Play treasure master

Chapter 286
"What's wrong?" Yu Yao asked.

"The bottom of the mortise seems to be engraved with characters, but it's too small to see clearly." Master Mao said, put down the wooden box, got up and went to the side, and opened the toolbox.

Yu Yao couldn't help picking it up and looking at it. There seemed to be some nicks on the bottom of the mortise, but it was too small to see clearly.

Master Mao took a bright flashlight and a magnifying glass, and looked at the mortise.

After finishing one, then another, until all three were finished, Lord Mao picked up a pencil, pulled a piece of white paper, and began to draw on it.

Maoye drew a total of three figures, all of which were simple and irregular threads.

Much like the threads on that octagonal plank.

"What's the purpose of engraving this at the bottom of the mortise?" Master Mao frowned and thought about the three figures.

Yu Yao looked at the three graphics, "Master Mao, it seems that they can be put together."

"what?"

"Look, the threads on each picture are similar, but there is a point on each of them, and the position of this point is different..."

When Master Mao heard this, he immediately picked up the eight-sided wooden block with threads. From the threads of this block, he found three points in different positions.

The so-called three points are actually three places where the threads are interrupted, and there is an independent small protrusion.

Mr. Mao pressed the three points with his fingertips, and if there was no sign of looseness, it was part of the thread.

"I understand! There is a point on the top, middle and bottom, which refers to the direction of rotation! From the upper point, to the middle point, to the lower point, just twist in this direction; from the bottom, it is exactly the opposite , turn both hands up and down in opposite directions!" Lord Mao laughed.

"It's done too finely! With the thread engraved, the gap between the upper and lower joints is really invisible!" Yu Yao sighed.

Mao Ye didn't dare to use too much force at first, he stretched his strength, first tried a little bit, but after slowly increasing the force, it loosened without adding too much force.

Turning it slowly, a gap appeared in the middle of the octagonal wood block and gradually expanded.

It turns out that there is still a layer of thread inside, and you can still see a very fine powder on it, and at the same time reveal a faint pine fragrance.

"Rosin?" Yu Yao asked.

"It's not rosin. Rosin is non-slip. If it's rosin, it won't be so easy to twist after so long." Lord Mao shook his head.

"I know, amber powder! It's not sticky, and at the same time it can make the gaps less obvious." Yu Yao said.

"Yes!" Master Mao said, and he had already divided this piece of octagonal wood into two.

In the middle of this wooden block, there is a rectangular groove, which is filled with cotton wool.

Pull out the cotton wool, revealing something wrapped in white silk, which looks like a rectangle, much smaller than the groove.

Open the white silk, inside is a rectangular jade tablet!
It is more than seven centimeters long and more than three centimeters wide.

"No wonder!" Lord Mao exclaimed.

"Yes!" Yu Yao nodded.

What Uncle Mao meant was, no wonder it looked like there was something inside, and there was nothing unusual about the weight.Seeing the situation inside, Yu Yao naturally understood Mao Ye's meaning.

The specific gravity of jade is definitely greater than that of wood, but the wood is too hollow and stuffed with cotton wool, and the smaller jade plaque just makes up for the weight of the hollow wood stuffed with cotton wool.

"This is Hetian topaz? What is it engraved on it?" Master Mao pointed to the strange characters on the jade plate, but he didn't get to know it. This is Yu Yao's and the quality of the jade, so he can't get it easily.

This rectangular jade tablet is indeed yellow, with rounded corners.There is a round hole on the top, which is not like the small hole of ordinary jade cards, but a large hole with a diameter of nearly two centimeters.The hole walls are also polished smooth.

On the jade tablet, two columns of characters were engraved vertically.The lettering method is rare, a bit like the current art calligraphy, with two Yin lines forming strokes.The content of the text is indeed very special, it is definitely not Chinese characters, it is a bit like minority languages, but it is not like the common ones.

"It's not Hetian jade, it's river milled jade, produced in Mongolia and Northeast China, but its composition is similar to Hetian jade, mainly tremolite. Moreover, it is extremely rare to achieve this yellow color! Usually it is yellow and white, but this It's light yellow and darker!"

Yu Yao picked up the jade tablet and looked at the back. There were also two columns engraved on the back, the same kind of characters, but the content was different.

"This text is too weird, I don't even know it!"

"Is this a jade tablet from the Qing Dynasty?"

Yu Yao shook his head, "It should be earlier, like it was from the Yuan Dynasty. By the way, that blue and white jug is also from the Yuan Dynasty. Maybe these two things belonged to the same thing in the Qing Dynasty..."

"What? You kicked and smashed the Yuan blue and white jug? You only paid five thousand?" Master Mao didn't know much about things other than wooden wares. He didn't know much about jade plaques or porcelain. jumped.

"The folk kilns in the Yuan Dynasty are low-grade goods, and they are not worth much." Yu Yao briefly explained a few sentences, but his eyes never left the words on the jade plate, "The ones in the Yuan Dynasty..."

"It seems that I can find it!" Yu Yao immediately took out his phone and started searching.

Master Mao said to himself, "The one on this jade card is not a ghost drawing talisman, it's for psychic use..."

"Sure enough!" Yu Yao called out the pictures he found, "Look!"

Maoye saw that the picture was a blue-yellow metal plate with a hole, and a ring was inlaid on the hole.There are also two columns of text on the card, which are exactly the same as those on the jade card!
Yu Yao flicked the picture, it was the reverse side of this plaque, and the engraved words were the same as on the jade plaque!
"What the hell is this thing?"

"The one on the picture is a gold medal from the imperial decree of the Yuan Dynasty, which is used to pass the imperial decree, usually for the deployment of troops."

"Is it real? It's not like pure gold."

"It's not pure gold. It's mainly gold mixed with silver, because pure gold is too soft and easy to deform. It must be real. This imperial decree gold medal has a clear origin and authoritative identification. It is now in a museum!"

"Then your present piece is the imperial decree jade tablet?"

"It should be!" Yu Yao put down his phone and tapped his forehead, "However, there were imperial gold medals and imperial silver medals in the Yuan Dynasty, but I have never heard of imperial imperial jade medals..."

"Then what kind of characters are engraved on it? What does it mean?"

"This is the Phagsipa script on it, which was created when Kublai Khan was in power. It basically means: with the help of the power of Changshengtian, the holy emperor is inviolable, and the emperor's orders cannot be disobeyed. If anyone does not obey, he must Sentenced to death."

"Oh!" Master Mao thought, "If it's an object like this, it's really not suitable for jade! It's easy to break. This can't be someone's own thing made according to the imperial decree gold medal?"

Yu Yao shook his head, "Probably not. How can ordinary people see the imperial decree gold medal? Moreover, even if they have seen it, it is impossible to master the Basiba language!"

(End of this chapter)