I poured myself a cup of hot tea, and I was able to sit and drink with the president Leng Yan in the aroma, which was also a special taste.

"It seems like you're pretty confident in your patience."

Seeing that her plan to hang her appetite failed, Jiang Yingxue knocked on the side without being salty, as if she wanted Bai Ning to give her some steps to land safely.

Speaking of embarrassment, there is now a more or less awkward atmosphere echoing between the two.

"In this deep mountain and old forest, how can there be such a delicious flower tea, for a while, I am indeed a little intoxicated."

Bai Ning responded lightly, with a slight smile sinking from the corners of his mouth, but he inexplicably poked Jiang Yingxue's strange laughter, and laughed out loud.

Between the heroic posture, it matches the slim mountaineering suit worn today, and it is calm with faint vitality.

"There's no denying that you have your own unique perspective on a lot of things, but knowing so much about it makes it easy to overlook a lot of obvious details."

It seemed that he was about to start throwing out the dry goods in his hands, but he still had a slight feeling of hiding it, seeing that Bai Ning was still indifferent, Jiang Yingxue, who felt a little bored, was too lazy to continue this boring game.

"Show me the jade pendant."

This seems to be a disguised power strengthening process after failure, with a hint of habit, Bai Ning has no intention of resisting this, and handed the ancient dragon jade pendant out slightly casually.

The jade pendant started in small amounts, and it was hard to imagine that this was a personal item taken out of Bai Ning's jacket pocket.

This alone is enough to see the magic of this ancient dragon jade pendant.

Jiang Yingxue looked at it carefully for a moment or two, except for the quaint luster, she couldn't taste the reason, so she could only cough and show the existence that she was waiting for to come in.

"This is Professor Huang, an expert in jade, and an expert in archaeology."

A fifty or sixty-year-old man came in, even if his face was full of wind and frost, and the wrinkles at the corners of his forehead and eyes were even more horizontal, but with the bookish aura blessed by a pair of black-framed eyes, it gave people a sense of not to be underestimated.

Even if he was introduced by Jiang Yingxue, Professor Huang didn't mean to take the initiative to deal with Bai Ning, but just took two quick steps to take the ancient dragon jade pendant in Jiang Yingxue's hand, and looked at it with solemn eyes.

While watching, he couldn't stop nodding, and the smile in the corner of his eyes seemed to be a little greedy, and it seemed like a hunger for cherished things.

"Whether it is from the point of view of shape, or from the point of view of appearance and color, this is like an ancient jade produced in the Xia and Shang period.

The jade dragon of the Shang Dynasty is mainly in the shape of a single dragon, with a curly body that is mostly curled, head and tail are connected, and some of the dorsal ridges appear ridged. The head is large, with its teeth open and decorated with stubby mushroom-shaped horns on the top of the head.

The "Chen" character eyes, the moire nose, and the body are decorated with rhombus, triangle or deformed moire. Some are also engraved with heavy ring patterns and double arc patterns on the cheeks.

There are more jade dragon flakes in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the decorative lines are also straightened and straightened by the square folds of the Shang Dynasty, and the rules become stretched and smooth, which is more natural and lively.

In the late Western Zhou Dynasty, some dragons were slender and elongated than before, and the carving of horns was not obvious, and some even became cloud-shaped ears, and at the same time, the "Chen" shaped eyes were gradually replaced by round eyes.

It's just that this kind of thing seems to be a unique product, and it is quite different from the various Shang and Zhou dragon-shaped jade pendants unearthed at present, and I am afraid that it is not from a certain princely tomb. ”

As an expert in this area, he was able to judge at a glance that this was the exclusive jade of the Dragon Clan.

After the identification, Professor Huang was a little reluctant to place the jade pendant on the table, even though the corner of his eye would scan the ancient dragon jade pendant from time to time, but this move also showed the spirit of his archaeologists.

"If you just judge the age of this ancient dragon jade pendant, you don't need to go to such great lengths.

Has this shape of jade pendant also appeared in your other investments? ”

Since Jiang Yingxue has found an expert in ancient jade, she must have gained some inspiration in this aspect of jade.

"It's said that you're all secret, it's all at this time, isn't it a bit redundant for you to ask me this question?

Among the various urban rumors, is there anything more famous than the Pisces jade pendant? ”

Jiang Yingxue finally solved the mystery of this trip, which really surprised Bai Ning instantly.

Lop Nur Pisces Jade Pendant is no less famous than the Yingkou Falling Dragon Incident, but it is precisely because of its fame that Bai Ning can't associate it with it.

The reason is not, because these two locations, one on the extreme east coast of the Huaxia map, and the other on the extreme west of the Shahai Sea, span thousands of kilometers, which can be described as incompatible.

"Lop Nur dried up after 1970, and before that it could have reached a maximum area of 5,000 square kilometres, it was once an important source of water for Guloulan.

Even if Lop Nur was once indeed a water town in the Western Regions, this does not prove that there are dragons anywhere. ”

The ancient dragon jade pendant is a symbol of the existence of the dragon family, and it is impossible to forcibly associate it with Lop Nur because of the relevance of the jade.

In response to Bai Ning's rebuttal, Jiang Yingxue just responded with a meaningful smile.

"Lop Nur, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" calls it "Youze", and Youze and Yaochi have certain similarities in ancient sounds.

Yaochi is naturally associated with the Queen Mother of the West, and the Queen Mother of the West is bound to Kunlun Mountain.

Kunlun Mountain is the ancestor of the dragon veins in China. ”

Jiang Yingxue's response came to an end, making this confrontation at this time full of possibility and imagination.

There is the Queen Mother of the West on Kunlun Mountain, which is also recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas, and as for where Yaochi is, not many people can verify it.

Moreover, there are many lakes near the Kunlun Mountains, and there is no turn to an ancient lake located near the Altun Mountains.

"When it comes to the historical records of Yaochi, the most famous is King Zhou Mu.

"Liezi Zhou Mu Wang" records that (Wang) was in the Queen Mother of the West and was on the Yao Pond. The Queen Mother of the West is the king's ballad, and the king is in harmony, and her words are mournful.

Among them, it is recorded in more detail in the book "The Biography of Mu Tianzi", from Zongzhou to cross the Yellow River in the north, cross Taihang, wade through Hutuo, go out of Yanmen, arrive at Baotou, cross Helan Mountain, pass through Qilian Mountain, take the Tianshan North Road to the West Queen Mother's State, and travel north for 1,900 miles, to the "Northwest Great Wilderness", and finally return to the capital from the Tianshan South Road.

According to this account, Yaochi should be on the side of the Tianshan Mountains, which is very funny.

If you want to force an explanation, then it is the person who wrote the biography of Mu Tianzi who misunderstood the concept of the north-south road of the Tianshan Mountains.

After passing through the Qilian Mountains, King Mu of Zhou arrived near Lop Nur along the Altun Mountain connected to it, then went north along Lop Nur to the Tianshan Mountains, and finally arrived at the state of the Western Queen Mother (Guloulan), and then continued northward, traveling 1,900 miles north along the Tianshan Mountains to the Outer Mongolian steppe (the Great Wilderness in the Northwest), and finally returned south along the Tianshan Mountains.

If you pass this explanation, then what you said about Youze is a matter of Yaochi, and it is right. ”

Although he had a lot of doubts in his heart, Bai Ning did not rush to refute Jiang Yingxue's judgment, but took out some very common information on the Internet and analyzed it as a whole.

Integrating it into a furnace, ignoring some important details, and then being self-consistent, we can indeed conclude that Lop Nur is Yaochi.

This way of discourse seems to support Jiang Yingxue, but in fact, it is also alluding to Jiang Yingxue's far-fetchedness.

Since it is far-fetched, then the result is also equivalent to speculation.

In addition to wanting to point out that Jiang Yingxue's conclusion is too arbitrary, there is also a desire to correct Professor Huang's implicit position and prevent Professor Huang from being restricted by Jiang Yingxue's employment relationship and not being able to make a fair ruling from the perspective of a third party.

Bai Ning's circumstance was indeed very effective, and hearing that Bai Ning was able to study and think about various historical documents immediately made Professor Huang enter a state of speculation in the pure academic field.

"A lot of people will regard Altun Mountain as a branch of Kunlun Mountain, and it is really rare that you can separate it.

However, I do think that Altun Mountain is a branch of Kunlun Mountain.

Even though there is a narrow inter-river valley between the Altun Mountains and the Kunlun Mountains as a dividing line, if the mountains are divided from the perspective of the ancients, they will not be separated separately because of a narrow inter-river valley.

For example, the most famous Taihang Eight Paths, the ancients would not have divided the Taihang Mountain into a mass of fragments because of these eight passages.

The separate division of the Altun Mountains is more based on the division of geological chronology, with the Altun Mountains dominated by Proterozoic strata, while the East Kunlun Mountains are dominated by the Late Paleozoic.

Moreover, the names of the mountains surrounding the Tarim Basin, namely the Tianshan Mountains, the Kunlun Mountains, and the Altun Mountains, the sudden transliteration of the name Altyn is very dissonant.

The upper half of the mountains are collectively called the Tianshan Mountains, while the lower half are divided into Kunlun and Altun Mountains, which is also unnatural in terms of designation.

Therefore, if Lop Nur is really Yaochi, then it is indeed in Kunlun Mountain. ”

As soon as Professor Huang made a move, he immediately showed his own skills, and directly attributed the Altyn Mountains to the branch of Kunlun Mountain, which can be described as a-for-tat confrontation implied in Bai Ning's words.

In this way, whether it is from various historical documents, or from ancient pronunciation, or geographical location, Lop Nur is Yaochi.

"If Lop Nur is Yaochi, then the Queen Mother of the West is Queen Loulan.

In terms of the characteristics of the people of the Western Regions of Loulan, it is not impossible for them to exist as a queen.

However, according to historical records, the population of the ancient city of Loulan was not more than 10,000, the soldiers were less than 3,000, and the city wall was an earthen city made of reeds and mud.

In this kind of small place where the Han soldiers arrived and the city was ruined, it didn't look like a residence that could carry myths and legends like the Queen Mother of the West.

Moreover, in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it is stated that the Western Queen Mother Tiger has a leopard's tail and a cave, that is, a half-human and half-demon existence living in a cave.

If you beautify it a little, it is a half-human and half-immortal sitting in the blessed land of the cave.

This is not the same as what King Zhou Mu experienced.

If you want to reconcile myth and reality, King Zhou Mu did go to Yaochi, but what he met was not the Queen Mother of the West herself, but Queen Loulan, who believed in the Queen Mother of the West.

As for the Guloulan City recorded later, it was also established by the believers of the Queen Mother of the West, not the location where the Queen Mother of the West was located.

Combined with the rumors of the Pisces jade pendant, then if the Queen Mother of the West has died, then her mausoleum is likely to be in Yaochi, which is also Lop Nur. ”

Bai Ning seems to be refuting Jiang Yingxue and Professor Huang, but in fact, he is looking for a meeting point in the chaos, which can be regarded as a process of showing off his skills.