After returning to the hotel, the six of them had dinner together and chatted for a while. Liu Dong made an excuse and returned to his room.
After standing in the living room for a while, frowning and thinking, Liu Dong waved his hand, and four old and yellowed silk cloths appeared on the low table in the living room.
Each of the four pieces of silk cloth has neat sides with uneven threads exposed on both sides. When the four pieces of silk cloth are put together, they just form a whole. More importantly, the content above has also become complete.
It is said that Liu Dong has obtained these four silk maps for a while! But he has never been able to understand the mystery of this map.
If this is a treasure map, the place names mentioned on this treasure map are either true or false. Some are actual or geographical names that existed in ancient times, but some are simply made up. So last year, from Switzerland
After getting the last map in the bank's vault, Liu Dong never looked for the secrets in the map.
However, today's trip to Jiming Temple and Liang Sicheng's seemingly legendary words in the car gave Liu Dong a different enlightenment.
"Purple smoke rises from the incense burner under the sun, and you can see the waterfall hanging in front of the river in the distance. The water flows down three thousand feet, and it is suspected that the Milky Way has fallen from the sky."
The four original pictures all contained a line from Li Bai's poem "Looking at the Lushan Waterfall". Liu Dong could not figure out the mystery of these four lines at first. But this afternoon he saw the piece of poetry given by Emperor Qianlong in the backyard of Jiming Temple.
Lushan Waterfall Stone Sculpture', plus Liang Sicheng's words that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom treasures were hidden in Jiming Temple, suddenly gave Liu Dong an answer to his long-standing confusion!
Moreover, because of the treasure, Liu Dong once specially collected information about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Although more than a hundred years have passed, and the Qing government deliberately obliterated it, the information handed down about this massive peasant uprising in the late Qing Dynasty is limited. However,
Many general contents are still very complete.
For example: the Xuanwu District of Jinling is now where the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom’s Palace was located, and the wealth of the entire Heavenly Kingdom should obviously be within the Xuanwu District. Jiming Temple happens to be in this area, and according to Liu Dong’s information from the National Archives through a friend
According to the records of Jinling Prefecture found in the book, the location of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's treasure house happened to be not far from Jiming Temple.
Moreover, the things were hidden in the temple, and the "Lushan Waterfall Stone Sculpture" was gifted by Emperor Qianlong. Naturally, the Qing army did not dare to invade easily.
Thinking about it this way, Liu Dong felt more and more that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom treasure that eventually became a historical mystery was hidden in Jiming Temple.
Moreover, it should be under the "Lushan Waterfall Stone Sculpture" given by Emperor Qianlong.
Thinking of this, Liu Dong was shocked. He immediately thought of going to Jiming Temple now to verify whether his guess was true.
But just when Liu Dong took a step, he immediately took it back. His brows were furrowed, and the scarred-faced old monk in the backyard appeared in his mind.
Although he didn't know whether this old monk was a treasure keeper left behind by the Taiping Army, it was obvious that this man's superb cultivation was not something he could deal with now.
If you want to get close to the backyard and check if the treasure is under the stone sculpture, it will be extremely difficult. Moreover, even using the relic Yuan Guang will alert the opponent.
Therefore, the best way is to escape through the earth. But before that, Liu Dong still has a puzzle that he has not yet solved!
Looking at the four maps on the table, Liu Dong stared at them for a while, then suddenly took out a pen from the mustard space.
"Qingyang, Xinfeng, Luzhou!"
While muttering silently, Liu Dong used a horizontal line to connect these three place names that did not exist in Su Province.
"Kaiyang, Chengxian, Xingluo, Huanzhou!"...
After Liu Dong connected the place names that did not exist on the first sub-map, the word "天" was vaguely formed!
"Sure enough, my guess was right! Great!"
Looking at the word "cock crow", the only word left among all the unfamiliar place names in the first sub-image with a slightly excited expression, Liu Dong finally found the answer that had puzzled him for more than two years!
I don’t know if it’s because listening to scriptures at Jiming Temple this afternoon has improved his stagnant state and made his thinking more agile. In short, at this moment, Liu Dong felt that his thinking was agile, and he couldn’t notice or think of it at ordinary times.
Things came out of my mind one after another at this moment.
After finding "cock crow", Liu Dong immediately used the same method to write "ping", "heaven" and "guo" on the next three pictures. After removing all the unfamiliar place names, the only three remaining nouns were
'Backyard', 'Stone Sculpture' and 'Underground'!
If you put the four words in a row, it means "Stone Sculpture Underground in the Backyard of Jiming Temple"!
Seeing this, Liu Dong had no doubts anymore!
"But if you want to go there, you have to plan carefully!" Liu Dong touched his chin, with a look of thought on his face.
The scar-faced old monk sitting in the backyard of Jiming Temple is not easy to deal with.
"Ring ring...!"
The sudden ringing of the cell phone disrupted Liu Dong's thoughts.
"Mr. Li?"
Looking at the caller ID, Liu Dong roughly understood what was going on. Sure enough, as soon as he was connected, Mr. Li's urgent inquiry sounded on his phone, "Xiaodong, where are you now?"
"Mr. Li, I'm still in Jinling!"
"What about Jiaoweiqin?"
"I temporarily rented a bank insurance warehouse and went in!"
"That's good!" Hearing this, Mr. Li breathed a sigh of relief.
"How did you know this news so quickly?" Liu Dong asked curiously.
You know, it's not even half a day before the morning party.
"So soon? Now the entire antique circle, the entire collecting world, and even the music industry know that you have one of the four famous Chinese pianos, the 'Jiaowei'! If you hadn't just changed your phone number, I guess by now you
My cell phone is about to explode!" Mr. Li said angrily.
Hearing this, Liu Dong was stunned for a moment. He knew Jiao Weiqin's influence, but he didn't expect it to be so great. From Mr. Li's tone, it seemed that the whole world knew about it, but he himself didn't take it seriously.
"Oh, by the way, Xiaodong! Mr. Chen has already told me about Jinling. Don't worry, I will make the decision for you. Jiao Weiqin is the treasure of our Yuanming Museum. No matter how big an official he is,
, No matter how powerful you are, there is no use for it!" the old man said proudly.
"Don't worry, it's not that easy to take something from my hand with red lips and white teeth!" Liu Dong said confidently.
"Haha, that's the truth!" the old man said loudly.
"...Xiaodong, who do you plan to leave Jiao Weiqin to for repair?"
"Mr. Liu is in Jinling now. When the situation here calms down a little, I will take the Jiaowei Qin out of the safe and give it to Mr. Liu!"
"Don't you still have a master...?" Mr. Li hesitated.
Obviously, although the old man was in the capital, he also learned about what happened at Chen's house in the morning.
"I became a teacher of Monk Wu Xin when I was in Quancheng. However, although my teacher is superb in piano skills, I really don't know if he can practice piano! The reason why I said this to Mr. Chen before was to avoid those guys making excuses.
To cause trouble, he covets my treasured piano!" Liu Dong said.
"Oh, so that's what happened! ... Oh, by the way, Xiaodong! In that case, why don't you bring the Jiaowei Qin to the capital, let Mr. Liu come to the capital, and then restore the Jiaowei Qin in our museum
Qin, I think the security conditions of the Yuanming Museum are enough to ensure the safety of the Jiaowei Qin. In addition, after Mr. Liu completes the restoration of the Jiaowei Qin, we will hold another exhibition, and by the way, we will also use this to once again increase the popularity of the Yuanming Museum.
, further enhance the influence!”
"This is naturally good, but I still have some unfinished business in Jinling. I'm afraid I won't be able to go back for a while!" Liu Dong said.
"Some things? What?" Mr. Li asked curiously.
"I met Zhu Jun, the son of Master Zhu Bingren, here. So, I would like to take this opportunity to get to know Master Zhu and order the bronzes needed for the reconstruction of the Old Summer Palace!"
"I see, then okay!" Mr. Li, who understood the importance of the reconstruction of the Old Summer Palace in Liu Dong's heart, did not say any more.
"As long as the Jiaowei Qin is in your hands, I'll be relieved! However, you must not lose this treasure of the Yuanming Museum!"
"Haha, don't worry about this! So far, no one has ever been able to steal anything from me!"
Liu Dong had just finished his promise and comforted Mr. Li. His mother's phone call came back over there.
"Xiaodong, where are you now?"
"Mom, I'm in Jinling! What, what's the matter?"
"Aren't you in the capital? Why did you end up in Jinling?"
"I have something to do here! Mom, if you have nothing to do, I will hang up first. I am still busy here!" Now because of the matter of having a child, Liu Dong is already a little afraid of his mother's phone calls!
"Wait, you don't want to see your mother so much? You don't even want to say a few words to her?"
"Mom, how can that be? Where did you want to go? I really have something to do!" Liu Dong said with a smile.
"Okay, I don't care about your messy things. I'm calling you this time mainly because our house has almost become a hotel these days!"
"hostel?"
"Yes, they are all here to find you! This collection association, which collection association, auction house, art company, more or less add up, there have been thirty or forty waves in the past two weeks!
Moreover, more people came today, including people from the Qilu Guqin Association! Dozens of people stayed at our house all afternoon. Xiaodong, what on earth are you doing outside? Why are so many people here?
Looking for you?" Song Xiangmei asked full of questions.
"Mom, don't worry about them, they are all money-minded guys! Also, if people like this come to your door again, let Guan Ping and the others drive them out directly!" Liu Dong said angrily.
These guys even got into trouble and actually found his home! This made Liu Dong furious. (To be continued.)