The prefect of Fengyang saw that Zuo Wenxiang's face was complicated, and he obviously had the idea of retreating, and said with a smile: "Ling Ai marrying him may be a blessing or a curse, but even if you don't marry him, if something happens, can you and I get rid of it?" Now that even the British government has been stirred in, what is there to fear? However, at this point, it is not up to you to decide the affairs of the two of them. ”

"My husband has said everything, but he has nothing to say under his rule. This kind of thing is left to fate. ”

Seeing that there were only three people left in the house, Zuo Ling asked with a smile: "What are you asking me to stay for, don't you want the three of us to sleep in the same bed." ”

Moreover, he smiled bitterly: "Kill me, how dare you think of such a thing." I'm going to do something, and I need to have decades of paper and ink. ”

"Decades of paper, ink ingots? Do this. Zuo Ling didn't understand what he meant.

"I'm going to forge a treasure map." To Zuo Ling and Xiao Nier, besides, they don't lie.

"Fake a treasure map?"

Zuo Ling and Xiao Nier were even more confused, and explained: "You know, there have always been people who want to be unfavorable to me, and I only know now that these people thought that I had a treasure map, and they chased after me for this treasure map. So I had to forge one, and then find a time to destroy it in public, and these people would die. ”

"That's not necessarily, even if they believe that you burned the treasure map, you are a living treasure map, and they may not be willing to give up." Zuo Ling thought about it and said.

"It's also possible, but it doesn't matter so much, let's take one step at a time." Besides, if you understand this truth, you can't think of a better way for a while.

Zuo Ling thought about it, she didn't know who wanted to harm her, and some people were willing to believe such absurd rumors.

But where can we find decades-old paper and ink ingots? Whether there is anything at home, she doesn't know, she usually uses paper and ink, and she has not directly dealt with the housekeepers.

"You are too, this is the middle of the night, where do you ask Sister Zuo to find it for you?" Xiao Nier said coquettishly.

"I didn't say I was going to do it right away, just find it tomorrow, of course the sooner the better."

Besides, he also knew that this matter was a bit difficult for a strong man, according to his thoughts, there must be this kind of antiquity in the Marquis's Mansion, but he couldn't leave the Zuo family now, so he could only use local materials.

Zuo Ling quietly returned to his residence and asked a confidant to go to the housekeeper's wife, saying that he wanted these two things.

The housekeeper's wife didn't dare to slack off, so she went to the warehouse to light a candle to find it.

The treasury of the Zuo family's inner house is also accumulated from generation to generation, and many things are no longer clear when they were left. The housekeeper looked for half the night, and finally found a few yellowed pieces of paper and an ancient ink ingot, which was still a time in the Yuan Dynasty, and it was finally enough for the year. She took out a roll of the yellowed paper and sent it to Zuo Ling's room herself.

"Miss, it's the middle of the night, what are you looking for these old antiques?" The housekeeper asked curiously.

Zuo Ling took fifty taels of silver to her: "Don't tell anyone about tonight, this silver is your reward, if anyone knows about it, you can go home and retire." ”

The housekeeper's wife shivered and hurriedly bowed; "Miss, don't worry, my wife is the most strict-mouthed, this matter will rot in my stomach, and no one will know about the discipline."

After saying that, she carried the big silver in her arms and walked away happily. Of course, secrecy is not a problem, since the young lady has left a word, who is tired of living will talk nonsense everywhere.

Zuo Ling didn't shy away from anything, and immediately went to find it, handed him the paper and ink ingots, and said with a smile: "I tried my best, the year of the ink ingot must be enough, but the paper doesn't know if it is enough or not, if it doesn't work, I have to go to the general warehouse of the outer house tomorrow to find it." ”

"Thank you, thank you." Besides, I really didn't expect Zuo Ling to find it so quickly.

"Is this paper okay?"

Besides, he opened the rolled paper, twisted it with his hand, and said, "Okay." ”

Although rice paper is used every day, and the year of the rice paper cannot be determined, just looking at the degree of yellowing of the paper, it is estimated that there must be forty or fifty years of years, of course, this is not certain, because this is related to the temperature and humidity of the paper storage place.

Besides, he thought about the methods of making fake paintings, he had never made fake paintings, but he still knew the tricks of deception, which he learned in the ancient painting appraisal class of the Academy of Fine Arts.

There have always been people in the art world who copy the calligraphy and paintings of the ancients, and then forge the authentic works of the ancients through forgery to make a fortune. There are some big names in the art world, who have more or less done this shady thing in their early years.

When people are young, they will inevitably take some detours or even wrong paths, but as long as the prodigal son is willing to turn back, he will still succeed.

The first step in creating a fake painting is to sketch out a pattern.

Besides, if you copy an ancient painting, it is not a problem, but there is no template at hand, only imagination out of thin air, behind closed doors.

Fortunately, no one knows what a real treasure map looks like, or if there is no treasure map at all. This gives him unlimited room for imagination and imagination.

Where should a man bury his treasure? Besides, I started to look for a point to enter the painting.

Where Alibaba discovered the forty thieves, he took the password "Open the Sesame Door"?

This was the first thought that popped into my mind, to draw an island in the middle of the sea with a cave...... There is a treasure reserved by Zhu Yuanzhang for Emperor Jianwen back then, and if you want to get this treasure, you also need the password of "open the sesame door", which is really decent. Drawn in this way, it is estimated that most people will not think it is fake, because the idea of the sesame open door password is too good.

But where is the location of the island? Will these people believe it, or even will? That's a big problem. How to accurately locate the geographical location of the island, it cannot be said that there is no coordinates of the island on the treasure map.

Counterfeiting is not easy, it has to withstand the eyes of the world's most authoritative experts, even under a magnifying glass.

Besides, thinking about this, I completely forgot that there were two beauties on the side of the house.

Xiao Nier saw that he was thinking about it, so she pulled Zuo Ling and smiled: "Didn't you say that you want to sleep with me, come on, let's ignore him and let him figure it out by himself." ”

"Okay." Zuo Ling also replied happily, and followed Xiao Nier into the bedroom, she stayed not for that excuse, but for fear that there would be a place where she was needed, if she went back, she naturally couldn't go to her in the middle of the night.

How should geographic coordinates be labeled?

Besides, he thought about this headache repeatedly, he had never seen the ancient charts, and the people of the Ming Dynasty probably hadn't seen them. The monarch and the minister did not want to have a monarch who was happy to make a decision to go to the West or even go to sea in person, which would exhaust the national treasury and cause an uproar in the world.

How many degrees east longitude and how many degrees north latitude? Is that okay?

Besides, thinking about it, the ancients did not have the concept of latitude and longitude, on the contrary, as early as the Han Dynasty, the longitude and latitude had been marked on the stargazing map, but there was no such thing as east longitude and north latitude. These concepts can only be achieved if the earth is treated as a sphere, divided into two hemispheres, east and west.

Yes, set the location of the treasure in Taiwan, which is only separated by a strait from the mainland, so it is easy to mark.

Is Taiwan in the hands of the Dutch red-haired people at this time, or is there only some native residents? He has no idea in his heart, but it should not be easy to cross the Taiwan Strait, so let those people go to Taiwan to dig for treasures, maybe they can make Taiwan return to the mainland territory earlier, if this is the case, it is really immeasurable merit.

The idea has been decided, the location of the treasure is in Alishan, Taiwan, so that the geographical location is much simpler.

He hadn't seen Alishan's paintings, but he had seen the photographs. He searched the memories in his head, and little by little they became real images to form a complete picture.

He sharpened the ink and began to paint on a piece of paper, and about an hour later, a painting was born, in which he designed a fork for the burial of the treasure.

The Taiwan Strait made him paint stormy waves, and a large ship was tilting on the crest of the waves, about to capsize into the sea. This stroke can be described as superb, making the whole picture come alive.

"Hmph, treasure hunting, is it that easy? If it's not nerve-wracking, can it be called a treasure hunt? See what you can do. Besides, he smiled maliciously.

"Painted?"

Zuo Ling came behind him at some point, looked at this carefully conceived treasure map and asked.

"Almost, we have to add some mystery to it."

"This is a treasure map?" Zuo Ling looked at the place where the cross mark appeared.

"What kind of treasure map, it is a pit man map, if anyone believes in this map, if he really digs up treasure, there is a chance that he will be buried in the belly of the fish."

"That's deserved, who let them be so forced, self-inflicted."

Moreover, he continued to work the map, and he first annotated the exit order "Sesame Open the Door" in the place where the buried treasure was set, which further shows the authenticity of the picture.

"Open the sesame door? It's a shame to think about it. How can Sesame open the door? Zuo Ling covered his mouth and smiled.

"Instead of asking Sesame to open the door, but after saying this code word, the door containing the treasure will open automatically."

Zuo Ling was shocked by the magical thought, and looked at him with affection, and his heart was about to gush with honey.

Voice?

Besides, I laughed in my heart, playing voice control in the Ming Dynasty was indeed too advanced. However, he believed that those people would buy it, and the more unpredictable it was, the more people would believe it.

He continued to mark the hydrological data of the Taiwan Strait on the map, and he had no idea where he knew the hydrological situation of the Taiwan Strait, let alone the strait, how deep and wide the Suzhou Creek was, and where it came from. It's all nonsense. It is also specifically noted that only seven days before and after the full moon in September and October is the safe period for crossing the strait.

If anyone believes in the hydrological data he fabricated, if he is not jointly protected by the 36 heavenly gods and Buddhas, it is a sure thing to be buried in the belly of the fish.

"I think it's almost enough, but don't add to it." Zuo Ling reminded.