, blackish blue.
The surface is densely packed with circles, like deep eyes, looking at the outside world.
Han Zhou's scalp was numb when he saw it.