Meng Zitao came to a conclusion: "Therefore, I think the production time of this jade pendant should be in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, or it may be the Three Kingdoms period, looking at its craftsmanship and pattern characteristics, etc., indicating that the owner's level is still relatively high, but there is no detailed inscription on it, we don't know who the owner is." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

After listening to Meng Zitao's detailed explanation, Shopkeeper Wu couldn't help but applaud him: "Wonderful, it's really wonderful." ”

Meng Zitao smiled modestly.

Shopkeeper Wu then pushed the jade pendant to Meng Zitao: "Teacher Meng, I mean what I say, and this jade pendant will be given to you." ”

"That's it. ”

Meng Zitao still smiled and declined, although he didn't quite understand why the shopkeeper Wu insisted on giving him the jade pendant, but as the old saying goes, no merit will not be punished, even if he likes this jade pendant more, he will definitely not accept it in vain.

"Shopkeeper Wu, I also have my own principles, so let's do like this jade pendant, even if I take advantage of it, how about 100,000?"

This piece of jade carving is really good, and the jade quality is also good, but because it is not big, and the quality is not too good, this affects its value. Of course, 100,000 is already a good price.

Seeing Meng Zitao say this, the shopkeeper Wu didn't say anything, and agreed after a few polite words.

Meng Zitao swiped his card at Wu's shopkeeper and completed the transaction.

As soon as everyone returned to their seats, they saw a middle-aged man wearing a black jacket, pale skin and a little scary, with silver hair walking in from outside the door.

The middle-aged man is the friend that the shopkeeper Wu said, Meng Zitao saw that this person looked godless, but his eyes were very bright, giving people a shrewd feeling.

Shopkeeper Wu briefly introduced to both parties, because of the relationship between silver hair, the middle-aged man has a nickname called Lao Yin, he is a professional broker, and occasionally makes a cameo appearance as a "shovel", according to him, the jade he sold to Wu's shopkeeper was bought by him from Tufuzi.

Shopkeeper Wu sneered: "Hey, you're really embarrassed, why didn't you make it clear to me in the first place? ”

Lao Yin smiled: "I just feel dirty, so I dealt with it, as for the jade pendant is colored, I don't have that much ability." Okay, Lao Wu, don't complain, didn't I bring sincerity. ”

As he spoke, he patted a box in his hand: "These are all jade, and they are carefully selected by me, I guarantee that you will be satisfied, as for the price, I will definitely give you a big discount." ”

Shopkeeper Wu said angrily: "Are you embarrassed to withdraw money?"

Lao Yin said with a smile: "Lao Wu, don't be like me, besides, I also have to support my family, you don't want my family to go hungry, right?"

Shopkeeper Wu waved his hand: "Don't be smiling with me, why didn't you take care of my feelings when you asked me to sell things?"

Lao Yin spread his hands: "Okay, that soap box is a gift from me, it's always okay." As for that jade pendant, I really can't afford to give it away, it's a jade pendant unearthed from Cao Cao's tomb, and I bought it for a lot of money. ”

Shopkeeper Wu sneered and said: "What you said was unearthed from Cao Cao's tomb? Then one day I took something and said that it was unearthed from the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, is it going to be sold for a sky-high price?" ”

Lao Yin said: "They are all friends who have known each other for many years, so he won't lie to me about this, right?"

Shopkeeper Wu smiled: "Yo, Lao Yin, when did you become so simple? Besides, now Cao Cao's tomb has been excavated for a while, and it has already yielded results, you tell me that it is a cultural relic unearthed from Cao Cao's tomb?"

"Do you believe that it is the real Cao Cao's tomb? Don't tease, okay? ”

Lao Yin sneered and said, "I also have an understanding of that tomb, saying that a total of 250 things have been unearthed now, as well as gold objects. According to the records in the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, Wei Shu, Emperor Wu Ji" (Volume 1), there is no 'gold' in Cao Cao's tomb, and the clothes are also 'burial clothes'. Okay, let's just say that what is unearthed now is not very valuable, so it turns out to be a 'thin burial'? ”

"You know, this tomb was stolen at an early age, and it was stolen several times before it was excavated. How can you prove that ancient or modern tomb robbers did not steal treasures from it? If the tomb was not stolen, it is better to say that it has been stolen now, this kind of judgment is too far-fetched and unreliable. ”

Moreover, whether it is a thin burial can not be judged to be evidence of Cao Cao's tomb, Emperor Wen of Han also advocated a thin burial before his death, but later let the tomb robbers steal a large number of gold and silver treasures. Thin burial and thick burial, from some of the ancient tomb materials I have studied, there is no unified standard. ”

Meng Zitao nodded secretly, not to mention, Lao Yin's remarks are indeed reasonable, and it is precisely because of this that there is so much controversy over the identification of Cao Cao's tomb now.

Shopkeeper Wu snorted again: "What you said makes sense, but how can you prove that what you said is the real tomb?"

Lao Yin said: "It's very simple, he still has a golden seal of Cao Cao, but I can't afford it, so I can only look at it with greed." ”

Meng Zitao suddenly became interested, and hurriedly asked, "Can you describe the appearance of that golden seal?"

"It's the square gold seal of the dragon seal. ”

"Where's the inscription?"

"It seems to be the seal of King Wei Wu, I didn't see it very clearly at the time. ”

Meng Zitao shook his head: "If this is the case, then it cannot be proved that it is Cao Cao's burial seal." ”

Lao Yin was surprised: "Why, is there anyone else called King Wei Wu!"

Meng Zitao said: "During the period of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, when Yao Chang of Later Qin was called Emperor Qin, he posthumously named his brother Yao Xiang as King Wu of Wei. ”

"Uh......" Lao Yin was slightly stunned, then shook his head and said: "It's still not right, the style of the jade pendant is from the late Han Dynasty, and it has nothing to do with the Wuhu and Sixteen Kingdoms period." ”

Shopkeeper Wu said angrily: "You are usually very smart, why do you make a mistake at a critical moment? Let's make an assumption, what if the gold seal is fake?"

"It shouldn't be. Lao Yin looked a little sharp, and he said, "He shouldn't have to lie to me, it's no good to lie to me." In addition, Cao Cao didn't have seventy-two doubtful mounds, and it was normal to hide some things that seemed to be true and fake. ”

"You just talk about it, in the official history, I don't see any seventy-two doubtful graves. Shopkeeper Wu retorted.

To say, in the official history, Cao Cao's thrift is very famous. Two years before his death, Cao Cao ordered someone to build a mausoleum for him on the barren land on the plateau west of the Ximen Leopard Temple, and specifically instructed that the mausoleum should be built on high ground, and that no high graves should be piled up on the ground, and no marks should be made. In the first month of the twenty-fifth year of Jian'an (220), Cao Cao died of illness in Luoyang and was buried in Gaoling in February of the same year. Later generations speculated that the so-called Gaoling may refer to the mausoleum built on the west plain of the Ximen Leopard Temple.

However, in the legend, Cao Cao ordered people to set up 72 doubtful mounds outside the city of Jiangwu in Zhangde Mansion before he died, so that future generations would not know where his body was buried, for fear that someone would excavate it. On the day of the funeral, all the gates in Yecheng were opened at the same time, and 72 coffins were lifted out from the four directions of southeast, south, and northwest at the same time, and buried in the pre-prepared tomb.

As a result, future generations can no longer tell which one is Cao Cao's real tomb and which one is a doubtful tomb that confuses people.

But all this is actually the content of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is no such record in the historical materials, just because the name of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is too big, as the old saying goes, three people become tigers, so the descendants have come to two conclusions about the location of Cao Cao's tomb, the first is the Ximen Leopard Temple, known as Gaoling;

And according to the current archaeological discoveries, the so-called seventy-two doubtful tombs are actually the tombs of the Northern Dynasty, and they have nothing to do with Cao Cao at all.

Getting back to the point, Shopkeeper Wu waved his hand and said, "Come on, I won't have anything to do with you, take out the things you brought, don't want to be a new pit." ”

"Most of them are old pits or heirlooms, and there are also two new pits, so you don't want to keep them for me. By the way, the price is ......" Lao Yin guarded his box, as if he was afraid that he would rob it for Shopkeeper Wu.

Feng Zhengsheng was a little impatient, and said bluntly: "Don't be verbose, the money won't be less for you." ”

Lao Yin looked at Shopkeeper Wu again, and saw that he also said the same, so he opened the box.

I saw that there were many exquisite jade objects in the box, roughly counting, there were as many as eleven or twelve pieces, among which jade pendants were the mainstay, supplemented by jade ornaments.

When Shopkeeper Wu saw these jades, his eyes lit up a little: "Good boy, where did you go to sweep the goods, and you actually got so many treasures?"

Lao Yin smiled and said, "Didn't I tell you before, these jade artifacts are carefully selected by me. ”

"You just. The shopkeeper Wu was 10,000 unconvinced: "You are a typical 'call for Hanako not to leave overnight food', which time did you have more than three treasures in your hand before?"

Lao Yin didn't want to say more: "Ah, you don't care, let's see if you like it first." ”

In the face of so many exquisite jades, Shopkeeper Wu didn't want to talk to the old silver-topped cow, so he let Feng Zhengsheng and Meng Zitao do it first, and picked up one of them himself and appreciated it carefully.

Appreciating jade pieces in the past, Mencius found that most of these were ancient jades from the Song and Ming dynasties, and they were probably collected deliberately, because their carving styles were similar, and this style also gave Mencius some impressions, as if he had seen them somewhere.

"It's weird, where have I ever seen this style?"

Meng Zitao felt strange in his heart, rummaging through the memories in his mind, and immediately remembered a jade in his pocket, and he also had some guesses in his heart.