I prepared the tools, which were actually relatively rudimentary, chisels, folding shovels, and nothing else, and the hole seemed to be dug very deep, and I had to widen it to the end, and it was not easy for one person to do it, and I am afraid it would take some time.

It's just that at this time, it is impossible to find someone to come down to help, so I can only dig the hole with all my heart, and I have been drilling in the ice cave for several hours, because of the exercise, I didn't feel too cold, about four hours later, the widened ice cave finally became a line, the edge was very irregular, covered with unpolished edges and corners, but when it came to this, I couldn't care so much, and drilled out directly along the ice cave.

Behind the ice cave was an ice chamber, also unrecognizable by the thickening of the ice, but it was clear that the contents of the chamber had been moved, so it was not deep, and in these ice layers, I found something more familiar.

To be exact, it's the material that is more familiar with it.

It was a silver bottle, fat body, with four round ear handles, lying horizontally in the ice, with a relatively thick pattern on the bottle and a notch on the left side. I chuckled inwardly and pulled out the silver nuggets left over from the stuffy oil bottle.

The silver nugget was an irregular triangle, and I tried to compare it, and it was exactly the same as the notch.

It appears that this silver nugget is a small part of the bottle.

The bottle is only about a meter frozen, and it is not difficult to chisel the ice to take it out, but the bottle is relatively large, a meter high, and it is impossible to take it away, but the pattern on the bottle body should be some kind of character, but because the ice is occluded, it is difficult to see clearly, so I decided to dig it out and copy it down.

The process was not difficult, it was done quickly, I straightened the upside-down bottle, and by the way, I checked the inside of the bottle with a flashlight, and it was empty, and nothing strange came out, which made me very satisfied.

I inlaid the fragment into it, and it fit perfectly, and the broken text on it immediately became one with the broken part.

The words on this bottle are definitely something I have never seen, and it is not ghost Japanese, it should be a relatively remote language, and it may even be a kind of password of the Zhang family themselves, which I can't blindly speculate, so I can only take out a pen and paper to expand them.

These are my old jobs, a suitable piece of paper, a pencil can do it, just wrap the bottle with paper, and then use a pencil to smear on it, you can expand the original text, the size is the same.

But since I didn't think of this layer in advance, although I had a pencil, the paper was not that big, only a regular notebook, and finally I had to tear off the paper one by one, number it, and copy it according to the area.

With that done, I put them away again, retrieved the pieces that belonged to the stuffy oil bottle, and began to examine the other things.

Everything else was frozen in the ice near or far, and it is conceivable that the stuffy oil bottle was suitable for coming in, this ice room was not so small, and he was like me, digging out the frozen things to check the clues, and then there was a major discovery on this silver bottle.

The stuffy oil bottle is supposed to know the words on the silver bottle, which apparently records what he has proved, and since he can't take it with him, he gets a piece and builds a snowman to prevent possible future amnesia.

And these things that were excavated from this stuffy oil bottle, after the stuffy oil bottle left, were frozen again until I arrived.

Other things, a little frozen very deep, even the specific appearance can not be seen clearly, some frozen relatively close, but are some bottles and cans, the volume is relatively normal, ordinary size, in addition, I have not seen anything more special than this silver bottle, in the ice room, there are no other holes, obviously, this is the last stop of the stuffy oil bottle, then, it will also be my last stop.

The only thing I got from entering the mountain this time was probably the rubbings in my hand, and if I wanted to know where the stuffy oil bottle went next, I had to go back and find a way to crack them.

Then I exited the ice cave and returned to the wooden tower, this time with my ears and nostrils covered from all the exposed skin. The insects were relatively small, and this layer of protection was not safe, so I rolled around in the broken ice, making all the clothes on the surface of my body cold, reducing the heat of the human body, and then I began to climb up.

The bugs had already returned to the female corpse, so I had to take advantage of this momentum to hurry up, but fortunately I made a double preparation this time, so I didn't alarm the female corpse along the way, and I got out of the hole safely.

It was evening when he went out, and the moon was obscured by thick dark clouds, so that the terrible ghosts did not appear, and Rehaman was huddled in his tent eating and drinking.

Normally, when I go down to the cave for more than five hours, the fat man and others will come looking for me, but Rehaman is obviously not so stupid, the time is from morning to night, and he has no intention of going down the hole.

When he saw me come out, he was shocked, and then his face showed joy, and he let me into the tent, took out some food, and asked me if there was any progress in the matter, and I said, "It's done, and I'll go back tomorrow." ”

Rehaman breathed a sigh of relief, looking like he had been pardoned.

Needless to say, Reharman and I once again went through a mountain of ice and walked back scarred all the way.

Since the matter here was over, we both returned to the road like arrows, and two days later, we returned to the location of the jade vein, where obvious excavation marks could be seen, but there was no one left.

At that time, I explained to the three of them, if I don't come back within three days, let them go down the mountain first, count, Rehaman and I have been delayed in the mountain for six days, at this time, they should have gone down the mountain, and then, we rushed down the mountain non-stop, to the commissary, didn't care about anything, first bought some food, what is sold here, most of them are some mountaineering equipment and some climbing snacks, most of them are girls love to eat, but we have been short of food for six days, and our mouths have long been hungry, and we can't care so much, After eating a bunch of snacks, I sat for a long time before I felt relieved, and then took a ride back to Golmud.

Immediately after, I found a public phone and dialed Yan Dachuan's number, and they said they were waiting for us at the hotel.

After I went back, I asked about the jade vein, and Yan Dachuan scolded: "What jade vein, after digging for three days, it was all ice, and Feng Xiaozi said it was empty." ”

Feng Guang nodded and analyzed: "The rough stones are all concentrated and distributed, but there, we didn't detect the jade veins, and I suspect that those rough stones should have fallen there." ”

Someone landed there?

I thought about it and felt that it was possible, although there was no jade vein in that place, but it could be guessed that there must be a jade vein somewhere in the Snow Mountain, but with our strength, it was impossible to find it.

Thinking of this, I said, "You two continue to follow the same route, and I will send another group of people over then." ”

Feng Guang was stunned and said, "Boss, what about you?" ”

"I have something to do, I want to go back immediately." I didn't explain too much to them, so I called Wang Meng and asked him to bring someone to Qinghai to top it first, and continue to run the jade as originally planned, and now I have to unravel the things on this rubbing.

The first person who comes to mind is Professor Shi from Beijing, but in this regard, he still needs a fat man to take a hand.

I didn't go back to Hangzhou, so I hung up the phone to my second uncle and explained my situation. The second uncle pondered for a while, asked me to pass a copy of the rubbing to him, and he also followed to think of a way, and then I took a plane directly to Beijing.

It's not the first time I've gone to the fat man's house, so I didn't let him pick me up, and went straight into his small courtyard.

I met the fat man, or at the beginning of the year, when I only had a meal to get together, three months not seen, he seems to have gained a circle of fat, the whole person is full of red face, just like eating the elixir of immortality, I am also keenly aware that this old boy even sideburns mixed with white hair are a lot less, as if he is getting younger and younger.

I couldn't help but poke him and said, "It is said that people are in good spirits when sewing happy events, what good things have you encountered, how did you start to rejuvenate." ”

The fat man was a little proud, and said: "The fat man is responding to the call of the country, people are not old, and now they have a career, and they have brothers, although there is still a woman, but it is estimated that it is fast, what else is there to worry about, don't worry about it, naturally live younger and younger." ”

I said, "Don't be poor, I haven't seen who you've worried about before, and you don't have to fire guns with your mouth." ”

"Hey." The fat man was unhappy, and said: "Why didn't I worry about it, fat man, I broke my heart for your business, I swear, I only have a good time with my father in this life." ”

"I'm your father?"

The fat man kicked me and said, "You bear child, kick your nose in the face." Don't pull it off, take it out and take it for a walk. ”

We didn't bother anymore, and put the papers on the table one by one, and I estimated that the fat man was well-informed, and asked him if he could see some doorways, and he looked at it for a long time, and said, "Like ...... Like a woman. ”

Woman?

I was stunned for a moment, and then scolded: "Fuck your uncle, think about women and go crazy." The fat man snorted, put his arm around my shoulder, and said, "Of course you can't see anything when you look upside down like this, stand here." As he spoke, he covered the rest of a piece of paper and motioned for me to look at it.

When I saw it, I couldn't help but be stunned.

This line really looks like a woman.

The fat man said: "I didn't lie to you, tell me, when will the text be like this?" ”

I hissed and said, "There is no such thing in the writing of any era." ”

"That's it." The fat man said: "Maybe this is not a word at all, just some bottle patterns." ”

I vaguely believe the fat man's words, but I feel a little impossible, if it is just some patterns, it is impossible to do these things in the stuffy oil bottle, I said my doubts, the fat man hissed in his mouth, and guessed: "Could it be that the little brother is too lonely to enter the snow mountain alone, and misses women, so it is like this?" ”

I was so angry that I said, "Can you be reliable?" ”

The fat man said: "Why am I unreliable, I don't want women to think about men?" ”

I'm too lazy to talk to the fat man, and if I keep talking, I'll be by him. But the fat man's words made me have some concerns, and I asked the translator surnamed Shi to make the ghost Japanese, and I made the whole thing about Dr. Zhang, and I don't know if something will go wrong this time.

As soon as the fat man and I combined, we decided to make a copy of the things, and only take the two of them connected to Professor Shi, so that if there was any problem, the contents of it would not be leaked.

The fat man hung up the phone to Professor Shi, he was still very enthusiastic, as soon as he heard that we were going to visit, he smiled on the phone, and said to the fat man: "You kid, you finally remembered to come and see me, I will wait for two years, and I will be buried in the old man." At that time, we were washing our feet in the city, the fat man crossed his feet, and put a piece of Peking duck next to him, and his mouth was full of guns while eating: "Where can I be, I can't forget my daughter-in-law and I can't forget you, don't worry, I'll report to you tomorrow, what do you want to eat?" Ready-made Peking duck? Hairy crabs in Baohu Tower? ”

The next day, we wrung some appetizers, brought two bottles of good wine to visit Professor Shi, who was alone and very enthusiastic about our arrival, asked the nanny to go to the kitchen to get food, and began to look at our rubbing.

Since Professor Shi is a more reliable person, I took out a total of four rubbings, two more than the original, and the rhetoric had already been thought out in advance, and said: "Professor Shi, you see, this is the silverware I saw in a local household's house when I went to Golmud to do business, I have seen that thing for some years, and I like to collect it, so I bought it, but I can't see what the text on it is, so I have carved it down and asked you to analyze it for me." ”

Professor Shi nodded, put on his reading glasses, turned on the light in the room and began to look at it carefully, the more he looked, the tighter his brows wrinkled, at this time, the appetizers were also cooked, and the nanny brought them out.

Professor Shi said, "You two eat first, and I'll take a look." The fat man was not polite, he picked up the chopsticks and ate the roast duck, chewing his mouth full of oil, for a long time, I saw that the stack of roast ducks was half swept by the fat man, Professor Shi didn't move, he knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "Professor, is there anything wrong with this thing?" ”

Professor Shi was probably tired of reading it, put down the copy, and said to me: "Xiao Wu, this thing of yours is indeed relatively old, but in my opinion, this should not be a text, just a kind of ornamentation, but I have never seen this kind of ornamentation, if you donate that thing to the archaeological institute, then it will make a great contribution to the study of western culture." ”

I was stunned and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

I'm really not interested in contributing to Western culture, it seems that this matter is really accurate by the fat man, this is not a text, but a kind of ornamentation.

The ornaments are crooked, without a concrete image, and feel like an abstract painting.

When the fat man heard this, he looked at my disappointed look, wiped his mouth, and asked Professor Shi: "I said old professor, have you read carefully, do you want to no longer mobilize your decades of memories and have a good aftertaste?" ”

Professor Shi said angrily: "Little fatty, don't think I'm old and confused, I can even remember clearly the matter of stealing other people's candy when I was five years old, how can I forget the skill of eating all my life." ”

The fat man didn't give up, rolled his eyes, and said: "Then do you have any friends, in terms of words, or in terms of illustrations, these ornaments must have a meaning, right?" ”

Professor Shi thought for a moment and said, "Yes, you can look for him." "I said to myself, don't make another Dr. Zhang, but Professor Shi wrote us our name, address and phone number.

The above is a person surnamed Sun, whose name is Sun Guoguo, who should be a man, and his address is also in Beijing.

We said goodbye to Professor Shi and went to visit him immediately.

Sun Guoguo gave Professor Shi more face, and was very polite to us, and after reading something, he muttered: "I'm sorry, I've been engaged in ancient graphic research for 20 years, and I've never seen anything like this, this seems meaningless, but it gives me the feeling that it's a bit like a labyrinth." ”

Maze?

When I looked closely, it was very similar, the staccato ornamentation, with all the abstract patterns, as if there were many things trapped in a labyrinth, but nothing else.

In the end, Sun Guoguo made a summary and said: "I think this should be some meaningless ornamentation, and there is no need to do more in-depth research." "This result is rather frustrating and meaningless? Could it be that my trip to the snow mountain, in exchange for a meaningless sentence?

The fact that both professor-level people said this made me a little discouraged, and I vaguely felt that maybe it was really like what they said, and it didn't make any sense. But as soon as I think that this is something that the stuffy oil bottle is deliberately concerned about, I feel that these ornaments are far from being as simple as we think.

There must be some kind of information in it, it's just that we haven't found a way to it yet.

At this moment, I received a call from my second uncle, and his first sentence made me excited, he said: "There are eyebrows, this should be a password map." ”

Cipher diagram? There was a buzz in my head, and I wanted to slap myself twice.

Like the Warring States Silk Book, it is recorded with a cipher diagram, how did I not think of this earlier! It's fucking stupid!

I hurriedly asked the second uncle, "What is recorded on it?" ”

The second uncle said: "It's different from the previous password map, I can't find a way to decipher it for the time being, I'm thinking of a way, this code map is very wonderful, I'm afraid it records something of great significance to the Zhang family, if you can't find someone who cracks the code, don't leak it for the time being." "I understand what the second uncle meant, he asked me not to let too many people see it.

After thinking about it, I decided to go back to Hangzhou, there is a second uncle there, no matter how much better than me. The fat man also cared about the stuffy oil bottle, he said that there was nothing to do now anyway, so he would just go to Hangzhou for a spin and know the latest progress at any time.

Immediately afterwards, the fat man arranged business matters and followed me to Hangzhou.

My antique shop, now it can't be white, there are still some fakes in other shops, in my shop, even a copper coin dare not fake, the fat man went in to take a look, and said: "Yo, become a good citizen." ”

I didn't talk to him much, when the second uncle was free, he dragged him to the second uncle's house, and the second uncle said that he had arranged to check the information in this regard, and if you want to unlock this password, you must first know the origin of this password, the dynasty in which it was formed, and its usual usage, only by mastering these, it is possible to crack it, in other words, next, we can only sit and wait for news.

I know that it is better to rely on others than on myself, sit and wait for news, then I have to wait until the Year of the Monkey?

In fact, in addition to tracking the clues of the stuffy oil bottle, I also have another way to quickly know what happened to the stuffy oil bottle, and that is to find a way to contact the people who used to be, such as passerby A.

Although it is more difficult to contact him, as long as you work hard, it will not be difficult, his pair of glasses is a limited edition, you can use it as a hand here, plus he is in Beijing, this range has been narrowed again, and then, the person named Qi Yu is locked.

But I didn't dare to take this road, not because I was afraid of passer-by, but because I was afraid of everything he was carrying behind him.

Passerby A is not a terrible person, but the inextricable relationships behind him are extremely terrifying, and I have no way to take this path, which means that how can I be re-involved in it.

If this is the case, then the sacrifice of the stuffy oil bottle to hand over the Niriva display card back then is completely meaningless.

Whether it's for the sake of the stuffy oil bottle, or for the sake of Lao Jiumen, I can't take this road, the only thing I can do, what I can make up for, is to follow these clues, quietly investigate, even if I can't find the final mystery, at least to know, where is the stuffy oil bottle.

In the following time, the fat man and I began to go in and out of the major libraries frequently, and the older the library, the more we drilled into it. I persevered day by day, but the fat man was not a person who could calm down and read, and after a few days, he was anxious, sitting in my antique film and looking up to the sky and sighing: "Little brother, alas, as long as you can come back, you will rape me and I will admit it, and I will find when it will be a head." ”

I just wanted to say, how can you rape the stuffy oil bottle, just stand on the street, turn your confused eyes a few times, and a group of women will be corona and rape you? Unless his brain was struck by lightning.

Before I could speak, a man's voice suddenly came from the door of the store: "Excuse me, is Mr. Wu Xie Wu here?" ”