Wang Qifang took the jewelry box and looked at it carefully. This jewelry box is painted with red paint, and there are several deep or shallow scratches on the seams of the lid, and the red paint peels off at the scratches, which looks a little old. The box is not large, square, six inches in length and width, and the texture is very hard, but the material inside does not look like wood when viewed through the bare surface. Curled his fingers and tapped lightly, his voice was dull, thinking that it was full of things.

"Huh? Why is there no lock? ”

Wang Qifang searched up and down, and looked at the whole box to the bottom, except for a hollow lotus-shaped copper ornament on the lid, there was no keyhole or lock on the whole body.

"Hehe, this is made by the famous 'Ghost Axe Old Man', and the biggest highlight is that there is no lock!"

It was not the first time that Mama Zhao had seen this box, when her wife was dying, she handed over the jewelry box to her, and told her in detail the source and purpose of the box.

"'Old Man with a Devil'? Who is it? Wang Qifang searched around the database of her brain, but there was no information about this person, and she was not a person Wang Qifang was familiar with, her face was full of confusion, and she asked suspiciously: "No lock?" So how do you open it? ”

She had tried it just now, and she broke it hard in the gap between the lid of the box, but she couldn't break it at all. As for the scratches on the box, could it be that they were cut with a knife because they couldn't be opened?!

"Qi Niang doesn't know about the old man, right?" Mama Zhao knew Wang Qifang very well, and when she saw her frowning, she knew her question, so she explained with a smile, "Count it up, this ghostly old man is still a relative of Qi Niang!" ”

It is said that the old man Fu Changgui is the father of Wang Qifang's grandmother's grandmother, and is also a famous craftsman in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Now it is the world of the Great Zhou, and there are no tomb robbers who dare to dig up the imperial tomb of Taizu, but even if there is a new dynasty to replace the Great Zhou, the tomb robbers who enter the imperial tomb are estimated to have their lives to enter but not to come out.

"Back then, after the old man received the will to design the imperial mausoleum, he was worried that he would not return, so he began to arrange his home." This story was told to Mama Zhao by Wang Qifang's biological mother, and now she is telling Wang Qifang, "The old man has no children under his knees, only one daughter, and he is worried that once something happens to him, the young girl will be bullied by the people of the clan, and the furniture he saved will also be robbed." After thinking about it for a long time, I finally came up with the idea of creating this jewelry box. ”

Mama Zhao sat beside Wang Qifang, stroked the simple and delicate box with her hand, and said with a little emotion: "The old man didn't close his eyes for three days and three nights, and he personally made ten jewelry boxes of different sizes with special copper, the largest one is one foot square, and the smallest one is only two inches square, all of which are extremely delicate and unique. And, most importantly, these boxes are trap boxes without locks! ”

"Nothing? So how do you open it? ”

While listening to Mama's story, Wang Qifang looked at the box in her hand again, trying to find the secret.

"Hehe, this is the genius of the old man," Mama Zhao mentioned this, and she was also amazed, she still can't believe that the box without a lock can be so strong, and what is even more strange is the way to open the box, "The old man said, the ten boxes are a dowry for his daughter, and only a daughter or someone who is related to her daughter can open it with her own hands!" ”

"Oh," Wang Qifang's tone was slightly raised, obviously not quite believing this statement.

"Qi Niang doesn't believe it?" Don't say that Wang Qifang doesn't believe it, even Mama Zhao doesn't believe it either, but this is what Mrs. said herself, she shouldn't lie to her, Mama Zhao thought about every word she heard at the time, and told Wang Qifang one by one, "Actually, the daughter of the old man, that is, your grandmother's grandmother, doesn't believe it either." Later, the old man went to repair the emperor's mausoleum, but ten years have passed and there is still no news. Later, the imperial court sent a notice of the death of the ghostly old man, and by the way, there was a reward from the royal family. At this time, the rich clansmen pointed out that there was no successor to the old man, and proposed to inherit an heir from the clan......"

Speaking of this, a trace of disdain flashed on Mama Zhao's face, and she snorted lightly, "Hey, where is the succession, it is clear that I value the property in the name of the old man." And Fu Yunniang, the daughter of the ghost old man, has always remembered her father's instructions when he left, and she didn't fight too much against the almost open robbery in the clan, but just took the dowry brought by her mother and the ten makeup boxes left by her father to marry to a foreign country! ”

"Did she open the boxes?"

Compared with the legendary stories that have nothing to do with herself, Wang Qifang pays more attention to the way to open the box, after all, this is about her future life.

"Of course it's opened," how could Mama Zhao not understand Wang Qifang's idea of being careful, poked her smooth forehead with her doting fingers, and said with a smile: "Actually, I don't know how she opened it, it is said that according to the original design of the old man, as long as Fu Yunniang wants to open it, she has a way to open it." After opening it, Fu Yunniang found that there were ten makeup boxes full of precious jewels and house deeds, and those properties were almost seven-eight-tenths of all the old man's savings, so that Fu Yunniang's life in her husband's family was strongly guaranteed...... With personal experience and experience, since then, these jewelry boxes are one of the necessary dowries left by Fu Yunniang to her daughters, and they are the most precious possessions, and the daughters who received the boxes don't know how to open them, anyway, as long as they have a direct blood relationship with Fu Yunniang's daughter or granddaughter, they can open it. Fu Yunniang's daughters, after opening the box, also tasted the benefits of this kind of box, one is that except for herself and her close daughter, outsiders can't open it at all, and the material of the box is also strange, and the knife and axe can't be broken; Second, the box is not eye-catching, and it will not attract attention at all if it is mixed with the dowry. ”

"So, the successive daughters learned from their mothers and passed the box to their daughters, and in this way, it was passed down from generation to generation, and when it reached the hands of the wife, there was only one box!"

Alas, Mama Zhao has been talking for a long time, but she still hasn't talked about the key point. Perhaps, she doesn't know.

After listening to the story, Wang Qifang frowned in confusion. En, if it were according to Mama Zhao's words, her mother should have opened the box, and she, as her mother's successor, should be able to open it, right?

Thinking of this, Wang Qifang's eyes were like searchlights, carefully inspecting the box inch by inch. Hey? This place is so strange, when the searching gaze swept over a circular dark pattern on the top of the lid, a trace of doubt flashed in her heart, and she subconsciously pressed it with her finger. I could only hear a "click", and the treasure box opened, revealing a box full of pearls and ruby sapphires......