Everyone was stunned for a moment, Wei Dong looked at Mu Yiran hesitantly: "Unknown means..."
"It means that the original work has no seal and no name." Mu Yi said.
Everyone was stunned again.
"There is no seal, no name left, so what are we looking for when we enter the painting?" Wei Dong was a little flustered, looking at Mu Yiran, then at Ke Xun, and finally at Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen.
"So, has the difficulty level of 'painting' increased?" Zhu Haowen remained calm.
"The improvement is a bit big," Qin Ci smiled helplessly, "It gave us a dead end. If you want to make a painting, you can only find a seal, but this painting has no seal."
"I don't think this is a dead end, but it is certain that the difficulty will increase," Zhu Haowen said, "Even if there is no seal, maybe it will be like "Human Studies" and "Shadow". Come and provide us with a seal."
"Haowen'er is right," Ke Xun patted Zhu Haowen on the shoulder, "don't be discouraged at any time. I think it's still a long time before the crowd is gathered, so let's hurry up and put this one first. I searched the boat, inside and out. Yi Ran and I searched the second floor, and the three of you searched the first floor and deck, no problem, right?"
"No problem, hurry up!" Wei Dong clenched his fist.
Zhu Haowen looked at the hand that Ke Xun took away from his shoulder, and said in a low voice, "You... be careful."
"Don't worry." Ke Xun took a few glances at him, "Don't say it, you are quite handsome in Hanfu."
After entering the painting, the clothes on everyone's body have all become ancient costumes, and they are all white robes with large fronts and narrow sleeves.
Zhu Haowen also looked at him, the man wore a coarse white robe that gave off an uninhibited wind in the mountains.
"Let's go." Mu Yiran said lightly not far behind.
It is also a coarse white robe, but when he wears it, he is out of the world and refined, and a gentleman is like jade.
Ke Xun turned his head and strode towards Mu Yiran, and Zhu Haowen took his eyes off the slightly warped hair on the back of his head, and also turned his head and walked away.
Following the wooden stairs to the second floor of the cabin, Ke Xun and Mu Yi pushed open the door to check.
The cabin room is very small, and there is only a simple little bed made of wood. The bed is very low, and there are a few toiletries next to it.
There is nothing else, and all the rooms on the second floor are like this.
The two quickly came down from the second floor. Seeing Zhu Haowen, they had already checked the first floor, and they were walking around on the deck at the moment.
"How, have you found anything?" Ke Xun asked.
"There's a kitchen over there," Wei Dong pointed to a door at the end of the first floor. "The big room in the middle is a hall, and the other rooms have only beds. I haven't seen anyone else, and there's nothing suspicious."
In fact, there was nothing suspicious on the deck, it was flat.
"There should be a lower building under the deck, let's look for the entrance." Mu Yiran said.
"This way!" Qin Ci beckoned at the stern, pointing to a large open cover on the deck, and a staircase leading to the bottom was exposed under the cover.
Everyone went down the stairs, and the cabin below was dark. Everyone took out their mobile phones from their arms to illuminate, but they saw that there was also a room under the deck, which was piled with grain, clothes, medicine, farming implements and some sundries. Commonly used items, but no one else is seen.
"There are a lot of things here. It will take a few days to find them one by one." Qin Ci looked at everyone, "Should we start now?"
"Let's start, take all the time," Ke Xun looked around, "First look for something like lamp oil, light it up, and save the power of the mobile phone."
He was about to rummage in the room full of daily necessities, but Mu Yi Ran held him back: "Let's divide the work. Ke Xun, you and Wei Dong look for lighting items. Doctor Qin and Haowen, start by stacking the books. I started looking for clues in the book's room. I went to the upper deck to monitor the movement of the ship, and by the way, I brought the people who entered the painting here."
Everyone heard the words no longer delayed, and immediately split up and acted.
Ke Xun and Wei Dong searched for a long time in the room full of daily necessities, and finally found seven or eight bronze lampstands. However, they searched all the boxes and corners, but couldn't find any candles or lamp oil. I had to take the lampstand and go to the room where Qin Ci and Zhu Haowen were.
There are more than a dozen boxes piled up in this room, and the boxes are filled with bamboo slips, wood chips and silk and silk, and the characters on them are written in Xiaozhuan script.
"I don't understand." Qin Ci shook his head and put down a roll of bamboo slips in his hand. "These boxes are full of these things, but there are no paper books. I suspect that this ship belongs to an era at least before the Han Dynasty."
"It's the Qin Dynasty." Mu Yiran's voice sounded at the door. Seeing that there were four or five people behind him, judging from the bewildered expressions on their faces, they were all newcomers to the painting.
"The big flag hanging on the mast is written with the character 'Qin' in Xiaozhuan script." Mu Yiran stepped into the room, picked up a scroll of bamboo slips and glanced at them, "At that time, most of the words were recorded on bamboo slips and wood chips. On the silk and silk, even this picture of "The Burning Rhinoceros at Sea" is also painted on silk and silk."
"That is to say, this painting of "The Burning Rhinoceros at Sea" is also likely to be painted in the Qin Dynasty?" Zhu Haowen said.
"Not really." The person who spoke was actually one of the newcomers behind Mu Yiran. He was not low in height, almost on par with Mu Yiran. His black hair was meticulously combed behind his head, his brows were cold and his complexion was cold. White, with an unexpectedly calm look on his face.
"Paintings on silk with color and color existed in almost all dynasties after the Qin Dynasty," the person continued indifferently. "In fact, paintings from the Qin Dynasty are even rarer in the world. The content of the paintings is drawn from the Qin Dynasty. It is not necessarily the era of the painter who lived in Qin Shi.
"Before entering the painting, I took a brief look at the painting. Although it is an imitation, I tried my best to restore the original picture quality and even the damaged details.
"According to the degree of damage and the clarity of the picture quality, this painting should have been produced between the Qin Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty."
After saying this, seeing everyone in the room looking at him, the man nodded slightly and said calmly, "My surname is Shao, Shao Ling."
"From the Qin Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, this range is slightly larger." Wei Dong scratched his head.
"Furthermore, if this painting is about Qin Shi, all the text carriers on the boat can only reflect Qin Shi's affairs. If the artist of the painting is not from the Qin Dynasty, we are afraid that we will not be able to find out about his name from these texts. clues." Qin Ci said.
"If it's not troublesome," Shao Ling looked at the old members calmly, "Can you tell me your experience in the previous paintings in detail?"
"Brother Qin, this task is left to you." Ke Xun said.
Among them, only Qin Ci has such patience.
Qin Ci simply changed tasks with Mu Yiran, and took a few newcomers to the deck, telling the experience and rules in the painting while waiting for the remaining newcomers.
Mu Yiran stayed in the room below. Seeing that Ke Xun and Wei Dong were still lighting with their mobile phones, he asked Ke Xun, "Didn't you find the light?"
"The lamp was found, but no candle or lamp oil was found." Ke Xun handed the lampstand in his hand to Mu Yiran.
Mu Yiran took a few glances in his hand, and said, "Yanzu lantern, a popular lamp in the Qin and Han dynasties, usually used by the court, is an ornament to decorate the palace hall. The three candles in the lamp tray are used to insert candles. However, the candles in the pre-Qin period are not the same as the candles we use now. They are made of a kind of flammable reed or twigs with high oil content, such as pine and bamboo, which are bundled into small torches, wrapped with cloth strips, and then Made of animal fat."
"Then I'll look for it again." Ke Xun said and went out, and Mu Yiran went out with him.
However, even with Big Mu, Ke Xun still couldn't find the so-called "candle".
"Isn't this too strange," Ke Xun turned off the light of his mobile phone to save power, and stood in front of Mu Yiran in the dark, "This boat has clothes, medicine, food, and books, obviously planning to stay there for a long time. Sailing on the sea, but the only thing that has no lighting, can't everyone live a life like a blind man touching an elephant at night?"
Mu Yi in the darkness did not make a sound, Ke Xun knew that he was meditating, and he did not disturb him, but just stood quietly in front of him, for a long time, listening to him speak quietly: "Perhaps, this is exactly what this painting gave us. a hint."
"Oh? What did it suggest?" Ke Xun asked.
"The name of this painting is "The Burning Rhinoceros at Sea"," Mu Yiran's clear voice became more textured in the darkness, "there are no 'candles' that can be used to illuminate and burn in this painting, but the name of the painting is It is called 'Burning Rhinoceros', I think, 'painting' is to remind us of such a situation, the focus of this painting is 'Burning Rhinoceros'."
"That's right, if we take out the flammable things in the painting, we will of course wonder why this painting is still called the 'Burning Rhinoceros' picture when there is no burning object." Ke Xun easily found Mu Yiran's painting in the dark. He shook his hand, as if complimenting his boyfriend.
The boyfriend's slender fingers moved slightly and clasped his ten fingers, but the words in his mouth were still calm and steady: "The burning rhinoceros can be used for lighting, but there is a strange allusion about this word."
"Tell me." Ke Xun couldn't help wrapping his arms around his waist and resting his chin on his shoulder.
Falling in love doesn't affect doing business.
Mu Yiran's voice sounded shallowly in his ears: "It is said that there was a man named Wen Qiao, who was walking to a place called Niuzhuji, when he heard the sound of music coming from the water, he lowered his head to observe, but See unfathomable waters.
"He had heard rumors that there were many ghosts in the water, so he lit the rhino horns for lighting and looked under the water.
"Not long after, I saw that there were many strange-shaped ghosts rushing in, and there were even people in red clothes riding in carriages, trying to put out the flames ignited by the rhino horn.
"That night, Wen Qiao dreamed of a man who was very angry and vicious and blamed him, saying that the two worlds of Yin and Yang are different, and they should not interfere with each other.
"The next day, Wen Qiao suffered a stroke due to toothache and extraction, and died less than ten days later."
"... I'm relying on it," Ke Xun tightened his arms, "so is this also the case with 'Sea Burning Rhinoceros'..."
Mu Yiran raised his hand and patted his back lightly: "According to legend, lighting a rhinoceros horn can illuminate another world. Some people use this method to communicate with the 'people' or 'spirits' in the other world, while others use This method avoids disasters, or even achieves different purposes. And what is the purpose of burning rhinoceros in this picture of "Burning Rhinoceros at Sea", maybe it is the key for us to find the seal and leave the painting."