"How is Susu?" Su Bai thought of Gong Susu's shrunken arms, and his heart felt like being clawed by iron claws. Every time he scratched, there was a trace of blood. He thought of how much hard work it would take for her to carry him back.
That rope bridge was enough. She was such a weak girl. Subai's nose felt sore and she immediately took another breath to let go of her tears.
Cui Ying said: "Susu has left. She told you not to worry about her too much. Everything is destined to be good."
Su Bai's face turned gloomy. The current situation of Su Su he saw underground made him worried. It was destined to be so. Why did it have to start? If the so-called fate was for such an outcome, why did we need to know each other and like it in the first place?
Falling for her? It would be fine if Gong Susu had no feelings for him at all, but just had unrequited love. Now, it is clear that both of them are in pain...
Cui Ying felt very distressed when she saw Subai's face. Subai had always regarded himself as a genius boy, but when it came to relationships, he was simply an idiot, a stubborn idiot. He liked and loved simply.
This makes people feel distressed. As a bystander, Cui Ying feels that it is too tiring.
No matter how sad Su Bai was, he still had to move forward on this road. "Right now, we have to go back first." Yue Qing said, "We still don't know the origins of the human head and the golden mask. And Dai Jieli,
This cooperation is simply the worst possible outcome, and there will be no room left for us to meet again in the future."
Yue Qing's mind is indeed delicate, and Bai Moxuan thinks so. The next time they meet, he must be 100% alert to deal with it. Without the third child, Dai Jieli is even more unpredictable now.
"Are we going to take that head back?" When Su Bai thought of Bai Yixuan's decisive removal of the skull, he still felt a little conflicted: "This is too exaggerated."
"I would like to just take off the mask, but you can think of a way?" Bai Moxuan said angrily.
During the days when Subei was sleeping, the three of them tried various methods to separate the golden mask from the skull, but the results were not satisfactory. However, they finally made a discovery. The back of the golden mask was exactly the same as the skull.
How can there be a golden surface behind human bones that are completely integrated? Subai studied it for a long time after waking up, but he couldn't think of a reason.
The only question that everyone could think of was to go back and ask the seniors for advice. After Su Bai and Gong Susu left, Bai Moxuan and others returned to the tomb. In addition to the skeleton, they also found hidden compartments on the wall.
A volume of heavenly books, belonging to the same category as the words on the stone tablet,
Unable to understand, there was not a single burial object. Bai Moxuan simply took off the silver silk garment. Unlike the golden mask, the silver silk garment could be taken out from the bottom up, and it was very soft and foldable.
, now, these three items are lying in Bai Moxuan's backpack.
Although Su Bai was unwilling to give in and thought about Gong Susu, his journey here had to end. He hurriedly returned to the antique shop. Tang Sancheng and others were very interested in this skull. Unfortunately, after some research, they did not know how to remove it.
, simply gave it to Fu Yu and asked her to borrow equipment for study. As for the book, the inscriptions on the stone tablets photographed by Cui Ying, and the patterns on the walls and ceilings, Tang Sancheng and Bai Yi had some clues.
After a few days, people took those materials and finally came to a preliminary conclusion.
Now, these photos are placed on Bai Yi's desk. The golden mask that is integrated with the skull is also placed aside. The silver silk clothes are spread out and placed on the ground. The Book of Heaven is being held by Bai Yi.
In my hand, there is a scroll of this day's book. It is made of animal skin, but it is not sheepskin. "This is rhinoceros skin."
Bai Yi said: "The use of rhino skin is rare in the history of our country, but the biggest advantage of rhino skin is that it is wear-resistant and has strong toughness. Those who have animal fur should be ethnic minorities."
"Even if you are from an ethnic minority, I should have some impressions." Su Bai was still a little worried: "But these words are really unfamiliar."
"What you lack is not knowledge, but experience." Tang Sancheng said: "Now we can basically confirm that these texts belong to the early Khitan texts. In your opinion, I am afraid they are the Book of Heaven."
"Khitan?" Yue Qing said: "What are the words on the stone tablet and the content on the rhinoceros skin?"
"Records of the Khitan people going south." Bai Yi said: "We found an expert who knew something about the ancient Khitan and got the answer from him. There is nothing special about the text on the stone tablet. Although it cannot be translated completely,
It can be basically concluded that what is recorded on it is the time and cause of death of the corpse. That man was the largest leader among the Khitan people who moved south at that time, so there was a burial ceremony with a gold mask and silver silk clothes."
"The words of the Khitan people." Su Bo finally found his own place: "I still know this. The Khitan script was lost more than 700 years ago. On June 21, 1922, a man named Kerr
A Belgian missionary who wrote this found a stone tablet covered with strange text-like symbols in an ancient tomb that had been robbed and emptied in Bahrain Right Banner, Inner Mongolia, China. According to research, this was a Khitan tomb more than 900 years ago. So, those
Could the symbols be Khitan characters? According to historical records, the Khitan people did create Khitan characters after they established the Liao Kingdom. However, the Khitan characters were lost as early as 700 years ago. Experts assert that the Book of Heaven is undoubtedly the Khitan character that has been buried by the years.
It seems that these characters are the same type of characters that were discovered in the 1920s."
Cui Ying became a little interested: "Boss Bai, since it has been lost, what kind of person is this person that can actually translate fragments of it?"
"You don't know something." Su Bo answered first: "Now there is a comparison table between Khitan characters and Chinese characters. This was developed after many years of research. However, there are some deviations, but the basic meaning is definitely
That’s right.”
"Su Bai is right." Bai Yi said: "Khitan script is a script created in the Liao Dynasty with reference to Chinese characters to record the Khitan language. It is the two scripts used to write Khitan language. It has the status of an official script in the Liao Kingdom established by the Khitan people. The large characters
Both the small characters and the small characters have meaning and phonetic components, and the small characters have more phonetic components than the large characters. Neither the large characters nor the small characters have been fully interpreted, and the research on the small characters is more complete than the large characters. So it is a pity that this interpretation is not complete."
"What are the big characters and small characters?" Yue Qing's mind was a little confused and he really couldn't understand.
"The Khitan characters were created in 920 AD. Yelu Abaoji, the Taizu of the Liao Dynasty, ordered Yelu Tulubu and Yelu Lubu to create them with reference to Chinese characters. There should be more than 3,000 characters. After the promulgation of the Khitan script, it was immediately used in the Liao Kingdom
.Since all the Han people in Khitan use Chinese, Khitan script will only be popular among the Khitan people. However, most of the upper-class Khitan rulers are familiar with Chinese and respect Chinese, so the scope of use of Khitan script is limited."
Su Bo said: "Then the Khitan small characters were invented. The Khitan small characters were modified by Yelu Diela, who was inspired by the Uighur script. The small characters are pinyin characters, and the larger characters are simpler. The Khitan small characters are few and should be coherent, that is, the original characters.
Although there are few, it can understand all the Khitan language. There are about 500 pronunciation symbols in Khitan small characters. The combination of large characters and small characters forms the writing culture of Khitan."
"Oh, you are indeed our talented boy. He can do it with just one click." Cui Ying laughed and patted Subai on the shoulder: "But it's a pity that you can't understand."
"Give me a little time, I can do it." Subak didn't feel that he was being arrogant: "Learning is made, give me a little time, I can do it too."
Bai Yi did not deny this, and even nodded in agreement: "That's right. The words on the stone tablet record the death date of the leader, but the words on the rhinoceros skin are a little special. The Khitan country has survived in history.
The time was very short, from the establishment of the Khitan state by Yelu Abaoji in 916 AD to the capture of Yelu Yanxi by the Liao Dynasty in 1125 AD, the Liao Dynasty existed for a total of 209 years. After the fall of the Liao Dynasty, the eighth grandson of Abaoji, Yelu Dashi, came to power in 1124.
It established the Western Liao Dynasty and lasted for more than 90 years. It was destroyed by the Mongols in 1218. But what is puzzling is that with the demise of the Liao Empire, the Khitan nation, which once had a population of more than 1.2 million, also disappeared.
Without a trace."
Cui Ying is a typical ABC. Although she has done some research on domestic history because of writing novels, it has not been to such a detailed level, so she listened to it with great interest.
"Historians can only speculate on the fate of millions of Khitans in three general ways: First, the Khitans living in the ancestral land of the Khitans gradually forgot their origins and merged with other ethnic groups. Second, after the fall of the Western Liao Dynasty,
, most of the Khitans in Mobei moved westward to the Kerman region of Iran and were completely Islamicized. Third, after the Jin-Mongolia war broke out, some Khitans who swore not to eat golden millet defected to Mongolia and followed the Mongolian army.
The conquests in the east and west spread to all parts of the country." Bai Yi picked up the rhinoceros skin on the table: "But there is still a group that chose to go south."
"The owner of the skeleton you saw chose to go south." Bai Yi said: "Unfortunately, this leader died of illness not long after the journey south, and this leader seemed to have magical abilities."
Bai Moxuan, who had not spoken much, was a little surprised: "Magical ability?"
"This rhinoceros skin says..." Tang Sancheng hesitated: "Cover the body with gold and silver, and the leader can still protect his people after death. But I don't know what kind of witchcraft this is, but from your description
Judging from the complaint, after the death of the leader, the body was specially treated, and the flesh and skin were completely peeled off, leaving only the skeleton. Where the skin and flesh of this body are and how they were treated are also worth exploring."
"Nothing was found in that tomb," Bai Moxuan said.
"It may not be in the tomb." Tang Sancheng said, "If this person is unusual, the skin and flesh may have been peeled off as part of the magic. It is also possible that he was incinerated or buried in other places."