The three of them approached the stone platform, and Dugu Xiang wanted to reach out for the box again. This time Jiang Shuo had quick hands and eyes, and took her hand and said, "Xianger, take a good look first before taking action, so as not to trigger any mechanisms again." Duan Jianwei When I got closer to inspect it, I saw that it was a box that was one foot long, seven inches wide, and two inches thick. It seemed that it had been there for a long time and had been covered with a thick layer of dust, making its true color invisible.
Duan Jianwei gently brushed off the dust on the cover with his sleeves, and the true color of the box was revealed. The stone room suddenly lit up, a brilliant golden color, and the box turned out to be a gold box!
Dugu Xiang exclaimed: "Ah... there is really a treasure!" Duan Jianwei smiled and said: "Even if this is a gold brick, it cannot be called a valuable treasure. I am afraid that the clues to the real treasure of the leader of the Jianghu Alliance are still in this golden cabinet. "Dugu Xiang said: "What is a golden chamber? How do you know, Mr. Duan, that this is a golden chamber?" Duan Jianwei pointed to the lid of the box and saw two words engraved on it
"Bingxu Four". Jiang Shuo and Dugu Xiang looked at each other, not knowing why. Duan Jianwei said: ""Historical Records" has the sentence "Historical Records of the Historian, the book in the stone chamber and the golden chamber", and the "Hanshu" has the sentence "The iron deed is written in Dan, the golden chamber is in the stone chamber, and it is hidden in the stone chamber." The sentence "the ancestral temple". Sima Zhensuo, the 'Little Sima' of this dynasty, made a hidden note that 'the stone chamber and the golden cabinet are both the place where the state books are stored'. Therefore, according to the shape, this golden box seems to be the golden cabinet where important documents are stored in the palace." Jiang Shuo asked: "What does Bingxu four mean?" Duan Jianwei said: "Bingxu is the year, and four should be April, or the fourth box of documents in that year. I am not an official, and I don't know very well. Every sixty There is a Bingxu year, and the most recent Bingxu year is the fifth year of Tianbao. Judging from the accumulation of dust, it does not look like it was placed here three years ago. Sixty years ago, it was the Ruizong Dynasty, and Empress Wu called it the system." Jiang Shuo asked: "Could this golden chamber be from sixty-three years ago?" Duan Jianwei said: "It's not impossible. Sixty years ago, it was the reign of Emperor Gaozu in the early Tang Dynasty. I still remember this year. "Dugu Xiang said: "Mr. Duan, I think you are only in your early forties. How can you remember the year one hundred and twenty years ago?" Duan Jianwei said: "Because something extraordinary happened in the year Bingxu. The thing...that year was the ninth year of Emperor Wude..." Jiang Shuo exclaimed: "The change of Xuanwu Gate!" Duan Jianwei nodded and said: "In June of the ninth year of Wude, Taizong Li Shimin laid an ambush at Xuanwu Gate. , kill brothers Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, and the next year will become the first year of Zhenguan." Jiang Shuo's heart moved, and he vaguely felt something
It clicked. Dugu Xiang said excitedly: "Hey, it's still a royal treasure, open it quickly and take a look!" Duan Jianwei said: "Wait a minute..." He raised the golden cabinet and shook it gently, as if something was shaking inside, Duan Jianwei said: "There is a water bag inside." Dugu Xiang asked curiously: "What is the water bag?" Duan Jianwei said: "Some important boxes will contain small bags of acid water or brine. If they are not opened in the correct order, , the water bag will be torn, and if the paper with the writing in the box is soaked in the water, no one will know what is written on it." At this time, Jiang Shuo and Dugu Xiang both discovered that the golden chamber was surrounded by There is a small slit, and it seems that it can be pulled out. If Duan Jianwei opens it in the wrong order, the documents hidden inside will be damaged.
Jiang Shuo looked around and said: "Where can I find this opening sequence?" Dugu Xiang suddenly remembered and said: "Didn't Pei Min say back then that there was a secret to the treasure hidden in the treasure of the Jianghu Alliance Leader? We thought it was a hidden treasure at the time. Picture, in fact, maybe he doesn’t know what it is, maybe it’s the opening sequence of this golden chamber.” Hearing this, Jiang Shuo said: “Ah… If you didn’t tell me, I would have forgotten that the ancient mirror is broken. I wonder if the clues have been destroyed..." As he spoke, he reached into his arms to take out the cloth bag wrapped in the eight-inch bronze mirror, opened the bag, Dugu Xiang looked closer, frowned and said: "It's not broken, isn't it good? ?" I saw that the back of the mirror was pitch black with a hint of green, and the patterns on it were ancient and without any cracks.
Jiang Shuo gently threw the cloth and mirror together, held the ancient mirror in his hands, and unfolded the cloth. Dugu Xiang took another look, and sure enough, with the mirror as the center, several large and small cracks spread out in a radial pattern. Come on, the whole mirror is broken.
Dugu Xiang asked: "What is this? It's like being shot with an arrow." Jiang Shuo said: "This was stabbed by Piluo Pavilion." Duan Jianwei was surprised at this, and Dugu Xiang asked: " How could it be Pi Luo Ge's doing?" Jiang Shuo said: "Xiang'er, have you forgotten? Back then I was stabbed by Pi Luo Ge's air sword and fell into the glacier. The reason why I was not stabbed to death by him was because his sword hit me just right. The mirror in my arms was hit." Dugu Xiang came closer and stared at the shattered mirror for a long time, and said with a sigh: "They say that the Qi sword of Piluo Pavilion is sharper than ordinary swords. I think it is an exaggeration. If it is I'm afraid it wouldn't be difficult to pierce this mirror with a magic weapon like a gold tooth dagger, right?" Duan Jianwei said doubtfully: "Master's qi sword skills are quite good, I'm afraid it's too far away, otherwise it would be difficult to pierce the mirror. How can the bronze mirror be blocked?" As he spoke, he gently picked up a fragment of the bronze mirror and suddenly said, "What's underneath this?" Jiang Shuo also noticed something strange, placed the bronze mirror on the stone platform, and the three of them joined in. Jiang Shuo started to pick up the brass fragments from the mirror, but the surrounding fragments were melted together with the ancient mirror below. Jiang Shuo remembered that in the Kongtong Mountain Daoxue Palace, Mo Jianke once said that the back of the mirror was a pre-Qin artifact, and The mirror is only a hundred years old, and it seems to be so now.
Jiang Shuo used a gold tooth dagger to make a slight circle, and then cut off the entire brass fragment from the mirror surface. He wiped it gently, revealing a black and blue mirror surface that was exactly the same as the back of the mirror. The difference was that the mirror surface It is very smooth and bright, and can be used to illuminate people's faces, making them look like ancient artifacts from thousands of years ago.
Dugu Xiang took the ancient mirror and turned it over and over in her hands. The mirror reflected the light from the lamp and made light spots wander around the room. She muttered: "This mirror is as bright as new, but it seems there is no clue to open the golden cabinet." "Jiang Shuo suddenly shouted: "Xian'er, wait, what is this?" Dugu Xiang was stunned, stopped and said: "What?" The light spot stopped at a certain point on the rock wall, and he vaguely saw a blurry figure inside the light spot. Shadow, Jiang Shuo went up to hold her hand and adjusted the position and angle. When he raised Dugu Xiang's hand directly above the golden chamber, the blurred shadow in the light spots on the wall suddenly became clear. This was a line of small words, which read: : Zi Youwu Xia Mao Zuo You above.
The strange thing is that the eight characters on the wall look very clear, but when I turn the ancient mirror over and over in my hands and rub it, I can't tell where the characters are engraved on the mirror.
Dugu Xiang said: "What is this..." Jiang Shuo suddenly said: "This may really be the way to open the golden chamber. Ziwu and Maoyou refer to the direction. Ziwu is north and south, and Maoyou is east and west, which correspond to the directions on the box. It means up, down, left and right." Dugu Xiang said: "Then the lower right and upper left are the directions to open the golden chamber? Brother Shuo, try it quickly." Duan Jianwei said: "Young Master Jiang, be careful... If you get it wrong, The documents in the golden chamber will be destroyed." Jiang Shuo said: "There are no other clues left or right now. Let's be careful and give it a try." The three of them looked at each other and felt that this was the only way to do it now.
Jiang Shuo judged the top, bottom, left and right sides of the box based on the words on the golden box, and pointed his finger at
On the side of the box facing the prefix "C", slide gently to the right.
There was a "click" sound, as if it was stuck on some pin and tenon. He paused for a moment, but he did not hear the sound of running water, nor did he see any water flowing out of the box.
Jiang Shuo glanced at Dugu Xiang and Duan Jianwei again. They both held their breath and said nothing, only nodded to him.
Jiang Shuo followed the guidance of the words in the mirror and pushed the lower box wall down, drew the left box wall left, and slid the right box wall up.
With a "click" sound, the lid of the box above suddenly bounced upwards. Jiang Shuo gently grasped the edge and lifted the lid.
The objects in the golden box were revealed. Although the golden box was two inches thick, there was only a shallow paper book in the box. There was a fish bladder-like thing on it, with four extremely thin silk threads hanging from both ends. The hooks behind the four walls are connected. These silk threads are of different lengths and are now stretched tightly. If the order of moving the four walls is continued, the silk threads will become entangled together, and the fish float in the middle will break if it is pulled.
Jiang Shuo stretched out his hand to untie the silk thread tied to the four walls. Duan Jianwei stopped him and said, "Young Master Jiang, please be careful. The fish bladder is now hanging tightly above the document. There is a jade plaque pressed on the document below. If it is untied, A silk thread, if the force is uneven, the swim bladder will break if it hits the jade plaque. The four silk threads must be untied at the same time and held by each to ensure that everything is safe." Fortunately, there were three of them, Jiang Shuo and Duan Jianwei each held one end, and Dugu Xiang One person had to hold two silk threads. Jiang Shuo held the silk thread in one hand and the gold tooth dagger in the other, and gently cut the four silk threads. The three of them pulled hard and the fish's swim bladder did not move at all.
The three of them looked at each other and slowly lifted up the swim bladder. Suddenly, Dugu Xiang's fingertips slipped, and the silk thread on his left hand slipped. The swim bladder lost its stability and fell downwards. Jiang Shuo and Dugu Xiang let out an exclamation at the same time. Fortunately, Duan Jian Wei had quick eyes and quick hands. He pointed the index finger of his free left hand, exerted his strength in the air, and pushed the golden box away a foot. The fish bladder did not fall back into the box.
With a "pop" sound, it hit the stone platform, black liquid flowed out, and a sour smell did not hit the nose. Jiang Shuo hurriedly took the box further away, and half of the jade plaque was placed on the road. Jiang Shuo gently picked it up, and saw that half of the jade plaque was broken, but it didn't look like it was broken, but cut off with some sharp blade. The front is engraved with cloud and dragon patterns around it, and two simple seal characters are engraved in the center.
"Sramana",
The characters above the word "sha" were all cut off. This man was very skilled with the knife.
The upper edge of the strokes of the word "sha" is cut off, but does not touch the strokes at all. Turning it over, you can see that there is also a circle of clouds and dragons on the edge. I don't know whether it is a thunder pattern or a Taotie pattern carved in the middle, but there is no word. The carving of the entire jade plaque is rough and vigorous, but also open and atmospheric, quite reminiscent of the early Tang Dynasty.
Dugu Xiang asked curiously: "Eh... is this an ultimatum?" Duan Jianwei said: "This can never be a monk's ultimatum. This plaque is carved on beautiful jade from Khotan. The jade is of high quality. The jade material alone can be found in Chang'an City. It was sold for thousands of gold, and the two words on it were written with strong and dangerous penmanship, Fei Bai Guanjue, and superior to the ancients. I am afraid it was written by Ouyang Xun, a great master in the early Tang Dynasty. If it is really the original work of Ouyang Gong, it is rare to get ten thousand gold. How can I get it? To make an ultimatum?" Dugu Xiang said: "Didn't you say that this box might be a letter from Empress Wu? Then maybe it is a ultimatum from Empress Shi Zetian when she became a monk?" Jiang Shuo shook his head and said: "Xiang'er, the empress feels so sorry. When Ye Si became a monk, he was just a fifth-level talent. How could he have such a noble jade plaque?" Duan Jianwei said: "Yes, this must be a royal thing, but it's a pity that it's only half a piece. Except for the word 'Sramana', There are no other words..." Dugu Xiang said: "Hey... aren't there some documents below? You can tell by looking at what is written." Jiang Shuo felt that it made sense, and gently put the jade tablet aside and placed it in the box. There is nothing but various documents.
There is a thick stack of documents. The top is two pieces of ordinary paper folded paper, and the bottom is some loose pages. The sizes are different, but they are all tough and thick. The texture is white rattan paper, but they seem to be older. It has become dull and yellowish in color.
Jiang Shuo put aside the documents written on white rattan paper and began to read the contents written on ordinary paper.
