Chapter 69: It's All Gone
Feng Weiguo took the lintoe gold handed by Professor Chen, looked at it and said, "This should be the lintoe gold invented by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, right?" The handwriting on it is from the Western Han Dynasty. ”
"Yes, the handwriting is from the Western Han Dynasty, and the appearance is not an early thing, but, strictly speaking, this Lintoe gold was not actually invented by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and there were horseshoe-shaped gold coins during the Warring States Period.
"Professor, these should have been rewarded by the emperor at that time, right?"
"Yes, the in-toe gold is mainly used for rewards, and if it circulates in the market, it is cut and weighed."
"Since it is said to be a reward, then it is the high-ranking officials of the time who are buried here?"
"This is not certain, if he is really a descendant of the general, maybe these are the emperor's rewards to the general, according to Lao Zhang's speculation from the hexagram, what is buried here is a person with a low official position, and he died of depression after being demoted."
"I don't know much about hexagrams, what do we do now?"
"As soon as the box came up, it was quickly loaded and sent down, and counted below; Then you call and arrange a dive, and the person who comes quickly. ”
As he spoke, all the boxes were brought up, and with the help of the old horses, they quickly transported the boxes of gold and silver here to the bottom. Chen Zhijun, who had been watching for a long time on the side, had opened his eyes this time, and his eyes were almost straight with so much gold. In fact, it was not only himself who was staring at him, but also Ma Kai, who had followed Professor Chen and had many experience in excavating ancient tombs, was about to drool, not to mention Lao Ma.
For more than two hours, looking at the 19 boxes of gold and silver treasures loaded back and forth, Chen Zhijun swallowed his saliva and asked Professor Chen: "Dad, why haven't I seen the silver coins?" The silver stuff here is all carvings or something. ”
"Hehe, at that time, silver was not in circulation, it was just made into handicrafts or something, and in terms of coins, it was either gold or copper coins at that time, and there was no silver thing."
"Oh, that means silver was more precious at that time."
"Yes, at that time, silver was mainly used as tribute, and the coin was mainly five baht."
Back under the scaffolding, Professor Chen asked the old horse to dismantle the scaffolding and then set it up on the stone pillar where the bronze coffin was placed. After arranging Lao Ma's work, Professor Chen asked Ma Kai, Zhu Gong and others to classify and register the 19 boxes of gold and silver treasures that had just been hung down, and required that the weight of each one be recorded, and then took Zhang Gong to the place where it was blown up.
Professor Chen touched the water below, although he didn't feel too cold, but it was by no means a comfortable temperature for the human body, so he said to Zhang Gong: "No, let's try again with a metal detector to see if that thing will be hidden somewhere else underwater." ”
"Well, that thief didn't use scuba or anything, he was wearing a diving suit, if he had been soaked in water for half an hour, he would have frozen to death, so there must be some places in here where there is no water, and I suspect where to hide, I'll go get the detector now, and look for it."
But the results of the next probe were unbelievable to anyone. After they probed several stone pillars around the perimeter, they found that the thing had really disappeared, and just as Zhang Gong, who was at a loss, was playing with the detector at the entrance of the dark river, he suddenly found that the place where the metal reflection signal had been marked and detected was now no matter how the detection instrument responded.
Zhang Gong was nervous, and hurriedly said to Professor Chen beside him: "Old Chen, is this instrument broken?" There's no response down there. ”
Professor Chen glanced at Zhang Gong, whose face was a little pale, and seemed to understand what he was thinking, and he was secretly a little worried, but he still replied calmly: "If the instrument is good or bad, don't you know if you can find a random metal to try?" ”
"Okay, then I'll go to Lao Zhu and try it."
After speaking, Zhang Gong put the front end of the instrument towards Zhu Gong and their direction and began to move slowly, when they were still several meters away from Zhu Gong, the receiver showed that there was metal in front of them, which also showed that the metal detector in his hand was not broken, and all functions were normal.
Since the machine is not broken, the original underwater reflection signal is gone, is it also stolen?
As soon as this idea came out, Professor Chen broke out in a cold sweat, and quickly asked Zhang Gong to probe the other four well-marked locations, but the result was the same, the reflected signal of the original existence was now all gone, which means that the thief took away all the six treasures under the water within half an hour.
Professor Chen ignored Zhang Gong, who had been chattering on the side, and took out his mobile phone and dialed Sun Ju's mobile phone directly: "Hey, Sun Ju, don't bother you now, right?" That's right, I just reported to you an important discovery, that is, the six underwater things that we originally detected are now gone, which means that the thief took everything within half an hour underwater, not just one of them. ”
After listening to Professor Chen's words, Sun Ju said: "It's okay, the thief just explained this, I want to call you later, he said that all the things are hidden underwater, and he said that he can't tell where to hide." ”
"Oh, it's good that you're still here! So is he specialized in tomb robbing or what nature? ”
"It should be a professional organization, and these are judged by his stumbling words."
"Oh, now there should be no domestic group tomb robbery, there should be a lot of scattered ones, and if it is a professional organization, it should be overseas."
"Yes, the diving suit he wore was made in the United States, and it has not appeared in the domestic market at present, and the explosives and detonators are not domestic, they are all German."
"And did he promise to find the few things that were missing? That's what I care about the most. ”
"Not yet, but we will continue to work hard, Professor Chen, you deal with the rest first, the things lost underwater will be handed over to us, and we will select some good divers from the SWAT commando team in a while, and we will search the underwater first."
"Okay, then we'll wait."
After hanging up the phone, Professor Chen said to Zhang Gong: "Lao Zhang, it seems that we have encountered a big problem, and the six bronze dragons you mentioned for hexagrams must have special information and value. ”
"Well, I think it should be a treasure map or something, otherwise they would have spent so much effort and risk on the map? So I just thought it was a treasure map. ”
"If the treasure map in the General's Tomb is true, then if it is also true, then it is either multiple treasures, or," Professor Chen seemed to suddenly understand the connection, and patted his thigh and said, "That's right! I see, this underwater thing may be the same as the treasure map in the General's Tomb! The logo on the treasure map is blurred, in fact, it is only a part of the treasure map, and the things here should be the refinement of the treasure map! ”