Chapter 1 A New Journey
Master, I, Xiang Feng, Yu Xin, Morning Star, Uncle Yang, Old Man Yang, Xiaoqing, we all go to Sichuan. After the discussion, Mr. Yang called his friend in Jinan to buy a plane ticket. I haven't been out for a long time, and now so many people are going together, and while investigating things, it is equivalent to traveling, and I am very excited.
"Xiao Leng..."Uncle Yang touched me gently.
"Huh?"
"How do you sit on the plane?"
"It's just..."I smiled, "Oh, you can always follow us, why don't we sit, you can sit..."
"Oh, that..."
"What else does Uncle Yang want to say?"
"Shall I bring a commode with me? Otherwise, if Uncle Yi is nervous and pees on the plane, won't I fall behind the people below? β
I couldn't laugh or cry, my face was flat, and I said, "Yes, you can eat and drink when you're old, it's best to bring a large one..."
"Oh oh..."
"Oops..."Morning Star pushed me and said with a smile, "Uncle Yang, don't listen to his nonsense, there is a toilet on the plane, this guy owes a beating..."
"His grandmother's..."Uncle Yang scolded with a smile.
"It's just a lack of beating." Yuxin pouted, "The toilet won't open when you take off and land, Uncle Yang, if you can't hold it back, you will pee on Ah Leng..."
"That's a good idea..."Xiao Qing clapped her hands, "Xiao Lengzi, my cousin is still an old virgin, his urine is on you, what can you do, oh, by the way, ward off evil spirits..."
"What old virgin? It's not big, it's not small. Uncle Yang's face was flat, "You can't even give birth to a child, and you're embarrassed to say that people..."
"I'm happy, I love, I like it, can you handle it?"
"Hey... She... Her husband's grandmother's..."
Uncle Yang wanted to say 'her grandmother's', but it may have suddenly occurred to him that Xiaoqing's grandmother was his cousin and the mother of Old Man Yang, so he changed his words. We couldn't cry or laugh, and Old Man Yang couldn't help laughing. Previously, because of the curse of the Yang family, the oppressive atmosphere caused by it was swept away.
In fact, there is nothing to prepare for this trip, because the climate is different, so after arriving in Sichuan, I will buy clothes according to the local climate. As for the other things, there is nothing to bring, mainly some things that cannot be brought on the plane, and if you need to use something, there is a wind, and you can buy it there. Our ritual weapons, which are not contraband, can be checked in.
After a good night's sleep, we drove to Jinan early the next morning. The book is brief, we took an afternoon flight from Jinan to Chengdu Shuangliu Airport, which took about three hours. I picked up my luggage and came out of the airport, and it was almost evening.
"Hey, this thing is so good..."Uncle Yang tightened his belt, "I'm still in Jinan for lunch, and I'll go to Chengdu for lunch..."
Everyone laughed.
The restaurant opened by Xiang Feng is located at the innermost end of a commercial street in the city, and it is currently being taken care of by others, mainly selling special fast food and various drinks. Although the area is not very large, the decoration is fashionable and elegant.
When I took a taxi to Chengdu City, the night was low, the lanterns were on, and there was a bustling flow of people everywhere. Compared to my hometown, Chengdu is much hotter, and listening to various Sichuan dialects, I feel as if I have come to a foreign country.
"Xiao Leng, I heard the little girl who passed by just now, you make a skewer (shovel), what does that 'skewer' mean?" Uncle Yang asked.
"Wearing skewers," I scratched my head, "that skewer, you know?" β
"Ahh
"Piercing the meat with an iron chisel is called skewering."
"Hey..."Uncle Yang smiled with a wrinkled face, "This place is good, even a little girl loves to eat so much, one wears a string when she opens her mouth, and one wears a string when she closes her mouth, Uncle I like it..."
"I was told by you that I was hungry," Xiaoqing pouted.
"You're hungry, we're not hungry, are we? Call me a good cousin, and I'll get you a skewer to eat later. β
"Good cousin..."
Xiang Feng glanced at me, full of crying and laughing, I stretched out my tongue at him, and said in my heart, about Xiang Feng and Xiaoya, I have never asked, since I got off the plane, Xiang Feng may have touched the scene, and has been sullen, and now I finally have a little smile...
When I came to Xiangfeng's shop, as soon as I entered the door, a chubby man greeted me, "May I ask you how many people to eat... Oops, the boss is back! β
Xiang Feng nodded at him and smiled slightly.
"Why don't you give me a call, I can arrange a car to pick you up..."
There were a lot of diners in this restaurant, and they all looked at us when they heard the sound. Two fashionably dressed girls with bags on their shoulders immediately jumped up when they saw Xiang Feng.
"Oh my God, the handsome guy is back, we come over every three or five days, do you know, we haven't seen each other for a year, and we all want to kill you..."
I was secretly amused, and said in my heart, this Sichuan girl is a fierce fork. At the same time, I thought that my previous speculation seemed to be right, Xiang Feng was too popular with girls, and Xiaoya should feel that he was not worthy of him, so she left...
In the evening, Chef Xiang Feng ordered a large table of dishes, and everyone sat in the private room, eating and drinking while discussing further action plans.
"What?" said Old Man Yang, "after running for such a day, I will sleep well tonight, and then I will go to the person I knew back then." You don't have to go, Master Zhang and I can just do it, and Shujun will play with you young people..."
"Okay..."Xiaoqing almost squirted out the food she had eaten.
Old Man Yang glanced at her and continued, "But I haven't been here for so many years, I feel that Chengdu has changed a lot, I don't know if I can find it..."
"I'll go with you, I'm familiar with Chengdu." Xiang Feng said.
Master thought for a moment and said, "It's okay..."
Ah Feng's store can't accommodate so many people, so we all stayed in the hotel, and the next morning, Master, Old Man Yang, Ah Feng, and the three of them went out. I never thought that two days had passed since they searched for it, and they found nothing. In the past two days, I, Morning Star, Yu Xin, Xiaoqing, Uncle Yang, a few of us, wandered around, bought a lot of things, and ate a lot of food. Sichuan diet is mainly characterized by spicy, the weather is already hot, plus what to eat spicy rabbit head, dry pot bullfrog... And so on, I ate straight to the fire, my tongue was knotted, and my mouth was blistered.
Early in the morning of the third day, Master and they left again, Yuxin accompanied Xiaoqing to buy clothes, and Uncle Yang didn't know where to go, leaving me and Morning Star.
"What does Master Leng want to eat in the morning? The little girl will buy it for you. Morningstar smiled.
I smiled bitterly, "I just want to eat something light, those meats, whatever, I'm afraid to eat them." β
Morningstar smiled, then pursed his lips and thought for a moment, "That... What is light? β
"I don't know..."
"It's better toβ" Morningstar looked at his watch, "I'll go to KFC to buy porridge and come back, there should still be something to sell." β
"Hehe, okay, but you don't need to buy it, let's go to KFC to drink porridge, let's go..."
Morningstar and I went to a KFC store nearby, and one of us ordered a porridge with preserved eggs and lean pork, and ate it slowly.
"Ah Leng."
"Huh?"
"What do you think..."Morning Star gently stirred the porridge in the bowl with a spoon, "My father-in-law, Xiao Shan, who will be the person I saw when I brought Uncle Wanjinshan to Sichuan?" β
"This... I just don't know who it is, that's why we came to check. I said.
Morningstar let out a soft 'um'.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"It's nothing," said Morningstar, "I told you that when I was sorting through my stepfather's belongings, I learned that he had a lost brother..."
"Well, yes... Do you doubt..."
"No, it's not a suspicion, I just think that the person my stepfather brought Uncle Wan to see must have an extraordinary relationship with my stepfather, and if we can find him, we should be able to learn some unknown things about my godfather through him..."
"Well, we must find a way to find him, eat it quickly, the porridge is cold, it won't taste good."
"Hmm..."
Looking at the way Morning Star eats porridge, I feel an inexplicable pain in my heart.
"What do you see me doing?"
"Huh? Scold... Nothing..."
"You eat too."
"Good..."
I ate the rest of the porridge in three or two bites, wiped my mouth with a tissue, and swept my gaze aimlessly around, landing on a table not far from us.
There were a few foreigners sitting around the table, eating and chatting about something. Because one of them had a particularly long nose, I took a few more looks. When I withdrew my gaze, I inadvertently glanced at a foreigner sitting in the innermost, and my heart suddenly shook.
"Ah Leng, what's wrong with you?" Morningstar asked, seeing that I looked different.
I hurriedly gestured and looked at the foreigner... Only then did I find out that it was not a foreigner, but a Chinese, wearing a hat, due to the cover of the brim, unable to see his eyes, was stuffing his head, and was slowly gnawing on a hamburger...
"What's wrong, A-Leng?" Morningstar asked.
I withdrew my gaze and whispered, "The guy sitting at that table, the man in the hat, something is wrong..."
"Something is wrong?"
"Hmm..."
Why was my casual glance just now? β¦ Because I saw that in the corner behind the man, there was a vague thing... I didn't see what it was, and when I looked closer, I couldn't see it... The air conditioner in this store is not very big, but I feel that there is a cold air, which goes straight into the cracks of the bones...
At this time, the foreigners finished eating, and one of the foreigners muttered something to the man wearing the hat, and the man just nodded, and then several foreigners stood up, took their bags, and walked outside.
"Xing, you wait for me here, I'll go over and have a look." I whispered.
"Hmm..."
I stood up, took my breath, walked over to the table, bowed and asked the man, "May I sit here, sir?" β
"Hmm..."
I stared at the back of this person, and while carefully sensing, I slowly sat down, faintly, I felt a feminine aura, and my heart tightened...
Finally, the man looked up. I saw that he was about forty years old, his face was pale, and his eyes were bloodshot.
"Oh, hello." I smiled.
The man didn't say a word, glanced at me, put the leftover hamburger on the table, got up and walked out...
At the moment when he got up, I suddenly felt something swell in my pocket, and I couldn't help but be startled, and hurriedly lowered my head and touched it with my hand, and I touched the 'Yin Yang Talisman' that Master gave me at the beginning, wrapped in layers of rune paper...
When I looked up, the man had already gone out of the shop, I hurriedly chased him out, looked around, but didn't see the man, just like that, he was gone...
In the evening, as soon as Master and they returned, I told them about this strange incident that had happened to us during the day.
"I feel like the man is entangled in something, and wherever he goes, that thing follows him..."
Master didn't say a word.
"How's your check?" I asked Xiang Feng.
"There's a clue." Xiang Feng said.
"Oh?! Found the person who had business dealings with the old man Yang Shuming back then?! "When I was excited, I forgot that Old Man Yang was next to me, and smiled awkwardly, but Old Man Yang didn't seem to care at all...
"Hmm." Xiang Feng said, "However, that person is not in Chengdu, but in a county under the jurisdiction of ΓΓ City, and he is living for a long time..."
What Xiang Feng said is a tourist county, and there are several famous scenic spots in the county.
The next day, we chartered a car, left Chengdu, came to ΓΓ City at noon, had lunch, and headed west to the county seat, where the man lived. It was an old man about the same age as Old Man Yang, dressed in a Tang suit, with a cleanly shaved beard, and two stone galls rolling in his right hand, looking pampered.
After talking to Mr. Yang and the two of them, the two of them went to a room inside, and after more than half an hour, Mr. Yang walked out.
"How?" Master asked.
"He promised to use his connections to help me find people who used to be close to the British (Xiaoshan) and who were selling antiques. Let's stay at his house and wait for news..."
That night, we stayed at this man's house, and in the middle of the night, it rained heavily until dawn. After dawn, the man and Mr. Yang drove out.
It rained in the middle of the night, the leaves of the trees were green and shiny, the water vapor was rising, and the air was damp and stuffy. After breakfast, Master meditated in the house, Morning Star painted Yuxin's nails, Uncle Yang and Xiaoqing grabbed potato chips, Xiang Feng stood in the courtyard and kicked the branches, and I squatted not far from Xiang Feng, holding my head in one hand, crooking my neck, holding a branch in the other hand, and drawing crosses and forks on the ground boredly...
"Master Leng." Xiang Feng said.
"Huh? What? "I don't lift my head.
"Stop drawing, call them, go out for a walk, I'll take you to a good place..."
"Oh?" I suddenly came to my senses, "Where are you going?!" β
Xiang Feng smiled, "When it's time to get there, you'll know..."