"How did you get here, you have to buy something, this can't be some kind of antique." Seeing Huang Chong walk in with a string of beads, Professor Meng said with a smile.

Huang Chong, Professor Meng and others went to Inner Mongolia to conduct scientific research, according to Professor Meng's judgment, the terracotta figurines should have been unearthed recently, and may be the main tomb, so it is suspected that there is an ancient tomb here that has been stolen.

Now it was the early exploration work, and Huang Chong couldn't help much, so he went around, and found an antique market, although it was not big, but it was also decent, which led to this string of beads in Huang Chong's hand.

"It's just a string of beads, Professor Meng, and please help me palm the eye." Huang Chong said, handed the Buddha beads in his hand to Professor Meng, this string of Buddha beads is not the same as ordinary Buddha beads, not the number is different, but the difference in volume, Huang Chong's hand of this string of Buddha beads, each one is almost the size of a baby's clenched fist, each Buddha beads are dark red, this is not a precious red coral, but painted with red paint, perhaps after decades, the red paint is also a little cracked, mottled texture, but it makes the Buddha beads a little more simple and natural.

"This should be the Eighteen Arhats." Professor Meng said.

This large-volume string of Buddha beads is relatively rare, and the shape of each Buddha bead is also more bizarre, not the traditional circle or oval, but a human head, to be exact, the head of the monk, exactly eighteen, in the country, this shape of the Buddha beads is called "eighteen Arhats", because the head of the monk carved by the Buddha beads is similar to the eighteen Arhats, so it is named.

Under normal circumstances, the 18 Arhat Buddha bead bracelet should be relatively small and suitable for wearing on the wrist, and it is indeed rare to see such a large string.

"This is somewhat similar to the Buddha beads hanging on the chest of the Sha monk in Journey to the West." Dr. Ren on the side said.

"The prototype should be from Journey to the West." Professor Meng said: "If you hang it on your hand, it will definitely not work, but if you hang it around your neck, it is very majestic." ”

"The weight of the Buddha beads seems to be a bit of a problem." Weigh the Buddha beads, Professor Meng said.

"I also found out about this, so I bought the Buddha beads." Huang Chong said that there is a problem with the weight here, not that it is heavy, but light, and it seems that the Buddha beads of such a volume should not only have this weight.

After carefully looking at it for a while, Professor Meng held the Buddha beads high and observed them in the sunlight, and a clear smile suddenly flashed across the corners of his mouth.

"Ginger is still old and spicy."

Huang Chong sighed in his heart, Professor Meng is worthy of being a scholar who deals with cultural relics all day long, and he is very sensitive.

"Actually, there is a big problem with this string of Buddhist beads." Professor Meng said.

"Teacher, what's the problem?" Dr. Ren acts as a good compliment.

"To put it bluntly, it's not worth mentioning, it's just that the hole in the middle of the Buddha bead is too small." Professor Meng smiled: "You see, the volume of each Buddha bead is larger than an egg, but the holes and strings that collude with the Buddha beads are too small and thin, and they look very incongruous. ”

"Generally speaking, similar to such a large Buddha bead, it should be a hole the size of the tail finger to be considered a fit, but these Buddha beads are actually toothpick-like holes, which inevitably makes people suspicious."

After speaking, Professor Meng held up the Buddha beads again and faced the sun: "Looking at it this way, the problem is even more obvious." ”

Under the bright sunlight, if you look carefully, you will find that nine of the eighteen huge Buddha beads have abnormal conditions, although the surface of the eighteen Buddha beads are painted with red paint, but careful observation can find that under the red paint of the nine Buddha beads, you can clearly see the gaps that are spliced together.

That is to say, nine of these beads are hollow, and the other nine are solid beads, one empty and one solid are separated from each other, just forming a balance, plus there may be something hidden in the hollow beads, so it is easy to ignore the difference in the weight of the beads.

"Teacher, you're amazing!" Dr. Ren said.

Professor Meng shook his head, returned the Buddha beads to Huang Chong, and said, "You should have seen it a long time ago, this is taking the Buddha beads to test me!" ”

"No, no, it's still Professor Meng who is amazing, I also looked at it for a long time before I found out the problem, Professor Meng saw at a glance that it was extraordinary, amazing, amazing." Huang Chong gave a thumbs up and said modestly.

"I don't believe what you say." Professor Meng smiled: "Do you want to break it open and take a look?" ”

"Hmm!" Huang Chong nodded: "I also have this intention." ”

"Xiao Ren, bring a knife, boil another pot of water, and bring a basin." Professor Meng said.

"Okay!"

Dr. Ren handed the knife to Huang Chong, who gently scraped the red paint off the surface of the hollow beads.

This layer of red paint itself is a little weathered and cracked, and when the knife is gently scraped, the red paint falls off piece by piece, revealing the glued stitches after a while.

Although Huang Chong has the ability to use the knife in his hand to break open the outer layer without hurting the things inside, in order not to shock the world, Huang Chong decided to use Professor Meng's method to scrape the other eight Buddha beads with red paint, and then put the string of Buddha beads in a basin, and then rinse them with boiling water.

After soaking in boiling water at high temperature for a few minutes, Huang Chongcai fished the Buddha beads out of the hot water, only to see that the gaps in the hollow Buddha beads had been glued, and the glue was obviously a little melted.

Huang Chong picked up a Buddha bead with two fingers, pinched it hard, and a hollow Buddha bead suddenly cracked, only to see that it was the size of a thumb, the surface was dull, very simple and unpretentious, and the other eight were the same, inside the Buddha beads, it was still a Buddha bead.

When these nine Buddha beads appeared, Huang Chong's spiritual power had an abnormal reaction, and Huang Chong was slightly stunned when he noticed this, and then he understood what was going on.

"Dzi."

"You say this is a dzi?" Hearing Huang Chong's words, Professor Meng asked in surprise.

"Professor, look at it." Huang Chong handed the beads to Professor Meng and asked her to judge for herself.

The name of the dzi is not verifiable, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan are called "dzi", the Tibetan people are called "silk", the Han people are called "nine eyed beads", the name is different, according to legend, the dzi is enshrined and blessed by the great achievers and the great monks to pretend to be Tibetan for the Buddha or the Tibetan heirloom from generation to generation, with magical power.

The origin of the dzi can be traced back to between 3,000 and 1,500 B.C., when the Aryan people of the ancient Indian kingdom were invented and created in order to seek the protection of the gods and Buddhas.

Just now, Huang Chong did feel that there was a looming spiritual energy in this string of heavenly beads, which was very weak, but it did exist, so he made a judgment.

"It's like a dzi indeed." Professor Meng said.