Wu Zhiqiang was also confused when he saw our reaction.

"You mean Xiao Wei didn't send the bronze bell?"

Yang Guoshan replied: "We didn't see him at all!" I said that I would wait for two days, but from yesterday afternoon to now, no one has answered the phone call to his office, aren't we running here again! ”

Listening to Yang Guoshan's words, Wu Zhiqiang's face changed slightly, he stretched out his hand to take his glasses, and muttered: "That's weird, he didn't come to work today!" ”

Wu Zhiqiang listened to Yang Guoshan explain the incident in detail, saying that he couldn't do this thing, so he led us to the director's office.

Their curator's surname is Li, and he looks in his fifties and looks polite.

When Curator Li heard what we said, he was immediately at a loss, and hurriedly dialed the phone at Curator Wei's house, and there was a blind sound of "Dididi" from inside.

"Xiao Wu, contact the car, let's take these comrades to Xiao Wei's house! Don't anything happen! ”

Wu Zhiqiang left in response.

"You can sit down first! It's been several months since the ancient clock was dug up, and we have poor conditions and facilities here, so we're panicking......

Before he finished his words, he was stopped by Yang Guoshan.

"You wait! You say the ancient clock was dug up? Didn't it come up from the Yellow River? ”

"It's not this one that was salvaged! The old clock has rusted and is still in the warehouse! How? That's not what you want? ”

Yang Guoshan touched the back of his head, with an unbelievable expression on his face, and asked tremblingly, "Is there really two ancient bells here?" ”

"That's right! I thought you knew! Coincidentally, these two ancient bells were discovered on the same day, one was salvaged from the Yellow River, and the other was unearthed from a strange ancient tomb. ”

As soon as he heard about the ancient tomb, he followed the antique Li Laijin, walked forward in two steps, and asked Director Li: "What ancient tomb, why haven't I heard of it!" ”

Director Li smiled and said: "Big brother, if you find an important ancient tomb, you should first report to the municipal cultural department, but in addition to a rotten coffin in this tomb, there is only a big bell. ”

"There was only one bell in the tomb? And this thing......"

Antique Li said that he had been doing cultural relics appraisal work for decades, and he had never heard of such an ancient tomb.

After thinking about it, he asked again, "What age is this ancient tomb?" Who is buried? ”

"In the Yuan Dynasty, it may be that the era is too old, and the coffin has become a pile of black rotten wood, and the bones of the tomb owner have not been found."

"Oh?"

The two were chatting energetically, the door opened, and Wu Zhiqiang walked in, saying that the car was ready.

The group followed Wu Zhiqiang downstairs, and while walking, the antique Li still wanted to break the casserole and ask in the end, followed by Director Li and kept asking.

Yang Guoshan coughed lightly a few times and reminded the antique Li: "Lao Li, get busy with business first!" When the matter of the ancient bell is dealt with, you can consult Director Li again! ”

Antique Li seemed to be displeased, but he had to calm down.

There was a Jinbei car parked downstairs, and the driver saw the two curators walking downstairs one after the other, and quickly got out of the car and opened the door.

He bowed his head and said, "Director Li, Director Wu, two of you, please!" As he spoke, he put his hand on the car door to prevent the two of them from kowtowing.

Everyone got into the car, and the driver quickly closed the door and sat in the driver's seat.

"Curator, where are we going?"

"Xiao Xue, do you know where Curator Wei's family lives?"

"Yes, yes! It's in the beauty community, seven or eight miles away from our cultural center. ”

"Good! Then you send us there! ”

The car exited the gate, drove straight along the road for a few minutes, then made a few more detours before stopping.

Director Wei lives in an old-fashioned community, with four floors per building and a backyard on the first floor. Curator Wei lives on the first floor of Unit 1 of Building 3 in the Beauty Community.

We first knocked on his door, knocked a dozen times, and no one came out to open the door.

Wang Jiliangqi asked: "How many people in his family! Aren't they all at home? ”

Wu Zhiqiang smiled slightly and replied: "How can he have a family!" The parents are long gone, and they divorced a few years ago, and the children followed their daughter-in-law. ”

We waited for a few minutes, but no one opened the door, so we could conclude that Curator Wei was not at home.

"A few people, let you run for nothing, what's going on with this Xiao Wei! Didn't come to work and didn't ...... at home."

Listening to the tone, Director Li was faintly worried.

When he was about to get in the car and go back, Wu Zhiqiang glanced at the small courtyard behind the building, suddenly slapped his head, and shouted: "My hometown lives on the first floor!" Could he not have heard us knocking in the yard! ”

So saying, he walked towards the small gate of the courtyard.

Maybe we all think that this is very unlikely! There was a lot of knocking on the door just now, and the neighbors all looked at us through the crack in the door, and it was impossible not to hear it in the yard! So they all looked at him as they were, and did not pass.

Wu Zhiqiang walked to the gate of the courtyard, first bent down and looked in from the lock hole. This look was like being electrocuted, and he took several steps back one after another.

I thought he would come back after taking a look and finding nothing, so I was taken aback by his sudden move.

"What's wrong? Xiao Wu! ”

Curator Li hurriedly asked.

Wu Zhiqiang took a few steps back, leaned back again, and bent down again to look through the lock hole.

He looked at us for half a minute before he turned to look at us.

Li ...... Curator Lee! How could that ancient bell be in Xiao Wei's yard! ”

As soon as we heard the word "ancient bell", several of us reflexively leaned over, and we all leaned forward, and Wu Zhiqiang, who was in the front, slammed into the door with a "clang", and the door squeaked open.

Everyone didn't expect the door to be just hidden, and they were all stunned for a moment, and when the door was pushed open, I saw a big black bell more than one meter high buckled in the middle of the small courtyard.

I recognized it at a glance, this is the ancient clock that Curator Wei showed us yesterday. How could this bell be here?

It is estimated that everyone present was stunned.

"The bell! The bell! The bell!"

Antique Li shouted "the bell" several times in a row, but did not say the second half of the sentence.

"Xiao Wu, what's going on? Shouldn't Xiao Wei send this ancient bell to the estuary area? How...... How...... How did this clock end up here? ”

Obviously, Wu Zhiqiang also looked confused, looked at Gu Zhong and shook his head.

Director Li suddenly thought of something and muttered, "Where did this little Wei go......

Later, I learned that no matter which urban area, the cultural center belongs to the relatively idle yamen, to put it bluntly, it is a dispensable department, and most of the people who work here are "idle", so the natural attendance system is not very strict, and Xiao Wei is a deputy director, and it is very common to come late and leave early.

The ancient bell weighs at least a few hundred pounds, and there is a clear scratch from the yard to the location of the ancient clock.

"Xiao Wei? Xiao Wei! ”

While shouting, Director Li wanted to go into the house to have a look.

As soon as we heard that this was not the ancient clock we were looking for, Wang Jiliang and I were not interested in looking at this black piece of metal anymore, so we followed Director Li into the room.

As soon as I took the first step, I felt the heat in my chest suddenly roll up.

No way! I was stunned and said to myself: This is a signal of danger! Could it be that there is something hidden in this house?

Thinking so, I subconsciously called Director Li:

"I'm afraid there's danger in this house!"

Director Li was about to reach out and pull the door, but when I shouted so abruptly, he was so frightened that he immediately retracted his hand.

"What? What dangers? ”

He looked back and saw that it was me, the hairy boy, and his face immediately showed displeasure.

I scolded secretly, thinking: Who are you showing this face! Labor and management are saving you!

"Director Li, you have to listen to Xiao Zhen's words! He's not an ordinary person, he's learned Taoism......"

"Learning the art of the aisle? So what are the dangers in this house? ”

Hearing Wang Jiliang say this, Director Li didn't dare to take it lightly, just took his glasses, turned around and walked back a few steps.

"I don't know exactly what the danger is, but it should be."

What I'm saying is actually a sick sentence, and saying it is almost like saying it in vain.

A few people, you look at me, I look at you, all looking at me with blank expressions.

In the end, I went in, since that time I repelled the snakes crawling in the Yellow River, Wang Jiliang directly regarded me as the second old man Sun, and I myself was also more confident.

There was only a screen door between the house and the courtyard, and as soon as I got closer, I could smell a strong, pungent smell of blood mixed with an indescribable stench, and the heat wave in my chest intensified.

At this time, I also regretted pretending to be a big head just now, I'm not stupid! On the spur of the moment, he rushed to poke this hornet's nest.

On the other hand, I, Chen Xiaozhen, am also a person who wants to save face, Wang Jiliang and they are all following behind! This time, I have to bite the bullet and go into the house!

The door was opened all of a sudden, and the room was messy, more messy than my Chen Xiaozhen's nest, and I saw that something was wrong at the second glance, why did I feel so messy! In addition to the furniture items that are skewed horizontally and vertically, the main thing is to sprinkle the earthy yellow paper everywhere.

I chuckled in my heart,! It's a room full of paper money! On the ground, on the table......

"Is this where people live? Xiao Wei, what's wrong? No wonder I think he's weird these days! ”

Wu Zhiqiang whispered.

The others are also the second monk who is confused, and it is understandable that the single's house is messy and dirty, why do you want to scatter a room of burning paper?

I'm sure everyone was a little scared at this time, because they all knew that burning paper was for the dead.

At that moment, with my extraordinary hearing, I heard a rapid gasp behind the opposite wall.

"Woooooo

"Whew!"

This wheezing sound is a bit peculiar, and it doesn't sound like a human being.