"What's wrong with the sand?" Looking at Uncle Long, whose face suddenly changed drastically, Chen Tao was startled.

"Tao Tao, I'm going to go on a long trip, you just stay in the ancient city for a while, the shop has been a little unquiet recently."

"How...... What's wrong? Seeing that Uncle Long suddenly said such a thing, Chen Tao was a little confused.

"I'm going to a place, it may take a long time, during this time, you can stay in the ancient city to recuperate!" Uncle Long threw the sand in his hand back into the beast box, got up and was about to leave, but suddenly stood up again.

"By the way, and your little attendant......" Uncle Long waved his hand and turned around.

"Ah Jun? What happened to him? ”

Ah Jun is a guy recruited by Chen Tao after he took over the small shop, and he is three or five years younger than himself. People are very clever and quick to do things, but sometimes they have some tendons. On weekdays, I have nothing to talk to him about, but it's also comfortable to open the black.

I have the impression that Uncle Long and Ah Jun have nothing to do with each other, but when I suddenly mentioned it today, could it be that something happened to that stupid boy?

Chen Tao was a little uneasy.

"Oh, it's nothing, it's just that if you feel bored, you can call him back too."

Call Jun back?

Chen Tao was a little dumbfounded.

Uncle Long, what does this guy mean, don't you plan to let yourself go to Suzhou?

"Don't you need it? If he came to the ancient city, there would be no one in the shop! ”

"You don't have to worry about the shop, the mountain ghost and Scar Five can deal with it, anyway, there are not many people in your broken place at the end of the year."

Seeing that Chen Tao's face was a little strange, Uncle Long didn't talk nonsense to him, rubbed Chen Tao's hair indiscriminately, and strode to leave Chen Tao with the back of his head.

Uncle Long left, I am afraid that he will never have the opportunity to follow the cave to explore. The mountain ghost and Uncle Scar only listen to him, and the rest of the family has no time to drag him down, so it is even more impossible for his father.

Somewhat irritably, he sat on the edge of the bed, looking at the black beast box on the table.

Sunlight poured in through the window, shining on the yellow sand in the box, as if it had been smeared with a layer of gold.

Where have you ever seen this scene......

Chen Tao grabbed his hair and picked up the wooden box to face the sun outside the window.

The sand is the same color as regular sand, but it doesn't seem to be the same.

There are only two places in the world with the most sand, the seaside and the desert. Although the composition of the sand is not the same, the two can still be distinguished by the naked eye.

Chen Tao has been to the beach once, and he has also paid attention to the sand and gravel on the beach. There are more shellfish shells doped in the sea sand, the particles are large, and the density between the sand and gravel is very low, so the feeling in the hand is very rough, but the animal box is obviously not sea sand!

"These sands ......," Chen Tao grabbed a handful in his hand.

The particles are very fine, and there is even a feeling of warmth on the hands.

"It can't be from the desert......"

A thrill struck his head.

Desert?

Looking at the fine sand that was a little shiny in the sun, how to look at it and how it felt familiar, a strange feeling came up.

These days, he doesn't go to the desert less.

Although in a dream.

There was a small desertion in his head, an unsteady hand in his hand, the box was directly taken off, the sand was scattered on the floor, and the wooden box rolled on the ground a few times and fell under the bed.

Although the contents are not valuable, but this box is also exchanged for human life, Chen Tao hurriedly lay on the ground and reached out to take out the box, and checked it inside and out, for fear that it would be broken.

"It's ......"

Chen Tao's eyes lit up, and there were a lot of handwriting faintly engraved on the inner bottom of the beast box.

He rummaged through the cabinet and found a magnifying glass, and there was a series of characters densely engraved on the bottom of the box, which were very neatly engraved, not like Chinese characters, like earthworms, a bit like a large string of words of a small number of famous people on banknotes.

Could it be that what is written on this?

How can I say that Chen Tao also graduated from the Department of History, and he has learned a little ancient characters, and after distinguishing them for a long time, he was stunned and couldn't recognize them.

In the end, I still overestimated the little oil and water in my stomach.

But he didn't panic, he didn't dare to say anything else, but there was one person who must recognize it!

has been following Uncle Long for so long, and he has also learned to do some rubbing business, and he also has ready-made things at home.

He crept into his father's study, and out of the cabinet came a tool kit, which contained the tools that his father usually used to make rubbings.

Although Chen Tao doesn't have any great ability to coax, he is still very talented in doing this. It took almost a whole day, and Chen Tao could be regarded as making a decent rubbing.

After finishing it, he took a picture with a high-definition camera, put it in the computer and magnified it several times, printed it, and packed it with his dirty rubbing, and sent it to his university tutor.

Chen Tao's university history department is an unpopular major, and his tutor's surname is Tian, his name is Tian Bingyi, and he is an old professor with an eccentric temper and a nose of the Mediterranean, and is affectionately called "Zhonghai Drunkard" by his students. Because of his strange temper, there are few students under his hands, and there are only a few people left in the class except for him.

There is also an advantage to having fewer people, anyway, just those few people, looking up and not looking down, and the relationship is also close in a few years.

Professor Tian not only has a strange temper, but also has a strange hobby. He doesn't smoke or drink, but he likes to go around collecting ancient texts, and the rarer they are, the happier he is.

The things were sent to Professor Tian, and Chen Tao was not worried about what he would find.

Professor Tian's personality is very clear, black is black and white is white, and he will never take a second look at what he shouldn't see, and what he shouldn't say will rot in his stomach.

Early the next morning, Chen Tao sent an urgent express and strolled through the streets and alleys of the ancient city alone, thinking about what to do next.

Now that Uncle Long is not there, there is no one to solve a lot of problems in his heart, and after thinking about it, Chen Tao has an idea.

"Uncle Long is not here, and he may not be able to say it when I ask Elder Li, it seems that there is only one way......" I made up my mind in my heart, and I couldn't help but speed up my steps.

When I arrived at Mr. Li's carpentry shop, I saw Haozi dangling on the recliner from afar, with something in his hand, and the sun was shining brightly.

"I'm going to have to pry something out of this kid's mouth today!"

"Haozi, what are you doing!" Chen Tao entered the door and raised his hand at Haozi to be a brainstorm.

Haozi was fiddling with the things in her hand intently, and she didn't notice when there was an extra person behind her. Suddenly Chen Tao came to his head, startled him, and the things in his hands suddenly took off his hands and rolled to the ground along his stomach.

Chen Tao lowered his body and picked it up, looked left and right, and said curiously:

"Hey, what is this?"

"Damn, I'm going to die, you! Scared the hell out of me! Haozi gritted his teeth, looking at the posture, he couldn't wait to slap Chen Tao, a bad friend, to death.

"Whatever I am, give it back to me!"

Haozi stretched out his hand to take it, but Chen Tao suddenly carried him behind his back.

"Tell me what it is, and I'll give it to you."

"Okay, okay." Seeing Chen Tao's sassy appearance, Haozi glanced at him fiercely, touched the back of his head, which was still a little painful, gritted his teeth and said:

"I said, big brother, can you do it lightly in the future, this is my head, not a watermelon."

Chen Tao tilted the chair next to him with a hippie smile: "Tell me quickly, what kind of thing is this, it looks very interesting."

"You know the! It's a gossip chain lock! Hurry up and give it to me, I'm busy! ”

"What's that? Gossip? Or chain locks? ”

Chen Tao looked curiously at the palm-sized copper ball in his hand,

It looks ordinary, except for some weight, I really can't see anything special.

Li Hao smashed his mouth and reached out to grab the copper ball.

"Tsk, come here, I'll tell you."

Chen Tao hurried over.

Syllable......

"Haozi, your uncle!" Chen Tao covered his head and shouted.

"It's not a gentleman not to take revenge! Let you me! Haha......" Haozi rubbed his hands proudly, it was so cool just now!

"Damn!" Chen Tao was about to fight back, but Haozi waved his hand and said,

"Stop! I admit defeat, I tell you, this is the legendary 'gossip chain lock'! This thing is not something that ordinary people can play with! ”

"Serial your sister, don't sell it, if you have a fart, let it go." Chen Tao retracted his arm and pushed Haozi's shoulder with a serious face. "I don't know about the chain lock, I've heard of the gossip chain palm, my grandfather also taught me, do you want me to beat you up?"