Chapter 34 Thirty-fourth night Qianyan

"Qianyan?" Ji Yan asked curiously.Lin Siping also smiled. "I heard that someone fell into Brother Kong Fang, but what does the money-eyed chief mean?" I picked up a piece of charcoal that was burning red with tongs, and moved the smoke to it. I don't like to use lighters or even matches, and try to stay away from modern Every part of it can give you a relaxed feeling of release.I exhaled the smoke, and the story unfolded in the gradually dissipating smoke. "I originally studied computers, but I was too poor in my major, so I got a job in a newspaper office. These days, 80% of people are doing jobs that are related to their interests, military officers, and their belly. Of course, if that's the case, then I'm one of the lucky 20 percent, because I still really like this job.

Most jobs have to go through an internship period. The matter of the director is probably the most memorable during my internship. The director's surname is Wu, hehe, I personally think Wu is the most difficult name to match among hundreds of surnames. Most of them are not very good. This director Wu is no exception. His full name is Wu Dexue. This director Wu has a great feature ,love money. Don't get me wrong, love of money and love of money are not necessarily the same thing.At least at the beginning, Director Wu was very upright.He loves money, he just likes collecting coins.From ancient copper coins to modern gold coins, even many out-of-print and rare ones can be seen from him. It is conceivable how obsessed Director Wu is with money, but he only likes metal coins and hates paper money. According to him It is metal coins that can be played with, but paper money is too similar to Mingqian, which is a bit unlucky.

Director Wu is actually the Deputy Director, but everyone calls him Director by the way. He is only called Deputy Wu when the Director is here. He is in charge of local drug supervision, that is, spot checks on quality. Most of the injections and clinical medications have to go through him. One can imagine the power of the first batch of them.When he first took office, Director Wu did a few practical things and investigated and dealt with some outflow cases of illegal drugs, and I got to know him precisely because I wanted to write an interview for him. Director Wu was very happy about that interview, He even praised me to my face.The two of them got along well, so I often went to his house to sit and sit, so I knew a thing or two about him.

However, later he changed. Director Wu is an old college student who has been fond of antiques since he was a child. He heard that his ancestors used to work in Liulichang. When the Japanese invaded China, his grandfather brought a few valuable and easy-to-carry things - ancient coins.He fled to the south, and then he married a wife and had children here. Director Wu often fell ill when he was a child, and his family often used ancient coins to suppress evil, so he has been familiar with ancient coins since he was a child, just like people who have been familiar with pictures for 80 years when they were young. .According to him, when he was six years old, he could identify ancient coins by distinguishing rust. After hearing this, I felt a little unconvinced. After all, recognizing rust and distinguishing rust is no longer the level of a collector.Most of the ancient coins are made of metal, copper is the most. There are many kinds of corrosion of ancient coins, including authenticity, region and thickness. The soil in the south is rainy, humid and acidic, and the corrosion is serious and relatively loose. There are often blue, green and red rust mixed in it, which is called "red and green rust". The color is mostly green or blue-green, which is hard patina.Most of the money bodies are covered with green rust, which is the ancient money picked up from the "Beikeng" river. The rust is mostly off-white, hard and abnormal, and it is extremely difficult to clean.When Director Wu talked to me, I really admired an official who was in charge of medicine and was so proficient in coins at the same time.Of course, he also invited me to watch his collection, but it was only a small part of his collection. According to him, the best products have spiritual energy, and they will never meet strangers unless it is absolutely necessary.I also had to give up.

However, if a person has hobbies, then hobbies are often weaknesses. I remember it was said in a TV series, it seems to be "Li Wei as an Official". In the play, before Li Wei was transferred to Yangzhou, Yongzheng feared that he would be corrupted by salt merchants like the previous local officials, so he asked him to go to the prison to have a look. Those former prefects of Yangzhou who have been sentenced to death.Some are for sex, some are for words, and some are for money.In short, according to the words of the salt merchants, they do not believe that there are seamless eggs in this world. Even if they are monolithic, they have to be burned and recast to break open and fill with salt.

So when one person is calculated by tens of thousands of people, it is dangerous. Director Wu is no exception.He is not lustful, not rich, and does not look at favors. The problem is that he likes old coins. When those drug dealers and drug dealers saw this point, the opportunity came.They collected Director Wu's information everywhere.He bought ancient coins at a high price, which was a bit of a bummer at first, but as time went on, people outside the door entered, and those who entered sat down, and Director Wu began to accept the ceremony from those who sat down. How profitable is the medicine?After the pharmaceutical factory, drug dealer, procurement, hospital pharmacy department, pharmacy, doctor, and then to the patient.With so many plucked hairs, it is in our hands. It is no wonder that the drug dealers have spent so much energy and money to impress Director Wu.There is even a saying among the people that if you don't get sick, you should die quickly.

After a long time of cooperation, there is no problem. Although the medicine is a bit expensive and it can't cure people, nothing will happen, at least nothing serious will happen.Later, Director Wu withdrew, and naturally fewer people gave ancient coins.But one day, Mrs. Wu's wife called and told me that something happened at home.You may find it strange, why did you tell me, because Director Wu really has no friends who are willing to help, at least, I can barely count as one, and the wife of the director told me the whole story on the phone. Director Wu was still playing with his ancient coins that day, and a strange guest came to his house.It is said that he is strange, because when this person came, he was dressed as if in the Republic of China, with a long coat and a black hat.He was also carrying a pocket watch, and carrying this mahogany box that was more than a foot long.To put it bluntly, he came to give gifts, but Wu Ju didn't know him at all, but Wu Ju felt that this person was not an ordinary person, so he went in to receive him.At that time, the chief's wife was on the sidelines, so she naturally heard their conversation.

"I heard that Director Wu likes ancient coins and has a unique eye. Here are a few special ones. I want the director to appreciate them." The man had a northern accent and was tall.Director Wu was naturally happy, so he asked to have a look first. The two talked for a while, and the guest actually said to keep the coins, let the director watch slowly, and come back to collect them by himself in a month.Director Wu was naturally happy and enthusiastically sent him out. But from that day on, Director Wu locked himself in his room, and never came out except to eat and go to the bathroom. Even when he was eating, he had to take a few quick bites, and he couldn't say a few words to his usually harmonious wife.The chief's wife was very anxious, so she wanted me to persuade her.Reluctantly, I had no choice but to leave for Director Wu's home.

"Ouyang, it's you." Fortunately, Ju Wu still knows me, but I don't know him anymore. I haven't seen him in just a few months, and he has long lost his previous look. When I walked into his room, he He was holding a magnifying glass and looking at an ancient coin with his head hooked. His whole body was like a grilled lobster, curled up and sitting in front of the desk.It took him a long time to pay attention to me because he wanted to stand up and drink water at that time.His hair was about to fall out, his eyes were deeply sunken and bloodshot, and his hands might have been deformed due to bending for a long time.I have to walk step by step. It's unbelievable. He played basketball with me before.

I exchanged a few words with him, and the conversation naturally turned to which ancient coins.As soon as ancient coins were mentioned, Wu Ju's eyes lit up and he looked radiant, as if he had smoked opium. "Do you know? What are these coins?" He pointed to the ancient coins on the table. I am a layman, so I naturally shook my head without saying a word. "Ancient coins are divided into one to ten grades according to their rarity, and each grade can be subdivided into upper, middle and lower grades, and the 'fifty treasures' are the best among them, such as the 'Sankongbu' of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Wang Mang's The "Zhuangquan Forty" at that time, the "Jianguo Tongbao" in the Song Dynasty, and the "Tianguo Tongbao" in the Qing Dynasty, the value of ancient coins is not only determined by the age and history, but mainly by the number of issues and reprints. In the Qing Dynasty, many ancient coins were still very precious." Director Wu spoke so quickly that I could hardly hear them all.I had to ask curiously: "Then what are these?"

Director Wu said in a low voice: "There are two genuine ones in the world. One of them is with me." I was even more curious. There are only two in the world? "Could it be a fake?" I said, feeling abrupt, but fortunately Director Wu didn't mind. "No, I've been looking through the materials for so many days and inspecting them carefully." Director Wu picked up the ancient coin, which seemed to me to be the same as Datang Tongbao. It was round, about 2 cm in diameter, and printed around it With the words Daqi Tongbao. "It's called Daqi Tongbao, and it's a Southern Tang coin. Only two genuine coins have been found. Because the characters and shapes are close to those of Datang Tongbao, it was determined that it was cast by Xu Zhigao, the founder of the Southern Tang Dynasty, when he was named Daqi in the first year of the founding of the country. One said it was cast in the late Southern Tang Dynasty when Tang Tong Bao was cast." Director Wu took a book and pointed out the pictures and words in it to me.However, I found that the money on the painting seemed to be a little different from the coins in Wu Ju's hand, but I also said it, just thinking that an expert like him must have noticed it earlier. "But in a few days, that person will take away the ancient coins as soon as he comes." Director Wu talked with a sad face.I think he seems to be obsessed with this money. "I want to make a fake one, or just tell him that I lost the money, even if I go bankrupt, I must get this big Qi Tongbao!" Director Wu's expression suddenly became horrifying. At that hideous moment, I hardly knew him anymore. It turns out that possessiveness is the easiest to change people.Everyone was silent for a while, chatted casually and then left. Before leaving, Bureau Wu grabbed my hand and said with a sigh, "Ouyang, you will come to see me after I retire." I smiled, and in the end he asked again and again what the central government had done about the drug reform. I couldn't tell, so he hunched over again and went in. After a while, I was busy with work, and I almost forgot about Bureau Wu, but Mrs. Wu called again, but this time the voice was urgent. "Our old Wu is missing!" I felt strange at the first sentence, calling the police when he disappeared, why so nervous.But I couldn't get in the way of our old friendship, so I went to his house anyway. How could a living person disappear?That's ridiculous.But according to Mrs. Wu's wife, since she entered the room after dinner last night, she never came out again. When she went in today, she found that there was no one in it. I looked at the desk carefully, and it was full of books about ancient coins, a magnifying glass, and many glass boxes, which contained ancient coins, as well as sword coins from Qi State in the Warring States Period, Chu China's ant nose coin.Hanging on the wall is a mahogany sword inlaid with ancient coins.Almost everything in the small room is more or less related to ancient coins.Mrs. Wu went to pour boiling water for me, while I continued to check in the room. The room is connected to the balcony, but it can't be said that Director Wu escaped from the balcony. Could it be that he left with that ancient coin?Not at all, and what's even more strange is that I found a box on his bookcase, which actually contained the big Qi Tongbao. "It's so strange that the money is still there." I wanted to put him back where it was, but suddenly my inexplicable curiosity made me take it out again.Of course, I put on gloves - this is something Bureau Wu asked me repeatedly before, because the sweat on my hands may ruin this precious antique. "Is it really that good?" I looked at this copper coin, which was no different from an ordinary copper coin, and it didn't have a special texture in my hand. At this moment, a beam of light came in through the window of the room. It's a coincidence.The light fell right on the hole in the middle of the copper coin.I was afraid that it would be bad if I was irradiated for too long, so I was about to put it away when I discovered a very strange thing. The coin in the middle of the skill is empty, the light can't pass through it, I tried it again, and sure enough, the light can't pass through the square hole in the middle to hit the ground.I put my finger in, and it was unobstructed, but the light couldn't get in. "It's really interesting." I smiled, and there was such a thing, so I took a closer look at the money.The whole body of ancient coins is light yellow to red. I have spent some time with Wu Ju, and I know a little about ancient coins. According to the amount of copper, the rust and color of ancient coins are different. red.I put the ancient coin tightly to my eyes, and I wanted to see if the eyes could see anything since the light could not pass through the square hole. I did look, and moved my eyes slowly, but to this day I regret that decision. My eyes saw the other eye.Eyeballs to be exact. Aged, sad, and even dead gray.Those eyes seemed to be the eyes of a dead man.I was taken aback.The ancient coin in his hand almost fell to the ground.At this time, the door of the room opened suddenly, and a person came in. Mrs. Wu's wife came in, put down the tea and chatted with me a few words.I asked him if that strange guest ever came back.Director Wu shook his head, saying that it had been almost a month and a half since that incident, and the man seemed to have forgotten about it, and Director Wu was still as happy as a child in those few days.In the past few days, he has been reading newspapers and listening to the news a lot, and every time he is extremely nervous, he keeps making phone calls. "Telephone?" I asked curiously, "Do you know who to talk to?" Mrs. Wu shook her hand disdainfully, "It's not the old drug dealers who used to come here, they often came to our old Wu with ancient coins, what to say... "Mrs. Wu suddenly felt that she had slipped her tongue, and she didn't say anything more. I was sensible, so I went to drink tea. After drinking tea, she asked me if I hadn't found anything. I said no for the time being, so she withdrew, and kept saying that she would keep me. Have a meal. On the bedside of Wu Bureau, there are a lot of news about participating in politics and some internal reading materials of the Drug Administration. Hasn’t he retired for a long time, why is he still so concerned? . I looked at the ancient money in my hand again, the money was very red, I vaguely remembered that it was not so red last time.I didn't want to believe what I just saw, but I didn't have the courage to look at it again, so I thought of a way to stand up the copper coin, and then took a photo with a camera in a very close place.I don't know whether the exposure has any effect on ancient coins. After leaving in a hurry, I immediately went to develop the photos. Soon, the photo was developed, I enlarged it, and took it under the light. Basically, it is completely facing the money hole.When I saw it, I was almost speechless in horror. I developed all the photos, and every image was almost the same. In that square money hole, there was actually a human face, an expressionless human face.But from the point of view, it seems to be far away from the orifice.I couldn't be more familiar with that face, it was Director Wu.But because of the darkness, his face was always mutilated and he couldn't see clearly. All he could see was the half-opened and half-closed eye. I burned all the photos and negatives. No one would accept that a retired bureau chief was missing in the 'money eye' of an ancient coin.A few days later, news reports came out that there was a problem with the drug approved by the Wu Bureau, two people died during the clinical drug use, and several others were in the intensive care unit.All relevant persons were arrested.However, Bureau Wu's name was not specifically mentioned in the news, but the name of the place and the name of the drug were mentioned.The time of the accident was just a few days ago, and I suddenly understood that Director Wu was very concerned about the intentions of the Drug Administration. I found Director Wu's home again, wanting to see that strange ancient coin.But Director Wu's wife actually told me that just yesterday, that strange guest came back and wanted to leave the big Qi Tongbao.Mrs. Wu still looked sad, and told me that she called the police, but there was still no whereabouts of Bureau Wu.I thought to myself, if I really told you, I'm afraid you won't believe it again. That drug accident was never heard of, and there was no news of Director Wu, the mysterious guest, or the valuable ancient coin.Soon, Director Wu's new successor took office. It is said that this person is much easier to deal with than Director Wu. He likes banknotes, and the best is US dollar bills. "I finished another cigarette, the smoke cleared, and the story was over. "What exactly is that ancient coin? Why is the hole in the middle like a black hole? It can suck people into it? But other people don't see anything wrong." Lin Siping asked me strangely.I spread my hands and said helplessly: "I don't know about this, I just said what I know. I should have kept a photo if I knew it earlier, but it's a pity that the photo is very evil after looking at it for a long time. I didn't even think about it. Destroyed." Lin Siping turned to look at Ji Yan.Ji Yan did not know where to get a fake ancient coin.Toss it in your hand. "People don't fall into the eyes of money, it's just their greed." After speaking, the ancient coin flipped several times in the air and fell back into Ji Yan's palm.The outside of the house has gradually turned blue, and it seems that the sky is about to dawn.The three of them drank for a while and fell asleep on each other's pillows.