I woke up in a daze and smelled the smell of grass with an earthy smell. I barely opened my eyes and found myself lying on a dew-stained meadow, my arms and legs firmly bound by several thick hemp ropes. Huang Yanyan was lying beside me, also tied up, and a strand of hair fell to his lips, looking sad and moving. She didn't seem to wake up yet. Fortunately, my chest rose and fell slightly, indicating that there was still breathing, and I relaxed my mind a little.

I remember it was afternoon when I was attacked, and now I look at the sky, it should be early in the morning. So I was in a coma for at least twelve hours. The surrounding light is very poor, and I can't see the environment clearly, but judging by the smell, it should be suburban. Not far from us, several figures were hunched over and did not know what they were doing, and the sound of metal and stone colliding could be faintly heard, as well as the sound of shoveling.

I don't know what they're doing, but my gut tells me it's not good. I looked around, hoping to find some sharp pebbles to cut the rope, but found nothing. At this time, a low voice came from his ear: "Are you dead?" ”

I barely twisted my neck and saw that Huang Yanyan's eyes had been opened, flashing with an alert light.

"Help me bite the knot open." She said.

I secretly admire that the first reaction of ordinary people in this environment must be panic, but the first sentence after Huang Yanyan woke up was that he had already tried to break free, and his will was tenacious enough.

The man who tied us two was very clever, and the knot of the rope was not behind him, but in the abdomen. So that the hands of the man are tied behind his back, and he cannot reach the knots in front of him. If you want to untie it, you can only rely on the other party's mouth. I hesitated for half a second, then slowly moved my body in front of Huang Yanyan. Her figure, which was already very good, was now tied to her ribs with rope, her full breasts were strangled more prominently, and as long as my head swung a little more, it would touch her towering twin peaks, which made me tense my whole body nervously. Huang Yanyan snorted impatiently and moved forward, and my whole face immediately fell into that plumpness. The slippery touch, the faint frankincense, and the trembling elasticity made my head explode all at once.

"How long are you going to stay?"

The cold words of the yellow smoke brought me back to my senses. I swallowed and continued to squirm, my lips sliding down her lower abdomen, and soon I touched a large knot. I opened my mouth and bit down on one of the ropes, and my tongue and teeth were combined, and the hemp rope stinked, but I couldn't care much about it. But the knot was so stiff that I could barely get it loose a little with all my might.

The person digging in the distance could come back at any time, and the yellow smoke was full of anxiety in his eyes. I lifted my head and began to move my body so that my waist was close to her face.

"What are you doing?" Huang Yanyan was shocked and angry.

"I have bronze rings in my pockets."

Her little bronze ring has always been on my body. It was a piece of gold, with sharp edges, and it was more useful for grinding rope than teeth. Huang Yanyan understood as soon as she heard it, her lips and tongue were sharper than mine, and in a few clicks, she bit the bronze ring out of my trouser pocket and handed it to me mouth-to-mouth. We were careful when passing for fear of touching each other's lips.

With the Bronze Ring, things are much simpler. It took me more than ten minutes to break one of them, and the knot was finally untied. Huang Yanyan shook his arms, broke free, and got up from the ground with a bone. Before she could untie the rope for me, the men noticed the movement, and a voice shouted, "Boss, they're going to run!" ”

Suddenly, seven or eight people came around from that side. I secretly complained in my heart, telling Huang Yanyan to run first, but Huang Yanyan shook his head, got up and made a gesture of Xingyi Fist. After those few people came around, they didn't dare to approach when they saw Huang Yanyan looking like he was fighting to the end. Several of these people still have wounds on their faces, and they are probably beaten by her before, which is why they are so jealous. Zheng Zheng was also among them, staring at Huang Yanyan with a pair of eyes.

The two sides confronted each other for a moment, and a man walked slowly into the circle.

This is a middle-aged man, with a wide face and a high forehead, dark skin, and a pair of round eyes that seem to jump out of their sockets. He stood there with a big grin, steady like a quadrangular tripod, holding a bronze vessel in his hand, which was the dragon pattern jue.

"In the end, it is the eldest lady of the Huang family, who has been beaten a few times, and she is still so energetic."

Huang Yanyan said angrily: "Zheng Guoqu, you are shameless! "It dawned on me that this guy was the legendary Zheng Guoqu. It is estimated that he gave a solemn order to send people to attack us who left Yuan Lin, and then tied up in this rural place. These people can't fight, but they simply fight people, and they are really ruthless.

When Zheng Guoqu heard her words, his big eyes rolled: "You took a genuine product to smash my store, you are not kind first, no wonder me." ”

My eyes widened suddenly, wasn't that dragon pattern Jue imitated by the Huang family? How did it get to Zheng Guoqu's mouth, but it became a genuine product? I looked at Huang Yanyan again, but she didn't mean to deny it, and my heart sank.

Now we are the turtles in the urn, Zheng Guoqu is not in a hurry, and paced back and forth a few steps: "Today, you two distinguished guests catch up with me to open, why don't you come to the house and sit down." With that, he pointed in that direction. By the light of the morning light, I saw an ancient tomb in the distance, and a square hole was faintly visible next to it, and I couldn't help but gasp. These guys are robbing tombs here!

Zheng Guoqu smiled cruelly: "I have always been fair in doing things. I took away the tomb owner's things, and then returned to him two burial animals, and also paid a dragon pattern knight, which is enough righteousness. ”

Zheng Guoqu said it lightly or seriously, but I was horrified in my heart, but it had already turned over the river and the sea. This guy's methods are really vicious, first dig a thief hole to take away the Ming utensils in the tomb, and then throw the two of us in to destroy the corpses and destroy the traces, killing two birds with one stone. There is no store in front of the village in this place, and even if the medicine is not called to the police, it is impossible to find this place.

I reluctantly raised my head and smiled: "Don't bluff people, if the dragon pattern is real, are you willing to bury it?" ”

Zheng Guo channel: "Lao Tzu is greedy, but not stupid, he knows what to touch and what not to touch." If you keep this real thing and burn your hands, it is better to bury it with you. ”

He didn't seem too lazy to ramble with us anymore, waved his hand, and asked his subordinates to do it. At this time, he solemnly said: "Boss, this girl is going to throw it in anyway, it's better to let the brothers be happy, don't waste it." Huang Yanyan made him lose face in the public twice, and he had long hated her to the core. A group of people slipped towards Huang Yanyan with bad intentions, their eyes were lewd, not to mention what they were thinking in their heads.

Zheng Guoqu tilted his head and thought about it for a while, and snapped his fingers: "It's almost dawn, it's not appropriate for people to see." Hurry up. The men were overjoyed, rolled up their sleeves and took shovels and sticks and threw themselves at the yellow smoke. Huang Yanyan was furious, stretched out her fist to fight, and knocked down one, but she was outnumbered, and soon the situation was precarious.

Zheng Guoqu paced up to me and rubbed my head with the sole of his shoe: "Yo, isn't this the bronze ring?" It seems that you are a good friend of Yellow Smoke. It turned out that he also knew this allusion to the Huang family. I spit out the bronze ring, gritted my teeth, and said, "You don't plan to ask, what are we trying to do at such a great cost to fight you?" Zheng Guoqu didn't eat this: "What do you want to see, I don't want to know." ”

"I can't see it, aren't you interested in the Jade Buddha head?"

Zheng Guoqu's movements stopped, he squatted down, and his two big eyes seemed to bulge a little bigger. He hooked his hand and let me say it again. I turned my neck and looked at the other side, Zheng Guoqu knew what I meant, and let out a shout, causing his subordinates to pause their movements.

The sea beast grape bronze mirror that my grandfather Xu Yicheng left to Fu Gui probably hides important information about the Buddha head of Zetianming Hall. Fu Gui didn't know the secret, but those who were familiar with antiques would understand it as soon as they heard it. This Zheng Guoqu is an ancient connoisseur, and when he acquired the mirror, he may have already understood the mystery, and it may even be that the acquisition was made with a purpose from the beginning.

I'm betting that he also knows about the Buddha's head. Looking at his reaction now, I know I made the right bet.

Zheng Guoqu loosened the ropes on my legs, and then grabbed my shoulders with his big hands, and my weight of 100 catties was picked up by him like a chicken, and taken directly to the thief hole. The cave is a wide square opening, like an entrance to a sewer, leading deep into the ground, and at a glance it is the work of a professional. I just half-stood at the edge of the hole, relying on Zheng Guoqu to grab my shoulder, and with a slight push, I would fall in.

Zheng Guoqu said lightly: "Say it." ”

"You let her go first."

Zheng Guoqu grinned: "Your daughter-in-law is about to become someone else's daughter-in-law, and you are still bargaining here?" ”

Not far away, Huang Yanyan was surrounded in the middle, panting. Although she kicked away several people, she couldn't deal with seven or eight middle-aged men with weapons in their hands. Her hair was disheveled, and a corner of her blouse was torn off, revealing a white patch of her neck.

I took a deep breath: "We came to Anyang, in fact, for the Sea Beast Grape Bronze Mirror in your hand, which contains important information about the Jade Buddha Head of Zetianmingtang. Zheng Guoqu was slightly surprised, but quickly shook his head: "It's interesting, but it's not enough." ”

"Now that jade Buddha head is in the hands of the Japanese, and it will be returned to the state, but ......"

My voice gradually lowered, Zheng Guoqu leaned forward slightly, and his body shook. I suddenly twisted my body frantically, and my head slammed into Zheng Guoqu. Zheng Guoqu flashed quickly, and pushed his palm to push me down. I opened my mouth and bit his collar, I didn't let go, and my legs involuntarily used the trick that Huang Yanyan "taught" me in Tianjin to eat, and stumbled, Zheng Guoqu stumbled, and fell into the thief hole with me one after the other.

This thief hole was hit straight down, with a slight slope, and we fell to the bottom of the hole in one breath with our hands and feet. The moment my back hit the ground, my eyes were shattered, and my brain shook into a pot of porridge. Zheng Guoqu lay on his side, motionless, as if he had fainted.

This thief cave is not deep, only four or five meters, and you can see the morning light at the entrance of the cave. I groped around and found that the bottom of the cave was not loess but a piece of green brick, and then there was a narrow hole on the side of the cave that was sloping downward, and the black yin qi was pressing. I guess where we are is at the top of this burial chamber. They made a hole here, fixed the location of the burial chamber, and then went down the narrow hole to find the entrance.

Suddenly, I touched a cold hard object, and when I picked it up, I found that it was half a human skull, white bones, and half of my eye sockets staring at me. I hurriedly put it down respectfully, folded my hands, bowed a few times, and said in my heart that I didn't want to disturb your sleep, it was really a last resort.

At this time, several heads appeared from the hole above his head, and one of them shouted in panic: "Boss Zheng, are you down there?" I said in a vicious voice, "Your boss is now fainting, and he is lying next to him." If you want to save him, you have to listen to me. Let that girl come and talk! The entrance of the cave was silent for a moment, and soon the voice of Huang Yanyan came, and the voice was still so calm: "Still alive?" ”

I saw that she was safe and sound, so I shouted: "You go first, if they stop you, you shout, I will pout Zheng Guoqu's head!" He shouted it to her, and to several other people. Although I am not a vicious person, I am not a humble gentleman, and there are many fights with people in "**", and it is common to hide bricks in my schoolbag.

"What are you going to do?" Huang Yanyan asked.

"You're gone, I'm dead; If you don't leave, we'll both be dead. ”

Huang Yanyan is a decisive woman, without the slightest hypocrisy, she threw something down. I caught it and it turned out to be the bronze ring. I just cut the rope and threw it on the ground, and now she's throwing it back.

"Take it and hold on." She said.

Huang Yanyan's head disappeared from the hole, and I held the bronze ring in my hand, with mixed feelings. At this time, I faintly heard a quarrel above my head, and I shouted loudly: "If you embarrass her again, I will strangle Zheng Guoqu to death!" The voice outside disappeared, and after a while, he solemnly poked his head in, with a resentful expression: "That woman has left, you quickly let go of our boss." ”

I craned my neck and shouted, "Throw down a rope and stand farther away." He shouted solemnly: "How do I know that you will not strangle our boss?" I said angrily: "Nonsense, I'm still at the bottom of the cave, what's in it for me to strangle him to death?" He patted his head solemnly and turned around to ask someone to get the rope. After a while, a thick hemp rope hung down tremblingly.

I tugged to make sure that the other end of the rope was firmly tied, and stretched out my leg to kick Zheng Guoqu: "Don't pretend." Zheng Guoqu, who was originally unconscious, opened his eyes and got up from the ground, his eyes turned a few times, revealing a mouthful of big yellow teeth: "You goods, cunning!" ”

"No way, I have to get rid of the yellow smoke." I closed my eyes.

In fact, since I called Anyang, I became suspicious of Huang Yanyan. In the matter of Zheng Guoqu, there were obviously other means of ease, but she always insisted on fighting, took out the dragon pattern Jue, and even did not hesitate to use her body as a bet, which was a little too eager. If something is abnormal, it must be a demon, so I paid more attention to it.

When Zheng Guoqu said that the dragon pattern lord was genuine, I suddenly realized that something was wrong. If the dragon pattern is genuine, it is also a national first-class cultural relic, and the Huang family actually took out the national treasure in their private collection to deal with Zheng Guoqu, and they also concealed it from me and the medicine, and the plan would never be small. What's more, the Huang family has been at odds with Zheng Guoqu for many years, why did we only exert our strength when we went to Anyang to track down the Buddha's head? ——This shows that Zheng Guoqu must have an inextricable relationship with Buddha or a city.

So I had to find a way to get out of the smoke and go it alone. But at that time, I was tied up tightly, I couldn't run, and the only thing I could do was gamble.

What I bet is that Zheng Guoqu knows the origin of the "Jade Buddha Head", and even knows Xu Yicheng.

Therefore, I deliberately mentioned the word Buddha head to Zheng Guoqu, which really aroused his interest and brought me to the side of the thief cave. Then I secretly said a word to Zheng Guoqu: "I am Xu Yicheng's grandson to make a wish, enter the cave and say." ”

Luckily, I got it right. Zheng Guoqu is worthy of being a master of counterfeiting on par with the Huang family, and his reaction is extremely fast. As soon as I identified myself, he was only slightly stunned, and immediately fell into the thief hole with me, pretending to be unconscious. In this way, I pretended to hold Zheng Guoqu hostage and naturally let Huang Yanyan leave, without arousing her suspicion.

Although I'm sorry for Huang Yanyan, the Huang family's strange behavior makes me have to be on guard.

"You guy is not a little bold, if I didn't know the name of the Buddha head or Xu Yicheng, you two would have been buried." Zheng Guo channel.

"No way, in that case, I can only gamble."

After saying this, I sat cross-legged at the bottom of the pit, my spine pressed against the earth wall, and my expression became a little stiff. Zheng Guoqu stared at the bronze ring in my hand, and said half-sarcastically: "I thought you and the girl of the Huang family were two people, and you didn't dare to be in love." I said with a cold face: "The people under your hands are too inauthentic, I will take her away first, and it is also for her good." ”

Zheng Guoqu suddenly came over, grabbed my throat with his big hand, and said viciously: "Stinky boy, don't kick your nose too much." I cooperated with you to play such a play because you are still a little valuable, and it doesn't mean that I can't touch you. ”

His hand was like a vice, and he pinched me almost breathlessly. It wasn't until I felt like I was about to suffocate to death that Zheng Guoqu let go of his hand, and I half-knelt on the ground, rubbing my throat and gasping desperately, and it took a while to return to normal. Zheng Guoqu looked up at the entrance of the cave and sat on the ground: "Now that the people are gone, and the play is over, tell me, what's going on?" If I'm not satisfied, hehe......"

He glanced at the passage leading to the tomb, and said sadly: "Don't look at the coffin of the Han Dynasty, it is still spacious." ”

I can see that if I don't get out of it, I'm afraid I won't have a chance to crawl out of the bottom of this deep tomb. So I didn't hide it anymore, and briefly talked about my life experience, as well as a series of recent events around the head of the Jade Buddha. After listening, Zheng Guoqu narrowed his eyes and asked with interest: "Where did you get such confidence from to think that I am more credible than the Huang family?" ”

I raised my eyes and said, "Because it's solemn." ”

"Solemnly?"

"Yes, his method of identifying bronzes is very similar to one of my family's ancestral techniques. This technique is not a secret, and he actually will, which means that you must have some relationship with our Baizimen. ”

After Zheng Guoqu heard this, he laughed loudly, as if he had heard something happy, and then he suddenly suppressed his smile: "You guessed a little right, and you guessed a little wrong." Yes, Xu Yicheng has a bit of a relationship with my family, and I know a little bit about him. The mirror is also in my hand. But I'm not interested in old accounts, and if you can't get what I'm interested in, you're going to die. ”

"You won't refuse this benefit."

"What?"

"Su Ding Lu." I uttered those three words calmly.

Zheng Guoqu's two drum eyes suddenly lit up, and he pinched my shoulder: "So, this book is where you are?" I nodded.

"Su Ding Lu" is the authoritative book of gold and stone identification, condensing the experience of the white character door in the past dynasties, and has been circulated on the rivers and lakes. Zheng Guoqu specializes in bronze fakes, and this book is absolutely a rare good thing for him, just like a chemist getting the periodic table and a soldier getting a combat map.

So Zheng Guoqu didn't hesitate at all, and stretched out his hand to shake it with me, which was a deal.

It can be seen that Zheng Guoqu is a greedy and rational person. He will not let go at all if he can get the benefits in his hands, but as long as there is a risk, he will let go very simply. Dragon Pattern Jue is such a valuable thing, he will give up when he says to give up, and he will not hesitate at all. This kind of person is quite scary. After I shook hands with him, I flashed a trace of regret, I don't know if I can control such a dangerous person.

"I have one more thing before I go up." I said suddenly.

Zheng Guoqu frowned: "Huang Yanyan will be back soon, we don't have much time." ”

I gently picked up the skull on the ground: "You don't count tomb robbing, you also litter the remains." Now that I have seen it, I should return it to its original coffin, otherwise I will not be at ease when I leave. "You're going to go down on your own." Zheng Guoqu pouted. They were staunch atheists and had no fear of ghosts and gods.

I took the skull, slammed my waist, and drilled down the diagonal hole. They had already entered the chamber once, and it didn't take me much trouble to find the entrance. The stone door of the tomb is ajar, and there is no light inside, and there is a thousand years of vicissitudes and corruption in the darkness. I reached out to grope for the coffin, when suddenly a cold bony hand silently pressed against the back of my hand, and a cool air rushed from my tail vertebrae to the top of my head.

I froze there and didn't dare to move, and after waiting for a while to see that there was no movement around me, I trembled and touched it with my hand, and found that the back of my hand was a half-truncated ulna connected to the metacarpal bone. Zheng Guoqu and these people were too unkind, they dragged the bones out and threw them around, and this half of the arm was half hung outside the coffin that was pried open, just on the back of my hand.

I picked it up and put it in the coffin along with the skull, and my head was in a trance, and I almost fell headlong into the coffin. The air here is not very smooth, and it is easy to get dizzy after staying for a long time. In the dark, in a trance, I felt that this scene was familiar.

It was when I was a kid, my buddies and I liked to go into an abandoned sewer near the compound to play, and once, halfway through the drill, we smelled a rancid stench in front of us, borrowed a box of matches and lit it, and then found a rotting corpse lying in front of us, and we scattered in all directions. I ran down the sewers in a panic, always thinking that the corpse was following behind, screaming in fright, shouting the names of my parents and running wildly. When I finally ran to the exit, I saw my parents and other adults arriving, and I threw myself into their arms, crying, but my heart was more solid than ever.

Suddenly, tears flowed down my cheeks for no apparent reason, and I realized how lonely I had been for all these years. Pursuing the truth of Grandpa Xu Yicheng may not be for any Buddha's head, but to be able to see more traces of his relatives in this world.

"Dad, Mom, Grandpa......" I muttered to myself as I held on to the thousands of years old coffin in the dark. I hope that now, as I did when I was a child, as long as I keep running out of the darkness, they will meet me at the end.

By the time I wiped away my tears and crawled out, Zheng Guoqu was already impatient. Zheng Guoqu and I climbed to the ground with the help of that rope, and Zheng Zhong and others rushed up to beat me, but Zheng Guoqu stopped them. Under the command of Zheng Guoqu, these people swept away the traces next to the ancient tomb, jumped into a nearby pickup truck and hurried away.

I saw that when they got into the car, they also carried a pocket, which was probably filled with bright utensils. Zheng Guoqu noticed my eyes, picked up the dragon pattern Jue and threw it to me: "I don't want it, you can play with it." "I knew that he didn't dare to keep this kind of national first-class cultural relic, so he accepted it directly.

In the car, I asked Zheng Guoqu, wasn't he afraid that Huang Yanyan would testify against him to the police? Zheng Guoqu grinned and didn't care at all: "There are more than 300 villagers who can prove that I played mahjong in the village at that time." "He has been fighting with the Huang family for so long, but he is still at large, and he really has some means.

The car drove for about thirty or forty minutes before finally entering the village. This village is called Zhengbei Village, it is an ordinary village in Henan from a distance, most of the village are tiled houses, and an asphalt road runs through the village.

After entering the village, the others dispersed. Zheng Guoqu and solemnly took me around and around to a hidden compound rising from the mountains. This courtyard is different from ordinary farmhouses, it is littered with iron slag ore, some incomplete farm tools, and even a large half-rusted boiler. It can be seen that this is their workshop for counterfeiting bronzes. There were a few workers working inside, and when they saw me coming in, they all looked vigilant. Zheng Guoqu waved his hand, and they lowered their heads again.

"Look, this is just a raw material processing factory, officially registered. The serious place is not here. Zheng Guoqu said.

When we entered the office of the factory, Zheng Guoqu sat down behind the desk, picked up the enamel jar and drank a big sip of water: "I haven't poured the bucket for too long, and when I go down and turn around, my throat is full of dirt." He put down the jar and stretched out his hand to me: "Bring "Su Dinglu" first. ”

"I didn't bring it with me, and I still kept it at home in Beijing."

"You tell me the address, and I'll send someone to pick it up. Get it back, let's move on. ”

I shook my head: "Bureau Liu sent someone to keep an eye on my house, and if your people go, they will only throw themselves into the net." ”

Zheng Guoqu's eyes suddenly became gloomy: "Then how do I know that you are telling the truth?" I pointed to my head: "I know Su Dinglu very well, and I have written it all here." Zheng Guoqu thought for a while, raised his chin, and solemnly hurriedly took out the pocket of bright utensils and put them on the table. There are three pieces in total, two clay pots, and a bronze hook with a broken handle, like something in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty.

"Since you are from the White Character Gate, you should be able to see what kind of reputation these things have."

I only glanced at it, and then laughed: "It's hard to say, anyway, your luck is not good this time." Zheng Guoqu was hit by what I said, and snorted sullenly, and the solemn face next to him became not very good-looking.

The hook is a thing used by the ancients to hook the belt. The ancients had strict dress, and only the robes of the nobles could use metal belt hooks, so bronze belt hooks were a symbol of status. In the tomb of a nobleman with a bronze hook as a burial companion, they actually only got two clay pots, and I am afraid that the tomb has already been patronized by tomb robbers and swept away most of the valuable ones.

I guess even the thief hole is an old hole. Zheng Guoqu and the others were late, so they just used this channel to go down and pick up a leak.

I was embarrassed by what I said, and Zheng Guoqu had no intention of interrogating him again. He asked Zheng Zhong to bring a stack of letterheads, a fountain pen and a bottle of ink printed with the words "Zhengbie Village Agricultural Machinery Processing Factory" printed in red: "You can write out the Sudinglu silently here." ”

"And what do I want?"

Zheng Guo channel: "I'll naturally give it to you after I finish writing." ”

I put the pen down with a "snap": "No, you have to give it to me now, or I won't write a word." ”

The two of us confronted each other for a while, Zheng Guoqu probably felt that I couldn't run away anyway, so he took a step back, asked me to continue writing, and solemnly guarded the door, and then he walked out by himself and said to fetch it for me.

I'm the only one left in the office. I spread out the letterhead and wrote it stroke by stroke. Although "Su Ding Lu" is the secret book of the white character door, I don't have the heart to cover it in my hands. The technology of ancient science is changing with each passing day, and the counterfeiting technology is also constantly innovating, although there are some good means in "Su Ding Lu", but sooner or later they will be outdated.

My only concern is that Zheng Guoqu learned these things and created more fakes, which violated the principle of not touching fakes. So instead of dictating the original text, I dictated the encrypted text. If I don't tell the password, Zheng Guoqu will be the same as the Huang family, and if he steals it, he will steal it for nothing.

Thinking of this, the tip of the fountain pen slammed. I suddenly thought of one thing: Did the Huang family steal the copy of "Su Ding Lu" really to get the cheats of the white character door?

After the reorganization of the Five Veins into the Society of Antiquity, each of them consciously cooperated with universities, research institutes and other scientific research units, and new methods of counterfeiting were constantly developed—among them, the Huang family and the medicine family were the most attentive, because high technology was particularly important for the identification of bronze, jade and porcelain. It is really difficult to say how much significance a "Su Ding Lu" during the Republic of China is to the Huang family.

At present, there are three notes on cowhide inlaid with silver, one of which records the antiquity technique of the white-character door; One was left in Japan, and it is said to have been written by Kido Yuzo himself, and the content is unknown; In addition, according to Fu Gui, there is a third notebook, which disappeared after Xu Yicheng's death, and what was written is not clear. I suspect that the remaining two notebooks are probably records of what happened between Kido and Koikisho between July and September 1931.

These three notebooks all have the same appearance, they are all rough cowhide covers, and the four corners are inlaid with lotus petal silver, and there is no difference just by looking at the covers. When the Huang family sent someone to my house to steal something, I am afraid that they mistakenly thought that I had hidden a note in my house to record the mystery of 1931, but when I got my hands on it, I found that it was only a useless "Su Ding Lu" - which explains why they were so happy to return the notes to me.

But Huang Kewu was still not at ease, so he sent Huang Yanyan to my side, under the name of assistance, but in fact it was surveillance. The bronze ring that gave me must have deliberately misunderstood that he wanted to recruit me as his grandson-in-law, so as to hide it.

Thinking of this, I felt a chill down my spine, I don't know if this speculation is unfounded, or if Huang Kewu is too calculating.

The Huang family was so nervous about the mystery of 1931 that they were either anxious to know something or to cover it up. Either way, I will never be able to continue to track them down, and this is a good opportunity to get rid of the yellow smoke. It's just that following such a dangerous element as Zheng Guoqu, I don't know if it's the right choice.

"Grandpa, what the hell have you done......" I looked up and muttered to myself towards the sky, feeling a large net looming over me.

I buried myself in writing for about an hour, and the door was pushed open, and Zheng Guoqu came in with a wooden box.

"How much have you written?" He asked.

"What do I want?" I also unceremoniously pushed back. For a hero like Zheng Guoqu, he will only be eaten to death by low-eyebrow pleasing eyes, and I have to use the advantages in my hand to fight for a favorable position.

Zheng Guoqu shook the box: "It's all here." You finish writing nature to you. ”

"I'm going to see first. Anyway, I can't run here, maybe you have something I want, and I'll remember a few more when I'm happy. I simply put down my pen and looked at him with my hands on my chest. Zheng Guoqu knew that I couldn't run, so he only glared at me fiercely and didn't insist anymore. The box he brought was a small sandalwood box, and the outside was painted with a picture of mandarin ducks playing in the water.

Inside the box lay a piece of paper and a pile of gray and white fragments. As soon as I saw the fragments, my face was suddenly ugly. Those were fragments of mirrors, and what Zheng Guoqu could deliberately take over was undoubtedly the sea beast grape bronze mirror.

"When I bought it from Fu Gui, it was already like this." Zheng Guoqu said.

I frowned, Fu Gui didn't mention this detail at the beginning. There may be important clues in this mirror, and I wonder if those clues will still be there after they are broken. I carefully rubbed my fingers over the bronze and picked up the fragments one by one. On one of the relatively large fragments of the mirror back, I found some relief glyphs, and hurriedly went to look at the others, and soon I found three or four pieces that could be spliced together, and I could barely distinguish the two residual characters.

The two characters are "Bao Zhi", in which the word "Bao" is missing the hijab, and the word "Zhi" is missing the bottom.

Baozhi? What does Baozhi mean? Zheng Guoqu and I were both at a loss. Aside from those two words, there is nothing else noteworthy about the fragment of the mirror.

"In addition to the sea beast and grape pattern on the back of this mirror, there is also a knot, which is the symbol of the Tang royal family. This mirror is estimated to be used in the palace. Zheng Guoqu pointed.

I took the fragment of the mirror and looked around, and suddenly thought of something: "I don't think you are very interested in this mirror, why did you buy it in the first place?" ”

Zheng Guoqu rolled his eyes: "You will know it when you look at the paper." ”

Then I remembered that there was a piece of paper stacked in the box. The paper has been yellowed, and it is estimated that it has been quite a long time. I took out the paper and carefully spread it out, and found that it was a contract paper from the Republic of China era. The ink on it is dragon flying and phoenix dancing, which probably means that there is an antique dealer Xu Yicheng who hired Zheng Hu to participate in the work of the archaeological team. The date of employment was from June to July 1931, and the payment was Xu Yicheng's payment and two bright red finger prints.

"Zheng Hu is my uncle." Zheng Guoqu added.

I looked at the time of payment, the twentieth year of the Republic of China, exactly 1931 AD. In mid-July of that year, Xu Yicheng and Kido Yuzo broke away from Li Ji's large archaeological team and set off alone for an unknown location. Judging from this contract, they didn't go for two people, there was at least a third person - Zheng Guoqu's uncle Zheng Hu.

I looked at the contract and it didn't feel right. The Zheng family has been making bronze fakes for generations, and they can be regarded as the opponents of the Xu family. Xu Yicheng went to carry out this secret mission, and if he didn't choose people from the five veins, how could he find a helper from the opponent's house? One possible explanation is that Xu Yicheng deliberately concealed the five veins on this trip. He didn't tell his people, but he brought an enemy and a Japanese, which is really strange.

I put down the contract paper: "Your uncle...... Are you still alive? Zheng Guoqu shrugged: "After liberation, the local lord bully was sentenced and died in prison." ”

"Uh...... Did he mention before his death, where Xu Yicheng hired him to? ”

Zheng Guoqu shook his head and said: "My uncle didn't tell anyone in detail, but he should go to Qishan County, stay for a month and return to Anyang." He got drunk one time and boasted that even Xu Yicheng would ask him to cast things—my uncle was the best bronze craftsman of that generation, and the green ware he made couldn't even see any flaws in the five veins. ”

"Cast what?"

"It seems to be a Guan Gong." Zheng Guoqu also seemed to feel inexplicable.

I pinched my chin and fell into deep thought. Could it be that Xu Yicheng asked him to make a fake to deceive people? But this is not in line with the rules of the five veins, and it is not in line with Xu Yicheng's personality. I grabbed the fragments of the mirrors and asked, "Why did you take this mirror from Fu Gui?" Does your uncle know Fu Gui? ”

Zheng Guoqu smiled coldly: "Hehe, it's not just acquaintance." After the Xu Yicheng incident. My uncle was also called to interrogate, and the person who interrogated him was Fu Gui, and he was released because of insufficient evidence. Then after the liberation, this account was turned over again, and as a result, my uncle was imprisoned, do you know who the person who reported it? ”

"Who is it?"

"Hehe, it's Huang Kewu."