"It's cold."

Jiang Ting gulped down the warm water, shivering all over, trying to warm himself up. Fearing that the searchers would find out, Jiang Ting jumped straight into Hanwang Lake, detoured away from Tieshan Road, and came to a small hotel in Linzhen.

"They shouldn't be able to find me." Jiang Ting recalled the scene a few hours ago, and still had lingering palpitations, "They dare to attack the research institute, who are they......" Jiang Ting thought about it.

"That old man should be a staff member of the Pre-Qin Research Institute, he has a very strong physique, and he can directly carry me to jump from the second floor, but it's just ...... And what are the golden scales growing out of his neck? ”

Jiang Ting had a headache, he just swam out of the icy water, and ran for a long time against the steep spring breeze, a little dizzy, but he still forced himself to think.

He had a feeling that the attack on the Pre-Qin Research Institute was by no means as simple as it seemed on the surface.

"The entire pre-Qin research institute has been killed, all the belongings have been looted, even the walls and stone bricks have been damaged, those people should be looking for something." Jiang Ting had a preliminary speculation.

"However, when they returned to the 'base', they found that they had missed something, so they returned to the Pre-Qin Research Institute to search again, but they didn't expect to be bumped into by me." Thinking of this, Jiang Ting couldn't help but show a wry smile.

"The old man is by no means an extraordinary person, he has a special physique, maybe there is some 'ability', when the pre-Qin research institute was attacked, the old man escaped by 'fake death'." Jiang Ting sighed, if it weren't for the old man pestering the searcher, he was afraid that he would also die.

"Old man, I will definitely avenge you." Jiang Ting took a deep breath and clenched his fists, he was no longer a hot-blooded teenager, but the "qi" in his heart still existed.

"Those people are well-armed and well-trained, they even carry guns, and their origins are not trivial, could it be the infiltration of foreign forces?" Jiang Ting's brows furrowed, "If that's the case, I have to get the news out." ”

Jiang Ting subconsciously wanted to contact Director He, as his introducer, he might know some insiders, but he suddenly remembered that his mobile phone had already been damaged by the lake, and if he hadn't brought a hundred yuan cash with him, he was afraid that he wouldn't even have money to live in the hotel.

"I'll have to go back to my residence." Jiang Ting was a little helpless, he looked around him, and a small wooden box attracted his attention.

The wooden box is the size of a palm, roughly rectangular, the edges and corners are rounded, and the pulp is dark red and black, like purple grapes, and it is heavy in the hand.

Although Jiang Ting majored in Shang and Zhou archaeology, he still took a course in cultural relics appreciation. The wooden box in front of you is carved by deep carving, the carving is vivid and delicate, the lines are strong and powerful, and it is obviously a good piece of wood.

In Jiang Ting's impression, the closest thing to this piece of wood is the Qianlong red sandalwood bamboo box of the Qing Dynasty, which is still in the collection of the Imperial Capital Museum.

"If this thing is really from the Qing Dynasty, even if it is not a celebrity collection, this wooden box alone must be several thousand, right?"

Yes, dynasties such as the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties also existed in this world, but in the later period, they had some differences from the previous life.

Jiang Ting is a little unsure of the price of the wooden box, for these people, "archaeology is not collecting, collection is not archaeology", the more archaeologists are, the more they must uphold their hearts, and they must not be greedy.

The wooden box was sealed by beeswax, Jiang Ting hesitated slightly, and cut open the beeswax, although the old man was delirious at the time, but after all, this wooden box was entrusted to him by the latter, if it was not opened, Jiang Ting did not know what to do with this thing.

There are two copper coffins in the wooden box, about the size of a USB flash drive, one is brass, the other is bronze, and there is a dark green card pressed under the copper coffin, and there is nothing special to see.

Jiang Ting was a little curious, the surface of the brass coffin had no patterns, the workmanship was a little rough, and the fine particles were polished to shine, obviously a few years old.

The brass coffin seemed to be integrated, and a gap appeared in the front section of the coffin, like a cross-section, Jiang Ting's heart moved, and his hands exerted force to divide the brass coffin into two sections.

"Is this really a USB flash drive?" Jiang Ting was speechless, the style of the Pre-Qin Research Institute was unique, which fully reflected its historical research characteristics, and actually packaged the USB flash drive in the coffin......

"What about this?" Jiang Ting picked up the bronze coffin again, and this time, he found the clue.

The color of the bronze coffin is dark green, and its rust color belongs to the most typical green rust. Jiang Ting stretched out his thumb and pinched it with his nails, the thumb nails were bent, and the green rust did not peel off, ah he couldn't help frowning.

"Green rust is real, it's not glued." Jiang Ting nodded, but he guessed in his heart that this bronze coffin might have been made by later generations in other ways.

"Strange, why are there so many patterns on this bronze coffin?" Jiang Ting paid close attention to the observation that the patterns on the bronze coffin were rough and extremely complicated, and some places had to be seen with great effort.

"It's gluttony." In the front of the bronze coffin, Jiang Ting recognized a pattern. Around it, there are several humanoid ornaments, apparently in a decorative position, with a fierce and strange gluttonous pattern, long eyes and big ears, and large fangs, which are intimidating.

"The various patterns on the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties are not first of all due to strange aesthetic concepts, but are in the reverence for the forces of nature and the childish fantasy of the desire to dominate them."

Jiang Ting almost subconsciously remembered a passage he had learned in class, the gluttonous pattern symbolized ghosts and gods, all kinds of dangerous beasts, and the ornamental gluttony was the expectation of the ancestors to deter foreign races and overcome fear.

"And the dragon pattern." Jiang Ting looked closer to the bronze coffin, "The dragon pattern and the gluttonous pattern are both animal face patterns, and the animal face pattern does not only represent an animal, it is not uncommon for the two to appear together. ”

Kui Long represents the ancestors, "the descendants of the dragon" this statement, can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty at the earliest, ancestor worship has been qualitated in this era, but in the early bronze period, Kui Long's status is far below gluttony, ancestor worship is far less than ghost worship.

"Gluttony is the medium of heaven and earth, the messenger of man and god, and it is also said that gluttony is the tiger, so it is not uncommon for dragons and tigers to fight, but the depiction of tigers in ancient books is obviously difficult to compare with the prominent position of gluttony in bronze."

"There are two dragon patterns here to form a gluttonous pattern, which should be sacrificed to the ancestors while sacrificing to the ghosts and gods."

Jiang Ting was amazed, these patterns could only be seen in books and museums on weekdays, but now he could observe them up close, which made Jiang Ting very happy.

"Phoenix Bird Pattern." Jiang Ting tried to identify that on the periphery of the bronze coffin, there was a short-tailed phoenix bird, which was very consistent with the characteristics of the Shang Dynasty. The phoenix bird originated from the Xuanniao and has many changes, which is comparable to the Kui dragon pattern.

"The phoenix bird pattern symbolizes totem worship, which is second to ancestor worship and ghost worship for merchants, and is therefore in a marginal position."

"How has this changed?" Jiang Ting was puzzled, "The gluttonous pattern and the dragon pattern have decreased, and the images of other animals have increased." ”

At the same time, the original simple and concise style has also changed, revealing a kind of delicate and luxuriant in the rough, and it has also tended to be more dexterous and novel. The gluttonous pattern disappeared, and realistic animals such as cows, sheep, and elephants appeared, and mythical animals such as the pan claw pattern appeared, and there were many types.

Further back, pictures appeared, including ancestor sacrifices, wars, production, and banquets; There are severed hair and barefoot humans who have been trampled by fierce tigers, gnawed and devoured, and there are also huge beasts that have been hunted by the ancestors and decapitated.

"Something is wrong!"

Jiang Ting came to his senses, he was immersed in the various patterns on the bronze coffin, and almost forgot a key point: "There shouldn't be so many things on this bronze!" ”

"From the gluttonous pattern in the early Shang Dynasty to the cicada pattern in the late period, even the ring belt pattern and wavy pattern that prevailed in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty have come out, how can it be that the ancients cast it?" Jiang Ting reacted, he would not believe that the Zhou people would engrave the entire development process of bronze culture on bronzes.

"And this bronze coffin is too small, it can only be used as a pendant, and if you want to cast so many ornaments, the technical level at that time is completely unreachable." Jiang Ting rubbed his sour eyes, and he was very sure in his heart.

"But what is the old man collecting this for?" Jiang Ting was puzzled, this bronze coffin pendant was placed in the most secret place, which was obviously extremely important, and he believed that the old man would never be untargeted.

After thinking about it for a while, Jiang Ting still couldn't think of the reason, so he could only put away the bronze coffin pendant now, and then looked at the card.

The card is dark green and depicts a man on horseback with a large line of letters printed on the side of the man's wide robe with large sleeves:

Kyushu Postal Savings Bank

……

"That's a lot more than a Centurion." Jiang Ting sighed, he stared at the six big characters of "Kyushu Postal Savings", and his heart was cordial.

This is a bank card, and no name is written on it, Jiang Ting guessed that this bank card should have the funds of the Pre-Qin Research Institute left, but he didn't know what the password was.

"What's in this USB stick?" Jiang Ting put away the bank card, took out the brass coffin USB flash drive, and turned his head to look at the computer on the table.

Due to personal habits, Jiang Ting deliberately opened a computer room, this hotel is equipped with an old-fashioned notebook, but it is fixed with the table, Jiang Ting hesitated a little and turned on the computer.

The blue light lit up, the old-fashioned notebook slowly started, Jiang Ting reached out and unplugged the power of the notebook, turned off the router again, and plugged in the USB flash drive after confirming that it was correct.

"What if it's confidential?" Jiang Ting clicked on the USB flash drive while thinking, and a folder named "003" appeared in front of him, but when Jiang Ting opened the files inside, he couldn't help frowning.

"Qin Yudong, male, seventy-three years old......"

More than a dozen resumes were displayed in front of Jiang Ting, with photos attached to them, and it was the old man in the Pre-Qin Research Institute.

"In 1982, he entered the Pre-Qin Research Institute and served as the director of the Pre-Qin Research Institute in the same year......" Jiang Ting nodded secretly, so that it made sense why the old man knew that there was something on the ceiling.

Jiang Ting continued to look at the next resume: "Wang Dan, female, thirty-four years old......"

"Deng Yang, male, forty-seven years old......"

"Zhang Tong, male, 59 years old......"

Jiang Ting kept looking through it, and even the identity of the man who died in the courtyard was found by him, and looking at the resume in front of him, Jiang Ting's heart became heavier and heavier.

It wasn't until he opened the last document that he was stunned by the sight in front of him.

A sunny and handsome face appears on the resume.

It was a photo of Jiang Ting himself.