Professor Li stretched out a hand and said, "Hurry up and show me the things you brought out!"
Hua Muling nodded and said, "Okay!"
After saying that, Hua Muling tried a color on me.
And I slowly took out a small wooden box from the backpack behind me and handed it to Professor Li.
Professor Li reached out and took the box, opened it eagerly, and took out the bronze object from the box.
Looking at the rusty object in his hand, Professor Li looked surprised.
Professor Li opened his mouth and stared at the unknown bronze in his hand.
I don't know whether that expression was excitement or fear.
Professor Li looked at the unknown bronze for a while, and then started to stroke it gently with his other hand. It felt as if what he was touching at this moment was not some bronze, but his life's favorite. Woman's face.
Professor Li seemed very excited, and his hands began to tremble a little.
He tried hard to control his emotions and try to make his hands more stable.
Professor Li's rough hands scratched almost every pattern on the surface of the bronze. Then, he took out a magnifying glass from a drawer nearby, turned on the lamp on the table, and studied it carefully.
Time passed by like this, and after about forty minutes, Professor Li slowly put down the magnifying glass in his hand and breathed a long sigh of relief.
He slowly placed the bronze in his hand on the table, then turned to look at me and Hua Muling and said, "Really! This is real! It's authentic! I didn't expect that the old man would be able to see it while I was alive. It! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”
When Professor Li said this, he suddenly stood up and shook hands with Hua Muling and me.
His inexplicable behavior confused Hua Muling and me.
Professor Li seemed to realize that his behavior was a bit abrupt, so he sat back and smiled awkwardly.
Hua Muling looked at Professor Li and asked tentatively: "Professor Li, so you know this thing?"
Professor Li nodded and said: "I know! Of course I know! You may not know, old man, I have been studying this thing all my life, but I never thought it really existed!"
I took out the cigarettes from my pocket, took one out and handed it to Professor Li.
Professor Li waved his hand and said, "No, thank you! I can't get used to you young people smoking!"
After saying that, Professor Li took his big front door, took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a long puff.
Seeing that Professor Li didn't take the cigarette in my hand, I put the cigarette in my hand into my mouth. I didn't light it, but asked lightly: "Professor Li, since you know what this thing is, don't you know what it is?" Isn’t it convenient for you to tell us what this thing is? What is its origin?”
Professor Li took a puff of cigarette, then turned to look at the bronze on the table, and said: "You found it, but you don't know what it is, and I have been searching for it all my life but never got a glimpse of it. Hey, this Maybe it’s life!”
I said: "I say Professor Li, let's not sigh at this time. What on earth is this thing?"
Professor Li did not answer my words, but kept rummaging around on the table next to him.
Professor Li's desk was very messy. He rummaged around for a long time before pulling out a worn and yellowed notebook from the bottom, saying from time to time: "Found it! Found it!"
Professor Li held the notebook in his hand and flipped through it skillfully. Finally, he stopped on one of the pages and murmured to himself: "That's right! This is it!"
After saying this, Professor Li looked up at Hua Muling and me and said, "The full name of the thing you found is the Ghost Wen Dragon and Phoenix Bell."
"Ghost Wen Long Feng Zhong?" I repeated the name in surprise. "Why is it such a weird name?"
Professor Li was slightly unhappy when he heard what I said, and said sternly: "What's wrong with this name? Whether it's our archaeologists or foreign scholars, names have been named according to their own characteristics since ancient times. What's more... "
Seeing that Professor Li was a little unhappy, Hua Muling kicked me lightly with her foot. I knew I had said the wrong thing, so I stopped talking.
Just listen to Professor Li continue to say: "What's more, I came up with this name. Little comrade, do you think there is something wrong?"
I saw him throwing the question to me, so I quickly shook my head and said, "No! No! Professor Li, you don't remember the faults of villains. It's because I'm uneducated and ignorant! Don't mind! Just tell me the origin of this thing." good!"
Seeing that I was no longer arguing with him about the name, Professor Li didn't say anything more. After thinking for a while, he continued: "I don't know exactly when this thing was cast. However, it The earliest appearance was in the literature records of the Tang Dynasty..."
Afterwards, Professor Li told Hua Muling and me what he knew.
Most of what Professor Li knows comes from historical documents and folklore. We know a small part of it, but most of it is unknown to the two of us.
Professor Li is like the most critical piece of a puzzle, pieced together the incomplete story of our alarm clock into a whole.
It is said that during the period of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, which was the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, 641 AD, Li Shimin gradually became obsessed with the Taoist method of immortality.
On this day, Li Shimin heard that there was a sacred instrument in Tibet that could reverse time and space and make people immortal.
And that sacred weapon is the Ghostly Wen Long and Phoenix Bell.
Li Shimin was very happy and sent five waves of people to Tibetan areas in the name of seeking Buddha, winning over, and fighting.
But all of these people were inexplicably confused, and in the end only one of Princess Wencheng's troops entered the Tibetan area in the name of marriage.
Although it took Princess Wencheng a full year to go there, she finally found the news about the ghost Wenlongfengzhong.
Princess Wencheng secretly sent her most capable general Hu Yiquan to lead 200 elite soldiers to escort the ghost Wen Longfengzhong back to the Tang Dynasty.
But at this time, King Songtsen Gampo of the Plateau passed away, and a rebellion broke out in Tibetan areas. Langema even started to destroy Buddhism on a large scale in order to obtain the ghost inscriptions Dragon and Phoenix Bell.
General Hu Yiquan and his 200 elite soldiers were even more encircled and suppressed.
In desperation, General Hu Yiquan had to divide the ghostly dragon and phoenix bell into three parts. One was buried under the Western Temple, one was taken with him, and the other was taken out of the Tibetan area by his most trusted person.
General Hu and his remaining soldiers were surrounded by Langma's troops for more than ten days. The battle was quite brutal, with numerous casualties on both sides.
General Hu was killed until he was the only one left.
Langema's troops surrounded General Hu in the Western Temple. They thought he had nowhere to escape, but who would have thought that when they searched the Western Temple, there was no General Hu inside. General Hu Yiquan seemed to be It's like disappearing into thin air.
In anger, Langma burned down the Western Temple.
The fire burned for three days, and thick black smoke could be seen dozens of miles away. All the more than 120 lamas in the temple died tragically after the fire.
Three days later, heavy rain suddenly fell from the sky, extinguishing the fire that was still burning on the ground.
Langma still refused to give up and sent people to search the ruins of the temple. However, they searched for five days and five nights and found all the corpses of one hundred and twenty monks, but the only ones missing were the corpses of General Hu Yiquan and the body that was with him. One-third of the ghosts carried are dragon and phoenix bells.
Langema was furious, but what he didn't know was that at this time, General Hu Yiquan had been rescued by a goddess and went elsewhere.
As for, where did they go? But no one knows.
Some people said that they soared into the sky, others said that they disguised themselves and blended into Langma's troops and escaped, while others said that they had died in the fire.
But only I know that they did not die, but hid underground.
I did not interrupt Professor Li's words, but silently lit a cigarette and listened to him continue.
Professor Li naturally didn't notice the small change in my expression and kept talking about what he knew.
Langma searched for five days and five nights in the Western Temple, but still found nothing. In anger, he razed the entire Western Temple to the ground.
Just when everyone thought that the ghostly dragon and phoenix bell had disappeared from the world, one-third of it was accidentally discovered in Songtao Mountain in Guizhou, southeastern my country.
When Professor Li said this, he suddenly stopped.
He first flipped through his notes for a while, then turned his head and looked at the half of the Dragon and Phoenix Bell with ghost inscriptions placed on the table. After a while, he slowly said: "I think the half of the Dragon and Phoenix Bell with ghost inscriptions that you brought back from Tibet is The one that General Hu Yiquan took away."
Before Professor Li finished speaking, I asked: "You just said half of what you said, what is going on in Songtao Mountain? Is it the one-third that General Hu's cronies brought out from Tibetan areas?"
Professor Li sighed and said: "That was about 60 years ago. No one knows whether it is the remaining one-third of the ghostly text Dragon and Phoenix Bell. Although I have been studying this thing for almost half my life. , but today is the first time I’ve seen its true appearance.”
I then asked: "By the way, Professor Li. I have another question..."
"Say, little comrade!" Professor Li didn't look at me, he just looked down at the half of the ghost-written dragon and phoenix clock in his hand, as if looking at his lover.
I said word for word: "Do you know the Fountain of Youth?"
"Fountain of Youth?" After hearing these three words, Professor Li became obviously vigilant. He looked at me and asked, "Where did you hear this?"
Seeing Professor Li's vigilance, I couldn't help but feel funny, but I couldn't really laugh out loud, so I could only sigh helplessly.
As expected, Professor Li was intrigued by my reaction. He frowned slightly and asked, "Comrade, what do you mean?"
I sighed: "To tell you the truth, it is because of this fountain of youth that the two of us are in the current situation."
Immediately afterwards, without waiting for Professor Li to ask, I recounted my experience with Hua Muling in a more elaborate manner, which made Professor Li speechless.
I talked for a long time and then stopped, and just when I finished speaking, Professor Li suddenly jumped up from his stool.
I saw Professor Li pointing at me and shouting: "It turns out...it turns out you are...you are a descendant of the Hu family!"
Professor Li's sudden change stunned Hua Muling and me.
I looked at Professor Li with wide eyes, swallowed, and said, "No...that's right! Is there any problem?"
"No! There is no problem at all!" Professor Li clapped his hands like a child and said loudly: "No wonder... no wonder you were able to find this ghostly dragon and phoenix bell... great... great... great... …”
Professor Li said "Great" three times in a row. After saying that, he looked down at his watch and said, "It's okay! There's still time! Let's go, let's go! Come with me!"
After saying that, Professor Li took me and Hua Muling and ran out the door without even wearing shoes.
