Jin Yiyi has traveled north and south over the years, and he has naturally seen a lot more than me, but the statement that he has seen the treasure people peel off the red fox with his own eyes still needs to be verified, not to mention how small the probability of this kind of thing being encountered by him is, even if he meets, people can't show their skinning skills in front of him in the deep mountains and old forests.

I snatched the wire hook and put it in my trouser pocket, and said, "Don't talk about it, you explain to me first, what is going on with this five-clawed red dragon eagle?" ”

"What red dragon eagle?"

Seeing that Jin Yiyi pretended to be stupid, I turned the red dragon jade carving over and said: "Five-clawed red dragon, you sell me 80,000 yuan, if Chu Yupu ran out of the Liao tomb with this thing at that time, then Sun Dianying would not have broken the jade watermelon and urinated in the pot that night?" ”

Jin had sharp eyes, and when he opened his eyes, he saw an extra dragon claw on the red dragon's toe, and his eyes were straight, "This is the one that came out of my hand half a year ago?" ”

I hugged my shoulders and leaned back in my chair, "What do you think?" ”

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "How can such a big thing still be eye-catching?" ”

I said, "Honestly, where did the stuff come from?" ”

Jin Yiyi glanced at me, "Tufuzi took it in his hand." ”

Noticing that his voice trembled slightly, I took out my strip and tossed it twice in the air, saying in a joking tone, "You don't really think I don't know anything, do you?" ”

It seemed that Jin Yiyi was still confused by me, he smiled awkwardly and said, "I bought it from the ghost market on Xishi Street." ”

I resisted the urge to peel off the skin of Kim with the things in my hand, took a deep breath and said, "What about the seller, who else can I find?" ”

Jin Yiyi nodded, "That grandson's surname is Niu, and the people on the road call him Niu Erpao, I have dealt with him a lot, so it is said that this grandson will not pit me." ”

Seeing Jin Yiyi sitting on the chair stunned, I raised my wrist and looked at the time: "I have an idea, tomorrow is Monday, the ghost market on Xishi Street is lively, let's go there, you find Niu Erpao, ask him about the origin of this thing, don't mention the five-claw matter to him, ask where the thing came from, who came out of his hand, I will pay for him to take us to see the patron of the Red Dragon Eagle, it doesn't matter if you don't see it, but its origin, you must ask me clearly." ”

The sweat on Jin Yiyi's face fell, he looked at me with wide eyes, and said tremblingly: "You don't need to kill people for tens of thousands of dollars." ”

"Fuck your uncle."

I waved my hand to signal Jin Yiyi to get out of here, he glanced at me, stood up and said, "Then I'll come back to you in the evening." ”

After Jin Yiyi left, I stared at the stripping wrapper in my hand and was stunned, and there was only one thought in my mind: Why did the treasure holder take a fancy to my small shop?

The objects that can enter the eyes of the treasure people are naturally not mortal, and the root of the problem lies in the five-clawed red dragon jade carving, the objects bought for 20,000 yuan last night, according to the thief's statement, the old man came to the store to step on the point, this is the same as the southern barbarians who disguised themselves as merchants in the mouth of the Sancha River at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

The next day, I sat on the counter and carefully read the "Tanhualu" again, trying to find some unknown origins and meanings about the five-clawed red dragon, and at the same time waiting for the old man to go and return, take away the deerskin baggage and the things inside, I was doing a small business, trembling and surviving in the old goods store until now, I don't want to be beaten in one move, and my job will be smashed.

Waiting until late at night, the old man did not appear, Jin Yiyi grilled some meat skewers in the tube building, the two of them sat in the store while eating and watching the time, and waited until the second half of the night, the store was cleaned up, Jin Yiyi drove the seven-handed jeep, and took me in the direction of Xishi Street.

The old Tianjin people say "ghost market", because most of the things sold by the stalls in the market come from the wrong way, such as stealing and deceiving, some digging coffins and digging graves and stealing them, and some are shoddy, so they should take advantage of the time when the sky is not bright and they can't see clearly. Those customers who love to be greedy and cheap and pick up foreign children deliberately come to visit in the dark. The buyers and sellers do not shout, do not shout, do not make trouble, bargain with their hands, and come and go one by one, just like rushing to the market in the underworld.

I remember an old-timer who said that even the sale of children in the ghost market has a fake. Untie the baby's diaper, a bag of shit, but it also makes you see clearly that the baby is a "little cock", because the crotch is stained with all the shit, you can only see but not touch, pay the money to take it home and wash it to see that it is a girl, the "little cock" is made artificially.

There are three at the lower end of the Jiuhe River in the "ghost market" of old Tianjin, the one in the Xishi Street is the largest, along the old city wall, from north to south, and can put out two miles of road when it is prosperous. There are all kinds of things sold in it, but there is no categorization. Whoever comes out of the stall early will occupy the land first.

Jin Yiyi parked the car under the base of the wall, and the two of them walked to the alley of the market, I had practiced stalls here at the earliest, and I was familiar with this place, but I had heard of the reputation of Niu Erpao, and he was a master who carried a basket to sell rare objects, and he had a small reputation on Xishi Street, and it was estimated that it would not be too difficult to find.

Because it was dark, the alley was next to the city wall, and there were many people standing and squatting in the shadows, and I walked with Jin Yiyi, there were many fakes in the ghost market, and the real goods were not nothing, and it was only three o'clock now, and it was the time when the good goods were on the stall, and many people in the industry would only pick things at this point in time, because after four o'clock, the good goods were picked out, and the rest were almost all fakes.

Jin Yiyi had a cigarette in his mouth, and spent 500 yuan to pick a green and transparent toad from the stall, and there were red spots on the top of his forehead that quickly formed naturally, and the little man who bought things said that this thing is not good, as the saying goes, the rivers and lakes are scattered, and there is a disaster if they are not scattered, which is really the case, and if he hits his grandfather's generation, the family will not have a good time, so he wants to sell it.

Jin Yiyi didn't answer his stubble, and asked the little master, have you ever seen a second cannon of cattle picking a basket?

The little master pointed to the alley and said, "See, it's inside the wall, but you have to hurry, I heard him say just now that the Buddha has taken a fancy to his basket of things, and he has to leave after selling it." ”

Buddha, the Jinjing area often refers to the names of some big stubborn masters, but sometimes it also refers to the snitch who has committed crimes.

Jin Yiyi and I glanced at each other, collected our things and hurried to the direction of the root of the wall, but when we arrived at the place, we found that the bamboo basket was still resting on the ground, but the person was gone.

I turned on the flashlight and shone it on the bamboo basket on the ground, the bamboo basket was empty, and it seemed that the goods had been sold.

Jin Yiyi glanced at me and asked the little man who was setting up a stall next to him, where did Niu Erpao go.

"I went with the customer to take the money, and said that I would be back in a while,"

The little old man muttered, turned his head away and raised his hand to solicit business, I discussed it with Jin Yiyi, sat behind the bamboo basket, lit a cigarette, and prepared to wait here for Niu Erpao to come back.

Jin Yiyi took out the jade toad by the light of the cigarette and said to me, "How much do you think this thing can be sold?" ”

I turned my head and glanced at it, although the thing is not big, the texture is average, but the natural red spot on the top of the forehead is really a rare good material, five hundred yuan to start, resell for two or three thousand is not a big problem, but I don't know why, looking at the shape of this toad, it reminds me of the toad, a nausea in the stomach, I ignored his stubble.

Jin Yiyi smiled knowingly, wiped it on the jade toad with his hand, put it back in his pocket, and then grinned and said: "You said that this Niu Erpao stepped on some kind of shit when he went out, and he was covered by people when he went on the market, and I don't know which way it was a fairy, why didn't I have such a good thing when I came." ”

"Maybe there is too little shit at your doorstep, and the fox fairy can't smell it, so he can't find you."

There are many ghost legends circulating in the ghost market, and the most famous is the fox fairy shedding its skin. According to legend, when the Empress Dowager Cixi celebrated her 60th birthday, she had to let her little eunuchs prepare fox furs. Seeing that the time limit was approaching, the little eunuch had no choice but to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and really responded, taking advantage of the night to buy the best fox skin in the ghost market, and the seller turned into a wisp of green smoke and left, and then touched the fox skin It was still hot, and the little eunuch woke up to the seller was the incarnation of the fox fairy, and took off the skin to save his life.

Regardless of the provenance or credibility, the legends add a sense of mystery to the ghost market, and the merchants are happy to spread the word and the tourists are happy to hear it, and both sides are happy anyway.

The two of them sat there and waited for more than half an hour, seeing that the flow of people in the market was getting less and less, I couldn't help but take out a pack of unopened Chinese cigarettes and handed it to the little man next to me, and asked with a smile: "This Niu Ercang is moving gold bricks, and I haven't come back for so long." ”

The little master took out a cigarette and sniffed it under his nose, and said, "Then how do I know how to go, or you go to the toilet in front of me to take a look, I see that he went to the other end with someone." ”

I glanced at Jin Yiyi and asked him to wait here, and I went over to take a look first, and it happened to be a little urgent.

There is only one public toilet on Xishi Street, which is specially prepared for the small merchants and vendors who set up stalls here during the day and at night, and no one cleaned it at that time, only the cart that transports manure comes every once in a while to simply clean it inside, and you don't need to turn on the flashlight in the middle of the night, you can find it by smelling it.

I finished in the toilet first, and went out of the door and lit a cigarette to smoke the smell in the air, but before I could take two puffs, I saw a person standing under the wall next to me.

It was two, one had just left, and the other had his back to me, facing into the wall, hooking his head and not knowing what he was counting. I knew that these eight achievements were Niu Erpao couldn't run, so I put out the cigarette and hurriedly walked over, shouting "Niu Erpao" in my mouth, and I saw that the guy was like seeing a ghost, turned around, held a burden in his arms, turned his head and ran!

I was stunned, but I faintly felt that something was wrong, so I hurriedly chased forward, shouting while chasing: "Niu Erpao, don't run, I'm looking for you to receive the goods!" ”

But the guy in front didn't listen at all, and the girl ran faster and faster, and was about to run out of the city wall, but suddenly turned around and met him, and I was so frightened that I quickly hid to the side, but when I saw the person running in front of me, he suddenly stretched out his hand, stuffed the burden into my arms, and then turned his head, and soon disappeared into the night.

I stood alone under the city wall for a long time, looking at the burden in my hand, the burden was not tightly wrapped, and the buckle tied to it was just loosened, revealing a round object.

A bloody human head!