Chapter 319: Antiques
Just as Qinglong and I were about to leave the theater, I didn't expect the old class owner to give me the pink Danjiao costume that Xiao Nan had wore.
He said that this dress seemed to be inextricably linked to me, and I didn't dare to shirk it and took it with both hands.
When I got back to the taxi, Qinglong suddenly began to ask me if I was hiding something from him, and I was speechless for a while.
If I told him about my experience as a tomb robber, would he directly send me to the Public Administration Bureau and bring me to justice?
I simply prevaricated a few words, but I couldn't explain the bronze rust on my legs, and I couldn't resist soaking my skin in hot water until I took a shower at night.
Unexpectedly, under the rinse of clean water, those patinas were actually washed off by the water, revealing-like skin.
This time, I finally started to get scared, I didn't expect it to be so difficult for me to live a new normal life again.
For the next few days, I had been carefully preparing the tools for the expedition, and in my hand was the blurry black and white photograph of the mountain.
I don't know why, I always feel that I have an inextricable connection with the Miao people in Xiangxi, and this photo was helped by a Qinglong friend to find the address.
The ancient mountain in the photo originates from an ancient mountain in the border area of Hunan Province, and there are many ancient beasts and poisonous insects, and outsiders cannot set foot in it without a local guide.
The mysterious mountains of Xiangxi are endless, and there are ancient small villages in the crevices where many mountains are connected to each other, and even today there are still many of them living a primitive life.
I wondered when it would be appropriate for me to say goodbye to the green dragon, and I didn't dare to delay any longer as the bronze rust on my body became more and more serious.
I couldn't help but recall the words of the old opera master, who said that he had also seen similar copper spots on Xiao Nan's body.
The location of the mountain was taken a few years ago by the Geomorphology Bureau, and no one can say for sure what the mountain has become now.
Gradually, the expedition tools at hand were ready, and because there was no money, even the bus tickets were made up by Qinglong for me.
I waved goodbye to him at the station, and there was a different kind of sour taste in my heart.
I was the only one left in the soul removal team that survived, and the others remained in the martyrs' cemetery forever.
This time I was determined to find out all about it and why I often dreamed of the two mysterious tomb robbers in Xiao Nan's photo.
The root and answer to all of this seems to point to the blurry shadow of the mountain in the black-and-white photo.
Sitting on the bus to Xiangxi, looking out the window at the verdant scenery, it is particularly gratifying, and the destination of Xiangxi Qinzhou is not too far away from my X city.
But it also takes days and nights to travel.
The bus was full of passengers returning to and fro until a middle-aged man in a leather jacket sat across from me.
He smiled and spoke a dialect I didn't understand, and the accent should be a Hakka returning home.
I didn't know what he was trying to say, and I was afraid that the contents of my package would be seen by others, and I would be suspicious.
Then he smiled politely at him, and continued to look at the scenery outside the window, while he vigilantly put his hand on the large package he brought.
Until late at night, the drivers who were snorting one after another were still in a hurry.
Many people had already fallen asleep in the car, and I gradually couldn't hold back the tiredness in my heart, and I just wanted to doze off.
But I saw the middle-aged man in front of me suddenly touch me with his hand, staring at me with a smile on his face, which suddenly made me creepy.
I don't know what this person means, he has harassed me twice a day in the car, is it because I am so good-looking and thinks I am the opposite sex.
Unexpectedly, he suddenly stuffed a piece of cold artifact into my hand, and when I looked down, I found that it was an extremely ancient jade pendant.
It is also carved with strange floral patterns.
I was instantly refreshed, and I didn't understand what the middle-aged man in front of me meant, until he suddenly spoke to me softly in an extremely awkward ordinary tone.
Only then did I understand his intentions, and it turned out that he actually wanted to sell me this antique.
"One price, fifty thousand."
"What."
I watched his gestures and dialect accents and barely get up from my seat.
In a society where the economy is gradually developing rapidly, 50,000 yuan may be the income of an ordinary small trader for two years.
But this jade pendant is not only so cheap in terms of color and age, could it be that he has met an ignorant owner.
Such a large amount of wealth fell on my head, and I was a little out of breath for a while, and I looked at the jade pendant in my hand carefully and found no other clues.
If it is only sold for 50,000 yuan, then the middle-aged man in black in front of him will really lose a lot of money.
I couldn't help but want to pay for it, only to realize that I was penniless, and the tomb of Concubine Jin and the dollars promised to me by Little White Face were ten years ago.
Although the man in black found me and the fat man on the shore, he found no trace of the little white face, and it seems that he himself has been more and less lucky ten years ago.
My eyes were almost glowing golden, but I had no money in my pocket, so I had to return the jade pendant to the middle-aged man in front of me.
Unexpectedly, he squinted his eyes and thought that I didn't look at the jade pendant in his hand, so he turned around and took out a rusty copper sword from his cuff.
And I can tell that the sword seems to be much older, and that it is priceless to this day.
Unexpectedly, the price he asked for this time was actually lower than the previous jade pendant, and I gradually began to suspect that these ancient pieces were all obtained by him from improper places.
It can be seen that the middle-aged man in front of him is obviously a little illiterate, and he just wants to sell the antique as soon as possible.
It's just that although he was smiling, his inner vigilance was also extremely high, and when he saw that I had not been closed, he turned around and left his position.
In the blink of an eye, it was the third day I spent on the bus, and I couldn't eat or sleep well in the bus, and I was even awakened by nightmares from time to time.
The scenery outside the window finally gradually appeared in the mountains, and the mountains continued to glow with a pleasant green.
I suddenly thought about whether the base of the man in black would be hidden in the mountains of Xiangxi.
It's just that after thinking about it, I dispelled this inference, because I was lying on the side of the road when I woke up after being unconscious.
And it will take three or four days to get to X City at the fastest, and even if the girl who is extremely similar to Xiaoyue sends me out of the wolf den of the man in black, it is impossible to take me away such a distance.
I seriously deduced that the place where the men in black put me under house arrest should still be in the city, but their whereabouts were strange and there was no trace of them.
For a few days, the middle-aged man with the accent had been shopping almost all over the bus, and at night when he saw that someone hadn't slept yet, he would come up and play with his antiques.
And my real purpose this time is to unravel the secrets behind Xiao Nan's photos, and completely cure the bronze spots on his skin.
Recalling that when he was in the black-clad man's hospital room a few days ago, the bronze spots on his body had not recurred on a large scale, which obviously indicated that there must be a secret method in his hands that could suppress the effect of the curse.