Chapter 13: The Truth Before the Disappearance
It was a wooden boat, moving slowly forward on the water, and the sound of orchestral music and women's chants could be faintly heard from the pink gauze tent behind it.
I turned to go inside, when suddenly a terrible face peeked out of the tent and pounced on me with a hideous face.
I could vaguely recognize this as a woman from the length of her hair, but her face seemed to have been blistered for a long time and she was no longer recognizable, but I was sure that she was the one who had just stood by my bed and touched me. I instinctively dodged backwards, and she pounced before turning her head and chasing after me again.
I was so scared that I was about to pee my pants, and begged for mercy while running, "Big sister spare your life, there is a debtor and a debtor, are you always pestering me a little unreasonable." ”
After running two laps, I suddenly reacted, no, what am I afraid of, isn't it just a dream?
I immediately stopped and looked at the water, thinking about all the heroes I had known since I was a child, and when I thought of Spider-Man, the ugly woman chased after me.
I gritted my teeth and jumped into the water with a pop, and began to bubble.
But the ugly woman jumped down with me, and smashed on my head with a thud, and I didn't even have time to react, and my eyes went black and fainted.
When I woke up the next morning, my head hurt like it had been opened. When I opened my eyes, there were white flowers all around, and I thought there was something wrong with my retina, until the nurse came in and I realized that I was in the hospital.
"Nurse, what's wrong with me?"
She looked at me like a neuropath, and she didn't intend to say that I had amnesia as in the idol script, but just hung a drip bottle on my bedside and said it in a salty and non-salty way.
"You jumped off the building."
At this moment, Lao Meng happened to come in with a basin, and when he saw me wake up, he ran over in surprise, "It's okay to wake up, I thought you had to be smashed into a vegetative state now." Is it just a woman, I was also quick to talk yesterday, because this little thing is really enough? You say you'......"
It seems that Lao Meng thought that I was mentioning Chen Yu because of him, so he couldn't think about it for a while.
I rubbed my head that was about to crack and asked, "Don't say that it's not four or six, I heard, I jumped off the building?" ”
Lao Meng looked at me with a little worry: "You won't lose your memory, right?" ”
"What the hell is going on?"
Lao Meng said that it was about twelve o'clock in the evening when he got up at night and saw me standing upright in the middle of the room.
He turned on the light in a daze, and turned his head to see me staring at him with two eyes, without blinking, and he was frightened.
Lao Meng thought that I was sleeping, so he had the courage to wave his hand in front of me, who knows if I suddenly screamed like something topped, and then the girl began to run around the house, and finally opened the door and ran into the corridor.
Lao Meng wanted to catch me, but I was like a wild horse at that time, and I couldn't hold it at all.
In desperation, Lao Meng knocked on the door of Liao Kao's house and wanted to call a helper out.
Who would have thought that I would turn around and climb up the windowsill at this time, and jump off without thinking.
Lao Meng was slightly afraid to describe, "You didn't hear the sound downstairs at that time, the alarm of dozens of electric cars was smashed by you, wow wow, it was like pulling the alarm, it was too miserable." ”
I pointed to my head, "Is the electric car miserable or am I miserable?" ”
"Who do you rely on when you jump off by yourself, thanks to the second floor, I don't have to book you a ticket back if the floor is a little higher."
Lao Meng said and put the basin next to the bed and wet the towel to wipe my face.
It seems that I really had a dream last night, but with sleepwalking, I made the dream a VR experience.
I was thinking about it, and suddenly I felt that my arm was sore, could it be that the corpse poison had been committed again?
When I looked down, it turned out that Yu Lei had pressed the basin on my infusion tube.
"Your uncle, hurry up and take the basin away for me, my hands are purple."
Lao Meng glanced at it and hurriedly took the basin away.
At this time, the door of the ward was pushed open, and I saw that it was Liao Kao and Teng Chong rushing to them.
I quickly sat up, "Huh? How did you guys get here? ”
Liao Kao put the fruit down, "Let's see how you are, I heard that the injury was not light yesterday." ”
I smiled a little awkwardly, "It's nothing, it's not broken, it's just skin trauma." ”
Teng Chongchong smiled and said, "You have to thank me, otherwise you may have to jump down from the fifth floor if you change rooms with me, hahaha." ”
I hurriedly interrupted, trying to divert the topic: "Are you going out to play?" ”
Liao Kao said, "Go to the nearby antique market and exchange something." ”
I suddenly remembered that I was on the train yesterday, and I seemed to have inadvertently heard them mention the ancient Dian Kingdom, so I asked tentatively, "Are you looking for antiques or something?" That's what I do at home, so maybe it will help a little bit. ”
Teng Chongchong didn't think much about it, and said to me, "What we are looking for is the ancient Dian relics, which cannot be seen on the market." You better take care of your injuries and get out of the shadow as soon as possible. ”
Tengchong bent down to speak to me, revealing the skin covered under the collar.
From my vantage point, I could see that there was a cyan tattoo on the neck socket, and only two words the size of a fingernail, which I had never seen before.
I kept a look, but didn't ask much.
As soon as Liao Kao walked to the door, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and said to me, "By the way, look at my brain, I have forgotten all the business." In the morning, someone came to the store and said... She's back. I didn't understand what that meant, but he told me to just give you this letter. ”
As soon as I heard it, I knew that it was the old man who was tailoring Xu Ji, so I took the envelope and thanked Liao Kao, and hurriedly urged Lao Meng to go through the discharge procedures.
The envelope was glued with fire paint, and when I tore it open, I found that it was an invitation with my father's name on it.
Fortunately, my injuries are not serious, and I do not need to stay in the hospital for further observation. There was nothing to do in the afternoon, so Lao Meng and I packed up and went to the address on the invitation.
When he arrived at the door, Lao Meng was stopped outside the door, and only one person could enter with an invitation.
Lao Meng was happy to be idle, saying that he would go to the neighborhood to hang out and call if he had something.
I was led up to the banquet hall on the second floor by the doorman at the door, and when I opened the door, I realized that it seemed to be an exhibition.
I was standing in the doorway for some reason, when a graceful woman came over and asked for my name.
After reporting home, she took me to the VIP lounge.
Facing the doorway were two single leather sofas, in which a man of about fifty or sixty years of age sat and snoozed, his eyes closed, but his hands still cross-legged on crutches.
There is a unicorn carved on the crutch, and the tiger is vigorous.
"Teacher Teng, someone is here."
When the man saw me, he stood up with a smile and stretched out his hand to me, "Teng Jianmin, you should call me Uncle Teng." ”
What do I mean, this is my dad's friend?
Probably seeing my doubts, he said, "Your father and I have been old friends in the business for many years, and I only heard the news of his disappearance a while ago. Xu Ji tailoring is my sister's stall, and the courier is also sent by me and her. ”
As soon as I heard about the courier, I immediately came to my senses and hurriedly asked, "Did my dad contact you before he disappeared?" ”
Uncle Teng shook his head, "No, he didn't reply to me for a long time after the courier was sent." I also said on the phone before, I hope he can come ten days and a half months in advance, I happen to have some gadgets that everyone can sit together and estimate the price. But a week later, he sent me the invitation again, and I called your mother to find out that he was missing. ”
"What, what invitation? The box didn't contain an invitation. ”
He was very puzzled by my reaction to this, "It's this invitation in your hand, this invitation is the courier I sent to your father." There are a lot of things in this exhibition that are auctioned after the exhibition, and I just invited your dad to come over and have a good time for the first time. ”
Uncle Teng's words broke all my previous conjectures at once, could it be that someone dropped the bag as soon as the letter was sent?
My mind was full of twine balls that I couldn't sort out, wrapped layer after layer, and I always felt that what Uncle Teng said seemed to be something wrong......
Until he asked me, "What do you think your dad received about the copper coin, can you lend it to me?" ”
I immediately raised all my vigilance and looked at him calmly.
He was a little disillusioned by me and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"How do you know my dad received a copper coin? I haven't said a word since I walked in the door. ”
He paused, and then immediately explained, "I heard from Lao Yao, and he said that you received a copper coin." ”
"It's been almost a month since my father disappeared, and finding you is the only clue. But I don't think you want to tell me, and I don't need to waste your time. I got up and left.
He hurriedly stopped me, and after thinking about it, he told me the truth.
What he said about the invitation is true, who dropped the copper coin, and who sent the invitation, no one knows so far.
On the same day, after receiving the express, my father called Teng Jianmin as soon as possible.
Teng Jianmin also said that he did not know the origin of the copper coin, judging from the four words of ancient relics currency written on it, it should be the currency left by the ancient Dian Kingdom.
My father was extremely obsessed with the civilization of the ancient Dian Kingdom, but both of them were suspicious of the two words on it.
As Lao Meng said, this itself is a legendary nation, and there is no way to verify whether it exists, and there is no way to distinguish the authenticity of this copper coin.
Before my father hung up the phone, he only said that he must find out the origin of the copper coin, and he didn't say anything else.
Teng Jianmin said sincerely, but I don't seem to believe it.
"Then why didn't Uncle Teng tell me the truth just now?"
He pondered for a moment and then said, "I always feel that your father seems to have an accident because he got into trouble with something unclean, and it's not good for you to ask too much about it." ”