Chapter 466 The ghost box is opened, like a water sword
The brocade heart embroiders the mouth, coughing up pearls and spitting jade.
Yang Zhaoxi and Oiran Yingniang looked at each other, and they both saw surprise and admiration in each other's eyes.
Yang Chaoxi said sincerely: "Miss Xiaomu's talent is unparalleled in the world. Xiaodao is willing to give up!"
Ying Niang also clapped her hands and said with a smile: "It turns out that my aunt is the real court lady in the 'Yueyi Tower'! Not only is she profound in Taoism, she is also talented and beautiful. Ying Niang almost kneels down three times and kowtows nine times, worshiping her like a god!"
Liu Xiaomuyun said lightly: "It's just clever words! Don't say any more exaggerated words. If you two can live to be more than five hundred years old, read many scriptures, and read countless poems, naturally
He can also speak well and write like a god."
Yang Zhaoxi nodded convincingly. Then he saw Liu Xiaomu leaning on an armchair, seemingly tired, and immediately asked with concern: "Miss Xiaomu's overdraft of breath that day, how far has she recovered?"
Liu Xiaomu smiled tiredly and said: "As the saying goes, 'Illness goes away like silk.' This overdraft of internal breath is like killing a chicken to get eggs and fishing in the lake. It damages the original essence. How can it be cured overnight? I'm afraid it will have to be inactive for a while.
Only then will you be able to perform your duties as freely as before."
Hearing this, Yang Zhaoxi immediately stood up and clasped his fists: "It's indeed a bit late today. Xiaodao will leave now and come back to visit the girl another day. If there is anything else you need, use the 'Chaoyin Bell' to send a message to me. Xiaodao will definitely respond.
When summoned."
Liu Xiaomu was about to be persuaded to stay when he suddenly saw a dazzling firework exploding in the southwest midair outside the window. There were faint sounds of several groups running towards the flickering fireworks. They must be the bad guards on night patrol.
Liu Xiaomu's six senses are so sharp! His ears trembled slightly, and his face was slightly solemn as he said: "Little Taoist priest, the night ban in the city has been strict recently. My aunt wanted to let you stay in the guest room for a night, but now it seems that it is not necessary. Those fireworks are 'meaning'
The signal sent by one of the Four Friends to call for help has a similar effect to the Zoroastrian "Sky Wolf Smoke". The "Old White Camel" who came with you just now is already going upstairs to find you...
"
Before they finished speaking, the three of them heard the sound of feet stepping on the floor outside the elegant house. Immediately, there was a rapid knock on the door, which sounded in front of the elegant house where Ying Niang lived:
"Brother Yang! Hurry, open the door quickly! Carpenter Liu must be in trouble, so he released the 'Flame Eagle' at night. Come with me and rush to rescue people! If you go too late, you may even fish out the body.
Less than…”
Yang Chaoxi was in a bad mood. Even though Liu Carpenter was superb in martial arts, his Yingchuan villa was really a place where many masters lived. When he rescued Cui Wan and Hu Ji, Yuan Zai was still in Chang'an, and he was already struggling.
Incomparable; now that Yuan Zai had just returned from Tongyuan Canal in despair, how could he have neglected to set up defenses in the mansion? If Liu Carpenter really got into a dispute with them for some reason, it would be very dangerous.
Thinking of this, Yang Zhaoxi did not care to say goodbye to Liu Xiaomu, and immediately rushed out of the elegant house, shouting to Du Shazhou, the "old white camel" who was about to break in through the door: "Brother Du, I am here, we are here."
Then set off for Guanglifang!"
Just as he finished speaking, he saw Du Shazhou trotting while tying the belt around his waist. When he ran in front of him, the turban on his head had not yet been tied: "Go downstairs! It's an emergency, let's talk as we walk!"
Yang Chaoxi connected her feet and followed closely, while saying in surprise: "Brother Du, where did you go just now and what did you do? Why are you so disheveled?"
Du Shazhou didn't look back and said angrily: "Just now the hunchback was about to take a bath with Yueniang, when he saw the 'flaming eagle' flashing out of the window, so he had to put the beauty aside and save his brother first!"
Having said that, the pace sped up a lot. Yang Zhaoxi didn't bother to ask about the strangeness anymore, and immediately got lucky again, chasing after Du Shazhou, and disappeared between the gray and black stairs in an instant.
Ying Niang stood at the door of the elegant house, listening to the sound of the two people running away quickly, she couldn't help but turned around and said curiously: "Auntie! Why did Mr. Bai call Mr. Lin 'Brother Yang', and Mr. Lin called Mr. Bai 'Brother Yang'?"
Brother Du'? Could it be that these two are using pseudonyms?!"
Liu Xiaomu smiled brightly and said: "The Mr. Lin you like was originally named Yang Chaoxi, and he was a Taoist priest who practiced the Qing Temple on the Cuiyun Peak of Mang Mountain. The pseudonym of 'Lin Duyang' was chosen casually by my aunt! The other one
The 'White Shuangfeng' who is as thin as a bamboo pole is actually the 'White Camel Old Monster' Du Shazhou, who has been hidden in the market and has not been seen for more than ten years!"
Ying Niang pursed her lips and said angrily: "Humph! What a Yang Chaoxi! Ying Niang treated him sincerely, but he actually deliberately deceived him! Strangely, in the hall at that time, I always felt that the name 'Lin Duyang' was a bit weird.
, turned out to be a couple with my aunt under the pseudonym 'Lin Guyue'! Giggle..."
"Little girl! Your skin is itchy, aren't you? If you dare to make fun of your aunt, let's see how I punish you!"
After Liu Xiaomu said this, he grabbed Ying Niang's belt, led her back to the room, and closed the wooden door with a bang. The sound of the two girls playing around soon came from the elegant house. After a while, it was Ying Niang again.
The voice of a girl begging for mercy...
The flowing clouds are crossing to the north, and the sun is setting in the west.
In the study room on the east side of the main hall of Yingchuan Villa, Yuan Zai put one hand behind his back and rubbed two apricot yellow chalcedony beads with the other hand, enjoying the "Picture of Orchid Persuading Drinking" on the screen with a look of obsession on the corner of his mouth.
Just as he was enjoying himself, he heard a clear and sharp voice outside the hall: "Prime Minister, General Qin Yanbiao has something important to report!"
"Come in!"
Yuan Zai reluctantly looked away from the screen, a flash of displeasure flashed in his eyes. Seeing Qin Yanbiao ushering in a carpenter with a sallow complexion and shrinking eyes, Yuan Zai forced a smile on his face,
"General Qin, how many of the 'Lu Ban Locks' have been unlocked this time? If you still come here to make up the numbers, it won't be that easy to defraud my Yuan Mansion of money!"
Qin Yanbiao immediately cupped his fists and bowed his head and said: "I don't dare to deceive you! Carpenter Liu has just unlocked all twenty-eight 'Luban Locks' by himself. Among the nearly a hundred carpenters invited in the past two days, he is the only one!"
Maybe it can help Yuan Xiang."
Yuan Zai was also shocked: he had played with the twenty-eight "Luban locks" for most of his life, but he had only solved twenty of them. And among the three sons and one daughter he had with his first wife Wang Yunxiu, the youngest was the most intelligent and intelligent.
My daughter Yuan Mengzhen was able to unlock twenty-six of them. As for the two most complicated 'Luban Locks', one was the 'Tianwang Pagoda' and the other was the 'Mo Naihe', but they were never able to be unlocked.
The thought flew away, and Yuan Zai turned around, looked at the incomprehensible carpenter Liu up and down, and tried to be approachable: "Master Liu, you can understand the meaning of 'Tianwang Tower' and 'Mo Naihe'"
', I guess he must be from a famous family. Can you do me a small favor?"
Liu Carpenter didn't know what was going on, so he could only say with sincerity and fear: "Yuan, Mr. Yuan Xiang, I'm afraid that I can't do it well, so I have to... eat the stick. I don't know what exactly Yuan Xiang wants me to do?"
A look of contempt flashed across Yuan Zai's eyes, but he still looked kind and cheerful. He pointed at the yellow "ghost box" on the desk and said: "I was entrusted by His Highness the Crown Prince to search for strangers among the people in order to open this wooden box.
It would be nice to see if the sword inside is rusted.
However, the craftsmanship of this box has long been lost, and the imperial craftsmen and supervisors have been helpless. Today, I invited Master Liu here just to ask you to give it a try. If you can solve it, there will be a huge reward, and we will all be happy; but we can't solve it.
, I will also give you my hard-earned money, and I will send you back happily."
Liu Carpenter then breathed a sigh of relief: "Then, I'll give it a try. If it doesn't work, please beg the Prime Minister for mercy and don't argue with the common people..."
"Yuan Xiang always keeps his word, how can he break his trust with an ant like you? There is so much nonsense! Why don't you hurry up and open the box!"
When Qin Yanbiao saw that Carpenter Liu was still making noise, he immediately pulled out half of the horizontal knife from his waist, which reflected Carpenter Liu's features. He was so frightened that his legs went weak and he fell to the ground again.
Carpenter Liu didn't dare to say any more, he stood up and came to the scroll-footed desk with the ghost work box. He looked at the deep red crab claw pattern and satin-like luster on the rosewood, and smelled the
With the faint scent of medicine, I couldn't help but secretly praise "good wood" in my heart. I quickly came back to my senses, my sleeves trembled, and I picked up the heavy ghost craft box and looked at it carefully. Only then did I realize that the faint scent just now
The medicinal fragrance actually emanates from the thuja wood of this box.
Yuan Zai stood behind him, looking at Carpenter Liu's focused look, and a strong sense of anticipation suddenly surged in his heart. His eyes, which had always been deep, also became hot at this time.
Suddenly, he slowly turned his face, glanced at Qin Yanbiao, and gave a vague look. Qin Yanbiao immediately understood and quietly stepped back.
But after more than ten breaths, the faces of the servants accompanying Yuan Zai gradually changed. A pair of cold eyes were fixed on the back of Carpenter Liu who was trying to open the box in front of the desk. The hidden obstacles in his sleeves
Knives, daggers, ropes, etc., like the murderer's minions, can swoop up at any time and tear this submissive-looking Carpenter Liu to pieces.
Carpenter Liu didn't realize it at all, he was completely immersed in thinking about the ghost craftsman's box.
This craftsman's box is also called the "Luban Box". It not only cleverly uses the mortise and tenon nesting technique, but also adds magnet iron beads to the key wooden tenons for disassembly, making the overall structure more stable and reliable. If you only know the ordinary
The disassembly and assembly methods of the "Luban Box" were unable to break the adsorption force of the magnets and iron beads, and ultimately were in vain.
Carpenter Liu turned over and over like this, looking at the cup of tea for a long time. It wasn't until Yuan Zai's patience was exhausted and he was about to get angry that he raised his head and exclaimed: "Mother! Lord Yuan Xiang, I know! This wooden box
It's called the 'copper wall and iron wall'. My old man told me that there was a carpenter in the Wei Dynasty named Ma Deheng, and he built this 'copper wall and iron wall'. It's even more difficult to manipulate than the 'Heavenly King's Tower' and 'Monaihe', little one.
The people are afraid that they won’t be able to do it!”
After Yuan Zai heard this, his color suddenly changed. A maidservant with a green beard next to him rushed out when he saw this. Before Liu Carpenter turned around and exclaimed, a cold dagger was pressed against his back: "If you want to go back alive, hurry up."
Open the box! Otherwise, I’ll twist your tongue first so you won’t talk too much!”
Liu Carpenter felt a cold and sticky sting on his back. He knew that the dagger had easily penetrated the shirt and pierced the flesh. He immediately cried out for mercy: "Yuan Xiang... have mercy on me! Woohoo! Xiaomin will open the box now...
Woohoo!”
Carpenter Liu did not dare to hesitate any longer, and immediately stood up the "copper-walled and iron-walled" ghost craft box on its side. He followed the thin slits on the box with his hands, pinched it, and estimated the position and size of the magnet mechanism inside. Suddenly he saw his hands pause.
, the ring finger of his right hand suddenly poked inward. There was a soft "pop" sound, and he immediately poked a square dent, half an inch deep.
Then he moved his hands again and continued to fumble on the box. However, after a few breaths, he heard a "click" sound again. Yuan Zai and others looked and saw that his left index finger had pressed down, and a two-inch wide hole appeared.
The rectangular groove came. Liu Carpenter's confidence greatly increased, and the speed of groping with his hands increased by three minutes. With several "snaps" in succession, the wooden box turned into an uneven and strangely angled box.
'Tower of the Heavenly King'!
Through the dark gap, a glimmer of light and shadow could be seen, trapped in it. Yuan Zai felt as if his heart was being scratched by a hundred claws. He wanted to grab it immediately and split the wooden box open; then he held the sword in his arms and played with it carefully.
Three days and nights!
But Carpenter Liu ignored Yuan Zai. Perhaps because he was too nervous and focused, there was a layer of dense beads of sweat on his forehead and temples. He kept using his hands, occasionally picking up a wooden tenon and rotating it.
Half a circle, sometimes another wooden tenon is poked down, and then lifted up half an inch... "Cracking" sounds are heard one after another, and the Thuja wood box, which has long been beyond recognition, is still changing its appearance, like a branch.
A strange dead tree stood proudly on the desk, mocking the stupid and greedy people.
"Crack! Danglanglanglang..."
Suddenly, the ghost craftsman's box, known as the "copper wall and iron wall", shattered into a pile of wooden tenons. Seven or eight fingertip-sized magnets and iron beads were mixed in, brown and brown, inconspicuous.
A shining silver sword stood upright on the ground. The evening light came out through the window and reflected on the sword's spine, immediately reflecting the dazzling brilliance. The brilliance gathered on the wall, printing a seven-color brocade ribbon. Looking from a distance, it looked like
Rainbow shadow; if you look closely at it, the light will flow like water.
Everyone was shocked by this vision. For a moment, they forgot to marvel, forget to speak, and forgot to move. Everyone was like puppets and clay sculptures, stunned on the spot.
Suddenly the sword moved, the light dissipated, and everyone came back to their senses. They saw Carpenter Liu squatting in front of the pile of wooden tenons, holding the hilt of the sword tremblingly with one hand, and carefully supporting the spine of the sword with the other hand, his eyes fixed.
Focusing on the sword, he was already looking at it in a daze.
Everyone's scorching eyes were naturally focused on the sword, but they didn't know what the sword was made of -
The whole body is translucent, like crystal. Its blade is like a snake, winding and twisting; the forging pattern is like water, the waves of the moon pool. The handle trembles slightly, trembling like a horse; curling your fingers lightly, it is sonorous and sweet!
In addition, this sword has been hidden in the stele, silent at the bottom of the Ningbi Pond. Now it comes out of the box, and it is still as new as new! It is really soft but not bad, strong but not broken, not rusted by water, and indestructible by fire!
"Is this the peerless magic weapon 'Rushui Sword'..."
In Liu Carpenter's mind, there was only this sentence of exclamation left, which kept lingering over and over again.
Yuan Zai's pupils shrank suddenly, with a look of fanaticism on his face, and he shouted sternly: "Kill him! Get the sword!"
All the servants and maids responded in unison, with their swords drawn from their sleeves and the murderous blade in their hands, they attacked Carpenter Liu.