Chapter 18: The Story is in the Hollow of a Tree
This time I recovered a little faster than last night, but the pain was even worse. I limped to the scene of the crime, only to see Liu Dongxi lying in a bloody mud, like a rag thrown on the ground.
I stretched out my foot and kicked him, "Can you still move?" Get up if you can! ”
"Let me lie down a little longer! I was scared to pee just now, and I can't get up now. ”
"You're not disgusting?" I felt sick when I looked at this pile of colorful flesh and skin, and he could lie down in it.
"People hugged me so tightly just now, and now I also take the initiative to get closer." This guy actually recovered his oily and smooth face in this situation, and he and I may be on the verge of death but desperate to survive, so that I and him have a kind of joy from the heart, plus he desperately led away the giant python and saved my life, which made me feel a lot more kind to him, and I didn't care about his nonsense, but went over and half-pulled him to sit under the tree next to him, and turned his head to look at the python corpse on the ground.
Although it was eaten by that Yonghe for a long time, the remaining part of this giant python is still amazing. The whole body looks thick and short, but it must be more than ten meters long. At this time, I found that the scales were not black but dark gold, and there was a pair of small white claws left on the abdomen at the back, I know that there are many pythons with no degraded limbs and claws, and I don't feel unusual, but the winged python is very rare, I saw a pair of curled up meat wings on the back of the snake, so black that I can't see it if I don't look carefully, and I don't know if it has any effect, but look at the way it moves on the tree, it is estimated that the decorative effect on the wings is greater than the practical significance.
I wanted to take a closer look at the pair of wings, but my body was so sore that I had to go to Liu Dongxi and sit down.
Liu Dongxi is closing his eyes and recuperating, it seems that he has not recovered yet, and I don't care about him.
Fortunately, the fabric of the winter training uniform I wore was relatively strong, and the teeth of the python were relatively small, so the bite was not serious. Then he pulled out the short sword he had picked up and looked at it carefully.
This sword is more than 30 centimeters long, covered in patina, should be bronze, from the handle to the tip of the line is very smooth, like a leek leaf. The sword lattice part is a protruding six square teeth, two by two, the hilt and the sword lattice have vaguely complex lines, I can't see what the pattern is. The head of the sword seemed to be carved out of a hollow, and it was blocked by some corrupt things, and it was impossible to see what it was.
Holding it upside down in your hand, the center of gravity is about the index finger position when holding the sword in the backhand, which is easy to control. I turned it around in my hand a few times, and stabbed straight at an old root next to it, but it didn't go in for almost ten centimeters.
I was startled, and pulled out the sword, and the part that pierced into the root of the tree was scraped off the green of the surface, revealing a dark metal, a material I had never seen before, it didn't seem to be bronze, but I wasn't sure what it was, it could be so sharp.
Liu Shixi was almost recovered at this time, and he also leaned over to look at the sword, and asked me twice: "Brother An, where did you get such a good thing?" ”
I saw that his nature as a tomb robber was about to appear again, so I didn't want to deal with him, so I thought about it and said, "I was in the hole in the tree just now, and I want to go over and find it myself!" ”
Seeing that I didn't have a good voice, Liu Shixi was bored, looked at the sword again, and suddenly jumped up and ran to the tree hole.
I saw that this kid was recovering fast enough! I didn't follow it, but I found my police dagger on the python's corpse and stuck it back into my waist, and then I walked that way.
Liu Shiwu had already poured out all the things in the tree hole and spread them on the ground in bits and pieces. When I looked closer, there were all sorts of things, a dried leather bag that barely looked like it, a pile of bottles and cans that I didn't know what they contained, a small pile of rusty iron pieces, and a dried corpse without a jaw.
Liu Dongxi squatted there and rummaged through and picked up with a solemn expression, not knowing what he found.
Suddenly, Liu Dongxi looked up and asked me, "Brother An, can you show me that sword?" ”
I hesitated, pulled out the sword and gave it to him, Liu Dongxi took the sword, rubbed the surface of the sword with his fingers, and held it in the light from time to time to look at it carefully. ”
Liu Dongxi pointed to the sword grid and said: "It's hard to say, look at the inscription here, it's the word 'Dingguang', which is amazing, it is said that the Dingguang Sword was cast by Yin Taijia." If you say this, it is an artifact from the Yin Shang period. But there are a few things that are inappropriate, one is that the shape of the weapon is later, like the Warring States sword, and the other is not the right length, half shorter than recorded in history, and the material is not available at that time, so it should not be the original. ”
I was confused and asked, "When did you say this sword for a long time?" ”
Liu Dongxi said: "There are two possibilities, this sword may be a fake in the name of 'Dingguang' in the later generations, this kind of thing is very common, and I still have four or five Tai'a swords at home." It is also possible that it is 'fixed light', but for some reason it was broken and transformed by later generations, but this possibility is relatively small. ”
I heard that something was wrong, and interjected: "Then according to what you said, isn't the material of this sword relatively late?" ”
Liu Shixi spat on the sword, wiped it vigorously and said: "I think the material of this sword is a bit like meteoric iron, in this case, it is really difficult to determine when, but looking at the shape of the craft, it will not be later than the Warring States, to say the least, it will be more than two thousand two hundred years." Liu Dongxi returned the sword to me, bowed his head and continued.
I took the sword, I couldn't help but be in awe, for us ordinary people, the pre-Qin period was a mythical era, this sword from that era of people and gods fighting, monsters and beasts rampant, maybe there is still the blood of gods and demons on it!
I was holding the sword in my hand, and I was in a trance. At this time, Liu Dongxi stood up, "This is a Taoist priest, I don't know why he died here?" ”
Taoist?
I asked him, "How can you tell he's a Taoist?" ”
He pointed to the pile of bottles and jars on the ground and said: "These two gourd bottles are cinnabar inside, these are all Dan, although the clothes have been cleaned, you see this is a sky-turning seal, these are all Taoist things, plus the sword in your hand, a set of lines is complete." Even if he is not a Taoist priest, he should be related to a Taoist priest. ”
I saw that he was sure of what he said, and then asked, "When is the Taoist priest?" ”
"It must be the Ming Dynasty or later, you look at these bottles and jars on his body, all the colorful porcelain, if it is not for the special preference for colorful porcelain, then it must be the Ming Dynasty."
I nodded, thinking to myself, yes, if it was passed down by my ancestors, it was so coincidental that it could be passed down so just to meet my needs? It must have been bought with a few.
Thinking about this, I feel a little uncomfortable, as if there is a thread that tickles you, and you can pull it off at once, but you just don't know where it is. The more I couldn't find it, the more I felt itchy, so I asked: "When did this multicolored porcelain exist?" ”
"It's been there for a long time, but such a cheesy and fancy colorful porcelain is the most in the Jiaqing and Wanli years." Liu Shiwu answered me without even thinking about it.
During the Wanli period, I suddenly remembered that Wanli was not the time when Liu Ranqing died according to time?
Liu Dongxi and I thought of this section at the same time, and suddenly raised our heads and looked at each other, could it be that this nameless ancient corpse could actually be Liu Ranqing's companion?