Volume 2: Snow Ridge Please Ling-Haidong Imperial Mausoleum Chapter 265: Pins
Yue Guanchao recalled the mechanism he saw, from the golden monkey to the toad, from the gear to the copper shaft, and described many details to Song Siyuan and the cat master in detail.
"Macaque, Jin Toad, is this Jin Shen Bronze Toad!"
Song Siyuan heard the meaning of the cat master's words, and continued to ask, "Do you know this thing?" ”
"I know it, when I was young, I always liked to tinker with all kinds of pins, this Jinshen Copper Toad Instrument is the most sophisticated hydraulic mechanism of Tianji Pavilion, relying on the precise operation of gears and copper shafts, as long as there is enough hydraulic power, it is not a problem to rotate for tens of millions of years."
"Listening to Yue Xiaoyou's words, there is a lot of tung oil in it, as long as the tung oil loses its fluidity, then the whole machine will become, and it will be difficult for them to take this step."
Master Mao's words, Song Siyuan probably understood, they were facing the most sophisticated instrument thousands of years ago, and they had to pay attention to it: "Do you have a way to stop the flow of tung oil?" ”
"Hey, the things of the Tianji Pavilion follow the concept of gossip, there are longitudinal and grams, I'll turn over the things of the Tianji Pavilion first."
After speaking, the old man took out a yellowed scroll of transcription from his cloth pocket, which was covered with ink smudges, and the large characters of "Tianji Jinggong Lu" were clearly visible.
"There you have, here."
The cat master turned to the page of Jin Shen Tong Toad Yi and handed it to Song Siyuan, she carefully browsed the instrument of the Gongbi copy, looking at the curved lines and blurred organs, the copyist was very careless, but she could see the general outline of the mechanism clearly.
"Master Cat, dare to ask what Jin Shen Tong Toad means?"
Song Siyuan didn't have a clue for the time being, she decided to find some more information to find the right agency!
The cat master recalled the many pin mechanisms he knew, exhaled and slowly explained:
"Jin Shen is a macaque, copper toad is a toad, the ancients believed that apes and the like are the most flexible animals, and the pursuit of the mechanism is also flexible and changeable, the ancients mostly made the mechanical arm into the style of the ape arm, so as to obtain the flexibility of the ape."
"As for the toad, the toad breathes and spits water, which can be seen as a symbol of wealth and treasure, in feng shui, water is wealth, and spitting water is spitting wealth, that ape has always been greedy, and it is necessary for the toad to be willing to act diligently with the lure of wealth."
"The golden monkey is above, the copper toad is below, the meaning of this organ is to use water as wealth, lure apes, the saying is indeed superstitious, but it contains the ancients' wish to move forever, it can be regarded as feng shui tools!"
"I don't know, what did Song Qianjin think?"
Song Siyuan carefully rubbed the mechanism, her eyes flashed, and she looked at the old man:
"Perhaps, the secret is in the body of the golden monkey and the golden toad, and only they are exposed and can act as the key to the life of the organ."
"Look, Master Cat!"
She made persistent efforts and let the cat master look at this and that drawing:
"I remember you said that the organs of the Tianji Pavilion are all based on the gossip of the Nine Palaces, so the eight golden monkeys and eight golden toads can be counted as the eight palaces, and the center of the copper pillar is where the middle palace is located, will it be, that organ is hidden in tung oil!"
"Song Qianjin, if you say so, you can say it, why don't we let Yue Xiaoyou try?"
"You can give it a try."
Subsequently, Song Siyuan conveyed the meaning of her and the cat master to Yue Guanchao, and when he learned the thoughts of the two, he took Ma Chang back to the palace and looked at the platform again.
"The climbing rope was used in advance, why don't you let me go up and have a look, if there is really a mechanism, it's not too late for you to go up again."
Ma Chang shook his arms hard, shook his hands upward, and his wrists flew out of the hanging wire, firmly hanging on the temple beams, he leaned on his fitness hands, and the bronze beast with his feet half a man high jumped upward, like an ape jumping on a tree and easily jumping on the beam of the house.
When he got close to the platform, Ma Chang's eyes changed from curiosity to shock, and he kept waving towards Yue Guanchao:
"Engong, there's a black bump in this copper furnace, I don't know what it is?"
Yue Guanchao didn't talk nonsense, the pedal copper beast took Ma Chang's hand and jumped on the beam of the house, and the tung oil in the furnace flowed, buzzing the gears behind the golden monkey's buttocks.
The black pimple that Ma Chang said is something like a pestle for pounding medicine, slightly wider than a copper basin, thin at the top and round at the bottom, and the top chain is buckled into the caisson well, and it hangs straight into the tung oil.
"Let's see, if you can pull it up!"
Yue Guanchao and Ma Chang each stood on the side of the beam, pulling the chain and dragging it upward, this thing is afraid that it is solid, like a thousand gold heavy, and it has not been able to shake half a point with great strength.
"It seems that such a mechanism can only be used by skill."
Yue Guanchao stood on the beam of the house and observed the eight golden monkeys, all the other places were tightly fitted, only the golden monkey's eyes were very special.
Most of the eye sockets of these macaques are hollow, and they are embedded with sapphire eyeballs, and when they are shaken by a flashlight, the monkeys immediately seem to be alive, and their eyes are shining with a strange light.
Yue Guanchao understood that the golden monkey had no holes in its whole body but left eye sockets, which might be strange.
Then, he took out a dagger and dug out the golden monkey's eyes, which were not empty of anything, obviously a hexagram composed of black and white lines!
He did the same, and also dug out the eyes of other golden monkeys, except for the middle palace, the rest of the gossip was all carved into the eye sockets one by one.
"There's gossip in the eye sockets, but what the hell does this mean!"