The world was shocked: You call this a museum?

Chapter 22 The Mysterious Trick Box

Under Shen Wansan's reminder, Zhao Yan remembered one thing.

It has been a long time since this incident, but it is still lingering in Zhao Yan's mind.

Zhao Yan walked towards the warehouse of the museum with a flashlight alone.

He remembers playing around the museum when he was a child, and his father would always stop him from going to the warehouse and lie to himself that there were some ghosts and ghosts in it.

But later, when he grew up, he also knew that those were all nonsense.

However, he has also been to the warehouse, which is very messy, and there are some old tools, most of which are no longer usable.

He came a few times, but didn't investigate carefully.

squeak...

When he pushed the warehouse away, the surrounding dust was blown in his face, which still made him a little unaccustomed.

The wires in the warehouse were broken, and he didn't have time to repair them, so the first thing he did when he came to the warehouse was to replace a new light bulb.

"Brother Zhao!"

A voice came from the side, startling Zhao Yan, Zhao Yan said: "Hey, little aunt, why don't you say hello when you come here?"

"Haha, could it be that Brother Zhao was scared by me? You coward!" Cao Xue said playfully.

Zhao Yan said: "I planned to clean up here, but I have never had a chance to clean it up...Come and have a look today."

"It's time to clean it up, it's all dust." She walked forward, and suddenly saw a screen, she immediately stepped forward to check, "Wow, this is..."

"Do you recognize?"

"This is the mandarin duck Baxi screen from the mid-Qing Dynasty. It's an antique!" Cao Xue saw the antique and didn't care about the dirt, so she immediately went up to check it out. 50! But the age is a little short, and it can only be a collection-level antique, not a national treasure."

"And there's more! This... This is a dressing table, which is specially used for ladies of the royal relatives' families. It is called a jade mirror hollow flower stand! This mirror is made of silver!" Cao Xue took it out as she said. Wipe it with a paper towel, and it is indeed a piece of silver, and it is a whole piece. After wiping off the dust, it looks very bright!

Zhao Yan was surprised: "Hey, experts..."

"Don't you know these things?" Cao Xue covered her mouth.

Zhao Yan smiled wryly: "I thought it was a useless item, and I planned to sell it to the waste recycling station before!"

"My God!" Cao Xue was completely speechless to Zhao Yan.

She found a lot of valuables around the warehouse and counted them. The value here is probably more than 500 million!

Zhao Yan said: "That can't be... Even if the things here are worth 500 million, Wang Zhong's property is more than that. He doesn't need to spend a lot of time to get this piece of land."

"Land?" Cao Xue seemed to have sensed some inspiration. She squatted down, took the key and pressed it on the ground. She said, "This is... rammed earth."

"What do you mean?"

"That is to say, the land in the middle of the warehouse has been filled by people." Cao Xue looked serious.

Zhao Yan had already brought a shovel, and after he and Cao Xue nodded, they dug down with one shovel.

What is amazing is that the soil is very soft and looks compact, but in fact it will shatter when you shovel it.

When Zhao Yan dug for five or six minutes, at a depth of half a meter from the ground, he saw a black box.

After the two lifted the box up, they could see the worried look on the other's expression.

It's no wonder, after all, the origin of this box is unknown, and my father never told Zhao Yan before.

What secrets are hidden in it?
Zhao Yan wanted to open the box. This box, which was about the size of a cake box, was full of inexplicable mystery.

However, he found that there was a keyhole in the box, but he didn't have the key at hand.

"Should I open it violently? Just smash the lock?" Zhao Yan said, he was eager to know his father's secret.

Cao Xue bit her finger, she thought for a while and said, "No, I thought of this box, it's a kind of trick box..."

"Trick box?"

"I read it in one of my dad's books. Didn't there be Dongchang in the Ming Dynasty?" Cao Xue looked at Zhao Yan.

Zhao Yan also remembered that there was indeed such a thing. After all, TV dramas, movies, and novels also have similar settings. It is probably a special secret agency in ancient times, specializing in secret intelligence work.

"So?" He looked at Cao Xue.

"There will be hidden compartments of strong acid or mercury in the mechanism. If they are forcibly opened, these things will directly corrode and destroy the contents inside. According to the content in history, the escorts of Dongchang are all very concealed information. They sent this When the box was brought out, the keys were left with the governor."

Cao Xue stood up and said while walking, "So the box is always open. Once it is put in, you can only open it with the key."

"I'm going to find a locksmith." Zhao Yan said.

"This kind of lock has 36 or 72 concealed buckles inside, and there are several 'black buckles'." Cao Xue said.

Zhao Yan frowned: "What does the black button mean?"

"It's the buckle that triggers the mechanism. You should see the tooth marks on the key, right? And the tooth marks on the key correspond to the hidden buckle. If you open the lock normally, you accidentally trigger the 'black buckle'. The black buckle pulls the mechanism, and the self-destruct inside The device will still be destroyed," Cao Xue explained.

Zhao Yan couldn't do anything for a while, Cao Xue pursed her lips, and she said, "Let's go to the university, I think my dad might have a way."

"That's good." Zhao Yan agreed without hesitation.

He took a plaid snakeskin bag, packed the box, and carefully moved it into the dilapidated van in the yard.

In this way, the two headed towards the University of History.

Zhao Yan drove the car seriously, and Cao Xue was in the co-pilot. She rested her chin with her hand and looked at the scenery outside.

"Brother Zhao, what are you going to do with those antiques in your warehouse?" Cao Xue hesitated, but still expressed her doubts.

Zhao Yan smiled: "You want to ask me, will I sell these things?"

"Ah."

"It's true that I'm short of money now, but my dad didn't sell these things in the most difficult and desolate time. How can I sell them? Now more and more people come to visit the museum. The debt I want to owe, Sooner or later, it will be paid off," Zhao Yan said.

Cao Xue smiled, her smile was like the first ray of spring breeze: "I believe you can do it."

"By the way, there is a new venue these days, let's try it together?"

"Huh? Okay? But I don't want to go to venues like the Great Famine and Plantation, it's too uncomfortable."

"No." Zhao Yan turned right quickly, turning the steering wheel very skillfully, "It's very joyful."

(End of this chapter)