"Wait a minute. After the old man finished speaking, he went upstairs, and after a while, took down two small leather bags.

"I have two sets of needles here, which one do you want?"

Night Star glanced at the two leather bags and found that one of them was very new, and it should not have been used yet. The other one is a little broken, and the style is quite old.

"Can I open it and take a look?" As for the style and new of the bag, Night Star doesn't matter at all, the main needle inside is good.

The old man nodded, and Ye Xingchen opened the new leather bag first, and the needles pinned to it were bright, and in full accordance with Ye Xingchen's requirements, forty-eight intradermal needles, thirty-six milli needles, nine triangular needles and nine plum blossom needles.

This set of needles is a good thing at first glance. The needle body should be made of sterling silver, and it has been polished to make it look very bright in the light.

"Old man, how much money does this set of needles have?" Ye Xingchen asked after reading it.

"Five hundred and thirteen. The old man spoke.

"So cheap? It's made of silver. Ye Xingchen was slightly stunned, although the current silver products are not very valuable, but these eight and eight needles are also polished, and Ye Xingchen feels that it will cost two or three thousand.

"This set of silver needles was received by me five years ago, and I was going to use it to keep a memory, seeing that you kid is so knowledgeable, it is rare to arrive, if you want it, it will be such a price. "This set of silver needles, the old man also spent five hundred and thirteen to collect it. But that was five years ago, and now if you want to sell it, you really have to pay two or three thousand.

"I'll take a look at another set. Ye Xingchen said, and opened the worn-out leather bag again, which also contained one hundred and eight needles, but at a glance, this set of needles was already blackened.

"Old man, did you take out this set of needles?" At this time, the old lady suddenly opened her mouth, and she was very surprised when she saw the needles in this leather bag, because this set of needles is a family heirloom in the family, passed down from generation to generation.

"Old man, I'm going to ask for this set of needles!" Before the old man could answer the old lady's words, Night Star preemptively said.

"Young man, have you seen that this needle is broken like this, what use can you buy it back?" The old lady looked at Ye Xingchen, a little puzzled. Although this set of needles is a family heirloom, an heirloom does not necessarily mean that it is really a treasure.

Because there are many family heirlooms, they are just the memory of the ancestors, and they are passed down for nothing else, just to let the children of future generations not forget their ancestors and roots, and they are actually of no value.

At the moment, this set of needles seems to the old lady to be. This set of needles is already very worn, and the surface of the needles has been blackened, not to mention selling such needles, even if they are given to people for free, they don't have to.

"Auntie, I'm optimistic, I want this set. Night Star nodded firmly.

It is true that this set of needles is very old, but for Ye Xingchen, the value of this set of needles is a hundred times better than the set of silver needles just now.

"This set of needles, you want to buy, five thousand. The old man opened his mouth and asked for ten times the price of the set of silver needles just now.

"Good. Ye Xingchen didn't even hesitate, and directly took out half of the 10,000 yuan he had just sold tea and handed it to the old man.

However, the old man stretched out his hand to block the night stars and pushed the money back.

"Old man, what do you mean by this?" Ye Xingchen looked at him with some puzzlement.

"This set of needles is an heirloom of our family, and we say it sells for 5,000 yuan, just to see if you really want it. "The reason why the old man took two sets of needles is actually a test of the night stars.

Because the gap between the first set of silver needles and the second set of needles is too big, I believe that ordinary people will definitely choose the first set of needles, and in terms of price, the first set of silver needles is only sold for more than 500 yuan, and the second set directly asks for 5,000 yuan, which feels like a slander.

In this case, Night Star didn't even hesitate, it must have been sincerely wanted.

"I have been working in Chinese medicine all my life, and I know the loneliness of Chinese medicine. Nowadays, Western medicine is in charge, and the older generation of Chinese medicine in China is gradually decreasing with age, and in a few decades, I am afraid that there will be no more pure Chinese medicine. The old man sighed slightly, his eyes full of helplessness.

Traditional Chinese medicine is lonely, this is the general trend.

It's not that Chinese medicine is really inferior to Western medicine, but that the things passed down by the ancestors are no longer willing to learn by heart.

This is also normal.

Take the pregnancy test as an example, the whole process, there are three days that can definitely teach you. But Chinese medicine, how many years do you have to study to learn the number of Ximai?!

The old man is willing to take out this family heirloom, but he also thinks that Ye Xingchen is not very old, but he knows so much, he has really studied some medical skills, in order to have a successor to Chinese medicine in the future, and in order to encourage the next generation, he wants to give this set of needles to Ye Xingchen.

Of course, it depends on whether the night star knows the goods himself.

"If you want this set of needles, I will give it to you, but you also have to tell me why you are interested in this set of needles. ”

This is the old man's final test of Night Xingchen, if Night Xingchen's answer satisfies the old man, he will give this set of needles to Night Xingchen without receiving a penny, if he is not satisfied with how much Night Xingchen spends, he will not sell it.

"This needle is an old needle. Night Star picked up a triangular needle, "But the reason why this needle is black is not because of the fire, but because of blood!"

In the past, the disinfection method was not as good as the modern one, and now it is enough to disinfect it with iodine wine or iodine volt. But in the past, the most straightforward method was to roast over a fire. Most of the needles used in acupuncture are metal products, and they will turn black after the fire test, and after a long time, the needle body will become black, and it is not as beautiful as acupuncture in film and television dramas, which is all deceptive.

But the old man took out this set of needles is different, this set of needles is made of Xuanshi, water and fire do not invade, will not change color at all, the reason why the needle body will be blackened is because of the blood attached to this needle.

And this blood is clearly poisonous!

Although Night Star didn't know what the original owner of this needle thought, there were only two possibilities. One is to save people, using the poisonous blood attached to the needle to penetrate the body and fight the poison with poison. Another possibility is harm. Poisonous blood was attached to the needle, and it looked like it was caused by fire, so it was difficult to detect.

Hearing Ye Xingchen's words, the old man was obviously a little surprised. His set of needles is indeed an old needle, after all, it is an heirloom. But the needle looked very much like it was caused by fire, and even he thought so for himself. But when his father gave him the needle, he told him about the origin of the needle.

This set of needles was polished by their ancestors using the dark iron outside the sky, and the body of the needle was black, not caused by fire, but by the blood attached to the needle.

Originally, the old man didn't believe it, but he always felt that it had been passed down from generation to generation, and there were some myths. If it was really blood stained on the needle, it fell off as soon as it was washed or scalded with hot water, how could it have been kept until now, after all, this needle has been passed down from generation to generation, and when it came to his grandfather, he used it a few times, and it must be disinfected every time.