Lao Pan entered the house, looked at my simple one-bedroom apartment, and said, "You live here?" ”

I was also a little embarrassed, waved my hand and said, "Sit, it's good to sit here, I used to live in the tube building, how good is this, I do what I like, and no one bothered."

Lao Pan smiled at the corner of his mouth, didn't say anything, found a place to sit down, but didn't say anything about the sword blade, looked at me and said, "The temple is almost the same, right?" ”

I was stunned: "You really sent the money?" ”

He didn't say yes, he didn't say no, he smiled and said, "Master Zhenjian is okay?" ”

"Well, it's okay, a little fatter than me, I said, do you know my master?" I asked suspiciously, but he changed the subject again, took out a long box from his body, opened it in front of me, and inside was the blade of a sword about three centimeters long.

His thinking changed too quickly, I was stunned again, looked down, and saw that the surface of the blade had been treated, it looked very sharp, there were two blood grooves on it, and the cold light was pressing, it should have been a sword.

"What did you find?" I asked him, but I had already made up my mind that whatever the outcome was, it had nothing to do with me.

Lao Pan said: "The appraisal results show that the age of this sword is unknown, the material is unknown, and the origin is unknown. ”

I sweated and said to him, "What kind of result is this, isn't this nothing identified?" ”

Lao Pan nodded and said, "Yes, I didn't expect it to be like this, in fact, I could have done further detailed identification, but I didn't do that." ”

He was only halfway through his sentence before he stopped, and although I knew that he was deliberately trying to appetize me, I couldn't help but ask, "Why?" Are you afraid that after further identification, you will destroy this thing, or are you afraid that someone will find out, and you are doing this through improper means? ”

Lao Pan laughed and said, "You guessed wrong, you have already seen this sword blade just now, I want to ask you, have you found anything abnormal?" ”

"Anomalies?" I shook my head, I really didn't find this, except that the blade was sharp and well preserved, it didn't seem to be anything special.

"This blade, if you look closely, is a little curved." Lao Pan pointed to the blade and said, I took a closer look, and sure enough, as he said, it was really a little curved, but the arc was very small, and I wouldn't pay attention if I didn't look closely.

"Is this a scimitar?" I guessed, and Pan shook his head and said, "I used to think so, but the arc of the scimitar is much larger than this, of course, this is probably the straight edge part near the handguard, but my other discovery negates this view." ”

As he spoke, he pointed at the broken blade again, and said to me, "Look closely, is there a layer of mist that can't be shrouded in it?" ”

Mist? This was a novelty, my curiosity was completely aroused by him, and I leaned down to take a closer look, and sure enough, when I changed the angle, I found that there was a faint cloud around the broken blade, which was very magical.

I cautiously put my hand into the mist, and suddenly felt the cold air hit people, hurriedly retracted my hand, looked up and said to Lao Pan: "What kind of evil thing is this, is it the legendary sword qi?" ”

"If the sword qi is not the sword qi, it is all nonsense, but as far as I know, in ancient China, the sword body was slightly curved, and there was a fog shrouded in mist, and the sword related to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, probably, there was only the legendary Nine Dragon Sword."

Lao Pan said that he sold the guanzi again, I looked at him with doubts in my eyes, this time he didn't let me guess more, and after a pause, he said: "Actually, in the past two days, I have been studying this matter, there was a tomb robber warlord Sun Dianying, known as the Tanglin thief, have you heard of this person?" ”

I nodded, this person stole and dug up the Dongling Tomb, dug up the tomb of the Empress Dowager Cixi, and stole a lot of gold and silver treasures, rare treasures, which are naturally very famous, but Lao Pan suddenly mentioned him, what does it have to do with this broken blade?

Lao Pan said: "Back then, Sun Dianying robbed the tomb and made a lot of treasures, including in the Yuling of the Qianlong Emperor, there was a sword of the Qianlong Emperor who was buried with him, which is the Nine Dragons Sword, which is a rare treasure, which is also the most legendary sword in the history of tomb robbery in China, and there is also a legend that anyone who gets the Nine Dragons Sword is cursed and dies."

Lao Pan told me the story slowly, and I was aroused by his curiosity, and I forgot about the job fair for the time being, and sat honestly on the sidelines and listened to him tell the origin of the Nine Dragons Sword.

He said that this Nine Dragons Sword is a treasure offered by foreign people, the sword is five feet long, the sword body is slightly curved, the hilt of the sword is extraordinarily long, nine golden dragons are carved on it, the sword body is brilliant, extremely sharp, the hair is blown, the iron is sharpened like clay, the scabbard is made of precious shark skin, embedded with all kinds of gemstones, it can be called priceless.

This sword is said to have killed countless people, the cold is terrible, and countless souls are attached to it, so there is often a fog shrouded on it, which lasts for a long time, and the nine dragons on the hilt of the sword are looming in the mist, leaping and soaring.

There is also a legend that the Nine Dragons Sword was originally a Yin sword, and it was ominous to meet this sword in the Yang world.

At that time, Emperor Qianlong couldn't put down this sword, not only because of the preciousness of this sword, but also because the nine golden dragons carved on the hilt of the sword were carved according to the meaning of Zhou Yizhong's ninety-nine to one, ninety-nine to one means reincarnation, Qianlong was familiar with Hanshu and knew the principle of reincarnation in heaven, people were like this, and so were dynasties.

Therefore, when Qianlong died, he brought this sword to accompany the burial, which means to resurrect from the dead, reincarnate from generation to generation, and be the emperor forever.

It's just that Emperor Qianlong would never have thought that more than 200 years after his death, the Manchu Dynasty was destroyed, and a bold and unscrupulous warlord Sun Dianying, in the name of exercises, surrounded the Qing Dongling Tomb in Zunhua, dug the two tombs of Cixi and Qianlong overnight, looted all the gold, silver and jewelry that accompanied the burial, and loaded dozens of carts before transporting them away.

After Sun Dianying excavated the Dongling Tomb, the bones in the mausoleum were scattered all over the place, mixed together, and the treasures of the burial were all stolen, the most precious of them, such as the night pearl in Cixi's mouth, the jade watermelon, the Fuchun Mountain Residence Map, the Lanting Collection Preface, Tang Yin's calligraphy and painting, are all rare treasures, but to say that the most mysterious, is undoubtedly this Nine Dragons Sword.

After Sun Dianying got the Nine Dragons Sword, he wanted to dedicate it to Chiang Kai-shek, but due to the Anti-Japanese War and the turmoil of the times, the Nine Dragons Sword was in the hands of several people, namely Ma Hansan, a military commander spy at the time, Yoshiko Kawashima, a Japanese female spy, and Dai Li, the head of the military commander's spy.

But these people seem to have fallen under the curse of the Qianlong sword, and they did not die well, and died unexpectedly, Sun Dianying was later captured and died in the war criminals detention center, Ma Hansan was secretly executed by Mao Renfeng, and Kawashima Yoshiko was shot after the end of the Anti-Japanese War (one said that he was not dead), especially the death of Dai Li, and the disappearance of the Nine Dragons Sword is even more legendary.

It was 1946, Dai Li, the head of the military command's spies, after getting the Nine Dragons Sword, set off from Qingdao to Nanjing to meet Chiang Kai-shek, but the plane suddenly crashed on the way, crashed headlong on a hill in Jiangning County, the plane was destroyed and people died, and the fire burned for several hours.

Later, when the wreck scene was investigated, the only remnants were a Song Dynasty mutton fat white jade Nine Dragon Cup more than a foot high, as well as the Nine Dragons Sword, but at this time, the hilt and scabbard of the sword had been burned, and the nine golden dragons on the hilt of the sword were gone, only the sword body was undamaged, and it was still cold and sharp.

Later, the Nine Dragons Sword was buried in Dai Li's tomb, until a few years later, Dai Li's tomb was destroyed, after the coffin was opened, people found that the Nine Dragons Sword, has only left more than a foot long and narrow iron sheet, rusted very badly, can only vaguely see the appearance of the sword body, so this legendary Nine Dragons Sword, was buried on the spot, and has never been traced.

Regarding Dai Li's death, there were many theories at that time, believing that Dai Li was assassinated, and the folk even had the saying that "Dai Li's plane hit Daishan, and Yu Nong died in the rain", which means that Dai Li's plane hit Dai Mountain, but Dai Yunong died in the rain (Dai Li's character Yu Nong). The Daishan at the place of Dai Li's crash is also known as Dai Shan, trapped in the rain ditch, so the folk say that Dai Li's death is providential.

But in any case, it is a fact that Dai Li took the Nine Dragons Sword on the plane at that time, so it can also be said that Dai Li died because of this sword, which is in line with the curse.

Lao Pan chattered and told me the story of the Nine Dragons Sword, and I was obsessed with it, but after I finished speaking, I looked at him in confusion and said: "Since the Nine Dragons Sword was buried in Dai Li's tomb, it was rusted and rotten later, and there was an iron piece more than a foot long left, how do you say that this broken blade may be the Nine Dragons Sword?" ”

Lao Pan looked at me and asked rhetorically: "Since Dai Li's death, until the Nine Dragons Sword was unearthed, it was only five years before and after, and the five-foot-long rare sword has rusted into an iron piece that is only more than a foot long, do you think this is possible?" ”

I was stunned for a moment, and thought that this was indeed the case, since the Nine Dragons Sword was so rare, it was still cold and bright in the Qianlong Mausoleum for more than a hundred years, extremely sharp, and there was no damage at all, how could it be in Dai Li's tomb that it corroded into a foot-long piece of iron in only five years?

Come to think of it, let alone a rare sword, even if it is really a five-foot-long piece of iron buried in a coffin, it won't be just five years before it rusts like that, right?

"Do you mean that the one who was buried in Dai Li's tomb back then was a fake at all, and the real Nine Dragons Sword had already been taken away?"

"Yes, the Nine Dragons Sword is rusted unreasonably, this is only one thing, and the other is that even if the scabbard and hilt have been burned out, where are the nine golden dragons on the hilt? Besides, even if there is only the Nine Dragons Sword with the sword body left, it is also a national treasure, so why shouldn't it be hastily buried with Dai Li, right? ”

I nodded and said to him, "Dare you study this matter in the past two days?" But even so, it can't prove that this is the Nine Dragons Sword, and the Nine Dragons Sword was in a plane crash in 1946, the big shaman sacrificed to the sky in the Black Water Demon Cave in 1900, and the Manchu Dynasty fell in 1912, could it be that more than 30 years after the fall of the Manchu Dynasty, there will still be people who have nothing to do, and the Nine Dragons Sword will be broken into several pieces and thrown in the Black Water Demon Cave? ”

This thing went around and around, and then it went back to the mystery of the Black Water Demon Cave, Lao Pan shook his head and said: "I'm just a guess, what the truth is, no one may know anymore, but in addition to the clue of the suspected broken blade of the Nine Dragons Sword, I have another unexpected discovery here." ”

As he spoke, he took two more pictures from his body and placed them in front of me.