In view of what Lao Zuo said to me before, now whenever I see something from the Eastern Han Dynasty, I feel a strange feeling in my heart.
"At that point in time in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, something must have happened."
As I stared at the door on the dirt bag, Lao Zuo's words began to replay in my mind.
It wasn't until Lao Zuo asked me, "Can you open it?"
that I came back to my senses.
He was asking if the secret door could be opened.
There is no door nose or handle on the door panel, and the entire door panel is tightly buckled on the door frame, and the door shaft is not visible at the connection between the door panel and the door frame, so you have no way to judge what the door is.
The one that opens inward or the one that opens outward.
At first I was thinking that this door might have a more sophisticated mechanism, so I took out the hammer and knocked it several times.
The sound coming from the door panel was very muffled, and the bell in the hammer also made a rapid and regular sound.
The sound indicates that the bottom of the white door panel is solid, and there seems to be no space for placing the mechanism.
Then I took out a very thin knife from the carpentry box and plowed along the connection between the door panel and the door frame.
I felt no resistance.
It seems that this door panel is actually a cover pressed into the door frame.
This is a bit beyond my expectation.
The secret door structure is too simple.
But now is not the time to be happy.
Judging from the sound of the hammer just now, there is probably a large solid rock formation under the door panel.
I was about to change tools when Lao Zuo asked me: "There is a mechanism inside."
"Don't ask so many questions."
I smiled helplessly.
Ordinarily, Lao Zuo has been a well-known figure in the industry for a long time.
Why is he always asking this and that, like Li Huaishan back then, and thinking about it non-stop.
Lao Zuo smiled slightly awkwardly: "I'm just very curious about your craftsmanship."
Yes, he was indeed curious, but it was more than curiosity.
He was eager to see my skills in cracking the mechanism, and seemed to want to steal my skills from me.
I took out two very thin hook knives from the tool box, first sank the blade into the gap on the edge of the door panel, then turned the handle of the knife, which was thinner than a needle, and used both hands and elbows to lift it up.
This door panel weighs fifty or sixty kilograms, but fortunately, the two hook knives are made of special steel and are very strong.
Even though they are thin, they are enough to bear the weight of the door panel.
With a "chichi lala" noise, the door panel was pulled by the hook knife and slid out of the door frame.
Sure enough, there were other arrangements under the door panel.
As soon as I pulled it up, I saw a piece of relief carved using the sun carving technique exposed under it.
The full relief carving was carved on a perfectly circular stone slab, depicting thirty-six nameless mountains and eighteen large rivers.
The carving was extremely detailed.
On the mountainside and belly of some mountains, you can still see clearly Terraces and square fields, and around the edge of the entire stone slab, there is a circle of interlocking protrusions, which look like thread marks used to connect fabrics during sewing.
Lao Zuo clicked his tongue and said, "Why is it the other way around?"
I couldn't help but wonder: "What happened the other way around?"
Lao Zuo said: "In ancient times, people generally believed that the sky was round and the earth was square.
The so-called sky is round and the earth is square.
But the stone slab with the sun, moon and stars carved on it was square, but the stone slab with the mountains and rivers carved on it was square.
It’s round, doesn’t it mean that the sky is square and the earth is round?”
If he hadn't said it, I wouldn't have thought of it for a while.
However, we are still not sure whether this is a pure coincidence or someone did it deliberately.
Furthermore, we are not sure whether there is a saying in Black Yi culture that the sky is round and the earth is round.
Lao Zuo said again: "What do these thread-like reliefs mean?"
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I picked up the hook knife and knocked on the stone protrusions surrounding the stone slab.
I shook my head and said, "This is not a relief, it is a yin and yang line."
Lao Zuo didn't understand what the "yin and yang line" was, and his face was a little suspicious, but he didn't ask any more questions.
In fact, if he had asked at that time, I would have told him what the yin and yang line was.
Although these three words come from the book of Lu Ban, they are just a noun and do not involve the core of Lu Ban's inheritance.
The so-called yin and yang line is actually a kind of interlaced line used to fix the mechanism.
Because the wiring method is to overlap left and right, up and down, the left and right are yin and yang, and the bottom and top are also yin and yang, so it is called "yin and yang line".
Like most of the organ structures recorded in Lu Ban's book, the yin and yang lines do not have a particularly fixed pattern.
As long as they overlap left and right, cross up and down, and are structural chains that reinforce large organ components through repeated hooking, they are called yin.
Yang line.
The current yin and yang line is made of stone.
The stone teeth are pressed together tightly, staggered in order, and fit together so perfectly that even the hook knife in my hand cannot penetrate it.
Then I took out the bell hammer and struck it several times on the yin and yang line.
The sound of the bell was very muddy, indicating that there is a more sophisticated mechanism underneath this yin and yang line made of stone.
I estimate that it should be some overlapping gears, anchor hooks, and silk threads.
Before coming here, I really didn’t expect to encounter such a complicated mechanism in a place like this.
Fortunately, I have the habit of never leaving my toolbox.
Otherwise, facing such a mechanism structure, I would have to rely on a pair of hands and a heavy engineer shovel. , I really can’t figure it out.
I first took out a set of relatively small hammers and chisels from the tool box, and carved a shallow mark along the curved surface of a stone tooth.
Although these stone teeth look like they were originally the way they are now, I can smell that these stone teeth have an air of age from more than ten years ago.
It is estimated that someone poured stone slurry on them carefully to make the stone teeth The inner parts were wrapped, and the dry paste was later polished to make these stone teeth look so natural.
Sure enough, when a shallow mark was chiseled on the surface of the stone tooth, a metallic luster similar to bronze appeared inside the chisel mark.
However, the luster is not transparent, and has a rough frosted feel.
It is obvious that the copper components have experienced the rust of the years and were later poured with stone slurry.
From these bronzes, you can smell the smell of the Han Dynasty.
Because they have always been wrapped in stone slurry and have not been contaminated by other smells, the smell of age is very pure.
I can generally tell that this thing should have been produced around 180 AD, which is only three or four years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The late Eastern Han Dynasty refers to the period from 184 to 220 AD when all the heroes came together, but Cao Pi had not yet usurped the Han Dynasty.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but have another idea.
This place called Mudwa Town by the great witch Noja might also have some inexplicable connection with the old man's family.
Lao Zuo was probably a little worried when he saw that I was in a daze, so he raised his hand and patted me on the shoulder: "Why are you so stunned?"
I tried to breathe a sigh of relief, but it failed to calm me down.
I simply ignored my state of mind and asked Lao Zuo directly: "Tell me, what happened at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty?"
Lao Zuo is very smart.
When I asked him, he realized the problem: "Why, this door is from the Eastern Han Dynasty."
"Well, its production time was only three or four years before the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty."
"Oh, I can't tell what exactly happened at that point in time.
I'll go back to Soul Hostel later and see if I can find relevant information.
You go with me."
I also knew that now was not the time to talk about this, so I nodded quickly, lay down on the dirt bag, and concentrated on manipulating the mechanism in the secret door.
When I kept waving the small hammer and chisel in my hand to remove all the stone shells wrapped around the yin and yang lines, the stone teeth turned into bronze teeth that shone with blue light.
Each copper tooth has a small hole as big as a grain of rice, and the tooth is hollow.
Through this small hole, relatively small tools can be inserted.
Fortunately, I have a ghost eye, otherwise it would be impossible to see the structure of the tooth cavity through such a small hole.
Inside the tooth cavity, there is a pile of seemingly irregular gold threads and anchor hooks.
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Those threads are the thickness of a hair, intricately wrapped around the hook tips of the anchor hooks.
Some anchor hooks are connected to each other, and some A gear array is connected below the anchor hook.
Those gears that were only about the size of a fingernail were also made of gold.
Only the anchor hook did not look like metal, but rather seemed to be carved from the bones of some kind of animal.
I repeatedly observed the intricate structure inside the tooth cavity and found that the gold thread wrapped around the anchor hook was actually only one long thread.
I only needed to remove the gold threads from the hook tips one by one, and then remove the hooks that were connected to the hook.
With the anchor hook together, the gear at the bottom of the hook should be able to rotate.
It is easier said than done, because every delicate component in the dental cavity is too small, and the most delicate techniques and tools must be used to untie them one by one.
If you accidentally break the metal part in the process, If the thread is loose, or the anchor hook is dialed wrongly, the door will not be able to be opened.
You ask me why I don’t just dismantle it Indeed, although there may be metal plates sandwiched inside the stone cover, Liu Shangang has powerful armor-piercing bullets and clay explosives in his hands, which can also explode it, but I still dare not do this.
Ever since I chipped away all the stone shells on the Yin-Yang line, a very pure aura has been emanating from Tongya's tooth cavity from time to time.
In terms of intensity, it is actually comparable to the aura emanating from the entire Food Spirit Street. .
I guess that this entrance should have been opened with scriptures or spells, and there is probably a very powerful magic circle hidden inside the entrance.
To destroy it directly is tantamount to seeking death.
Next, I started to crack the mechanism.
I took out two tools from the tool box, an unedged thin hook knife, and a reduced version of a long-handled pumpkin hammer with a thin layer of cotton yarn wrapped around the hammer head.
First, use a hook knife to gently pull the gold wire away from the anchor hook.
Then, twitch the hook knife, insert a gourd hammer the size of an ear pick into the tooth cavity, and carefully pull apart the anchor hooks that are connected together.
Only the mechanisms in one tooth cavity are dealt with, and the gears will not move.
All the mechanisms in the copper teeth must be cracked open before the gears can move.
Therefore, before the last set of anchor hooks is removed, I cannot tell whether there is anything in front of me.
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