"Come on, come on, look, this is the legendary 'Bagua Chain Lock'! This thing is not something that ordinary people can play with!"
"Your sister, Lian Lian, don't show off. I've heard of Bagua Lian Palm, and my grandfather even taught me it. Do you want me to give you a good beating?"
"Hey, you are calm, calm. The world is so beautiful, but you are so irritable. This is not good, not good! Just listen to me!"
Haozi imitated Mr. Li and pretended to touch his unnecessary beard and straightened his body.
"Look, this lock was designed by the founder Lu Ban himself. It took 7,749 days of hard work to build. It is assembled from 8,864 sections of precision lock cylinders. The lock cylinders are connected with tenons. The mao structure is interlocked and interlocked, which is very clever." Haozi shook his head and said.
"You can pull it off. You treat me like a three-year-old child and keep making it up." Chen Tao rolled his eyes at Haozi, knowing that he was starting to add fuel to the fire again.
"Hey, you said you, didn't you want me to say it? You didn't believe it after I said it! Really, I won't say it anymore." After saying that, Haozi took the lock and continued tinkering.
"No, no, no, I'm wrong, why don't you continue?" Chen Tao took a cup of tea and raised it in front of Li Hao.
Haozi looked at Chen Tao speechlessly, took the teacup in his hand, took a sip and said:
"It is said that during the Spring and Autumn Period, in order to test whether his son was smart, the founder Lu Ban made a toy that could be assembled and disassembled out of 6 wooden strips and asked his son to take it apart. The son was busy all night and finally took it apart. This kind of toy is known to future generations. It is called Luban Lock, and is also called Kongming Lock, Bie Sap, Liuzi Lianfang, Monaihe, Nanrenmu, Fanren Lock, No. 7 Lock, etc."
"There are various types of Luban locks, and they are all kinds of weird. The six-root and nine-root Luban locks that are the most common on the market now are the most famous."
"Among them, the six-root Luban lock has different structures according to different regions and design concepts."
"According to the tenon shape, six Luban locks are mainly divided into two categories. People on the market simply call them type A and type B. Of course, the tenon shapes of six Luban locks are far from limited to these two types. In fact, after improvements by later generations, there are countless structures of six Luban locks."
"Another kind of nine-root Luban lock, by selecting some of them, you can complete the 'Liuhe tenon', 'Seven-star knot', 'Bada buckle', 'Nine-link' and so on. The nine tenon shapes must meet the requirements of different quantities at the same time. The four bite structures are really not an easy task.”
"But these Luban locks that are popular among the people are just ordinary little toys. The real complexity is this! Bagua chain lock!"
Haozi raised the copper ball in his hand.
"This lock was made by the founder Lu Ban after he was inspired by the six locks and combined it with the Yin and Yang Bagua theory. It is specially left to future generations of craftsmen."
"It is said that all the abilities of Grandmaster Lu Ban are hidden in this Bagua Chain Lock. Whoever can unlock the secret of this Bagua Chain Lock will get his true inheritance!" Haozi said it truthfully and mysteriously. He looked at Chen Tao next to him.
"I was just thinking about how to solve the mystery of this gossip chain! Damn! Taozi, what's your expression?"
"Lu Ban... Grandmaster? Are you still gossiping about, what, a craftsman?" Chen Tao couldn't stand listening anymore, and he thought from the bottom of his heart that this guy was definitely deceiving him again.
"Where did you get this mess?"
Haozi raised his eyebrows: "Go away, my grandpa taught me this!"
Chen Tao felt a little dizzy, "Didn't Mr. Li be a storyteller before? Why did he get involved with Lu Ban and the craftsmen again?"
Chen Tao once heard from his grandfather that Mr. Li was a famous storyteller when he was young. In their time, everyone knew about Master Li San from the capital.
Haozi chuckled: "There are still many things you don't know!"
Chen Tao looked at him with contempt.
"It's so unreliable. Are you lying to me?"
Haozi said seriously: "No matter how true it is, it's all true! Let me tell you, this hexagram can be divided into Fuxi Sixty-Four Hexagrams and Fuxi Bagua. , the sixty-four hexagrams of Fuxi can be arranged into circle diagrams, square diagrams and sequential diagrams."
"The order of Fuxi's innate Bagua is a naturally generated sequence. The source of the order of its generation is from "Xi Ci": 'Yi has Tai Chi, which generates two rituals, two rituals generate four images, and four images generate Bagua. The Eight Diagrams determine good and bad luck, and good and bad luck create great causes.' That is, Tai Chi divides one into two, two into four, and four into eight.”
"The source of Fuxi's innate Bagua azimuth map is "Shuo Gua": 'The heaven and earth are positioned, mountains and rivers are ventilated, thunder and wind are thin, water and fire are not in contact with each other, and Bagua are in conflict with each other.'"
"That is to say, to unlock the chain of the Eight Diagrams, we must combine the deduction of the hexagrams, the four seasons, and the changes in heaven and earth. Different times, different places, different methods... For ordinary people, the way to unlock the secret is , almost impossible!”
"Okay, okay, okay, stop it! Stop it!"
Haozi was stunned for a moment as he spoke. Chen Tao was completely stunned and thought to himself: "How did this kid learn so many messy things? What has he done in these years?"
"So, Mr. Li Daxian, are you planning to unlock the secret of the Luban Lock? There is a treasure map in it, and then go after the treasure left by the ancestor?" Chen Tao said crookedly.
Seeing Chen Tao's disbelief, Haozi rolled his eyes and said disdainfully:
"Oh, mortals, stupid mortals, scum like you won't understand!"
Chen Tao was too lazy to argue with Haozi and said, "Can you unlock this Yin Yang Bagua lock now?"
"It's Ba! Gua! Lian! Ring! Lock!" Haozi shouted word by word, which made Chen Tao's ears deafen.
"Actually, no matter how complicated the lock is, its core is derived from the mortise and tenon structure in ancient Chinese architecture. Knowing this principle, you can actually disassemble the lock. Remember, you are disassembling the lock, nothing more. "Haozi said seriously.
"But, it's true that it's been taken apart, and it's not difficult to put it back together. But, how to unlock the secret hidden inside? Is it really necessary to find an old blind man to study Bagua Yili?"
Haozi frowned as he spoke, holding his chin with one hand, tilting his head and looking worriedly at the Bagua Chain Lock on his hand.
"You...you mean, you can open this lock?" Chen Tao looked at him in shock.
He had studied this lock while listening to Haozi talking about a lot of messy things. Although it looks like a small copper ball as big as a palm, the components inside fit together so perfectly that from the outside, there is no way to find a breakthrough.
"Well, this is simple." As he said that, Haozi threw the copper lock ball in his hand very skillfully, and his fingers quickly groped for the cracks on the surface of the lock. Suddenly his fingers stopped somewhere, and he raised his head and rushed. With Chen Tao's mysterious smile.
"You have to watch carefully!"
There was a crisp copper click, and when Haozi pressed his finger, a small square hole was dented on the surface of the originally smooth copper ball, which made Chen Tao look surprised.
Haozi raised his eyebrows at him very proudly, raised the corner of his mouth with a slight arc, turned the copper ball over, and a square piece bulged out on the back.
Chen Tao had an idea, and based on the ordinary six-root Luban lock he had seen before, this lock should have a similar long strip structure, but this lock is spherical, so the surface of this part is curved.
Chen Tao continued to watch with his eyes wide open. Haozi pulled out a small section of the bulging part. He quickly turned the copper ball with both hands, and his ten fingers kept touching it like the tentacles of an octopus. groping.
There was another crisp click, and another small square pillar was pushed out by Haozi. Then, the copper ball kept turning in his hand, and the small square pillars kept being pulled up or pressed down. Haozi's fingers did not pause at all during the whole process.
How skilled this must be!
Chen Tao was secretly surprised. He understood the complexity of this copper lock from the moment he took it into his hands. Haozi was able to operate the mechanical parts on it so skillfully and swiftly. Chen Tao's heartbeat accelerated for a moment, wondering what on earth has this kid been doing all these years? What exactly are the craftsmen, the founder Lu Ban, and those hexagram theories that make me dizzy when I hear them?
Chen Tao stared at Haozi's hands with wide eyes. The copper ball seemed to be alive in his hands. Although Haozi is not tall, his hands are very long and his body proportions are just right. It's simply a smaller version of the golden ratio, well... it's just a bit darker.
Chen Tao looked at it and suddenly felt that it was quite beautiful. The copper ball was turning and changing in Haozi's hand, just like finger dancing.
Haozi's hand suddenly stopped and he raised the almost "unrecognizable" copper ball to Chen Tao's eyes.
"Watch it!"
He held one of the sections between his fingers, slowly pulled it out, and waved it in front of Chen Tao. Chen Tao hurriedly took it with both hands and opened his eyes to look carefully. The small section of copper pillar that was pulled out has high and low teeth and grooves on it.
Chen Tao has seen the six-column Luban locking column before. Although there are some grooves in the center, compared with this, it is simply the difference between a bicycle and an aircraft carrier.
"Is this... is this... over?" Chen Tao raised his head and asked Li Hao cautiously.
"It's still early. This is just the first section. With a copper pillar like this, this lock has a total of sixty-four sections."
After saying that, Haozi's hands that had stopped started to move again. Under Chen Tao's surprised gaze, one section after another of copper locking pillars was pulled out and neatly arranged on the tea table in front of the two of them.
After the last section of the copper locking column was removed and put away, Chen Tao looked at the old-fashioned wall clock on the wall. It was almost one o'clock.
Three hours, three whole hours! Such a copper-locked ball, with Haozi's skillful and nimble speed, actually took three hours to unlock. If it were me, it would probably take more than half a month to dismantle one!
"Haozi, you are awesome!"
