Chapter 31 Chapter 1 Sleeping Beauty

It took three days and three nights to travel from Yunnan to Shandong by train. We were so exhausted that we couldn't even breathe.Zhao Shuai originally wanted to go back to Beijing directly with a tribute tea with a golden melon head, so as to make his father happy.However, Lao Er Liao insisted on getting us out of the car. He said he wanted to show us something related to the mysterious Mu Qingxiang.However, I think Liao Lao Er was reluctant to part with the pumpkin head tea, so he lobbied us to stay. The pumpkin human head tea found in Yunnan is only a small group, and we don't know how to divide it. Liao Laoer sealed the tea as soon as he got it.Because tea has been through for more than a hundred years, it is likely to turn into ashes when it encounters air, so it needs to be preserved with special care, otherwise we may fall short.It was impossible for me and Zhao Shuai to find the golden melon and human head tribute tea. Liao Laoer contributed a lot. In addition, we were really about to suffocate on the train, so we got off at Qingdao ahead of time.

Liao Lao Er was not good looking and dressed poorly. After he led us to a tea house, we found out that he was actually a rich man.The tea house is called Liao Yu Tea House. The scale is not large, but it is antique and the workmanship is very elegant.In fact, a really good tea house will not be too big. If it is too big, it will attract bees and butterflies and destroy the most important sense of tranquility in the tea ceremony.Moreover, if you hit the top of your head, if you do too much, other competitors will join forces to deal with you, and they will not stop until you are driven to a dead end.Presumably, Liao's second child is well versed in these principles, and it is not in vain that he has lived such a long life.

Liao Lao Er has no wife or children, only a dozen or so buddies.As soon as we entered the house, the guys wanted to help with the luggage, but Zhao Shuai was worried that the pumpkin head tea would be lost, so he refused to let go.Liao Lao Er didn't say a word, but with a wave of his hand, the guys all retreated together.Liao Laoer took us through the tea house and to the backyard, where he lived.Er Er Liao couldn't wait to close the door, then took out a canvas bag from a box, and pulled out a booklet from the canvas bag. Zhao Shuai and I were very curious, and we opened the booklet after Liao Er Er lowered the curtain.At that time, no one may have thought that another thrilling and fantastic journey would start here.The first two pages of the booklet are blank, or have turned yellow, and when the third page is turned, there is a framed black and white photo.There is a very beautiful woman in the photo, her eyes are closed peacefully, and she exudes an indescribable fresh and refined temperament.

I stared dumbfounded at this blurry black and white photo, unable to utter a word, but Zhao Shuai asked: "This girl is very upright, but she looks familiar... Damn, isn't this Mu Qingxiang!? " I looked carefully, although this black and white photo is not clear, but the woman in the photo must be Mu Qingxiang.However, Mu Qingxiang in the photo seems to be separated from the lens of the camera by something, but I can't see what it is. I always feel that the person in this photo is not real, as if separated by time and space.At that time, there was no photo processing software, and the folks didn't even know anything about computers, so it was difficult to fake photos.Even if it is faked, it is impossible to create Mu Qingxiang's appearance, and Liao Lao Er didn't have enough time to fake it, because the photos of him were shown to us as soon as he came back.

I turned to the next page, and the next page, and there were black and white photos at the back, but none of them were of Mu Qingxiang.There are ten photos in total, except for the one of Mu Qingxiang, there are also some blurry tea sets, pottery figurines, and some oddly shaped stone tables, stone benches, etc. The tenth photo is the weirdest and the most blurry.The tenth photo may have been touched by water droplets, so the surface colors are mixed together, but it can still be seen that the photo is an ancient city.The reason why it can be seen that it is an ancient city is because it is very similar to the costumes in the movies. At least there will be no such cities in modern times, even in modern times.

The surroundings of the ancient city can't be seen, the only thing that is certain is that there is another person in the photo, and that person is standing in front of the ancient city and making a face.It's a pity that this person's face is also very blurred, and his appearance cannot be recognized, or maybe he didn't make a grimace at that time.In addition to the photographs, the booklet contained ten sheets of yellowed paper, which were also framed.There were characters written on the paper, but unfortunately they were not in Chinese. Neither Zhao Shuai nor I could understand what the characters were.

Before turning to the last page, I gave the booklet to Zhao Shuai, and he continued to read it.I asked Liao Erer: "This is what you want to show us. When did you take pictures of Mu Qingxiang? You took pictures while she was asleep. I didn't expect you to be so wretched!" "How dare I, do you know why I'm afraid of her, she shouldn't be human!" Liao Er lowered his voice. "Don't bluff, we're not brats!" Zhao Shuai said, turning to the last page of the booklet, and then he wondered, "Damn it, why is there a student ID card on the last page? It's Fudan University Yes! I really didn't see that, old man Liao, you are actually a student of a prestigious school!"

"Fudan University?" I took the booklet in disbelief. I don't need to introduce Fudan University. No one knows its famous name, and no one wants to go to it.The student ID card is not a modern thing, but also an old thing. That kind of student ID card is just ordinary printing, and then a photo is pasted on it, which is easy to forge.In the same way, the photo of the student ID card, even the name, gender, and gender are all unclear. The only words that are clear are Fudan University, Chongqing, and Tea Group.Fudan University is in Shanghai, not in Chongqing, so I questioned whether the picture of a student is fake.Seeing that we were holding the booklet hard, Liao Laoer snatched it away distressedly and told us to be careful.

"For the sake of our affinity, I'll tell you, but don't make a fuss about it." Liao Er Er said mysteriously, "This is my treasure." Zhao Shuai and I nodded, but we looked at each other tacitly, thinking that we would keep quiet, but we might spread the word quietly.Liao Laoer didn't know what we were thinking, so he told us about the origin of these booklets.These things are related to tea culture. Before the Anti-Japanese War, China already had tea secondary education, and higher education was a new book during the Anti-Japanese War.The tea group of Fudan University was the most influential and only tea higher education institution before the liberation of New China, which combined undergraduate and specialist recruitment, teaching and scientific research.

In the spring of 1940, Fudan University moved to Chongqing. The school negotiated with the Tea Department of the Trade Committee of the Ministry of Finance and the China National Tea Corporation, and decided to set up the Department of Tea, the Department of Tea and the Tea Research Office in Fudan University.Later, because the department in charge of education at that time believed that tea was a kind of crop, and it was not suitable to set up a department because of its narrow surface, so it was renamed the Department of Agronomy.In the first year, Fudan University’s tea group recruited 20 to 30 undergraduates and 30 junior college students in the southwest and southeast divisions. The more than 20 junior college students who graduated in 1942 were all appointed by China Tea Company. During the Anti-Japanese War, they trained a lot of tea technology for the tea front. backbone.

However, these students did not graduate completely, and one student named Xiao Nongyun disappeared while going to the tea mountain to pick tea.Before his disappearance, Xiao Nongyun once told other students that he was going to do a great job, and he would no longer be bored in school doing these boring tea researches.Not long after, Xiao Nongyun disappeared completely, everything about him disappeared, even his parents could not be found. In 1944, a ragged man appeared in Yixing, Jiangsu. He was wounded all over his body and was dying.The locals have never seen this beggar-like person, as if he appeared out of nowhere.The man also had a bag containing some photographs and some papers.It's a pity that this man couldn't say a word to others. When the well-meaning people tried to save him, he was already dead.A local doctor collected his body and found that many of the deceased's ribs were broken, and there was a fist-sized wound on the abdomen, which was also highly decomposed.The only thing that can identify the deceased is a student ID card in the bag.At that time, the student ID card was still very clear, but it was wetted by the doctor's wife later, so it became what it is today.After identification, the photo on the student ID was the same as that of the deceased, whose name was Xiao Nongyun. No one knows where Xiao Nongyun went or why he suddenly appeared in Yixing, Jiangsu. The only clue is the contents of his bag.It's a pity that the doctor's wife was clumsy and wet a lot of photos and paper, making it difficult for future generations to identify the things on the photos.After some twists and turns, these things finally came into the hands of Liao Lao Er, which is what we see now. "So it's impossible for Mu Qingxiang to be so young even if she's active now?" I asked in surprise. "So, she is definitely not a human being. Although there may be things in history where the ancestors have the same appearance, but such things are too rare, and it is definitely impossible for Mu Qingxiang to happen." Second Liao said looking at the brochure. "Then why was she photographed? Why is she with her eyes closed, as if she was sleeping? She shouldn't be dead, she doesn't look dead." Zhao Shuai stretched his neck to read the brochure. "This is a black-and-white photo. It's not very clear. No one knows where Xiao Nongyun went or what happened." Liao Laoer whispered, as if someone would eavesdrop, "I saw that woman in Yunnan. I was taken aback, and my old life was almost gone. By the way, Xiaolu, you said that woman went to Yunnan to find something, something invisible?" "That's what Mu Qingxiang said, maybe it's arty, pretending to be mysterious on purpose." I answered confusedly, but I kept asking in my heart—is Mu Qingxiang really not human, can anyone in the world really be young forever? Sleeping Beauty's woman is not her? Then, I asked suspiciously, "By the way, are these words or paintings on the paper? Will there be instructions on the paper?" "I didn't dare to show it to others. I just traced a part of it for others to distinguish. At first, no one could tell what the characters were. Later, a professor in the tea house saw that they were indeed characters. It's just some Latin." Liao Er said. "Latin?" Zhao Shuai and I were very curious, "Isn't that a foreign language?" "Yeah, I wanted to show the full text to the professor later, but..." Liao Er Er hesitated for a while, and then said, "Anyway, I didn't show it to anyone except you two." "Why, why are you making it so mysterious?" I asked, thinking that Qingdao and Jiangsu Yixing are so far away. Even if Liao's second son went to Jiangsu, how could he get Xiao Nongyun's relic? Could it be that the one in Jiangsu? The doctor is so generous, willing to give it to others? Liao's second child refused to go into details, and only used the excuse that the thing was too mysterious to be publicized, so he kept it a secret.In the end, Liao Laoer wanted to arrange accommodation for us, but he kept talking about it, asking us to keep it secret.We were so exhausted that we needed someone to feed us even our meals, so there was no way we could let our minds leak.Liao Er Er put away the things, then opened the door and sent us out, but at that moment I noticed something in the room. Looking at that thing, I quickly understood why Liao's second child was so courteous and trusted us so much. It turns out that this dead old man really has evil intentions!