Chapter 2198 Decoding
Because there are two external eyes, all kinds of things have nowhere to hide in front of the external eyes, and there is no secret.
The items in the wooden box had been buried deep in the ground for who knows how many years, so they had a cold aura unique to ancient tombs.
She didn't like that kind of smell, Le Xiaoxiao.
The little Lolita has a sharp eye, and she can tell at a glance. Yan Xing's desire to show off disappeared, and he gave Wulingshen to her first: "This is the medicinal material collected by the brothers in the team when they went out on a mission. This time there are brothers. I found a few and used them as medicine for you.”
Then he pushed another wooden box over: "This is the cultural relic we snatched back. When we checked the past of Huang Zhichang, we found that he had interacted with a certain collector and cultural relic dealer, and we learned that he Sold several cultural relics.
This time Huang Zhichang was arrested. The buyer quickly changed hands because he was afraid of being implicated. The cultural relic dealer wanted to smuggle the items abroad for trading. We hunted for half a month before we successfully intercepted the items.
This looks like the words on an animal shell. None of the brothers in our team recognize it. You are very knowledgeable and talented. Please help me see if I can decipher it. ”
"Okay, let's leave it there. It's not clean. I'll prepare some medicine to disinfect them first." Yan Chihuo didn't send the things to cultural relic experts for research. He thought it was because asking cultural relic experts to research would take time. He wanted to do it quickly. quick decision.
"Okay." The little Loli didn't reply, so Yan Xing quickly closed the lid of the wooden box.
To study something, Xiao Le temporarily put the drawings away on the low table, went to the kitchen to get a small basin, and then looked for medicinal materials in the boxes in the shelves of the medicine cabinet or in the high cabinets where medicinal materials were collected.
After rummaging through boxes and cabinets, I found more than a dozen kinds of medicines, then took them to the kitchen, set up a stove, and placed an earthen pot to cook medicine soup.
When burning yak dung in the stove, you need to keep the fire burning. After about half an hour, the medicinal soup in the earthen pot boils.
The little Loli waited for another ten minutes, then removed the earthenware pot, added smokeless charcoal to the stove, placed another large earthenware pot, threw a fish head and medicinal materials into the pot, and cooked fish head soup.
After waiting for a while, the little Loli took a stainless steel basin, poured the prepared medicinal soup into the steel basin, and added a pinch of plant ash and two bowls of cold water.
After preparing the potion, he took it to the restaurant, threw the animal shell pieces and silk cloth into the basin and soaked them, then found gloves and put them on to protect his hands, and then gently rubbed the silk cloth.
The medicinal soup was originally red, but after rubbing the silk for a while, the water became darker and darker.
The little loli didn't care whether the water had changed color or not. She gently rubbed the silk until it stopped losing color, and then used a soft-bristled brush to brush the shell and nail plates.
I brushed each shell piece once, took the water to the bathroom and flushed it into the sewer, then mixed the medicinal soup with cold water and washed it twice, and the cleaning work was completed.
Wipe the shell pieces and silk clean, and spread them out.
The remaining silk fabric is less than half the width of a palm, and the periphery has been corroded to pieces. The silk surface is clean, and there is only a little embroidery in one place.
Le Yun studied the silk repeatedly against the light for a while before saying the result: "This silk has been stained with human sweat. It is either the remnants of a handkerchief or the remnants of underwear. There are too few traces of embroidery to be sure. Whether it is embroidered with decorations or characters, it can be dated to the middle and late Three Kingdoms period."
"From the Three Kingdoms era?" Yan Xing opened his eyes wide. The capital of Province E belonged to the Chu State during the Warring States Period, and most of the area during the Three Kingdoms era belonged to Soochow. He just didn't know if it was a pure Soochow antique.
Le Yun nodded, studied the shell armor again, played with it for a while, and then arranged it into a pattern.
The shell is a tortoise shell. There are six pieces in total, five large and one small. Only two pieces are connected. The other tortoise shell pieces are not connected shell pieces.
There are three bamboo slips, one is more than three inches long, and the other two are only between one and two inches.
There are two characters engraved on the long bamboo slip. On the one-inch-long bamboo strip, only a few corners of the character remain, and on the other piece, only the lower half of a certain character remains.
Four of the six pieces of tortoise shell have complete characters, while the characters on the other two pieces only have part of the corners remaining. The characters are somewhere between pictographic characters and seal script.
After fiddling with it for a while, Le Yun took out a pen and paper, copied the words, and looked at them again and again, sweating: "If you guessed correctly, this bamboo slip is from the Spring and Autumn Period, and the tortoise shell is from the mid-Shang Dynasty.
Both of them are not native to Province E, but come from the Wuxia area of Chongqing Province. It’s hard to say where the tortoise shell originated. This kind of tortoise can be found all over the country. The bamboo has the characteristics of the native territory in the Wu Gorge area.
These pieces of tortoise shells are sacred objects used by the ancient shamans in the Bashu area for divination and blessing. Therefore, they are either the burial objects of a high priest of the witch clan or the burial objects of a certain leader. ”
The little Loli studied for a while and got an idea. Yan Xing's eyes were filled with mosquito repellent and he swallowed his saliva: "Little Loli, what are those words?"
"The four complete characters are the characters for God, Earth, River and Thunder. The other two characters are just the remaining corners, so it is difficult to make a conclusion.
On the long bamboo slip is the word "Houde". The radical of the half-character bamboo slip can be determined to be the bottom of the wooden character, but the upper half cannot be guessed. Another bamboo slip only has incomplete strokes, making it impossible to guess. ”
The little Loli deciphered a few words. Yan Xing stretched his neck and leaned over, taking a look, with a doubtful expression on his face: "Is this God, Earth, River, and Thunder? I can't tell at all, okay? Let me guess." I can't even think of it in my head.
Little loli, is this the divine word? Is this the character for river? Is this the word "地"? "Yan Foodie pointed at the tortoise shell and checked the words into the seats. Leyun looked at the sky silently: "You perfectly avoided all the correct answers. ”
"None of them are correct?" Yan Xing opened his eyes wide in disbelief. How could it be possible? Just four words, and he didn't get any of them right?
"Well, so you perfectly avoided the correct answer. You said the word for "地" is the word for "神", the word for "river" is the word for "神", and the one that you thought was the word for "地" is the word for "雷".
"The word "神" and the word "river" are wrong, I accept it, but the word "雷" is also wrong with the word "地", I don't accept it. These two characters are incompatible with each other, okay?"
Yan Xing wanted to smash the tortoise shell.
"But it happens to be like that." Yan Chihuo showed an expression of doubt about life, and Le Yun pursed her lips and snickered: "They all said that this was something used by the ancestors of the Wu Gorge area, Wu Zhu. Those ancient Shu people had A very strange belief passed down from our distant ancestors
What you think is the word "地" next to the word "地" is actually lightning. This is the worship of the divine power of thunder and lightning by the ancestors of some places in Bashu. ”
Don't ask her how she knows.
When I asked, she had seen the kind of pictographic and seal-like characters in Dongchen Continent. There was a tribe in the southwest of Dongchen Continent that used that kind of ancient and magical characters. Going back to the origin, it was also a talisman font. One of the ancestors.
"That's lightning? Where does it look like lightning?" Yan Xing stared at a certain word over and over masochistically, really doubting his life.
"You don't look like lightning. The ancestors somewhere in Bashu thought it looked like it. To be more detailed, it looks like a tree struck by lightning. This one represents lightning, and the other side represents rain and clouds. It has the characteristics The characteristic of the rain god, cloud god and lightning god is thunder.”
Le Yun explained, smiling and rolling her eyes: "From these words, it is inferred that either a sacrifice is held every spring to pray to the gods of heaven, earth, thunder and other gods for good weather, or there is a heavy rain and a big flood, and the sacrifice is prayed for rain. Stop the water.
Also, when a certain important person dies, please ask the gods of heaven and earth to bless him, the god of thunder not to avoid him, the god of river not to stop him from crossing the river, the god of earth to take his body, and pray to the gods of heaven to take his soul to heaven. ”
"I..." Yan Xing stared at the words for another ten seconds, then gave up as if frustrated: "Forget it, the beliefs of our ancestors are so magical that I can't understand them. After all, the generation gap has changed after hundreds or thousands of years. Too big.”
"It's not a problem of generation gap, but if you read less, if you read more and study history and culture more, maybe there will be no generation gap, and maybe you will become a spokesperson."
"You're beating around the bush and saying I'm stupid again." If you're stupid, you should study more, and that's what little Lolita probably means.
"No, this time you misunderstood. This time I advise you to study more history and culture when you have time. In this way, you will find a lot of interesting things. For example, these can be used as a basis for studying the life and culture of the ancestors in Wuxia area. Maybe You can also discover a lot of life customs and culture that you didn’t know before.”
"Everyone should make the best use of their talents, and it is better to leave it to the geniuses who study history." He is a big-time soldier, and it is enough to know history. Forget about studying, he is more suitable to study modern tactics and the escape routes of criminals.
"If you don't study those things, you can take them back now to study how to add another crime to Huang Lao Zamao."
Bamboo slips from the Spring and Autumn Period and tortoise shells from the mid-Shang Dynasty are precious cultural relics for studying the cultural customs of that era. Bamboo slips in particular are generally difficult to preserve and are even more precious.
Huang Laozamao and others secretly embezzled cultural relics and profited from them by selling cultural relics. His gang did not take the initiative to explain in court. He probably thought that he was unaware of it.
Classmate Le Xiao also admired Yan Chihuo and his team. The evidence she obtained did not record that the old miscellaneous misappropriated tortoise shells and bamboo slips.
The bribes Lao Zamao received included antiques, jade, porcelain, imported goods from overseas, high-end luxury jewelry, and a few pieces of bronze.
Those things were secretly resold by him and his son, thus making huge profits.
Yan Shuaiguo and his brothers caught another piece of evidence of Lao Zamao's crime, which must be added in the second trial to add another shame to him.
"It is the job of the public prosecutor to add charges to the old bastard. I will not take their job. I will only provide them with evidence and witnesses.
What's more, I heard that those scumbags have appealed against the decision. There is still some time before the second trial. I have to give myself a rest first, and I can't exhaust my body. ”
The little Loli wants him to get out again. Yan Xing is not doing well. How can he stay and occupy the territory?
"Oh, you also know that you need to take a rest. If you don't take a rest in your army, why did you come to the paradise just after you came back?"
"Please identify what this is."
"Now that I've recognized you, why don't you stay in the corner and squint for a while, and why are you chattering away?"
"Hey!" Little Loli was kind enough to let him catch up on his sleep on the spot. Yan Xing's mood was aroused. He picked up a chair and ran to the north of the central hall to set up a chair next to the partition wall. He sat on it and closed his eyes to fall asleep.
Mr. Yan fell asleep, and Mr. Le continued to ponder the tortoise shell.
(End of chapter)