Chapter 721: Cleaning up the portal

Li Cheng had already come back to his senses from the shock. His Adam's apple rolled, and the horror expression on his face disappeared in an instant. He reluctantly calmed down and looked at Chen Ao hatefully, pointing to Chen Ao and said, "This is the important place of my five tribes. Not to mention that it is your Xixia governor. Even if Li Ganshun comes in close contact, he has violated the taboo of my five tribes." He smiled and continued, "It would be fine if you escaped by luck. It would be fine if you escaped from Hengshan, but you dare to come back. This is a way to die!"

"Come!" he shouted.

A dozen people from the burly tribe who came to their senses stepped into the hall and looked at Chen Ao vigilantly.

Li Cheng's words are not without effect. This is the forbidden area of ​​the five clans. No outsiders can come in. Now that Shen Ao breaks in like this, it makes the five clans share the same hatred of the enemy. No matter how bad Li Cheng is, he is still a family member. No matter how noble Chen Ao is, he is still an outsider. Although the villagers have not spoken, they have already turned to Li Cheng in their hearts.

Chen Ao just stared at Li Cheng and said, "Are you going to become king?"

Li Cheng felt uncomfortable by Chen Ao's eyes. He glanced at Gui Zhihuan at the corner of his eyes. Seeing Gui Zhihuan looking at Chen Ao motionless, he was furious and said sternly: "Kill them, kill!"

However, the tribesmen looked at each other, and no one moved. Kill Chen Ao? If it were said that it was in the past, perhaps someone would dare to take action, but someone had experienced the consequences of Kill Chen Ao, and no one wanted to come again. Now the army outside the mountain has not retreated yet.

Many people looked at the villagers and Gui Zhihuan, hoping that they would make a decision. The villagers were surprisingly silent at this moment, and no one said anything. Gui Zhihuan looked at Chen Ao, and a trace of arc curled up slightly, making him extremely charming.

Li Cheng was a little panicked when he saw that no one listened to his orders. If he didn't kill Chen Ao today, he would be Li Cheng who died. He wouldn't understand this. He almost hissed and raised silver rings and said, "The holy thing is here, who dares not to obey, kill him!"

The silver ring in his hand showed a faint halo, and the tribesmen looked at each other in a glance. The minds of several people were shaken. They quietly pulled out the long sword at their waists. Someone took action, and the rest of them were like this. For a moment, the atmosphere was already tense.

Chen Ao closed his eyes sarcastically, looked at the collar on Li Cheng's hand, and said lightly: "Is this the holy object of the five clans? But no one knows whether this holy object is true or false. Do you want to make a fuss when you hold this?"

One sentence caused a thousand waves. Originally, Li Cheng said that he had found a holy object, and everyone did not doubt him. After all, as the leader of the Li Cheng clan, the clan did not dare to question it. But now seeing Li Cheng's true face, he felt suspicious. Dozens of fellow villagers were looking at the holy object, eager to tell the authenticity. Even the tribesmen who pulled out the sword could not help but hesitate, and the tip of the knife hanged slightly, and lost their fighting spirit for a while.

Li Cheng was furious and said, "You would rather listen to a nonsense outsider than believe me? This holy object is truly true. Whoever dares to question it will defile the ancestors."

Chen Ao smiled and said, "Since it is a holy object, there will be true or false. If your holy object is real, it is easy to say. But if it is fake, it is hard to say who is defiling your ancestors. It is just a silver ring. If you want it, I can immediately ask someone to imitate one thousand and one hundred. Who knows if you have a ulterior motive and ask someone to imitate one for your own benefit? It is better to verify this kind of thing first."

Seeing this, Heishan first stepped forward and walked: "If you don't know clearly, why should you listen to your order?"

The old fox Wu Shan rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "I, Wu Shan, can't believe in the character of the leader Li, so I will verify it first."

The villagers also looked at Li Cheng suspiciously, and one of them said, "It's better to verify the correctness."

This silver ring is indeed a real sacred object. Li Cheng is very sure of this. However, so many people raised doubts, but he was a little embarrassed. He never expected that his tribe members would vent their anger with an outsider. But if they didn't verify it clearly, I was afraid that no one would listen to his dispatch. He hesitated for a moment and sneered: "How to verify it?"

Chen Ao smiled, his arrogant temperament restrained, but it showed a bit of a sour taste of a scholar, saying, "I happen to know some identification techniques, but I can do it for you."

Li Cheng snorted coldly: "You can't."

Chen Ao pointed at Li Cheng and said, "Are you scared?"

Gui Zhihuan said at this time: "Let the Regent test it. No matter whether it is true or false, as long as you can tell convincing truths, everyone will naturally believe it."

Gui Zhihuan opened his mouth, and Heishan and Wushan also started to clamor. The villagers also became suspicious at this time, and many people followed suit.

Li Cheng had no choice but to say, "Okay, let you test it, but you will be contaminated with the holy objects and can only see but not move." He held the silver ring and stretched it out, but thought to himself that this is a holy object that has been passed down for thousands of years. If he can speak in a good manner, can he still refer to a deer as a horse?

Chen Ao smiled faintly and said to Gui Zhihuan: "Captain Gui Zhi, what is the origin of your holy object? Can you explain it first?"

Gui Zhihuan said seriously: "This holy object has been passed down for thousands of years and is a treasure in the clan. It was passed down from generation to generation. It was originally kept by the clan leader of the five clans in turn. After that, it was worshipped in this ancestral hall because of some changes in the clan. It was only because of the stolen thirty years ago that it was stolen, and there was no news after that." She smiled faintly, looked at Chen Ao deeply, and continued: "Speaking of all, it was the first time that I, the clan leader of Shane, saw this holy object."

The information was very vague, and saying it was like not saying it, but Chen Ao was secretly happy. The more blurred the information, the better. He took a step forward, asked a lieutenant to move the oil lamp, and carefully looked at the silver ring. The silver ring's system was very simple, like the style of the Southern Dynasties. At that time, the Five Barbarians invaded China was a period of sudden change in art forms, and it was difficult to distinguish the specific era for a while. Some black and dirty things had already grown slightly on the inner wall of the silver collar. This is the characteristic of silver. The material was absolutely correct. It looked like an antique at first glance.

Chen Ao carefully identified it and found that there were traces of words on the inner wall of the collar. Chen Ao thought in his heart that from the Qin and Han Dynasties, decorations often engraved some auspicious words, which is not surprising. At that time, the Qiang people were closely connected with the Central Plains dynasty, and it was the period when the Han and Qiang fusion were vague. It was not surprising that many habits of the Central Plains civilization were brought into the Qiang people.

In fact, since the Qin and Han dynasties, many of the Qiang people's life and writing habits were no different from those of the Han people. During the Han Dynasty, the Qiang people were attached to each other, and the Han Dynasty strengthened its control over the northwest region, there were countless examples of Han and Qiang intermarriage. The Western Qiang people belonged to the Sanmiao branch, mainly distributed in the Longxi area and merged later, so they had many of their own ethnic characteristics. For example, this circle was a kind of ornament that was different from the Han people.

Chen Ao took the oil lamp held by the captain's hand and gently moved it to the words on the inner wall of the collar. After carefully identifying it, he couldn't help laughing, then took the oil lamp away and said, "The inner wall of this collar has the words Yong and Shou."

Gui Zhihuan was a little crazy when he saw Chen Ao's serious look. This guy was usually a little crazy, but he was surprisingly serious in doing things. At this time, he couldn't help but say, "The noble people in the clan have the words like this on the inner wall of the collar."

Chen Aohe nodded, smiled at Gui Zhihuan, and said, "It's nothing wrong to carve such words, but it uses Chinese characters."

Li Cheng said angrily: "What's so strange about using Chinese characters? Our five tribes have always written in Chinese characters and speak Chinese dialect."

The language and characters of the Western Qiang people had undergone earth-shaking changes by the end of the Han Dynasty. They began to gradually write characters in Chinese characters, and the language gradually merged with Chinese dialect. Many characters also adopted the pronunciation habits of the Han people. Over time, the language of the Dangxiang people was more like the Chinese dialect. Although some of the pronunciation notes retained their own habits, generally speaking, there was no problem in using Dangxiang's language to communicate with the Chinese language.

Chen Ao smiled faintly and said, "A thousand years ago was the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty. I just don't know, did the nobles also use Chinese characters at that time?"

Li Cheng was stunned for a moment, and the villagers were speechless. Who can explain this historical issue clearly? Even the Han people who were diligent in writing history may not be able to explain what happened a thousand years ago, let alone them?

Li Cheng said with gratitude: "A thousand years ago, it was not surprising that our ancestors used Chinese characters."

Chen Ao smiled faintly and said, "That's true, but I still have a question."

Seeing that Chen Ao was full of confidence, Li Cheng couldn't help but feel guilty and refused to show weakness and said, "Look at what else you can say."

Chen Ao smiled and said, "There is nothing wrong with Chinese characters. It is nothing wrong with the nobles who used Chinese characters a thousand years ago. But why is the brushwork written on the inner wall of this ring in Yan style?"

Yan style? Everyone is ignorant, and most people probably have no idea about this. Only the arty Wu Shan knew a little bit, and stroked his beard and showed off: "Yan style is the calligraphy created by Yan Zhenqing, the Tang Dynasty. Yes, why did the calligraphy of the Tang Dynasty appear on antiques thousands of years ago?" Wu Shan's eyes lit up, and he became energetic and continued: "Han Li Tang Kai, this is the characteristic of Han people's running script. This Yan style is a kind of regular script. It was not until the Jin Dynasty that it began to be widely written. If this is really a holy object, even if it is written in Chinese characters, it should be used."

Li Cheng's face suddenly changed. Just as he was about to say something, he heard Chen Ao lightly say to Wu Shan's head: "Wu Shan is right, let alone regular script, just talk about the shape of the Yan style. It only appeared in the late Tang Dynasty, and it is only two or three hundred years old. Just now, the leader of the Guizhi clan said in person that this is a thousand-year-old antique, why are there fonts two or three hundred years ago?" He couldn't help but joke: "Is this Yan style not created by Yan Zhenqing, but created by the nobles' tribesmen a thousand years ago?"

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