Chapter 29 Sixty-third Night Drawer

Most collectors actually have a strong desire to possess. The normal ones like postage stamps, coins and antiques, which are relatively common, and then there are some unusual ones, such as collecting matchboxes, cigarette boxes, etc. Of course, there are also perverts. Like the German concentration camps who like to collect beautiful girl skins, first tattoo all kinds of patterns on them, and then soak the girls in hot water with rose petals and antiseptics, so that the antiseptics can enter the pores of the skin, and also Easy to peel off.As for the peeled human skin, some are made into pillowcases, and some are made into leather tablecloths. The most famous one is a table lamp lampshade confiscated by Soviet soldiers from the home of a German military doctor after the defeat of the war. Yes, it is human skin. made.

But the friend I'm talking about naturally doesn't have such a disgusting hobby, even if he had, he wouldn't dare to become the perverted killer in the movie.In fact, his hobby is collecting ancient wooden tables. He likes wooden tables of any age very much, but collecting them requires a lot of space and strength. Some tables are very heavy, but he always continues this hobby with great enjoyment. As for divorcing his beautiful wife angrily, he fell leisurely. This friend named Tan Lan has a very wealthy family, thanks to his hard work and good management in his youth.However, whenever he had a good wooden table, he asked me to come and see it. Although I didn't understand it very well, I understood it somewhat under his influence.The wooden table mainly depends on the history and raw materials. If it is a precious wood, like rosewood, it has always been considered the most precious wood, most of which are purple-black. Among all kinds of hardwoods, rosewood has the densest texture and the most weight Heavy, the wood grain is not obvious. Since ancient times, it has been used by famous and prominent houses. Some people may talk about mahogany. In fact, mahogany is not a kind of wood, but generally refers to a kind of wood. Red sandalwood and rosewood of the genus Pterocarpus, fragrant branch wood, black rosewood, and red rosewood of the genus Dalbergia, ebony and striped ebony of the genus Persimmon, and chicken wing wood of the genus Ironwood and Jacuzzi Class 5 is a general term for 33 kinds of materials in 8 classes.Furniture made of these 8 categories and 33 materials can be called mahogany furniture.The mahogany material structure is very fine to thin, and the average chord diameter of the conduit (pipe hole) is not more than 20 microns.The color of mahogany heartwood is darkened by the atmosphere, among which red sandalwood is reddish purple, rosewood, fragrant branch wood and red rosewood are reddish brown, black rosewood is black purple, and ebony is jet black. Striped ebony and wenge are black.My friend can't afford a table made of this kind of wood, because it is said that a few days ago, a huanghuali wooden table with dragon pattern and stone surface in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was bought for a high price of 980,000 yuan. unbelievable.Others have special significance or have a long history, but the wooden products should not be repainted, otherwise the value will not be as good as before. Of course, there are also some worthless items that are considered to be hyped. What is luxury?That is, you can sell things that are hundreds or even thousands of times higher than your original price, just like the sky-high price of abalone, shark's fin and bird's nest mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but I don't understand, since I want to eat, why not just eat it Sandwich these in mooncakes?I always think that moon cakes are best filled with the most original bean paste.

Without further ado, Tan Lan's tone on the phone could almost be described as excited. "I ate the elixir yesterday. I found an old rosewood carved table from an old farmer's house in the countryside. It's really cheap, only more than two thousand!" Tan Lan smacked her lips as she spoke, as if a child had eaten it. Dream chocolate candies are average. "It's not me hitting you, so you won't be afraid of being buried by others, and you have paid your tuition fees a lot." I laughed, but Tan Lan insisted that it was a very good table, and the special thing about this table was not the table. The origins and ingredients, but a drawer above.

"You'll know when you come, it's not convenient to talk on the phone." After speaking, Tan Lan hung up, and the phone rang with a beep.I closed the phone and murmured in my heart, what kind of drawer is so earth-shattering. The so-called eating elixir, burying landmines, picking up leaks, and paying tuition fees are all terms for antique hunters, just like the slang words of the old underworld.Eating elixir is likened to buying a very cheap collection. Land mines refer to some people who think that there is nothing wrong with buying goods from farmers in the countryside, but they don’t know that these goods are forged by merchants and farmers in partnership. This is land mines. .Picking up the leaks is likened to the seller looking at the fakes, but the antiques are genuine and bought away, which is called "picking the leaks" for the buyer.Conversely, for the seller, it is called a treasure. As for the tuition fee, as the name suggests, it is because novices who play antiques do not know the goods, and they always buy cheap imitations.

It’s a long way from the newspaper office to his house, but it happened that one of my interviewees lived there, and he was passing by anyway, so I didn’t refuse Tan Lan’s kindness. nice thing. Tan Lan's home can indeed be described as antique. When you enter the house, you can smell a very fragrant and clean woodwork smell. It is not at all like the floor furniture now. It is full of formaldehyde smell, and some of them have been placed for a year. It is still very large, but technology has developed, and as a result our living conditions have declined. "Come in, hurry up!" Tan Lan's figure is very similar to mine. They are about the same height, but he is much thinner, but his head is extremely big. Unfortunately, his head is not full of wisdom. I often make fun of him. His whole head is full of wood scum , but he frowned solemnly and said that he hoped so.

Tan Lan's eyes are the most distinctive. If it's normal, it's nothing. As soon as he sees a beautiful woman or a wooden table he likes, his eyes suddenly turn into triangular eyes, and he can't see the white of his eyes. gaze. "If I like it, I must get it." This is his famous saying, the wife is like this, the money is like this, and the wooden table is like this. His home was originally very spacious, but it is a pity that there are so many tables piled up, I can only walk over carefully. He also refused to let go on the table. "Is your hand feeling better?" I looked at his bandaged fingers.

"It's much better, but then I accidentally scratched it and dripped a drop on the table. Fortunately, there was no trace at all. Otherwise, I would die of heartache, and maybe I would chop off that finger in anger. "Tan Lan seemed to be talking about a sausage, not her own fingers. Entering the inner hall, I saw the table. Very beautiful, egg yellow, about one meter high, very well preserved, the lines and feet along the edge of the tabletop overlap and change, two flat and two concave; the tabletop and legs are decorated with cirrus angles; the legs and feet are in the shape of a horseshoe , Exquisite workmanship.And there is a hidden compartment at the bottom left of the desktop, which is the drawer.

I rarely see such a table with drawers. There are no handles on the outside of the drawer, and the textures are well combined, almost becoming a part of the table. I didn’t notice it unless I looked carefully. "This, this is a magical drawer!" Tan Lan waved her hands uncontrollably, and the corners of her mouth twitched. I wondered that even if he found a good thing at a very low price, he didn't have to exaggerate it so much. "I can understand your confusion and surprise, because I didn't expect it myself, and I only discovered the difference in this drawer recently. I even hesitated for a long time whether I should tell you, but as my only good friend , I can’t find anyone to share my happiness with! You know that this kind of joy is suppressed in the bottom of my heart and can’t be vented, so it’s easy to get sick.” But he changed the subject, suddenly narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice: “Of course, I’m still happy. I warn you, don't say a word of everything you know, otherwise it will do you and me no good."

I regret coming here. What I hate the most is sharing secrets with others, because you have to bear unnecessary troubles, and there are even more, because once the secret is leaked, you will be the first person to suspect it. Of course, he will not go I wonder if he said it unintentionally. "Okay, tell me quickly, I promise not to talk about it." In the end, my curiosity got the upper hand. "I just discovered the special feature of this drawer by accident. The day before yesterday, because I couldn't find my pen, the whole room was turned over. At that time, all I could think about was my pen, because I needed to record something. The only drawer I haven’t looked at is the one I don’t remember. Things that were in my hand a few minutes ago often disappear. So I searched for things. Of course, I didn’t even think about it before I opened the drawer. hope.

But there was actually a pen lying in the empty drawer. It was a great pleasure to find what I had been looking for for a long time, but I soon discovered that this pen was not mine.Although the color of the model is the same, the old and new are indeed different. I began to suspect that this drawer had some kind of magical function, so I started to experiment, first I wanted a book, and the book was lying there after I opened the drawer, I was so happy, I tried many times, as long as it was the drawer I've tried everything that fits, and the results are really good. ' He laughed smugly, I haven't seen him so happy since his divorce.

"Have you ever heard of a cornucopia? You can get everything you like and want. Do you think I'm the happiest person in this world? To prove it to you, look, I can pull out a watch from here!" Said As expected, Tan Lan took out an expensive men's watch from inside.Although I always feel that he put it in early in the morning to fool me, but he insisted that I try it myself, I can't hold him back, just try it. I decided to buy a digital camera, which would cost several thousand yuan. I always wanted to buy it, but once I bought it, I was afraid that I would have to go to the pedestrian street to take pictures for people this month to make ends meet. I prayed secretly in my heart, and the moment I opened the drawer, I saw a brand new camera in the drawer. It turned out to be true!And I'm sure it wasn't Tan Lan who did the tricks, and soon I also thought about the data cable, battery, and memory card, so I got a whole set of equipment! "I didn't lie to you, did I?" Tan Lan patted my shoulder when she saw that I was smiling like a flower. "Even coins are fine." Tan Lan opened the drawer and took out another dozen brand-new banknotes. I took a closer look at the drawer again, it was a little bigger and wider than ordinary ones, I couldn't imagine it had this ability from the outside. "I experimented excitedly yesterday, and I can achieve anything I want, but I always feel that something is missing." Tan Lan stretched out her hands and sat on the sofa. "Oh? What's that?" I asked him curiously while playing with the camera and leaning my back on the table. "A woman! I still lack a hostess." His eyes suddenly shot out, turning into ugly triangular eyes again, and he jumped up from the sofa. "You can be said to be the richest person, are you afraid of not having a wife?" I joked, but Tan Lan's face was not good-looking. "No! These women all have more or less shortcomings. There is no perfect woman in this world. Only that magical drawer can give me the ideal partner!" Tan Lan's eyes could no longer see anything else. up. "Are you crazy? How could someone come out of the drawer?" I just finished speaking, but I felt the drawer behind me move by itself. I didn't feel wrong, the drawer was trying to stick out by itself. As I turned around in surprise, the drawer popped open with a clatter, like a computer's optical drive. But instead of the smooth yellow inside of the drawer, I saw a black patch.I rubbed my eyes and took a closer look. It turned out that the black thing was human hair, to be precise, a woman's hair, and the back of her head was facing me. The drawer continued to extend outwards, and I saw inconceivably that a woman slowly crawled out of the drawer, just like a martial arts master performing bone shrinking skills on TV. First, the head and shoulders. Her face was facing the ground all the time. I couldn’t see clearly. The naked woman stretched out her two white milk-like arms and continued to crawl out. Her lower body was still stuck in the drawer. It looked like A praying mantis has caught its prey.She was thin and well-curved, and her body stretched out of the drawer at an angle that was difficult for humans to achieve.Like a piece of white toothpaste, it was slowly squeezed out of the drawer. I couldn't believe my eyes, this girl really appeared according to Tan Lan's wish! The woman continued to crawl outwards, her hair had already touched my pants, Tan Lan behind her suddenly laughed happily, pushed me away, and helped the girl up.and clothed her. I looked at the girl, she was very beautiful, with regular and dexterous features, but she was a little uncomfortable when she smiled. It feels a bit too beautiful to look at. She is indeed a very perfect woman, at least in terms of appearance.Tan Lan hugged her as if she had got a baby, and the girl listened to Tan Lan very much. The two were as affectionate as newlyweds after a long absence, but the girl's eyes were always on me. I looked into her eyes and thought it was weird, but I couldn't see anything wrong. Perhaps the person who can come out of the drawer itself cannot be normal, but since some things happen, I will not be surprised, just like I got my favorite digital camera earlier, I will doubt whether this camera is normal what? So is Tan Lan.This sounds unreasonable, but it is true. Tan Lan coughed a few times at me, and I tactfully prepared to leave.But the girl suddenly smiled, and pointed at my hand with her slender, pale fingers. "Take a picture of us!" Tan Lan greeted me, and I was happy too. When they posed, I took a few pictures for them and left the house. Before I left, I heard Tan Lan's laughter resounding in the house. I was very busy with work, and I didn’t have time to play with the camera, so I threw it at home and didn’t care about it. Within a few days, I suddenly heard some news, most of which were reported by stores that my goods were lost for no reason. I vaguely felt something was wrong, so I asked a friend in the bank to ask. Sure enough, recently, the bank often found that a whole dozen of new banknotes were missing. At first, I suspected that it was done by an insider. After a long time of thorough investigation, I couldn’t get any As a result, we had to let it go. It seems that the so-called drawer is actually just a thief. I suddenly remembered my camera, went back quickly, and looked at the photos taken that day on the computer. In the photo, Tan Lan looked smug, but I felt uncomfortable when I saw that girl. It seems to be the face.I zoomed in on her face and finally realized something was wrong there. The girl's pupils are very large, much larger than normal people, or living people, just like the pupils of a cat at night. I immediately called Tan Lan, but there was only a busy message, and it seemed that I had to go to his house and tell him to throw away that table and that woman. Of course, I also had that camera with me. But when I came to his house, I found that the door of Tan Lan's house was unlocked.I pushed it away and walked in, called a few times, but no one answered. The food on the table has spoiled. In this hot weather, it will go bad after a day or two. The food is hardly touched at all, and there is an open bottle of wine beside it. I went into the inner room.The table was well placed in its place and nothing seemed to have happened.The empty room was filled with a feeling of decay. Tan Lan was originally a person who loved cleanliness, but why did she become like this after not seeing her home for a few days? Does the gentle township make a person change his living habits so quickly? Neither Tan Lan nor that strange woman could be found in the whole house.When I decided to leave, the drawer behind me remembered whining. Very noticeable in quiet house.I paced and walked over, just about to stretch out my hand to open it, but the drawer popped open, I didn't pay attention, I didn't stand firmly, and I sat on the ground all at once. A hand slowly stretched out from the drawer, a very familiar hand. Because he was wearing the watch that Tan Lan took out from the drawer a few days ago on his wrist.Then, the humming sound became louder, and my legs began to weaken. Although I tried to stand up, I could only watch my hands dangling helplessly. I straightened my back and saw a human head in the drawer, which belonged to Tan Lan. Tan Lan's eyes are full of fear, still the annoying triangular eyes, his two hands are trying to pull them out, I look at him, and think of how many times a cat will deliberately let go of a mouse when it catches it , but pressed the mouse's tail again, watching the mouse helplessly stretch its legs and grab the ground. Now Tan Lan is like a mouse waiting to die. Because I saw a hand on top of his head, it was a woman's hand, but it was not white and slender, but swollen and pale, and the skin of the hand almost became translucent. I have seen such a hand before, This is the case with formalin-soaked specimens in medical schools.There is also one on Tan Lan's mouth, which is firmly pressed on it, no wonder I can only hear the whining sound. "Help me." Tan Lan seemed to struggle to get rid of the hand on her mouth, and uttered two words, short and trembling like pouring beans out. But these were the last words I heard from him. On the left side of Tan Lan's head, the girl's head protruded, with dilated pupils, a beautiful face, and an uncomfortable smile. With just one click, the girl dragged Tan Lan in, and the girl didn't even have time to snort, as if the drawer was a bottomless black hole, and the two of them fell into it.The silence returned to the room, and I almost felt that what I saw just now was just a hallucination. The drawer snapped shut again by itself. "Is this the end of asking too much?" I carefully put the camera in my hand back into the drawer.The drawers were still as ordinary as usual, I groped around, but there was nothing but the cold and smooth inner wall, so I had to leave the house temporarily. The next day I was planning to find someone to move that table away and burn it, at least to prevent others from getting it, but when I invited someone to the house, I saw Tan Lan's divorced wife directing people to move it. holding something.After exchanging pleasantries, I found out that she said that she received a call from Tan Lan last night. She was in a hurry, and the voice seemed to be not his. She said that she was going to lie far away and could not pay the child support for the time being, and asked her ex-wife to fill up the house and All treasured curios and old wooden tables can be sold as compensation. "Last night?" I was shocked.Tan Lan's wife looked at me strangely. "What's wrong? Is that guy lying to me again? Forget it, he's divorced anyway, and I can't control his life. Fortunately, the things here are still valuable." The woman sighed, and then suddenly became happy again. laughed. She really can't control Tan Lan's life and death, but I only care about that table. When Tan Lan's ex-wife heard that I wanted to buy that table, she regretfully declined. "I'm so sorry, I've already sold that table to a merchant who collected antiques. He was so happy that he accidentally cut his finger when moving it, and blood dripped on it, so scared that he quickly wiped it off." Tan Lan's ex-wife tilted her head and recalled. I had no choice but to say goodbye to her. It seems that this table and that drawer will continue to wander in this world. Maybe soon I'll hear again about inexplicable thefts from stores.