At this moment, Tang Yi's expression was not so calm. What Meng Xiantao said before, he did know, but he didn't know about the matter that was connected with it at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, when Qianlong was alive, there should be no clues, could it be that there were new discoveries at the end of the Qing Dynasty?

Before Tang Yi could tell Wen Jia about this matter, Wen Jia's eyes widened as soon as he heard He Shibi. At this moment, I finally couldn't help asking: "Could it be that I found it at the end of the Qing Dynasty?" ”

"It's complicated." Meng Xiantao took a sip of tea, "You guys are a little patient. ”

"After the Guangxu Emperor came to power at the end of the Qing Dynasty, river officials made field trips and carefully drew a 'complete map of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal'. This map is very detailed, the state capital, county and village, sluice and embankment, bridge and wharf, ferry tidal flat, in short, as long as the canal is involved, there are all. ”

As soon as Tang Yi heard him say about the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, he knew in his heart that he had indeed discovered something from some wild historical materials in the late Qing Dynasty, because he had the handwriting engraved on the dragon scales of the jade seal of "Algae for Spring", which was indeed lost in the canal.

Thinking of this, Tang Yi nodded lightly.

He nodded, mainly because Meng Xiantao found something, but if he wanted to find something, although there was a remnant of wild history, it was still necessary to compare and verify a large number of historical materials, involving all aspects, and finding clues from them, and then going through logical reasoning, it was a very complicated, sad and time-consuming matter.

If a clue could be deduced lightly, then the secret would not be called a secret.

Meng Xiantao continued: "The most complex topography of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the Jinmen section. Because there are many depressions on both sides of the canal in the Jinmen section, and these depressions are connected with the canal and other rivers, which are interlaced and dense like spider webs. ”

"The remnants of the wild history I found describe the preparation period of the map, and a large number of river officials visited the Jinmen section. One of them was an official who was in charge of inspecting one of the depressions. In the nearby village, he found a jade carving of a seal-like jade carved in green and white with a dragon carved on it and a square shape below. ”

The official was taken aback, the dragon button seal, that is likely to be the jade seal! Although he couldn't recognize what kind of jade it was, the jade quality looked extraordinary.

He was an official, and when he asked, the fishermen naturally knew everything.

In this small village, taking advantage of the convenience of the river depression, crops and vegetables are planted on the river beach, and most of the villagers also fish and shrimp to supplement their lives, so the fishermen are also farmers. This fisherman is a young man, his parents died early, his brother went out to earn a living, he has not yet married a wife, and he has been trying to earn money for the past two years to get a daughter-in-law!

He grows vegetable patches on the river beach and often fishes. He said that once he was digging up the silt to fertilize the vegetable field, and accidentally found this jade carving in the silt.

At the same time, a catfish skeleton was also found in the mud, and the skeleton alone was more than two meters, so you can imagine how big this catfish was when it was alive!

The fishermen didn't know what kind of jade it was, but they thought it was very good-looking, and because of the proximity to the water, they worshiped the dragon king, and at the same time they also found the skeleton of the big catfish, and they were even more excited.

The catfish is a lion and tiger in freshwater, and the fishermen think that it may be that this catfish is desperate to protect this jade carving, and there is a dragon on the jade carving, so they feel that this jade carving should be a "dragon king statue". Therefore, he made a fixed offering table in the hall at home and enshrined this jade carving.

Of course, the official did not have the same level of knowledge as the fishermen, and when he saw that the shape of the jade carving was a seal, and it was a dragon button, he felt that it should be a jade seal. However, he was not completely sure, and he couldn't recognize what kind of jade this jade seal was.

Therefore, this official wanted to look at the inscription on the front of the bottom first. Of course, I guess he definitely wanted to take it away, and reading the inscription was only the first step.

As a result, the fishermen said that the dragon lord had returned to his position and could not move without permission, otherwise it would lead to a great disaster.

The officials frightened the fishermen that the dragon was for the emperor's exclusive use and must be confiscated, and it would be good if he was not punished! In fact, according to the description, the dragon on this jade carving is different from the popular dragon in the Qing Dynasty, although the body shape is basically a dragon shape, but it is more like a beast body, and it is three claws.

Hearing this, Tang Yi nodded again. In the Qing Dynasty, the folk can use the jade carving with the dragon, but there are restrictions, the five-clawed dragon is dedicated to the emperor, the four-clawed dragon is called the "python", the princes and nobles are special, as for the three claws below to no claws, the folk can be used. This is not only clearly recorded, but also confirmed from the jade carvings that have been handed down.

Therefore, there is no problem with this fisherman's home enshrined a three-clawed dragon jade carving.

Moreover, according to Meng Xiantao's description, the three-clawed dragon, which is similar to the body of a beast, is very similar to the dragon shape on the jade carving in the Warring States Period. This also reminded Tang Yi that although the jade seal of "Algae for Spring" is a five-clawed dragon with the style of the Qing Dynasty, many parts also have the style of the Warring States Period, which is likely to be a disguised imitation.

After the official finished speaking, he did not immediately move, but observed the fishermen.

The fishermen immediately knelt down and begged the officials not to touch the jade carving, but in their eyes, the reverence for the dragon lord was even stronger.

This official is relatively old, at that time he entered someone's house alone, he was worried that if he moved, the fisherman was a strong stick boy, in case he sacrificed his life for the dragon lord and injured the jade carving, it would be more than worth the loss. So he took a step back on the surface, said that he couldn't move, and asked the fisherman if there was any text engraved on the front of the jade carving.

The fisherman said that there was, but it looked more like a rune, which was another reason why he believed that it was the "Dragon King Statue".

The official wrote a few small seal fonts at the moment, asking the fishermen if this is the kind of "rune map"?

I didn't expect the fishermen to say that this is a seal character, which is usually printed on it, and the jade carving is a rune under it, and the things on it are not like words, and they don't look ordinary.

The official nodded, left a sentence of "worship the idol well, don't be surprised" and left.

That night, the fisherman's house was burned to ashes and the fisherman died. The villagers felt that it was strange, and there was no wind that night, so the fire did not spread to other people's homes. Moreover, this fisherman cooks outside the house, and there are usually no sparks in the house, and there are only a few bungalows, even if he falls asleep, as long as the house does not collapse when he wakes up, it is easy to escape.

"Needless to say, it was the official who designed it. The name of this official is not mentioned in the remnants of the wild history, but it is pointed out that he took the jade carving. ”

"Moreover, the remnants of the wild history are not so detailed, and many of them are inferred and supplemented. It did not say whether the jade carving was a jade seal, nor did it say the content of the seal rune, but only said that after the official got it, he immediately set off into Beijing. As a result, when he stayed in Jinmen City, something happened again. ”