When I ran out, the courier company asked me to call the recipient of the mail to sign for it in person, I looked down at the slot, who are you scared? "Who are you showing this white box in English?" And it's strange that the recipient's name is not written on it, and I'm confused.

"No, no, no! On the contrary, this side is Chinese. The man scratched his head embarrassedly, "This is the first time that cross-border mail is sent and received, and I am a little nervous." He said as he looked up at my mask, perhaps because he didn't feel rude, so he didn't look me in the eye.

"Who sent this thing?" I took a quick look at the Technical University in Munich, Germany. "Was it sent to me by a college student?"

"How could I possibly know this, sir."

International mail? Nervous? I saw that your reaction was obviously like a man who had been caught cheating, I swept him up and down with contempt, and finally made sure that he was not some kind of bomb messenger, so I took the package and picked it up and weighed it, "What is so light?" ”

"I want to know, too! Don't worry about it, I have a lot of stuff to give here. ”

I reoriented the package, "Masked man?" Who's this? It can't be a mistake, right? ”

"Ahem! I guess that's what the email said was about you. He said reluctantly.

"That's right!" I slapped my head, doesn't that mean? But as soon as I said that, the question came to someone who knew my address but didn't know my name, and who would be from abroad?

"Can I see what's inside?" When I think about it, my suspicions rise again.

"No, no, you haven't signed it yet." Without waiting for him to say that he completely snatched the package and opened it myself, a small black cylinder appeared in the palm of my hand.

The thing in my hand turned out to be a roll of photo negatives: "Who sent this to me?" ”

"Gringo." It seems that I don't think my repetition is up to par, he is talking nonsense.

"Nonsense." I cursed inwardly, "I know, I'm asking about that gringo?" "Although I know that this is a perfunctory lie, I still want to ask, after all, there is no one else who can know that I am here, except the fat man.

"How do I know?" The postman pouted and said, "Are you annoyed?" To sign or not to sign? ”

"Leave me your number." I thought about it for a while, and while remembering his phone number, I wondered, people abroad? I don't think I know anyone. Could it be that the fat man went abroad? But why didn't he leave his name?

I took the negatives into the house, and soon the old man came out, and I shook the things in my hand and asked, "Does anyone still use such things?" ”

"Negatives?" The old man replied.

"That's right! Now give me this thing I don't even know where to wash it out. ”

"There seems to be a very old photo shop in the market, although it is closed, but we can try to ask for his address, as long as we find them, they will definitely have the tools to wash out the photos." Such negatives are usually shot with film cameras, but now film cameras are few and far between, and in the era of mobile phone high-resolution and telephoto SLRs, those photo studios have also struggled to close.

At noon, the old man and I ate something outside, and found the former photo studio, this place is the most remote place in the vegetable market, because the location is not good, this shop has not been sold in the past few years, I only saw a fish seller here, the old man walked over and said hello to him, and soon took the mobile phone to talk.

After a conversation, the old man led me up to a floor on the opposite street. Downstairs we carried a little something, and in a house on the third floor, an uncle with thick eyebrows received us, and after I explained my intentions, I naturally slapped him on the back, put down a few cigarettes and followed him into a dark room of their house.

"There are very few negatives taken by such cameras!" He closed the door and took out the negatives. "Why would you still use something like this? Looks like you're all pretty trendy! ”

Obviously he's talking about me, and I've really become a symbol of the non-mainstream. "This one was sent to me by a friend. I didn't take it, so I wanted you to help us get it out. ”

"I said! But this friend of yours must be old! He pulled the negative open and looked at it.

"How?"

"The box of your film is a 1980 Fujifilm box, with obvious marks on it, and your friends should not be in China, most of our domestic films are Kodakon films." He said as he turned off the light. He said that the procedures for film processing are: washing, developing, stopping or washing, fixing, washing, drying. This is why film cameras are quickly being replaced by digital cameras.

"That's right! Can you tell what age this camera is? The old man asked suddenly.

"I'm afraid it won't work. The film can only be seen from the negatives. ”

"So?" The old man fell into deep thought in the dark.

As soon as I was reminded by the old man, it occurred to me that the film of 1980 would hardly be produced now, so why would there still be one now? "But what era was the film shot?"

"I'm afraid I'll have to go to the Public Security Bureau for this." He laughed, "I'm not good at analyzing this, and this is not like a digital camera, there will be no time!" ”

Due to the long time and cumbersome process, the old man and I were not in the mood to look at it, so we sat on the sofa outside, "This photo, you haven't thought about what can't be exposed?" Suddenly the old man said.

I was suddenly startled, and I guessed, the previous comfortable words almost consumed my thinking, I got the photo and didn't even care about the content, what if the content was something that couldn't penetrate through?

Just as he was thinking that the door to the dark room would open, he walked out with a photograph. "You want a picture. But the photo doesn't seem quite right. ”

"Something isn't quite right?" I thought about it and took the photos.,There are a total of 7 photos.,Each of them is a person's back.,It's not so much a back as a back photo.。

"That's right! The 7 photos were all taken in one place, and all of them were the back of a person, are you sure it's not a prank? ”

I flipped through the photos one by one, and the back of this person was a little hunched, and hunchback is a relatively common spinal deformity, which is a morphological change caused by the posterior protrusion of the thoracic vertebrae. So I can see at a glance that this person's action is not bending over but hunchbacking, and there is a photo of a bent posture at the back of the photo, which is obviously more effective than the upright one, and after looking at it for a long time, I actually feel that this back is very familiar, "Who is this person?" "An idea popped into my head.

"This place is in Xianyang, right?"

"Xianyang? Why do you say that? "I was surprised.

"Look at this place." The man took out a photo, and the photo was still the man hunched over, but the angle of this photo was shifted a little, showing some traces of the walls, those walls were all dirt, and there was a line of big words written on the mud "The Capital of the Pyramids of China" "This place is the tourist banner of Xianyang, Shaanxi, and many travel agencies have such slogans on the walls when I travel there." In my opinion! Xianyang's cottage kung fu has reached the point of perfection, and even slogans for the city have to be copycated. What is such a nondescript title as "China's Maradona", "Little Paris in the East" and "Night Shanghai in the West", which is a bit like "second room". ”

"Shaanxi?" I silently muttered, "What's in that place?" ”

I took those photos one by one and looked at them, said hello and went home with the old man, and at night I went to Xianyang, Shaanxi, but there was no clue at all in such a blind search. I looked at the photo again, and the person on it was wearing a black vest, with some exposed skin around it, and the skin was covered with spots that looked like smallpox, and the sallow skin made me feel that it was a corpse. Putting that aside, I was a little puzzled by the strange movements, the 7 photos, all of which were taken sitting on a stool, but they were all sitting in different positions.

Curling, lying, hugging your knees, sucking your fingers, what does it mean? The next three are standing slightly, bent over and standing upright, and according to the person who washed the photographs, these photos were taken in groups in this way, from 1-7.

What do these poses represent? Who is that hunchbacked man? "And those positions are very baby-like!" I said to myself, the first four photos without exception he curled himself up in a very small range, not so much trying to put his weight on the stool, but playing the role of a baby in the mother's body. The last three directly highlight the process of a baby's growth.

I pressed the door of my head, lay down on the bed, closed my eyes, and suddenly a name popped up between my thoughts, "Okia Suke." "That's right, this person is Ou Qi Asuke, such a hunchback, such a back, and height, there is absolutely nothing wrong, but why did he appear in Xianyang? Was it kidnapped? Otherwise, why didn't he say hello to anyone when he left temporarily?

As soon as the idea came to me, I went to the old man's room with the photo, and the old man nodded after a while and agreed with me, in my opinion, he has been in contact with Okia Suke much more than I do, and if he is sure, there must be no mistake.

"It seems that Asuke is in Xianyang? Shall we go over? I excited.

"Isn't that strange?" The old man interrupted me.

"What?" I was stunned.

"Isn't it strange? This is a film camera, and the film camera is different from the digital camera we use, and it is not possible to set the time to take pictures? So who was the person taking the picture? What is the relationship between this person and Asuke? (To be continued.) )