After putting the paperweight on the counter, Chen Ziyang grabbed the strange nail and looked at it carefully. The style of this nail is very peculiar, it looks a little like the kind of road nail used to fix sleepers on the railway, but this nail is much longer than the road spike, and it looks slightly thicker.

The nail is four-edged, the tip of the nail is not very sharp, it has been sharpened very bluntly, the tip of the nail is almost hemispherical, and at the base of the nail, there is a thick protrusion, which is connected with the nail, this bulge is not the traditional nail or the recoil type of the road stud protrusion, but is cast into the shape of a lion's head.

Chen Ziyang took the nail and looked at it carefully, the head of this lion was very flat, I don't know if it was like this when it was cast, or if it was smashed like this by a hammer later. At the same time, under this lion's head, there are two obvious abrasion marks, and on one of the edges of the coffin nail, there is a very deep, very obvious long scratch, which runs through the entire nail from top to bottom.

Just when Chen Ziyang was holding the nail and watching it carefully, the boss who sold the goods was in a hurry. Finally met a buyer, negotiated the price, and bought the paperweight at a price he was more satisfied with, which was just about to pay for it, and the buyer looked like he had changed his mind, which was not good, so the boss hurriedly said to Chen Ziyang:

"Young man, what are you looking at with this broken coffin nail? This thing is unlucky, it's useless for you to take it back, let's take a look at that paperweight, the paperweight is a good thing, and the meaning is more auspicious, much stronger than this coffin nail. ”

The boss is really anxious, this paperweight can earn more than 10,000 yuan as soon as it is shot, which is enough for his family to spend for three or four months, although this one has not reached the point of "not opening for three years, opening for three years", but it can be eaten for three months. Seeing that the buyer would change his mind, the boss hurriedly told the bottom of the coffin nail that Chen Ziyang took.

Coffin nails! The boss's words reminded Chen Ziyang, and at this time, Chen Ziyang noticed that the raised lion head at the root of this nail was actually not a lion head at all, but the head of a tomb beast. It's just that because this coffin nail seems to have been used, and the protrusion of this tomb beast was smashed and deformed during the beating, it now looks like a lion's head.

At the same time, Chen Ziyang also understood the reason for the formation of the two deep grooves under the head of the tomb beast, which should have been caused when the nail was lifted out of the coffin, and was made by a crowbar or a claw hammer or other tools.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang roughly measured the length of the coffin nail with his fingers. This nail is one foot and two inches long, and if it is measured by ancient dimensions, it should be three feet and seven inches long, which is the length of a standard coffin nail.

The coffin nail is called "town nail", also called "descendant nail", which means to suppress evil spirits and make future generations prosperous. Coffin nails are used to nail the coffin lid during burial, and usually seven coffin nails are needed for one coffin. However, there are many special circumstances, such as the identity of the person who buried it, the size of the coffin, or the shape of the coffin, etc., which may affect the number of coffin nails used.

Now Chen Ziyang's mind is all on this coffin nail, and the reason why the compass has such a strange reaction is because of this coffin nail. If the compass was pointing to something else, Chen Ziyang might have been just shocked by the magic of the compass.

But since he knew that the original owner of this compass, the Du family, should also have something to do with tomb robbery, and the compass pointed to a coffin nail, Chen Ziyang had to think about the relationship.

But the more Chen Ziyang didn't speak, the more anxious the boss standing on the side became, he was really afraid that this buyer would become interested in nails and wouldn't buy his paperweight.

Joke, how much can a broken coffin nail sell for? Maybe not even a tenth of this paperweight can be sold, and the boss is so anxious that he stomps his feet on the sidelines. But seeing that Chen Ziyang's interest in coffin nails was far greater than that of paperweights, the boss gritted his teeth and said to Chen Ziyang:

"Young man, don't look at it, you still buy this paperweight, the paperweight is auspicious, the coffin nail is unlucky, it is easy to attract some evil things, if you really like this coffin nail, you buy this paperweight, I will give you the coffin nail, the two together is still 15000, what do you think?"

"Hmm...... Well?! Hearing the boss's words, Chen Ziyang was stunned, "Are you saying that if I buy this paperweight, you will give me this nail?" Buy one, get one free? ”

"That's right! Right! Right! What do you think? The boss asked hurriedly.

Even if Chen Ziyang was able to hold it up before, but when he heard the boss's words, he almost didn't open his mouth and laughed, and almost didn't have a mouthful of saliva and laughed on the boss's face.

Originally, Chen Ziyang was very happy when he bought a satisfactory magic weapon, but because of the compass, he vaguely felt that this coffin nail was much more magical than a paperweight, and the compass that could find things by himself was already a treasure, and the things indicated by the compass should not be much worse.

Even when Chen Ziyang was observing this coffin nail, he had forgotten that he was not interested in what he wanted, he wanted to open his mouth to ask the price, and even Chen Ziyang was ready to let people slaughter and buy this coffin nail, but he didn't expect this boss to be so merciful.

After suppressing his urge to laugh, Chen Ziyang hurriedly put the coffin nail and paperweight into his backpack, and at the same time took out 15,000 yuan in the backpack and handed it to the boss.

"Boss, I bought the thing, but this is the first time I've seen this kind of coffin nail, I've never seen such a strange thing, can you tell me where this thing came from."

After the transaction was completed, Chen Ziyang wanted to get more clues about this magical coffin nail, why did the compass point to this thing? Why does this coffin nail attract the compass? It's all incredible.

The smiling boss dipped his finger in the saliva on his tongue and counted the money, and said to Chen Ziyang with a smile on his face: "I really don't understand why you are a young man who still likes such an unlucky thing, but also, now the taste of young people is really incomprehensible to our older generation."

This nail is different from the paperweight, which I collected when I went to the countryside many years ago, and this coffin nail was a gift from a friend of mine who runs an antique shop when I went to Huhai City to play, according to him, it seems to have been received from Hebei Province.

At that time, I was also curious, and I had the same idea as you, I had never seen such strange coffin nails, so I accepted it, and I didn't think that anyone would be interested in this kind of thing. ”

Hearing this, Chen Ziyang knew that he couldn't get any useful clues from the boss's mouth, whether it was the boss or the person who gave him this coffin nail, he must not know the secret of the coffin nail, otherwise it would be impossible for this boss's friend to give it to him for nothing, and the boss would not use the buy-one-get-one-free method to give this coffin nail to himself.

After tightening the pockets of his backpack and carrying the backpack behind his back, Chen Ziyang said goodbye to the boss who was smiling and counting money non-stop, and returned to the hotel where he lived.

Because the room in the hotel is extraordinarily quiet, the clicking sound from the compass in the backpack is more obvious, now that the nail has also been found, now Chen Ziyang is thinking about how to make this compass stop, otherwise the compass keeps ringing like this is too disturbing.

Holding a compass in one hand and a coffin nail in the other, Chen Ziyang thought for a while, and then touched the tip of this coffin nail to the gap in the compass. Not long after the two collided, the compass stopped rotating and returned to its normal appearance.

This compass is really amazing, Chen Ziyang wanted to take it apart and take a look, but he was afraid that if he broke the compass again, he would damage a treasure, so Chen Ziyang had to suppress this impulse and focus on the coffin nail.

This time, because there was no urging from the boss, Chen Ziyang looked very carefully, and he found that there seemed to be some words on one of the edges of this coffin nail. These words should have been cast at the time of casting the coffin nail, because they are convex and not recessed.

But I don't know if it's because these words were worn out when I nailed this nail before, or because it was a long time, so that the raised part of these fonts on the nail rusted and corroded, and now the handwriting on this edge of the coffin nail is no longer clear, and only some simple strokes and protrusions can be seen.

Through the shape and style of the whole coffin nail, Chen Ziyang came to two conclusions. First, from the point of view of the casting process of this coffin nail, the person who uses the coffin matching this coffin nail must be very status, either a prince or a general or the emperor of any dynasty.

When this kind of coffin nail is cast, it needs to have a special mold, Chen Ziyang has seen that the whole coffin nail does not have a single seam, the nail should be cast at one time, and then simply polished and modified.

The shape of such a special coffin nail must be specially customized, just to make such a complex mold for the production of coffin nails, the whole coffin process can be imagined, so this kind of coffin nail is not something that ordinary people can use.

Second, the shape of this coffin should be different from that of ordinary coffins, because Chen Ziyang judged from the shape of this coffin nail that this kind of nail should not be nailed to a wooden coffin, and there are some traces of clamping under the coffin nail of the tomb beast head, and it seems that there should be some special brackets on the coffin lid of the coffin that matches this coffin nail.

When this nail is driven in, it will trigger the mechanism in the coffin lid, which will jam the coffin lid in its entirety, so that the coffin lid cannot be opened again. Otherwise, the two traces of being pried under the coffin nail beast head would not be so obvious, and at the same time, there should not be such a deep and obvious scratch on the nail body of the coffin nail.

This obvious scratch should be the wound caused by the friction between the nail body and the coffin when someone pulls out the nail forcefully after the coffin nail is locked by the machine.

It takes so much effort to get a nail out of the coffin, and this coffin must be very strong. Chen Ziyang estimated that it was very likely that the material from which the coffin was made was the same as the material from which the nail was cast, and the coffin should have been cast from the metal used to cast the coffin nail, and it should have been a metal coffin.

This coffin must be very ornate, and at the same time the volume should be very huge, which can be judged by the style of this coffin nail and the scratches on the coffin nail.

After beating his swollen head, Chen Ziyang lay on the bed, a coffin nail contains such a large amount of information, but he can't study it, so he simply doesn't think about it, anyway, this coffin nail has nothing to do with his purpose this time, so let's leave it for later research.

But Chen Ziyang was still a little unwilling, he turned to study the relationship between the compass and the coffin nail, why did the compass suddenly react after approaching the coffin nail? Chen Ziyang grabbed the compass and the nail and tried left and right, but no matter how he operated, the compass no longer rotated on its own.

It seems that if you touch the compass with something indicated by the compass, then the compass will think that the thing has been found and will never react to the thing again. But on what basis does the compass look for this nail?

Is it a magnetic field? This is unlikely, there are things stronger than the magnetic field of this nail, and I didn't see this compass reacting. Is it because the material used to cast this compass and this coffin nail is the same special material? Is that what makes the two attracted to each other? This is not possible at all, the material of the compass and the coffin nail are fundamentally different.

Because he couldn't figure out the clue, Chen Ziyang had to put these two things away, maybe in the future, this magical compass left by the Du family will surprise him again.

Speaking of which, I really have a relationship with this compass, and I can find this compass in such a large area. And the reason why he didn't lose his way in the Peerless Land was that the compass left by the Du family helped him a lot.

Now it's good that under the instructions of this compass, he not only found a very strange coffin nail, but also let himself get a very handy paperweight under the inconvenience, Chen Ziyang felt that this compass was simply his lucky star. Before going out this time, the idea of bringing this compass out of my mind suddenly came out of nowhere was too right.

Fate is really a wonderful thing, the first time he saw this compass, Chen Ziyang felt that this compass was related to him, and the original owner of the compass, the Du family, was also destined for himself, and now one of them has been confirmed.

The compass played its due role, and the rest was to check the clues about the Du family by the way during this trip to Shaanxi. After making up his mind, Chen Ziyang picked up the paperweight and prepared to perform a sacrifice.

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