Chapter 4: Relics and Disappeared Money
Picking up the broom, Li Yu came to the side of a pile of ashes, thinking of the terrible appearance of Zhang Laosan who had cheated the corpse before, he took a deep breath with palpitations, patted his chest and prepared to work.
When he slapped his right hand on his chest, he saw a touch of red on his palm, especially after the place where he was slapped also turned red, and he immediately said badly.
Zhang Laosan, who had been deceived before, chased him and fell and broke his hand, and he didn't pay attention to it when he was nervous, but at this time he didn't care about his injury, but quickly pulled away his clothes.
The clothes on his chest were already soaked with blood, and under the clothes were the relics left to him by his father ten years ago, and he was afraid that the relics left to him by his father would be stained by blood.
But when Li Yu opened his clothes, he was dumbfounded on the spot, the relics left by his father were gone!
The small piece of metal that has accompanied him for ten years, he has always used a small cloth bag to put close to his heart, but now it is inexplicably gone, only the small cloth bag is empty and hanging in his heart.
"Where?"
After discovering that the relics left by his father had disappeared, Li Yu was so anxious that he forgot about sweeping the floor, and groped everywhere on his body to find it, but he couldn't touch it all over his body.
Could it be that I accidentally lost it before?
Thinking of this, Li Yu began to look everywhere again, but he still couldn't find it.
Unable to find it, Li Yu sat on the ground as if he had lost all his strength.
The relics left to him by his father accompanied him for ten years, but now they are gone.
Ten years ago, when Li Yu was six years old, one night, a meteor fell on the hillside behind Li Yu's house, the meteor is a product of the sky, and it is very likely to bring precious extraterrestrial meteorite, which is very valuable, so Li Yu's father went up the mountain overnight to find it.
Like Li Yu's father, there were other people in the same village who wanted to obtain the Extraterrestrial Meteorite, but Li Yu's father was lucky and found the place where the meteor fell first.
However, Li Yu's father did not find the meteorite outside the sky, and only picked up a small piece of metal in that small pit.
The metal sheet looked nothing special, an inch long and half an inch wide and a millimeter thick, and the black pitch was cold and inconspicuous, and only when it was tilted to a certain angle could you faintly see a dark pattern on it.
The dark pattern looks like two fingers spread out, giving a 'V' shape with the upper half of the fork.
That night, Li Yu's father brought back this piece of metal, thinking that there was only so much left after the meteorite fell from the sky, and it should be worth some money, so he decided to take it to the town the next day to see if it could be sold for a good price.
But the next morning, before Li Yu's father went out, the robbers came, and they asked the villagers to hand over the meteorite from the sky, but the villagers couldn't hand it over, so they killed people to vent their anger, and the robbers slaughtered more than 100 people in half of the village, and then went up the mountain to look for it all day, but they couldn't find the meteorite outside the sky and left in disappointment.
Li Yu's parents both died on that day, and the reason why Li Yu survived was because his grandfather took him to hide under the kang platform to escape.
The reason why the metal piece fell into Li Yu's hands was because when he was tidying up his father's appearance, he found that his father had put the metal piece in his mouth and did not hand it over.
After all, it was a product of the world, and if it was sold, it was likely that his family would not have to starve for a long time.
At that time, Li Yu was still young, and he didn't understand the mood of letting his family live a good life after his father died, and the metal piece fell into his hands and became the only relic left to him by his father.
Because it is the only memorable relic left by his father, his parents have been dead until now, and no matter how difficult the days are, Li Yu has never thought of selling them.
Until now, that piece of metal has accompanied him throughout his childhood, he protected it well and never stained it......
But now that the metal piece is gone, and his only thought about his father is gone, Li Yu feels as if the sky has fallen.
"Dad, I'm sorry, I lost the only thing you left, I'm sorry......"
The more I thought about it, the more sad I became, and the more I thought about it, the more sad I became, and unconsciously Li Yu shed tears.
After being sad for a while, he thought of his current status, his work was important, he still had a grandfather to support, and he couldn't lose this job.
Raising his left hand to wipe away his tears with his sleeve, Li Yu was ready to continue working.
However, at this time, his movements froze, and he looked at his left arm with the sleeve of his shirt slipping off in disbelief.
On the arm, which had been a little bronzed from the work of childhood, a strange pattern appeared there.
The pattern is very simple, it is a 'V' with two fingers spread, one inch high, pale gold, like a tattoo, and like a birthmark.
"Isn't this the dark pattern on the small iron piece of the relic that my father left me? How did it end up on my arm? ”
Looking at the inexplicable patterns on his arms, Li Yu was confused, forgetting about sadness and work.
He remembered very well that he had no birthmark, and that little piece of iron had followed him for ten years, and he knew the dark lines on it very well, and he couldn't see that strange pattern anywhere else.
And now, the small piece of iron is gone, but the pattern appears on his arm.
"What's going on?"
Confused, Li Yu touched the pattern with his right hand, but it was really like an ordinary birthmark, and the arm was deformed because of the pressure, and it was also deformed with it, completely integrated with his handwriting, nothing special.
"Li Yu? What are you doing? At this moment, a voice appeared and interrupted Li Yu.
The person who came was dressed in a cyan subordinate costume like Li Yu, named Wende, an eighteen-year-old boy, holding a broom, he was the same as Li Yu, he was a subordinate of the Wang family, responsible for sweeping, but he was not in charge of the same area.
Li Yu still kept pressing the pattern on his arm, and opened his mouth to say, "Brother Wen, I ......"
"Gotta gotcha, what am I, what is there to touch on your arm, it's not the girl's hand, let's get to work, just now Master Wang asked me to help you clean up here, why are there so many ashes......" Speaking of this, the young man asked Li Yu in a low voice: "There were some strange sounds here just now, I felt creepy from afar, you are here, do you know what happened?" ”
In fact, it wasn't Master Wang who asked Wende to come, he made up a reason to come here because he was curious about the movement here before, but Li Yu didn't doubt his statement, after all, who wants to do more?
"I ...... Brother Wen, you can't see it? Li Yu raised his arm and asked, the golden pattern on his arm was so obvious and special, the other party was not curious at all?
"Don't say it, who rarely looks at your hands, you're not a big girl" Wende pouted and said, ignoring Li Yu no longer.
Looking at Wende, Li Yu looked at the pattern on his arm again, and always felt that this matter was not simple, so he doubted in his heart, and then studied the work first, and then studied it, Master Wang said, I don't need to do anything else after cleaning this place today, there is time.
The ashes seem to be a lot, but there are not many of them cleaned together, although Zhang Laosan, who burned the corpse, added fire oil, but there are still some bone residues, Li Yu knew that he didn't say anything, Wende's body trembled slightly after discovering this, and he didn't mention this stubble.
Wende realized that he was reckless, doing things in the Wang family, it is better not to inquire if you shouldn't know, it is a trivial matter to anger the main family and lose your job, if you lose your life because of curiosity, it is called death, Wang Youcai is not a good man and a woman to become the richest man in the town.
After the ashes were cleared, Li Yu's heart moved and said to Wende: "Brother Wen, how about you throw these things away?" The old man said that he would throw the river three miles away......"
"Three miles away? I'll go? What about you? Wende stopped doing it at that time, looked at Li Yu and frowned.
Li Yu said: "Brother Wen, just help, I still have something, I really have something."
"Okay, then next time I ask you for help, don't shirk" Wende thought to himself that it was already taboo for him to come rashly, it was better not to make a fuss because of this little thing, and there was not much work, it didn't matter if there was one more person or one less person, and he could still get Li Yu's favor, so he agreed.
"Thank you, Brother Wen," Li Yu immediately expressed his gratitude.
Wende waved his hand and left with the ashes.
After Wende left, after such a disturbance from work, Li Yu subconsciously forgot about the pattern that mysteriously appeared on his arm, and was thinking about Master Wang's reward of 100 yuan.
The process of receiving the reward money was very smooth, obviously Wang Youcai said hello, and Li Yu got the 100 yuan very smoothly.
This is the first time he has received so much money, he used to live with his grandfather and even had few opportunities to contact money, and when he got the money, he was very excited, as if someone would rob him at any time.
After getting the money, Li Yu hadn't been excited for a long time, when he felt a hot pain in the position of the pattern on his left arm, and saw that there was no one around, so he rolled up his sleeves to look.
At this look, Li Yu found that on the edge of the 'V'-shaped pattern, another mysterious pattern appeared, it was a '+', still golden, much smaller, only the size of a fingernail, and the hot burning sensation came from this new strange pattern.
The pain in that place was unbearable, and Li Yu subconsciously pressed it there with his hand in an attempt to reduce the pain.
The strange thing is that Li Yu pressed lightly, not only did the pain disappear, but even the new '+' shaped pattern disappeared.
That's not all, the '+' pattern disappears, but a '1' pattern appears next to the 'V' pattern.
"What's going on?" Li Yu scratched his head and said he was puzzled by this.
However, at this time, Li Yu stiffened, and his right hand trembled to touch his arms, and he felt empty.
The 100 Wen bounty he just received has not yet been hot, and it is actually gone now!
For Li Yu, who was poor and scared, this was worse than killing him......