Origin

The writing on the beads is regular script. Although the official language of the Yuan Dynasty was Mongolian, the writing used by the Han people still followed the regular script of the Song Dynasty.

While Wu Zhongyuan was looking at the bead, Wang Xinran handed over another one, "It's also on it."

Wu Zhongyuan took it and looked at it again, the bead was engraved with the word "Up."

After careful inspection, it was found that there were four inscriptions on the twelve beads, which read "Qing Yun Zhi Shang."

These four characters are an idiom, which is usually used to describe being proud of officialdom and advancing step by step.

After handing over all the beads to Wu Zhongyuan, Wang Xinran continued to search for possible clues from the small tomb, but in the end she found nothing, because there were not many things in the tomb, except for some wine jars and weapons used by Wu Lu during his lifetime, there were no other burials However, no epitaph recording the life of the tomb owner was found in the tomb.

"After you go up, you have to pretend to be happy." Wang Xinran said.

Wu Zhongyuan tilted his head to look at her.

Wang Xinran explained, "They should be hiding around here. Through the telescope, we can see our expressions."

"I understand what you mean." Wu Zhongyuan nodded. Wang Xinran wanted to mislead his opponents into thinking that they had already obtained the spirit stone, thus giving up the search for this spirit stone.

The two climbed from the bottom of the pit to the ground, and walked quickly to the car in the distance. When walking, the two did not smile, but looked dignified and hurried, looking around when walking. After getting into the car, Wang Xinran lowered the window Glass, throwing away the cigarette butt, the two of them had fake smiles on their faces at this moment.

Wang Xinran raised the window glass and the car started. Wang Xinran ordered the driver to drive normally. Don't drive too fast, and don't drive too slow. Driving too fast seems to be in a hurry, and driving too slow seems a bit deliberate.

After the car started, Wang Xinran contacted the headquarters and asked them to deal with the aftermath, and then reported the relevant situation to the headquarters.

During this process, Wu Zhongyuan kept his eyes closed and held the twelve beads found in the tomb in his hand.

After finishing the chores, Wang Xinran turned to look at Wu Zhongyuan, "What are you thinking?"

Wu Zhongyuan didn't open his eyes, "The lapis lazuli is produced in Afghanistan, and during the Yuan Dynasty, Afghanistan was a subsidiary state of the Yuan Dynasty."

Wang Xinran didn't understand what Wu Zhongyuan wanted to express, but she didn't pursue it because she knew Wu Zhongyuan would continue.

Wu Zhongyuan continued, "In ancient times, lapis lazuli was very rare. Like turquoise amber, it can be used as currency. In the Qing Dynasty, this gemstone was worn by officials of the fourth rank, but in the Yuan Dynasty, it had not yet become an official accessory for officials. .”

"And then?" Wang Xinran asked.

Wu Zhongyuan said, "Wu Lu is a rough man, he probably doesn't like to wear this kind of jewelry, even if he wears it, he shouldn't engrave it, because being an official is not his interest, so I suspect that this string of beads was given to him by someone else. "

"Since the lapis lazuli is very valuable, the person who gave him this string of beads must not be an ordinary person." Wang Xinran said.

Wu Zhongyuan nodded again, "Qian Yunzhi was kind to him, and Qian Yunzhi returned home after retiring. I suspect that this string of beads was given to him by Qian Yunzhi as a souvenir before he left."

"I understand what you mean," Wang Xinran said, "Wu Lu has no wealth, and if he suddenly accepts such an expensive gift from the old leader, it is very likely that he will reciprocate it."

Wu Zhongyuan nodded slowly.

Wang Xinran didn't ask any more questions, picked up his mobile phone and asked the headquarters for help, asking the other party to find out where Qian Yunzhi's hometown is.

Wu Lu was a half-way monk who was already a middle-aged man when he appeared in the Yuan Dynasty. Unlike him, Qian Yunzhi lived in the Yuan Dynasty and was over 60 years old when he returned home. His deeds are listed in historical materials. There are many records.

Soon, news came from the headquarters that Qian Yunzhi's hometown is Zizhou, Shandong, which is now Zibo, Shandong.

Qian Yunzhi lived for more than ten years after returning home, and was buried in the Qian family's family cemetery after his death.

It took more than three hours to fly from the northwest to the territory of Shandong. It was already past ten o'clock in the evening when the plane landed. On the plane, Wang Xinran got some clues about Qian Yunzhi. One of the clues worried the two of them. It is a prominent family for many years. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a champion of martial arts. Their cemetery has been relatively intact. However, during the period of breaking the four olds, the Qian family's ancestral tomb was severely damaged. It is not because the Qian family produced traitors or bad people. , but the surname of the Qian family is not good, what kind of money is money?The tail of capitalism?smashed.

Although exhausted physically and mentally, the two dared not delay, they rushed from Zibo to Linzi overnight, and from Linzi to Qianjiazhuang, Youping Township.

Qianjiazhuang is a large village with more than 800 households. 70.00% of the people in the village have the surname Qian. Most of these people are direct or collateral descendants of Qian Yunzhi.

In China, there is no such thing as a patriarch anymore. In the villages, both the secretary and the village chief are in charge. Many village secretaries and village chiefs are the same person. This is the case in this village. The current secretary is surnamed Qian.

Long before the two of them arrived at the village, Secretary Qian had already been waiting at the entrance of the village. This guy received a phone call from his superior at five o'clock in the morning, and there was a political task that required his full cooperation.

At six o'clock in the morning, the two men and Secretary Qian drank tea from the village office. Secretary Qian was so sleepy, and so were the two of them.

At 06:30, a few old men came with their genealogy. The genealogy does not simply record who is the grandfather and who is the grandson, but also records many important events in the family. After consulting the family tree, the two were excited again It turned out that the Red Guards who smashed Qian's family's ancestral grave were a group of half-children who were in junior high school, and they only smashed the tombstone, and did not dig up the grave and destroy the corpse.

The ancestral grave of the Qian family is located at the back of the mountain, occupying half of the mountain. Qian Yunzhi is the source of the Qian family's fortune and the earliest ancestor recorded in the Qian family tree. His tomb is at the foot of the back mountain. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Qian family would go to the back mountain to offer sacrifices to a thousand ancestors of the Qian family represented by him.

The county archaeological team arrived at eight o'clock in the morning, seven or eight of them came, carrying Luoyang shovel and other archaeological tools.

In front of other people's children and grandchildren, digging other people's ancestral graves is something that no one can accept. It takes a whole day just to do ideological work, to understand it with emotion, to move it for profit, as for the benefit, the two of them disagree. It's too clear, it seems that the superiors promised to do some kind of project to benefit farmers in the village.

Secretary Qian's expression perfectly interpreted what it means to be unwilling. The elderly members of the Qian family also looked as if they were mourning their concubines. They burned paper and kowtowed, crying and criticizing their "children and grandchildren for their unfilial piety."

After the sun went down, the excavation equipment was brought in. It was still an excavator, but it was only a small one. At this time, the archaeological team had already determined the specific location and size regulations of Qian Yunzhi’s tomb. The vault of the burial chamber was dug.

On the premise of minimizing the damage to the tomb as much as possible, the archaeological team dug up a corner of Qian Yunzhi's tomb. Due to its age, groundwater seeped into the tomb, and there was quite a deep pool of water inside.

Before that, the archaeological team knew that there was water in the tomb, and the pumping equipment had been prepared long ago. When the water pipe was inserted down, there was a sudden crackling sound in the tomb, which sounded like a big fish jumping in the water. wave.

At this time, it was already dark, and the archaeological team members who inserted the tube were frightened and threw the tube to escape and climbed up, "There is something under the water."

Not only the archaeologists, but even Wu Zhongyuan and Wang Xinran were shocked by the sound from the tomb. How could there be living things in the sealed tomb?

However, Qian Yunzhi's tomb is not big, and even if there are living creatures inside, they will not be too big to be scary. Wu Zhongyuan grabbed Wang Xinran who wanted to go down and insert the pipe, and jumped down to insert the water pipe into the bottom of the tomb.

The water pump was turned on, and the black stagnant water poured out, along with the stagnant water, there was also a strong fishy smell.

It is wrong to have a fishy smell. It is either fish or snakes. It smells fishy and makes you want to vomit.

Qian Yunzhi's tomb was about [-] square meters, not too big for an official of his level, but not too small either. After half an hour of pumping, the water flow became weak, and the crackling sound in the tomb was endless.

Judging by the sound, it should be a fish, and more than one.

Wu Zhongyuan took the strong flashlight of the archaeological team and jumped to the gap above the dome to illuminate it. Before the illumination, he secretly made mental preparations and tried to imagine the frightening and terrifying things in the tomb.

After seeing the contents of the tomb, Wu Zhongyuan secretly thanked himself for being fully prepared in advance, because the contents of the tomb were indeed terrifying. In the [-]-square-meter tomb, there were many snake-like creatures winding around.

After the initial visual shock subsided, Wu Zhongyuan took a closer look at the snake-like creatures below, and found that these snake-like creatures were not any strange species, but some huge loaches and eels. Loach is black and there are a lot of them. It is several times larger than common loach.There are fewer yellow-brown eels, but they are bigger. The largest one is more than one meter long, which is as thick as a wrist.

The pipe for pumping water is ten centimeters thick. Some loaches are sucked into the pipe and crushed by the impeller of the water pump. Red bloody water flows out from the outlet pipe.

This situation became even more frightening under the illumination of the flashlight. Secretary Qian and the others were stupefied with fright. Their legs trembled in fright, their faces turned pale, and they almost turned around and ran away.

Seeing this situation, the archaeological team went to give them popular science education. According to the location of the tomb, it was inferred that there had been an earthquake in this area before. The earthquake cracked the rock formation, and some fish that could survive in the dark came from the crack. It entered the tomb together with the groundwater.

Such an explanation obviously cannot eliminate the panic and fear of everyone, but there is no time to appease them right now. The top priority is to enter the tomb as soon as possible and search for possible spirit stones.

This work lasted for a whole night. General Qian's tomb was a joint burial. In addition to his corpse, there were three female corpses in the tomb, which should be his concubines.

Due to the long time of water ingress, the coffin in the tomb has rotted away, and the corpses and funerary objects were scattered in the mud everywhere in the tomb.

After a night of excavation, the archaeological team found a small number of funerary objects from the tomb, mainly gold and silver, and some daily necessities, but there was nothing the two wanted to find.

At the later stage of the excavation, the archaeological team found the epitaph lying in a corner of the tomb. Because the light in the tomb was dim and the smell was foul, Wang Xinran ordered people to carry the epitaph out of the tomb, rinse it with clean water, and read it carefully.

The so-called epitaph is actually a stone tablet that records the life of the owner of the tomb. Hundreds of words are densely engraved on this stone tablet. Wu Zhongyuan also moved over to look for clues with Wang Xinran...