Chapter 10: The Black Box of Copper Horns

I was taken to the couch seat in the financial center, and the long-legged OL inside made me a cup of coffee. In these places now, the staff wear a kind of oppressive sexiness, I don't know if it's designed.

I wasn't used to drinking bitter water like coffee, but in order to relieve the embarrassment, I had to keep stirring it up, and I seemed to be very proficient.

To be honest, this is the first time I have entered the area of the financial center, and I rarely come to the bank, because it has been several years since I had enough money to deposit in the bank.

I thought about the look on the bank lady at the counter, she was clearly afraid, I didn't understand at what point she was afraid. Could it be that there is something terrible about that box?

In 1819, it was more than a hundred years ago, almost two hundred years, and I never knew that there was such a long time in the bank to keep the boxes. But I've read a lot of novels, and I've already begun to imagine in my mind that Su's ancestors opened a bank, and the money bank continued at that time, and finally became the first banking industry in China, and after the Nationalist government took over, it merged many local private banks and banks, but their business continued, maybe there was a certain money bank at that time that had this kind of box custody service. After liberation, these services continued to the modern banking system.

But this is a bit unrealistic, I think that even in an era when many cultures have been artificially cut off, a bank box that is more than 100 years old cannot exist in this social system.

No one paid attention to me, I stirred the coffee for more than 4 hours, at this time it was close to the closing time of the bank in the afternoon, I didn't eat lunch, my hungry stomach screamed, suddenly heard a commotion, and then the bank's roller shutter door was pulled down halfway. I saw the bank's security guard guarding the door, and several men in suits dressed as bank staff outfits carrying an aluminum suitcase, bent over the roller shutter door and walked towards me.

Yes, four men in suits carried together, each carrying a horn, this box is not the size of a suitcase, it is at least 1.5 meters long, half a meter wide and high. It turned out to be like a small coffin.

I looked at the aluminum case, which didn't look like an 1819 one, and I put down my cold coffee with a polite smile. But none of the other party had expressions.

They came to me and put the box down. Then I took out a stack of "land deeds" written on rice paper from my bag, and they were all small letters on them, and I couldn't see them clearly - but the paper showed that it was some years old, and the paper was not only yellow, but also a little brittle - they took out my copper sheet, checked it with the pattern on the "deed", and then pressed the copper sheet deeply in the ink ink, and then stamped it onto the "deed". After that, another staff member took out a pair of pliers and picked up the piece of copper in half. Give me half back.

I didn't speak, trying to look calm, and then they made a gesture and asked if I could open the box and check?

I nodded and got up from the couch.

They opened the aluminium box, and it turned out to be a protective outer box, and inside the aluminium box, there was a wooden box, or, I suspect, a coffin.

It was an old wooden box, the surface of the pulp was white and dry, some cracked, obviously soaked in water, behind it was a blackened brass jacket with low buckles, the four corners were wrapped with copper sheets to protect, and the copper sheets were embossed with animal claws, it was a copper horn black box, and it was an old object. On the chest, there are all kinds of seals. On the surface of the "coffin", there are also countless notches, and if you look closely, most of them are dates in various formats. Dense, all kinds of fonts, all kinds of sizes, carved well, casually scribbled, all over the place.

In the middle of the gap in the box, there is a lute lock, embedded in the coffin, I don't see the keyhole, but I can see that on the lock surface is the face of a lion, and there are two very small holes in the center of the eyeballs of the two eyes. I thought of Sue's golden needle, and my heart said Could it be that the key to unlocking the coffin is that kind of thin needle? And in the center of the lid of the box, there is a copper sheet inlaid with it, this copper sheet is very rusty, the pattern has been corroded, and only three words can be seen clearly: Qiao Songnian.

Is it a personal name?

I froze, this box still has a name. Is it really a coffin?

When I looked up, I saw that the men in suits around me had already retreated several steps, and the girl at the counter ran to ask people to open the roller shutter door and shouted to me, "Mr. Su, you can go quickly." ”

I looked around at them, closed the lid of the aluminum box, dragged it a few steps, and found that it was as heavy as stone. Only moved a little. I looked at them and hoped they would come and help. Everybody didn't move, and they were far away from me.

I suddenly realized that they were not afraid of this box, because they had just come with this box, and they were afraid of me who picked up this box.

The scene was very embarrassing, because the box was too heavy, but I didn't know how to ask others to help, and most of the embarrassing things in my life were solved by gritting my teeth. I mustered up my strength and dragged the box hard.

After 15 minutes, I finally dragged the box out of the bank, I stood up and wiped the sweat from my head, and just as I was about to say thank you, I saw the roller shutter door be pulled down in an instant.

"Your mother." I cursed in my heart, and continued to drag this aluminum protective box, walking centimeter by centimeter on the road. After another half an hour, I finally understood what exhaustion was. I sat down on the box and gasped. When he looked back at the door of the bank, it was still fifty meters away, and he began to smile wryly.

At this moment, the box under my buttocks suddenly vibrate, and it seemed that something inside had moved and hit the wall of the box. I jumped to my feet and fell to the ground.

Holy shit, shit, what's in the box moving, is it a living thing?