Jin Yutong

Chapter 198

Although Chen Ran withdrew his thoughts on the wooden box while eating with Wang Zhiqing and his wife, but after eating, he couldn't wait to reveal the secrets inside the wooden box. After leaving the Cultural Palace, he went home directly. There was no one in the villa, and he went straight into his room with the wooden box in his arms.

With a bang, the door of the room was closed, and Chen Ran put the wooden box on the ground.

He opened the wooden box and took out the Japanese sword and put it aside. Chen Ran held the wooden box and observed it carefully. He just checked the wooden box over and over again, but he didn't find any cracks or mechanisms. The whole wooden box was As a whole, I don't know how the thing inside the wooden box was put in... After searching for a long time, I couldn't find a way to open the wooden box to take out the thing. Chen Ran couldn't help but feel a little distressed. His own is not particularly urgent, now that the item is in hand, it is right in front of his eyes, but he can't take it out, which is undoubtedly a bit depressing.

There was nothing wrong with it, so Chen Ran could only put the wooden box aside first, then turned on the computer, and checked the information about the gloomy wood. His useful post.

This post is talking about coffins, coffins made of gloomy wood.

The formation of gloomy wood has a long history. In ancient times, due to sudden major geographical and meteorological changes, some of the century-old and thousand-year-old precious ancient trees in the primeval forest were buried deep under the ancient riverbed sediment of rivers and lakes, and some were buried In the dark and anoxic strata, for thousands of years, even tens of thousands of years, they have been scoured by torrents, crushed by mud and rocks, crushed by fish and crabs, resulting in various shapes and various postures, which also form the gloomy wood.

After thousands of years of nature's abrasion and creation, gloomy wood has both the elegance of wood and the charm of stone. Its texture is solid and thick, its color is black and luxurious, its cross-section is smooth and delicate, and its woody oil is highly resistant to tides and has fragrance. Immortal and immortal, not afraid of insects, natural, because of long-term deep burial, rich in water, wood is easy to crack, deform and warp when processing, but after drying, the processed surface is very moist and bright, and feels excellent.Historically, gloomy wood was generally used for making coffins or small utensils.

Over the past dynasties, gloomy wood has become the first choice for emperors to build palaces and make coffins, but this post says that if a coffin made of gloomy wood is buried directly in the ground, it will take hundreds of years, or even a few years. Years ago, it was possible for the upper and lower parts of the coffin to heal together, as if they had grown together, without any cracks at all.

Whether this post is accurate or not is not important to Chen Ran at the moment. The important thing is that he got a piece of information from this post, that is, the incision made when the predecessors put the things in the wooden box may be the As this post said, it has been healed together. After all, according to his inference, the things inside the wooden box will never be young, at least thousands of years old, so it is not impossible.

In this way, it means that the thing has grown in the gloomy wood of the wooden box.

So how do you get things out of the wooden box?

The only way Chen Ran could think of was to forcibly split the wooden box open. Apart from this method, there was really no other way.

There are no knives in Chen Ran's house. The Japanese knife I just bought is definitely not good. The gloomy wood is inherently hard. If I use this rusty ancient knife to chop it down, I am afraid that the wooden box will not be broken. Open, it is possible to cut off the ancient knife by himself, so Chen Ran went out of the room directly, went to the kitchen, and brought the kitchen knife.

I don't know what kind of material the things inside the wooden box are. Naturally, Chen Ran didn't dare to chop them off with a single knife. If the things inside were damaged, he would have nowhere to cry.

Putting the wooden box on the ground, Chen Ran squatted down, and cut along the edge of the wooden box. There was a clang sound, as if the kitchen knife had been cut on a stone... Seeing the crack on the kitchen knife, Chen Ran couldn't help but smile wryly I can't help but wonder if the gloomy wood is too hard, or the kitchen knife his mother bought is of poor quality, and after only one cut, a tooth was cracked on the knife.

However, even if the quality of the kitchen knife is poor, it is obviously not much worse. It can be seen that the hardness of the gloomy wood, the color and hardness of the gloomy wood are generally related to the age when it was formed. The longer it is, the harder it will be, and the darker its color will be.

The gloomy wood used to make the wooden box in front of me is not too old, it can only be said to be average, so it is not too hard. When Chen Ran cut this knife, he also cut a small crack. It's small, but you can cut it.

Chen Ran stood the wooden box upright on the ground, and split the lower half of the wooden box with a kitchen knife as if chopping wood, so that the whole room seemed to be struck by iron, and there was a clang sound, like There is no one else in the villa, or else they have not attracted everyone.

As the knife was chopped down, the cracks on the wooden box became bigger and bigger.

The color inside the wooden box is different from the color on the surface of the gloomy wood. At first it was a bit dark, but gradually it turned yellow... I don't know how long it has passed, only the crackling With a sound, the entire wooden box suddenly burst open.

Accompanied by a crackling sound and a cracking sound, the kitchen knife in Chen Ran's hand was completely scrapped, and there was no good place on the cutting surface of the whole kitchen knife, and there were cracks one after another.

At such a critical moment, Chen Ran would not care about a kitchen knife, and he threw the kitchen knife on the ground with a snap.

Bending down, Chen Ran picked up the half-split gloomy wood, looked at the cut surface, and found that the whole cut surface was extremely smooth, but it was empty. Since there was nothing on this half, Chen Ran could only pin his hope on The other half is on.

Putting this half of the gloomy wood on the ground, Chen Ran couldn't wait to pick up the other half.

"This is……"

When Chen Ran's eyes fell on the cut surface of the other half, his eyes widened in surprise, and he saw a [-] cm long dagger inlaid on the cut surface of the other half. Maybe it's been too long, The dagger and the gloomy wood have been fused together, as if they were one.

Both the handle and the entire blade of this dagger are rusty, more severely corroded than the Japanese sword.

"How could there be a dagger hidden?"

No matter what Ren Chenran thought, he didn't expect that what was hidden inside the wooden box turned out to be a dagger. It would be a lie to say that he was not disappointed. He had high expectations for the things inside the wooden box, but He didn't expect it to be a dagger, or such a corroded and disfigured dagger... This result was really beyond his expectation.

But the matter has come to this point, there is no other way, the dagger is the dagger.

Chen Ran stretched out his fingers to pick it out, and found that the dagger had grown together with Yin Shen, he dug it hard twice, but it didn't come out, so he put the half of Yin Shen wood on the ground again, and then put all the damaged ones on the ground. A disheveled kitchen knife was brought over.

The kitchen knife was gouged twice, but the dagger that was caught in the gloomy wood was still not loose at all, so we had to grind the gloomy wood on both sides of the dagger a little before talking.It took a lot of time to grind the two sides until they became loose, and then Chen Ran took the kitchen knife and used the tip of the knife to 'insert' into the crack that was worn out and gouged it vigorously.

With a clang, the dagger was gouged out by the kitchen knife.

Putting down the kitchen knife, Chen Ran immediately held the dagger in his hand, but there was too much rust on the dagger, the whole dagger was covered, and the blade could not be seen at all.

Are they all rusted like this?It shouldn't be worth much.

Seeing the appearance of the dagger, Chen Ran couldn't help frowning. Although there are professional sword grinders who can grind the rust on ancient swords into patterns, the ancient swords produced in this way are no longer authentic. Even if it is a high-end ancient sword, it will be reduced to a low-level ancient sword after being ground, so many ancient swords with high value, generally speaking, even if there is a lot of rust, their owner is It will not be ground, but if there is too much rust, the value will be greatly reduced.

And the dagger in front of me can be said to be corroded and can no longer be corroded. Even if it is good, I am afraid it is not worth much. After all, the entire surface of the knife is covered with rust, and it is impossible to tell what kind of knife it is. dagger.

Although Chen Ran was a little disappointed, he couldn't.In addition to the rust, there were some other stolen goods on the dagger, which should be corrosion on the gloomy wood. Seeing this, Chen Ran took the dagger into the bathroom and was going to clean it, although the rust could not be removed. Wash it off, but at least it will be clean.

Turning on the faucet switch, Chen Ran put the dagger under the faucet and washed it with water.

After just a dash, Chen Ran was stunned by what happened. The rust on the dagger was washed away by the water, and it was washed away directly like the dust covering the knife.

"This……"

Chen Ran was stunned all of a sudden, and after a long while in a daze, he finally realized that he took the dagger back abruptly, looked it in front of his eyes, and opened his mouth wide in surprise.

At this moment, apart from some dross remaining on the entire body of the dagger, there is no trace of rust. At a glance, there is a faint cold light shining, which makes people shudder. There are exquisitely carved patterns of wisteria flowers winding, and two inscriptions are engraved at the connection between the hilt and the blade.