Chapter 25 Chapter Twenty-Five

Da Ya suddenly squeezed his eyes at me, and just as I was about to ask what Da Ya was up to, I saw Da Ya pouted in the direction of Liu Ye. I subconsciously looked at the willow leaves, and suddenly I felt my scalp go numb, and the cold air rushed up from the bottom of my feet. Liu Ye didn't know what she was thinking at this time, her facial expression was stiff, but the corners of her mouth were raised strangely, revealing an obvious smile.It's just that this kind of expression is really terrifying, just like the smile drawn on the face of a paper man, it's very abrupt, very unnatural, even a little weird.

At first I dared to smile at Liu Ye, but Liu Ye acted as if he couldn't see me at all, his eyes were empty, and he was in a daze. I looked really scared, coughed on purpose, and then softly asked Liu Ye what was he thinking about so preoccupied? Liu Ye froze for a moment, looked at me as if waking up from a dream, and her expression returned to normal in an instant.His brows stretched, he smiled apologetically at me, and explained that he suddenly remembered some messy things, and he might be a little distracted. I nodded "Oh" twice, and didn't say anything else, but I still had some doubts in my heart.Shaking his head, took a deep breath, looked at the blue bricks under his feet and shook his head.It doesn't make any sense to continue dragging on like this, as Da Ya said, one should die in the well, but not in the river. He has done risky things more than once, and this time is not bad.

Seeing that I was about to strike, Da Ya became a little nervous, stopped me, and asked me if I had thought it through or just fooled around. I shook my head and smiled wryly, so I had to tell him the truth, telling him and Liu Ye, half of it was a hoodwink, and the other half was a guess. There is a saying in the hexagram of "Heaven and Earth No", which says "Pull the Maoru to collect it", I reckon it is better to pull up the door.Now there is no other way, having a pole is better than not having a pole, so I can only climb up along the pole! After hearing what I said, Da Ya stuck out his tongue, his face was wrinkled like a week-old eggplant, his facial features were all twisted together, his big mouth was curled up and he shook his head.

I didn't bother to talk to him, so I waved to him and Liu Ye, telling them to take a few steps back, then I aimed at the small brick in the middle of the fourth horizontal line, clasped the crack of the brick with both hands, and shouted loudly, He pulled it out forcefully. It just took a long time to pull it out, but it couldn't be pulled out at all.Unwilling to give up, I simply pulled out the dagger, inserted the tip of the knife into the crack of the brick, and slowly pried it up.This trick really worked, as soon as I saw this brick, I forcibly pried it up.After the brick was pulled out, unexpectedly, the brick turned out to be only a half brick, the whole body was pitch black, the texture was fine, and it weighed heavily in the hand.

Da Ya opened his mouth wide in surprise, took the brick from my hand, weighed it a few times, and handed it to Liu Ye. Seeing that there was no other movement after this brick came out, I just went all out and quickly dug out the other two small bricks. As soon as the last brick was dug out, the ground under his feet suddenly began to shake. Originally, we were like frightened birds, trembling with fear. With such a movement of our feet, we thought of the collapse of the sky and the ground just mentioned, and couldn't care about anything else, so we hurried to the door.Before we could reach the door, the ground suddenly stopped shaking again.The few of us were puzzled, stopped our feet and quickly glanced back, only to find that a rough stone platform had risen right where we were standing just now.

The stone platform is more than one meter high, about the same size as a washbasin. The stigma is a round carved magpie, standing upright in the sky, with its body raised, one foot on the ground, and the other paw curled up behind it, flapping its wings, as if it would be ready at any time. Soaring posture.On the back of this magic magpie, there is a ball-shaped object, which is a little far away, and the details cannot be seen clearly. Feeling that there should be no danger, the few of us glanced at each other, and walked back breathlessly. Da Ya lightly touched the ball with the dagger, but seeing no movement, he stretched out his hand and took it off.

After taking it into my hand, I took a closer look and found that it was actually made of fine stone strips.The stone strips are criss-crossed and uneven. The thickness of each stone strip is exactly the same. The edges and corners are sharp and polished as smooth as a mirror. Absolutely a work of art. After this thing was uploaded in our hands, it was finally passed on to me.But no one figured out what this thing was. It felt like a box, but there was no way to open it.I don't know how the stone strips are connected, they are extremely firm, so strong that they can't move at all. Da Ya bared his teeth at me: "Lai Liang, this thing seems to be a box, isn't it made of marble glue? It's too strong, why don't we cut it open and have a look?"

Liu Ye gave her big teeth a white look: "Stop talking nonsense, this stone box is not a modern handicraft at all, how can there be any marble glue!" I was also at a loss. I swayed all the stone bars from side to side, but I didn't see a single one that could move, so I lost my mind for a while. Da Ya cursed and said: "If I look at it, I can't help but think that the ancients were bored, and just glued together a whole pile of stone strips, and treated it as a baby bump. What do you think you can show off? Now, the whole point Once the marble glue is glued, it’s over! To put it bluntly, the technology was underdeveloped at that time, just like a broken bicycle that made Puyi happy, the times are different, and the happiness is also different.”

Liu Ye obviously disagreed with Da Ya's point of view, and insisted on her own position, thinking that the twenty-four stone strips are criss-crossed and tightly spliced, unlike ordinary things, there must be a special method to open them, but we haven't yet. Just find a way. The speaker has no intention, but the listener does. I suddenly thought of something, and asked Liu Ye with wide eyes: "What did you just say? How many?" Liu Ye didn't understand why I was so excited all of a sudden, she looked at me blankly, and told me it was twenty-four! Really twenty-four! I patted my forehead excitedly, and counted again carefully, yes, it was twenty-four!I pointed to this box and told them quickly, I know what this box is!It 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 strips. The mortise and tenon structure on each stone strip is different. 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 a wry smile: "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 in the Spring and Autumn Period, in order to test whether his son was smart, Lu Ban, a craftsman in the State of Lu, used six wooden sticks to make a toy that could be assembled and disassembled, and asked his son to take it apart.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.This kind of lock originated from the mortise and tenon structure pioneered in ancient Chinese architecture.It can be said that the ancient mortise and tenon structure is applied to the extreme, which is very ingenious and difficult to disassemble.

Even now, the structures within it are awe-inspiring and somewhat embarrassing.It looks simple, but in fact it is infinitely wonderful.According to the mortise and tenon structure, the folks gradually comprehend by analogy. On the basis of the standard Luban lock, many other difficult mortise and tenon locks are derived. Eight hook locks, fourteen elder brother locks, three-three knots, etc. 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. Da Ya listened to me for a long time without saying a word. He didn't ask me until after I finished speaking. He said a lot, will he open it? I touched my head and smiled embarrassingly.There is a fixed order for this thing, but I have almost forgotten it, but it doesn't matter, as long as you know the origin, go back and look it up online, and you will soon find the unlocking method. I was talking, when Da Ya suddenly exclaimed "No", and then hurriedly asked Liu Ye and me to put on the gas masks and run out quickly! Our gas masks were hanging around our necks all the time, when Da Ya suddenly roared like this, Liu Ye and I didn't know what happened, so we quickly put on our gas masks.At this time, Da Ya had already jumped out several meters, and his speed could be said to be as fast as lightning.I pulled Liu Ye and didn't care to say anything else, I ran to the door with the box in my arms and followed Da Ya closely. Da Ya jumped up and down in front of him, running fast, and rushed to the door in a few steps.Holding the pillar at the door with his left hand, the speed did not slow down at all, and he rushed out without any intention of stopping. I pulled Liu Ye and followed him closely, and when I saw the direction Da Ya was galloping towards, I hurriedly called him from behind.Only then did Da Ya realize that he was running in the wrong direction, so he quickly turned around and ran to the left again.