Chapter 436: Two Professors Who Fell into Madness
A large number of rare and precious cultural relics have been found in Fairy Mountain in Xiantao Village!
This news quickly caused a sensation in the country.
The story is very simple, the security guard of the Fairy Mountain Scenic Area found a hidden cave when doing a security check, and found traces of human habitation in the cave.
Moreover, it was also found that it was hidden in two boxes.
Lei Huanxi, the head of Xiantao Village, who led the team to conduct a security inspection in person, immediately reported it to the town.
Secretary Zuo attached great importance to this, personally led a team to Xiantao Village, and ordered Lei Huanxi to immediately block the scene, and he reported it to the city.
Lv Shikai, a cadre of the Yundong Municipal Party Committee, director of the Yundong Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics Protection, and Luo Gaotang, a top domestic cultural relics expert, and a large group of people and horses rushed to Xiantao Village.
To be honest, at first, neither Lu Shikai nor Luo Gaotang thought that there could be any great discoveries in Xiantao Village, according to their judgment, these ancient books should be left over from the last years of the Qing Dynasty or later.
And in the report, there are bamboo slips, which are fakes from the late Qing Dynasty.
In Professor Luo Gaotang's view, in the late Qing Dynasty, a large number of Eight Banners disciples were broken, and even eating became a big problem, but most of them had a skill:
Cheat.
Some of them cheat by themselves, and some of them hire masters to cheat, focusing on simple and easy-to-do things such as bamboo slips, and then find the victim to get rid of it at a high price.
Nine times out of ten, Xiantao Village is these things.
When they arrived at Xiantao Village, the road to Fairy Mountain had been temporarily closed, and a large number of tourists were not anxious this time, but were also full of curiosity, wanting to see what treasures had been found in Fairy Mountain.
When we came to the cave on the muddy path, the two boxes had already been moved.
Luo Gaotang opened the box. After only one glance, his gaze immediately froze there.
What is this? This? This can't be true, right?
Picking up the top book, wrapped in broken satin, he opened it carefully, and an exclamation came out of his mouth:
"Hot spring Ming, oh my God, it's the rubbing of Hot Spring Ming!"
A professor surnamed Kuang who came with him also exclaimed: "What? Hot Spring Ming? Impossible, impossible!"
Director Lu Shikai found that Luo Gaotang's hands were constantly trembling. I was a little curious: "Professor Kuang, isn't the hot spring Ming in the National Library of Paris, France?"
"Yes, yes, so how is it possible to find the rubbings of the hot springs here?" Professor Kuang felt incredible: "Although there were no less than 20 rubbings of the hot springs in the Tang Dynasty, all of them were lost with the passage of time." ”
Luo Gaotang finally calmed down his feelings, he and Professor Kuang did a simple examination, and then raised his head, looking more excited and excited: "Director Lu, it can be preliminarily determined." The rubbings of this 'hot spring inscription' are genuine. Oh my God, it's incredible, this will be one of the heaviest discoveries in the history of cultural relics in China and even in the world!"
He couldn't say anything excited, and Professor Kuang helped him continue: "This shows that the rubbings of the hot spring inscriptions are not only stored in the National Library of Paris, France, but also found the rubbings of the hot spring inscriptions in China, which can be said to be the most remarkable discovery in the domestic cultural relics in the past ten years." ”
"Look at this. Look at this!" Before Lu Shikai could ask further, Luo Gaotang opened another satin-wrapped secretary. Several thick books, and then he cried out in ecstasy:
"The Legend of the Three Tibetan Masters of the Datang Great Mercy and Grace Temple!"
This time, Lei Huanxi, who had been listening from the sidelines, couldn't help but ask: "Master Sanzang, it can't be the Tang Sanzang in Journey to the West, right?"
"It's him, it's him!" Luo Gaotang held it in his hand and looked at it as a treasure: "In the first year of Zhenguan of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the 25-year-old young monk Xuanzang left the capital Chang'an and went to Tianzhu to study alone. After setting out from Chang'an, he passed through Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. After many hardships and dangers, they finally reached India. He studied there for more than two years and was acclaimed as a lecturer at a major Buddhist scripture debate. In the nineteenth year of Zhenguan, Xuanzang returned to Chang'an and brought back 657 Buddhist scriptures. This time, he went west to learn the scriptures. Nineteen years before and after, traveling tens of thousands of miles, is a legendary long march of 10,000 miles, a sensation.
Later, Xuanzang dictated what he saw and heard during his journey to the west, which was compiled by his disciple into twelve volumes of 'Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty'. But this book mainly tells the history, geography and transportation of the countries seen on the road, and there are no stories. As for the 'Biography of the Three Tibetan Masters of the Tang Dynasty Dacien Temple' written by his disciples Hui Li and Yan Cong, it adds a lot of mythological colors to Xuanzang's experience, which is the most primitive version of the novel 'Journey to the West' that we are familiar with. Village Chief Lei, you, me!"
He was speechless.
Professor Kuang felt that his eyes were wet, and his voice became choked when he spoke: "The original transmission of Master Sanzang of the Da Ci En Temple of the Tang Dynasty has long been lost, so later generations have been arguing endlessly, whether this book was written by Master Xuanzang's apprentice, or by a later person. And now this original discovery can completely dispel such arguments. ”
Luo Gaotang finally calmed down from his shock and ecstasy: "Director Lu, the books in this box are really too precious, but they are too old, and they must be properly preserved immediately. Professor Kuang and I will stay here, and I would like you to dispatch a large number of instruments and assistants to assist us at once. It's not trivial, it's not trivial, if any book here is destroyed, we will all become sinners of history, and no one can bear such a responsibility!"
Lu Shikai nodded, and immediately ordered his subordinates to hurry up.
The first box had already brought them an incomparable shock, and when the second box was opened, Luo Gaotang and Professor Kuang didn't know what words to use to describe their mood at this moment.
It's some bamboo slips that look ordinary to others.
But what do these bamboo slips mean in the eyes of these experts and professors?
Guan Zhong, who is known as "the pioneer of Legalism, the teacher of sages, the protection of Chinese civilization, and the first minister of China", wrote three articles in the book "Guanzi", including "Herdsmen", "Seven Laws", and "Celestial Combination".
Commanded the alliance of the five countries such as the Yan State, and connected more than 70 cities of the Qi State, and the immortal military wizard Le Yi's "Book of the Emperor of the Kingdom".
It's too much, it's too much.
In the words of Professor Luo and Professor Kuang, the value of these precious bamboo slips is not inferior to those rare books, or even more valuable.
For example, Le Yi's "Book of the Emperor of the Kingdom" can fill a gap very well, that is, Le Yi was suspicious of King Yan Hui and defected to Zhao between his psychological activities, as well as the military situation at that time.
Some of the things that have been debated in the history world can also have a final answer with the advent of this batch of bamboo slips.
Professor Luo and Professor Kuang held one of Lei Huanxi's hands and shook them again and again, but they couldn't say anything.
Lei Huanxi couldn't cry or laugh, what does this mean? Looking at the two old professors, who are both in their seventies, their eyes are red, and their lips are trembling, they are a little moved.
It seems that I have really done a great good thing this time.
It was Lu Shikai who helped and said: "Comrade Lei Huanxi, thank you, thank you." I have worked in the Cultural Relics Bureau for so many years, and I have also dealt with Professor Luo and Professor Kuang for so many years. We've been to a lot of places all over the country, and we've seen a lot of precious cultural relics, but it's the first time I've seen them like this today. On behalf of the Yundong Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics and the national cultural relics protectors, thank you, thank you!"
Lei Huanxi smiled and said nothing.
Secretary Zuo was a little strange: "How could these such precious things be placed in this cave? ”
Lei Huanxi had already thought about how to answer these questions: "Secretary Zuo, there has always been a legend about the prime minister's descendants in Xiantao Village. ”
He told this legend, and it was quickly confirmed by the former village chief Xu Dage: "Yes, the old people in the village know this legend, I heard that hundreds of years ago, there was a group of robbers who rushed into Xiantao Village, looking for the treasure left by the old prime minister everywhere, Lei Huanxi The ancestors of their family were killed two, but the robbers found nothing." ”
"Huh?" Lei Huanxi cried out: "What does this have to do with our Lei family?"
"Your Lei family's original surname was Wang. Xu Dage said indifferently: "How many years have passed since this happened, and no one has talked about it." But your Lei family has a family tree, your grandfather will put it with me when he dies, and he has forgotten to give it to you, and I will give it to you later. ”
It turned out that the descendant of the prime minister named Wang Yu, when he raised the army to serve the king, in order to leave descendants for the Wang family, he left his youngest son in Xiantao Village, and in order to avoid trouble, he ordered him to change his wife's surname "Lei".
This is the origin of the Lei family in Xiantao Village.
Later, the population of the Lei family became more and more withered, and in this generation, Lei Huanxi was left alone.
This time it was our turn to be dumbfounded.
After co-authoring for a long time, he is actually the "descendant" of the prime minister?
Although he is not a serious surname Lei, he is also the only descendant of the Lei family in the end.
Lei Haiye: He doesn't count, he can't get out of that mysterious base alive.
In that case, he is the only and most legitimate successor of those paintings and calligraphy?
"The robbers won't understand. Luo Gaotang sighed with emotion: "This is the real wealth, but this wealth falls into the hands of those robbers, it is of no use to them at all, but will be ruthlessly destroyed." Comrade Xiao Lei, your ancestors did great things for us, and you have also done great things for us. If it weren't for the careful preservation of your ancestors, or for your accidental discovery, I am afraid that it will be difficult for these precious cultural relics to be rediscovered. ”
Our Brother Huanxi didn't care about that.
The only thing he thinks about is how to deal with those precious calligraphy and paintings! (To be continued......