The Almighty Taoist of the Beautiful President

Chapter 570 Ancient Cave Secret Treasure
In front of the cave, hundreds of meters into the cave, flashes of golden light flickered.

It was the light and shadow caused by the reflection of the light from the snake's eyes in Li Changan's hand.

What Hu Yaxin and Chiyoko saw was these golden lights, and in their eyes, it seemed to be an innumerable treasure.

The treasure that exists in the isolated island is a common plot in movies and novels, and the two girls get excited immediately.

Li Changan could see it more clearly than them, the golden reflection was definitely not gold, because precious metals such as gold and silver, if they were not polished, the reflection effect would never reach this level, now it looks more like one side bronze mirror.

Sure enough, they went deep into the cave, and after passing through a circular gap, they saw a huge copper mirror. The surface of the ancient copper mirror had been oxidized very badly, only the middle part was still transparent, and the light was reflected from here out.

Looking next to the bronze mirror, there is a bronze box with a sheepskin seal on it. The sheepskin has rotted, and the bronze box is also stained with rust.

Hu Yaxin walked over joyfully, reaching out to touch the copper box, but Li Changan grabbed it: "Don't move!"

Hu Yaxin was startled.

"This box might be weird!" Li Changan said in a deep voice.As he spoke, he picked up a stone from the ground and smashed it hard.

I saw a burst of red smoke emanating from the copper box in an instant, with a strange fragrance, but when the smoke fell to the ground, the stones on the ground made a hissing sound. It was so corrosive that it was comparable to thick sulfuric acid.

"Brother Li, how did you know..." Hu Yaxin touched her chest, almost frightened to death. If she had touched the box by herself just now, the corrosive smoke would have sprayed directly on her face, and her beautiful face would be completely ruined. .

Li Changan smiled faintly: "I'm not a prophet, but I saw the skeletons of small animals beside the box. Those small animals must have crawled in and triggered the mechanism of the box, so they died here."

Hu Yaxin looked down, and sure enough, she saw a few bones in the soil. The slender and pale bones might be some kind of reptile.

Li Changan led them out, each got a long branch, and then went back and used the branch to open the box.

The red smoke sprayed continuously from the bronze box, like cinnabar.

"These are erysipelas. In the pre-Qin period, alchemists extracted erysipelas from sulfur and other ores. No wonder they are so powerful." Li Changan whispered.

"Why is it the pre-Qin era?" Chiyoko had a little understanding of Chinese culture, and was a little confused at this time.

"Because after the Han Dynasty, alchemists used mercury to make alchemy, and the characteristics of mercury made alchemy at that time very safe, and this kind of erysipelas would no longer be produced." Li Changan looked at the bronze mirror again: "Well, this is the Four Mountains Mirror , the works in the late Warring States period have mountain characters. You can see that the font on it is Xiaozhuan. After Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms, he abolished the scripts of various countries and simplified them into this Xiaozhuan style. Inferred from these aspects, this is absolutely It is a work of the early period of the Great Qin Empire."

Hu Yaxin and Chiyoko could only admire now, Li Changan stepped forward, avoiding the erysipelas that had not dissipated, and carefully observed the lines on the bronze mirror: "This seems to be a painting, not for sacrifices, nor for funerals. Yes, it's more like, more like depicting a scene of an emperor going on a tour. Look, this should be the picture of enshrining Zen on Mount Tai. According to the calculation of the age, it happened in the 28th year of Qin Shihuang, 219 BC. At that time, the first emperor visited Linzi and summoned Confucian scholars , offering sacrifices to heaven and earth on Mount Tai, to show that he is ordered by heaven..."

Li Changan's eyes lit up when he said this: "Miaozai, Miaozai, these things belong to the Qin Dynasty, that is to say..."

He suddenly turned around, looked at the two women and said in a deep voice: "I remember when we first landed on the island, we discussed the strange situation on this island. At that time, we speculated that this might be the place where Xu Fudong's ship sank when he went to Japan. Now it seems that , this speculation is true!"

Hu Yaxin exclaimed: "So, Xu Fu has been here before?"

But Chiyoko became nervous: "It is said that Xu Fu successfully landed on Kyushu Island in our country. I have also seen Xu Fu's ruins in Kyushu, so it is impossible for him to sink the ship here."

Li Chang'an smiled: "Xu Fu's journey to the east was not just a boat. According to historical records, there were [-] virgins and [-] virgins, as well as alchemy utensils, rewards from the first emperor. I don't think there are four or five big boats. He can't fit them." Those people and treasures."

He looked at the bronze mirror and the box and continued: "Xu Fu must have arrived in Japan. The sunken ship here may be just one of them. Anyway, we have something to do on this isolated island."

He took the two women, first bypassed the bronze mirror and the box, and continued to explore.

As a result, the cave was several kilometers deep, and it actually led all the way to the pit-like valley behind.

Li Changan stopped in his tracks: "We don't have any supplies, so we can't move forward for the time being. We still have to prepare before we can venture into that valley."

They retreated back to the bronze mirror and the box, and saw that the smoke from the mechanism in the bronze box had dissipated, revealing half a box of copper coins and ten scrolls of bamboo slips inside.

Things like bamboo slips should have rotted long ago after being exposed to oxygen and humidity for such a long time, but the bamboo slips in this bronze box are still intact.

Li Changan deduced that these bamboo slips were treated with medicine by the alchemist at that time. He went back outside the cave and made a pair of simple gloves out of black python skin. shipped out.

Although the internal injury has healed now, he is still out of breath from exhaustion.

However, after wiping off the rust with seawater, the bronze mirror has become as clean as ever. Although the effect is far worse than that of the glass mercury mirror, at least it can be seen clearly.

The two girls pushed the mirror to the beach, took off their leather clothes with a smile, and took a bath in front of the mirror.

Li Changan flipped through the bronze box.

There are many kinds of copper coins inside, including knife-shaped, shovel-shaped, and tripod-shaped, all of which were used in the six kingdoms of the pre-Qin period. inscription.

There are at least thousands of copper coins minted by Qin Shihuang.

But the most precious ones are those bamboo slips.

Li Changan carefully opened the scrolls and flipped through them.

The characters on the bamboo slips were also Qin Dynasty Xiaozhuan. He could barely recognize about [-]% of them, and it took more than four hours to read them all.

Hu Yaxin and Chiyoko had already bathed and wiped with fresh water, and they were busy cooking now, but Li Changan's mood was agitated and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

The things recorded on this bamboo slip are really amazing!
(End of this chapter)