The Golden Hairpin

Seeing him so simply, Master Sun immediately showed his hospitality, and immediately got up and took out a nine-gong box in the back cabinet and said: "I have one here. After the master passed away, I took the time to do it according to the method he said, and it took more than half a year to complete the work. It's just that this thing is expensive, and it can only protect against gentlemen but not villains. It will be cut by someone with a saw or an axe, so no guests will come to the door after it is done...Haha, only elegant people like you can understand Appreciate."

Li Shubai's lips curled slightly and said, "It's nothing, I just see if anyone is interested in this thing."

The Jiugong Box has all the frames already set up, only the holes in which the fonts are inlaid on it are still empty, waiting for the eighty-one characters to be embedded.

Zhou Ziqin hadn't seen the Jiugong Box, so he asked Huang Zixia in a low voice, "What is this? How is it used?"

When Master Sun heard it, he said loudly, "This is my master’s stunt back then! My master has two unique skills, one is the lotus box, and the other is this nine-gong box. Look at the guest officer, this nine-gong box has nine nines on it. Eighty-one small nail-sized spaces, with holes under each space. These eighty-one spaces are matched with eighty wooden lattices, and there are small copper sticks of different lengths under the lattices. Only these eighty copper sticks The length is the same as the original setting before the box can be opened. In other words, this is an eight-cross lock box."

Zhou Ziqin was stunned: "Eighty words... Then it takes a lot of effort to put the words!"

"It's okay, there are eighty-one blanks and eighty wooden lattices, so these unlocked wooden lattices can move along the track in the blanks. As long as you push it a few times, you can completely disrupt the order. The lock is It’s very convenient, of course it’s a bit difficult to open."

"But it's difficult to remember the order of eighty words?" Zhou Ziqin asked.

"So, generally speaking, everyone sets up a nine-panel, a twelve-panel, at most thirty-six panels, and eighty-one panels, unless it is a passage from a classic book that you are familiar with, or you simply set a painting. , When the time comes, the jigsaw puzzle, otherwise it will be really choking." He said, and asked Li Shubai with a smile, "What does the guest officer want to set?"

Li Shubai said lightly: "It doesn't matter, what do you have pre-engraved here, I can just arrange it by myself."

"The guest officer must make a poem, or take a piece of paper to write it down, otherwise, if you forget it, you can only destroy the box." As he said, he held out a pile of fingernail-sized letters. Put it in front of him, "Fortunately, I still have these characters when I was learning carving, otherwise, the guest officer would have to wait half a month for me to engrave."

Li Shubai picked up those words casually and put them on the box. Master Sun saw that he had put the words "If a family meets a family, if they are only for bamboo shoots..." a messy pile, he hurriedly reached out to stop him, and said, "Guest, please copy quickly. Come down, or if you forget it, you will be wasting all this ten thousand dollars!"

Zhou Ziqin opened his hand and said, "Don't worry, he never forgets, he can remember it once."

"It's true..." Master Sun asked incredulously, "I heard that this skill is the only one for King Kui of this dynasty."

Zhou Ziqin smiled triumphantly and patted him on the back: "Don't worry."

After a while, the eighty characters were placed, leaving only a space in the lower left corner.

Master Sun asked: "Is this certain?"

Li Shubai glanced at the words on it and said, "It's okay."

Master Sun took a tarp, covered the surface of the box tightly, then turned the box over, fixed all the characters in the slide rails, and then took a large handful of thin copper sticks behind the characters. Nail into the copper rod.

Eighty-one copper sticks are nailed, high and low, crooked and oblique, nailed in the upper left corner of the code, nailed in the lower right corner, and nailed in the middle, just like a piece of grass of different lengths. Sharp and disorganized. He looked at Li Shubai again: "Guest, the copper rods are all made by me. I will install the lock cylinders according to this height and distance to ensure that you are the only one in the world. There is no truth that 80 lock cylinders are exactly the same length. No? If you can't believe it, you can beat the length yourself."

"I'll come." Zhou Ziqin grabbed the hammer, randomly found a few small copper sticks and beat it a few times, and asked Li Shubai, "How about it?"

Li Shubai nodded, Master Sun raised his arm and embedded a piece of steel plate on the box, and set the lock core according to the copper rods of varying lengths and densities. The criss-crossed copper rods were connected together. The intersection of is a thin copper rod behind the code. Eighty points are gathered in one place, which affects the sixteen steel bars on all sides. With a click, the box is completely locked.

He turned the Jiugong box over, lifted off the tarp on it, and gave it to Li Shubai with both hands: "Guest, please disturb the order of the characters on it. Only you can open this box in the world."

Zhou Ziqin said unconvincedly: "To be honest, isn't it 80 characters? If I try one by one, I can definitely try it a few times."

"Keguan, are you kidding me, these eighty characters are six thousand four hundred kinds of arrangements, and these six thousand four hundred kinds of arrangements, each requires you to move eighty characters, that is, you have to move More than five hundred and one hundred thousand times, you can guarantee to open this box. If you don’t know the secret book, you will have enough time to try it."

Zhou Ziqin was suddenly stunned: "Five hundred and ten thousand times... well, this is hard enough. Take an axe and split it."

Huang Zixian took the box from Li Shubai's hand, looked at it for a long time, and asked, "Did you do the same for your box last time?"

"Yes, the character code I personally set up is also an unrelated eighty characters. After making it, the character sequence is directly disrupted, and no one has ever touched it."