The Sacred Ding
Chapter 2
The middle-aged man said little, turned and walked to the main room, and the others followed.
When the gate was opened, a bottle of four legged black tripod, about one foot high and low, was placed on the eight immortals table near the wall in the middle of the main room.
Among the bronzes unearthed in China, the square tripod of this size is pocket sized. It can be seen that the tripod is surrounded by a fiber-shaped and lifelike black dragon. The four claws are the four feet of the tripod, and the head and tail of the dragon are high. As the two ears of the square tripod, they can be held.
The light in the room was very dim, and there was no light source hitting the eight immortals table. Chen Hai stood at the door, but he could see the details on the black square tripod clearly.
Chen Hai can clearly see not only the black dragon cast and engraved on the tripod, but also the ancient seal characters as small as a fly''s head.
There is no rust on the tripod body. The green dragon has green scales and red head. The color is still very fresh. It doesn''t look like it was just excavated from the ancient tomb, but it reveals a simple and clumsy atmosphere.
What''s more strange is that the black dragon cast on the tripod body is like a living creature. Chen Hai inexplicably has a sense of spiritual oppression being stared at.
"It doesn''t look like paint..." someone went to the eight immortals table, stared at Xiao Fangding and asked in confusion, but he didn''t doubt that it was false. He carefully stretched out his hand to touch the ear of the dragon head Ding, took a breath and said in surprise, "it''s so hot..."
The ground has been dusty for thousands of years. What paint can be kept as bright as new when exposed to light?
If the other side really wants to set up the old bureau, it will also work hard and will not show these ridiculous and generous feet.
Seeing that the middle-aged man didn''t mean to stop, Chen Hai also reached out and touched the tripod body. The tripod body was as cold as ice, while the ferocious black dragon cast around the tripod body was like a burning carbon fire, which made Chen Hai cry out, but his hand was fiercely taken back, but he didn''t feel scalded at all.
Damn it.
Chen Hai looked closely at the green scale and red head of the cast black dragon. The color was very bright, but it was not painted with paint, but rather directly cast and engraved with some radioactive non-ferrous metals.
Thinking of this, Chen Hai was startled and subconsciously hid: radioactive metals are not fun!
"We have tested the instruments used for metal flaw detection at the construction site, and there is no radioactivity..."
Chen Hai''s subconscious actions attracted the attention of middle-aged people. He was obviously aware of Chen Hai''s carefulness. Probably because of the sympathy of the people in the same way, he, who has always been silent, came over and explained a little to Chen Hai.
Seeing others confused, Chen Hai smiled awkwardly. Knowing that no one else had thought of it, he looked at the black tripod carefully. He can''t see what metal is winding the tripod body to cast and engrave the black dragon, but it is integrated with the tripod body. He can''t see any stitching trace. Let alone others, such a technological level is amazing.
Chen Hai walked around to the front of the black tripod, and there was a feeling of being stared at by the black dragon. He was very uncomfortable, as if the ferocious black dragon was a living creature. What a hell.
Although Chen Hai doesn''t know whether other people have the same feeling of being stared at by the dark dragon as him, he can be sure from the way others focus. At this time, others have dispelled their doubts and no longer think that this tripod is a fake made by the other party.
Otherwise, seeing the newly unearthed small tripod without any rust, we would have walked out without arms.
Although none of the more than ten people present has read archaeology like Chen Hai, they are half experts in this circle. Even if the other party wants to set up a bureau, they should make enough efforts to make the old. Chen Hai is more inclined to believe that this small tripod is just like this when it was unearthed.
What kind of bronze ware has been dusty underground for thousands of years without any corrosion?
"Can you see when this tripod was made?" Gu pangzi asked Chen Hai at a low voice.
Gu pangzi, who has always been cautious and slippy, has no doubt that the tripod is fake.
Chen Hai shook his head and couldn''t say anything.
Chen Hai studied history as an undergraduate and was admitted to the major of Archaeology of Northeast University as a graduate student. He mainly studied bronzes in the pre-Qin period and was very familiar with the inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
In fact, there were obvious differences in bronze inscriptions, shapes and styles in different periods of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Later generations mainly inferred the age of bronze ware through these differences in style.
Chen Hai can be said to be an expert in this field. Otherwise, with a wealth level different from Gu pangzi, it is impossible for Gu pangzi to pull him over to participate in this secret transaction.
Chen Hai is unfamiliar with this black square tripod, whether the head and tail of the dragon are the ears of the tripod, the claws of the dragon are the four legged shape, or the engraved inscriptions and ancient seal characters. In his impression, none of the Shang and Zhou bronzes unearthed in China is similar to it.
He didn''t recognize thousands of inscriptions and ancient seal characters around the tripod, but each inscription and ancient seal character as small as a fly''s head was so vivid and seemed to have strange power.
The middle-aged man took out another jade ring. It was said to be a ring. It was mainly shaped like a bracelet, but in terms of size, it was more like a jade bracelet. Whose fingers would be as thick as wrists.
But compared with the black tripod, the gray and some incomplete jade rings look ordinary, but they are more like old goods that have been dusty for thousands of years.
"The tomb is buried and can''t be seen, but you should have taken more live photos?" Su Qian asked.
We have all seen some photos before, but only one is a live photo. The shooting angle is not good. We can''t see anything from the collapsed mud pit in the live photo.
At this time, Su Qian wanted to see more on-site photos. Others also had these meanings and stared at the middle-aged people.
"This has..."
The middle-aged man took out a domestic mobile phone and turned out more than a dozen on-site photos. He could almost piece together the panorama of the scene and show it to everyone in turn.
Chen Hai stood beside Su Qian and saw her take the mobile phone and inadvertently quit. It seemed that the shooting time and place of these live photos were determined from other photos, but Chen Hai was soon attracted by the photos in her mobile phone.
It is not an ordinary noble tomb in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The scene in the photo is more like a huge hall, or a corner of the huge hall. Only two black residual walls at right angles are deeply buried under a mountain.
The two residual walls seem to have been cut by some sharp weapon, which reflects the luster of metal under the exposure light of mobile phone. The whole residual wall is actually cast with some kind of black metal. According to the excavator in the photo, each residual wall is at least 17 or 18 meters high.
It can be inferred from the giant relief fragments attached to the residual wall that these two residual walls are only a small part of the whole giant Hall. It is difficult to imagine how magnificent the complete giant Hall will be.
The remnant wall looks ordinary, and it is difficult to see its appearance with a small angle relief, but the incision is extremely smooth, and there are extremely strange but apparently regular lines, like countless ancient seal characters connected together.
How can the cut of the integrally smelted metal block be as regular as an ancient seal script.
If the two residual walls have been buried underground for thousands of years, what was it in the Shang and Zhou dynasties or in an era older than the Shang and Zhou dynasties that could cut the metal residual wall more than ten meters long so neatly?
Even in modern times, the earth has no ability to cast such large metal components as a whole!
Once this place is released to the world, it is destined to be an archaeological discovery that shocked the world, but Chen Hai, as an antique, won''t care about it.
Chen Hai believes that others have questions like this and that. The middle-aged people want everyone to hand in their mobile phones next. No one refuses. They all follow the middle-aged people from the back door of the yard through a narrower alley. A bus stops at the entrance of the alley and waits for everyone.
The middle-aged arranged for everyone to sit in the back half of the bus, and the windows of the latter half were pasted with a layer of shading film to block everyone''s line of sight, so they couldn''t see where the bus would go.
It can be seen that the other party has also considered this transaction in great detail, which is more like a professional tomb robber group than the construction team that accidentally found Shang and Zhou tombs on the construction site.
Of course, we only care about whether the other party has real goods in hand, and we won''t care whether the other party is a tomb robber group or a construction team.
The black tripod was also moved to the bus. The black tripod looked a foot high and low, and the wall was not thick, but it was unexpectedly heavy. The middle-aged man put down the black tripod with three muscular young people. He was already sweating profusely.
Chen Hai sat in the middle of the back row, facing the black tripod in the corridor, and the ferocious dragon head tripod ear was also facing him. He couldn''t get rid of the strange feeling of being stared at by the cast black dragon, as if the black dragon cast by the black tripod had a soul.
When the bus left the city, the road was bumpy. With a sharp brake, Chen Hai, who was staring at the black tripod, was thrown out of his seat and hit the black tripod.
It wasn''t very painful. Chen Hai stroked heiding and got up in a panic. Through the front window, he saw a teenager in front of him. He was almost hit by a bus, and the driver scolded.
Su Qian handed over a paper towel. Chen Hai realized that there was a heat flow out of his nose, and a pool of nose blood had dropped into the black tripod.
Other people''s attention was attracted by the near accident. Chen Hai took a paper towel and covered his nose. He looked inside the black tripod and wanted to wipe off the nosebleed with a paper towel.
At this time, a strange scene appeared. The pool of nose blood he dropped into the black tripod was slowly infiltrating into the tripod wall, and there was a faint light on the tripod wall. A square inch three-dimensional picture was intertwined in the center of the black tripod, like a picture of mountains and rivers, mountains, rivers and sea of clouds. The cast black dragon seemed to be alive and condensed into a virtual shadow flying ferociously in the sea of clouds
Chen Hai was startled. He thought he was dazzled. He rubbed his eyes and looked again. There was nothing in the black tripod. Even his nose blood was completely gone.
It''s a ghost. The black tripod can suck blood. Chen Hai''s hair stands up!
Chen Hai spread out the paper towel covering his nose, which had been red by nose blood. It was sure that it was not all hallucinations just now, but what''s the ghost of the picture scroll intertwined and condensed in the black tripod?
Su Qian looked puzzled, but there was nothing in the black tripod. She looked puzzled at Chen Hai. She didn''t know why he looked like a ghost.
At this time, the others noticed that Chen Hai broke his nose. Seeing that he fell in a mess, they all laughed.