Chapter 2: Burnt Yellow Paper
Mr. Jiang is gone, life is back to the previous rhythm, look at the store at home, nothing to go out and Brother Hao, big trouble, this day I was lying on the chair at the door basking in the sun, warm and sleepy, suddenly a timid voice to talk to me: "Excuse me, is this Fengbao Zhai?" When I opened my eyes, I saw an old man who was not good-looking, black, wearing a big cotton jacket, and was followed by a half-sized boy with a sloppy frozen nose. "yes, what?" I asked, "There's something I want to see if you can take it," the old man squinted and smiled. As soon as I saw the business, I immediately got up and brought him in, and when my father saw that I had brought in an old man, he took off his glasses and got up and said, "Who is this?" ”。 I said, "This old man said that there is something for sale", then the old man nodded and smiled innocently, took out a cloth bag from his arms, spread it out on the counter, and revealed a few pieces of paper inside, "The family is in trouble, thinking that this thing is also an antiquity, see if it can be sold for two dollars." "What is this? It was just a few pieces of paper, and the edges of the paper looked like they had been burned by fire, charred and blackened, and the words were written on them, like earthworms, and I didn't recognize any of them.
Dad picked one up, put his glasses back on, looked at it carefully, his expression suddenly became nervous, and asked, "Old man, where did this thing come from!" The old man was a little nervous, and lowered his voice and said, "Didn't you go to tear down the old city wall when you broke the four olds, and it was dug at that time, alas, there was more than this at that time, and people were deceived in the early years, and there are only these pages left!" The old man looked at his father with a sad face and said, "Do you think this thing can be sold for money?" "Yes, how much do you want to sell?" The old man hesitantly stretched out a palm, his five fingers spread, "Five thousand? I shouted, "Just these two pieces of torn paper? The old man hurriedly shook his head: "Little brother laughed, how dare you ask for so much, I heard others say that this thing has been around for some years, it is an antiquity, it is not difficult for anyone to take it out and sell it, I only need five hundred yuan." The old man pondered for a while before he could speak, and the child said behind the old man: "I'll just say that this can't be done, you see that no one wants it, these are all things that my grandfather exchanged for his life, and we won't sell them!" Seeing this, my father hurriedly said: "That's it, it's fate to meet each other, you entered my door today, that is, we have fate, I will give you a thousand yuan, and in the future, there will be such things at home and send them to me, you see you have five pieces of paper here, count one two hundred, next time you come, I will give you this price, what do you think?" The old man trembled happily, and said to the kid, "Thank you, uncle, uncle is such a kind person", after the father finished speaking, he took out the money from the cabinet behind the counter and handed it to the old man, the old man took the money and left, and the father sent it to the door. But when he turned around and entered the door, his expression suddenly became very serious, and he walked up to me quickly and said, "Go and call your uncle and Uncle Wang." "I can see my father's expression that there is something, and it is not small.
I knew that I couldn't delay for a moment at this time, so I hurriedly ran to call someone, Uncle Wang lived in the experimental primary school, Uncle Wang lived in the south of the city, rode my old phoenix, and stepped on the hot wheels on both legs to get to the uncle's house, and when I entered the gate, I shouted, "Uncle, my dad called you over" The uncle was eating in the house, "What's the matter", "I don't know, I just received something, I want you to go over and have a look" I replied breathlessly, "What good things did you receive?" The uncle asked while holding another chopsticks dish, "I can't say it, just a few pieces of paper, like the yellow paper burned on the grave, and there are snake-like words written on it." With a bang, the uncle's bowl fell to the ground and shattered, "Break the wealth, smack!" Seeing this, the eldest lady muttered, and the uncle got up and went to the yard, "Let's go, take a look!" "I'm going to call Uncle Wang, you go first" As soon as I turned around, I got on the car and drove towards the south of the city.
This cold winter wax moon, the wind is like a knife, cut my ears and hands hurt, Uncle Wang's house is in an alley, just arrived at the door of the alley and saw Brother Hao over there with a group of children to play with fireworks, Brother Hao saw me coming, he smiled slyly, pointed a monkey at my direction, a little cigarette butt, stabbed a sound, it exploded under the wheel of my car, I scolded angrily, and rode to Brother Hao, Brother Hao saw that I came to really, while retreating and begging for mercy, "Okay, good, count me wrong, okay." Seeing the front, I braked suddenly, one foot on the ground, stopped in front of him, the wheel of the car was pressed against his crotch, "hit you and be infertile", Brother Hao smiled, "Now the mouth is poisonous enough, what are you doing, play with me" "Looking for you to twitter, is your dad at home, my dad called him over", "What's the matter, he went out in the morning and hasn't come back yet", "Then you go back and talk to your dad, just say that my dad called him over, there is something urgent!" "No problem, what are you doing in the afternoon, I'll play two more in a while", "Okay, when I finish eating, you and Uncle Wang will come over together", after speaking, I kicked on the car and went back to my life, my stomach was hungry, the two wheels I rode were about to fly, and I didn't look carefully at the crossing, and I hit a person all of a sudden. "Little bunny, don't look at the bike when you ride!" I thought about it, and when I looked up, I saw Uncle Wang looking at me with a smile, and he also had a pocket on his back, and he didn't know what to pack. "Uncle Wang, my dad called you over and said that there was something to do with you" I hurriedly brought the words, "Okay, I'll go in a while." Uncle Wang turned around and entered the alley with his pocket on his back.
When I got home, the uncle had arrived, the two of them were talking to each other, I said hello, and went to the kitchen to eat, Dad's craftsmanship is still good, dried beans and salted chicken, that is called a fragrant, the cold rice is cold, I put the dishes on the pot and heated it, took out the rice from the rice cooker, and was gobbling it up, I listened to my father shouting "coming", Uncle Wang entered the store, I hurriedly shouted Uncle Wang, Uncle Wang nodded and entered the back room, the three of them whispered in it for a long time, I didn't hear what to say, just took care of eating chicken, After eating, I poured some boiling water in the bowl, shook the oil star as soup and drank it, this meal was dealt with, after drinking and eating, I threw the bowl on the stove, lit a cigarette and smoked it.
After a while, I heard the sound of someone getting up in the back room, and my father accompanied Uncle Wang and Uncle Wang to go out, while walking, he was still talking, "Fourth, the people over there are ready at any time, just in case" Uncle talked to his father while walking, "Don't worry, leave it to me", Dad replied to Uncle, Uncle Wang strained his face, without saying a word, I quickly got up, "Uncle, Uncle Wang walked slowly", sent away Uncle and Uncle Wang, Dad turned around and walked quickly to the back room, and not long after Dad walked to the kitchen door again and said to me" Don't tell anyone about the things you received today, you know? I didn't understand what my dad was nervous about, but I knew it must be important, and I nodded solemnly.
From this day on, my dad slept very late every night, I don't know what to do, sometimes I will hold the phone and talk to people for a long time, when I was okay during the day, I checked the phone number, in addition to calling Uncle Wang and Uncle I know, there is also a number that is also very frequent, it is a number starting with 025, I checked the area code on the phone book, it is the number of Nanjing, I don't remember what relatives or acquaintances we have in Nanjing, I only vaguely remember that my father has a comrade-in-arms in Nanjing, and the movement is not much better, Who the hell is this for?
A few days after that incident, my father went back to his hometown to see my grandfather, and I didn't take me, I took advantage of my father's absence, closed the door of the shop, and Brother Hao and made a big fuss to play in the game room at the bus station, just arrived at the place, was about to enter the door, Brother Hao pointed across the road with his finger, I saw my father standing at the door of the bus station, as if waiting for someone, I was a little curious, he went to see Grandpa without me, who is this going to go with me, I just stood there and watched for a long time, I saw Uncle Wang and Uncle arrived one after another, and the three of them got into the car together, It's a car back to their hometown, and these three people don't have anything in their hands, and they don't bring anything when they go back to see their grandfather, I really don't know how embarrassing.
This trip my dad went back for two days, I also rarely let go of myself, our shop became our nest, made a fuss and Brother Hao brought a video recorder, we came back from the outside at night, the whole point of wine, eat and drink enough to watch the video, very comfortable, business to do a day off half a day, but this line of business has no business every day.
My dad arrived home on the morning of the third day, and I hadn't gotten up yet, when I heard the sound of the roller shutter, I realized that my dad was back, and I quickly got up, and went downstairs to meet my dad, and hurriedly shouted "Dad, I'm back!" "I thought that my father would blame me for not opening the door in the morning, but I didn't expect my father to just nod when he saw me, looking full of worries, his eyes were red, as if he hadn't slept for a few days, and when he came back, he went upstairs and entered the house without saying a word.