Chapter 5: The Black Box
As soon as I heard that the owner of this snack bar was really "melon bag", it was better not to ask him, so I wanted to ask others again, turned my head to look around, and caught a glimpse of an old shop with half a door panel on the corner of the street, and the faΓ§ade was selling groceries. Whole\Ben/Small\Say/Net\
But the strange thing is that in front of the store with hemp rope hanging a small coffin-like wooden box, the box body has gone a lot of lacquer, all painted black, it looks old, the patent leather peels off and weathered, just look at the color of the wood, you know that it is red sandalwood, it must be some antiquities of origin, and the shape is extraordinary, the more I look at it, the more strange it is, I can't imagine that in this inconspicuous remote town, there is such a thing? was bumped into by me, and it can be regarded as our "touching the gold captain".
I looked at the "black box" hanging in front of the store for a long time, saw it accurately, and I thought that I would not lose my eyes, so I turned my head and asked the bald head boss: "Let me ask you again, is the grocery store on the street state-run or individual?" β
While busy working on the stove, the bald head boss looked up at the shop I said, and replied: "That is an individual, the old shopkeeper is called Li Shuguo, an outsider from Baoding Mansion, an old man who fights indiscriminately, he only knows how to rush the shell, he doesn't know how to do business at all, he doesn't have anything serious, what do you want to buy, it's better to go down the street, there are state-run stores." β
As soon as I heard that the grocery store owner was from Baoding Mansion, it would not be wrong, so I thanked the bald head case, returned to Shirley Yang and the others and sat down, Shirley Yang asked me, "How is it?" What's the news? β
I said, "No one here knows that there is a king who has no brains. But there were other unexpected discoveries...... "As I spoke, I pointed to the grocery store on the corner and asked everyone to look at the "black box" hanging in front of the store.
The fat man said strangely: "It's a coffin shop, who are you going to buy a coffin for, Lao Hu?" β
Sun Jiuye said that it is definitely not a coffin model, walking around in the countryside all the year round, I have never seen such a coffin shop in the people, and how can there be a grocery store selling coffins, I don't know what is the point of hanging a wooden box at the door, is it because I am full of food?
Shirley Yang's maternal grandfather was a well-known "mountain movers" during the Republic of China, and he was familiar with the doorways in the rivers, lakes and green forests. So although Shirley Yang grew up overseas, she is familiar with the secret words of the mountains on the rivers and lakes, don't look at Sun Jiuye, who is a professor, and the fat man don't know why, she has already seen a little bit of a sneer, and said to me: "This wooden box is full of holes, like a beekeeper's beehive, I'm afraid that the shopkeeper in the store is the head of the honeycomb mountain, Sun Jiuye heard it and wondered: "Honeycomb Mountain? Keeping bees? No, look at the holes. They vary in size and shade. There are no rules at all, they may all be poked with knives, it may be some local customs, you should not be in a hurry to be arbitrary, we need to respect the local folk customs. β
I said, "Professor Sun, you are really not an ordinary layman in this regard, and I don't even bother to raise the bar with you." Let's not just talk about it, just go in and buy some things, and see if there is an old Yuanliang hiding in this store. β
The fat man actually didn't know anything, but he still didn't know how to pretend to understand, and said to Sun Jiuye: "Lu is timid, right? Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, don't think you're an expert. can talk nonsense in all fields, experts and professors are not jack-of-all-trades, learn more from the fat master in the future, and go in and open your eyes. After speaking, he took two bites of food and picked up his backpack. Come with us to the old shop.
There are two people in the shop, one old and one young, who are seventy or eighty years old. His hair and beard were gray, he was holding two iron balls in his hands, lying on a bamboo chair and half asleep, thinking that this person was the old shopkeeper surnamed Li; There is also a young girl in her early twenties, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, very smart, tied two braids hanging down on her chest, from top to bottom with a clean and neat, at first glance it is a local Sichuan girl, not like the old shopkeeper has any blood relationship, may be the salesperson in the store, she saw us enter the store, immediately busy greeting, asked me what I want to buy?
I looked left and right, although the store furnishings are old, but everywhere is cleaned spotlessly, there is an old wooden counter, I don't know how many years it has been used, polished to shine, the most conspicuous on the cabinet is a large row of glass jars, which are filled with colorful southern sugar, as well as some local products, all kinds of goods on the shelves, all stacked neatly. I know that "Honeycomb Mountain" is also a craftsman in the seventy-two lines, this kind of shop in the open and in the dark, doing the land is completely two kinds of business, but strangers come in directly, the shopkeeper will never do a real deal with you, I thought about finding a reason first, just to go into the mountain to rob the tomb need to use some sundries, out of the hurry has not yet been purchased, so I said to the girl: "Sister, we want to buy candles, but also good white paper, strings, matches, sugar cubes also come two catties." β
The girl understood, and immediately took out the things I wanted one by one, and the fat man next to me added for me: "I said sister, the candles should also be good, and we don't want them if they are not famous brands." β
The girl thought that the fat man was making fun of her, and said a little angrily: "Are you a bad man?" Is there anyone who buys candles and has to look at the brand? β
At this time, the old shopkeeper opened his eyes, rubbed the iron ball in his hand and said to the girl: "Sister, this cadre is a distinguished guest from outside, and he must not be rude." β
I saw the old shopkeeper wake up, thinking that the little girl is young, not like the "Honeycomb Mountain", and although the old shopkeeper is old, but not mediocre, and the words are not good, maybe it is the "Honeycomb Mountain" in the big experts, and now make an inquiry: "The old shopkeeper, I plan to exchange a few licensed goods with you, I don't know if there are ready-made?" β
The old shopkeeper said quietly: "The goods are all placed on the counter, and the guests can ask their sisters to buy what they want." β
I thought to myself that the old shopkeeper was deliberately pretending to be stupid with me, and he had the intention to use code words to cut his original intentions, but I just heard my grandfather Hu Guohua talk about some, most of them were inverted incisions, but I was not very familiar with the general "Mountain Scripture Lip Dictionary". So as not to be regarded as a "layman" by the other party, he quickly glanced at Shirley Yang and asked her to come forward to talk.
Shirley Yang nodded knowingly, stepped forward and said to the old shopkeeper as if intentionally or unintentionally: Look up through the high mountain, there is a gold plate on the mountain; After the gold card, the silver card is lined with bee heads. β
The old shopkeeper opened his eyes suddenly when he heard this, and he was hungry up and down, as if he didn't believe that these words could come out of her mouth, and thought that he had heard it wrong. The golden wind blows all over the face; I don't know where to pass by Bee Mountain, I know the gold and silver bee brand - Shirley Yang didn't want to think about it, so he blurted out: "In the wind, the harrier turns with the mountain, and the horse and saddle to drive the distance; The team is not in harmony, and the politeness is ridiculous. β
The old shopkeeper looked even more surprised, and asked, "Up and down the mountain?" Why? β
Shirley Yang said: "Not up or down, I want to ask for a bee box." The old shopkeeper stroked his beard and nodded slightly, but he may still be a little uneasy. Continue to ask: "The bee master is easy to see, but the bee box is difficult to invite." I don't know what kind of work did you do? β
Shirley Yang refused to easily reveal his whereabouts, and only said: "Tea leaves famous mountain guests, and guests from all over the world are all mountain people, so why bother asking Gen Miao." β
I saw the old shopkeeper pat his thigh and stood up from the bamboo chair. praised: "It makes sense, in the past few decades, I have never heard someone say that it is so bright, sister, please invite the distinguished guests to the inner room." β
Shirley Yang and the old shopkeeper exchanged answers, and I can still understand the general meaning. The fat man and Sun Jiuye were like falling into a fog, they didn't know what was going on, the fat man listened to the left ear and the right ear bubbled, but he didn't think about it, only Professor Sun was stunned. Stunned on the spot, waiting for us to enter the back room. I heard him say to himself behind him: "It's all black talk about grinding mushrooms!" β
We followed the old shopkeeper and his younger sister into the back room, behind his shop was a two-story wooden building, which was a place for daily life, but instead of leading us to the living room, he took us to the basement.
The basement is like a handmade workshop, there are four or five sand wheels in it, and the wall is full of hidden weapons such as "sleeve arrows, darts, hand nails, flying tiger claws", all kinds of equipment, everything that has not been seen has been seen, and some things we can't even name, let alone how to use them.
Professor Sun grabbed me from behind and asked what the hell was going on? What is the wooden box hanging in front of the store? What is Honeycomb Mountain? Why did you say a few black words and bring us here?
I said Ninth Master, you really should study hard, I guess you have hung up the false title of a professor, so you don't know how thick the sky is, right? People don't learn to change, so they have to live to learn all the time, one day without learning many problems, two days without learning to go downhill, three days without learning can not live, how to get in the long run?
Professor Sun said: "Don't be kidding, I don't want to eat the old book, but where can I go to these doorways?" What kind of medicine are they selling in this gourd? β
I had to give him a brief explanation, since ancient times, there are many forbidden deeds, so all walks of life have their own code words in the line, which is now the so-called "jargon", but interlaced lines are like mountains, in order to facilitate extensive collusion, seventy-two lines have produced a set of general large incisions, called "mountain scriptures".
"Honeycomb Mountain" is a craftsman specializing in the production of various "pins", but these things are forbidden from ancient times, more dangerous than controlled knives, no one has ever blatantly opened a shop to sell, they are all secret transactions, there is a black wooden box hanging in front of the store, it is full of holes, that are all shot out when trying the hidden weapon, hanging in front of the door, knowing how to see the eye, at a glance you know that there are hidden weapons for sale in this shop, after entering the jargon, you can trade and buy, if you don't understand the bureau, One is that you can't see the doorway, and the other is that no one will sell you the real thing, even if you can pay a lot of money.
I explained to Professor Sun, and then talked with the old shopkeeper in the past, it turned out that the ancestral home of the shopkeeper Li was Baoding Mansion, Hebei Province, Baoding Mansion is a famous martial arts hometown, the shopkeeper Li family has been skilled craftsmen in the "honeycomb mountain" for generations, authorizing all kinds of ingenious equipment, after the 77 incident, the Sino-Japanese War broke out in full swing, the shopkeeper Li fled into Sichuan, incognito, turned into a pseudonym, opened an old shop to sell groceries, in fact, he still wants to do his old business. But after the liberation of these crafts and mountain scriptures are gradually lost, in the hidden weapon has not been opened for decades in the market, still hang the wooden box in front of the door, completely out of the "see the saddle and think of the horse, see the things and think of the people" nostalgic move, I can't imagine that there can be guests to recognize the "bee" word signboard, fortunately, the local guy style is still retained. , Our team entered Sichuan this time, in addition to the sapper shovel, there was no sharp weapon around him, even the paratrooper knife did not dare to bring, empty fists into the depths of Wushan to find the ancient tomb, the hand is inevitably a little thin, but coincidentally in this town to see the "bee" signboard, naturally to buy some competent equipment, we picked a few, this year the head of the head arrow dart has long been no one to make, just to find some sharp weapons with blades to defend themselves. The old shopkeeper has a "Emei thorn" here, short and sharp, all made of stainless steel, and easy to carry, so each person chose a handle to hide on the body, the fat man has the only one he likes to "Lianzhu fast", the range of this thing is not as good as a rifle, but a box of forty-two "mourning doors", all of them are quick arrows, and they can shoot through the armor within dozens of steps, and only the skilled craftsmen in the "honeycomb mountain" can make such a sharp instrument The fat man asked: "The old shopkeeper, your guy here is really complete, my eyes are picky, I don't know which one is Zhenshan's treasure? It's good to show us what to see
The old shopkeeper laughed and said: "If you want to say anything about the treasure of Zhenshan, I really dare not take it, but there is a very delicate instrument, which is the proud work of the old man's life, and it has been left here for many years to rust, and it should not be its proper destination, but I don't know if you are interested in it." Deler, let's take a look first, heroes, please keep an eye on it......" As he spoke, he opened a lying box, and there was something inside, which was densely wrapped in several layers of brocade, and when he opened the brocade, I exclaimed at the same time as the fat man and Shirley Yang: "Golden steel umbrella."
"Golden steel umbrella" is the talisman of the golden captain, when the Wukuji Temple "Elder Chen" once passed down a handle, and brought back from the United States by Shirley Yang, but when we went to the cloud cemetery, it was lost, the material and production process of this umbrella are secret, lost for a long time, it is impossible to find someone to build a handle, I can't imagine that the shopkeeper Li has made such a piece, I have a thought flashing in my mind: "Could it be that the old shopkeeper has also done the touch of the gold captain?" β
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