Jin Yutong

Chapter 110 The Skull Pendant Is a Modern Craft

After everyone gathered, Wang Zhiqing told everyone the whole story. The reason why their archaeological team came to Bazhang Village to conduct archaeological excavations was because the Provincial Public Security Bureau cracked down on a tomb robbery gang.

According to the investigation, more than a month ago, under the leadership of the eldest brother, a total of nine people, including handymen, entered the deep mountain through Bazhang Village.

"Big brother" is the name given to the leader of the tomb robbers in the tomb robbery circle. In the tomb robber gang, "big brother" is not an ordinary person, just like a gangster. "Into the eyes of the earth", without the housekeeping ability to find ancient tombs, it is impossible.

Therefore, in the circle, the leader of the tomb robbery gang is called "Zhangyan", which means the same as the "treasurer" of the hotel business in the past.

The internal division of labor in the tomb robbery gang is strict, with a clear hierarchy and many rules. Those who do not abide by the rules or violate the rules will be severely punished, and they will even be "cleared out of the party". standard.Then, according to the size of the ability and the depth of expertise, different "types of work" are determined, "watching the wind", "watching the breath", "listening to the sound" and "watching the soil", each performing its duties.

Those who have no ability will work as coolie handymen, who can punch three times and two legs and also serve as bodyguards.

Besides, the nine people entered the deep mountains, their luck was not very good. Not long after entering the virgin forest in the deep mountains, they encountered an adult lynx. As we all know, the fur of lynxes is very precious, and they are also to blame Greedy, seeing this lynx, wanted to hunt it down.

However, the nature of the lynx is cunning and cautious. When it encounters danger, it will quickly flee to the tree to hide, and sometimes lie down on the ground, pretending to be dead. In the end, the nine of them not only made the adult lynx Lynx escaped, and two people were injured by Lynx.

The two injured people will definitely not be able to enter the mountain. If they follow them into the mountain, they will not be able to help, and they will drag others down. After a decision, let two of them send the two injured people out of the deep mountain. Staying in Bazhang Village to recuperate, the remaining five people continued to go into the mountains to search for treasures.

Later, these four people lived in the old Zhao's house in Bazhang Village. This time, they lived for nearly a month. Who knows that a month has passed, and there is no news of the eldest brother and them. With the passage of time, What they were waiting for was getting more and more impatient, and they all speculated that it was the eldest brother who died?

Their tomb robbery gang has been established for ** years, and the nine people are almost all close relatives, either old cousins ​​or uncles and nephews. They still trust each other very much. When they were already killed, they suddenly received news that the elder brother had appeared at their home.

When they heard the news, they were dumbfounded, and then rushed back to their home overnight. Later, there was a dispute over the uneven distribution of spoils. Two of the four people were killed, one injured and one disabled, and those who survived were directly arrested.

"Although two people were lost, it has been confirmed that these two people belong to the younger generation, and we don't know where they robbed the tomb at all. However, among the things brought back by the elder brother, we have made important discoveries. These discoveries are of great significance to our country. Some domestic research is of great value."

After talking about the gang of tomb robbers, Wang Zhiqing first emphasized the importance of this archaeological excavation, but he didn't mention a word about what the major discovery was or what kind of research was valuable.

The whole room fell into silence, and only Wang Zhiqing's voice could be heard: "Although the two who fell did not know the location of the tomb robbery, they provided us with a clue. This clue is a piece of cloth. The location where this piece of cloth was found is only known to the eldest brother. There are some patterns drawn on this piece of cloth. At first, Professor Yue and I thought that these patterns were things like maps, but after Teacher Yan reminded me , we guessed that these patterns should be a kind of ancient characters that we had never seen before, so we invited the teacher here. In addition to this piece of cloth, there was another thing that seemed to be a key. They had never seen this object before the five of them entered the mountain. According to our guess, this key is most likely brought out by the elder brother from the ruins. Considering that we may need this object during the archaeological process, And bring this together.”

After speaking, Wang Zhiqing took out a small bundle wrapped in layers of silk cloth from the work bag he was carrying. Under the eyes of everyone, he untied the silk cloth bit by bit, and the silk cloth gradually untied. After opening, a piece of cloth made of unknown fur was revealed. This piece of cloth was only the size of a palm, and it was still torn, as if it had been torn off...Wang Zhiqing will After the silk cloth was completely untied, he handed the piece of cloth to Mr. Ma. Mr. Ma couldn't wait for a long time, so he took the piece of cloth over impatiently. He just glanced at it, and his eyes lit up immediately... The only people present were Chen Ran, Mr. Ma, and Li Hongji, who had never seen this piece of cloth before, and they were all very curious, but Li Hongji could only stare blankly. Sitting next to him, when he turned his head, he saw the pattern on the entire piece of cloth clearly.

It was covered with patterns one after another, which really looked like a map, because some of these patterns looked like mountains, some looked like rivers, and some looked like various animals...Suddenly, Chen Ran's entire body There was a sudden pause.

At this moment, a familiar pattern suddenly came into his sight.

Skull!

Yes, this familiar pattern is indeed a skull, similar to Chen Ran's skull pendant, the only difference is that the skull in front of him is a complete skull, while Chen Ran's skull pendant is only half.

After repeated confirmations, Chen Ran already understood in his heart that his skull pendant was obviously exactly the same as this pattern.

"By the way, I almost forgot one thing, Xiao Ran, do you have your skull pendant?" At this time, Wang Zhiqing's voice suddenly sounded in the silent room for a while. , the eyes of everyone in the room were focused on Wang Zhiqing, and then the focus obviously shifted to Chen Ran.

Seeing everyone like this, Wang Zhiqing explained to Professor Yue and Yan Ruyu: "A friend of Xiao Ran gave him a skull pendant for him to keep. The pattern looks the same."

As soon as he said this, Professor Yue's face was excited and surprised and said: "Is it really the same?" After finishing speaking, he quickly looked at Chen Ran, and the others also looked at Chen Ran eagerly. , even Mr. Ma, who was looking down at the pattern on the piece of cloth, raised his head.

Under the attention of everyone, Chen Ran could only take out the skull pendant, and only after the skull pendant was taken out, three people burst out laughing. It's true that such a non-mainstream skull pendant was taken out on such an occasion. Can't help but smile.

It was Professor Yue's two students Guo Xiaohong, Wang Fei and Li Hongji who were laughing. Professor Yue glared at them, stood up impatiently, and surrounded them. Others gathered around Chen Ran and Mr. Ma.

Just glanced at it, and Professor Yue couldn't help showing an excited look on his face: "That's right, it's exactly the same, only half of it is missing!"

"When I got it, it was only half of it..."

When Chen Ran explained, he was also guessing the origin of the pendant in his heart. The pendant was obtained from Lao Chen. Lao Chen said that he bought it at a small stall. This statement is definitely not true. Even if a person like Lao Chen It's not a tomb robber, and it's also related to a tomb robber gang. If you guess like this, the pendant might have been brought out during the tomb robbery.

He guessed this guess well. In the early years, Lao Chen himself was a tomb robber. Later, he was caught once and spent several years in prison. So he changed his career to tinkering with antiques. At first he behaved well, but his luck was not good, he lost a few times, and then cheated again.

The relationship between Lao Chen and the tomb gang that was uncovered this time is also good. At that time, the eldest brother was eager to sell what he had in his hand, so he contacted some people like Lao Chen who were educated and experienced, some like Lao Chen, some held black markets, etc. This pendant was given to Lao Chen by the eldest brother.

Although the skull pendant was recognized as exactly the same as the pattern on the cloth piece, but after being passed around, no one has seen such a pendant, and no one has even recognized the material of the pendant. After everyone saw it, Professor Yue brought Guo Xiaohong and Wang Fei into his room to conduct research.

This time, the archeology came well prepared. They even brought some simple testing instruments with them. About 20 minutes later, the test results came out. The skull pendant was just a simple copper product... even According to the results of the detection, it is inferred that the age is not too long.

Professor Yue said this sentence tactfully, but in fact everyone can hear it, which means that this skull pendant is basically a modern handicraft. As soon as this result came out, Chen Ran suddenly became the focus again. Chen Ran's gaze also had a weird look, like Li Hongji and Wang Fei both had sneering faces, only they didn't seem to be sneering or sarcastic, it's really funny, what kind of friends are entrusting them, dammit, take a modern Handicrafts, treat everyone here as fools... The skull pendant is a modern handicraft. Chen Ran's so-called friend trusteeship has undoubtedly become the biggest joke, especially when the skull pendant was taken out, everyone was still like this Excited, but in the end, it turned out to be a modern handicraft, which made people feel as sick as eating flies.

Except for Yan Ruyu, Mr. Ma and others who were acquainted with Chen Ran, everyone else suddenly lost their affection for Chen Ran, even the good-tempered Professor Yue was a little disappointed.

"Ahem... Although the pendant is not very old, the pattern engraved on this pendant is exactly the same as the image on the cloth, which means that the sculptor of the pendant must have seen this image. This is also a clue for us... ..."

Wang Zhiqing was also a little embarrassed. If Chen Ran had approached him on his own initiative, he would have thought that Chen Ran had lied to him, or had an attempt, but in fact, he was the first to discover the pendant.

What Wang Zhiqing said reminded Professor Yue, and he quickly went back to his room to search for information on this image. Since this pendant is a modern handicraft, it is obvious that this image has appeared recently. It's better to find it.

"I'm afraid it's just a coincidence!" Li Hongji 'interjected', and everyone nodded in their hearts, agreeing with his guess, and only Mr. Ma and the others didn't think so. If there were no images, the carvings would be exactly the same. It was imagined, is it possible... No matter what they think, when Chen Ran learned of the result, he was greatly relieved. When Professor Yue was about to use the instrument for testing, his heart He also brought it up, he was really afraid of detecting something, but fortunately, the detection turned out to be such a result.

In this way, no doubt only he would know the secret of the skull pendant, and for him, this was the most beneficial result.

Professor Yue searched for half an hour, but found no results. At this time, Mr. Ma raised his head and coughed twice. Everyone was immediately refreshed, knowing that Mr. Ma's translation results came out.