Second, the pearl of Taihu Lake

"It's nothing." He took the book and smiled self-deprecatingly, "My dad said that this is a token of his love affair with my mother, so he asked me to keep it." ”

"A token of love?"

"That's probably the way my father was born, my dad said, it was the first and only gift he gave my mom." He smiled, "Back then, chasing girls was so simple, just a fairy tale book, what is like now?" ”

"I think it's quite romantic." She held out her hand, "Can you show me?" Don't worry, I won't break it. ”

He nodded, and handed the fairy tale book to her with both hands, she turned the first page, and saw that it was written: Give Ye Yun, may you have a beautiful life like a fairy tale.

"Ye Yun is your mother?"

"Well, my name is the name of my parents."

She flipped through it, and the book was very thin, with only a hundred or so fairy tales, each very short, and the longest was only two pages, and the pages were already yellow. She is now entitled "Selected Fairy Tales of the World", but there are neither Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales nor Grimm's fairy tales on it, and she has never read most of the fairy tales on it. It's not so much a fairy tale as an allegory, like the first fairy tale called: Eating Dumplings.

The story is as follows:

One day, the monkey wanted to eat dumplings, but he had money to buy them, so he informed several friends separately.

He informed the puppy: I invite you to eat dumplings, everything is ready, only the dumpling wrappers, you can buy some when you come.

Inform the kitten again: I invite you to eat dumplings, everything is ready, only the filling, you will buy some by the way when you come.

Inform the chick again: I invite you to eat dumplings, everything is ready, almost a dish, you will buy some by the way when you come.

Inform the lamb again: I invite you to eat dumplings, everything is ready, almost condiments, you will buy some by the way when you come.

In the end, all the little animals happily ate the dumplings at the monkey's house and praised the monkey as a generous friend.

At the end of the story, there is a comment: the monkey's behavior is financing, and the risk of financing is the rupture of the capital chain, and the so-called rupture of the capital chain refers to the fact that one of the small animals did not come.

Wen Qingqing said with a smile after reading it: "The implication is quite deep, I didn't expect that in my father's time, I had such a deep understanding of financial operations, and I wrote such a simple story." ”

"I also think that my father is a very wise man, and he has taught me a lot of things during the years he has been with me, and although he is old, I am not outdated at all."

"Wisdom has something in common." She said meaningfully, "I envy you for having such a father." ”

"Even if he leaves you in someone else's house for sixteen years?"

"No one is perfect, sometimes we can't be too demanding, maybe he doesn't serve as a father, but if he doesn't have those experiences outside and just guards you, you may not learn those wisdoms."

He laughed, "You really should be an angel of comfort." ”

"Don't dare. However, you can conclude from this that I have nothing to do with Zhao Xu, because it is impossible for him to chat like you and me, he has never been interested in the topic of life principles, and he and I will not have a common language. ”

"You don't have to keep distancing yourself with him in front of me, I really don't care, I'm not your suitor anyway."

"I didn't mean that, I just thought it would be a shame if I did have such a boyfriend."

"Good! I believe in you. ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, she flipped the fairy tale book to the back of the book, and saw a few neat lines, "Suspicious?" What is it? ”

Shen Ye looked at it and said, "It's a riddle." I guess I wrote it down casually. ”

She read: "Two, three, four, five, six or seven**, come to the north, there is gold, silver and bronze - a small penny." What kind of strange riddle is this? ”

Shen Ye said: "I don't understand either, in fact, the riddle is simple, but I have only heard that the riddle has 'hit a thing', 'hit a word' or 'hit a character', and I have never seen 'play a small amount of money'." ”

"The riddle is simple, you say?" She asked curiously, "So you have solved this riddle?" ”

"It's really easy." He took the book and pointed to the riddle: "You see, two, three, four, five, which means 'missing one', and six or seven**, which means 'less ten', which together means 'lack of clothing (one) and less food (ten)." To come due north is literally, which means to come due north. The mystery of 'there is gold, silver, bronze' is 'none/tin'. ”

She suddenly realized, "I see, it means 'when there is little food and clothing, come to the north of the Wu/Tin', right?" ”

"That's right."

She tilted her head and thought for a moment, "But I've been to Wu/Tin, isn't she supposed to be southwest of our city?" ”

"But how do you know where this riddle is written? Maybe it was written in the south of the tin-free world? ”

"Even if that's the case, how can 'play a small penny' be explained? If you're talking about the riddle, the riddle prompt should be 'type a sentence' or something. ”

Shen Ye said: "I really can't figure this out, thinking about it, it is probably a clerical error by the person who made the riddle, or simply deliberately trying to mislead others." ”

"Didn't you ask your father?"

"He was dying in his hospital bed when he gave me the book, am I still in the mood to ask this?"

Her voice flashed with sympathy, "You watched your father die?" ”

He nodded and forced a smile: "But it's okay, although he is seriously ill, he walks very calmly and without any pain at all." ”

She was silent for a while, and then said to him: "Shen Ye, I shouldn't say that you are weak, you are a very strong person. ”

He just smiled.

She gently put the book back under the spiritual seat, bowed to Shen Ye's parents three times, and then said to him: "I should go, Shen Ye, we are classmates and friends, you must tell me if you have any difficulties in the future, don't feel embarrassed, okay?" ”

He saw the sincerity in her eyes and nodded vigorously.

She smiled and waved goodbye to him, and after she left, Shen Ye showed a stack of banknotes under the pillow when he cleaned up the bed, he held the money tightly in his heart, and did not feel that his self-esteem was unbalanced because of her sympathy, but showed a happy smile.

In the following days, Shen Ye continued his uneventful life, went to school during the day, went to a stall to make money whenever he was free, and made up for tuition and family, what made him happiest was that during his time in the literary club, Wen Qingqing was much closer to him, and often chatted with him about humanities and history.

But the happy days lasted less than a week, and on weekend nights, when he put away his simple stall and went home, he was blocked by a group of people at the mouth of the alley.

"What do you want to do?" The person he recognized as Ding Ge who had beaten him last time.

"I have nothing to look for you, our boss has something to look for you." Brother Ding got out of the way, only to see Zhao Xu walk out.

He looked at Shen Ye and sneered, "I heard that you have been quite close to Qingqing recently." ”

Shen Ye knew that trouble was coming again, and said, "She and I are just ordinary friends......

"Don't worry." Zhao Xu interrupted him, "I don't doubt that you have anything to do with her, even if she really likes you, it is impossible for you to be with her, because her family will not agree." ”

"Then you're stopping me?"

"I'm looking for you purely to see that you don't like it." Zhao Xu walked up to him, lifted his collar in his hand, and rubbed his fingers again, "Dirty, I said Shen Ye, if you are with a beauty like Qingqing, won't you clean it up?" ”

"Zhao Gongzi, what do you want to do? I have nothing to do with Wen Qingqing, you can't embarrass me. ”

"Then you're wrong, I just want to find out, what does Qingqing like about you? I heard that you are a big talent in school, does she like you to be talented? Zhao Xu sneered, "That's it, let's play a game, have you heard of Cao Zhi's seven-step poem?" ”

Shen Ye nodded.

"Okay, you're a talent, then we'll test your talent. If you can also write a poem in seven steps today, I'll let you go. ”

Shen Ye looked at the thugs around him, and took a long breath, "What do you say?" ”

"Of course. I'd like to see if you, who don't even have a good coat, really have anything extraordinary. ”

"What poems do you want?"

"Whatever, in short, you can finish seven steps, and you can use whatever you see to compose poems."

Shen Ye took a step, and when he walked seven steps, he looked down and saw a rusty needle on the ground, and couldn't help but smile slightly, picked it up, and groaned softly.

"Temper a needle a thousand times, and turn it upside down. His eyes are on his buttocks, and he respects only clothes and not people. ”

Those thugs were stunned for a moment when they heard this, and then they couldn't help but laugh out loud, Zhao Xu's face turned the color of pig liver, and he was annoyed and angry, "Stinky scholar, dare to laugh at me?" Call me! ”

The thugs swarmed up, Shen Ye knew that he would not keep his word, bent down and scraped his hand on the ground, threw a handful of sand behind him, and ran out quickly while they were blocking their eyes.

"Don't let him run, chase!"

Zhao Xu was so angry that he chased after him, at this time the night was dark, and there was no one in this alley, Shen Ye relied on the familiar terrain, turned left and right to a wall, and jumped into a grass from the top of the wall, he remembered that behind this was the flower bed in the city's central park, and the black light blinded them estimated.

"Where's that kid?" Zhao Xu and his gang looked around for a while, "He can't run far, find out, Lao Tzu must abolish him today!" ”

The thugs looked around, Shen Ye did not dare to stay for a long time, cautiously sneaking in the grass, he remembered that there was a hillside ahead, the central park was built by using a skyscape, the city was built before the completion of a hill in the center, there was a spring on the mountainside, and the spring water was surrounded by a distant view, and the scenery was elegant, so the park was built with this skyscape. Shen Ye climbed up the hill from the grass and tried to go around to the back gate of the park, but when he reached the mountainside, he heard the voices of the thugs below and actually found it.

He had no choice but to retreat, and ventured up the steep side, where the perennial spring was wet and covered with green moss, and when he accidentally slipped his hand, he rolled down the steep face, but fortunately he was quick and caught a crack.

"Where? Still haven't found it? The people below were still looking around, and he hung in the air and watched the thugs coming, and he was anxious for a moment, and he didn't care what was behind the cliff, and he pulled the crack in the stone and turned it hard.

With a grunt, there was a patio behind the crack in the stone, and he fell down heavily, fortunately, it was not too high, but there was a slope below, and the ground was slippery and slippery for him to slide all the way to the bottom, and he fell into the water behind the rockery in the park with a bang.

This body of water is the artificial lake of the park, because the overall shape is like a miniature version of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, so it is called "Little Taihu Lake". Shen Ye immediately lay down in the water and remained motionless.

Outside, Zhao Xu and others searched around, Shen Yedu's position was very hidden, it was a dead corner of a rockery, if he hadn't turned in, he wouldn't have been able to walk in from the outside, and the thugs didn't find him, thinking that he had run somewhere else, so he had to scold a few words and leave.

Shen Ye breathed a sigh of relief, leaned on the mountain rock to rest for a while, he just fell down and hit his waist very painfully, just when he rubbed his waist, he accidentally saw two words at the bottom of the rockery by the lake: due north.

He turned his head again and saw that there was "due south" on the other side of the rock, and he suddenly remembered that he had read a book that said that the placement of rockeries is to pay attention to feng shui, and different shapes of mountains and rocks should be placed in different directions in order to seek the best feng shui, and the text on this probably indicates the direction in which the mountains and rocks should be placed.

Originally, he didn't care, but when he raised his head, a trace of moonlight was now shining through the stone crack at the height of the rockery, because it was extremely dark here, and it looked like a pearl inlaid on the pitch-black mountain stone, plus it was a small Taihu Lake, and he somehow suddenly remembered the word "Pearl of Taihu Lake".

He suddenly thought again, isn't Wu/Tin known as the "Pearl of Taihu Lake"?

Shen Ye was blessed to his heart, he began to suspect that the riddle in the fairy tale book "to the north of the Wu/Tin" did not refer to the real Wu/Tin City, he held the attitude of trying it out in the moonlight like a pearl through the wall for a while, and suddenly felt that the palm of his hand was loose, and a mountain stone was actually loose.

Shen Ye's eyes widened, he slowly pulled out the mountain stone, revealing a square hole, reached out and touched it, and actually touched a metal box, which was heavy when he took it out.

The box is very exquisitely made, antique, and there is an infinite dragon and phoenix shape hidden around it, very much like an antique, he pulled it hard, the box opened, and by the reflection of the moonlight, he actually saw two pieces of yellow and clear metal.

"It's ...... Gold? ”

He picked up one, about two fingers wide and half a foot long, and he was sure that nine out of ten was gold, because it was too heavy, as the saying goes, every inch of gold was an inch of gold, and the two gold bars in his hand weighed at least ten pounds.

Shen Ye's heart beat wildly, he thought that the riddle hint of the fairy tale book riddle was "play a little money", wasn't it misleading? Rather, it is implied that there is money hidden in this place?

The more he thought about it, the more bizarre he felt, and then a gust of night wind blew through his soaked body and was cold, so he didn't dare to stay for a long time, carefully pushed the mountain rock back to its original place, jumped out of the rockery with the box, and disappeared into the night.

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