Master Liu turned around and saw Su Xiaoxiao taking out the Che Gong Talisman, and his expression tightened.
"Oh, this is similar to the charms sold in the antique market."
Su Xiaoxiao didn't say anything back and put the cart of talisman back. The others followed Mr. Liu and quickly arrived at the parking lot at the entrance of the village.
"Xiao Xiao, there is nothing good in our village. Just take these talismans."
Before Su Xiaoxiao got in the car, Liu Ye grabbed her and handed a large envelope to Su Xiaoxiao's hand, saying: "It's not very peaceful now. Please pay attention to your own safety outside. These are the talismans you usually need most."
Easy to carry with you.
Your dad said that he bought a new house in the city, and there is a house charm inside, and he put it on the door when he went back!"
"Ah? Grandpa Six, what's wrong with you today?"
Su Xiaoxiao was a little confused by what Grandpa Six said. She was a girl going to Yanjing to go to school. What did it mean to bring so many talismans?
"Just take it and be obedient."
Mr. Liu didn't say much and looked at Su Xiaofan, "Your father and I are not enemies. Go back to the village if you have nothing to do. Don't go to the antique market to learn nonsense instead of learning your own stuff."
"I understand, Grandpa Six, I will send my little sister to Yanjing and when she comes back, I will come over and learn your craft from you."
Su Xiaofan nodded when he heard this. He thought Grandpa Six was talking about the craftsmanship of making bronze ware. Not to mention, even the top craftsmen in the country were far inferior to Grandpa Six in the imitation and restoration of ancient bronze ware.
"Okay, let's go, be careful on the road." Standing in front of the car, Mr. Liu waved his hand.
"Xiaofan, will you drive?"
Zheng Dagang looked at Su Xiaofan, "I'm not very familiar with the road here. I can't see clearly at night. Don't let anything happen."
Sujia Village is located at the foot of Mang Mountain. It is still seven or eight kilometers away from the town by a small road, and then it takes another five or six kilometers to get on the expressway.
Many of these small roads are in fields, with ditches on both sides. It is good to have a wide view during the day, but if driving at night, Zheng Dagang is afraid that he will drive the car into a ditch.
"Okay, Brother Gang, you take the passenger seat."
Su Xiaofan opened the driver's door. After he recovered from his injuries in a car accident in high school, he took the driver's license test. In Su Xiaofan's own words, getting a driver's license and learning traffic rules can be regarded as a lesson learned.
He skillfully started the car by turning the ignition on and putting it into gear. Su Xiaofan was very familiar with Zheng Dagang's SUV. Sometimes he and Zheng Dagang went to buy goods together, and Su Xiaofan drove the car.
"Grandpa Six, please go back." Su Xiaofan opened the car window and said hello to Grandpa Six, and the car drove into the night.
"Xiaoxiao, what talisman did Mr. Liu give you? Show it to Brother Gang and let me see."
Zheng Dagang turned around and saw Su Xiaoxiao opening the envelope and taking out a few yellow talisman papers. He couldn't help but stretched out his hand curiously.
"I've never seen Grandpa Six believe this before."
Su Xiaoxiao handed the talisman in his hand to Zheng Dagang.
"Who knows what's going on, or what kind of talismans these are." Su Xiaofan drove the car and couldn't turn his head to look.
"Not to mention, these talismans are much better than those we buy in the market."
Zheng Dagang got a total of three talismans, and he felt the difference as soon as he started using them.
Objects used by Taoists are very common in the antique market. They fall into the category of miscellaneous items and are related to magical instruments. They fall within Zheng Dagang's business scope. His vision is much better than Su Xiaofan's.
"This yellow paper is specially made. It is not wholesale from the market. It is much thicker. Hey, this is actually hard yellow paper. This paper alone is quite valuable..."
Zheng Dagang looked at the talisman in his hand with some surprise. The hard yellow paper he was talking about was a kind of artistically processed paper made in the Tang Dynasty. It was made by dyeing, waxing and calendering. It was called hard yellow or yellow hard.
The paper produced in this way is easy to store for a long time and has a smooth luster. Because the dyed paper uses barberry juice, it is not only used as a yellow dye, but also can prevent moth. Most of the scriptures and picture books handed down from the Tang Dynasty are now made of this kind of paper.
Written on paper.
However, in Zheng Dagang's view, the yellow paper used for these talismans is indeed a workmanship from the Tang Dynasty, but it is a modern imitation. Otherwise, the paper alone can be regarded as a cultural relic.
Zheng Dagang started to comment on the paper first, and Su Xiaofan and Su Xiaoxiao who were driving listened with interest.
Four things are needed to draw a talisman: pen, ink, paper and inkstone, which are as indispensable as the four treasures of the study. In addition, cinnabar is also needed.
The pen refers to the writing brush. This ordinary writing brush will suffice. If your requirements are higher, you can use a writing brush made from wolf hair. It is said that wolf hair is spiritual and the writing brush made from wolf hair will be more effective.
Generally, two pens are needed, one is a red pen and the other is a black pen, depending on the situation.
The ink and inkstone are just loose ink. The inkstone can be used for normal writing and does not need to be specially made.
The most important thing is paper. You need to use yellow paper. When put together with cinnabar, it becomes Zhushu yellow paper.
"This is the World Town House Talisman, this one is the evil evil talisman, hey, there is also a healing talisman, does this thing work?"
Zheng Dagang identified all three talismans. These things are very common. He will buy a batch of them every Chinese New Year and sell them in the antique market. However, the quality of those talismans is much worse. You can hold it with a little more force.
was torn apart.
Seeing that the road ahead was not so narrow, Su Xiaofan turned his head and glanced at the talisman in Zheng Dagang's hand, and several pieces of information suddenly appeared in his mind.
[Repair value: 3 points!]
[The low-level broken evil-breaking talisman can be repaired. 1 point of repair value needs to be deducted. Do you want to repair it? 】
[Low-level incomplete house-holding talisman can be repaired. 1 point of repair value needs to be deducted. Do you want to repair it? 】
[Low-level incomplete healing talisman, it can be repaired, and the repair value needs to be deducted by 1 point. Do you want to repair it? 】
"Are they all low-level incomplete talismans?"
Looking at the information in his mind, Su Xiaofan was unable to complain.
So far, except for the Hanwang Tripod at the entrance of the village, which is a complete magical artifact, the other magical artifacts and talismans that Su Xiaofan encountered are all incomplete, but from the surface, Su Xiaofan can't see any defects.
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"Don't worry about whether the talismans are useful or not, this paper is good." Zheng Dagang put the three talismans in the envelope and gave them to Su Xiaoxiao.
"Brother Gang, you are in the pottery business, and you still don't know if it's useful?"
Su Xiaoxiao knew that every time during the Chinese New Year, her brother would get all the door-god and house-making fortune talismans from Zheng Dagang.
Su Xiaoxiao put the envelope into her brother's bag and took out the bell inside to play with it.
"Xiaoxiao, Brother Gang doesn't know. I just sell it, but it doesn't work."
Zheng Dagang answered with a bit of guilt. He bought hundreds of talismans from the wholesale market for tens of dollars. He would be damned if they were really useful.
"It should be of some use. Maybe we can use it if we encounter dirty things."
Su Xiaofan said, "I have seen a lot of incomplete magical instruments and talismans recently. At least they are different from modern handicrafts, but Su Xiaofan doesn't know what their function is."
"Why is there fog in front of you? Xiaofan, drive slower."
Zheng Dagang saw the fog ahead through the windshield and quickly called out to Su Xiaofan.
"It's okay. That place is a threshing floor, and the foggy area is right next to it."
Su Xiaofan replied. He was very familiar with the terrain here. He used to ride a bicycle back and forth, and he would not go wrong with his eyes closed.
"Brother, could it be possible that you've been fooled by your suggestion and encountered something unclean?"
Su Xiaoxiao, who was sitting in the back row, said in a low voice: "I died so miserably, come and save me."
"Hey, don't, Xiaoxiao, don't scare Brother Gang."
Hearing Su Xiaoxiao's voice, Zheng Dagang, who was sitting in front, suddenly shuddered. He was also a bold person, but that also depends on time and place.
Anyone living in Luochuan doesn't know that Mang Mountain is a place with tombs on top of tombs, and there are countless tombs on top of each other. The ghost stories from here can be written into a book.
Zheng Dagang's car is now driving at the foot of Mang Mountain. Zheng Dagang absolutely believes that a tomb can be found by digging more than ten meters down from where their car is. Su Xiaoxiao pretending to be a ghost in such an environment will really scare people to death.
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"Brother Gang, don't listen to her, she's so courageous to scare others."
Su Xiaofan, who was driving the car, curled his lips. He used to take his sister back to the village on his bicycle. The two often told each other ghost stories. Every time, Su Xiaoxiao was frightened and screamed. Now she was frightened.
Someone else is coming.
"Hey, brother, brother, okay... there seems to be a ghost..." Suddenly, Su Xiaoxiao's trembling voice rang out.
"Come on, are you still trying to scare me?"
Su Xiaofan sneered, "Ghosts are also transformed from living people. Even their bodies are gone. There is nothing to be afraid of. You can find someone to come out and watch me catch ghosts for you."
Su Xiaofan was not bragging, he was really brave. In the past, the way back to the village from the town had to pass through a mass of graves.
It is said that some ancient craftsmen were buried in that mass grave, and later it became a burial place for refugees. During the war, many bandits were also buried here.
The graves in the mass graves are so shallow that a heavy rain can wash away some coffin boards. At night, "will-o'-the-wisps" caused by human bones can be seen everywhere, and most people are reluctant to pass by here at night.
But Su Xiaofan didn't care. When he was studying in the town, he would ride his bike home every day after studying in the evening.
One time it was so dark that Su Xiaofan couldn't see the road, so he simply found two phosphorescent bones in the graveyard and tied them to the front handlebars of his bicycle.
Not to mention, when the wind blew or rubbed, the phosphorus fire emitted from the bones could really illuminate him.
Later, the mass graves were moved away, and Su Xiaofan was still very sorry because he would scare his sister to tears every time he walked there.
Later, the old village chief found out about this, and he called Su Xiaofan over and scolded him, not because he was brave, but because those bones were the bones of his ancestors, and Su Xiaofan's behavior was too disrespectful to his ancestors.
"Xiao Fan, okay...it seems like there really is one, then...there are two shadows over there."
Just when Su Xiaofan was teasing his sister, Zheng Dagang's voice also sounded, and his face looking out the window was full of horror.
