Chapter 56 Museum of Nature

I suddenly remembered Chen blind man mentioned bottle mountain tomb in the copper, copper ghosts, it seems that I have seen the copper dragon, and embedded in the “King of Qin bone mirror” on the copper fish are all the way goods, he had previously said that this is related to the number of trigrams in ancient times, but at that time did not look into it, at this moment thought of here, they asked him to teach.

Chen blind man said, “The provenance of these Ming ware origin …… old man, although at first also studied the sky, do not let Confucius and Mencius, but really did not see on this thing out of a son ugly c and d to say about how to know, or another encounter.”

Chen blind man said about the incident, when the rate of the crowd went south to Yunnan before the fight, was about to dig out from the Bottle Mountain a variety of treasures valued for sale, in the past to steal the artifacts are not as rapid as this one, because of the tomb raiding in western Hunan made a lot of noise, not only the public opinion at that time to condemn the warlords and bandits strongly the collusion of stolen treasures, but also antique peddlers from all over the world flocked to take advantage of the opportunity to fish on the one vote.

Just when the world is in turmoil, the price of bone antiques is low, but there is bound to be up, many businessmen want to hoard a number of real goods at this time, wait until the years of peace will be able to ask for a price, so the transaction of antiques and artifacts have never been interrupted.

The province has a hobby of ancient tycoon, surnamed Qian, his family in Shanghai, Qingdao and other places to open a number of yarn farms, there are many industries in the local area, the money boss comes from a family of great scholars, by the family’s cultivation, since childhood, like antiques, specially commissioned to find blind man Chen, personally came to pick out a few things that he liked.

Which has a partridge whistle in the Danjing, see the six-winged old centipede worship coffin spit Dan’s coffin, as well as the Danjing in the bronze furnace, in addition to selling down the shape of strange and simple “copper, copper ghosts”, the money boss as a treasure, happy with the color.

Chen blind man has always been pretentious, non-Tang Wu, thin Confucius and Mencius, always feel that their talents and insights, no one in the world, even the ancient sages refused to be put in the eye, but look at the pair of eyeless bronze, copper ghosts, although I know that many of them are fishy, but speculate on the half of the mystery, and would like to ask the money boss why he would like to choose these antiquities, to see if he knows the origins of the origins of the origin, but the words came to the edge of the mouth, but also feel that there is a loss of status.

Finally, a few circles, to talk about the past and present as an excuse, from the money boss that learned one or two, that the money boss most like to read the “Yi”, and the study is very deep, know that today’s gossip are derived from the latter day, the earliest ancient trigrams, not with the “Qian Kan Burgundy Zhen” this kind of symbols, this bronze eyeless people and ghosts symbols, are the ancient trigrams in the most The original symbols, in order to divine a trigram to, at least to get together four ancient symbols, but unfortunately only two, the full set of even more can not get together.

Bronze ancient talisman at least four to use, it is said that mastering this way, you can understand the mysteries of the heavens, as for how to use, the money boss does not know, only know that the bronze talisman must be three dynasties before the antiquities, the so-called three dynasties refers to the Xia, Shang, Zhou, as for what the Tang and Song years of the things, and the history of the three generations of cultural relics compared to the antiquity has not yet been able to say, in the eyes of the real connoisseurs, the value of its collection can not be compared to the same day, and the mouth of the burnt dan The copper furnace, should be the end of the Western Han Dynasty.

Dan furnace on a number of fine and subtle pattern painting, are depicting the scene of ancient alchemy, a closer look at the words, which actually also has a bronze ancient symbol of the mark, but Mr. Qian attainments, although deep, can not read the content of it, just think that this is an ancient curiosity, contains a very deep secret, there is a very high collector’s value.

Chen blind man thought since I do not know what it is for, hidden in the home and what is the use? At the moment sent away can be money boss, did not put this matter in mind, a flash of light like an arrow, the past more than half a century, and then did not encounter a similar bronze ancient runes, that year’s events have long been put behind the back of the mind, until the last time I listened to me mention the hundred-eyed cave dragon runes, he just suddenly remembered this section.

Chen blind man said to me: “If you have the opportunity, do not prevent the four ancient symbols together, or let the old man know know, in the end, there are some what heavenly chances.”

I said: “In fact, I have just seen two bronze ancient symbols by mistake, I personally interested in this, although, but not because I want to explore what the ancients left behind the heavenly chances, the world to find, and now I’m most anxious to know, where in the world of the ancient tombs there is still a golden elixir? This saving people is like saving fire, and then can not find the ancient corpse’s inner dan, that friend of mine will have to go to see Marx.”

Chen blind man laughed: “This is not true, life is in a hurry for dozens of years, humble and small as a mole cricket, if you can use the body of a mole cricket to gain insight into the secrets of God, even if it is shattered bones are not in vain.”

I smiled bitterly and shook my head, this Chen blind man although the hero is late, ambition is half no less, but now the pursuit of change, and a higher realm, even want to know the secrets of “God”.

My experience over the years, so that my view of the universe in the “materialism” and “idealism” wandering between the two, but to ask me whether I believe that the world really have “God” exists, I am sure it is But if you ask me if I believe in the existence of “God”, I will definitely not nod my head.

I think Shirley Yang is religious, and very devout, she may believe in these “heavenly chances, revelations, gods” concept, but Shirley Yang also shook her head, she said: “asking a person what God is like is like asking a goldfish what is the water in which it lives, it makes no sense. There’s not much point, faith should be the home of the heart.”

Chen blind man said: “As for that ancient corpse inside Dan, in western Hunan bottle mountain is there, and not only one or two, all because the bottle mountain is originally Dan Palace, but also a medicine mountain, there is this thing is not surprising, the rest of the place can be few and far between, but that bottle mountain as early as a few decades ago has been stolen empty, and even the local not much Mingqi cave razor tombs, but also to teach those who are not angry thieves planing empty, now you Two people want to find the ancient tomb jindan, I’m afraid that only go to ask God, not heavenly revelation, the big world, even if you step through the iron shoes is also difficult to find.”

I see the last bit of hope are gone, can not help but be discouraged, it seems that more Ling’s life is not saved after all, but not to the Yellow River will not die, as long as more Ling is still alive, I will try to think of other ways, look at the late day, there is no way to return to Beijing that day, had to be close to the Ministry of Railways guest house in the temporary stay.

The next day I asked Chen blind what plans for the future, whether to go with me to the United States to shop around? Chen blind sighed: “The ancients often will be floating than a dream, lamenting the rapidity of time, a life, as if the body in the void, how many joys and sorrows, sadness and emaciation, loss of gathering and dispersal, life and death, shifting shells, in the end, such as a dream, there are gathered and eventually dispersed, it should be the word impermanence, never thought that year, a goodbye to the Dongting Lake, this life is no longer allowed to meet, and the world is not a good thing, but the world is not a good thing. Looking back on the past, as if yesterday, in the sense of reason should go to the late partridge whistle’s grave to pay homage, but the old man’s old bones, I’m afraid that there are no days to live, really do not want to die in a foreign country 10,000 miles away, or want to go back to Xiangyin home to walk on a trip.”

I had to buy a train ticket, and Shirley Yang to the train station to send him on the train, and agreed with him, before the Ching Ming Festival to find him, and then go to the United States for the “last moving mountain Taoist” tomb.

Sent off Chen blind, we went back to the guest house to pack up things on the way by the way to buy a newspaper, on the bus to look through a few pages, see a full-page content, said are “after the reform and opening up, the party’s Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, in all areas of what kind of brilliant achievements, in order to enrich the spare-time cultural life of the people of Tianjin, Tianjin Nature Museum Re-open to the public, leaders from all walks of life have inscribed congratulations.

This kind of news can be found everywhere, there is nothing special, but one part of it caught my attention, the news mentioned that, in order to enrich the scope of exhibits of the Nature Museum, a group of precious excavated relics from Hunan Province will be sent to Tianjin to display for a week, the location of the museum on the second floor of the sixth exhibition room.

This batch of precious relics in Hunan Province, including a number of national treasures donated by patriotic compatriots, which is particularly noteworthy, is the history of the relatively rare “eyeless humanoid bronze pendant (Zhou), burin gold silver nine colors painted image of a bronze furnace (Han) ……”

I wondered: “History is always amazing coincidence, these things are not the year to move the mountain unloading of the good guys, from the bottle mountain bucket pour out of the treasures? It turns out that has been patriotic overseas compatriots dedicated to the country, and then get Tianjin to the exhibition for the masses to visit.”

Shirley Yang took over the newspaper and looked at it, she is also curious: “The photos in the newspaper are a bit blurred, why don’t we go to the Nature Museum on the way to see for ourselves?”

The two of us hit it off right away, we didn’t go back to the guest house, and went straight to the Nature Museum to buy a ticket to enter, this exhibition hall was established very early, can be traced back to the early years of the Republic of China, known as the “Museum of the Northern Frontier”, and later changed to the “People’s Science Museum”, during the Cultural Revolution, the exhibition was once interrupted. During the Cultural Revolution, the exhibition was interrupted for a while, and since it was reopened not long ago, the exhibits did not appear to be very many, but there was an endless stream of visitors, with organized school groups taking up more than half of the crowd, most of whom were there to look at the fossils and specimens of all kinds of ancient organisms and plants.

At that time, the society was popular “exhibition fever”, if you go to the park, you can often see the “deformed fetus specimens, Xinjiang ancient corpses, human anatomy ……” and other exhibitions, and even some rare animal exhibitions. There are even some rare animal exhibitions, nothing more than and piglets as big as rats, human head, snake body monsters, etc., gimmicks are varied, but there is no lack of hanging sheep’s head to sell the stream of dog meat.

So I’m not interested in the museum’s displays, see the museum outside the stairs, leading to the second floor of the “Hunan Province excavated precious cultural relics exhibition”, will take Shirley Yang straight up to the second floor.

From the outside of the second floor into a look, the exhibits are really rich, hundreds of large and small cultural relics, divided into categories of dazzling display in the glass display cases, many of which are imitations, the real thing can not be so casually let a person see, but the ordinary visitors can not see, just to look at a fresh only, but to the level of the visit is not much, it seems a little cold.

I have seen countless Ming ware, see these things, can not help but feel all a little familiar, walk through a sweep, in a display cabinet, suddenly saw the legendary furnace, and Chen blind described exactly the same, to my eyesight judgment, this thing is absolutely authentic, probably due to the huge shape, do not have to worry about easily stolen.

Shirley Yang remembered her grandfather had hidden in this furnace, could not help but imagine, look out of the god, I was staring at the stove body lines, want to carefully identify the details of the figure, but the distance between the furnace and the display cabinet glass is one meter away, although I do not myopia, but can not see clearly the nuances of the copper furnace cast a total of eight “Immortal Dan map And there are a total of eight “Immortalized Dan pictures” cast on the copper furnace, a few of which are blocked due to the angle, can’t even see a glance.

Shirley Yang suddenly remembered that the inseparable camera was forgotten in the guest house, she was anxious to take some pictures, let me turn around here, she immediately went back to get the camera.

I had to wander alone in the Museum of Nature, looked at the furnace a few times, and went to look at another group of display cabinets in the “bronze talisman”, the eyes of the hollow “human talisman, ghost talisman” are in the antique copper green stains, seem to be genuine, I was about to get close to take a closer look, and then suddenly I was about to come close to look closely, suddenly a uniformed police officer came over, without saying a word, slapped me on the shoulder.

I just focus on looking at the ancient talisman, never thought that this situation would occur, the incident was sudden, but also some puzzled, look at the artifacts also illegal? I puzzled to the police said: “Comrade police, what do you mean by this? I have not fallen …… from the Five Speeches, Four Beauties and Three Favors.”

The policeman shouted, “Company Commander, don’t you recognize me?” Speaking voice is very loud, shaking people’s ears buzzing.

I fixed my eyes, it turned out to be one of my former comrades in the army, when we fought together on the front line in Vietnam, called Ai Hongjun, I used to give him a nickname “love to mess with”, since I left the army after I have not seen him again, and I can not imagine that a few years later will be in the Museum of Nature encountered, when they climbed out of the dead together with their comrades in arms! I was surprised and delighted to meet him unexpectedly.

I laughed: “Lao Ai your voice is still so big, how now mixed into the public security team ……” was about to catch up with him, but suddenly saw the door of the exhibition room there is a familiar silhouette flashed, I was immediately stunned, the heart of the vaguely feel bad, like being from the back of a knife. Behind a knife, but can not think of what is wrong, in a daze, completely unable to capture any clues, I hastily set aside wearing police uniforms Ai Hongjun, quickly to the mysterious back of the déjà vu chased up.

I quickly walked to the door, unexpectedly just a group of collective visit students came in, the door in front of the corridor blocked a tight, and so I set aside the crowd down to the first floor hall, has not been able to find the trace of that person.

I muttered a curse, really hell, just now that person does seem to have seen where, but can not think of, vaguely have a hunch that the other side is also rushing to the exhibition of a few pieces of cultural relics shipped from Hunan.