The room was about fifty square meters, the light was a little dim, and there was a faint musty smell floating in the air.

On the wall hangs a portrait of Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, although there are only a few brushstrokes, but it is quite charming, and there are two lines of brushes in the lower left corner that say wild grass, "Iron and copper bars are towering in the sky, immortal for thousands of years; 02 Lead burns mercury to refine some elixir, and a dagger rejuvenates. Next to the vermilion seal, the place is written "Zhang Shiran" three words, the font silver hook iron painting, through the back of the word.

Zhu Lingwei said: "This Zhang Shiran is a famous painter more than 100 years ago, who has made outstanding achievements in figure painting, and his painting style is heavy and colorful, ink and wash are blended with each other, and he is unique in painting, and he is also very successful in calligraphy. Although the rice paper has been yellowed, the old brush is vertical and horizontal, vigorous and powerful. Although this painting seems to be only a few brushstrokes, the temperament is prominent, the characters are vivid, and the image jumps off the paper. If it is genuine, this painting is enough for the expenses of an ordinary family. "As a young lady of the Zhu family, although she is perverse and unrestrained, she has seen extraordinary since she was a child, and her eyesight is naturally higher than that of others, and it is not comparable to ordinary people.

"Miss Zhu has good eyesight." Huang Xuesheng reflexively closed the door and said with a smile: "This painting was given to my grandfather by Mr. Zhang. It's a pity that the real thing has long been lost, and what is hanging here now is just a fake. ”

Zhu Lingwei bowed slightly, thinking in her heart, such a precious painting, if it is genuine, who is willing to put it in such a bad environment.

Tang Yulan said with a smile: "Since you are willing to put the precious "Strange Medicine Dictionary" here, why don't you put the real work here?" In such a bad environment, even if the thief came, he would definitely think that there was a fake hanging here.

Huang Xuesheng still has a smiling face, but the smile on his face is a little unnatural.

"Makes sense." Zhu Lingwei suddenly realized, snapped her fingers, and said with a smile: "Mr. Huang, should you have opened a secret box on the wall behind the drawing paper and hid things inside?" ”

Huang Xuesheng shook his head.

Zhu Lingwei said again: "Is that in the cabinet?" He walked over to the brown-and-black wooden cabinet and opened a drawer.

There was a black scum in the drawer, and a smell of corruption came out after opening the drawer, Zhu Lingwei hurriedly pushed the drawer, took two steps back, wrinkled her nose and waved her hand repeatedly, and said, "What the hell, you shouldn't be hiding the book here." ”

"Nope." Huang Xuesheng smiled awkwardly and said, "Here." "Walking on crutches towards the stepping bed on the right against the wall.

The stepping bed is now very rare, it is a more popular wooden bed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the unique feature is that a small wooden house is added outside the shelf bed, just like an independent house. The bed frame can be hung with mosquito nets in the hot summer, which means "bed in the bed" and "cover in the hood".

However, Huang Xuesheng's stepping bed is simple in shape, not exquisite, and even the wood is simply painted, and even the hollow carvings are pitiful, and the wooden planks have been broken in some places, and the head of the bed and the wall are stuck together, rubbing off a large piece of white wall skin.

Huang Xuesheng raised his hand to stroke the dust on the bed, pointed to the foot of the bed, and said, "Just under the bed, Mr. Tang helped me take out the brick at the foot of the bed." ”

Tang Yulan smiled and said, "Mr. Huang, I was thinking that you must have had tracheitis when you were young. As he spoke, he walked slowly with one hand in his trouser pocket.

"How?" Huang Xuesheng frowned, not understanding why Tang Yulan pulled the topic on.

"The stricter the wife's control, the more ingenious the private money is hidden." Tang Yulan bent down, put one hand under the bed, and with a little force, the big bed of more than 200 catties was easily lifted by him, and he took out two bricks from under the broken legs to pad the foot of the bed.

"Haha, my wife is very virtuous." Huang Xuesheng stroked his beard and chuckled, looked down at the brick in Tang Yulan's hand, and said: "The size, volume, and weight of these two bricks are almost the same, and the book is hidden in the heart of a brick, can you tell which one it is?" ”

"What's so hard about that?" Tang Yulan stroked the rough and cold surface of the green brick, this kind of cyan long brick is hard, the length is more than thirty centimeters, the width is close to fifteen centimeters, and the thickness is even more than eight centimeters.

On the surface, the two bricks are exactly the same, and there is no difference to be seen. But after Tang Yulan comprehended the rules, he held the green bricks in his hands, and the green bricks seemed to be X-rayed, and Tang Yulan immediately noticed the difference between them.

"The brick in my left hand, although there are large grains of coarse sand in it, the texture is the same. The brick on the right hand is added with metal particles to increase the weight, and the book must have been hollowed out after the brick was made, and then put in, and then closed. Because the surface marks are rough, they are generally not easy to find. Tang Yulan's flat tone was like reciting a primary school student's text.

When Huang Xuesheng heard this, his face changed and he was shocked: "How do you know? It took less than two hours to meet and talk, and Tang Yulan had already given him too many surprises.

"Feeling." Tang Yulan said: "Mr. Huang, it seems that I am right, right? "As soon as he said that the palm of his hand was forced, his five fingers were like iron hooks, crushing the green bricks.

After the bricks shattered, an object wrapped in iron sheet appeared in front of everyone's eyes. The iron sheet has been insulated with oxygen for a long time, and the rust situation is not strict, and the thin iron sheet is opened, and the "Strange Medicine Dictionary" lies quietly in the iron box.

The cover of the parchment paper, the book is only five or six pages thin, and the edges of the paper are also damaged, and when you touch it by hand, the paper looks very fragile, and it may even break at any time.

"After all these years, the book is still the same as before!" Huang Xuesheng's lips trembled, and his eyes showed a look of remembrance.

"Mr. Huang, give." Tang Yulan brushed off the dust on it and handed the book to Huang Xuesheng.

Huang Xuesheng stretched out his hands and took them solemnly, but his arms and palms trembled unobeyedly, and the corners of his mouth even drooled, shining with light.

After being silent for a long time, Huang Xuesheng handed the book to Tang Yulan and said, "Grandfather told my father that my father would never be able to study this book thoroughly...... My father told me that it was impossible for me to read through it, not to mention that the book was incomplete. I've spent a lot of my life on this. Although I am 91 years old, I feel like I have lived for more than 50 years. ”

Tang Yulan listened to what he said, but he was a little disapproving, even if he handed over the electric light to Qin Shi Huang, I am afraid that the first emperor would not be able to understand it for the rest of his life. The world is developing, and when reading a book, we must also use the perspective of development.

Huang Xuesheng took a long breath and put back the shiny saliva at the corner of his mouth, and the spectacular scene made Zhu Lingwei look stunned.

"I didn't give the book to Yizhong, and I hope he won't waste his time on it. It is enough to teach him some experience. Huang Xuesheng's expression was solemn, and he said word by word: "Mr. Tang, when you read this book, you must be cautious!" Be careful! ”