Chapter 23 Talismans (Part 2)
"Don't fold it, put it in the car."
Master Liu turned his head and saw Su Xiaoxiao took out the Che Gongfu, his expression tightened.
"Oh, these are similar to those talismans sold in the antique market."
Su Xiaoxiao didn't talk back, and put the car talisman back, and a few people followed Liu Ye, and soon came to the parking place at the entrance of the village.
"Xiao Xiao, we don't have any good things in our village, just take these few talismans."
Before Su Xiaoxiao got into the car, the sixth master grabbed her, handed a big envelope into Su Xiaoxiao's hand, and said, "It's not very peaceful now, so be careful when you're outside. These amulets are the most important thing you usually Good to take with you.
Your dad said that he bought a new house in the city, and there is a town house talisman inside, and he posted it on the door when he returned! "
"Ah? Grandpa Six, what's the matter with you today?"
Su Xiaoxiao was a little confused by the sixth grandfather's words. She went to Yanjing to go to school as a girl. What does it mean to bring so many talismans?
"Take it if I give it to you, be obedient."
Sixth Master didn't say much, and looked at Su Xiaofan, "Your father and I are not enemies, you boy should go back to the village to see if you have nothing to do, don't do your own things and don't learn, go to the antique market to learn those messy things."
"Understood, Sixth Grandpa, I will send my little sister to Yanjing and come back to learn crafts from you."
Su Xiaofan nodded when he heard the words. He thought that Grandpa Six was talking about the craft of making bronze ware. Not to mention, even the top craftsmen in China are far behind Grandpa Six in terms of the craftsmanship of imitating and restoring ancient bronze ware.
"Okay, let's go, pay attention to safety on the road." Standing in front of the car, Master Liu waved his hand.
"Xiaofan, are you here to 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 worry about it."
Sujia Village is located at the foot of Mang Mountain, and there is still a path of seven or eight kilometers away from the town, and then another five or six kilometers to get on the highway.
Many of these trails are in the fields, with ditches on both sides. It’s good to have a wide view during the day. If you drive at night, Zheng Dagang is afraid that he will drive the car into the ditch.
"Okay, Brother Gang, you take the co-pilot."
Su Xiaofan opened the door of the driver's seat. After recovering from a car accident in high school, he went to take the driver's license test. In Su Xiaofan's own words, taking the driver's license test and learning the traffic rules can be regarded as gaining wisdom through learning.
Skillfully start with the ignition in gear, Su Xiaofan is very familiar with Zheng Dagang's SUV, and sometimes he and Zheng Dagang go shopping together, both of which are driven by Su Xiaofan.
"Sixth Grandpa, you go back." Su Xiaofan opened the car window and greeted Sixth Master, and the car drove into the night.
"Xiao Xiao, what talisman did Liu Ye give you? Show it to Brother Gang."
Zheng Dagang looked back and saw Su Xiaoxiao opened the envelope, took out a few pieces of yellow talisman paper, and stretched out his hand out of curiosity.
"I didn't see Grandpa Liu believing this before."
Su Xiaoxiao handed the talisman in his hand to Zheng Dagang.
"Who knows what's going on, and I don't know what kind of symbols these are." Su Xiaofan was driving the car, but he couldn't turn his head to look.
"Not to mention, these talismans are much better in appearance than those bought in our market."
Zheng Dagang got a total of three talismans in his hands, and he felt the difference as soon as he got started.
The objects used by Taoists are very common in the antique market. They belong to the category of miscellaneous items, and they are also related to magic tools. They just belong to Zheng Dagang's business scope. This vision is much stronger than Su Xiaofan.
"This yellow paper is specially made, not the kind of wholesale market, it is much thicker, hey, this is actually hard yellow paper, the paper alone is quite valuable..."
Zheng Dagang looked at the talisman in his hand in surprise. The hard yellow paper he mentioned was a kind of artistically processed paper made in the Tang Dynasty. It was made by dyeing, waxing and calendering, and was called hard yellow or yellow hard.
The paper produced in this way is easy to store for a long time, and its luster is smooth. Because the amurberry juice is used to dye the paper, it can not only be used as a yellow dye, but also can prevent moths. Now many scriptures and picture books handed down from the Tang Dynasty are mostly made of this kind. written on paper.
However, in Zheng Dagang's view, the yellow paper used for these talismans is not a fake craftsmanship of the Tang Dynasty, but it is a modern imitation, otherwise the paper alone could be considered a cultural relic.
Zheng Dagang began to comment on the paper first, Su Xiaofan and Su Xiaoxiao who were driving listened with gusto.
Four things are needed to draw a talisman, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, just like the four treasures of the study, one is indispensable, and cinnabar is also needed.
Bi refers to the writing brush. This ordinary writing brush is fine. If you are more demanding, you can use the writing brush made of wolf hair. It is said that the wolf hair has spirituality, and the brush effect is better.
Two pens are generally required, one vermilion pen and one black pen, depending on the situation.
Ink and inkstone are pine ink, the inkstone can be used for normal writing, no special manufacturing is required.
The most important thing is paper, you need to use yellow paper, and put it together with cinnabar to make Zhushu yellow paper.
"This Shizhen house talisman, this one is a broken evil talisman, hey, there is also a healing talisman, does this thing work?"
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 suddenly several messages appeared in his mind.
【Repair value: 3 points! 】
【Low-level incomplete broken evil talisman, can be repaired, need to deduct 1 point of repair value, whether to repair it? 】
【The low-level incomplete town house talisman can be repaired, and the repair value needs to be deducted by 1 point. Do you want to repair it? 】
【Low-level incomplete healing talisman, can be repaired, need to deduct 1 point of repair value, repair it? 】
"Are they all low-level incomplete talismans?"
Looking at the information in his mind, Su Xiaofan was already powerless to complain.
So far, except for the Han Wang Ding at the entrance of the village, which is a complete magic weapon, the other magic weapons and talismans that Su Xiaofan encountered are all incomplete, but from the surface, Su Xiaofan can’t see where there is any incompleteness .
"Never mind whether the talismans are useful or not, this paper is pretty good." Zheng Dagang put the three talismans in an envelope and returned them to Su Xiaoxiao,
"Brother Gang, you're in the appliance business, don't you know if it's useful?"
Su Xiaoxiao knew that in the past every Chinese New Year, the door **** town house fortune talismans and so on that his brother brought back were all taken from Zheng Dagang.
Su Xiaoxiao put the envelope in his brother's bag, and took out the bell inside to play with.
"Xiao Xiao, Brother Gang doesn't know, I just sell it, but it doesn't work."
Zheng Dagang replied with a bit of a guilty conscience. He bought a hundred or ten talismans from the wholesale market for tens of dollars.
"It should be useful, maybe we can use it if we encounter something unclean."
Su Xiaofan said, recently saw a lot of incomplete instruments and talismans, at least they are different from modern handicrafts, but Su Xiaofan doesn't know what their function is.
"Why is it foggy in front? Xiaofan, drive slowly."
Zheng Dagang saw the fog ahead from the windshield, and hurriedly greeted Su Xiaofan.
"It's okay, that place is a threshing floor, and the foggy place is on the side."
Su Xiaofan replied, he is very familiar with the terrain here, he used to ride a bicycle back and forth, and he couldn't go wrong with his eyes closed.
"Brother, could it be that what you said was right, did you encounter something unclean?"
Su Xiaoxiao, who was sitting in the back row, changed her voice in a low voice: "I died so badly, 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 scored the time and place.
People who live in Luochuan, no one knows that Mangshan is a place with tombs on top of tombs, and an unknown number of tombs layered on top of each other. The ghost stories from here can be written into a book.
And Zheng Dagang's car is now driving at the foot of Mang Mountain. Zheng Dagang absolutely believes that if they dig more than ten meters down from where their car is, there will be a tomb. Su Xiaoxiao pretending to be a ghost in such an environment will indeed scare people to death of.
"Brother Gang, don't listen to her, she still scares others with her courage."
Su Xiaofan, who was driving the car, curled his lips. He used to take his younger sister back to the village on a bicycle. The two often told each other ghost stories. Every time Su Xiaoxiao was frightened and screamed. Someone else is coming.
"Hey, brother, brother, well... it seems that there is a ghost..." Suddenly, Su Xiaoxiao's trembling voice sounded.
"Come on, are you still scaring me?"
Su Xiaofan sneered, "Ghosts are also transformed from living people, even their bodies are gone, so there is nothing to be afraid of, you find one and watch my brother catch ghosts for you."
Su Xiaofan is not bragging, he is really courageous, the way back from the town to the village used to pass through a pile of graves.
It is said that some ancient craftsmen were buried in the mass grave, and later became a place where refugees were buried. During the war, many bandits were also buried here.
The graves in Luan Grave Mound are very shallow, and some coffin boards can be washed out in a heavy rain. At night, "will-o'-the-wisps" caused by human bones can be seen everywhere, and most people don't want to pass here at night.
But Su Xiaofan didn't care, when he was studying in the town, he rode his bicycle home every night after self-study.
One time it was so dark that Su Xiaofan couldn't see the way, so he simply found two phosphorescent bones in the random graveyard, and tied them to the front handlebar of the bicycle.
Not to mention, when the wind blows and rubs against each other, the phosphorous fire emitted by the bones can really illuminate him.
Later the mass grave was moved away, Su Xiaofan was still very regretful, because every time he went there, he would scare his sister to tears.
Later, the old village head found out about this matter, and called Su Xiaofan to scold him, not because he was brave, but because those bones were the bones of the predecessors, Su Xiaofan's actions were too disrespectful to the ancestors.
"Xiaofan, well... it seems that there are indeed, then... there are two shadows over there."
Just when Su Xiaofan was teasing his younger sister, Zheng Dagang's voice also rang out, and his face looking out the window was full of horror.
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(end of this chapter)