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Chapter 258 The Coffin Nail

After putting the paperweight on the counter, Chen Ziyang grabbed the strange nail and looked at it carefully.The shape of this nail is very peculiar, it looks a bit like the kind of road nail used to fix sleepers on the railway, but this nail is much longer than the road nail, and it looks slightly thicker.

This nail has four edges and four sides. The tip of the nail is not very sharp, it has been worn very bluntly. The two nails are connected as a whole. This protrusion is not the traditional nail or the back seat type protrusion of the spike, but is cast into the shape of a lion's head.

Chen Ziyang held the nail and looked carefully. The lion's head was very flat. I don't know whether it was like this when it was cast, or it was smashed into this shape by a hammer later.At the same time, there are two obvious wear marks under the lion's head. On one face of the coffin nail, there is a very deep and very obvious long scratch, which runs through the whole nail from top to bottom. nail.

When Chen Ziyang held the nail and watched it carefully, the salesman became anxious.Finally, I met a buyer, negotiated the price, and bought the paperweight at a price he was satisfied with. Just when I was about to pay, the buyer seemed to have changed his mind. The boss hurriedly said to Chen Ziyang:

"Young man, what are you looking at with this broken coffin nail? This thing is unlucky, and it is useless for you to take it back. You should take a look at that paperweight. The paperweight is a good thing, and its meaning is more auspicious. It is much better than this coffin nail. gone."

The boss is also really anxious. This paperweight can earn more than 1 yuan once it is sold, which is enough for his family to spend for three or four months. It can be eaten for three months.Seeing that the buyer changed his mind, the boss quickly told the details of the coffin nail that Chen Ziyang took.

coffin nails!The boss's words reminded Chen Ziyang, only then did Chen Ziyang notice that the protruding lion head at the root of the nail was not a lion's head at all, but the head of a tomb-slayer beast.It's just because this coffin nail seems to have been used, and the protrusion of the tomb-slayer beast was deformed when it was beaten, so it now looks like a lion's head.

At the same time, Chen Ziyang also understood the reason for the formation of the two deep grooves under the head of the tomb-slayer beast. It should be caused by the nail being lifted out of the coffin, and it was caused by a crowbar. Or something like a claw hammer.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang roughly measured the length of the coffin nail with his fingers.This nail is one foot and two inches long. If measured in ancient times, it should be three feet and seven inches long, exactly the length of a standard coffin nail.

Coffin nails are called "suppressing nails" among the people, also known as "children's nails", which means to suppress evil spirits and make future generations prosperous.Coffin nails are used to nail the lid of the coffin during burial. Generally speaking, seven coffin nails are needed for a coffin.However, there are also many special circumstances, such as the identity of the burial person, the size of the coffin, or the shape of the coffin, etc., which may affect the number of coffin nails used.

Now Chen Ziyang's thoughts are all on this coffin nail. The reason why the compass reacts so strangely is because of this coffin nail.If the compass pointed to something else, Chen Ziyang might just be shocked by the magic of the compass.

But after knowing that the original owner of the compass, the Du family, should also have something to do with the tomb robbery, and that the compass pointed to a coffin nail, Chen Ziyang had to think about the relationship.

However, the more Chen Ziyang remained silent, the more anxious the boss standing by was. He was really afraid that the buyer would turn to be interested in nails and stop buying his paperweight.

What a joke, how much can a broken coffin nail sell for?Maybe even one tenth of this paperweight can't be sold, the boss stamped his feet anxiously.But seeing that Chen Ziyang was more interested in coffin nails than paperweights, the boss gritted his teeth and said to Chen Ziyang:
"Young man, don't look at it. You should buy this paperweight. The paperweight is auspicious, but the coffin nail is unlucky, and it is easy to attract some evil things. If you really like this coffin nail, you buy this paperweight, and I will put the coffin on it." The nails are given to you, and the two together are worth 15000, what do you think?"

"Huh...huh?!" Hearing what the boss said, Chen Ziyang was stunned, "You mean if I buy this paperweight, you will give me this nail? Buy one get one free?"

"Yes! Yes! Yes! How is it?" the boss asked hastily.

Even Chen Ziyang was able to hold back before, but when he heard the boss's words, he almost laughed out loud without opening his mouth, and almost sprayed the boss's face with a mouthful of saliva. The beauty of the cake is bad, which is really a double happiness.

Originally, Chen Ziyang was very happy when he bought the magic weapon he wanted, but because of the compass, he even vaguely felt that this coffin nail was much more miraculous than the paperweight. A compass that can find things by itself is already a treasure, and a compass The things indicated should not be much different.

Even when Chen Ziyang was observing the coffin nail, he had already forgotten that he had to pretend not to be interested in what he wanted. Originally, he wanted to open his mouth to ask the price, and even Chen Ziyang was ready to let people know Zai Yidao wanted to buy this coffin nail, but he didn't expect the boss to be so kind.

After suppressing his urge to laugh, Chen Ziyang quickly put the coffin nail and paperweight into his backpack, and at the same time counted out 15000 yuan in the backpack and handed it to the boss.

"Boss, I bought this thing, but it's the first time I've seen a coffin nail of this shape. I've never seen such a strange thing. Can you tell me where this thing came from?"

After the transaction was completed, Chen Ziyang wanted to get more clues about this magical coffin nail. Why did the compass point to this thing?Why does this coffin nail attract compass?All this is too unbelievable.

The boss with a smile on his face dipped his fingers into the saliva on his tongue and counted the money, and said to Chen Ziyang with a smile on his face: "I really don't understand why you, a young man, still like such unlucky things, but yes, Our older generation really can't understand the taste of young people now.

This nail is different from that paperweight. The paperweight was collected when I went to the countryside many years ago. This coffin nail was given to me by a friend who opened an antique shop when I went to Shanghai. According to him, it seems to have been received from HEB province.

At that time, I was also out of curiosity and had the same thought as you. I had never seen such a strange coffin nail, so I accepted it. I didn't expect anyone to be interested in this kind of thing. "

Hearing this, Chen Ziyang knew that he could not get any useful clues from the boss. Whether it was the boss or the person who gave him the coffin nail, he must not know the secret of the coffin nail. Otherwise, it is impossible for the boss's friend to give it to him for nothing, and the boss would not use the method of buying one get one free to give this coffin to himself for nothing.

After tightening the pockets of the backpack and putting the backpack on his back, Chen Ziyang bid farewell to the smiling boss who was counting money non-stop, and returned to the hotel where he lived.

Because the hotel room is extraordinarily quiet, the clicking sound from the compass in the backpack is more obvious. Now that the nail has been found, Chen Ziyang is now thinking about how to stop the compass Otherwise, it would be too disturbing for the compass to keep ringing like this.

Holding the compass in one hand and the coffin nail in the other, Chen Ziyang thought for a while, then touched the tip of the coffin nail to the gap in the compass.Not long after the two collided, the compass stopped turning and returned to a normal compass.

This compass is really amazing. Chen Ziyang wanted to take it apart to take a look, but he was afraid that if he broke the compass again, he would destroy a treasure, so Chen Ziyang had to force it. Resist the urge and focus on the coffin nail.

This time, without the boss's urging, Chen Ziyang looked very carefully. He found that there seemed to be some words on one side of the coffin nail.These characters should have been cast on when the coffin nail was cast, because the characters were raised, not recessed.

But I don’t know if it’s because the characters were worn out when the nail was nailed, or because the raised parts of the characters on the nail were rusted and corroded because of the age, now in this coffin The handwriting on the face of the nail can no longer be seen clearly, only some simple strokes and protrusions can be seen.

Through the shape and style of the entire coffin nail, Chen Ziyang came to two conclusions.First, in terms of the casting process of this coffin nail, the person who used the coffin matching this coffin nail must be very well-known, either a prince, a general or an emperor of some dynasty.

When casting coffin nails like this one, special molds are needed. Chen Ziyang has seen that the whole coffin nail has no seams. The nails should be casted at one time, and then simply polished and modified. .

Coffin nails with such a special shape must be custom-made. Such a complicated mold is made just for making coffin nails. The craftsmanship of the entire coffin can be imagined, so this kind of coffin nails are not available to ordinary people.

Second, the shape of this coffin should be different from ordinary coffins, because Chen Ziyang judged from the shape of this coffin nail that this kind of nail should not be nailed into a wooden coffin. , there are some traces of snapping. It seems that there should be some special mechanisms on the coffin lid of the coffin that matches this coffin nail.

When this kind of nail is nailed in, it will trigger the mechanism in the coffin lid, so that the coffin lid will be completely stuck, making it impossible to open the coffin lid again.Otherwise, the two pried marks under the coffin nail's animal head would not be so obvious, and at the same time, there should not be such a deep and obvious scratch on the body of the coffin nail.

This obvious scratch should be the scar caused by the friction between the nail body and the mechanism when someone pulled out the nail forcefully after the coffin nail was locked by the mechanism.

It took so much effort to remove a single nail from the coffin, so the coffin must be very strong.Chen Ziyang estimated that it is very likely that the material used to make the coffin is the same as the material used to cast this nail. The coffin should be cast from the metal used to cast coffin nails, and it should be a metal coffin.

This coffin must be very gorgeous, and at the same time the volume should be very huge, which can be judged from the style of the coffin nail and the scratches on the coffin nail.

After punching his swollen head, Chen Ziyang lay down on the bed. A coffin nail contained so much information, but he couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it. Anyway, this coffin nail It has nothing to do with my purpose this time, so let's study it later.

But Chen Ziyang was still a little bit unwilling to give up. He turned to study the relationship between the compass and the coffin nail. Why did the compass suddenly react after approaching the coffin nail?Chen Ziyang grabbed the compass and the nails and tried left and right, but no matter how he manipulated it, the compass no longer rotated by itself.

It seems that as long as you touch the compass with something indicated by the compass, the compass will think that the thing has been found, and will never respond to this thing again.But on what basis does the compass find the nail?

Is it a magnetic field?This is unlikely, there are things with a stronger magnetic field than this nail, and I have not seen this compass react.Is it because the compass and the coffin nails are made of the same special material?Did this cause the two to attract each other?This is not at all possible, the material of the compass and the coffin nails are fundamentally different.

Because he still couldn't figure it out, Chen Ziyang had no choice but to put these two things away. Maybe in the days to come, this magical compass left by the Du family will surprise him again.

Speaking of it, I really have a destiny with this compass, and I was able to find this compass in such a large area as Jueyin Land.And the reason why I didn't lose my way in the land of absolute yin, the compass left by the Du family helped me a lot.

Fortunately, under the instructions of this compass, I not only found a very strange coffin nail, but also got myself a very handy paperweight magic weapon under the guidance of this compass. Chen Ziyang felt that this compass was simply It is your lucky star.Before going out this time, the idea that I suddenly came out with this compass was really right.

Fate is really a wonderful thing. The first time he saw this compass, Chen Ziyang felt that this compass was destined for him. The original owner of the compass, the Du family, was also destined for him. Now one of them has been confirmed.

The compass has played its due role, and the rest is to check for clues about the Du family during this trip to Shaanxi.After making up his mind, Chen Ziyang picked up the paperweight magic weapon and prepared to conduct a sacrifice.

(End of this chapter)