Chapter 2: The Ancient Curse
"Hey, is it Little Brother Zhao? Are you still coming to our appointment? I've been waiting for an hour. As soon as the phone was picked up, Zhao Mubei heard the other side of the phone and asked loudly, if he dared to wait for an hour in vain, he would also have resentment in his heart.
"Ah, Brother Huang, wait a minute, I'll be there soon, I had a car accident just now, and I'll come right now." Zhao Mu reacted, was shocked, and hurriedly explained.
"No, I'd better come over to you, it's more convenient for me to have a car, I don't have much time to wait for you to come over."
"That'...... All right. Zhao Mu hesitated and reported the address of his rental house.
In the past, he would never have taken a stranger back to the house casually, but with so many things happening today, and the other party seems to be in a hurry, it can only be regarded as an exception.
Hanging up the phone, Zhao Mu hurriedly hid the last hot bun left, then hurriedly took a shower and changed into a set of clean clothes.
Before he could make a pot of hot tea, Brother Huang, who had made an appointment on the antique network, had already arrived.
When the door opened, the first thing that caught my eye was a sturdy middle-aged uncle with a scruffy beard and a bias towards street singing and performance art.
"Brother Huang?"
"Night Hunter?"
"Yes, please come in, Brother Huang." Zhao Mu nodded in acknowledgement, and let go of the body guarding the door.
Night Hunter is the name that Zhao Mu casually gave in the antique forum, in fact, he didn't mix up any antique forums originally, but because he was going to sell an antiquity for money recently, he had contact with this senior connoisseur in the antique forum, Brother Huang.
invited Brother Huang into the house, and before Zhao Mu could make tea, Brother Huang couldn't wait to say: "Dark night, don't do polite things, I'm in a hurry today, what about that thing?" As long as I am confirmed by on-site appraisal once, I promise to buy it at this price. ”
Brother Huang held up a finger and assured with certainty.
"Okay, you wait, I'll go into the room and show you." Zhao Mu hesitated in his heart, and finally answered.
Million!
Is this thing really worth a million?
In fact, Zhao Mu didn't expect it to be worth so much!
Prior to this, he had found someone to identify and evaluate on several appraisal forums, although his thing was an antiquity, but because it was not written by a historical celebrity, and there was no information that could be traced back to the place of origin, it only had a collection value of more than 100,000 yuan at most.
But for some reason, this Huang brother seems to be very interested in his family heirlooms, and he has been wanting to buy them for several months, and the price has increased from 200,000 to 100,000, and now he actually mentions the price of a full 1 million.
It is undeniable that Zhao Mu was moved by this price, but after all, it was also a thing that had been passed down from generation to generation by his ancestors, so in fact, he still couldn't make up his mind to sell it for a long time.
If it weren't for the fact that he was inexplicably fired from his job with a stable income by the company today, and his mother urgently needed a batch of money for surgery, Zhao Mu might not have thought about meeting Brother Huang, even if he paid more.
Zhao Mu was originally born in a rural family, when he was less than five years old, his father died early in a car accident, leaving his mother to pull himself and the eldest brother and the two brothers to grow up.
Now, that is, Zhao Mu's mother and son are left to live a good life, and with Zhao Mu graduating out of the society to work, and mixed with a certain position in the company, the future life will slowly get better.
A few months ago, my mother, who was in the hospital to check her body, came with the bad news that her mother had kidney failure and urgently needed a fee for surgery and kidney replacement.
I have to say that the recent unlucky things really hit one after another, and they all smashed Zhao Mu into confusion.
"Brother Huang, take a good look, let me explain first, my family heirloom item seems to be unlucky, it may bring disaster to people, at least, it has been passed down from generation to generation of our ancestors."
Zhao Mu walked out of the room, carefully holding a small long wooden box in his hand, the wooden box was sealed by a yellow spell paper, and what Zhao Mu said was unlucky, in fact, he meant the things that were sealed in the wooden box.
Although it has been passed down for so many generations, no one knows what is sealed inside, but Zhao Mu still honestly explains things clearly before trading.
It's not that he is too honest and pushes out when he has money, but Zhao Mu is very self-aware, the Huang brother in front of him is rich, and he has connections in society that he can't imagine.
If you really want to hide the fact of trading, who can guarantee whether people will settle accounts in the future.
"Hehe, little brother, you can rest assured, since I dare to buy it, I naturally won't worry about these unlucky curses you said." Brother Huang saw the mottled yellow talisman on the wooden box, his eyes quickly flashed a glimmer of light, and he hurriedly took it carefully and looked at it carefully.
"By the way, little brother, can you tell me about the legacy of your ancestors about this item, which has been passed down from generation to generation." Brother Huang took out a magnifying glass and carefully looked at the yellow rune pattern on the box, and then opened his mouth to ask.
Zhao Mu didn't want to say it, but then he thought that everyone had spent a million, and the last words of his ancestors were not a secret, so he had to tell it: "I don't know much about the specific transmission to my generation, so I will try my best to tell you everything I still remember." ”
Then, Zhao Mu fell into a scene a few years ago, when he was eighteen years old and an adult, his mother revealed to him the family heirloom of the Zhao family in a sad and heavy tone:
Zhao Mu's lineage, there is a legend since ancient times, passed down by the ancestors of generations of ancestors, it is said that if anyone opens this ancient box, then the entire clan's lineage and bloodline, can not live past fifty years old.
Even Zhao Mu knew that it was precisely because of this box that had been passed down from generation to generation that their Zhao family was created, and there would always be unlucky things and many inauspicious accidents.
This ominous curse, verified from the known genealogy, has been able to trace back to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a full sixteen generations, the grandfather who has long since died, used to always say that this is a curse of their Zhao family, this is the fate of their Zhao family.
This curse will always accompany the Zhao family, until one day, a clansman will have a chance to make the box bloom automatically, and then the curse will be automatically lifted.
However...... Until now, this person who is destined for the future has not yet appeared!
And the accidental death of Zhao Mu's father and even his eldest brother two years ago is probably the cause of this damn ancient curse.
Even Zhao Mu was even more frightened in his heart, thinking that he had a car accident just now, if there was no special food like this kind of steamed bun, maybe he would have confessed.
Obviously, this damn ancient curse rumor has become more and more intensified, and as the years go by, perhaps by Zhao Mu's generation, the power of the curse may wipe out the Zhao clan.
It is precisely because of this threat that Zhao Mu will fight to the death, ready to sell this curse ominously; Anyway, it's horizontal and death, and vertical will also die, so instead of worrying about impending disaster all day long, it's better to sell it and make a sum of money to enjoy it.
"Since you've been cursed with this thing for generations, why hasn't anyone sold it?" Brother Huang listened attentively, and suddenly interjected curiously.
"Why haven't you tried, our ancestors have twice thrown it far away, but in exchange for a greater disaster, and twice it was almost wiped out instantly." Zhao Mu smiled bitterly: "The most evil thing is that it will always change its ways, it will pass into the hands of inexplicable strangers, and it will eventually return to the hands of our ancestors." ”
"Tsk, it's evil, but it's interesting." Brother Huang was not scared away by the ominous curse that Zhao Mu said, but his eyes lit up.
"But little brother, you don't need to worry anymore, this item has fallen into my hands, and I will personally break its seal, and from then on, this disaster will be invalid in your generation."
I don't know where Brother Huang's confidence comes from, looking at Zhao Mu's puzzled expression, Brother Huang smiled meaningfully: "It doesn't matter if you don't know, you just need to know that there are people in this world who are different from you, and it's unimaginable for you." ”
After Brother Huang finished speaking, the person couldn't wait to say something in his mouth, and opened the yellow talisman that was tied to the wooden box.
But the next moment, something terrible happened.