"Where is the Land of Demons?" Mencius did not think of any place in Egypt where it was called this name.

"It's not clear, judging from what was deciphered, it may be related to Apophis. Zheng Anzhi replied.

Meng Zitao thought for a moment: "That demon that represents chaos and death?"

In Egyptian mythology, the gods lived in the primordial ocean in the form of a serpent at the origin of the universe, and the serpent became the embodiment of everything that existed in the primordial sea

According to the ancient Egyptian cosmology, the sun god returned to the primordial ocean of the god "Nunn" after sunset. The process after sunset is to "return to the belly of a giant serpent" to symbolize the path of the sun at night, until the sun god "Ra" is reborn from the east at sunrise.

The snake "Apophis", which represents the dark forces of nature, is the old enemy of the sun god "Ra", especially when the sun sets in the west and the sun rises in the east. According to the New Kingdom book of Hades (Amduat), after sunset, the sun god had to go through a twelve-hour night voyage until he was reborn from the eastern sky the next day.

"Apophis" tried to swallow the sun god into his stomach every day, so that the universe could return to its original chaos and darkness, but every time "Apophis" tried to defeat the spell of the gods. In this way, "Apophis" became the enemy of the order of creation, a symbol of chaos and death.

"Yes, that's him. ”

Zheng Anzhi said: "However, there is still a part of the content that has not been deciphered, and it is not known what it means." In addition, until now, the pronunciation of ancient Egyptian characters has been a matter of speculation. Egyptologists can only understand the meaning of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, but they cannot speak ancient Egyptian like ancient Egyptians, and there is no guarantee whether the meaning is correct or not. It may be a long process to decipher all the words. ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Anzhi got up and took the faxed materials and handed them to Meng Zitao.

The hieroglyphs on the document, Meng Zitao saw it in a fog, so he could only memorize it all by rote, ready to take time to see if he could crack it.

After leaving from his master's place, Meng Zitao drove to the museum, and as soon as he arrived at his office, Qian Songyuan came over.

Qian Songyuan said: "Curator, I got a message from a friend, on the 26th, there is an internal exchange meeting in Jiangcheng, and it is said that there are a lot of good things on it, and there is even an osmanthus cup. ”

"Blue and white or colorful?" Meng Zitao hurriedly asked, the osmanthus cup is the most difficult to find among the twelve five-color flower god cups, originally he could put his hope on the pony king, but now that there is no news from the pony king, he can only think of other ways.

"Colorful. Qian Songyuan took out a photo and handed it to Meng Zitao.

Meng Zitao took a look, it is indeed a colorful osmanthus cup, judging from the photos, the specific typical genuine characteristics, but for him, only by seeing it in person can the authenticity be determined, it is really too many crooked ways in this industry, which is difficult to prevent.

"What is the name of this internal exchange meeting?" Meng Zitao raised his head and asked.

Qian Songyuan said: "I learned when I was communicating with friends on our Internet that this internal exchange meeting is better than the black market auction, but the things on it don't ask where they come from, as long as they are not particularly pitted, they can be auctioned." The price will be cheaper than in the market. ”

Meng Zitao nodded slightly, he thought about it for a while, and said, "If you want to go, there must be an invitation, right?"

Qian Songyuan said: "Yes, if you are going to go, I will ask a friend to prepare an invitation for you, and you can contact him when you get there." ”

Meng Zitao said: "Okay, then you can help me contact your friend, I will go." ”

"Okay, I'll get in touch with him in a moment. Qian Songyuan smiled and said, "By the way, director, in the past few days, I have collected a few collections, do you want to go and see them now?"

"Oh, where did it come from?" said Meng Zitao.

"Actually, it's all transactions on the site. Qian Songyuan touched his nose, quite embarrassed, because originally he didn't approve of setting up a member exchange section on the website, he felt that it was not meaningful, and it involved energy, but now the effect is so good, it is completely unexpected to him.

Qian Songyuan's thinking is still a bit old-fashioned, and it is understandable that he does not understand the effect brought by the website, Meng Zitao did not care about this, and said with a smile: "The effect is good, keep up the good work, as for the look, there is no need, with you and the expert group to check, I don't think there is a problem." ”

This time, Meng Zitao invited several well-known experts in the industry to form an expert group of the museum, such as Wang Zhixuan, Lu Xiuqi and others.

And the transaction on the website is to see the goods first and pay later, if you find a problem, you can return it, you can also report it on the website, the cost of selling fake sellers is very high, and there will generally be no problems.

In line with the principle of not using suspicious people and employing people without suspicion, Meng Zitao believes in Qian Songyuan's eyesight, of course, this does not mean that he will let it go, he will still go to the vault from time to time every month to inspect.

Next, Meng Zitao discussed the development plan of the museum with Qian Songyuan, and then Qian Songyuan quit his job.

Now that the operation of the museum is on the right track, there is nothing to do after Mencius has dealt with some small things. After thinking about it, he was going to go to the cultural street where the museum is located.

There are already quite a few antique shops opening on the street, some of them new, but most of them have moved from all over the city.

Under the leadership of the Management Committee, the Cultural Street is holding special activities, and it is a Sunday, and there are many tourists in the Cultural Street.

As Meng Zitao walked down the street, he felt a faint sense of pride when he thought that this place was originally a remote wasteland, but now it was gradually becoming prosperous.

However, although the cultural street seems to have a good momentum, there are also many unsatisfactory places, such as too few places to eat.

When Chinese people play, it is indispensable to eat this, and if the cultural street wants to become bigger, it is best to have a place nearby where you can taste food.

Meng Zitao pondered, and went back to discuss with the city to see if there was such a development plan, but it really didn't work, and he funded it himself. Now he has a lot of bonuses in his hand, and instead of putting them away, it is better to use them to develop business and make money profitable.

Meng Zitao went to a few acquaintances' shops, contacted the feelings, and asked everyone what difficulties and opinions they had.

With the advice given by several shopkeepers, Meng Zitao walked into an antique shop again.

Shopkeeper Xia, who was receiving guests, saw Meng Zitao come in and greeted him with a smile.

Meng Zitao was polite, and saw that Shopkeeper Xia was holding a glass in his hand, and the cup was a transparent liquid, he walked over curiously, it turned out that Shopkeeper Xia was preparing to use the method of "purple gas from the east" to identify a red sandalwood box.

Meng Zitao glanced at the box a few times, and then saw Shopkeeper Xia scrape off some red sandalwood powder from the relatively hidden place of the box and put it in the wine glass.

In an instant, the liquor in the cup began to react, and the purple mist was very powerful.

Shopkeeper Xia showed a smile on his face, but he heard Meng Zitao say: "Shopkeeper Xia, I suggest that you take some powder from the place you scraped just now and do a comparative experiment." ”

The seller next to him was slightly stunned, and glared at Meng Zitao fiercely: "This is red sandalwood, such a precious thing, I let him shave it once is enough to feel distressed, and he actually has to scrape it twice, it really takes other people's things inappropriately! If you don't buy it, say it early, why waste my time!"

The seller crackled and reprimanded, ignored the person, and left directly with the box.

Shopkeeper Xia was a little stunned and looked at Meng Zitao: "Director Meng, what's going on?"

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "It's normal, now many people like to use the method of 'purple gas from the east' to verify whether it is real red sandalwood, so some unscrupulous sellers use special methods to press the red sandalwood powder on the fake, so that when you scrape it, you will be fooled if you don't pay attention to it." ”

Shopkeeper Xia suddenly realized, and then said fearfully: "Fortunately, I have your reminder, otherwise I would definitely be blind." ”

Meng Zitao waved his hand and was modest.

Shopkeeper Xia invited Meng Zitao to take a seat, and shouted to the cashier at the door: "Juanzi, come and pour a cup of tea for Director Meng." ”

Immediately, a delicate young woman with a little charm came over and served Meng Zitao a cup of tea.

Meng Zitao was faintly strange, the shopkeeper Xia's shop was not big, and it was unlikely that he would invite another cashier with his character, but he did accept it, and he was still a beauty, which had to lead people to reverie.

may have seen Meng Zitao's doubts, and the shopkeeper Xia took the initiative to explain: "Juanzi is the daughter-in-law of my cousin in my hometown, but my nephew is not blessed, he has only been married for a few months, he drank too much wine, and his stomach was bleeding profusely, because he was drunk, he fell on the side of the road at night and no one found him, and when he was discovered, he was hopeless." My cousin's house is not easy, and some time ago I asked her to find her a job, so I asked her to make do with me for a while. ”

Shopkeeper Xia's explanation should be the truth, but Meng Zitao read some abnormal feelings from his eyes when he looked at Juanzi, could it be that the two got along in private? Or is it that Shopkeeper Xia is in unrequited love, after all, he is old, and he is not handsome, and it is more likely that Juanzi does not like him.

No matter what the case is, Meng Zitao is quite speechless about the shopkeeper Xia, obviously he has a family that seems to be quite happy to outsiders, why do you still want to do this?

However, the next detail made Meng Zitao feel that things were not normal, and then carefully observing the face and performance of the shopkeeper Xia, he felt a "chuckle" in his heart.

Meng Zitao appeared to be normal, and as before, he asked Shopkeeper Xia about the difficulties he was encountering now, as well as his suggestions for the development of Cultural Street, and then got up to leave.

Walking out of Shopkeeper Xia's shop, Meng Zitao called Wang Zhixuan and asked him to make an appointment with Shopkeeper Xia as soon as possible......