Chapter 568 [Soul Nail]
"What's there?"
Through the expression of "black charcoal", it is not difficult for Zuo Yang to draw such a conclusion.
However, it is hard to say what it is, because the perception ability of "Black Charcoal" is divided into two aspects, one is about monsters and ghosts, and the other is about opportunity. At this moment, because the distance from Zuo Yang is relatively far, "Black Charcoal" only makes two normal cat meows, and does not say it explicitly. Of course, it is very likely that it cannot clearly judge clearly for the time being, but it only feels some unusual aura.
However, Zuo Yang was not in a hurry. He just glanced at him and then withdrew his gaze. He looked at the woman and continued to ask quietly: "Auntie, have your grandfather or grandmother left something for your family?"
"this……"
When the woman heard this, she suddenly hesitated and looked back at her daughter and son-in-law around her, as if she was measuring whether this matter should be said.
"Doctor Liu, little miracle doctor."
The pregnant woman was also a little strange and asked with a little confusion, "This should have nothing to do with my condition, why do you ask these things?"
In the minds of ordinary people like pregnant women, going to see a Western medicine is nothing more than receiving various examinations, while seeing a Chinese medicine emphasizes looking, listening, asking and touching. As a result, after Zuo Yang came, he did not ask about her condition or check on her body in any aspect. He just kept asking about their family’s situation and family background, which always gave people an incomprehensible feeling.
“…”
This question was asked by Liu Hongsheng. As a attending physician, he was mainly good at Western medicine treatment. Even if he knew that Zuo Yang was a prime minister, it was the first time in his life that Zuo Yang took action, so he couldn't tell which aspect Zuo Yang planned to start.
"hehe."
Zuo Yang just smiled indifferently and said to the pregnant woman, "Tell me directly. Actually, I am not a doctor, but a physiognomy master. Dr. Liu told me about your condition before, and I suspected that it might be the reason for the numerology that caused this situation in your family, just like you always feel that you have been 'cursed'. I just saw your face, and this elder brother's face is very normal, but your face with your mother is with some problems that ordinary people cannot see. The problem is concentrated in the position of the Children's Palace, which just confirms my guess that you have indeed been 'cursed', so this special situation is now!"
"It's really a 'curse'?"
The pregnant woman's body trembled, and her mother also had a hint of fear in her eyes. The husband sitting next to the pregnant woman subconsciously moved to the side, as if he was afraid of being touched by something unclean.
"Brother, you don't have to worry. This 'curse' should not have any bad effects on you. The only ones who are affected are the descendants of you."
When Zuo Yang saw this husband's inadvertent behavior, he knew in his heart that this was just a subconscious reaction of ordinary people and might not necessarily affect the relationship between them, but he still deliberately raised it in front of the pregnant woman, adding some psychological pressure to the pregnant woman in this not-so-bright way.
There is an old saying in the Celestial Empire called "no poison". As the descendant of the "Jianghu Sect", Zuo Yang naturally accepted some more "Jianghu" methods of dealing with things. He only knew that she was also for the good of pregnant women. If pregnant women refused to tell them all about what they knew, he was determined to help, and he would probably find it difficult to "removal of medicine". At that time, the pregnant women would still suffer.
Therefore, Zuo Yang doesn’t mind using some such unconventional methods... What’s important is the result!
"Oh, oh, I'm not..."
The husband suddenly looked embarrassed and quickly blushed and tried to explain.
"?"
The pregnant woman also immediately noticed the distance between her husband and herself under Zuo Yang's "kind reminder".
Then a hint of anger appeared on her face, but she was more worried. After all, she was pregnant again and her child could not be without a father. What's more, even if she left this man, if no one helped her solve this problem, the "curse" would still accompany her for a lifetime... No, it is the life of future generations, which is not a long-term thing after all.
It was also at this moment that the pregnant woman suddenly figured out something...
"Well……"
Liu Hongsheng, Long Dabai and Long Xiaokui felt this slightly awkward division next to him, and he was somewhat puzzled, saying that he couldn't quite understand Zuo Yang.
When I communicate with Zuo Yang, I always feel that he is a wise man, and he is very sensible in his words and affairs. Why do I dare to say anything here? Isn’t this a pot that doesn’t open and bring up any pot? Isn’t it better now, and the disease has not been treated well yet. First, it creates an emotional crisis for the other person. If the couple divorced because of this, wouldn’t this be a sin?
"hehe."
Zuo Yang still just smiled faintly. From the faces of the couple, he could tell that these two people could grow old together. Although his words might bring some small twists and turns to the two, probably some quarrels, they would never directly affect the relationship between them.
At this point, he felt that the atmosphere should be almost done, so he didn't care what the couple was feeling now and continued: "If you really want to solve this 'curse', the first thing you have to do is to never 'disguise the disease and avoid the doctor', otherwise I will not be able to help you, so I have to say goodbye."
After saying this, Zuo Yang actually stood up and turned to Liu Hongsheng and said, "Doctor Liu, I have tried my best to do this. It's not that I refuse to help, but that people don't want me to help, so I can't do anything about it. Goodbye!"
"this……"
Liu Hongsheng was stunned again. He didn't expect Zuo Yang to be so straightforward. The family was just a question and did not answer immediately. Zuo Yang shook his sleeves and was about to leave.
At the same time.
"Wait, wait a moment!"
Finally, the mother, who was still pregnant, couldn't sit still anymore. She quickly stood up and stopped Zuo Yang, and said in a hurry, "Little magic doctor, it's our fault. We shouldn't hide anything. My grandmother did leave something behind. She gave her a dowry when my mother got married. Later, my mother passed it to me when I got married. A few years ago, my daughter got married, and I passed it to my daughter again."
Speaking of this, the pregnant woman's mother looked back at the pregnant woman, pushed her and said, "Shufen, when is it now? Why don't you take out the bracelet for the little miracle doctor to see? Is that bracelet more important than a child?"
"I, I get it."
After the small situation just now, the pregnant woman had figured out some things. She just glanced at her husband with a little resentment, turned around and walked into the room next to her. She turned around and took out a key from somewhere. She opened the wooden box where "Black Charcoal" had squatted, and then took out a small object wrapped in several layers of red cloth from the bottom of the box.
After walking out of the house and coming to the living room, the pregnant woman uncovered the red cloth layer by layer in front of Zuo Yang and others, and finally revealed a slightly deformed bracelet with a black bracelet.
"That's it, this is the bracelet left by my great-grandmother, we treat it as a heirloom."
The pregnant woman first spread the red cloth on the coffee table, and then carefully placed the bracelet on the red cloth and showed it to Zuo Yang and others. At the same time, she introduced, "Although this bracelet is made of brass and is not worth much, the magical thing is that its color changes all year round. It is autumn and it is still black. It will brighten like gold in winter, and then turn black in spring and turn golden in summer. Therefore, our family has always regarded it as a kind of magical object and will not easily show it to outsiders, so that no one will secretly think of it when they see it."
The wealth is not revealed, this is the main reason why the pregnant woman’s family doesn’t want to take out this thing for Zuo Yang to see. It is understandable. This is also one of the traditions of financial management in the Celestial Empire.
"There is such a magical thing in the world?"
When Liu Hongsheng, Long Dabai and Long Xiaokui heard the description of the pregnant woman, they immediately opened their eyes wide and leaned closer a little closer. They just wanted to see clearly what was magical about this bracelet.
“!?”
When Zuo Yang saw this bracelet, his face showed a sudden enlightenment, and then he asked, "If I guess correctly, your family heirloom is bent with the 'soul-suppressing nail'? Or can it also be called 'coffin nail'?"
I saw that the bracelet was about three inches long when straightened, one end thick and the other end was thin, and there were some vague patterns on it. Combined with the description of the pregnant woman, Zuo Yang naturally did not find it difficult to guess.
"How do you know?"
This time, the pregnant woman looked confused, but the pregnant woman's mother immediately took over the conversation and said in surprise, "When my mother passed this bracelet to me, she once said that this bracelet was made of my grandfather who was following Sun Damazi to dig Dongling, and secretly used a coffin nail pulled from a coffin. It not only wards off evil spirits, but also blesses our descendants with wealth."
"Then hasn't this bracelet become a cultural relic of the Qing Dynasty? Maybe it may be a nail pulled from the coffin of Qianlong or Empress Dowager Cixi. This thing should be very valuable!"
Long Xiaokui said subconsciously.
"The patterns on it are no longer clear, and there is no relevant text to verify, and it has already undergone deformation. It is probably difficult to identify it if it is handed over to any archaeologist."
Long Dabai seemed to have a little understanding of this matter, so he turned his head and popularized Long Xiaokui.
"But what you said just now is that it will change colors with different seasons. How do you explain this?"
Long Xiaokui said a little dissatisfied.
“…”
Long Dabai immediately didn't know what to say.
At this time, Zuo Yang slowly followed the conversation and said with a smile: "This is a normal phenomenon. However, in recent years, our country has rarely used coffins to implement cremation policies, so the frequency of using 'soul-suppressing nails' is getting less and less. Until now, it has been difficult to see."
“…”
After hearing what Zuo Yang said, the room suddenly raised his ears again, for fear of missing every word Zuo Yang said, and just wanted to know why this phenomenon was normal.
Zuo Yang didn't tell anything ink, and smiled and continued: "When burials were popular in the past, the 'soul-suppressing nails' were an indispensable thing for burying the deceased, and it could even be said to be an indispensable part."
"There are 7 'soul-suppressing nails' in total, usually made of iron or copper. Six of them should be nailed to the place where the coffin lid is connected to the coffin to play a role in fixing and sealing. The last one left should be nailed to the most center of the coffin lid. This nail cannot be nailed tightly, otherwise it will be detrimental to future generations. At that time, a red line must be tied to it, and the filial son will pull it with his hands. The carpenter will just knock it gently, which means 'stay of the soul', so this 'soul-suppressing nail' is also called 'subborn nail'."
"At that time, a practice was popular. In the third year of the coffin burial, the family would dig out the coffin and reclaim the remains of the dead. At that time, the 'destiny nail' would also be pulled out and made into bracelets, anklets, rings, or bracelets for the family to wear. This would also serve as a way to curb the house and protect the descendants. The jewelry made of these 'destiny nails' would have performed rituals before being nailed, and coupled with the various conditions after the burial, it would contain some mysterious power that cannot be explained by science, and can undergo some color changes in specific situations."
"So I said, this is actually a normal phenomenon, but it's just that this kind of jewelry is rarely seen now."
Hearing this, Long Xiaokui subconsciously retreated again, trying to stay away from this somewhat strange bracelet, but asked again: "According to what you said, this bracelet should be to bless my sister's family's descendants. Why did my sister receive such a strange 'curse'?"
“This question is a good question.”
After hearing this, Zuo Yang laughed and said, "I just said that the jewelry made of 'Descendants' must be worn by the family to help them to cure evil spirits and bless their descendants. If outsiders don't know what to do, they will use other people's 'Descendants' as jewelry without authorization and keep it as a family heirloom treasure, it will only have a counterproductive effect."
"Oh, so that's it, so..."
Long Xiaokui and others finally understood what Zuo Yang meant, and then looked at the pregnant woman's family together. I guess they should also understand what was going on, right?
"Little Doctor, what do you mean is that this bracelet cannot be kept?"
The pregnant mother asked immediately with a frown on her face.
“That’s right!”
Zuo Yang nodded. It is very likely that this thing that influences the family's fortune-telling. However, for Zuo Yang, the power contained therein is of great use. This is his opportunity, and this time it was not in vain!
Chapter completed!