After the Nine Gates Meeting ended, everyone had lunch and everyone left one after another. Before leaving, Zhang Qishan grabbed Qi Tiezui.

"Lord Buddha? Have you found the mine?"

Zhang Qishan shook his head: "I haven't had time to look for it yet, but I'm going to open the whistle coffin today. Why don't Mr. Ba go take a look with me?"

Qi Tiezui asked in confusion: "Lord Buddha, it's been two days and the whistle coffin hasn't been opened yet?"

Zhang Qishan was helpless: "Shangfeng from Chongqing came to Changsha for inspection. I have been in the military camp these days handling the military affairs assigned by him, and I don't have any free time. If the third master hadn't held the Nine Gate Conference, I might not have been able to get out at all.

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"The third master is so proud?" Qi Tiezui raised his eyebrows.

"This man's surname is Ma. The third master saved his mother back then, so he naturally wants to give the third master this face."

"Marshuai Ma?" Qi Tiezui looked suddenly enlightened. He also went with Ye Bai on the Shanghai trip, so he naturally remembered Marshal Ma from Sichuan.

At that time, Marshal Ma was still calling him brothers.

Now five years have passed, and I don’t know if Ma Dashuai’s mother, who took the longevity pill, is still alive.

After chatting for a while, Qi Tiezhi got into Zhang Qishan's military car and returned to Zhang's mansion.

A few years ago, Zhang Qishan moved his residence and rebuilt a large villa in the suburbs of Changsha, near the military camp.

It covers an area of ​​more than ten acres, with green lawns and a three-story white small Western-style building. The furniture and furnishings inside are all in Western style.

There is also a conspicuous golden Buddha outside the small western-style building, which is three to four meters high.

Qi Tiezui glanced at the giant Buddha. He advised Zhang Qishan and moved this Buddha statue from the ruined temple outside the mountain. Moreover, he carefully selected the placement using compass calculations.

Zhang Qishan walked up with a smile and said: "Lao Ba, I asked the kitchen to make your favorite pig's trotters stewed with lotus root."

Qi Tiezui's expression changed. Lord Buddha is a man who is good at calculations. I'm afraid this pig's trotters and lotus roots are for dinner. It's expected that this matter will have to be done at night.

However, it was hard for him to say anything.

Qi Tiezui followed Zhang Qishan to the underground warehouse, where hundreds of coffins moved from the train were placed in an orderly manner, but the whistle coffin was the only one missing.

"Lord Buddha, where is the whistle coffin?"

"In another place, follow me."

It turns out that there is a secret room in the underground warehouse. The space inside is not small and there are many rooms. The whistle coffin is in the corner room.

Zhang Qiwen and several members of the Zhang family are cutting the iron juice outside the coffin.

"Lord Buddha, Lord Eight."

"How? Can the coffin be opened?"

Zhang Qiwen waved to the two men to lift the coffin lid, and they placed the lighted gas lamps around the coffin.

The inner panel of the coffin is patterned in red and black, just like the skin of a poisonous snake, with many patterns of human figurines on it.

Looking at the patterns on the coffin skin, Qi Tiezui has roughly determined that this coffin should be from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period, because the decoration of human figurines on the coffin body is a common decoration in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Looking inside the coffin, there is a black corpse with a broken head, and a dense layer of spider web covering it.

The corpse was slightly decayed and had a layer of fine black down. Even though the outside of the coffin was sprinkled with pungent powder to remove odors and repel insects, there was still a faint odor emanating from it.

Qi Tiezui pinched his nose and got closer, only to see bone fragments and black viscous slurry scattered around the corpse's skull, which was extremely disgusting.

Thinking of the white palm that Ye Bai took out from the coffin, Qi Tiezui muttered to himself: I really don't know how the third master crushed this thing without touching it.

On the other side, Zhang Qishan put on his gloves himself, pushed aside the cobwebs, and started groping on the black corpse.

The head of the corpse had been crushed by Ye Bai, and nothing useful could be found on the fragments. However, Zhang Qishan felt a few steel needles at the throat of the corpse.

Zhang Qishan frowned slightly. Very few tomb owners would put steel needles in their throats for fear of others stealing the ancient jade in their mouths. After all, this is too cruel and desecrates the corpse.

Besides, there is no ancient jade in the mouth of this corpse, so the steel needle was probably inserted to prevent something from crawling out of the esophagus.

Thinking of this, Zhang Qishan took off his gloves and groped down the corpse's throat with his slightly long fingers. He didn't feel anything strange until he touched the abdomen.

"Bring me a knife."

Qi Tiezui quickly handed the sharp knife to Zhang Qishan.

Taking the knife, Zhang Qishan disemboweled the body and took out a small object covered in black stench.

After cleaning, the small object revealed its original appearance. It turned out to be a small nail plate.

In ancient times, there was a difference between scales and armor. The thin ones on one side were called scales, and the thick ones on the other sides were called armors. This thing was very thick in the middle and was called an armor plate.

There are patterns on it that look like oracle bones, but the patterns have been corroded by acid and blurred, making it difficult to see clearly.

"Old man, you are well-informed, help me control my eyes." Zhang Qishan threw the piece of armor to Qi Tiezui.

"Lord Buddha, your eyesight is second to none. If I help you with your eyesight, won't it make people laugh at you?"

"No matter how many beautiful words you say, I still can't see it. Stop saying useless words."

Qi Tiezui smiled, picked up the piece of armor and looked at it carefully.

"It looks like an oracle bone, but it also looks like a natural pattern? I have heard that some turtles have natural Luoshu patterns on their backs, but these armor pieces are not turtle shells or animal bones."

After watching for a long time, Qi Tiezui shook his head and said: "Lord Buddha, I don't understand either. Today, the most senior person in oracle bone science is Luo Xuetang from Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, but Mr. Luo is now with the Japanese in Manchuria, otherwise..."<

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"Don't mention this kind of people anymore. Is there any other way?" Zhang Qishan has no good impression of traitors.

"Why don't you go find the Third Master? He..."

"Third Master is too busy, please try another one."

Qi Tiezui was speechless. In his opinion, asking Third Master for help was the easiest thing. After all, he had never seen Third Master being stumped by anything.

But looking at Zhang Qishan's expression, Qi Tiezui knew that when the third master returned to Changsha, this mountain could not accommodate two tigers. Now the Buddha was afraid that he was secretly competing with the third master.

Qi Tiezui thought for a while and said: "Luo Xuetang once ran an Eastern Literature Society. There was a student named Wang Guowei, who was also a master of oracle bones. Unfortunately, he jumped into a lake and drowned himself in the 16th year of the Republic of China. If we are looking for him now, there is another Dong Zuobin.

Sir, I happen to be in Changsha now, but he doesn’t like being a soldier. I can pay him a visit on behalf of Buddha."

Zhang Qishan nodded: "Okay, I didn't expect that you don't know about oracle bones, but everyone is quite familiar with oracle bones?"

Qi Tiezui said: "Lord Buddha, please don't laugh at me. Oracle bone divination is a family business. When my old man was still alive, his favorite thing was collecting oracle bones. I also learned about it through my ears and eyes."

At this time, Zhang Qiwen's voice interrupted the two of them.

"Lord Buddha, look, there is something wrong with the abdomen of the corpse!"

Zhang Qishan looked around and saw live milky white insects emerging from the abdominal wound that he had just separated from the body.

Live insects crawled out in groups, and there were quite a few.

Qi Tiezui frowned and said: "Lord Buddha, this should be the culprit of silk spinning."

"Qiwen, catch a few alive and burn the rest."

"Yes."

Soon, these live insects were removed by Zhang Qiwen, but a thimble was also taken out.

This thimble has a peculiar shape, with pitted black silver spots and a "cuckoo" engraved on it.

Seeing this, Qi Tiezui and Zhang Qishan frowned at the same time.
Chapter completed!