Goldfinger of the Heavens

Chapter 820 Dzi Beads
"Why did I get here, and I still want to buy something. It's not an antique again." Seeing Huang Chong walk in with a string of beads, Professor Meng said with a smile.

Huang Chong, Professor Meng and others went to Inner Mongolia for a scientific investigation. According to Professor Meng's judgment, the pottery figurine should have been unearthed not long ago, and it may be something from the main tomb. Therefore, it is suspected that another ancient tomb here has been stolen.

This is the early exploration work, and Huang Chong couldn't help much, so he wandered around and found an antique market, although it was not big, it was decent, so this was Huang Chong's hand. string beads.

"It's just a string of beads, Professor Meng, please help me palm my eyes." Huang Chong said, and handed the beads in his hand to Professor Meng. This string of beads is different from ordinary beads, not in quantity, but in size The difference is that the string of Buddhist beads in Huang Chong's hand is almost the size of a baby's clenched fist, and each of the beads is dark red. This is not a precious red coral, but painted with red lacquer. Ten years later, the red lacquer was slightly cracked, and the mottled texture made the beads more simple and natural.

"This should be the Eighteen Arhats." Professor Meng said.

This kind of large-scale string of beads is relatively rare, and the shape of each beads is also rather strange. It is not a traditional perfect circle or oval shape, but human heads, to be exact, monk heads, exactly eighteen. In China, This shape of Buddhist beads is called "Eighteen Arhats", because the monk's head carved on the Buddhist beads is similar to the Eighteen Arhats, hence the name.

Under normal circumstances, the eighteen arhat beads bracelet should be relatively small, suitable for wearing on the wrist, such a large string is really rare.

"This is somewhat similar to the Buddhist beads hanging on Monk Sha's chest in Journey to the West." Dr. Ren said.

"The prototype should be from Journey to the West." Professor Meng said, "It will definitely not work if it is hung on the hand, but if it is hung on the neck, it will be very majestic."

"There seems to be a problem with the weight of the beads." Weighing the beads, Professor Meng said.

"I also discovered this, so I bought the Buddha beads." Huang Chong said, there is a problem with the weight here, not to say that it is heavy, but light. It seems that a Buddha bead with such a volume should not only have this weight.

After scrutinizing it carefully for a while, Professor Meng held up the Buddhist bead and observed it against the sunlight. A clear smile flashed across his mouth.

"Ginger is still old and spicy."

Huang Chong secretly sighed in his heart, Professor Meng is indeed a scholar who deals with cultural relics all day long, and he is very keen.

"Actually, there is a big problem with this string of Buddhist beads." Professor Meng said.

"Teacher, what's the problem?" Dr. Ren acted as a good supporter.

"To put it bluntly, it's not worth mentioning, but the holes in the middle of the beads are too small." Professor Meng said with a smile: "Look, each beads are bigger than an egg, but the holes and strings connecting the beads are too small and too small." It looks very uncoordinated."

"Generally speaking, for a prayer bead of this size, a hole the size of the little finger should be punched to make it fit. However, these prayer beads have holes like toothpicks, which inevitably makes people suspicious."

After saying that, Professor Meng held up the prayer beads again, facing the sunlight: "Looking at it this way, the problem is even more obvious."

Under the bright sunlight, if you look carefully, you will find that nine of the eighteen huge beads are abnormal. Although the surfaces of the eighteen beads are painted with red paint, you can find that , under the red paint of the nine beads, the seam of splicing can be clearly seen.

That is to say, nine of this string of beads are hollow, and the other nine are solid beads. One empty and one solid are separated from each other, which just forms a balance. In addition, there may be something hidden in the hollow beads, so let It is easy for people to overlook the difference in the weight of Buddhist beads.

"Teacher, you are really amazing!" Dr. Ren said.

Professor Meng shook his head, returned the beads to Huang Chong, and said, "You should have seen it a long time ago. This is to test me with the beads!"

"No, no, Professor Meng is the best. It took me a long time to find out the problem. Professor Meng saw at a glance that it was extraordinary, amazing, amazing." Huang Chong gave a thumbs up and said modestly.

"I don't believe what you say." Professor Meng said with a smile, "Do you want to break it open and have a look?"

"Yeah!" Huang Chong nodded, "That's exactly what I mean."

"Xiao Ren, bring a knife, boil another pot of water, and bring a basin." Professor Meng said.

"okay!"

Dr. Ren handed the knife to Huang Chong, and Huang Chong gently scraped off the red paint on the surface of the hollow Buddha beads.

This layer of red paint itself was somewhat weathered and cracked. With a light scrape of a knife, the red paint fell off in pieces, and after a while, the glued stitches were exposed.

Although Huang Chong has the ability to use a knife in his hand to break the outer layer without hurting the inside, but in order not to shock the world, Huang Chong decided to use Professor Meng's method to scrape off the red lacquer of the other eight Buddhist beads. Then put this string of Buddha beads in a basin, and then scald them with boiling water.

After soaking in high-temperature boiling water for a few minutes, Huang Chongcai fished the beads out of the hot water, and saw that the gaps between the hollow beads had been glued, and apparently the adhesive glue had melted a little.

Huang Chong picked up a Buddhist bead with two fingers, squeezed it hard, and a hollow Buddhist bead burst open, and inside was a thumb-sized bead with a dull surface and a very plain and unpretentious bead. The same is true, inside the Buddhist beads, there are still Buddhist beads.

After the nine Buddhist beads appeared, Huang Chong's mental power had an abnormal reaction. Huang Chong was slightly taken aback when he realized this, and then he understood what was going on.

"Dzi bead."

"You said this is a dzi bead?" Professor Meng asked in surprise when he heard Huang Chong's words.

"Professor, take a look." Huang Chong handed the beads to Professor Meng and let her judge for herself.

It is impossible to verify who took the name of Tianzhu. It is called "Tianzhu" in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, "Silk" in Tibetans, and "Nine Eyes" in Han nationality. It is enshrined and blessed for Buddha or treasure handed down from generation to generation, which has magical power.

The origin of Tianzhu can be traced back to between 500 and [-] BC. It was invented and created by the Aryans in the ancient Indian country at that time in order to seek the protection of gods and Buddhas. Absorb it all, and finally carry it forward.

Just now, Huang Chong really felt a kind of faint spiritual energy in this string of dzi beads, which was very weak, but it did exist, so he made a judgment.

"It really looks like a dzi bead." Professor Meng said.

(End of this chapter)