Daomu Biji

The lid automatically opened slowly, and there was only a small thumb space inside. It was cushioned by Bai Juan. In the middle of Bai Juan was a bronze fish with gold.

The workmanship of this copper fish is very fine. Each scale is polished with horns and horns. On the eyebrows of the fish, there is a sea snake on each eye, which is vivid and lifelike.

I watched the fish up and down, and I felt a little puzzled. The antique goldware is my specialty, but this fish, I have no idea at all, but the craft water quality of this fish is only middle-class At that time, it should not be considered very expensive, in contrast, the purple gold box used to hold it was much more expensive.

Historically, it was only under special conditions that bargains were packed in expensive boxes. For example, this fish has a special symbolic value.

But I can't think of what this thing is for?Soldiers?Impossible, too small, not at all; token?It is also impossible, there is no text on it, and it is too easy to forge.Looking at the shape and volume of this thing, the only reasonable use is to decorate musical instruments and weapons, but there are no perforations or rope marks on it.

I was puzzled. I remembered that Uncle San was also very obsessed with this aspect and decided to consult him.Although he may not know more than me, with his experience, he may infer something.

Doing my attention, I took the copper fish and knocked on the door of the third uncle's room. The third uncle looked at me sneaky and let me in with a look of doubt.

After I sat down, I didn't talk nonsense. I told the story of what happened to open the labyrinth box.

The third uncle listened to me and took a closer look at the copper fish in my hand. It was also amazing. When I saw the door, I quickly asked what it was.What's the use?

The uncle said: "You came to ask me, I really asked. There are not more than one hundred people who know this thing in China, and there are only a dozen or so in this hundred, which can be said to be absolute. Rare treasures. "

I heard the third uncle said this, and he was so full of heart that he really could eat a golden ring in cow dung. I couldn't think of the value of the broken box. I was busy asking him how much he could sell.

Uncle San shook his head and said to me: "Saying that this fish is a rare treasure does not mean that this fish is valuable, but that its archaeological value is very high. This fish and the cultural relics unearthed during an archaeological investigation twenty years ago Similarly, there may be some connection. If it is handed over to the archaeological team at that time, it can be said to be an invaluable treasure, but if you want to rely on it to make a fortune, it is better to die this heart. "

I said in my heart that this is not a futile exercise. We are not archaeological. What is the use of archaeological value? I can't take this thing to the cultural relics management office to sell it.

I saw that Uncle San's face had changed, and I felt that there might be some hidden feelings behind me, so I asked what happened in the past. This thing was brought out of the Lu Palace. Could it have something to do with the Lu Palace?

Uncle San shook his head and refused to say, "I don't want to mention anything about these years. In short, I'm very responsible to tell you that this fish should appear in the Lu Palace. It should be just a coincidence. It has nothing to do with Lu Lu. At that time, The information has been destroyed by a fire, and these are destined. "

I heard depression, when I came to ask you something, even if you did n’t say it, you still made such a bunch of seduce words, do n’t I want to know more?So he resorted to the tricks he used to make soft and hard bubbles, so he must tell me.

The third uncle was troubled by my questioning, but had to reveal a little bit to me:

Uncle San had been a leader in the archaeological team for a period of time earlier. He was an expert in field archaeology and was good at handling strange ancient tombs that did not conform to the burial habits.

Tombs have been human-specific human activities since humans recognized death. Their history is as long as human history. Tombs in various periods contain a lot of information about human life at that time, covering all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation. Things happen, the ancients have inherited the law of tombs from now on.

However, not all dynasties have used their burial habits in the same way. There are many feudal ruling classes. Their graves are very special, and they cannot be inferred from our daily experience. They build graves. The technology is also the ultimate secret. For thousands of years, only a very small number of royal craftsmen were qualified to learn.

What we know now is that the tomb of Qin Shihuang is an example. These tombs have quite a lot of records circulating in the world, but no one has ever cracked the structure inside. Some people say that the tomb of Qin Shihuang is 1,500 meters deep, and the underground palace is hidden deep in Lishan. In fact, it is speculated that the real structure of the mausoleum, if you do n’t go in person, even if you give you a floor plan, you will not understand. The most favorite in my uncle ’s life is to enter these ancient tombs that no one knows, but in history, it can be civilized There are not many emperors engaged in specialization. This kind of tomb can be encountered but not sought. Even if some information is found, the tomb is not found, and there has been no opportunity for him to show his talents.

Until 1984, archaeologists discovered a rare underwater tomb in the Xisha Islands. The age and the identity of the owner of the tomb are unverifiable. This tomb was discovered by accident when the tomb robber wrecked the ship. The bottom of the sea was messy, there were more than a dozen blasting points, the tomb of the tomb was almost completely destroyed, and the outer tomb wall had several collapses, but the tomb robbers never found a way to enter this ancient tomb.

Judging from the huge stone found around the tomb, this tomb should be built on a large ship, then cut through the bottom of the ship, and sink the tomb together into the seabed. Such a burial law has unprecedented history and can have such strength. The owner of the tomb should have been a very prominent person, but because of the inability to enter the tomb, who could not be verified at the time, the relationship with Vietnam was tense at that time, and it was not possible to have a big construction there. The archaeological team had to find a hidden entrance from other places.

The cleanup work has been carried out. The collapsed tomb wall on the outer layer has been cleaned up. The scene inside the tomb wall shows the special structure of this ancient tomb. Archaeologists found a second seal with plaster behind the collapsed tomb wall The dead waterproof wall, the conclusion inferred from it, shocked the world-the inside of this ancient tomb was actually sealed.

There was air in the tomb. No one had thought of it in advance. Even an expert like my grandfather had never seen a hollow tomb isolated under water. All work was forced to stop and everyone entered carefully. The gap between the outer wall and the inner wall, found that there is a water inlet that is as wide as a foot, just enough for a person to creep into it, and it has not reached the end when entering a depth of more than ten meters. Instead, it was found lying in the corner of the tomb A copper box with a four-corner lion's head. After opening, there was a silk cloth wrapped in something. It was a snake-breasted copper fish. The copper fish was covered with gold. The eyebrows were two coiled sea snakes. The craftsmanship was detailed and lifelike.

Experts in the archaeological team at a glance know that this is a rare treasure, which may have a very important symbolic significance, but how can this box appear in the tomb? Everyone is puzzled. Expert analysis has two possibilities. One is that it was accidentally dropped there while carrying the funerary items, and the other is that the tomb thieves with supernatural powers have entered the ancient tomb and accidentally dropped it when they came out.According to the narrowness of the tomb, the latter is very likely.

A lot of important things were also found in the four-corner lion head copper box, among them a piece of white silk cloth used to wrap the copper fish, which wrote a list of books "xx xx", from which it was concluded that the tomb was of the Ming Dynasty There is another piece of rice paper that is folded into four squares. When it can be taken out, the operation mistakes have turned into a mass of powder, which is regrettable.

Uncle San was the second batch of national experts convened at that time to study the method of entering the ancient tomb. However, due to the large environment, there were many constructive opinions that were not convenient to put forward, and the study has been stuck for a long time.

This "Underwater Ship Tomb Under the Sea" was a little researched and built by him. He knows the method out of ten or nine, but the scale is so huge, and there is still air in it. , He can be sure that the four-corner lion head copper box is the tomb of the tomb thief, and the tomb passage on the inner wall must be a key to enter the tomb.

This so-called sunken burial submarine tomb must open the tomb wall to enter the tomb, but once it opens, seawater will flow into it, causing an unimaginable chain reaction. How did this tomb thief solve this contradiction? Not understandable.

In the course of the research, it was proposed to dig a tunnel at the bottom of the tomb (the third uncle thinks this person may be his counterpart), but digging 15 meters below the seabed still did not find the bottom brick, how long will it take to dig down, who It cannot be estimated that after exploration and shovel positioning, the soil on the seabed here is not the original sand of Xisha, but the white paste mud near the official kiln in Fujian. The entire sealing area reaches more than 7,000 square meters. At the bottom of the tomb, the technology at that time could not be achieved.

After more than a month of repeated scrutiny and research, they never came up with a practical method. In addition, the international form began to strain, the archaeological team was forced to evacuate, and the ancient tomb was re-covered with sealing soil. All the research data and location data are all Turned in to the government, this matter just disappeared in history.

Later, the third uncle learned that some experts at that time secretly left a part of the information, and had done some private research for a long time, and the result was unknown.

Uncle San said to me, "Your copper fish was seen by more than sixty experts at the time, but they didn't know what it was for. Later, after being transferred to the central government, I heard that I had researched some clues, but we didn't get it. , I do n’t know if the news was detained, or if it was erroneously circulated. This matter passed like this, and no one asked about it. Later, the information was sent to the National Archives. I heard that it was locked in the basement. When the time comes to get in touch and take a look, I did n’t expect that all the fires had burned out in the past few years. If you want to know the strangeness of it, I am afraid it is not so easy now. "

I asked my uncle: "You gave up like this weird tomb? With your temper, even if you can't go, I think you can't hold it privately. I don't think you know what you know. It ’s a sell, I promise I wo n’t say it even if it ’s a killer. "

The third uncle smiled meaningfully and said firmly: "No, the next thing I will not say even if I bring it to the grave."