Ding is a ritual vessel in ancient times, ordinary people, there are also things in the shape of Ding, but that can only be called a furnace, such as the incense burner in the temple, the incense burner at home, many are similar to the shape of the Ding, but can not be called Ding.

The real tripod is the ritual vessel of the royal family, which is often engraved with important events of a country, even in ancient times, it is also an honorable status, and in modern times, the bronze tripod is listed as a national treasure level antique.

Some small tomb robbers, the way to sell the stolen goods in their hands is limited, even if they take the shit luck, encounter some Hou Wang Ding, they can only stare dryly, and dare not pour it out at all, because compared to the ordinary crime of stealing and selling cultural relics, dare to steal the bronze tripod, that is a nail on the board, the law says that they want to eat guns, even if they dare to pour out, there are not many people who dare to buy, so the bronze tripod is in the eyes of every tomb robber, both tempting and piercing treasure.

The tripod in front of me, more than two meters high, larger than the Simu Wuding of the Anyang Museum, due to the field of vision, the inscription reliefs on it, are unrecognizable, I am doing antiques, inverted bucket in the past two years, I have seen a lot of baby artifacts, but those are not out of the world, can not be put on the market, but the front of this tripod, at least worth hundreds of millions, in the face of hundreds of millions can not be moved, unless I am a god.

For the country, this tripod is a priceless treasure, and it is in the Western Regions, the Western Regions do not pay attention to ritual vessels, but the excavation of this tripod in the ancient Western Regions at least proves that as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty or even earlier, the Central Plains has had exchanges with the Western Regions, which is more than 800 years earlier than the historical record of Zhang Qian's outburst, it is simply a discovery that subverts history, such a treasure, if it is seen by archaeologists, I am afraid that crying and weeping are small battles.

I was looking at the bronze Dingxin ape Yima in front of me, but the surname Zhang was very calm, patted my shoulder, and said, "There seems to be something carved on it." I don't need to say this, I also know that the tripod has always recorded the major events of a country, and it is likely that very important information is recorded on it.

Before I could speak, the surnamed Zhang said: "This bronze tripod, the shape of the vessel is very similar to the product of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, my professional field is in the Western Regions, I don't know much, it is better for you to take a look." ”

I was about to nod my head, but I suddenly reacted, and I couldn't help but secretly scold this woman for being scheming. It was clearly because she wanted to know what was carved on it, and because of the graphics on the ground, she wanted me to be this pioneer.

Why don't you understand Shang and Zhou culture, she doesn't understand a doctor of archaeology, but I understand it as a small owner of an antique shop?

Put a high hat on me first, and then instigate me to lift the cloth to see the bronze tripod, when I was a three-year-old child?

I had a plan in my heart, so I smiled and said: "Under this temple, it is not a big deal to put a ritual vessel to worship the sky, and besides, I seem to have a lot of ground graphics, in case I am hallucinated and accidentally go crazy, it is not good to hurt you, don't you say?" ”

The surnamed Zhang was choked by me, didn't say anything, and said after a while: "Since that's the case, don't worry about it, let's go." With that, he straightened his gear bag and turned around the corner to walk around the corner.

I didn't expect her to be so easy to talk to, and for a while it seemed like I was bullying a woman, so I was a little depressed and hurriedly followed.

Behind the corner, there is a passage four or five meters wide, the top is short, only two people high, and there seems to be something painted on the surrounding walls, but because of the red yarn in front of me, I can't see the specifics, and I don't know if it's the kind of geometric lines that affect people's brains, or if they are drawn something.

This passage is relatively short, we walked less than 100 meters, the road in front of us came to the end, at the end is a closed blue brick wall, against the wall, the discharge of this slippery bronze, the shape is very peculiar, the bottom is a stick, there is an opening on the top, a bit like a bell in the temple, the surname Zhang glanced at it, and said: "This is a spear, there are many iron thorns in the groove, and it is difficult to heal the wound made by it." ”

What's the use of putting these weapons at the end of the passage?

With my eyes open, I walked forward, my hands tapping on the stone wall, and it didn't look like there was a secret passage.

The surnamed Zhang looked around, and finally shook his head and said: "This place, the design is very strange, this passage should be weird, but for the time being, I can't see what it does, it seems that we have to go back, I guess there will be clues on the bronze tripod." "Now, we can't say goodbye to each other anymore, so we have to go back to the corner.

The platform under the bronze tripod is one meter high, plus the height of the tripod, what is in it, we can't see clearly, at this time, I don't want a woman to do it, so I carefully took off the red veil on my face, stared straight at the bronze tripod, and the rest of the places, including the top of the head and the ground, didn't dare to look at the same at all.

The red veil on Dr. Zhang's face still did not take off, and he played a flashlight for me behind me, and by the light of the flashlight, I saw the shape of the bronze tripod, which was a round tripod with a height of two meters, the shape of the tripod was very peculiar, it was a three-legged shape, but the three-legged tripod was almost attached to the belly of the tripod, and the whole tripod was like sitting on the stone platform, and there was no gap below.

A large area of green copper flowers rusted on the tripod, it looks quite ancient, the belly of the tripod is at least two meters high, I stand parallel to the stone platform, I can only go to the edge of the tripod, if you want to see the things inside, you have to stand on tiptoe.

Behind the bronze tripod, there is a huge relief, jet-black stone, I don't know what material, carved on it a majestic black unicorn, the shape is very similar to the unicorn on the shoulder of the stuffy oil bottle.

Around the unicorn, there are countless rui beasts, the three-legged golden black bird, the hydra, and the divine bird phoenix, which are lifelike and vivid, while the unicorn has its eyes in the torch, opening its mouth and sticking out its tongue, as if it is spewing something, but there is nothing in its mouth.

I think it's a little strange, the unicorn is one of the four ancient beasts, the other three are dragons, phoenixes, Luo turtles, according to legend, the unicorn mouth can breathe fire, the feet can produce wind, every wind forward, then the heavens and fire clouds, mortals see this scene, it is called Huoxia, with the popular name now, it is the fire clouds, this kind of clouds are relatively rare, mostly in the evening, when they appear, the clouds on the edge of the sky burn like fire, as soon as they appear, they are covered with the whole sky, the weather is thousands, very spectacular.

The unicorn breathes fire, has always been known as the auspicious sign of red fire, the unicorn can deter all evils, so the folk pasted unicorn murals, or carved unicorn ornaments, all have flames erupting, and the black unicorn in front of me, the expression is strong and majestic, the mouth is wide open, although it seems to spray something, but nothing, it looks very strange, when I was studying this stone wall, Dr. Zhang behind me has urged: "What did you find?" Is there anything written on it? ”

I was reminded by her, and quickly withdrew my gaze and looked at the bronze tripod in front of me, there was indeed an inscription on the tripod, but looking at the handwriting, it had already been eroded by the bronze rust, and it was all dense copper flowers, and I couldn't distinguish the handwriting at all.

I shook my head and said, "The handwriting is completely rusted and I can't see it, you wait, I'll see if there are any clues in this ding." Dr. Zhang hummed, turned up the light of the flashlight a little higher, and I climbed the edge of the tripod with both hands, and kicked on the tripod twice with my feet, and then climbed to the tripod.

The diameter of this tripod is about one meter, I crossed my legs on the edge, looked down, only to see that the tripod is black and mushy, like a dirty stinky ditch, but when I smell it carefully, there is no unpleasant smell.

I couldn't figure out what was in this ding, so I took out the probing claw hanging on the belt, put the rope into the ding, manipulated the rope to sway in it, and after a while, through the sticky black water, there was a crisp sound in the ding, as if there was something in the ding.

Isn't there any mechanism under Ding?

With a movement in my heart, I put away my claws, and looked at the imprint of the black water on the rope and estimated that it was about a meter deep under the ding.

At this moment, I was standing in a wide open posture, and it was very inconvenient to fish down, so I said to Dr. Zhang: "There seems to be something in this ding, do you have any equipment in your hand that is convenient for exploration?" The surnamed Zhang shook his head and said, "No." ”

Seeing that nothing happened to me, she also climbed up the stone platform, and then untied the red veil in front of her, staring at the bronze tripod without squinting, about the same as me, she couldn't see the inscription on it, so she climbed the edge of the bronze tripod with both hands and said, "I'll help you." Without waiting for me to speak, she used her arm to exert force, her foot kicked on the belly of the tripod, and she got on the bronze tripod very neatly, and split with me face to face.

She didn't talk to me, she looked down for a while, then sniffed, frowned, and said, "What is in this?" I saw that she had no choice but to shake her head, it seemed that everything had to rely on herself, I took out the red pill and the porcelain bottle, and asked the surnamed Zhang to help me keep it, and then put on the gloves for touching the corpse.

These pair of gloves for touching corpses are high-end goods, the appearance is pure black, mixed with a little silver spots, I can't see what materials, but they are cold on my hands, the length is up to the wrist, I put on gloves, surnamed Zhang let me grab her feet, and my hand wearing gloves touching corpses poked into the sticky black water.

I slowly lowered my waist, my hand stretched lower and lower, after a while, I stood on the tripod with my ass facing the sky, my face almost attached to the black water, and then, my hand swayed in the water for a few moments, and I felt a smooth thing, the bottom of the tripod, there seemed to be a round bulge, by the feel, this round bulge, someone's palm is big.

I remember, there is no such structure in the ancient ritual vessels, so this thing is made, it must have its effect, I tried to grasp the circle and twist a few times, the thing did not move, I tried to press down again, who knew that it was pressed down all of a sudden, and I was not stable, and I almost planted it, but fortunately, the surname Zhang took my belt and carried it, and I was relieved.

Then, I only heard a click, it seemed that something was stuck, and from experience, it should be something that was opened, but my surname Zhang and I watched cautiously for a long time, but nothing happened, and the sound was like our hallucination.

I didn't give up, and I probed and touched in the water, at this time, the back of my hand suddenly touched something, the thing was lying soft and sinking in the black water, I immediately grabbed it with my backhand, and only then did I hold it, and I was startled, what I held seemed to be a human hand!