Chapter 4 Chapter 3 The Uninvited Guest

We watched him leave quickly, Er Xia held the thing aside, patted me on the shoulder and laughed at me: "It's done! I'll call Maojindao later and ask him to find another way to sell this thing." Go, you just wait to count the money until you get soft." I said to him: "Why are you so sure that this thing is valuable? Anyway, I didn't see anything. If the Tang Sancai incident like last time happened again, I'll make fun of you!" Er Xia replied: "It doesn't matter if you don't believe my eyes, don't believe the eyes of the girl next door, we have been neighbors for so long, do you think what she saw was not good. I noticed it just now, Although she pretends to be indifferent, I can clearly see the excitement in her eyes, and I can't go wrong!"

I said: "Why do you pay attention to others so carefully, you probably have bad intentions." Er Xia explained that he only pays attention to those visible objects, not people.The two of them talked one after another, and when I turned my head, I suddenly saw that the girl next door had come to our shop at some point, standing in front of us, staring at us with wide almond eyes. Before we could speak, she cut to the chase and said, "Just now, the client was here, and I was afraid that the influence would be bad, so I'm too lazy to argue with you, so I won't say anything. How much money you received, I will take back what I gave you! "

When Er Xia heard this, he said happily, "Oh! We have to talk about first-come-first-served things. The guests come first to our place. We have already talked about it. My brothers also like bronze wares, so, ha ha! Sorry!" Yan said He held up the snake sculpture as if to examine it carefully. The girl next door frowned, as if she was about to have a fit. I could see that she was very dissatisfied with Er Xia's unreasonable troubles. For the sake of long-term considerations, I didn't want to get into trouble with her, so I hurried forward to smooth things over: "Uh! It’s a bit of a misunderstanding, why don’t you look at the bronze wares on our display rack and pick one at random, and we will pay you for it!”

Unexpectedly, these smooth words not only failed to appease her anger, but made her even more convinced that we were clinging to that thing, and she could see that she was holding back her anger and said to us: "This thing is not worth much at all. , if you want to sell it for a few hundred yuan, no one will ask for it! My grandfather likes bronze wares. This thing is from the ethnic minorities in the southwest. It is rare here. It can only be collected by some people who like it. It is of no value. I hope you can Give way!" When Er Xia heard this, she became even more reluctant, and whispered in my ear: "The more she behaves like this, the more we can't let her go. Maybe this thing has a lot of money. If it's not worth it, why does she keep asking for it? We can't I fell for her!"

Seeing that we still had this attitude, the girl next door glared at us and left angrily, returned to her store angrily picked up the phone and dialed. I was a little surprised, could it be that she really offended her this time and started asking someone to clean us up?It's hard to say that this kind of girl doesn't know some people on the road. To be honest, I despise this kind of people.Then I thought about it, no matter how bad we are, we are still people who have fought against poisonous insects, big snakes, and evil ghosts. Are we afraid that you, the real people, will fail!So he and Er Xia looked at each other and smiled contemptuously, and continued to play with their gadgets.

The summer night came late, and it was extremely hot today, so we planned to pack up and get off work early, and go to the food stall to grill skewers and drink draft beer.Just as we were about to close the shop and leave, we saw a girl next door leading an old man and a middle-aged man into our shop. I feel a little baffled, is this the rescuer she brought in?Puzzled, I heard the girl next door say: "My grandpa wants to talk to you guys!" After saying that, Er Xia glanced at him. Suppressing a laugh, I invite them in with suspicion.The old man was dressed in a casual Tang suit, with round-toed cloth shoes on his feet. His body was grey, but his body was very tough.After sitting down, he asked me directly with a smile on his face: "Where is the young man from? Yes, he's just messing around here at a young age!"

I knew that he must have come here for the bronze snake sculpture, so I didn't go around with him: "The old man came here for the thing we received? To put it bluntly, this thing is just an ordinary bronze ware. Not good, what do you like about it?" The old man smiled and said: "Everyone has their own preferences. I like to collect bronzes on weekdays. Today I heard Erni (the girl next door) say that I have collected a piece of utensils from ethnic minorities. Come and have a look. It is convenient to collect things. Show me?" Seeing that the old man's attitude is still friendly, I thought that he would not come down in broad daylight to snatch my thing, so I nodded generously, took out the thing and handed it to him.The old man held it carefully, adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and stared at it for five or six minutes. Gradually, he saw a smile on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes seemed to be shining, and he couldn't hide his inner surprise at all. , but still pretending to be nonchalant, handed it to the middle-aged man to look over and over again.The girl next door asked softly if it was that thing, and the old man nodded slightly.

Although all this is very subtle, it still did not escape my eyes and ears, and I suddenly thought to myself that there is indeed a trick in it, so I hurriedly poked Er Xia, who understood, and immediately sang red-faced: "Okay! Enough is enough!" Come on guys, it’s just such a thing, you can’t eat or drink, it’s nothing special!” After a long time, the old man slowly put it back on the coffee table, raised his eyes and said in a clear voice, "Let's make a price, you two! I like this item of yours. Erni and you happen to be neighbors, so it's a kind of fate. The old man saves me face, and we will make friends in the future!"

I was hesitant at the moment, it seemed that this thing did have some origins, and I couldn’t make a decision without making a clear decision, so I turned to ask Er Xia for his opinion, but Er Xia insisted not to sell it, and kept winking to let me take this Several people sent away. The old man said again: "You may have misunderstood, this thing is actually worthless, but I like to collect the bronze wares of these ethnic minorities, please help me!" So far, I am not willing to sell this thing anymore. I can see the eagerness hidden under the calmness of the old man's surface.

Seeing this, the old man chuckled, leaned over and said mysteriously: "I know what kind of business you two used to do!" After saying this, his face showed a look of satisfaction, and he unfolded the folding fan in his hand and fanned it. Er Xia and I looked at each other in shock, pretending to be calm and suspicious, and asked him, "What do you mean? We are just selling antiques." "Haha!" The old man laughed loudly, leaning his fan to his mouth, stretched his head over his head and said softly, "Dig three feet into the ground, three feet apart! Do you want me to say it so bluntly?"

I forced a smile: "Is it possible that you are too?" With a smile on my lips, I secretly wondered how this old guy knew that we were fighting against each other. We had never seen this person before, and I began to wonder if Er Xia was outside. Taking that period of our experience out and talking nonsense, at the moment I vaguely feel that this person is not only here for this thing, but seems to have other purposes. I pointed to the snake sculpture on the coffee table and said to him: "Then do you know the origin of this thing? Is it really the seal of the Snake Emperor!" The old man still had a smile on his face, the girl next door came forward and whispered something in his ear, the old man smiled and waved his hand, then his expression became serious, and he said to us seriously: "That's right! This is indeed a snake hoop The Snake Emperor Seal of the Mountain Snake Palace, the person who sold this thing to you must have been entrusted by someone, and it would never be such a coincidence to sell such a thing to you!" I was shocked and tried hard to recall the details of today's transaction. The seller looked honest and honest, and he looked like an old farmer in a mountain village. I really couldn't find any flaws.In a hurry, his mind was in a mess, and he immediately spit out everything that the seller said today. The old man nodded slightly when he heard this, then paused and said, "I'm even more sure that this person is lying to you when you say that. The thing he said is a local legend, but he forcefully moved it to himself. On the body. The local people dare not beat snakes at all, the reason is that their local ancestors killed a big snake on the day of Dragon Boat Festival, got the seal of the snake emperor, and was later retaliated by the snake emperor, and died of being entangled by ten thousand snakes." As soon as I heard this, the disgusting scene of the whole body covered with poisonous snakes immediately appeared in my mind, and I couldn't stop shivering in this summer.Hearing what he said, a familiar place name suddenly popped into my mind: Tengchong, Tengchong!This is not the first time I have heard of this place name, definitely not!I seemed to have seen this place name a year ago, and it was not because it was the place where the Chinese expeditionary soldiers fought in Burma, nor was it for other reasons, but where did I see this place name? I really couldn't remember it at this moment, and then I said curiously: "You seem to know a lot of legends about this Snake Emperor, can you reveal some conveniently? What is the origin of this Snake Emperor?" "Hehe! It's convenient, and it's okay to tell you everything!" The old man said, shaking his fan slightly on his back, "We can actually cooperate. I don't know what you two mean?" "We don't understand what you mean!" Er Xia and I looked at each other, wondering. The old man's expression became serious, he got up slowly, walked to the map of China on the wall, and pointed to the China-Myanmar border in Yunnan.I sat up in shock: "What? You mean we go together..." Inverted fight, inverted fight!By the way, Tengchong!This is a place recorded in the diary of one of our dead partners, Dong Zai, and I stumbled upon it while sorting out his belongings.Tengchong is a place that Dongzai has been to. No wonder I think this place sounds so familiar. The fight that Dongzai fell is in Tengchong. Could it be related to this Snake Emperor? Er Xia didn't seem to be very happy, and was about to say something, the old man said first: "The snake seal of Shehuan Mountain and the golden clothes of the Snake Emperor are priceless treasures, and grave robbers from Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cambodia are all eyeing them!" After finishing speaking, he strode back to his original position, stretched out his hand to signal us to sit down, and began to tell us about his bizarre experience of fighting in Tengchong Shehoop Mountain.