nucmednet Chapter 293 Secret Cell
Chapter 293 Secret Cell
The Babu Qiangong bed was finally sold for 520 yuan. Lin Shu also selected four drum stools and asked Gu Jiu to find a few wooden carts to help transport the furniture back to the second courtyard.
The rest of the furniture just had to be brought back and placed in the house, but the most troublesome thing was the Babu Qiangong bed. It took the hired carpenter two hours to help put it back in place.
After sending the carpenter away, Gu Jiu looked at the furniture in the house and guessed Lin Shu's intention, "Do you like this retro style? If you like it, I'll find a painter to come and repaint all these furniture."
Lin Shu walked around the Qiangong bed, looking at its exquisite carvings, "This is the charm accumulated over the years that I want. You have completely sanded the surface and repainted it, but that's not what I want."
"What's the story behind these furniture?" Gu Jiu didn't believe that his wife would buy these old furniture for no reason. She would only spend money to buy them if there was a profit to be made.
Lin Shu stopped at the head of the bed and knocked here and there. Normally, if there was something hidden, there must be a mechanism, but the head of the bed did not look wrong from the outside.
[System, you said there is something at the head of the bed, where is it? How do I get it out?]
[In the middle of the bed, aligned with the pillow. ]
Lin Shu listened to the system's prompt and wiped the bed board with his hand. There was a lot of dust on it. After thinking about it, he put on his shoes and stepped on it. He squatted in the middle of the bed and knocked on a small position on the bed board. The sound was indeed different from the place he knocked before.
"The noise in here is not right." Gu Jiu put the two children on the bed and let them play around this thousand-work bed.
He walked over to Lin Shu and suddenly became interested, "Is this why you bought the bed today?"
Lin Shu pressed here and touched there, shaking his head: "I bought it in the first place because the wood of this Qiangong bed is Huanghuali wood."
"Then how come you seem to know there's something special about it? Otherwise you wouldn't knock on it everywhere." Gu Jiu was first surprised that the wood of the bed was so good.
But he still didn't quite believe what she said. He was curious about how Lin Shu, who had always been with him, knew that this old bed was different.
"Didn't the ladies in ancient times like to hide some private things? Where is the safest place to hide private things? Of course, the bed where they sleep every day." Lin Shu looked at him, as if to say, why ask such a simple question.
Gu Jiu coughed twice, rolled his eyes, and asked, "Where do you like to hide your private room?"
Lin Shu lowered her head and searched for a long time but couldn't find the mechanism. She turned around and pushed away Gu Jiu who came close to her in annoyance, "If I tell you, that's not called hiding, it's called releasing."
After being pushed, Gu Jiu sat directly on the bed, biting her lower lip and smiling helplessly. There was really nothing he could do about her.
Dabao walked to the head of the bed, imitating Lin Shu's actions, and looked for something carefully.
After Lin Shu searched both sides of the bedside, he still found nothing. He was just about to ask Gu Jiu to see if he could move the bed and check the headboard from the back.
At this time, Dabao, who had been searching in a serious manner, pointed at the dragon and phoenix in the dragon and phoenix, or more precisely, at the eyes of the dragon and phoenix, and shouted excitedly: "Mom, there are two small holes here."
"A small hole?"
Lin Shu stepped onto the bed board again, squatted in the middle of the bedside and looked at the place Dabao pointed. There were indeed two small holes, the size of a pinhole. Coupled with the dust accumulated over the years, it would be impossible to find them without careful observation.
"These two small holes are the key to the mechanism?"
Gu Jiu rubbed Dabao's little head and said with a smile: "Let's try. I'll go borrow a sewing needle from the neighbor next door."
"No, there's a handkerchief for wiping saliva on Erbao's clothes with a safety pin. That safety pin should be fine."
The eye of a safety pin is the same size as the eye of a sewing needle. If this is the opening mechanism, then it can be opened.
After Gu Jiujing's reminder, he also remembered.
He hurried over to take the safety pin off Erbao's clothes, then straightened the safety pin and inserted it into the hole. When it reached the bottom, he applied a little force, but the mechanism still did not respond.
"Try inserting the needle into the hole here." Lin Shu reminded him.
Thinking that inserting it alone would not work, I found another needle to use at the same time.
"Still no response."
"Just now you inserted the dragon eye first and then the phoenix eye. Now try it the other way around." Lin Shu was thinking about how to crack the mechanism.
"That makes sense." Gu Jiu tried it again.
I saw it was finally inserted into the dragon's eye, and with a little strength in my hand, I heard a light and crisp "click" sound, and the fireball carving in the middle of the headboard popped out.
Gu Jiu and Lin Shu were delighted. They looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes.
Gu Jiu grabbed the fireball and pulled it out with force, and the entire carved wooden board at the head of the bed protruded out.
Lin Shu stood up and checked the head of the bed, and found that the entire head of the bed had been split into two, and the head of the bed could actually be slowly lowered.
The fireball just now is the handle, which makes it convenient to open the entire carved headboard. Inside the headboard are sixteen neatly arranged grids, and each grid contains a wooden box of the perfect size.
The most interesting thing is that the wood of each wooden box is the same as that of the Qiangong bed, both are made of Huanghuali wood.
The surface is also carved with patterns such as auspicious clouds.
"Damn, there's something fishy going on inside!" Gu Jiu exclaimed when he saw the situation inside.
Not to mention the value of the things stored in it, the workmanship alone is worthy of the name of Qiangong Bed.
Well-deserved reputation.
Even Erbao came over to see the curio.
"Wife, look at what's in these boxes?"
Lin Shu suppressed his excitement and did not reach for the box first. Instead, he asked, "Did you close the door outside?"
"It's closed." Gu Jiu nodded.
"Come on, let's see what's in the first box."
Lin Shu pulled out the first box. The box was not heavy, and he guessed it might contain jewelry or a land deed or something.
But Lin Shu was very curious about what it was specifically.
There was a mechanism on the head of the bed, and even the box had a mechanism. Lin Shu fumbled for a while and pressed a protrusion, and the box popped open.
Lin Shu gently opened the box. There were indeed jewellery inside, but she did not expect that it would contain a pure green jade bracelet.
If it were placed in later generations, this bracelet would probably be worth hundreds of millions. Such precious jade is very valuable. You might accidentally drop it when you pick it up to check it.
"Emerald bracelet, put it on, my wife, it will suit you very well."
A touch of green on the white wrist is very beautiful.
Lin Shu held up the bracelet and looked out the window. "Honey, do you think this is the top-grade imperial green? I heard that if the jade is imperial green, it is very valuable."
Gu Jiu turned around and went out. Not long after, he came back with a flashlight in his hand. "Let's use this flashlight to check the purity."
After his operation, Gu Jiu's tightly pursed lips slightly curved up. From the curve of his lips, it can be seen that he is in a good mood. "This is an imperial green ice bracelet. It is very precious."
Lin Shu stroked the bracelet on his wrist and asked, "How precious is it?"
Gu Jiu turned off the flashlight and said with a smile, "I heard that the lady across the strait has a pair of imperial green jade bracelets with a twisted pattern. The reason for the twisted pattern is that there are cracks on the jade, and our pair of full green bracelets are more complete than hers. Look, the bracelets are smooth and translucent, very beautiful."
Lin Shu took off the jade bracelet and carefully put it back into the box.
"Why don't you wear it on your hand?"
"I'm afraid I might accidentally break such a valuable bracelet."
Lin Shu thought about how she had to take care of the child every day, and she was afraid that she would be heartbroken if it was accidentally broken.
After putting the bracelet away, Lin Shu looked at the second compartment, which contained the same small box, but he didn't know what was inside.