Chapter 167: The Last Grid [Three Watches]
Yangzhou, the ancient capital of thousands of years, known as the title of the hometown of beautiful women, since ancient times about Yangzhou poems are countless, the ancients said: fireworks in March down Yangzhou, but they came to the end of November this time, looking at December, this flower does not bloom, the season of birds do not know what is fun. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Economically, since the major railway lines have been repaired, the role of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has become weaker and weaker, Yangzhou's advantages in economic development have disappeared, over the years, has gradually lagged behind the neighboring Suzhou and Nanjing, etc., except for some passers-by in a hurry, the street is empty, and it has long been no longer prosperous.
The winter in the south of the Yangtze River is not as warm as imagined, in contrast, although the temperature is slightly higher than in the north, but the air is accompanied by dampness and cold, the cold wind blows, and the exposed skin is like being cut by a knife.
He regretted that Liu Fatzi and Xue Jianwei were squatting on the bluestone pavement of Dongguan Street like fools, looking at the few tourists who were shivering in the cold wind.
"I'll just say drive the car, you see, or we can still avoid the cold in the car, obediently, I'll freeze to death." Liu Fatzi complained while shivering.
"Can you drive your car in this old street? Bad brains...... By the way, your fat body is still afraid of cold, you see that you are lazy, you can get up and take a walk. He regretted squatting on the ground and hugging his arms, and said with a smile.
"Otherwise, let's finish eating the bean curd again, this is a time-honored brand, and we won't be able to eat it when we turn back." Xue Jianwei looked at the two people who were shivering and were frozen, and said with some embarrassment.
"Brother Xue, I know this is a time-honored shop, but we can't eat four or five bowls in a row. Do you know what Wu Shuang is looking for, she has run back and forth six or seven times on the street more than two miles long, and she can't find anything to find......" Liu Fatzi squatted there and didn't want to move, but his mouth kept talking like a complaining woman, but what he said was also the truth, when they arrived in Yangzhou, they had a good rest in the hotel for a night, Liu Fatzi's original plan was to see if there was time to go to the Slender West Lake to see, to see what is the difference between this Slender West Lake and the Hangzhou West Lake, But a day or two before I woke up, he was dragged to Dongguan Street by Wu Shuang, originally Liu Fatzi also walked around a few times with great interest, looking at those sachet shops, and some handicrafts or something, but Dongguan Street is such a place, and after going back and forth a few times, he began to get annoyed, but Wu Shuang seemed to be looking for something, asked her, and she didn't say.
"Found it, found it, I'll just say here, you're tired of waiting, go, I'll lead you over." Just as Liu Fatzi finished complaining, Wu Shuang ran out of an alley wiping the beads of sweat on his forehead.
"What did you find, the god is chattering......" After Liu Fatzi got up from the ground, he rubbed his frozen knees, and grinned, although he was laughing, he could still hear a trace of displeasure, Xue Jianwei hurriedly put his finger against him behind his back, and Liu Fatzi closed his mouth.
"Okay, I was wrong, fatty, I didn't treat you as an outsider, I brought you with me, it's okay if you don't go, go back now, but don't regret it when the time comes." Wu Shuang hadn't felt hot when he had been running around before, but when he saw that He Cheng and several of their faces were blue and purple from the cold, he also felt embarrassed in his heart, and said with a smile.
"I don't believe you have any good things, come on, then Brother He, let's go back first...... Little frost girl, what are you looking for? "How to say it, curiosity kills the cat, Liu Fatzi is the cat, if Wu Shuang doesn't say the next sentence, it's fine, but as soon as she says it, Liu Fatzi's heart is like a cat scratching, and he follows behind a few people.
"Pay attention to what you can talk to, with the old man's previous status, we all have to kowtow when we see each other, last time we left, grandma asked me to come to her, saying that it was an old man......" Wu Shuang said while leading He Cheng and them into a very ordinary house.
The place in the room is not big, there is an old lady with snow-white hair and yellow face sitting on the chair that rushed to the door, the old lady saw He regret that they raised their eyelids and did not speak, but pointed to the sofa in the room, He regret They were very interested and sat obediently inside, leaving Wu Shuang to sit face to face with the old lady.
"When I was young, I didn't remember a lot of things very clearly, and when my father was dying, he only said that things were in Sichuan, and things were in Sichuan, and then stuffed me with a painting...... He died before he finished a sentence, and I don't know what it is, I heard it at the time with a little eunuch, and then I got separated from him after leaving the palace, and the painting was also taken to exchange for something to eat, and then I looked for it, but I didn't find it, I originally wanted to take this secret underground, but a few years ago I heard that a lot of people died because of looking for something, twenty years ago a little girl named Liu Wenxue came to me, and I was able to escape a difficult situation thanks to Qian Xiangu's care during the ten years of chaos, The little girl is her daughter, she came to me for help, I naturally will not refuse, when she took out a black stone from her bag and put it in front of me, I looked familiar, and immediately remembered that my father painted me on the painting seems to be this kind of stone, that kind of stone is very strange, you can see its difference at a glance, I know that I should not have hidden it at that time, but at that time just after the civil strife, people like me who are not good have been very careful, so I said with a clear conscience that I don't know, and then I heard the bad news of the child, I've been very guilty all these years, if I wasn't so selfish, there wouldn't be so many people who might die, Zhang Tianshi of Longhu Mountain gave me a calculation, I can survive this winter at most, I tell you this secret, I don't want you to look for this thing, but I hope that fewer people will die, okay, I'm tired after saying so much, you take this thing, remember, this wooden box can only be opened when there is no light at all, please go back, I won't keep you. The old lady intermittently seemed to be telling a story, and after saying that, she gave the order to evict the guest.
Although the old lady was talking to Wu Shuang, he regretted that they were not far away, and they all heard the old lady's words clearly. He regretted listening to it ignorantly, Xue Jianwei was not much better than him, only Liu Fatzi and Wu Shuang's faces were particularly solemn after listening.
"Xiaoshuang, who is this old man?" Out of the old lady's house, Liu Fatzi asked, his face was rare and serious.
"Niu Co Lu Hongyue, Qing Dynasty Gege." Wu Shuang didn't know what she was thinking, staring at the wooden box in her hand in a daze, and muttered.