I advised myself not to think too much, there are no fragrant grasses anywhere in the world, let's find one if there is one missing, then I slapped myself and tried to calm myself down.After struggling for a while, I finally put my mind back on the current matter.
I saw that the old sheep on the bed didn't show any signs of waking up, so I walked out of the ward and wanted to talk to the nurse. I went back to find the diary first.When I arrived at the nurse's station, I saw that the round-faced little nurse was still there last night. I asked her, "Why haven't you got off work yet?"
She looked up and saw it was me, and gave me an annoyed look: "What's the matter?"
I thought to myself why are girls so angry nowadays?I suppressed my dissatisfaction and said to her: "You help me look after my friend, I have something to do when I go back, so come when you go."
"You're going to pay the hospital deposit in a while, you're in arrears." She took a list and scratched it.Didn't I just pay three thousand?
She curled her lips and said "not enough", and then ignored me.
I said, "You lost gold to him? Didn't you just drink too much? Why did you spend so much money?"
"Ask the doctor if you have anything to do, I don't know." She glared at me angrily.
"What don't you know?" I asked, staring at her.She averted her eyes for a moment and ignored me.
I figured something must have happened in the emergency room last night, but she wouldn't tell me.
I also knew that I would not ask any more results, so I explained a few words casually, turned around and left the hospital.
Taking a taxi and turning into the intersection, I saw a person standing in front of the store from afar.I got out of the car and saw that it was Aunt Zhang.Only then did I remember that her cigarette stand is still in my shop!
"Auntie, is it so early?" I hurried over to say hello.
"What time is it? It's still early?!" She pulled her face out of the tightly wrapped scarf and said impatiently, "Why did you go last night, kid? Why did you come to open the door so late? If you want to do business like you, you will starve to death. I saw a young man on the Internet last night who had no money to rent a house, so he built an egg in a residential area and lived in it. Now the pressure of survival in this society is so great, you Don't hurry up."
Listening to her chatter, my head was buzzing, I couldn't help nodding my head, I quickly took out my key and pulled up the shutter door to help her carry the cigarette stand out.After finishing her work, she casually stuffed me a bag and said, "Haven't you had breakfast yet? I made some steamed buns this morning, and you can eat them. You're such an adult that you don't know how to take care of yourself."
I'm not too polite, I took a steamed stuffed bun and opened my mouth to bite. It's filled with mutton and scallions, and it's delicious.
I smiled and said to her: "Auntie still loves me, just like my mother."
She said: "I don't want another son like you, that one is enough for my family." Then she suddenly seemed to remember something, slapped her thigh, and said, "By the way, Xiaoyu, last night Your uncle tinkered with something from outside and said it was a treasure, show me it."
My heart tightened, these two days I was almost collapsed by the unexpected baby.Once I heard that even she wanted to show me some treasure, I lost my mind to eat buns anymore.
Seeing her running out and carrying a yellow canvas bag from the back seat of the electric car, I became even more nervous, wondering why there are so many yellow canvas bags now?The yellow canvas bag was bulging and looked like a jar too.
Aunt Zhang looked at me with a tangled face, and asked a little worriedly: "Xiaoyu, what's wrong with you?"
I looked at her expectantly, and with a determined heart, I opened the yellow canvas package.
When I saw clearly what was inside the package, I was immediately happy.Aunt Zhang looked at me and smiled, and hurriedly asked, "Is this a baby?"
"This thing," I said, pointing to it, "did you buy it from a migrant worker at the intersection of Food Street?"
"That's right, that's what your uncle said." When Aunt Zhang saw that I still knew the origin, she couldn't help being a little excited, thinking it was really a good thing.
"Then he said it was dug out from the construction site over there?" I continued to ask her with a smile.
"Yes, yes, Xiaoyu, you are really capable, you know all of this?" Aunt Zhang didn't notice the other meaning in my words at all, she still looked at me expectantly, hoping to hear from me A baby message.
"Oh..." I sighed, and couldn't bear to say the following, "Auntie, how much did uncle spend on this?"
"It's five hundred." Aunt Zhang clicked her mouth in pain.In her eyes, five hundred yuan is a thousand buns, a dozen bags of flour, and half a month's rations for a family. "Tell me, is it a treasure? Which dynasty is it from? How much is it worth? "
"Auntie," I coughed, "this thing is a fake." Seeing her face turn green immediately, I quickly comforted her, "Don't worry, Auntie, just listen to me."
"There are a lot of these things on the market now, all of which are man-made in Henan. It also has a nice name called Jiuzhuan Qiankun Xuande Furnace. Look at the monkeys and horses carved on it, and the incense burner below. They're all made of plastic molds."
"Plastic?" Aunt Zhang touched the thing suspiciously, "Isn't this made of white marble? Take a closer look."
"Auntie," I waved my hand to tell her not to worry, "some people who don't know the material think it's jade, or stone, or ivory, and I've seen one who said it's purple sand. Actually The scientific name of this material is 'thermosetting phenolic resin'." I looked at Aunt Zhang who was a little confused, pointed at the thing and continued, "That person told uncle to try it with fire, right?"
She nodded and said, "If it's really resin plastic, why isn't it afraid of fire? It's still so heavy?"
"This is the fundamental problem of Uncle being fooled. In fact, you see this material every day." I pointed to a billiards case not far outside and said to her, "See? There are plenty of billiards over there. , that’s what it’s made of.”
She was completely impatient when she heard that, and opened her mouth to scold: "Stinky old man, spend five hundred yuan to buy a big billiard ball!" I hurriedly comforted her and told her not to worry, and I said, "Don't worry about this money, auntie, throw it away!" No."
I took out the phone, dialed a number, opened my mouth and cursed: "Wang Fugui, you can do it, you have tricked me. Come to my shop quickly."
"Master Yu, please explain clearly, no matter how stupid I am, Wang Fugui, I dare not break ground on your Taisui." The person on the phone was a little puzzled with his authentic Henan Kaifeng accent.
"Did you sell stoves in the food street last night?"
"Yes, yes, there is such a thing, and it was bought by an old man for five hundred yuan." He asked a little cautiously, "That old gentleman... who are you?"
"Don't worry about who else, anyway, hurry up and come here. Also, bring last night's money intact." I hung up the phone, picked up a bun and took a bite, smiling and talking to Zhang who was still angry. The aunt said: "You wait here for a while, and the money will be returned to you in a while."
She looked a little better after hearing me say that.
After a while, a short man stuck his head in from the door and took a sneaky look.
As soon as I saw the real owner came, I said to Aunt Zhang, "Look, the money is back."
"Master Yu, I haven't seen you for a while." The person came in with his fists in his arms.
I waved to him with a smile, pointed to the nine-turn Qiankun Xuande furnace brought by Aunt Zhang and asked him: "Look, is this your product?"
"Don't look at it, there are no semicolons in this city except the trumpet." He said with a sense of complacency, and then he took out his wallet from his pocket and took out five crumpled-looking red cards. Tiao Zi, "Since I found Master Yu and came here, I have nothing to say."
I took the money and handed it to Aunt Zhang. Aunt Zhang happily took it, then grabbed the corner of my clothes and asked in a low voice, "Why do you still know such a person? Xiaoyu, I can tell you Ah, there are a lot of bad people in this society now, you have to be more careful, don't follow these messy people to be bad..."
I smiled and agreed, and Aunt Zhang left with satisfaction.
I turned my head to look at the sly-eyed guy in front of me, and said, "Other liars always change their places and tricks, but you are fine, it remains the same for thousands of years, the same thing, the same place, and even the same equipment. Migrant clothes. I am puzzled, you have become the most familiar face in the past few years in that area, how can anyone fall for your tricks?"
"Let's play, we don't rely on this for a living." He disdainfully blocked the Baijiang cigarette I handed him, took out a box of Su cigarettes from his pocket, and said to me: "Your one is too choking, I smoke it." I'm not used to it."
Wang Fugui, from Henan, although he looks like a liar, of course he also works part-time as a liar, but in fact he is not simple, he can be regarded as a celebrity in this industry.His real name is not Wang Fugui, but Sun. No one knows what his name is, and he won't tell anyone who asks him.He is a direct descendant of the Sun family in Yongcheng, Henan. Speaking of the Sun family in Yongcheng, it is a family that we have to mention in our industry. In recent years, at least three quarters of the fakes in the northern antique market have come from them. But this is not the reason why they are famous in this industry. The real reason is that their surnamed grandson is the grandson of Sun Dianying.Wang Fugui has been in the small town where I live for three or four years, and not a single thing has flowed out of his hands.And because of the relationship of the Sun family, he has a lot of news in this industry.If there is any trouble in the industry, he must be the first to know.
I have a story with him.Back then, he was also holding something to deceive people at the intersection of the food street. Unexpectedly, the person he deceived was a well-known local elder brother.Later, the elder brother found out that he had been cheated and chased him all over the world.He ran into my shop by mistake.At that time, I saw that he was pitiful, so I helped him hide it for a while, and later I asked someone to help him negotiate a peace, so the matter was settled, so since then he has never had a word with me.
Later, he also got me a few good things.There used to be a picture of "Huiquan Night Floating Picture" in my shop, which was bought by him.This painting is the authentic work of Shi Tao, one of the four painting monks in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Shi Tao's paintings have remained high in value over the years.I don't know where he bought it from. This kind of masterpiece is not easy to get even if you have money.He just let me pass, and I made a lot of money.Since then, I dare not underestimate him.
"Master Yu, you don't look so good!" He took a deep drag on his cigarette, looked at me and said, "Did something happen to you?"
"How do you know?" I smiled bitterly, and for a moment I didn't know where to start, "Actually, it's nothing." I cupped my fists at him and said, "Thank you for today."
"Master Yu, you are still being polite to me." He looked at me with a smile, "It was originally my fault. If I had known that the old gentleman yesterday had a relationship with you, I would have told him clearly."
"Fugui, I heard that something has come out of Min Wangtai recently? Do you know about this?" I asked him carefully, after all, he is better informed than me, so he should know something.
"I knew you were going to ask me this." He finished his cigarette in two or three puffs, and pressed the butt of the cigarette to death in the ashtray. A place for things, but recently there have indeed been a lot of good things coming from there, all of them are from the Warring States Period. At first, the family wanted to go and have a look, but later heard that there were people in the courtyard, so I didn’t join in the fun.”
"Have you seen what's coming over?"
"I haven't seen it before, I heard there is a Yuan." When he said this, his eyes began to light up, "That's a real artifact..."
"Yu Twisted Silk Pattern Yuan." I took his words with a wry smile.
"Huh? Master Yu has seen it too?" He scratched his scalp and looked at me suspiciously.
I thought to myself, not only have I seen it, I have even touched it!Luo Yuhan, alas, I shook my head and stopped thinking about her.Continue to talk to Wang Fugui: "I've seen that thing before, but I didn't expect it to come from Minwangtai."
"Since Master Yu has seen it, can you tell if something is wrong?" He looked at me mysteriously.
"It's nothing more than a Xueqin. What else?" I rolled his eyes at him, I don't want to talk about this thing again, because its current owner already has a boyfriend.
"I only know that there is one hidden in the courtyard. That one is a handed down object. It was in the palace during the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Could there be other sources?"
"One is handed down from ancient times, and the other is just dug out. I have seen the one handed down from ancient times. It has never been in the soil. As for this jade yuan with twisted patterns, I have seen it before. There have been quite a few, but there was only one double-layered yuan like this before, and now there is another one. Moreover, they are from the same period, and the craftsmanship is exactly the same. Naturally, they are from the hands of a craftsman, and they should be a pair. As for the source..." He pondered for a moment, "Of course there is, but I haven't found it yet..."
I made a gesture to fight, but he quickly dodged.I said what you said was all nonsense.
He took out his Su cigarette, threw it to me, and said seriously: "However, to be honest, I think that thing is a bit evil, otherwise the original owner wouldn't be so anxious to find a buyer. I can tell you, Mr. Yu." Say, if your friend gets that thing, you must be careful. It’s not a good thing to hold something in the hands of the dead for two thousand years.”
"Since it's an artifact, it naturally has its place." I was suddenly a little worried about Luo Yuhan, wondering if she took what I told her last night to heart.In fact, I also know that I am worrying blindly, I am so worried here, people may not know where to be happy!I suddenly felt like a bit of a jerk at the moment.
"I don't know whether it's a magic weapon or not, but I know one thing." He suddenly lowered his voice, looked around and saw no one was around, and then leaned over to my ear and said, "The news from home is that Rizhao's This really killed a few people."
"How did you die?" I was surprised, I didn't expect the matter to be so serious.
"It's said that the thousand-year-old evil spirits have taken their lives, and they all died miserably. They scratched themselves to pieces, and it is said that their intestines and everything came out." He "tsk tsk" a few times and shook his head, as if he saw it with his own eyes Same.
"What did you say?" I stood up abruptly, and the look of Yishan Yang struggling to grab the jar last night immediately appeared in front of my eyes.I was in a trance for a while, couldn't stand up all of a sudden, and staggered a few times.
"I caught myself to death!" Seeing me so excited, he was startled, and hurried over to help me, "Master Yu, what's wrong with you?"
I tried my best to look calmer, cupped my fists at Wang Fugui, and said, "Brother, thank you for today's work. If you have something to do, go and do it."
He saw that I was seeing off a guest, and although he was a little puzzled, he didn't say anything else, but said with a little worry: "Okay, I'll go first, if Master Yu, you need my help from Wang Fugui , but don't be polite."
After speaking, he turned to leave.I stopped him and pointed to the nine-turn furnace for billiard balls: "You take this one too."
"Okay, it's really inappropriate to put this thing here with Master Yu." He scratched his head a little embarrassedly, bent down and picked up the "big billiard ball" and left.
I saw him walking away, quickly closed the door, and started searching for the diary.I searched inside and out, back and forth, and found nothing!I tried my best to recall the place where Yi Shanyang stayed when I came out of Jumeizhai last night.I opened the door and went out, and looked at the sidecar I parked at the door, but there was nothing there.This is so strange.It was the relic of Mrs. Yi, and Yi Goat would definitely keep it in a safe place, and it was absolutely impossible to just throw it away.
The weather in late autumn began to get colder, and I curled up on my chair, feeling helpless like never before.These ten or so hours were the longest period of time in my life. I was very tired, I curled up and closed my eyes, and scenes flashed before my eyes.I am alone in these pictures shivering with cold.
I suddenly felt a weight on my body, opened my eyes, and found someone standing in front of me, holding my coat in his hand and covering me.
"Xiao Tao?" I looked at the girl in front of me in surprise, "Why are you here?" I pinched myself hard, it hurt, it wasn't a dream.I was driven into a nervous breakdown by Xiaolu's dream last night, and I was afraid that the girl in front of me also came from my dream.
"Brother." Xiaotao looked like she had just cried, her eyes were a little red, and she called out to me full of grievances.Trembling in my heart, I stood up quickly, helped her unload the heavy travel bag on her back, and put it aside, and then I was a little at a loss and didn't know what to do.
"Hey, yes, have you had breakfast yet?" I raised my wrist to look at my watch, it was only half past nine.
She pouted and shook her head, her face and body were still a bit dusty.I said, "Let's go, I'll take you to have some food." She shook her head and said she wasn't hungry.
"Then I'll pour you a glass of water." I hurriedly found a clean cup, trying to pour water for her, but when I walked to the water dispenser, I found that the bucket was already empty.I looked at her with embarrassment, and when she saw me, she hurriedly said that she was not thirsty.I turned around and only found the paper bag that Aunt Zhang gave me just now. There were still a few buns in it. It was not very cold, so I picked it up and handed it to her, and said helplessly: "Your brother only has these here." Buns."
She took it with red eyes, took out a bun and took a bite, crying loudly.I hurried over to comfort, what's the matter?The buns are not tasty, are they?She threw herself on my shoulder and shook her head, crying in despair: "Brother, my brother is gone." I was a little confused, so I hugged her, held her shoulders to wipe her tears, and pressed her down. On the stool, he comforted: "Xiao Tao, don't worry, just speak slowly."
She chewed the bun in her mouth and swallowed it.Sobbing, he took another bite and said, "I haven't contacted him for two months. I can't get through to my home phone, nor can I get through to his phone. When I came back, the house was empty, as if I had moved. Sister Lu Gone too."
I heard her talking more and more confused, Yishan goat disappeared?Who is that lying in the hospital now?I know I can't get through the phone. Could it be that something happened that I don't know about?
"Don't worry, your brother is with me, it's fine." I comforted her.When she heard me say that, she turned around and searched in the store.I said, "He's not here, you eat first, and I'll take you to him when you're full." I ran out and got another bottle of Nutrition Express from Aunt Zhang's cigarette stand, and brought it back to open it for her.
She devoured the steamed stuffed bun and drank a few sips of Nutrition Express, she seemed to be very hungry.
While comforting her, I told her not to worry and eat slowly.
She nodded, and I asked her, "When did you return to China?"
"It's been three days since I've been back," she wiped her mouth, sobbing, "I found all my brother's friends in Beijing, and they all said they didn't know." A lot of sins.
I touched her head distressedly and said, "Why didn't you come to me earlier?"
She shook her head and said nothing. I looked at the tear stains on her face and knew that she would definitely not be able to eat or drink in the past three days. She also cried countless times, and my heart ached.I went to Aunt Zhang to ask for some hot water, wet a towel and wiped her face.She stuffed the remaining buns into her mouth in a few mouthfuls, burped, carried her big travel bag, and muttered, "Elbow..."
"Are you full?" I was immediately amused by her, and imitated her and said, "Okay, let's eat."
I reached out and grabbed my coat just as I was about to put it on, when something fell out of the coat with a "snap".I picked it up and took a look—the diary.I was a little dazed holding the diary, thinking how could it get into my clothes?
"What is it?" Xiaotao asked curiously when she saw that I took the diary before she swallowed the bun in her mouth.I handed her the diary and asked, "Have you ever seen this thing?"
She took it and glanced at it, and suddenly choked on the steamed stuffed bun, choking and screaming.I hurriedly took a sip of water for her, and at the same time helped her stroke her back.After finally recovering, she pointed to the big characters Yi Xiaosheng on it in surprise and said, "Isn't that my dad's name?"
She looked as if she had never seen this diary before, and Yishanyang probably didn't want Xiaotao to get involved in these things.Their siblings have depended on each other since they were young, and they are very dependent on each other.Yi Shanyang has protected Xiao Tao very closely since she was a child, for fear that she would bump into her.He worked so hard to make money in those years because he wanted to provide a good environment for his sister. Naturally, there are safety considerations in sending her abroad. Know what dangers to expect.I have been in this industry for so long these years, I have experienced a lot of things, and I have seen a lot of things.
"Put it away and look at it later, I was looking for it just now. Something happened recently, maybe this diary can tell us something." I put on my coat, took out the helmet and handed her one.She took it and said eagerly, "Brother, are we going to ride a motorcycle?"
I nod.She showed a look of eagerness to try, begging to ride by herself.I asked her if she could ride?Maybe it was because she had news about her brother, or because she finally felt a little dependable after seeing me. The little girl's lively true colors were undoubtedly revealed at this moment.She pursed her lips and said, "Don't underestimate people." Then she lowered her head and took out a medal from her big bag, which said in English - FIM.I hurriedly said I didn't know each other.She curled her lips and said, "I don't know, this is the membership badge of the International Motor Sports Competition."
I was amazed.She untied a hair rope from her wrist, neatly tied her hair into a ponytail, put on the helmet, and said, "Elbow!"
I laughed and said, "You still have buns in your mouth?"
"No, that's what all Chinese young people in America say now."
I said imitatively: "Okay, let's go!"
When she saw my sidecar, she was completely stunned, stared at my car for a long time, and then maybe a little short-circuited: "Brother, you are so cool."
I asked her if she still rides.She immediately jumped into the sidecar with a big bag on her back, and said, "I'll be a money back this time!"
She tightened her helmet, and waved her right hand straight forward: "Elbow!"
I stepped on two feet, started the car, and ran all the way towards the hospital.Xiaotao yelled excitedly at the side, probably because she was about to see her brother, and her mood recovered a lot.The haze in my heart was also slightly driven away by her.Although the matter was not resolved at all, looking at the excited Xiaotao beside him, it seemed that he saw a little hope.Chairman Mao, please bless me and wipe away all ghosts and monsters in this world!
Passing by an ATM, I asked Xiaotao to wait in the car, got out of the car to withdraw 5,000 yuan, then handed a stack to Xiaotao, and asked, "Have you been poor for a while? Go buy a change of clothes later." .”
She pocketed the money very unceremoniously, gave me a Patton-style military salute, and said, "Elbow."
She has no other thoughts in her mind now, but only wants to see her brother who has disappeared for two months.But at this time, she never thought about why her brother disappeared or what happened.Seeing her innocent like a blank sheet of paper, having all kinds of youthful fantasies and dreams about the future that she would have at her age, I really couldn't bear to wake her up from the dream.I'm afraid that when she wakes up from her dream and sees the ugliness of reality, she will be so shocked that she can't get up.When she got on this sidecar, she didn't know where it was going, and she never even asked me where I was taking her.She only knew that when the sidecar stopped again, she would meet her brother who had been searching for two months.
"Hospital?" When I stopped the car, she suddenly turned her head and looked at me with knife-like eyes.
I quickly explained: "Your brother drank too much last night, it's just alcohol poisoning, it's okay."
Hearing what I said, she calmed down a little, jumped out of the sidecar, straightened her clothes, took a look in a small mirror, and handed the mirror to me for me to hold.I took it honestly and held it up for her to take a picture.She took out some bottles and cans from her bag, put some foundation on her face, and asked me, "Is this okay?"
I said: "The skin is like creamy fat, and the beauty is like a fairy."
She smiled a little shyly.This careful little girl was carefully preparing her makeup for fear that her closest person in the world would worry about her.The foundation covered her tear stains, the eye shadow covered up the red and swollen circles under her eyes, and the lipstick erased the paleness and sadness at the corners of her mouth.
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