Wu Ming looked at it, his face was stunned, and he immediately blurted out: "Uncle Yang! ”

Uncle Yang was holding a birdcage with an unknown bird inside, and asked slowly, "It's Friday this week!" You didn't go to school well, why did you run back? Running out of money to spend? Where's our family's Fengzi? Did I run back with you? ”

It turned out that this person was Yang Jie, the father of Wu Ming's best friend Fengzi, in previous years, Wu Ming and Fengzi only sneaked back to see Chuxue the day before April 12, and they didn't dare to go home, so they usually stayed at a friend's house temporarily, and secretly returned to school three days later.

Wu Ming didn't want to be arrested today, so he was flustered and confused, and when he heard Yang Ju ask, Si Si Aiai replied: "The school has a sports meeting, and I ran back if I was bored, Fengzi didn't come with me," thinking about the man in black in his heart, and said busily: "Uncle Yang, I still have something to do, go first!" Without waiting for Yang Ju to agree, he ran in the direction of the man in black.

However, in less than a minute, the man in black had disappeared without a trace, and Wu Ming, who was unwilling, turned around a few times around the vicinity where the man in black disappeared, but still found no trace of the man in black. Wu Ming, who had a fire in his belly, sat on the steps at the door of a jade shop, lit a cigarette, and carefully recalled and analyzed every detail of what happened in Shicai.

First of all, the figure of the man in black is somewhat familiar, but he can't remember who it is for a while, but it is certain that this person is a native of Shuiluan, because the route of the man in black escaped is tortuous, not a local, and he will never be so familiar with the local terrain; Secondly, Uncle Yang appeared a little suddenly, Uncle Yang is busy with farm work on weekdays, if it is the tourist season, he will generally stay in the jade shop he runs to be busy with business, it is said that April is the tourist season of Shuiluan, and at this time it is more than twelve o'clock, it is also the time when there are the most tourists, Uncle Yang He does not stay in the store to solicit business, does Uncle Yang have more important things to do, but since there are important things to do, why is there still a birdcage in his hand, and he speaks slowly and logically? Besides, I haven't heard that Uncle Yang likes to raise birds; In the end, it is the bird, I have lived here since I was a child, no one cares about it since I was a child, it is a common thing to go down to the river to catch fish and go to the tree to dig birds, and I dare to say that there is no one who does not know the local birds, but the birds in the cage have never seen them, and they are all red.

A thought arises, a thought falls, Wu Ming is thinking again, or that the man in black is a foreigner, but he has carefully stepped on the local terrain in advance in the Shuiluan, so he is familiar with the local terrain, or Uncle Yang's business has become bigger, and the store has hired people, so he has the leisure time to walk the birds.

Wu Ming saw that it was Tang Qi's call, so he answered: "Hey...... I'm fine...... No, I didn't catch it,...... Forget it, let's talk about it when we meet,...... Belch? He looked up and said, "I'm on this side of Jade Street,...... No, no, you don't have to come here, I'll be right over! See you soon! ”

It turned out that Lei Zi and Tang Qi saw Wu Ming suddenly leave and run, and shouted to catch the thief, although Wu Ming asked Lei Zi and the two to wait for him in place, but Lei Zi and the two still ran to help Wu Ming catch the thief, but first, the two were not familiar with the local terrain at all, and secondly, Tang Qi couldn't run, so Lei Zi had to give up, and the two returned to Shiqiao to continue waiting. But he couldn't wait, worried that something would happen to Wu Ming, so Tang Qi called Wu Ming to ask how Wu Ming was and where he was.

Wu Minggang, who hung up the phone, took two steps, and suddenly thought that Uncle Yang's store was not on this jade street? And in a trance, I remembered that the name of Uncle Yang's jade shop seemed to be "The Jade of the Country", but I didn't think anything before, but after the archaeological incident of "The Jade Seal of the Country", now I thought about it again, and I couldn't help but think about it, so I walked quickly to Uncle Yang's jade shop.

When he arrived at the ground, Wu Ming raised his eyes and looked at the plaque, and sure enough, the four gilded characters on the black-background plaque were the "Jade of the Country" written in small seal script. It's just that at the place where the eyes fall, the roller shutter door is half opened, and the antique store door is closed, but the store is brightly lit, which can't help but make Wu Ming feel confused.

Thinking about it, Wu Ming thought about why Uncle Yang must have left in such a hurry, and forgot to turn off the lights and lock the door, but when he saw him, why was he walking the birds leisurely and talking to himself slowly?

Thinking with his heart, Wu Ming decided to go up and take a look, walked up and bent down and gently pushed the door, the door was really hidden, Wu Ming made another effort, the door creaked open, looked around the store, saw that there was no one around, and quickly dodged and slipped in.

It's just that Wu Ming took a turn in the store, except for the faint smell of cigarettes in the store, there was nothing else suspicious to find, and there was still a glimmer of hope that the man in black could be found here was dashed, and suddenly Wu Ming's eyes inadvertently fell on the pear blossom wood root carved tea sea in the northwest corner of the store, in the ashtray above the tea sea, a light blue smoke was rising from itself, Wu Ming smiled slightly, walked over to see, there was a half-cut cigarette lying in the ashtray that was not completely extinguished, The cigarette butt looks like someone left in a hurry and wanted to extinguish it, but it didn't completely extinguish it. Wu Ming estimated that this half of the cigarette was definitely not Uncle Yang's, because Uncle Yang never smoked, even if he smoked one occasionally, Uncle Yang had at least nearly twenty minutes from the moment he stepped out of the store to now, and these twenty minutes were enough for half of the cigarette to spontaneously ignite and extinguish on its own, so who would this half of the burning cigarette butt be? Could it be the man in black?

When he was thinking about it, he saw a purple clay pot on a piece of paper, Wu Ming picked up the purple sand pot and touched it, but there was still residual warmth, and the corners of his mouth immediately turned up with a touch of confidence, but his eyes suddenly widened in horror, and his eyes fell on the piece of paper after picking up the purple clay pot.

The paper is white paper, A4 size, and the center of the paper is printed with a red square seal, a square seal that is exactly the same as the jade seal of Wu Ming's dream, with a square circle of four inches, and a large seal font. Wu Ming only felt that his brain exploded with a buzz, how could there be a seal of the heirloom jade seal in Uncle Yang's jade shop? Why did the jade seal of the country appear clearly in his dream for no reason? Why was the jade seal of the heirloom country discovered by archaeology suddenly devoured like a heavenly dog swallowing the moon as soon as it came out?

Wu Ming, who had a splitting headache, pinched his nose vigorously to sober himself up.

Wu Ming, who was sober, knew that the shops on both sides of this jade street were two-story structures, put down the purple clay pot, Wu Ming glanced upstairs, although he was nervous in his heart, he finally couldn't hold back the curiosity and inexplicable excitement in his heart and carefully climbed the stairs.

The layout of the second floor is a three-room house side by side, of which the doors of the first and second rooms are wide open, Wu Ming checked lightly, and did not even find a ghost inside, only then did he reach the innermost third room, Wu Ming pushed the door, the door was locked from the inside, and knocked on the door, and there was no movement inside, Wu Ming was in a hurry, and wanted to check from the window, but the sight was blocked by the hanging curtains. Wu Ming couldn't think of any other way for a while, and was anxious to get back his stone, looked around, picked up a brick from the ground in the corridor and was about to smash the window glass.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of creaking roller shutters on the first floor, Wu Ming secretly said badly, thinking that Uncle Yang must be back, how can it be good? A bad one will be said by Uncle Yang as a thief who wants to steal the jade money in his shop, even if Uncle Yang will not regard himself as a thief considering his relationship with Fengzi's own brother, he must always give Uncle Yang a reasonable reason to break into the house and not steal!

However, as soon as the thought fell, and the thought came up again, Wu Ming suddenly had a thought in his mind that even he felt scared and couldn't believe when he thought about it, that is, what ......if, What if Uncle Yang and the man in black are in the same group?

Therefore, Wu Ming chose the strategic policy of 'the enemy' not moving and not moving, using static braking, planning and then moving.

He wanted to see what kind of words and deeds Uncle Yang would behave after entering the store and finding that someone had broken in, so Wu Ming put down the brick in his hand, squatted down and held his breath, fully mobilized his audio-visual ability, and prepared for war with the same nervousness in his mind: If Uncle Yang chooses to call the police, then it largely means that Uncle Yang has nothing to do with the man in black, if Uncle Yang calls the name of the man in black and asks where the man in black is, or asks the man in black to go downstairs, it means that Uncle Yang and the man in black are accomplices, although he doesn't know the name of the man in black, But Wu Ming was confident that this would not prevent him from judging the development of the situation.

Although Wu Ming is cautious in every possible way, as the saying goes, a wise man must make a mistake in a thousand thoughts.

The roller shutter was rolled up, and the person who came in was Yang Jie, who was carrying the birdcage, Yang Jie first hung up the birdcage, and then took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, and inhaled slowly.

At the moment of coughing, Yang Jie's eyes flashed, first on the piece of paper on the sea of tea, then transferred to the purple clay pot that Wu Ming had moved a place to the side, and finally stared at the second floor.

Now, Yang Ju tiptoed to the second floor, carrying a woodcutter in his hand at the same time.

Wu Ming didn't calculate that Uncle Yang would go upstairs without saying a word, because in the village, Uncle Yang was a well-known coward.

Before Wu Ming, who missed a move, could think about what to do next, Yang Ju held a knife and glared at him, and shouted: "Okay, you Wu Ming!" You sneaked back from school just to steal something from my store! No wonder I didn't say a word when I saw me, and I ran away! ”

When Wu Ming heard this, he shouted in his heart that he was wronged, and in a hurry, he shouted at Yang and whispered: "Uncle Yang, you misunderstood, I was passing by the door of your store, and I saw a thief sneaking into your store, worried that this thief was going to steal your store, so I quietly followed in and blocked this thief in the house!" He gestured to the third house.

Yang Ju looked at Wu Ming suspiciously, then looked at the closed door, and said, "Then I just entered the door, why don't you go downstairs and tell me?" ”

Wu Ming said: "I'm afraid it's the thief's accomplice!" ”

Yang Ju snorted coldly, shook the woodcutter in his hand, and said, "Stand back!" I'll open the door now, and if there's no thief inside, what do you say? ”