Chapter 44: Approach
"Hiding in the stove?" I was a little confused by her; "I don't understand what you're talking about, how can the demon pill hide in the furnace?"
Li Yingxue seemed to want to explain to me, but after thinking about it, she didn't know how to describe it to me, so she could only say: "I can't say for sure, in short, this is just a possibility, whether it is hidden in it or not, let's know as soon as we wash it, how about it, do it or not?" ”
Although I have 10,000 reluctances in my heart, after all, in front of women, I don't want to lose face, so I can only say: "Just do it, what are you afraid of, go, I'll take you to buy old rice tea." ”
The two of us took a taxi, went straight to Dongcheng, went back and forth several times, and finally found the shop selling old rice tea at the mouth of an alley, dirty, with a few big words on it: old rice tea.
Most people don't know what this shop is selling, and when they see the word rice tea, they think it might be selling kitchen supplies, so I accidentally broke into it that night.
Pushing the door in, an old man was dozing off in a rocking chair, with half an extinguished cigarette in his hand, and he didn't notice it when we went in.
I went over and pushed the rocking chair: "Uncle, uncle, it's time for business." ”
I shook it for a long time before he barely opened his eyes, saw the two of us, and then lowered his head and lit a cigarette and said, "See for yourself." ”
I didn't look like he would help us choose, so I walked to the shop with Li Yingxue and began to rummage through the shelves.
On this shelf, it's not a simple rice bag, vinegar bag, or something, it's all a jar of small bottles, and the bottles have written the contents inside, what rice, vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil and the like, and a string of numbers, which means what year the things in it were put in.
The things on it are actually quite old, but I don't know why, Li Yingxue and I walked from this end of the shelf to the other end of the shelf, she didn't pick up a single bottle, occasionally picked up a few bottles, or looked at it and put it down, it didn't seem to be very satisfied.
I asked her what was wrong, and she shook her head: "It's too short a time for this thing." ”
I was a little dumbfounded: "Is this still short?" I've been looking at things for more than ten years, and it's not short. ”
She said while rummaging through the bottles and cans: "It's enough to wash ordinary things, but it's estimated enough to wash that soul-sucking furnace." ”
We finished turning it all in, and we didn't find what Li Yingxue wanted, she asked me if I had any other stores, I shook my head and said that I had seen such a store.
The old man also got up from the rocking chair at this time, stretched his waist, saw me come out empty-handed, and asked with a cigarette smile: "What's wrong, I didn't find anything?" ”
"It's too short." Li Yingxue said: "The quality is not good. ”
The uncle looked at us strangely, and puffed out with joy: "I haven't heard anyone talk like this for a long time, the two seem to be experts?" Since you are an expert, let's talk about it, I dare to say, I can't find anything here, out of this door, you just mess around the whole capital, and you can't buy it, if I don't have it here, there is no other place. ”
"Jiuyin's Chen Mi, more than fifty years old, is there one?" Li Yingxue asked.
The old man squatted down with a smile, rummaged through the cardboard boxes under the counter for a long time, turned out several bottles and threw them on the table and said, "Nine yin, fifty years, sixty years, the oldest seventy-five years, which one do you want?" ”
I never thought that the old man actually had "private goods" hidden, it seems that those things on the shelves are for ordinary guests to see, only when he meets a veteran like Li Yingxue, he will take out his private collection.
"Give me fifty years, and get me a few of the matching ones."
I don't know if Li Yingxue was deliberately angry with him, or if she wanted to see if this old man was an expert, so she deliberately didn't say what the matching things were, and let the old man find it himself.
The old man also understood what she meant, and said with a smile: "Okay, then I'll look for it, most of my body has been buried in the ground, and I just met such an expert again, just a young man, and the future life is terrifying." ”
As he spoke, he put all kinds of bottles and cans on the table, and I was in a daze, what thirty years of soy sauce, more than ten years of vinegar, and even a colander spoon, I don't know how to hide this thing for so many years.
Soon, there were four or five bottles on the table, and the old man clapped his hands and stood up and said, "Okay, there are so many things, and I don't have any more, you can choose and see." ”
After this toss, Li Yinxue believed in the old man, so she didn't look at it much, packed up her things and asked, "How much?" ”
The old man smiled and waved his hand and said: "I don't want your money, I still have half a life left, I can meet an expert, it can be regarded as a full old man's dream, you take it and use it, put these things in my place, it is estimated that no one will ask for them again." ”
That being said, I couldn't really quit the money, so I took some money, put it on the old man's table and said, "Uncle, thank you, let's go first!" ”
Walking out of the door, I held bottles and cans, I always felt like picking up rags, I asked Li Yingxue: "I have bought all the things, but how do we enter the villa?" ”
Li Yingxue said: "I've planned it, you just follow me." ”
When we returned to the vicinity of the villa, we didn't go directly, but opened a room nearby, I originally wanted to open two rooms, but Li Yingxue insisted on opening only one, which made me quite embarrassed.
I saw that she was going to open a room, which was going to live for a long time, so I asked her what she was going to do, and she said: "In the past few days, you will be honest in the room, contact No. 88, see if there is any progress over there, and then see if you have received anything strange in your shop, it may be a message sent to us by the person who kidnapped the fat man." ”
"What about you?" I asked her.
She said, "You don't care about me, I'm out for something, it's nearby." ”
In the next few days, Li Yingxue went out early and returned late, I didn't know what to do, and when I went to bed at night, in order to show my gentleman status, I could only choose to sleep on the sofa.
Two days later, Li Yinxue came back in the afternoon of the first day, and as soon as she entered the door, she began to pack her things, and said while cleaning up: "The matter is done, let's do it tonight." ”
When she said it, I got nervous, and I started it? I wasn't even mentally prepared.
In fact, if you want to say that washing wet goods, I have seen it, but I have not seen the process, because the thing is confidential, and there is a washing method for each family, but almost all people after washing, they are always physically exhausted, or have a serious illness, others say that this is caused by too much yin breathing, anyway, this thing is okay to look lively, and try not to touch it if you can.
Although I can't say that I am afraid, but this heart is still beating the drum, Li Yingxue saw that I was a little hesitant, and said: "Don't worry, when the time comes, you will do whatever I ask you to do, just listen to me." ”
Like a veteran, she bought a coat full of pockets from somewhere, stuffed all kinds of small bottles into her pockets, and said to me, "Let's go out now." ”
When we went out, it was past six o'clock, just when it was almost dark, and we ran all the way down the path to the back door of the villa, and then Li Yingxue said to me: "You go find some dry firewood or something." ”
I listened to her instructions, found dry firewood and some haystacks, and put them all under the living room window, and then Li Yingxue poured some gasoline on them, took out a lighter and was about to light the fire.
I hurriedly grabbed her: ", you're crazy, a fire in the morning, and the police station in the afternoon, haven't you heard of it?" This is the capital, and you still dare to set it on fire? ”
She shook me off and said, "It's okay, don't worry, I know what I know." ”
As she spoke, she put on the hat of her coat again, and made it so tightly that only her two eyes were exposed.
I was still wondering what she was doing, and it was still strange on a hot day, so she lit the fire directly, and soon, the flames came out, and the smoke rose.
Soon, I knew why she only had two eyes exposed, because above us, a window-like place suddenly opened, and a probe stretched out began to water the fire like crazy!
Soon, I became a soup chicken, Li Yingxue pointed to it and said, "Climb!" Climb in from there! ”