Chapter 43: Inference from the Inscription

"Wei Hua? Just two words? "I knew that there were usually more than two words on the inscriptions on bronzes, so I took the gilded Boshan furnace in the hands of the pangolin. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Boshan furnace in my hand, turn over the bottom to watch, sure enough, there are two engraved inscriptions under the bottom foot, Lishu font, only two words - Wei Hua.

"Wei Hua?" Yang Gang also repeated softly.

In ancient times, the inscriptions on the artifacts were at least two words, and the inscriptions on the bronze artifacts were generally the name of the craftsman or owner, sometimes with the year of manufacture.

"Wei Hua, is it the name of the craftsman who made this Boshan furnace, or the name of the owner of this Boshan furnace?" I'm a layman, and I certainly don't understand what that means.

"Your question, if the inscription on this furnace is a person's name, if it is not a person's name, or if it is not simply a person's name, then that's another story." Yang Gang said in the headphones.

"Yang liar, what do you see?" The pangolin asked Yang Gang in time.

Yang Gang was silent, and said after a while: "This may not be just a person's name, two words should be separated to understand, one is the name of a place or a country, or something else, and the other is a person's name." ā€

What Pangolin and Yang Gang discussed is not speculation, this is indeed an example, and this is the case on many utensils.

"In this case, we can eliminate them one by one, deduce them, and maybe we can come up with the answer." I reasoned.

The pangolin glanced at the gilded Boshan furnace, then at me and said, "You can give it a try." ā€

"Then let's start by merging the two words into one name!" Yang Gang said.

Then everyone fell silent and began to search for a person named Wei Hua in history.

After a long time, the pangolin shook his head: "There is no person named 'Wei Hua' in history who has historical records, at least I don't know." ā€

"Then split the two words and start speculating." Yang Gang said, obviously he didn't know this person either.

"Start with a place name or a country name?" I asked.

The pangolin looked at me and said, "The place name begins." ā€

"Is there a place name called 'Wei' or 'Hua'?" Lao K is also a person who knows some history, and he doesn't know either.

"Abbreviations, perhaps." I guess.

But in the end, it didn't work, so we had to turn our direction to the name of the country.

"If you talk about it from the name of the country, then there are more 'Wei', but 'Hua' was not in ancient times, it seems that 'Hua' is a personal name." Lao K then said, "In this case, it is difficult to be sure, so I suggest that there is no need to waste effort, and it is important to find treasure." ā€

I ignored Lao K, a big money fan, and began to sort out the Wei regime in history: "One of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, one Wei regime, one Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, one Wagang regime in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, the Northern Wei regime during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the two Eastern and Western Wei split from the Northern Wei Dynasty, Ran Wei and Zhai Wei during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, so many, a total of eight, even if there is a person named Hua in these Wei regimes, I can't be sure that it is that." ā€

"Qin Qi, I still know a lot, that's right, roughly these Wei regimes, there are indeed more, so it is impossible to clearly determine which country the person named 'Hua' is." Yang Gang was worried.

"In this case, it is back to the original problem, you need to determine the age of the tomb to determine the identity of the tomb owner, live in vain!" Old K gloated and said.

"Okay, let's just leave this alone, go straight down, go to the end, and then we'll go back to the circular burial chamber and find a way to get the jade coffin hanging in the void." Shangguan Yaxiong also said when he saw that we had been working in vain for a while.

Referring to the jade coffin, I asked Yang Gang: "Yang liar, I have already photographed the gold characters on the jade coffin to you, have you figured out the content of the gold letters?" ā€

"No, I didn't shoot it well, the flashlight light was too strong, shining on the jade coffin, and some of the photos taken were white, and I couldn't see anything, only some golden characters around me could still be seen clearly." Yang Gang said this to me at this time.

I gritted my teeth with hatred and asked, "You Yang liar, since you can't see clearly, then why didn't you tell me at the time, it's a big deal to find a way to shoot it for you, and I'll say it now." ā€

"Qin Qi, don't be angry, you will go back sooner or later anyway, let's talk about it then!" Yang Gang laughed and said to me.

I was even more angry and scolded: "You are not the one who dares to take risks. ā€

"Yang liar, did you fall asleep just now, this mistake is too low-level." The same is true for pangolins.

Sun Xiaoya said at this time: "Don't say it, it's already in the past, and it's useless to say it now." ā€

"Okay!" I whispered.

"Qin Qi, let's continue!" The pangolin was also quite helpless, so he had to choose to continue walking, hoping that there was information in the next room that we wanted to get.

It was still the old K and the bearded man who pushed the door, and this time with the experience of the last time, the two easily opened the stone doors of the fourth and fifth rooms, and the five mermaids entered.

The Ming ware in this room is still mainly jade, we took a general look, there is no thing we want, there is no jade seal, there is no artifact with obvious ornamentation that can indicate the age, and there is no inscription on the artifact.

"It's strange, as if I deliberately didn't leave a clue to let people know the identity of the owner of the tomb." I wondered, it was a very strange thing.

"Well, it looks like it's deliberately arranged." Pangolins flare through objects of value with flashlights.

Old K and Bearded are no longer interested in holding objects, and their backpacks really can't fit anymore.

The gilded Boshan stove in the fourth room was forcibly packed in Old K's backpack, and his backpack could only be stuffed with small objects at this time to fill the gaps.

Finally, I shone the flashlight on the northeast wall, and the old K and the bearded man didn't say a word, and pushed the wall directly, and sure enough, a stone door was pushed open on the wall, and we went inside.

This is already the sixth room, and the sixth room that goes straight to the northeast direction, no one knows if there is a seventh room below.

"It's different here." Shangguan Yaxiong noticed that the room was different, so he said.

I used a flashlight to observe, the walls, floors and ceilings are still Lantian jade, and it is the space dug out as a whole, which is a very peculiar event.

"I'm even more sure that this is the ore body of Lantian jade, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to use it to make such a big tomb." I firmly believe in my previous assumptions.

"There's no doubt about that." Yang Gang agreed with my speculation.

The pangolin's flashlight shone on the Ming utensils in the room, looking for useful objects, and found that the Ming utensils in this room were obviously different, so he said to me: "Qin Qi, you take a look at these Ming utensils, it seems that there are levels of placement." (To be continued.) )