Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 14 The Mysterious Eyeball Tattoo

On the second day, the Antiquities Exhibition and Trade Fair was held as scheduled at the International Convention and Exhibition Center in Xi'an.

As an invited guest, Professor Ye gave a short but wonderful speech at the opening ceremony.

The exhibition and trade fair of ancient cultural relics attracted tens of thousands of people to participate, and all cultural relic collectors from all over the world flocked to Xi'an, and they did not want to miss this feast of cultural relic collectors.The crowd is surging, and the exhibition center will be completely surrounded.Some people are carrying large bundles of cash, wanting to find a good item.Some people hold their antiques carefully, hoping to take this opportunity to sell them for a good price.There are some people who just come to join in the fun, there are not a few such people, and Gu Meidi and I are one of them.

Because of Professor Ye's relationship, Gu Meidi and I naturally didn't have to mix in the crowds. We were lucky to be the first tourists to enter the exhibition center that day.We strolled in the spacious and magnificent exhibition center, where there are hundreds of thousands of ancient treasures. In addition to the staff of the exhibition center, there are mighty special police waiting in line, and the security measures are impeccable.

Gu Meidi and I have been traveling with Professor Ye in recent years, and we have seen many ancient treasures, but when we walked into the exhibition center, we were still shocked by all kinds of ancient artworks.In the face of so many unseen and unheard of exquisite ancient relics, those things we have seen before really pale in comparison.The ancient relics that can be exhibited in this exhibition are the bright pearls in the cultural relics world. Every ancient relic is the crystallization of the wisdom of ancient craftsmen. Ordinary ancient relics are not qualified to enter the exhibition center at all.

The dazzling array of ancient cultural relics made my eyes shine, and the halazi kept dripping down the corners of my mouth.

Gu Meidi squinted at me, "Tuoba Gu, why do you look so wretched?"

I took a breath and said, "I was thinking, the value of these ancient relics could be hundreds of millions. If they were all mine, I would make a fortune!"

Gu Meidi rolled his eyes and said, "You haven't woken up yet, have you? Daydreaming! But then again, isn't your family a Yellow River corpse hunter? Haven't caught any treasures under the surging Yellow River for so many years?"

I said: "It's not as easy as you think. There is no good thing in the world. When my grandfather was young, he once fished a big iron ox under the Yellow River. It is said that the big iron ox has the head of a truck." It was so big, it was black and shiny, and it was washed very smooth by the river. Later, my grandfather donated this big iron ox to the Henan Provincial Cultural Relics Administration, and it is still placed in the Henan Ancient Cultural Relics Museum.”

Gu Meidi and I walked forward while chatting. A piece of precious ancient cultural relics were neatly displayed on both sides of the aisle, exuding a strong ancient rhyme and a heavy historical atmosphere.We are dazzled by so many collections. Although we are professional archaeologists, we can only name a few collections. Here I will briefly introduce a few:

One is the "Hetian Jade Lotus Seeds Aroma Diffuser with Two Ears".The volume of the aromatherapy burner may be slightly larger than an adult's fist. There are two ears on the left and right sides of the furnace, and two jade lotus seeds are hung on the two ears of the furnace. Under the shining of the sun, it is radiant and beautiful.I looked at the auction price inadvertently, and the long string of "0"s behind it made me dizzy.

Next to the aromatherapy burner, there is an even more extraordinary collection with a very long name called "Blue and White Consecrated Dragon and Phoenix Pattern Octagonal Jade Pot and Spring Vase". The auction price of this thing has reached tens of millions of yuan. I clicked my tongue secretly, amazed.The blue-and-white jade bottle adopts a unique octagonal process, which makes the whole jade bottle have eight cut surfaces and edges, which is very rare in ancient handicrafts.The blue-and-white jade vase has a traditional light blue thick bottom, with a magnificent pattern of a dragon soaring into the sky drawn on the body of the vase. It is immediately obvious that it is a royal treasure, so it is no wonder that it is so expensive.

After walking not far, we saw another bronze case of the Han Dynasty that was even more ingenious.A tripod is engraved in the center of the inner area of ​​the copper case, with water splashing from the mouth of the tripod, and two strange beasts dance to each other on the left and right.There is a copper flower tree in the middle of the four corners and the long side of the outer area, and strange birds and animals are arranged in it.The inner side of the mouth is engraved with zigzag patterns, and the surface is engraved with hook patterns, which are full of strong ancient charm.The light flows on the copper case, reflecting simple and charming colors.

Gu Mei Di suddenly patted me on the shoulder and said, "Hey, there are still auctions of ancient corpses over there. It's really fresh. Let's go and have a look!"

It was a crystal coffin, and an ancient corpse lay quietly inside the crystal coffin.The crystal coffin stood upright, with transparent sides, allowing one to see the appearance of the ancient corpse from all directions.When Gu Meidi and I came to the crystal coffin, we were immediately stunned.It's not that we were frightened by the auction price posted on the coffin, but by the ancient corpse inside the coffin.

Gu Meidi and I glanced at each other, my God, this ancient corpse is almost exactly the same as the one in the tortoise coffin no matter its appearance or clothes!
I saw that this ancient corpse had a long and narrow face, a straight nose, and deep eyes, which had distinct characteristics of the Western Regions.He also wears a hedgehog steel helmet and black armor, and holds a curved Lengyue knife in his right hand. His face is lifelike, as if he just fell asleep peacefully.

Gu Meidi exclaimed in a low voice: "Warrior of Xixia!"

Why is there another ancient corpse of a Xixia warrior here?Could it be that this ancient corpse was also taken out of the tortoise coffin?From this point of view, there may be many precious and strange yin wood tortoise coffins. These Xixia warriors may be warriors with great military exploits, or they may be buried with the royal family and nobles.

Just when I was secretly guessing, Gu Meidi had already circled behind the coffin, "Tuoba Gu, come and see!"

I came to Gu Meidi, and Gu Meidi pointed to the back of the ancient corpse's neck and said, "Look!"

I took a closer look and saw that this ancient corpse also had a strange eyeball tattoo on the back of its neck.The technique of the tattoo is very superb, the eyeball looks like it grows in the flesh, just like it is alive, it is inexplicably horrifying.

I speculated: "It seems that this eyeball tattoo may be a totem worshiped by Xixia warriors, or it may be a national custom of Xixia people!"

"No!" Gu Meidi shook his head.

I was slightly taken aback, "What's wrong?"

Gu Meidi said: "I remember that the eyeball pattern of the ancient corpse in the tortoise coffin was turquoise. Why are the eyeball patterns of this ancient corpse black?"

"Oh?" I didn't pay attention to the question Gu Meidi said, but I believed what she said, because she has a super power of photographic memory, and she will never remember it wrong.

I suggested: "Why don't we ask the boss behind the auction of this ancient corpse, maybe he knows some information about the ancient corpse of a Western Xia warrior!"

The yin wood turtle coffin and the ancient corpse in the coffin controlled by the death worms of the Western Regions have always been mysteries that cannot be solved in our hearts.We couldn't even find any information or news related to it. We finally got a clue today, and we naturally refused to let it go.

We quickly found the staff and asked him about the boss behind the auction of this ancient corpse.

The staff looked at us suspiciously, "Do you want to buy this ancient corpse?"

I nodded, "Yes!"

The staff said, "Young man, stop kidding, look at the price on it, you... can you afford it?"

"..." I was at a loss for words, just when I didn't know how to continue, Gu Meidi stepped forward to rescue me.She held the mobile phone and pretended to make a call next to her with a hypocritical face, "Hello! Secretary Liu? How is the cooperation with Microsoft going? Ah, that's it! Then what did Gates say? What? What else? Think about it? The Yankees are too cautious in doing things. Is it necessary to be so cautious in a small business with hundreds of millions? Really..."

When the staff member heard Gu Meidi's call, his expression changed immediately, and he quickly called a young woman dressed in sexy clothes.

The young woman introduced herself: "Hi, my name is Zhou Jie. I heard that you are very interested in this ancient corpse, right?"

I said, "Are you the boss of this ancient corpse?"

Zhou Jie smiled and said, "I'm not the boss. Our boss is surnamed Zhao and nicknamed Fat Toutuo. He has been in the cultural relics business for 20 years and is well-known in the frontier area. I'm just his secretary."

Gu Meidi shook hands with Zhou Jie, "Hello, Secretary Zhou! My husband and I have always liked to collect strange things, and we have a lot of ancient cultural relics at home. This time we came to the exhibition to find some rare things. When we saw that there were auctions of ancient corpses, we immediately became interested. Some people may think that ancient corpses are scary, but in our opinion, this is a beautiful work of art, and we want to take it back and put it in the living room as a Decoration. Isn't it, husband?"

Gu Mei Di affectionately held my arm, and called "husband" every time, which made my heart burst into joy and my blood pressure soared.

But her sentence "put the ancient corpse as a display in the living room" was really shocking. I saw that not only the staff member, but even Secretary Zhou's face turned green.

Zhou Jie laughed dryly, "Well, if the two of you really have the intention to buy this ancient corpse, I'll take you to see Boss Zhao right away!"

Gu Meidi said: "That would be the best!" She tugged on my sleeve, "Let's go, what are you doing?"

After walking a few steps, Gu Meidi whispered in my ear: "Tuobagu, if you stare at Zhou Jie's ass again, I'll take your skin off and use it to make Liangpi!"

I shivered, quickly looked away, then swallowed hard, despising myself in the bottom of my heart.

Walking out of the convention and exhibition center, there is still a long queue of people outside.

Zhou Jie let us sit in her Audi TT and drove away.

Zhou Jie was very talkative. On the way, she told us that she was Fat Toutuo's lover and secretary, and that Fat Toutuo bought her a villa in Qujiang New District, Xi'an.Fat Toutuo often does business outside, and Zhou Jie stays in the company in Xi'an on weekdays to help with affairs.Fat Toutuo would live in Xi'an for a few days almost every month, meet her in a tryst, and then throw her a sum of money.

Zhou Jie talked eloquently, and we are not surprised by this. This is the current social situation. We have heard many things about this, and we have long been familiar with it.

The Audi TT parked under an office building with more than [-] floors. Zhou Jie said to us: "Fat Toutuo is on it, come with me!"

We followed Zhou Jie to the [-]th floor by elevator. Just as we walked to the door of the company, Zhou Jie raised his hand and was about to knock on the door. Unexpectedly, the door opened, and a tall man in black suddenly rushed out from inside. Zhou Jie Caught off guard, he was knocked to the ground by the man in black.Regardless of the man in black, he rushed into the elevator like a whirlwind.

Due to the sudden incident, we didn't see the appearance of the man in black clearly.Zhou Jie got up from the ground and scolded angrily: "Who is this bastard? Why is he so unqualified? Are you rushing to reincarnate? You didn't know how to apologize when you bumped into someone, and ran away! See him next time, I must smack him with two big earbrackets!"

We followed Zhou Jie into the office. Zhou Jie had just stepped into the office when she suddenly let out a terrified scream, jumped up like an electric shock, and then turned around and slammed into my arms.

The scene in front of us made us unbelievable. We saw a middle-aged fat man lying on his back on an office chair, his eyes turned white, his head drooping powerlessly on his shoulders, and a gleaming sharp knife stuck in his chest, blood was already stained red His white shirt.This middle-aged fat man should be Fat Toutuo.

I immediately realized that the man in black just now was probably the murderer.I yelled inwardly, and turned around to chase after him, but Zhou Jie rolled her eyes and fainted from fright in my arms.

The police quickly sealed off the scene of the murder. Zhou Jie was crying and weeping beside him, and Gu Meidi and I were on the other side to record our statements.Because it happened so suddenly, none of us saw the features of the suspect's face, so we didn't have any valuable clues to provide to the police. We only knew that the suspect was wearing a black coat and was taller.

When I walked out of the office building, I felt terrible.This is really a coincidence, we just went to find Fat Toutuo, Fat Toutuo was killed, and our clues to find the origin of the turtle coffin were interrupted again, which made me feel very depressed.

Gu Meidi has not spoken, I thought she was frightened after witnessing the murder, and was about to say something to comfort her, but she suddenly stopped and said to me solemnly: "Actually, I just Withheld a lead from the police."

This time it was my turn to be stupid, "What clues are you hiding? Do you know the identity of the murderer? Impossible, everything happened so fast just now, none of us saw it clearly..."

"No!" Gu Meidi said in a deep voice, "Although I didn't see the murderer's face clearly, I discovered an extremely strange thing."

Looking at Gu Meidi's serious face, chills ran down my spine.

Gu Meidi pointed at the back of his neck, "Just now I caught a glimpse of an eyeball tattoo on the neck of the black-clothed killer."

Rumble!
As if a thunderbolt exploded in my mind, I opened my mouth in disbelief, "What did you say?!"

Things are getting weirder and weirder, more and more incomprehensible.What does that eyeball tattoo actually symbolize?Why do eyeball tattoos thousands of years ago appear on the necks of modern people?Could it be that the ancients crossed over?Impossible, that's something only in brain-dead dramas!This... What is going on here?Is there any mysterious connection between this black-clothed killer and the Xixia warrior thousands of years ago?What motive did he come to assassinate Fat Toutuo?It's a pity that Fat Toutuo is dead, otherwise, we will definitely get a lot of valuable clues from Fat Toutuo's mouth.

Just when I was in a daze, Gu Meidi continued: "However, the eyeball tattoo of this killer is different. The eyeball tattoo on the back of the neck of the ancient corpse in the tortoise coffin is green, and the ancient corpse in the crystal coffin The eyeball tattoo on the neck of the corpse is jet black, but the eyeball tattoo on the neck of this black-clothed killer turned out to be a strange blood red! The three tattoo designs are exactly the same, but the colors are different, strange, really strange!"

We went back to the hotel full of questions.In the hotel, we told Professor Ye about this, unexpectedly even the well-informed Professor Ye was taken aback for a while.

Professor Ye pondered for a while and said: "This matter is indeed strange. You two have also come into contact with ancient corpses, and your lives may be in danger. Instead of sitting here and waiting to die, why don't we take the initiative to find out the ins and outs of the matter."

I threw away the cigarette butt, "Professor Ye said that we will leave for Hezi Village tomorrow."

Professor Ye said: "This journey is extremely dangerous. Although you two are smart, you are too immature after all, lacking professional experience and social experience, so I decided to accompany you."

I was lying on the bed tiredly, one question after another was flying in my mind.

Why are the corpses of Xixia warriors contained in the strange Yinmu tortoise coffin?
Why are the Western Xia warriors implanted with the death bug of the Western Regions in their heads?

Are they immortal warriors, or sad funeral objects?

What do the eyeball tattoos on the back of Xixia warriors symbolize?
Why does the modern killer after a thousand years also have this mysterious eyeball tattoo?
What is the connection between this killer and the Xixia warrior thousands of years ago?

……

There were too many questions, which made me dizzy, so I simply closed my eyes and stopped thinking about it. Let's get enough energy first and talk about it when I get back to Hezi Village.

(End of this chapter)