The little brother hurriedly grabbed Mengli's hand and looked at her.

"This box doesn't have a mechanism." Mengli also looked at the little brother and said.

"It's not a matter of the agency." The little brother shook his head, pressed the twisted lock with his long fingers, and said.

"It's not a mechanism, so why can't it be opened?" Wu Xie was even more puzzled, "Could it be that there is something wrong with the contents of this box?" ”

"What can this box have? Could it be that there is still a monster in here? The fat man looked a little impatient when he saw their mother-in-law, "You all stand back, let me come, how can you scare you fat man and me with just one box." After speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and prepared to "do a big job".

"No, you can't." Wu Xie hurriedly grabbed him and said, "In case there may be something highly poisonous in here, as soon as you open it, we won't say anything, if it affects the entire village, it will be bad." ”

The fat man seemed to hold his breath, sat down on the bed at once, and said dissatisfiedly: "This is not good, that is not good, is it just for a box?" ”

Wu Xie also felt that just for a box that didn't know what was inside, they were still at a loss after struggling here for so long, and the little brother's feeling would not be wrong, but in this box, what would be there that made the little brother feel scared? And it's still his stuff.

Mengli took advantage of the fact that Wu Xie and the others were discussing how to dispose of this box, so she gently flicked it, opened the buckle at once, and directly opened the box.

"Don't worry about it, you can just see what's inside." Mengli pointed to the inside of the opened box and said, "Look, there's nothing wrong with it. ”

Little brother, they were all taken aback by her sudden action, just now the little brother said so mysteriously, they felt that as soon as this box was opened, they would die, and now she suddenly opened it.

Inside was a gourd-looking pimple with pus-like pimples on the surface, which were mixed with the sheen of metal rust and looked like a piece of iron.

Mengli tried to pick it up with her hands, "Don't move. The little brother stopped her, then took some pieces of paper from the desk, wrapped the iron block with them, and took out the box.

Wu Xie studied the thing and said, "This should be an iron block, which has been corroded by strong acid or has a large number of bubbles when cast, forming these lumps. "There are red and yellow pus-stains on it, which should be traces of rust, and you can see that there are some ancient patterns on it, which are very blurry, and you can feel that this is an antiquity.

"What do you think it's going to be inside? It turned out to be scrap metal. Little brother, you must be thinking too much. The fat man looked at the ordinary-looking piece of iron and said.

Looking at the piece of iron, Wu Xie also seemed to have a bad feeling. The little brother put a piece of iron in a large box, and also set up a hidden compartment under the bed to place it, obviously this thing should not see the light. And he felt that the contents of this box did not feel right, so the only question now was what this piece of iron was, and what it was used for.

The little brother didn't speak but looked strange, looked at the iron gourd and paused for a while, and said, "Only one layer of skin of this thing is iron, and the real thing is wrapped in the iron sheet." ”

Wu Xie was stunned for a moment: "How can you see it?" ”

The little brother said: "The weight is too light. ”

The fat man was surprised: "You can weigh this?" ”

This is not surprising, generally people who deal with antiques, this kind of craft is a must practice, and people who have weighed pure iron or have made molds will know that the weight of a piece of iron is different from the expectations of ordinary people, and the size of a pencil case can not be clamped by people with two fingers.

Wu Xie said to the fat man: "You can't do the basic skills of becoming a monk halfway, like this kind of kung fu at hand, we have to practice a few more or less." ”

The fat man snorted: "Fat man, why do I spend so much spare time practicing this, how much does it cost to buy an electronic scale." ”

Wu Xie made a disdainful expression, and then asked the little brother, "What should be wrapped in an iron sheet for preservation?" Do you have any thoughts or impressions? ”

The little brother shook his head, and the fat man said: "There used to be a kind of iron-clad gold, and when it was transported, the iron sheet was wrapped on the outside of the gold nugget, which was inconspicuous, but the iron sheet of this thing seemed to be cast, and the weight was light, and it was definitely not gold inside." ”

"Iron-clad gold", Wu Xie has never heard of it, and I don't know if what the fat man said is nonsense or if he has really seen it.

What makes Wu Xie care is the vague pattern on it, since there is a pattern, then this thing is at least decorative, and it will not be a simple casting. It certainly has a definite use.

"Could it be some iron part?" The fat man added, "For example, the feet of the iron incense burner, or the ornaments on the wheels of the old carriages?" ”

Wu Xixin said that it is also possible that he did not have a deep understanding of ironware, which is easy to rust and difficult to preserve in ancient tombs, so it is far less popular in the market than bronze and porcelain. The value of iron is generally not high, so most people who are engaged in antiques are not familiar with it, and he really has no clue.

But since it's an antiquity and it's still hidden under the little brother's bed, it must have some origin, and it should be related to what he experienced in this village.

They guessed, but Mengli clearly knew that this was the Zhang family's thing, and it was Chen Wenjin who brought it out of the water.

Mengli looked at the little brother and interrupted their imagination with her mouth: "Little brother, this is your family's thing, can't you remember it until now?" ”

The little brother didn't speak, looked at the thing he was holding in his hand, and fell into deep thought, not knowing if he was reminiscing.

"Little brother's?" Wu Xie asked suspiciously.

Mengli nodded: "This is something that Chen Wenjin brought out from the mountains, uh, no, to be precise, from the water." ”

When the fat man heard this, he approached the thing in the little brother's hand and studied it carefully, "The little brother hid it so tightly, this thing must be very valuable." Wu Xie, come and take a look, what age will this thing be? ”

The fat man beckoned Wu Xie to come over and study it together.

"I can't see it, maybe it's an ordinary piece of iron, so I need to study it carefully." Wu Xie looked at the piece of iron and said.

"Okay, let's just get this thing out. If you still want to see something, you can flip through it quickly, it will be discovered by others for too long. The fat man said.

Suddenly, there was some movement outside the window, and then several people saw a figure flashing outside the window, and several people glanced at each other and quickly chased out.

But when they went out, the people were gone.

Wu Xie wanted to see those photos, and he had just seen some of them, and they looked very strange.

A-Ning suddenly stopped them and asked them to look in one direction, and saw that on the hillside above the stilted building, there were several villagers standing, who didn't know when they appeared, and were looking at them with gloomy faces.

Suddenly, several people were startled and began to feel weak, as if they had been stolen.

The villagers were probably in their fifties and sixties, and two of them were carrying flat poles, as if they had just collected something from the mountain. The men just looked at them and didn't make any moves.

"Let's go first, if we have a chance, we can come back in the evening." Aning said.

Saying that, they returned to Agui's house according to the original way of memory, Mengli thought for a while and said, "If the iron piece is brought out of the water, then we can start from here." ”

"Water? Okay, the sun in Guangxi is too hot, and I just want to cool down. The fat man lifted his spirits when he heard this.

Gui was not at home, so they asked her daughter where there was a water source nearby, and she replied, "There is a stream outside the village, and the water is clear and clean, and we will all go there to play in the water." ”

A few people asked for directions all the way and finally came to the stream, the water of the stream was relatively calm, and when they walked to the stream, they felt a chill coming to their faces. I saw many children playing in the water, and it looked like a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old was wearing no underwear but only shirts, and her soaked clothes were sticking to her body.

Wu Xie looked at the harmonious scenery in front of him, and felt that the people here were simple and simple, far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, if he could live here, maybe there would not be many worries like now in his heart.

The fat man was also interested, took off his shirt and rushed into the water, playing with those children, so happy.

Wu Xie couldn't help it, took off his shirt and went into the water to cool off. A-Ning just took off his shoes and socks, sat by the water and played in the water, decisive and capable in the past, but now only Jiao is left.

And the little brother was under the tree next to him to enjoy the shade.

"Little brother," Mengli also sat in the shade of the tree, and then looked at the other side of the stream, "Why don't you go together?" ”

The little brother shook his head, looked at her, his expression was very serious, and said, "You seem to know about me." ”

I know? Didn't I always know that? Could it be that the little brother's brain has short-circuited again? Or did it turn on and reboot again? Mengli complained in her heart. "Are you trying to ask why I didn't tell you? You don't believe me? ”

"No, on the contrary, I believe in you, that's how I feel." The little brother wanted to say something more, but in the end he didn't continue to speak.

"I don't know some things, but I'll help you find the past, I said...... "I'll make you laugh, I won't leave you alone anymore, and I'll help you until you regain your memory." Mengli looked at the little brother, with firmness in her eyes, and smiled.

The little brother nodded, like the movement she taught him to laugh before, two fingers poked the corners of his mouth, Mengli couldn't help laughing, I didn't expect the little brother to take it seriously until now~ It's so cute!

Glancing behind the little brother, he saw smoke rising not far away.

The curvature of the corners of her mouth disappeared instantly, Mengli's face changed greatly, and she spoke extremely fast: "Little brother, your house is on fire!" ”

When the little brother heard this, when he looked back, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly ran over there, and Mengli hurriedly followed.

"Wu Xie! Fatso! A-Ning also found out about the situation, and hurriedly called out to the two who were still playing in the water, and hurriedly put on their shoes and socks.

"What's wrong?" Wu Xie asked slowly.

The fat man said, "It seems that a house is on fire." ”

Wu Xie looked in that direction, which was where the little brother's stilted building was located, and suddenly felt bad.