"Is the lamp here an ever-bright lamp?" I asked Lin Xihui in front of me in a low voice.

She looked around and nodded, acknowledging my question, and explaining to me that the lantern wasn't unusual, at least not to her. Because in the ancient tombs of 739 usual research, Changming lanterns have been found, and there is more than one, and now the ancient tombs of Changming lanterns have been unearthed, one is the tomb of King Lu Gou unearthed in Luocheng, Shandong, and the other is the Xiaohou tomb unearthed by Yunnan Dameng. It's just that the everlasting lanterns that appeared in those two ancient tombs are too different from the everlasting lanterns we see now.

The ever-bright lantern we see now is as if it has just been lit, and the ever-bright lantern unearthed in those two ancient tombs is only "burning", and there is basically no light, but the wick is still slightly bright. But even so, the ever-bright lanterns unearthed from these two ancient tombs are already rare, at least proving that the ever-bright lanterns are real. And not just in the legends.

In comparison, the ever-bright lights we have here are even rarer. Lin Xihui was shocked by the brightness of the light, and she told me that according to the records in the book, the production method of the ever-bright lamp is probably as follows: the ever-bright lamp is a double-layer structure, and a container inside is filled with a special lamp oil, the wick is soaked in vinegar, and the outer layer is filled with water to cool the lamp oil.

Even now, this is a great invention, because the oil consumed by the oil lamp is not mainly ignited, but volatilized by heating, the wick soaked in vinegar can not only keep the temperature low, but the water outside the oil jar can also effectively prevent the oil temperature from rising, although the production of the lamp is not a secret, but the production of lamp oil is not any record, or there is no reliable record.

Lin Xihui said, for example, that during the excavation of the Dingling Tomb in Beijing, there was a celadon vat in the main hall of the mausoleum, which contained wax lamp oil and a wick, which was the Changming lamp, but apparently the lamp was extinguished not long after the mausoleum was closed, because the closed mausoleum lacked the oxygen needed for combustion. The ever-bright lanterns in most ancient tombs are basically this kind of "end", and there are very few ever-bright lamps that can really burn for hundreds of years.

"Ever-bright lanterns" were not only very popular in ancient China, but also in the West. According to the customs of places like ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the dead also needed lights to dispel darkness and illuminate the way. Therefore, it is customary to put a lamp inside the tomb before it is sealed. And the house of wealth and glory should be more luxurious, put on an unextinguished lamp, and always illuminate the dead.

According to historical records, in 527 AD, when Syria was under the rule of the Eastern Roman Empire, Eastern Roman soldiers in Syria at that time found a lamp lit in a niche in a pass, which was covered by an elaborate cover, which seemed to be used to block the wind. According to the inscriptions found at the time, the lamp was lit in 27 AD. When the soldiers found it, the lamp had been burning for 500 years!

After Lin Xihui finished speaking, he turned his head to look at me and asked playfully, "Now you know the value of this kind of everlasting lamp." It is not an exaggeration to say that if you can bring out an everlasting lantern here, the value of the unearthed is definitely not lower than that of any treasure. ”

As soon as Lin Xihui's voice fell, the bald head over there looked at those ever-bright lights with green eyes, and he couldn't hold it anymore when he looked at the bald head.

Team Zhang patted the bald head on the shoulder, saying that this place was too weird, and if you could not touch the things here, you should not touch them, let alone take them away.

Team Zhang deliberately emphasized that since the Changming Lantern here is different from many ancient tombs, combined with our previous experience, we can't "start" on the Changming Lantern here, Zhang Team also asked the bald head, since he is a tomb robber, he should know that some tomb robbers took the "things" that should not be taken in the ancient tombs, and finally led to a violent death.

The bald head glanced at Team Zhang, and said to himself, "I just looked at these ancient relics, and I didn't say I wanted to take them away." Look at you, the heart of a villain is the belly of a gentleman, right? These are all things handed down by our ancestors, and we should let future generations see the essence of our ancestors. So I think, whether from a historical point of view, or from the perspective of our ancestors, we should take an everlasting lamp out, I am not for money, I am for the sake of future generations......"

"Alright, alright, acting. I don't know if I thought you were an archaeologist, and a few of us were tomb robbers. I said helplessly to the bald head.

I looked at those ever-bright lanterns, just like what Team Zhang said, the shape of the ever-bright lantern here is very special, it is a kind of "jade dragon spitting pearls" image, the material of the ever-bright lantern looks like jade, under the background of the light, its emerald green lamp body is very dazzling, and I found that the shape of the "dragon" of the "jade dragon spitting pearls" is not an ordinary dragon, and there is a pair of extremely small things similar to wings carved on the dragon body! To put it in layman's terms, this dragon actually has wings.

At first, I thought I was wrong, but after a closer look, it was indeed a pair of wings in the shape of a dragon on the body of the lamp, and the wings were slightly open.

At this time, the old cat also said that it was the special shape of the "dragon" of the ever-bright lamp, although it was also a dragon, but it was not an ordinary dragon, but the legendary Ying Dragon.

The old cat further said that the shape of Ying Long's "spitting beads" has a meaning.

Because of the legend, Jiao turned into a dragon, 500 years can become a horned dragon, more than 10 million years to become a dragon. The dragons before Ying Long are all dragon-shaped Jiao, or non-"dragon", strictly speaking, dragons can only be called true dragons after they have wings, that is, after they become Ying Dragons.

Ancient Chinese monarchs listed the horned dragon as a royal totem, so many people mistakenly thought that the horned dragon was a real dragon. In fact, there is only one kind of true dragon, and that is Ying Long. Ying Long had the Immortal Pill in his body before Jackie Chan, and after Ying Long became a real dragon, he would spit out this Immortal Pill and turn into a true dragon. The old cat said that the "Jade Dragon Spit Pearl" of the ever-bright lamp here is the meaning of Ying Long's Immortal Pill, which means immortality.

I'm more and more curious, what awaits us at the top of this tower? The hoarse voices and others in front of us, are they in this tower at this time? Throughout, I have a strong feeling that we are being led by the nose all the time, as if someone is manipulating our actions.

The old cat at the front of the line had now stepped up the stairs, and we followed the old cat up the ladder as well. To my surprise, although it has existed here for thousands of years, there is not a trace of dust on the stairs, and it is not too much to describe the stairs as "spotless".

I was about to take a closer look at the stairs under my feet, when I suddenly heard the bald head behind me cry out in surprise, "Fuck, the stairs here are actually pure gold!" ”