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Chapter 538 Cracking the Password 2
After noticing that the lines of these symbols were carved so beautifully, the first person Chen Ziyang thought of was Li Weidong, the first carving knife in the Qing Dynasty.

Although apart from Cardinal Wang and Li Weidong, the lines of symbols drawn by the other two people are also very good, and they also have deep carving skills, but compared with the person who portrayed the 25 symbols in the outermost circle, they are still It's a little worse.

Seeing this, an idea suddenly popped up in Chen Ziyang's mind, is there such a possibility, the four correct passwords, except for the one carved by Li Weidong, the first carving knife in the Qing Dynasty, the other three They were all sculpted by three other people themselves. If this is the case, apart from the password representing Li Weidong, the other three sculptors can also be seen.

Now the 25 symbols on the outermost ring are undoubtedly drawn by Li Weidong. If the other three codes can be judged from the strokes, the probability of opening this code disk will drop to one in 25. Guess which one is portrayed by Li Weidong, and the problem is solved.

With this in mind, Chen Ziyang looked more carefully at the symbols on the cipher disk, but this time, the focus of what he looked at was not what these symbols depicted or what they meant, but only from the aspects of the symbols depicted. Focus on brushwork.

After looking at it for a while, Chen Ziyang was slightly disappointed. The matter was not as simple as he imagined, but it was not completely fruitless.

It is possible that the four skilled craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty thought of this when they first portrayed the cipher disk, so each of them portrayed more than one symbol, but Li Weidong portrayed the most.

Perhaps other people's carving skills are not as deep as Li Weidong's. Some symbols with many lines and complex patterns cannot be directly depicted. Therefore, on the rings exclusive to each of them, several symbols were depicted by Li Weidong.

Although Li Weidong has tried his best to imitate other people's brushwork when portraying, in order to achieve the purpose of confusing the public, but there are some things that he can't hide if he wants to.

This is like a person who writes very beautifully and is self-contained, deliberately imitating the writing of some people whose handwriting is very ugly, and it is impossible to imitate at all.Decades of carving skills are there, and some things are still inadvertently revealed.

On the three discs in the middle, some complex symbols do not seem to be very well drawn, but occasionally, some lines that make up these symbols look very flat. Obviously, such symbols It was Li Weidong who deliberately imitated other people's carving techniques.

After looking up at the two dragon heads with their mouths open, Chen Ziyang had an idea in his mind. Li Weidong can be called the first carving knife in the Qing Dynasty, which shows his profound carving skills.

As for the two dragons on the door frame, even though some places have been slightly damaged after so many years, they are still full of domineering, especially the four eyes of these two dragons, which look like real eyes , very divine, these two faucets should have been carved by Li Weidong.

This kind of engraving technique is unmatched by anyone today, but it is unexpected that it will become the key to cracking the entire password disk.Although there was no way to guess what the correct password on the other three discs was, but with the help of Li Weidong's brushwork, Chen Ziyang still ruled out many wrong answers.

The thing is obvious, the reason why the code disk is set into four rings is because there is a code on each of the four rings representing the four people who built the Dragon Vein Palace of the Qing Dynasty together.

It is very possible that when designing this cipher disk, the four people originally planned to each depict all the symbols on a ring, but because their carving skills are really not good, complex symbols cannot be carved, so they invited Written by Li Weidong.

After excluding some symbols with traces of Li Weidong's depiction, Chen Ziyang took a look. There were originally seven symbols on the first circle, but now there are only three left, and there is no need to look at the second circle. , the glasses symbol represents Cardinal Wang's correct password.

There are a total of 20 symbols in the third round of passwords, and only eight symbols are left after exclusion, so the problem is not too big.The most terrible thing now is the 25 symbols on the outermost circle, all of which were carved by Li Weidong himself, and there is no way to eliminate them at all.

The number one craftsman in the Qing Dynasty, Cardinal Wang, the number one skillful hand in the Qing Dynasty Yu Yunlu, the number one cunning talent in the Qing Dynasty Zhang Qianliang, and the number one carving knife in the Qing Dynasty Li Weidong.

After repeating the titles and names of these four people silently in his heart again, Chen Ziyang looked on the third ring, trying to choose one of the remaining eight symbols. At this time, there are three connected symbols. Patterns caught his attention.

These three patterns are all circular, or nearly circular. The symbols on the left and right look like two human heads, and the one in the middle looks like a human kidney, and some of them look like a huge broad bean.

If you look carefully, the two human head-shaped patterns on both sides seem to be a man and a woman.Although the depiction of these two patterns is relatively general, there is no way to reflect the charm of the faces of men and women, but it can be distinguished from the hairstyle.

And the broad bean-shaped pattern in the middle looks like a baby in swaddling clothes. The reason why this pattern takes on the shape of a human kidney is because when depicting this baby, the The pose of the baby in the mother's womb.

Seeing these three patterns, Chen Ziyang suddenly recalled one thing.At the beginning, in the tomb of Li Xuan in the Eastern Dynasty, several of them encountered Zimusha, which was refined from Zhang Qianliang's concubine and the child in his belly.He also obtained a bamboo tube containing a secret letter from Zimusha's belly, and the secret letter was written by Zhang Qianliang.

From the lines in that letter, Chen Ziyang could tell that Zhang Qianliang was old enough to care about the child in his concubine's womb very much.

It may be because of the fear of leaking the construction of the Qing Dynasty's dragon vein treasure underground palace, Zhang Qianliang's concubine and children lost their lives in vain, which made Zhang Qianliang, who is old and well-off, very annoyed.He should be so angry that he wanted to leak the matter about the Qing Dynasty's Dragon Vein Treasure.

But then maybe Zhang Qianliang felt that this was inappropriate, so he dismissed the idea.However, the resentment in his heart was still hard to dispel, and he still kept the secret letter, but changed the matter of purely revealing the treasure of the dragon veins of the Qing Dynasty, and instead simply painted four lines on the back of the letter. The dragons represent the "swastika" pattern of the dragon's kowtow, which represents the treasures of the dragon veins of the Qing Dynasty.

Calculating from the time, maybe when Zhang Qianliang built the Qing Dynasty Dragon Vessel Underground Palace here, his concubine was not pregnant with a child. Yu's tomb.

In fact, Zhang Qianliang built his own tomb there.Because the Shuanghuang Qiufeng Treasure Cave where the tomb of Li Yun of the Eastern Dynasty is located is on top of a giant dragon that forms the Treasure Cave of the Dragons of the Qing Dynasty.So Zhang Qianliang put his own tomb there.

It may be that when Li Yun's tomb was being built, Zhang Qianliang's concubine was pregnant with a child.And it is very likely that Zhang Qianliang also brought his concubine when he was building the Qing Dynasty Dragon Vessel Underground Palace.Even Zhang Qianliang will be refined into a corpse demon, and it is even more impossible for his concubine to leave alive.

When the Qing Dynasty Dragon Vessel Underground Palace was built, Zhang Qianliang's concubine might not have had a child. As Zhang Qianliang said, what he hoped most was to have a biological child, which is why he brought his concubine with him. Let's build the reason why the Qing Dynasty Dragon Vein Treasure together.

But the result is often unexpected, the child is conceived, but because Zhang Qianliang's concubine knew too many secrets, she had to be refined into a child-mother evil, and Zhang Qianliang's old dream of having a child has become nothing.

Thinking of this level, Chen Ziyang felt enlightened.That's right, the child-like pattern in the middle should be the correct password set by Zhang Qianliang.

When setting up the password, Zhang Qianliang's greatest wish in life was to have a child. If he had known what happened later, he might not have done so.

In any case, the password representing Zhang Qianliang has also been cracked.Now there are two left, the innermost ring and the outermost ring.Because the outermost 25 symbols really have no clues, so Chen Ziyang started with the simple ones, and he looked at the innermost circle.

Four of the seven patterns on this ring have been eliminated, and there are three left. According to the elimination method, Chen Ziyang knows that the password on this ring should be set by Yu Yunlu, the most skillful hand in the Qing Dynasty.

"Skillful hands? Where is the cleverness?" Almost all craftsmen can be described as skillful hands. There are too few clues about Yu Yunlu. Although there are only three possible passwords left, Chen Ziyang Still frowning.

"Huh?" After observing these three patterns carefully for a while, Chen Ziyang discovered again, and what inspired him was still the technique of carving these three patterns.

Compared with the other four symbols that may have been carved by Li Weidong, the carving techniques of the remaining three symbols are somewhat clumsy, but one of them is different from the other two, giving people a very awkward feeling.

Judging from the lines that make up this pattern, it seems that the sculptor paid great attention to it, but the other two patterns did not give Chen Ziyang that feeling.

This is a symbol of one hand holding up a mountain. Compared with the other two symbols, the lines on this symbol have arcs and straight lines. It should be more difficult to carve, but the fact is just the opposite. It is better engraved than the other two symbols.

If these three symbols were all carved by Yu Yunlu, then he should have been very careful when carving this symbol, while the other two were done at will.

This kind of difference can be seen at a glance, as if a person who is very poor at writing and just randomly scribbles when writing, suddenly one day made up his mind to practice calligraphy, and every word he wrote Write horizontally and vertically.

Although in a short period of time, the characters written by this person cannot be much better, even if they are horizontal and vertical, the structure of the fonts is very ugly, but it is still much better than the characters he wrote by scribbling before. .

Seeing this, Chen Ziyang almost laughed out loud.This pattern should be the password set by Yu Yunlu, and holding up a mountain with one hand is also in line with his name of skillful hands.

Three of the four passwords have been solved, and the last one is very difficult to crack.Whether it is from the title or the carving technique, there is no trace. It can be said that Li Weidong, the first cut knife in the Qing Dynasty, left Chen Ziyang with a problem.

And the most terrible thing is that the symbols on the outermost ring are also the most, there are actually 25 symbols, and it is really too difficult to choose the correct password among them.

After carefully reading it several times, Chen Ziyang's eyes finally fell on a symbol, thoughtful.

This symbol is not a picture, but a word, which looks like a slightly deformed "Fu" character, and I don't know what it is.

"Fu character? Fu Lu Xi Shou!" Suddenly, Chen Ziyang became excited, and then he hurriedly looked around the more than 60 symbols on the entire combination disk, and then heaved a sigh of relief.

That's right, this word "Fu" should be the last password.Chen Ziyang never thought that the last password would be so simple, and that Li Weidong would choose the word "Fu" as his password.

At the time of Kangxi’s wedding, a JDZ craftsman made a set of plum vases, which were very difficult to manufacture. There were four plum vases. Character.But because the color of this set of plum vases is relatively plain, Kangxi did not use it, but kept the plum vases and gave them to the four craftsmen respectively.

The [-]-year-old plum vase was given to Cardinal Wang, and that plum vase was later retrieved from the tomb of the shallow water fish Hualong by three brothers Chen Ziyang after life and death.

The Baixi plum vase was given to Zhang Qianliang, and this plum vase was later obtained by Chen Ziyang and others near the coffin containing Zhang Qianliang's corpse demon in the tomb of Li Yu in the Eastern Dynasty.

There are still two remaining, one is Baifu Mei vase, and the other is Bai Fu Mei vase.Although the two plum vases have not been found until now, Chen Ziyang knows that the two plum vases should be placed in the tombs of Li Weidong and Yu Yunlu respectively.

And there is a word "Lu" in Yu Yunlu's name, maybe the Bailu plum vase was given to him, so what Li Weidong got is likely to be the Baifu plum vase.

Originally, this basis was not sufficient, and Chen Ziyang was not very sure, but after looking at all the symbols on the entire code disk, he found that the four characters "Fu Lu Xi Shou" were on the more than 60 symbols. , and there is only one deformed character Fu, and the characters Lu, Xi, and Shou have never appeared.

Come on, I didn't expect that all the information I searched for would be used at this moment. Chen Ziyang shook his head. It seems that his fate has arrived, and the dragon vein treasure of the Qing Dynasty can be opened.

(End of this chapter)