The Secret of 1204 (2) - Cinnabar

"I have a hobby of cycling. It's my way of exercising. I always ride up early in the morning along the path in front of my neighborhood. One morning, as I was riding my bike as usual, I saw a man walking unhurriedly on the side of the path, and I didn't care, but just as I was about to overtake him, that man suddenly pulled out a stick and hit me on the shoulder, and I was knocked to the ground, and then four or five people came out and began to besiege me. Luckily, I usually practiced a few times, and after I knocked down a person, before they could react, I pushed the bike and ran, and several people chased after me. I ran a few steps, pulled a little distance, and then got on the bike and started riding as fast as I could. At this moment, I felt like I was hit in the head with a bang, and the force was so great. Luckily, I wore protective gear when I rode the bike, and it hit me on my helmet just now, otherwise my skull would have cracked. Despite this, my head was also hit with a burst of vertigo and I almost fell out of the car. In the midst of my busy schedule, I looked back and saw that the boy was holding a nine-section whip, and now he was swinging the whip to fight a second time. I hurriedly shrank my head, and the whip swept my hair over. I didn't dare to stop any longer, so I pedaled my bike a few times and rushed through an intersection. The gang in the back is still in hot pursuit. But I'm riding fast after all, and I've already pulled some distance. I made out the direction and rode desperately for a while to shake them off. ”

"Who are these people? Why did you attack me? I never figured it out. Later, I wondered if it was because I had violated someone's interests by initiating a clear case. Since then, I've stopped investigating. But this incident has always disturbed me. ”

As soon as he said this, Mr. Gao's phone rang suddenly, and he picked it up and said a few words. Then he apologized to me: "I'm sorry, Mr. Wang, I have an urgent matter to deal with." Let's get to that for today. Thank you! Actually, I wanted to leave a long time ago, so I stood up and shook Mr. Gao's hand and left Mr. Gao's office.

When I returned to the company, as soon as I entered the door, the little girl at the front desk stopped me: "Mr. Wang, someone brought you something just now." "What's that?" Who sent it? "I took it and saw that it was an antique bottle and a box of expensive supplements." It's a beautiful woman, and she said she gave it to their president. I apologize to you. The little girl said, then pointed to the vial: "She said that she asked an old Chinese medicine doctor to prepare sprain medicine." Lets you apply it on your arm and it works really well. "I understand, it was sent by Mr. Gao. They're really efficient.

I picked up Xin and went home together, and on the way I showed Xin the things sent by Mr. Gao, Xin glanced at it, was quite disdainful, and threw it on the back seat of the car. But just as she threw herself into the back seat, the wheel hit a rock, and the whole car jerked. Xin's hand slipped, and instead of throwing it in the back seat, it fell in front of the seat. The vial containing the sprain medicine shattered with a "pop". "Oops! Oops! Xin screamed. But immediately her attention was drawn away by something else, "Huh! What is it? "What's wrong?" I asked her. "That medicine bottle was broken, and a lot of red stuff fell out of it." "What?" I was also taken aback. I pulled over to the side of the road, got out of the car and opened the back door. Sure enough, the vial had shattered, and a lot of ointment was leaking out of it, and there was something red spilling out of it. I carefully picked up the vial, only to realize that there was a dark layer underneath the vial, which contained the red powder. I pinched a little powder with a paper towel and smelled: "It's cinnabar!" "I came from a family of traditional Chinese medicine, although my ancestors did not learn any medical skills, but since I was a child, I saw my grandfather pouring all kinds of herbs, so I know all the more common Chinese medicines. Cinnabar is a very common Chinese herbal medicine that is toxic. Chinese began to use cinnabar as a pigment very early, for example, the main ingredient of the famous "Eight Treasures Seal Clay" is cinnabar. Because the color of cinnabar is bright red, it is said that it can ward off evil spirits, so there are also Taoist priests who use it to draw talismans to drive away ghosts.

Mr. Gao gave me a medicine bottle with cinnabar, what does this mean? Look at me in deep thought. Xin was anxious: "Whatever it is, don't ask for it." As she spoke, she took the vial from my hand, took it out along with the box of supplements, and threw it into the trash can on the side of the road. I also helped her clean up the spilled cinnabar outside the car with a paper towel.

Along the way, Xin's face was very bad. When we arrived at the community, we found that it was pitch black, and we asked the security guard in front of the door to know that the original road construction in front of the road had damaged the line, and the community had a power outage since the afternoon, and it would be repaired tomorrow at the earliest. Xin saw that she couldn't cook in this situation, so she decided to go to the restaurant next to her to buy some, and we just dealt with it. When she got out of the car, I went back first.

I parked the car and went upstairs, and was just about to take out the key to open the door when I heard the sound of messy footsteps downstairs. I was shocked, lest something happen to Xin, I hurriedly walked downstairs to pick up Xin, only to see Xin running up the stairs with her mobile phone in a panic, seeing that it was me, grabbed my arm. She looked back nervously. Seeing her running delicately, I quickly asked, "What's wrong?" Xin took my hand and walked up: "Let's talk about it." ”

When we got home, Xin immediately turned around and locked the two safety guards on the door, which made it a little easier. It's been a long time since the power has been out, and there isn't even a single candle at home. I rummaged through the cabinets and found a few small candles left over for Xin's birthday and lit them. Xin Xin sat on the sofa with palpitations. I took her hand and asked her what was going on.

It turned out that Xin went to the restaurant to buy some food and entered the community, and when she walked through a fork in the road, she saw a woman standing on the side of the road. Because of the power outage, the street lights in the community are basically extinguished, the road is dark, only the outline of a person can be seen, and the face can not be seen clearly. The occupancy rate of this community is good, and it is not very late at this time, so it is not strange to meet people on the road. Xin didn't care, and walked towards the unit door. After walking for about 5 minutes, Xin arrived at the door of the unit, she swiped the access control card and entered the door of the unit, because she could not use the elevator, she could only take the stairs. Just as she entered the staircase, Xin suddenly felt a little strange. There are emergency lights in the stairwell, which are the kind of small green lights installed on the wall to show the floor, so the staircase is not very dark, and you can barely see people. Just as Xin was on one side, the corner of her eye seemed to notice that there was a figure behind her. Xin was startled, and her first reaction was to run into a gangster. She quickly turned around, only to be so frightened that she almost screamed. There was really a figure behind him, and it seemed to be the woman he had just met on the road. She stood behind Shin, almost against Shin's back. Xin hurriedly lit up her mobile phone and took a picture of the man, and shouted: "Who?" But she found that there was nothing behind her, and the woman was gone. Xin didn't dare to delay any longer, and ran upstairs in three steps and two steps, until she saw me, she was a little relieved.