"By the King's shilling."

There was a dark black tablet in the wooden box, and there were a few big red characters written on it, and the fourth child read it out of his mouth when he looked at the words.

"What? What order? The third child asked, scratching the dirt on his face.

The fourth stretched out his hand to take out the tablet and stood on the ground with an oil lamp to shine carefully, this looks like the kind of ancestral tablet enshrined in the ancestral hall, the whole body is pitch black and full of old energy, only the front is written with six red characters "Fengzun King Shilling".

Lao Wu was stunned by the fan just now, but when he saw the tablet, his eyes suddenly lit up, and his face didn't hurt, so he hurriedly picked it up and looked at it carefully.

As soon as he saw him like this, the third child habitually became nervous, and he took off his shoes and was about to whip him. As soon as Lao Wu saw that he was about to come over with his shoes, he hurriedly took this tablet to hide away, squatted in the corner and shouted: "You stupid baby want to take revenge on me, don't you?" I'll just see what you're doing with this thing? ”

The third child said: "Who knows if you are evil again, you hurry up and bring that thing!" ”

Lao Wu slowly moved over with the tablet, squatted beside the fourth child, put the tablet flat under the oil lamp, touched the words written on the front with his hand, and said, "Tsk, this is a good thing!" ”

"What's good? Why can't I see this as a good thing? How many can you fool your brother with a wooden board? The third said with a frowning face.

Lao Wu glanced at him: "You stupid baby knows how to play!" Then he turned his head and said to the fourth and Xiaoqi with a smile: "Don't listen to the third child's nonsense, this is wood, yes, but how can ordinary wood be so heavy, if I don't look away, this must be the extremely rare black copper taro sandalwood." ”

The people present had never heard of this thing, and Xiao Qi asked Lao Wu: "Black copper taro sandalwood?" What's that? Is Big Brother worth it? ”

Hearing Xiao Qi ask if this thing was worth anything, Lao Wu Xiao's eyes couldn't open, and he gritted his teeth and hugged the tablet and said with a smile: "Valuable?" It's more than valuable! This is a priceless treasure! I once saw Hu Wan's old man flipping a black copper taro sandalwood wrench, just such a thing, it was sold for 50,000 yuan, can you imagine how much such a large piece can be sold? ”

Sandalwood is considered to be the most precious wood in our country since ancient times, and it is mostly used as a material for cars, musical instruments, high-end furniture and other delicate utensils, which is recorded in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, due to the love of the royal family and the princes and nobles, the red sandalwood furniture of the Ming Dynasty seemed to be coarse, but it was carved with spirit and high spirits.

The Ming Dynasty court used sandalwood to purchase in the south of our country at first, and then because of the lack of wood, then sent personnel to Nanyang to purchase regularly, so a lot of sandalwood was stored, because the sandalwood grew slowly, not hundreds of years can not be completed, the sandalwood of the South Seas was almost exhausted by the Ming Dynasty, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, most of the sandalwood produced in the world was gathered in China. Inventories from the Ming Dynasty were also used in the early Qing Dynasty. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the inventory was used up and the supply was interrupted for a while, so after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, mahogany was used instead of sandalwood to make furniture.

Sandalwood in Sanskrit is the meaning of giving, because of its hard wood, fragrant and eternal, colorful and changeable and poisonous, immortal, and can avoid evil, so it is also called holy sandalwood. Since ancient times, the trade of sandalwood has been extremely prosperous, and later many large sandalwood furniture was bought by Westerners and brought back to Europe, and it is said that there was a 15-centimeter-long rosewood coffin model in front of Napoleon's tomb, and visitors were all amazed. Later, Westerners came to Beijing and saw all kinds of large-scale utensils, only to know that the elites of red sandalwood gathered in Beijing, so they bought them on a large scale.

This black copper taro sandalwood is the only tree that grows in Shennongjia, China, and the growth cycle is extremely long, and it is no more than two meters tall after maturity. Its appearance is particularly weird, the trunk part is like a hollow old tree that has long since died, and the top grows some slender branches and leaves, peeling off the bark inside the black jade like smooth and translucent, the wood is as hard as bronze, and there is a faint fragrance of taro cake when you get close, so it is called black copper taro sandalwood.

Since the trunk is hollow on the inside and only has a thin layer of skin on the outside, it cannot be used to make large furniture, and it has been used as the finest material for ritual ceremonies since ancient times. Originally, black copper taro sandalwood is the rarest and most mysterious one in sandalwood, but when the felling was overutilized, it was completely extinct in the Ming Dynasty, and no one has found it so far, so now the trinkets and some ritual utensils made by black copper taro sandalwood are almost national treasures, and it is difficult to find a thousand gold.

The black copper taro sandalwood tablet they found in the arsenal was forty centimeters high, at least forty centimeters high, palm-like thickness, and the base and top cover were carved in one piece, and it felt extremely heavy to hold, which was incalculable.

The brothers were dumbfounded after hearing what Lao Wu said, and the third brother stumbled and said, "True, true, true or false?" In the past, 50,000 oceans could be a rich man, but a wooden board could be worth so much money? ”

Lao Wu wiped the dust on the tablet under the oil lamp, and replied to the third child: "Fifty thousand is the size of a wrench, how can you carve dozens of pairs of wrenches, if you can take this thing out and find a place to sell it, then the money is riveting and enough for us to use for a few lifetimes." ”

The fourth child was surprised and also had some questions, he knew that Lao Wu had done tomb robbery before, and he had seen a lot of things, but how could he be sure that this tablet was carved out of black copper taro sandalwood? Isn't it evil again?

Thinking about things, Lao Si unconsciously looked at the tablet in Lao Wu's hand, and then stared at Lao Wu's swollen face, it was indeed a normal appearance without the old and gloomy feeling just now, so he said tentatively: "Lao Wu, you bring it to me and show it." Lao Wu heard that the fourth child wanted to take a look, so he quickly squatted over and handed it to him carefully like a treasure.

"I said you should be careful, if you fall on the ground and break a corner, you will have to pay a lot of money." Lao Wu cautiously told the fourth.

The black copper and ebony tablet is very heavy, it is difficult to turn over and look at the back in your hand, the fourth took it and looked around, it is indeed carved from black wood, the surface is not particularly fine, but it is still slightly reflected by the light of the oil lamp, a little jade feeling, the fourth has really never seen this kind of wood, and it is estimated that it can really make Lao Wu say, but the priceless treasure is a bit exaggerated, but it should be worth some money.

Lao Wu said next to him: "Fourth, if you come close and smell it, there must be the fragrance of taro cake." ”

The fourth child lowered his head and sniffed a few times in disbelief, and then slowly raised his head with a stunned face and looked at Lao Wu for a long time without speaking.

Lao Wu saw that his expression was wrong, so he asked, "What's wrong?" No, no fragrance? ”

The fourth child said suspiciously: "There is a smell of burning paper." ”

Lao Wu was shocked at first, and hurriedly took the tablet from the fourth child's hand and smelled it himself, and sure enough, there was the smell of choking smoke when burning paper, and his body was soft and leaned on the box behind him, wrinkling his bitter gourd face and muttering: "Be happy in vain, this really makes the third child's stinky mouth say." After chattering, I remembered that my face hurt, and I covered my face and began to hum.

When the third child heard that he was not happy, he said, "Hey, I said, don't rely on me for everything?" That's what you said about this priceless treasure, let the fourth child see through it, you just say me, and besides, that thing is a tablet, it must be offered in the ancestral hall, isn't it normal to smell a little bit of burning paper and burning incense, what's wrong with this. ”

Unexpectedly, this call made Lao Wu's whole body tremble, and the fourth child felt it when he got close, so he asked, "Lao Wu, are you cold?" What are you trembling about? ”

Who knew that this old Wu actually threw out the tablet that had been a treasure just now, and disappeared into the darkness in the corner with a few clicks.

"Are you evil? Anyway, that thing can be worth a little money, so throw it away! ”

The fourth child was shocked to see it, he quickly got up to pick it up, but as soon as he struggled to stand up to go over, he was suddenly dragged by Lao Wu, and saw him lower his head and said in a muffled voice: "Don't go over to pick it up, that tablet may really be black copper taro sandalwood, it is too evil, but we can't take it." ”

The third child smiled on the side and said, "Oh, Lao Wu, you really fucking will find yourself a step down." ”

But Lao Wu didn't seem to be joking, he was very serious, and said to the brothers around him: "Hu Wan said that the black copper taro sandalwood belongs to yin, not the auspicious Ruimu, when the ancient times were held to worship the sky, there was a big sacrifice with a psychic artifact to communicate with the gods to get the instructions of the gods, what a harvest and ask for rain and the like." Those sacred objects were carved from black copper taro sandalwood, and the names of the gods had to be written on them with dyes mixed with fifty pairs of newly full moon children to show respect. As long as the priest recites a few words with the black copper taro and sandalwood artifact, the whole person will completely change his appearance, and no one can understand what he says, and then he will kill or harm himself, chop off his own hand and spew blood horizontally without blinking his eyes a few times, it is like chopping his own hand, and in the end, if no one cares, he will definitely die of excessive blood loss. According to Hu Wan, the black copper taro sandalwood is an evil thing, and anyone who encounters it will be controlled by it, and the end will generally be very miserable. ”

Seeing that what Lao Wu said was not like a fake, the brothers muttered a little in their hearts, Lao Wu said that the influence of this black copper taro sandalwood was indeed the same as the evil appearance he had just now, but at that time, he hadn't found the tablet, could it be that he could control people's hearts from a certain distance? Then the few of them will not be safe in the arsenal, and they should get out as soon as possible.

Several people were gathering together to discuss how to get out, when suddenly Xiao Qi shrugged his nose and said, "You smell, there is a smell of smoke." ”

It turned out that the explosion just now bent the middle of the thick iron gate roof inward, revealing gaps on both sides, and black smoke bulged into the fire vault from the gaps.

The third child said nervously: "I have to find a way to get out quickly, or I will choke to death with that black smoke!" ”

Xiao Qi leaned against the wall and said weakly: "The tunnel is still on fire, third brother, how can you still fly out." ”

Several people were a little panicked when they saw the black smoke coming in, and they were clamoring to go out, but the fourth child still maintained his usual composure, and he thought about it carefully. They had been staying near the door, and had not seen much of the inside of the arsenal, so they walked along the wall with their oil lamps in their hands, looking for another exit.

As a result, when he walked to the corner where the two paper figures were placed, he suddenly found that the tablet that Lao Wu had just thrown out was actually being held in his arms by the paper man at this moment!

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