I looked at the box, and then looked around, at this point in the afternoon, passers-by were in a hurry, most of them were looking down at their mobile phones passing by, and many of the curious people were middle-aged, and they just walked a few steps slowly to take a look, and then left.

I was at a loss, I circled around the box several times, my stomach was hungry and made me a little anxious, I saw that after I moved just now, there was no movement, and my heart said is it an illusion?

Thinking about it, I went up and kicked it, and I felt that it should not react, and then I could be sure that I was delusional, but after this kick, the box jerked, and it seemed that the contents were also kicked.

I took a step back in fright and made a defensive gesture. But at this point, the box was silent again.

"Qiao Songnian?" I said in my heart that if there was a living creature inside, Iron B would be called Qiao Songnian. "You're in there?"

The box didn't move at all, I thought about it, should the box of more than a hundred years be in ancient words: "Brother Qiao, are you safe?" ”

There was no movement again, I kicked again, and the box shook again, and I said in my heart that Huainan came from, do you want to speak Anhui dialect?

It's still a bit nonsensical to think about it, so I have to give up, take out my Jinke Super Standby King, and call a buddy who lives in the building with me, that buddy is a water producer, and ask him to go to my room to find Su to ask about the situation. This box is so disgusting, can you just throw it on the side of the road?

That guy lives downstairs from me, he works early, gets up at 3 o'clock in the morning to go to the market, and then goes back to the room around 9 o'clock to start sleeping, he is hazy when I call over, I yelled a few times, he is willing to get up.

He walked the stairs while holding the phone, and I chatted about a few women living downstairs, I don't know what kind of business they are, they wear beautiful clothes every day, I lit a cigarette and listened to him on the side of the road, suddenly, he choked.

When I asked him why he didn't say anything, he paused and asked, "Is that person in your room your friend?" ”

I hummed, and the fish seller said, "Do you know what he's doing in your room?" ”

I had an ominous premonition, "What is he doing?" Sticking to the wall? "To be honest, I don't have any problems with my broken house, and I don't have anything if I do stick on the wall, anyway, I used to paste when I was drunk.

"He's bringing in all the kids in the building and talking to them."

"You give him your phone." I sighed, and said to myself that this man seemed to be a loving, and when the parents of those children found out, he would know how bad my reputation was in the building.

Then a series of children's noises were heard, and then Sue's voice came.

"Big brother, are you doing hair?" I crouched under a tree on the side of the road. Su said very calmly: "Help others take care of children to make money, 5 yuan an hour." Didn't you say you were going to pay you back? ”

"Okay, thank you, then let me ask you, what's the matter with the box you asked me to take? There's something in this box, it's a living thing, it moves, it fucking moves! ”

"Don't worry, it won't come out." Su coaxed the child and said, "You move back as soon as possible." ”

"Can't get out?" I was stunned for a moment, and my heart said fuck, there is really a living creature in it? It's been more than 100 years, is there a zombie in it?

"I'll talk to you when you're back, don't worry, trust me, this box can make you a lot of money." Su said, I was furious, and I wanted to scold a few words, but he had already hung up directly.

"Your mother!" I scolded, looked at the box for a long time, and sighed, but it was still the sentence that could make a lot of money that conquered me, and I continued to drag the box. Dragged all the way to the intersection, I found a tricycle, and at a sky-high price of 50 yuan, I suddenly returned to my building, called the aquatic product, got six or seven people, and moved the box back to my room.

When I returned to the room, Su was still holding a child, and when she saw me sweating profusely on the bed, she just said, "You're back?" ”

I pulled out a pack of cigarettes from under my pillow, handed two to everyone who helped, and drove them away. Then he closed me and asked Su, "What's in this box?" ”

"If I answer your question, it proves that you have joined the gang, the two of us are in a gang, we have money to earn together, but we also have to work together."

"Okay, fine, no problem." My curiosity has overcome my vigilance and self-esteem. Sue handed me the child, sat down on my bed, crossed her legs against the wall, and said, "Let's start at the beginning." First of all, let me tell you who I am. ”

For the next four hours, Su told me about a world that I had never heard of and didn't believe in at all, and I finally believed everything because of this box called Qiao Songnian.

In ancient times, there were many kinds of craftsmen, those who carved stones on the road could be craftsmen, and those who painted murals in Dunhuang could be craftsmen (people who have been to Dunhuang can obviously know how different the craftsmanship of the so-called craftsmen is), although Su's ancestors are classified as craftsmen, but they do things very differently, they make all kinds of clever toys for the royal family. These playthings can be big or small, the big one can be a building, and the small one can be a small mechanism in a walnut between square inches.

In the early years of this family in the Ming Dynasty, it has been raised in the Zongren Mansion, in the early years to repair ancient books for a living, and later out of the carpenter emperor, this family began to come to the stage, before the death of the Ming Dynasty, the people of this family moved back to Huainan, began to do business, a few generations later began to be famous. The Manchu royal family began to purchase some of their strange gadgets as gifts from foreign envoys, and later became the craftsmen of the royal court for the renovation of the Taihe Palace. Pipe under style thunder.

This family is good at tricks, and even better at solving problems, many ancient artifacts are renovated, and the parts are missing, they can overturn the principle and restore it in good condition.

In ancient times, there were three hundred and sixty lines, each line had two sides, and there was business on the bright side, which was fair and reasonable, just like the authentic medicinal materials written on the front door of the drugstore, which were really priceless. However, the insect merchants and grass thieves who obtained these medicinal materials have been trekking in the primeval jungle for many years to find medicine, killing people and taking medicines, and the list goes on. There are always dark places in an industry. Tricks can be used to please the emperor, or they can be turned into harmful things. For example, there is a pot that is wine in the backhand and poison in the forehand. Most of them are from the Su family, but the people who make this kind of pot are often implicated and die unexpectedly.

In the whole process of working for the royal family, the Su family made a lot of overseas officials, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, according to the ancestral teachings, the Su family slowly withdrew from practical things and hid into the people. In order to avoid the search of officials, they chose this city and built the circular mansion. It was called Su Yuan, and it was also a local noble family at that time.

"Then there are really a lot of your Su family." I interjected, "Why doesn't it look like there's anyone now?" ”

"No, Su Yuan only has the most central courtyard, and the people who live in the Su family live outside, and the outside is for the foreign family, the Su family, saying that it is the Su family, only the children of the family can be surnamed Su, and the other foreign descendants can only be surnamed Luo. That's because—" Sue stretched out his hand and bloomed like a flower in front of me.

I was stunned for a moment, I had never seen such a beautiful hand, his fingers were very slender and looked so soft as if they had no bones. The nails are precisely trimmed. It's like Kannon's hand.

"These hands are the tools that the Su family uses to make the most delicate objects. It can operate six gold needles at the same time to assemble and disassemble on the inch. Su said: "The contents of this box are made in this way." The Su family's surname Su is passed down in one line, and he will always be an only son, which seems to be a curse, and I am the current generation. The skills are not as good as those of the ancestors. ”

"And what about those surnamed Luo?" I asked.

Su closed his hand, and when he opened it, there were already a few more gold needles between his fingers, and then the gold needles disappeared, as if by magic to indicate the flexibility of his hand,

"Remember counter 4 in the bank and that piece of copper?" He asked.

I nodded, and he said: "That kind of copper sheet is called a broken coin, and each broken coin corresponds to a special box, and I fell out with the Luo family because of these boxes."