"What to do?" Lao Wang looked at the two closed palace doors and had no idea. There was neither a door bolt nor a handle on the door of the Changsheng Palace. From the outside, there is nowhere to start. It seems that there is no plan to let people in after it is built.
"Is this a fake door?" Old Wang asked, shaking his head.
Zi Yang looked under the door and said, "No, there is a door socket underneath, which means that this door has a shaft and should be able to rotate."
"Pharaoh, give it a try." Zi Yang urged Pharaoh.
"Good! You guys step back a little bit, I'll squat!"
Zi Yang and Su Rui followed the old king back a few steps, and the old king held the king's salamander's head in front of them, took a deep breath, and rushed forward.
With a muffled sound, the heavy palace gate was knocked open by the brute force of the old Wang.
"Fool, let you push away! Who made you hit!" Zi Yang complained, looking inward from Lao Wang's shoulder.
"You don't have a backache when you stand and talk! This door hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. The axis of the door has long rotten to death. Can you push it open without accelerating?" The old Wang muttered dissatisfiedly. He is also a thorny person with other people's efforts.
"Next time you come by yourself, don't always look down upon Lao Tzu!" Lao Wang said viciously.
"Hey, turn off the lights!" Zi Yang said suddenly and hastily.
Su Rui and Lao Wang hurriedly turned off their flashlights and miner's lamps, and their surroundings plunged into darkness.
But from the gap of the palace gate, there was a faint yellow flame.
"Fuck, there is someone inside!" The old Wang exclaimed in a low voice, pressing down his throat.
Zi Yang and Su Rui looked at each other. They were really evil. Judging from the dust on the outside, this palace had been vacant for hundreds of years. How could there be lights inside
"Hey, is there anyone?" Old Wang shouted tremblingly.
Everyone held their breath and waited for a while, there was no sound inside, and no one answered him.
"Open the door!" Zi Yang patted Lao Wang on the shoulder.
The seam of the door was only two fingers wide, and a pair of armor was placed in front of them, and it was impossible to see what was inside.
"Let's talk about it first, is it a push or a bump? Don't wait until I'm done with you." Lao Wang said angrily.
"Whatever you want, just open it." Zi Yang didn't want to worry about the details with him at this time.
Lao Wang put his carapace against the door leaf, arched his waist, and arched forward with the strength of feeding, but the heavy wooden door did not move at all.
Upon seeing this, Zi Yang and Su Rui grabbed one side of the carapace, and the three of them worked together to hear a creaking sound from the door shaft below, and the two heavy wooden doors were finally pushed open. The three of them buried their heads and pushed forward with all their strength, and finally opened a hole more than one meter wide.
"Okay, you can enter!"
Lao Wang stood up, turned the shield armour over, and Zi Yang couldn't wait to step in. As soon as his feet fell to the ground, the surrounding fire suddenly shook. Almost at the same time, everyone heard a faint "bang, bang, bang" sound from a distance.
"Be careful!"
Lao Wang yelled, and stepped forward, raising his shield and blocking it in front of Zi Yang.
Hearing a intensive sound of "pop, pop, pop, pop", Pharaoh's body shook for a while, and several cracks appeared in the shield armor in his hand under the blow of gravity. Almost at the same time, everyone felt that there was a strong wind passing through them, and a few long arrows "snatched, snatched, snatched" nailed to the wooden door behind them, and the tail of the arrows was still trembling slightly, showing the strength!
The old Wang carefully turned the carapace to the side, and saw that a dozen long arrows were densely inserted on it. One sharp arrow even shot through the carapace, revealing a sharp cluster of arrows.
The shocked Zi Yang touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and said in his heart: It's dangerous!
The slight bang just now should be the sound of the machine spring. The sharp arrow pierced the air and caused the fire to shake. If it hadn’t been for Pharaoh’s reaction to block him with a carapace, he would have been shot into a hedgehog. .
I don’t know if there is an arrow mechanism behind. The three of them hid behind the carapace and did not dare to move. Su Rui illuminated the arrow cluster that penetrated the carapace with a flashlight, and saw that it was a three-centimeter long triangle. The arrow, after nearly a thousand years of baptism, is not rusted, and still looks unusually sharp.
Lao Wang leaned over to smell it with his nose, frowned and said, "It smells like oil!"
Lao Wang supported the carapace with one hand, and reached out to touch the arrow with the other hand. Zi Yang took his hand, "maybe poisonous!"
Lao Wang retracted his hand, swallowed and said, "Hey, do you think there is any mechanism? This kind of hidden weapon should be a one-time use? It should be gone after shooting?"
At this time, no one dared to say for sure, the three of them poked their heads out from behind the carapace tremblingly, and under the strong light of the flashlights, they finally saw the complete appearance of the Changsheng Palace.
The Changsheng Palace is also very empty. There is a two-meter-high lamppost standing in the corners of the surrounding corners, each holding a three-legged round tripod, and a dragon-shaped handle extends from one of the tripod feet, which is in the shape of a neck. . The fire light came from inside the round tripod.
"Fuck, what kind of lamp oil is in it? Can it burn for hundreds of years?" Lao Wang cried out in surprise.
Su Rui and Zi Yang did not answer, their eyes were attracted by the things in the center of the Longevity Hall.
In the center of the Hall of Longevity, there is a huge square platform on which several dark things are piled up unevenly.
Under the light of the flashlight, it can be seen that these containers are more than one meter high in general. Some of them are three-legged, some are four-legged, some are round abdomen, some are square, and there are two standing ears on the upper edge.
The container looks old, the whole body is blue-black, and it seems to be decorated with strange patterns.
"This, is this a bronze tripod?" Zi Yang exclaimed.
Su Rui nodded: "Yes, it's a bronze tripod!"
Zi Yang counted, a total of nine bronze tripods of various shapes were placed on the table.
Seeing nothing but four lampposts and nine bronze cauldrons in the huge palace, Lao Wang was a little disappointed. These things seem to be very cumbersome, and a guy alone is at least a thousand catties, there is no way to move out, it seems that this time I will return empty-handed.
"Go, let's go over and take a look!" Su Rui said.
Thinking that there might be treasures in the bronze cauldron, Lao Wang's eyes lit up again, signaling Zi Yang and Su Rui to walk behind him, holding up a shield with long arrows in both hands to block him, the three of them step by step. forward.
Although the distance from the door to Jiuding was only ten meters away, the three of them walked for a long time, concentrating and holding their breath, watching Liulu and listening to all directions, carefully walking and stopping, lest they shoot another burst from a dark corner. Arrow rain.
Fortunately, no accident happened on this road. Everyone walked to the edge of the platform smoothly, and it seemed that there was only one mechanism at the entrance of the Changsheng Palace.
The three of them still didn't dare to be careless, and did not rush up to the side where Jiuding was placed, but first carefully observed the platform where Jiuding was placed.
This is a platform of ten meters in length and width, and twenty centimeters in height. It looks like it is made of solid wood and is square. The nine bronze tripods on it are placed in the direction of the nine-square grid.
"Hey, there are still characters under the bronze cauldron." Zi Yang illuminated the underside of a three-legged round-bellied bronze cauldron, and two fist-sized characters were carved with a small seal on the wooden table. After carefully identifying it for a long time, Zi Yang murmured: "It seems to be the seal type'Jingzhou'."
"Look at what's engraved under the other tripods." Su Rui said, and the three slowly moved along the square platform, and under a four-legged bronze tripod next to them, the word "Yangzhou" was engraved in seal script.
Turning along this bronze tripod, the other two are "Xuzhou" and "Qingzhou". There are three tripods on each side of the square table, and two seal characters of the same size are engraved on the bottom. When they turned to the bronze tripod engraved with "Yanzhou", they had already reached the opposite side of the palace gate, and they could see some tiny holes lined up on the wooden wall behind, which should be where the sharp arrow shot just now.
"Be careful, maybe some bows and arrows haven't triggered yet." Zi Yang reminded.
Lao Wang quickly erected the carapace behind his back.
Zi Yang looked at these pores, and then at the direction of the hall gate, he had to admire the designer's unique ingenuity. All the sharp arrows passed through the gap between the nine tripods and shot directly at the gate of the palace. None of the sharp arrows hit the bronze tripod on the square platform.
Su Rui carefully observed the patterns on the Yanzhou tripod and said, “These bronze tripods are cast with gluttonous patterns and dragon patterns, and there are oracle bone inscriptions on the tripods, combined with the engraved characters below... Is this the legendary Zhen Guo artifact—Yu Wang Jiuding?"
"What, what is it? Rain King? Fish King?" The old Wang was dumbfounded again.
Su Rui explained to him: "Yu Wang Jiuding is a Chinese supreme artifact made by Yu in the early years of the Xia Dynasty.
In the Xia Dynasty, Wang Dayu divided the world into Kyushu and ordered Kyushu to contribute bronze and cast nine bronze tripods. Then they collected portraits of famous mountains, rivers, and strange things in Kyushu nationwide, and carved them in the body of Jiuding, with a tripod symbolizing a state, and Jiuding meaning Kyushu. Owning Jiuding is a symbol of dominating the world.
As the treasure of Xia, Shang, and Zhou, Jiuding was suddenly lost after more than two thousand years of legend. There is a saying that Jiuding has sunk in Surabaya. However, it is recorded in the historical records that Jiuding was acquired by Qin Mugong after the fall of the Zhou Dynasty and hid in the capital Xianyang.
Some foreign scholars believe that Jiuding should have fallen into the hands of Qin Shihuang in the end, and it is very likely that Jiuding would be buried in Qin Shihuang's mausoleum-I didn't expect to see Jiuding here. "
After listening to Su Rui's introduction, both Zi Yang and Lao Wang were dumbfounded. If it was exactly what she said, then these nine bronze tripods would not be a question of value.
"Is it possible that this is an imitation? We Chinese have been good at imitation since ancient times." Zi Yang said this without any pride. He just felt that this kind of ancient treasure appeared in front of him without warning, it was really incredible.
Su Rui nodded and said: "This chance is relatively small. In ancient history, although Wu Zetian and Song Huizong had both cast Jiuding, they are far inferior to Yu Wang Jiuding in terms of symbolic significance and historical value."
The three people continued to turn in the direction, starting from the positive "Jingzhou" and "Yangzhou", followed by "Xuzhou", "Qingzhou", "Yanzhou", "Jizhou", "Yongzhou", and "Liangzhou".
The tripods on the four corners of the square platform are all four-legged, and the other four diagonals and the middle one have three-legged round belly.
"If I'm right, the biggest bronze tripod in the middle should be'Yuzhou'." Su Rui stepped onto the wooden platform. Zi Yang and Lao Wang hurriedly followed.
Sure enough, under the big tripod in the center, the two characters Yuzhou in the seal script were engraved. Around the big tripod, a line of seal characters were also engraved. Zi Yang lowered his head to identify carefully, and muttered:
"The sky is round, the yin and the yang are smooth, and there is a positive diagonal, Taikang, Kyushu."
The three looked at each other, and all the signs indicated that this was King Yu Jiuding!
Lao Wang put the carapace shield aside and leaned forward to look in the Yuzhou tripod-it was actually empty inside!
"Huh? What is this?" Lao Wang touched the cauldron with his hand, and everyone saw that there was a black, sticky **** on his palm.
"Is it some kind of magical plaster like immortality?" Old Wang stretched his tongue out to lick, and when he saw Zi Yang's shocked eyes he retracted his tongue again.
Suddenly, a black object fell from above, "slapped" it, and slammed it on Old Wang's head impartially. The black sticky ** kept dripping down his face.
"What!?" Lao Wang roared, and everyone raised their lights and looked up.
What caught my eye was an incredible sight.