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Chapter 230 Translating Letters Word by Word
Looking at the black box containing valuable jewelry, Xu Yunhan started the car and went home directly. Originally, she planned to invite Master Tong to lunch at noon, but this situation is obviously impossible now.

When she got home, Aunt Min was busy making lunch in the kitchen. Xu Yunhan greeted her with a suitcase and went upstairs to her room.

Opening the door of the cloakroom connected to the bedroom, Xu Yunhan walked to the innermost cabinet in the cloakroom, and pushed open the side panel of the cabinet to reveal a safe.After verifying the fingerprint and password, Xu Yunhan opened the safe and took out the jewelry boxes from the black box.He took out the few pieces he was going to give to Uncle Xu, Ah Mo and Dai Xiaobei, and put the rest in the safe.

The black jade finger ring is for Uncle Xu, the bracelet inlaid with various gemstones and the black jade safety buckle are for Ah Mo, and a pair of purple jade bracelets and purple beans are for Dai Xiaobei.Xu Yunhan found a bag for each of the three of them and packed them up. After lunch, he can go to the antique shop to hand the fingers to Uncle Xu. It just so happens that he hasn't been there for a month or two.Ah Mo's will be given to her when she comes back at night, and Dai Xiaobei's will be given to her when they meet. This girl has gone abroad to play with Fan Disheng these two days.

So Xu Yunhan put the jewelry he was going to give to Ah Mo and Dai Xiaobei in his bedroom temporarily, and put the black jade finger ring directly into his handbag, and he could give it to Uncle Xu later.

Thinking of antique shops, Xu Yunhan unconsciously thought of Ouyang Lie, exorcising ghosts? !From time to time, she feels as if she is in a dream. Ever since she met that Yuchan, her life seems to have gradually deviated from the track. The road ahead is twists and turns, and the road is full of fog, so she can't see the direction and the end...

Xu Yunhan walked out of the bedroom and entered the study next to the bedroom. The bedroom she lived in was on the third floor of the villa building, and she was the only one living on this floor.Ah Mo and Dai Xiaobei both chose rooms on the second floor, so after moving in, she transformed the entire third floor into her own space.

The bedroom, cloakroom, bathroom and toilet, opened up two original rooms as a study, and prepared an open kitchenette for myself, which has a refrigerator, coffee machine, etc., and some people want to drink something upstairs Everything is very convenient.When she was studying hard to prepare for the exam two months ago, except for going downstairs for three meals a day, she stayed in this small world that belonged to her all the time.

When Dai Xiaobei came here for the first time, he was envious for a while, and complained that since he was with Fan Disheng, there was no personal privacy.

Walking into the study room, Xu Yunhan opened the thick curtains, and the warm midday sun instantly shone into the room. Except for the floor-to-ceiling windows, the other three sides of the room were solid wood bookshelves.Xu Yunhan put some ancient books and materials that could be put on the bright side in the bookshelf, and also bought a lot of books on antiques, jade and jade, archaeology, and history.But right now, the bookshelves on only one wall are occupied, and there are two empty bookshelves on two walls, waiting for her to fill them slowly.

Xu Yunhan took out the ancient book she bought in the antique shop from the drawer of the table in the middle of the study.

After finishing the exam, she began to think about the information recorded in the handbook, and now there are three things in her hand that are related to the animal-faced, human-body, bird-winged statue.Xu Yunhan always felt that the weird animal face, human body and bird wings could lead her to find the origin of Yu Chan.After getting the fried gold bead and jade ornament that A Mo gave her with this image on it, and seeing those weird pictures through the fried gold bead and jade ornament, Xu Yunhan became even more convinced that such a beast face, human body, bird wing image is definitely not generally.

Xu Yunhan consulted quite a lot of antiques and descriptions of decorations and images in various dynasties and periods in the field of archeology, but he couldn't find any information about this kind of animal-faced, human-body, and bird-winged statue.

There are different images of treacherous birds in the myths of various countries. This is a kind of primitive worship. The ancients worshiped birds mainly because they could fly. In addition, they also worshiped beautiful feathers, graceful shapes, and noble character, strange life habits and the like.

The image of a bird head and a human body is a manifestation of human primitive bird worship, similar to putting feathers on the body for decoration, etc. The ancients believed that this practice could allow themselves to obtain the same ability as a bird, or under excessive worship, they thought they were birds sons and daughters and so on.

In addition, the more common mythological images are bird-shaped, human-headed and bird-body, or human-body and bird-winged, etc. There are not many bird-headed and human-body images.

There are also many images of human-animal combinations in the history of various countries, and the most famous one is the Egyptian Sphinx.

However, similar human-animal hybrid images in China first emerged during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The reason is generally believed to be related to the large number of northern nomads moving inward during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, as well as their dating habits and religious beliefs.

Ancient religious myths are full of descriptions that deify animals and deities.For example, Zeus incarnated as a bull to lure Europa, and Egypt had a human face and a beast body and a beast face and a human body.Ancient religious activities often showed a mixture of humans, ghosts and beasts, such as drinking cow blood, staining the body with cow blood, and reaching the realm of "divine power".

Xu Yunhan had carefully observed the animal-faced, human-body, and bird-winged statue. The animal's face was not any real animal.It has a horn on the top of its head, a protruding chin, blue-faced fangs, piggy ears, and thick hair on its face and head. It looks terrifying!
To be honest, it looked really ugly, but it was strange that Xu Yunhan thought this animal face was a bit cute.She still remembers the fear that was infected in her bones when she first touched the golden statue with animal face, human body and bird wings, but after Yu Chan entered her body, no matter how she looked or how she touched the statue They will no longer feel uneasy, but will have a strange sense of intimacy!
Judging from all the signs, the jade cicada in her body must be related to the animal-faced human-body bird-wing statue, and the animal-face human body bird-wing gold statue is likely to come from the same tomb as Yuchan.At that time, there were three things in the baggage of the three Tufuzi, besides the jade cicada and the golden statue, there was also a pottery bowl.

It's a pity that the surface of the pottery bowl was covered with mud at that time, and there were some patterns on it, but she didn't observe it carefully, so now she just remembered that it was a pottery bowl, without any other clues.

"Wensu? Is this a place name? Where is this now?"

Xu Yunhan pinched the notebook paper and frowned, feeling extremely distressed.This is because there are animal-faced, human-body, and bird-winged images in this manuscript, but there are no notes beside the images.Therefore, if she wanted to find the relevant information, she could only start from other places, so she began to read carefully from the first page of the handbook.

But this manuscript is written entirely in ancient Chinese, the language is quite obscure, and the most exaggerated thing is that there are no punctuation marks and no sentence breaks!The text symbols are arranged vertically in a tight and orderly manner!How could the owner of this manuscript be like this, completely disregarding other people's feelings!

In order to understand the meaning, Xu Yunhan specially bought several dictionaries of commonly used ancient Chinese words, put them on hand for comparison, and translated them into a notebook while reading them.But even if she found the translated meanings of most of the words in the dictionary, she still didn't understand what they meant, because the words before and after the words didn't match at all, and they couldn't be explained together!

She really wants to vomit!It was even more uncomfortable than when she was preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination. At least she could understand those professional books for the postgraduate entrance examination. This handbook can be said to be a heavenly book!
It has been several days, and she has only read the first seven pages of the booklet, and she often reads it so angrily that she wants to drop the book and leave.

No, just entered the study and sat down to read for a few minutes, when I came across another place name I had never heard of!Xu Yunhan rubbed his dizzy eyes, sighed, picked up the thick book comparing ancient and modern place names and looked it up.

Wensu...Wensu...here!

Xu Yunhan's eyes lit up, and she finally came across a place name that she could find. She had encountered several place names that could not be found to correspond to modern names.

"Wensu" is today's WS County located at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains on the northwest edge of the XJ Tarim Basin.

WS County, known as "Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall", is located in the southwest of the XJ Uygur Autonomous Region, the west of the AKS region, the northwest edge of the Tarim Basin, the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and the upper reaches of the Tuoshigan River.Since ancient times, WS County has been known as the "Ecological Pearl of Western China", and enjoys the reputation of "half city with mountains and half city with springs" and "South of the Yangtze River outside the Great Wall". , Green grass, high sky and crisp, pleasant seasons, no harsh winter in severe cold, no sense of coolness in midsummer.

Flipping through the roughly translated text on the notebook, Xu Yunhan sighed to himself,
"The person who wrote this letter has really traveled all over the world. The place names of XZ, Sichuan, and Northeast China appeared in the previous one, and now there is Wensu in XJ." While talking, he took out a map, and in XJ The southwestern part of the area is circled in red marker.

In the seven pages I read, the author is all describing landscapes, folk customs, and myths and legends with local characteristics.Reading this notebook is like reading National Geographic magazine. This is Xu Yunhan's impression after watching it.At present, there is absolutely no information related to Yuchan or the animal-faced, human-body, bird-winged statue.

Xu Yunhan, who was dizzy from reading it, closed the notebook in disappointment, put all the books and notebooks back in their original places, left the study and went downstairs.

"Aunt Min, is there anything ready to eat? I'm so hungry."

Xu Yunhan touched her hungry and growling stomach, walked into the kitchen and said, she has been busy all morning and went out for the jewelry, and came back to engage in mental activities that can kill brain cells, so hungry that her chest is stuck to her back .

(End of this chapter)