Chapter 1115 Eight Rings Lock
Compared to Lao Gu, Professor Lin is much calmer.
I also walked to the bed, looked up and down, left and right, squatted down, looked at the carved patterns on the side of the bed, turned around and looked at me and said:
"Although I had never seen this bed at that time, judging from the materials and patterns, this should be the stepping bed we had seen back then. Why... why was it destroyed like this?"
I looked at Guan Miaoling in a blink of an eye, "If I were not wrong, you changed your name and surname before your cousin passed away and inherited this house. How much do you know about the origin of this bed?"
When she got off the car and saw Xuansheng, Guan Miaoling's expression changed rapidly. At this moment, her and Xuansheng looked even more ugly.
After hearing my question for the second time, she came to her senses in a daze, wiped the corners of her eyes and said:
"This bed was left by my cousin. He said that this was found at a opera house in Suzhou when the big list of "units" was held. At that time, the actor had passed away for many years, and there was only one-eyed old man guarding the house.
He told me... and told me that when they broke in, the one-eyed old man resisted stubbornly and injured two "little generals" with a hatchet... They finally tied up the one-eyed old man, smashing what should be smashed, and throwing what should be thrown...
Finally... in the end, they chopped the bed in front of the old man. They originally wanted to pull the old man to criticize him, but half of the bed was destroyed, and the old man actually vomited blood to death..."
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!" Lao Gu roared like thunder.
At this time, Lin Tong and I had already thought of the one-eyed old man who died of vomiting blood was the old ugly ghost guarding the house when Professor Lin and Lin Fu and others sneaked into the house. They were also the "little red man" and Wang Jinshui mentioned by Tong Xiaoqiu.
After listening to Guan Miaoling's words, I was confused when I realized the situation at that time.
At this time, Ji Yayun held my hand and said softly:
"Finish things first."
I nodded, subconsciously clenched her hand tightly, and said to Guan Miaoling:
“Where is my stuff?”
Guan Miaoling bit her lip with red eyes and whispered something.
I didn't hear it clearly and asked her to say it again.
She also raised her voice slightly:
"The things are hidden in the bed, but... but after I put the things in, the hidden board can't be opened! Money or something is in the bed, in the middle, you can just find a home and smash the bed board."
"That's a big deal! Do you think this baby is not completely ruined?!"
Lao Gu said angrily, walked to the front of the bed, squatted down, pointed to a carved side panel in the middle, asked:
"Is it here?"
Guan Miaoling nodded: "Well, it's here, I just discovered it by accident..."
Before she could finish her words, Lao Gu looked at the side panel for a while. After a moment, he gently turned around on a cloud carving at the corner of the side panel, and looked back at me and said:
"You are a yin Gong, a foreigner. Have you ever heard of Bajie Lock?"
"Bajieluo!" I felt a stern in my heart and hurried over.
I squatted down and saw that the 'cloud' that Lao Gu pressed with his hands was actually a moving button.
The buckle was shifted, and eight hidden keyholes were exposed on the lower end.
Lao Gu rubbed his nose: "Tong Xiaoqiu said that her step-brush bed had more than four, but she was really not lying. According to what she said, the toilet should be the toilet behind the bed. I was surprised at that time that if it was just a thatched cottage, it would not be considered the fifth entry. It turns out that this step-brush bed really has a fifth entry, and a treasure pavilion! But if she didn't say it, no one would have thought that the fifth entry... the treasure pavilion would be under the bed!"
"What does the fifth entry under the bed mean?" Professor Lin focused on medicine and obviously did not know much about antiquities.
Lao Gu glared at him, "I said earlier that you are just a nerd! You don't think about what is a treasure hiding pavilion? As long as you can hide treasures, it is a treasure hiding pavilion! It may not be a room or a large area, even if it is as big as a cigarette box, it can hide treasures and not be discovered by thieves, that is a treasure hiding pavilion!"
At this time, except for Zhuo Guangming and Guan Miaoling, everyone had already arrived at the bedside because of curiosity.
Everyone, including the tiger, also saw the eight keyholes.
"The eight key holes... really fit the name Bajie Lock." Sang Lan's father said, "Does this mean that you must use eight keys to insert them at the same time to open the lock?"
"Pull it!"
Perhaps when Lao Gu saw the destruction of the tram bed, he was really red and said rudely, and waved his hand to drive him away, "Xu Huo, do you know Bajieluo?"
"I heard from a friend who is not very reliable." I nodded, "In fact, the origin of Bajie Lock has nothing to do with these eight keyholes. Bajie Lock sounds related to Zhu Bajie. The fact is that it is not Bajie, but the nine-toothed rake."
"What are you talking about? Can you explain it clearly? I don't understand at all." Lin Tong said.
I casually said: "The Bajie Lock has eight key holes, seven of which are fake, and only one is real.
There is really a ninth keyhole connected to the keyhole...there is the original key. If the keyhole is inserted in the wrong way, the lock spring inside will be disrupted and the key will be useless.
Only by inserting the key directly into the real key hole and connecting the ninth 'tooth' of the nine-tooth rake, which is the hidden key hole, can the lock be opened."
Lao Gu nodded, "It is said that this lock is easy to close, but after locking it, it can only be opened once. Now, we don't have a key, and even if we have a key, we don't know which one is the real keyhole."
He turned to me again, with a hesitation in his expression: "Does your things matter? If it doesn't matter... let's not drive it first. Although this bed is very ruined, it is still of great value..."
Before he could finish speaking, I said, "I think I should be able to open this lock."
As I said that, I took out the wooden box containing a copper lock from my bag, made the same gesture twice in succession, opened the hidden block, and took out the ring inside.
"Ruyi's fingertip!" Lao Gu said sternly.
Then he shook his head again, "No, even if you have this ring, do you know which of these eight key holes is true? This is not a gambling thing for luck, this..."
"I never gamble, but this time, I really want to bet once!"
I interrupted him, put the ring on the thumb of my right hand, rubbed it with my index finger, and an iron piece with a hook at the front popped up from the ring.
Before Lao Gu could open his mouth, he inserted the iron piece into a keyhole on the edge.
"Be careful!" Lao Gu pressed my shoulder, "It is said that the real Bajie Lock, except for the real keyhole that penetrates the ninth keyhole, the other seven are connected to the mechanism. You kid... Your kid's move may trigger the mechanism... No matter whether it is poison or explosive inside, it will take all our lives!"
"Don't worry, I have confidence!" I said, turning my wrist.
There was a slight "click", and everyone, including Lao Gu, seemed to hear a thunderclap, and they all quickly retreated to the rear.
Chapter completed!