Gong Jue handed me the iron box in his hand, he was soaking wet and shivering, Bai Jin hurriedly asked us to return to his house, when we changed our clothes and came out, everyone else was sitting around the fire kang, and on the table in the middle was the iron box that Gong Jue found from the bottom of the well. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Ye Jiuqing found something to wipe a few times, only to find that the black iron box was shining with golden light under the light, and when the whole box was wiped clean, it turned out to be a gold box covered with silt, and on top was a lifelike dragon pattern of the Qing Dynasty, and at a glance he knew that it was the thing of the Qing Dynasty.

Ye Jiuqing was worried that there would be a mechanism, so she handed over the gold box to the palace lord, and she pondered for a long time before carefully opening it in front of us, and there was an inconspicuous tin stick inside, and there were no ornaments and words on the two hollow ends.

There was a yellowed silk cloth next to the tin stick, and the palace lord carefully took it out of the wooden box, slowly unfolded it on the table, and frowned when he glanced at it.

On the rice paper is a painting, and it is a very strange painting, the top is a fierce white tiger around a silver disc, and on the left side of the picture is a mouse and a horse's tail connected, but each looking ahead, on top of the mouse and the horse is a dragon rising into the sky, and below the picture is a picture of the stars that I can't read.

"What is this?" Tian Ji looked at it for a long time and asked in confusion. "Without a single text prompt, what can a tin stick and a piece of silk cloth do?"

"The things that Qing Taizu left in the Shengjing Imperial Palace, and the hidden ones are so hidden, most of them are related to the treasure of the Great Qing Dragon Vein, this place is not trivial, presumably Qing Taizu will be very cautious when leaving clues." I said thoughtfully. "This clue is left to Qing Taizu to choose the person who will inherit the secret."

"Qing Taizu left the secret of the treasure to Dolgon, but when Qing Taizu died, he was only nine years old, and I believe that Qing Taizu would not tell Dolgon the details at that time." Ye Zhiqiu said.

"That is, Dolgon, like us, will have to discover the secrets of this golden box even if he can find it." Xue Xinrou said.

"But it is obvious that Qing Taizu will not leave too difficult clues, he must first make sure that the person who inherits this secret can understand it, that is, Qing Taizu firmly believes that Dolgon will definitely understand the meaning." Ye Jiuqing nodded and said.

"If Dolgon can understand something, then we should be able to see something Mingtang as well." Tian Ji scratched his head and said.

"Not necessarily, Dolgon is a man, and the customs he has been exposed to since he was a child are completely different from ours, these clues may seem confusing to us, but Dolgon may be able to discover the secrets." Gong Jue shook his head and said.

Speaking of which, I handed the tin stick to Turzhan, who was a descendant of the Eight Banners, and if Dolgon could comprehend something, he should be able to comprehend it as well, and I asked Turzhan if he knew what the tin stick represented.

Turzhan took it and looked at it for a moment, his eyes lit up and he said excitedly, "This seems to be Sauron's pole." ”

Bai Jinyi hurriedly poked his head over, and nodded after looking at it for a while: "That's right, it's exactly the same as the Sauron pole, why do you want to put a shrunken Sauron pole in the gold box?" ”

"Uncle Bai, what is Sauron's pole?" Gong Jue asked.

Bai Jin pushed open the window, we looked out in the direction of his finger, and saw a pine pole erected in the southeast corner of his courtyard, about one zhang and five feet, with a clamping stone at the bottom of the seat, and a tin bucket placed at the top of the pole.

"That's Sauron's pole." Bai Jin said.

"What is this for?" Tian Ji asked.

"Be careful when you speak outside the gate, this is not a thing, in the eyes of the Manchurians, this is a god rod." Bai Jinping closed the window and said to Tian Ji seriously. "The Sauron pole, also known as the pole of the heavens, is the traditional pole of the Manchu people to worship the gods."

Tian Ji has always been straightforward, and it is estimated that there is still a Turzhan of the descendants of the Eight Banners sitting in this house, knowing that he said the wrong thing, he smiled innocently: "I really don't know, don't mind if you don't mind." ”

"It's our Manchurian custom, it doesn't matter if you don't know." Turzhan is also considered kind, and he didn't care about the chickens.

"Then tell us what this Sauron pole is for?" Xue Xinrou hurriedly asked.

Turzhan mentions the Sauron pole with a very pious and respectful expression, and 1510 tells us that it is a very sacred tradition and custom for the Manchus to worship the Sauron pole.

Sauron pole in the 23rd day of the lunar month every year, the next year on February 2 lifted, the pole is in the clan long gate or standing in the family patriarch family courtyard shadow wall, the height is different, generally pine pole, in the top bucket put pig water and grains, let magpies, crows and other birds to eat, this is called God enjoyment.

After listening to this, I was puzzled, what Qing Taizu wanted to leave behind was obviously a clue to the treasure of the dragon vein of the Qing Dynasty, but why did he leave a tin rod symbolizing the Sauron pole in the gold box, although Turzhan looked respectful when he said it, but how could I hear it, the so-called Sauron pole is used to feed the birds, and this thing and the dragon vein treasure eight poles can't be beaten.

"Why did the Manchurians set up Sauron poles to feed the birds?" Ye Zhiqiu seemed to be afraid of saying the wrong thing, so he thought for a long time before asking.

"This has something to do with Qing Taizu." Bai Jin replied next to him.

"It's related to Qing Taizu!" We suddenly came to our senses, and we all looked at Bai Jin.

Bai Jin nodded and looked at the tin stick in his hand and told us that according to legend, Li Chengliang, the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, led the army to break through the Wang Gao Tun Village, which often attacked the border and made trouble, Wang Gao was the maternal grandfather of the Qing Taizu, and the Qing Taizu also became a prisoner of the Ming army.

Li Chengliang saw that Qing Taizu, who was still a child, was clever and well-behaved, so he spared him from death and stayed under the tent as a scholar, serving himself.

One night, Qing Taizu served Li Chengliang to wash his feet, and unexpectedly found that there was a red mole on the center of the foot of the general of the dynasty, and he inadvertently told Li Chengliang that he had seven red moles on the center of his foot.

The speaker had no intention, hearing this intention, Li Chengliang was greatly shocked by this, and at this time, Qin Tianjian in Beijing found that there was a royal qi in Liaodong when observing the celestial phenomena, and concluded that there would be an emperor here, so the imperial court immediately sent personnel to investigate.

Li Chengliang thought of the seven red moles on the soles of Qing Taizu's feet, and immediately suspected that the imperial court was going to arrest the little scholar in front of his account, and Qing Taizu also realized Li Chengliang's vigilance against him, so he immediately escaped from Li's mansion and fled to a grass beach in the north of Liaoyang City.

But behind Li Chengliang's pursuers got closer and closer, the exhausted Qing Taizu simply lay in a grass ditch and wanted to resign himself to fate, when a group of crows flew at this time and landed beside him, covering the almost desperate Qing Taizu in the grass ditch tightly, so he escaped Li Chengliang's pursuers.

Later, in order to repay the crow's life-saving grace, the Qing Taizu, who was in power to unify the Jurchens, ordered the Manchu people to erect wooden poles in their yards to cover tin buckets to feed the crows with grain, which is the origin of the Soren pole spread by the Manchu folklore.

"Qing Taizu later called the emperor, thinking that his life was given by the gods, so the year name was set as the mandate of heaven, which shows that Qing Taizu has always been obsessed with the crow to save himself." Bai Jin finished in one breath.

"I understand, the crow has a special meaning to the Qing Taizu, in his consciousness, the crow is the assignment of the gods, so the treasure of the dragon vein of the Great Qing Dynasty must also be related to the Sauron pole." Tian Ji said excitedly. "That's why Qing Taizu left a tin stick symbolizing Sauron's pole in the gold box."

Bai Jin and Turzhan glanced at each other, the two of them were silent with difficult faces, and after a long time, Turzhan said: "Wherever there are people in the entire Liaodong, you will definitely see the Sauron pole, even if the dragon vein treasure is related to the Sauron pole, but who knows which one the grandfather is hinting at?" ”

"You are most familiar with the history of the Manchu Dynasty, and your family has guarded the mausoleum for the Qing Dynasty for generations, since the Qing Taizu left this clue, it shows that the treasure is more or less related to the Sauron pole, please think about it, can there be a Sauron pole related to the Qing Taizu?" Ye Zhiqiu politely asked Turzhan.

"That's a lot of it." Turzhan sighed and shook his head to tell us that the crow was an ominous animal in the eyes of the Han Chinese, and that it was a messenger of bad news.

However, for the Manchus, the crow is a sacred bird, and this custom originates from the Qing Taizu, who has always believed that the crow is the embodiment of the gods, so whether it is a march or a camp, the first thing the Qing Taizu must do before going to any place and making all major decisions is to erect a Sauron pole in front of the tent.

And slow down the food in the wooden bucket to worship the sacred bird to enjoy, if it is eaten quickly, it means that everything is fine, and these Sauron poles erected by the Qing Taizu are not allowed to be removed by anyone.

"You asked about the Sauron pole related to Qing Taizu." Turzhan smiled helplessly. "It can be said that in the entire territory of Liaodong, wherever there is a great grandfather who has fought, there is a Sauron pole erected by him."

"It was hundreds of years ago, even if there was at that time, I'm afraid that many of them will no longer exist as the years go by, and what Qing Taizu wants to leave behind is the clue of the dragon vein treasure, and it will never be so abrupt and arbitrary." I rubbed my forehead and said calmly. "The tin stick is an allusion to the Sauron pole, but it may not be left by Qing Taizu, it must be specifically referring to one of them, and it can be preserved forever."

"Why do you want to leave the tin stick" Ye Jiuqing's gaze fell on the tin stick in Bai Jin's hand.

"Pewter was extremely popular in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and once became the exclusive use of the royal family, if the tin stick is an allusion to the Sauron pole, then there is only one possibility to choose tin as the material." Xue Xinrou said with a calm face. "Qing Taizu is hinting that the dragon vein treasure is related to the Sauron pole made entirely of tin."

"Yes, no matter how long the pole made of tin is, it will not be damaged." Tian Ji nodded and said.

"Sauron's poles are generally pine, and I haven't heard of all tin." Turzhan pondered for a long time.

"Since it's related to the dragon vein treasure, of course it won't be easy for people to know." I looked at the silk cloth unfolded on the table. "The whereabouts of this all-Sisolon pole should have something to do with these patterns that we haven't unraveled yet."