I've seen this seal, but I didn't expect it to be like this. After listening to Lao Zhao's narration, Lao Zhao took out the seal and looked at it.

Lao Zhao took out the seal and handed it to the pit, and the pit took the seal and looked at it with affection. Because I had seen the seal, I didn't show much interest, but I was reminiscing about the experience that Lao Zhao had just described. It seems that tomb robbing is still a high-risk profession. In a narrow space, there are still many mechanisms around him, and if there is a slight mistake, he will be buried with the tomb owner. Originally, I wanted to go down and have a look, but after listening to Lao Zhao's experience, I couldn't help but retreat in my heart.

Lao Zhao saw that my brows were tightly knit and asked me if I had anything to say. "Isn't this kind of thing happening often?" I asked Lao Zhao.

Lao Zhao said with a smile: "This kind of thing is completely coincidental, and no one can say anything before it goes down." Maybe you'll meet it the first time, maybe you'll never meet it. You try to buy a lottery ticket, can you guarantee to win, it's like robbing a tomb and meeting a ghost. ”

I said in my heart that the probability of winning a lottery ticket is low, but the lottery is not a matter of life after all. When I heard him talk about ghosts, I asked again, "Then this tomb robber, did you really encounter ghosts?" I'm talking about real ghosts, ghosts and the like. ”

Lao Zhao replied: "The ghosts you are talking about are actually more strange things, things that people can't understand for a while. But there is an explanation for some things in the end, and that is that people are ghosts. There are also those who have no answer in the end...... Maybe it's really a ghost. In this business, even if there are ghosts, you have to fight. ”

The pit came over from the side, with a smile on his face, "That's it, what Brother Zhao said is too right, can you still be afraid of meeting ghosts when robbing tombs?" Are you afraid of potholes on the road when you walk? If you dare to go to the tomb, we will not be afraid of ghosts. ”

Lao Zhao listened to the words of the pit and said, "Listen to Brother Niu, do you want to go down and take a look?"

I secretly thought that there was no one in the pit, so I explained my thoughts in two sentences. So far, I have to tell Lao Zhao the truth, this time I invited him to dinner, in fact, I wanted to help the pit pull the line.

After listening to me, the pit was very unhappy, and said, "What do you mean to help me build a line, you kid don't want to go down to experience it?" You patted your chest and told me that you can say that you are a decent gentleman and have no interest in robbing tombs. ”

As soon as I heard that these two goods were going to be strong, even some righteous men and gentlemen came out. couldn't let him be arrogant, so he went back directly, "Lao Tzu has always been a righteous gentleman, an idol worshiped by unmarried girls." Like you, living in a pit. ”

The pit did not show weakness, "Then even if you are a righteous man and a gentleman, are you afraid?" ”

The words of the pit poked at my point, and I really wanted to go, but I was a little scared in my heart. But although I was scared in my heart, I didn't suffer now, "I'm afraid of your sister, I'm not afraid of anything, I'm afraid that there is no treasure in the tomb." ”

The pit hehehe, and said, "Then let's just say it, good brother, advance and retreat together."

As soon as I heard it, I knew that I fell for this kid, and I fell into his plan, Niu Xuejing, Niu Xuejing, I really learned well, and I actually used the radical method on me. But the gentleman said that the horse was difficult to chase, and my words had already been spoken, so I had to let it go.

Lao Zhao listened to us on the side, and interrupted: "I know what the two little brothers mean, this matter of Tucheng, it's not impossible, as long as the brothers dare, I, Lao Zhao, am not afraid to take you around."

I and the pit were stunned, it was so simple? Lao Zhao Huafeng turned around and said: "However, there is no good place to go at the moment, let's either don't fix it, or fix it all over the big one" The pit nodded again and again, and said yes, yes, yes. Lao Zhao continued to point to the jade seal in the pit with his hand and said, "That's it!" The pit raised the seal in his hand, looking inexplicable.

I asked, "Have you solved all the mysteries of this seal?"

Lao Zhao shook his head and said, "I didn't untie it." So if you two want to solve the mystery of this seal, I will take you with me, this is the condition. ”

As soon as I heard it, the whole person was unhappy, this old Zhao made us happy, that old man Zhang just touched the threshold for several years, we are laymen, and we will not live all our lives, and when the time comes, the two of them will go to rob the tomb with crutches, this is not.

I told Lao Zhao my thoughts, and Lao Zhao smiled and said, "Everything is chance and luck, how do you know that you can't?" I'll tell you everything I know, but everything has an eyebrow now. But I can't always touch the main line, so everything is a mess. All you have to do is how to put the pieces together to get the complete picture. Especially you. After speaking, Lao Zhao pointed at me with his finger. I looked inexplicable, what do you mean by "especially me", I thought about it carefully, and it is estimated that Lao Zhao is too good at the pit, so he can only count on me.

The pit was not worried at all, and said loudly: "Leave it to us, you can rest assured, Brother Zhao!"

I'm a heartless brother, let me tell you what's good. Lao Zhao nodded and said, "You can keep the seal first, I hope you can make a breakthrough." It's not early today, so I think I'll go first. ”

After saying that, Lao Zhao got up to leave, and I and the pit also stood up to send each other, Lao Zhao patted his head, took out a jade pendant from his pocket, and said: "Look at my memory, this is the jade pendant brought out of the tomb together, I was going to sell it, but I couldn't sell it for a few dollars, so I kept it like this." I'll leave this piece to you. Then he shoved the jade pendant into my hand, said goodbye, and went out.

Kengzi and I continued to sit in the private room, guarding the hot pot, holding a piece of ancient jade and looking at it over and over again. What I am holding in my hand is the jade pendant that Lao Zhao just left, the jade pendant is turquoise, and the green one seems to flow out. The two flying dragons are staggered and circling, and the scene of two dragons playing with pearls is vivid. I just don't understand why this thing was brought into the coffin by the tomb owner and kept close to him, and what does it have to do with the secret of the seal?

I was fascinated by what I was thinking, and I came over with a seal, and asked me: "The great artist has increased our knowledge, what words are engraved on the back?"

When he went to school, he didn't study well, and he could make do with normal words, and this reverse engraved seal script was a ghost drawing symbol for him. I replied to him, "At the beginning of the twilight of spring, the meandering water flows. From the Eastern Jin Dynasty Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Collection Preface". ”

"Oh, "Lanting Collection Preface", Wang Xizhi, it's not small, it's not small." The pit muttered to himself. The words of the pit made my eyes light up, since these words came out of the "Lanting Collection Preface", then I can go back to the full text and take a look.

After lunch, I went to the store, and the pit went home to sleep. Under my coercion and temptation, I asked for the seal from his hand, and let this kid take it, and if he couldn't get it, he would give it to a chick. One afternoon, there was not a single customer in the store, which is normal. Looking at the pedestrians walking by the door, I began to feel a little sentimental. So I stayed until five o'clock in the afternoon, locked the door of the store and went home like a schoolboy.

When I got home, I went into my father's study, my parents were often not at home, and they both had a passion for traveling, and they spent 10 months of the year on the road, and the other two months thinking about where to go. In my memory, I once saw a copy of the "Orchid Pavilion Collection Preface" in the study. Sure enough, I found it on the lower level of the bookcase, probably after years of immobility, and the scroll was covered with a layer of dust. I carefully unfolded it on the table, fearing that the yellowed paper would shatter if I exerted any force.

"In the ninth year of Yonghe, at the beginning of the twilight of spring, I will be in the Lanting Pavilion of Huiji Shanyin......" I slowly read the words on the scroll, but I didn't have a clue, and I fell asleep on the table unconsciously. The ringing of my cell phone called me back from my sleep, and the call was from the pit to ask me to eat. I said that I had just drunk a lot at noon and that I didn't want to drink any more in the evening, so I suggested that he come to my house and come to me. When I put down the phone, it was already eight o'clock in the evening. After a while, the pit drove his breakthrough to arrive, and he packed a few hot dishes, saying that the new chef in the store specially made them for me. I hadn't eaten anything since noon, and my stomach was already empty. gobbled it up, and said again and again that the pit was thoughtful.

The pit said that this meal was not eaten in vain, and asked me how the seal was. I said you have to give me some time, when I'm a god. After eating, I called Shangzi into the study together, pointed to the scroll on the table and said, "Look, Lao Tzu has studied all afternoon, and even what I dreamed of was poetry."

The pit took a closer look and said, "You still have typos on it, and I've studied it for a long time." I wondered what the typos were, but when I looked closely, I realized that it was talking about a few scribbled typos in the scroll. The degree of simulation of the reels is relatively high, and even the alterations are not missed.

I can't help but sigh at the level of the pit, it's time to clean up illiteracy. So I explained it to him, and he reluctantly accepted the ink bumps. The two of them took each side and began to carefully study every word in the text, but most of it was me, because it was impossible to say whether the pit could be seen or not.

Finally, the pit slapped the table and shouted, "Don't look at it, don't look at it, what's this." I said, "If you don't look at it, are you ready to give up?"

The pit snorted and said, "Take out the seal, I'm going to break through from the seal." I'll give it to you when I say it's for you, and you can still see a ball! Sure enough, after staring at the seal for half an hour, the pit became agitated again.

Somehow, when I saw the pit, I was secretly proud. I laughed at him and said, "Brother Pit, you better forget it, even if you watch it for half a month, it will not be possible."

The pit was also happy, and said, "Yes, I don't understand this thing." You know, how is the quality of this jade, and how much can it be sold for? ”

"Jade is a good jade, but it's not for you to sell." As I spoke, I picked up the seal and shone it at the lamp to see how light it was transmitted. It doesn't matter if it's a photo, I noticed that after the light passed through the seal, there were some lines in the seal. I quickly called the pit to find a LED flashlight, turned off the light, and shone it from behind the seal with the flashlight, and a blurry shadow was cast on the wall.

The projection is exceptionally simple, with only a few lines, crooked, and not like something high-end. The pit was not happy with the results. But I know that this is actually enough, I am quite passionate about geographical knowledge, I judge that this should be a simple map left in the seal by the ancients through their skillful craftsmanship, and now the question is where these lines refer. I compared the shadows on the wall and traced the lines onto a piece of paper and placed them with the scrolls. I remembered the jade pendant that Lao Zhao gave me, and I also took it out and put it on the table.

Now, scrolls, simple maps, jade pendants, and seals are all on the table, but things are at an impasse again, and I don't know where to start. By midnight, both of us were exhausted and decided to study it again tomorrow.

The next morning, I got up early and went to the city library and looked through some books on the history of the Yuan Dynasty. When I entered the library, I went directly to the historical area, but after looking for a long time, I didn't find any valuable materials. It seems that there are not many books to record the dynasty of a minority group, but fortunately, the hard work pays off, and finally I still found a copy of "Yuan History Collection", open it and take a look, the content is not very detailed, it is better than nothing, I should read the storybook.

The Yuan Dynasty was the first unified dynasty in Chinese history to be established by ethnic minorities. Speaking of the Yuan Dynasty, we have to talk about the Mongol Empire, the predecessor of the Yuan Dynasty. At the end of the 12th century, under the leadership of the leader Genghis Khan Temujin, the Mongols on the steppe quickly became powerful, and after many wars and annexations, they finally completed the unification of the steppe. The powerful Mongols began to expand abroad, and carried out three expeditions to the west, all the way to Italy in Europe, and the Italians created the city of Venice in order to avoid the Mongol attack. In the south, the hooves of the Mongol cavalry trampled on the borders of India. In the East, Genghis Khan fought many wars with the Jin State, and the aging Jin State was beaten by the Mongol iron cavalry and had to bow down. In order to strengthen his control over the conquered lands, Genghis Khan divided his son's khanates on the Eurasian continent, namely the Kipchak Khanate of the eldest son Chuchi to rule the regions of present-day Russia and Eastern Europe, the second son of the Chagatai Khanate to rule Central Asia, the third son of the Ogedai Khanate to rule Mobei and Siberia, and the place of the old camp was owned by the younger son Torre.

After the death of Genghis Khan, his third son, Ögedei, became the Great Khan of the Mongol Empire. Ogedai inherited his father's legacy, and still continued to expand outward, and Ogedai was dedicated to the Mongol Empire, during his time as Great Khan, the Mongol Empire was still thriving, and the Mongol iron cavalry was still unstoppable. However, when it came time for his son Möngke Khan, he was thwarted in the process of attacking the Southern Song Dynasty, and was crushed in a place called Diaoyu City, and Möngke Khan also lost his life. After Möngke's death, the Mongol Empire experienced several turbulent periods because of the inheritance of the Khanate, and finally Tore's son Kublai Khan ascended to the throne of the Mongol Empire, but Kublai Khan's throne was not recognized by other Mongol nobles, and the Mongol Empire was actually divided. Kublai Khan, who held a large area of Chinese territory, adopted the Confucian policy of governing the country, and took the text of "Dazai Qianyuan" in the Book of Changes, set the name of the country as "Yuan", and established Kublai Khan, who established the Great Yuan, finally eliminated the Southern Song Dynasty court in 1279 and completed the unification of China.

Perhaps because of the influence of the earliest slavery system in Mongolia, the Mongols were dividing the people in the country into four classes, the first class was the Mongols, the second class was the Semu people, the third class was the Han people, and the fourth class was the Nan people. Severe ethnic discrimination, as well as abnormal economic policies, led to the entire Yuan Dynasty China's economy did not return to the level of the Southern Song Dynasty. Coupled with the fact that the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty were becoming more and more **, it was only in the middle of the 14th century that the Yuan Dynasty was buried in the wave of peasant uprisings. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a monk, sat on the throne of the emperor and established the Ming Dynasty. The last emperor of the Yuan Empire, rolled up the gold and silver treasures and returned to the prairie, and continued to confront the Ming Empire, which is known in history as the Northern Yuan. Later, the throne of the Northern Yuan Emperor was also taken away by his subordinates, the land was divided, and the "Yuan" country name was removed, and the Mongolian Empire, which had been beautiful for more than a hundred years, was settled.

The last page of the book also attached a map of the situation between the Ming and Northern Yuan, and when I saw that there was no one around, I took out my mobile phone and took a picture of it, returned the book, and left the library.

I didn't see the time when I looked at the book, and it was already noon in a blink of an eye. As soon as it was noon, it was time to eat, and I had hot pot with Kengzi and Lao Zhao for two days, I didn't want to go to the hot pot restaurant anymore, and I urgently needed to change my taste. Thinking about it, I went to the hotel opened by the pit, that is, the hotel next to the game hall.

As soon as you enter the door, you can see that this store is not ordinary, and most of the young people who come to eat must come directly from the game hall next door. The pace of eating is fast, and while eating, he talks about things in the game hall. The waiter in the store knew me, and when he saw me coming, he greeted me directly, and I was not polite, and asked him to find the pit. The waiter answered, took me into the private room, brought me a pot of tea, and went out.

After a while, the pit pushed the door in, sat down on the chair, and looked at me with a smirk. Seeing that he didn't speak, I said, "The little one is here today, and Brother Kit doesn't say anything?" ”

The pit slapped and shouted, "Say, you have to show it." Whatever the eldest brother wants to eat, I will cook it for you. I snorted and said, "You better save it, is that thing you made for human consumption?" Hurry up and call the chef, stir-fry a few good dishes, and serve good wine. ”

The pit responded with a "sigh", went out to explain, and returned to the private room. While drinking tea and other dishes, I told him about the harvest of today's library, saying that it was a harvest, but in fact, it was a little historical information, and the mystery of the seal was still in an embarrassing stage. Chatting and chatting about the dishes came up, we were no longer stunned, like a whirlwind, sweeping away the dishes, plus half a catty of white wine, the heart and body were refreshed.

I get dizzy when I drink, and I want to sleep when I get dizzy, I actually like this kind of life very much, but if I live like this, I'm afraid that my store will be yellow sooner or later. So I kept telling myself in my heart that I was going to the store, and I walked home, turned around and fell into bed, and I didn't think about anything anymore.

It was another nightbreak until it was dark, and when I woke up, I looked at the dark sky outside the window, and I felt a sense of security inexplicably. It is only when it is dark that the heavens and the earth become one, and the lights echo the stars in the night sky.

When I woke up and washed my face, I went into the study again, and the things that were placed on the table yesterday were not touched, and I remembered the map I took in the library today, and I also transferred it to the computer and printed it out and put it on the table. On my desk now is a seal, a double dragon jade pendant, a simple line drawing, and a map of the situation of the Ming and Yuan dynasties taken in the library.

I looked at these things carefully, and a bold idea came to me. I quickly opened the bookcase, turned out a topographic map of China, and compared it with the topographic map of China, to see the situation map of the Yuan and Ming dynasties. After retreating northward, the Yuan Dynasty occupied the Mongolian steppe, as well as part of the present-day northeast region. It can also be regarded as having a small half of the country, and the mountains in the northeast region have become a natural barrier for the empire. I laid the line drawing on the topographic map, and I was instantly enlightened.

That's right, these lines represent the mountains in the northeast, and the mausoleum of the prince of the Northern Yuan Dynasty must be in these mountains. However, then another question came, there are many mountains in the Northeast, which mountain is it, and where is it located? Once again, my thinking was at an impasse, and I felt like I was starting to work behind closed doors again.

I got up and went to the kitchen to find something to eat, but found nothing but a bucket of instant noodles. As soon as I was done, I returned to the study with the noodles that had not yet been soaked. Putting the bucket on the table, I picked up the jade pendant and put it on the bucket. But when I thought that this thing was brought out of the ancient tomb by Lao Zhao, I couldn't help but feel a little nervous, don't make instant noodles and soak an ancient corpse smell at the end, how greasy it is.

Thinking of this, I took this thing off the bucket again and looked back and forth in my hand.

Double dragon play beads, what a double dragon play beads. I slapped it on the table, I understood, I finally understood the location of the tomb of the prince of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.