The text on the beads is regular script, and although the official language of the Yuan Dynasty is Mongolian, the script used by the Han people still follows the regular script of the Song Dynasty.

While Wu Zhongyuan was looking at the bead, Wang Xinran handed over another one, "There is also one on it." ”

Wu Zhongyuan took it and looked at it again, and the beads were engraved with a "Shang." ”

Upon closer inspection, it was found that the twelve beads had four inscriptions, which read, "Straight up." ”

These four words are an idiom, usually used to describe the pridefulness of officialdom and rising step by step.

After handing over all the beads to Wu Zhongyuan, Wang Xinran continued to look for possible clues from the small tomb, but in the end she found nothing, because there were not many things in the tomb, except for some wine jars and weapons used by Wu Lu during his lifetime, there were no other burial goods, and no epitaph recording the life deeds of the tomb owner was found in the tomb.

"When you go up, you have to pretend to be happy. Wang said happily.

Wu Zhongyuan tilted his head to look at her.

Wang Xinran explained, "They should be hiding around here, and through the binoculars, you can see our expressions." ”

"I see what you mean. Wu Zhongyuan nodded, Wang Xinran wanted to mislead the opponent and make the opponent mistakenly think that they had obtained the spirit stone, so he gave up the search for this spirit stone.

The two went up to the ground from the bottom of the pit, walked quickly to the car in the distance, and when they walked, they did not smile, but their expressions were solemn, and they looked left and right when they walked, and after getting into the car, Wang happily lowered the window glass and threw away the cigarette butts, and at this moment the two of them had a pretended smile on their faces.

Wang Xinran raised the window glass, the car started, Wang Xinran ordered the driver to drive normally, not to drive too fast, not to drive too slowly, to drive too fast as if in a hurry, to drive too slowly and seem a little deliberate.

After the car started, Wang Xinran contacted the headquarters and asked them to take charge of handling the aftermath, and then reported the relevant situation to the headquarters.

During this process, Wu Zhongyuan kept his eyes closed, and the twelve beads found in the grave were always held in his hands.

After finishing his chores, Wang Xinran turned his head to look at Wu Zhongyuan, "What are you thinking?"

Wu Zhongyuan did not open his eyes, "Lapis lazuli is produced in Afghanistan, and during the Yuan Dynasty, Afghanistan was a vassal state of the Yuan Dynasty. ”

Wang Xinran didn't understand what Wu Zhongyuan wanted to say, but she didn't ask, because she knew that Wu Zhongyuan would continue to speak.

Wu Zhongyuan continued, "In ancient times, lapis lazuli was very rare, and like turquoise amber, it could be used as currency, and this gemstone was worn by officials of the fourth rank in the Qing Dynasty, and in the Yuan Dynasty, it had not yet become an official accessory for officials. ”

"And then?" asked Wang happily.

Wu Zhongyuan said, "Wu Lu is a rough man, he shouldn't like to wear this kind of jewelry, and even if he wears it, he shouldn't engrave it, because being an official is not his interest, so I suspect that this string of beads was given to him by someone else." ”

"Since lapis lazuli is worth a lot of money, the person who gave him this string of beads must not be an ordinary person. Wang said happily.

Wu Zhongyuan nodded again, "Qian Yunzhi has the grace of knowing him, and Qian Yunzhi returned to his hometown, I suspect that this string of beads was given to him by Qian Yunzhi as a souvenir before leaving." ”

"I understand what you mean," Wang said happily, "Wu Lu has no long things, and it is very likely that he will return the favor by suddenly accepting such a valuable gift from the old leader." ”

Wang Xinran nodded slowly.

Wang Xinran didn't ask any more questions, picked up his mobile phone and asked the headquarters for help, asking the other party to help find out where Qian Yunzhi's hometown was.

Wu Lu is a monk who is a half-monk, he was already middle-aged when he appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, unlike him, Qian Yunzhi has been living in the Yuan Dynasty, and he was already over sixty years old when he returned to his hometown, and there are many records about his deeds in historical materials.

Soon, news came from the headquarters that Qian Yunzhi's hometown was Zizhou, Shandong, which is now Zibo, Shandong.

Qian Yunzhi lived for more than ten years after returning to his hometown, and was buried in the family cemetery of the Qian family after his death.

It took more than three hours to fly from the northwest to Shandong, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening when the plane landed, Wang Xinran got some clues about Qian Yunzhi on the plane, one of the clues made the two worried, the Qian family is a wang family for many years, and there was a martial champion in the Qing Dynasty, their cemetery has been preserved relatively intact, but in the broken four old periods, the ancestral tomb of the Qian family has been seriously damaged, this is not that the Qian family has been a traitor or a bad person, but the surname of the Qian family is not good, what is the money, no faith to recognize money? The tail of capitalism is smashed.

Although they were physically and mentally exhausted, the two did not dare to delay, and rushed from Zibo to Linzi overnight, and then from Linzi to Qianjiazhuang in Youping Township.

Qianjiazhuang is a large village, with more than 800 households, and 70% of the people in the village are surnamed Qian, and most of these people are direct or collateral descendants of Qian Yunzhi.

There is no patriarch in China now, the village is all secretaries and village chiefs in charge, many village secretaries and village chiefs are the same person, this village is like this, the current secretary's surname is Qian, both the village chief and the speaker of his own clan.

Long before the two of them arrived at the village, Secretary Qian was already waiting at the entrance of the village, and this guy received a phone call from his superiors at five o'clock in the morning informing him that there was a political task that required his full cooperation.

At six o'clock in the morning, the two and Secretary Qian drank tea from the village office, Secretary Qian was sleepy to death, and the two were also sleepy to death.

At half past six, a few old men came with a family tree, the family tree is not simply a record of who is whose grandfather, who is the grandson, but also records a lot of major events in the family, by consulting the family tree, the two of them are excited again, it turns out that the Red Guards who smashed the ancestral grave of the Qian family are a group of half-grown children who are in junior high school, and they only smashed the tombstone, and did not dig the grave and destroy the body.

The ancestral tomb of the Qian family is located in the back mountain, which occupies half of the mountain, Qian Yunzhi is the source of the Qian family's origin, and it is also the earliest ancestor of the Qian family genealogy, his tomb is located at the foot of the back mountain.

The county archaeological team arrived at 8 o'clock in the morning, and seven or eight came, bringing archaeological tools such as Luoyang shovels.

In front of other people's children and grandchildren, digging people's ancestral graves, no one can accept it, just doing ideological work took a whole day, knowing it with affection, moving it with benefits, as for what benefits, the two are not very clear, it seems that the superiors promised to give the village a project to benefit farmers.

Secretary Qian's expression perfectly interprets what it means to be unwilling, and several old people of the Qian family are also looking like mourners, burning paper, kowtowing, crying and shouting to review "children and grandchildren are not filial." ”

After the sun went down, the excavation equipment was transferred, or the excavator, but it was small, and at this time, the archaeological team had determined the specific location of Qian Yunzhi's tomb and its size regulations, and they pointed out the specific direction, and dug the dome of the tomb in less than ten minutes.

On the premise of destroying the tomb as little as possible, the archaeological team dug up a corner of Qian Yunzhi's tomb, because the age was too old, groundwater seeped into the tomb, and there was quite deep water in it.

Before that, the archaeological team already knew that there was stagnant water in the tomb, and the pumping equipment had already been prepared, and when the water pipe was inserted down, there was a sudden crackling sound in the tomb, and the sound was like a big fish making waves in the water.

At this time, it was already dark, and the archaeological team member who inserted the tube threw the pipe in fright and climbed up as if fleeing, "There is something underwater." ”

Not only the archaeological team members, but even Wu Zhongyuan and Wang Xinran were shocked into a cold sweat by the sound coming from the tomb, how could there be living creatures in the sealed tomb?

However, Qian Yunzhi's tomb is not big, even if there are living creatures in it, the size will not be too scary, Wu Zhongyuan pulled Wang Xinran, who wanted to go down to insert the tube, and jumped down and inserted the water pipe into the bottom of the tomb.

When the pumping machine started, the black stagnant water poured out, and the stagnant water discharged a strong fishy smell.

It's not right if there is a fishy smell, it's either fish or snakes, it's fishy, and it smells sick.

Qian Yunzhi's tomb is about fifty square meters, which is not big for an official of his level, but it is not small, the pump pumped for half an hour, the water flow is small, and the crackling sound in the tomb is endless.

Listen to the sound, it should be a fish, and more than one.

Wu Zhongyuan took the bright flashlight of the archaeological team, jumped to the gap above the dome and shone it down, before irradiating, he secretly prepared his mind, trying to imagine that the things in the tomb were terrifying and terrifying.

When he saw the things in the tomb clearly, Wu Zhongyuan was secretly glad that he had made full psychological preparations in advance, because the things in the tomb were indeed terrifying, and in the fifty-square-meter tomb, there were many snake-like creatures winding and coiling.

After the initial visual impact subsided, Wu Zhongyuan looked closely at the serpentine creatures below, and found that these serpentine creatures were not some peculiar species, but some huge loaches and yellow eels, the loaches were black and numerous, several times larger than the common loaches. The yellow-brown eels, on the other hand, are fewer, but larger, and the largest one is more than a meter long and the thickness of a wrist.

The pumping pipe is ten centimeters thick, and some loaches are sucked into the pipe and crushed by the impeller of the pump, and red blood flows from one end of the outlet pipe.

This situation became more and more terrifying under the illumination of the flashlight, Secretary Qian and the others were directly frightened, their legs trembled with fright, their faces turned pale, and they almost turned around and ran away.

Seeing this, the archaeological team members went to educate them on science, and based on the location of the tomb, it was inferred that there was probably an earthquake in this area before, and the earthquake cracked the rock formations, and some fish that could survive in the dark entered the tomb through the cracks and the groundwater.

Such an explanation obviously could not eliminate everyone's panic and fear, but there was no time to appease them at the moment, and the top priority was to enter the tomb as soon as possible and search for possible spirit stones.

This work lasted for a whole night, and General Qian's tomb was a joint burial tomb, and in addition to his corpse, there were also three female corpses in the tomb, which should be his concubines.

Due to the long time it took to enter the water, the coffins in the tomb had rotted completely, and the corpses and funerary goods were scattered in the mud throughout the burial chamber.

After a night of excavation, the archaeological team found a small number of burial goods from the tomb, mainly gold and silver, and some daily necessities, but there was nothing the two were looking for.

In the later stage of the excavation, the archaeological team found the epitaph in a corner of the tomb, because the tomb was dimly lit and smelled fishy, Wang Xinran ordered someone to carry the epitaph out of the tomb, wash it with clean water, and read it carefully.

The so-called epitaph is actually a stone tablet that records the life of the tomb owner, and this stone tablet is densely engraved with hundreds of words......