My name is Lian Chengfeng, and my family has been in the antique business for seven generations. When I was 12 years old, I followed my father to run my own small shop in the Qikongqiao Antique Market.

In our Huayang, antiques, antiques, together with cultural toys, are collectively referred to as "ancient lines". Our family has been mixed in the ancient line for seven generations, the family lineage, my father is the famous "palm eye" of the Qikong Bridge, 90% of the goods, as long as he passes his hands, he can basically determine the authenticity. Relying on this skill, the family's business should have been able to do bigger, but my father, who has been stable and cautious all his life, will stick to a small shop with a big palm. I was young, and my heart was a little dry, and I pestered my father several times, trying to expand the door of the small shop and make the business bigger.

But no matter what I said, my father just smiled and refused to agree. He told me that Gu Xing is a puddle of water, and no matter how poisonous his eyes are, he can't see the depth of this puddle of water, and if he walks deep, he may throw his life into it.

After all, my father's age is old, in March I had a disease, Huayang local hospital can not be cured, I took him to Beijing for more than three months, the disease is cured, but his body is still very weak, the doctor specially explained, need to recuperate. My father wanted to go back to his hometown in the countryside for a while, where the air was good and quiet, so I took him back to his hometown in the countryside.

As soon as I returned to my hometown, I felt very unlucky. We arrived at our hometown in the morning, and just entered the village, and happened to meet the old Liu Tou next door to the funeral. I quickly got some dirt and sprinkled it around the front of our car, which is the rule in the countryside to avoid bad luck.

My father knew that it was Old Man Liu who had passed away, so he told me to go to the person who presided over the white affairs and take some money.

"No!" I am 10,000 reluctant in my heart, the old man Liu left a particularly bad impression on me, he used to be a fortune teller, I heard that he had been a few years of antiques, his heart is small, and he especially likes to be more real, the standard bar essence. A few years ago, I had several quarrels with my family for the sake of the two-foot homestead, and pointed at my father's nose and scolded in front of the whole village. The old girl is quite unreasonable, it's good that I didn't smoke him, and now I have to give him money with his shares, and there is no door.

"Son, the dead are the greatest, and as soon as a person dies, all the festivals will disappear." My father shook his head lightly and said to me, "You have to be a little measured, don't you say?" ”

I kept my head shut down, although my temper was a little cold, but I was still very filial to myself, my father was just sick, and I didn't want him to be angry. After settling my father, I went to find the village chief, the old man Liu has been chattering all his life, he has not married a wife or a son, and the white affairs are handled by the people in the village, and I have a share of 200 yuan.

This illness really made my father miserable, his body was too weak, and he fell asleep groggily as soon as he came home. I stood by his bedside, and my eyes turned red when I looked at his thin face. My mother died early, and my father brought me up. I remember very well that when I was four years old, I had a high fever and had a fever for four days and four nights, and my father stayed by my side for four days and four nights.

In the middle of the afternoon, my father woke up, and I talked to him for a while, and then made dinner for him to eat. After dinner, my father chatted with me, and I think he talked a lot today, chatting all over the world, and talking a lot about the doorways and taboos in the ancient line, and chatting until more than ten o'clock in the evening, when he was asleep.

I stayed by the bed for more than an hour, and went out to the toilet lightly, probably just returned to the countryside, the diet was not very adaptable, a little upset stomach, squatting and couldn't get up, a full twenty minutes, both legs were numb, and then swayed and stood up.

When I returned to the house, I was afraid of waking my father, so I gently pushed open the door of the hidden house. The moment I opened the door, my eyes immediately froze, my scalp went numb, and the hairs on my body stood on end.

It's probably the weirdest scene I've ever seen in my life.

There were no lights in the room, but the moonlight outside the window shone through the window. By the bright moonlight, I clearly saw the old man Liu, who had just been buried today, squatting at the head of his father's bed.

The father didn't know when he woke up, tilted his head slightly, and looked at Old Man Liu without blinking, the two seemed to maintain a tacit understanding, just staring at each other silently.

I really haven't seen such a scene, my mind is confused, and I want to shout, but my voice seems to be blocked by something, and I can't shout.

Old man Liu squatted on the side of the bed and slowly turned his head to look at me. He was drenched all over his body, and his wrinkled old face was dripping with water, as if he had just climbed out of the water. As soon as Old Man Liu's eyes looked at me, his gaze seemed to be unable to move away, and I was furious in my heart when I was watched, and I involuntarily took a step backwards.

"Brother, the child is still young, he doesn't understand anything, if there is something, tell me." Father slowly propped himself up, he and Old Man Liu were separated by less than a meter, but his father still maintained a calm that had not changed in his life.

"Before, if there was anything I couldn't live in, I won't mention it......" Old man Liu seemed to be very unwilling to take his eyes off me, he squatted on the ground next to the bed, slowly raised a hand, I saw him holding a ball of things wrapped in cloth in his hand: "I want to borrow something, not for nothing, I'll exchange this thing for ...... Brother Lian, you are messing around in ancient times, you should see that this is a ...... Longevity Box ......"

Longevity Box !!

At this moment, my heart was full of horror, but when I heard the words "longevity box", an indescribable surprise sprouted in the horror.

Wanshou box, that's something rarer than the Doucai Chicken Cup!

The reason why the longevity box is rare is that the wood used to make the box is almost the same as that of a sacred object. This kind of wood, which grows with copper coin veins, comes from ancient Central Asia and is extremely rare, even in the place of origin, there are only a few plants. When Zhang Qian traveled to the Western Regions, he once brought back a section three feet long.

This kind of wood is as hard as iron, and fresh meat and vegetables can be placed on it without rotting for months, because of this special characteristic, in the court of the Western Han Dynasty, this wood is called "Changchun wood", commonly known as "gold does not change". The "gold does not change" that Zhang Qian brought back was made into four small boxes, one of which was used to store the hair that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty usually shed, and the other was used to store the teeth that fell out of his old age, this box is called the longevity box.

Periwinkle wood has long been out of production now, and there are only four longevity boxes left in the Western Han Dynasty. I don't dare to say that it is priceless, but it is absolutely not a problem to buy half of the seven-hole bridge in one box.

I never thought that Old Man Liu, who had lived in the poor countryside all his life, would have such a thing in his hands.

I can't tell now how the old man Liu, who had just been buried during the day, came to my house in the middle of the night, but I heard what he said clearly, he wanted to use this rare longevity box to borrow something from my house.

What is he going to borrow?

"Brother Lian, you are an understanding person, what I want to borrow, you know in your heart." Old man Liu put the longevity box on the side of the bed, and looked at his father with blank eyes: "I brought things, keep the big or not the small, two roads, you choose one yourself, don't blame me, I ...... I can't ...... either."

My father didn't answer, but I saw his barely supported body trembling slightly like an electric shock, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his forehead in an instant, as if he couldn't control himself, and his lips squirmed slightly, but he couldn't say a word.

I feel very bad, I know better than anyone what my father is like, unless it is something big and the sky is falling, otherwise, he will never lose his temper.

The father didn't speak, and the old man Liu didn't speak, and the two looked at each other silently again. It took three to five minutes before my father took a light breath and slowly wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Brother Liu, things are coming, and you can't hide from them. I'll leave the stuff, you go. ”

"Even my brother, I've lived all my life, I'm blind, I didn't see that you are so particular, you put away the things, I'm gone, ...... gone"

Old man Liu got up from the side of the bed and staggered out of the room, I stayed on the spot, and I didn't know whether to stop him or not.

Old man Liu looked at the difficult steps, but he walked quickly, and in a blink of an eye, he had disappeared into the night outside the house. As soon as he was gone, I came back to my senses and threw myself at my father's bedside.

"Dad, what's going on? Isn't Old Man Liu already out of the funeral and buried? How could he still ...... Can you still come to our house? What is he going to borrow when he takes this longevity box? ”

My father didn't answer my words, his head bowed, not knowing what he was thinking. He did lose his temper just now, but by this time he had returned to his usual appearance, smiled faintly, stretched out a hand, and touched my head.

"Son, what is the most important thing in a person's life, do you know? One is to be trustworthy, the other is to be responsible, not trustworthy is not a gentleman, and no responsibility is not a husband......"

He talked to me on a long call, but I didn't listen to a word. After talking for a long time, he seemed to be tired, leaning crookedly against the head of the bed, panting heavily, and glanced at me imperceptibly.

I will never forget this sight for the rest of my life.

My father fell asleep again, and I had a question in my stomach, and there was an indescribable uneasiness in my heart, but I could not bear to disturb him, so I silently stood by the bedside, and when it was dawn, I ran to the kitchen to make breakfast.

It took me half an hour at most to cook a meal, but by the time I got back to the house, my sleeping father was gone, leaving only the longevity box on the bed.

I panicked, and I searched inside and outside the house, but I couldn't find my father. The uneasiness in my heart gradually began to swell, and I immediately rushed out of the courtyard and searched the whole village and the surrounding area for several miles, but my father seemed to have disappeared, and there was no trace of him.

From dawn to afternoon, most of the day passed, and nothing was found, and my heart was impatient to death. At this time, even if you think about it with your heels, you can think that if something happened to your father, it definitely had something to do with Old Man Liu.

Old man Liu was buried yesterday, and I can only go to the grave to find him now.

Impatient, I felt like a raging fire in my chest, grabbed a shovel, and headed straight for the graveyard a few miles away. Countrymen are most taboo about digging people's graves, but I can't care about so much.

My mind was still a little dizzy, and by the time I arrived at the graveyard, it was nearly dusk. At this point, I had no other way but to start digging graves.

I dug up the coffin in the grave for two hours by myself. The coffin is so good that I can't see anything unusual.

However, the moment I took great pains to lift the nails off the lid of the coffin and open the coffin, my already drowsy brain was completely messed up.

Old man Liu disappeared, and it was his father who was lying in the coffin at the moment.