Chapter 6 Willow Lane
For the next three days, it was as if nothing had happened. The old man who was holding back the treasure also disappeared, but I guess this guy must be hiding in a corner near the east gate of the corner, watching my old man's every move with a blank face.
Jin Yiyi has been running more diligently in my store these days, he first helped me pay for a batch of monitoring equipment, and then sent the 30,000 yuan of goods that I pressed in his hands before, although there are not many eyebrows so far, but I have to live, and as long as I don't leave the shop, can those people still rob me in front of me?
It may be that the business is the same as before, four or five waves of guests come every day, ask more than buy, the landlord in the middle also came once, I worked hard to do the ideological work for him, and finally earned another week's time, but this week where I went to get a year's rent, and had to press for three months, the whole person wanted to make money and was almost stunned, and a few days down a deal was not done, thinking about it is a little distressing.
Of course, what I think about the most is some recent things that have happened in the shop. I didn't dare to tell my father these things, he is now in the nursing home with those old ladies playing chess and dancing every day, I have been afraid of him since I was a child, there is a fried stick skin and meat in advance, there are no relatives in this line at home, for a while can only pin hope on Jin Yiyi's connections.
On this day, I opened early in the morning, sitting bored behind the counter and flipping through the ledger, thinking about how to settle the next rent, when I heard footsteps from far to near, and two people walked in.
One of them I know is the landlord in the area of the east gate. The name of the land protection sounds more age-sensitive, existed in the old social period, and was replaced by the film police after the founding of New China, but it is the same as stealing the door, where there is a need, it will survive, and solve some things that cannot be put on the surface.
When I saw him, I immediately put down the ledger in my hand, smiled and was about to say hello, but as soon as I saw the middle-aged man standing beside him, my eyes immediately narrowed.
Standing at the counter for three years, seeing people can meet each other.
I don't dare to say that I can look at strangers, but at least I still have the ability to observe, and I like to compare a person's temperament to the pulp on the ancient jade, which is inexplicable, but it can be felt at a glance.
The person next to Lao Rong had a dark complexion, calm eyes, and no sound when he walked, standing there was like a deep pool that could not be seen with his eyes, and the whole person looked like a dripping water.
Seeing the expression on my face froze there, Lao Rong smiled and said, "Brother Bai, this is my eldest brother, I came to you for something."
Before I could speak, the man's gaze as he scanned the room had already fallen on me: "You are Bai Fuji?"
I nodded and said suspiciously, "Do you want to buy or sell?"
The middle-aged man didn't answer me, but said, "Please come with me, someone wants to see you."
I immediately frowned and looked at Lao Rong, who said with a smile on his face: "My eldest brother is not small, I want to ask you for help if I have something to ask you for, and the benefits are indispensable."
But the middle-aged man interrupted him and said, "It's not me, it's you looking for you."
"Which one is above?" I asked.
"No comment."
The middle-aged man's tone of voice was very tough, and the commanding tone that inadvertently emanated from his words made people extremely uncomfortable to listen to, I thought about it, pulled Lao Rong aside and said: "What the hell is going on, who let me go with him without saying a word, is it your eldest brother, you two don't look alike."
Lao Rong also said with a bitter face: "Don't ask so much, I also listen to what people say and do things, but I can guarantee that there is absolutely no harm to you." ”
"Then tomorrow morning, if I appear in the Haihe River, you will collect the body for me?"
I don't often deal with Lao Rong, let alone get acquainted, I only know that this person has some skills in the side door, unlike Jin Yiyi's little fight, a little fairy with real skills,
As he spoke, the man had already walked over leisurely, his eyes swept over me, and he said, "The Buddha has made a stuffy bag, and he suspects that he has copied the ghost, so please go and pick up the goods." ”
My heart suddenly sudden, this guy said vaguely, Lao Rong listened to the round eyes, but I could understand that this was stepping on the road.
There are rules of rivers and lakes in the rivers and lakes, and there are sayings: I would rather give a gold ingot than a word of spring, this "spring" refers to the hidden words on the road, also called the spring point of the rivers and lakes.
Buddha, in the Jinjing area, usually refers to the thief who has committed a crime, and he has a stuffy bag, which refers to the sale of antique jade products that are not allowed to be opened and inspected, and the ghost copying, that is, the thing that is suspected of being successful is fished out of the tomb, in short, there are big people who can't make up their minds about the goods they are starting with, and they want to invite me to open my eyes.
It's a bit too much to say that I'm flattered, but I'm more curious, since I'm a big man, how can I come to my small broken temple to invite God to come over.
"Then you'll have to tell me where I'm going, right?" I asked.
The middle-aged man said, "You'll know when you go to see Jin Yiyi." ”
“……”
Before I could speak, the middle-aged man raised his wrist to look at his watch, stood at the door, and made a gesture of please. Jin Yiyi didn't take the initiative to contact me for the past two days, and he didn't answer the phone, considering that he might be in the other party's hands now, I had no choice but to walk out.
"I'll close the shop first."
I muttered about locking the doors and windows of the shop, checking the burglar security measures and surveillance, and then went out behind the two of them.
As soon as I went out, I saw an old-fashioned Hongqi CA770 sedan parked outside the door, this model has been discontinued in the eighties of the last century, after more than 20 years, the car has become a symbol of identity and status, looking at the whole Tianjin Wei few people can be qualified to sit on it, by a few bigwigs collected, the market price can be worth a few pieces of moon white glaze Jun kiln, can be called a treasure.
My small shop is next to the road next to the Haihe River, the swaggering parking of the red flag car here has caused a lot of onlookers, seeing some people holding mobile phones to the license plate, I deliberately stood within the range of the camera, in case something happens behind, I can also leave some evidence is not.
got into the car, Lao Rong and I sat in the back row, and the middle-aged man sat straight in the co-pilot, before he didn't feel anything from the front in the shop, but now looking at his back, this person has definitely been a soldier, and he is also a special soldier on the battlefield.
The pressure was a little big all of a sudden, I sat side by side with Lao Rong, it seemed that he was also a little nervous, and he didn't plan to say anything, I simply turned my head to the side, watched the window and the street gallop quickly, and desperately thought about who I would face next, and why Jin Yiyi fell on his hands.
After about an hour of driving, the car turned a few corners and got into a dead end, and the middle-aged man who had been sitting in front of him closed his eyes and recuperated opened his eyes to remind us that it was time to get out of the car.
"This is Willow Alley, right?"
After getting out of the car, I looked around and said something light.
The middle-aged man looked back at me in some surprise, but quickly held back.
At this time, it is not early, the twilight is dark, there are a few dim street lamps in the alley have been lit up, except for a few of us, we can't see others, let alone see other people, Liuzi Lane is not often heard of in the ears of Tianjin people, but in the ears of ticket holders who like opera, it is simply a palace-level existence.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "Beijing learns art, Tianjin sings red, and Shanghai earns silver".
The people in the pear garden pay the most attention to their origins, and their origin refers to the science class, and if they do not enter the science class, they are not considered "people in the door", just like we need to find a master to bring in the door in the old goods store, and if Beijing is called the gathering place of the science class, then Tianjin is the school field of the pear garden.
In the early years, Ma Lianliang's boss once sang "Eight Hammers" in Tianjin, playing the role of Wang Zuo with a broken arm, just because he accidentally tied the left arm that should be "broken" into a right arm, and without saying a word, a teapot flew onto the stage, and the audience was full of color; Boss Ma was also very ashamed, so he had to refund the ticket and apologize, and later Boss Ma acted in a good show to get his popularity back.
And this Liuzi Lane is the only place where Boss Ma eats and applauds.