Lin Feng had heard about the dragon falling incident in Yingkou before this.
This incident was widely circulated in the Shengjing Times at that time, and many people are still discussing it in later generations, including to this day.
Some people firmly believed in the dragon falling in Yingkou at that time. They felt that there were dragons in this world. Otherwise, among the twelve zodiac animals, other animals existed, so the dragon ranked fifth in the zodiac did not exist?
certainly.
There are also many people who believe that the Yingkou dragon falling incident was an exaggerated report by the media in order to attract attention, and there was even some level of conspiracy in the troubled times at that time.
That phenomenon may have been deliberately created by the Dongyi Kingdom. To reflect this, the descendants of the dragon will fall.
Later, many scientists investigated this matter, and many experts believed that the photo of the keel that was widely circulated in the Shengjing Times at that time was actually not a photo of a real dragon's keel, but the skeleton of a baleen whale. Read the book
But when the skeleton was discovered, people moved it to the shore and placed the skeleton incorrectly, creating the illusion that the baleen whale skeleton looked like a dragon.
Especially the two horns, many people believe that they should be bones from other parts of the baleen whale and have been misplaced.
even.
Someone deliberately inserted it into the head of the baleen whale, making the two bones look like the horns of a dragon.
Of course, there are very few modern clues.
Most of the theories are just speculation, but some of the old people who lived until now were still children at that time, and many of them witnessed the true appearance of the dragon before its body rotted.
The reporter has interviewed many witnesses, and they are all convinced that they saw the dragon.
The photos in the Shengjing Times are just the remaining bones after the fallen dragon rotted away.
The witnesses didn't know each other, but they were surprisingly consistent when describing the falling dragon.
so.
This matter later became a completely unsolved mystery.
What's even more strange is that there are very limited clues about the dragon falling in Yingkou. Later, even the dragon's bones disappeared. At that time, there were clues that the dragon skeleton was sent to a nearby school, but in fact, that school did not exist at all.
Because Lin Feng studied archeology before, he was also very interested in the rumors of dragons.
Therefore, Lin Feng knew these contents.
And the content of the letter Wu Sheng mentioned was actually closely related to the Yingkou Dragon Falls Incident.
Wu Zongtang was a very famous jade carving master at that time. At the same time, he was also the honorary president of the Antiquities Association at that time. He already had a very high status in the national antique industry. However, antiques in prosperous times and gold in troubled times coincided with the troubled times. People no longer valued antiques, and this antiquities association basically existed in name only. Wu Zongtang participated in many organizations and activities at that time specifically to protect antique cultural relics from being leaked, such as, The old treasure collection site in Guancheng is one of them.
then.
In addition to Wu Zongtang, there were two other people participating in the Zhenzhen activity.
One is named Mo Qiguang, and the other is named Wu Aitong.
Wu Aitong was from a family in Wu Zongtang. He followed Wu Zongtang, which gave him a lot of convenience in business and made a lot of money in the antique business.
Later, through Wu Zongtang, I met Mo Qiguang, another person in charge of treasure collecting activities.
The two often collaborated with Wu Zongtang.
There are many antiques that have survived under the protection of that time.
While other people even sold national treasures overseas at low prices in order to make money, the actions they organized at that time indeed protected many cultural relics from leaking out. For example, the old treasure collection site in Guancheng was excavated relatively recently. Most of the other treasure collection sites were excavated and protected decades ago.
The content of the letter that Wu Sheng found in the book focused on two people, Mo Qiguang and Wu Aitong.
The meaning of the sentence on the jade is that Mo Qiguang killed Wu Zongtang, and what happened
The pulse and clues are in the original ancient book of Ziguang Pavilion's two hundred and eighty heroes who have been immortalized for generations.
After the Yingkou Dragon Falling Incident.
As a jade carving master and a master of Chinese studies, Wu Zongtang rushed to Yingkou as soon as possible and naturally went to see the situation at that time.
described in the letter.
"This giant dragon has a towering body and a fishy aura. There are three armors on the left and right sides of the head. The spine is more than three inches wide. There are ribs attached to both sides of the spine. Each one is about five or six inches long. The tail is a vertical board. It is shaped like a white bone tail, with a total of twenty-eight sections, each section is about more than a foot, and the total is more than three feet."
"Where the dragon fell in Yingchuan, there is a pit dug by claws, which is two feet wide and five feet long. The claw marks are clearly visible along the pit. There is a mat nearby to provide shade for the dragon. There is a shrine, an incense burner, and two feet of incense ashes. , a place where people pray. The dragon bones were moved there, but there are still tendons, but the skin, flesh and scales are no longer visible."
obviously.
When Wu Zongtang rushed to the scene, the Yingkou dragon falling incident should have completely spread.
Information dissemination was not yet developed at that time, so by the time Wu Zongtang arrived there, the dragon's keel had been moved to a nearby flat land, and the site was fenced off for people to visit.
Because where the dragon fell, the dragon's skin and flesh had completely rotted, and the smell was too strong, making it impossible for ordinary people to get close to it.
When Wu Zongtang went to see the place where Shuilong died, he also saw that the big crater and claw marks left by Shuilong because of his struggle before his death were actually still there.
At that time, someone wanted to save the dragon in order to provide shade for the dragon, but unfortunately, the dragon still could not be saved. Someone nearby also set up a shrine with a large incense burner to burn incense and worship the dragon. The incense ashes alone were two feet deep.
That is to say.
Before the dragon was completely dead, people nearby saw it.
They even shaded the dragon, burned incense, and worshiped.
As some people later speculated, it was just the skeleton of a baleen whale. How could the local people not see it when it had not yet rotted? How could they burn incense and worship it?
The content of Wu Zongtang's letter is direct evidence.
This shows that the dragon that fell in Yingchuan at that time was most likely a real dragon, one of the twelve zodiac animals.
mentioned later in the letter.
After Wu Zongtang and others visited the site, they felt that this dragon bone must be well preserved. And this is a time of war. What method can be used to preserve the keel intact and prevent it from being damaged?
Wu Zongtang discussed many plans with Mo Qiguang and Wu Aitong.
finally.
They decided to board the ship from the keel on the Yingchuan River, and then transport it to a nearby private villa built by Lord Baylor. The reclusive Baylor, Aiyu, was a good friend of Wu Zongtang, and they hit it off immediately.
With the productivity at that time, it was indeed not easy to ship and transport such a huge keel with its keel intact.
After exhausting manpower and material resources, the keel was loaded onto a ship and shipped away. But on the ship, Wu Zongtang could not find Mo Qiguang and Wu Aitong.
