In the late Qing Dynasty, the situation was unstable, the invasion of foreign powers, and the uprising of the Twist Army, in order to avoid trouble, the grandfather of the Jiang family secretly built a clay kiln in the countryside to make a living by imitating fake antiques.

When Grandpa was young, he learned some treasure appreciation knowledge in the family, and he was very good at counterfeiting antiques.

He is highly skilled, from bronze to porcelain, calligraphy and painting, all proficient, imitating Tang like Tang, imitating Han like Han, creating fakes that are so vivid that it is difficult for ordinary appraisers to distinguish the authenticity.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the people were displaced, and the people were displaced, and the sellers fled for refuge, and the antiques were everywhere, and they were not worth any money at all.

At that time, foreigners from all over the world fished in troubled waters and looted antique objects on a large scale, and their appraisal level was limited, and they could not distinguish the value of antiques, so as long as they were Chinese antiquities, no matter what dynasty they had, they would all be purchased.

Grandpa Tai saw the opportunity to make a fortune, and since foreigners like antiques, he decided to break into the world of antiques.

Grandpa spent a lot of effort and capital to collect valuable old objects from the homes of down-and-out wealthy families, take them back to the earthen kiln and copy them all, and then hide the real things and sell the fake goods to foreign devils.

Relying on his shrewd mind and super craftsmanship, he soon became famous in the antique business, mixed well, made a windfall, traveled around the embassies of various countries, and became a guest of honor for foreigners.

At that time, a foreigner asked him to help identify antiques, so he took the opportunity to steal beams and replace pillars, and exchanged the real thing with high-imitation fakes.

Many people in the antique industry saw him make a fortune, and they were very red-eyed, and openly and secretly scolded him as a traitor. But Grandpa Tai didn't think so at all, he had countless good things, all of which were hidden for future generations, and none of them were left to foreign devils.

He looked forward to the day when prosperity would come, and just relying on these antiques would make the descendants of the Jiang family rich and rival the country.

Grandpa Tai has more and more antique treasures, and he compiled an antique record book to record the antiques in detail.

Later, the war was frequent, the family moved to other places, and the antiques could not be carried and preserved, so the grandfather buried the treasures in batches into the ground, drew a map of the treasures, and passed the record book to his son.

After the death of Grandpa Tai, the descendants of the Jiang family searched for treasures many times, but they couldn't find it according to the map. When the Jiang family returned to the place where Grandpa built the clay kiln, the nearby houses, rivers and trees were all there, but only the clay kiln was nowhere to be found.

It has been a hundred years since the Jiang family's grandfather hid the treasure, and no trace has been found so far.

At this time, Yun Kang was squatting in a square deep pit cellar, Jiang Rongzhan, Jiang Mo and Shen Moutong next to him were gathered together, holding a flashlight to illuminate, looking down at an old and tattered book, which was the record book left by the grandfather of the Jiang family.

After listening to Jiang Rongzhan's description, Yun Kang was stunned, there was such a strange thing in the world, it was impossible for the grandfather of the Jiang family to hide only a few treasures back then, it should be a huge treasure.

Since the Jiang family has a treasure map in their hands, there are traces to follow, and so many things are all missing, and none of them can be found, which is unreasonable and unreasonable.

At this time, Jiang Rongzhan shone a flashlight on the tattered thread-bound notebook, turned a few pages and stopped, and said: "This is the record of the bronze ware left by Grandpa Tai, which records five or six large bronze vessels, including a bronze round tripod, as long as we find this thing, all the troubles can be solved." ”

Yunkang took the tattered record book in his hand, and saw that it was a thick book bound with rice paper, with handwriting written with a brush on it, and some sketches of antiques, recording the size, size, material, color, use and era of each antique, written densely and in great detail.

Yun Kang nodded secretly, this rice paper book is a long time old, the corners have turned yellow, it can't be fake, and the antiques recorded on it are also very real. He even flipped through a few pages and looked carefully, and sure enough, they were all rare treasures, if he found these things, the Jiang family would not only be rich and rival the country.

He took advantage of the flashlight to look at the round tripod recorded in the notebook, and drew a fairly clear sketch next to a few lines of upright small block letters.

This is a three-legged bronze tripod, the tripod is stable and heavy, the tripod belly is round, and the casting lines are very smooth. The diameter of the mouth of the tripod is about one meter, and the ears of the tripod are engraved with the gluttonous dragon pattern respectively, which is a very ancient bronze tripod of the Shang Dynasty.

This round tripod was mostly used for sacrifices during the Shang Dynasty, but it was large in scale and thick in texture, which was very suitable for alchemy cultivators. Yunkang looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but feel a little moved.

If you can help the Jiang family find the treasure, maybe you can get a round tripod like this, and you won't have to worry about alchemy in the future.

Although he got a Dan furnace from the storage ring of Chen Fu's family, after all, the furnace was too small, it was very unstable to burn the heavenly fire with the Dan furnace, and the success rate of alchemy was relatively low, and it was easy to fry the furnace. But if you use a thick round tripod for alchemy, the effect is by no means comparable to that of the Dan furnace.

Yunkang closed the rice paper record book and returned it to Jiang Rongzhan, with some plans in his heart.

He turned his head to look at the surroundings, just now the four of them climbed down from the entrance of the sarcophagus coffin, and soon came to the end of the underground passage, which was a square space, with a total of eight black holes in the front and back, left and back.

The space is not spacious, the overall height is less than one meter and a half, and there are hard and cold rock walls all around, Yunkang and they can't stand up at all, so they can only squat and talk.

Jiang Mo said to Yunkang: "How about it, you have seen the physical record, are you sure that you can find something?" ”

He carried an oil lamp in his hand, and the dim light shone on his face, casting a shadow that seemed bright and dark, making his expression look a little weird.

Shen Mouton next to him was hidden in the shadow of the light, and his eyes were like wild wolves, alert and ruthless, revealing two eerie and mysterious lights.

Seeing that the eyes of the three of them were fixed on him, Yun Kang couldn't help coughing twice and said, "These things have been missing for more than a hundred years, how can I find them now?" ”

According to Jiang Rongzhan, this country villa is the site of the grandfather's earthen kiln, and when the Jiang family built the villa, they found that there were some old stone steps left underground, leading to the depths of the ground, and connected to a closed stone room.

The huge sarcophagus coffin in the stone chamber is the old thing left untouched back then. Jiang Rongzhan thought that the treasure was placed in the coffin, but he didn't expect that he found a secret passage entrance in the sarcophagus coffin, and after entering the secret passage, he came to this cellar-like place.

"This must have something to do with the location of the treasure back then, it should be an entrance." Jiang Mo took out an old and yellowed treasure map, spread it on the ground, illuminated it with the light of an oil lamp, stretched out his hand and pointed to a place with a red circle, and said, "Look here, it happens to be the shape of this cellar." ”

Yun Kang looked at it carefully, and sure enough, the treasure map was drawn very clearly, and there was a sarcophagus attached to the cellar.

"But where this cellar leads, I can't guess at all." Jiang Mo drew a circle around the cellar with his finger and said, "There are a total of eight passages here, and I have already investigated each passage, and all of them are dead ends. ”

These eight passages should not have been left by Grandpa Tai, but the passages dug up by the descendants of the Jiang family in order to hunt for treasure, but they still found nothing.

Since the treasure escape has happened, it will definitely not stay where it is. But Jiang Mo felt that the treasure must be in one of these eight passages.

Yunkang looked up at him and said, "What can you do?" ”

Jiang Mo looked at him and said with a smile: "Looking for you to come over to help, of course, I want to borrow your skills, as long as you go over to investigate, there is hope for the treasure." ”

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