Chapter 3: The Compass Left Behind
The treasure of the world, five words are very attractive to me, grandpa often goes to sea, is it that he found something on the sea?
Thinking of grandpa's affairs, this notebook should be a record left by grandpa when he was sailing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It wasn't as I thought, and all the pages I looked through were torn off, and the remaining five or six were just drawn with some crosses and lines connected into symbols, like a map, with a few very small words written on them, Light in the Darkness, Death is Rebirth.
At the title of the first page, there are three big characters, "Seven Islands".
Hitochishima, what is that place and what does it do? I don't know anything, but I can't find any useful information when I search Baidu, and even if I open the world map query, there is no island. Could it be that Grandpa's so-called treasure of the world is on this island?
I looked at the rest of the maps, each one was similar to this map, although I couldn't decipher it, but I believe that the information left by my grandfather should be reasonable.
Carefully put away these special maps, I took out the thing that looked like a pocket watch, this thing is not difficult to guess, it is a little special, wooden, with the size of a palm, the time on it corresponds not to one to twelve, but the words of the heavenly and terrestrial branches such as Zi Chou Yin Mao Jia, B and C in ancient China, so what is it used for, used to see the time? Or a compass? I decided to go to Tianning Temple for consultation, closed the door, and immediately called my friend Baozi.
Baozi is my high school classmate and iron buddy, SH people, married a Yangzhou girl, now doing business in Yangzhou, often going back and forth between Shanghai and Yangzhou, the business is not big, and the annual income is still no problem with hundreds of thousands. When he contacted Baozi, he was very interested and immediately drove to me, but when he saw my wooden "pocket watch", he immediately lost interest.
The bun was first held in his hand and watched for a long time, but he didn't see any clue, and asked me very suspiciously: "How much is this thing worth, or is it wooden, is it really left by your grandfather?" ”
Actually, I also doubt whether this is something left by my grandfather, if not, then it will be the only thing that my father put in it, in short, this is the only item left by my grandfather or father.
I shook my head cluelessly and said, "I don't know, it's been locked in my grandfather's box." ”
Anyway, Baozi is still happy to explore this problem with me, in middle school, we were good buddies, until I went to the army, every week, we still have phone contact, after I came back from the army, I often fooled around with me, of course, these secrets can't be told to Baozi's daughter-in-law.
With that, we came to Tianning Temple.
Tianning Temple is the antique market in Yangzhou City, I have only heard, I have been here, the real and fake here must not be able to distinguish, after all, Baozi is a businessman, shrewd, take him with a sense of security, will not be easily deceived by those old things in the antique market.
There are street vendors everywhere, some stall owners look like dogs and wear the appearance of archaeologists, some stall owners sit on the ground directly with big pants and slippers, very messy, and many people here are some elderly old men who come here to shop in the hope of finding treasures, after all, the antique market is either selling fakes, or selling some worthless things, of course, more is that these stall owners want to try their luck to buy some real goods from those who are short of money or do not understand, and then sell them at a high price.
"An ornament?"
"It's been a few years, but it's not very useful."
"Maybe it's made in imitation of pocket watches"
These vendors are different, Baozi said that they are all fakes, Baozi and I really almost walked all over Tianning Temple, until we met an old man who was basking in the sun with his eyes closed, he was about seventy or eighty years old, squeaking and squeaking on the rocking chair, as if the stall was not to sell things, as if he looked down on the red dust of time, he slowly opened his eyes and looked at it, and closed his eyes silently, and then said indifferently: "Song Dynasty things." ”
When Baozi heard this, he immediately pulled me and said that this old man has a play.
So I hurriedly asked, "Sir, please advise." ”
The old man still closed his eyes, and said slowly: "I don't dare to teach, it's just that the smell of the sea wafting from afar makes me hate it, I can't sleep, I can't touch the things in the sea, the old ghost in the West Lane likes this thing, go there to ask for advice." ”
Master, definitely a master, even the smell of the sea on this thing can be smelled, this has been at home for many years.
I hurriedly bowed, "Thank you, old man." ”
The old man waved his hand: "No thanks, go find it yourself, it's in the West Lane." ”
According to the old man's guidance, we came to the store called "Jubaowan" in West Lane.
"The boss please, the boss please."
At the entrance of "Treasure Bay" sat a tall and thin man with slightly dark skin, who saw us walking towards "Treasure Bay" and began to greet us from a distance.
"Are you Mr. Old Ghost?" I asked politely.
"No, the old ghost is a contemptible teacher, my name is Kuroko, may I ask who you are?"
Kuroko is really a human being, and he speaks in a similar way, with black teeth and white teeth, and his smile is opposite, but when he heard that we were looking for an old ghost, he became serious.
"We have something in our hands, and we want to ask Mr. Ghost to help us get through it." I'm not ambiguous, and I'm just telling Kuroko what we're trying to do, hoping to get insights.
"Come in and talk." As soon as the sunspot heard that it was a treasure, and he came to look for the old ghost, he became cautious, this old ghost rarely showed his head, and the store was taken care of by the sunspot on weekdays, and no matter how big the business was, the old ghost was not needed, unless there was something special. Therefore, the name of the old ghost is not heard by ordinary people.
Walking into Jubaowan, I instantly felt extraordinarily different.
Swords with fish handles, bows in the shape of seahorses, shields with turtle shells, and so on, almost everything is related to things in the sea.
After taking a seat and pouring tea, Kuroko said unhurriedly: "Take out the things, I'll help you take a look, the master and his old man are not here." ”
I took out the compass from my bag, "Thanks to the guidance of the master, Mr. Old Ghost understands this, and I have come to ask Mr. Old Ghost to take a look, I don't know if Brother Kuroko understands." ”
Kuroko took the compass and looked at it carefully in his hand, and after a long time, Kuroko smiled and said, "Brother, where did this thing come from?" ”
"This is what the old man in my family left me." I looked at Kuroko's expression, and it was very enthusiastic.
Immediately after that, Kuroko asked: "This is something from the Song Dynasty, is the brother here to sell it, or?" ”
Baozi hurriedly said: "No, no, let's just want to inquire about the origin of this thing." "The bun was pulling my clothes next to me, and I instantly understood the meaning, it turned out that this sunspot was a black-hearted businessman who wanted to buy my things cheaply.
Kuroko nodded as if he understood, and asked, "Brother, your surname?" ”
"The contemptible surname is Zhu, this is my brother's bun." I introduced.
Heizi gently took a sip of tea, shook his head, and said: "Brother Zhu, this thing has no origin, it is nothing more than a compass used for navigation in the Song Dynasty, if it has been identified as non-destructive, if it is sold, it can be sold for up to 100,000 yuan, I said two brothers, things are also put away, it is better to sell it to make some money and spend it, anyway, it will not be used." ”
It turns out that this thing is a compass, and grandpa used to be a seaman, so this must be a compass for navigation.
Baozi then nodded and said, "Then let's discuss it." ”
Baozi pulled me to the side and whispered in my ear: "Ah Ming, this compass he said is a good thing at first glance, seeing Kuroko's attitude, I conclude that he must know some of the origin of this compass, he obviously wants to buy it from you, he must not sell it, it really can't work, let's go take a look elsewhere?" ”
I agreed with Baozi's statement, so I told Kuroko: "Brother Kuroko, this thing is handed down by the old man in my family, it has a very important meaning to me, no matter how much I will sell, this time to disturb your store, in some things in itself, the main thing is to know the origin of this compass, since Brother Kuroko refuses to say, I have no choice, I have no choice but to leave." ”
After that, Baozi and I turned around and were about to leave, and sure enough, Kuroko left someone behind.
Kuroko was anxious, and hurriedly ran over and grabbed my arm: "Don't, two, although I'm not sure what this thing is for, but the tutor must know, it's better to leave a phone call, and when the tutor comes back, I'll come back when the time comes." ”
I pondered that it was feasible, firstly, after a long day of turnaround, such a store could know a little bit of the situation, and secondly, I had nothing to lose anyway, so I left my mobile phone number and buns and left.