Chapter 51 Dry Branch Lock

Originally, I wanted to show a good performance, and maybe I could get a little more points when I found the treasure later.

But it turned out that he thought too much, and his method did not achieve the desired effect.

The other Jianghu guests around him all looked at him with a little mockery, and the golden ring on the side was even more angry, and said coldly to him: "More than 100 people have been playing with you for a long time, is it fun?"

Tu Pao just wanted to explain, but Jin Huan shouted loudly and said, "Are you kid playing with me?" Yes? Guard, pull him down for me! ”

Hearing this, Tu Pao trembled with fright, he was just a small protector of the Escape Gate, once he really fell into the hands of the military, I am afraid that he would have to shed his skin if he did not die.

He fell to his knees all at once, and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, how miserable and miserable it was!

Therefore, people can't be too arrogant, maybe the front foot is just proud, and the back foot is about to finish.

The people who came to the rivers and lakes were all watching the play, after all, it was none of their business, hanging high, this is the normal state of the rivers and lakes.

At this time, no one has fallen into the well, and it is considered good.

Seeing this lifeless kowtow, a handful of snot and tears, a big man, he actually cried in front of the public.

Jin Huan looked at him like this, and the more he looked at it, the more upset he became, and he waved his hand and said, "Okay, let's write it down this time, if you commit it again, the punishment will be doubled!"

When Tu Pi heard this, he quickly kowtowed a few more times on the ground, and kept saying, "Thank you, General Jin!" The small ones must make up for the merits, and make up for the merits! ”

Then he quickly got up and returned to the back of the group, eager to hide himself.

Seeing that the circle of soil dials has changed its face in a fancy way, it can be regarded as a thorough study of the three words "shameless".

Although the people around him are very shameless in their behavior, they were fake tigers before, and now they are kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, without any dignity, which is really a shame for the people of the rivers and lakes.

However, I have to say that whether it is in the rivers and lakes or in the officialdom, this kind of person lives the longest.

They deeply understand the truth that "people are under the roof and have to bow their heads", and they also gave this behavior a high-sounding reason, called "those who know the times are handsome".

I don't know if Junjie is handsome or not, but these people are the most mixed.

This was a situation that was bound to be punished heavily, and Tu Pao knelt down and begged for mercy, although he seemed to lose face, but he didn't lose anything, and when he slipped out of the underground palace, who could still find him.

Could it be true that an army was dispatched for such a small person as him? Impossible.

However, although the method of soil allocation failed, the matter had to be solved.

So Jin Huan looked around and said again: "Don't be stingy with your skills, if anyone can open this King Kong Gate, this general will be rewarded!"

"The one who opens the door will be rewarded with one ......, no, three hundred taels of silver!"

Hearing this tempting number, these Jianghu guests who came were moved, but they were a little hesitant when they thought of what happened to Tupao before.

After all, money is good, but life is more important!

If it is messed up, who knows if this General Jin will make an example of him, this is all a matter of inaccuracy!

But under the heavy reward, there will be brave men!

In the astonished eyes of everyone, an old man with a goatee stepped out of the crowd, followed by a child.

Jin Huan looked at the old and the young, and said in his heart that the words "old, weak, sick and disabled" account for half of the two of you, can this work?

Although there is a bit of a drum in my heart, but the matter has come to this point, it can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, maybe it can be done!

Jinhuan asked, "Does the old gentleman have a way to open this door?"

The old man with the goatee nodded.

Seeing this, Jinhuan said, "Good! Then please start quickly, old gentleman! ”

After speaking, seeing that the old man had not moved for a long time, Jin Huan asked puzzledly, "Does the old gentleman still have any questions?"

The old man with the goatee rubbed his hands and asked a little embarrassedly, "General Jin, is that...... Three hundred taels is really, isn't it? ”

Jin Huan looked at the old man's money fan, and felt a little disdainful in his heart, but he still smiled and said: "Don't worry, General Ben is full of words!"

When the old man with the goatee heard this, he almost laughed from ear to ear, and kept muttering: "That's good! That's good! ”

Jin Huan said patiently: "Since this is the case, let's start quickly!"

The old man with the goatee hurriedly arched his hand and replied, "Yes!"

Then he beckoned to Lin Yan and said, "Apprentice, come with the teacher."

Lin Yan couldn't help but sneer: "This old guy takes advantage of me!"

But so many people watched, he had come in pretending to be this old man's disciple before, and now he could only continue to act.

Lin Yan walked up to the old man, and the old man continued: "Apprentice, today as a teacher, I will let you see the world!"

Lin Yan pursed his lips, thinking that this old man has a lot of plays, and it would be a pity not to sing on the stage.

I saw the old man with a goatee walking to the King Kong Gate with Lin Yan, touching left and right on the stone gate, turning around.

Seeing this, Tu Pao couldn't help but mutter: "What to pretend!"

Don't look at this old man's age, his ears are quite good, he turned his head and glanced at Tu Pao with disdain, and said, "What do you know about this thief and rat, shut up and watch!"

Tu was so angry that he couldn't do it, but he didn't continue to say anything, and waited for the old man to make a fool of himself.

I saw that the old man with a goatee touched it for a while, and pressed it somewhere on the King Kong door, and with a creaking sound, a layer of stone slab in the middle of the door was slowly pushed up, revealing a boxy groove.

The people around looked closely, and in the middle of the groove was a ring-shaped object, with two layers above and below, and a stone pillar about half a foot passed through it.

It would be inaccurate to say that it is a ring, there are serrations on it, and there are also on the stone pillars inside, and the two bite each other.

It was the first time they had seen this thing, and they couldn't figure out what it was.

Jin Huan on the side asked: "Old man, this is ......?"

The old man with the goatee replied, "It's the lock."

Lock? Everyone is skeptical, who hasn't seen the lock? But there's never been a lock that looks like this, and this old man can't be scolding us, is he?

The old man with the goatee continued: "I, Zhang Deshou, have lived for most of my life, and it is the first time I have seen this kind of lock."

Only then did Lin Yan know that this old man's name was Zhang Deshou, let's not talk about Shou first, his greedy appearance doesn't seem to have much to do with virtue!

"Since it's the first time you've seen it, how do you know it's a lock?" A bald-headed scarred man asked.

Old man Zhang looked at him like a fool, until he couldn't stand it anymore.

The scar man asked, "What's wrong?"

Old man Zhang turned his head away and stopped looking at him, as if he felt that his IQ was too low, and it would be contagious if he looked at it for a long time, and then said: "I once read an ancient book, which has a record."

"This kind of lock is called 'dry branch lock', and it is also easy to understand that 'stem' is the heavenly stem, and the 'branch' is the earthly branch. With A, B, C, D, E, G, XIN, NON, and Dec as the ten stems, Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai as the twelve branches, the order of the stems and branches is coordinated, and there are 60 different combinations. ”

"The key to opening the door is unlocking, and the key to unlocking is to find the most correct arrangement, and there are only three chances. Once the three times are wrong, then the Vajra Gate will be completely locked. ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but sigh that choosing one of the sixty kinds and only trying three times was not very difficult for this group of people, it was simply impossible!

Jin Huan thought the same thing, but he still asked Old Man Zhang with a glimmer of hope, "Does the old man have a way?"

To Jinhuan's surprise, Old Man Zhang replied affirmatively: "Of course there is!"

"Oh?" This time the golden ring is really a bit of a surprise, this old man may really be a hidden master.

But before he could be happy, Old Man Zhang continued: "It's just that this unlocking pressure is too great, and it takes a lot of brains, this ......" said, the old man also stretched out his fingers and twisted them without a trace.

Jin Huan looked at this gesture and understood in seconds, it turned out that this old man was asking for money! A touch of coldness flashed in his eyes, and he continued: "The old gentleman has worked hard, in this way, this general will give the old gentleman another two hundred taels, and the old gentleman should take good care of his body!"

The words "take care of your body" are extremely heavy, which means that Jinhuan is very dissatisfied with his behavior of sitting on the ground.

Old man Zhang didn't seem to understand the coldness in Jin Huan's words, and said with a smile: "I'm so old, I'm grateful to the general!"

After speaking, Old Man Zhang went to the stone gate again, stared at the "dry branch lock" for a while, and then he began to move.

As the old man's hands fiddled for a while, the two ring-shaped objects up and down the groove were also turned around by him, and under the nervous gaze of everyone, the old man's hands stopped.

Everyone stared at the stone gate, as if they didn't react.

Old man Zhang stroked his goatee embarrassedly and said, "Mistake, mistake!"

Seeing this, everyone was speechless for a while.

Then, Old Man Zhang started the second attempt, only to see him pick up a small pebble on the ground, and then write something on the ground.

After a while, the ground became densely packed, all of which were the words he calculated, and it turned out that he was deducing the arrangement and combination of this "dry branch lock".

Then I saw the old man Zhang stand up, confidently walked to the front of the "dry branch lock" and fiddled with it for a while, and then waited for a long time, but there was still no movement.

This time it failed again!

Old man Zhang also seemed to be angry, and scolded: "What kind of thing, why can't you open it?" Yes? ”

Everyone was speechless for a while, you ask us, who do we ask?

Suddenly, I saw that the old man Zhang closed his eyes, and said to himself: "Forget it, leave it to Destiny!"

Then, he closed his eyes and touched the "dry branch lock", looking like he was going to break the jar!

That's not going to work!

The crowd exclaimed in surprise and hurried up to stop him.

But they were still some distance from the old man, and the old man was too close to the "dry branch lock".

Jin Huan was the closest, and Fei stepped forward to stop it, but he was still a step too slow, and he couldn't help but scold angrily in his heart: "Bastard!"

only heard a crisp sound of "pop", and everyone present fell silent.

Old man Zhang slowly opened his eyes, looked at the "dry branch lock" in front of him, looked back at everyone, and said curtly: "It seems to be ...... It's on! ”

Then I saw that there was a continuous sound at the connection between the bottom of the King Kong Gate and the ground, and the stone buckles were disconnected one after another.

It turned out that it was because these buckles were connected to the stone slabs buried deep under the ground that the boulder door could not be opened for a long time.

At this moment, the lock has been lifted, and with a rumbling sound, the King Kong Gate slowly lifts, and the entrance to the underground palace is presented in front of everyone......