Chapter 53: A Woman Holding a Painting
Uncle Dao said that the matter was so serious that we were all nervous, and Uncle Dao saw my nervous appearance, patted me on the shoulder and said, "Everyone take it easy, I already know which four strokes it is." ”
"How do you know?" I wondered.
Uncle Dao smiled mysteriously: "It was the person who made this coffin that told me back then." ”
"Uncle Dao, when did you like to fool people." I didn't believe it.
"So, you've lived thousands of years old." Zheng Tian also shook his head.
Uncle Dao did not answer us immediately, but took out a magnifying glass from his bag, carefully observed each of the protruding strokes of the word "ink", and then said, "It's the third, seventh, ninth, and eleventh paintings. ”
"Why ......," I wondered.
Uncle Dao raised his head and explained, "It's fingerprints." The fingerprints left by the person who designed the mechanism in the first place reveal the strokes that opened the mezzanine. Once the designer created this mechanism, it was a matter of trial and error, so the four paintings that left the most fingerprints were what we were looking for. Although the ancients were shrewd, they were also very secretive, and they ignored that fingerprints would not disappear for thousands of years in such a closed environment. ”
"Dao Ye is so powerful, I can't imagine it when I change the department!" After Uncle Dao finished reasoning, Seventh Brother flattered him very cooperatively.
Then, Uncle Dao pressed the four stroke buttons in turn according to what he just said.
Soon we heard the sound of the gears turning, and the mezzanine of the glass coffin gradually opened in the sound of turning. It seems that this game between the ancients and the modern people is won by the people of today.
After the mezzanine was opened, we all gathered around, and what caught our eyes was a beautiful female corpse.
"It's amazing, it seems that your ancestor was also a lover back then, not only did he live in, but even the concubine came in!" Zheng Tian patted Wei Yin next to him in surprise and said.
After Wei Yin heard this, she kicked Zheng Tian first, and then said angrily: "Don't insult my grandfather!"
The seventh brother looked at Zheng Tian being beaten and smiled: "So a man can't owe too much."
And I didn't have the heart to pay attention to what they said, when I saw the corpse lying in the coffin, the whole person was immediately stunned, and the indescribable astonishment made me a little confused about the dream and reality, because it was no one else lying inside, it was the woman who repeatedly appeared in my dreams with paintings.
Why is she here? What does she have to do with the Wei Division Commander above? Where did the original owner of the tomb go?
A series of questions bubbled up in my head, and I didn't have a clue at all.
Like the corpse of the commander of the guard on the mezzanine, this female corpse is also quite well preserved, there are no signs of decay at all, the quiet smile is still hanging on the corner of her mouth, and the royal blue cheongsam is spotless, giving people the feeling that she has just died, or rather...... It's like falling asleep.
Most notably, the female corpse held a half-scroll of fragments in both hands and placed it on her chest.
I couldn't help but think back to the scene in my dream, when I was thrown by a grenade, I appeared in a ruinous palace, in the center of which was a high platform, on which stood a woman holding a painting, smiling at me, and now the woman was not standing on the platform, but also holding a half-scroll of fragments.
"See, that's the ultimate goal of our grave this time." Uncle Dao pointed to the half of the fragment painting and said.
"Dao Ye, I'll get it!" The seventh brother was about to reach out for the painting, but was stopped by Uncle Dao.
Uncle Dao said solemnly: "By all means, this corpse is quite weird, maybe there is some hidden mechanism, if you rashly take the painting, it is likely to die."
Zheng Tian on the side shouted after hearing this: "This is too careful, if the baby is held in the mouth, there may be a crossbow or something, but this painting is placed on the chest, it should be fine."
Uncle Dao shook his head and said, "Be careful to make the Ten Thousand Year Ship." Then he was seen carefully tapping the inside of the coffin with a wooden pole, and then repeatedly poking the hands of the female corpse holding the painting, as well as the chest and abdomen that were attached to the scroll.
When Uncle Dao inspected the cuffs of the female corpse, his brows suddenly wrinkled, and it seemed that he had found something. Then he said to us, "Look, there seems to be something written on the cuffs of this female corpse's cheongsam. ”
We immediately looked at the cuff of the female corpse in front of us, and found that there was indeed a string of pen marks on it, and although the handwriting was blurred, we could still tell that it was a string of numbers.
"Nine...... Seven...... Zero...... Zero" Brother Qi shone a flashlight for a while, and said with difficulty.
Huh, 9700? Why do these numbers sound so familiar, as if I have heard them recently, I patted my short-circuited brain vigorously, but no matter how I thought about it, I couldn't remember where I had heard it.
"Maybe it's the corpse number written by the corpse bearer, so you don't have to be nervous." Uncle Dao thought for a while and said.
Then Uncle Dao carefully examined it for a few minutes, but after fiddling with the female corpse's body, he didn't find anything abnormal.
Seeing this, Zheng Tian whispered in my ear: "Your uncle is also an old and unscrupulous, and I want to tease others." I slapped Zheng Tian with my elbow and told him not to talk nonsense.
After the inspection, Uncle Dao raised his head, beckoned to the seventh brother beside him and said, "No problem." ”
Hearing this, the seventh brother carefully tossed away the hands of the female corpse, and then slowly took out the painting.
The half-scroll of remnants has not undergone any protection, but there are no traces of corrosion, it seems that this glass coffin really has the magical effect of making things immortal.
The seventh brother put the remnant painting on the edge of the coffin and slowly unfolded it, from the content of the picture, it does look like another part of the painting at the previous auction, but to be honest, I still don't see anything peculiar, I feel that it is just an ordinary literati landscape painting, I really don't know why it is said to be a treasure that can change the fortunes of the country.
"What's so strange about this painting?" I asked Uncle Xiang Dao in confusion.
Uncle Dao didn't reply to me, he looked at the landscape on the picture as if he was fascinated, and even made me feel that his body was trembling a little.
"Dao Ye is like this, when I think about things, I don't care much about people, I'm used to it." Brother Qi said to me with a smile.
So I turned to Wei Yin and asked, "Did your father mention anything awesome about this painting?" ”
Wei Yin's expression was as dazed as mine: "He rarely lets me touch the half of the paintings, so I don't know much." ”
It seemed that I could only wait for Uncle Dao's fugue to end, I shrugged my shoulders helplessly, and suddenly remembered something, so I asked Zheng Tian beside me: "By the way, I see that you have been looking for this painting before, do you know something?" ”
Zheng Tian shook his head: "I'm not a powerful person, I don't know more than you, I wanted to get the half of the painting from Dean Wei's house before, purely to see if there are any other clues about the treasures of the Heavenly Kingdom." ”
Zheng Tian paused when he said this, and after shining the flashlight around the huge palace, he said: "Then again, aren't the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom piles of mountains and seas of gold? Why do you only see this half of the painting now? In my opinion, this painting is not worth much. ”
"Maybe someone else has emptied it." Seventh Brother spoke.
"Hey, let's not talk about any gold and silver seas, just look at the painting in front of you, what do you think?" I stopped them and said.
Seventh Brother shook his head: "I'm a rough person, and I don't know anything about these works of art." ”
Zheng Tian and Wei Yin also shook their heads.
"Well, in that case, I'll give you my opinion." I cleared my throat and continued, "I think this is a treasure map, and the picture in it tells us vaguely where some other treasure is hiding. ”
"Damn! We found the tomb robbers of the Northern and Southern Dynasties according to the treasure map, and now there is an extra treasure map, and there is still a end? Zheng Tian shouted dissatisfiedly.
"Not a treasure map, for sure." Uncle Dao, who had been in a trance, suddenly said quietly.
I was surprised to see that one of the most likely hypotheses was directly rejected by Uncle Dao, because I really couldn't think of any other use for this painting.
Uncle Dao looked around, and then said: "The mystery in this painting will be pieced together with the other half after I go back, and I will study and study it, this place is not suitable for a long time, let's withdraw first." ”
Uncle Dao is right, what may happen in this ghost place, since the painting has been obtained, it is better to go out quickly, but just as I was about to get up, Wei Yin next to me suddenly stopped us: "Wait, I hope you can take my grandfather out together." ”
Wei Yin's words really sound a bit fantastical, now it is still a question whether we can go out of the living, let alone bring a dead person, and besides, this person has been dead for so many years, and he can't be resurrected when he takes it out, so it is better to stay in this luxurious palace, and he can be regarded as enjoying the treatment of a prince and general.
However, Wei Yin was very resolute, which made me feel that if I didn't agree, she wouldn't be ready to leave.
"I said Miss, you are also a person who has stayed abroad, why are you still so feudal in thought, fundamentally, you bring your ancestors back, except for exercising the physique of the people we carry, it will not play any substantive role."
"Yes, dust to dust, we might as well put him in this glass coffin." I chimed in.
Wei Yin looked at us with a sullen face and said, "Grandma has always wanted to see my grandfather again, and it is because of this that my father will ...... will ...... Forget it, if you don't help me, I'll carry it myself! ”
After Wei Yin finished speaking, she turned around to pick up Wei Hengfu's body.
"Why don't I carry it." Brother Qi has always been helpful, especially for helpless girls.
Wei Yin nodded gratefully, and just as Seventh Brother was about to carry the corpse, Uncle Dao suddenly shouted: "Not good!" Be careful, everyone! ”
We immediately looked in the direction of Uncle Dao's gaze, and fear was like worms, densely covered with our bodies.
We saw that the dozens of figurines standing on the north and south sides of the palace were all slowly cracked.