Lao Zhao smiled and introduced to us: "This is my daughter, Zhao Xiaoxu, who has just entered her senior year, but they have no classes in the fourth year of school, and now they stay at home and usually take care of it for me." Then he pointed to me and the pit and said, "This is the Ling Yue I told you, Niu Xuejing." ”

Zhao Xiaosu shouted with a sweet smile: "Brother Ling, Brother Niu." I waved my hand with the pit again and again, I approached Lao Zhao and whispered: "Lao Zhao, this is not appropriate, you usually call me and the pit brothers, this doesn't mess up the generation!" "Of course, I don't mean that I don't think that this will make Zhao Xiaoxu raise his seniority and lower the seniority of me and the pit.

Lao Zhao smiled and said: "It's really a little awkward for you to say this, otherwise, I'm older than you, and I'll call you Xiaoling and Xiaoniu in the future." "When Lao Zhao called Maverick, it was the same as calling you a chick, and I almost didn't laugh when I heard it. After listening to Lao Zhao's name for himself, the pit hurriedly waved his hand and said, "How is this the same as trying to tease me, or don't do it." ”

Discuss and discuss, I said otherwise,

I am about the same age as Xiaoxu, and in the future, she will call me Ling Yue directly, and when she calls the pit, she will also call her name directly. My proposal was well received, and it was decided.

Zhao Xiaoxu poured us tea and said a few words in Lao Zhao's ear, Lao Zhao nodded, his voice was too small, and I didn't hear what they said, and then Zhao Xiaoxu went back to the next room. Zhao Xiaoxu wore this bracelet with copper bells on his hand, and jingled when he walked. Looking at her back, I was a little confused.

"Brothers, I invited you here this time, mainly to thank me for this trip to Xing'anling, for saving my old Zhao's life, if it weren't for you, my old Zhao would have been buried in the deep mountains and turned into mud by now. I'll replace wine with tea for now. After speaking, Lao Zhao raised the teacup and took a sip of tea. We also picked up the teacup and took a sip, it was really a good tea, the best Mao Feng, full of tea fragrance under the light smell, and it was even more amazing to taste it.

Putting down the teacup, Lao Zhao took out a cloth package from under the coffee table, opened it and saw that it was the Bingyugui brought out of the tomb. "This is the biggest gain we have gained from going to Xing'anling this time, in a sense." Lao Zhao said to us, we were staring at Yugui, and I suddenly remembered that Lao Zhao seemed to be looking for something this time.

"That's what you're looking for?" I asked Lao Zhao.

Lao Zhao nodded, then shook his head again and said, "Not really." This makes me feel strange, why do you nod and shake your head, is it or not, listening to Lao Zhao's meaning, there seems to be a hidden secret. Lao Zhao picked up Yugui, looked at the light and said, "If you really want to talk about it, this thing is not what I am looking for, but I can feel that this Yugui has a lot to do with what I am looking for." ”

"And what exactly are you looking for?" I asked.

Lao Zhao turned around, looked around, and motioned for us to gather over, I said in my heart that Lao Zhao was too careful, and there was no one else here. The four heads were put together, and Lao Zhao said to us word by word: "Inherit the jade seal of the country." "I listened to it for a while, to talk about this heirloom jade seal, as a small owner of an antique shop that deals in ancient jade, especially seals, I definitely know a lot, and I usually use these things to bluff customers.

Legend has it that this heirloom jade seal is made of the famous He's Bi in history, and He's Bi is also known as He's Bi, Jing Yu, Jing Hong, Jing Bi, Hebi, and Hepu. During the Warring States Period, Bian He of Chu State found a piece of treasure jade, and dedicated it to King Chu Li, King Chu Li ordered someone to screen, the result was judged to be an ordinary stone, King Chu Li was furious, and ordered to cut off one of Bian He's feet, and later King Li Wu King ascended the throne, Bian He offered again, and the treasure he held was still identified as a stone, so King Wu ordered to cut off his other foot. Later, King Chu Wu also died, his son King Chu Wen ascended the throne, Bian He hugged Yupu and cried for three days and three nights, and finally the tears dried up and began to cry blood, after King Chu Wen knew, he ordered someone to bring Yupu, let the craftsman cut it, and sure enough, he got a piece of beautiful jade, so he named it He's Bi.

Later, this and the Bi was transferred to the Zhao State, for which there is a story of returning to Zhao, which is about how Lin Xiangru brought the Heshi Bi to the Qin State, and under the obscenity of the King of Qin, he skillfully brought the Heshi Bi back to the Zhao State, and the "wall" mentioned in the story is this and the Bi. Later, the Qin State destroyed the Zhao State and destroyed the other vassal states, and this piece of treasure jade naturally went into the hands of King Yingzheng of Qin.

King Yingzheng of Qin couldn't put down the treasure jade in his hand, so he ordered Prime Minister Li Si to ask: Ordered by heaven

The eight characters of longevity and Yongchang are on the jade, representing their own emperor seat, which is granted by God, and the country will prosper for thousands of generations, and ordered people to cut it into a jade seal for their own use. It's a pity that the idea of King Yingzheng of Qin was shattered after more than ten years, and the Chu and Han armies of Qin soon attacked the capital of Xianyang City, the grandson of the first emperor - Ziying, dedicated the jade seal to Liu Bang, on behalf of handing over power, and later passed through the hands of Xiang Yu, but finally returned to the hands of Liu Bang, from this time, the jade seal has the meaning of passing on the country, and has been passed down from generation to generation in the hands of the Han Emperor. Until the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang usurped the government, Wang Mang sent someone to ask the queen mother for the jade seal, the old queen mother was angry, lifted the jade seal and smashed it, but was thrown off a corner, this missing corner was later repaired by gold.

It has been passed down like this for hundreds of years, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that we are familiar with, Sun Jian once salvaged this treasure from the well, and planned to take the treasure back to his hometown in Jiangdong, but there was an accident halfway, this jade seal was Sun Jian's son Sun Ce, used as a mortgage to borrow some soldiers and horses from Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu got the baby, he was very happy, thinking that he got the jade seal and got the world, and then Yuan Shu said that the emperor finally fell into disrepute.

The jade seal has been passed through several dynasties, all the way to the Tang Dynasty, so that there are traces of it in the later five dynasties, but there is no appearance after the five dynasties. Until today, this heirloom jade seal is a mystery-like thing, hidden in the long river of history.

Listening to Lao Zhao's words, I was shocked at first, and then I felt that some donkey lips were not in the horse's mouth. "As far as I know, the loss of this heirloom jade seal was before the Song Dynasty, even if it was brought into the grave, it could only be the tomb before the Song Dynasty, how could we find things before the Song Dynasty when we went to the ancient tombs of the Yuan Dynasty." I said to Lao Zhao.

Lao Zhao nodded and said, "What Brother Ling said has a certain truth, but you only know one thing, not the other." Hearing this, I felt a little unhappy in my heart, what does it mean to only know one and not know the other. Lao Zhao continued: "The reason why I judge that the jade seal of the country may be in the ancient tomb of the Yuan Dynasty is based on two points. ”

"Say it." I want to hear what Lao Zhao can say.

"First, there are rumors in history that during the Song Dynasty, the jade seal was finally returned to the emperor's hands, and later the Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Yuan, and the jade seal was exiled again, which indicates that the jade seal may not have been brought into the tomb, and the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty began to collect all kinds of seals after occupying a large area of territory, and the collected seals were ground off a layer, engraved with new words, and sent to Mongolian officials to use, and the jade seal of the country is likely to be among them."

"Even so, the jade seal of the country has been worn out, and it is impossible to judge." Based on Lao Zhao's account, I reasoned.

"It is very possible, but it is not ruled out that the jade seal of the country is completely preserved, but no matter what, this is a mystery, waiting for us to uncover, whether there are words or not, we are alive to see people and dead to see corpses." Lao Zhao said very firmly.

"And what about the second point?"

"Another point is, if the jade seal of the country was quietly brought into the tomb before the Song Dynasty, but there were no tomb robbers in ancient times? In contrast, the ancient tomb robbery activities were more than today, so it is also possible that the jade seal of the country was taken out of the ancient tomb in this case and reappeared, as for where it went after, whether it was in the ancient tomb of the Yuan Dynasty, I can only say that it is possible. ”

Lao Zhao's reasoning is reasonable, and I can't refute it. In fact, there are all kinds of possibilities for these mysterious things, and only by exploring them yourself can they be revealed little by little, but even if they have worked hard all their lives, in the end, they may not be able to uncover the veil of the puzzle. Why? Quite simply, what history is most afraid of is faults, and what culture is most afraid of is also faults. As an object, the jade seal has disappeared from people's sight hundreds of thousands of years ago, for a thing that was just lost yesterday, we can still find it through recollection and search, for a thing that disappeared a thousand years ago, in addition to drawing a little reference from earlier historical materials, I am afraid that we can no longer find any other valuable clues.

"Although every sentence is reasonable, it is not easy to find the heirloom jade seal." I couldn't help but shake my head.

Lao Zhao patted me on the shoulder and said, "That's inevitable, if you can find it easily, I'm afraid it won't be lost for a thousand years and not be in the world." But fortunately, there is a good saying, there is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to climb. ”

I smiled awkwardly, and said from the bottom of my heart, I am really not optimistic about Lao Zhao's goal. "Are there any clues yet?" I asked. Lao Zhao pointed to the jade gui on the table, "At present, I don't have time to study this jade gui carefully, but my subconscious tells me that this jade gui has a strong relationship with the jade seal of the country." ”