1. The long-lost No. 48
"Where are you?"
"Brie? It's you? A surprised voice came from the other end of the phone, "Why did you suddenly come to me." ”
"I heard that your coaching career in England is over, and I came to ask you for something from abroad."
"Come on, then!" The voice on the other end of the phone immediately excited, "Are you still in that bad place?" Wait for me to pick you up tomorrow. ”
"Nope!" I'm at your door, Brie said and looked out of the shabby window. It's a dilapidated house! The railing outside the window of the house has been rusted and half hung there, the glass is also broken, and the unbroken one is also smashed out of a hexagonal opening by a child, and some places are pasted with paper that symbolizes the surname, and some are a little scary when they look at the broken gatehouse regardless of walking in it, the seventh floor is a tall building for this small county, and the wind is getting bigger and bigger with the height.
When he came, he was sure to ask the old cultural relics bureau in Xi'an is in the suburbs of Chang'an District, I don't know why there is no bus here, so it took a long time for Brie to get a ride, the driver on the road told him that this area in 1996 or even earlier, there are privately operated buses, every day on time, and then for some reason, the car was smashed, since then there is no bus, 2007 maybe later, Chang'an bus company in the area opened, the beginning is an hour, Later, it became a 2-hour trip, and then later, the car simply disappeared.
Chang'an District used to be called Chang'an County, is a relatively backward agricultural county, but I don't know why the Cultural Relics Bureau chose the site here, until 10 years when the Ancient Culture Protection Center injected some fresh blood, the leaders only considered moving the Cultural Relics Bureau to Fengcheng Eighth Road, but there are still a few old staff here to work here, no one knows.
Ancient Chang'an was the capital of thirteen dynasties such as Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang, and after the founding of the country, this place was also the office of the county magistrate, but this small county was approved by the State Council to revoke Chang'an County, Shaanxi Province, and set up Chang'an District of Xi'an, on September 16, 2002, Chang'an was officially withdrawn from the county and divided into the management scope of the city, and the center was transferred, first the political axe building, then the National Taxation Bureau, and then all the state-owned enterprises were moved, leaving only this ruin, Occasionally, I see a few carved stones in the weeds, which faintly shows the prosperity of the time.
"But why are you still here when you came back from England?" Brie muttered and continued to look out the window. This is already the fifth floor, and Brie has climbed up in one go. He was in good health, and it was not difficult to climb the seventh floor, but the explanation of the non-mainstream masked man was that he had eaten too much, and he couldn't laugh or cry about it.
The wind outside the window was blowing, and Brie came in from the staircase only to find that the old cultural relics bureau was talking nonsense, and the third floor below this place was completely ruined, only the walkway of the staircase was as clean as new, as if someone was deliberately cleaning it every day. In the wrong box.
The signs in the office were hung with the Organization and Personnel Office, the Planning and Finance Department, and the Cultural Relics Protection and Archaeology Department, which wanted to surprise his old friend, but when he pushed open the dilapidated doors, he still reluctantly dialed his phone. "Damn, is this place a haunted building?" He vividly expressed his current mood in the ancient language of the Yi people, and even used a swear word that he learned from the fat man.
For, the word mother. Brie was very puzzled, Mom is a title for mother, which is a tone particle, but why does it become a dirty word in their mouths? However, this does not affect his language.
The sound of the beep continued, 4 days had passed, and before coming here, he went back to the Yi tribe to lie down, and there were some things that he had to go out in person.
"Hey! Old and immortal. Suddenly, a voice sounded around the corner, and Brie looked back and saw an old man with white eyebrows and black hair, his back was a little hunched, which was taken by looking down at a book, so he was wearing a pair of ultra-thick spectacle lenses.
"Where are you?" Brie stepped back from the door of the director's office.
As soon as the old man saw the director's door number, he immediately scolded: "You old immortal will really hurt people!" If you give me another 10 years, I won't be able to climb to this position? ”
"Nope!" Brie laughed, "I'm just looking for the Ministry of Health's door number." ”
", why are you still staying here?"
"I said Cheng Peng! You're in good condition here! Brie laughed as he went upstairs.
"Don't say it, do you think I'm willing to go back to China and be placed here alone! If it weren't for the high salary. ”
"High? How tall it is, it's like a ghost to do it here every day. Are you still alone? ”
"Nonsense, who has you so much heart." Cheng Peng said angrily: "I have a heart attack, can you not be angry with me?" ”
"Okay, okay! Just kidding. ”
"Hey, I'm still wondering? How do you speak Chinese? Cheng Peng suddenly asked in the ancient Yi language.
"The Chinese language is broad and profound!"
"Huh?"
"Like,." Brie said calmly.
"Damn, I have a heart condition and I didn't tell you?"
Brie followed Cheng Peng up, and after a corner, he reached the 5th floor, where his sight could not reach, as if he had walked through a street, the 5th floor of broken copper and iron, waste porcelain and bricks, and the 6th floor guarded by this electronic gate were simply worlds apart.
"Oh my God!" Brie exclaimed, "Is this where people live?" ”
"What the fuck are you talking about. I'm not human! Cheng Peng swiped his finger into the groove on the right side of the door and made a gesture of please.
Brie was really a country man who had gone into the city this time, and he looked around, and he looked at a complete set of facilities and he realized that the state could not let these things go to a powerless little old man. Changhong's color TV, carved wooden chairs, blue and white porcelain tea tables, and small lamps like bronze bells.
"That fingerprint door costs a lot of money, right?" Brie asked, sitting down.
"That's not for me, it's the 6th floor and the 7th floor! That's where the door is locked. ”
"Tell me what's going on." Brie asked what she wanted to get out of her pocket, but couldn't.
"Hey, hey!" Cheng Peng smiled and threw a cigarette over.
"Yo! Su Yan. ”
"Know the goods! It seems that you are not isolated from the world, take a sip and see! ”
Brie glanced at Cheng Peng with disdain, took a sip, and shook his head, "I'm not used to it!" I'm not a smoker at all, how much does it cost? ”
"Guess what." Cheng Peng then ordered another one for himself.
Brie gave a slap in the face, "500? ”
"Haha! You kid has such a big mouth, and you think too highly of me, but you're still wrong! ”
“600?”
Cheng Peng shook his head and smiled, it was obviously a virtue of an old ** silk who had successfully counterattacked and showed off his wealth to the once rich and handsome.
"You, you, are you going to be official?" Brie pointed at Cheng Peng with his finger, if he was rich enough, he would definitely say, "I bought a watch last year", but seriously, the taste of this cigarette is really no different from ordinary ones, and even I feel a little choked, it stands to reason that it shouldn't be! High-end cigarettes are mellow in taste, full of stamina, sometimes that kind of taste can float to a few meters away, Brie has lived for half a life The most extreme cigarette is the kind of very light, not irritating, no feeling of the woman smoke, but this cigarette he is really speechless.
"Look at the box, look at the package." Cheng Peng took out a wooden box from under the ceramic coffee table, this kind of box is made of rosewood, the box is slowly dyed into a flame of red by a small fire, the shaft of the box is made of porcelain, as long as the ceramic experts know that it takes a lot of time and energy to make porcelain into a wooden stick, and it will die if you are not careful, let alone use such a thing to make a box clamshell shaft.
When I opened the box, I felt a fresh fragrance, and in the bronze lid, a redwood tree was carved out, and in the palm-sized range, it was carved out of the palm of the tree, which could be seen through the gaps where the leaves were connected.
The redwood tree represents longevity and is one of the favorite trees of the elderly, while the red sandalwood represents the most precious tree, and it is decorated with celadon and copper edges, which is simply unique.
“2000?”
"Wrong! Priceless, this kind of thing is made for me only in the world, how can you guess. Cheng Peng, the old guy, stood up suddenly, and shook his hair in a pose.
This is the kind of old people, even if their bodies are old, even if their hearts are silent, even if time once deprives them of what they care about most. Shaohua Baishou has always been on the side that they have not touched for some time.
But even so, the old people have their own ambitions, they are like goshawks crouching on the highest peak of the mountain cliff, their heads facing the blue sky, quietly waiting, waiting for the appearance of their deadly prey.
Brie smiled and turned his head sideways, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw 4 teacups on the table in the laughter, these teacups are all made of authentic Tang Sancai, but they are made of goblets, this kind of utensils has almost never been excavated in the history of Chinese archaeology, and the style of this set of cups is unique, as if a dragon is coiled with a teacup.
As if noticing Brie's eyes, Cheng Peng smiled and explained, "This was all taken out by my friends who came before, I am a lazy person and have always been reluctant to clean up, so this time you came to me not just to catch up." ”
"That's right! There are indeed some things that I need you to take a look at for me this time. ”
"Do you want to call the rest of the old stuff with you?"
"No need, I think you can do it alone, I have a lot of things I want to ask you!" Brie said and looked at the wall clock, the time was pointing in the direction of 12 o'clock, there was a knocking sound inside, and a jade plaque of mutton fat and white jade kept looming behind the pendulum clock.
Suddenly, time flashback, Brie remembered the conversation he had when he first met Cheng Peng.
"I offended someone from our company."
"What?"
"I killed, I killed." He clutched his head frantically and shouted.
"People call me 48! What an auspicious number! So none of my friends were long-lived, including my lover. ”
"So you think his death is inseparable from you?" Brie reassured.
"Yes! Now his brother probably wants me all over the city. ”
"Who's his brother?"
"Gan Haihui is a person from your county town and one of my colleagues."
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