Merchant and doctor

Chapter 1260 Sheepskin and Mulberry Files
Traditional Chinese medicine uses the Five Elements dialectics to treat diseases. Some patients are born with disharmony of the Five Elements. Wearing certain medicinal materials on the hands made into bracelets can indeed have a certain therapeutic effect. Bian Mu once tried to prepare some medicinal bracelets and put them in the clinic for use, but he searched for a long time but never found the right medicinal materials, and he forgot about them after a while.

After buying the small health sofa, Bian Mu raised his nose to sniff it and found that quite a bit of the medicinal smell was still there. If he took it apart inside and out, he could at least make a dozen bracelets out of it!

Dismantle all fabric structures, peel off the skin, remove the mortise and tenon parts... Anyway, I have nothing to do, so Bian Mu dismantles it slowly...

Camphor wood, rosewood, Pistacia chinensis... the more he dismantled the wood, the happier Bian Mu felt. Although they were all leftover wood, the wood quality was first-rate. Moreover, the spatial coordination between the various medicinal woods was obviously the work of an expert.

Apparently, the so-called doctor named Yuan who was instructing the carpenter might be Zhao Xicheng’s uncle…

Just as he had guessed, Director Yuan’s medical skills were at least not inferior to Zhao Xicheng’s.

"Eh?! What is this? It's a bit soft..." Realizing that the feel was not right, Bian Mu discovered that there was something unusual inside the backrest of the sofa.

Bian Mu was a very cautious person by nature. God knew whether the thing he had just touched was harmful or not, so he stood up and walked to the closet to find a pair of surgical latex gloves, put them on, and reached in to explore again.

"It seems like something was specially stuffed in there before, a medicine pad? A medicine bag?! To enhance the therapeutic effect! Doctor Yuan is indeed extraordinary. It seems that Doctor Yuan has a close relationship with the old owner of the house. This is a small health-preserving sofa tailored for the condition!" Thinking of this, Bian Mu took out the bag of things that had been thrown away.

Oh! Linen bag. Young city dwellers have never seen this kind of cloth. Bian Mu is not unfamiliar with it. It is made of two-sided weaving technology. One side is made of ramie raw materials. It is rough and not tacky. The new cloth is easy to pull when touched by hand. However, the interesting thing is that this thing becomes soft when it comes into contact with water. It no longer feels prickly. The other side is woven with coarse cotton yarn, which feels more comfortable.

Bian Mu knew that this kind of linen was the most moisture-proof. He had seen his father use this cloth to wrap important mechanical parts, and he would often smear some butter or something on the innermost part, which had an excellent anti-rust effect.

The sack was tied very carefully with red hemp rope, and there were seven or eight flower buckles in the middle, which was obviously the work of a meticulous person.

Out of curiosity, Bian Mu found a pair of scissors, put on a disposable mask, held the thing in his hand and went to the north balcony and opened the two windows. He had to ensure that the air could flow smoothly.

The scissors were very sharp and cut through all the ropes in just a few strokes.

Gently peel off the linen bag, hey! There are two medium-thick and medium-length bamboo tubes inside, Xiangfei bamboo, which also grows on the back mountain of Cuiwei Mountain. It is of excellent quality. Bian Mu remembered that a craft and art factory rented a lot of it, and some of it was used to make musical instruments such as flutes.

Apart from the bamboo tube, there was no other object in the sack.

Bian Mu became even more curious.

He picked up a bamboo tube and examined it carefully from top to bottom and front to back for a long time. The two ends were sealed tightly with lead balls. In the past two years, young people have never seen this kind of sealing method. It was quite heavy, so there must be something hidden inside. Bian Mu thought about finding an old kitchen knife to split it in half to take a look.

"Wait a minute! This thing looks like it was made by a skilled person. Wouldn't it be a pity to destroy the things inside with one cut?!" Thinking of this, Bian Mu changed his mind.

Bian Mu brought it to his ear and shook it gently a few times. It was definitely not filled with liquid. The entire space was basically filled up and no special noise could be heard.

Bian Mu found a screwdriver and tapped the bamboo tube for a long time. There was no response from inside. His ears were much more sensitive than those of ordinary people. He guessed that the things inside were definitely not metal products, nor powder. Bian Mu always had a very delicate magnifying glass on hand. He took off his left hand glove, went to the study, took the magnifying glass and carefully examined it under the lamp for a long time...

"There's a dark pattern in the shape of a Chinese character '回', which goes all the way from top to bottom... then... if you divide top and bottom by two, there should be some symbol in the middle. Look! There's a mark, oh! It's the character '甲'. What about the bamboo tube? Could it be the character '乙'?" Thinking of this, Bian Mu quickly walked to the balcony, picked up another bamboo tube and examined it carefully.

At the same position, there is a character "甲" engraved on another bamboo tube, but its orientation is swapped by 180 degrees and is in the opposite direction of the character "甲" on the previous bamboo tube.

"It seems that I have to connect the two bamboo slips together and try with the tails of the character '甲' facing outwards." Thinking of this, Bian Mu put on his gloves again and connected the two bamboo slips together end to end. After adjusting them several times, the long stroke between the two "甲" characters was connected into a "一" character.

At this time, Bian Mu discovered that there were two short grooves carved on the inconspicuous place on the top of the bamboo tube. One was engraved in negative and the other in positive. When they were photographed, they looked like a pair.

With an idea in mind, Bian Mu used one of them as a screwdriver and gently pried it a few times along the other groove.

"Click..." With a light sound, the rotten lead sealing ball that was forced into the top of one of the bamboo tubes rolled to the floor. The sound was dull, and it must be made of pure lead. The residents on the downstairs floor also rented the house. They were a young couple, not much older than Bian Mu, and were salaried office workers. Bian Mu usually tried not to make any noise to avoid annoying his neighbors downstairs.

After a little thought, Bian Mu's brain was slightly improved, and he pried off all four lead-sealed pills.

At this time, Bian Mu discovered that there was a very even crack at the top of the bamboo tube, which was obviously artificially dug. There was a steel wire wrapped in the crack that was difficult to see with the naked eye.

"Wow! What kind of treasure is hidden in there? It's sealed so tightly?!" Immediately, Bian Mu became very suspicious.

Under the magnifying glass, Bian Mu found the end of the wire and fiddled with the opening with a small screwdriver for a few times, and it opened...

……

Once the four extremely thin steel wires were removed, the bamboo tube naturally split into two halves. There was a roll of something inside, and the outside was wrapped with a layer of waterproof drying drawing paper. That was something from decades ago and has long since disappeared from the world.

I gently unfolded the waterproof sundries paper layer by layer. Oh! Inside, there were several sheets of sheepskin and mulberry paper folded.

"Damn! Treasure map?! Could it be that... there really is a gold mine with astonishing reserves on Cuiwei Mountain?!" Thinking of this, Bian Mu's heart couldn't help but beat wildly.

With the foundation laid by Wu Fenglan, Bian Mu's first reaction was perfectly normal.

Restraining the ecstasy in his heart, Bian Mu did not rush to spread it out to take a look. He chose to go to the shabby little sofa to continue searching...

Well! Then I found 12 more identical bamboo tubes!