Chapter 16 (2) Centennial Acacia
The next day, A-Ning came to the Jade King antique shop, and it happened that Shi Suo was also there, and the two of them took a few wickers, not knowing what they were tinkering with. In response to the "civilian education" activities carried out by Professor Pei in Beijing, Hunan has initially planned to carry out the "engineering and learning" movement at the same time at all levels of industry, agriculture and business, so as to mobilize the people to participate in work activities and study in the process of work, so that they can not only have a name, but also obtain income, and can also take the opportunity to carry out literacy training and enlightenment education.
The first content of the work is the processing of handmade products, willow weaving, straw weaving, daily miscellaneous utensils, Qian Zhihou, Zhuang Xianming and others contact foreign merchants for bulk sales. Shi Suo and Hu Bolt had been in contact with a little willow weaving before, but it was only rough, and they were just not satisfied. Just caught up by A-Ning, A-Ning took two willow branches, and dexterously fiddled with them in his hand, a bird appeared in front of her, she smiled at Hu Bolt and Shi Suo and said: "Engage in weaving, you look for me, I can say that I am the ancestor of this." ”
"Huh?" Hu's eyes widened.
The wicker in A-Ning's hand turned left and right, and the soft willow branch sprouted a flower like magic, and she smiled at Hu Shu, "Our ancestors have passed down from generation to generation, weaving baskets, baskets, hats, hats, dustpans, straw sandals, including bird cages, wallets, and ornaments on the head and body, I know everything." ”
"Hey," Shi Suo was so excited that he smashed his fist on the counter, and Hu Xuan hurriedly grabbed him, "You be careful, there are cultural relics here, they are damaged, Boss Cai is back, and he won't fight with you." ”
"You are a savior," Shi Suo said to A-Ning: "Lao He was still worrying with us just now, there are many students, Mr. has not been found yet, who knows that you have sent it to the door yourself, haha, there must be a road before this car to the mountain." ”
"Great," Hu Xuan was also very happy, "Our first batch of teachers from the willow weaving and straw weaving handicraft club have been found." ”
Ah Ning put down the willow branch and told Hu Xuan and Shi Suo about the "haunting" in the school, Shi Suo waved his head and said: "Where did the ghost come from, it must be like that flying mountain monkey, deliberately scaring people." ”
Hu Xuan thought for a while, "But, in the school's playground, there is no one at night, who can you scare?" In this way, A-Ning, Shi Suo and I will help you take a look tonight, you and Xiaoyue will discuss it, let's work together inside and outside, and see what the hell it is. ”
2
Outside the back wall of the girls' middle school, Hu Bolt and Shi Lock went around, and found that in the position of the small locust forest, there were traces of damage on the wall, originally, the wall was a little old, but there were some traces on the wall, but it was new, Shi Lock said: "Someone must have climbed over the wall from here, since it is a jump over the wall, then there is a chance that it is a thief." ”
"I didn't hear from Xiaoyue, they said they lost something."
"Maybe it didn't work."
In the evening, in the dead of night, Ah Rong, Xiaoyue, A Ning, Xiaojuan and other girls quietly came to the playground.
With their previous experience, the girls became a little bolder, encouraged each other, and slowly approached the grove and hid behind the toilet. The wind on the autumn night was a little cold, and coupled with fear, several people were close together, and they still felt a little shivering.
"Click, click," came voices from the woods, some like footsteps, others like hoeing grass. It was a dark moon, and it was pitch black all around, and nothing could be seen, so A-Ning and A-Rong took the lead, crossed the toilet, and took two more steps forward, only to hear the voice again, "Click, click," this time it was heard more clearly, very much like the sound of a shovel shoveling the ground.
Ahead, there was a dark shadow swaying in the woods.
Xiaojuan didn't dare to move forward, and A-Ning encouraged her: "Don't be afraid, the bolt and the stone lock are just outside the wall." ”
It may be that her voice was heard from the front, and the voice stopped, and there was silence for a while, and suddenly, "Hey, hey, hey," a terrifying voice came again, exactly the same as the one heard last night. This time, the girls were much more stable, and they were no longer as scared as before, but they didn't dare to continue moving forward.
At this time, Hu Bolt and Shi Suo were lying on the wall, they had already heard the sound in the woods inside, lying on the wall, looking in with wide eyes, but the night was too dark, and they vaguely saw shadows shaking in the woods, but they couldn't see what it was or what they were doing.
When the strange sound of "hey, hey, hey" came, Hu Xuan suddenly judged that it was pretended by a person, although the sound looked quite terrifying at night, but it was undoubtedly a guttural sound made by a person's throat.
Sure enough, someone is pretending to be a ghost! Hu Xuan and Shi Suo were about to jump into the wall, when suddenly the situation in front of them changed, it turned out that Ah Rong and Ah Ning on the edge of the forest had already moved.
Originally, according to the plan discussed in advance, after determining the location of the suspicious thing, Hu Bolt and Shi Suo entered the courtyard to attack, and several girls helped, but the bold and reckless Ah Rong launched the attack first, and the big girl picked up a brick from under her feet and smashed it fiercely at the place where the strange noise was made in the woods.
As soon as she made a move, A-Ning and Xiaoyue next to her also hurriedly moved, and several people picked up bricks and clods and smashed them into the woods, this time, the strange sound in the woods stopped, and two black shadows retreated from the woods to the wall, and quickly climbed up the wall.
On the wall, there was a bolt and a stone lock, which surprised the two black shadows, the location of the stone lock, and one of the black shadows was less than three feet away, the man climbed up the wall, just wanted to jump down, and suddenly found that the stone lock was in front of him, taken aback, "ah" and exclaimed, the stone lock's hand had reached over, and grabbed him at once, the wall was narrow, and the two people couldn't stay, and fell into the wall at the same time.
Another dark shadow, far away, jumped over the wall and ran.
Hu Bolt didn't chase after him, he jumped down from the wall, and at this time the stone lock was on the ground and didn't let go, twisted the man's front placket hard, and a big back slung him, and threw him into a dog and, and fell heavily to the ground.
A Ning and A Rong and others ran over, and they were very happy to see that they had captured the "ghost", and in the dim night, it could be seen that this was a short and thin person, compared with the thick stone lock in front of him, a circle smaller, although he couldn't see his appearance clearly in the night, but he felt that the monkey's head and monkey brain were like a deflated three.
"Who are you?" Hu Shuan asked as he helped Shi Suo twist his arm.
The man was smashed, dizzy, looked up at a few people around him, gasped for breath, and did not squeak.
Shi Suo rolled up his sleeves, "Don't say it, let's kill and bury it." ”
The thin monkey hurriedly spoke: "My name is Hou Xiaosan. ”
"What are you doing here?"
"Dig for treasure."
Treasure digging? These people are a little strange, Hu Xuan is a student of archaeology, and he has a lot of experience in excavating ancient tombs, but is the woods next to this playground an ancient tomb? He asked Hou Xiaosan: "Is there any treasure here, is it an ancient tomb?" ”
"No, it's Yinyang buried here by someone else."
Is there a silver ocean buried in the grove? It's a strange thing. Hu Xuan said to Aning and a few other girls, "You keep an eye on the surroundings. ”
It was quiet, all the coal was out in the school, only the night wind blew and the trees rattled slightly.
Hu Xuan continued: "Hou Xiaosan, what kind of Yinyang? If you are honest, we will go around you, if you play a slippery head, we will not hand it over to the government, and we will be killed directly. ”
"Yes, yes," Hou Xiaosan said, "I'll just tell the truth, I'll ...... with my eldest brother."
"Is that the one who just jumped off the wall and ran away?" Stone Lock interjected.
"Yes, yes, my eldest brother and I got a treasure map half a month ago, in fact, it doesn't look like a picture, just a few words, and a few lines, drawn on a rag, my eldest brother is illiterate, so he asked me to crack, I looked at it for a long time, the word is known, but I didn't understand, our brothers counted it, and came here to find foreign money."
A-Ning said, "Are you pretending to be a ghost to scare others? ”
"Yes, we are afraid of being bumped into, so we pretend to be ghosts, but it happens that there is a fucking toilet here, and if someone comes to the toilet at night, they may find out about our movements, so they ......"
"Where's that picture?" Hu Shuan interrupted him.
Hou Xiaosan's eyes rolled, he didn't make a sound, and then said, "At my eldest brother's." ”
Hu Xuan smiled, "Really? Then we have to search it, and if it does, it proves that you lied to us, then we will break your left leg first......"
"Don't," Hou Xiaosan hurriedly said, "I'm here, I'll give it to you." He put his hand in his torn jacket from his chest and pulled out a white cloth.
The white cloth is an ordinary home-woven cloth, which is extremely rough, and is used by ordinary people to sew coarse cloth grain bags, unfolded, one foot square, and the edges are broken, as if it was torn off from a sack.
Hu Xuan picked up the cloth and looked at it carefully in front of him, because the sky was too dark and the handwriting was not clear, Xiaojuan took out a small mirror from her body and reflected a little faint starlight, so she vaguely saw the words and pictures on the white cloth.
The word is written on the white cloth, very large, each word is the size of a walnut, the corner is written with the word "Changsha", the next three words are "Wangjiayuan", circled with a circle, outside the circle is an arrow, pointing to the next line of words, it is written "Chengguang Building West Fifty Steps, under the hundred-year-old ancient locust tree." ”
After looking at it again and again for a long time, that is, these words, there could be no other secrets in the coarse cloth, and Hu Xuan returned the picture to Hou Xiaosan.
On the east side of the playground, it is indeed the courtyard of a large family, and a two-story small building, next to the school wall, Hu Xuan asked Xiaoyue, "This courtyard next to the school, is the owner surnamed Wang?" ”
"It seems to be," Xiao Yue said, "I heard others say that this house is called Wang Rich Lord, as for whether this building is called Chengguang Building, I don't know." ”
"That's right, it's called Chengguang Building," Hou Xiaosan picked up the conversation, "We have asked repeatedly, it used to be the embroidery building of the rich man's daughter, my eldest brother and we have surveyed several times, fifty steps west of the building, it can only be in this playground, just right, there is a locust tree on the side of the playground, everything is right." ”
"Nonsense," Shi Suo said, "These locust trees, are they hundred-year-old acacia trees?" Is your century-old acacia so thin? ”
Indeed, this locust tree, the thickness of the top is the thickness of the bowl, and it is said to be a "century-old locust tree", which is too far away and a little ridiculous. Hou Xiaosan lowered his head and stopped talking.
Hu Xuan said: "Hou Xiaosan, you tell us the origin of this picture, the more detailed the better." ”
"Yes," Hou Xiaosan raised his head, "Actually, my eldest brother also met by chance at that time, he was pulling a car on the Xiangjiang wharf, one day, there was a crutche, limping man got off the boat, took his car to go to the city, suddenly came several bastards, to catch this cripple, a few people quarreled and scolded, couldn't help but say, scolded and scolded the person on crutches and took away, of course my eldest brother did not participate in their fight, but after they left, found that under the seat of the car, there was more this rag, he estimated, It must have been the cripple who was afraid of being taken away and quietly hid in the car. ”
"Then how do you know that this picture is about Yinyang?" Hu asked suspiciously.
"Listen to the tone," Hou Xiaosan said: "My eldest brother is a smart man, and when he heard those people arguing and fighting, he figured out the way out." At that time, my eldest brother was startled, but the group of people was not rushing my eldest brother, and shouted directly to the cripple on crutches: "Hand it over, where is the Yinyang of Senior Commander Chen?" Others shouted: 'You kid didn't make a fortune with the surname Tan?' "Take out the treasure map and spare your life" In this way, my eldest brother knows that this rag is actually a treasure map. ”
"Where are the treasures you have dug up? What about Yinyang? Stone Lock asked with some sarcasm.
Hou Xiaosan was a little embarrassed, "No, our brothers have been digging for several days, and the picture just says 'under the hundred-year-old locust tree', but after looking for it, I don't know which tree is the hundred-year-old locust tree, so I had to choose a thicker one, digging under the tree one by one, and I haven't dug it until now." ”
Next to him, there were two long-handled shovels, Hu Shuan took them and looked at them, and nodded, "Don't say it, the tool you two chose is quite sharp, but, Hou Xiaosan, this locust tree, look at it yourself, does it look like a century-old acacia?" ”
"Perhaps...... Maybe there used to be a hundred-year-old acacia tree, and then it was cut down. ”
"Haha, you're right," Hu Xuan smiled, "Hou Xiaosan, let's go, don't pretend to be a ghost to scare people in the future, and tell your eldest brother, if you dig like this, you can't dig up treasures, it's better to work honestly and make money." ”
"Yes, I will." Hou Xiaosan nodded again and again.
After letting Hou Xiaosan go, A-Ning asked Hu Xuan: "You say, is this treasure map real?" ”
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