Chapter 70: Appearances and Detachments
After parking the car, Ye Tiancai walked down from the car, and when he saw me standing in place, he came over and asked me what was wrong.
I hesitated, voiced my doubts, and pointed to the other two cars in the garage, asking him if he knew whose it was.
Ye Tian smiled at my suspicion and did not say a word, and only replied, "That BMW was given to him by a woman, as for this Honda, it was before us, the visitor who came here, you can see him when you enter the house, a very stubborn man!" ”
I hesitated a little, and all kinds of thoughts came to my mind, but Ye Tian patted me on the shoulder and said, don't worry, in fact, he is also very easy to get along with.
I could have convinced myself not to think about it that way, but as soon as he said the last thing, I almost didn't turn away.
When I walked into the house, I saw a man, dressed in casual clothes, coming down the stairs.
I glanced at him and saw that his face was very pale, but the biggest difference from his complexion were the eyes, black pupils, as if they had been drawn with ink.
Looking further into the room, the walls facing the door are full of large and small cold weapons, and the light from the windows behind them is sprinkled on the floor, illuminating the retro-style totems under their feet.
The hall on the first floor is very large, and it is also very bright in the bright light, in addition to the furnishings on the opposite wall, there are some sculptures on the left and right sides, but the sculptures are all human bones, if Ye Tian hadn't reminded me that this was made by him, I really suspect that it was a collection sold from an ancient bone museum.
In the hall, near the wall, there was a burgundy sofa, and after we took our seats, the man who had just come down from the upper floor brought a tray and placed it on the coffee table.
Although Ye Tian didn't explain what I asked him before, he still asked the man, "How do you have time to come here today?" Didn't go back to the hospital? ”
The other party shook his head, "No, Brother Yuechen said that he was going to meet a few friends here today, so I will come over and have a look!" ”
His voice was very crisp, but when it came to Brother Yuechen, I choked on the tea I had just drunk, and coughed a few times, which attracted Ye Tian's contempt.
After collecting my thoughts, I put the cup down, but as soon as I looked up, I found Jiang Chenyue and that person looking at me together.
I smiled a little awkwardly, and just wanted to pick up the cup again to hide my embarrassment, but I heard the other party speak first, "We met, do you remember?" When you were in the swimming pool, you were with a sister with long hair, we talked, do you have an impression? ”
"What?" I was stunned, and then everyone's eyes looked at me, but I was puzzled, because I had never seen him at all, let alone been to a swimming pool.
"Why, don't you remember? We also took pictures at the time? With that, the man took out his mobile phone, clicked it a few times, and flipped out a photo to show me.
I took the phone he handed me suspiciously, and when I touched his fingers, I felt a chill in my body, and this person's body temperature was terrifying.
I seem to have entered a labyrinth as soon as I entered here, first I guessed the strange things about Jiang Chenyue, and then I said that we had met.
Although it was only a momentary touch, but this chill did not fade for a long time, when I slowly took the phone and withdrew my hand, I heard Jiang Chenyue also echo and say, "I just said that I have seen you, and I think it is on this photo!" ”
Before I saw the photos, I had all kinds of guesses in my mind that something must have gone wrong, maybe they all recognized the wrong person, and if I had seen them recently, how could I not remember?
But when I saw the photo on my phone, my thoughts collapsed, and the person in the photo was really me.
A white crewneck shirt, short black hair, and a half-moon-shaped ancient seal pendant around his neck that he has always carried with him and never left.
I don't feel like I'm a very popular person; It's not very featureless, thrown into the pile, and you can't recognize the master at a glance.
can look at the photo on the phone, the contour of the person's face, as well as the outfit, expression, and even the habitual raising of eyebrows when taking pictures.
It's not something as simple as this, but this person is simply a copy of me.
But even if it looks the same, how can this person have that pendant?
Thinking so, I subconsciously took out the pendant from my clothes, this pendant I have carried with me since I was a child, and there is only one in the world.
I once asked a professor of archaeology, and he told me that this pendant is not simple, and the carving is delicate, and it depicts the movement of celestial bodies and stars and moons that have been reduced by dozens of times.
That kind of craftsmanship, not to mention that modern times have been lost, even if you go back a few hundred years, I am afraid that you will not be able to find a second one that is the same.
Hearing him praise it, I learned that this is a treasure, not the kind of bargain that you can sell for two or three dollars.
But when I asked about this carving technique, the old professor pondered for a long time before continuing, "The only person who can have such a precise carving is Mochun, the master of Jiangbei leaf carving!" ”
At this point, he asked again about the origin of this thing, but I only told him that it was my family heirloom, and asked him to guess.
He wiped his beard, counted the time, and successively reported several famous leaf carving masters in the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, but I shook my head and denied it.
In fact, I don't know who this pendant came from, and who left it to me, when I was a child, I had a lot of conjectures, but none of them were true, but now I am too lazy to guess, and I am thinking that if I am really desperate one day, I don't want to continue to work hard, I can sell it, and I will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of my life.
However, it has always been with me, but I unconsciously forgot to give up, when I was in college, I had such a plan, but when I called the old professor, I learned that he had died.
As for selling to other people, I was worried that they wouldn't give me a high price, so I never thought about it again.
After graduating from university, I started to work odd jobs and barely survived until I found my current job.
Now, when I hold this pendant, I see that it is in the shape of a half-moon and has many lines densely carved on it.
Those lines are very thin, like spider webs to the naked eye, so dense that they can't be connected at all.
Is there a second one for this pendant? I looked at my hand and then at the photo, and it was hard to tell for a while.
I wasn't sure at first, maybe they were telling the truth, I might have met them before, but then I suddenly lost some memories in my head.
No, no, no, maybe these memories are the ones that were taken away by Qianqian.
Although this is a bit far-fetched, it is not unreasonable.
I rubbed my temples, put the pendant back in my hand, and looked back at myself in the photo.
The background of the photo is in a quiet small restaurant, the surrounding walls are covered with various decorations, and there is still half a cup of unfinished milk tea on the table.
Putting down the phone, I still shook my head, denied the speculation just now, and turned to another thought, could this person be my twin brother?
"When was this photograph taken?" I asked him.
"About a month ago, wasn't the person above really you?!"
Seeing that he still didn't believe me, I had to deny it again and said, "Do you have his contact information, or can you find his way?" ”
The other party thought for a while and said, "No, we just met in Pingshui, but when he left, he said that we would meet again, I don't know if it was just a polite word, and there was another purpose?!" But I can take you to see which restaurant, because he has a membership card for that restaurant, and when I paid the bill, I saw him take it out, maybe we can find his contact information through the registration record of the restaurant! ”
"Is there anything about that man that makes you pay so much attention to his details?" I suddenly felt that he was very concerned about the details of the man, so I asked.
After hearing this, the other party looked a little embarrassed, but still said, "I, I just want to make friends with him, but fortunately, I have paid attention to this, and you can have the possibility of finding him." And he said we'll meet again, maybe right now? ”
I thought about it and had no choice but to accept it, but just as I was about to hand the phone back to him, I accidentally caught a glimpse of a strange place on the neckline of the person in the photo.
It was a light gray thing, like a small part of some kind of text, and when I noticed this, I immediately looked at myself a few times, and when I realized that I didn't have one on me, I was relieved.
After a few more glances at the photo, I was unsure again, maybe it wasn't on the skin, maybe it was the pattern on the collar.
Since it was a photo, I couldn't be sure what it was, so I had to give up, hoping to actually find this person and ask things clear.
With that in mind, I gave him my phone back and asked him to write me the address of that restaurant.
After this little episode, Dongfang didn't have the heart to greet Jiang Chenyue, and went straight to the point, putting the dogwood we found in the ancient tomb on the table.
Jiang Chenyue picked it up, first looked at it carefully, and then asked the person just now to help him take out the ultraviolet lamp.
Under the ultraviolet rays, Jiang Chenyue shone along the blade of the knife, and finally stopped at the two illegible words on the edge of the knife.
After taking a few photos in that position, Jiang Chenyue put down the dagger and said something. "Fake, with the impersonator's mark on it."
As he spoke, he took out a palm-sized magnifying glass from a drawer under the coffee table and placed the dagger under it.
Through the magnifying glass, we really saw two seal characters - Boxiu.
"If this is the name of the imitator, I know him, when I was in Jiangnan Toushi, I saw a master named Tao Boxiu, he is proficient in all kinds of alchemy techniques, and is familiar with all kinds of strange ancient texts, he used to participate in the translation of oracle bone inscriptions, and after retirement, he made a living by making handicrafts in the Jiangnan territory, and also accepted a few small apprentices, but they were not successful, and he didn't learn much skill. But in this way, he is now in his nineties, and I don't know if he is still alive. ”
"Can you reach him?"
"If it's him, it's not difficult to find, I'm afraid this may be the handiwork of his apprentice, those old boys are not easy to deal with, a few of them who graduated a few years ago, and people on the rivers and lakes often have dealings, and they will imitate antiquities, deceived many people, one of them was even pursued by the police across the border."
Dongfang frowned, "The origin of this dagger has been at least a few decades, it shouldn't be Tao Boxiu's apprentice, since this is not one of Mr. Zhou Ye's immortal knives, we have to go to Jiangnan!" ”
Jiang Chenyue waved her hand, "I'm afraid it's not that simple, first, why did this person imitate this dagger?" And he seems to have seen the original, if it weren't for the name on it, I'm afraid I wouldn't have recognized it as true or false? ”
When he said this, Dongfang was also stunned, "What do you mean by this?" ”
"I think this person has something to do with my master! Otherwise, the master would definitely not give him the dogwood to prevent it! ”