Almighty Appraiser

Chapter 523
"If the handicraft is not specially treated, it will not affect the human body," Shen Yunfeng said with a smile, "However, although this piece is also a handicraft, if it is handled by someone with ulterior motives, it will not be an ordinary handicraft. , but turned into a killer weapon that affects the health of the owner."

Huang and Bai looked at Shen Yunfeng in bewilderment, unable to figure out how an ordinary imitation pottery figurine could become an ominous thing.

Shen Yunfeng smiled and did not explain too much. Instead, he shouted downstairs and called Yuan Dongliang up who wanted to be quiet. The two of them carried the pottery figurine and went downstairs to the outside.

Several curious servants of the Hu family also gathered around, wanting to see what the two young men brought by Mr. Huang and Mr. Bai were up to.

"Huang Lao and Bai Lao, there are relatively obvious traces of repairs in this place. I think that people put things inside the pottery figurines." Shen Yunfeng pointed to the bottom of the pottery figurines and said to Huang and Bai.

The outdoor sunlight was just right, and Shen Yunfeng pointed very clearly. Huang and Bai came to him and took a closer look. They did find that the glaze color of a place on the bottom of the pottery figurine was slightly different from the surrounding color.

"Young Master Shen, what should we do? You don't need to ask for our opinions. As for Lao Hu, he will definitely not have any objections." Mr. Huang looked at Shen Yunfeng and said.

Shen Yunfeng said, "That's good", and asked for a small hammer. Yuan Dongliang asked Yuan Dongliang to hold the upper part of the pottery figurine, and he held the small hammer and tapped lightly on the part with different glaze colors.

With several crisp sounds, Shen Yunfeng knocked a hole the size of an adult's fist into the bottom of the pottery figurine.

Shen Yunfeng asked Yuan Dongliang to find something to wrap around the edge of the cave, took a few glances in the crowd, called the woman from before, and asked her to take out the things inside the terracotta figurine.

Shen Yunfeng did this to avoid suspicion, so as not to be asked whether he knows magic, put the things he brought in and then took them out again.

If you were an ordinary person, you would definitely not put your hand in the pottery figurines without knowing what was inside. But this woman seemed to be more courageous than ordinary people. After Shen Yunfeng finished explaining, she squatted under the pottery figurines. In front of you, stretch out your right hand, avoid the edge of the hole, and reach into the pottery figurine.

The people at the side could tell from the change of expression on the woman's face that there was indeed something inside the pottery figurine.

In less than a minute, the woman withdrew her arm, holding a small wooden box that could barely be held in her hand.

After looking at Huang and Bai, he handed the wooden box to Shen Yunfeng.

The material and workmanship of the wooden box are very ordinary, it seems that it is just to hold things, and I randomly found some veneers and ordered it.

Shen Yunfeng opened the unlocked wooden box in front of everyone, and everyone saw that there was a rough object inside the wooden box.

It looks like jade but not like jade. It is a stone. It looks smoother than a stone.

Huang and Bai glanced at the items in the box, and frowned slightly.

Although they couldn't tell what it was, they could probably tell that the object seemed to be quite old.

"The problem lies in it." Shen Yunfeng closed the box again, and invited Huang and Bai into the living room on the first floor to talk.

When he entered the door, he casually left the wooden box outside the door.

"There is a sentence in the ancient book "Baopuzi", 'Gold and jade are in the nine orifices, and the dead are immortal'," Shen Yunfeng and Huang and Bai said after sitting down, "It means that a long time ago, families with conditions, After the death of a loved one, the nine orifices of the deceased will be plugged with jade."

Huang and Bai were full of confusion, and Yuan Dongliang on the side crossed his legs and looked a little proud. After all, he graduated from archeology and knew this kind of knowledge.

"The so-called nine orifices refer to the eyes, nose, ears, mouth, anus, etc. I think the reason why the ancients did this was influenced by the first emperor."

"The ancients believed that people have an afterlife. Only by preserving the body of this life well can they find peace after death, and have the opportunity to be a human again in the next life."

"Later, some archaeologists checked the data and said that the reason why the ancients used gold and jade to block the nine orifices was actually to protect the remains of the deceased."

"This custom is especially prevalent in official families and big families. We know that in order to prevent the body from decomposing, some treatments are usually done. The most commonly used method is to soak it with cinnabar and mercury. In order to prevent the mercury from flowing into the body of the deceased, Jade will be used to block the nine orifices, because mercury will automatically condense after encountering jade, which will protect the body better."

"What does Young Master Shen mean, that stone just now is actually a jade stuffed somewhere in the human body?" Mr. Huang asked after he understood what Shen Yunfeng said.

"Well, yes." Shen Yunfeng nodded, "From the point of view of its material selection and workmanship, it should be taken from a relatively ancient tomb, so, as Bai Lao said before, the time when the underworld was buried underground The longer it takes, the greater the impact on human health."

"Especially the underworld artifacts like the Nine-Aperture Jade cannot be contaminated."

Mr. Huang recalled the shape of the jade in the wooden box, his lips trembled a few times, and he asked angrily, "Young Master Shen, that thing was taken from the anus of a dead person, right?"

"Old man, you guessed it right, it's okay." Yuan Dongliang, who had been sitting beside him calmly, couldn't help but said.

"These grandsons are so fucking mean!" Old Mr. Huang slammed the table, blew his beard and stared angrily.

A group of servants of the Hu family standing outside were terrified when they heard Mr. Huang's roar.

"Young Master Shen, what should we do with that thing?" Mr. Bai asked.

"Find something to wrap it up and put it in a place you don't use often." Shen Yunfeng said.

Several people talked again, and Shen Yunfeng saw that there was nothing wrong with Hu's house, so he prepared to leave.

Huang and Bai sent Shen Yunfeng and Yuan Dongliang to the front of the building, emphasizing again and again that when Lao Hu came to his senses, they would persuade him to sell the land to Shen Yunfeng.

Shen Yunfeng thanked Huang and Bai, and drove away with Yuan Dongliang.

Not long after Shen Yunfeng left Hu's house, Huang and Bai rushed to the Central Hospital by car.On the way, the two kept answering the phone, and it was the people who had been handed out before to report the news about the whereabouts of Zhang Xiaoqiang and his wife.

"This kid is so courageous that he even colluded with outsiders to kill Lao Hu. If Young Master Shen hadn't discovered this in time, I'm afraid our old brothers would have died too." Mr. Huang said angrily, " If you let me know who ordered Zhang Xiaoqiang to do it, I will fight this old bone and break my wrist with him."

(End of this chapter)