Chapter 163

Ever since seeing Zhang Tianshi Zhang's small movements, Fatty began to observe him intentionally or unintentionally.

Now that he discovered Zhang Tianshi Zhang's anomaly, Fatty immediately remained calm, wanting to see what Zhang Tianshi Zhang would say.

Tianzhen also squeezed over at this moment, and upon seeing the sculpture, he was completely bewildered.

"Fatty, you've studied the history of sculpture at least, take a look at this statue?"

Hearing this, Fatty's head swelled.

"The history of sculpture I took as an elective was foreign sculpture history! It was all to look at naked people!"

"I was told there would be real-life models to display, but I didn't expect it to be big old men every time!"

"For me, Fatty, to look at, my eyes were sore for those few months!"

Hearing Fatty becoming more and more unreliable, Tianzhen hurriedly interrupted him: "Alright, alright, if you can't tell, then forget it."

Unexpectedly, Fatty leaned over and whispered: "I can't tell, but that Zhang Tianshi Zhang definitely can!"

Tianzhen looked at Fatty upon hearing this, "How do you know?"

"Hey! My eyes are sharp, Fatty! Just by looking at his expression, I know he knows." Fatty said, while gesturing with his mouth toward Zhang Tianshi Zhang.

Zhang Tianshi Zhang seemed to have sensed the movement and turned his head to look at the two.

The two closed their mouths and smiled in unison, looking like thieves with a guilty conscience.

Zhang Tianshi Zhang ignored them and instead turned to continue speaking to Professor Chen: "Professor, I haven't seen this hungry ghost statue much either."

"The Hungry Ghost Realm is one of the six paths of Buddhism; we Daoists speak of the five realms, not the six paths."

"Therefore, I don't quite understand what such a sculpture means."

Professor Chen nodded upon hearing this; as an archaeological expert himself, he also couldn't understand the meaning of this sculpture.

Now that he had asked the Daoist Zhang Tianshi and since he didn't know either, Professor Chen decided not to linger.

He let the archaeological team take photos of the sculpture to leave image records.

At this time, Tianzhen asked: "Professor Chen, this door has been blown open, does it mean someone has already been in here before?"

Professor Chen nodded, "This possibility cannot be ruled out."

The millions of friends in the archaeological live broadcast room heard this and all began to speculate about who had entered the ancient tomb before the archaeological team.

【Could this be a folk archaeological master?】

【Damn, could it be Chen Pi Ah Si?】

【Who is Chen Pi Ah Si?】

【Talking nonsense, Chen Pi is already over ninety, can he still go down into a tomb?】

【Isn't it possible? After all, the old man was still hanging upside down in the Mirror Palace when he was over sixty!】

【Damn, who exactly is Chen Pi Ah Si?】

【Could it be the Wu family? Wasn't this Warring States silk book discovered by the Wu family first?】

【That's impossible! Old Dog Wu just got the silk book not long ago before it was swindled away by Americans; if it were anyone, it would be the Americans!】

【Who the hell is this Old Dog Wu again?】

【I think the possibility of Americans is higher; after all, what the archaeological team got was a rubbing of the silk book, and it was more than ten years late.】

【Damn, if it really is the Americans, then wouldn't the things in this ancient tomb have already been stolen?】

The speculation of the friends was also Professor Chen's worry.

When he saw that big hole, Professor Chen was afraid that the national team had come too late this time.

If the things inside were all stolen by the Americans, then the country's loss would be huge!

Therefore, while some archaeological team members were taking photos of the hungry ghost statue, Professor Chen took the remaining people through the jade door and into the tomb chamber.

At this time, Fatty again sneakily said to Tianzhen: "Do you know where Zhang Tianshi Zhang's eyes were focused when he looked at that hungry ghost statue?"

Tianzhen was completely confused, "Where?"

Fatty quickly pointed to the hungry ghost's hand; on that hand, it was holding a seal.

This caused Tianzhen to specifically take two extra looks when he passed by the sculpture.

But he didn't find anything special about that seal.

It just didn't look like a conventional seal shape, and the carvings on it were also a bit strange.

It was just that the seal wasn't big, and it was pitch black, so it wasn't very clear.

However, if Zhang Tianshi Zhang was really staring at that seal, he very likely knew what this thing was!

Led by Fatty, Tianzhen also felt more and more that Zhang Tianshi Zhang seemed to have many secrets.

After following Professor Chen into the tomb chamber, everyone discovered that there were many coffins in the tomb chamber.

And the lids of the coffins were all covered, looking as if they were intact!

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Seeing this scene, Professor Chen's heart suddenly settled a bit.

If the coffins hadn't been moved, it meant the things inside hadn't been stolen.

Because people who enter ancient tombs for the purpose of theft wouldn't have such quality.

After taking things, they would still restore the coffins!

Professor Chen had led teams in rescue excavations of some stolen ancient tombs.

Those were all good deeds done by people who were unwilling to accept national archaeological regulations, unwilling to report their itineraries, and unwilling to hand over archaeological gains according to the importance of the cultural relics!

Such people tend to claim everything in the ancient tomb as their own.

They only have money in their hearts, no sense of the big picture.

The cultural gap of the Xia Kingdom seems to have nothing to do with them.

Many precious cultural relics that could make up for cultural deficiencies flowed into the market like this and eventually entered overseas!

The ancient tombs these people have looted have suffered considerable damage.

Sometimes the bodies of the tomb owners were even dragged out by them and exposed in the wilderness.

Just because such people who don't follow the rules exist, many people feel that folk archaeology should not be encouraged.

But in terms of the losses brought by folk archaeology and the contributions made, the country is still more inclined to find ancient culture faster and more.

Thereby re-establishing the cultural confidence of the Xia Kingdom.

Now seeing that the coffins hadn't been damaged, Professor Chen could at least determine that this ancient tomb hadn't been entered by lawbreakers first.

After Tianzhen and Fatty entered, they saw at a glance that these coffins seemed to be arranged in some order, not very regular or neat.

Fatty kept an eye out and counted, discovering there were exactly seven coffins!

And the coffins themselves were also very exquisite, not only having a large number of carved patterns, but also seeming to have some kind of inscription carved on them.

Professor Chen shone his flashlight and studied for a long time, but unfortunately, he couldn't understand a single word.

This kind of inscription didn't look like the characters of any dynasty in the Xia Kingdom; it had a bit of an exotic flavor.

But Professor Chen knew that inscriptions were most helpful in determining the identity of the tomb owner.

Since he couldn't understand it, he immediately had people take photos of the inscriptions and send them back to the National Archaeological Institute.

To let the experts at the National Archaeological Institute decipher them quickly.

At the same time, he also put a pattern in the live broadcast room for the friends to identify.

There is no lack of various types of masters among the folk.

Sometimes things that experts don't understand happen to be in a field that a certain master is good at.

For example, once the Archaeological Institute was excavating an ancient tomb from the Qin Dynasty.

There were a few lines of small characters carved in the tomb passage of the ancient tomb, and they didn't use the characters of the Central Plains at all.

It also didn't seem to be the characters of an ethnic minority.

The National Archaeological Institute posted the content pictures on the Internet, and they were eventually deciphered by a folk master.

He told the experts at the Archaeological Institute that this was a special character used by a special profession.

This profession was the pigment mixer of the ancient royal family, specifically blending various colors of pigments for the royal family, used for architecture, painting, tie-dyeing, etc.

This kind of character was the pigment mixers' own character.

Using characters that others couldn't understand to name the rare colors they blended!

That's right, color was a luxury item in ancient times!

In an era without chemical synthetics, colorful colors were very rare.

Therefore, the pigment mixers recorded the names and blending methods of the rare colors they found using characters that only they could understand.

The purpose was to prevent leakage!