Chapter 13 Chapter Twelve

To judge the jade, you need to smell the fragrance of the jade, observe the color of the jade, touch the reason of the jade, and then judge the nature of the jade with the help of the principles of Yin and Yang in the gossip.The mountain structure in the photo confirms Professor Yang Jian's point of view, it is a unique jade vein.The mountain peaks there are majestic, like a tiger sitting on a dragon's plate. The side facing the tiger's head is full of yang energy, and the direction of the tiger's tail is bound to condense the yin energy. Yuan Sen climbed out of the ancient tomb in Shagu, and returned to the Shouling Village, which was silent in the sand sea, where there were still plenty of dry animal meat and water.Yuan Sen was well prepared and analyzed the route and map when he came. He was surprised to find that his current position was already deep in the hinterland of the Taklimakan Desert.Before that, he had always believed in Wang Zhongnan and Bayi, and followed the direction they pointed out to go deep into the hinterland of the desert, looking for the ancient tomb of Shagu buried deep underground.He didn't think about where he was at all. After experiencing some encounters in the ancient tomb, it was clear that Bai Yi and Wang Zhongnan came with a purpose.Although it is said that a sudden tornado cannot be controlled by humans, Wang Zhongnan is familiar with the environment in this area, or he has figured out the climate and environment of this no-man's land. He is sure that there will be a tornado in the next few days, and the tornado will force the "Desert King" "Stranded in this desert no man's land.Subsequent things will develop step by step in his plan, which is also very possible.But what Yuan Sen couldn't figure out was, what was the purpose of their deliberate tricking him into the ancient tomb?

Kurban, the mine manager of the jade mine, and his daughter Bahargul, all sneaked into the ancient tomb for some reason. Is all this premeditated or just a coincidence?Now that Kurban died tragically in the underground wasteland, Bahar Gul's life and death are uncertain, Baiyi's whereabouts are unknown, everything has become unknown, and there are no clues worth exploring for the reason. What is certain now is that the photos of Pu mines taken by Maimaiti must have come from the peaks in the ancient tombs, but when Yuan Sen climbed the peaks, he found that although the rock formations of this peaks are very strange, according to faults According to the analysis, it is impossible to be a raw mine. In other words, the geological structure here is not suitable for jade.

Based on his knowledge of gold and jade, he can confidently judge that the mountain structure in the photo is a land of jade veins, and this kind of terrain is called jade veins according to ancient sayings.That jade is not embedded in the rock, you have to cut the rock to get the jade.Jade veins refer to the jade material in the faults of the mountain that grows along with the veins, and when the fault plane is cut, it is a whole piece of conjoined jade.If the earth qi in the jade veins belongs to yin, it is easy to breed uncut mines. The newly unearthed Yupu is covered with a layer of turbid jade skin.Different jades have different colors of jade skin, some are clear and bright, while others are thick and fuzzy, and there are red, blue, yellow and white.Before ancient jade craftsmen chiseled jade, they would judge the properties of jade according to the color of the jade skin. In ancient times, jade jade was judged according to the eight hexagrams of Qian, Kun, Xun, Dui, Gen, Zhen, Li and Kan. .That is to say, to be biased towards nothingness is dryness, and to be biased towards yin is to be kun.In short, before jade craftsmen chisel jade, they will first determine the quality of jade, and the accuracy of determining the quality of jade plays a vital role in the value of jade.

Professor Yang Jian's family background has a lot of research on these long-lost techniques of breaking jade, so under his influence, Yuan Sen also has some understanding of these ancient Chinese techniques.It's just that most of these ancient techniques handed down from ancient times are difficult to understand and illusory. If it wasn't for the hard work and intensive study and the extraordinary understanding, basically you can't figure out anything in your life. Yuan Sen has seen Professor Yang Jian's ability to judge jade with ancient techniques. He smells the fragrance of jade, observes the color of jade, touches the reason of jade, and then judges the nature of jade with the help of the principle of yin and yang in the eight trigrams. He almost never fails.Looking at the structure of the mountain in the photo, he agrees with Professor Yang Jian's point of view, this is the unique jade vein.Moreover, the mountain peak is majestic, like a tiger sitting on a dragon's plate. The side facing the tiger's head is full of yang energy, and the direction of the tiger's tail is bound to condense the yin energy.

After Yuan Sensi thought about it, did Professor Yang Jian and him make a wrong judgment, or was there another reason?All this put a huge question mark in his heart. Yuan Sen set off from Shouling Village and headed north. After walking for three days and nights, he finally crossed the no-man's land of the Taklamakan Desert and arrived at the edge of the ancient city of Luntai.There they met an archaeological team investigating the ruins of the ancient civilization in Luntai, and the team was planning to return to the city after finishing the archaeological work. The archaeological team found that Yuan Sen came out of no-man's land. Although this no-man's land is extremely dangerous, there have always been many ancient tombs. The area is also the most vulnerable to the patronage of tomb robbers.

The archaeological team saw that Yuan Sen was dressed in rags, and most likely he was a criminal who dug caves and robbed graves. Several people who looked like cadres took Yuan Sen there and interrogated him for a long time.In desperation, Yuan Sen showed his hole cards and revealed Professor Yang Jian.How could it be possible that those few people had never heard of Yang Jian's name, their attitude changed immediately, and they asked about Yuan Sen's experience in the desert, Yuan Sen made up a random story to cover it up.Later, the archaeological team arranged a car for him and took him back to the urban area.

Yuan Sen rested in the urban area for a few days, and his body gradually recovered.In the past few days, he weighed over and over whether to go to Hotan to inform the families of Kurban and Bayi that they had all died.But now the three people who went into the desert with him are all dead. It is easy for him to go back like this to cause misunderstanding, and the reason is too complicated. He himself is in the fog, so how can he explain it clearly to others.Therefore, he decided to go back to Urumqi first and report the situation to Professor Yang Jian, hoping that Professor Yang Jian could help him find some clues to solve the mystery of the ancient tomb, so that he could go back and explain to others.

Yuan Sen transferred from Luntai to Korla City, and took a train back to Urumqi in Korla.When he arrived in Urumqi, he originally wanted to go back to Xinda University to find Professor Yang Jian, but he called the research institute for consultation. Professor Yang Jian was still far away in a foreign country, and he could not confirm the time of his return for a while. Yuan Sen had too many questions hidden in his heart, he pondered over and over again, if he wanted to figure out the origin of this ancient tomb, he had to figure out the jade plaque he had brought out from the Han Palace first.Since ancient times, Xinjiang has experienced frequent dynasties and frequent trade with various countries. Many places have traces of civilization.In recent years, tomb robbery activities in southern Xinjiang and northern Xinjiang have been very rampant, and the antique market has also become active. Some large antique markets often unearth some good things.When Yuan Sen was with Professor Yang Jian, he heard many rumors about this. Some priceless cultural relics came out of the antique market.

Real things can be produced in the antique market, and there are many masters there who hide but do not show their faces. The so-called real people do not show their faces, those who set up stalls, deliver goods and test characters. You only show your true colors when you see something good.Those antique masters touch countless things in their hands, and they are often more accurate than experts in identifying antiques.Therefore, as soon as Yuan Sen came back, he first went to a relatively large antique market in Urumqi.The antique market is near the suburbs, and Yuan Sen took several bus transfers before finding the remote place called Sankou.The third entrance is a huge courtyard, with blue bricks and red tiles on the outside, but shaded by grape trellises inside, the building has the flavor of the ancient Western Regions.

Don't look at the remoteness of this place, but people and cars around the yard are very noisy, and most of the cars parked here are BMWs and Mercedes-Benz. Sometimes you can see a Lamborghini or a Bentley if you look around.Places like the antique market are often places where dragons and tigers are hidden. Although the temple is small, as long as there are one or two big Buddhas, the reputation will rise.Before the liberation of the Three Imported Antiques Market, it was a famous place for selling ancient cultural relics in Xinjiang during the period of the Republic of China. After liberation, the antique trade was classified as a serious crime, and it was directly imprisoned. The antique market also became a vegetable market.In the past few years, Sankou has developed rapidly, and those masters who dig graves for a living also regard this place as a paradise for selling stolen goods. Several treasures handed down from generation to generation have been produced in successive years, and the reputation of Sankou has become more and more prosperous. , Attracting many big buyers at home and abroad to patronize.

Yuan Sen walked around the stalls and shops a few times, but found nothing.Yuan Sen has been very interested in exploration since he was a child. He did jade research with Professor Yang Jian. He is not proficient in antiquities, but he can be regarded as a discerning person after being influenced by what he has heard and seen. extremely high. Yuan Sen circled the whole yard a few times, quite disappointed, at this moment, he heard someone shouting loudly, and a circle of people surrounded the entrance of an antique shop, Yuan Sen also walked over. It was a skinny old man, probably in his fifties, with a scorched yellow goatee, and looked a bit wretched.The old man was holding a large jade tablet with a muddy and rough appearance and a hole missing on the edge, and was yelling at the shop owner.The owner of the antique shop has a fat head and big ears, and he is so embarrassed that he doesn't know what to do. The old man scolded: "From the tripods of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, to the jades of the Han and Qin Dynasties, to the porcelains of the Tang and Song Dynasties, and to the porcelains of the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, there are all kinds of them. The works of the ancients are not as good as today. For human beings, the materials must be of the highest quality, and they must be selected repeatedly, and they are refined and refined; , use up all you have, exhaust what you have learned, and think about it. And when you make a tool, you must be excellent, never spare your work, never take it too long, keep improving, and repeat! Furthermore, the ancients made tools , whoever is used by the emperor, only asks for the best, and never dislikes it. It is also the most exquisite one for ancient artifacts!" Then, the old man pointed at the chubby antique shop owner and scolded: "You ordinary people are arty, thinking that those who are indeed gorgeous in appearance and have the aura of gold and jade are treasures!? I have been here for more than two thousand years. The high-quality ancient jade in front of you is genuine, with a simple appearance and dragon scales and phoenix tears inside. It is a supreme treasure. It is ridiculous that you are a fat man with a fat intestines and a brain. Ji, it looks like he has become a monk halfway. You are really a big fool to slander my ancient clumsy jade as worthless rags." The fat boss was blushing, and the waiter in the shop laughed at the crowd of onlookers, urging them to leave.The people onlookers were either people who were selling or setting up stalls nearby, or buyers who came to search for goods. It was noon, and they had finished their busy work. Everyone was feeling bored. Where would they go away? . Yuan Sen listened to what the old man said, and looked at the broken jade tablet in his hand. The jade tablet was as big as a palm, and the color was dark and muddy. At first glance, there was nothing special about it, but it looked like an ordinary stone that had been smelted.Most people who make jade antiques know that with the advancement of technology these days, many fakes can be faked to the point of authenticity.If people who break jade don't know the four-character formula of hearing, viewing, touching and breaking, they will probably suffer a loss and buy fake products.Many of these people in the three entrances are experts who have dealt with jade antiques for half their lives. When they get jade articles, the first step must be to observe, and then to smell and touch.A knowledgeable expert can tell at a glance that the old man's jade token is a fake.The old man's jade tablet was light yellow and slightly bright on the outside, but the color became thicker when looking at the inner layer. One could tell that the jade tablet was smelted from stone in a high-temperature boiler, and when the boiler was half smelted, the temperature suddenly dropped sharply, making The impurities on the entire exterior of the stone have settled down.If this jade tablet is really made of high-quality jade, even though the surface is rough, the impurities on the surface should be evenly distributed, and the color and transparency should be the same from the inside to the outside. Yuan Sen only thought that the old man was a charlatan, and he didn't care. The old man was still holding up his jade plaque, babbling some inexplicable old sayings and prose.Yuan Sen's heart suddenly moved, why is the shape of this jade tablet so special? This jade tablet has no traces of artificial carving. If it is really jade, it should be a good piece of jade. However, the shape of this jade tablet is so like a sheep.The jade tablet is in the shape of an inverted trapezoid, with the upper and lower sides of the trapezoid, and a gap is recessed in the bottom from the middle.The gap in the upper half is like a sheep's head, and there are several small flaws on the gap, outlining the nose and horns of the sheep. At first glance, there is a sense of lifelikeness. Yuan Sen cursed secretly, "What the hell!" After yelling and cursing for a while, the old man also felt that it was boring, so he put away the jade plaque, got out of the crowd and was about to go out. Yuan Sen felt that the old man looked like a charlatan, but he always felt that something was wrong, he hurriedly stopped the old man and said: "Wait a minute, old man, your jade card is not recognized by others, it may not be true that everyone in the world is like that." Blind man, I think your jade plaque is very famous." When he made a sound, everyone's eyes lit up, and the old man responded: "This little brother, at first glance, is a man of knowledge. A famous horse is given to Bole, and a good piano is given to Boya. My thousand-year-old jade is just for It’s the right way to meet a master like you. Brother, let’s take a step to talk!” As he said that, the old man pushed aside the crowd of onlookers, walked around the third entrance, walked through several cramped alleys lined with antique shops, and came to a dark corner.There is a grape trellis on the top of that place, and the grape trellis is covered with dead old vines, and there is a small stall for measuring characters under the grape trellis. The old man pushed aside the old vines on the fence, took out two folded small mats from inside, and handed one to Yuan Sen. The two sat up in front of the character testing booth. Yuan Sen said: "So the main job of the old man is to measure characters. Ah, no wonder you scold people in the same way." The old man waved his hand and said: "Don't talk, don't talk, this kind of worldly people really piss me off, he doesn't know good things, and he treats precious things like cow dung." The old man carefully handed his jade plaque to Yuan Sen, and while Yuan Sen looked at it, the old man explained, "There are many kinds of jade, and in terms of origin alone, they can be divided into Lantian jade, Nanyang jade, and Jiuquan jade. , Xiuyan jade and Hetian jade; and in terms of material, jade can be divided into real jade, mixed jade and heavy jade. The ancients praised jade as the spirit of stone tools, so there was a distinction between spiritual jade and ordinary jade, which are only collected in general. Jade and antique dealers, how do they know this? When it comes to Lingyu, you must first talk about the four-character formula for breaking jade, that is, smell, observe, touch, and break. A person who has been playing with jade for a year or two can tell one, two, three. However, when it comes to broken jade, it is difficult to get a glimpse of it without ten generations of true inheritance and ten years of hard work." Yuan Sen saw that what he said was clear and logical, and wanted to test the water, so he said, "Then have you ever known the method of breaking jade?" The old man stroked his scorched beard, smacked his tongue, took out a copper basin from under the character testing booth, and filled the basin with clean water.The old man took the ancient jade from Yuan Sen's hand and carefully put it into the clear water.It was noon now, and the light near the character testing booth was covered by grape trellises and dead vines, making it extremely dark and gloomy.Putting the ancient jade into the copper basin, a cold light appeared immediately, the dim yellow ancient jade became blue all over in the water, and the faint blue light leaked out from the copper basin, illuminating the square inch of the land to look extraordinarily cold and deep, Yuan Sen shivered for no reason. The old man burned three sticks of incense in front of the copper basin, and said in his mouth, "Tianshan escapes, wind and fire are like practice, swamp land is extracted, water and thunder are collected, thunder is hydrolyzed, mountain yin and earth air, fire and wind tripod, land and lake are here, Fengshui is Transformation." After he finished reciting the mantra, he bit his finger and dripped three drops of blood into the copper basin. The old man waited for the blood to disperse in the water, and explained to Yuan Sen: "This jade is formed by absorbing the energy of the earth, and its energy belongs to Yin. Jade is the spirit of stone tools. If you want to break the jade, you must first induce its nature, so Yang blood draws it." Yuan Sen saw a few drops of blood scattered in the water, and then condensed into a bloodstain around Gu Yu, which was slowly sucked into Gu Yu's body.The water in the copper basin began to churn up and down, and the faint blue light and shadow flowed in the copper basin, and the bloodstain gradually condensed at the half-gap on the ancient jade, and after a while, it condensed into a big blood clot.The place where the blood clot was embedded in the gap was like a bloodshot eye. Looking at the ancient jade in the copper basin, it was glowing blue all over. The jade seemed to be alive, and the blood-red eyes stared at Yuan Sen. .Yuan Sen's heart felt cold for no reason, this thing is so fucking weird. The old man giggled dryly, took out a piece of red cloth, covered it on the copper basin, and immediately received the cold blue light.The old man poured out clear water again, took out the ancient jade from the copper basin, and put it carefully in his pocket. The old man smiled triumphantly at Yuan Sen, his eyes were darting all over the place, and Yuan Sen's heart was agitated. There was no doubt that this ancient jade must be an ancient treasure.But when the jade tablet sank into the water, it revealed the face of the one-eyed Qingyang, which was too weird. There must be something wrong with it. Could it be that the old man had something to do with the one-eyed Qingyang? Yuan Sendao: "Old man, is this the so-called method of breaking jade passed down by the ten generations?" The old man chuckled and said: "Exactly! My Duanyu Famen has been passed down for ten generations. The so-called passing on males but not females, passing on insiders and not outsiders, and only passing on boys with unique understanding in the door. Ten years of training, ten years of training Years of hard work can make a tool. According to legend, the ancestor of the Duanyu people is the great emperor Chiyou. When the Chiyou tribe fought against the Yanhuang, he was good at using stone tools and won many battles. Later generations of Duanyu people worshiped Chiyou as their ancestor. In order to infect the aura of heaven and earth, Duanyu people seldom appear in crowded places. Most of them live in seclusion in high mountains and wild forests, knowing the atmosphere of the earth, and searching for jade veins. Some Duanyu people have reached their old age , left the mountains and forests, and ran to places with many people and hands, just to find the next successor. When he found a baby with unique bones, he immediately stuffed it into a ragged cotton jacket and slipped back to the mountains. The broken jade man first found the jade vein, Dig a hole from the ground to the center of the jade vein, put the baby in the hole for seventy-seven forty-nine days, and feed it with ground whey spring every day. After seventy-seven forty-nine days, as long as the baby is not dead, it can be opened Eye of the sky. Breaking the nature of jade and finding the veins of jade is as simple as searching for something." What the old man said reminded Yuan Sen of a story told by Professor Yang Jian. When he was young, he went to Nanyang, Henan. Nanyang jade is one of the four famous jades, and it is also known as the top five producing jades along with Hotan, Shaanxi, Gansu and Liaoning. holy place.Professor Yang Jian was looking for jade veins in the mountains. The deep mountains and old forests were deserted. He stayed in the mountains for half a month, and suddenly saw a family in a depression.The mountain depression is surrounded by continuous mountains. The ancient trees on the mountain are dozens or even hundreds of meters high. The thorns are scattered here and there, and the wild animals are roaming around. The people who can live here are definitely not ordinary people. Professor Yang Jian secretly walked into the small wooden house with three rooms and three rooms, and the wooden house was surrounded by fence posts to prevent wild animals.Professor Yang Jian went to the back of the wooden house and peeked into the room, and saw an old wooden bed in the room, and an old man was lying on the bed. The old man had a gray beard and was wearing a ragged cotton jacket in hot weather. Professor Yang Jian saw that there were still living people in the room, and although he found it strange, he knocked on the door and went in.The old man received him very warmly. Professor Yang Jian asked the old man why he lived alone in this deep mountain forest. The old man said that his ancestors were all hunters in this mountain. how the world is. Professor Yang Jian looked at the inside of the wooden house. The old man said that his ancestors lived here, but the tables and chairs in the wooden house seemed to be made temporarily, and still smelled of wood.The more Professor Yang Jian looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong. It was midsummer, and the outside of the wooden house was shaded by big trees. The inside of the wooden house was extremely hot and stuffy, and he was sweating profusely when he moved. However, the old man slept in the wooden house where there was a cold air, which was really weird. Terribly. Professor Yang Jian chatted with the old man one after another. Professor Yang Jian claimed that he was an archaeologist, and he came to this mountain with the archaeological team to find the tomb, and he was left alone.It is impossible for ordinary people to come to this deserted mountain casually. If it is not the master who digs caves and digs graves, how can he come to such a place without a lot of skills under his hands. While the two were chatting, a baby crying suddenly sounded in another wooden house, and the crying was not made by one baby, there were three or four more.Professor Yang Jian has a lot of doubts. He has long heard that some crooked warlocks like to catch babies from outside the mountains to practice magic. Could it be that this old man is the right one? Knowing that Professor Yang Jian was suspicious, the old man explained embarrassingly that these were quadruplets born to his grandson and grandson-in-law.His son and grandson thought about going to the mountains to find the mother leopard's milk to feed them. They prepared for several days and went to the deep mountains together, but there was no news from them.The old man's bones are still strong, so he took a moonlit night to touch the leopard beam in the back mountain to watch.From a distance, he could see a pile of human bones next to the mother leopard's nest, with two heads, two hands, two heads, and no one else would come here in the deep mountains. Without asking, he knew that his son and grandson were swallowed by the mother leopard. The old man hid in the woods and cried for a while, thinking that his son and grandson were gone, but his Zhang Erliang roots were still there, and he wanted to go back to support his incense.The old man went back and cried a lot. He was old and frail, and it was impossible for him to go to the forest to catch a female animal to suckle the four babies.I had no choice but to dig a trap and catch a female roe deer, and feed the quadruplets with roe deer's milk every day. The old man burst into tears. How can Professor Yang Jian be fooled by ordinary people? As soon as he heard it, he knew that the old man was full of lies, so he slipped out and entered the mountain while the old man was pouring water for him into the house. He found this place according to the method of finding jade veins. The air here is too cloudy. Once the compass is placed here, it will point north and south, which is a sign of the emergence of jade veins.Professor Yang Jian came to the leopard beam mentioned by the old man. There was indeed a hidden leopard cave there, but there were no leopards in the cave.Professor Yang Jian got into the cave and found that the cave was full of corpses of babies, some of which had rotted and smelled, and here was a huge jade vein. In the cave, Professor Yang Jian also saw that three sticks of incense were lit inside, and the memorial tablet for offering was none other than Emperor Chiyou, and he immediately understood that this was what his father said before, using jade veins to nourish broken jade people. Thinking of the experience of Professor Yang Jian, Yuan Sen already believed the old man's words to 80%, and it seemed that he met an expert.The purpose of Yuan Sen coming to the third entrance is for the jade tablet brought out from the ancient tomb in Shahai. The only clue now is to decipher the secret of the jade tablet. move. Yuan Sen said: "Old man, I have a jade plaque that is about the same size as your ancient jade, why don't you take a look at it for me?" The old man looked at Yuan Sen suspiciously, then looked him up and down with narrowed eyes, and said, "Take it out and show it to the old man!" Yuan Sen took out the jade token from his backpack and handed it to the old man. Once the old man's eyes fell on the jade token, he couldn't move away. His eyes widened, as if he had found some treasure. The old man wrinkled his nose, sniffed vigorously, and said, "Underground baby?" Yuan Sen knew that there was nothing to lie about in front of this expert, so he told the old man everything he had seen and heard in the Shahai ancient tomb. After hearing the origin of the jade plaque, the old man slapped his hands and said: "You are lucky, do you know what this treasure is on your body? Everyone who has broken the jade has heard of this treasure, and the common name is Huoliaoshao , is the treasure born on the 'Li' position among the eight directions of the jade vein. The Li position is also known as the fire vein, and the jades born are extremely yang and strong. In ancient times, many big families were popular for house immortals. , can keep the house safe and prosperous. There are many kinds of house immortals, some enshrining Buddha statues and some enshrining auspicious animals, but it is said that the most mysterious and effective house immortal is the most difficult to obtain ancient jade fire. As the saying goes, As the saying goes, it's called "burning the house with fire, and the pot of riches and honor." If you burn the house with fire, even if you are a poor family, you can get rich overnight, and the gold and silver treasures will come to your door by yourself, and you can't take it back." Yuan Sen was not interested in the old man's far-fetched legends, what he wanted to know was what this jade tablet was, so he urged the old man, "Can you see the historical origin of this jade tablet? Want to know who is the real owner of the Shahai ancient tomb?" The old man giggled and said, "Grandma——Grandma, I don't know who the owner of the tomb offended before he was alive to put such a thing in his tomb!" Yuan Sen said: "How to say?" The old man smacked his tongue and said: "This fire is enshrined in the family house and is the house fairy of Wangzhai, but if it is placed in a solitary grave and a wild mound, it will become a harmful thing. The fire burns to the sun, and the fire is extremely strong." Wang, the tomb is originally a place of the most yin, once a fire burns this kind of treasure, the rightful owner of the tomb will easily cheat the corpse, and the feng shui treasured place has also become a murderous tomb." The old man said: "You saw in the ancient tomb the mighty general who conquered the west, but I have heard a little about it. More than two thousand years ago, the Wusun Dynasty in the Western Regions had internal and external troubles, and was severely suppressed by the Xiongnu. At that time, the king of Wusun used a general named Abuli. Abuli was both civil and military. Victory not only regained a large area of ​​land under the Xiongnu's iron cavalry, but also defeated the Xiongnu Shanyu, and was named the mighty general of Zhengxi. If you say it like this, the Abuli in the tomb is the mighty general of Zhengxi of the Wusun Dynasty If so, then this palace must be the tomb of Wusun nobles." As soon as Yuan Sen heard what the old man said, his mind suddenly brightened. Since he could confirm that General Abeli ​​of Zhengxi was the general of the Wusun Dynasty, he could deduce that the ancient tomb must be Wusun's tomb.The entanglement between Wusun and the Xiongnu dates back to the second century BC. Wusun was originally a vassal state supported by the Huns. The two countries joined hands to fight against the powerful Da Yuezhi. On the north bank of the Mu River, they seized the vast area of ​​the Da Yuezhi in the Ili River Basin, and the country began to grow stronger.After Wusun became independent from the Xiongnu, the Da Yuezhi was no longer a threat, and the Xiongnu and Wusun became the two most powerful countries in the Western Regions.One mountain cannot contain two tigers. After Wusun became strong, he became a thorn in the eyes of the Xiongnu. After the Xiongnu became the overlord of the Western Regions, they began to brutally suppress the Wusun Dynasty.It was at this time that Wusun came into contact with the Western Han Dynasty, and the world-famous Silk Road was opened under this environment.Zhang Qian went on an envoy to the Western Regions and came into contact with the Wusun Dynasty. Later, Princess Xijun married Kunmo, the king of Wusun, and became the real first person in history to go abroad.It is said that the biological father of Princess Xijun was Liu Jian, the capital of Hanjiang. Liu Jian tried to usurp power and seize the throne and was killed.After Xijun grew up, he was conferred the title of Princess Xijun by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and sent to Wusun for marriage. Recalling the records in the history books, Yuan Sen's mind gradually connected the clues into a line, General Abeli ​​- Wusun Dynasty - Han Palace in the Western Regions - Mysterious Blood Book - Princess Xijun. It turned out that the owner of the ancient tomb in Shahai, the concubine in General Abeli's blood book, was actually Liu Xijun, the concubine princess who married Kunmo, king of Wusun, in the Western Han Dynasty. According to the blood book of General Abeli, the emperor passed away and the new emperor came to the throne. According to the custom of the dynasty, the new emperor could inherit the wife of the former emperor who was not related to him by blood.The imperial concubine couldn't bear this kind of incestuous behavior, and she was depressed and forced to smile. In desperation, Abe force wrote letters to persuade the imperial concubine, which eventually led to a fatal disaster. This statement is very close to a passage recorded in the history books. Princess Xijun married Wusun King Kunmo. Two years later, Kunmo passed away.Princess Xijun grew up in the Han family who advocated ethics and morality since she was a child. She deeply despises this incestuous behavior but has nothing to do.A year later, he gave birth to a daughter for the new emperor, Cen Zoujun, and died in depression. General Abeli's blood book said that the imperial concubine was bestowed to death by the emperor after her personal affair was exposed.In comparison, the historical statements are nothing but official rhetoric, and the official statements have always been high-sounding. On the contrary, what is said in the blood book is more credible. After the death of Princess Xijun, the new emperor of the Wusun Dynasty must be unable to resolve the hatred in his heart. In a fit of anger, he ordered someone to replace Princess Xijun's burial mouth with ancient jade, which is taboo in a lonely grave, so that Princess Xijun There is no peace after death. It seems that men all over the world are equally perverted when they wear cuckolds. The wheel of history has been rolling over for more than two thousand years, and the characters in history have long been rotten. It is obviously meaningless to analyze who is right and who is wrong now, everything is clear.But what puzzled Yuan Sen the most was that, as mentioned in the blood book, Abeli ​​hid the body of Princess Xijun in a mysterious place. thing. In this way, Princess Xijun's marriage to Wusun is not as simple as the official history records of making peace and jointly containing the expansion of the Huns. Her real purpose is to find something, and what is that thing?It's worth her giving up her glory and wealth, traveling far beyond the Great Wall to find her, and even burying her bones in the desert. If you think about it at a deeper level, Princess Xijun's departure from the fortress was originally a marriage with a clear political purpose. The marriage was manipulated by the Western Han Dynasty at that time, and the ruler of the Western Han Dynasty was the famous Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che.If there is another purpose for Princess Xijun to marry Wusun, then this purpose is also the purpose of the Western Han Dynasty and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Princess Xijun will always be just a tool for marriage. In other words, the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago sent Princess Xijun to Wusun with a carload of treasures. What is she looking for in this nomadic kingdom in the Western Regions?The Western Han Dynasty spent a lot of time and energy to find something that was definitely not simple. The old man said: "With this fire burning the town's tomb, if the rightful owner of the tomb hadn't been moved, none of you would have come out alive." Yuan Sen heard what the old man said. He did see a lot of unexplainable things in the Shahai ancient tomb, and he couldn't refute the old man, so he could only obediently agree. The old man looked at the crystal clear jade tablet carefully for a long time, and then took out the ancient jade in his arms. The old man put the two pieces of jade in the copper basin, and then added new water.It was only then that Yuan Sen noticed that the shapes of the two pieces of jade were so similar. The old man's ancient jade tablet had a big notch on the upper end, while his jade tablet had a protruding piece.Yuan Sen didn't think there was anything strange about the protruding piece at first, but it was just a small bump derived from the jade plate itself. It is estimated that the jade craftsman spent a lot of thought on carving the derived piece into a It looks like a little beast's head.But there is only a rough outline on the animal's head, and it is not clear what kind of animal it is. The old man touched the characteristics of the two pieces of jade in the copper basin, and "clicked" the protruding piece of jade into the notch. The two pieces of jade were perfectly nested together as if they were designed.However, there was a big gap at the end of the two pieces of jade, as if there was still a piece missing. The old man smiled dryly, and said: "The heaven and the earth were first opened, the universe was first opened, and the jade veins were born by the energy of the earth. It is weird and mysterious, and it is difficult to describe it with common sense. The old man has traveled all over China, looking for veins through jade, and seen treasures. There are countless jade wares, but for this piece of ancient jade, he did not hesitate to use all means to keep it for himself."