Yin Yang Tomb Raider

Chapter 380 Thread Bound Book, Butterfly Bound

The two sea holly jumped onto Batu's shoulders and patted them lightly to comfort him. Batu smiled wryly and said, "Look, even they are laughing at me."

Batu and I were about to go home. In the car, I asked, "Brother Batu, based on your experience in boiling hawks, is it possible that two sea hollys can not eat or drink when they are cooking hawks?"

Batu said: "No, I've never heard of it. During domestication, a special blindfold was worn on the eagle's head to prevent it from seeing anything, and it was specially fed some animal meat such as rabbits, pigeons, and birds to eliminate its harmful effects. Human’s sense of fear and hostility. The next step is to let it carry out hunting training. The eagle has sixteen tail hairs. The eagle uses these sixteen tail hairs to adjust take-off, braking, gliding, falling and catching prey. During training, use a string These sixteen tail hairs are entangled one by one, and the length of time varies after the training officially begins, and after the training is over, the method of testing the results of the training is also feeding."

The two sea holly listened very engrossed, as if they were listening to their own stories, but then they shook their heads slightly, expressing that they were not like that at the beginning, and Batu was very surprised: "Isn't it?"

Hai Dongqing nodded and said no, Batu said: "When we test whether the training is successful, we will put some meat in the room. If the eagle comes to eat, it means success, so it is impossible not to eat."

I shook my head: "It seems that the ancestors have another way of boiling the eagle. Brother Batu, let's catch the Firefox first and take it step by step. Don't worry too much."

Batu didn't speak, I turned my head, he was holding the black badge and wringing his fingers thoughtfully, although I couldn't figure out what he was thinking, I let him think, I focused on driving home, back to the antique shop, Xiao Li came over immediately: "Boss, there is an old lady looking for you, I asked her to wait for you in the office."

I immediately knew which old lady it was, and I asked Batu to go up to explain the situation to everyone, and then I walked into the office. Xu Renguo's mother-in-law was sitting there. Seeing a white flower on her head, I couldn't help being stunned: "Aunt Lan ?”

"My daughter passed away." Aunt Lan stood up and said, "On the day you went."

"My condolences." My heart tightened, "Is Mr. Xu okay?"

"The result is as expected, the sadness will not be fleeting." Aunt Lan said: "I can only ask for time, Mr. Bu, I am here today to give this. This book was bought in the second-hand bookstore on the grassland. It was found, it is rare, and there is a stone mentioned in it, which was found when cleaning the house."

I looked at the simple thread-bound book, and found that it was actually a thread-bound book from the Ming Dynasty. The paper book in ancient my country has gone through two stages: scroll and album.A reel is assembled from a coil, a shaft, a scorpion, and a belt.In the Han and Tang Dynasties, there were only books in this scroll form. After the late Tang Dynasty, scroll books transitioned to album books, and its binding methods evolved in various ways. , It was not until the Ming Dynasty that the thread-bound album book officially appeared.Many of these old thread-bound books can be regarded as cultural relics and are very precious.

This book is a real thread-bound book from the Ming Dynasty, and I was taken aback: "Aunt Lan, this book is an antique, please make a price."

"No need." Aunt Lan said, "I'm quite old, what's the use of having more money, and I'm still single. Renguo said that he would take me back to his hometown so that he could live a leisurely life in the future, but in fact I don't I like the imperial capital, there are many people, there are many cars, but there is no human touch, Mr. Bu, you have a human touch, the old lady can see, this book is for you, I will go first."

I sent Aunt Lan out and looked at Aunt Lan's back. I was filled with emotions. I thought I had become a philistine in the baptism of the imperial capital, and all human feelings had long been worn away. Suddenly, I thought of the thread-bound book. Immediately rushed back to the office and picked it up carefully. This book was from the late Ming Dynasty, and it was in a typical butterfly outfit.

Butterfly packaging is referred to as butterfly packaging, also known as sticky pages, which is an early album packaging.Butterfly clothing appeared after folding and evolved from folding.In the process of reading folded books for a long time, people often break at the creases of folded books, and after the breakage, there is a situation of one page and one page. Bookbinding system.And the first album book that appeared was the butterfly outfit.

Butterfly costumes appeared in the late Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. The book pages were folded in half according to the middle seam, with the printed side facing inward, and then the middle seam was used to align all the pages of the book, and glued to the other side with paste. On the wrapping paper, it is finally trimmed into the bound form of the book.Books bound in butterfly binding look like a butterfly’s wings fluttering and fluttering when you read it, so it is called butterfly binding. It has been developed since the Tang Dynasty. This Ming Dynasty butterfly binding is very complete. I caress the written , while admiring and sighing that I got such a big advantage by relying on the so-called "human touch", I still have a sense of shame in my heart.

The biggest advantage of the thread-bound book is not only that "the characters are as big as money, without damaging eyesight, but also can be spread out and opened and closed freely when reading, unlike paperback books and hardcover books. Come on, it records a lot of shaman folk customs, which are more detailed than the one I bought. I suddenly thought of something and checked it. It was not published by the official bookstore, and there was a signature on the last page. ——Guan Tang.

There is also a brief introduction of Guan Tang on it. It turns out that he is a folk scholar who specializes in the study of shaman culture. This booklet was compiled by himself, and it was not developed by the official bookstore. Everything came from the facts. I immediately regained my energy and opened the booklet to study each word. The front part is the description of the shaman performing the ceremony, and the middle part is my impression of seeing witchcraft with my own eyes. Because it was improperly controlled and attached to a tree, he watched those people trying to get the soul out of the tree...

I couldn't help laughing when I saw this. A group of people were tossing around the tree, while Guan Tang was watching the fun. This scene came to mind very vividly. The last part finally mentioned the stone. It used to be the shaman from the Ming Dynasty. It is believed that the human soul can be preserved in the holy stone to live forever, and even be reborn one day, surpassing life and death, but this stone does not know its whereabouts, which is the dream of all shamans.

"Jiaoguang is immortal, reborn, holy stone." I muttered in my mouth, and then thinking about what Lian Haitang said, I suddenly came to my senses: "I understand, the stone really exists, Aunt Lan and Xu Inguo's thoughts are not Wrong, the stone really exists, but instead of bringing the dead back to life, what could it be?"

When I was thinking wildly, Lao Jiu came down, pushed the door open and came in: "I said that an old lady is looking for you, whose daughter have you lied to?"

"Fuck you, it's the person Xiao Li mentioned last time who is interested in stones. Did Batu tell you about it?" I said, "Come down and tell me what you think?"

"Batu looked very sad. Alas, women are like wine. The hotter the better, but the body feels uncomfortable after drinking." Lao Jiu said: "There are only two results. One is to destroy the body and never be able to drink again, I think Batu belongs to the latter."

"You belong to the former, because Seventh Sister gave you a chance." I said, "Don't provoke Batu. He was very uncomfortable in the police station just now, and he didn't talk much. That Lian Haitang was too scary, as if he didn't have any emotions. I only care about myself, I hurt Batu's heart, and I hurt Batu's body. The most terrible thing is the former. Let's not talk about this, Lao Jiu, look at this. Aunt Lan just brought it over, which is also a side confirmation Practicing Haitang's saying."

I turned the thread-bound book to the back and pointed to that part of the content. After reading it, Lao Jiu had the same thought as me: "Your idea is right. If it is published by an official bookstore, it may not be authentic. Look, it has been handed down all the time." How many official records are true? The folk ones are true. The author lived in a shaman, heard it with his own ears, and saw it with his own eyes. The things are also Ming Dynasty butterfly costumes, right?"

"Yes, it's all true." I said, "I don't understand Lian Haitang. Do you know what Tao Ran said?"

"What did the girl find?" Lao Jiu asked.

"These people didn't kill her, but asked her to go back. This is very unusual. If it were Firefox, the other party would definitely kill her without hesitation, but they only captured her alive, or her status and status are extraordinary. By the way, if this is the reason, she did not tell us the truth, and the second is that her witchcraft has reached perfection, these people need her, the former or the latter, we will wait and see." I paused: "This is She didn't miss a word of what she said."

"Good girl, you are so smart, you are more than enough to match you, and you are not a good bird." Lao Jiu said hurtfully: "Then is that woman helping us trap Firefox now?"

"She lives with Tao Ran." I said, "A witch, a voodoo girl, you don't know how sharp she is when she saves her, tsk tsk, she hides her secrets."

"The most pitiful thing is the father and son of the Yu family, because one of them died and the other became a lonely family." Lao Jiu said: "Listen, Meng Luo's father is still planning to take advantage of the spare time, and his career will be hindered at that time. It's really pitiful." .”

"This is his life." I said, "We can't control it. We can only manage ourselves now. It's finally about to start."

Lao Jiu's expression changed slightly, becoming heavy: "Yes, now it's really started."

I put the thread-bound book in the secret safe, and then I went upstairs with Lao Jiu. The atmosphere upstairs was quite weird. Everyone looked like they were facing an enemy. Donghai and Nanhai were learning how to shoot. For toy guns, the target is drawn, Lao Jiu said with a smile: "Do you want to learn how to shoot?"

Nan Hai nodded heavily: "Those guys are not human, they killed our uncle, we want to avenge them."

"It's easy to learn guns." Lao Jiu said, "Toy guns are useless. I'll find some real guns for you."

(End of this chapter)