Old Lady Yan nodded: "Yes, this box is made of golden silk nanmu." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Huo Sining was a little surprised, but he didn't think too much about it.

Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for ordinary people to use such boxes to hold things, but the Yan family is different, the situation was turbulent during the warlord period, and the person who held the military power was the person who stood at the top of the food chain.

Huo Sining didn't speak, waiting for the old lady to open the wooden box.

Mrs. Yan said while opening the box: "The things in this box were collected by my father-in-law who didn't know where they came from, to be honest, I am also from a scholarly family, and my wife and I are both people who have studied foreign ink abroad and have seen the world. But we haven't figured out what the contents of this box are, and they've been stored in the box all along, so I don't know if you can understand them. ”

As she spoke, the old lady untied the lid of the box.

A turquoise bead the size of a ping-pong ball emerged from the box, and when the box was opened, the bead seemed to still glow coldly in the darkness.

"The bead will glow, and at night, especially on the night of the full moon, it will glow with a silvery glow. My husband and I once took this bead to a geologist for identification, and the geologist couldn't tell what the bead was, but could only tell us that it might be a cold light source. ”

Huo Sining has heard that it is said that the reason why fireflies emit light on their own is because there is a substance called cold light source on their buttocks, but so far, it seems that the characteristics and essence of this substance have not been studied in the world, and there is no cold light source that can replace modern lighting tools.

The bead itself is a luminous body, so it is not surprising that it would be considered a cold light source. However, Huo Sining still subconsciously felt that this was unlikely, if there was such a thing in this world that could replace electricity and light, then the law of conservation of energy would be broken, and what would this material world use to balance?

Huo Sining thinks that there must be other reasons why the bead can emit light, maybe the bead contains some special mineral that can absorb heat and convert into light.

On the side, Li Quan and Qiao Zhenhuan were very interested in this bead, as soon as they heard that it was a cold light source, the two of them immediately became interested, and they stretched out their hands to pick up this bead and take a closer look, but they didn't expect to be preempted by Jiang Xiaoqin on the side.

After the little girl got the beads in her hand, she subconsciously made a grimace at Li Quan and Qiao Zhenhuan, who were competing next to her.

The beads were groping in her hands, feeling the cold breath brought by the beads themselves, Jiang Xiaoqin shivered unconsciously, and she said with some curiosity: "This bead is so cold, did you take it out of the refrigerator?"

The old lady smiled and shook her head: "No, it's that this bead itself carries a cold air, just like a thousand-year-old cold iron, for decades, put it in this box, its temperature has not changed, it has always been so icy." ”

Jiang Xiaoqin suddenly felt interesting, and said with a smile: "Looking at the material of this bead, it is indeed not like jade or jade, but it is quite fun, holding it in your hand is like holding an ice hockey ball." ”

Jiang Xiaoqin was having a good time, and Huo Sining shook his head helplessly.

No matter how vigorous and mature Jiang Xiaoqin's style of behavior is on weekdays, in the end, she is still just a teenager, and she still has that childlike innocence in her heart.

Huo Sining didn't care about her, and was about to ask the old lady if the beads were also ready to be sold, but when she turned her head, she saw a layer of tulle pressed at the bottom of the ebony box.

Before, their eyes were on the glowing bead, and no one paid attention to the box, so they didn't notice that there was anything else in the box.

Now that she looked at it again, she realized that there was something at the bottom of the box, at the bottom of the transparent tulle.

The blue and white cover is a little yellowish, but it is very well preserved, this is an ancient thread-bound book that should have been stored for many years, because it is stored in an ebony box, this thread-bound book does not seem to have been eroded by time.

"Old lady, this book ......" Huo Sining felt a little strange, if this box was used to hold the cold light source bead, why was there a book pressed at the bottom of this box? She subconsciously wanted to ask.

Li Quan and Qiao Zhenhuan next to him also turned their heads when they heard Huo Sining's question, and at this look, both of them saw the thread-bound book pressed at the bottom of the box.

Old Madam Yan smiled on her face: "Finally noticed? Actually, what I told you was not referring to the bead just now, but to this book." ”

As she spoke, the old lady stretched out her hand and brushed away the tulle, and carefully took out the blue book.

When the blue book was taken out, Huo Sining noticed three traditional Chinese characters on the book cover: The Classic of Mountains and Seas.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is an ancient book of Chinese Zhiwei, which is generally written by the Chu State or Bashu people from the middle and late Warring States period to the early and middle Han Dynasty, and is an important ancient book of the pre-Qin period, and it is also the oldest strange book rich in myths and legends.

But there are countless copies of this book in circulation, and if it were just one such book, even if it was a manuscript, it was not worth the painstaking effort to keep it away.

Huo Sining felt strange in his heart, but he didn't ask more, but waited for Mrs. Yan to explain.

"You are all playing antiques, and you must be familiar with the book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". As I said before, my father-in-law didn't know where to find this book, and we didn't care about it at the time, but when my husband found out about it, my father-in-law had already passed away, so we couldn't ask about it, and we couldn't know the origin of the book. ”

"Now that my husband has passed away, this book remains in my hands, and I don't know how it will be tossed and turned by those grandchildren, and if it falls into the hands of someone who does not know how to read and write, this book may be destroyed. ”

"So, I took this book out not to sell it to you, but to store it in your store. If you meet someone who is destined to understand the contents of this book, I will give it to him. If I was still alive at that time, if I could, I would like to see this destined person, and it will be good to fulfill the last bit of obsession that my husband and I have in this life. ”

The old lady said this inexplicably, and Li Quan on the side couldn't help but stretch out his hand to take the thread-bound book and open the book.

As a result, as soon as he saw the words in this book, Li Quan was stunned, Qiao Zhenhuan was also dumbfounded, but Huo Sining, who was sitting on the side, trembled, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he subconsciously wanted to get up from the sofa. (To be continued.) )