The offspring who escaped was my grandfather Dian Nansan, who was a scholar of archaeology, young and promising, and at the age of 25 he served as a researcher at the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica of the Republic of China, and it is said that he had a good relationship with the then director Fu Sinian.

During the Battle of Nanjing in 37, my grandfather was captured by the Japanese army, but fortunately escaped the night before the execution.

Later, my grandfather went all the way south to Hong Kong, and when the Anti-Japanese War was won in four or five years, he returned to Nanjing alone to continue his archaeological research.

After the liberation, the grandfather returned to his hometown to relax, because the early years were the history of the institute, so there were a lot of mausoleums and tombs, and there was a lot of understanding of some of the secret objects inside, and in his later years, he was obsessed with the study of the art of heavenly work, imitating the ancient skilled craftsmen to make a lot of strange gadgets.

On the eve of my grandfather's death three years ago, he also gave me a book called "The Secret Book of Heavenly Works". I flipped through it, and I thought it was just some mechanical mechanisms, but I was surprised to find that it was far more than that, and there were many metaphysical things involved.

In addition to studying the art of heavenly work, grandpa also dabbled in feng shui gossip, Qimen Dunjia and the like, but most of these things were broken as feudal superstitions after liberation, and grandpa rarely mentioned it to the outside world, but occasionally told me about it as a child, I felt strange and listened to it with relish.

The influence of childhood on people is indeed far-reaching and long-lasting, since I was a child, I can't help but have a strong interest in the wisdom of these ancestors, but unfortunately I don't have a wisdom root, pondering the metaphysics of feng shui for many years, and only understand a little fur. As for the "Secret Book of Heavenly Works", I don't know anything, I guess it's because I can't turn my science brain around.

Later, I studied antiquities appreciation and restoration at university, and I inherited my grandfather's mantle as I wished, but this was only my own psychological comfort, in fact, I was far from my grandfather, who was able to mix with the researcher of the Academia Sinica at the age of 25, while I was 25 years old and could only sell fakes in the antique market.

Although I have always thought that my grandfather is a relatively legendary person, I have never heard of him having anything to do with any Taiping Heavenly Kingdom treasures, let alone that he and the Wei Master went to the ancient tomb of Zanglong Mountain to touch gold.

It all started with an international package I received from Moscow a few days ago.

When I received this package, I thought it was very strange, because I didn't know anyone in Russia, who would send something from afar?

Suspicious, I opened the package and found that it contained an old yellowed letter and a diamond-shaped pendant engraved with the word "ink" in Lishu, and a strange flying fish pattern printed on the back of the pendant.

I studied the pendant and estimated that if it was not a high-imitation fake, it was very likely to be a jade-inlaid bronze pendant from the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, jade and bronze are in the fault layer of history, especially jade products, some scholars even issued a sigh of "Wei and Jin Dynasty with jade and decline", so the surviving jade is rare, and the rare is expensive, and this jade-inlaid bronze pendant should be worth a lot of money at present.

I picked up the letter again and looked at it, and found that the envelope was printed with a vague and mutilated image of the Presidential Palace of the Republic of China, and the date of sending the letter was August 1, 1945.

What surprised me the most was that it was Dian Nansan, who was my grandfather! I glanced at the recipient, and it said Let it go.

I couldn't wait to open this letter from 70 years ago and read it, but the more I read it, the more unreliable it became, and it felt like a half-finished Zhiwei novel.

At first, I thought it was a prank that someone pretended to be my grandfather to create for me, but then when I took a picture of the letter and passed it to my father, who was doing business in Singapore, he told me that it was the old man's true handiwork.

Who sent this exactly? Why is it happening at this time?

I wanted to wait a few days to see what was new, but for three or four days there was no movement! The letter is okay to say, mainly the bronze pendant, although it should be worth a lot of money, but I know that pies will not fall from the sky, in case it is a cultural relic recovered by the state, and I am really dumb to eat Coptis chinensis.

When I was at a loss, someone suddenly visited my antique shop. The man who came looked a little funny with a plane head, a toad glasses, and a briefcase, and at first I didn't recognize who it was, and I thought it was here to collect rent.

But when he said in broken English, "Long time no see, my best friend!" , I sounded a little familiar, so I tentatively replied: "A cloud-piercing arrow, thousands of troops come to meet." ”

The man slowly took off the toad mirror and laughed: "Two pairs of loyalty and courage, the sword mountain and the sea of fire are revealed." ”

At this time, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was my good buddy Zheng Tian from college.

When we went to school, we would form gangs, not only in school, but also in society, of course, there were a lot of troubles, but fortunately, Zheng Tian's family had money, and many things were settled by him for us. In short, happiness depends on brotherly righteousness.

Later, after graduation, I opened my own antique shop, Zheng Tian went abroad for further study, and they didn't contact each other for a long time, I heard that he has been in the wind and water recently, and has served as the director of an archaeological treasure hunting TV show (of course, the major shareholder of the TV station is his father), and has made many famous collectors, and has a lot of contacts in the circle.

I quipped, "What kind of wind blew you here, eldest son?" ”

Zheng Tian smiled, and mysteriously motioned for me to close the door of the store, I felt that this guy had something important, so I hurriedly let him into the back room and made a pot of good dragon wells.

After Zheng Tian entered the door, the two of us chatted for a while, and then he got to the point, took out a black-and-white printed drawing from his briefcase and put it in front of me, leaned closer and whispered, "Chengzi, you can show this." ”

I took it curiously, and found that the totem with the shape of a dragon was printed on the paper, and the upper right corner also printed a chapter with the word "ink" in Lishu, and I couldn't help but be surprised that this ink word was exactly the same as the bronze pendant I received!

I glanced at Zheng Tian and cautiously asked him where this drawing came from and what it was for, Zheng Tian said that it was given by an old collector in his collecting circle, and it was said that it was a map, related to the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

I stood up abruptly when I heard this, thinking to myself why it was the treasure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom again, and this was also the case recorded in my grandfather's letter, I thought about it carefully and walked to the storeroom in the store, opened the safe and took out the package, and carefully handed the letter and the bronze pendant engraved with the word "ink" to Zheng Tian and said, "Our brothers are in a hurry this time." ”

Zheng Tian looked at the pendant suspiciously, and then took out the letter and read it. After reading it, the guy frowned, and said to me directly: "So your grandfather is a murderer?" ”

Hearing this, I almost squirted out a sip of tea, Zheng Tian pretended to be serious and continued: "After your grandfather and Master Wei entered the Liuli Gate, they found the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and then fought because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, and in the end your grandfather killed them all. After saying that, he nodded pretending to look at me with a disgusted expression on his face as the murderer's grandson.

I gave this guy a blank look, took back the tea I had just made for him, and said angrily: "You kid is!" How could my grandfather have killed so many heavily armed soldiers alone? ”

Zheng Tian saw that I was angry, and hurriedly apologized to me with a hippie smile: "Don't mind, I'm joking with you." But the two things are really too coincidental, I haven't closed my eyes for a few days after I got this map, and I've been thinking about finding someone who understands and trusts to explain, so I don't immediately rush over to ask your brother. Now it seems...... Is there any connection between the two? ”

I looked at the bronze pendant and said, "There should be a connection, after all, it is all related to the so-called heavenly treasure." ”

"Then do you understand what this ink character represents?" Zheng Tian then asked.

I shook my head and said I was confused, "Maybe it's not impossible to use the fake word "tomb". Then I carefully looked at the drawing that Zheng Tian had brought, and wondered, "Are you sure this is a map?" There are no markings on it, only the shape of a dragon. ”

Zheng Tian nodded and said, "Yes, it's the map, there must be some vague breakthrough on it." ”

I couldn't help frowning, the drawing looked like a totem painting of a dragon, not only did it not have any place names, but also there was no road drawing, it really had nothing to do with the map, what kind of breakthrough would there be......

Wait a minute! I glanced at my grandfather's letter on the table, and suddenly thought of something: "Zanglong, Zanglong?" Isn't the dragon depicted on the drawing the same Zanglong Mountain that my grandfather entered back then? ”

Thinking of this, I took the map of the eastern suburbs of Nanjing, and found that there was indeed a dragon-shaped place hidden in the veins of Zanglong Mountain, and then looked closely, the direction of the hills of the mountain group was roughly consistent with the dragon scales of the dragon body drawn in the map, and the two horns on the dragon's head also happened to correspond to the two remaining veins of Zanglong Mountain.

I told Zheng Tian my thoughts, and he nodded and said, "Chengzi, nine times out of ten, the place where the treasure is hidden is the big tomb that your grandfather entered back then, can you see if the specific location is mentioned in the letter?" ”

I recalled what my grandfather wrote in his letter, that the tomb of the Northern and Southern Dynasties was a strange place with six unimprisoned and extremely evil feng shui. If the map is true, then the location of the Great Tomb of the Northern and Southern Dynasties where the Heavenly Cellar Gold is hidden is likely to be located at the Dragon's Eye.

Because according to the feng shui drinking shape and fixed acupoints, the dragon is winding and curving, and one eye is prosperous and the other is declining. In other words, one of these two longans is a treasure land of feng shui, and one is a place of great evil. And the tomb of the Northern and Southern Dynasties is the opposite, located on the dragon's eye of the great murderous place, but the specific one has to be explored at the site to know.

Zheng Tian was silent for a while after hearing this, and said with a firm look in his eyes: "Do you want to do it?" ”

To be honest, I was still very hesitant at the beginning, and I was very good at bragging, but if I really met a zongzi or something, I still expect it to sit down and chat with you while sipping melon seeds?

But when I think about it, such an opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and if the legendary heavenly treasure is real, then my chance to turn over is here. What's more, judging from the letters written by my grandfather, there must still be some unknown secrets hidden in the tomb of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Thinking of this, I snuffed out the cigarette in my hand and nodded.