Chapter 1: Forced Sale of Antiques

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A pound of inferior rice for a good bear skin, an ordinary short knife, less than a kilogram of gold is not sold, and there is no price in the market, a five-yuan bone china teacup can be exchanged for ten Elizabeth out-of-print gold coins, such a good thing is unimaginable for Ye Feiyu, but it happened now.

All of this has to start with a few days ago when he was hilariously forced to sell a strange mechanical watch by a few gangsters.

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"Damn, it's really unlucky, and I said that I found the ancient tomb, and after a few days of hard work, I found such a rotten thing!"

Several young men covered in mud walked down from the trees of Wangniu Mountain in the east of Xijiang City.

One of them, a young man with dyed yellow hair and a pair of cross-eyed eyes, said flatteringly: "Brother Scorpion, I see that the ancient tomb is still a little old, maybe this thing is really an antique." ”

"Antiques? I'm antique you're big! ”

The bald young man who walked in the middle with a gloomy look and a big scorpion tattooed on his shoulder smashed the yellow-haired head with a piece of black paint: "Have you ever seen an antique like a watch in that dynasty?" And with an electronic screen! ”

The more Brother Scorpion thought about it, the more angry he became, and he was about to throw away this rotten thing, when he suddenly saw a dark shadow walking on the path at the foot of the mountain, and by the moonlight, he could see that it was a thin young man, about twenty years old.

He rolled his eyes and smiled: "Someone is still here at such a late hour?" Come, go with the boss and I'll find some pocket money, I can't work hard for a few days in vain! ”

Cross-eyed hesitated for a moment: "Brother Scorpion, this is not good!" I'm still walking here so late, I'm afraid it's someone from Wujiazhuang, we just bailed him out, in case we rob him, if Officer Wu knows......"

Another young man with a shaved head and a scar on his face also nodded and said, "Silly dog, Brother Scorpion, I heard that Officer Wu is from Wujiazhuang." ”

Brother Scorpion snorted and said, "At first glance, you know that he is an uneducated gangster. It's a shame for my scorpion brother to say it. Whoever said I was going to rob him, I was doing business with him. ”

He triumphantly tossed the strange watch in his hand.

Ye Feiyu is not from Xijiang City, but a rural child from the township below, a senior at Xijiang University, who is now on winter vacation.

Sogang University is a very ordinary second batch of undergraduate schools, but the tuition is not cheap, for the rural family whose family is digging in the fields, more than 7,000 tuition, plus accommodation fees, food expenses or something, it costs at least 134,000 a year, and it is not easy to support children to go to college.

Ye Feiyu's reading grades are not good, otherwise he would not have entered a local second-rate university, and he was admitted because of his local advantages, but he was usually economical, and he had nothing to do during the winter vacation, so he stayed in Xijiang City and found two holiday jobs, one of which was to make up lessons for a sophomore in Wujiazhuang.

Wujiazhuang is relatively remote, located 10 kilometers outside Xijiang City, only about 5 kilometers away from Xijiang University, and there is no bus passing by.

There are motorcycle passengers at the entrance of the village, which specially send people from the village to Xijiang University or Xijiang City, but it costs more than 20 yuan for just a few kilometers, Ye Feiyu is naturally reluctant, he gives the sophomore student two hours of make-up classes, and only earns 50 yuan.

Therefore, Ye Feiyu usually finished the make-up class at 9 o'clock in the evening, and walked back to Xijiang University through Wangniu Mountain. From the Wangniu Mountain Road, you can walk a lot less.

Seeing five or six guys dressed strangely, who looked like bad young men walking down from the mountains and forests, it was almost ten o'clock in the evening, Ye Feiyu, a weak college student, didn't want to meet the other party, so he sped up.

How do you know that the other party sped up and went down the mountain and stopped in front of him, one of the bald young men sneered and said: "Go so fast and dry your hair, I'm afraid that Lao Tzu will rob you of your money?" ”

Ye Feiyu scolded in his heart, but he definitely didn't dare to really scold, so he had to say carefully: "No." It's not early, and I have to rush back to school. The school closes at eleven o'clock. ”

Brother Scorpion smiled: "It's okay if it's not." Come, Lao Tzu has good things to cheapen you! ”

He shook the watch taken out of the ancient tomb: "Tell you, this is a good thing, an antique watch from the Qing Dynasty, I just dug up the ancient tomb on the mountain, I will give it to you cheaply, a thousand yuan!" ”

He was a little self-aware, and did not say that this was an antique from the Ming Dynasty or earlier. After finishing junior high school, he seemed to remember that in the Qing Dynasty, foreigners brought clocks and other antiques to China, so he casually said that this was a Qing Dynasty thing.

Ye Feiyu looked bitter, and said helplessly: "A few big brothers, how can I, a poor student, afford any antiques, I have to rush back to school, so I won't talk to a few big brothers." ”

As he spoke, he wanted to turn his body sideways and pass through the several delinquent youths who were blocking the road.

Brother Scorpion's face changed: "If you don't sell it, you're still wasting my time, isn't it playing Lao Tzu?" ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the two gangsters next to him, two burly guys with green dragon tattoos on their arms, took two steps forward, grabbed Ye Feiyu's two little arms one left and one right, and turned over to Ye Feiyu's trouser pocket without saying anything.

Ye Feiyu is quite tall, one meter seven or eight, but unfortunately his body is thin, only one hundred and twenty pounds, and a few guys in the dormitory often tell him not to go out when the wind blows, his small arms and thin legs, and his hands are clamped by two gangsters of one hundred and forty or fifty pounds, where can he break free.

He also knew that even if he resisted, it would be useless, he would only be beaten, and in the end, the money could not be saved, so he had to stop struggling, gritting his teeth and looking at the bald thug.

"It's only more than three hundred yuan, this poor ghost!"

One of the delinquent young men took out Ye Feiyu's wallet, took out three pieces of Grandpa Mao and more than a dozen yuan of change from the shriveled imitation leather wallet, and scolded with a spit on the ground.

However, he threw the empty wallet on the ground and didn't take it away, otherwise the student ID card or something inside would be reissued by Ye Feiyu.

Brother Scorpion didn't look like a rich man when he saw Ye Feiyu, he was wearing washed white clothes, and he knew that he couldn't knock out much money: "Three hundred is better than nothing, just go to Hao Ledi to play a trick." ”

A few people turned around and left, but they didn't walk a few meters, the bald scorpion brother woke up something, and threw the almost black watch back without looking back: "Take it, remember that brother is not robbing you of money!" ”

Ye Feiyu was gritting his teeth and bending over to pick up the empty wallet on the ground, hearing what the other party said, he subconsciously raised his head, and with a bang, the black watch happened to smash on his forehead.

There was a tingling pain on his forehead, it was a little damp to the touch, and he couldn't see it clearly, and it was estimated that his skin had been smashed.

He picked up his wallet and the so-called Qing Dynasty antique watch, and the heavy one in his hand should be an all-steel watch, but fortunately, the scorpion brother threw it casually, and if he used a little force, it was possible to smash through his head.

Ye Feiyu is a college student, and he knows more than these gangsters who haven't finished junior high school, the Qing Dynasty has a good watch, but it's a table clock, a copper pocket watch, how can it be such an all-steel watch?

He took a look at it by the moonlight, this watch has a very strange appearance, a simple shape, an all-steel shell, three hands on the dial, and a circle of characters around it is very strange, not Arabic numerals or Roman numerals, it was originally a place to display the calendar, but it was replaced by a black screen about two centimeters long and five millimeters wide, which looked like an electronic watch.

Ye Feiyu didn't know if there was such a watch that combined mechanics and electronics, and it didn't look like a valuable thing, otherwise those bad teenagers wouldn't use it to extort his money.

The other party said that this watch was found in the ancient tomb, looking at the dirt stains left on it, it doesn't look like a lie, and the other party doesn't need to do this, Ye Feiyu secretly thought that it should be a burial item, and there must be a period of time when it was buried in the ground, and the watch body is not rusty, and it seems that the quality is good.

The dead man's thing is a bit unlucky to carry on his body, originally Ye Feiyu planned to lose it, but after thinking about it for a while, how could this be something he bought for more than 300 yuan, it would be a pity to lose it, take it back and see if it can be used.

The more than 300 yuan is his two-week make-up fee, which was originally a total of 500 yuan, and he spent some money on eating and drinking, but now it is good, and the savings are cheaper for others.

Ye Feiyu didn't plan to report the case.

He has long passed the age of believing that it is difficult to find the police, and the police will not file a case for you at all in a small case of more than 300 yuan, so you should be careful in the future.

Even if the police really helped him find those gangsters, so what, it was impossible to drag them to the prison for 300 yuan, and it was not asking for trouble, these gangsters couldn't do anything else, and holding grudges was definitely first-class.

He touched his stinging forehead again, his hands were covered with blood, and sure enough, he bumped the skin, casually stuffed the watch and wallet into his trouser pocket, and hurried back to school, and went to the school infirmary to find some hydrogen peroxide to disinfect. Who knows if this watch has bacteria and viruses, in case of infection, it will be troublesome.

Ye Feiyu didn't notice that the blood stuck to his hands flowed to the back of the watch, and was actually absorbed into the watch strangely, like a water droplet meeting a sponge, leaving no traces.

After walking for about ten minutes, just after turning over the slope of Wangniu Mountain, Ye Feiyu suddenly heard a stiff voice in his ears: "The blood sample has been analyzed, the fit is 2153%, and the minimum activation limit of the fit is 20%, whether to activate the first-generation ordinary E-class PE23713 space-time instrument." ”

This voice was stiff and emotionless, it sounded more middle-class, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman, and it suddenly sounded in his ears, which immediately startled Ye Feiyu.

He quickly turned his head to look around, it was very strange, there was no one on the highway, and he didn't know where the sound came from.

He couldn't help but stand up his hairs, looking at Niu Mountain, he used to come from a mass grave, and he often heard that there were supernatural things happening, so there would really be ghosts, right?

As a young man who has received more than ten years of modern education, Ye Feiyu doesn't believe in these things, but the current situation is really weird, obviously there was a voice ringing in his ears just now, why didn't he see anyone?

The road is very empty, there is no place to hide, you can see it clearly at a glance, the voice sounded, Ye Feiyu looked around, it was impossible for someone to walk so fast and leave his sight, not a ghost, could it be that there is an invisible person? ;

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