Nuqing Xiangxi Chapter 51 Natural History Museum
Chen Blind Man talked about this incident, and before he led the crowd south to Yunnan to pour the bucket, he was about to sell all kinds of treasures dug up from Bottle Mountain. At that time, not only did public opinion strongly condemn the warlords and bandits for stealing treasures, but also antiquities dealers from all over the country flocked to take advantage of the opportunity to get a vote.
At the time of the great chaos in the world, the price of antiques is low, but there must be a rise, many businessmen want to hoard a batch of genuine things at this time, and wait until the peaceful years can ask for the sky, so the transaction of antique Ming ware has always been interrupted.
There is a huge rich man in the province who loves antiquity, surnamed Qian, and his family has opened several yarn factories in Shanghai, Qingdao and other places, and there are also many industries in the local area. Boss Qian was born in a Confucian family, nurtured by his family, and liked antiques since he was a child.
Among them, there is a partridge whistle in the Danjing, and the coffin that saw the six-winged old centipede worshipping the coffin Tudan, as well as the bronze Dan furnace in the Danjing, and bought the strange and simple bronze man and copper ghost.
Chen Blind has always been pretentious, not Tang Wu, Bo Kong Meng, always feel that his talent and knowledge are unmatched in the world, even the ancient sages refused to put it in their eyes, but after looking at the pair of eyeless bronze people and copper ghosts, although they knew that there were many strange things, they couldn't guess the slightest bit of mystery, and they wanted to ask Boss Qian why he chose these antiquities, to see if he knew the origin of them, but when the words came to his mouth, he felt that there was a ** share.
In the end, I went around a few circles, and under the pretext of talking about the past and the present, I learned a thing or two from Boss Qian. That Qian boss likes to read "Yi" the most, and has studied it deeply, knowing that today's gossip is deduced from the day after tomorrow, the earliest ancient hexagrams, not with symbols such as "Qiankan Genzhen", this bronze eyeless man and ghost talisman, are the most primitive symbols in the ancient hexagrams, if you want to make a hexagram, at least four ancient talismans must be gathered, but unfortunately there are only two, and the full set is even more unattainable.
There are at least four bronze talismans that can be used, and it is said that mastering this path can give insight into the mysteries of the heavens. As for how to use it, Boss Qian didn't know, only knew that the bronze talisman must be an antiquity before the Three Dynasties. The so-called three dynasties refer to the Xia, Shang and Zhou, as for what things in the Tang and Song dynasties, compared with the historical relics of the three dynasties, they have not yet been able to call antiquities, and in the eyes of real connoisseurs, their collection value is not the same. And the copper furnace that burns Dan should be something from the late Western Han Dynasty.
There are thousands of delicate and mysterious paintings on the Dan furnace, all of which depict the scenes of the alchemy of the ancients, and if you look closely, there are even bronze ancient talismans marked in them. However, although Mr. Qian has deep attainments, he can't understand the contents, but he just thinks that this is an ancient curiosity, which contains a deep secret and has a high collection value.
Blind Chen thought to himself that since he didn't know what he was doing, what was the use of hiding at home, and he didn't take this matter to heart when he sent Boss Qian away. In a blink of an eye, more than half a century has passed, and he has never encountered a similar bronze ancient talisman, and the events of the year have long been left behind, until the last time he heard me mention the Hundred Eyes Cave Dragon Talisman, he suddenly remembered this section.
Blind Chen said to me: "If you have a chance, you might as well gather the four ancient talismans, so that the old man can know what the heavenly opportunities are." ”
I said, "Actually, I've only seen two bronze talismans by mistake, and although I'm personally interested in this, I won't go all over the world to find them because I want to spy on the heavenly secrets left by the ancients." Now I am most anxious to know where in the world there is still a golden pill in the ancient tombs. This saving people is like fighting fire, and if you can't find the ancient corpse of Nedan, that friend of mine will have to go to see Marx. ”
Chen Blind said with a smile: "This is a bad statement, life has been in a hurry for decades, humble and small like an ant, if you can understand God's secret with the body of an ant, even if it is a broken bone, it will not be in vain." ”
I smiled bitterly and shook my head, although this blind man Chen is a hero in the twilight, his ambition is not less at all, but now his pursuit has changed, and his realm is higher, and he actually wants to know the secret of "God".
I think Shirley Yang is religious, and very religious, she may believe in these concepts of "heavenly chances, revelations, and gods", but Shirley Yang also shook her head, she said: "Asking a person what God is like is like asking a goldfish what the water in which it lives is is meaningless, faith should be the destination of the soul." ”
Chen Blind said: "As for the ancient corpse inner pill, there are them in Xiangxi Bottle Mountain, and there are more than one or two, all because Bottle Mountain is originally a Dan Palace and a medicine mountain, it is not surprising that there is such a thing, and there are very few other places." But the bottle mountain had been stolen decades ago, and even the local cave tombs, which had no Ming weapons, were taught to be hollowed out by those unangry thieves. Now that the two of you want to find the ancient tomb Jindan, I'm afraid you can only ask God, there is no apocalypse, and the huge world is difficult to find even if you step on iron shoes. ”
I saw that the last bit of hope was in vain, and I couldn't help but be extremely disheartened, it seems that Duoling's life can't be saved after all, but if I don't give up on the Yellow River, as long as Duoling is still alive, I will try my best to think of other ways. Seeing that it was getting late, there was no way to return to Beijing that day, so I had to temporarily stay in the guest house of the Ministry of Railways.
The next day, I asked Chen Blind what his plans were in the future, whether he wanted to go to the United States with me, and Chen Blind sighed: "The ancients often compared life to dreams, lamenting that time is fast, and life is like being parasitic in the void, during which there are many joys, sorrows, sorrows, joys and sorrows, gains and losses, life and death, and transformation and shelling. I never thought that when I said goodbye to Dongting Lake, I would never see each other again in this life, looking back on the past, as if it was yesterday, I should go to the grave of the deceased partridge whistle to worship. However, the old man's old bones, I'm afraid I don't have a few days to live, I really don't want to die in a foreign country thousands of miles away, I still want to go back to Xiangyin's hometown first. ”
I had to buy a train ticket, go to the train station with Shirley Yang and put him on the train, and make an agreement with him to go to him before the Qingming Festival, and then go to the United States together to sweep the graves of the last mountain movers.
Bidding farewell to Ding Chen's blind man, we went back to the guest house to pack up our things, bought a newspaper on the way, flipped through a few pages on the bus, and saw that there was a whole page of content, all of which said: "After the reform and opening up, since the Third Plenary Session of the 11 th CPC Central Committee, what brilliant achievements have been made in various fields." In order to enrich the amateur cultural life of Tianjin citizens, the Tianjin Museum of Natural History has been reopened to the public, and leaders from all walks of life have written inscriptions to congratulate them.
There is nothing special about this kind of news that is everywhere, but some of it caught my attention. It was mentioned in the news that in order to enrich the exhibits of the Natural History Museum, a number of precious cultural relics from Hunan Province will be sent to Tianjin for a week of exhibition, located in the sixth exhibition room on the second floor of the museum.
This batch of precious cultural relics in Hunan Province includes a number of national treasure-level cultural relics donated by patriotic overseas Chinese, among which it is particularly noteworthy that the relatively rare "eyeless humanoid bronze ornament (Zhou), chisel gold and silver nine-color portrait bronze furnace (Han) ......"
I wondered: "History is always an amazing coincidence, aren't these things the treasures that the heroes who moved mountains and mountains back then poured out of the bottle mountain?" It turned out that it had been dedicated to the country by patriotic overseas Chinese, and it was brought to Tianjin for the masses to visit. ”
Shirley Yang took the newspaper and looked at it, she was also curious: "The photos in the newspaper are a little blurry, why don't we stop by the Natural History Museum and see for yourself?" ”
The two of us hit it off, and we didn't go back to the guest house at the moment, and went straight to the Museum of Natural History to buy tickets. This exhibition hall was established very early, dating back to the early years of the Republic of China, known as the "Northern Xinjiang Museum", and later changed to the "People's Science Museum", and the exhibition was interrupted during the Cultural Revolution. Due to the recent reopening, there are not many exhibits, but there is a steady stream of visitors inside, and organized school groups make up more than half of the crowd, most of them to see fossils and specimens of various paleontology.
At that time, there was a popular exhibition craze in the society, if you go to the park, you can often see exhibitions such as "deformed fetal specimens, ancient corpses of Xinjiang, human anatomical ......", and even some rare animal exhibitions, which are nothing more than rats as big as piglets, monsters with human heads and snake bodies, etc., gimmicks are varied, but there are also many people who sell dog meat with sheep's heads. So I wasn't interested in the exhibits in the museum, and when I saw that there was a staircase outside the museum, leading to the "Exhibition of Precious Cultural Relics Unearthed in Hunan Province" on the second floor, I took Shirley Yang straight up to the second floor.
From the outside of the second floor to see, the exhibits are really rich, hundreds of pieces of large and small cultural relics, divided into categories and dazzling display in various glass display cases, many of which are imitations, the real thing can not be so casual for people to see, but ordinary visitors can not see it, just look fresh. However, there are not many people visiting this floor, and it seems a little deserted.
I've seen countless bright objects, and when I see these things, I can't help but feel a little familiar, and I can't help but feel a little familiar. In a display case, I saw the legendary Dan furnace, which was exactly the same as what Chen Blind had described, judging by my eyesight, this thing was definitely genuine, and it may be huge in shape, so I don't have to worry about being stolen.
Shirley Yang remembered that her maternal grandfather had hid in this furnace back then, and she couldn't help but imagine it. I stared at the lines on the furnace body, trying to carefully identify the details in the picture, but the distance between the Dan furnace and the glass of the display case was a meter away, although I was not short-sighted, but I could not see the subtleties clearly, and there were eight "Immortal Dan Pictures" cast on the copper furnace, several of which were blocked due to the angle, and I couldn't even see a glance.
Shirley Young suddenly remembered that her inseparable camera had been forgotten in the guest house, and she was anxious to take some pictures, so she asked me to walk around here casually, and she immediately went back to get the camera. I had to wander around the museum on my own, looking at the Dan furnace a few times, and then looking at the bronze talisman in another set of display cases. The hollow eyes of the human talisman, the ghost talisman are all there, the bronze green traces are colorful, it seems to be the real thing, I was about to get closer to take a closer look, suddenly a uniformed policeman came over, without saying a word and slapped me on the shoulder.
I just cared about looking at the ancient talisman, I never thought that this situation would happen, it happened suddenly, and I was a little confused, and it was illegal to look at the Ming weapon? I inexplicably said to the policeman, "Comrade policeman, what do you mean by that?" Five talks, four beauties, three love me, but the same is not left behind......"
But the policeman shouted, "Company commander, you don't know me anymore?" "He spoke in a loud voice, and his ears were ringing.
I fixed my eyes and saw that it was a comrade-in-arms of mine who had fought on the front line together, called Ai Hongjun, and I used to nickname him "Love Trick or Treat", and I hadn't seen him since I left the army, and I didn't think that I would meet him in the Museum of Natural History a few years later. The comrades-in-arms who crawled out of the pile of dead people together met unexpectedly, and they were surprised and delighted.
I smiled and said, "Lao Ai, your voice is still so loud, why are you mixed into the public security team now......
I was about to catch up with him, but suddenly saw a familiar figure flash at the door of the exhibition room, I was immediately stunned, and I vaguely felt that something was not good, as if someone had stabbed me from behind, but I couldn't think of what was wrong, and I couldn't catch any clue in the confusion. I hurriedly pushed aside Ai Hongjun, who was wearing a police uniform, and quickly chased after the mysterious back of the familiar one.