Although Chen Ran took back his thoughts on the wooden box while accompanying Wang Zhiqing and his wife to eat, but after eating, he couldn't wait to reveal the secrets inside the wooden box, so he left the Cultural Palace
, he went home directly, there was no one in the villa, he carried the wooden box directly into his room.
With a bang, Chen Ran closed the door to the room and placed the wooden box on the ground.
Opening the wooden box, he took out the Japanese sword and put it aside. Chen Ran held the wooden box and observed it carefully. He just looked over the wooden box and found no cracks or traps. The entire wooden box was just
It's a whole, and I don't know how the thing inside the wooden box is put in...
After searching for a long time, he still couldn't find a way to open the wooden box and take out the thing. Chen Ran couldn't help but feel a little distressed. The thing wasn't his own before, so he wasn't particularly anxious. Now that he had it, it was right in front of him, but
Not being able to take out the contents is undoubtedly a bit frustrating.
There was really no way to go. Chen Ran could only put the wooden box aside, then turned on the computer and checked the information about the dark wood. After checking, he actually saw an article about it on a forum.
His useful posts.
This post is talking about coffins, coffins made of sunken wood.
The formation of sunken trees has a long history. In ancient times, due to sudden and major geographical and meteorological changes, some of the centuries-old precious ancient trees in the primeval forests were buried deep in the ancient river beds of rivers and lakes, under the sand, and some were buried under the sand.
Buried in the dark strata anoxic for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, they have been washed by torrents, crushed by mud and rocks, and fished and eaten by fish and crabs, resulting in various shapes and postures. This has formed
Gloomy wood.
After thousands of years of natural abrasion, sombre wood has both the elegance of wood and the charm of stone. Its texture is solid and thick, its color is black and luxurious, its cross section is smooth and delicate, and its wood is oily, resistant to moisture, has fragrance, is incorruptible for thousands of years, and is not afraid of insects.
, completely natural. Due to long-term deep burial and rich water content, the wood is easily cracked, deformed, and warped during processing. However, after drying, the processed surface is very moist and bright, and has an excellent feel. Historically, sunken wood was generally used in the production of coffins or small utensils.
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Over the ages, dark wood has become the first choice material for emperors of all generations to build palaces and make coffins. However, this post says that if a coffin made of dark wood is buried directly underground, it will not be able to survive for hundreds of years or even a few years.
Years ago, it was possible for the upper and lower parts of the coffin to heal together, as if they had grown together, without any cracks.
Whether this post is accurate or not is not important to Chen Ran at this moment. What is important is that he got a piece of information from this post, that is, the incisions made when the predecessors packed things in the wooden box may be
As this post said, it has been healed together. After all, according to his inference, the things inside the wooden box are definitely not younger, and are at least thousands of years old, so it is not impossible.
In this case, it means that the thing has grown in the dark wood of the wooden box.
How do you take things out of the wooden box?
The only way Chen Ran thought of was to forcefully split the wooden box open. Apart from this, there was really no other way.
Chen Ran didn't have any knives in his house. The Japanese knife he just bought is definitely not good. The dark wood is inherently hard. If he used this rusty ancient knife to split it, he might not be able to split the wooden box.
Yes, it was possible that the ancient knife had cut off by itself. From this, Chen Ran left the room directly, went to the kitchen, and brought the kitchen knife over.
The contents inside the wooden box were made of unknown materials. Naturally, Chen Ran did not dare to chop them directly. If the contents inside were damaged, he would have no place to cry.
Putting the wooden box on the ground, Chen Ran squatted down and cut along the edge of the wooden box. He heard a clang sound, as if the kitchen knife had cut into a stone...
Seeing the crack on the kitchen knife, Chen Ran couldn't help but smile bitterly. He didn't know whether it was because the dark wood was too hard or the quality of the kitchen knife his mother bought was poor. After just one cut, a tooth crack appeared on the knife.
However, even if the quality of the kitchen knife is poor, it is obviously not much worse. It can be seen that the hardness of the dark wood, the color and hardness of the dark wood are generally related to the age of its formation. The older it is, the better the quality.
The harder it is, the darker the color.
The dark wood used to make the wooden box in front of me is not too old, it can only be said to be average, so it is not too hard. Chen Ran's cut only made a small crack, although it was very
It's small, but can be cut open.
Chen Ran stood the wooden box upright on the ground, and used a kitchen knife to chop the lower half of the wooden box as if it were wood, so that the whole room seemed to be struck with iron, and there were clanging sounds.
There was no one else in the villa, otherwise I wouldn't have lured everyone over.
As the knife was struck one after another, the cracks on the wooden box became wider and wider.
The color inside the wooden box is different from the color on the surface of the gloomy wood. It was a little black at first, but gradually turned into yellow...
I don’t know how much time passed, but there was a crackling sound, and the entire wooden box suddenly cracked.
Accompanied by a crackling sound and a clicking sound, the kitchen knife in Chen Ran's hand was completely scrapped. It was seen that there was no intact place on the cut surface of the entire kitchen knife, and there were cracks one after another.
At such a critical moment, how could Chen Ran care about a kitchen knife? With a bang, the kitchen knife was thrown to the ground by him.
Bending down, Chen Ran picked up half of the split wood, looked at the cut surface, and found that the entire cut surface was extremely smooth, but there was nothing. Since there was nothing on this half, Chen Ran could only place his hope on it.
The other half is on him.
Putting the half of the gloomy wood on the ground, Chen Ran couldn't wait to pick up the other half.
"This is……"
When Chen Ran's eyes fell on the other half of the cut surface, his eyes widened in surprise. He saw that there was actually a thirty centimeter long dagger embedded in this half of the cut surface. Perhaps it had been too long.
The dagger and the gloomy wood have merged together, as if they were one body.
Both the handle and the entire blade of this dagger were rusty, even more corroded than the Japanese sword.
"Why is there a dagger hidden?"
No matter what Ren Chenran thought, he never expected that there was a dagger hidden inside the wooden box. If he said he was not disappointed, it would be false. He had great expectations for what was inside the wooden box, but he didn't expect it.
I didn't expect it to be a dagger, or a dagger that was so corroded that it looked disfigured...
This result was really beyond his expectation.
But now that the matter has come to this, there is nothing we can do about it, just a dagger.
Chen Ran stretched out his fingers and dug at it, and found that the dagger had grown together with Yin Chen. He dug twice hard, but without pulling it out, he put the half of Yin Chen wood on the ground again, and then put the destroyed parts.
The disheveled kitchen knife was brought over.
After gouging out the kitchen knife twice, the dagger caught in the dark wood was still not loose at all. I could only grind the dark wood on both sides of the dagger a little bit first. It took a lot of time to grind the two sides until it was a little loose.
Then Chen Ran took a kitchen knife and inserted the tip of the knife into the crack that was made and dug out hard.
With a clang, the dagger was dug out by the kitchen knife.
Putting down the kitchen knife, Chen Ran immediately held the dagger in his hand. However, there was too much rust on the dagger, covering the entire dagger, and the blade could not be seen at all.
Is it all rusty like this? It probably doesn’t have much value anymore.
Seeing the appearance of the dagger, Chen Ran couldn't help but frowned. Although there are professional sword grinders now who can grind out some patterns on the rust on ancient swords, the ancient swords ground in this way are no longer authentic.
The value is greatly reduced. Even a high-grade ancient sword is reduced to a low-grade ancient sword after being ground. Therefore, many valuable ancient swords, generally speaking, even if there is a lot of rust, the owner
It will not be ground, but if there is too much rust, the value will be greatly reduced.
The dagger in front of me can be said to have been corroded and cannot be corroded anymore. No matter how good it is, it may not be worth much. After all, the entire blade is covered with rust, and it is hard to tell what it is.
dagger.
Although Chen Ran was a little disappointed, he couldn't help it. In addition to rust, there were some other stolen items on the dagger, which should be corrosion on the dark wood. Seeing this, Chen Ran took the dagger into the bathroom and prepared to put it away.
Although cleaning it won't remove the rust, it can at least make it a little cleaner.
Turning on the faucet, Chen Ran put the dagger under the faucet and flushed it with water.
As soon as he rushed, Chen Ran was shocked by what happened. He saw that the rust on the dagger was washed away by the water, and it was washed away as if it were dust covering the blade.
"this……"
Chen Ran was stunned for a while, and then he realized what he was doing. He quickly took the dagger back, put it in front of his eyes, and opened his mouth in surprise.
At this moment, except for some residue remaining on the entire blade of the dagger, there is no trace of rust anymore. At a glance, it shines with a faint cold light, which makes people shudder. The black blade is also full of marks.
It has a beautifully carved wisteria-like intertwining pattern, and two inscriptions are engraved on the connection between the handle and the blade...
