July 22, 2008, the Great Heat!

The scorching sun in Haizhou in July was like fire, and the golden crows in the sky seemed to be crazy, pouring endless heat on the ground, trying to dry the world.

Although it is not one of the four major furnaces in China, summer in Haizhou has always been daunting, and if you can, people want to hide in air-conditioned rooms 24 hours a day.

Who wants to come out and suffer sins in this great sun?

"The bastard who gave birth to a son without an asshole, one day, Lao Tzu will make you look good!" Under an office building, Xiao Feng, who was holding a cardboard box, made a middle finger with his right hand upstairs, and turned to leave.

Behind the one-way heat-insulated glass on the third floor, Xiao Feng's former colleagues looked at Xiao Feng's back with complicated eyes, their faces changed, but in the end, they sighed in unison and returned to their respective posts to continue working.

Although Xiao Feng is very popular in the company, this time he offended the prince and was fired, and the company collectively lost its voice.

In these years, the workplace pays attention to harmony and light, and it is rare to see a person with a character like Xiao Feng.

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Xiao Feng, who was waiting for the train on the platform with a cardboard box in his arms, has been unemployed for the fourth time since graduating from university, and it seems that he has not worked for half a year in every job.

"I'm afraid of a **, people die and birds are facing the sky, and they won't die for thousands of years!" Xiao Feng spat on the ground and said, "Lao Tzu can't be famous if you don't believe it!"

Xiao Feng's vulgar actions and words made the nearby citizens look at him like tigers, and they hurriedly dodged a few steps, and then secretly looked at Xiao Feng with strange eyes.

Xiao Feng graduated from Haizhou University of Technology in 07 with a major in e-commerce, Xiao Feng, who is not the second generation of officials or the second generation of riches, like most of his classmates, joined the army of millions of job seekers in Haizhou.

With the rapid development of Internet trade, it is relatively easy for graduates majoring in e-commerce to find jobs, and Xiao Feng has passed CET-6 in college, and his spoken English is not bad, which is also a counterpart talent for many foreign trade and e-commerce enterprises in Haizhou.

It's just that Xiao Feng is not good at catering to his boss, and sometimes his sense of justice is too widespread, and he often stands out for others, so since he graduated a year ago, he either fired the boss or was fired by the boss, and he has changed four jobs.

This time, because he couldn't get used to the young owner of Guangtong Foreign Trade Company's entanglement with the younger sister who had just joined the company, he stood up and acted as a shield several times, and finally was kicked out of the company before the probationary period ended. What's even more ironic is that when Xiao Feng left the company, the playboy hugged the girl with a good figure and sneered at him to get out.

Xiao Feng also knew that 'impulsiveness is the devil', but he couldn't help it.

'Character determines fate', this sentence is really true!

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Just when Xiao Feng was in a daze, the No. 96 bus roared in, and the citizens waiting for the car flocked to the top before the car stopped, like a 100-meter sprint.

When Xiao Feng reacted, the bus was no different from canned sardines, and Xiao Feng, who was holding the cardboard box, couldn't squeeze in at all, so he had to retreat to the platform stupidly.

In Haizhou, even if it is not commuting time, squeezing the bus and subway is like a war, as long as you are not careful, you can only wait for the next train. What's more, bus No. 96 is the most congested bus line in the whole of Haizhou, and overcrowding is the state it most often maintains.

"The big river flows eastward, and the stars in the sky participate in the Beidou ......" At this moment, Xiao Feng's cottage mobile phone came with a loud singing, coupled with his burly figure, which was eye-catching.

"Mom, why are you calling me at this time?" Xiao Feng took out the phone from his pocket, and when he saw that it was his mother's, he hurriedly answered it.

In order to save phone bills, Xiao Feng chose to contact his family after ten o'clock in the evening, so receiving a call from his mother during this time made Xiao Feng feel a little strange.

"Can't I call you if it's okay?" said from my mother's strange voice in the earpiece, "Are you kid used to being wild outside, and your guts are fat?"

"Mom, I didn't mean that!" Xiao Feng didn't dare to provoke his mother, smiled and begged for mercy, and said: "I don't dare not answer your call from my mother." ”

"Grandpa's 80th birthday next Saturday, the family celebrates the old man's birthday, everyone has to go back to their hometown in western Yunnan, you ask for a leave from the unit, and rush back on time!"

Xiao Feng's hometown is in the mountainous area of western Yunnan, and his parents work in a county below Spring City, and their family rarely goes back except for the Chinese New Year. This time, the old man has a full eighty birthday, and all the members of the entire family must go back to celebrate his birthday, and Xiao Feng, as his grandson, cannot be an exception.

"No problem!" Hearing what his mother said, Xiao Feng did not hesitate at all.

Before, Xiao Feng was still thinking about whether to adjust for two days and then continue to look for a job, but now he is taking advantage of this time to go back to his hometown for a while to completely relax. Today is Tuesday, July 22, and there are still ten days until Saturday of next week, so there should be no problem.

"Don't be late on the day of your birthday!" Xue Lifen finally reassured.

For her own baby son, even if he is already working, Xue Lifen still feels unreliable.

"Mom, you can rest assured!" Xiao Feng looked very depressed about his mother's questioning.

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After passing five levels and cutting six generals, Xiao Feng finally squeezed into the No. 96 bus, wandered for more than an hour, and returned to Jinxing Village at the junction of urban and rural areas in Haizhou with difficulty. Haizhou's already congested traffic was compounded by the overhaul of its subway and ground transportation systems in anticipation of the 2010 World Expo.

Urban villages are a kind of deformed product in the process of urban development, which is formed after the rapid expansion of urban areas encircling rural areas.

In Haizhou, there are many large and small urban villages, which are often regarded by the media and the powerful as a cancer of the city and a stumbling block to the development of the city, but for the thousands of migrant workers like Xiao Feng, the urban villages are the survival of the city.

Housing prices in Haizhou have skyrocketed in recent years, and for young people like Xiao Feng, who have just graduated, the pressure is even greater. Even if you rent a one-room apartment in the city center, the high rent is not something that Xiao Feng can afford now.

Fortunately, the urban village provides low-cost rental housing, so that Xiao Feng can continue to struggle in the city. However, as the urbanization process of Haizhou continues, Xiao Feng doesn't know how long this 'good life' can last?

Standing at the entrance of the village, Xiao Feng took a deep breath, and a mixture of dust, car exhaust, stinky ditches and various complex smells came to his face, constituting a unique atmosphere of the urban village. Sometimes, in order to survive, everyone has to endure a lot of things that they don't want to endure, don't they?

Entering the whirling alley, Xiao Feng, who was holding the cardboard box, carefully avoided the puddles on the ground, and walked towards 'home' step by step.

In Haizhou, urban villages are synonymous with 'grandma doesn't hurt, uncle doesn't love', and the infrastructure here is unusually lagging behind, and even the most basic drainage facilities are not perfect.

There was a heavy rain the day before yesterday, and now the alleys less than four meters wide in the urban village are still full of sewage and garbage, so Xiao Feng has to jump cautiously so as not to step into the water.

Just as Xiao Feng looked down at the road, a motorcycle roared out from behind him and hit Xiao Feng's left hand!

Under the severe pain, the cardboard box in Xiao Feng's hand fell to the ground with a bang, and things were scattered all over the ground, but the motorcycle did not stop at all, leaving only Xiao Feng with a butt of black smoke.

"I ......" As soon as he saw that the motorcycle that caused the accident actually ran away, Xiao Feng's three-character scripture immediately came out.

However, in this case, Xiao Feng had no way to catch up with the motorcycle, and the urban village was mixed, and he didn't know who this motorcycle rider wearing a helmet was?

"It's really unlucky!" Xiao Feng shook his head helplessly, squatting down to pack his things.

At this time, Xiao Feng found that a small cut had been made on the edge of his left palm, and blood came out, and Xiao Feng could only put his hand in his mouth and suck it, and then find a band-aid to stop the bleeding when he got home after a while.

After cleaning up the items scattered on the ground one by one, Xiao Feng suddenly found a bottle the size of a chopstick head in the gap between the bricks, and couldn't help but move in his heart.

Xiao Feng picked up the vial, flipped it over and over again, and didn't see anything famous, but the shallow dark lines on the vial were very charming.

'Gold in troubled times, antiques in prosperous times'!

In recent years, with the continuous development of the domestic economy and the continuous improvement of national income, antique collection has formed a trend, and even Xiao Feng has been deeply affected. Xiao Feng spent a lot of time and energy on antique appreciation, and also bought some reference books, usually had nothing to do to read "Treasure Appreciation", and wandered around on professional forums. In a sense, Xiao Feng is still an 'antique expert', he knows a lot about the characteristics, origins, artistic achievements, etc., but he has not been exposed to too many physical objects, and belongs to Zhao Kuo's 'paper talk' expert!

With Xiao Feng's current level, he naturally couldn't tell whether the vial was an antique or an ordinary industrial product, and he couldn't see any fame no matter how he looked at it, so he could only put the bottle in a cardboard box and walk home with the box in his right hand.

Xiao Feng didn't notice that the blood coming out of his left hand disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye after it was stained with the vial, and the originally faint dark lines on the vial seemed to come alive, circulating on the bottle.

Back at home, Xiao Feng first found a band-aid to bandage the wound, then cooked, ate, and bathed, and it soon got dark.

Taking out the cardboard box that he brought back from the company today, Xiao Feng began to put the items inside in categories, which is also a habit of Xiao Feng, a little obsessive-compulsive.

However, when Xiao Feng saw the vial in the corner of the cardboard box, he couldn't help but be stunned.

When I picked it up on the road today, it was dirty and gray, but now this vial has undergone a huge change, the whole body is crystal clear, and the patterns on the bottle body are lifelike.

No matter how sluggish Xiao Feng is, he can understand that this vial seems to have undergone some magical changes!

Xiao Feng picked up the vial and came to his eyes to observe it carefully, trying to discover the hidden mystery of the vial.

However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred!