I suddenly remembered that Chen Blind mentioned that the bronze man and the copper ghost in the ancient tomb of Bottle Mountain, it seems that the bronze dragon I have seen, and the copper fish embedded in the "King Qin's Bone Mirror" are all the same way, he had previously said that this thing is related to the ancient hexagram, but at that time did not have time to study deeply, at this moment I thought of this, so I asked him for advice.

Blind Chen said: "Where do these artifacts come from...... Although the old man was also a pedantic and did not let Confucius and Mencius, he really didn't see an ugly man on this thing. ”

Chen Blind said that before he led the people south to Yunnan to pour the bucket, he was about to sell all kinds of treasures dug up from Bottle Mountain, and in the past, he stole the Ming weapon and shot it as quickly as this time, because of the tomb robbery in Xiangxi, there was a lot of trouble, and not only did the public opinion strongly condemn the warlords and bandits for stealing treasures, but also antiquities dealers from all over the country flocked to it, all wanting to take the opportunity to get a vote.

At a time when the world is in turmoil, the price of Gu Dong is low, but there will inevitably be a rise, many businessmen want to hoard a batch of genuine things at this time, and wait until the peaceful years can ask for the sky, so the trade of antique Ming ware has not been interrupted.

There is a huge rich man in the province who loves antiquity, surnamed Qian, his family has opened several yarn farms in Shanghai, Qingdao and other places, and there are many industries in the local area.

Among them, there is a partridge whistle in the Danjing, and the coffin that saw the six-winged old centipede worshipping the coffin Tudan, as well as the bronze Dan furnace in the Danjing, and sold the strange and simple shape of the "bronze man, copper ghost".

Chen Blind has always been pretentious, not Tang Wu, Bo Kong Meng, always feel that his talent and knowledge are unmatched in the world, even the ancient sages refused to put it in their eyes, but after looking at the pair of eyeless bronze people and copper ghosts, although they knew that there were many strange things, they couldn't guess the slightest bit of mystery, and they wanted to ask Boss Qian why he chose these antiquities, to see if he knew the origin of them, but when the words came to his mouth, he felt that there was a ** share.

In the end, I went around a few circles, under the pretext of talking about the past and the present, and learned one or two from Boss Qian, who liked to read "Yi" the most, and studied it very deeply, knowing that today's gossip is deduced from the day after tomorrow, the earliest ancient hexagram is not with symbols such as "Qiankan Gong Zhen", this bronze eyeless man and ghost talisman are the most primitive symbols in the ancient hexagrams, if you want to make a hexagram, at least you have to get together four ancient talismans, but unfortunately there are only two, and the full set is even more incompatible.

There are at least four bronze ancient talismans to use, it is said that mastering this way, you can gain insight into the mystery of the heavenly machine, as for how to use, the money boss does not know, only know that the copper talisman must be the antiquities before the three dynasties, the so-called three dynasties refers to the Xia, Shang, Zhou, as for what Tang and Song dynasties of things, compared with the historical relics of the three dynasties, has not yet been able to call the antiquities, in the eyes of real connoisseurs, its collection value is not the same, and the copper furnace that burns Dan should be the thing of the end of the Western Han Dynasty.

There are a number of delicate and mysterious paintings on the Dan furnace, all of which depict the scene of the alchemy of the ancients, if you look carefully, there are even the marks of the bronze ancient talismans, but although Mr. Qian has deep attainments, he can't understand the contents, but he just thinks that this is an ancient strange thing, which contains a very deep secret and has a high collection value.

Blind Chen thought to himself, since he didn't know what he did, what was the use of hiding at home? At the moment, he sent away the boss of Keqian, and he didn't take this matter to heart, and his eyes were like arrows, more than half a century has passed, and he has never encountered a similar bronze ancient talisman, and the things of the year have long been left behind, until the last time he heard me mention the Hundred Eyes Cave Dragon Fu, he suddenly remembered this section.

Blind Chen said to me: "If you have a chance, you can gather the four ancient talismans, so that the old man can know what kind of heavenly opportunities they have." ”

I said: "Actually, I have only seen two bronze ancient talismans by mistake, although I am personally interested in this, but I will not look for it all over the world because I want to spy on the heavenly opportunities left by the ancients, and now I am most anxious to know, where in the world is there a golden pill in the ancient tomb?" This saving people is like fighting fire, and if you can't find the ancient corpse of Nedan, that friend of mine will have to go to see Marx. ”

Chen Blind said with a smile: "This is a bad statement, life has been in a hurry for decades, humble and small like an ant, if you can understand God's secret with the body of an ant, even if it is a broken bone, it will not be in vain." ”

I smiled bitterly and shook my head, although this blind man Chen is a hero in the twilight, his ambition is not less at all, but now his pursuit has changed, and his realm is higher, and he actually wants to know the secret of "God".

My experience over the years has caused my cosmology to hover between "materialism" and "idealism", but if you ask me if I believe that there really is a "God" in the world, I will definitely not nod.

I think Shirley Yang is religious, and very religious, she may believe in these concepts of "heavenly chances, revelations, and gods", but Shirley Yang also shook her head, she said: "Asking a person what God is like is like asking a goldfish what the water in which it lives is is meaningless, faith should be the destination of the soul." ”

Chen Blind said: "As for the ancient corpse Inner Dan, there are in Xiangxi Bottle Mountain, and there are more than one or two, all because Bottle Mountain is a Dan Palace, and it is a medicine mountain, it is not surprising that there is this thing, and the rest of the places are very few, but that bottle mountain has been stolen decades ago, and even the local Dongyi Tomb, which has no Ming Weapon, has also taught those thieves who are not angry to hollow out, and now you two want to find the ancient tomb Jindan, I am afraid that you can only ask God, no apocalypse, the world of Nuoda, even if you step on the iron shoes, it is difficult to find." ”

I saw that the last bit of hope was disappointed, I couldn't help but be disheartened, it seems that Duo Ling's life can't be saved after all, but not to the Yellow River does not give up, as long as Duo Ling is still alive, I will try my best to think of other ways, seeing that it is getting late, there is no way to return to Beijing that day, so I have to temporarily live in the guest house of the Ministry of Railways.

The next day, I asked Chen what his plans were for the future, and if he wanted to go shopping in the United States with me? Chen Blind sighed: "The ancients often compared the floating life to a dream, lamenting that time is fast, life is a lifetime, just like being in the void, how many joys and sorrows, joys and sorrows, gains and losses are scattered, life and death, transformation and shelling, in the end it is like a dream, there is a gathering and there is a dispersion, just deserve the word impermanence, never thought that a farewell on the shore of Dongting Lake back then, this life will never see each other again, looking back on the past, as if yesterday, I should go to the grave of the old partridge whistle to worship, but the old man's old bones, I'm afraid I don't have a few days to live, but I really don't want to die in a foreign country thousands of miles away, I still want to go back to my hometown in Xiangyin first. ”

I had to buy a train ticket, go to the train station with Shirley Yang to put him on the train, and agreed with him that I would go to him before the Qingming Festival, and then go to the United States together to sweep the grave of the "last mountain mover".

After bidding farewell to Chen Blind, we went back to the guest house to pack up our things, bought a newspaper on the way, flipped through a few pages on the bus, and saw that there was a full page of content, all of which were "after the reform and opening up, since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, what brilliant achievements have been made in various fields, in order to enrich the amateur cultural life of Tianjin citizens, the Tianjin Museum of Natural History has been reopened to the outside world, and leaders from all walks of life have written inscriptions to congratulate."

There is nothing special about this kind of news, but some of it caught my attention, and it was mentioned that in order to enrich the scope of the exhibits of the Natural History Museum, a number of precious cultural relics from Hunan Province will be sent to Tianjin for a week, and the venue is located in the sixth exhibition room on the second floor of the museum.

This batch of precious cultural relics in Hunan Province includes a number of national treasure-level cultural relics donated by patriotic overseas Chinese, among which it is particularly noteworthy that the relatively rare "eyeless humanoid bronze ornament (Zhou), chisel gold and silver nine-color portrait bronze furnace (Han) ......"

I wondered: "History is always an amazing coincidence, aren't these things the treasures that the heroes who moved mountains and mountains back then poured out of the bottle mountain?" It turned out that it had been dedicated to the country by patriotic overseas Chinese, and it was brought to Tianjin for the masses to visit. ”

Shirley Yang took the newspaper and looked at it, she was also curious: "The photos in the newspaper are a little blurry, why don't we stop by the Natural History Museum and see for yourself?" ”

The two of us hit it off, and did not go back to the guest house at the moment, and went straight to the Museum of Natural History to buy tickets to enter, this exhibition hall was established very early, can be traced back to the early years of the Republic of China, known as the "Northern Xinjiang Museum", and later changed to the "People's Science Museum", during the Cultural Revolution, the exhibition was interrupted for a time, due to the reopening time was not long, the exhibits did not seem to be much, but there was an endless stream of guests visiting inside, and organized school groups occupied more than half of the crowd, most of them were to see fossils and specimens of various paleontological plants.

At that time, the "exhibition fever" was popular in the society, if you go to the park, you can often see exhibitions such as "malformed fetal specimens, ancient corpses of Xinjiang, human anatomical ......", and even some rare animal exhibitions, which are nothing more than rats as big as piglets, monsters with human heads and snake bodies, etc., gimmicks are varied, but there are also many people who sell dog meat on sheep's heads.

So I wasn't interested in the exhibits in the museum, and when I saw that there was a staircase outside the museum, leading to the "Exhibition of Precious Cultural Relics Unearthed in Hunan Province" on the second floor, I took Shirley Yang straight up to the second floor.

From the outside of the second floor to see, the exhibits are really rich, hundreds of pieces of large and small cultural relics, divided into categories and displayed in various glass display cases, many of which are imitations, the real thing can not be so casual for people to see, but ordinary visitors can not see it, just look fresh, but there are not many people to visit this floor, it seems a little deserted.

I have seen countless Ming vessels, see these things, I can't help but feel a little familiar, swept by, in a display case, I saw the legendary Dan furnace, sure enough, it is exactly the same as what Chen Blind described, judging by my eyesight, this thing is definitely genuine, probably because of the huge shape, do not worry about being easily stolen.

Shirley Yang remembered that her grandfather had hid in this furnace back then, and couldn't help but imagine it, and I could see it, while I stared at the lines on the furnace body, trying to carefully identify the details in the picture, but the distance between the Dan furnace and the glass of the display case was one meter away, although I was not short-sighted, but I couldn't see the subtleties clearly, and there were eight "Immortal Dan Pictures" cast on the copper furnace, several of which were blocked due to the angle, and I couldn't even see a glance.

Shirley Young suddenly remembered that her inseparable camera had been forgotten in the guest house, and she was anxious to take some pictures, so she asked me to walk around here casually, and she immediately went back to get the camera.

I had to wander around alone in the natural history museum, looked at the Dan furnace a few times, and then went to see the "bronze talisman" in another set of display cases, the hollow eyes of the "human talisman, ghost talisman" are all there, the bronze green traces are colorful, it seems to be genuine, I was about to get closer to take a closer look, suddenly a uniformed policeman came over, and slapped me on the shoulder without saying a word.

I just cared about looking at the ancient talisman, I never thought that this situation would happen, it happened suddenly, and I was a little confused, and it was illegal to look at the Ming weapon? I inexplicably said to the policeman, "Comrade policeman, what do you mean by that?" Five talks, four beauties, three love me, but the same is not left behind......"

But the policeman shouted, "Company commander, you don't know me anymore?" The voice was so loud that it shook people's ears.

I fixed my eyes and saw that it was a comrade-in-arms of mine who had fought together on the front line in Vietnam, called Ai Hongjun, and I used to nickname him "Love Trick-or-treat", I hadn't seen him since I left the army, and I didn't expect to meet him in the Museum of Natural History a few years later.

I smiled and said: "Lao Ai, your voice is still so loud, why are you now mixed into the public security team......" I was about to catch up with him, but suddenly saw a familiar figure flashing at the door of the exhibition room, I was immediately stunned, and I vaguely felt bad in my heart, as if I had been stabbed from behind, but I couldn't think of what was wrong, and I couldn't catch any clue at all in the daze, I hurriedly brushed aside Ai Hongjun in police uniform, and quickly chased after the mysterious back of the familiar one.

I walked quickly to the door, but a group of students came in and blocked the corridor in front of the door, and when I pushed aside the crowd and went down to the hall on the first floor, there was no trace of the person.

I muttered a curse, what a hell, that person just now really seemed to have seen it somewhere, but I couldn't think of it, and I had a vague premonition that the other party was also here for a few cultural relics brought from Hunan for exhibition.