The Dian Kingdom died in the Western Han Dynasty, and in the middle of the period, there was a great civil strife in the country, and some people split from the Dian Kingdom. These people entered the mountains and lived in isolation, and since then, these people have slowly disappeared from history, and later generations have only learned about them from sporadic records in the "Strange Examination of the Legends".

This group of people separated from the ancient Dian Kingdom naturally formed a tribal group, and they had a very strange ritual, which used the kind of strange tank suspended in the water to drown the living in it, and raised fish with the dead. Fish that eat human flesh every day have several times more strength than ordinary fish. When the fish grows up, they should take the tank out of the water on the night when it is the full moon, burn the human bones inside, and use it to sacrifice to the six jade beasts, and then eat the fish in the tank in soup. It is said that eating this fish can prolong life.

The old shopkeeper of the coffin shop of the stele shop, I don't know how to get these things, whether they are ancestral or I found them myself, I don't know for the time being. It is likely that he mastered this evil ritual, and found the ruins of the pre-Qin dynasty under the coffin shop, which is equivalent to finding a very hidden place, in order to better hide and not be exposed, he used the legend of the death of a person when he patted the coffin, so that the nearby villagers had a sense of fear of his shop, and did not dare to approach it, and it was not until after his death that these secrets were revealed. However, whether the old shopkeeper of the coffin shop is a murderer or not, these will have to wait for the people from the Public Security Bureau to come, and then do a detailed investigation and collect evidence.

After listening to Professor Sun's words, there happened to be a braised fish in the dish, and I was so disgusted that I couldn't even eat the rice, and the more I thought about it, the more disgusting I became, so I simply stopped eating it. I said to Professor Sun: "You are simply the Sherlock Holmes of the East, I have been studying below for a long time, but I didn't see a reason, high, you are really tall." ”

Professor Sun's attitude this time was much better than last time, and he said to me at the moment: "Actually, I have seen someone in Yunnan before who has collected such a strange tank, which was bought from Nanyang many years ago, and I didn't expect this kind of evil art to flow poison to this day. Do you remember the last time I said that Lao Chen saved my life, and that was also in Yunnan. ”

Although this disgusting and murderous evil art is strange, it has nothing to do with us directly after all, and we have already achieved our goal if we can find Professor Sun, so we just listen to what Professor Sun said just now. Shirley Yang and I were about to ask Professor Chen for something, and we didn't think about how to speak for a while, when we heard Professor Sun mention Professor Chen, so I asked him to elaborate.

Professor Sun sighed: "Alas, what is there to say, it's a shame to say, but anyway, so many years have passed. At that time, Lao Chen and I were sent to Yunnan for reformation, Lao Chen was more than ten years older than me and took good care of me. I had some kind of style problems at that time, and I got along with a local widow, and I don't want to say that you should know how bad it was at the time. ”

I listened seriously on the surface, and smiled secretly in my heart: "Old man Sun looks like a farmer working in the field, he doesn't look like a professor at all, and I can't imagine that there will be such a romantic joke in the past." Even this romance has been explained, and it can be seen from this point that he is a person who can't pretend to be a person in his heart, and it is not too difficult to trap him, the key is to find a breakthrough. ”

I only heard Professor Sun continue: "At that time, I couldn't withstand the pressure, I hanged myself in the cowshed, kicked the stool under my feet away, and I didn't want to die, I regretted it very much, and I began to be very nostalgic for life, but it was too late to regret it, my tongue was half sticking out, and I was about to end, at this time Lao Chen rushed over and saved me." If there was no Lao Chen, where would I be now. ”

I took this opportunity to quickly explain that Professor Chen's current condition had worsened tenfold, and asked Shirley Yang to take out the rubbings of the heterogeneous keel and show it to Professor Sun, and told him why we came to beg him, even if it was for Professor Chen's sake, and made an exception for us to leak some secrets.

Professor Sun's face changed immediately, he bit his lip, hesitated for a long time, and finally said to us: "I can take this rubbing back to help you take a look, and analyze what is written on it, but you must not confide in anyone about this matter, it is inconvenient to say more here, and after we return to the Gulan County Guest House tomorrow, you will come to me again." ”

I was worried that he would change his mind again after turning around, so I asked for the rubbings of the heterogeneous keel back, and agreed with Professor Sun that I would show him after returning to the county guest house.

After eating that day, Shirley Yang and I wanted to take the road back to Gulan County, but before we could get out of the village, we were stopped by the blind fortune teller who was full of running trains, and the blind man asked me if I wanted to buy his "Eye Diagram of the Ground", which was sold to the family, and as for the price, it was easy to discuss.

If I hadn't seen the blind man, I would have forgotten about it. I know that his book "The Eye of the Earth" is actually a feng shui map, which is of little use, and the material of the real book is more special, so it is valuable, and the content of the picture itself is similar to that of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and it does not have much significance, and the blind man's book is a Xibei product that lays eggs at a glance, and it is not genuine at all.

I said to the blind man, "Old man, do you still want to sell this picture to someone who knows the goods?" ”

The blind man said: "That's natural, the knower will set a price at will, and the old man will be willing to cut his love; Those who do not know the goods, even if they promise a thousand gold, it is in vain, and this artifact must not fall into the hands of the laity. The old man touched the bones and broke the phase for your Excellency that day, and found that your Excellency had seven snake locks, and was born with a dignified appearance of a majestic prince. ”

I said to the blind man, "If that is to be said, then I am afraid that you will not be able to sell this atlas, because it is simply a copy." Those who know the goods don't want to buy, and you don't sell the goods if you don't know the goods, so you better keep it for yourself as soon as possible, and don't talk about the princes anymore? Our family may have had pigs and monkeys before, but there have never been any pigs and monkeys, and if I were a pig monkey, I would have gone to the zoo. ”

The blind man saw that I had seen through this fake picture, so he begged me to read the love of all my peers, and take him to Beijing as well, where I could tell people a fortune and touch my bones, and resell some eggs or something, so as to respond to the call of the country and run to a well-off life.

I saw that the blind man was really a little pitiful, so I was moved by compassion, discussed with Shirley Yang, and agreed to the blind man's request, and promised to return to Beijing to find him a place to live near Panjiayuan, and let the big golden tooth take care of him, and the blind man's mouth can run an aircraft carrier, which can be a good trust for us to do business in the future.

But I tell the blind man, the capital is no better than anywhere else, if you tell someone's fortune again, saying that the other party can do what princes and princes and heads of state in the future, it will not work, and it will not work for you to depress the hat of inciting the masses to revolt.

The blind man nodded again and again: "These truths, you don't need to say it, the old man will naturally pay attention to it, that crime is absolutely unaffordable, once the above is investigated, let alone ask the old man to be beheaded." When he arrived in the capital, the old man picked up the words that made a fortune when he met him. ”

So I took the blind man back to the Gulan Guest House.

He said that the next afternoon, when Professor Sun returned, he immediately asked the blind man to wait in the guest house, and asked Shirley Yang to meet Professor Sun in a restaurant in the county seat.

In the restaurant, Professor Sun said to us: "The reason why I didn't tell you about the different characters of the dragon bone last time was because I had a lot of worries at that time, but yesterday I thought about it all night, even for the sake of Lao Chen, I can't help but talk about it." But I want you to be careful and not to cause too much trouble. ”

I asked Professor Sun, "I don't quite understand, what do you have to worry about?" Why can't these thousands of years ago be made public today? ”

Professor Sun shook his head and said, "It's not that I can't say it, it's just that I haven't had the time to say it." I have very limited information, and these heterogeneous dragon bones are ancient secret texts, which record some things that are little known or even recorded in the annals of history. Although the method of cracking the Book of Heaven has been mastered, but because the age is too far apart, it is very difficult and complex to understand and verify the content of these cracks, and there are many fragments in these keel texts, it is difficult to see the well-preserved, once the cracked content is ambiguous with the original text, even if there is only one word inaccurate, the error is big......"

I said to Professor Sun, "You told us about these business things, and we don't understand them. We came to you thousands of miles away, just to know about the dust beads, as well as the keel rubbings brought by Shirley Yang, I hope you can help us interpret them and see if there are any clues to the dust beads. ”

Professor Sun took the rubbing, watched it for a long time, and then said to me: "According to the regulations, these are not allowed to be said to the outside world, and this is also the reason why I scared you last time, because this information is not yet mature, and it is irresponsible for history to publish it." But this time, for the sake of Lao Chen, I didn't care about any regulations, so I let it out today. You want to ask the dust beads, I know very little about the dust beads, I think it may be some kind of symbolic ritual vessel, the shape resembles an eyeball, which first appeared in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and is recorded in the unearthed dragon bone ciphers of the Western Zhou Dynasty. There is no clear information as to what period the dust beads were, by whom, and where they got the materials. This rubbing, like the one you brought, is similar to what I've seen before. I'm not sure that the symbol on the keel is the dust bead, but I can tell you for sure that this symbol, which is like an eyeball and a whirlpool, means phoenix in the Zhou Dynasty ciphertext, and the information recorded on this rubbing is the description of Fengming Qishan by the Western Zhou people. ”

My mind was full of questions, so I asked Professor Sun, "Phoenix? Isn't that an animal made up by the ancients? Is there really anything in this world? ”

Professor Sun replied: "This is not easy to say, because this kind of dragon bone heavenly book records all the very important data files of the ancient ruling class, ordinary people cannot know the content of it, so I personally believe in the content recorded in the dragon bone ciphertext." But then again, I don't think there is a phoenix in the world, maybe it's a kind of ciphertext within ciphertext, a hint within a hint. ”

I asked Professor Sun: "Are you saying that this content seems to describe a phoenix, but it is actually a substitute for a certain event or item, just like in some war movies we watched, some ** privately called the chairman of the committee an old man, and when the old man was mentioned, everyone knew that it was Lao Jiang." ”

Professor Sun said: "Your analogy is very inappropriate, but the meaning is somewhat close. In ancient times, Fengming Qishan heralded that there was no way, and the rising Zhou Dynasty replaced the declining Shang Dynasty. The phoenix, a fictitious spirit animal, can be said to be a symbol of auspiciousness and wealth, it has a specific meaning in various historical periods and different religious backgrounds, but as for what meaning it represents in the Dragon Bone Book of Heaven, it is difficult to say. I should not be mistaken by the fact that this eyeball-shaped symbol represents a phoenix, and I also deduce from the rest of the text in the first and second chapters of the dragon bone. ”

I nodded and said, "That's right, because the dust bead itself has another name, called Phoenix Gall, and I don't know where this name began to spread." It seems that there is some kind of connection between this eyeball-shaped ancient jade and the imaginary creature phoenix. Professor, is there any clue about the tomb or location in the ciphertext of this rubbing? ”

Professor Sun said: "It's not that I refuse to sue you, it's really nothing. I will help you write the translation on paper, and at a glance, you will know that this is just a text of the ancients describing the worship of Fengming Qishan. This kind of thing has always been very valued by the emperor, you can pray for the foreshadowing of the phoenix, you can give the order to the sky, and achieve great things, just like we are now opening a restaurant, setting off firecrackers, hanging red banners, and asking for an auspicious color. ”

Shirley and I fell into the fog for five miles, thinking that there would be the whereabouts of the dust beads in this precious rubbing, but in the end there was only this kind of content. I asked Professor Sun to write down the translation in the rubbing, and read it several times, but it was true that there was no mention of any location, and it seems that this clue, which had been shelved for decades, has been broken again today.

If you look for new clues again, it will be no less than looking for a needle in a haystack, I can't help but grit my teeth when I think of annoyance, the green tendons in my brain jump, and Shirley Yang on the side also bit his lip, his whole body trembled slightly, and tears rolled in his eyes.

Seeing that the two of us were depressed, Professor Sun took out a photo and put it on the table: "Don't be so depressed, take a look at this photo I took yesterday, maybe you will go to the deep mountains and old forests in Yunnan, and you will have some gains there." ”

I took the photo in Professor Sun's hand and looked at it with Shirley Yang, the photo was six fist-sized blood-red jade beasts, with strange shapes, like lions and tigers, with feathers on their bodies, all with only one eye, and hideous faces, and there were many mercury spots on the jade beasts, although the workmanship was exquisite, but it gave people a very evil and cold look.

I don't know why, as soon as I remembered that this was the item of the shopkeeper of the coffin shop, I couldn't express my disgust, I didn't want to look at it more, and my stomach was churning with nausea when I saw it, so I asked Professor Sun, "Professor, was this photo taken yesterday in the stele shop?" Could it be the stone box jade beast found under the coffin in the photo? ”

Professor Sun nodded and said, "Yes, I think you will be able to use this photo, so I asked my assistant to go back to the county seat overnight and wash out the negatives, and you can take a closer look at what is special about the photo." ”

Shirley Yang Ben didn't want to look at these evil beasts more, listening to Professor Sun's words, it seemed that there were some clues related to the dust beads in the photo, so he picked up the photo and looked at it carefully, and finally found the characteristics in it: "Professor, the six red jade evil beasts all have only one eye, and they are surprisingly large, which does not conform to normal proportions, and they are ...... And the most special thing is the jade beast's single eye, which is exactly the same as the dust bead. ”

Professor Sun said to us: "Yes, that's exactly the case, so I just advised you not to be depressed. ”

I was pleasantly surprised by Shirley Yang, but I couldn't figure it out, the ancient Dian Kingdom was located in a corner of southern Xinjiang, how could it have a connection with Yun Chenzhu? Could it be that the unaccounted for dust beads has been hidden in the tomb of a certain generation of Dian kings for so many years?