The storefront of Yaxuan Court is good, the wood decoration inside is antique, and there is also a faint light of modern technology, which adds a lot of brilliance to the things placed even in the daytime. This kind of place is a tall mountain for me, and in my capacity it is only suitable for places like roadside fast food restaurants and black Internet cafes, and this kind of gorgeous place makes me feel awkward.

There were two people in the store, drinking tea on a big wooden table, and the man who seemed to be the owner glanced at me, probably thinking that I was a person who couldn't afford anything, and there was no reason to rush customers, so I was asked to look at it casually, because there was surveillance in the store, and they were not afraid that I would steal. Although it meant humiliating to me, I was relieved that I had a poor characteristic, that is, I was not used to being served! Being served is, to me, like being watched.

"Most of them are models made by some factories." Brother Li looked at the items on the display table one by one, many things made him feel novel, but none of them made him feel scared.

I leaned over to look at it, too, but where had I seen it, it looked like the real thing, a jade bracelet was gold, lying in a glass display box, and it looked like it was years old. If there are hundreds of years, at least they are from the Qing Dynasty, and the items of its dynasty will always be more valuable than they are in modern times.

Brother Li saw that I was interested in this gold bracelet, and said with a smile: "The price of this bracelet is 20,000 yuan, and it seems that the normal price of gold in the case of pure gold is tens of millions higher. But this thing is fake, it is polished to create the illusion of years, and the gold content is not even one-fifth, and it is worth two thousand yuan at most. If you look at this wood bead again, it is actually lychee wood as the body, and sandalwood powder is added to it, and then polished ......"

Listening to his popular science, those things that make me think they are antiques are actually fake, and the lowest price marked is more than 1,000 yuan or more than 100,000 yuan, I can't imagine that selling fakes can be marked at such a high price, no wonder people say that the antique industry is "not open for a year, open for three years". Looking at the tall but no business storefront can survive all the time, it can indeed be done in the case of huge profits in the business achievements.

When he was looking, Brother Li found something that made him dare not approach, and the ghost aura in his body moved, and he left five meters away, and shouted: "This thing must be taken down, this is a Taoist thing!" ”

I was stunned for a moment when I saw him so nervous, and then I walked over and saw a ruler in a glass box, the ruler was two fingers wide and one centimeter thick, and the whole body was black and shiny, with some scales on it, and the end was marked "thirty", which was estimated to be thirty centimeters in length. Unlike ordinary rulers, the first and last scales of this ruler are at the front and back ends of the ruler, and there is no gap between the first scale. There is no introduction in front of the box, and the price is 2,000 yuan, which is much cheaper than those tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands. If this thing is really useful, the price of two thousand yuan is really not high.

Looking at the ruler inside the box, I turned around and said to the two people who were drinking tea, "Boss, I want this ruler." ”

Hearing that business was coming, the person who seemed to be the boss stood up, with no extra smile on his face, opened the glass box that blocked the ruler, took the ruler to the counter, and said to me casually, "Come to the counter and pay." ”

"Oh."

I nodded, I didn't expect the boss of the business to be so indifferent, he didn't have a good attitude at all, and he had an indifferent expression after I paid the money.

The boss helped me put the ruler in a square wooden box, handed it to me, and the business was done.

"You earned 2,000 yuan for buying this ruler, but for the owner of this shop, he earned it. These stores can bargain, but if you don't bargain, it is estimated that the boss will die of laughter in his heart. If my guess is correct, he will sell you this ruler for 500 dollars. ”

Brother Li said faintly after I came out, he was afraid of the ruler just now, but now that the ruler is covered by the box, he is not afraid. This thing knew that this ruler could be bought cheaper, but he didn't tell me, so I wanted to kick him, but he said that if I earned it, I would forgive him. But what he said also explained the attitude of the boss towards me just now, and now when I look back, I find that the other party showed a sneer at me? Yes, it's a sneer! He was like a profiteer, and he didn't hide it from me at all, as if he didn't expect me to be a repeat customer.

"There's no need to pay attention to him, I've seen a lot of this kind of person, and you look poor when you look dressed. He thinks that this ruler you will soon find out that it is 'fake', so I don't expect you to come here again to buy things, but I don't know that he is smart but is clever and mistaken, this ruler is a really good thing! Brother Li sneered.

I couldn't quite understand what he said, what was clever but was mistaken by cleverness, and what did it matter that he despised me, so as I walked down the street, I asked softly, "Why do you say that?" ”

He asked me to take out the ruler, this time he was not afraid, he still leaned on my side, but he still didn't dare to touch the ruler, and said seriously: "Actually, this ruler has been manipulated and tampered with, you see, the brilliance on this is very bright, presumably the boss thinks that this thing is to make money by appearance, in fact, what is really before this thing is the idea that it is used, the older the better." What you see on the ruler is the outer layer that has been added, and it is polished with sandalwood powder, otherwise this ruler should have been bought a long time ago, and in the eyes of knowledgeable people, this ruler is worth at least 100,000 yuan, so he is smart but is clever and mistaken. ”

I couldn't see that there was anything too big a problem with this ruler, and after listening to Brother Li, I also began to feel that the ruler was a little too beautiful, and it did lose color when I rubbed it on my clothes...... I can't do much on the street now, and I'll talk about it when I get home. What kind of name is this ruler, I don't understand, so I have to ask Brother Li.

"You have a book at home to aid the gods, this book is not necessarily true, but it is not completely false, there is an introduction to this kind of ruler: the ancients removed the ominous peach branches, Hou Yi died of peach sticks, so the future generations will use it to chase ghosts, and today Peng ruler is its kind. This ruler is called the canopy ruler and is made of peach wood. Before, it was said that peach wood did not cause substantial harm to ghosts, but it was said that ordinary people used it, and Taoist priests used it, because they themselves were Tao. The common name of the canopy ruler is the magic ruler, which is a rectangular square wood, and the six sides are carved with the names of the sun, the moon, and the twenty-eight houses, as well as the patterns of the three stars, the seven stars of the Big Dipper, and the six stars of the South Dipper, as well as the holy name of the Yuan Shi of the canopy. In this way, the divine power of Marshal Tianpeng is exercised, and it has the effect of warding off evil spirits and eliminating demons. Whether Marshal Tianpeng's statement is really true, I don't know if it's a little ghost, and you just need to know that this ruler is called a magic ruler. Brother Li said.

"It turned out to be the ruler of the second senior brother." I nodded as if I didn't understand, who is Marshal Tianpeng? That must be the predecessor of the second senior brother...... However, I know that the mythological story is not true, although Marshal Tianpeng is not very good in the novel, but in the real world, he is revered, and there are many Taoist temples. Like the elder brother, although he is fierce, he has never had a Taoist temple, because the existence of Taoism has existed long ago when Journey to the West came out. As for the pattern he said, it should have been covered by sandalwood powder polishing, so I didn't see it.

"Fuck off, uncle!"

Brother Li scolded me, "I've read too many novels, second senior brother of your sister." ”

"Cao, Lao Tzu doesn't have a sister, you dead ghost has a sister!" I was instantly upset.

“......”

This time, it was Brother Li's turn to be speechless, shrugged his shoulders and no longer pestered the second senior brother, and continued after a sentence of "villains are difficult to raise", "This kind of ruler is something that Taoists use to measure, you see that the two ends of the ruler are not saved scales, that is to say, this kind of ruler is not used to measure length, but to measure the depth, which is the so-called 'measuring soil'!" 'Measuring the soil' is not a literal meaning, but measuring yin qi, and the popular point is to measure the tomb! ”

Measure...... Grave?

I swallowed a mouthful of saliva, the grave is filthy in our normal understanding, this ruler is actually for measuring the tomb, that is to say, it may have been with the dead? Then I'm holding it in my hand now, and it has to make me feel sick.

"Look at your cowardice, any piece of land in this world can become a tomb, and things that have touched the dirt are so scared? Even if you touch a dead person, you are a human being, didn't the boss also touch it just now, why don't you feel disgusting? "Brother Li started scolding me.

"......" I was speechless, what he said was the truth, but people are like this, it is easy to think about that disgusting thing.

But this ruler is definitely not as simple as a simple energy tomb, otherwise Brother Li would not be afraid, I just said that the ruler has the effect of exorcism and evil spirits, but I don't know how to use it, or is it the same as the coffin nail, as long as it is beaten?

Brother Li and I are joking no matter how we fight, if it weren't for his good temperament, I wouldn't dare to play with him, the same, my temperament is not bad, at least not a person with a small belly. So he just scolded me, but now he still carefully taught: "The ruler itself has the Taoist Dao Qi in it, and the more Dao Qi it is used, if the holder's ability is greater, the Dao Qi in the ruler will be greater." All the magic weapons that eliminate disasters and drive away evil spirits are the same, and hitting them directly is the greatest effect, even if it is a charm. Although you already have a coffin nail now, but the coffin nail is not a Taoist weapon, but only absorbs the yin qi to fight the filthy things, the more you use it, the yin energy of the coffin nail will be consumed, and it will slowly dissipate the yin qi due to the environment, and eventually become no different from ordinary iron nails. And the ruler is different, although his own wood is not very effective, but the peach wood has a good adsorption effect, and the things depicted on it all represent that the ruler is a Taoist weapon no matter what, plus those who are carried by the Taoist, over time it becomes more and more effective in dealing with filth. ”

I see, I nodded when I learned about it, I thought that the coffin nail could be used forever, if he didn't say it, I really thought so. As for the ruler, as a Taoist weapon, it can help me a lot, and it is not as eye-catching as the coffin nail when I carry it, and the coffin nail is still a sharp thing, which is easy to be taken away by Ah Sir.