Chapter 721: Cracking the Code 2
After noticing that the lines of these symbols were so exquisitely carved, the first person Chen Ziyang thought of was Li Weidong, the first carving knife of the Qing Dynasty.
Although in addition to Cardinal Wang and Li Weidong, the other two people also depicted very good symbolic lines and have deep carving skills, but compared with those who depicted the outermost circle of 25 symbols, it is still a little worse.
Seeing this, an idea suddenly popped up in Chen Ziyang's mind, is there such a possibility, the four correct passwords, except for the one carved by Li Weidong, the first carving knife of the Qing Dynasty, the other three were carved by the other three people themselves, if this is the case, in addition to the password representing Li Weidong, the other three carvings can also be seen.
Now the outermost ring on the 25 symbols are undoubtedly carved by Li Weidong, if the other three passwords can be judged from the penmanship, the probability of opening this password disk will drop to one in twenty-five, as long as you guess which one is depicted by Li Weidong, the problem will be solved.
With this in mind, Chen Ziyang looked more carefully at the symbols on the cipher disk, but this time, the focus of what he looked at was not what these symbols depicted and what they represented, but only from the brushwork of the symbols.
After watching it for a while, Chen Ziyang was slightly disappointed, things were not as simple as he imagined, but it was not completely without gains.
It is possible that when this cipher plate was first depicted, the four skilled craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty thought of this, so each of them carved more than one symbol, but Li Weidong portrayed the most.
Maybe other people's carving skills are not as deep as Li Weidong's, and some symbols with a lot of lines and complex patterns cannot be directly depicted, so on the rings exclusive to each of them, there are several symbols that Li Weidong helped to carve.
Although Li Weidong has tried his best to imitate other people's brushwork in the depiction, trying to achieve the purpose of confusing the public, there are some things that he cannot hide if he wants to.
It's like a person who writes very beautifully and is self-contained, and deliberately imitates the words written by some people who write very ugly words, and can't imitate them at all. Decades of carving skills are there, and some things are still inadvertently revealed.
On the middle three discs, there are some more complex symbols that do not seem to be depicted very well, but occasionally, some of the lines that make up these symbols look very flat, and it is obvious that such symbols are deliberately imitated by Li Weidong to imitate other people's carving techniques.
After looking up at the two dragon heads with big mouths, Chen Ziyang had an idea in his heart, Li Weidong can be called the first carving knife of the Qing Dynasty, which shows the depth of his carving skills.
And the two dragons on the door frame, although after so many years, have been slightly damaged in some places, but they are still domineering, especially the four eyes of these two dragons, which look like real eyes, very godly, these two dragon heads should be carved by Li Weidong.
This kind of engraving technique is unmatched today, but I didn't expect it to become the key to cracking the entire code disk. Although there was no way to guess what the correct password was on the other three discs at once, with Li Weidong's penmanship, Chen Ziyang still eliminated many wrong answers.
The reason why this cipher disk is set up as four rings is because there is a password on each of the four rings that represents the four people who built the Great Qing Dragon Vein Dungeon together.
It is very likely that when designing this cipher disk, the four people originally planned to each depict all the symbols on a ring, but because their carving skills were really not good, complex symbols could not be carved, so they asked Li Weidong to ghostwrite.
After excluding some symbols with traces of Li Weidong's carving, Chen Ziyang took a look, and there were originally seven symbols on the first ring, but now there are only three left, and the second ring does not need to be seen, the glasses symbol represents Cardinal Wang's correct password.
There are a total of 20 symbols in the third circle, and after the exclusion, there are only eight left, and the problem is not very big. The most terrible thing now is that the 25 symbols in the outermost circle are all carved by Li Weidong himself, and there is no way to eliminate them at all.
Cardinal Wang, the first craftsman of the Qing Dynasty, Yu Yunlu, the first skillful hand of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Qianliang, the first genius of the Qing Dynasty, and Li Weidong, the first carving knife of the Qing Dynasty.
After reciting the titles and names of these four people in his mind again, Chen Ziyang looked at the third ring, trying to choose one of the remaining eight symbols, and at this time, three patterns connected together caught his attention.
All three patterns are round, or nearly circular, with the symbols on the left and right that look like two heads, the one in the middle that looks like a human kidney, and some that look like a giant broad bean.
If you look closely, the two heads on either side appear to be a man and a woman. Although these two patterns are depicted in a relatively general way, there is no way to reflect the charm of the faces of men and women, but they can be distinguished from the hairstyle.
The pattern in the middle of the broad bean-like shape looks like a baby in swaddling clothes, and the reason why this pattern takes on the shape of a human kidney is because when portraying the baby, the posture of the baby in the mother's womb is used.
Seeing these three patterns, Chen Ziyang suddenly recalled one thing. At the beginning of the tomb of Li Yan of the Eastern Dynasty, several of them met the children and mothers who were refined by Zhang Qianliang's concubine and the child in the womb. also obtained a bamboo tube containing a secret letter from the stomach of the son and mother, and the secret letter was written by Zhang Qianliang.
From the words of the letter, Chen Ziyang could see that Zhang Qianliang was an old man and cared very much about the child in his concubine's womb.
And probably because he was afraid of leaking the construction of the Great Qing Dragon Vein Treasure Underground Palace, Zhang Qianliang's concubine and child lost their lives in vain, which made Zhang Qianliang, who had a son, feel very annoyed. He should be so angry that he wants to leak the matter of the treasure of the Great Qing Dragon Vein.
But later, perhaps Zhang Qianliang felt that this was inappropriate, so he dispelled this idea. However, the resentment in his heart was still difficult to dissipate, and he still kept the secret letter, but changed the pure leakage of the treasure of the Great Qing Dragon Vein, and turned it into a "swastika" pattern composed of four dragons on the back of the letter, representing the kowtow of the dragons of the Great Qing Dragon Vein Treasure Group.
Calculating from the time, maybe when Zhang Qianliang built the Dragon Vein Underground Palace of the Qing Dynasty here, his concubine did not conceive a child, and later when the Dragon Vein Treasure Underground Palace was built, Zhang Qianliang went to the Eastern Dynasty to build Li Yan's tomb.
In fact, Zhang Qianliang built his own tomb there. Because the tomb of Li Zhuo of the Eastern Dynasty is located in the double phoenix treasure cave is on top of a giant dragon that forms the dragon vein group of dragons in the Qing Dynasty and kowtows to the treasure cave. So Zhang Qianliang also placed his tomb there.
It may be that when Li Yan's tomb was built, Zhang Qianliang's concubine was pregnant with a child. And it is very likely that when the Qing Dynasty Dragon Vein Underground Palace was being built, Zhang Qianliang also took his concubine. Even Zhang Qianliang has to be refined into a corpse demon, and it is even more impossible for his concubine to leave alive.
When the Qing Dynasty Dragon Vein Underground Palace was built, Zhang Qianliang's concubine may not be pregnant with a child, but as Zhang Qianliang, what he hopes most is to be able to have a biological child, which is why he will bring his concubine with him to build the Dragon Vein treasure of the Qing Dynasty.
But the result is often unexpected, the child is pregnant, but because Zhang Qianliang's concubine knows too many secrets, she has to be refined into a child, and Zhang Qianliang's dream of having a son has become an empty dream.
Thinking of this level, Chen Ziyang had a feeling of enlightenment. That's right, the child-like pattern in the middle should be the correct password set by Zhang Qianliang.
At that time, when setting the password, Zhang Qianliang's greatest wish in life was to have a child, and if he knew what happened later, he might not have done so.
Anyway, the password that represents Zhang Qianliang has also been cracked. Now there are two left, the innermost ring and the outermost ring. Because the outermost 25 symbols really had no clues, Chen Ziyang started with a simple one, and he looked at the innermost circle.
Four of the seven patterns on this ring have been excluded, and there are still three left, according to the elimination method, Chen Ziyang knows that the password on this ring should be set by Yu Yunlu, the first skillful hand in the Qing Dynasty.
"Skillful? Where's the coincidence? "Almost all craftsmen can be described as skillful, there are too few clues about Yu Yunlu, although there are only three possible passwords left, but Chen Ziyang is still worried.
"Huh?" After carefully observing these three patterns for a while, Chen Ziyang made another discovery, and what inspired him was still the technique of carving these three patterns.
Compared with the other four symbols that may have been carved by Li Weidong, the carving techniques of the remaining three symbols are a bit clumsy, but one is different from the other two, giving people a very awkward feeling.
Judging from the lines that make up this pattern, it seems that the carver was very attentive, but the other two patterns did not give Chen Ziyang this feeling.
This is a symbol of a mountain held up by one hand, and compared to the other two symbols, the lines on this symbol have arcs and straight lines, which should be more difficult to carve, but in fact it is the opposite, this symbol is better carved than the other two.
If these three symbols were all carved by Yu Yunlu, then he should have been very careful when carving this symbol, while the other two were done randomly.
This difference can be seen at a glance, as if a person who writes very poorly, usually just scribbles randomly when writing, suddenly one day he made up his mind to prepare to practice calligraphy, and wrote all the words he wrote horizontally and vertically.
Although in a short period of time, this person's handwriting could not be much better, even if it was horizontal and vertical, and the structure of the font was very ugly, it was much better than the words he had written in his previous scribbles.
Seeing this, Chen Ziyang almost burst out happy. This pattern should be the password set by Yu Yunlu, and he held up a mountain with one hand, which is also in line with his skillful name.
Three of the four passwords have been solved, and the remaining one is very difficult to crack. Whether it is from the title, or from the carving technique, there is no trace, it can be said that Li Weidong, the first carving knife of the Qing Dynasty, left Chen Ziyang with a problem.
And the worst thing, this outermost ring also has the most symbols, there are 25, and it is really difficult to choose the correct password from them.
After carefully looking at it several times, Chen Ziyang's gaze finally fell on a symbol, thoughtful.
This symbol is not a picture, but a character, which looks like a somewhat distorted character for "Fu", and I don't know what it is.
"Fuzi? Happy longevity! Suddenly, Chen Ziyang became excited, and then he hurriedly looked around the more than 60 symbols on the entire password disk, and then let out a sigh of relief.
That's right, this blessing word should be the last password. Chen Ziyang never thought that this last password would be so simple, and Li Weidong would choose this Fu character as his password.
At the time of Kangxi's wedding, a craftsman in Jingdezhen burned a set of plum bottles with very difficult manufacturing processes, and there were four plum bottles, on which the characters of "Fu Lu Xi Shou" were depicted with the lost embossing technique. However, because the color of this set of plum bottles was relatively plain, Kangxi did not use it, but he kept the plum bottles and gave them to the four craftsmen.
The Baishou plum bottle was given to Cardinal Wang, and the plum bottle was later obtained by the three brothers Chen Ziyang from the tomb of the shallow-water fish dragon.
And the Baixi plum bottle was given to Zhang Qianliang, and this plum bottle was later found by Chen Ziyang and others in the tomb of Li Zhuo in the Eastern Dynasty Kingdom, near the coffin containing the corpse demon that Zhang Qianliang had turned into.
There are two left, one is the Baifu plum bottle, and the other is the Bailu plum bottle. Although these two plum bottles have not been found until now, Chen Ziyang knows that these two plum bottles should be placed in the tombs of Li Weidong and Yu Yunlu respectively.
And there is a word "Lu" in Yu Yunlu's name, maybe the Bailu plum bottle was given to him, so it is very likely that Li Weidong got the Baifu plum bottle.
Originally, this basis was not sufficient, and Chen Ziyang was not very sure, but when he looked at all the symbols on the entire password disk, he found that the four characters "Fu Lu Xi Shou" were on these more than 60 symbols, and there was only one deformed Fu character, and the three words Lu, Xi and Shou did not appear.
Come on, I didn't expect that all the information I was searching for would be used at this moment, Chen Ziyang shook his head, it seems that his fate has arrived, and the dragon vein treasure of the Qing Dynasty can be opened.
(End of chapter)