Chapter 9: The Hawksbill Hairpin
The sandalwood box brought by the servant looked very valuableβthis rosewood box was about a foot long and about two inches high, and it seemed to be clearly divided into two layers, the inside was a base wood without decorative patterns, and the outside was a layer of shell carved by various hollow carvings.
This box is not ordinary! Although I don't understand, but with the Gu family's intuition, I can feel that this is an object that is partial to the yang and suppresses the yin, and it is the right thing to deal with those evil things. But if it is a powerful evil thing, it may not be able to suppress it.
The servant glanced at Lao Wu, who raised his chin and motioned to hand the wooden box to the second uncle.
The second uncle took it with a smile, and the moment he got it, he frowned slightly, glanced at Lao Wu, stretched out his hand and gently opened the wooden box, and suddenly his body was shocked, and he gasped: "This, this is the best tortoiseshell hairpin!" β
"Hmm......" Lao Wu nodded with a wry smile: "The second master is really a master, you can see at a glance that this thing is extraordinary, I just liked it at the time, the more I looked at it, the more I liked it, so I spent two million to buy it, to be honest, I'm not sure which dynasty and which generation it is now." β
The old monkey on one side had never seen this thing, and he came up and looked at it intently-the second uncle didn't come, so he naturally didn't dare to take the initiative to look at this evil thing.
"Two million?" The corner of the second uncle's mouth grinned: "Seriously, you can still buy it, two million, it's really not expensive." This tortoiseshell hairpin, whether it is workmanship or substrate, plus hundreds of years of history, is worth five million! β
I really wasn't very interested in this evil thing before, but now I heard what the second uncle said was so high-quality, and I also leaned over to look inside.
In the square box, there is a dark green hairpin about five inches long, inlaid with seven green gems from small to large, and three golden Luo Yings on the top, which looks jeweled and beautiful, even a man like me thinks it looks good, let alone those women.
"Second uncle, what do you say this is...... Tortoiseshell hairpins? I asked softly, "What is a tortoiseshell?" β
"Shaodongjia, the hawksbill turtle is a kind of sea turtle, the shell on its back is extremely precious, and those dignitaries and nobles in ancient China will like to use the jewelry made of hawksbill turtles." The old monkey opened his mouth to explain to me: "Don't say it's then, even now, tortoiseshell is a fine jewelry substrate." β
I nodded and looked at the second uncle: "Second uncle, where is this?" β
"It looks like it should be from the Tang Dynasty." The second uncle smiled slightly as he spoke, and handed the wooden box to me: "Xiaorui, you pick it up and take a look." β
I was stunned for a moment, and immediately remembered that the Budai monk asked me to take the soul bead more than half a year ago, glanced at the second uncle, and saw that he nodded at me, so I had to stretch out my hand with a wry smile and slowly grab the tortoiseshell hairpin.
As soon as my hand touched the tortoiseshell hairpin, I felt a tingling sensation in my fingertips, and then a piercing chill quickly rushed from my fingertips to my body.
I shivered, and when I came back to my senses, I didn't feel the abnormality anymore, and easily took out the tortoiseshell hairpin and put it in the palm of my hand.
"Hah!" The second uncle snorted: "Look, even our Gu family's young owner almost didn't pick it up, this kind of evil thing, Lao Wu, you dare to buy it?!" β
Lao Wu was stunned, and his originally godless eyes were full of surprise: "This, this won't be!" I've touched it many times, why don't you have that kind of reaction from the young owner?! β
"Of course!" The old monkey patted the recliner under Lao Wu: "Your surname is Wu, the second master and the young owner's surname are Gu, of course you can't notice it!" β
Lao Wu nodded suddenly in understanding: "No wonder...... In other words, only the second master and the young owner will suppress the evil spirit of this thing, and ordinary people like me can only bear this evil spirit? β
"That's right." The second uncle responded: "This kind of tortoiseshell hairpin is all for hairpin!" In ancient times, only large families could buy this kind of tortoiseshell hairpin. When the husband and wife part, the woman will give her true love tortoiseshell pair hairpin to her beloved husband as a token, so that the tortoiseshell hairpin has accumulated a kind of resentment due to parting sadness, plus the tortoiseshell hairpin was originally made of objects on the living creature, and the sex is yin, so after a thousand years, it has become a very evil object. Lao Wu, if you are a few days late, I guess I won't be able to save it......"
"Then, you can help me exorcise evil spirits!" Lao Wu hurriedly said, "I'm ready!" β
After that, Lao Wu took out a check with his body temperature from the pocket of his close-fitting pajamas, stretched out his hands tremblingly, and handed it to the second uncle.
Naturally, the old monkey didn't look at the numbers on it, and twisted his head to the side. The second uncle took it, and I looked over to take a look: obediently, there was a million on the check! I have acted for Liang Ruoyi so many times, and each time I escaped death, and I didn't get a million!
A rich man is a rich man, the second uncle exorcises evil spirits, it is estimated that it will only take ten minutes, and he can make millions, I exorcised evil spirits for Sister Xu last time, and it was really cheap for her!
"It's a pity for this pair of hawksbill hairpins." The second uncle smiled and stuffed the check into his pocket and took the tortoiseshell hairpin from my hand: "It was once written in "The Song of Long Hatred" that only the old things are affectionate, and the alloy hairpin will be sent. The hairpin leaves a single fan, and the hairpin breaks the gold and divides the hairpin...... Presumably, after the woman saw off her husband, she never saw her beloved again, and the other tortoiseshell hairpin she brought with her husband never returned. This pair of peerless tortoiseshell pairs may never have a chance to merge into one again......"
The second uncle stood up, waved his hand at me, and motioned for me to follow.
I followed the second uncle out of the lounge, saw the second uncle look around, walked down the stairs to a small south-facing window, took out a fist-sized golden sacrificial stove from the bag and placed it in the middle of the small window, and then took out a few pieces of burning paper and spread them on the ground, and put the tortoiseshell hairpin on the paper.
"Order three sticks of incense." The second uncle said to me.
I nodded, took out three Hui Ling incense from the bag and lit them and handed them over, the second uncle bowed three times, inserted the Hui Ling incense in the sacrificial furnace, and then took out a small black porcelain bowl, sat on the ground and waited for a while, got the incense ash in the sacrificial furnace into the small porcelain bowl, punctured his fingers, and dripped a few drops of blood into it.
All the process was exactly the same as the last time I exorcised the golden thread urinal.
After encountering the blood of the second uncle, those incense ashes instantly dissolved in the bowl, and the blood turned black. The second uncle carefully poured the blood from the bowl on the tortoiseshell hairpin, and a strange sight appeared-the dark green tortoiseshell hairpin, after encountering the blood, instantly absorbed it, and began to slowly turn gray-white, a few seconds later, a dark red, and about a minute later, black.
I remember the last time my second uncle exorcised evil spirits for the gold thread urinal, and the gold thread urinal also had a discoloration.
Three or four minutes later, the second uncle reached out and gently held the tortoiseshell hairpin, his body shook slightly, his brows furrowed for a moment, and his face was solemn.
I didn't see this kind of expression when the second uncle exorcised evil spirits, I was shocked, staring at the tortoiseshell hairpin, and in less than a minute, the tortoiseshell hairpin began to slowly return to its original dark green color, and a layer of sweat appeared on the second uncle's forehead......
After a few breaths, the second uncle let go of his hand, and the tortoiseshell hairpin lay quietly on several pieces of burnt paper, returning to its original appearance. At the moment when it was restored, those pieces of burning paper burst into flames!
I was stunned, I had never encountered this situation before, and I had never heard the second uncle talk about it, I glanced at the second uncle, and saw that his face was normal, but his brows were slightly furrowed, and there was no movement, thinking that this might be normal, so I turned my eyes back to the tortoiseshell hairpin.
After a few seconds, the burnt paper beneath the tortoiseshell hairpin was reduced to ashes......