Beipai Tomb Raiders Notes

"Throw it away quickly, don't you beggar, you are carrying that thing to prepare for the New Year?" Liu Yushan glanced at the head.

"That's right, it's not a good thing," Master Liu casually threw it aside.

Researcher An's head is gone, and his body can't move anymore. Although it was beheaded, what makes people puzzled is that there is not much blood on Researcher An's neck. When he looked closely, he found that the wound was faintly constricted.

After looking at the small glass bottle, she obviously didn't believe it. She didn't believe that this medicine could bring the corpse back to life.

Mr. Zhao in Xiangxi was still heartbroken over the rope, and he couldn't help sighing: "Old Zhao's family has eaten the dead for generations. I didn't expect that one day, the rope handed down by the ancestors to bind the corpse would be destroyed in my hands. I am not filial, I am not filial... ..”

Seeing him sighing uncontrollably, I couldn't help saying: "Master Zhao, it's not that I don't believe you. What kind of rope do you think you are? What kind of corpse rope, it breaks as soon as you pull it, it's not strong at all! I don't think I can tie anything up. live."

"Ah... Junior, you don't understand, you don't understand." Master Zhao silently picked up the broken rope and stuffed it back into his bag.

"Speaking of which, Miss Yao, you were not injured just now, were you?"

"I'm fine, nothing serious."

"That's good, you take a rest." Looking at the big guy with his head, he said in a deep voice: "The matter has come to this point, and the door is about to come to an end. You can't just give up halfway, Yunfeng, keep digging."

Without saying anything, I picked up the whirlwind shovel and continued digging. I only dared to look at the ground under my feet, not to look at Researcher An, whose body and head were separated.

At this time Liu Yushan said: "You two are tired, why don't I call my friends over to help?" I knew that the friends he was talking about must be those mandrills.

"No need, Brother Liu," I shook the whirlwind shovel in my hand, "Your friends are probably not as tall as this shovel, how do you dig the soil? We appreciate your kindness, and the work of digging holes is our strong point. Look at them Enough."

Liu Yushan nodded and didn't want to interrupt, but Mr. Zhao, who was chasing the corpse, seemed to talk too much.He kept asking me how the medicine in the glass bottle was made, where it came from, what ingredients were in the medicine, and so on.

The only one who knows the ingredients and production method is Researcher An and the others. Now that all three of them are dead, how can I know?

I was a little impatient when I was asked, so I lied and told him that it was actually corpse oil, which was refined from the body of the dead. Don't ask me about the specific method. I don't know. If you want to ask, Mr. Zhao Go ask Liu Jiansheng and Xiao Zhuotou, they must know.

"Oh...that's it," the old man thought for a while, but said nothing.

The robbery hole got deeper and deeper, and I jumped in and dug our heads, and shovel after shovel of soil was thrown up continuously.

"clang."

Suddenly, the whirlwind shovel on the head hit some kind of metal object, and now no one else is talking, the surrounding is very quiet, and the sound is very ear-piercing.

"Shipped? What?" Sister Yu ran over and asked.

After scratching his head and pulling the dirt, he took out a rusty bronze vessel from the pit.This bronze ware has a weird shape. It stands to reason that I have seen many bronze ware before, but this is the first time I have seen such a shape, and I don’t know what it is called.

This is an oblate bronze vessel with a lid, the lid is sealed, and some kind of animal pattern can be vaguely seen engraved on it.

Just looking at the device type, this thing is very similar to the kind of hand warmer that people use when plugging in electricity.The state of preservation is not very good, I feel that if people touch this thing lightly, it will fall apart.

After carefully studying the outline of the pattern on the cover, he turned his head and said in surprise: "Could it be that this painting is a pattern of a tomb-suppressing beast? Look carefully, does this pattern look a bit like the clam sculpture unearthed in Puyang, Henan decades ago?"

Yao Yumen couldn't help nodding after seeing it, "Don't talk about it, it's really similar. If I remember correctly, the site in Puyang was from the late Neolithic period, right? It was much earlier than the Western Zhou Dynasty."

I couldn't understand what they meant, so I asked Sister Yu what this clam sculpture was.

Sister Yu told me that this thing has a monkey's tail and a pig's head. When it was dug up, no one knew it. Later, some scholars discovered that the prototype of this thing is very similar to an animal called a clam sculpture in the ancient Shan Hai Jing.That's why this term came into being. People in the industry thought that the one in Puyang was an orphan, but they didn't expect that there was a bronze with the same pattern here.

"Oh, that's it, it's really precious, but it's a pity, it's all black, dry, rusty, and rotten." I sighed, expressing my regret for this precious bronze.

Black dry rust is a saying in the tomb robbery industry. This kind of rust is the most unpopular in the industry, because almost all bronzes with this rust color come from dirty pits. The prices of dirty pits are the lowest, and the appearance is not good.

By the way, say more.People in the industry divided the rust color of the bronze shells from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Warring States Period into four types.Jade can be known by looking at the skin, and bronze wares can also be priced by looking at the rust.

These types are dry green rust, also known as flat rust, which is the kind of rust that is covered in green. It is common in the northern regions of Hebei, Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia.The second type of rust is mercury rust, which refers specifically to things caught in the water. This kind of rust is a white layer and is poisonous. Bronze ware with mercury rust must be treated before you dare to play with it, otherwise it will be poisoned.

Now it is red and blue anti-lead rust, the price of this kind of rust is the highest in the industry. Mr. Sun once told me that if you encounter a large product with red and blue anti-lead rust, do not use the method of cleaning it. After washing, the price will be greatly reduced. .

The last one is the black dry rust on the bronze ware in front of me.Black dry rust grew on the bronze ware, indicating that there was a dirty pit underneath.Dirty pits refer to dirty places such as manure piles, latrines, pig pens and sheep pens.

Picking up his head and smelling the bronze vessel, he frowned and said, "Indeed, it smells like feces and urine." A real tomb robber has a good nose, and his head is a veteran, so we naturally won't doubt his words.

Continue to dig down, and as a result, two more bronzes with black dry rust were dug out one after another. The two bronzes that were dug out later were also strange in shape, and each one was different. A swimming figure was carved on the cover Little man, this little man is covered in fish scales and is churning in the water.

The last one is even weirder. It looks like a monster with an eight-legged tiger head and a four-legged snake wrapped around the tiger's head and neck.

"Are these... are the other two ancient totem gods worshiped by the ancient Yue Kingdom?" Sister Hong asked in surprise after seeing it.

"Xiaohong, what do you know?" She raised her head and asked.

Sister Hong nodded and said for sure: "That's right, this is those two things. I used to be interested in the legend of paleontology. I have read the old version of Shan Hai Jing more than once. This, this little man with fish scales swimming in the water It’s called Zouyu, the one with the eight-legged tiger’s head is called Zuqi, and the one that was dug up first is indeed called a clam sculpture.”

"These patterns were once worshiped by the ancient Yue people's totem culture. Heads up, Yunfeng, if you continue to dig down, I doubt that you can dig out other things."

Sister Hong rested her chin and thought, "Yunfeng, do you still remember the patterns on the gold and silver coffins?"

I said of course I remembered that there were soldiers engraved on the gold and silver coffins, and there were four-legged snakes coiled on the heads of those soldiers.

"That's right," Sister Hong nodded and said, "There are four-legged snakes coiled around the heads of soldiers from the Ancient Yue Kingdom, and their prototype should be this footed snake."

She looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "The clues are connected. This is not only a great noble in the Western Zhou Dynasty, but also the descendants of a certain ancient Yue people from the Ancient Yue Kingdom. Otherwise, it is impossible for the Hou to bring these totem elements into the world." In the tomb."

"Totems and ancestor gods, these patterns are not only patterns, but also a kind of text thousands of years ago. This is a kind of graphic text of the ancient Yue people. No one can decipher it now, and no one knows what these animal patterns represent. But . . . There was a note published by a deceased old professor before his death, in which he thought."

"These patterns, which are so old...could be the origin of the oracle bone inscriptions."