After listening to Zhuang Rui's understanding of the Pekingese skull, Professor Meng suddenly stood up and greeted Zhuang Rui: "Xiao Zhuang, come with me..."
"Teacher, what are you doing?"
Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment when he saw Professor Meng opening his lounge in the research institute. Since Professor Meng often worked day and night when doing research, he had specially cleaned up a room, and sometimes he would
Live in the institute.
It's just that he has never let Zhuang Rui and others enter this room. Even Dr. Ren, who has followed him the longest, does not have this honor. Therefore, Zhuang Rui felt a little weird when he saw Professor Meng let him enter this room.
Professor Meng's room was not big. Except for a bed, it was surrounded by bookcases, which were filled with various historical documents. Zhuang Rui looked around with his spiritual energy and found that many books contained spiritual energy.
It can be called a rare ancient scroll.
After entering the room, Professor Meng opened the lower shelf of a bookcase and took out a thick stack of information. Zhuang Rui could see clearly that the papers were slightly yellowed.
Professor Meng put the information in front of Zhuang Rui and said: "Zhuang Rui, these information have been collected by me for decades. You can take a good look at it. It may be helpful to whether the Peking Man skull can be found this time...
"
Zhuang Rui looked at the room. There really wasn't even a place to sit. He couldn't sit on Professor Meng's bed and watch, right? He immediately said, "Professor Meng, how about... let's go out and watch?"
"Okay, after you finish reading it later, I will take back these materials..."
Professor Meng treasures the pile of information in Zhuang Rui's hands. Some of these information were collected by himself, and some were left to him by the old scientists who personally excavated the skull of Peking Man.
Zhuang Rui agreed, walked out of the room with the information in his arms, came to the living room and sat down, opened a literature bag, took out the information inside and read it carefully.
Time passed quickly while Zhuang Rui was reading, and Zhuang Rui was also attracted by the true records of history decades ago. By the time he finished reading all the information, it was already dark.
"Damn, it's past nine o'clock..."
Zhuang Rui looked at his watch and saw that it was already past nine o'clock in the evening. He had actually sat here and watched for five or six hours. He stretched his muscles and felt a little sore all over.
Taking out his cell phone and looking at it, Zhuang Rui found that there were seven or eight missed calls on it, all from home. Since he was talking about something in the afternoon, Zhuang Rui set his cell phone to silent.
"Well, teacher, you haven't left yet?"
Zhuang Rui put down the materials in his hands and just stood up when he saw Professor Meng walking in from outside, carrying a lunch box in his hand.
Professor Meng put the lunch box in his hand on the table in front of Zhuang Rui and said with a smile: "I know you have to watch it for a long time. I went home and made some food, but old man, I like to eat light food. I don't know if that's right.
Your appetite…”
Professor Meng is sincerely satisfied with his close disciple. Although Zhuang Rui is young, he is well-known in different fields in the antique shop and jade industry, and he has not lost his knowledge related to archeology.
The Dingguang Sword came out in the past few years, including this year's real and fake Liu Xiu's tomb, and the ancient shipwreck of the Song Dynasty some time ago. These discoveries have all shocked the world's scientific research community. It is precisely because of this that Zhuang Ruina's identity as a researcher was obtained.
of.
As a veteran scientific research worker and an educator, Professor Meng only felt joy in his heart. Especially when he saw Zhuang Rui studying the materials without sleep or food, it felt like he had seen his old self. Only then did he go home to give Zhuang Rui a message.
Cooked meals.
"Teacher, thank you..."
After opening the lunch box and looking at the steaming food, Zhuang Rui's heart was touched. At this moment, Professor Meng became the teacher truly recognized by Zhuang Rui after Uncle De and Gu Tianfeng.
Professor Meng waved his hand and said with a smile on his face: "Eat quickly, it will cool down after a while..."
After Zhuang Rui finished his meal hungrily, Professor Meng pulled out a notebook from the information and said, "Have you read the contents here?"
Zhuang Rui raised his head and glanced at the notebook that should have been popular in the 1950s and 1960s. He nodded and said: "Look, this should be left by Professor Fei Wenzhong. It contains a very detailed description of what the Japanese once forced him to say.
About the whereabouts of the skull of a Beijinger..."
Professor Fei Wenzhong, who was the first to discover the skull of a Beijinger, was captured by the Japanese on the day Beijing fell and was imprisoned for more than forty days. However, after Japan declared war on the United States, he was inexplicably detained again.
Released.
Judging from the time when the Japanese captured the U.S. Marines who were escorting the Peking Man skull fossil, various signs indicate that the Peking Man skull and many gold and silver calligraphy and painting artifacts must have fallen into the hands of the Japanese at that time. However, after the war, the Japanese
They strongly deny that they have obtained the Peking Man skull.
As a result, the Pekingese skull has become the largest missing cultural relic case in the last century. Although several generations of scientists have not given up looking for it since the early days of liberation, there has never been a trace of it.
However, Zhuang Rui looked at another piece of information, that is, from the relevant information after part of the Awa Maru's hull was salvaged from the water in the 1970s, and it seems that there has been a turn for the better regarding the Beijing Sky Skull.
At that time, salvage workers found a small official seal and a round inkstone belonging to the puppet Manchukuo political leader Zheng Yu from the broken hull. From this, it was inferred that the ship confirmed the speculation that it carried a large amount of treasures from northern China, and also became the possible cargo of the "Awa Maru"
Strong circumstantial evidence of the "Peking Man Skull".
There is also a lot of information about the skull fossil of Peking Man, but it is difficult to tell whether it is true or false. There is even news that when US President Nixon visited China that year, he gave the Chinese government the whereabouts of the fossil that the United States believed to be a top-secret gift, saying that the fossil
Possibly on the Japanese shipwreck "Awa Maru".
Based on various signs, it is inferred that the possibility of the Pekingese skull on the Awa Maru is very high. However, due to the limitations of diving technology in the 1970s, it was not possible to effectively clean up the seabed mud and salvage all the items. As for Beijing
The whereabouts of the human skull still cannot be confirmed.
"Zhuang Rui, do you think there is a high possibility that the skull fossil of Peking Man is on board the Awa Maru?"
Professor Meng knew that his disciple was different from others, and many of his opinions were often proven to be correct, so at this moment, Professor Meng asked Zhuang Rui in an inquiring tone.
"The possibility is very high, but one thing that is difficult to explain is that the skull fossil disappeared in 1941, and the Awa Maru crashed in 1945. There was a difference of four years. During these four years, the skull fossil
Why wasn’t it shipped to Japan?”
After reading so much information, the most difficult thing for Zhuang Rui to understand is this. It stands to reason that the Japanese will definitely send a priceless treasure like this back to Japan immediately after acquiring it, instead of waiting until four years later to send it to "Awa"
On board the Maru.
After hearing Zhuang Rui's question, Professor Meng nodded and said: "I have researched this question for a long time, and there are two explanations.
The first explanation is that these fossils were snatched by the Japanese from the Americans. At that time, the U.S. government negotiated with Japan about the fossil incident. In order to deny that Japan had obtained the fossils, it secretly transported them to Northeast China.
It was Manchukuo that was hiding...
The second explanation is that the Japanese simply did not recognize the object as a Peking Man skull fossil at that time, because during the war, dead human bones were very common. Even if these bones were placed in boxes, they would not necessarily cause the Japanese to
people's attention...
If it is the second explanation, then the Japanese sent these boxes containing fossils, together with the gold and silver calligraphy and painting cultural relics, to the Northeast, and only moved them onto the Awa Maru four years later when they evacuated..."
In order to understand the mystery of the skull fossils of Peking Man, a lot of work has been done in China. According to a Japanese veteran's oral account, the entire Ritan Park in Beijing was secretly dug up. Later, skull fossils may have appeared in many places.
Investigations were carried out in various places, but nothing was found.
It took three generations of scientists from Fei Wenzhong's generation to discover the whereabouts of the skull fossil of Peking Man, which also made many older generation scientists die in silence.
Since Professor Meng participated in the salvage work of the Awa Maru in the 1970s, he has been secretly searching for relevant information about the skull fossils of Peking Man. After many aspects of analysis, Professor Meng has identified the skull that is most likely to be in "
Aboard the Awa Maru.
Just because of the prison sentence in the late 1970s, Professor Meng has always been a little bit worried about the salvage incident of the "Awa Maru". Otherwise, with his reputation in the industry, I am afraid that he would have launched the second salvage of the "Awa Maru".
Salvaged once.
But after what happened today, it aroused Professor Meng's memories, and then he took out the information he had verified for many years for Zhuang Rui to read. As a Chinese scientific researcher, Professor Meng certainly hopes that the Beijing Man cranium fossil will reappear in
passed away.
"Teacher, I'll take over this job. As long as that ship really contains the skull fossil of Peking Man, I will definitely be able to find it!"
After reading those documents, Zhuang Rui could deeply feel the urgency and helplessness of the older generation of scientists. This touched Zhuang Rui deeply, and he was so excited that he opened his mouth to speak big words.
"You kid, don't talk too much. If the object rolls out of the box and falls into the sea, how will you find it?"
Professor Meng looked at the confident Zhuang Rui and couldn't help but laugh. In fact, he didn't have much hope in finding the Peking Man skull fossil.
"Haha, teacher, I have always been very lucky. Isn't that fixed light sword also a legendary object?"
Zhuang Rui laughed when he heard this, changed his subject, and continued: "But...teacher, if this skull fossil is really found, it will be kept in my museum..."
