Origin

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

While Wu Zhongyuan was looking at the beads, Wang Xinran handed over another one, "There's one on it too."

Wu Zhongyuan took it and looked at it again. Engraved on the bead was "Shang."

After careful inspection, it was found that four of the twelve beads were engraved with the words "Qingyun straight up."

These four words are an idiom, usually used to describe success in officialdom and promotion.

After handing all the beads to Wu Zhongyuan, Wang Xinran continued to search for possible clues in 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. There was no epitaph recording the tomb owner’s life story 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 near here. They can see our expressions through the telescope."

"I understand what you mean." Wu Zhongyuan nodded. Wang Xinran wanted to mislead his opponents and make them think that they had obtained the spirit stone, thus giving up the search for the spirit stone.

The two people climbed from the bottom of the pit to the ground and walked quickly towards the car in the distance. As they walked, they did not smile. Instead, they had solemn expressions and walked in a hurry. They looked around while walking. After getting into the car, Wang Xinran lowered the window. Glass and threw away the cigarette butts. At this moment, the two of them had fake smiles on their faces.

Wang Xinran raised the window glass and the car started to move. Wang Xinran ordered the driver to drive normally and not to drive too fast or too slowly. Driving too fast seemed like he was in a hurry, and driving too slowly seemed a little deliberate.

After the car started moving, Wang Xinran contacted the headquarters and asked them to handle 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 hands.

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

Wu Zhongyuan did not open his eyes, "Lapis lazuli comes from Afghanistan, and during the Yuan Dynasty, Afghanistan was a dependent country of the Yuan Dynasty."

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

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

"Then what?" 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 have it engraved because being an official is not his interest, so I suspect that this string of beads was given to him by someone else. "

"Since lapis lazuli is 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 retired from old age and returned to his hometown. 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 talent and suddenly accepted such an expensive gift from the old leader. It is very likely that he will reciprocate the favor."

Wu Zhongyuan nodded slowly.

Wang Xinran stopped asking questions.

Picked up the phone and asked the headquarters for help, asking the other party to help find where Qian Yunzhi's hometown was.

Wu Lu was a semi-monastic monk who was already middle-aged when he appeared in the Yuan Dynasty. Unlike him, Qian Yunzhi had been living in the Yuan Dynasty and was already over sixty years old when he returned home. There are historical materials about his deeds. There are many records on it.

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

Qian Yunzhi lived for more than ten years after retiring and returned to his hometown. After his death, he was buried in the Qian family cemetery.

It took more than three hours to fly from the northwest to Shandong. When the plane landed, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening. On the plane, Wang Xinran got some clues about Qian Yunzhi. One of the clues worried the two of them. The Qian family It has been a prominent family for many years. During the Qing Dynasty, there was a military champion. Their tomb has been relatively intact. However, during the period of destroying the Four Old Ages, the Qian family's ancestral tomb was severely damaged. This is not because the Qian family has produced traitors or bad guys. , but the surname of the Qian family is not good. Money is money, so do you accept money without faith? The tail end of capitalism? Smashed.

Although they were exhausted physically and mentally, the two of them did not dare to delay. They rushed from Zibo to Linzi overnight, and then from Linzi to Qianjiazhuang, Youping Township.

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

There is no clan leader in China anymore. Every village is managed by the secretary and the village chief. In many villages, the secretary and the village chief are the same person. This is the case in this village. The current secretary is named Qian, and he is both the village chief and the talk person of his clan.

Before the two arrived at the village, Secretary Qian was already waiting at the entrance of the village. This guy received a call from his superiors at five in the morning, saying that there was a political task that required his full cooperation.

At six o'clock in the morning, the two of them drank tea with Secretary Qian in the village office. Secretary Qian was very sleepy, and so were the two of them. The tea they brewed was strong and bitter, not to taste good, but just to refresh themselves.

At half past six, a few old men came with the genealogy. The genealogy not only recorded who was whose grandfather, who was whose grandson, but also recorded many major events that happened within the clan. After consulting the genealogy, the two of them became excited again. Come to think of it, it turns out that the Red Guards who smashed Qian's family's ancestral grave were a group of teenagers who were in junior high school. They only smashed the tombstones and did not dig up the graves or destroy the corpses.

The ancestral grave of the Qian family is located in the back mountain, occupying half of the hilltop. Qian Yunzhi is the source of the Qian family's fortune and the earliest ancestor recorded in the Qian family genealogy. His tomb is located at the foot of the back mountain. During the Qingming Festival, Yuan Dynasty, the Qian family would also go to the back mountain to worship a group of Qian ancestors represented by him.

The county archaeological team arrived at eight o'clock in the morning. Seven or eight people came, bringing Luoyang shovels and other archaeological tools.

No one could accept digging someone's ancestral grave in front of their children and grandchildren. Just doing ideological work took a whole day. It was very clear. It seemed that the superiors had promised to carry out some project to benefit farmers in the village.

Secretary Qian's expression perfectly explained what it means to be unwilling. Several elderly members of the Qian family also looked like they were mourning for their heirs, burning paper, kowtowing, crying and criticizing "their children and grandchildren are unfilial."

After the sun went down, the excavation equipment was brought in. It was still an excavator, but a small one. By this time, the archaeological team had determined the specific location and size of Qian Yunzhi's tomb. They pointed out the specific location, and it was ready in less than ten minutes. The dome of the tomb was excavated.

Under the premise of minimal damage to the tomb, the archaeological team dug up a corner of Qian Yunzhi's tomb. Because it was so old, groundwater seeped into the tomb, and there was quite deep water inside.

The archaeological team had known before that there was water in the tomb, and the water pumping equipment had been prepared. When they inserted the water pipe, there was a sudden crackling sound in the tomb, which sounded like a big fish rising in the water. wave.

It was already dark by this time. The archaeological team member who inserted the tube was so frightened that he threw away the tube and climbed up as if to run away. "There is something under the water."

Not only the archaeological team members, but also Wu Zhongyuan and Wang Xinran were startled by the noise coming from the tomb. How could there be living things in the sealed tomb?

However, Qian Yunzhi's tomb was not big, and even if there were living creatures inside, they would not be intimidatingly big. Wu Zhongyuan grabbed Wang Xinran, who wanted to go down and insert a pipe, and jumped down to insert the water pipe into the bottom of the tomb.

The water pump started, and the dirty black water poured out. Along with the water, there was a strong fishy smell.

It's not right if it smells fishy. It's either fish or snakes. It's fishy and fishy, ​​and makes you want to vomit when you smell it.

Qian Yunzhi's tomb is about fifty square meters, which is not too big for an official of his level, but it is not too small either. After the water pump was pumped for half an hour, the water flow decreased, and the crackling sound in the tomb was endless.

Judging from the sound, it must be fish, and there are more than one.

Wu Zhongyuan took the archaeological team's strong flashlight, jumped to the gap above the dome and shined it down. Before shining the light, he secretly prepared himself mentally and tried his best to imagine that the things in the tomb were scary and terrifying.

When Wu Zhongyuan saw clearly what was in the tomb, he was secretly glad that he had been fully prepared mentally in advance, because the things in the tomb were indeed terrifying. There were many snake-like creatures twisting and coiling in the fifty-square-meter tomb.

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 large loaches and eels. The loaches were black and there were many of them. It is several times larger than the common loach. There are fewer yellow-brown eels, but they are larger. The largest one is more than one meter long by visual inspection, and is as thick as a wrist.

The pipe for pumping water was ten centimeters thick. Some loaches were sucked into the pipe and crushed by the impeller of the water pump. Red blood flowed out from one end of the pipe.

This situation became even more terrifying under the illumination of the flashlight. Secretary Qian and others were stunned. Their legs were shaking with fear, their faces turned pale, and they almost turned around and ran away.

Seeing this, the archaeological team went over to provide them with popular science education. Based on the location of the tomb, it was inferred that an earthquake had probably occurred in this area before. The earthquake cracked the rock formations, and some fish that could survive in the dark emerged from the cracks. Entered the tomb with underground water.

This explanation obviously cannot eliminate everyone's panic and fear, 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 spiritual stones.

This work lasted all night. General Qian's tomb was a joint tomb. In addition to his corpse, there were also the corpses of three women, who should be his concubines.

Due to the long time of water intrusion, the coffin in the tomb has rotted away, and the corpses and burial objects are scattered in the mud throughout the tomb.

After a night of excavation, the archaeological team found a small amount of burial objects in the tomb, mainly gold and silver, as well as some daily necessities, but there was nothing that the two were looking for.

In the later stages of the excavation, the archaeological team discovered the epitaph lying in a corner of the tomb. Because the light in the tomb was dim and the smell was fishy, ​​Wang Xinran ordered people to take 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 tomb owner. Hundreds of words are densely engraved on this stone tablet. Wu Zhongyuan also went over and looked for clues with Wang Xinran...

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