Chapter Seventy-Four: Agarwood
The air is filled with scents that make people feel refreshed. Uncle Qing www.biquge.info said to Boss Chen with a smile that I had never seen on his face, "Boss Chen, please inside!" Ah Zhi, take Boss Chen up first. "That's when I noticed that there was a little boy sitting behind the counter next to me, who looked very small, and I wondered if he was a child laborer.
After Ah Zhi took Boss Chen in, Uncle Qing said to me, "Xiao Min, I'm going in to talk about business, so let Xiao Meng accompany you around." ”
"Okay, you go get busy."
After Uncle Qing went in, Ah Zhi came out. I asked Meng Yingjiu in a whisper, "How old is he?"
Meng Yingjiu hadn't answered yet, but Ah Zhi, who returned to the counter, looked at me and said disdainfully, "I'm 18 years old this year!" After saying that, he lowered his head and looked at the computer.
I was surprised and said, "You can hear me so quietly?" Are you a tailwind? ”
Ah Zhi didn't raise his head and said, "You're right, my nickname is Shunfeng Ear." ”
I said in a quieter voice than I had just asked, "Can this be heard?" Children. ”
Ah Zhi looked up at me and said, "Who do you say is the little friend?" I'm an adult, please pay attention to the wording. ”
Although Ah Zhi looks very small, he really looks like a little adult when he sinks his face and gets angry, which makes it difficult to joke with him anymore.
I smiled awkwardly and said, "Okay, you're not a kid." By the way, I've always felt a faint fragrance in the room, what is the smell of something? ”
"It's the smell of agarwood." Meng Yingjiu pointed to the place where he was sitting just now and said, "The black wood on the table is agarwood, and these fragrances are seeping out of it. ”
I approached the agarwood, and sure enough, the closer I got, the stronger the fragrance was than in the distance, but it was all faintly fragrant. "I didn't expect this piece of black wood to be so inconspicuous, but it has quite a connotation."
Ah Zhi said casually: "So at any time, we can't judge people by their appearance. ”
This kid holds such a grudge, and he is really still a child, so I had to smile at him awkwardly.
Meng Yingjiu said: "The floating world is like water, and the mundane wood in the world flows with the waves of desire, and there is no end. Agarwood is the fixed stone, as calm as in the floating water. ”
"Calm and firm, just like you. And the drunkard is actually Uncle Qing himself. After speaking, I pulled Meng Yingjiu and began to visit Uncle Qing's antique shop.
Walking inside, I pulled Meng Yingjiu and whispered, "That Ah Zhi, he has a big temper at a young age. ”
Meng Yingjiu said: "It's not because you're going to tease him. ”
"I'm just joking with him, but he's still quite backbone, and newborn calves aren't afraid of tigers."
"How do you see that?"
"He must have seen that I have a good relationship with his boss, but in this case, he still dares to throw a face at me, isn't this a backbone?"
Meng Yingjiu just smiled and didn't speak. Uncle Qing's shop is only two rooms, and the rooms inside have stairs leading to the top, and Uncle Qing and Boss Chen are discussing business on it. I thought there would be a lot of antiques in it, but it turned out that there were just some cardboard boxes stacked in a mess, which was too far from the simple and elegant outside.
I said, "Isn't this an antique shop?" Why don't I see any antiques? ”
"There are some calligraphy and paintings in the display cabinet outside, Uncle Qing is a familiar business, and the guests are all introduced by acquaintances one by one. There is also what others want, they will directly ask Uncle Qing to find it, just like Boss Chen just now. ”
"That's right."
There was nothing to see inside, Meng Yingjiu and I went back outside, and from this angle, we could see Ah Zhi playing card games on the computer. He saw us come out and said, "The babies are here." ”
I was not so amazed by his hearing, and when I walked over and saw that there were only a few ancient books scattered in the display case, there was a big difference between imagination and reality.
I leaned on the display case and sighed, Ah Zhi said: "Don't underestimate these broken books, these are all lonely." ”
"It's what you say, I don't understand it anyway."
Ah Zhi shook his head and continued to play his card game, Meng Yingjiu asked me, "Xiaomin, what do you want to eat at noon?" ”
"It's all right! I will eat whatever you usually eat. ”
Ah Zhi said: "We usually order takeaway noodles. ”
I nodded and said, "Okay, let's eat noodles then." ”
Meng Yingjiu looked at the clock on the wall and said, "They should have to talk for a long time, let's eat first, otherwise you will be late for work in a while." ”
Ah Zhi ordered 3 bowls of noodles, and he said that this is one of the top 50 noodles in Chongqing, and it is really delicious. Meng Yingjiu was right, until we finished eating, Uncle Qing and Boss Chen hadn't gone downstairs, and they didn't know what they were talking about for so long. After saying goodbye to Ah Zhi, Meng Yingjiu sent me to take the bus, although I was reluctant to leave, but I also had to go back to work, so I could meet again after work.
When she returned to the office, Yang Huan immediately showed me the press release she had written. "It's very good, every point is in place."
Yang Huan said embarrassedly: "Xiao Zhang told me a lot, relying on his guidance." ”
Xiao Zhang said: "Small meaning. ”
As long as you follow your heart, even if it is just a calm life, it is your own enjoyment. Such a simple day passed in a blink of an eye, and soon it was the National Day holiday. Meng Yingjiu and Uncle Qing went to Xi'an to help Boss Chen find an ancient book, while I went to the class reunion.
Hei and I took the bus to school together. Our old place is actually a dry pot shop outside the school, and their taro chicken is so delicious that after graduation, it has become the college taste that we have always cherished. So everyone decided to set this meeting place in the future.
When we arrived at the school gate, everything had returned to calm, and there was no trace of any disturbance before. The proprietress of the dry pot shop told us that there was a lot of trouble before, and the girl's parents put wreaths in front of the school, but the next day they were all taken away, and the troublemakers did not come, so it should be that the school took the money to settle the situation.
I couldn't help but feel a little relieved, not for Zhang Zhiwen, but because it proved that he was indeed a greedy man who wanted to blackmail money, and I was right not to help him.
The party is as always, gossip and complaining, everyone exchanges what they usually see and hear, every time the gossip can refresh my three views, but also let me have to sigh the strangeness and mystery of fate, the students who used to take classes together, now everyone's life is very different.
We played until 10 p.m. and then split up. Some went to sing, some went home, and Xiao Hei and I chose to go to the campus.
Xiao Hei and Hua Mei used to be ambiguous, but they were never together, and now they each have partners. Xiao Hei proposed to visit the campus, and the flower girl pulled me along, and at the moment I was not a light bulb but a fuse.
Even though it was 10 p.m., there were still a lot of young couples walking around the school. The three of us lurked in it, as if we were back in our school days.
Everyone chatted and unconsciously walked to the path at the bottom of the hill behind the school, and looked up at the dark mountain, where only a huge black shadow remained in the abandoned building.
"Ahh Hua Mei suddenly shouted, "Look, there's light up there!" ”