With such a cognition of the contents of this small closet, Zuo Yang's heart was also slightly relaxed.

However, he was not in a hurry, but patiently waited for the breath that was pouring out like a flood to slow down a little, and then said to the imperative cliff next to him: "I'll illuminate it, you come to help me take out these wooden sticks, be careful when you take them." ”

Although he knew that this aura was not harmful to him, he was not completely sure that he would not be affected by some other influences, so he still had to leave a slight way out.

And Buya is different, he has no feeling for this kind of breath, and he shouldn't be affected, and even if there is any impact, he can help him in time, on the contrary, Buya can't help him.

"No problem, big brother, leave it to me."

Bu Ya was originally an activist, just standing behind him and lighting it had already made him itch all over, and when he heard Zuo Yang's words, he naturally came up with a full of promises.

One, two, three......

This guy didn't know anything, he didn't have any defense or fear in his heart at all, and he was quite quick to pick up those wooden sticks.

After a while, as those wooden strips became fewer and fewer, the arrangement between them naturally became more and more loose, and when they reached the back, Bu Ya simply pulled them out one by one, and the speed immediately became a little faster.

Soon, more than half of the wooden strip was removed, revealing a plank that stood vertically inside, as if it had reached the end.

"Big brother, look, what to do with this plank, I'll pick it up together and see if there's anything else behind?"

Bu Ya saw that the wooden strip was almost obtained, so he subconsciously turned around and asked, this thing is also a thick and fine guy, and it is not that he will do it directly in any situation.

"Get out of the way, I'll take a look first."

Zuo Yang had also seen this plank, but in order to look more closely, he still gave way to the cliff and stepped aside, and he leaned closer to look at the plank that stood behind him.

This is also a piece of cypress, and judging by the grain above, this is no longer a cross-section of the tree, but a vertical section.

In addition, if you look inside, you can see that on the left and right sides of this plank, there are already some sticks that are the same as those small cypress sticks.

However, the difference is that the small cypress sticks taken out before are displayed in a north-south direction, while the small cypress sticks on the left and right sides of the board are displayed in an east-west direction...... This way one thinks that these small cypress sticks seem to be designed to enclose something cube?

"...... this?"

Zuo Yang suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly picked up the small cypress stick that had been picked up by Buya before to check it.

I saw that all these little cypress sticks had removed the bark from the trunk, and all of them showed a pale yellow wood color...... These are not ordinary cypresses, but a unique kind of yellow-hearted cypress!

"Yellow intestine problem!?"

The idea was confirmed, and the four words that Zuo Yang had in his heart instantly became clear.

The so-called "yellow intestine inscription" is a popular form of burial between the Zhou Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, and only the royal family is qualified to use it, even some princes and important ministers with great merit must also get the special permission of the royal family to be able to use this form of burial as a special honor.

Even so, the princes and important ministers could not use the same yellow cypress wood as the royal family, but could only use pine or other miscellaneous wood.

The characteristics of this form of tomb are the same as what Zuo Yang sees now: first, it is tiled and stacked layer by layer, and there is generally no mortise and tenon joint; The second is that "the wood is inward-looking", that is, the fir wood (or wooden strips) built by the four walls of the inscription are all perpendicular to the wall panel of the coffin chamber on the same side, if you look at it from the inside, the four walls are only seen at the end of the fir wood, and the name of the inscription is derived from this specific way.

There are also pros and cons to this form of burial.

The advantages are: cypress contains a unique resin, the wood dries slowly, has strong corrosion resistance, and can exude a unique aroma, which in addition to smelling good, also has a repellent effect on some insects, ants and scavengers.

For example, the pangolin that Zuo Yang met in this cellar, don't doubt it, although the pangolin seems harmless to humans, but as a master of burrowing, it often digs into some graves and dissects the coffin to use the corpse of the owner of the tomb.

The unique smell of cypress wood can play a good role in repelling it, which is why until now, coffins sold in coffin shops have to use cypress wood at least at both ends of the coffin......

Of course, these are just the conclusions that some historians and archaeologists have drawn from historical sources and the tombs that have been discovered.

According to Zuo Yang, a descendant of the physiognomy master, "Yellow Intestine Inscription" is not just a simple form of tomb, in fact, it is also a very simple and practical formation that ordinary people can complete.

This kind of formation is also called "yellow intestine inscription", it was not a tomb when it first appeared, but also created by some special people in order to store and hide some precious items with a special atmosphere, and then I don't know how, this formation flowed into the world, because the royal family members have to bury a large number of rare treasures when they are buried, so this formation is particularly favored by the royal family, and even as an exclusive form of tomb.

This is another advantage of the "yellow intestine inscription", which can effectively prevent the special breath emitted by some rare treasures in the funerary goods from leaking out, so that some people with special talents can easily find the burial place of the tomb owner just through the breath, or attract the attention of such people, so as to attract the tomb owner to the street disaster.

When the benefits are said and done, the disadvantages come:

The disadvantages of this form of burial are also extremely obvious, because of the structure and materials, once the cemetery unfortunately suffers from fire or flood, no matter how good it is, it will be completely destroyed.

In addition, the anti-theft effect of this form of tomb is not good, although it is not easy to be found by people with special talents, but it is inevitable that some ordinary people will encounter it, plus most of the mausoleums of those royal families are built on a fixed dragon vein, and the target range is already a lot smaller.

It is precisely for this reason that since the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Cao set up the official position of "Touching the Golden Captain" with great fanfare, and after the large-scale excavation of the imperial tombs of the Han Dynasty to subsidize military salaries, the shortcomings of the tomb form of "yellow intestine inscription" were exposed, so it was soon completely abandoned by later generations.

Right now.

The "yellow intestine inscription" that Zuo Yang found in this cellar obviously cannot be a mausoleum, after all, the scale of this "yellow intestine inscription" is impossible to fit even the corpse of a child.

So, this might just be a simple formation for storing and hiding special items.

And the reason why Zuo Yang didn't feel the existence of these breaths at all before was naturally related to the characteristics of the "Yellow Intestine Question" formation, these breaths were completely hidden, but it was the black cat fish that discovered its existence.

"I'm afraid this stuff is not trivial......"

Thinking of this, Zuo Yang's heart unconsciously jumped again.

"Big brother, are you okay?"

Seeing the expression on Zuo Yang's face for a while, Bu Ya thought that Zuo Yang had fallen into evil, and asked with some worry.

"Oh, it's fine."

Zuo Yang came back to his senses at this time, shook his head at him with a smile, then reached out and took out all the remaining small cypress sticks in front of him, and then clasped his fingers and knocked on the cypress board.

"Knock knock!"

It was empty, and the board had become a little loose after the little cypress sticks had been removed.

Zuo Yang was sure that there would be no danger, so he didn't waste time on it, and directly put his hand into the gap on the edge of this cypress plank, and pulled it outward.

"Sneer——!"

With the sound of wood rubbing, the cypress board was directly buckled out by Zuo Yang, revealing a small rectangular space.

The space was probably slightly larger than a regular shoebox, and the light from the phone's light shone through it, revealing a long strip of red linen tightly wrapped in faded red linen.

It's also at this time.

"Meow ——!"

The black catfish, which was hiding in the corner, suddenly let out another strange scream.

"I'll go, can you not be startled, scare me to death!"

Bu Ya was already a little nervous, but naturally he was startled by this cry again, and couldn't help but complain back.

However, Zuo Yang heard a hint of weakness from this cry, and looked back at the black cat, and sure enough, he saw that this poor guy had weak legs, curled up in the corner, and could barely stand up.

"Master, I...... I'm sad, can you let me out first? ”

The black cat said weakly to Zuo Yang, and he was a little weak when he talked nonsense.

"Go ahead, don't go far."

Zuo Yang could see that the black cat was not pretending, and he had already injected a wisp of life into the black cat's body, and he was not worried that it would escape, so he waved his hand and said.

"Thank you, master."

The black cat quickly thanked him, and then jumped up the ladder with all his strength, and panicked out of the cellar in a posture of running for his life.

"Alas, alas? Big brother, this cat ran away! ”

Buya thought that the black cat was going to go and never return, so he hurriedly screamed.

"It's okay, it's not going to go."

Zuo Yang smiled quite confidently, then looked at the long strip-shaped object wrapped in red in the "Yellow Intestine Question" again, carefully took it out, and weighed it in his hand.

It's a bit heavy to start with, but it's not supposed to be metal or anything like that, and it's still a lot lighter than metal.

Holding it through the red linen cloth outside, I could clearly feel that it was a quadrangular strip object, about the same thickness as the legs of the wooden square stool I used to sit on in school.

"Big brother, what the hell is in here?"

Buya's attention was also attracted, and he came up and said curiously.

“……”

Zuo Yang was not in a hurry to answer, and unhurriedly uncovered the layer of red linen outside, and finally revealed the true face of the thing—that is, a short square wooden stick.

However, the difference is that this short wooden stick seems to have been used for a long time, just like the bracelets and walnuts that many people are still playing with today, and a very shiny brown paste has been coiled on it, and it can even reflect the light under the light of the mobile phone's light.

In addition, the four sides of this quadrangular short wooden stick are also engraved with some very cumbersome mysterious symbols that even Zuo Yang can't understand, so dense that this short wooden stick looks like a pocket totem......

And on the edge of the side of this short stick, there are horizontal and deeper marks at the same distance, a total of 9 marks, which divide the short stick into exactly the same ten sections, which look like the scale on the ruler?

"Is this ......?"

Zuo Yang hurriedly stretched out his hand and stretched out his thumb and middle finger to measure the length of the short wooden stick.

One, two, two and a little more than an inch?

As a physiognomy master, measuring the size of some yang and yin houses with bare hands is the most basic ability, and without any measuring tools, your own hands have of course become the most convenient and reliable tool.

Grandpa also did this training for Zuo Yang when he was alive, Zuo Yang is a person with relatively large hands, as long as his hand comes out, it is the most standard 6 inches, no more and no less, otherwise the stick in the grandfather's hand will fall into his hand, and he will not be merciful.

The length of this short stick is two inches and a little more than an inch, that is, more than 13 inches, and it is matched with 9 ten-point scales on the side of the short stick......

"This is a commonly used magic weapon in Taoism, called the Tianpeng Ruler!"

Zuo Yang stared at the short wooden stick in his hand, as if he was introducing Buya, and said as if talking to himself, "The canopy ruler is divided into two feet, yin and yang. ”

"The yang ruler is also called the Wen ruler, which is one foot four inches and six minutes long, divided into eight grids, and each grid is one inch and eight minutes, representing different meanings, namely the eight meanings of this, harm, robbery, official, righteousness, separation, illness and wealth, which can control many affairs in the yang world."

"And this one in my hand is the Yin ruler, the Yin ruler is also called the Ding Lan ruler, one foot three inches and three minutes long, divided into ten grids, respectively representing Ding, harm, prosperity, suffering, righteousness, official, death, prosperity, loss, wealth ten categories of meaning, can control many affairs in the netherworld."

"Normally, the yin and yang rulers are complementary and inseparable, but it is a bit strange that only one yin ruler has been found here......"

Speaking of this, Zuo Yang's eyes were once again devoted to the "Yellow Intestine Question", but he didn't find anything else.

"Uh......"

Buya was stunned for a long time, and still said with a confused face, "Big brother, these things you said are too profound, I don't understand them very well, but there is one thing I seem to understand, what you mean should be that there are two in total in a set of such rulers, and we have only found one now, and it is not perfect enough, right?" ”