It felt like I walked down two floors before arriving at a spacious stone room.
Qingyan looked around with a high-beam flashlight and found that the stone chamber was not that boxy shape. It looked like an oval. There were no edges or corners. All the corners were curved. .
Except for the stone steps when coming down, the surroundings are the same. You can't tell the east, west, north, and south at all. It looks like a circular hole has been drilled into a complete stone.
There was not much dust in the stone chamber, so there were no traces. It was hard to tell how many things had been put there before. Not even a fragment of a box was left behind, which shows how clean the officials were.
He said to Chou Chou who was lying on his shoulder: "Don't tell me where the dark room is yet. I'll try to find it myself. Anyway, I still have enough time, so I'll just play the secret room game."
Qingyan observed it and found that the surrounding stone walls were all the same, and there was no trace of the entrance to the dark room at all.
There are no patterns or protrusions, and there is no mechanism at all.
Of course, there are still lines on the stone, and they are very obvious. Even if there are some cracks, it doesn't look like a stone door.
Qingyan took pictures up and down, not even the top. She kept groping on the wall with her hands and stamping on the ground with her feet to see if there was anything like the one on TV that suddenly pushed in or It's the kind of mechanism that suddenly sinks when you stamp your foot.
It took more than half an hour to search carefully, but nothing was found. Finally, I had to give up and said to Chou Chou: "Come on, I give up. Chou Chou, please tell me where the secret room is." ."
Chou Chou squatted on Qing Yan's shoulder and patted her head comfortingly, "It's normal that you can't find her. If she could be found easily, it would be impossible for those officers and soldiers not to notice and stay until now.
Come on, look towards the stairs. The trap is there. See if you can find it. "
Qingyan was stunned, and walked directly back to the staircase, looking up and down, left and right, could it be that it was dark under the lamp? The entrance to the darkroom is at the stairwell?
I looked carefully with a flashlight. Although the chisel marks on the stairs were the heaviest, I didn't find anything like a stone door or a mechanism.
In the end, ChouChou pointed to the stone pillar next to the stairs that looked like a reserved handrail and said, "Try pushing that sideways toward the stairs, and push it toward the stairs from the outside."
Upon hearing this, Qingyan pushed directly without daring to use too much force, mainly because if she used her real strength, she might break the stone directly.
As a result, with just a slight push, it was as if a pulley was installed underneath, and the stone pier easily moved more than ten centimeters toward the stairs.
Then there was a rumbling sound, which was so loud that Qingyan was startled.
She followed the sound and found that the entire stone slab under the stone staircase rose directly up, revealing a doorway.
Qingyan didn't go in immediately because she was afraid that there would be a vacuum inside with no air, so she might as well deflate it.
Chou Chou doesn't need to rush it. Its spiritual consciousness cannot detect whether there is oxygen in it. If there is no oxygen, it will be quite dangerous.
After about twenty minutes, Qingyan asked Chou Chou to take out a lighter, and she lit it and walked in.
When he saw that the fire was not extinguished, he felt relieved, put out the fire, and illuminated it with a flashlight.
Thinking of something, he said to Chou Chou: "Use your consciousness to pay attention to the horses outside. Although no one should come here, aren't there wild beasts here? The horses are tied in the yard, just in case there are wild beasts. If you come here and eat the horse for dinner, we will suffer a big loss."
This yard should have had a wooden gate before, but it has been exposed to wind and sun for many years. No one maintained it, and it has long since rotted away. The door is not that big, and horses can't get in at all.
She had been carrying the little leopard in her shoulder bag. Apart from grunting twice when he was hungry, the little guy had become accustomed to being carried on her back and usually had no sense of existence at all.
"Don't worry, I've been paying attention to the outside. Some wild beasts have made their home in the yard here. Fortunately, they are not big beasts. They are all snakes, rats, badgers and the like. I suppressed them with my spiritual consciousness. , to keep them out of the nest."
Qingyan felt relieved after hearing what it said.
After that, I concentrated on looking at the things in the darkroom.
Sure enough, as Chou Chou said, those things are treasures.
Those things were not put in the box, but were placed on three shelves. There was even a shelf that couldn't be placed and was placed directly on the ground.
It was a huge red and blue coral ornament. It was half a person tall and about 1 meter in diameter. Blue was the base color, with some red mixed in. I don’t know if it grew naturally or was inlaid. .
The entire ornament was carved to look like an undersea dragon palace, with the blue one resembling the ocean and the red one resembling an exquisite palace.
Regardless of other values, this carving alone is definitely a work of art worth collecting.
On the museum shelves are some exquisite jade utensils and ornaments, as well as gold utensils inlaid with countless gems, including a gold crown inlaid with gems!
Judging from the shape and style, it should have come from Persia. It is very exquisite and complicated, maybe it was worn by the Persian royal family.
Seeing the second book rack, a rosewood box caught Qingyan's attention.
It looked very similar to my mother's jewelry box. Her mother said that it was her dowry box. It was not given by her mother-in-law, but made by Qingyan's father.
Her parents were childhood sweethearts. When her mother married her father, in addition to the dowry given by her grandparents, her father also bought her a lot of things, including a rosewood dowry box.
Qingyan still remembers that when she was a child, she loved to look through her mother's box because there were many shiny and beautiful jewelry in it.
Because the box was placed in the space, my mother would not lock it. After all, no outsiders could enter and exit the space freely, so she had taken out all the jewelry inside and played with it.
Of course, my mother would not put some fragile jade bracelets in there. Most of them were gold, silver, diamonds, pearls, gemstones and other jewelry that were not afraid of falling, so she looked at this box. Very familiar.
Chou Chou saw that she was staring at the box in a daze, so he also looked at it and said to her: "This is a dowry box. Looking at the patterns carved on the outside, it should be used by royal women when they get married.
The carvings on it are Luan birds. Generally speaking, civilian women are not allowed to use these patterns related to dragons and phoenixes, not on furniture or clothing and jewelry at home.
Just like many people in later generations think that getting married in ancient times meant wearing a phoenix crown and harem, which was only available after the Ming Dynasty.
It is said that Empress Ma, the legitimate wife of Zhu Yuanzhang, said: "No matter how poor or rich a woman is, she can wear royal attire when she marries."
She believed that a woman should be the most distinguished person on her wedding day, which is why the later bride was dressed like Fengguan Xiapei.
As for the groom, it is also said that because that day is an important moment in his life, he can wear official clothes to marry the bride, so the groom can be an official there and feel the magnificence of riding a horse through the streets. This is how the groom came to be. The title of official.
Before the Ming Dynasty, these patterns were all customized, and what kind of clothes were worn according to the grade. In the current dynasty, jewelry boxes with human and bird patterns on them are definitely only used by the royal family.
The three-tailed phoenix is usually used by the queen mother. The second-tailed phoenix can only be used by a noble concubine or a direct princess, and it cannot be used from the front. Most of them are from the side or have fewer tail feathers.
As for Luanniao, because it is a phoenix of the Phoenix family that has not yet grown up, it is usually used by princesses or princesses with relatively high status, and these people are also from the royal clan. "
Upon hearing this, Qingyan became even more curious about the contents inside, and directly reached out and opened the lid of the box.
Although there is a keyhole on the side of the sub-box, it is not locked. It must have been forcibly opened. The copper lock has disappeared.
After opening the lid, Qingyan discovered that the box had connected layers inside, which was very similar to the one her father made for her mother. It seemed that her father had also studied these ancient dowry boxes.
As the lid was lifted, three layers appeared directly inside. The top layer contained small items such as rings and earrings.
On the second floor are some hairpins, including gold hairpins inlaid with precious stones, filigree hairpins with beads, and tortoiseshell and jade hairpins.
The third layer is bracelets, jade bracelets, gold bracelets, and agate bracelets.
There was also a small drawer ten centimeters high below. Qingyan pulled out the drawer, and inside was a complete set of Cuitou noodles!
I counted about fifty pieces, including hairpins, hairpins, bats, strips, tandems, hexagons, big top flowers, side bats, side phoenixes, partial phoenixes, surface flowers, sideburns, three back strips, and Baotou. Couplets, vertical beams, cross beams, back pockets, sunbeams, phoenix picks, eight treasures, fortune and longevity characters, ear diggers, earrings, shark fins and other single pieces.
The tail feathers on the phoenix hairpin have a curved wavy shape that seems to be floating, and the feathers on the wings are very clear. Not to mention the bits of green, the workmanship alone is worth looking at. Even into.
There is also a thin chain hanging in the phoenix mouth of the hairpin, and a drop-shaped sapphire pendant hangs under the chain. The length should be just enough to reach the forehead, and it even has a forehead ornament.
Qingyan took them out and looked at them one by one, then carefully put them back, closed the lid, and then looked at the rest in general.
Other decorations or appliances are placed on the shelves, basically visible at a glance.
It seems that the owner of this cottage is not a common man. He actually has a lot of exquisite porcelain as well as some inkstones and jade tea sets.
There was a set of wine sets, a jug and six cups. Qingyan shone a high-beam flashlight on the set, and then moved it away. The set of wine sets actually emitted a bright green light!
Qingyan asked in surprise: "Is this the legendary luminous cup?"
Chou Chou glanced at the set of wine sets and said, "Yes, it's a luminous cup made of luminous stone."
"These are good things. Put them all away. You have to be careful. Don't break these precious things."
Chou Chou rolled his eyes at her and said angrily: "Are you stupid? There is such a big place in my space. If you put it anywhere, you can't touch each other. Besides, there are no living things in my space. How can there be any? Danger of being crushed?"
Qingyan touched her nose in embarrassment, "It's really haha! Oh my, I'm really confused by the heat. Your space must be as big as Xiangxiang's. How could you not fit such a small amount of things? So hard work. Chou Chou. They’re put away.”
Because she had never entered Chou Chou's space, she always subconsciously felt that Chou Chou's space was a container, as if it could vibrate with the bumps they walked.
I forgot that it and Xiangxiang are ancient exotic beasts. People can enter Xiangxiang's space and live in it. How could the ugly ones be so useless? Now that I think about it, it really shouldn't be. They are obviously the same exotic beasts. How could she treat him any differently?
She praised Chou Chou again and said a lot of good things, and then she coaxed Chou Chou to stop rolling his eyes at her.
I put away everything in the darkroom, including the archigraphy racks, so that I won’t worry about it being difficult to place in the Chou Chou space. I just need to keep putting these things on the archigraphy racks.
Moreover, the materials used in those ancient racks are all good wood. In future generations, it would be impossible to buy such a rack without hundreds of thousands of dollars.
After collecting the things, they stopped staying here. The horse was still outside, which made her a little worried.
She came out directly and returned to the ground. Seeing the horses grazing leisurely in the yard, she was also a little hungry.
She lowered her head and looked at the watch on her wrist. It was already one o'clock in the afternoon. She couldn't blame her for being hungry. It turned out that it was already this time.
Let Chou Chou search the cottage with his spiritual consciousness, and found a small table and a bench. Although they were equally worn, there were no stains on them, and there should be no blood spatter on them.
She asked Chou Chou to get a basin of water, she found a rag in the cabinet in the room, wiped the table and bench, and then asked Chou Chou to take out the food box, open the food box and put all the food on the table. above.
Then Chou Chou and Chou Chou feasted together. The packed meal was enough for the two of them to eat for two meals. This was prepared together for the evening. When the time comes, you can go back directly after eating, which also saves you from having to cook in the wild. .
When he was full, he asked Chou Chou to put away the rest, and then took out fruits and juice for some after-dinner fruit.
Just after taking a few bites, I heard Chou Chou say: "A tiger came less than a hundred meters outside the village."
"What!"
Qingyan was a little surprised and said: "Is there a tiger here?"
Chou Chou: "Why not? There are tigers in this deep mountain. Seeing that the tiger is very old, he probably doesn't have much time to live before he can find a place where he can die peacefully.
Wild beasts like tigers and leopards usually live alone in the mountains. Except when courting or bringing up cubs, they basically do not live in groups like other animals, and each has its own territory.
This place should belong to this tiger's territory, so there are no other large beasts except it. I just don't know who will own this place after it dies. "
