Chapter 0614 – Fixed Light Sword (I)

This time Zhuang Rui didn’t let Peng Fei be the driver, but drove himself, because the sword, was handed over to Peng Fei by Zhuang Rui.

Although Peng Fei didn’t know what Zhuang Rui handed over to him, he really rarely saw Zhuang Rui being so solemn and serious, and at that moment, he also carefully held that long shaped box in his arms, not daring to have the slightest carelessness.

“Elder brother Zhuang, the person you are waiting for, is Professor Meng, right?”

After arriving at Peking University, Professor Meng was still in class, so Zhuang Rui could only park his car and wait at the entrance of the dining hall with Huangfu Yun and Peng Fei, the three of them.

“Yeah! How did you know?”

Zhuang Rui asked before remembering that Huangfu Yun was the one who went out of this school, and immediately said with a smile, “I forgot that this is Brother Huangfu’s alma mater!”

Huangfu Yun looked at those schoolmates coming in and out of the school cafeteria and said with some emotion, “Yes! I haven’t been back here for five or six years after I left the country.”

When people are not grown up, they always think about growing up, always think that they can make a name for themselves in society, but often, after they have bumped their heads in reality, they will only think back to campus life and those innocent times.

Huangfu Yun went abroad after graduating from Jing University, and although he has developed well over the years, he has also encountered many setbacks and bumps, and now that he has returned to his alma mater, his heart is full of emotions.

“Oh, I’m going to school here this year.”

For the sake of graduate school, although now is not a student of Beijing University, Zhuang Rui here also has some sense of identity, in the future at least two years of time, their identity will become a graduate student of Beijing University.

After the two of them chatted for a while, it was almost noon, and the number of students who came to eat gradually increased.

“Xiao Zhuang, you guys have been here for a while, right?” Professor Meng’s figure appeared at the entrance of the cafeteria.

This cafeteria was too noisy, it was not a place to talk about things at all ah! Zhuang Rui frowned slightly and said, “It’s fine, I just arrived as well, Mr. Meng, why don’t we go out and find a place to eat?”

Professor Meng waved his hand and said, “No, I still have some things to do in the afternoon, come on, I’ll take you to a private room to eat ……”

Dare I say that this cafeteria is divided into several layers, the first two layers are the student cafeteria, and then upwards is where the teachers dine, and there are many private rooms inside.

“Xiao Zhuang, what do you like to eat, order it yourself! Don’t save your teacher money!”

After a few people sat down, Prof. Meng handed the menu to Zhuang Rui, he was very satisfied with his prospective disciple and couldn’t wait to recruit him now.

“Thank you, Mr. Meng, I have something to ask you for today, and I also need you to treat me to dinner ……”

Zhuang Rui introduced Huangfu Yun and Peng Fei to Prof. Meng, and then casually ordered a few dishes, although his heart was anxious to know the origin of that sword, but Prof. Meng didn’t mention it, Zhuang Rui could only sink his teeth into eating.

“OK, your kid is still calm, go, go to the office ……”

Several people eat very quickly, after 20 minutes to eat, Professor Meng looked at Zhuang Rui smiled, he just wanted to test Zhuang Rui’s qi cultivation kung fu, but did not expect Zhuang Rui really can hold back all the time not to mention the thing of the text appraisal, showed a different from his age of composure, so that Professor Meng is very satisfied.

Professor Meng’s age is almost to the limit, it is estimated that Zhuang Rui is the last batch of graduate students he recruited, he is very optimistic about the development of Zhuang Rui, can have such an excellent disciple, so that a lifetime of teaching Professor Meng, heart is very relieved.

Professor Meng has an independent office, although it is not very big, but in the bookshelf behind the desk, it is full of books of all shapes and sizes, most of them are related to archaeology, in addition, there are some chemical publications, and this knowledge, too, is closely related to archaeology.

“Xiao Peng you guys feel free to sit down, Zhuang Rui, bring me something to look at!”

Entering the office, Prof. Meng casually greeted Huangfu Yun and Peng Fei, then reached out to take the long brocade box that Zhuang Rui handed over.

“This …… is the bronze sword ……”

After opening the box, Professor Meng, who was originally sitting in front of his desk, violently stood up his body and looked at the bronze sword in the box with some disbelief, although he had long guessed that the bronze artifact mentioned by Zhuang Rui should be a weapon, he definitely did not expect that this bronze sword was so well preserved.

Professor Meng decades, I do not know how many times to preside over archaeological excavations, from the Yin and Shang Dynasty tombs, to the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasty tombs, he did not know how many pieces of unearthed artifacts, weapons are not a few.

But those unearthed ancient weapons, after thousands of years of air oxidation and soil corrosion, basically have been rotten, Professor Meng has also done a lot of weapons restoration work, through the observation of some of the era of weapons, can be derived from the era of war pattern of the test.

Although there had been a few ancient famous swords unearthed in the country, it was not an archaeological excavation that Prof. Meng had participated in, and it was the first time that he had been able to see a bronze sword like this one that was in such good condition, emitting an eerie cold light all over its body.

“Teacher, before I came, I did a test on this sword, can simultaneously chop 8 Qianlong Tongbao, and is blowing hair immediately, I suspect it is the ancient dry generals, Moxie, and other famous swords, just the students have little research on the gold text, this sword on the two words, but also ask the teacher to give discernment …… ”

Zhuang Rui originally told Prof. Meng the results of the test in the store.

After Professor Meng heard Zhuang Rui’s words, his expression also became a little excited, if he had known that the object Zhuang Rui brought to appraise was this thing, I’m afraid that meal at noon, Zhuang Rui and the others wouldn’t have wanted to eat it.

To know, every ancient documented famous sword came out, will cause uproar, so that the academic community to prove the endless debate, not to be Professor Meng do not pay attention to.

Don’t look at this is just a dead thing, but put into the eyes of archaeologists, will become unusually rich, for example, from the sword forging process, can analyze the level of metallurgy and social patterns at that time, which is worth investigating the excavation of things, is really too much.

With many years of experience in archaeological excavation, when he just opened the brocade box, Prof. Meng could feel that this sword, is definitely an unearthed bronze, and that feeling of antiquity and vicissitude, cannot be imitated by modern craftsmanship.

“Absolute treasure sword, absolute treasure sword ah!”

Prof. Meng didn’t rush to inspect the golden text, but looked down from the tip of the sword a little bit, that beautiful satin pattern made him love it, his mouth couldn’t help but murmur.

“Professor Meng, those two golden texts, what exactly do they read?”

Huangfu Yun, who hadn’t been speaking, this time finally couldn’t help himself, seeing that the mystery was about to be revealed, but if Prof. Meng was to follow this work and read slowly, I’m afraid that after sunset, he himself might not be able to know the name of this sword.

“From the craftsmanship alone, this bronze sword is definitely not inferior to Zhanlu, Juque and other famous swords, just this length ……”

Professor Meng did not directly answer Huangfu Yun’s question, in fact, he had never bothered to look at those two golden texts, the reason for that was, Professor Meng was trying to rely on his archaeological knowledge to see if he could determine the origin of this sword’s heritage.

Just when it comes to the length, Prof. Meng frowned a little, in his memory, the history of the famous sword that is only about two feet long, not a lot, whether it is Yin Shang or Qin Han, the sword is mostly more than three feet long.

Like Jing Ke stabbing Qin, the sword carried by the first emperor of Qin, about seven feet long, although one foot in the Qin Dynasty, only equivalent to today’s 23.1 centimeters, but seven-foot long sword, but also 1.62 meters, the last Qin Shi Huang or heard the imperial physician Xia Wu and “king negative sword” shout, only to be able to pull out the sword, turned to safety.

From this we can see, the ancient Qin before the sword, most of them are longer, mainly to stab, like this bronze sword in front of me, only about two feet, that is, fifty or sixty centimeters in length, in ancient times is really not a lot.

“Could it be that one?”

Suddenly, Prof. Meng thought of a name, his body could not help but tremble, if it was really that sword, this length could be explained.

Thinking of this, Prof. Meng didn’t want to continue to speculate, picking up a magnifying glass, he carefully looked at the two golden inscriptions above the hilt of the sword.

Jinwen refers to the inscriptions cast and engraved on Yin and Zhou bronzes, also known as Zhongdingwen, compared to oracle bone inscriptions, Jinwen has fat and thick strokes, many curved strokes, and a lot of clumps, and it was extremely prevalent during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, but became declining in the Qin Dynasty, and was gradually replaced by the Small Seal Script.

“That’s right, it should be, it’s really this sword?!”

Professor Meng, after seeing those two inscriptions clearly, blood rushed up on his face, obviously excited, but Zhuang Rui and Huangfu Yun were depressed, this old man recognized it himself, but also shared it with everyone!

“Teacher, what is the sword?”

Zhuang Rui also finally is unable to resist, you old words do not say half, painfully give the name is not finished?

“Wait, I do not dare to confirm, let me compare ……”

Professor Meng heard Zhuang Rui’s words, became much calmer, stood up, from behind the large bookshelf inside pulled out a thick book, flipping through it.

Zhuang Rui saw Professor Meng take is Rong Geng edited by the “gold text editing”, this is after Wu Dacheng’s “say text ancient pre-Han supplement” after the first gold text dictionary, is one of the necessary tools for researchers of ancient scripts, the Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han bronze inscriptions in the known and unknown, from which can be exhaustive, is a fairly complete dictionary of the gold text.

In the past, Uncle De had once let Zhuang Rui read the book ‘Jinwen Compilation,’ but Zhuang Rui felt it wasn’t practical and didn’t pay much attention to those words as if they were sacred scriptures. Now, Zhuang Rui is beginning to understand the meaning of the saying ‘using the book when the need is dire.

“Fixed character …… light …… fixed light?!”

Zhuang Rui saw Professor Meng with a pencil on the “Jinwen Zhi” to find out the “Dingguang” two words, respectively, drew a circle, Zhuang Rui to the book of the two words and the sword hilt of the inscription a comparison, but it really is these two words.

Although Zhuang Rui’s voice was not loud, it was still heard by Huangfu Yun, who asked with a look of disbelief: “What? Zhuang old brother, you say this sword …… is called …… Definitive Light?!”