When Ning Qinghua left Principal Li's house, it was almost eleven o'clock in the afternoon, and in a hurry, he didn't even bother to eat lunch, and boarded the only shuttle bus in the town to the county seat.

Fortunately, along the way, there were not many people stopping the car, and it only stopped three times, about 2:40 in the afternoon, and arrived at the county seat nearly half an hour early.

Ning Qinghua didn't dare to waste time, this county museum was a cold yamen, who knew when they would get off work, Ning Qinghua took a taxi directly at the exit of the station, and went straight to the county museum.

In recent years, the number of private cars in the county has surged, and the road conditions in the county are still more than ten years ago planning, completely unable to adapt to the current development, fortunately this time period is not commuting, the traffic situation on the road is ideal, within ten minutes, Ning Qinghua rushed to the county museum.

rushed to the door of the museum, but did not find the "Xiao Gu" contacted by Principal Li in the morning.

Since he arrived at the ground, Ning Qinghua was not in a hurry, the other party was also a native of Xiangnan County, so he naturally knew what the situation was in the town where Shihe Village was located, and there was a round-trip bus a day, according to the normal time, Ning Qinghua would be able to arrive at the county museum at about half past three in the afternoon at the earliest. And that's not counting the time wasted in traffic jams in the county.

Knowing that he came early, Ning Qinghua was not idle, so he entered the museum and visited by the way.

The museum in Shonan Prefecture is a three-story building, with the first floor being the exhibition hall, the second floor being the prefectural library, and the third floor being the storeroom.

Ning Qinghua only had three years of high school in the county, and all his energy was spent on studying, so naturally he would not get a library card for the library, and now he had to kill time, so he could only walk around the exhibition hall on the first floor.

The hall on the first floor seems to be holding some kind of calligraphy and painting exhibition, the whole hall is about 100 paintings and calligraphy works hung around, most of the calligraphy is based on the line, and the paintings are also some Chinese paintings of flowers, birds, fish and insects. Ning Qinghua walked for about fifteen or sixteen minutes from the moment he first entered the hall, but he didn't find a single work that could make his eyes shine.

During his time in college, Ning Qinghua also taught himself calligraphy for a period of time due to his free time, perhaps because of the practice of "Fu Zheng Shen Gang", his calligraphy is quite ethereal and elegant, although it is still a little jerky in the eyes of connoisseurs, but it is also beginning to take shape. At that time, a professor in the department who liked calligraphy once praised that if he was willing to study this way, he would very likely become everyone.

Therefore, although Ning Qinghua's own calligraphy is not yet an achievement, he has a certain level of appreciation for calligraphy and French painting.

Such works can also be exhibited, even in the remote county of Shonan Prefecture, it seems to be a bit excessive!

Although Hunan Province is not a developed province economically, it has a very profound heritage in terms of humanities.

Halfway through the look, Ning Qinghua finally found out that the organizer of this calligraphy and painting exhibition, Xiangnan County University for the Elderly.

Ning Qinghua couldn't help laughing at himself, he was really killing time.

"Hello, are you a student of Elder Li?"

A middle-aged man about forty years old looked inside at the door of the hall on the first floor, and only saw Ning Qinghua alone.

"It's Director Gu!"

Ning Qinghua looked at this person, his figure was slightly fat, his face was round, and he had a pair of rimless glasses on his face, which was quite in line with the image of a government department cadre in Ning Qinghua's impression.

"It's Xiao Ning, did you arrive so early?"

The middle-aged man surnamed Gu is the director of a department of the county cultural bureau, although the official is not big, the things that can be managed are quite complicated, the county museum is the unit under its jurisdiction, and the person introduced by Principal Li is really right.

"Director Gu, the car arrived about half an hour early today, and it's still early, so I'll take a look here first, I'm really sorry." …,

After all, Ning Qinghua used to be a civil servant in a government department, although he was the most basic, he also knew the atmosphere of officialdom. Although Director Gu was entrusted by President Li, he arrived early, and he must have asked this director to look around outside, if he didn't explain, then the other party's face would not look good. is an official, but he values this the most.

Director Gu is also a delicate person, and seeing that Ning Qinghua has a good attitude, he is also smiling. In the morning, I heard President Li say on the phone, knowing the other party's intention, he didn't delay much, and directly took Ning Qinghua to the warehouse on the third floor.

The director of the museum was not there, it seemed that he had gone to the provincial capital for a meeting, and he left a librarian, who was responsible for some archives on weekdays, and suddenly saw the leader of the main management department come to the door, but he was startled, and thought it was a surprise inspection.

Waiting to confirm that this is not the case, he secretly glanced at Ning Qinghua several times, and he couldn't understand where this young man was, and he had this face, and Director Gu personally led it to the door.

The warehouse on the third floor, the door is closed, and there is a copper lock hanging on the door, which is a little rusty and dusty, and it has obviously not been opened for a long time, and the museum staff also made it for half a minute before opening the lock.

In the eye, there are rows of wooden shelves, not as Ning Qinghua imagined, displaying antiques and treasures, almost all of them are some broken pottery, as well as a small amount of porcelain, and under the shelves, there are piles of pottery and porcelain pieces, which have not been repaired after being unearthed. The whole warehouse looks like a garbage dump.

The warehouse was also ventilated and maintained at a certain temperature, and under the leadership of the librarian, Ning Qinghua came to a row of wooden shelves in the depths of the warehouse, only to see that there were two rows of upper and lower rows, with sixty or seventy bronze vessels. It's just that these utensils have long been broken, and nine-tenths of them are almost only fragments of some parts.

"These are all ritual vessels of the Western Zhou Dynasty, although the regulation of the artifacts is not large, but there are a lot of them, if you are interested, there are archaeological records about these ritual vessels in the archives, but you can take a look at them as a reference!"

Director Gu was obviously reluctant to enter this dusty warehouse, and he couldn't afford to delay it. In the evening, there is a dinner party to welcome the superior leaders, which is equivalent to an opportunity for the leaders to get closer, but they must not miss it, so they can only say a few sorry to Ning Qinghua, explain a sentence or two and then leave.

Ning Qinghua took a few glances at each of these artifact fragments, and finally found nothing worthy of special attention. And there is no aura fluctuation on these ritual vessels, which are obviously just ordinary bronze ritual vessels.

Eventually, Ning Qinghua went to the archives at the librarian's site and consulted the archaeological records.

Ding Twelve, Gui Eleven.

That valley is definitely not a tomb, but the statistics on the number of unearthed artifacts on the archaeological record made Ning Qinghua feel a little unusual.

Ning Qinghua had put a lot of effort on the Internet before, especially about the period of King Mu of the Western Zhou Dynasty in which Zhang Fude lived. It was the heyday of slavery in China, and it was also the formative period of the ritual system.

"Zhou Li" has a stipulation, "The Son of Heaven has nine tripods and eight tripods, the emperor has seven tripods and six tripods, the doctor has five tripods and four tripods, and the scholar has three tripods or one tripod", which was the highest law that needed to be strictly observed at that time.

Although nothing came of it in the end, all indications were that there must be a great secret hidden in that valley. But judging from the current situation, Ning Qinghua still needs to find more clues.

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