As soon as he returned to his home in Xinan, the first thing Ai Xiaohai did was turn on the phone and find an online translation of Latin on a search engine.

But...... How do you type these quirky texts? And it's such a thick diary?

Ai Xiaohai found that he still thought too simply...... The idea of online translation on the Internet was completely shattered......

He had a very strong feeling in his heart that this diary had been so carefully kept by its owner, and that there must be some great secret hidden in it. But hell, I can't read Latin at all. Is it time to re-elect this language?

Joke!

The phone rang, and when I looked at the number, it was actually Yuan Xiye's: "Old Yuan, hello." ”

"Xiaohai, why haven't you come to me for so long? Did you put that pair of porcelain vases last time I felt distressed? ”

"No, I'm dying of distress."

Yuan Xiye laughed "haha": "Assistant Liu took three days off, I'm bored alone, do you think you have time to come and accompany me?" ”

"Cheng, I'll be here in a moment."

"Don't come alone, bring something good from your collection to open my eyes."

"Yes, Yuan Lao, you don't miss me, you are thinking about my baby."

Yuan Lao on the phone smiled even more happily......

……

Yuan Xiye especially likes to stay with Ai Xiaohai, a young man. To be honest, I can't see how much this kid respects him, and he often has a hippie smile when he sees him, but I don't know why, Yuan Xiye just likes him.

And more importantly, don't look at Ai Xiaohai all day long, but when you encounter serious things, you are not ambiguous at all. Doucai Tianma pattern lid jar is such an important thing, just because of his own words, he really didn't sell it.

Where to find such a young man?

I am old, and I don't have a companion except Assistant Liu, and after I met Ai Xiaohai, I have a lot of fun in life. Especially his endless treasures, let himself, who has been immersed in antiques all his life, also open his eyes.

He's Bi, Doucai Tianma pattern lid jar...... God knows what else he can come up with......

"Xiaohai, I didn't expect you to have a hand in cricket, and you also helped Assistant Liu's husband win back the bracelet. Lu Ziyi is not bad, but he is a cricket, if he really loses Assistant Liu's bracelet this time, Xiao Liu has to divorce him. ”

Ai Xiaohai also knew that sooner or later he would let Assistant Liu know about this: "Is Lu Ziyi still fighting crickets now?" ”

"Quit it, really quit it, the water in the cricket industry is too deep." Yuan Xiye sneered: "Lao Yan thinks that if he has mastered a few secret recipes, he will be invincible in the world, this is good, not only has he lost three powerful fighting crickets, but even the purple and blue macaw has lost, Deng Xiusheng will let him go?" I'm afraid that he is anxious at this time. ”

"It's my business." Ai Xiaohai muttered.

Yuan Xiye smiled: "Bring something good, quickly take it out and show it to me." ”

Hey, this old man isn't polite at all...... Ai Xiaohai rubbed his nose and took out the golden plate from his bag.

"Good fellow, the gold plates are all out." Yuan Xiye took it, took a magnifying glass and looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more strange his face became: "Xiaohai, where did you get these treasures?" How can the East have everything in the West? ”

"My grandfather left it." Ai Xiaohai continued to say perfunctorily.

"What the hell did your grandfather do? The Great Treasure Collector? I've never heard of a big man surnamed Ai in this industry. Yuan Xiye was very curious about Ai Xiaohai's so-called "grandfather": "You don't come from a pirate family, right?" ”

You're a pirate, your whole family is a pirate...... No, you're the only one in your family...... Ai Xiaohai laughed: "Old Yuan, what kind of plate is this?" ”

"Do you see the totem above?" Yuan Lao pointed to the totem on the gold plate: "This is a spherical object with flames, which is actually the sun. Since ancient times, there have been many primitive tribes that worship the sun, so it is difficult for me to immediately tell what age it is and which tribe it belongs to. ”

Is this the sun? Ai Xiaohai doesn't look like it, this painting is too abstract, right? Suddenly I remembered that the crown, the sun on the front is much more like this, and there is a god engraved on the back, does it have anything to do with the sun?

He took the pen and paper, and with his impression, he drew the general appearance of the god crookedly: "Old Yuan, what if you cooperate with this?" ”

Yuan Xiye looked at the portrait, frowned for a long time, suddenly stood up, took out a book from the bookcase, and turned to one of the pages: "Look, is it this?" ”

"This is the portrait!" Ai Xiaohai shouted.

Exactly like the god in the crown!

"Inca Empire! This is Manco Capac, the son of the sun god worshipped by the Inca Empire. Yuan Xiye said word by word.

Inca Empire? The golden empire of today's Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina that were once their homeland?

God, could it be that what you found was actually the treasure of the Golden Empire?

"The Inca Empire really existed, and it was described by Westerners as a land of gold everywhere." Yuan Xiye said slowly: "Since the Spaniards defeated the 80,000 elite troops of Emperor Atahualpa with only 169 men, this once huge empire, with wooden sticks, stones and bronze weapons, perished after a short resistance in front of the steel and cavalry of the Spaniards. The Spanish gained a great deal of wealth by conquering the Inca Empire, and it is said that they had to requisition a large number of merchant ships in order to barely carry away their booty, including a large amount of gold......"

His gaze fell on the gold plate: "How much gold did the Inca Empire have?" After the Spaniards captured Emperor Atahualpa, the Incas piled gold into a room 22 feet long, 17 feet wide, and 8 feet high. In order to rescue their emperor, a steady stream of gold from all over the empire filled the treasury of the Spaniards. However, the Spaniards treacherously killed Atahualpa. After this, the Inca Empire put up a real resistance, but they failed, and when the last emperor of the empire, Tupac, was beheaded, the vast empire of six million people finally came to an end......"

Ai Xiaohai was silent.

A few hundred Spaniards actually destroyed a huge empire of six million people! In the face of steel, the country that is still in the primitive society is actually how weak and pathetic.

"Although the Inca Empire perished, it left too many mysteries." Yuan Xiye continued: "How much gold is there in the empire? The Spaniards were convinced that they had scavenged less than a third of the gold from the land, and that the Inca Empire, after its rise, had gone through a total of fourteen generations of Inca kings and conquered vast lands, and their wealth was much more than that. But after they killed Tupac, they had no clues. You know why? Because the Inca civilization was the only one of the major civilizations of the Bronze Age that did not have a written language. All their important information is recorded in a knot called 'Chip'......"

Ai Xiaohai has seen some relevant information about this.

In the documents of the Spanish colonial government, they considered "Chip" to be some kind of means used to record and exchange information. But what information do these passwords record? How do I log information? Generations of experts remain puzzled by this.

Harvard archaeologist Gerry Arten and mathematician Kelly Bjelli built a database of key information about Chip Knots. The database is then searched for the commonalities of 21 Chip knots found in 1956 in Pruzoco, an important political center of the Inca. A crucial mathematical connection was discovered - the knots of some of Chip's secondary ropes could be combined to coincide with the same numbers as another, more complex Chip.

This suggests that Chip was used to gather information from different parts of the empire, which was 5,500 kilometers wide.

Each local accountant would present the sum of the accounts obtained from the subordinates on Chip in the form of knots, and summarize the data on a main rope, and then pass it up in layers. This exchange may have been used in the country's most important information records. These include accounts and other demographic, financial, and military-related data.

However, it is simply impossible to completely decipher the "Chip".

"So, this dying empire is hiding too many secrets." Yuan Xiye sighed: "This gold plate of yours is very likely to be from the Inca Empire, their successive emperors are obsessed with gold beyond imagination, and there is no place where gold cannot be seen." Xiaohai, not to mention the value of cultural relics, the price of gold itself is already very high. ”

You're telling me an accurate price, huh? What Ai Xiaohai is most afraid of hearing is the words "priceless treasure". What is a priceless treasure? There is no price for the baby......

Ai Xiaohai asked tentatively, "Old Yuan, do you know someone who understands Latin?" ”

"Latin?" Yuan Xiye said, "I understand." ”

"You know?" Ai Xiaohai opened his mouth wide.

It was a coincidence that I was looking for reliable people who knew Latin everywhere, but I didn't expect it to be in front of me.

"Well, in fact, I'm also a half-way monk." Yuan Xiye explained: "I used to come into contact with some foreign cultural relics written in Latin, and I couldn't understand it at the time, but I have a strange temper, the more I don't understand, the more I have to master, so I studied hard for a few years, and I can barely understand it." But I'm afraid I can't communicate with people. ”

As long as you can understand it.

Ai Xiaohai took out the diary from his bag: "Old Yuan, you can help me see what is written on it." ”

"It's so thick." Yuan Xiye took it: "I'm afraid it will take a long time to read it, you go around by yourself, and I have a lot of good things here." ”

"You're not afraid I'll steal it?" Ai Xiaohai stood up with a grin.

"Do you still need to steal from me? Whatever you like, take it yourself. ”