Section 10 The Mysterious Oracle Bone Inscription
Forced by life, I finally picked up the phone and dialed the boss He Kuan!
I didn't know if it was right or wrong, and there were some things that I couldn't turn back on once I had decided, so I insisted on going to them.
Mr. He's attitude was very enthusiastic, and he was very excited to see me calling, and said that he would drive to me immediately!
After I put down the phone, I felt uneasy, and I felt like I had committed a crime, and I always felt that knowledge should not be related to money.
Seeing that my expression was a little dazed, Wen Yuan secretly asked me when he went to the toilet by Xianyun: "Uncle, are you in any trouble?
I hurriedly explained, "Oh it's okay, someone will come looking for me in a while, I'm going to go out!"
Wen Yuan looked at me, the expression on his face also looked a little serious, and he pleaded very seriously: "Uncle, if you don't dislike me, let me go with you! Xiaoyun will let him stay in the dormitory to rest by himself! I promise not to delay your business, okay?"
I have a very bad habit of being kind-hearted and not very good at talking, so I don't know how to say anything, but I agreed to let him go with me.
It doesn't matter, anyway, if you try it, people may not take me seriously, so why should I take them seriously!
Soon the car came downstairs to our dormitory, and after I heard the shouting, I explained to Xianyun that I was hungry and then went downstairs with Wen Yuan.
Huahe Group is rich, and it actually drove a Mercedes-Benz worth more than two million to borrow people, and the pomp was really not small.
Mr. He is very generous, and when he heard that Wen Yuan was my nephew, he immediately invited the two of us to get in the car without saying anything!
The traffic on the road has not been very good, the road is still relatively congested in the morning, the car is very slow, the first time I sat in such an expensive car I felt a little uncomfortable.
Mr. He sat in the front row, kept turning his head and smiling and talking to us, he said happily: "Xiao Feng, you are finally willing to come out and talk to me, young people have to be energetic! I'll take you two to eat something first, and then let's go back to the villa for a good chat."
It was the same man in his twenties who had come with him last time, and this time he really changed into casual clothes and looked much more comfortable.
Mr. He was very generous, took us to a seafood restaurant, let me and Wen Yuan have a big meal, and sure enough, the taste of good things is different.
A meal cost more than 2,000 yuan, and I felt heartache when I looked at it, which was enough for my living expenses for more than two months.
Since Boss He is so generous and enthusiastic, I will go all out to study the oracle bones in his hand with him.
After lunch, Mr. He took us to have a cup of coffee, and then asked Xiaoge to drive us to a villa.
The villa is located in the western suburbs of Shanghai, far away, but the car drives very fast and arrives in a short time.
This is a large three-storey villa, in addition to having a relatively large swimming pool, the area of the yard is not small, there is also a garden and pond inside, and there are decorations such as rockery fountains!
Sure enough, the life of a rich person is different, this is probably He Kuan's own residence in Shanghai, and the general manager of a large company is really magnificent.
There are a lot of security guards in the villa, and they seem to be very serious about security, although they didn't come up to search me and Wen Yuan, but the keen eyes of the security guards stared at us from time to time, which made me feel a little hairy.
He Kuan was still so enthusiastic, he asked his aunt to bring us tea and let us rest for a while.
After asking Ge Xiaodong to stay with us, He Kuan went upstairs, saying that he was going to prepare.
The young man who changed into casual clothes was named Ge Xiaodong, and he said with a smile: "Classmate Xiao Feng, and this friend Wenyuan, you drink tea, just treat this as your usual school, don't be too restrained!"
I was very curious and asked, "Brother Dong, can you tell me more about the oracle bones?"
Brother Dong smiled and replied very ashamedly: "This, this boss knows, we don't know very well!
Maybe he really doesn't know about these, or maybe he is very low-key and conservative, and he doesn't dare to talk nonsense behind his boss's back!
I didn't ask anything, so I turned sideways and asked Wen Yuan, "Wen Yuan, do you know the oracle bone inscription and the golden inscription?"
Wen Yuan took a sip of tea, frowned and asked, "What?Uncle, I haven't read Buddhism, I don't understand the scriptures!"
...... , I coughed, smiled and nodded! Wen Yuan is just an ordinary rural person from the countryside, and it is estimated that he has not even studied high school, how can he know these words of ancient people, I think what I asked is a bit redundant!
After a while, Boss He appeared at the entrance of the building and beckoned us to go upstairs to see the real thing.
Can you still see the real thing? At this moment, I immediately became interested, got up, and walked up the stairs with Wen Yuan accompanied by Brother Dong.
Boss He led us to a living room upstairs, asked us to sit down first, and then he reached out and took out a piece of something wrapped in silk from the box next to him.
Boss He is very precious about this thing, he carefully opened the silk, and then put the two ancient turtle shells on the table.
I hurriedly asked Brother Dong for clothes and gloves, and after putting on the gloves, I reached out and carefully picked up the turtle shell, carefully identifying the oracle bone inscription engraved on it!
Seeing that I was so devoted, Wen Yuan also came to the side and looked at it carefully, but did not express any opinion.
Boss He gestured to Brother Dong and asked him to go out and make coffee for us!
After Brother Dong left the living room, Boss He asked with a smile: "How about Xiao Feng?"
I nodded while looking at it and said, "Well, this font does look a bit like the oracle bone script of the early Western Zhou Dynasty! It's just that the characters on it are a bit weird, and they can't be connected at all! Do you still have them? Can you show me what is written on the other turtle shells!"
"Okay!" Boss He finished speaking, opened the drawer, took out two more boxes from it, took out the other two turtle shells and handed them to me.
I took turns looking at it, then carefully put the turtle shell back on the table, shook my head and said, "No, the words of your three turtle shells are not connected, do you have a lot of these artifacts, and then just took three pieces from it?"
Boss He was stunned for a moment, he hesitated for a moment, and then smiled very shyly: "I'm ashamed! To be honest, we have found a lot of experts to study these oracle bone inscriptions, but everyone has different opinions on the words on them! Some say that they are used for teaching, just like the blackboard of the school, but they are written and cannot be erased, so they are listed on different bone shells! Some say that this is the music score of chimes in ancient times, and they are all some tonal notes, which are used to combine when composing music! Some even say that some passwords are just used for drinking, and they are also used for combination! But one thing is clear, that is, everyone thinks that there is no order between these oracle bone inscriptions, just like the movable type printing in the past, and they can be combined at will when they need to be used!"
I smiled and said, "Yes, the ancients are really smart, they have learned the combination of movable type, since they are so smart, why was movable type printing not invented until the Northern Song Dynasty, if so, wouldn't the Western Zhou Dynasty have this technology a long time ago!"
Boss He's brows trembled after hearing this, he frowned and looked at me and nodded again and again, and said seriously: "It makes sense, what you said really reminded me! It seems that what those experts said may not be right, um!"
I continued, "Can you tell me how many of these oracle bones have been unearthed, and have you collected them all?"
Boss He hesitated for a moment, but he still replied to me happily: "Okay! To tell you the truth, these oracle bone inscriptions, along with the parchment scroll, are all from an ancient tomb in the early Western Zhou Dynasty near Xi'an, Shaanxi! This ancient tomb is not very large, like the tomb of an ordinary nobleman in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and its burial goods have nothing of value, but a large number of bone shells with recorded words are placed! This tomb may also be stolen by tomb thieves because the tomb robbers have stolen many times! But they weren't interested in these oracle bones, so the tomb robbers who went in for the last time saw that there was nothing to take, so they took away the bone shells hidden in the inner wall of the coffin with the parchment scrolls!"
I was curious and asked, "Taken with us?" Then why did the parchment scroll and the bone shell that recorded the oracle bones separate?"
Boss He said with a smile: "This is normal, when tomb robbers sell these antiquities, they usually sell them separately, so as not to be found out where they came from and their whereabouts are exposed, isn't that causing trouble for themselves! Our company spent a lot of money to auction off these bone shells recording oracle bone inscriptions from abroad, but we have not studied the meaning of the words inside, which makes the value of these antiquities not well reflected!" You must know that there is a company in our group that is responsible for the auction of antique cultural relics, and if we cannot bring benefits to the company, then we will suffer a lot of losses! There are a total of 81 pieces of these bone shells, which have been preserved quite well from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the present, and not a single one of them has been lost!
At this time, Wen Yuan asked curiously: "But after such a long time has passed since the four weeks, how can you conclude that none of them have been lost?"
Boss He smiled and said: "The ancients were very particular about numbers, these eighty-one pieces are exactly nine nine eighty-one, that is, the meaning of ninety-nine to one!
I nodded and said, "Yes, what Mr. He said is right, to be precise, this should be a complete oracle bone book recorded on the tortoise shell! In fact, I have already seen a little eyebrow just now, but it is not convenient to say, so let Mr. He, you show me another one as a confirmation! I just heard Mr. He say this, but it confirmed my guess!" After saying that, I picked up the turtle shell, pointed to a few small dots on the bottom of the back of the turtle shell, and said: "These batches of turtle shell text should be divided into batches! You see, there are five dots on this one, and the other two are on top, one is one dot, and the other is three dots! I suspect that this batch of turtle shells is divided into nine categories, and these dots are labels! So I said that this is a complete book, divided into nine chapters, and the contents of each chapter are engraved on nine turtle bones!"
Boss He was shocked when he heard this, and immediately lay on the table and carefully checked it, and saw that the dots on the turtle shell were really similar to what I said, he couldn't help but praise again and again and said: "Wonderful, you can see such a small detail on the back Ni Duan, and it really deserves to be a top student of Fudan! Amazing, amazing!"
After saying that, Boss He put away the oracle bone inscription with satisfaction, and then got up and said to me: "Thank you, thank you! You have made such a major breakthrough after only a few glances, and I don't know how to thank you! Why don't I let Xiao Ge take you to the surrounding area to travel and play for a few days, how about it?"
When I heard this, I didn't show any interest, so I quickly shook my head and said, "Oh, no! I'm about to graduate, I have to hurry up and implement the work matters, it's inconvenient to go out and play!"
Boss He asked with great interest, "Oh, have you found a good direction?"
I said casually: "Oh, maybe go to the Shanghai Institute of Cultural Relics, that's it for the time being!"
"Okay, good!" Boss He shook hands with us very kindly and said, "Then let's do this today, we will contact again when we have time!"
After saying that, he immediately arranged for Brother Dong to drive us back to school, as if he was in a hurry to do something, and hurriedly sent the two of us away.
When I returned to school, I was depressed, I thought I could help the big boss do something to make some extra money, but I came back empty-handed!
Hey, forget it, it's not so easy to make money, and you can have a delicious lunch.