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Chapter 161 An Ancient Scroll
Chapter 161 An Ancient Scroll
After a brief discussion with Wu Xia, the two decided to ask Yan Qianyu to send someone to the bottom of the "Shenying Mountain" to contact the professional house demolition team.
First, use a cart to transport 20 wooden boxes customized by Wu Xia to the top of the mountain, and hand them over to Yan Qianyu.
For the person in charge of the dismantling team, of course Wu Xia called to talk to him and he would agree to hand over the 20 wooden boxes to the people sent by Yan Qianyu to take them up the mountain.
They continued to stand by at the foot of the mountain before receiving Wu Xia's call to "go up the mountain to demolish the house."
Everything went smoothly according to Liang Teng and Wu Xia's wishes.
On the surface, it seemed to be going well.
At least, the worst situation that Liang Teng expected did not happen to "Shenying Mountain" - that is, the heavy rain caused flash floods, and caused "debris flow" to block the originally narrow winding mountain road up the mountain.
When the Panshan Highway was built, it was curved and narrow. If a natural disaster really happened, there would be no need for cars.In severe cases, Liang Teng and Wu Xia might be trapped in the mountains, waiting for rescue.
Even the road is impassable, and it is difficult for small cars, let alone such a huge thing as the "Balong Heavy Truck".
Of course, the worst did not materialize.
But you have to be very careful.
After all, after a night of storms and hail, the winding road conditions (not just nine turns and eighteen turns, the whole mountain road has at least a hundred turns) are more than ten times more difficult than usual.
Driving the "Balong Heavy Truck" up the mountain is an extremely test of the driver's driving level.
But Liang Teng couldn't wait any longer.
Before the 1 ton of gold is discovered, maybe he still has time to wait. After the weather improves, he will find a heavy truck to move the "Xiaoye Rosewood House".
Now for the sake of these "windfalls", Liang Teng is also determined to take a risk so as not to "fly away the cooked duck".
Of course, taking risks is taking risks, but after repeated persuasion by Wu Xia and Yan Qianyu, Liang Teng decided not to sit in the "copilot" position of the heavy truck and "follow the car".
After all, taking the winding road of "Shenying Mountain", the bulky heavy trucks are the most dangerous.
One danger is that the mountain road is narrow and curved, making it extremely difficult to maneuver a heavy truck.
The second danger is that the heavy truck itself is too heavy and carries more than 30 tons of cargo (even if it is not "full" or "overloaded" this time, it must at least carry about 20 tons of cargo).The combined weight of the car body and cargo made people worry that if the mountain road collapsed at a certain point, the entire heavy truck would get stuck there, making it difficult to move.Tough luck to be in such a desperate situation.
There is also an extreme situation where luck is extremely bad, that is, when a heavy truck crushes a certain mountain road, it is just when it is going downhill?
There is always a kind of inertia when going downhill. If the heavy truck does not stop braking, it will directly plunge into the bottom of the cliff on one side.The driver is probably screwed.
A carload of priceless goods will also be scattered under the cliff, falling apart.
In short, when the mountain road is crushed, the heavy truck cannot move, and the rescue equipment and machines are also difficult to drive on such a narrow mountain road?
Rescue on narrow mountain roads is really a big problem!
In addition, the heavy truck crushed the mountain road and went straight down the cliff to disintegrate. It is almost impossible to collect precious wood and gold in dozens of places scattered below.
With any luck you can get a small portion back.It couldn't be any more.
After all, if a gold brick weighing only 25 jin is picked up by someone, who will give it back to you.
And you have no evidence to prove that it is your thing.
In short, once a heavy truck crashes on a mountain road, it will definitely have disastrous consequences.
This "catastrophe" is of course not for the large group of "human beings", but to a large extent only for Liang Teng.
The "catastrophic consequences" borne by the individual, the price, is getting heavier and heavier.
Liang Teng thought of the above-mentioned terrible consequences, and Wu Xia thought of it too.
So both she and Yan Qianyu urged Liang Teng not to sit on the "Balong heavy truck" that was pulling goods.No matter how worried you are, don't "follow the car" to the same truck.
If the driver has a bad heart, is it useful to follow the car?
To put it bluntly, you, Liang Teng, still can't beat him.
We can only pin our hopes on the driver's "conscience" and "ignorance".
If you want to put some pressure on the other party, such as supervision, Liang Teng can sit in the "Highlander", Wu Xia is also with him, and Yan Qianyu will drive closely behind the "Balong Heavy Truck".
Such a generous and safe "following the car" until the "unloading" of the King's Building in the "Open Capital".
This way of "following the car" is the safest way.
It is not surprising that Wu Xia attaches great importance to Liang Teng's personal safety.
Yan Qianyu attaches great importance to Wu Xia's personal safety, which is her bodyguard duty.But she is so concerned about Liang Teng's personal safety. There can only be one explanation: that is, the "first-line land" in "Jiuji Town" that Liang Teng hinted to give her is too attractive to her.
Uh, or to put it in a better way: Yan Qianyu's affection for the generous Boss Liang has soared, so of course he doesn't want him to take risks.
Of course, Liang Teng is not a "dead man" who does not listen to persuasion.
If he can't keep the whole heavy truck, he can't expect to be favored by the "Lady Luck" if he sits in the "copilot".
There is a question: Since everyone knows the danger of heavy trucks traveling on mountain roads, why not resolutely reject heavy trucks?
Because heavy trucks have the largest cargo capacity.
Because the mountain road will not necessarily be crushed.
Just like the torrential rain last night, it was really big enough and did not cause the expected "mountain flood" and "debris flow" disasters.
Therefore, Liang Teng, Wu Xia, and Yan Qianyu, who were somewhat adventurous in their bones, did not resolutely oppose the use of heavy trucks to haul goods.
If the luck is not extremely bad, after this truck pulls down the "Shenying Mountain", it will be completely safe.
From Wu Xia and Yan Qianyu's point of view: Boss Liang has more than 2 million in his hands.
From Liang Teng's point of view: he already has more than 10 billion in hand.
As the saying goes, wealth makes people crazy.
Liang Teng is still a reasonable person, but in the face of astonishing wealth, of course he will be impulsive.
Even according to the "magic stick", Liang Teng has "great luck" to make more than 10 billion fortunes in such a remote "barren mountain and wild ridge", which shows that he is now in the "rising" stage.
When the fortune is so prosperous, how can you share the bad luck of losing your own wealth as soon as you drop it?
Of course, Liang Teng didn't believe in "luck" at all.Just based on intuition, I shouldn't be so unlucky.
Liang Teng, Wu Xia, and Yan Qianyu sat together and ate the cooked "wild rabbit", which was supposed to be both breakfast and lunch.
Although the grilled meat has too much heat, Wu Xia usually "taboo".But thinking that she would have to be a "coolie" for a while, helping Liang Teng carry the gold bricks, she also ate some roasted rabbit meat to fill her stomach.
Of course, Yan Qianyu is familiar with the taste of his eldest lady, and once said that he would cook another pot of rabbit meat for her.
But the meat quality of rabbit meat is too weak!The stewed rabbit meat was completely inedible, only a mouthful of soup.
Wu Xia didn't want her to make another stew when she still had to do physical work later.We'll have some barbecue soon.
Yan Qianyu's barbecue skills are not bad.
This is also a common practice for bodyguards.After all, they spend less time at home and have no time to practice excellent cooking skills.But relatively, people like them spend more time performing "tasks" in the wild.In the wild, not only the survivability must be tested, but a good barbecue is also a must.
the reason is simple.The more times I spend in the wild, the more times I practice grilling, and naturally my skills in this area will improve.
Three people, quickly wiped out two roasted rabbits.
The main thing is that the rabbit head is basically a bone, and there is nothing to eat.The remaining rabbit body meat is not too much.And Liang Teng and Yan Qianyu were really hungry, and quickly wiped out the rabbit meat like a storm.
After the three of them finished eating, the 20 wooden boxes sent by the demolition team in pickup trucks were also delivered.
Wu Xia asked the driver to put 20 wooden boxes outside the wooden house, and then sent the driver back first.
As the saying goes, "money should not be revealed. White".
Especially precious metals like gold are more attractive to people.
It is really impossible to take such a huge test to test the moral bottom line of others!
Neither Liang Teng nor Wu Xia hoped that something would happen at this juncture.
Next, Liang Teng, Wu Xia, and Yan Qianyu took all the wooden boxes into the house.
Then, the three of Liang Teng packed the gold bricks into the wooden box separately.
Each wooden box holds four gold bricks.Each box just holds 100 catties of weight.
Each gold brick weighs only 25 jin, and the three of them can move it without much effort.
After packing 20 boxes, it was a bit difficult to move.
The three of them worked as a team and moved a box of gold bricks to an open space far away from the wooden house.The reason for choosing a far away open space is also to facilitate construction when the house is demolished.
The two of them worked together to move bricks, and after a few rounds, they changed to another person to rest.After a few rounds, I changed to another person to rest...
Repeat this until all 20 boxes of gold bricks are moved to the open space and piled up.
After moving in, Wu Xia was about to call a professional demolition team to come up and "demolish".
At this moment, Liang Teng suddenly stopped Wu Xia and told her to "wait a minute"!
Liang Teng planned to deal with the square "bronze door" that was placed next to the wooden house last night first.
It rained heavily last night, and there was no way to go outside to deal with this not too big 50 cm square copper door.
Abandoned in the mountains, it will be discovered one day, which makes people suspicious.
Liang Teng also raised this matter with the second daughter.The unanimous opinion of everyone last night was to throw it on the "Highlander" and transport it back to the "King's Building" before disposing of it.
The bronze door is not too heavy, so Liang Teng moved it to the wooden door by himself last night and put it away.
Now Liang Teng moved the bronze door himself and asked Yan Qianyu to open the trunk of the "Highlander".
During this moving process, Liang Teng rediscovered the secret on the bronze door.
After all, he was in a hurry last night, the light was dim, and he was hit by a ton of gold bricks. How could Liang Teng have the time to examine the bronze door in front of him carefully?
Now that the weather has cleared up and there is plenty of light outside, Liang Teng moved the copper door himself, and it was easy to find something that was not quite right.
For example, the bottom of the copper door is designed with a thick horizontal handle. When he first saw it, Liang Teng also mistook it for "reinforcement".
After moving the copper door a few times, I realized that things were a bit weird.
Logically speaking, if the real purpose of that thick horizontal shoulder is only "reinforcement", then it must be "solid".That said, it's certainly not light on the weight.
Liang Teng is running around holding it now, but he doesn't feel that it has much weight.
This cannot but make Liang Teng highly suspicious: the horizontal load is hollow.
Get a hollow horizontal bar, which is still installed on the inside, and the copper door has to be buried underground... In this case, the function of the horizontal bar is definitely not for decoration.
What special purpose does it serve?
Is it used to store something?
Such an idea popped up in Liang Teng's mind for no reason.
With the concept of "preconceived first", and then looking at the structure inside the copper door, we can see a different trick: the horizontal handle is not directly welded to the inside of the copper door.Its ends, not touching the edges, are only about 50 cm wide.
Tighten the screws at both ends of the crossbar.
Liang Teng took a closer look and was sure that the hollow crossbar could be dismantled.
Now there is only one question left: what is hidden in the horizontal bar?
It should be roll paper or cloth most likely.
It's not that I look down on the Chen family, the Chen family has indeed been an absolutely poor household for decades or hundreds of years.
Even if the ancestors of the Chen family became a nouveau riche, it was impossible for them to buy valuable antique paintings and calligraphy.
So Liang Teng intuitively felt that the things hidden in the horizontal bar were most likely some bills or "self-reporting materials".
What is the content of the self-report?Of course, it must be a certain ancestor of the Chen family who inadvertently obtained the family history of a large number of "Xiaoye Zitan".
Thinking of such a possibility, Liang Teng suddenly became interested.
He has always been very curious, how did the ancestors of the super impoverished Chen family get so many "small-leaf red sandalwood"?
This is the crux of the matter.
As for the "golden bricks" worth [-] million yuan, Liang Teng was not at all curious about their origins.
If you sell a part of the "Xiaoye Zitan", you can get cash.Then take cash to buy gold bricks.Gold is a great store of value.
Of course, even if it is really a "self-reported material", it is nothing more than knowing the history of the ancestors of the Chen family.It doesn't make much sense.But Liang Teng just wanted to know.
As the saying goes "curiosity killed the cat"!
Liang Teng was also very curious.He was just curious about what happened to the fortune history of the ancestors of the Chen family?
Liang Teng went to the wooden house to find a screwdriver, and quickly unscrewed the screw.
Surprisingly, there are no account books or self-reporting materials in the hollow horizontal bar.
Inside was a framed scroll about 50 centimeters wide.
Good guy!This is clearly a calligraphy scroll.
It shouldn't be a painting.
Judging from the width of the scroll, calligraphy is most likely.
Liang Teng admitted that he underestimated a certain "upstart" ancestor of the Chen family.When people have money, they will also buy one or two pieces of calligraphy.
The scroll looks to be at least three meters long.Liang Teng only opened a small part to see the content at the beginning.You can probably confirm what this is?
When I opened it, I found that it was full of block script calligraphy.
Vertical calligraphy from right to left.
Liang Teng saw the six red characters "No. 1" written with a cinnabar red pen right away.
There is a small red seal on the bottom. The inscription on "Yin Lu" is "Mi Feng Guan Fang".In today's words, it is "sealed and kept secret".
Liang Teng still had some insight.
When I saw this calligraphy scroll, I immediately reflected in my mind: Ah!This is actually an ancient champion examination paper.
This thing is of course a cultural relic.
But how much is it worth?It's hard to evaluate right now.
After all, there is only one examination paper for the number one scholar handed down from ancient times known to the people, and that is the copy of the number one scholar "Zhao Bingzhong".
According to the rules, the number one scholar is hand-picked by the emperor, and his examination papers must be managed by the imperial court, and cannot be taken out of the palace without permission.
However, with the change of dynasties and the frequent occurrence of wars in ancient times, these number one examination papers disappeared.The greatest possibility is to be destroyed in the flames of war.
The only extant ancient number one scholar examination paper among the people is the number one scholar examination paper of "Zhao Bingzhong" during the Wanli period.
This Zhao Bingzhong, although he was the official minister of the Ministry of Rites in the end, there are really as many officials in ancient times as crucian carp crossing the river.On the contrary, there are only a few hundred "number one scholars" in the past dynasties.
Therefore, there are really very few historical records about "Zhao Bingzhong".
I only know that he won the first prize at the age of 25.
And the number one examination paper of "Zhao Bingzhong" was donated to the local museum by Zhao Bingzhong's 1983th generation grandson "Zhao Huanbin" in 13.It has become the "treasure of the town hall" of the museum.
Liang Teng had also read the examination paper for the champion of "Zhao Bingzhong".
It's hard to imagine that it was written by a young man who was only 25 years old.
But having said that, the only remaining number one examination paper among the people has already been "donated" to the museum.Therefore, it will be difficult to judge the value of the authentic examination paper of the number one scholar in a short time.
Maybe it's worth it?Or maybe not worth too much money?
Well, the question of how much it is worth can be studied later.
The question now is: Why is there another champion test paper in front of me?
Theoretically, since there were hundreds of champions in ancient times, there should also be hundreds of exam papers for champions.
However, after so many years, there is only one test paper for the number one scholar in the world (the test paper of the "last number one scholar" that has been collected in the museum is not counted, it is only said to have been circulated among the people), which proves that this thing can be preserved to this day. Not much really.
Not to mention the Chen family of "Shenying Mountain", even in "Jiuji Town", in the city to which the town belongs, there has never been a champion in all dynasties.Therefore, Chen Yongbin's ancestors must have never had a champion.
After winning the No. [-] Scholar, after the change of dynasty, the value of the No. [-] Scholar test paper, which is uncertain, was lost to the people, and it was even rarer for the descendants of the No. [-] Scholar to "repurchase" it.
Liang Teng was sure that even if the upstart ancestor of the Chen family bought the "No. [-] Scholar Test Paper" with money, he would not be able to pay too much.
Most likely, it was a coincidence that I bought this thing at a very small price.
The ancestors of the Chen family didn't know how much the number one examination paper was worth, so they kept it as a treasure.
It was sealed in the copper door, and it was afraid that the ground would get damp, so it was simply wrapped with a thick layer of oil paper to prevent moisture.The work is well done, the scrolls are in very good condition.
The nouveau riche ancestor of the Chen family was also a rich man.Not to mention anything else, just look at the number of gold bricks in his family, you can know.
The Chen family won the number one examination paper, but did not evaluate it.Nor does it mean "up for sale".
The descendants of the Chen family have never known that the ancestors had gold bricks, small-leaf red sandalwood, and examination papers for the number one scholar, so many good things have been handed down.
It's all cheaper for Liang Teng.
It was Liang Teng's turn to evaluate the value of the "No. [-] Scholar Examination Paper".
The "No. [-] Scholar Examination Paper" is too small in existence, and only two copies are known and confirmed.
It has never entered the trading market, and there is no case to refer to to evaluate its true value.
Besides, the "No. [-] Scholar Examination Paper" in front of you may be a high-quality imitation.
But this possibility should not be great.
Leaving aside the fact that a certain "upstart" ancestor of the Chen family had accumulated enough wealth to purchase such a "No. [-] test paper", Liang Teng's intuition alone did not think that the "No.
He has already seen it: this is a test paper for "Chen An"'s top scorer.
The champion Chen An is far more famous than the champion Zhao Bingzhong.
There is no other reason, it is because the champion Chen An was involved in a tragic event in history.
It was during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Ming Dynasty. Chen An ranked first in the 30th year of Hongwu High School and became the sixth champion of Ming Dynasty.
Coincidentally, all the candidates who won the Jinshi that time were from the south.
What's more coincidental: the three examiners are also from the south.
When the list was announced, the scholars in the north immediately refused to accept it.
They filed complaints one after another, highly questioning the examiner's favoritism towards his fellow countrymen, and belittling northern scholars.
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, and appointed 12 ministers to review the "failed test papers" together, and they must select some of them as pilot candidates.
After a period of time, the examiners presented the test papers of a large number of unsuccessful candidates.
These test papers have limited authenticity, poor art and science, and offensive language.But Zhu Yuanzhang only wanted the test results to be "balanced between the north and the south", so he didn't say anything.
However, the unsuccessful northern candidates were still dissatisfied with the results, thinking that the examiners deliberately selected bad test papers for the emperor to read.This is clearly Chi Guoguo's tricks.
Zhu Yuanzhang got angry again and severely punished the examiner.
After the chief examiner was exiled, the 51 candidates who were elected needed to be reassessed.
During the re-examination, the number one scholar, Chen An, did not have a clear comment (in fact, he did not know how to comment on him, but the emperor personally selected his test paper, and his drink was No. "The charges.
In the vernacular, you were inexplicably recommended by the examiner to the emperor to see your test paper.It is estimated that there are "tricks" between you and those examiners who were convicted and severely punished.
Therefore, Chen An, the number one scholar in history who clearly had real talent and learning, was directly executed after being dismissed from his fame.
Afterwards, Zhu Yuanzhang personally presided over the review, and re-admitted 61 Jinshi.
It turned out that they were all northerners this time.
But because there were no candidates to make trouble again, the matter was settled like this.
Poor No. 20 Scholar Chen An only became the No. [-] Scholar for [-] days.
This is the famous "North and South List Case" in the history of Ming Dynasty.
(End of this chapter)