Outside the Feng Shui Street in Quanzhou Prefecture, a group of three people slowly walked.

"Master Tang, is the gossip mirror you talking about the bigger the better?"

Don't look at Lao Guo is a native of Quanzhou (Quanzhou), in fact, he is also the first time to come to this street, as if Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, looking around, seeing everything is strange. Fortunately, he was older, otherwise others would have thought he was trying to steal. Not only that, but also frequent questions.

Tang Chen said with a smile: "If you want to save time, just buy one, it doesn't matter how small or small, the key is whether this gossip mirror can become a magic weapon after the light is opened." ”

Lao Guo was stunned: "Why save time?"

At this time, Zeng Lao coughed: "Lao Guo, is it like this...... Isn't Master Tang going to help our Zeng family's ancestral house get feng shui, so in terms of time, I'm afraid it's a little tight. By the way, I still have to help the 'Tea King' Zhou Deqing figure out what kind of talisman? This is also time-consuming. If the 'Tea King' Master Tuo Tang consecrates a magic weapon, it will take even more time. You say, how can this person be distracted from doing so many things?"

Lao Guo nodded and expressed understanding: "Then you didn't come here to find the gossip mirror?"

Zeng Lao was a little embarrassed and didn't answer.

Tang Chen generously admitted: "It's not difficult to open the gossip mirror, it only takes a little time." But we're here to buy something else. This kind of thing seems to be quite rare, and we have been shopping for so long, and we haven't seen any of them for sale. I think I can't find it, so I might as well go to the big pharmacy and ask, maybe there will be. ”

"What is so hard to find?" Lao Guo asked casually.

Tang Chen said with a smile: "Actually, it's nothing to say, it's tung oil and peach gum." Tung oil is easy to do, Zeng Lao said, go to any paint shop, maybe there will be. It's just that this peach gum is hard to find. However, this peach gum is also a kind of medicine, and it should be available in large pharmacies or wholesale markets of medicinal herbs. ”

"I know that I even have a little bit of tung oil there, and there shouldn't be much left, just one or two kilograms. We make pens, sometimes we can also use tung oil...... "Lao Guo told the truth, the brush he made, if the quality is particularly good, the kind with a high selling price, will definitely use tung oil to raise the pen barrel." Tung oil has the characteristics of fast drying, light specific gravity, good gloss, strong adhesion, heat resistance, acid resistance, alkali resistance, anti-corrosion, anti-rust, non-conductive and other characteristics, and has a wide range of uses, especially in wood products such as wooden furniture and has a magical effect.

Tung oil is oil squeezed from the seeds of tung oil, and in ancient times, the Chinese learned to use tung oil very early. In the old days, after the carpenter built the furniture or house, he had to brush it with tung oil, which was only low in cost and quite effective. Over time, some workshops that make brushes have also used tung oil to maintain the pen shaft, which is why Lao Guo said that he has tung oil.

"Old Guo, do you have pure ripe tung oil?" Tang Chen was a little surprised. This tung oil is divided into two kinds: raw tung oil is used in medicine and chemical industry, and cooked tung oil is processed from raw tung oil, which can replace varnish and paint and other coatings, directly wooden furniture, etc.

Zeng Lao smiled and said, "Master Tang, you are a layman." ”

He was born making furniture, so he is naturally no stranger to tung oil. "There are two kinds of cooked tung oil, one is cooked pure tung oil, and the other is mixed cooked tung oil. But on the contrary, the mixed cooked tung oil is mixed and boiled by the old process, and the smell is pungent and unpleasant. Pure cooked tung oil is fried and squeezed from tung seeds, without artificially adding any chemical components, and there is no unpleasant smell. As people's pursuit of environmentally friendly life is getting higher and higher, therefore, the original chemical synthesis of mature tung oil mixed with the old process has been gradually abandoned by people, and pure mature tung oil is becoming more and more popular. ”

Tang Chen was embarrassed, and he couldn't defend himself, in fact, what he wanted was this kind of cooked tung oil.

Lao Guo smiled: "Master Tang, I don't know if one or two kilograms of cooked tung oil is enough?"

Tang Chen thought for a while: "It should be enough, but in fact, I don't need that much." ”

Zeng Lao also heard about peach gum for the first time, and asked, "What is that peach gum?"

"Peach gum is a natural gum secreted from the peach tree, and when the peach tree is in full bloom, the bark is cut with a knife, and over time the gum overflows, and sometimes the peach tree will secrete the peach gum by itself. The gum on the trunk is cut with a knife and dried in the sun, which becomes the raw material of peach gum. The dried peach gum is crystalline and hard and looks a bit like amber. Peach gum has enough water solubility and appropriate viscosity, and it becomes soft after soaking it in water for more than ten hours. In fact, peach gum is also a medicinal herb. The reason why peach gum is used, I also told you before that the peach tree has the miraculous effect of driving away evil spirits and suppressing evil. Tang Chen explained with a smile.

Zeng Lao understood: "So Master Tang, you want to use this peach glue to draw talismans?"

Tang Chen smiled and said nothing, but all the people present were smart people, and they all knew it.

Since Tang Chen has repeatedly reiterated the importance of peach gum, there is no reason not to reuse it. Even if you don't use it for drawing symbols, you can use it for other purposes!

"Master Tang, I don't understand, why do you need tung oil?" Zeng Lao was like a studious student, and asked if he didn't understand.

Tang Chen lowered his voice before he said slowly: "According to ancient legends, tung oil can ward off evil spirits. ”

After saying this, Tang Chen didn't say anything. Lao Guo frowned a little: "That's it?"

Tang Chen smiled: "Isn't this enough?"

Lao Guo was stunned for a moment, then thought about it, and it seemed that it was really enough. The ancestral house of the Zeng family, according to Tang Chen, was set up by someone to set up a vicious feng shui bureau, which caused the dragon veins to be damaged and full of evil spirits. If there is evil energy, there must be evil things. Since tung oil can ward off evil spirits, then why not use tung oil? It's like knowing that work can make money, so naturally you will do it, is there any reason for it? If you don't work, you will starve to death!

In the same way, without tung oil, is there anything else to ward off evil spirits? Maybe there is, but where is it as cheap and easy to use as tung oil?

"Master Tang, there are gossip mirrors for sale here!"

Lao Guo is also a person who is used to doing business, and after looking around, he found a magic shop selling gossip mirrors, and told Tang Chen in a whisper.

Tang Chen was a little funny, this Bagua Mirror is a classic magic weapon, which magic tool shop does not have it? Feng Shui master thinks that the Tai Chi Bagua Mirror's evil dissolving function is really first-class. Even in today's society, walking in the old streets and alleys, you can find gossip mirrors hanging on the walls of the eaves. The Bagua Mirror is one of the well-known Feng Shui utensils, many people know it from modern movies and television, and some people still think that using the Bagua Mirror must be a fighting method. In fact, it is not necessarily, Taoism has been atoning for its past mistakes since the Sanqiu Incident in the Tang Dynasty, and the Bagua Mirror has been studied through unremitting efforts in the case of the loss of the traditional eight-foot divine mirror technology, and there are certain rules for using the Bagua Mirror. Feng Shui uses the acquired gossip, because the innate is the ontology, and the acquired is the recipient. Of course, Lao Guo and Zeng Lao don't need to know these "professional" knowledge.

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