To be honest, I have a vague impression of the pen pals I made more than ten years ago, I only remember that I did have pen pals, but there were three before and after, and I can't be sure which one wrote this "seventh letter".

Its font is somewhat sloppy, but the pen is powerful, written with a pen in blue and black ink. I don't know if I'm delusional, after so many years, it seems that I can still smell a little ink. When I closed my eyes, some of the precipitated past surfaced in wisps, and my mind couldn't help but drift away.

Many people made pen pals in junior high school out of curiosity and fun, but I was influenced by the environment.

The water falls and the fish beam is shallow, and the weather is cold and the dream is deep.

The pen name "Liang Qian" when I had a pen pal at that time came from this poem, and it can be said that the artistic conception of the poem summed up the portrayal of my life at that time. The water in the late autumn is dry and cold, which leads to the emergence of "Yuliangzhou", and the water of "Mengze" is deeper and quieter.

My father was originally a businessman, but due to the fierce competition among his peers, it gradually declined, and he co-founded a joint venture company. But the partner ran away a year later, and the money his father had invested was lost. Since then, he has gone astray. The so-called "misdirection" is not something that is a heinous crime, but someone has been picked up to know a few "goods" people.

Goods are people who specialize in wandering in the dark and dealing with some "private collections".

At that time, I didn't understand what this "private collection" meant, and it was only when I became an adult that I realized that it was a cultural relic that was secretly resold and that it was a crime. But my father always wanted to turn over, and when he came back from a trip, he began to dream, telling me and my mother that as long as a deal was made, even if he was just a middleman, the commission was considerable; If he is allowed to find good treasures, and then resell them with his backhand, it will be in sacks for money.

But I didn't see that day, only that my father brought back a heavy metal object, and then left the house, never to come back. Later, my mother told me that when my father came back for the last time, he left her a divorce agreement.

When I first entered middle school, the sluggish family environment and the embarrassment of life made me feel low self-esteem and loneliness at the same time, unable to integrate between teachers and classmates, even if my grades were excellent, there was always a layer of estrangement. It is at this time that pen pals are made, and a piece of letter paper, some words, and even a painting can communicate with a stranger.

What I get is the pleasure of confiding, the comfort of kindness, and the companionship of the soul.

Man is actually a very strange animal, and the brain will naturally avoid harm. It wasn't a good time for me, so I gradually forgot about it as an adult. So much so that now when I think back to my correspondence with pen pals, it is very vague.

With a move in his heart, he rolled over from the bed, quietly opened the door and walked to the balcony.

In the corner, there was a black thing.

I don't know how he told my mother about it the last time I came home, but when I saw that my mother's attitude seemed to be careless, she seemed to ignore it, but in fact I once went out to the bathroom at night and saw her sitting alone and carefully wiping it with a cloth.

Instead of avoiding it, I approached and asked: what is it?

To this day, I'm not really sure what it is, even though it's called the "Seven-Star Kirinmon". I have deliberately searched for the appearance of the unicorn, which is a combination of lion head, antlers, tiger eyes, elk body, dragon scales, and ox tail, but this thing is indeed a beast body from the appearance, but there is more than one head!

Strictly speaking, it is like a beast carrying six dragons of all sizes, two middle dragons on the body of the beast, the head of the bottom dragon bites the tail of the upper dragon, here is a clever connection and nesting, and the head dragon is coiled to the sky; On top of the beast's head were four tiny dragons, like the tentacles of the beast, but when you looked closer, you could see that the dragon's head and the dragon's body were lined up on the top of its head. The ingenuity lies in the fact that the head of the beast is also connected and nested with the body, and it is not one, and the eyes of the beast are long on the top of the head, that is, behind the four small dragons, which seems to have the meaning of protecting its son.

From the point of view of material and color, it is black and blue, and there is green between the analysis of the ornamentation, and I used to think that it was made of bronze, but since I really saw the bronze auction of Gu Xi, I will feel that there is a difference.

Bronze pays attention to the pulp, and the pulp is due to the action of oxidation, rust and sweat, a layer of compounds naturally formed over time, so that the utensils have a natural sense of obsolescence. It can be said that the pulp is slowly polished by the passage of time on the millstone of time, and the faint glossy surface is so subtle that it is difficult to distinguish without careful observation.

But this "seven-star unicorn beast", the gloss doesn't seem to be enough.

At one point I tried to pick it up, but with my strength it was so heavy that it couldn't even move a minute.

In fact, when my father first brought it back, it had no beast head and two dragons on its body, and it was just a bare body. It wasn't until a year later that two people sent the remaining two parts to my mother, and those two were the people who asked my father to go out to "sell" at that time. When my mother saw them, she almost jumped up and grabbed each other's clothes and asked where my father had gone, but the answer they gave was that they didn't know, but they also told us some truths that we couldn't know.

It turned out that this thing was bought by my father with all the money in the family and a private loan of 200,000 yuan, and the middleman of the "goods" at that time called it a bronze vessel of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the animal was an ancient divine beast, which was regarded as a symbol of the royal family by the monarch, and gave it the name "Seven Star Unicorn Beast". During this period, I also found an "appraisal expert" to see that it was genuine, but because its expensive value reached the national cultural relics level, it could not be left in the market for normal trading, so it would be taken to the black market and sold cheaply.

When my father heard this, he was moved, and he felt that the dream he had come true. In particular, the middleman also found a next house, and only demanded that he must wait for a successful transaction to divide 30% of the money to him. According to the price of this bronze age, even if it is divided into 30%, the rest of the money is uncountable, and now my father poured out his money to buy it. But he also knew the seriousness of the matter, so he removed the beast's head and the two dragons from the beast's body through the cracks, intending to use them as a deposit in the transaction, while the beast's body was hidden elsewhere.

But on the day of the transaction, not only did the so-called "next family" not see anyone, but even the middleman did not come. After waiting for three days in a row, the middleman has been shirking and saying that he will trade tomorrow, but in the end, the phone call cannot be reached.

At this time, my father realized that something was wrong, and immediately took the two dragon heads with his two partners to find someone who knew how to identify them, and the results showed that the bronze was really bronze, but it was this age...... Not to mention the Shang and Zhou dynasties, not even the Tang and Song dynasties, they are simply imitations of modern times, and they are not valuable.

It was a bolt from the blue! My father's whole heart was cold, and he felt that everything was over. Not only was he cheated, but he was also burdened with a debt of 200,000 yuan, which was not a small amount at that time, and he was unable to repay it at all.

He took the beast home and left a divorce deed for his mother. The borrower used to be a friend of my father's, and he came to him several times, but seeing that we were orphans and widows, my father could not persecute him if he never came back.

Then I want to talk about why the two partners took the initiative to send the outcast parts to my mother. Although the bronze has been determined to be a worthless imitation, the craftsmanship is exquisite, especially in the two parts. So even if you stay at home and watch it, it's good. But unexpectedly, it's evil.

Speaking of which, those two have been in several places, but every time they go to a house, within two months, there will be injuries and illnesses in the family, and in serious cases, someone will die of illness. At first, no one thought about it, but one of the partners once asked a feng shui master to look at the house, and the feng shui master said that there was something evil in his house, and he must overcome his family. And these evil things are exactly them.

The unicorn itself is a divine object, kind and gentle, and is the best at dissolving evil spirits, and it is best used to control the house. But whether it is the head of the beast or the two flying dragons, there is no main body, and this peaceful aura not only cannot control the evil qi, but also produces the evil qi itself because it cannot return to one, which naturally affects people after a long time. Feng Shui master also said that if he didn't return it earlier, it might even affect three generations.

How dare the partner keep it now, and as soon as the two discussed it, they felt that this thing was too evil, so they immediately took it to our house and returned to Zhao.

After they left, I saw that my mother had been staring at the two things on the ground in a daze, and although I was still young, I could understand what the adults were saying. I couldn't help but ask worriedly, since this thing is so evil, will something bad happen to our house.

But my mother gritted her teeth and said, "I don't believe in this evil, I want to make it whole." After saying that, he grabbed one in one hand and climbed to the third floor, and the beast body had been resting on the balcony on the third floor since his father left.

I also followed, and when I stood at the top of the stairs, I saw my mother bending down to put the two parts on separately, patted its head and whispered: Since it is the old man who left you, take care of this home for me.

After that, my mother would go upstairs and wipe it every once in a while.

It's strange that my mother and I have nothing to do so far.