Pudding and I walked all the way and chatted about our family's old past, and in the midst of laughter and laughter, in the blink of an eye, we had arrived at Xiamen Airport and boarded a flight to Beijing. After more than two hours of turbulence, as a burst of bean juice and belly burst aroma passed through the clouds into the cabin 10,000 meters above, the passengers smiled heartily, and the big capital Beijing finally arrived.

After getting off the plane, Pudding and I rushed to the pre-booked hotel to drop off our luggage, and then without a moment's delay, we went downstairs to take a Didi car and went straight to the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology in Chaoyang District.

Lao Lu once told me before his death that there are two Hebei literary examinations, one in Shijiazhuang and the other in Beijing. Shijiazhuang is a large army, but most of the members are scholars and graduate students, and they can only handle some routine tasks, such as cleaning up the mud and sand on cultural relics, or repairing broken bronzes, etc.

Beijing, on the other hand, belongs to the elite troops. Although the number of people is small, the members in it are all gods of the level of old men and Lao Lu. They are specialized in big business, and ordinary small tombs and small pits are not eyed at all. So as soon as they make a move, the starting price is at least a concubine or a general.

The Didi driver followed the address we said, and after a long time of turning around, he took us to a "gloomy" place. When I say this place is gloomy, I don't mean that it is terrifying, but that compared to the prosperity of Chaoyang District, it is very quiet. In a metropolis like Beijing, where every inch of land is at a premium, such a place is extremely rare. Even the Didi driver, who is an old Beijinger, laughed at himself and said: "I have lived in Chaoyang for decades, and even I don't know where this is." ”

Our car was parked in front of a quaint-looking compound about half a football field wide, with only a separate building of unknown age. There are no taller buildings around this building except for flowers and plants, and there are no plaques hanging at the entrance of the courtyard, which looks very mysterious. The gate was not locked, there were no guards, and when you looked inside from the outside, you couldn't see anyone.

Pudding asked me, "Can you get in?" ”

I hesitated a little and stood still in the doorway.

Because I remember that Lao Lu once told me that the security standards of this cultural relics research institute set up in Beijing are extremely high, because in addition to storing many "national treasure" cultural relics, there are also a large number of secret documents and files. Therefore, outsiders are not allowed to enter blindly, otherwise once the guards notice that you are behaving abnormally, they have the right to shoot the trespasser directly!

When I first heard Lao Lu say it, I didn't think it was true, I just thought he was bragging with wine. But when I'm standing at the gate of this compound, don't say it, I really don't dare to fucking go in, this thing is not a joke, if it's true, isn't it winning the lottery? I can't do this kind of idiot thing.

So I said to the pudding, "Wait." ”

Pudding asked me, "What are you waiting for?" ”

I said, "Wait for someone to come out." ”

Pudding asked me why, and I told her 1510, although she also thought that such a thing was unlikely, but it was better to wait at the door to be on the safe side. So the two of us squatted on the side of the road like orphans, Beijing in winter is not Xiamen, my frozen dentures are frozen, and I said to Pudding angrily: "I finally know why you keep running to Xiamen, it turns out that you are afraid of the cold, I thought you were really here to see me." ”

Pudding was already frozen and didn't want to speak, so she buried her head directly in the down jacket, the yellow down jacket had no head, and it looked like an egg that was about to expire from a distance, I quickly patted her, and said with a sincere advice: "Pudding, don't behave abnormally, otherwise you will be killed!" ”

Pudding stuck his head out of his down jacket and said angrily to me, "You are so cowardly! ”

At this time, in the mysterious building of the Literature and Examination Institute, a lean old man came out, he was gray-haired, he looked to be seventy or eighty years old, the folds on his face were like lasagna, and he was holding a teacup in his hand. ”

As soon as I saw that someone had finally come out, a Ni Ping-like smile suddenly appeared on my face, and I trotted all the way to the old man, handed over a cigarette respectfully, and asked politely: "Old man, this is the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, right?" ”

When the old man heard my words, he was first startled, and then asked me with a smile: "Do you have acquaintances here?" ”

I said bluntly, "I'm here for the old lad." ”

The old man was even more shocked when he heard my words, he didn't expect me to be able to call Ma Kui's name "old man" directly, it seems that I am indeed a man in the industry, so his attitude towards me immediately turned 180 degrees, and hurriedly invited us to sit in the house.

Pudding and I were led by the old man to a small living room on the first floor, he brought two cups of hot tea to warm us up first, Pudding and I were not polite, said thank you to the old man, and then drank the hot tea in the cup, this tea is extremely exquisite, after entering the stomach, I suddenly felt that the cold air of the body dissipated without a trace. So he gave a thumbs up and praised: "Old man, this is really good tea!" ”

The old man smiled slightly, and said to me slowly: "Hehe, young man, this is not tea, this is the ** of the snow-capped Tibetan mastiff, colorless and tasteless, so it's not strange that you can't drink it." Also, it doesn't drive away the cold, but the evil energy on you. ”

When Pudding and I heard this, our eyes widened in shock, and we only heard the old man continue: "The Tibetan mastiff is the mount of the living Buddha, and this thing is the Holy Spirit to ward off evil spirits. The ancient tomb is cold and damp, and the evil atmosphere is pressing, and those who do what we do will be more or less stained with some unclean things. When I was outside the gate of the courtyard just now, I saw that the two of you were black, so you must have suffered a lot of sins in the ancient tomb, right? Hehe, it's okay, it's okay, after drinking the ** of the Tibetan mastiff in the snow mountain, the evil spirit will disappear. ”

Admire, admire.

Now I'm really convinced.

The people in this Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology are really not simple! The old man just glanced at me and Pudding, and knew that we had both been to the ancient tomb, and I didn't know that I was stained with evil spirits, but people's hearts were like mirrors. But in addition to admiring, I gradually became scared in my heart, these people's Taoism is too deep, I and Pudding are not opponents at all, if I accidentally give him something about Lao Lu, it will be a gourd baby saving grandpa - it's all over.