Ghost Blowing Lantern II

I didn’t have a good impression of Professor Sun, so I sneered and said, “This old thief, I caught him and showed his face, let’s see what he can do in the future and say that I am a traitor...” As I spoke, I casually flipped through the work records. , the more you look at it, the more thrilling it becomes. The image of the priceless treasure "King of Qin's Bone Mirror" is clearly drawn in it.

Professor Sun Xuewu's work records left in the museum accurately outline the pattern of the "Bone Mirror of King Qin". Although I have never seen the back of this ancient mirror, the eyeless figure embedded in the edge of the bronze mirror The characteristics of the fish charm are obvious and unmistakable. There are many annotations around the ancient mirror pattern, which may be Professor Sun's research and analysis records.

I thought that the "King of Qin Bone Mirror" had been handed over to the state by Professor Chen. Did he secretly give it to Professor Sun first? In addition, Professor Sun secretly sneaked into the museum in the middle of the night. What was his intention?

I was full of questions. Seeing that this work record contained so much content that it was hard to figure out the clue for a while, I closed the notebook and put it in my coat pocket, ready to read it again when I went back. Now I still have to take advantage of this rare opportunity. Go take a look at the Han Dynasty alchemy furnace.

At this time, the side of the display cabinet had been pried open, presumably by Professor Sun. When Ai Xiaohong saw this, she immediately said she would notify the police. I advised her: "After all, it is just a fake, and it has not been lost or damaged, so don't do it." This trivial matter troubles the leaders and the public security department. Their work burden is already heavy. The people's police serve the people, and we, the people, should have a heart-to-heart relationship with the people's police. How can we always want to push the trouble to the police? We should. Just think about your brother and the others."

Ai Xiaohong is also an honest girl. She nodded and said: "Brother Hu, you are indeed a person who has been trained in the melting pot of the army. You always think about others. I better not cause trouble to my brother, then let's Come and see that five-color copper furnace with gold and silver chisels."

Ai Xiaohong brought Shirley Yang and I to the copper furnace. This time there was no barrier, and all the details on the furnace wall were in front of our eyes. I asked Ai Xiaohong: "Sister Xiaohong, your museum has a description of this thing. No?"

Ai Xiaohong said of course, it was quite a long paragraph and was written by experts. She immediately explained it to us according to the explanations in the museum.

I shook my head when I heard half of it. The explanation carefully written by the so-called "expert" was very different from the true origin and purpose of the Pingshan Alchemy Furnace. There are records that in modern times, except for those who "moved mountains and unloaded mountains" to rob tombs, few people know about it. Rather than listen to a few clichés concocted by experts, it is better to rely on my own eyesight and experience. Interpretation.

I raised the flashlight and fixed the beam on the exquisite copper wall of the furnace body so that Shirley Yang could see it clearly. Shirley Yang pointed to an undulating inscription on the copper wall and said: "During the Qin and Han Dynasties, people believed in alchemy and elixirs." , calling the burning of the immortal elixir the art of furnace fire, these inscriptions may be medicine secrets."

There are a large number of corpses in coffins and coffins excavated from various places in the Pingshan Pill Palace. According to the opinions of grave robbing experts like Chen Xiazi and Partridge Shao, this is a despicable act of "burning the Yin Pill" with the dead. Shirley Yang can read ancient texts. , she said that the incomplete inscription on the alchemy furnace roughly recorded: "The human body is guided by the kidneys, the root of metal, the root of life. There is an orifice under the tongue, which always produces divine water. On the left is Jinjin, on the right is Yuye. When the Dantian is full, it spreads to the bone marrow. When the bone marrow is full, it spreads to the blood vessels. When the blood vessels are full, it is uploaded to the Niwan Palace and returns to the kidneys, just like the cycle of the sun and the moon. After death, the golden water condenses and turns into black beads."

The eight pictures of immortals burning elixirs cast on the wall of the furnace, the first four sides are all about the methods of extracting mysterious pearls from Yin-yin elixirs, such as "cutting open ancient corpses to take kidneys, boiling and decoction to produce golden water and jade liquid, mixing lead and mercury to induce alchemy heads" "And so on, which is almost disgusting.

I thought to myself, "I don't know who came up with this harmful trick of burning Yin Dan. If a golden elixir can be made according to this, I'm afraid it won't be an elixir of immortality, but a veritable deadly poison. Whoever eats it will be unlucky." .

Looking at the other four alchemy pictures, there is also a shorter inscription, which is contrary to the Yin Dan formula and talks about the true elixir, which is the inner elixir we are looking for.

Since ancient times, refining inner elixirs has been a matter of refining Qi. The reason why Qi is nourished is that it covers the internal organs and gathers and disperses due to the seven emotions. Therefore, it originates on the five mountains and four mountains. With the transformation of the six Qi, it can clear away the turbidity and leave nothing behind. The abyss of pure silence, solidifying the abyss of mountains and rivers, cannot be obtained by six kinds of Qi. The Qi of Qinglong is like auspicious clouds lining the moon; the Qi of Suzaku is like the morning glow reflecting on the water; the Qi of Gouchen is like the black wind blowing clouds; the Qi of Xuanwu , like greasy smoke and mist...

In the Baiyan Cave at the end of the Inner Mongolia grassland, I once saw with my own eyes another red pill true elixir in the corpse of a huge old weasel, just like the stones in the body of living things such as bezoar and donkey treasure. In the Feng Shui path, The so-called "qi" is vague, intangible and without quality, and the inner elixir in this ancient corpse is precisely the result of the essence of the living things in the world being condensed by the sun, moon, mountains and rivers. "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" "The word "hua" in "Hua" is explained in detail in the volume. In fact, the so-called "inner elixir" cannot make people live longer, let alone immortality. It is just that the vitality of heaven and earth turns into substance in the body of living beings, but the Nanyang Jiangtou Master wants to This is absolutely indispensable when pulling out corpses for many spirits.

In the past, there were many inner elixirs collected in the Ouchi Imperial Palace. The most famous one recorded in the official history is undoubtedly the "Spider Treasure" from the Northern Song Dynasty. These elixirs condensed with vitality have the effect of expelling corpse poison and pulling out corpses. But now those ancient relics It has long been destroyed by natural disasters or man-made disasters, or has been lost without a trace. We can only hope that it can still be found in the underworld of an ancient tomb somewhere. As the ancients said, looking for elixirs in ancient tombs and palaces is the "center of the palace". An act of seeking mystery.

However, there was no record on the gold and silver five-color elixir furnace where there was an ancient tomb elixir. I still didn’t give up, so I looked at the upper and lower ends of the furnace wall. While looking at it, I said to Shirley Yang: “Professor Sun is studying the secret texts of ancient symbols. Expert, why did he sneak into the museum to look at this alchemy furnace? Does this old man also want to take the medicine to seek immortality? He shouldn't have such a low level of consciousness. The people have trained him for so many years in vain..."

Shirley Yang suddenly held down the flashlight swinging in my hand, shined the beam on the top of the furnace, and said to me: "Professor Sun probably wants to see this part... The predecessor of this copper furnace came from Guixu."

On the top of the stove is an integrated pattern, which is very finely cast. The figures and utensils are all in profile, with simple and vivid expressions. Some of them look like comic strips. First, there are waves of the sea, groups of "dragon soldiers" carrying heavy burdens, etc. An ancient tripod came ashore. The shape and characteristics of this tripod were exactly the same as the bronze tripod cast by the Hentian family with dragon fire.

Then came the singing of birds, and an emperor-like figure lying beside the cauldron. It seemed that the ancient cauldron was used as a burial object after his death. The cauldron was decorated with four ancient symbols, namely dragon, human, fish and ghost. Embedded in a disc on the body of the tripod, the disc looks very much like the "King of Qin's Bone Mirror".

Next, the mountain mausoleum was struck by lightning, and many people carried out the giant cauldron from the ancient tomb. The cauldron had been torn into pieces and was turned into a pill furnace for refining medicine.

The pattern on this layer should record the origin of the alchemy furnace. It seems to be an ancient artifact paid tribute by the Hentian clan during the Zhou Dynasty. It was buried in an ancient tomb by a certain generation of Zhou emperors. Later, due to natural disasters, the artifacts in the ancient tomb were exposed. , someone took the bronze tripod and transformed it into an alchemy furnace. From this point of view, those ancient hexagram symbols were all handed down from Guixu.

I know that Hentianren is proficient in ancient hexagrams and can use candles to predict all things, but there is one thing that I have always overlooked. Since the "Qin King Bone Mirror" is matched with those mysterious eyeless hexagrams, it should be a side mirror. Gua mirror, as for the origin of the "Qin King Bone Mirror", I'm afraid it may not be as Professor Chen said. Maybe we were deceived from the beginning. What kind of ancient mirror holds the corpse? The back of the mirror is soaked in the corpse's energy and cannot illuminate people. , have nothing to do with this South China Sea hexagram mirror. The "King of Qin Bone Mirror" may indeed exist, but it is definitely not the ancient mirror we salvaged from the sunken ship in the South China Sea. Who knows what secrets are buried in this mirror? .

Shirley Yang's face was not very good either. She had naturally realized that we had been deceived, but there was doubt in her eyes: "Professor Sun sneaked into the museum to see the Five-Color Alchemy Furnace because he was studying the so-called Photo of King Qin with him." Is it related to the bone mirror? What does he want to do if he is so obsessed with this ancient mirror?"

I said, "If you don't want others to know, you have to do nothing yourself. This old boy's work records are already in our hands. If we go back to the guest house and read them carefully, we won't have to worry about finding out his details."

We looked at the five-color alchemy furnace from the inside out, and then asked Ai Xiaohong to take us to see the lacquer coffin with the female fairy painted on it, as well as the replicas of the bronze ghost and the bronze man. We felt that nothing was missing. Only then was I satisfied.

Ai Xiaohong sent us to the entrance of the Museum of Natural History. I shook hands with her and said politely: "Your brother Ai Niaoran and I are comrades in arms. You are almost like my own sister. I won't be polite to you anymore, but I still want to thank you for taking us to visit these cultural relics tonight, and also to see the treasure of this natural history museum...the white bat sperm specimen that specialized in cannibalism during its lifetime."

Ai Xiaohong said: "Brother Hu, please stop joking. When you have time to come to Hunan in the future, I will take you to visit the treasure of our Hunan museum. It is a thousand-year-old wet corpse, a miracle of the world, and much more interesting than the white bat specimen." , have you ever seen a real thousand-year-old corpse? It’s not an imitation.”

I smiled at Ai Xiaohong and said, "I have seen it once or twice before, but it was not in the early museum, so I didn't dare to take a closer look. I will take a closer look when I go to your place next time." After that, I waved to Ai Xiaohong. Red farewell.

It was already late at night when we went back, and there were no cars on the road at all, so we had to drive "No. 11" with Shirley Yang. When we reached the guest house, our lungs were numb from the cold, so we quickly used hot water from the thermos. After having a cup of tea, I didn’t even bother to take off my coat, so I lit a cigarette and prepared to look through Professor Sun’s work records.

I was about to open it to read, but Shirley Yang suddenly pressed down on the notebook and said, "Do I think it's not good to do this? Maybe these are Professor Sun's hard work, and we shouldn't take a peek without his consent... …”

I said: "There are many kinds of peeping. One kind of peeping is seen accidentally. He fell to the ground and I accidentally looked at him a few times. Logically speaking, it cannot be regarded as peeping. Besides, people in the world have the same name. There are too many, if we don’t understand the content, how can we return it to Professor Sun with just one name?”

I persuaded Shirley Yang to come to life and persuaded her to accompany me to check this "work record". At this time, there was no one else disturbing me in the guest house. Speaking of which, I, Lao Hu, can be considered an amateur archeology enthusiast, so naturally I wanted to be quiet. I made up my mind to read page after page carefully, and I said to Shirley Yang: "Professor Sun once told me that his work content was all state secrets, and he was bragging about not paying taxes. Let's take a look at what this expert on the Dragon Bone Book has done. Are there any state secrets..."

I could no longer suppress my curiosity, so I opened my work records while talking. This kind of notebook is the most common. There is a color illustration every dozens of pages for decoration. Most of the color pictures are various scenery in Beijing. Including Tiananmen Square, the Great Hall of the People, the Summer Palace, etc., the paper is slightly yellow in color, and there are many receipts inside. I am afraid it has been used for many years. The first page is printed with the red seal issued by Professor Sun's unit for issuing stationery. There are useful documents at the bottom. The words "be careful in your words and deeds" were written in pen, and at the bottom was the signature of "Sun Xuewu".

Turning to the second page, we only read the first line of words. Shirley Yang and I were both startled, and we were extremely surprised. We asked each other in unison: "How did Professor Sun know about the Ming Dynasty Guanshan Taibao?"

I remember that when Chen Xiazi told us about the past of tomb robbing, he once mentioned the "Guanshan Taibao". When he moved the mountain and unloaded the ridge to rob the Pingshan ancient tomb, he saw it in the exposed iron pavilion under the Dan Well of Wuliang Palace and in the corridor at the belly of the mountain. I have seen a corpse with a strange description. Based on the relics on the corpse, it is speculated that it is the tomb robber "Guanshan Taibao" from the Ming Dynasty.

Based on the experience and knowledge of Chen Xiazi, the leader of the bandits in Xiling, and Partridge Shao, the Taoist monk who moved the mountain, they only heard about the Guanshan Taibao by their name, but did not know the reality. I guess he couldn't." At that time, a group of thieves from Xiling were looking for the ancient tomb in Pingshan, and they only burned the body of the "Guanshan Taibao" in a hurry.

Blind Chen’s words were particularly striking, but Shirley Yang and I did not expect that the “Guanshan Taibao” would be mentioned in the work record left behind by Professor Sun.

Professor Sun and I have only met twice in Gutian County, Shaanxi Province. The two sides did not agree on each other. Moreover, this person has a weird temper and is moody. He is secretive when talking and often stops talking. He seems to hate the craftsmen who fight against each other. , as an archaeological expert, he sneaked into the museum to spy on cultural relics, and also studied the history of ancient tomb robbers in his work records. I think this Professor Sun must be a person with many secrets, and what he does is even worthy of the gods. Can't guess. (To be continued. If you want to know what happened, please log in. There are more chapters. Support the author and genuine reading!)