"Oh?" Chu Tianyi's heart moved, "What about later?" ”

Uncle Tao continued: "I wondered if he was looking for your grandfather for something, so I wanted to go over and tell him, but as soon as I said 'hey', the man turned around and left quickly. ”

"Gone?" Chu Tianyi couldn't help frowning slightly, "What kind of person is it?" ”

Uncle Tao shook his head slightly, "It was quite late at that time, he walked fast, I couldn't see clearly, but he looked like a young girl." ”

"Young girl?" Chu Tianyi muttered to himself and looked down to think about it, and suddenly a name appeared in his mind, "Gu Xiaoqian? ”

"Ancient what?" Uncle Tao asked curiously, "Is there something wrong?" ”

Chu Tianyi shook his head, "Oh, no, it's okay, it's okay." ”

"It's okay," Uncle Tao nodded, "Tianyi, you have often been away from home in the past few years, and I don't know that we have opened a lot of antique shops on this street." Coupled with these old shops before us, this time it has really become an antique street! ”

Chu Tianyi nodded, "Then this is a good thing, once it becomes a scale, when everyone wants to buy antiques, they will think of it first." ”

Uncle Tao sighed, "That's what I said, but ah, it's a bit chaotic when there are too many people." There are often several waves of scammers touching porcelain on the street corner. ”

"Oh?" Chu Tianyi asked curiously, "Touching porcelain?" How to touch it? ”

Uncle Tao shook his head, "Actually, it's not a clever technique, it's all some routine in the market during the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China." In short, just be careful. ”

Chu Tianyi couldn't help frowning, "Why didn't anyone call the police?" ”

"Hey," Uncle Tao sighed, "They basically look for foreign tourists or women, and they are generally a few people who cooperate, some are scared, some are persuaded, and the people who are falsely accused are a little blinded after they scream, thinking that they really touched them." In addition, the general money is not too much, basically a few hundred yuan. So most people will choose to settle things. ”

"I'll go!" Chu Tianyi snorted coldly, "If I am allowed to meet, I will not be able to spare these people!" It's a good street, but they made it smoky. "For the place where he grew up, Chu Tianyi still has a lot of feelings.

After sending Uncle Tao away, Chu Tianyi sat on the chair, and couldn't help but think of Gu Xiaoqian and the secret box she said in his mind......

In the next few days, Chu Tianyi began to take care of the antique shop. He first took all the antiques and cultural toys in the store one by one and studied them carefully. After all, if a store doesn't even know what it sells, what can it talk about attracting customers!

Fortunately, Chu Tianyi's grandfather is very serious, and every object in the store has a corresponding record. Compared with these records, plus Chu Tianyi has learned more or less from his grandfather over the years, so doing these jobs is twice the result with half the effort.

Most of the antique shops are not open for half a year, and they are open for half a year, but Chu Tianyi has less and less money in his pocket, and he is even a little worried that he will starve to death in less than half a year.

One day, when Chu Tianyi was cleaning up the cabinets at the top of the shelves, he accidentally noticed that the roof beams were a little different.

The stout beams were high and dusty, but there was only one spot that was relatively clean. It seems like someone touches it there once in a while.

This discovery made Chu Tianyi very curious, he brought a ladder to climb up the roof beam, reached out and touched it, and found a square hole above the roof beam, and the square hole was placed with a wooden box.

Chu Tianyi's heart moved, could this be the secret box that Gu Xiaoqian said? He quickly took it down and took a look, only to realize that it was just an ordinary box. There are some letters and a photo album inside.

Chu Tianyi didn't quite understand, why did grandpa put such an ordinary wooden box so hidden?

Chu Tianyi is actually no stranger to the photo album in this wooden box, and he often took it out to see it when he was a child. Later, Chu Tianyi gradually grew up, and then left home to study, and this photo album was slowly shelved. Later, I didn't know where to put the album, but I didn't expect to find it again today.

Chu Tianyi took down the wooden box and sat on the edge of the table and flipped it. There are some group photos of parents in the album, and there are several group photos of the whole family, but Chu Tianyi was still in infancy at that time. Because his parents left early, Chu Tianyi's memory of their appearance basically stayed in the photos.

As for the letters in the wooden box, many of them were sent back by Chu Tianyi's father, Chu Chuan, who was a teacher at Lincang University of Geosciences at the time, and was often invited to follow the expedition team to various parts of the country to carry out some exploration work. Sometimes it's more than half a year, so Chu Chuan will often write letters to his family, and sometimes he will attach a work photo to the letter. Chu Tianyi's grandfather would save the photos and letters.

When he was a child, his grandfather often showed these photos to Chu Tianyi, and read Chu Chuan's letters to him, and would also tell him a lot of things about Chu Chuan when he was young. After he grew up, Chu Tianyi began to understand his grandfather's intentions, and through these, he learned about his father's character, conduct, and even the way he treated people and things, as well as the way he thought about problems. Because of this, although Chu Tianyi and his father have been together for a short time, he seems to be no stranger to his father from the feeling that he is no stranger, and deep down, he thinks that he understands his father.

At this time, Chu Tianyi stroked these photos, and every face on them was so kind and loving, they all seemed to be looking at themselves and smiling. Chu Tianyi understood that at this time, these people closest to him had left him, which made his heart twist for a while.

Chu Tianyi closed the album and flipped through the letters below, and suddenly he found several magazines and a letter he had never seen before placed at the bottom of the wooden box.

He opened these magazines and found that although they looked very new, they were basically periodicals issued more than ten years ago, and they were all related to antique collections.

Chu Tianyi was puzzled and took out one of them and flipped through it carefully, but he didn't find anything special, but there were several sets of numbers written on the title page that caught his attention, and not only this one, all magazines had such numbers. Chu Tianyi's heart kept calculating, but these numbers were neither like phone numbers, nor did they want to be birthdays, nor were they location coordinates. After thinking about it for a long time, Chu Tianyi had no clue, so he could only give up. He thought that he was probably thinking too much, and that these numbers might just be numbers, and they didn't mean anything in the first place.

Putting down the magazine, he picked up the letter he had never seen before, judging from the envelope, the recipient was his grandfather, and the sender was Lincang University of Geosciences, where Chu Chuan once worked, "It was sent by Dad's school?" Chu Tianyi muttered to himself as he took out the letter.

Looking at the letter paper that was already a little yellowed, the content on it was not long, but after reading it throughout, Chu Tianyi was stunned as if he had been struck by lightning.

Judging from the date, the letter was sent shortly after Chu Tianyi's father, Chu Chuan, had an accident. The content of the letter is not complicated, it first expressed condolences to Chu Chuan's accidental disappearance, and then praised Chu Chuan's contributions to geology over the years, but in the end, the conversation changed, and the letter mentioned that the scientific research team had an accident, except for the disappearance of the team leader Chu Chuan, all the others were killed. The place where Chu Chuan disappeared is close to the national border, and he himself has a lot of geological research information, some of which are still confidential. Therefore, it is inevitable that there are speculations in some quarters that Chu Chuan crossed the border without permission. This letter was sent by the school on behalf of the relevant departments, hoping that if Mr. Chu Xiubai received any information about Chu Chuan, he could get in touch with the school or the police in time.

After reading this, Chu Tianyi's brows were furrowed, his breathing became a little short, his hands holding the letter trembled slightly, his mood was extremely complicated, joy, worry, and even some anger and sadness. Happily, they didn't find my father's body, and maybe he was still alive. The concern is, after 20 years, if my father is alive, where has he gone, and how is he doing?