Following the instructions of the shopkeeper Tong, the focus of all of us gathered again on the zombie table clock we saw when we entered the door. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The bell, a reddish-copper-colored bell made of some kind of red wood and glass, is flanked by a Chinese-style pavilion and underneath by a large metal pendulum enclosed in a glass enclosure.

On the whole, the glass clock is no different from the old clocks I have seen in the past, except that when the clock strikes the hour, the wooden gatehouse on the top floor of the clock opens, and from the door comes a clockwork, on which stands a ...... A doll wearing a Qing Dynasty official uniform.

That doll, I had carefully examined it when I first entered the door, it was wooden, woody, and had a face as white as a pig's buttocks, and every movement was mechanical and stiff, like a zombie in a movie.

What's particularly interesting is that after this little guy comes out of the clockwork, not only does he chime like a cuckoo clock, but also spins in circles, bows, meddles and other actions, which is very breathtaking.

In all fairness, this is an ingenious and amazing artistic clock, and the "little zombie" in it is also very neat and cute, and the ingenuity of the person who made it is unique.

But the thing was jumping around in front of me in a dark blue zombie outfit...... But it still doesn't give me a cold and eerie feeling.

This is called ...... Let's change the times!

Therefore, when we all saw the little puppet in the clock for the first time, we all agreed that this puppet was a zombie and not a eunuch.

However, compared with us laymen, his shopkeeper's research on this is naturally much more detailed and serious.

So after we still called its precious grandfather clock a zombie, the shopkeeper pulled down his face very dissatisfied, then walked to the back cover of the clockwork on the zombie clock, reached out to open the lid, and turned back to us and said, "Everyone, what do you see in this lid?"

In view of Shopkeeper Tong's startled and extremely serious expression, all of us came over and looked in curiously.

After that, everyone looked at the lid of this foreign clock, and then saw a row of dense Juanxiu small characters.

That row of fonts seems to be engraved on the clockwork box with the technique of miniature carving, and there seem to be as many as five or six hundred, which shows the depth of the skill of the person who carved the seal.

Although these fonts are small, because of the gold dust, we can clearly see every flyy font, stroke by stroke, and the text is not messy.

And what is even more interesting is that the handwriting in this clockwork box is still in Chinese and foreign languages, under the Chinese handwriting, followed by a longer line of Latin font, Juan Juan Xiuxiu, sprinkled, I don't know what to write.

Looking at this box of dense ancient handwriting, each of us was amazed and a little dumbfounded, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and finally cast a questioning gaze on the shopkeeper Tong.

At this moment, the Tong shopkeeper put on an unusually proud look, looked left and right, and finally asked himself: "You haven't seen it, right?" This thing is called microcarving, an Italian craft, Chinese and Latin. It records the history and origin of this clock, as well as the Italian craftsman's visit to China. ”

As he spoke, Shopkeeper Tong carefully covered the back cover of the clockwork box, and then proudly announced to all of us: "Through this article on coming to China, I can know that the little man in this clock...... He's a eunuch!"

Although we had expected that Shopkeeper Tong would sing such a play, we all couldn't help laughing when we heard him say the word eunuch again.

Among them, Shui He, who has the best personal relationship with the shopkeeper Tong, even questioned the old shopkeeper: "I said the shopkeeper, you are too good at talking nonsense, why do you have a Chinese eunuch in the miniature sculptures and self-striking bells of foreigners?"

So, my younger brother also nodded and said, "That is, in the old society, how could this Italian know Chinese?

Listening to the ridicule of several of us in turn, the shopkeeper Tong was not happy again, and he finally fought back when he couldn't bear it: "I! A group of young people with long hair and short knowledge, what do you know, during the Qing Dynasty, foreigners knew more Chinese, what Tang Ruowang, Lang Shining are not all? No culture! Hmph!"

With the anger of the shopkeeper Tong, he suddenly pulled away, left a "wait" at us, and then hung out a "temporarily closed" sign outside, and went up to the second floor attic of his antique bureau alone.

After that, there were many sounds of rummaging through the second floor, smashing the pots and making rats, and I listened to my scalp trembling, and I couldn't guess what his shopkeeper was looking for and what to prove to us.

In the end, the shopkeeper Tong finally looked angry, but walked down extremely proudly.

At the same time, we saw that he had an extra piece of straw paper that was not too thin, and there were dense words written on it.

After taking down the straw paper, the shopkeeper Tong spread the paper in front of us, and then solemnly announced to us: "The latest research results of the contemptible people make you have long eyes!"

Looking at the dense, headache-inducing font on that piece of straw paper, we were very puzzled and asked, "What is this?"

Seeing the question, the shopkeeper Tong proudly explained to us: "This is the explanation of the miniature carved text behind the clockwork, I took a magnifying glass to extract it one by one in Chinese, and I translated it one by one with a large dictionary in Latin, and it took me more than three months last year to figure out the main part of this text." How's that? I'm amazing, right?"

After listening to the words of the shopkeeper Tong, all of us were a little embarrassed, such an academic spirit is indeed powerful, but it is more than powerful...... I feel a little idle again.

Sure enough, these characters in the antique world are not the type that philistine businessmen like us can understand.

After introducing the content of this thing to us, the shopkeeper Tong put on a cheap smile, and his triumphant expression clearly wrote a sentence.

And this sentence is: "Come and ask me, I can translate the text of this bell for you, I can understand Latin, I am a good man, ask me ......."

With this kind of cheap expression, there is no one except the hedgehog-headed shopkeeper. But the more he is like this, the more Lao Tzu still doesn't want to hear it.

Therefore, I didn't even look at the things on the papyrus, and immediately shook my head and said, "Lao Tzu is not interested in these things, so don't listen to them." ”

My resolute and boring attitude immediately made Shopkeeper Tong dumbfounded.