Chapter 157 Chapter 75 Twenty-Four Arhats Turning Heart Box

I dared to smile at Liu Ye.But Liu Ye acted as if she couldn't see me at all, her eyes were empty and she was in a daze. I looked a little scared, so I coughed deliberately, and then asked Liu Ye softly, what was he thinking about so preoccupied? Liu Ye just woke up like a dream, looked at me, her expression returned to normal in an instant, her brows relaxed, she smiled apologetically at me, and explained that she was thinking about something messy just now, maybe she was a little distracted. I nodded "Oh" twice, and didn't say much, but I still had some doubts in my heart, and I couldn't help but secretly looked at Liu Ye again. However, Liu Ye at this time was completely different from just now. He glanced at her, lowered his head, and smiled slightly.

Seeing Liu Ye's expression, I was suddenly a little embarrassed.I was at a loss for a while, I shook my head, ignored it, took a deep breath, then looked at the blue bricks under my feet, and stretched out my hand to buckle them up. Da Ya was staring at me all the time, seeing that I was about to strike, he quickly blocked me: "Lai Liang, did you think it through or just blindfolded? Are you pushing down or pulling up? ?” I glanced at Da Ya, shook my head and smiled wryly: "If we get it wrong, we'll really fart and hit our heels, and we'll be unlucky. However, there is a saying in the hexagram of 'Heaven and Earth' that says 'Pull Maoru with its Hui', I reckon it’s still a big door to pull up, and there’s nothing to do now, it’s better to have a pole than no pole, let’s climb up!”

Hearing what I said, Da Ya stuck out his tongue, his face was wrinkled like a week-old eggplant, his facial features were twisted together, he shook his head with his mouth curled up, and then nodded his shoulders, forehead and heart, and then closed his eyes at me: "Amen, may the Lord bless you, my poor child!" Seeing him like this almost made me sick, and I have to choose to pretend to be a foreign priest.I glared at him, and didn't bother to pay attention to him. I waved my hands at him and Liu Ye, signaling them to take a few steps back. Then, I aimed at the small brick in the middle of the fourth horizontal line, clasped the joint between the bricks with both hands, Start pulling it out.

It took a long time, but I just moved left and right, but I couldn't pull it out at all. I didn't give up, so I pulled out the dagger directly, inserted the point of the knife into the crack of the brick, and then slowly moved it up. I forcibly pried it up a few centimeters. I held the brick with my hands, and didn't dare to pull it out rashly. I turned my eyes left and right, and saw that there was no movement around me, so I felt relieved, and with a little force, I pulled out the brick. come out. Unexpectedly.This brick turned out to be only a half brick, the whole body was pitch black, the texture was fine and dense, and it was very heavy in the hand.

Da Ya opened his mouth wide in surprise, took it directly from my hand, weighed it a few times in my hand, and handed it to Liu Ye. I did the same thing, and quickly dug out the small brick between the fifth and sixth horizontal lines. Just after the last brick was dug out, the ground under our feet began to vibrate. The frightened bird was terrified, and when he saw that the soles of his feet were shaking, he didn't care about anything else, so he ran to the door. Before we ran to the door, the ground suddenly became calm again. I was a little puzzled, so I looked back and saw a stone pillar rising from the position of the hexagram in the center.

The stone pillar is only one meter high, and its thickness is about the size of a washbasin.The stigma is a round carved magpie, standing upright towards the sky, with its body raised, one foot on the ground, the other paw curled up behind it, flapping its wings, as if it was about to take off into the sky at any time, and there was a bird on its back. Box. I was stunned for a moment, and seeing that there was no danger, I turned around again.He held his breath and walked back with concentration. When he got close, he gently picked the box with a dagger, but he didn't see any hidden tricks, so he stretched out his hand and took the box down.

The box is about the size of a bowling ball, and its general appearance is similar to a sphere. It is all inlaid with stone strips. The stone strips are criss-crossed and uneven. The thickness of each stone strip is exactly the same, with sharp edges and corners, and it is polished smoothly. Like a mirror, the stone strips are so tightly connected that even a strand of hair can't get in. It's a work of magic. The box was passed around in our hands, and finally passed to mine. Everyone fiddled with it for a while, but no one figured out how to open the thing. I think it looks familiar, but I can't remember where I saw it for a while, and I fiddled with it a few times with my hands. I don't know how the stone bars are connected, and they are extremely firm.It's so strong that it can't move at all.

Da Ya saw me fiddling with it for a long time, and bared his teeth at me: "Come on, this box is not glued with marble, is it? It's really strong and heavy, why don't we cut it open and have a look?" Liu Ye frowned and looked at Da Ya: "I don't think so, this stone box should not be a modern handicraft, how can there be any marble glue!" I looked over and over for a long time, shaking each stone bar left and right for a long time, but I didn't see any that could move, and I couldn't make up my mind for a while. Da Ya pointed at the box and said cursingly: "I want to see it. I can't help it because the ancients were idle and bored. Just glued together a whole pile of stone strips and regarded it as a treasure. In fact, there is nothing to show off. Now, Just glue the whole point of marble glue and it’s over. To put it bluntly, the technology was underdeveloped at that time, just like a broken bicycle that made Pu Yile happy, the times are different, and the happiness is also different.”

Liu Ye obviously disagreed with Da Ya's view. Liu Ye insisted on her own position, thinking that the twenty-four stone strips are criss-crossed and tightly spliced. They don't look like ordinary things. There must be a way to open them. But we haven't found a way yet. The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was interested. I suddenly thought of something. I slapped my thigh, stared at the willow leaves and asked, "What did you just say? How many?" Liu Ye obviously didn't understand why I was so excited, looked at me blankly, and told me it was twenty-four!

Sure enough, it was really twenty-four! I patted my thigh excitedly, took the box and looked again, yes, it was twenty-four, I looked at the willow leaves and big teeth beside me, pointed to the box and told them, I know what this box is Famous!This box is indeed designed according to a special mechanism lock, the name of the mechanism lock is "Twenty-Four Arhats Turning Heart Lock"!And this box is naturally the "Twenty-Four Arhats Turning Heart Box". This kind of box is made of twenty-four stone bars. The mortise and rivet structure on each stone bar is different, and it needs a special order to untie it, otherwise it cannot be opened by external force.

Liu Ye listened to me for a long time, and asked me with some uncertainty: "Brother Hu, are you talking about Lu Bansuo?" I nodded. Lubansuo is also called Kongmingsuo, also known as Liuzilianfang, Mo Naihe and so on. Legend has it that Lu Ban, a craftsman in the State of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period, wanted to test whether his son was smart.Use six wooden sticks to make a toy that can be assembled and disassembled, and ask your son to disassemble it.After a busy night, my son finally took it apart. This kind of toy is called "Luban lock" by later generations. In fact, this is just a legend.It originated from the mortise and tenon structure pioneered in ancient Chinese architecture. This kind of lock applies the ancient mortise and tenon structure to the extreme. It is very ingenious and difficult to disassemble.The original wooden structure looks like a tightly fitting cross cube, which fully reflects the wisdom of the ancients. Now, the structure in it is astonishing and shameful. No nails are used at all, just a few mortise and tenon joints , making it unbreakable. It looks simple, but in fact there are so many mysteries inside that it is difficult to complete the assembly.Later, according to the mortise and tenon structure, the folks gradually made inferences, and derived many other difficult mortise and tenon locks on the basis of the standard Luban lock. , 18 hook locks, 14 elder brother locks, three-three knots, etc. And the stone box in front of him is obviously a large "twenty-four lock".I met this kind of lock when I was wandering in Panjiayuan. According to the old man who sells things, this kind of lock is improved on the basis of Luban lock. The middle is empty, and some small items can be placed. And the method of unlocking this kind of lock is very complicated. If you don't know the essentials, even after ten or eight years of research, you may not be able to find a way. The box in front of me is definitely not something you can try arbitrarily like an ordinary toy. It is estimated that if you don’t pay attention, the contents inside will be damaged. Fortunately, we just looked through it carefully and did not fiddle with it destructively. Da Ya listened to me for a long time, but didn’t make a sound. After staring at me for a long time, he asked me: “Lai Liang, you’ve talked a lot, and it’s as if you understand it. Will you open it?” I rubbed my head, there is a fixed order for this thing, I fiddled with it on purpose at the time, but I almost forgot about it, it doesn’t matter, as long as you know where it came from, go back and look it up online, I’m sure you can find it Untie the method. I just wanted to show the box to Da Ya and Liu Ye, when Da Ya exclaimed "no", and then yelled at me and Liu Ye: "Come on, sister, it's not good, run quickly, if If you're late, you're dead, hurry up and put on your gas mask!" We used to wear gas masks all the time, but it was so hot and sweltering just now, so we took them off and hung them around our necks. Suddenly hearing Da Ya's roar, Liu Ye and I didn't know what happened. Seeing Da Ya It didn't seem like they were joking, so they quickly put on their gas masks, and without caring about anything else, they grabbed the box and ran towards the door.