Wu Chen was excited, and carefully poured the two boxes of chess pieces on the blanket on the ground, and the whole person lay on his stomach, like a child playing marbles, and counted them one by one.

A full 361 pieces! That's a rarity! For a while, the two of them really played Go for a while, but they didn't have a master's hand, they didn't even read much of the book, and they didn't even know much about the rules, so they had a lot of fun, from playing chess pieces to backgammon to fighting on the big chessboard, a pair of Go can make them play a lot of tricks.

It's just that these two little kids, fortunately, pretend to be forced, while playing and chanting "The world is out of my generation, and the years of entering the rivers and lakes urge ......", a group of masters, people who don't know still think that two little masters, if you want to get closer to see, you will often find that these two babies are using a Go board and playing backgammon.

There's no way, the Go thing is too time-consuming, the two of them are naughty and mischievous, where can they hold back, even if Wu Chen can calm down, he has to be willing to accompany him. So the two of them tinkered for a while, and then they stopped playing, but Wu Chen occasionally paid attention to the sports news, which contained a lot of news about Go competitions.

Therefore, Wu Chen is not too unfamiliar with Go, and knows that in addition to Ying's chess set, it is difficult to find a full 361 chess pieces in ordinary Go. Because there are eyes and eyes, it is impossible to use 361 chess pieces in a game, usually around 300, and this pair of clouds is actually complete.

No wonder these two chess boxes are made higher than the ordinary!

The box is red sandalwood, and the age is also a long time, it looks like there is a unique simplicity and calmness of the old red sandalwood, accompanied by the crystal dazzling clouds, but it is a perfect match.

Wu Chen picked it up and took a look, the craftsmanship is good, with a little Ming Dynasty Soviet-style characteristics, the horizontal one is the beam, the vertical one is the frame, the structure is rigorous, the material is reasonable, there is no redundancy and waste, connected with mortise and tenon joints, and the glue is firm.

However, what Wu Chen was looking forward to even more was the huge bead hidden at the bottom of one of the boxes. He turned the box over and carefully inspected the wood underneath, from the appearance, it was made of a whole piece of red sandalwood, there were no gaps, and the square barrel-shaped box above was well cut together, so tightly fitted, there was no foreign object hidden in it at all.

Although he was a little distressed, Wu Chen still did not hesitate to find a tool and carefully began to disassemble it along the place where the mortise and tenon joints were connected.

If you just want to take out the beads in it, you can just pry it open, but Wu Chen doesn't want to destroy the structure of the box, so he plans to put it back after dismantling.

As the heirs of the Guigu Society, restoring old furniture is also a unique skill for them.

All the furniture or wooden utensils made in the Ming and Qing dynasties basically do not use nails, and the entire production process is made of mortise and tenon structure, and some will also use glue to bond.

The glue used in those years was biological glue, and there were two commonly used types, one was fish belly bladder and the other was pig skin bladder. Its properties have their own characteristics, the maw bladder is relatively firm, but it is easy to become odorous and fail after a long time in a humid environment; The adhesive strength of pigskin bladder is not as good as that of fish belly bladder, but it is more adaptable to humid environments.

In Sudo and Guangzuo furniture, two kinds of swim bladders are often mixed in a certain proportion, which not only loses strength but also increases the ability to resist moisture. The common feature of these two kinds of glue is that it can be loosened and disassembled with hot water when repairing furniture and needs to be disassembled, which is very convenient.

Now some counterfeiters, when they are old, actually use white latex, which is often called "white bladder" in the industry. As everyone knows, this is what is used by cork carpenters now, and it is not suitable for hardwood, because the wood properties of soft and hard woods are different.

Modern furniture, on the other hand, often uses Jeho glue, that is, resin engineering glue, which has extremely high strength, and some even exceed the strength of the wood itself and is acid and alkali resistant. The result of this is that the furniture is "dead", and there is almost no way to disassemble and repair it later.

The reason why this box can be disassembled and repaired at will is precisely because it is a typical Ming Dynasty product.

How to disassemble and repair Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture, he has also learned, but before all, it was on paper, and the craftsmanship was ridiculously unfamiliar! Fortunately, I have a special ability, and I can see the gaps in the lines at any time.

First smoked with warm water and steam for a while, waited until the gum inside softened, and then followed the fit structure inside, "the inside should be combined outside", and after some tinkering, the bottom was finally unloaded.

This is a separate part, even after removing it, there is still a layer of half-centimeter-thick bottom on the box, but it is not painted, and the rosewood that has not seen the light for a long time emits a faint dark fragrance.

"No wonder no one has found out!" Wu Chen smiled, put the box aside, picked up the boxy thick wooden board, and saw a round hole the size of a baby's fist dug in the center, which was full of a piece of yellow satin, which looked quite bright and had no traces of time at all.

He grabbed the satin cloth with one hand and gently pulled it out, because he was afraid of breaking it, so he didn't dare to push too hard, but he didn't pull it, and the embedding was quite tight!

Wu Chen secretly intensified, and finally pulled out the yellow ball, but it was a cloth bag, spread it out, and he saw a dark black bead, a bit like a ripe black brin.

"What's that?"

Wu Chen picked up the black bead and turned it around in his hand, how could it not look the same as what he saw with his ability in the morning? At that time, I was blinded by it, but at the moment it looks like a black glass ball, and it is not transparent, a little stunned?

Could it be that I am mistaken? Wu Chen was disappointed, and the ability between his eyes looked over again, only to see a flash of white light, and a loud bang in his head, he actually fainted!

White miserable expanse! As if wrapped in an oval white light, Wu Chen felt that his chest was tight, a little breathless, and in a panic, his body stretched out, empty and soft, just like stepping on a pile of cotton in autumn, the more he struggled, the more he felt powerless!

"Ah~~" In a panic, Wu Chen subconsciously opened his mouth and roared hard, but there was no sound at all, like a dying fish, opening and closing his mouth weakly.

Just as he was dying, the white light around him suddenly gathered, slowly forming a circle of light, piercing him so that he couldn't open his eyes at all, but even if his eyes were closed, the burning feeling was still so strong.

That aperture saw a beam, leaving only an incomparably strong point of light, and with a whoosh, it penetrated between Wu Chen's eyes.

"Ah!!h

With a roar, Wu Chen's body straightened up, woke up, and looked at the dome ceiling above his head with a little blankness, with golden borders, and flickering LED lights, like stars in the sky, and only his own pounding heartbeat in the space.

Luckily, just a dream!

Wu Chen sat up in a daze, his mind gradually became clearer, and then he felt that his whole body was wet, and he was sweating!

I looked outside, but fortunately, the sound insulation here is first-class, and it is estimated that people downstairs can't hear it. Wu Chen pressed the pounding in his heart, got into the bathroom, twisted the cold water, poured it, listened to the sound of the water flowing through his ears, and the whole person slowly calmed down, everything that happened just now is vivid, even the scene in the dream is so real and familiar! It seemed to bring back some kind of distant memory for him.

After drenching under the unkempt head for more than half an hour, Wu Chen felt that his hands and feet were beginning to wrinkle, so he walked out, changed into a dry and thin pajamas, and walked back to the end near the fireplace and the sofa.

As for the big black bead that made his heart palpitate, he was lying quietly on the llama skin blanket at the moment, and it didn't look abnormal at all, but Wu Chen didn't dare to use his ability to look at it anymore!

Grandma's, this feeling, real people are not human, it is estimated that people who suddenly touch the electric door will understand!

Leave it alone! Wu Chen wrapped it in a flannel cloth, and searched for a long time, but he couldn't find a suitable box to put it, so he had to put it on the table first, where there was a small groove for placing the cup.

After finishing these, Wu Chen went downstairs, preparing to go outside to blow the wind, the more strange things are, the more you have to make yourself sober and relaxed, anyway, the things are in your hands, and you can't run, go back and study it slowly.

He is also making excuses for his laziness, the so-called retrospective research, often just shelved away, and now there are still a lot of things in the safe that are not clear, the black token, the black block brought back from Phoenix Mountain, and the silver bracelet, etc., although when you move or put new things in, you will see it, but there are too many things, and you don't know that you can pick it up in the year of the monkey as soon as you put it down.

In fact, he didn't want to touch these strange things with a mysterious color, after returning from Phoenix Mountain, the whole world view has changed greatly, there are too many things beyond human imagination in this world, of course, this also represents ignorance and uncontrollability!

Wu Chen's subconscious is very satisfied with his current life, and he is not willing to get too involved in those mysterious realms. If you don't die, you won't die! It's not easy to be alive, let alone live well. If you follow his personality, it is really possible to take his wife and children and end up in the mountains.

It's just that fate has always pushed him to move forward step by step. Just like most people in this city, they eat and drink every day, get up early and return late, blindly busy, as if they have been pushed by an invisible hand, step by step towards the end of time.