Chapter XXXVIII

Chai Yulang and Zeng Li went directly to the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong, and they helped Zeng Li contact the provincial headquarters in the mainland, and the headquarters learned that they had obtained the tortoise shells, and told them that the leaders attached great importance to these tortoise shells, and urged them very urgently, so that they did not have to go back to the province, and directly sent the tortoise shells to Professor Zhong of the Archaeological Branch of the Academy of Social Sciences in the capital.

After getting the news, the staff of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Hong Kong also knew that the things in Chai Yulang and Zeng Li's hands were very important, and they were busy arranging the earliest air flight to the capital.

In the evening, the plane finally arrived at the Capital International Airport, but I didn't expect someone to pick up the plane in the passenger passage of the airport, and the staff of the Ministry of Public Security with the Academy of Social Sciences had been waiting for a long time. Chai Yulang and Zeng Li were also taken aback when they saw this posture, it seems that this batch of tortoise shells is really important, and the people from the ministry and the research institute are waiting for them directly at the airport. I didn't let them catch their breath, so I sent them directly to the Archaeological Research Center of the Academy of Sciences on the outskirts of Beijing.

Chai Yulang was depressed, this has been tossing for a few days, there is no time to rest at all, I thought of the capital, handed over the things to the staff who came to the joint, he and Zeng Li can complete the task, you can find a hotel to sleep comfortably, I didn't expect to be told that I and Zeng Li also want to go to the research institute to assist the professor together, the professor has to ask them a lot of questions, Chai Yulang thinks that he and Zeng Li don't understand cultural relics, and the professor doesn't know anything.

When they arrived at the research institute, a building was still brightly lit, and the staff directly took them through a few curfews and went up to the top floor. When they arrived at a large conference room, there were already a few gray-haired old men and a few young men and women sitting in it, who should be the professor and their assistants, and when they saw Chai Yulang and Zeng Li arriving, they all stood up, looking at the suitcase in Chai Yulang's hand, looking anxious. Chai Yulang looked at the anxious appearance of these old professors, and he was also funny, and hurriedly put the suitcase in his hand on the table in the middle, opened the suitcase, and the whole box of tortoise shells was presented in front of everyone's eyes with an ancient atmosphere, Chai Yulang didn't know which one was Professor Zhong, nodded to everyone, and said: "Hello everyone, this is the tortoise shell of the Western Zhou Tomb recovered by me and Zeng Li Hong Kong, and sent to the research institute to Professor Zhong according to the requirements of the leader." ”

A kind old man nodded and said, "I am Professor Zhong, thank you to the two little comrades for helping the country recover valuable cultural relics, you two have worked hard." After speaking, he put on a pair of white gloves, carefully took out the tortoise shell, and looked at it carefully one by one. Greeted the experts next to them to discuss together, very attentively looking at the tortoise shell, from time to time also arguing a few words, the discussion was very enthusiastic, all the old experts around the tortoise shell, forgetting the time and forgetting Chai Yulang them.

The bored Chai Yulang and Zeng Li had a small talk about each sentence, and they didn't know how these old experts could be so obsessed with these tortoise shells, as if it was useless for him and Zeng Li to stay here, but it was hard to say that they wanted to leave. Bore, he also gathered among these experts and listened to their discussions, as if every oracle bone inscription, they had to argue, saying which word this word is now, and immediately another expert raised objections, anyway, Chai Yulang listened to them discuss for a long time and did not have an accurate number. Professor Clock pointed to an oracle bone inscription and said, "I think this should be a door character, and this figure looks a lot like an ancient door." The other professor shook his head and retorted, "I don't think so, it's carved a bit like an inverted trapezoid, not like a door, I think it might be some kind of agricultural tool, a dustpan is very similar." Professor Zhong also shook his head and said, "Ancient priests would not have recorded such things. Chai Yulang looked at this image a little familiar, like his own treasure iron bucket, thinking that this pattern of the ancients may mean drinking wine bottles, so he smiled and interjected: "I think this word should represent the wine bottle that the ancients drank, and use it for drinking." Professor Zhong and the expert next to him were stunned when they heard Chai Yulang say this, and fell into deep thought.

"What do you know, interject nonsense, these are old experts, they can't understand it, it's hard to bring you back a little kid to understand." A girl's voice said.

Chai Yulang was embarrassed, and when he saw it, it turned out to be a little girl next to Professor Zhong who was wearing a white coat and a dust cap, holding a digital camera and taking pictures of the tortoise shell, looking at herself angrily, Chai Yulang couldn't help but light up at a glance, this little girl was really beautiful, because she was wearing white overalls in front, she didn't pay attention to it, and now she looks at it like this, and then she said that she is a little girl and she is really beautiful. The angel in white is as otherworldly, and the little face that is a little baby fat pouts revealing two small dimples, a pair of big watery eyes under the long eyelashes, clear and not stained with a trace of dust, and the cute appearance is cute and painful. Chai Yulang nodded apologetically and said, "I'm sorry, I disturbed the expert, I just had an empty mouth for a while, I'm sorry, I made a mistake, I won't speak, little sister, you're busy with you." ”

The little girl glanced at Chai Yulang, and took the camera again and began to work seriously. This time, Chai Yulang was not bored, there was a beautiful woman watching it, and he was watching the little beauty from the side.

After a long time, Professor Zhong came back to his senses and shouted: "It makes sense, wine bottles, the ancients used wine bottles to worship heaven and earth, and burned such a situation on the tortoise shell to record it." Another expert nodded and said, 'That makes sense, it should be like this.' Professor Zhong smiled at Chai Yulang and said, "Young man, I didn't expect you to break through the maze with a word. ”

The little girl looked at Chai Yulang in surprise and muttered, "You are really a blind cat touching a dead mouse, so you can guess it." Chai Yulang was also taken aback, completely blinded himself, and said embarrassedly: "It's a pure coincidence." ”

Professor Zhong smiled and said, "This is also a fan of the authorities, and a bystander is clear." Can you tell us how you managed to recover the tortoise shells? These tortoiseshells are really a treasure of national culture, and I am really lucky to be able to recover them. ”

Chai Yulang couldn't believe that the tortoise shells he recovered were so valuable, and said in disbelief: "I didn't expect this batch of tortoise shells to be so important." Haven't a lot of tortoise shells been found, how can this batch be so valuable? ”

Professor Zhong smiled and said: "The tortoise shell unearthed from the tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty is a bit special, and this tomb is also special, it is the tomb of an ancient high priest, and these tortoise shells are not the result of divination during any sacrifice, but how the priest divined, recording the method of divination, stepping, and decoding. Therefore, it is very different from the oracle bone inscription we found earlier, and the oracle bone inscription that has been cracked does not match this batch of tortoise shells at all, so this batch of tortoise shells you have recovered is of great value to our study of the ancient mysterious shaman's sacrifice activities. Deciphering the above text also deciphers the mystery of how our ancestors asked God to ask the heavens for divination. ”

Chai Yulang nodded and said, "So that's the case, Xiuying who gave me the tortoise shell also said the same, it's the tortoise shell unearthed from the priest's tomb, and they can't understand the text on it." ”

Professor Zhong asked curiously, "Who is Xiuying, tell us how you recovered these tortoise shells." ”

Chai Yulang nodded, from the beginning to Yangcheng all the way to Hong Kong, in distress at sea and finally resolved with Xiuying, and finally took back the tortoise shell and roughly said it, everyone was very nervous, and said that the little girl was even more exaggerated several times when life and death were critical, of course, those ambiguous moments when Xiuying seduced him, Chai Yulang didn't dare to say it, but even those are also very storytelling.