The old eunuch He Changzai knelt and said: "This jadeite watermelon is not Burmese jadeite, but a tourmaline paid tribute to Galeries Lafayette by the Western American Commander, and the manufacturer is called Tiffany'......"

"Empress Dowager Cixi likes Tiffany?" Ah Hai had heard of this brand, "Grandpa He, you have a good memory." ”

"It is said that the great American commander pays tribute and filial piety, but in fact, it is all purchased with white money." He Changzai rubbed his eyes, "Back then, the big American trading house also bribed me Lao He with a small tourmaline watermelon, in order to make the tourmaline of the big America sell at a good price, I don't know how much silver was emptied of the Qing treasury." ”

There were four emerald watermelons in the coffin, two white-skinned yellow-seeded powdered pulps and two green-skinned white-seeded yellows—later identified by jewelry experts as being from a tourmaline mine in California. From the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century, most of the tourmaline mined in California in the United States crossed the ocean to the Forbidden City, and the price also increased many times, for no other reason - Lafayette liked it. When the Empress Dowager Cixi entered the grave, the Qing Dynasty was overthrown by the Xinhai Revolution, the order was immediately cut off, and California tourmaline was unsalable, and the mine was forced to close. A hundred years later, the Chinese market raised the price of tourmaline again, and the tourmaline mines in California were redeveloped.

Everything that can be touched in the coffin has been touched, revealing the gold silk woven pearl brocade mattress at the bottom of the coffin, inlaid with tens of thousands of large and small pearls, hundreds of white jade, dozens of red sapphires, and two emeralds, which are brilliant and shining......

Xiao Mu held his breath and slowly lifted the body of the Empress Dowager Cixi. The soldiers then picked up the brocade mattress with bayonets, and the coffin was only then scavenged with gold and silver—the Qing Empire's financial revenues were all here.

Emptied of the treasure equivalent to the entire treasury, Xiao Mu was very tired and leaned against the coffin to gasp. The soldiers were still endless, so they simply ripped off the robe of the Empress Dowager Cixi and looted the intimate jewelry.

Ah Hai bit Xiao Mu's ear and asked, "Is there still something in your mouth?" ”

Xiao Mu deliberately opened his mouth wide: "I don't have any treasures to hide." ”

"I'm talking about ...... in her mouth"

This can't be hidden, Xiao Mu wants to keep the night pearl in the mouth of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and when he has the opportunity to steal it himself, he can only nod: "Most of them have goods." ”

Ah Hai took out an ivory-handled dagger, cut the corner of the Empress Dowager Cixi's mouth, and dug his hand deep into the rotten mouth, pulling out a dazzling blue pearl of the night.

When the old eunuch saw the Night Pearl rolling out, he howled on the spot, and was dragged aside by the soldiers. There is a gap in the middle of the night pearl, revealing a green light. Xiao Mu has not seen the Night Pearl, many bones of imperial tombs have been found, but because the bones are rotten and broken, the Night Pearl is often scattered in the corner of the coffin, or is crushed between broken bones and textiles, and the Night Pearl taken out of the mouth is extremely rare. What's more, the brightness and color of this night pearl surpassed all the jewels he had ever seen in his life.

The so-called "pearl of the night" is not a natural substance. Any jewel that shines on its own in the dark can be called a generalization. The biggest function is in the mausoleum, which is said to protect the body from decay for 10,000 years. The best pearl of the night is the volcanic magma that has been tempered by hundreds of millions of years in the depths of the earth. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were "hanging li" and "weeping thorns" jewelry, only Tao Zhu Gong Fan Li could afford to buy, I am afraid that it was specially for the decoration of Xi Shi beauty. Legend has it that Qin Shi Huang was buried with the Night Pearl. The brother-in-law of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Guo Kuang, showed off his wealth and "hung pearls and hung down, looking at them like stars during the day and like the moon at night". In the Ming Dynasty, people also used rubies and emeralds as night pearls, and the court even sent people to purchase gems from Ceylon.

Sun Dianying, Ah Hai, and Zhongshan were all blinded. Xiao Mu was the first to get used to it, only to realize that the pearl of the night was made of two semi-circular jewels, and when they were closed, they were a round ball. Sun Dianying ordered the soldiers to temporarily extinguish the torches and lanterns. The splendid jewels in the coffin have been hidden in a wooden box. The dungeon fell into the darkness before it opened, but this night the pearl was brilliant, illuminating the entire tomb as if it were day. Even the deepest corners are dented, but they can be seen clearly.

"Lao Tzu has not lived in vain in this life!" Sun Dianying ordered someone to re-light the lamp, lest there be any movement of the Empress Dowager Cixi in the coffin under the green light. He picked up the old eunuch and asked, "Father-in-law He, don't cry, tell us, what is the origin of this night pearl?" ”

He Chang wiped away his tears and snot: "Back to the words of the handsome, "Zhou Li, Diguan, Sheren" has a saying, 'The Son of Heaven is a pearl, the princes are jade, the doctor is a jade, the doctor is a pearl, the scholar is a shell, and the people are a grain of grain'. The Qing Dynasty has long had rules: the emperor and the queen can be buried with beads, the officials above the second grade can contain jade, and the seventh grade and above can only use gold and wood chips, the scholars use gold and silver chips, and the people use silver dust. ”

Sun Dianying slapped the old eunuch on the spot: "Damn, Ben Shuai asked about this bead!" ”

"Oops...... Lafayette's pearl of the night, the slave heard the great eunuch Li Lianying say that it belonged to the Indian emperor earlier. His favorite concubine was a beautiful woman from Persia named Taj. This jewel was named after the emperor and presented to a beautiful woman. The Taj died in childbirth, and the Indian emperor built a mausoleum for her, which is said to be more beautiful than all the mausoleums of our Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in China. Later, the state of Afghanistan broke the state of India and robbed the pearl of the night that was supposed to be buried in the Taj Mahal. Lord Qianlong returned to Xinjiang on an expedition and shocked the Western Regions, and the Afghan chieftain called Chen Nagong and presented this night pearl, which was sent to the Forbidden City. A hundred years later, the Queen Mother Lafayette accidentally found this treasure from the treasury and decided to bury her own son. This night pearl was originally to be buried with the Persian number one beauty, Taj, and the Queen Mother Lafayette is the number one beauty of our Great Qing Kingdom. In the whole world, in addition to the Taj Maj, only the Queen Mother Lafayette is worthy of this pearl of the night. Beauty with pearls, under the yellow spring, immortal......"

The old eunuch covered his face and said in the end, he actually crepe, presumably nostalgic for the appearance of the Queen Mother Lafayette?

Xiao Mu didn't know what Taj was, he took out a small scale from his baggage, which was not originally the ancestral family of the tomb robber, just like the Luoyang shovel, it was also a new trick he came up with in the past two years, which was used to weigh the treasures in the tomb and make it easy to calculate the value. After all, sometimes there are too many treasures to have both, and some burdens must be abandoned. Xiaomu put the night pearl on a small weighing plate and accurately calculated its weight as three taels and one dollar and four cents.

Ah Hai immediately whispered to Sun Dianying: "I'm afraid this amount of Night Pearl is worth more than 10 million taels of silver. ”

"Ten million taels? Silver? Sun Haozi almost fell, "How many Makqin and Czech machine guns can this be exchanged for?" Equip more than three divisions. ”

Ah Hai clasped his hands into fists and said: "Congratulations to the handsome, if you get this treasure, you can win the world." ”

"No wonder, the old people said that the thieves in ancient times had to dig the tomb of the emperor of the previous dynasty, and get this kind of treasure in order to conquer the world and sit in the dragon court."

Sun Dianying took the night pearl from Xiaomu's hand and put it in his pocket, seemingly carrying the Jiangshan Sheji on his chest.

He remembered something, walked to the coffin, looked at the decaying Empress Dowager Cixi and asked, "What should she do?" ”

Ah Hai was about to answer, when an officer rushed into the underground palace and said into Sun Dianying's ear: "Qiqi military seat, the tomb of Emperor Qianlong has been opened." ”