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A week later, Tang Feng, Liang Yuan, Han Jiang, Zhao Yong, and Professor Luo gathered again in the secret room of the small building, and on the table in front of them, the Xixia inlaid jewels wrapped in lotus pattern jade interstitial screens, lying quietly...... After a week of closed-door research, Professor Luo Zhongping has basically cracked the mysterious symbols on the surface of the jade interstitial screen.

Professor Luo distributed the rubbings on the surface of the four jade interstitial screens to everyone, and introduced: "From the seven top-secret documents, we learned that Yifeng Pavilion found some mysterious symbols on the surface of the jade interstitial screen back then, Yifeng Ge, Alec and Menglev, all believe that the mysterious symbols on the jade interstitial screen are the Xixia characters that have disappeared for many years, and have carried out some decipherment work, but the jade interstitial screen brought back by Tang Feng, because of the erosion of the years, coupled with the poor preservation conditions later, the mysterious symbols on it are filthy, and now you see the rubbing, I used a special potion to re-clean the jade insert, and then rubbed it down, which is relatively clear. ”

Tang Feng looked at the rubbing, "It seems that Mr. Liang has long recognized that this is the Tangut script, and he once told me that the Tangut script is a lost script, a dead script. ”

"Yes, the Tangut script is a dead script, and now there will be no more than twenty people in the whole country and even the world who can read the Tangut script, and they are old and talented, and they have studied and studied the Tangut script for many years, so they are fortunate to be able to identify some Tangut characters." Professor Luo said.

Liang Yuan interrupted Professor Luo and Tang Feng curiously: "You two don't give us a lesson, Professor Luo, since you can read these Tangut texts, tell me quickly, what does the Tangut script mean on this?" ”

Professor Luo said with a smile: "Yuanyuan, don't worry, if you want to crack the secret hidden in the Xixia jade interstitial, you, including Captain Han, all of you must listen to my nagging, not to mention letting you understand the Xixia language, at least let you be familiar with the history and culture of the Western Xia, so that you can understand the value of this jade interstitial screen and the cultural connotation it contains, so I will teach you a lesson first." ”

"Class? I just finished my studies in the United States, and I have to continue my classes here? Liang Yuan was a little deflated.

Han Jiang said to everyone with a serious face: "In terms of academics, Professor Luo is an expert, we are all students, and we are also primary school students, so we must listen to Professor Luo give us a lecture first, as for Tang Feng, of course you are not a primary school student in this regard, but I have higher requirements for you, you must listen more carefully than us, and learn more seriously." ”

Han Jiang's words made Tang Feng feel pressured, and he began to understand his role and value in this team, but at this moment, he didn't know if he could meet Han Jiang's requirements, especially to understand the lost Xixia text.

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Professor Luo turned on the slide lantern, and a towering snow-capped mountain appeared on the slide, and under the snow-capped mountain, deep in the dense forest, there was a group of people surrounded by animal skins, chasing wild beasts, completely like the scene of primitive society. Then, Professor Luo began his lecture: "The Dangxiang people who established the Xixia Dynasty were a branch of the ancient Qiang people, in ancient times, the Qiang people were active in the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, they created the Xiqiang culture here, and the Dangxiang people were one of the Xiqiang tribes, and around the fourth century AD, the Dangxiang people began to appear on the stage of Chinese history, and since then, the Dangxiang people have not stopped their migration. At the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Dangxiang people began to be active in the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the northwest of Sichuan, that is, in the southeast of today's Qinghai Province and the areas of Songpan, Heishui, Beichuan and Maoxian in Sichuan. It is recorded in the Book of Sui and the Biography of the Dang Xiang that the party is a tribe with a surname, with more than 5,000 rides for the big ones and more than 1,000 rides for the small ones□. shepherd□ oxen, sheep, and pigs for food, but do not know the grain.'" This shows that at that time, the party members mainly lived on animal husbandry and hunting, and did not know how to produce agriculture, and were at the end of the primitive society. Later, Dangxiang Qiang gradually developed into eight tribes, including the Xifeng clan, the Fei Ting clan, the Xiang Li clan, the Pochao clan, the Yeci clan, the Fangdang clan, the Mi Bao clan, and the Tuoba clan, among which the Tuoba tribe was the strongest. ”

"So, where did the name 'Dangxiang' come about?" Liang Yuan asked curiously.

Professor Luo explained: "The name 'Dangxiang' is the result of Chinese transliteration, and it is likely that the ancient Han people borrowed from some other ethnic minorities in the northwest to refer to the Dangxiang, for example, the Mongolians called the Dangxiang people 'Tangut' or 'Tang Wuti', which is also used in a large number of Chinese classics, and the Dangxiang people called themselves 'Burmese medicine' or 'Yi Yao', which is close to the Tibetan name for the Dangxiang people, and in the ancient Tibetan literature, the Tibetans called the Dangxiang people who had migrated to the northeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during the Tibetan period." 'Kill the medicine'. ”

"In other words, during this period, the Dangxiang people have migrated from northwest Sichuan to the area of Qinghai Lake?" Tang Feng asked.

"Yes, during this period, on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Tubo Dynasty rose and expanded externally, and the various tribes of the Dangxiang migrated to another newly rising dynasty - the Tang Dynasty in order to avoid the invasion and enslavement of the Tubo, and the Tang Dynasty accepted them, and the Dangxiang people migrated to the Hexi Corridor and the Gannan region, and after the Anshi Rebellion, the Dangxiang people migrated to northern Shaanxi and the Hetao area, and gradually settled here."

Tang Feng took Professor Luo's words: "I will know the history later." ”

"Then it's up to you." Professor Luo was about to take the Tang Feng test.

Tang Feng introduced: "After the party people settled in northern Shaanxi and the Hetao region, they developed rapidly, and in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the heroes rose together, the outstanding leader of the party people, Tuoba Sigong, led the party people to continuously expand their own strength, and in the suppression of the Huangchao uprising, made great contributions, and was named the envoy of the military festival by the Tang Dynasty, and was knighted as the Duke of Xia, and gave the surname of 'Wei name', so the history books also called the Xixia royal family as the name of Wei, after that, the party Xiang people gradually possessed the land of Yin, Xia, Sui, You, Jing five states, and then became a prince. After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the implementation of the policy of cutting the domain, when the Song Taizong, the descendants of Tuoba Sigong succeeded to the name of the succession, succeeded to the difficult military festival envoy, soon, the struggle for power within the party nobles, the Song Dynasty took the opportunity to induce the Wei Ming Jitou to lead the clan to join the Song Dynasty, and offered the land of Xia, Sui, Yin, You, Jing five states, thus, the party and the nation caused a split, almost declined. At this time, among the party members who were unwilling to belong to the Song Dynasty, there was a person who ascended to the heights and led his people to flee into the land of Jinze, 300 miles northeast of Xiazhou, and established himself as the king against the Song Dynasty.

In the following 20 years, under the leadership of Tuoba Jiqian, the party members fought everywhere, expanded the territory, rose the desert, not only restored the original land of the five states, but also captured the important town in the northwest - Lingzhou. During the reign of Tuoba Jiqian's son Tuoba Deming, the Dangxiang people maneuvered between the Song and Liao dynasties on the one hand, and conquered the Tibetans and Uighurs on the other, expanded westward, controlled the Hexi Corridor, the lifeblood of the Silk Road, and gradually laid the territory of the later Western Xia Kingdom, and established the future capital of the Western Xia Dynasty - Xingqing Mansion at the foot of Helan Mountain.

In 1038 A.D., Yuan Hao, the son of Tuoba Deming, after a long period of preparation, went to the Tang and Song emperors to give the surname, called himself Wei Ming, officially called the emperor, and established a dynasty with the party as the main body, the country name Daxia, and later generations generally called this dynasty "Western Xia". At the peak of the Xixia Dynasty, it was bounded by the Yellow River in the east, the Western Regions in the west, controlling the Silk Road, confronting the Song Dynasty in the south with Xiaoguan, and controlling the desert in the north, with more than 10,000 li, roughly including all of present-day Ningxia and Gansu and some areas of Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai and Xinjiang. After Yuan Hao became emperor, he established a complete set of rules and regulations, and also created a unique Western Xia script. ”

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After listening to Tang Feng's narration, Professor Luo smiled and said: "Tang Feng, what you just said about the history of Western Xia is very correct, since you mentioned Yuan Hao's creation of the Western Xia script, then I will talk about this lost Western Xia script." Professor Luo played some strange symbols on the projection, and said to everyone: "These peculiar characters on the slide are the Tangut script, the Dangxiang nation did not have its own script before Yuan Hao became emperor, in the early years, when the Dangxiang people were nomadic on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, because the Dangxiang language was close to Tibetan, they had borrowed the Tibetan alphabet to spell the language, and the establishment of the Tangut script marked the civilization of the Dangxiang nation rose to a new height. "History of the Song Dynasty" contains: 'Yuan Hao made his own book, and the fate of Li Renrong was interpreted, into twelve volumes, and the glyph was square and eight points, and the painting was quite repetitive. The chronicle of the people of the country is written in Fan, and the translation of "The Book of Filial Piety", "Erya" and "Four Words and Miscellaneous Characters" is in the Tibetan language. Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty said in his "Mengxi Writings": "Yuan Haoguo rebelled, and his disciples first created a book, and he was alone on the first floor, and he was successful after many years, and he dedicated it." These two documents record that before Yuan Hao established the Tangut Dynasty, he ordered his subordinate minister Yeli Renrong to create the Tangut script for the people to use, and Yuan Hao also translated many Chinese classics into Tangut. In fact, in my opinion, the Tangut script was not created by a certain person, but gradually formed among the people, and finally collected and sorted out by Yeli Renrong. Professor Luo introduced the creation of the Tangut script in one go.

Liang Yuan stared at a few strange Tangut characters on the slide, and suddenly asked, "Professor, why do I think these Tangut characters are a bit like Chinese characters, but I don't know any of them?" ”

"Hehe, Yuanyuan, you observed well, the Tangut script is borrowed from the Chinese characters, evolved, you see, the Tangut script, in terms of structure, is very similar to Chinese characters, but also square words, also like Chinese characters by the point, horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, pinch, turn, hook and other strokes to group words, even the book body is the same as Chinese characters, there are Kai, line, grass, seal, subordinate five kinds of calligraphy, often make the first time to see the Xixia language, mistakenly think that Chinese characters, in fact, is another kind of writing entirely. Up to now, more than 5,000 characters have been found in the Tangut script, although they resemble Chinese characters, but none of them are the same as Chinese characters, which reflects the strong national consciousness of the party members. Let's look at these Tangut characters again, the strokes are cumbersome, and there are many oblique strokes, especially the apostrophe and strokes, so there are history books that say that the Tangut script is 'like a talisman urn', which means that the strokes of the Tangut script are cumbersome and obscure, which also lays a hidden danger for the rapid disappearance of the Tangut script after the fall of the Tangut.

After the Western Xia was destroyed by the Mongols, the Western Xia script also quickly disappeared in the long river of history, for hundreds of years, no one knew, until the Qing Dynasty Jiaqing period, Gansu scholar Zhang Shu returned to his hometown to recuperate, in a temple in Wuwei, found a closed small room, asked the monk: what is in the room? The monk said: There is a stele in the room, the inscription of this stele is strange, I am afraid that it is evil, so it is closed in the room. Zhang Shu has been an official for many years, well-informed, does not believe in the demon said, asked the monk to open the door, to see what the demon is, the monk had no choice but to open the door for Zhang Shu, Zhang Shu found that there is a stele in the room, the inscription is actually a text that he does not know as a university scholar, and was immediately shocked, when he carefully turned to the back of the stele, only to find that the stele is engraved with Chinese characters, the number of words is as much as the text in front, Zhang Shu suddenly realized, the original text in front of the stele is the Western Xia text that has disappeared! This stele is the famous "Liangzhou Rebuild Huguo Temple Induction Tower Stele", which is still preserved in the Wuwei City Museum.

Since then, the Tangut language has gradually begun to be valued by the academic community, in 1909, the Russian explorer Koznov in the territory of the Ejina banner of the Heishui City ruins, stolen out a large number of documents written in the Tangut language, Koznov transported these Tangut documents together to Petersburg, the Russian sinologist Yi Fengge in the Tangut literature transported back by Koznov, found the famous "Fan Han Heshi Palm Pearl", this is a bilingual dictionary of Tangut and Chinese, compiled by the Tangut scholar Gu Lemaocai, Yifengge through this dictionary, A lot of ancient Tangut documents have been deciphered. In 1913, Luo Zhenyu and Luo Fuchang father and son, from Yifeng Pavilion got a part of the "Panhan Heshi Palm Pearl", after years of research, Luo Fuchang used the traditional Chinese character "six books" method, that is, pictograms, signifiers, shapes, sounds, meanings, pretenses, and transfer methods to analyze the Tangut characters, so that people's understanding of the structure of the Tangut characters was greatly improved. Subsequently, there were more and more scholars engaged in Tangut writing, but because Tangut characters had disappeared for many years, they had no practical value, and the Tangut characters were cumbersome and obscure, so to this day, there are still very few scholars who can master Tangut characters. ”

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After listening to Professor Luo's tirade, everyone had a certain understanding of the history of Tangut and Tangut characters, and everyone admired Professor Luo's profound knowledge.

Just when everyone was amazed by the ancient Western Xia characters, Han Jiang stared at the jade interstitial screen in front of him and said nothing, what was engraved on this jade interstitial screen? How could there be such a bizarre and terrifying experience? So many people have died for this, terrible blood curse! …… The text on the jade interstitial, he doesn't know any of them, it's really a heavenly book, no! It should be said that it is a dead book! Thinking of this, Han Jiang suddenly spoke: "Professor, then let's interpret the mysterious dead book on this jade interstitial." ”

"Dead book?" Everyone was shocked when they heard the word that popped out of Han Jiang's mouth, and Professor Luo was also slightly stunned, and then smiled: "Yes, Captain Han is right, this is indeed a dead book." ”

"Dead book! Don't you know the professor either? Tang Feng asked in surprise.

Professor Luo pondered for a long time and said: "As I said earlier, the Tangut script is the same as the Chinese characters, there are five kinds of calligraphy: Kai, Xing, Cao, Seal, and Li, but so far, I have seen the Tangut script in Kai, Xing, Cao, and Seal, but no one has ever seen the Tangut script in Lishu, and the text on this jade interstitial, in my years of experience, is neither regular script Xixia script, nor Xingshu Xixia script, let alone cursive script, seal script Xixia script, so I make a preliminary judgment, The Tangut text on the jade interstitial screen should be a Xixia Lishu that the world has never seen! ”

"Ahh It's so complicated, since no one has ever seen it, then no one knows it? Liang Yuan couldn't hide her disappointment.

"Hehe, don't be in a hurry! Although I first saw these words, I didn't recognize them, but after all, it's just that the style of the book is different, and the text is still the Tangut script, if it's a common Tangut script such as regular script or Xingshu, I can translate it in an hour, and the reason why I'm closed for a week is because of this Lishu style, which is the first time I've seen it. Fortunately, through my research this week, I have probably translated the text on the jade interstitial screen with some guesswork, but I can't be completely sure ......" Speaking of this, Professor Luo stopped talking.

Han Jiang cast a trusting glance at Professor Luo: "Professor, whether it's right or not, let's listen to it." ”

Professor Luo nodded, and began to translate the text on the jade interlude: "The text on the jade interstitial screen is divided into two parts, the front part of the words is relatively small, a bit like the preface of the whole article, I preliminarily translated it, the full text of this preface is: descendants are in difficulty, four screens in one, thousands of mountains and rivers, nine deaths and one life, Hanhai Mi City, endure the blessing of longevity, you can get the capital to restore the country, and those who restore the country, not my descendants, will be cursed with blood." There are a total of forty-four words, there is no punctuation in the original text, and the punctuation marks in the middle are added by me, this is just my preliminary translation, and I don't know the bottom of my heart, especially the words 'Hanhai Micheng' are a little worn out, and I don't know it. ”

"Professor, what do you mean by these forty-four words?" Tang Feng said the doubts in everyone's hearts.

Professor Luo's face was solemn, as if he was worried, and everyone waited for a long time before they heard Professor Luo say: "These forty-four words, according to my preliminary inference, are related to an amazing secret of the Western Xia Dynasty......

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Professor Luo continued: "I will interpret it sentence by sentence, the first sentence 'descendants are in difficulty', I speculate that this 'difficulty' should refer to the Western Xia Dynasty when it encountered great difficulties, such as when there was a danger of losing the country, that is to say, when future generations encountered great difficulties; These two sentences are not difficult to interpret literally, they are talking about hardship and danger, what is difficult and dangerous? I think it should mean that the road is difficult and dangerous, you have to go through thousands of mountains and rivers, and you will die for a lifetime; Let's look at the next sentence 'Hanhai Micheng', what does Hanhai Micheng mean? I couldn't figure it out at first, but when I read this sentence in conjunction with the previous two sentences, I seemed to understand that after thousands of mountains and rivers, nine deaths and one life, where is it to go? It's to go to Hanhai Mi City. ”

"Hanhai Mi City? What kind of place is this, it takes thousands of mountains and rivers to get there? It's mysterious! Liang Yuan asked Professor Luo.

Professor Luo shook his head: "I have studied the history of Western Xia all my life, and I have never heard of the place of Hanhai Mi City. ”

"Could it be that the meaning, Hanhai is a place, Micheng is a place, and 'Micheng' sounds like the name of a city." Liang Yuan guessed.

Tang Feng also guessed: "Hanhai, I don't think there is any special meaning, it refers to the desert, Hanhai Micheng, together it is a city in the desert, called Micheng." ”

Professor Luo listened to Tang Feng's analysis and nodded slightly: "I agree with Tang Feng's opinion on this, Micheng is likely to be a city hidden in the desert, let's look down, the next sentence 'endure the blessing of longevity', this sentence should have no practical meaning, that is, the meaning of praying for the blessing of longevity, ancient China, many nomadic peoples in the north, such as Mongolia, Khitan, Dangxiang and other ethnic groups worship longevity, expeditions, hunting, where there are important activities, it is necessary to hold ceremonies, pray for the blessing of longevity. The following two sentences, 'You can get the capital to restore the country, the person who restores the country', according to my speculation, means that after thousands of mountains and rivers, nine deaths and a lifetime, and find Hanhai Mi City, you can get the capital to restore the country, and the person who restores the country, 'the capital of the country,' is easy to understand, it is wealth, how much wealth can you think about to restore the country! ”

"I kind of understand, no wonder for hundreds of years, so many people want to get this jade insert, it turns out that it is not only for this treasure, but also for that amazing restoration of the country!" Tang Feng's words made everyone suddenly realize.

Everyone's eyes suddenly brightened, as if this series of events had been sorted out, but Professor Luo still frowned: "Don't be happy first, this matter is not just to compete for a huge fortune, it's as simple as that." 'The capital of recovering the country' is easy to understand, but how should the 'person who has returned to the country' understand? ”

The one who has returned to the country! Is it an army? How was this possible, everyone fell silent. Professor Luo continued, "Good! Let's ignore this 'restored man' for the time being, and then look at the last two sentences, 'If you are not my descendants, you will be cursed with blood.'" ’”

When the words "must receive the blood curse" were read out of Professor Luo's mouth, everyone in the secret room trembled in their hearts, blood curse! Terrible Blood Curse! It was engraved on the jade interstitial.

"'If you are not my son, you will be cursed with blood.'" Although these two sentences are terrible, they are easy to understand, this is a curse issued by the person who made this jade interstitial screen at that time, if an outsider gets the jade interstitial screen and finds Hanhai Mi City, he will be cursed with blood. After Professor Luo explained, looking at everyone again, everyone was very worried, and even Han Jiang and Zhao Yong, who had never believed in ghosts and gods, had gloomy faces.

It was Liang Yuan who asked first: "Then will we also be cursed by the blood curse?" ”

Professor Luo smiled: "Actually, most of these were used by the ancients to scare people. ”

"Professor, you may not know that in the past half a month, in addition to Liang Yunjie, several people have died for this jade insert." Han Jiang finally spoke.

Han Jiang's words made Professor Luo also surprised, and after being silent for a while, Professor Luo squeezed out a smile with difficulty and said: "Don't worry, according to my research over the years, after the fall of the Western Xia Dynasty, many Dangxiang people joined the Mongolian army, and the Mongols called these Dangxiang people the 'Tang Wuti' army, and one of them later took 'Tang' as the surname and settled in the mainland, so speaking of which, Tang Feng, you are likely to be the descendants of the Dangxiang people!" Since he is the descendant of the party, he doesn't have to worry about any blood curses, hehe. ”

"What? I am a descendant of the party members! Professor Luo, don't comfort us. Everyone knew that Professor Luo was making up a reason to comfort everyone, but Tang Feng still exposed Professor Luo.

"Okay, don't dwell on the 'blood curse' anymore, since we have joined the old K, we won't be afraid of any blood curse!" Han Jiang's words were loud.

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Han Jiang swept through the people in the room and said solemnly: "It is very dangerous to uncover the secret hidden in the jade interlude, but I don't believe in any blood curse, can it be that people hundreds of years ago can still be resurrected and embarrass us?" Only our greedy and murderous opponents, they are our real enemies! Professor Luo, you haven't deciphered what the second sentence means? ”

Professor Luo looked at Han Jiang and continued to interpret: "I said earlier, at first I didn't understand what the second sentence of 'four screens in one' meant? But after I read the whole text, I went back and looked at the second sentence, and it seemed that I began to understand the meaning of four screens in one, four screens in one? I speculate that there should be four jade interstitial screens......"

"Four jade interstitials?" As soon as Professor Luo said this, everyone was stunned.

"Yes, the four jade interstitial screens, only by combining the four jade interstitial screens, can we know the exact location of Hanhai Mi City, you can see ......" As he spoke, Professor Luo put on white gloves, flipped the jade interstitial screen to the back, pointed to some concave places on the back, and said: "Look, these recessed lines in the back, according to my speculation, behind the jade interstitial screen is a map carved in the shadow." ”

"Maps?"

"A map to Hanhai Mi City, to be exact."

"Isn't that a treasure map?" Liang Yuan asked in surprise.

Professor Luo smiled: "It's okay if you want to say that, but this one alone is not enough, you have to collect the four jade interstitial screens and put them together in order to see the map to Hanhai Mi City." ”

"Oh! I see. Liang Yuan nodded.

"In the same way, the Xixia text on the front of the jade interstitial, in addition to the first part we have cracked, the text part with relatively large characters below, I speculate that it is the location where the four jade interstitial screens are stored, and there may also be some other information about Hanhai Micheng, let's take a look at the text part on the jade interstitial, the text of the main part, is obviously larger than the text in the preamble part of the previous part, after my preliminary translation, the text part of this jade interstitial screen is translated into Chinese characters as 'black-headed stone chamber barren waters, red-faced father mound white high river, The country of Changmi medicine is there. ”

When Professor Luo read this, he was silent, and Liang Yuan urged: "Professor, why don't you read it down." ”

"It's over, I'm done."

"What? That's all there is to the text. The crowd was very discouraged.

"Yes, the text part of this jade interstitial screen is just these twenty-one words."

Tang Feng listened to these sentences of Xixia translated by Professor Luo, and suddenly exclaimed: "This ...... I seem to have heard these words somewhere, by the way, it is the seven letters, the letter from Academician Alec to Menlev, at the end of that letter, Alec suddenly added a paragraph, saying that Yi Fengge had mentioned a few lines of poetry to him before he died, and these are the lines. ”

"That's right! Tang Feng, when I translated these sentences, I was also shocked, which shows that Yi Fengge had cracked these lines of poetry back then, but unfortunately he died later and did not study further. ”

So what does this poem mean? What is the connection with jade interstitial? Tang Feng asked.

"The general academic community believes that the first three sentences of this poem describe the place where the early Dangxiang people lived, 'Baigao River', I think it refers to the Baihe River valley in northwest Sichuan today, which is the early settlement of the Dangxiang people, and the 'black-headed stone room', combined with my research on the jade interstitial screen, and the knowledge accumulated over the years, the black-headed stone room is likely to be the place where one of the other three jade interstitial screens is stored, if my inference is correct, it will rewrite the entire history of Western Xia, and the academic significance is very significant." Hearing this, Professor Luo raised his voice significantly.

"In this way, finding the Blackhead Stone Chamber is our next goal!" Zhao Yong said and cast an inquiring glance at Han Jiang.

Everyone looked at Han Jiang, Han Jiang didn't speak, but Tang Feng spoke: "Everyone, I don't doubt Professor Luo's research level, but based on the current evidence, I can infer that there are four jade inserts, and what 'black-headed stone room' stores another jade insert, I still can't believe it, besides, we don't know the specific location of this 'black-headed stone room'!" How to find it? ”

Professor Luo listened to Tang Feng's question, and said very calmly: "I said, all this is just my personal inference, but your question, I remembered, there is still a piece of evidence on the jade interstitial screen, which can prove my inference, you may not know that there is a Chinese character on the jade interstitial screen." ”

"Oh! There's a Chinese character on the jade interstitial, why didn't I see it? Tang Feng was full of doubts.

Professor Luo turned the jade interstitial screen sideways, pointed to the side wall of the jade interstitial screen, and said to everyone, "Everyone, please see, there is a very small Chinese character here. ”

Everyone gathered around and watched carefully, and sure enough, everyone saw that on the side wall of the jade interstitial screen, there was a small "white" character.

"What does this 'white' word mean?" Tang Feng was puzzled.

"What does it mean? This 'white' character is actually the name of this jade interstitial! ”

"Name?" Tang Feng was confused.

"I have already said, I speculate that there are a total of four jade interstitial screens, only when the four jade interstitial screens are put together, can we fully know what is written on the jade interstitial screen, in order to see the map behind the jade interstitial, then, the original maker of these four jade interstitial screens, when making the jade interstitial screen, must have numbered these jade interstitial screens, this 'white' character written in Chinese characters, is the number of this jade interstitial, or its name, the full name of this jade interstitial screen should be - 'white' font size Xixia inlaid jewelry wrapped lotus pattern jade interstitial."

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"'White' size Xixia inlaid jewelry wrapped lotus pattern jade interstitial? And what are the other pieces numbered? Tang Feng asked.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please listen to me slowly, as you know, the name 'Xixia' is the name of the Chinese history book, not the name of the country given by the party members themselves, the name of the country given by the party members themselves, there are various different sayings in the academic circles, for example, many scholars believe that the party members themselves call their country 'Da Bai Gao Guo', or 'Bai Gao Da Da ', but there is also a saying that the party people call their own country ' The name 'Bai Gao Da Xia' was obtained by the Russian scholar of Tangut studies, Khachanov, based on the translation of the Tangut Tripitaka into Chinese characters in the collection of the Anthropology Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. I personally agree with this statement, and then we have the jade interstitial screen in front of us, judging from the text engraved on it, this jade interstitial screen should be the first of the four jade interstitial screens, therefore, corresponding to the four words "white, high, big, summer" I speculate that the other three jade interstitial screens are "high" jade interpolation, "large" jade interstitial screen and "Xia" jade interlude. Professor Luo's inference has greatly increased everyone's confidence, and it seems that they are getting closer and closer to the truth of the matter.

Professor Luo continued, "Let me add one more thing, if we really find Hanhai Mi City, what will be there there? Treasure, of course there will be this, and there will be many, many rare treasures, but I am not interested in treasures, in 1908, Koznov discovered a black city, and unearthed tens of thousands of Xixia cultural relics, I think this Hanhai Mi City, will only be bigger than the black city, more important, more spectacular, I dare not imagine, there will be a lot of cultural heritage buried in the world shocking, maybe there will be a complete set of Tangut "Tripitaka", maybe there will be countless exquisite Buddha statues, more brilliant than the great Dunhuang, There may be many miracles that we can't even think of......" Professor Luo couldn't hide his excitement, and he was completely intoxicated in his Hanhai Mi City.

In the end, Han Jiang stood up and summed up to everyone: "I think Professor Luo's inference is reasonable, when the Western Xia Dynasty was destroyed by Genghis Khan, in order to be able to restore the country one day and reproduce the glory of the Baigao Xia Kingdom, the four jade inserts containing the secrets of Hanhai Mi City were brought to four different places by four groups of people. Now we can be sure that the jade interstitial screen in front of us is the one found by the Russian explorer Koznov in the ruins of Blackwater City, and then according to Professor Luo's cracking of this jade interstitial, we know that it is very likely that there is a party item, with another jade interstitial, and returned to the mountain where the dangxiang people originally walked out, this is the only clue we have now, so, finding this jade interstitial screen is our next goal, we must rush in front of our opponents, find four jade interstitial screens, and crack the secret of Hanhai Mi City. ”

"But what do we do next?" Tang Feng asked Han Jiang.

Han Jiang didn't answer, but Professor Luo said: "If you want to find the jade insert in the black-headed stone room, I think of a clue, the American explorer Locke, who was active in western Sichuan in the twenties and thirties of the last century, mentioned in an article he wrote in his later years that after he finished his investigation in Gongga Snow Mountain in northwest Sichuan, because of a terrible mudslide, he once strayed into a paradise, where the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the folk customs are simple, and the local people worship Buddhism, but they retain a large number of relics of primitive religion. The local chieftain and lama warmly received Locke and finally sent him out of the paradise. Locke had lived in China for many years and was well versed in Chinese culture, and he found that the people living there were very different from the residents of other parts of western Sichuan in terms of customs and appearance, so he believed that the inhabitants there had migrated from other places, and then Locke boldly speculated that the inhabitants there were descendants of the Dangxiang people who migrated to the western Sichuan region hundreds of years ago to escape the pursuit of the Mongol iron cavalry. ”

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Tang Feng tilted his head and thought for a while, then asked Professor Luo: "I have also heard that there are descendants of the party in the western Sichuan region, but in my impression, it seems to refer to the Muya region?" Locke used to be there. ”

"Yes, Locke, and some other explorers have been to Muya, and Locke once thought that the Muya people were the descendants of the Dangxiang people, but when he went to that paradise, he changed his opinion, and thought that the inhabitants there were more like the descendants of the Dangxiang people. Unfortunately, Locke still wanted to find that paradise after that, but he walked through the mountains and valleys in the northwest of Sichuan, but never found that paradise again, so Locke called that place 'The Last Shangri-La', which became his lifelong regret. ”

"Didn't Locke leave a picture or something?" Tang Feng asked.

Professor Luo shook his head, "No, he claimed that he had encountered a terrible mudslide before entering that isolated paradise, and he was separated from the other people who passed by, and the camera and other equipment he carried were also washed away by the mudslide, so he didn't leave photos and other information, and he only left a brief written record about that mistake." I didn't take this seriously in the past, but I suddenly remembered that Locke also specifically mentioned in the article that the locals worship the nearby snow-capped mountains, and said that the caves on the snow-capped mountains contain their holy relics! This may have something to do with the legend of the 'Blackhead Stone Chamber'. ”

"You're saying that the 'Blackhead Stone Chamber' is likely to be there?" Liang Yuan exclaimed.

Professor Luo nodded slightly, and said: "This possibility is very high, if it is really as Locke speculated, there are descendants of the Dangxiang people living there, then the cave that the locals say is likely to be the so-called 'Black-headed Stone Chamber', and I personally agree with Locke very much, he is a very rigorous explorer, and he is also a scholar, I think his words should be more credible." ”

Tang Feng seemed to understand what Professor Luo meant, "Professor Luo, do you mean that you want us to find this paradise that Locke called 'The Last Shangri-La', and find the descendants of the party members there, so that we can learn about the 'Blackhead Stone Room'?" ”

"Yes, that's the only clue we have right now, and I'm convinced that the place is real." Professor Luo said firmly.

Tang Feng looked at Professor Luo, and then at Han Jiang, wanting to hear his opinion, Han Jiang pondered for a long time, and then said: "I believe in Professor Luo's judgment, finding the paradise that Locke has been to is our goal. Han Jiang looked at the people present again, and said in an ordered tone: "This time our operation must be carried out in a state of secrecy, so it will be carried out by me and Tang Feng, and the others will stay here, I am not here, and Zhao Yong will be in charge of the work here." ”

After speaking, Han Jiang turned to Zhao Yong and explained: "After I leave, you must keep in touch with me at any time, and do a good job of supporting ......" Han Jiang was saying, but Liang Yuan interrupted Han Jiang and asked dissatisfiedly: "Why didn't you take me with you in this operation?" ”

Han Jiang turned his head to look at Liang Yuan, and said with a serious face: "In this operation, we are likely to go deep into the snow-capped mountains and valleys, and we may also be attacked by the enemy, you are a girl, how can you go!" ”

"So what am I going to do?"

"You're here to take care of Professor Luo, waiting for us to come back."

Liang Yuan still wanted to argue, but Han Jiang ignored her anymore and walked out of the secret room with Zhao Yong, leaving Liang Yuan pouting and standing at the door stupidly...... Tang Feng couldn't help snickering when he saw Liang Yuan's appearance, and when Liang Yuan saw it, Liang Yuan glared at Tang Feng viciously, and said angrily: "Just laugh, don't let me go, I will definitely go, hum!" Growing up, no one could stop Miss Ben. ”

Tang Feng put away his smile, followed Han Jiang's example, and said to Liang Yuan with a serious face: "Miss Liang, this is not the place for you to play the temper of the eldest lady, I think you should stay and take care of Professor Luo." ”

Liang Yuan was angry with Tang Feng, pushed Professor Luo's wheelchair, and left in a huff, leaving only Tang Feng in the secret room. Tang Feng stood by the window, lifted the corner of the thick curtain, and in the distance, the mountains were silent, and Tang Feng suddenly had a hint of foreboding in his heart.