Chapter 113: The Legend of the Concubine
Chen Zhijun turned on the walkie-talkie and tried to call Professor Chen: "Professor, professor, please answer when you hear it." ”
After more than ten seconds, a clear reply came from the intercom: "I heard it, the voice is clear." ”
"Okay, we also know here, now there is a situation to report to you, we are now in a cave, facing the passage that comes up from the water about 3 meters, and is facing a stone tablet, which is engraved with the five words of Xiaochu Concubine Yuan's bed in regular script, and the report is complete."
When Professor Chen heard the words "Concubine Xiaochu's Garden" on the other end of the intercom, he excitedly said to Zheng Suo: "It seems that this story is true, you quickly arrange for someone to find out what kind of person this Concubine Xiaochu is, and now regardless of whether the information is true or not, all of them have to come over." ”
Then, he immediately said to Chen Zhijun through the walkie-talkie: "Now pay attention to the environment around you, even if you find a door or passage, don't go in for the time being." ”
"Okay, this is open to the outside, and we can see the obvious light coming in from the side, now let's go and see where this light is coming in, over."
Seeing that Chen Zhijun finished speaking, Shao Bin led the group around the stone monument and carefully observed the surrounding environment. In this dripping cave, under the illumination of searchlights, in addition to the mossy rocks all around, there seem to be two stone sculptures in front of it, and there seems to be a stone gate in front of it.
According to Professor Chen's instructions just now, they did not walk to the stone gate curiously, but followed the light to find a new passage that could bypass the underwater passage.
Finally, on the right, more than two meters high, a hole about 2 meters wide and 1 meter high was discovered, and the entrance of the hole was overgrown with vine plants, and the light from the outside shone sporadically through the leaves on the rattan into the hole. Shao Bin climbed up with his bare hands and saw that many of the holes were piled up with a thick layer of bird and beast droppings, and the stones on the top of his head were also weathered, and they were dripping down after absorbing the water. The entrance to the cave is about 3 meters vertical to the ground, and there are a mess of rocks underneath, and about 5 meters to the left of the exit is a waterfall, and there is nothing on the cliff on the right except vegetation. In addition, several small holes were found, but none of them were large enough for people to enter or exit.
After reporting the discovery of the cave entrance to Professor Chen in detail, Professor Chen immediately made a decision: use this onshore cave entrance as an entrance, remove all equipment from the underwater tunnel, and then close the tomb door outside.
After carrying out Professor Chen's instructions underwater, the few of them removed the connecting rod and iron block against the door, closed the tomb door, and returned to the ship. Professor Chen asked them to quickly connect the camera to the monitor, and they couldn't wait to watch the video in the cave.
When he saw the words "Concubine Xiaochu's Garden", Professor Chen paused the picture, pulled Zheng Suo and said, "Lao Zheng, what do you think of this regular script?" ”
"It's nothing special, and the font looks like it has the characteristics of that period."
Professor Chen thought about it, fonts, calligraphy, etc. have always been Zhu Gong's strengths, why not let him identify them? So he shouted to Zhu Gong on the side: "Old Zhu, come over and help identify these words." ”
Zhu Gong came to the monitor and looked at it twice and then said decisively: "These words are not in the development period, that is to say, they are not Wei, Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the font at that time was Wei tablet style, and these words seem to have a high degree of similarity with the calligraphy of the Zhiyong monk, the calligraphy of the Sui Dynasty played a leading role in the calligraphy of the Tang Dynasty, and this is different from the regular script of the Tang Dynasty, which is the italic style that we are all familiar with, and this should be the Sui Dynasty from these points alone." ”
Zheng asked with distrust, "Are you sure this is from the Sui Dynasty?" ”
Zhu Gong saw that Zheng Suo was a little skeptical of his judgment, so he looked at Zheng Suo firmly and said, "Of course I'm sure this is from the Sui Dynasty!" ”
Zheng Suo said thoughtfully: "Then if this is a monument erected during the Sui Dynasty, then the legend is a dynasty." ”
After taking over the topic, Professor Chen said: "This is not a problem, after all, the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty are next to each other, that is, the matter of one after the other, the key is what kind of person this Concubine Xiaochu is, what kind of funeral goods are in it, why are tomb robbers eyeing this?" That's the key. ”
At this moment, Zhang Gong also interjected to join the discussion, he said: "Yes, since the overseas tomb robbers said that they are eyeing here, I think in addition to the things they specify, they will also be interested in the dark weapons inside, the tomb robbers are not as noble as written, to put it bluntly, it is for money, for them it is just the difference between big money and small money." ”
Zheng Suo didn't pay attention to Zhang Gong's words, but asked Professor Chen, "So what kind of thing is the three-faced Buddha that the tomb robbers are talking about?" ”
"My personal guess is that it is the eighteen-handed Zhun Ti Guanyin, maybe there is some special mark or use on it."
"So what do we plan for tomorrow?"
"In this way, make a ladder outside the cave tomorrow morning, and then enter it with your equipment, and only when you enter the inside will you know what the mystery is."
"Okay, I'll arrange it later, do you need anything else?"
"The other thing is to connect the electricity in, specially arrange two electricians to cooperate with us, we push a little bit, he will synchronize the lights to us, and the lights should also use waterproof LED lights; In addition, cameras will be installed from the entrance of the cave to monitor everything inside, and from tomorrow, the police will be arranged to guard the entrance and inside the cave. ”
"The professor really lives up to his name, it's as amazing as the legend! I'll arrange these things right now, everything is under your command, and we'll fight wherever you point! ”
In the evening, a lot of folk tales about this concubine were collected, Professor Chen looked through a lot of versions, and felt that one of the versions was more reliable, the story goes like this: the daughter of the princes of the Northern Zhou Dynasty is called Xiao Chu, who is very intelligent, and ran away from home alone after the change of dynasty due to family problems, and when he went out to a lake, he met Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, who went to the place for secret inspection, and soon Yang Jian was impressed by this woman's Wen Tao Wuluo, and the woman was also attracted by Yang Jian's charm, So the two of them came together naturally; In an accident more than a month later, the woman was stabbed to death after blocking the sword for Yang Jian, and at the same time, the sword also stabbed a piece of jade pendant on Xiao Chu's chest. Because at that time, Yang Jian had not finished unifying the world, and some places were still not peaceful, and the tomb of Concubine Xiao Chu was delayed and repaired intermittently for 4 years before it was repaired, Yang Jian in order to commemorate Xiao Chu, he asked her to use jade to make a Buddha statue with 3 heads and 18 hands, in order to describe her skills and cleverness, at the same time, in the burial of her underwater treasure chest, and the location information of those treasures is on the jade.