Volume 1 The Beginning of the Tomb Search Chapter 005 Ancient Elixir

Bai Yang felt that he must not know Lishu very well, so he misrecognized the words before and after the two numbers.

So he didn't think about it anymore, first put away the few pieces of white paper with the font of the coffin lid, and then used all his strength to remove the sarcophagus lid.

A turbid breath came to his nose, and the aspen almost sneezed.

Hurriedly put aside his face and waited for a while, then took a flashlight and shone it into the coffin.

He found a skeleton lying in the coffin, and because of its age, the clothes on the skeleton had turned into dust the moment the lid of the sarcophagus was opened.

On the skeleton was a small wooden box, which was supposed to be held by the deceased in his hand and placed on his chest.

The wooden box looked quite complete and exquisite, and Poplar picked it up and found that it was not locked. But he tried to open it, but he couldn't, presumably because it was a hidden lock.

The poplar took it in his hand and took a closer look, and found that the patterns on the wooden box were simple and exquisite.

But Poplar knew nothing about ancient artifacts or what the patterns meant.

Only one thing he was basically sure of was that this Taoist took great pains to build this ancient tomb in this deep mountain and old forest, and used the "Blood Wolf Guarding the Tomb" to protect the tomb, probably to protect this wooden box.

So Poplar first put the wooden box into his trouser pocket, and then carefully inspected the situation inside the coffin.

He found that on the left thumb of the skeleton, he was wearing a slightly yellowed white jade wrench.

On top of the bones, there is also a very delicate jade. It looks like the legendary jade crown of bunched hair, but the hair in the jade crown has also turned into dust.

On the left and right sides of the skeleton was a sheathed sword and a black wooden stick carved with delicate patterns.

Bai Yang thought of his grandfather's notebook, when mentioning "Blood Wolf Guarding the Tomb", he once said that "the Blood Wolf Guarding the Tomb is a Taoist master's technique to take care of his own tomb", and this black wooden stick really looks like a dust whisk handle used by Taoist priests.

It's just that the age is too old, and the dust whisk has turned into dust, and only such a delicate dust whisk handle is still intact.

A faint aroma entered the nose, and it seemed that this dust whisk handle should be made of extremely precious ebony.

Although Poplar didn't understand antique jade, he also understood that anything here, including this dust handle, was worth a lot of money.

The problem is that tomb robbing is illegal, especially his father hates tomb robbing, and he doesn't dare to touch it.

What's more, he doesn't know anything about antique jade, and even if he takes these things out, he doesn't know how to make a move.

If you are caught by the police when you are looking for someone to shoot, it will be too late to regret it.

So Poplar didn't even want to take away the jade crown, the jade wrench, or the dust handle, but out of his love for weapons, he picked up the sheathed short sword.

When he pulled out the hilt of his sword and looked at it, he saw that it was a bronze sword, and the blade of the sword was already covered with patina.

So Poplar put the sword down again, and made sure that there was nothing in the coffin, and there were no carved patterns, and he closed the lid of the sarcophagus again.

After that, he bowed to the sarcophagus a few times, and silently told the owner of the sarcophagus in his heart that he took the small wooden box, not to covet the treasure inside, but to find a way to rescue the iron ox.

The white candles in the four corners of the sarcophagus were left to burn, and Poplar only touched his trouser pocket with his hand to make sure that the wooden box was still in his trouser pocket, and then he got out of the ancient tomb and found the shovel he had thrown on the ground, and filled in the whole dent that he had blown down.

When he returned to the ranger cabin, Poplar immediately took out the wooden box and wanted to open it.

But with all his might, the wooden box never moved.

Poplar had no choice but to use a saw.

In order to prevent damage to the contents of the wooden box, he sawed a small piece from one end to the other, opened the wooden box at one end, and then carefully poured out the contents.

There are three things.

Two things look like old leather paper, which is probably the legendary parchment.

One of them was a little larger, about a foot wide and a foot two or three inches long, and it was densely covered with letters. But it is also a very old official book, and even if Poplar can barely recognize a few words, he doesn't understand what it means.

The other one is also one foot two or three long, but it is only six to seven inches wide. There are some zigzag lines drawn on it, which looks like a map. But the map is clearly incomplete, and it feels like it's been torn in half from the middle.

There is also a wax pill.

The wax pill was dark red, and Poplar first scraped off the surface with his fingernails, and found that the surface layer was actually white, and the dark red inside should have sealed a pill inside.

Poplar tried to pinch the wax pill gently, and sure enough, a layer cracked on the surface, and there was indeed a dark red pill inside.

A faint medicinal fragrance came to the nose, and it seemed that despite the age, the medicinal effect of this pill was still there.

Bai Yang couldn't help but have a pounding heart, and he hoped that this pill could cure the poison of the blood wolf.

But think like this, if this pill is not an antidote but a poison, wouldn't it directly harm Tie Niu's life?

So the most important thing for him now is to figure out what the words on that parchment meant.

He didn't dare to take out this piece of parchment directly to find someone to ask for advice, as the so-called thief has a weak heart, he did not be a thief, but this wooden box was indeed taken out of the ancient tomb, in case he was suspected of being a tomb robber, then he jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash it.

But he didn't have much time to delay, because today was the fourteenth lunar calendar, and tomorrow night would be the night of the full moon.

If everything in his grandfather's notebook was true, he would have to determine whether the pill was an antidote or a poison tomorrow morning.

It was already night, and Poplar could only trace the writing on the parchment and the lines on the sarcophagus lid in the dim light of the kerosene lamp on several sheets of white paper, regardless of his hard work.

It took him more than two hours until late at night before he went to bed.

The next morning, after getting up early the next morning and washing briefly, Baiyang rushed to the county seat to find someone to ask for advice.

He didn't know who could recognize this font, so he could only go to a high school in the county and find a Chinese teacher in his third year of high school.

The Chinese teacher didn't know Bai Yang, but when he saw Bai Yang's face full of smiles and said that there were a few words he didn't know and wanted to ask for advice, the Chinese teacher still nodded enthusiastically and agreed.

It's a pity that when Bai Yang took out a blank piece of paper, the Chinese teacher was also dumbfounded, and was ashamed to say that he didn't know what it was.

Bai Yang hurriedly asked the Chinese teacher if he knew who could recognize this kind of character, and the Chinese teacher asked him to go to the old principal to see if the old principal recognized it.

Bai Yang found the old principal according to his words, and the old principal said at a glance that this font was called Qin Li, which should be the font used by Qin Shi Huang when he first unified the text, so even he couldn't recognize it completely.

However, when Poplar handed the lines he had taken from the lid of the sarcophagus to the old headmaster, the old headmaster was full of surprise and said, "Are these words of yours traced from the old tombstone? These lines are very similar to the inscriptions on the tombstone, which means ......."

He carefully identified it, and then slowly translated: "The royal mage Qingyunzi was born in the forty-third year of King Qin Zhao and died in the second year of Emperor Jianping of the Han Dynasty. From the forty-third year of King Qin Zhao to the second year of Emperor Jianping of the Han Dynasty, it was more than two hundred and fifty years, how could this Taoist named Qingyunzi live so long?"

Poplar was dumbfounded when he heard this, never expecting that what he had half-guessed before was actually right.

But the old headmaster was right, how could a person live to two hundred and fifty years?

Could it be that this Taoist named Qingyunzi is not from the Qin Dynasty at all, but in order to fool the tomb robbers, he is exaggerating and writing nonsense?

Bai Yang pondered in his heart, and could only answer the old principal vaguely: "It is definitely impossible for anyone to live to be more than two hundred years old! This is what a good friend of mine brought to me, saying that I should recognize what the words are on it, it seems that he is deliberately playing tricks on me!"

The old headmaster stared at Poplar, clearly not believing his words.

Poplar could only change the subject, and once again begged the old headmaster to see what the words on the other blank sheets of paper meant.

The old principal shook his head and said, "I really can't recognize all the fonts on those pieces of paper, so naturally I can't help you translate." Otherwise, you leave these blank papers, I'll go find an expert in ancient literature, and I'll come back in two days, and I'll tell you the exact answer!"

Bai Yang saw that the old principal was already suspicious of him, for fear of being involved in front of experts, and he would be forced to ask where these words came from.

What's more, tonight is the night of the full moon, and he must rush to the city to spend it with Tie Niu.

So he could only smile and say, "This must be my friend making fun of me, since even the old principal can't recognize it, then I don't need to find anyone else to identify it, I'll go directly to my friend and ask him what he means!"

As he spoke, he stood up and put away the blank papers, and said goodbye to the old headmaster with a smile on his face.

Walking out of the high school campus, Poplar saw that it was not early, and immediately rushed to the long-distance station and took a long-distance bus to the city.

Tie Niu's father is a section chief, and the family originally had a unit house, but Tie Niu didn't want to go to work, but ran out to be a "fallen master", Tie Niu's father was very angry and kicked him out of the house, and now Tie Niu rented a house in the city to live.

Bai Yang rushed directly to the rental house, just in time for Tie Niu to come back from the stall, suddenly saw Bai Yang coming, only to rush forward, raised his hand on Bai Yang's shoulder, and said with a smile: "I have only been back from you for a few days, you rushed to see me, are you going to the city to do business, or do you really think of me like this?"

Bai Yang took a closer look at his face and asked him, "You have been back for a few days, there is nothing uncomfortable on your body, right?"

"Why do you think I'm uncomfortable?" Iron Bull asked rhetorically.

"I mean...... Haven't you been bitten by some monster underground?"

"You're talking about this!" Tie Niu shook his arm disappreciably, "Didn't you force me to get a vaccination, besides, my body is very good, in fact, it's okay if I don't get an injection!"

(See Chapter 006 "The Last Resort")

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