Chapter 8: The Treasure Chest I
"Okay." Dong Qingshan took out a wooden box from his baggage and put it on the table, "Let's take a look." ”
As soon as the things were on the table, everyone's eyes were fixed on the box on the table.
Dong Qingshan sat on the north side of the table, Dong Tianyue and Gao Lingfeng sat side by side on the south side of the table, and Liang Hua and Gao Yide sat on the east and west sides of the table, looking at the wooden box with blazing eyes. The wooden box is golden yellow, and the lines on it are very luxurious, like a wisp of gold silk waves shining!
What a beautiful golden silk nanmu brocade box, Dong Tianyue, Liang Hua, and Gao Lingfeng are all a little demented.
Golden silk nanmu is the national tree of China, and the emperor's dragon chair was made of it in the past. If there are excellent texture patterns such as large waves, tumors, blisters and other excellent texture patterns on the golden silk nanmu furniture, the price is amazingly high! Not to mention the finished product, it is the old Zhennan material with a diameter of 15 cm and a length of two meters, each of which is about 150,000, which is equivalent to ten taels of gold! If you use it to make furniture, the price will be higher.
Several of them can be regarded as people who have seen the world, but except for Gao Yide, several others have never seen such a high-quality golden silk nanmu treasure box.
"This looks like a treasure box, huh?" Gao Yide frowned and sighed softly, the box seems to be very familiar?
Gao Yide remembered that he once gave a treasure box of Jin Si Nan to his master. As soon as this thing was on the table, Gao Yide recognized it at a glance, and said in surprise: "Master, this ......."
"Hehe, it's the golden silk nanmu puzzle treasure chest you gave me!" Dong Qingshan said with a smile.
"No wonder it looks familiar? By the way, master, didn't you say that it is the king of your collection of brocade boxes, how can you be interested in bringing it out, could it be that the puzzle has been solved? Gao Yide asked, pointing to the golden treasure box on the table.
In addition to the precious golden silk nan wood, this treasure box is also equipped with an exquisite puzzle on the surface of the wooden box, if you can't solve the puzzle, you can't open the box. If you try to force it, the self-destruct device inside is touched, and the treasure inside will be destroyed. Dong Qingshan loves this treasure box given by Gao Yide very much, and the key reason is this mysterious puzzle device.
In ancient times, there were too many craftsmen who could make brocade boxes and treasure boxes, but there were very few who could set up puzzles on brocade boxes. Generally, someone is hired to be the owner of this kind of puzzle, and it is either rich or expensive. They use it to hold very valuable items, or they use it to hold secret archives such as treasure maps. This thing is generally only seen in the court and in the homes of the gangsters.
"It's solved, but the puzzle is disrupted by me again, just to restore it to its original appearance, so that everyone's eyes can be opened." Dong Qingshan smiled and said, "Yue'er, can you identify this treasure chest?"
Everyone looked at each other a few times, the old man is really tireless, when did he not forget to teach his grandson the ability to identify antiques? Everyone looked at Dong Tianyue, and they all guessed whether Dong Tianyue had real talent to identify?
Dong Tianyue didn't dare to get started, not that he was a mallet, but that he was afraid of being "electrified". By his senses, this brocade box was qualified to stimulate his clairvoyant eye. At the beginning, Dong Tianyue got his hands on a painting of the Song Dynasty Juran monk, and the feeling of electric shock suddenly came from the palm of his hand, which immediately inspired his sense of touch to open a door to the perspective eye.
According to Dong Tianyue's experience, as long as things were in the Song Dynasty, he would definitely have a feeling of electric shock or numbness as soon as he got his hands on it, accompanied by a headache. The more expensive it is, the more it comes from everyone's hands, the more obvious that feeling is. In other words, as long as you get your hands on the antiques of the Song Dynasty, the clairway eye can be triggered. Dong Tianyue didn't want everyone to see that there was something wrong with him today. For his ability to see through eyes, even his grandfather didn't tell him. He wants to wait for his grandfather's 80th birthday to give him an unexpected surprise!
"Grandpa, it looks like something from the Ming Dynasty." Dong Tianyue guessed with experience, and looked at his grandfather with a worried expression, if he said something wrong, he would be ashamed. Dong Qingshan said with a smile: "It's not bad, you can see that it's from the Ming Dynasty before you get started, it's a bit of an improvement!" ”
"That's, if you don't have any skills, then it will be a shame for you." Dong Tianyue breathed a sigh of relief, and finally got it right. Of the only two grandchildren left in the Dong family, Dong Qingshan seems to prefer Dong Tianyue, which may have something to do with Dong Tianyue's father being killed by his eldest brother.
"Huh! Master, I thought that the talent of the little junior brother was not below the senior brother! Gao Yide hurriedly praised. The senior brother is Dong Tianyue's uncle Dong Ruoyun.
Dong Qingshan waved his hand and smiled: "This kid can't boast, he will be proud if he praises!" He slowly picked up the box and appreciated it, nodding his head in approval: "Well, it is indeed from the Ming Dynasty." It's ingenious and exquisite! The wavy gold veins of the golden silk nanmu are like golden fish scales shining, especially never tired of seeing! Judging from the shape, process characteristics, pulp and other aspects, this is a thing in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and it should be a royal thing in the palace. The wisdom of the ancients is truly extraordinary, and it makes us modern people ashamed! ”
Originally, today by the side of his senior brother Gao Yide and master Liang Hua, Dong Tianyue wanted to hear a few words of grandpa praising him, which would be more face-saving, but he didn't expect that grandpa was still so stingy with praise.
Dong Tianyue couldn't help but retort: "Grandpa, you always like to be thick and thin, and you think about the past at every turn, you asked the ancients to make a smartphone for me to see?" ”
"Isn't it comparable to the wind and the horse and the cow, can this be compared?"
"You always advise others not to eat the ancients, I think you are the most serious."
Gao Yide and Gao Lingfeng were shocked when they listened, the little junior brother is so fierce, dare to talk to the master like this? Is Dong Qingshan going to publish now? But he didn't.
"Really?" Dong Qingshan put down the box with a smile, "I'm an old brain, stubborn, I can't change it, but I hope you young people don't do this, think more about everything, and innovate more......"
Dong Tianyue pretended not to be impressed, but in fact, he still agreed with what his grandfather said. It's just that I haven't seen you for a long time, and I feel extra kind to be able to lift the bar with my grandfather.
Gao Lingfeng didn't dare to hold up in front of his master, and said humbly: "You are always right. ”
"Grandpa, I took a few looks, where is this 'picture eye', have you found it?" Dong Tianyue looked at it for a while, didn't see the picture, frowned and asked, he was actually hiding something when he said this. When his grandfather said that this thing was from the Ming Dynasty, Dong Tianyue carefully got started, and there was a tingling sensation in his palm, but fortunately, he was mentally prepared and was not "corona".
Although he was not corona, Dong Tianyue's perspective eyes were touched. Dong Tianyue said while looking at the inside of the box with a perspective eye, oops, it's all good things! That heartbeat raced!
"Hey, there are two layers of treasure chests, I don't know if grandpa has found it? Well, the mechanism on the second layer is a bit secretive, and grandpa probably didn't find it! Dong Tianyue excitedly checked the second layer of the treasure chest, but unfortunately his clairvoyance skills were not enough, and he couldn't see it clearly, and the picture inside was a little blurry.
Although it is not the first time that I have opened the see-through eye by touch, the feeling of penetrating the wooden box and knowing the situation inside is really exciting! It's a pity that this excitement can't be shared with others, so I panicked. The special function of the clairvoyant eye is a secret and cannot be easily said unless it is absolutely necessary. That's Dong Tianyue's killer feature! Therefore, although Dong Tianyue successfully opened the perspective eye and saw the treasure in the brocade box, he couldn't show it too obviously, in case he was suspected, it wouldn't be fun.
In order to hide that he was using perspective eyes to see through, Dong Tianyue fiddled with his hands and pretended to do puzzles. He fought several times, but he couldn't find any rules, let alone complete the spelling, and he didn't even find the "picture eye".
Even children know that the first step in playing puzzles is to find the "picture eye", if you can't find the "picture eye", how to get it is a blind break.
"Ouch, it hurts, it's hard to fight! Grandpa, where is the picture eye! Dong Tianyue grabbed his head and pretended to be a puzzle puzzle.
"Hehe, don't talk about you, even your senior brother can't find it. It took me a few months to find a way out, old man, and I searched for all kinds of ancient books. The mechanism of this mechanism diagram comes from the Nine Palaces Bagua Array, and the 'Diagram Eyes' are two instead of one! Dong Qingshan said with some shame.
"Nine Palace Bagua Array?" Everyone wondered, is it so difficult to solve?
Dong Tianyue was puzzled: "How can there be two 'picture eyes'?" ”
"You don't usually read much ancient books? Those who do our business must be well-versed in the past and the present, what history, art, physics, chemistry; What kind of craft, Buddhist scriptures, allusions, formations, it is best to dabble in them. At the very least, your brother guessed that there were two pictures. Dong Qingshan took the treasure box, pointed to it and said to everyone: "Because this is a royal thing in the palace, it must be secretly in line with the meaning of 'facing the south and backing the north', do you probably know the gossip map of the Nine Palaces?" Dong Tianyue shook his head: "I know a little, but if I don't understand it thoroughly, you don't talk about gossip, anyway, we don't know much about it, we only know what is the kan position, the kun position or something, which two pieces are it, you can always say it directly." ”;