However, at this time, it was getting late, and the coffin could not be opened until the staff of the city museum came over with the equipment tomorrow, so after the village chief left a few people here to guard, Zhao Zhuo and his party went to the village chief's house.

The village chief's family has been cooking for a long time, and all the meat and vegetables used are brought over when they come, and in addition, Cui Shiyan also paid labor fees, so the people in the village are very enthusiastic about the people in the museum.

It didn't take long for a large table to be put up in the large courtyard of the village chief's house, and the meals were made in a very peasant style, which was very delicious for everyone who was used to eating city food.

The village chief's name is Li Lede, in his forties, he always likes to laugh when he talks, and he laughs happily when he sees everyone eating happily.

Han Duo'er ate it exquisitely, and pointed to a dish in surprise and asked, "Village Chief, how is this dish made, how it tastes better than that in the big hotel, and it looks very simple." ”

Li Lede said with a smile: "Miss Han, don't underestimate this dish, this dish is a secret recipe of the palace." ”

"The secret recipe of the court?" Everyone couldn't help but be curious.

Li Lede said with a smile: "This has to start with today's tomb, isn't it written on the tombstone of that tomb, it is the tomb of a great official of the Yuan Dynasty." The big official was born here, after the examination into Beijing, the emperor was heavy and stayed in the capital as an official, and then was sent to the local area as a big officer, and finally returned to the hometown back here, at that time this was not called Linshui Township, it is said that the clansmen of the big official had hundreds of people at that time, but unfortunately later the Yuan Dynasty turmoil, there were disputes everywhere, and here was also involved in the war, the clansmen died, and the escaped, only this big official and several family members stayed, and they were buried here after death. ”

Cui Shiyan was originally a master of interpreting inscriptions, and he was quite accomplished in classical Chinese and ancient characters, plus he had read it again after the stone tablet was put together, so he was very familiar with it, so he said: "I have seen this thing on the inscription, village chief, what do you think will be buried in the coffin?" ”

Li Lede thought for a while and said: "Legend has it that when this official left Beijing to take up his post, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty once rewarded him with many things, including porcelain and the like, but the township chronicles of that era have been burned in the war, these things have been passed down from generation to generation, and the people in Linshui Township have changed several times in the past few hundred years." ”

Zhao Zhuo's heart couldn't help but move, his eyes and Cui Shiyan glanced at each other, and he could also see the joy in the other party's eyes.

The porcelain industry of the Yuan Dynasty is the continuation and development of the Song and gold porcelain industry, and it is sandwiched between the Song Dynasty and the Ming and Qing dynasties between the two peaks of the porcelain industry, the excessive surname is very obvious, on the one hand, some famous kilns in the Song and Jin dynasties such as Cizhou kiln, Jun kiln, Jingdezhen kiln, Longquan kiln traditional products are still continuing to be fired, especially Longquan, Qingbai kiln, due to the need for export, the large vessel type increases, and the scale of production is generally expanded; On the other hand, in the middle and late Yuan Dynasty, Jingdezhen officially burned new varieties such as blue and white, red glaze, cobalt blue glaze, copper red glaze, and egg white glaze, which laid the foundation for it to become the porcelain capital in the future.

Although the porcelain industry of the Yuan Dynasty was not as prosperous as the Ming and Qing dynasties, and even less than the Song Dynasty, the fine products in its official kiln were very popular with the collectors, and its price was not under the fine porcelain of the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially a few years ago, a large jar of blue and white Guiguzi in the Yuan Dynasty was sold for 14 million pounds, and after the commission, it was 15.688 million pounds, equivalent to about 230 million yuan, setting the highest auction record for Chinese art in the world at that time.

If this official has the porcelain given by the emperor at that time, the porcelain must have been produced by the official kiln, and it must be worth a lot of money to get it now, and if it is given by the emperor, it is estimated that the probability of being placed in the coffin is very high.

Now what they are waiting for is just to open the coffin, no one knows what it will look like inside after the coffin is opened, but everyone is still looking forward to it, after all, so many burial goods have been unearthed in the tomb, so the coffin must be something of great value.

The village chief's family has several houses, Zhao Zhuo and Han Duoer lived in the village chief's house with Cui Shiyan, and the other staff members were assigned to several other residents, and of course the accommodation fee was also paid, so the villagers happily vacated the room for everyone to live.

At about nine o'clock the next morning, the follow-up staff of the museum rushed from the city, first set up a tent outside the tomb, installed the equipment, and then began to continue to clean up the contents of the main room and the ear chambers on both sides.

The re-cleaning of the main chamber did not find any missing items, and the cleaning of the ear chamber made people sigh, there were many clay pots buried in the left ear chamber, but none of them were complete, most of them were smashed into shape, and I don't know how much time it took to assemble and repair them, and the wooden chairs and the like in the right ear chamber were either rotten.

In the afternoon, everyone gathered in the main room and began to open the coffin, at this time, the sky was overcast for some reason, and now it has already entered winter, although it is on the southern coastal boundary, but the weather is still overcast and there is a chill.

Han Duoer subconsciously grabbed Zhao Zhuo's arm, her eyes looked around, and whispered, "Should it be...... There's a ghost, right? ”

"Of course not, don't be afraid." Zhao Zhuo smiled and comforted, but his brows frowned slightly, he had seen this thing since he was a child, and there was an ancient spirit by his side, God knows if there would be a ghost in this coffin?

If so, it's a ghost who has lived for hundreds of years!

However, Zhao Zhuo felt that this probability should be very small, if there was really a powerful ghost, it should not be bound by the real thing, and it would have been drilled out a long time ago, so he asked last night and found that there was no ghost talk in the township.

The coffin nail was quickly pulled out, everyone subconsciously covered their noses, and looked at the coffin that was about to be opened, as the heavy coffin was opened, Zhao Zhuo's eyes were almost immediately fixed on the blue and white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty.

This is a blue and white porcelain vase, straight mouth, long neck, elephant trunk-shaped ears attached to both sides of the neck, sloping shoulders, deep belly, is a very regular cloud dragon pattern elephant ear vase.

However, what is noticeable is that the porcelain vase has a total of eight levels of pattern decoration from mouth to foot on the whole body, respectively, the tangled branch chrysanthemum, banana leaves, flying phoenix, tangled branch lotus, cloud dragon, sea beast, tangled branch peony and covered lotus miscellaneous treasure, it looks majestic, the pattern is exquisite, at first glance, it is intuitive to be the top grade of the official kiln.

However, this piece of blue and white porcelain has a noticeable chip, and the crack extends from the mouth to the circle, as if it could split the vase in half at any moment.

Everyone sighed in unison, with a look of regret on their faces, and Zhao Zhuo shook his head secretly.

Mo Ling also sighed: "It's a pity, this is an official kiln vessel drawn with Touqing." ”

Zhao Zhuo nodded and sighed: "Yes, according to the value, it is at least tens of millions of things, but with this crack, it is only worth millions, and now there is not so much time to repair this porcelain." ”

Regretting, Zhao Zhuo then turned his gaze to other places.

The bones in the coffin have rotted so much that only some fur with bones remains, and they are wearing the five-grade official uniform of the Yuan Dynasty, which has also been weathered, and it seems that when you touch it with your hand, it will turn into pieces.

On both sides of the coffin, there is some chaotic water of color, which is rainwater falling from the top of the coffin, accumulating through the coffin lid, mixing with the corpse water, exuding an unpleasant smell.

Zhao Zhuo's nose was the most sensitive, only to feel that the strange smell was surging into his throat, he quickly turned his head, took a breath of fresh air, and then turned his head.

In the stagnant water, there are still a few silver bowls and a few burial goods scattered, but in Zhao Zhuo's opinion, these things are far less valuable than the cloud dragon pattern elephant ear vase, not to mention that the thing is still an authentic official kiln goods.

Cui Shiyan instructed everyone to clean up, but also shook his head and regretted, and said to Zhao Zhuo: "It's a pity that a good bottle was destroyed like this." However, according to my analysis, there should be a tomb around here, so people will be able to explore the area, and if they can find it, they may be able to find porcelain that will come in handy. ”

Seeing Cui Shiyan thinking so much about himself, Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but be grateful: "Senior brother, thank you." ”

Cui Shiyan laughed, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Hey, senior brother, I'm not working for nothing, Baicheng's Dou Porcelain Festival is very famous, if you take our pavilion's things to the competition, hey, won't our pavilion also show its face?" ”

Zhao Zhuo also smiled, he knew Cui Shiyan's surname very well, although it had this meaning, but it was more about the relationship between the two.

When everyone continued to clean up the main room, Cui Shiyan called a tomb visitor, took a tool and began to work around, the tomb was a middle-aged man in his thirties, not strong, thin and tall, wearing a hat and pressing his face low, looking a little mysterious.

From Cui Shiyan's mouth, Zhao Zhuo knew that this man's father had been doing this in the museum before, and the craft had been passed down from generation to generation, and this tomb visit was not an easy job, in addition to having quite good eyesight, experience was also very important, first of all, we must observe the surrounding terrain, tombs of different periods and ages, the location and direction of their burial are different, and we must judge the possible scope of the ancient tomb from the overall perspective.

Of course, for now, a large tomb has been excavated, and the other tombs are obviously scattered around this tomb.

After knowing the approximate location, it is time to visit the tomb, the man holds a long probe in his hand, which is made of metal, and has to be vigorously pierced into the ground for several meters, and then take it out and observe the underground soil poured into the probe.

(To be continued)