Xixia dead book

Chapter 161 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (46)
"That's right! Isakov also appeared, and Stechkin, Isakov, and Brenin all appeared in this series of events. In this way, the blade of Nikolai's suicide is also very likely..."

"They were afraid that Nicholas would say something, so they forced him to commit suicide," Makarov said.

"Who are they? Nikolay... and what does he know more than me?" Shchedrin certainly didn't understand what Makarov meant at this time.

"How can Nikolai know more than you? There is only one possibility. He knows more about the forward base than you." Makarov said.

"What about the forward base? What else can happen to the forward base? Besides, aren't you still the person in charge of the forward base?" Schedrin became more and more puzzled.

"Could it be... Is there any secret in the forward base that I don't know?" Makarov fell into heavy memories again.But for a long time, he couldn't find anything from his memory.

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The three chatted for a while, Makarov and Yelena saw that they could not get any valuable information, so they got up and left.Afterwards, Schedrin said fearfully, "You're gone, and I'm going abroad to escape. If you have any questions to ask me, just call this number."

Yelena took Shchedrin's call and walked out of Shchedrin's villa with Makarov.Makarov hasn't jumped out of his thoughts just now: "Base, what secrets does the base have?"

"Father, don't think so much. We still have something to gain this time. Isakov appeared, which further completed the two lines I drew before."

"Well, the line is connected, but almost all the insiders are dead, and every clue can't go any further when it reaches that White."

"Yes! But Schedrin didn't recognize White in the photo."

"I should have thought a long time ago that this White will not let us see his true colors so easily." Makarov thought for a while, and suddenly murmured, "Could it be that this White is not alone, but Just a code name?"

"That possibility is not ruled out."

"It seems that Schedrin will not make any more progress here, so I reminded you in the archives yesterday, don't be too optimistic. Most things are like this. When you think you are close to victory, the greater difficulty often comes coming."

"Even if Shchedrin is useless, we still have Stechkin. I don't believe we can't catch him!" Yelena was quite unconvinced.

"That's even more hopeless. Stechkin may know a lot of inside information, but as a well-trained veteran agent, we have experienced his skills. It can be said that none of us is him if we fight alone. Even if we catch this guy, he won't talk." Makarov said.

"Then according to what you mean, the clues on Stephen's side are broken, and we can't make progress on our side, so we have no choice but to go out?"

Makarov pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Elena, where's the autopsy report for Brenning?"

"That's right! I asked Ilyukin to take care of this matter, so I should ask him." After speaking, Yelena and Makarov got into the car and rushed to the Federal Security Bureau building.

Ilyukin received Makarov and Yelena in his office.As soon as they met, Yelena asked straight to the point: "Has Breining's autopsy report come out?"

"The autopsy report is out!" Ilyukin found a document from his desk and handed it to Yelena, "Unfortunately, because the corpse was burned for a long time, it is difficult to identify the real identity of the corpse. It was a male corpse."

"Is that so?" Yelena looked disappointed.

"You still doubt Brenin?" Ilyukin asked.

"No! I don't know who to suspect now..." Yelena pondered for a moment, and then asked Ilyukin, "You introduced to me before, that Brening has been living in a villa in the suburbs since he retired and rarely went to the city, let alone Leaving Petersburg, is that so?"

"Yes!" Ilyukin did not understand what Yelena meant.

"Are you sure?"

"Are you sure? We didn't send anyone to monitor Brenin at the time. It's hard to be sure. I just heard from many former colleagues, and I haven't visited him myself." Ilyukin shrugged helplessly.

"Then can we find out Brening's entry and exit records?"

"Do you suspect that Brenning was not in Petersburg during that time, and had been abroad? You can check it, but Yelena, think about it, if Brenning is an experienced agent, if he really wants to go abroad and doesn't want to be discovered, it's completely fine. Fake identity to get away with it!" Ilyukin reminded Yelena.

"Yeah! Yelena, why are you so confused?" Makarov said.

Yelena felt that she was really messed up by these things, she rubbed her temples vigorously, and looked at Makarov helplessly.Makarov shook his head and said, "The only thing left to do is Tang Feng and Han Jiang."

"That's right! The jade screen is in their hands now, and there will definitely be no peace there." Yelena couldn't help but feel her heart twitch when she thought of this.

After reading Yelena's letter, Tang Feng and Han Jiang were shocked.Tang Feng reorganized his thoughts and said, "I never thought that the forward base would have something to do with Stechkin and Brenning."

"That's right! A White brought out the three agents who protected Misha, Stechkin, Brening, and Isakov. This so-called 'White' is not easy!" Han Jiang sighed.

"Could it be that White is the general?" Tang Feng asked suddenly.

Han Jiang pondered for a moment, and said, "If the 'White' back then was the 'White' that Stephen met, then 'White' couldn't be a general."

"Well, but there is another possibility that 'White' is just a code name, and he does not refer to someone specifically. Otherwise, why didn't Schedrin know White in 1986?" Tang Feng raised an interesting point.

"According to what you say, the 'White' met by Schedrin, the 'White' who was arrested in 1986, and the 'White' met by Stephen are not the same person?" Han Jiang had a premonition that this issue was becoming more and more complicated. .

"It's entirely possible! Maybe even 'General' is just a code name."

"What? 'General' is also a code name?! No! This is absolutely impossible." Han Jiang refused to believe Tang Feng's speculation, "I would rather believe that the general is that Breining."

"Brenning? That's right! It's not known whether the man who was burned to death was Breening."

"Well, although Yelena has made a big discovery, she seems to be in trouble again. I can only look at Professor Luo. After all, the jade screen is the key!" Han Jiang murmured.

【No.20 Ghost in Three Sections】

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Just when Tang Feng and Han Jiang were shocked by Yelena's discovery, good news came from Professor Luo.Professor Luo has successfully spliced ​​and glued the two jade screens together, and now the four jade screens "white", "high", "big" and "xia" are lying quietly in front of everyone.

Professor Luo cleared his throat and said slowly: "Now that the four jade screens have been found, we are gratified. We can finally truly understand the secret of the jade screens. Although the two jade screens of Helan Mountain and Dunhuang have been Broken, but I have used special glue to temporarily bond the two jade screens together. As for whether it will work or not, I can’t guarantee that, at least we can get a glimpse of these two jade screens now..."

"Professor Luo, just tell me what is written on these two jade screens!" Zhao Yong asked impatiently.

Professor Luo began to decipher: "What is written on these two jade screens is actually not important now. The jade screen in Dunhuang reads, 'Iron riders ride ten thousand rides to the desert, the yellow sand is long in the black water city, and the crows come to roost. On the White Tower', this obviously refers to Heishui City. Literally, "Iron Riding Ten Thousand Rides from the Desert" means that Genghis Khan's army came from the desert in the northern part of the Xixia Empire; The location of the jade screen is Heishui City; the third sentence "crows come to live on the White Pagoda" further points out that the jade screen is in the big stupa outside Heishui City, which is also the same as Kozlov's in Heishui City. The record of the jade screen found in the Great Buddha Pagoda is consistent with the record.

"This jade screen in Helan Mountain reads, 'I only wish to enter the Buddhaland in this life, I will accompany the Buddha on the wall of the grotto, and I will be a member of the party in the next life.' 'I only wish to enter the Buddhaland in this life'. It refers to Dunhuang, which means that the jade screen is hidden in Dunhuang; the second sentence mentions 'grotto', which reminds me of a very interesting topic. Have you all heard of the Dunhuang Buddhist scripture cave?"

"I've heard of it!" Everyone nodded frequently.

"In 1900, Taoist Wang discovered the famous scripture cave in Dunhuang. After that, the British Stein, the Frenchman Pelliot, and the Russians, Japanese, Germans, and Americans came one after another..."

Before Professor Luo finished speaking, Tang Feng understood what he meant: "Professor Luo, what do you mean, the jade screen in Dunhuang was probably hidden in the scripture cave, and was discovered by Taoist Wang? "

"Yes, you discovered the jade screens in Animaqing Snow Mountain and Helan Mountain, and Kozlov discovered the jade screen in Heishui City. Only the one in Dunhuang is unknown when it was discovered by whom. Yes." Professor Luo said.

"Han Jiang speculated that the jade screen in Dunhuang should have appeared earlier than the one in Heishui City discovered by Kozlov, and said that it was an expert 'X' who first discovered it and then assisted Kezlov Zlov got it, and after that, he joined the black lama's team." Tang Feng said.

"Tang Feng, what's the matter? What Professor Luo said just now proved my inference. This jade screen was probably hidden in the Dunhuang scripture cave, and then discovered by that expert 'X'. The scripture cave was discovered in 1900. It was discovered earlier than Kozlov discovered Heishui City in 1909." Han Jiang was a little proud.

"So, that so-called expert of yours is a Taoist king who doesn't know a lot of characters?" Tang Feng laughed.

Han Jiang was choked by Tang Feng.Professor Luo said: "Tang Feng, Han Jiang's deduction is not unreasonable. I am leaning towards Han Jiang's deduction now. Think about it, in Dunhuang, where can the jade screen be hidden?"

"But as far as I know, the closure of the Dunhuang scripture cave was before the Western Xia forces entered Dunhuang." Tang Feng raised his own doubts.

"Yes, the current mainstream view in the academic world is that the Dunhuang monks sealed the Buddhist scriptures in the scripture cave before the Western Xia forces entered Dunhuang. However, this is not the only view. There are also views that it was the Mongolian forces that entered Dunhuang. A few days ago, the monks closed the scripture cave, which is the late Western Xia period, which is in line with what the great lama told you." Professor Luo analyzed.

"But this still cannot be proved." Tang Feng questioned.

"There is also a possibility that the Dunhuang Buddhist scripture cave was opened in the late Western Xia Dynasty..." Professor Luo waved his hand as Tang Feng wanted to say something else, "Tang Feng, I know this cannot be proved, but these are not important .As I said, this is just an interesting topic. We can boldly speculate that perhaps it was not some expert who discovered the jade screen in Dunhuang, but probably a Taoist priest who did not know a lot of Chinese characters, but one did come later. Knowledgeable."

"Those who know the goods? Stein? Pelliot? Obviously they can't be them. If they are the famous explorers we know, then Yuchaping would have been known to the world." Tang Feng shook his head and said.

"Yes! Obviously this person is not Stein, Pelliot and others, but this person is very knowledgeable and has seen the value of the jade screen, and he deciphered Xixia before Yifengge, or almost at the same time as Yifengge. Xixia Wen." Professor Luo's inference further improved Han Jiang's previous inference.

"But who could this person be? Such a great person should leave a mark in history like Stein, Pelliot, Yifengge, and Kozlov! And when did he get jade? What about the screen? According to this inference, this person should have obtained the jade screen from Taoist Wang before Stein. But if this person discovered the Buddhist scriptures cave earlier than Stein, why didn’t he move the Buddhist scriptures cave? What about the scriptures in the book?" Tang Feng fell into deep thought.

Professor Luo sighed softly: "Everything has passed away, and now it is difficult for us to restore the mysterious face of that expert. In short, it is very likely that this expert 'X' deciphered it as Han Jiang speculated before. The Xixia text on the jade screen, and then pointed Kozlov to go to Heishui City. However, after Kozlov discovered Heishui City, he attributed all the credit to his own, which resulted in this 'X' not being left in history. No name, but he did exist."

"If you look at it this way, then the cause of the series of incidents related to the jade inserting screen can be pushed up to the discovery of the Dunhuang scripture cave. It's really... really incredible!" Xu Renyu also felt emotional.

"That's right! We always thought that it was Kozlov's accidental discovery in Heishui City that led to what happened next. Now it seems that everything started when the Dunhuang Buddhist scripture cave was discovered." Professor Luo said When I got here, I paused, "But it's all right now, the four jade screens are finally together, and we can put them together." When Professor Luo said this, everyone became excited.

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Professor Luo first arranged the four jade screens on the table in the order of "white", "high", "big" and "summer".Facing the four precious jade screens, he couldn't help sighing: "Now we have seen all the texts on the four jade screens. In fact, these four paragraphs together are the history of the entire Dangxiang nation. The first piece says The "Black Head Stone Chamber" is the early history of the Dangxiang people; the second piece of "Helan Shenshan" is the history of the rise of the Dangxiang people and the establishment of the Xixia Dynasty; the third piece of "Heishui Ancient City" reflects the Mongolian invasion history; the history narrated in the last piece is rather bleak, implying the history of the demise of the Xixia Dynasty."

"That's right! Looking at it together now, it's true. The history of the entire Dangxiang nation and the Xixia Dynasty is condensed on these four jade screens!" Tang Feng nodded frequently to Professor Luo's inference.

Immediately afterwards, Professor Luo turned the four jade screens over in turn, and pieced together the four jade screens one by one in order.Tang Feng saw that Professor Luo's hands trembled slightly, and when the last piece was left, his hands trembled even more.Tang Feng hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and helped him close the fourth jade screen.

A miracle happened. When the last jade screen was closed, a golden light appeared in the middle of the four jade screens, and the four jade screens seemed to be glued together instantly.Immediately afterwards, there was a change on the jade screen, and all the people present were stunned by the change and gathered around one after another.I saw a golden light glowing on the jade screen, and after a while, lines of densely packed words appeared.

"It's Xixia script!" Tang Feng immediately recognized that it was Xixia script.

But just when Tang Feng wanted to recognize those Xixia characters, those characters disappeared again, and a dazzling picture scroll appeared instead... No!A map, to be precise.The river flowing through the golden thread, the green mountains, the yellow desert... everything is so clear.But before everyone saw the map clearly, there was another change on the jade screen, and it was still the densely packed Xixia script.This time Tang Feng reacted immediately, rushed back to his room, took a digital camera, and shouted excitedly: "Get out of the way, get out of the way, I'll take a picture of it."

Tang Feng pressed the shutter continuously, and the jade screen changed repeatedly.The map and the text appeared repeatedly, so many times, Yuchaping finally stopped changing and returned to calm.Tang Feng played back the photo he took just now, and it was clearly visible, and he let out a sigh of relief.Looking at the calm jade screen again, although many lines can be vaguely seen on it, the entire map cannot be seen as clearly as before.

"It's a miracle. I never thought that this jade screen could change." Tang Feng sighed.

"Yeah! I didn't expect that either." Professor Luo was also shocked.

"Why is this happening?" Tang Feng asked.

Professor Luo pondered for a long time before explaining: "I have heard people say that some stones have the function of recording. I think the jade material used in the jade screen may have such a function."

"We have known the map before, but what is that text?" Han Jiang asked.

Tang Feng connected the digital camera to the laptop. Professor Luo stared at the computer screen for a long time, then shook his head and said: "Although I know most of the Xixia characters in this text, I just read it for a long time, but I can't understand the meaning of this article. Many sentences can't be connected together. This... This is really strange. I have studied Xixia characters for many years, and I have seen a lot of Xixia documents, such as this one. This is the first time I have come across an article read by a method.”

Tang Feng also saw the problem. This article really couldn't be read. A single word can be translated into Chinese characters, but it doesn't make any sense when connected into a sentence: "It's really impossible to read. This is the first time I have encountered this situation."

Everyone fell into silence, and the meeting room was silent. It was not until Han Jiang announced the end of the meeting that everyone dispersed one after another.

(End of this chapter)