Chapter 480: The Peak Trap Box
After two rounds of prices, the little multicolored macaw changed owners.
Li Yi was holding a huge bird cage in one hand, green plants in the other, and a big girl beside him.
Back at the hotel, after using a few drops of mineral water from He Shou Wu water, first watering a little for the tequive, and then preparing a copy for the little parrot, Li Yi began to ponder.
The harvest of this trip to Taipei has been unexpectedly rich, and if there is nowhere to go next, it is better to simply go back to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to meet the future father-in-law.
"Li Yi, I took a look at the strategy, why don't we wait for the fat elephants to come back, let's drive to Kaohsiung by ourselves?"
Kaohsiung? Li Yi raised his eyebrows, although Taipei Kaohsiung is one south and one north, but the distance between the two is only 350 kilometers, and it will take more than 3 hours to drive by yourself, of course, no problem.
"Well, in the afternoon, I'm going to buy some paper, pencil and paint, and then we rent a big RV and drive along Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Nantou, and Chiayi all the way, so that Alishan, Sun Moon Lake and other attractions can be taken care of, we play all the way, paint all the way, ......"
Li Yi was taken aback, she didn't expect this girl to think of such a big plan, so all the way down, I'm afraid it will take ten days?
"My plan is for a week, and it's nothing anyway, I'll see it all once I come, and if it's fun, I'll come two more times, and if it's not fun, forget it."
Li Yi nodded, since you are interested, you can accompany the family!
If you want to buy pen and paper, especially rice paper suitable for painting, this kind of shop is not easy to find for two outsiders who rely on maps when they go out.
However, Li Yi knows very well that such a store is difficult to find in other places, and there will definitely be an antique market, and there are often more than one or two!
smiled and hugged Lu Ningshuang into his arms, his heart was full of relief, if he had a wife like this, what more could a husband ask for?
"What's the matter, I just think, since I'm here, try not to leave regrets. Besides, I also like to watch you pick up leaks, it's so exciting! ”
After taking a look, the two decided to go to the Sanpu Antique Market first to have a look, and turn slowly, anyway, the fat elephant and they will not be able to come back until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.
The Sanpu antique shopping mall is completely underground, and its shape is quite similar to the Liangma Market in Yanjing, but the scale is much smaller, with only 20 or 30 merchants, and most of them are still small shops of 1 or 20 square meters.
Going down the stairs to the ground, the first one is a large furniture store, with an area of about 50 square meters, about a dozen pieces of mahogany furniture, and the flow of people is cold, and the business is bleak.
Li Yi and his wife looked like tourists from the mainland, and this kind of person couldn't buy furniture when he bought anything, so the boss was not enthusiastic, and after a simple greeting, he hugged the computer and got busy.
More than a dozen pieces of furniture, even if you spend your time looking at them one by one, it won't take long, let alone a veteran like Li Yi?
So a few minutes later, he was ready to retreat, in this store, there are only three mahogany screenback chairs in good condition, and they are indeed old things from the Republic of China, and the others are not worth mentioning.
was about to beckon Lu Ningshuang to leave, when she suddenly saw a box in her hand fiddling, walked over to take a look, and couldn't help frowning, this is, the trap box?
"Look, there are so many small pieces, it seems that you can still press it, but I don't know what it's for."
Li Yi took the box and looked at it carefully.
It is a small square wooden box, made of small leaf red sandalwood, on each side of the six sides of the wooden box is divided into 18 rectangular pieces of equal size.
Each of these small pieces had an ancient character engraved on it, and Li Yi tried to read it, and found that there was no connection between the adjacent characters.
He didn't know much about the trap box, and he hadn't seen the real thing before, but he had seen some other traps.
According to historical records, Lu Ban is the originator of organ utensils, and he made many organs in his life, the most famous of which should be the wooden kite.
According to Mozi? Lu Wen records that he was inspired by the birds flying in the sky, cut wood into magpies, and then installed the mechanism, "Fly after success, three days do not fall, and the male loser thinks he is the most clever." ”
Of course, from the current point of view, there are a lot of inaccuracies in this record, but this at least shows one point, that is, Lu Ban's mechanism is indeed superb, otherwise people would not use this wooden kite to seal him as a god.
But compared with this legend, the legend of Lu Ban and Mozi fighting each other to siege and defend the city through the dispute between Chu and Song is much more reliable.
According to legend, during the Warring States Period, Lu Ban made many siege equipment for the Chu State, preparing to help it attack the Song Dynasty. When Mozi heard about it, he came to stop him, and fought with Lu Ban in the palace of the king of Chu with clothes and belts as the city and bamboo pieces as tools.
In the end, Lu Ban's siege equipment was used up, and Mozi's method of defending the city was more than enough, and finally Lu Ban was convinced, and the king of Chu also gave up attacking the Song Dynasty.
After a short period of brilliance, in the Three Kingdoms period, he finally borrowed the hand of Zhuge Kongming, and shined, not only the famous wooden ox and flowing horse were from his hand, it is said that the chair he sat on was also quite extraordinary.
Wen Ruian, a master of martial arts novels, even tailor-made a machine chair based on this legend for the ruthlessness of the first of the four famous catches!
After that, there will be no famous organs, but according to the research of some historians, Zhuge Kongming's wooden ox and flowing horse may be true!
If this study proves to be true, it will be terrifying.
Wooden, not relying on manpower, the carrying capacity is "one-year-old grain", that is, about 400 catties or more, a daily journey of dozens of miles, enough to provide grain and grass for the 100,000 army of Shu, what is that concept?
Compared to these traps, trap boxes can only be called small arts. But small techniques are often of great use, because Li Yi knows that in ancient times, some people would hide some secrets in the trap box, which is like the current combination lock, adding a layer of insurance to those confidential things.
was studying, the boss suddenly walked over, but as soon as he saw the trap box in his hand, his face changed instantly,
"Where did you get this?"
Lu Ningshuang was stunned for a moment, and said unhappily:
"It's in the drawer of that cabinet, what, can't you see?"
"This thing is not for sale!"
The boss said, stretched out his hand to come over and snatch it, Li Yi dodged, and took the opportunity to open the spirit card.
A cool air poured in, and at the same time, his clairvoyant eyes also saw that the center of the trap box was stuffed with an old parchment!
Immediately, he glanced at the appraisal conclusion, and couldn't help but be a little shocked, this organ box was actually made in the early days of the founding of the Song Dynasty Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, more than 1000 years ago!
A 1,000-year-old trap box, and there's still a ball of parchment hidden inside!
Suddenly, Li Yi's heart seemed to be scratching with a cat's paws, no, he must find a way to buy this box!
The boss couldn't help but be a little angry when he saw that Li Yi didn't return the box, and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard Li Yi ask:
"Boss, how much does this box cost?"
The boss frowned, what's going on with this person, can't he understand people's words?
"I said no! Even if you sell it, you can't afford it, young people, go and play somewhere else, all the antiques are sold here, not a tourist place. ”
Li Yi raised his eyebrows,
"How do you know I can't afford it if you don't say the price?"
The boss took a deep look at him,
"Do you know what this thing is?"
Li Yi was about to answer, when his heart suddenly moved, pretending to be stupid, and shook his head,
"I don't know!"
"If you don't know, you dare to ask for it?"
Li Yi's neck is stalked,
"Although I don't know what this is, I know the small leaf red sandalwood, and I know the pulp!"
Seeing Li Yi's stunned appearance, the boss smiled,
"You still know about pulp, and you know about small-leaved red sandalwood? Okay, I'll tell you what this thing is, so that you can die of this heart, and the province will go back in the future and say that we Taiwanese are bullying you mainland tourists. ”
Lu Ningshuang had already seen that Li Yi had a problem, so she guessed that this box should be very precious, and when she heard that the boss was going to speak, she hurriedly pricked up her ears.
"This is a trap box, and according to the characteristics of the process and the pulp, it is at least something from the Song Dynasty. If you look at this box, there are 18 small squares on each side, of which the upper and lower sides represent the 36 Tiangang, and the other four sides are alluded to the number of 72 earth-shattering blocks. ”
"And in order to open the box, you have to find the password left by the maker. According to my estimates, even if the password is only four characters and 108 Chinese characters, the password combination is more than 5 million times, which is really the pinnacle of ancient tricks, how can I sell such a precious thing? ”
Lu Ningshuang only gasped for cold air when she heard this, while Li Yi pursed her lips, looking like she was so angry that she couldn't pay for her life.
"It's not as amazing as you say! Returning the Technique...... Besides, even if it's an expensive thing, you have to have a price, you have the ability to make a price to see, maybe I can buy it? ”
The boss was very angry, glared at Li Yi vigorously, and said word by word:
"20 million, 20 million NT$, this box will be yours!"
Li Yi made a look of surprise,
"NT$20 million, almost more than 4 million soft sister coins, such a big piece of small leaf red sandalwood, you sell it as gold...... No, gold isn't that expensive! ”
The boss glanced at him disdainfully,
"If you can't afford it, please leave, this trap box, let alone this price, even if it's higher, as long as I release the wind to sell, I can sell it in minutes! Young people, the world is so big, there are so many things you haven't seen before......"
The boss saw that Li Yi was weak, and his heart was relieved, and he couldn't help but put on the posture of the old man for a while, but he didn't expect Li Yi to change color.
"What if I can really come up with the NT$20 million?"
"Hehe, for one day, if you can take out 20 million, you can take this trap box away at any time!"
After that, he pointed to the few people behind him who ran over to see the excitement because they heard their discussion,
"Everyone here knows that I, Chen Laogen, am a man of his word, and I will do what I say!"
"Oh?"
Li Yi slapped his palm lightly, and it was done!
PS: Shout, robbery! Hand in all kinds of tickets! (To be continued.) )