The years when I was Captain Jin

Chapter 189 Xia Shu
"It's dangerous. If we didn't stay in place to rest just now, but ran away in a hurry, I'm afraid someone would have stumbled and fallen!"

Wang Yuanchao took out a cold smoke and threw it towards the cliff.

We all gasped as the green glow of the cold fireworks fell into the cliff.

This cliff can be said to be bottomless, and the cold smoke and fire just lit up for a moment before being swallowed up by darkness.Even after a long time, we didn't hear the sound of cold fireworks falling to the ground.

Zhang Sanpao leaned on the edge of the cliff and said, "It seems that this place is the same as the black hole we encountered before. It is formed naturally, and the owner of the tomb did not dig it deliberately."

I nodded: "That's for sure. If such a large project were to be dug purely by manpower, let alone ancient times, it would not be able to complete the excavation in ten or eight years in modern times..."

"Hey! Tinker Bell, then you are wrong. There are so many architectural wonders in the world that we modern people are amazed at. For example, the Great Wall and the Egyptian pyramids. Ancient people are no more stupid than modern people." The fat man said.

Then he became confused again: "But is the owner of this tomb crazy? Why did he build his tomb under the abyss? Does he still want to benefit future generations!"

"According to Feng Shui, it really shouldn't be." Zhang Sanpao replied: "However, this tomb reveals something unusual everywhere, and I can't figure out what the owner of the tomb is thinking..."

"Damn it, what should we do now? We can't go back the same way, right?" the fat man asked.

I smiled wryly and said, "It's absolutely impossible to go back the same way! Not to mention whether everyone can still open the giant sheep-headed gate, even the monsters outside the giant sheep-headed gate are beyond our ability to deal with."

Seeing that there was no way out, the fat man had no choice but to go to Miss Si: "Hey! Miss Si, you have an idea."

"I don't know." The fourth girl shook her head.

"What, I don't know?" I feel that Fatty's mood at the moment is like ten thousand muddy horses galloping, because his face has turned black.

"You found the door and you opened it. If you don't know anything, just don't ask. I call you Aunt Four. The fat man is timid. You can't just play with me." The fat man said anxiously.

Seeing that the fat man was talking, I started to mess around, so I quickly stepped forward and stopped him to persuade him: "Okay, fat man, don't say a few words. I think this is a bottomless cliff, but have you noticed that there is a cliff on the cliff? Does it seem to be hung with something?"

"It's an iron chain."

The fourth girl has excellent eyesight. Before I went to find the telescope, I had already seen what was connecting the two sides of the cliff.

But I saw an arm-thin iron chain running across the cliff, covered with dark red rust, obviously experienced countless years of wind and rain.

"Iron chain?" Hearing that it was an iron chain, the fat man suddenly laughed: "There is a door!"

"That's right, unless the owner of the tomb is out of his mind, he would spend so much effort to install such a large sheep-headed gate in front of the cliff, let alone hang iron chains on the cliff. The master did it intentionally..." I analyzed: "I suspect that this is the only way to the ancient tomb, and those iron chains are the mechanisms that let us pass!"

"But how can we get there?" asked the fat man.

"Everyone, come and have a look!" Just as Fatty and I were discussing how to use this iron chain to pass, Uncle Ming suddenly yelled at us.

We hurriedly walked towards Uncle Ming, and found that Uncle Ming was holding a binoculars, staring closely at the tall sheep-headed giant door behind him, frowning tightly, muttering words in his mouth.

I quickly asked Uncle Ming what happened.

Uncle Ming put down the binoculars and said, "There seems to be writing on the door."

As soon as Uncle Ming said that there were characters on the door, I reflexively remembered the square Yuwen on the Qingyang bottle, and immediately asked, "Is it the Yuwen we deciphered?"

"It doesn't look like it, take a look!" Uncle Ming handed me the telescope after finishing speaking.

I turned the binoculars to the maximum and looked towards the sheep-headed giant door, but I was dumbfounded as soon as I looked at it.

Because the words engraved on the back of the gate are not Yu Wen at all. Yu Wen at least looks square and square with the same strokes, but the words in front of me are like graffiti written by a three-year-old child, without any rules at all.

Based on my level alone, let alone translation, I can't even figure out whether the words engraved on it are words or not...

Seeing that I didn't see why, the fat man on the side also clamored to see it.

But the fourth girl said coldly: "Uncle Ming is a lawyer on the surface, but in fact he is a lover of ancient Chinese culture. He is proficient in 42 languages. He understands oracle bone inscriptions, bronze inscriptions, Liao inscriptions and other minority languages. He sees If you can’t come up with something, even if you guess for a year, you will never guess a single word.”

"Damn! Doesn't that mean that the only clue to find the mechanism is also broken?" Fatty was disappointed, and said to Uncle Ming: "Uncle Ming, is there any writing in this world that you haven't seen before?"

"Of course, Chinese culture has a long history. Every dynasty has a kind of writing, or even several kinds of writing. Although archaeologists have studied it for decades, there is still a kind of writing that gives them a headache. It is called : The number one unsolved mystery of ancient times..."

Before Uncle Ming finished his last sentence, he stayed where he was.As if he realized something, he quickly grabbed the binoculars in my hand and looked towards the giant sheep-headed gate again.

Seeing the agitated expressions, we all asked curiously: "Uncle Ming, have you discovered something? Tell us quickly."

But Uncle Ming didn't say a word, just stared at the words on the door, fascinated.

The anxious fat man almost didn't call Ming Shu his own father.

Zhang Sanpao stood next to Uncle Ming to read the text together, and at the end he suddenly realized, and shouted, "I know."

Seeing that Zhang Sanpao had seen the secret of these words, Uncle Ming smiled slightly, and asked Zhang Sanpao to tell us.

Zhang Sanpao waited for a while before explaining: "If I'm not wrong, the text on it is the so-called number one unsolved mystery in ancient times: Xia Shu!"

"Xia Shu?"

The fat man looked confused: "What is Xia Shu?"

It was me, after listening to Zhang Sanpao's words, excitedly grabbed Zhang Sanpao's arm and asked, "Sanpao, are you sure?"

"Eighty nine is not far from ten." Zhang Sanpao said.

"Huh!" I took a deep breath.

Fatty saw us all showing extremely shocked expressions one after another, but like a gourd, he didn't speak for a long time, and he was so anxious that he was about to scold his mother: "I said Li Dingdang, can you fucking stop playing charades? Tell the fat man quickly what is going on."

I briefly explained it to Fatty immediately, but the excitement deep in my heart could not be calmed down for a long time.

Although I haven't studied ancient characters professionally, I have heard of such characters when I opened an antique shop!

This text is China's first unsolved mystery: Xia Shu.

Legend has it that the Xia Shu was invented by Dayu, the king of the Xia Dynasty. When the floods flooded and the people were displaced, Dayu was ordered to control the flood.In the process of controlling the flood, he discovered a problem, that is, the characters at that time were too complicated and difficult to read, and it was not convenient to convey orders at all, and the best time to dredge the flood was delayed several times.

So he thought hard and invented a new text, Xia Shu.How simple is Xia Shu?There are only twelve characters in total, but combining these twelve characters in different orders can turn into various commands.

With the help of Xia Shu, soldiers and ordinary people can receive orders immediately to dig deep into the mud and guide the flood.This is the achievement of Dayu's great achievements in water control through the ages!
It is a pity that after the fall of the Xia Dynasty, the Xia Shu was also lost.Now the experts and professors are all researching bald heads, and they don’t know what Xia Shu is all about. In the end, they can only unanimously agree that Xia Shu is the number one unsolved mystery in China...

"Damn, after all, we are stumped by twelve broken characters?" The fat man said with a mournful face.

(End of this chapter)