Chapter 11: Subcostal Scales
It would definitely not be a coincidence that Qin Huai could ask this sentence.
First of all, there are so many men and women in the unit, and she is biased towards sticking to a male colleague who is five or six years older than her.
Even if the two have similar interests and three views, it is not so good that they sleep in the same room.
Thinking of this, I feel like being taken advantage of, not to mention being used, at least Qin Huai has investigated me, and she has been holding this matter in her heart, maybe it is for this purpose to be friends with me.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt uncomfortable: "Why are you asking this?" ”
"I'm just curious, nothing." Qin Huai sat on the bed and looked out the window, she really couldn't say panic, her expression was so uncomfortable and uncomfortable.
I took out a pack of cigarettes and lit one: "If you have anything to say, you can say it directly, we have known each other for a long time, it is not interesting to engage in these words, you have to make friends with each other, and there is less intrigue and trickery." ”
My call is not heavy, but it is definitely not light, and I immediately wronged Qin Huai.
"Who said I was talking to you! I just don't know how to say it... I'm afraid it's too abrupt to ask you directly, so I'm going to start with small talk... What are you angry about? ”
After speaking, Qin Huai got up directly, opened the door and ran out.
The door opened, and Lao Wang, who passed by the door, looked at me with a shocked face.
"Yo, little couple"
"Get out of the way!" Halfway through his words, I pulled him aside with a black face and chased after Qin Huai.
The elevator closed before me, and I had to wait for another trip.
Standing here and thinking about it, I feel that what I just said is indeed a bit excessive, the little girl has been very good to me for so long, and she just asked a question that is a little sensitive to me.
Even if she has any purpose for me, at least people are saying it well, and they didn't tie me up or force me, I was really a little mentally retarded just now.
Thinking of this, I took out my mobile phone and called Qin Huai.
She didn't answer my phone, and the elevator happened to come too, so I hurried downstairs.
I was confused when I got out of the hotel, I didn't know where this place was when I first came back, and I didn't know where Qin Huai had gone, how should I find this huge Yan'an City.
Now I can only keep calling her, and then find a way to ask people to see if I can ask her news.
There were quite a few people walking on the road, and I noticed an old man in a vest not far away who was shaking a fan and looking at the sky.
I hurriedly ran over and asked, "Hello uncle, have you seen a girl in a dark blue dress, about 1.6 meters with a ponytail, she looks very good." ”
The uncle still looked at the sky, and replied to me lightly, "Your name is Wu Yan." ”
I was stupid to ask my uncle, and hurriedly bowed slightly to show respect, "Uncle, you are a master... How do you know my name... I see you've been looking at the sky, are you familiar with Zhou Yi or something? ”
The uncle raised the corners of his mouth arrogantly, and the pu fan in his hand actually shook out some shadows of Zhuge Liang: "That girl ran north, and scolded Wu Yan for being a bastard while running, Wu Yan is a big fool." ”
Damn, that's what happened.
After saying goodbye to Uncle Zhuge and I ran north, it seems that I really made Qin Huai angry.
I didn't forget to call her while running, and finally when I made the fifteenth call, Qin Huai answered.
"Grandma, I'm sorry for you, I just said the wrong thing, where are you?" As the saying goes, if you make a mistake, you admit that you are beaten and stand firm, and I apologize directly when I open my mouth.
Qin Huai on the other end of the phone seemed to be sobbing, her voice was very small, but she could hear that she was extremely aggrieved, "I just want you to help me..."
As soon as I heard the girl crying, I couldn't do it, so I hurriedly put my posture under the ground and coaxed her, "Help, help!" I'm sure I'll help you, my aunt, where are you now, meet and talk, don't get lost. ”
That girl is also sharp in her legs, and she is about to run onto the Yanhe Bridge at this moment.
After the two of us met, neither of us spoke, but walked wildly, and finally crossed the pagoda bridge to the foot of the pagoda mountain, and she was the first to speak to break the awkward silence.
"A person who swords on credit is actually a person who curses others."
This is the first time I've heard of this idea, and as far as I know, a knife man gives a knife to someone else and then leaves a strange prophecy, and when the prophecy comes true, he will come back and get the money.
For example, if I give you a kitchen knife and don't want you to pay for it, but tell you when pork is cheaper than cabbage in your village, I will charge you another 100 yuan.
But can this prophecy be a curse?
We found a flower bed at the foot of the mountain to sit on, and Qin Huai continued: "The little one who curses the people, and the powerful curse country is the one who is on credit. Legend has it that the credit knife people are very powerful, and their prophecies are small enough to affect the fate of a person and large enough to affect the fortunes of a country. ”
I nodded but reserved my opinion, after all, I don't understand this line, it's better to listen first.
Qin Huai suddenly looked up at me, with tears in his big eyes, "About fifty years ago, there was a knife man in my house. He gave my grandfather a pair of scissors, and said he would come and charge you thirty dollars when your children and grandchildren had scales under their ribs. ”
Qin Huai looked up at the dark sky obliquely, his expression was extremely lonely, "My grandfather thought that man was just talking about fun, and it was good to be happy and take a pair of scissors for nothing." Who knows..."
Halfway through speaking, Qin Huai suddenly raised his right arm, and pulled down with his left hand on the cuffs and the buckle of his underwear.
She was wearing a sleeveless dress, and her breasts were half white, but I saw a dark green semi-oval scale with a metallic sheen on her right side breast.
"You've got scales?!" I was shocked and wanted to touch it, but I hesitated and retracted my hand.
Qin Huai seemed very flat about this, "Yes, just two years ago, I began to grow scales. I didn't dare tell my grandfather about this, for fear that something would happen to him when he was so old. But I told my aunt, after all, she also knew about the knife man. ”
I lit a cigarette and asked her to continue.
"My aunt went around investigating this matter, and later in the village where my grandfather lived fifty years ago, I learned through an old lady in her nineties that it might have been a curse or a trick."
Qin Huai took the cigarette from my hand, didn't smoke it, just put up the cigarette and looked at the smoke stupidly, "That old lady has a lot of patterns embroidered on her neck, and my aunt said that it should be a hexagram." Then the old lady took eleven yuan from my aunt and calculated a hexagram for her, and said that God would come to collect people after she finished the hexagram. The old lady said that you should find a man who has been married to the "Hua" clan within three generations in Jinling City on the riverside, and if there is a male mute born before the ninth day of the eleventh month of the Gengwu year, finding him should be able to solve your problem. ”
Qin Huai took out her mobile phone and called up the memo to show me, and the sentence she said just now was actually written down word for word.
"My aunt found the Archives Bureau through the relationship between colleagues in the Labor and Human Resources Department, and finally found out that in other sub-centers of our unit, there happened to be a man who was born in the seventh day of November in the year of Gengwu, and his grandmother was also surnamed Hua, but he was not mute."
After speaking, Qin Huai looked at me, and said slowly, "But his name is Wu Yan." ”