The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 26 Has your old inkwell become a spirit?!
Shen Le happily held the huge wooden box and returned to the old house. He opened the wooden box, took out the tools one by one, and laid them flat on the cowhide mat:

Large flat woodworking chisel, large oblique woodworking chisel, large shallow round woodworking chisel, medium round woodworking chisel, deep round woodworking chisel, large triangular knife...

Medium...Small...

Flat knife, oblique knife, shallow round knife, medium round knife, deep round knife, triangular knife...

Large, medium and small 7-shaped chisels...

A general-purpose carving knife with an outward curved blade, a trimming knife with a straight blade and a curved back, a curved knife with a spoon-shaped blade...

Planes, saws, compasses, special-shaped compasses of all sizes and shapes...

Shen Le knew how to use some of them at a glance, but for some, he had no idea how to use them. However, no matter which tool it was, it had been used for a long time, and the wooden handle of each tool had been rubbed to a shiny gloss, with a layer of patina visible to the naked eye.

Moreover, each tool has a clean wooden handle, a shiny black blade, and a blade that can reflect a person's reflection. Obviously, the previous owner of these tools took good care of them and had been regularly maintaining, wiping, and sharpening the blades.

I've made a fortune, and whatever I want has come true. With this box, I don't need to buy any additional carpentry tools except power tools when I renovate the old house in the future!

Finally, Shen Le took out a small wooden box from a separate corner of the wooden box...

“Is this an inkwell?”

Shen Le held the thing in his hand and looked at it left and right.

The inkwell looks like a lying lion, with its head turned and mouth open, looking very naive, with strands of curly hair curled into small flower shapes on its forehead.

The three paws were lying on the ground, with smooth and vivid muscle lines, looking like they were gathering strength and ready to jump at any time. The right front paw was raised and stretched backwards, as if it was eager to try and hit the hydrangea.

In the center of the lion's vest, there is a deep rectangular groove, which is the line compartment for the ink line. A hand crank passes through the deep groove and fixes the roller, which is wrapped with a thick roll of line, and the ink marks are deeply imprinted into the line.

At the end of the roller, the ink line passed through an open square box, with a heavy plumb bob hanging at the bottom. On top of the plumb bob, there was actually an inlaid… an inlaid…

"I go!"

Shen Le picked up the plumb bob, looked at it, swung it, and almost cursed. On top of such a tiny plumb bob, there was actually, unexpectedly, a thumb-sized wooden hydrangea embedded!

It's a ghost ball! If you poke it, you can see that it's moving inside, and there are more than one layer!
Which master craftsmanship is this?

The ghost ball is made of top-grade ivory craftsmanship!

If you have this job, you can make it into an ornament, why bother using it on an ink fountain!!!
He turned the inkstone over and over, looking at it, and he felt that it was a little different from the other tools in the wooden box - and it was also different from the other old objects in the house, although he couldn't see it at the moment...

Is it related to the material? Although these tools are all made of hardwood, they are mostly local hardwoods such as pear wood, jujube wood, and elm wood. There is no precious mahogany?
Or is it because of the age? These tools were only made in the last century, or even in the second half of the last century, unlike the furniture in the house, which is mostly from the Ming Dynasty, with few from the Qing Dynasty?

Or maybe these tools are too down-to-earth and too deeply involved in labor, so they have a flavor of the simple working people?
Shen Le looked back and forth, but couldn't get the point. Fortunately, he still had a guaranteed cheat code:

"Spiritual eyes, open! Copper piece, bless me--"

Heat surges.

It rises from the Dantian, passes through the Mingmen, Yuzhen, Baihui, descends to the upper Dantian, middle Dantian, and returns to the lower Dantian.

After two turns, the heat gathered and rushed to his eyes, and his vision immediately brightened. Shen Le concentrated his mind and stared at the inkstone. He saw the difference:
"Ah! So that's how it is..."

While he was struggling with Mo Dou, another group of people came straight towards Mo Dou.

First, the police who received the report were overwhelmed. They went back and forth five times but failed to find the so-called zombie, and they also received a lot of complaints. When they returned to the police station, they became more and more angry and made up their minds:
"Isn't there a channel for reporting that supernatural incident? Report it to him!"

As for whether the professionals really fought against the supernatural beings or performed an episode of "Into Science" after the report was submitted, that is another matter. Once the "zombie" incident was reported, it naturally came into the hands of Gu Yulin and Zhang Bingxin, a pair of brothers.

Poor these two young Maoshan Taoist priests, they have to take care of the surrounding six or seven hundred square kilometers, eight towns, three streets, and countless natural villages. They run around here and there every day and are so busy that they are about to spit out their tongues.

Pinocchio has been touring various primary and secondary schools recently, and Zhang Bingxin has been carrying the instrument on stage every day, continuously measuring the energy changes on site.

The mental health of students is a big issue. Although they have confirmed that the energy nature of the Pinocchio is already biased towards yang, what if it suddenly comes alive?

It’s hard for senior brother Gu Yulin, who is exhausted all day long.

Today, a large number of chickens and ducks in this village died for no reason. Tomorrow, red water came out of the well in that village. The day after tomorrow, strange noises came from the houses in a certain town...

More than 95% of them are false alarms. Go take a look, confirm there is no abnormal energy fluctuation, and then hand it over to the local police for handling. However, you still have to go:

"What? A family reported that their house was filled with ink lines every day, suspecting that there were zombies haunting their home? - Are you kidding! If there are really zombies, who is the one who is using the ink lines to suppress them?"

After receiving the call, Gu Yulin sighed, called his junior who had just finished monitoring the performance and finally got off work, and ran to the house in Binhu Community, Fulu Street. When they got there, they found it was a rare sight!

After running around for so many days, I actually found another abnormal situation!

"This house... the energy field is very unusual..."

The two brothers put down their instruments and looked at each other.

Throughout the house, on the floor, walls, and ceiling, there are thin black lines everywhere. According to the owner of the house, those are lines created by inkjet.

The density of black lines is particularly noticeable around the edge of the bed, the dining room, and the sofa, where the host and hostess often move around. The edge of the bed has almost been turned into a blackboard.

"Isn't it said that inkwells are used to ward off evil spirits? Why has it become like this?"

"Things that can ward off evil spirits can't be blackened? Besides, the inkstone is originally black, there's no need to make it blacker!"

The senior brother complained, then walked around again with the instrument in his hand.

The energy values of the walls, furniture, and appliances in the house range from 3 to 10, which means they are barely affected or only slightly affected by abnormal energy and pose no major threat to the human body.
The traces left by the ink lines are quite impressive. A single ink line floats at 15 to 30 degrees. In places where the ink lines are particularly concentrated, to degrees, to degrees can appear. Considering that this is a trace left by something...

"By the way, do you have an old inkwell at home? Where did it go?"

"What? Just sold today?!"

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