That's right, that's the stone drum, to be precise, it should be the Chen Cang stone drum.

The Chencang stone drum has 10 sides, which is known as one of the "Nine Great Treasures of China's National Capital", and is known as "the No. 1 Antique in China". The builder is said to be Qin Jinggong, more than 200 years earlier than Qin Shihuang.

Qin Jinggong was an authentic descendant of Huangdi. His tomb, No. 1, Qingong, was the largest ancient tomb excavated in my country so far, covering an area of ​​more than 5,300 square meters. When excavating this tomb, one of the primary problems that troubled archaeologists was that it was impossible to build an equally huge shed.

The history of the 10-sided Chen Cang stone drums can be written separately. Each stone drum weighs about 1 ton and is engraved with "Stone Drum Inscriptions", which tells a story of unknown history. It is the earliest stone-carved poem in China. It is known as the "ancestor of seal script". Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has "a word worth ten thousand gold", creating a miracle in the history of Chinese cultural relics.

It was discovered at the end of the Tang Dynasty and was known as a "godly gifted divine object" at that time. It was already a very important cultural relic in ancient times. By the Song Dynasty, Song Renzong, the famous "painting and painting emperor" in history, Song Huizong regarded it as a treasure and even moved it to the palace to accompany him day and night.

Until liberation, all of these 10 stone drums were regarded as the country's treasures by those in power. Each stone drum even had its own name, and the most famous of them was "original".

When Yang Ni was in college, he visited the Forbidden City to visit these 10 stone drums. Now when he looked at the stone drums all over the ground, he carefully counted and found that there were no more or less and no less.

Do these stone drums have some connection with the "Taicang stone drum"?

With these 10 stone drums as a guide, Yang Ni then discovered that in this small room, except for the stone beast statues, he had originally mistakenly thought of as rubble and stone, it turned out to be another thing. This kind of thing is related to stone drums and is actually not difficult to see in our lives.

That's right, it's "Holding Drum Stone".

There is another name for the drum stone, which is the "mendant" in the idiom "Good Family".

The most common sight of the drum stones is seen outside the archways and the houses of wealthy families in ancient times. If you pay attention to the ancient manor or the big houses when browsing the ancient manor or the big house, you can almost see the figure of the drum stones.

Its shape is a stone drum that is upright. Putting the stone drum outside the door of the house is not only a grand sound of the drum, as sharp as thunder, and can avoid ghosts and drive away evil spirits, but also a very important practical function, which is to fix the door.

You should know that in the past, there were no screws and hinges, the door leaf was squeezed by door pillows and joints, and the latter was the "honored pair". Among them, the drum stone was a type of door pillow, but it was only used by those with noble identities.

Yang Ni's mind was very fast, which was directly related to his exploring when he was in college. In this way, he always associates the "Stone Drum" with a very important concept on Huangquan Street - "Gate".

Entering the Huangquan game requires a "door", leaving Huangquan Street requires a "door", and even the one entrusted by the King of Hell to find a place where he can escape from his dying place, and return to the real world is also a "door".

The "Baogu Stone" with the largest inventory here is another "stable door", and there is definitely some close connection between the two.

For a moment, the status of this small stone house in Yang Ni's heart suddenly rose.

Thinking of this, Yang Ni hurriedly squatted beside one of the stone drums and observed carefully.

Sure enough, he soon discovered that the side of the stone drum was also engraved with dense and complicated symbols, but it was not any of the words he knew.

Then he had another unexpected discovery, that is, these symbols looked familiar. After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized: in the last "Dropping Handkerchief" game, he had seen such symbols on the electronic display screen behind the prison door.

At that time, he obtained a U disk, and after plugging it into the display screen, there was a short loading screen. In just a few seconds, a large number of unseen symbols appeared. Yang Ni felt strange and carefully recorded a few characters with the highest frequency.

His idea was very simple at that time, just to recognize this symbol as soon as possible next time he saw it.

So, when he saw the symbols engraved on the stone drum, he immediately concluded that this was exactly the same as the symbols that appeared on the display screen!

But although he recognized it, Yang Ni felt a strong sense of incongruity, because the symbols on the electronic display screen representing advanced technology were exactly the same as those engraved on stones, just like seeing someone using a mobile phone on a prehistoric human mural, which was particularly inconsistent.

So, what do these symbols mean?

Yang Ni had a faint feeling that if the meaning of these characters could be solved, he might be able to find the "reality" hidden behind the Huangquan game.

But it may not be certain whether this "reality" is what he wants at that time.

Cookie sat on the stone drum and looked around, and said weakly: "Brother Yang, it's so scary here. There are so many strange stone statues. Let's leave quickly."

Not only her, but even Bulu and Spider were very uncomfortable with this claustrophobic, dim, and strange-shaped sculptures everywhere.

Yang Ni calmed down. No matter what he discovered just now, the most important problem at present is to win the game.

This game has only been going on for less than half of the time, and unexpected things will definitely happen next. With the style of Huangquan Game, players will never easily get visa time and playing cards.

But after hearing what Cookie said, Yang Ni looked around with Cookie's gaze.

When he first came in, his attention was attracted by the stone drums all over the ground and he did not observe the room carefully.

Like other places in Niangniang Temple, this house is also a bluestone building. The difference is that the walls are painted with yellow and red paint outside, but here, from the walls to the floor, it is full of bluestone and lime, which makes Yang Ni once considered it a handicraft workshop.

It is actually not accurate to say that this room is not big. This is because the light was dim when I first came in, and there were tall stone pillars that were all over the ceiling, and the dilapidated stone statues and sculptures all over the ground, giving people a very messy and blocked feeling, which creates a visual illusion.

But in fact, this room is about three and a half meters high, about 200 square meters, which is considered large in a building made of all stone.

It’s just that there will be a stone pillar every ten meters, and the arrangement of these pillars is extremely irregular, which will create a sense of space separation.

The strange stone statue that Cookie mentioned should refer to several strange sculptures standing against the wall.

They are about 2 meters tall, with human body and animal heads, and are lifelike.
Chapter completed!