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Chapter 26 Antique Wooden Chopsticks 3

Uncle Zhou's only daughter is studying abroad, and Aunt Zhou is in the hospital, so there are only Uncle Zhou and two servants left in the family. The servants are all from other places and have signed long-term contracts, so even if they know that something strange happened to the master's house, there is nothing they can do about it. .

The five of them ate quietly, and no one spoke. There was a heavy smell in the atmosphere.

Xu Youtan was feeling embarrassed by what happened just now, he felt that Zhou Ziyao's gaze, who was sitting across from him, lingered on his face from time to time, Xu Youtan was uncomfortable being looked at, and when he raised his head to speak, his eyes touched Uncle Zhou, Xu Youtan's body trembled suddenly, he pointed at Uncle Zhou's chopsticks and said in panic, "Chopsticks, chopsticks."

Seeing this, Uncle Zhou looked at his hand suspiciously. It was the weird wooden chopsticks. He threw the wooden chopsticks on the ground in panic, his body shook violently, and almost fell off the chair. All the food in his mouth was spit out, and the scene inevitably made people feel a little disgusted.

Zhou Ziyao's face also changed greatly in fright, fearing that his chopsticks would also turn into weird wooden chopsticks, so he quickly threw the iron chopsticks in his hand onto the table.

Because he was afraid of both wooden chopsticks and bamboo chopsticks, Uncle Zhou replaced all the chopsticks at home with iron chopsticks. When he started eating, he was still heavy with iron chopsticks. Why did he unknowingly turn into wooden chopsticks?

Bo Yi said to Uncle Zhou, "Use wooden chopsticks to draw a 'cross' on the ground where you are."

"No." Uncle Zhou refused in horror, "This thing is a ghost, I don't want to touch it."

Bo Yi's tone was nonchalant, "If you're not afraid of death, feel free."

Bo Yi's words had a deterrent effect. Uncle Zhou tremblingly picked up the wooden chopsticks to do so, wrote the word "ten" crookedly on the ground, and threw the wooden chopsticks away immediately after writing.

Xu Youtan had already recovered, he asked Bo Yi, "What is the principle?"

Bo Yi said, "This is called falling to the ground. The so-called 'falling to the ground' refers to dropping the chopsticks on the ground by mistake. This is a serious disrespect. People think that all ancestors are buried in the ground, and the chopsticks falling to the ground is equivalent to alarming the ancestors in the ground." , This is a great disobedience."

Uncle Zhou sat back on the chair dejectedly, he didn't expect that a momentary miss almost caused a catastrophe, "Then what I did just now is to solve this?"

"Forget it, I'll go upstairs to see if the wooden chopsticks are still there."

Bo Yi got up and walked upstairs. He came to the collection room on the second floor. Three wooden chopsticks were neatly placed on the table, and two were pulled out from the middle. He immediately noticed that the weights of the three wooden chopsticks were different.

Mu Xiaomu picked up the wooden chopsticks on the ground, and not long after they were put back on the table, Bo Yi came back, and he put the three chopsticks from the second floor together with the two wooden chopsticks on the table.

Uncle Zhou almost recovered, and when he saw him coming back, he asked, "Why did these iron chopsticks suddenly become wooden chopsticks?"

Just now, when Bo Yi went upstairs, Uncle Zhou had already called his servants to question him, but both of them said that they used ordinary iron chopsticks, which were no different from the usual ones. Uncle Zhou did not doubt them, but He wanted to be opportunistic, and hoped that someone would tell him that all this was man-made, but it was obviously impossible.

"Everything is possible, and many things cannot be explained. It should be that there are too many ghost-causing factors mixed together in this wooden chopsticks."

Bo Yi continued, "In ancient times, there was a saying of three long and two short, which means death. In the past, the coffin consisted of two short boards at the front and back, three long boards at the sides and the bottom, and five boards together, exactly Three long and two short. So this is an extremely unlucky thing. The number of wooden chopsticks is not accidental, because these five wooden chopsticks just form three long and two short."

As soon as these words came out, Mu Xiaomu put the wooden chopsticks on the table, grasped them flat with both hands and stood them upright, after comparing them, he said, "How is it possible? They seem to be obviously the same length."

Uncle Zhou and Zhou Ziyao obviously also saw that the five wooden chopsticks were of the same length, and echoed what Mu Xiaomu said, "Yes."

The wooden chopsticks seem to be of the same length, but Xu Youtan instantly understood the mystery, "No, sometimes the naked eye can deceive us."

Xu Youtan placed one of his iron chopsticks horizontally on top of Mu Xiaomu's five vertical wooden chopsticks, and saw that three of the wooden chopsticks fit closely with the horizontal chopsticks, while the tops of the remaining two were in contact with it. There is a distance of about three millimeters.

Mu Xiaomu exclaimed, "What's going on?"

Xu Youtan said, "It is said that seeing is believing, but sometimes what people see with their eyes is not necessarily real. There is an experiment that draws arrows on the two ends of two straight lines of the same length. The arrow is pointing inward, and the other straight arrow is pointing outward, however, at this time, people will feel that the straight line with the arrow pointing outward is longer than the straight line with the arrow pointing inward, which is the deception of vision.”

Zhou Ziyao asked in puzzlement, "Then what's the matter with these wooden chopsticks? They don't have arrowheads at both ends."

Xu Youtan said, "It should be the visual effect caused by the patterns around the wooden chopsticks, but I have to ask Bo Yi for the details."

Bo Yi likes smart people, especially smart people who are beautiful and cute. He glanced at Xu Youtan appreciatively and said, "Very smart, it's exactly what Xu Youtan said, the map on the wooden chopsticks looks like a map. The pattern is called the Hunmu map, which comes from Zang Jing's "Chaos."

"As we all know, some maps are very complicated, especially the marching route maps in ancient times. Because they were afraid of being stolen by the enemy, they deliberately set up suspicious formations on them, so they are dazzling and difficult to distinguish things. The confusion map is based on this principle. , On the basis of the map, various points are cleverly marked to confuse the vision, so when we look at the wooden chopsticks, we feel that they are the same length.”

Xu Youtan asked, "Then what is the origin of these wooden chopsticks?"

Bo Yi shook his head and said, "I'm not sure. Lao Liuzi said that the wooden chopsticks were unearthed from the tomb of the Shang Dynasty. It is not impossible, because there are legends about chopsticks as early as the Shang Dynasty."

"It is said that Shang Zhou was moody and was extremely picky when eating, so many chefs became his ghosts. The beloved concubine Daji also knew that he was difficult to serve, so every time she held a banquet, she had to taste it in advance, lest Zhou The king is angry."

"One time, Daji tasted that several bowls of delicacies were too hot, but King Zhou had already come to the table. She quickly took off the long jade hairpin on her head, clamped it up, blew and blew it, and sent it to Zhou when the dishes were cold. In the mouth of the king."

"It was a pleasure for the licentious and shameless King Zhou, so Daji asked Daji to do this every day. Daji asked the craftsman to make two long jade hairpins for her to hold vegetables. This is the embryonic form of jade chopsticks."

"Of course, this is just a legend. At best, it can only prove that chopsticks appeared in the Shang Dynasty, but it does not prove that chopsticks were invented by the Shang Dynasty."

Uncle Zhou complained, "Why did it find me?"

"Maybe I didn't look for you on purpose. You have a lot of antiques in your collection room. Excluding a few fake ones, there are really quite a few. There may be some spiritual things in them that can wake up the things in the wooden chopsticks, so the wooden chopsticks are used every night. Landing on the ground is also to wake yourself up, you just woke it up completely."

Uncle Zhou regretted and wanted to cry, "So I didn't disturb the ancestors just now, but woke up the things in the wooden chopsticks?"

"It is also possible that both parties were disturbed at the same time."

Uncle Zhou begged Bo Yi, "I understand, I will do what you say, and you must help me."

Bo Yi couldn't bear it, he comforted, "Don't worry, I won't stand by and watch."

Uncle Zhou showed gratitude, "Thank you."