240. Ancient artifacts are one
Han Daring rode away from Yiyi Street. People come and go on Yiyi Street, even if there is really a Sanyang Sect to follow him, he is not afraid, everything is here, just let Lan Banqi take a look, and he will not cause any trouble.
But if there was really the tail of the Sanyang Sect who followed him to Wang Weihan's house, the ringed jade cup was still in Wang Weihan's hand, which would cause trouble for him, so Han Daring rode around a long circle to make sure that there was no one who was following him, so he crossed the Haihe River from the French Bridge and went to the mansion of Wang Weihan in the Italian Concession.
At this time, the spring flowers are blooming, the grass grows and the warbler flies, on the outer wall of Wang Weihan's mansion, a lot of spring vines have climbed out, the light green young leaves follow the spring vines, gently pick up the brick cracks, and the new thin vines are slightly rolled, just like a shy girl, shy but full of vitality. From a distance, it gives people a sense of tranquility and comfort.
Han Daring knocked on the door, and the old man in charge quickly opened the door. This time came very coincidentally, Wang Weihan has just returned to Tianjin from other places, and now the situation is temporarily stable, Wang Weihan went east to Japan in a hurry, and many industries and businesses abroad have been abandoned for a long time, and he went out this time to reorganize land assets.
Han Da'er thought to himself, don't look at this Wang Weihan with a lame leg, but after all, he was in politics in his early years, and he also supported the Anhui warlord to serve as the financial secretary in his government. Now that the warlords have been pacified, all important military and political affairs are under the command of the central government in Nanjing. It seems that this Wang Weihan is not giving up, he wants to reorganize his family business, and he still wants to enter the political arena when he has the opportunity.
Wang Weihan heard that it was Han Daring who came, so he hurriedly came out on crutches to greet him, and the two exchanged polite greetings, and Han Daring took out the jade cong straight to the point, and told the truth about the discovery of the jade cong.
Wang Weihan was also very excited when he learned that the jade cong was one of the three ancient artifacts, but Han Dada'er borrowed the jade slip from him, but he didn't understand what he meant.
Han Da'er pointed to the metal teeth on the ground of Yucong and said:
"The jade slip in your hand is one of the three ancient artifacts of the ring stacked jade cup, when I opened it before, I found that the mechanism in the middle of the lotus heart position can rotate by itself, it seems that there should be something like a gear machine spring inside, and the position of the lotus heart actually has some small grooves, as if it can fit with the teeth under the jade cong, so I speculate that these two ancient artifacts should be able to be put together."
Although these are indeed Han Da'er's speculations, they are actually confirmed from the account in the pamphlet of Otomo's family, but he does not mention the booklet.
Since the recovery of the ringed jade cup, Wang Weihan has been carefully studying this ancient artifact, but if it weren't for Han Dada'er's discovery of the mechanism on the ancient artifact before, Wang Weihan would have always thought that this was just a piece of jade slip, and he didn't expect that this jade slip could be opened and turned into an engraved jade cup.
In fact, he also found that there were many small grooves in the outer ring of the lotus heart gold ball in the middle, but some of them were filled with oxidized slurry, so it was difficult to be found. When Han Daring forcibly pressed the golden ball, part of the pulp fell off, which was revealed.
Later, when he carefully cleaned them, he found that the grooves were very regular, as if they could fit something. He tried both steel needles and small wire patches, and even smashed them into narrow flat sheets with iron wires and inserted them into the grooves, but no matter how they were adjusted, they were not suitable.
At this time, when he heard Han Daring say this, he hurriedly asked the old housekeeper to take the jade cup and put it on the table. The jade cup was not opened, but was still stacked tightly in the shape of the jade slip.
Han Daring took the jade cong, first looked at the protruding teeth at the bottom of the jade cong, and then observed the lotus golden ball in the middle of the jade slip, carefully aimed at the small groove in the outer circle of the golden ball, and put the jade cong on it.
only heard a soft sound of "click", I didn't expect that Yu Cong and Yu Jian could really plug into each other, just when Yu Cong checked, Han Daring only felt that the near golden ball on the jade slip wanted to be recessed, and the golden ball seemed to be flipped over, and at this time, Yu Jian slowly unfolded, and it became the shape of a lotus jade cup again.
The metal pipes inside the jade cong actually rose layer by layer, and it turned out that the metal was several layers of metal cylinders. The sleeve continued to expand upwards and rise, and it actually emerged from the slightly concave top of the jade cong, but only one of the edge of the sleeve was exposed, and there was also a full number of teeth at the edge.
And those golden metal sleeves, each layer is as thin as paper, and the fairy carvings on the original jade cong that were covered by the metal sleeve have all been restored to a hollow form at this moment.
It turns out that when the metal sleeve itself is made, it has been carved according to the carving pattern on the jade, and the craftsman has already calculated, as long as the sleeve rises layer by layer, it can be perfectly matched with the carving of the jade, and the part of the jade carving that is covered by the metal layer is completely revealed.
Suddenly, a beam of strong light shot out from the top of Yucong, and Han Dada'er, Wang Weihan, and the old housekeeper present were all startled. Han Da'er had put the shortened half of the candle in the jade cong before, but the light revealed was far less dazzling than at the moment.
He remembered that the golden ball was flipped just now, and it seemed to reveal a glimmer of light, maybe the golden ball was not originally metallic, but a fluorite-like glowing stone with metal.
Fluorite is noctilucent stone, the ancients collected and processed it into beads, and it became the night pearl in people's mouths. In fact, this is a kind of crystal ore, which will not be described to the ancients, and can emit light as magical as day.
Fluorite can absorb heat energy, only when it shines light or is poured with hot water, it will emit light, and the light emitted is also very weak, at most it is a relatively bright bright spot in the dark, and it is impossible to emit a flashlight-like light.
A few people took a closer look and saw a yellow-green beam of light shooting out from the center of the jade cup below, directly through the jade cong, and shooting out from the top of the jade cong. The middle of the jade cong seems to be hollow, but in fact, it is embedded with a colorless and transparent crystal.
This crystal should have been cut into polyhedra, and the fluorite light on the jade cup shone on the crystal, because the crystal was cut into polyhedron, the light came in from different sides, refracted inside the crystal, and finally when it came out from the top, it was magnified many times.
As the light shot out of the jade, the jade cong also slowly rotated, and as the jade cong rotated, the concave part of the top of the jade cong, and the protruding metal sleeve teeth also began to rotate slowly, but the direction of rotation was opposite to the direction of rotation of the jade.
Han Daring pressed down the golden ball, and when he opened the jade slip, he had seen that the golden ball part would rotate on its own, and he knew that it was equipped with a wheel roller bracket inside. At this time, I realized that it was originally to link with Yucong, driving the inner sleeve and the top teeth of Yucong to rotate in the opposite direction.
The top of the jade cong is concave so that an egg can be placed very smoothly. It is believed that this location was originally intended to put another ancient artifact, which was the ghost ball that was lost in the underground river by Han Da'er. The teeth of the top sleeve should be used to link the ghost ball, but the loss of the ghost ball may never be able to combine the three ancient artifacts, which is a pity.
As the jade cong rotates, the light from the inside will also shine on the carved patterns on the jade cong, and the so-called fairy urns in the old days are all illuminated, but the light outside the window during the day is too strong, so the light reflected by these hollow fairy urns is not very obvious.
Wang Weihan asked the housekeeper to close all the curtains in the room, those velvet curtains were very thick and completely opaque, and as soon as they were pulled up, it was dark in the room. At this time, the walls, furniture, and human bodies were covered with fairy urns reflected by light. As the jade basket turned, those immortal urns were also rotating slightly, and the room was like a marquee race.
At this time, the light emitted from the jade cong not only reflected its own carved lines, but also some light shot down from the bottom of the jade cong. At this time, Han Dada'er saw that there were several carved deep grooves at the bottom of the jade cong, and the light transmitted downward from them, shining on the jade cup, and the patterns carved on the jade cup were also transmitted to the surroundings.
At this time, except for the high walls and the roof, the entire room was covered with fairy urns reflected by light. In the slow rotation of the jade cong, some parts of the fairy urn on the jade cong and the immortal urn on the jade pot can be combined into one, and the glyph is constantly changing in the rotation.
Wang Weihan hurriedly asked the housekeeper to take out a pen and paper, and Han Daring and the two of them tepicted all the reflected immortal urns together, Yucong kept turning slightly, and the two of them were busy for a while, but they couldn't trace all the immortal urns.
Wang Weihan wanted to take out his camera and take pictures of all this, but the camera at that time was not good. The first shot is not clear enough, and the second is that if there is no flash in the dark, nothing can be shot at all, but if the flash is used, the light that is exposed in an instant will completely swallow the fairy pot formed by these rays, and nothing can be captured at all.
Just when the two of them were trying to trace, they found that some parts of the immortal urn began to overlap, and after the original jade cong ran to a certain position, the metal sleeve inside it also began to rotate slightly.
Gradually, the overlapping effects of the light on the wall began to change, and some of the lines of light were able to be connected. The result is an image that is intertwined with each other.
At this time, Yu Cong suddenly made a "click" sound again, and then stopped, but the internal light was still the same, only to see that in the Yu Cong week, all the light was put together into a complete pattern. The patterns are criss-crossed, and it looks like a map!
It's just that I've never seen a ring map like this, the map goes around the room, and I don't know where it starts and where it ends. There are four places on this picture that are particularly bright, and there seem to be four points of light shining on it!
The four positions are located in the east, south, west and north directions of Yucong.
Han Daring hurriedly traced the picture with pen and paper, but when he was halfway through the drawing, the light in the jade cong suddenly went out, and then there was a "click". The ball in the middle of the jade cup bounced up, and it actually pushed the jade cong out, "snapped", and fell on the jade bowl.
Wang Weihan was afraid that the two ancient artifacts would collide with each other and be damaged, so he hurriedly stepped forward to check. The jade cong is thick and naturally will not be easily destroyed, but the jade cup is originally formed by the unfolding of the jade slip, and each piece of the unfolded is very thin, and it is very easy to break in case of collision.
Fortunately, there was no damage to the two artifacts. In fact, there is a piece of metal tightly embedded in the back of the jade bowl, which makes the jade cup much stronger than it looks.
At the same time that the jade cong was ejected, the golden ball in the middle of the jade cup also rose, and it was indeed a crystal glowing ball. As the jade cup merged into the jade slip on its own, the glowing ball also rotated on its own, turning the other side of the gold-filled glass upward.
Wang Weihan's scholar Han Dada'er's technique just now inserted the jade cong into the round ball in the middle of the jade slip again. The jade slip slowly opened and assembled the jade cup, the beam lit up, and the fairy urn of the marquee lantern race appeared again.
Wang Weihan continued to trace the immortal urn, while Han Dada'er held a pen and paper, waiting for the final map to appear.
After opening and closing the two ancient artifacts three or four times in a row, Han Dada'er used sixteen pieces of paper to draw all the maps. However, after a few times of experience, every time he didn't wait for Yucong to pop up, he was already caught by Wang Weihan, and then inserted it back again.
Han Daring found that this so-called map did not seem to be complete, and the closer it was to the top, the more blurry the image became, and it was obvious that there should be something on top of this map. He thought of the ghost ball again, and estimated that the missing part was exactly the part that the ghost ball should reflect.
Han Daring looked at the map in his hand, it looked like a map at first, but the more he looked at it, the more he didn't want to. Because the general map is drawn by simulating the view of the ground from above, but the map depicted in front of you is obviously different, some of the lines are thick, and some are very thin, and it seems to be a perspective relationship between the near and the far and the small.
It occurred to him that what if this thing was not a map, but a three-dimensional location map?!