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Chapter 80

When they returned to the house, Fatty and Poker-Face had placed the things they had brought out from the Wang family's ancient building on the coffee table in the living room with black glasses one by one.

On the table are rolls of bamboo slips, two tortoise shells, several silk books, and of course the amethyst box.

"We brought out a lot of things." I said with emotion.

"It's more than a lot, it's a lot, I don't know how we moved this pile of things out." The fat man said, "Just these things, all of them are replaced with simplified vernacular, and I can't read them for ten days and a half months." over."

While talking, he pointed at those silk volumes with his double chin. I went to pick up one and read it, and found that the characters on it were in seal script.

"I can recognize these books myself, so we don't need to find Ruan Qi." I said, "What about the tortoise shell?"

"There are some weird characters on the tortoise shell. I think it's Tibetan, but my brother said no, it just looks very Tibetan." The fat man said.

I frowned and reached for the tortoise shell.

Obviously, there is a time limit for these written materials, which can be seen from the carrier of these materials. The tortoise shell is the earliest, followed by bamboo slips, and then silk books. Bamboo slips are mostly used for these things. The written date should be before the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The tortoise shell was used for divination in ancient times. The characters carved on the tortoise shell are often hexagrams. With the emergence of a mature Tibetan language, it is obvious that engraving Tibetan language on tortoise shells is contradictory in terms of time span.

As Fatty said, the writing on the tortoise shell is very similar to Tibetan, at least in terms of form, it is very different from ancient Chinese. I have also done a lot of research on the culture of Tibetan areas, and I guess that the inscription on the tortoise shell is probably Zhang Zhungwen, or even Malvern.

Zhang Zhungwen is considered to be the predecessor of Tibetan language, but it has been lost so far. Some places in Tibetan areas still use the place names of ancient Zhang Zhungwen. The characters that appear on rock paintings in Tibetan areas, no matter Zhang Zhungwen or Maerwen, have a common feature that no one can interpret them.

I briefly stated my thoughts, and the fat man said: "What you said makes sense, but there is one problem. The Wang family must have made these things for their descendants to see. If it is true according to what you said, these If the thing is Zhang Zhungwen or Malvern, it is also impossible for the Wang family to decipher it."

"This is a deformed Tibetan language." Poker bottle said, "It has something to do with Zhang Zhungwen, but it's not Zhang Zhungwen, it's an encrypted text."

Damn it, let’s forget about Zhang Xiongwen, it’s still encrypted, who can understand this thing.

The third uncle is a researcher of ancient characters, and I have been able to understand it to some extent. I have always been quite proud, because I have an advantage in the team because I can read and read ancient characters, but now I am faced with these encrypted ancient Tibetan characters. , I can't do anything, which makes me feel a sense of frustration.

"What about the age of these things?" I said, "Since they are deformed characters, these tortoise shells should not be from that era."

"We should be able to find out if we go to test it when the time comes." Black Glasses said, "Since none of us can understand Tibetan, we can't decipher it even if we know it's encrypted. Why don't you read those bamboo slips first, if If there are ones you can understand, at least make sure they are not ciphertext."

I nodded and put the tortoise shell aside and picked up the bamboo slips. Thankfully, there are still seal scripts on them. This kind of seal script is called "籀文", which can be regarded as a kind of big seal script. It inherits the Zhongdingwen on the top and the small seal script on the bottom. It has reached my reading limit. , It took me more than ten minutes to barely read the two pieces of bamboo. Sure enough, as the black glasses said, the contents of these pieces of bamboo are connected together, and they cannot be written at all. These things are also ciphertext.

In other words, the written materials left to us by the Wang Family Ancient Building are divided into two types: fully encrypted Chinese characters, and deformed Tibetan characters.

Encrypted Chinese characters are relatively easy to speak, but these Tibetan characters are really difficult.

Moreover, these ancient Tibetan texts also made me understand that I am afraid that we will go to Tibet once in the end.Perhaps this is what Pokerfing said in the Wangjia Ancient Building: where it begins, it should end.

The Zhang family and the Wang family all have an inextricable relationship with the Tibetan area, which is really a kind of fateful relationship.

"Did Master Hua say that Ruan Qi specializes in studying this kind of ancient characters?" I asked, "Do you think he can recognize these characters?"

"After all, he is just a seller of gems." The fat man shrugged, "Although he is said to be the number one in his profession, I don't like him."

"Don't forget that Master Hua is also a gem seller." Black Glasses said, "Since we can't see anything, it's okay to ask someone else to try it, but... since the things recorded on the tortoise shell are confidential, I'm worried that if you If you leave it all to him, something might go wrong."

I understand the meaning of the black glasses. Although Xiaohua told Ruan Qi that these things can be handed over to Ruan Qi, it can be seen that he has a lot of trust in Ruan Qi, but trust has a limit. Ruan Qi will also have reservations.

At this time, Poker Bottle picked up the amethyst box. This box was taken out of the giant coffin in the snake pit in Wang's ancient building. It should also be the key to detoxification, but because the box is locked, this kind of lock If it cannot be unlocked correctly, the box will self-destruct, and we have nothing to do with the lock, so after taking out the box, we have not touched it.

Now, Poker Bottle picked up the box and pointed it at the fluorescent lamp in the hall. Looking at him like that, he seemed to want to see the contents inside through the translucent crystal box, but even a fool would know that this is impossible Yes, since the Wang family dared to make a crystal box, it was guaranteed that no one would be able to see what was inside without unlocking it.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Poker Fing said: "There are words on this box."

I leaned closer and saw under the light, a thin crack appeared on the cover of the case. It seems that there is an interlayer in the cover of the amethyst case.

Poker bottle turned the angle of the box again, and the crack extended into a plane, and I saw a circle of ancient Tibetan characters similar to those on the tortoise shell engraved on that plane.

And in the middle of a circle of ancient Tibetan characters, there are four seal characters. These four characters are not difficult to recognize, and I read them out quickly.

These four words are, Wang's hidden.