Hao Minyuan didn't know that Wu Yuhui and I had gone to Wang Yujue's house late at night to find a strange key, so he continued to ask the old man what was going on.

Wu Yuhui only mentioned to me on the phone that he had asked a locksmith to see the key, and then she had an unexpected car accident, and at this time I also wanted to know about the key, so I didn't interrupt Hao Minyuan to ask the old man.

The old man was not polite, turned around and sat on the sofa on one side, and crossed Erlang's legs.

The old man's surname is Li, and people who are familiar with him call him Da Lao Li, a few years ago he was the most famous lock-picking king in Hekou District, and in recent years, because of poor health, he gradually handed over the stall to the apprentices, and the general work will no longer go out of the mountain.

They also have their own circle in this industry, and they had just eaten that night when they received a call from an old friend in the circle saying that there was a strange key and wanted him to take a look.

This friend of his is also a well-known person in the circle, which makes Da Lao Li also wonder what key is so mysterious, so he agreed to help take a look.

At about nine o'clock in the evening, there was a knock on the door of Da Lao Li, and he opened it to see that it was a young girl.

The girl directly reported his friend's name, and Da Lao Li hurriedly opened the door.

A very strangely shaped black key was handed to Da Lao Li.

Elder Li took the key in his hand, looked at it over and over again for more than a minute, and a distant memory instantly appeared in his mind......

The unhurried and impatient way of telling the story made me a little anxious, and what made me even more crazy was that Li Guozhi served him a cup of tea, and the old Li actually picked it up, slowly blew the tea foam floating on the water, and took a small sip.

I want to curse...... But I can only wait patiently.

Da Lao Li put down the teacup, wiped his mouth, and continued to speak.

Things have to go on......

The story starts from 20 years ago, when Lao Li was in his forties and was already a well-known locksmith. He remembered that it was a late summer and early autumn afternoon, the weather was still very hot, and friends in the two circles invited him to do a job, promising a reward of at least tens of thousands.

It was the 90s, when the term "10,000 yuan" was often used to describe a certain family as rich, and the salary of the average wage earner was only a few hundred yuan, so 10,000 yuan was not a small amount

The two friends told Lao Li that this job was to make a batch of special secret locks, which were not bitter or tired, and would not break the law, but the conditions were also very harsh, and one of the requirements was that they would work for about a month, and they must be in a closed environment and not have any contact with the outside world.

At that time, the eldest elder Li's son had just entered high school, and he was still the kind of aristocratic school that he spent money to buy, and his family was short of money, so he agreed without hesitation.

When the friend left, let the eldest boss Wang wait for the news at home, and said that he would definitely contact him in a month, and the boss would send someone to pick him up at that time.

Sure enough, two weeks later, a friend called and asked him to clean up, and someone would pick him up at his house early the next morning.

Money will blind people's eyes, this is common in ancient and modern times, the old Li is bold enough, knowing that many special departments or rich people's homes will find someone to customize a special lock cylinder, such a batch of locks can be said to be unique, even if the original gang wants to make it, it is impossible to make exactly the same, so it is normal for the production process to be very cautious, and he is not worried about anything.

The next day, the elder Li had an early meal and waited at home, at about seven o'clock, a black business car stopped in front of his yard, and after the rear window slid down, his friend poked his head out and waved to the elder Li standing at the door of the house.

After getting into the car, the elder Li felt that the atmosphere was not quite right.

The general car glass is black from the outside, you can look out from the inside, and it does not affect the line of sight, but this car glass is very strange, from the outside of the car the car glass is as black as ink, from the inside to the outside, it is also black as ink.

What made him even more puzzled was that there was a brown curtain hanging behind the driver's seat, which caused several of them sitting in the car to not see the scene outside the car at all, and a sense of depression arose.

The car drove for half an hour, stopped, and when the door opened, a black-faced man wearing sunglasses beckoned them to get out of the car.

Only then did he find that the commercial vehicle was parked on the edge of the Yellow River, with a small wharf in front of it, and a small steamer parked by the wharf.

The black-faced man became expressionless and told them to hurry aboard.

Walking into the cabin, I felt the same as being in a business car, as if I was locked in a dark room. At this time, the elder Li felt a trace of fear, thinking about his wife and children at home, and carefully pondering the process of this matter, thinking about it carefully, it was extremely scary!

How can there be such a good thing, not bitter, not tired and not breaking the law, and earning more than 10,000 yuan a month?

He wanted to ask his friend next to him, but he whispered to him not to ask anything.

The boat went on for another twenty minutes, and this time it scared him even more.

When the door of the boat was opened, the black-faced men each handed them a black cloth bag and asked them to cover their heads. Cheap, honestly opened his own lock shop, although he will not be rich and expensive, but the family is also having a good time, he even thought about resisting, but after thinking about it, his two friends are cautious and reliable people, and they will not do things that they are not sure of.

It's all come to this, let's take the opportunity!

Thinking so, Da Lao Li put on a black cloth bag.

He felt that someone had put a rope in his hand, so he followed it cautiously, and was reminded when to lift his foot over the threshold and when to turn.

After walking for about two minutes, someone shouted for him to stop and take off his black mask.

He was amazed by what he saw, it looked like a factory workshop.

The next thing is very simple, and it is also very monotonous, the black-faced man gave them a brief introduction to the area where they can move, in addition to these workshops, there are bedrooms, dining rooms and toilets outside, and even bathrooms.

This puzzled him again.

Good food and good accommodation, it shouldn't be bad for us!

In the afternoon, a few more people came to the workshop, and later through contact, he learned that these people were coppersmiths, blacksmiths and welders.

In the following month or so, under the supervision of more than a dozen strong men, their group began to design a batch of hidden locks.

The locks were already in detail, but they were made in a strange way, requiring them to be made of a special alloy, and even more unreasonable, they were divided into three groups in pairs, each of whom was responsible for designing a part of the cylinder, and was not connected to each other.

Of course, to machine a bunch of alloys into the parts they need, they also need the help of a coppersmith and blacksmith.