Chapter Seventy-Two: Finding Bricks
This bug is even uglier than I thought. I don't know what a termite queen should look like, but at least it should feel white.
And this insect turned out to be charcoal black, and its wings were already scorched. The belly is very bulging, and the whole is the size of an adult's fist.
What surprised me even more was that the bugs seemed to be alive, and their bellies were still rising and falling rhythmically. I didn't dare to reach out for fear of being bitten by a bug. Although I didn't see a large tusk on its head, I saw a lot of small thorns, only half a centimeter long, and I thought that this thing could not contain poison.
Where the is this like Qin Yiheng? You told him that he agreed? I felt incredulous and poured a beer.
Who said this is Qin Yiheng? What Lao Tzu said is that this is the way to find Qin Yiheng! Bai Kai's mouth was not idle, and he gnawed on a chicken paw and said, do you know that it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish? Take this chicken claw as an example, instead of giving your chicken to fight hunger, it is better to teach you how to lay eggs!
I said, damn it, if you want Lao Tzu to lay eggs, you might as well starve to death! Don't talk about anything else, how can you tell me how to find Qin Yiheng with this worm?
Bai Kai put down the chicken feet, and his expression suddenly became mysterious. Do you remember when you found a wardrobe in an old man's house? Wardrobe what do you have?
I didn't need to recall, the image came to my head instantly. It was the old house of the old man with a hat, and in the closet, Qin Yiheng found a lot of mud for sealing the door, saying that someone had used ants to drum up a map in the soil.
I suddenly understood, could this termite have the same effect as that?
I said, this ant is the map?
Almost! Bai Kai took a sip of wine. This queen ant is the key to finding those bricks. With it, we don't have to worry about finding Qin Yiheng! Or why do you think Markham Wing brought us here? The old fox at that time! It's not just peeing!
I thought about it for a while, the reason why termites are considered pests by many people. The biggest danger is that it will invade the house. It's not so obvious in China, I remember watching TV in the past, and many in the United States do often have termites collapsing the whole house. Could it be that this termite, walking through the cracks of the house, really knows where those particular bricks are?
Judging from the previous thing, this thing is already about to become refined. Maybe there's something magical about it.
So where are we going next? I sighed. I don't really have much confidence in using bugs for navigation.
Then it depends on what the queen ant says, if you are missing, you will burn incense and pray to the Buddha that this thing will not die. If you're dead, there's really nowhere to look for it! Bai Kai poured a little beer on the insect's body, and the strange thing is that the insect's body was like a sponge, and it absorbed the beer in an instant!
See, this thing sucks blood! Bai Kai smiled evilly and pointed to my wrist and said, Take the time to feed it.
I really have mixed feelings, not for anything else, but I feel like my body is about to lose my mother's breath. Not to mention eating ashes, now I have to donate blood. If Qin Yiheng doesn't find it like this, I'm afraid I'll take the first step.
I didn't eat this meal very well, and Bai Kai didn't want to put away the bugs. If you have to put it on the table and eat in front of such a thing, no one will have a better appetite.
I slept very unsteadily that night, obviously very tired, but I was always half-asleep and half-awake only to feel insects crawling on me. It's itchy and numb. The next day, the foreman from last night came to the door, and I realized that Markham had gone back first. The foreman was obviously still apprehensive, and he was certainly not comfortable with the fact that he had been left behind by us the first night. However, he has witnessed the skills of several of us with his own eyes, and he does not dare to provoke it. It made him smile wryly.
I lost a few words, and obediently settled the money for others. I bought an extra cigarette to comfort him, and then sent the foreman away.
Without Markham, we had to fly back. On the contrary, it takes a lot less time on the road.
When I got home, I went to the orthopedic hospital for two days and did physiotherapy. After an examination, it was found that there were still some slight bone cracks in the hip bone. The doctor listened to my description and knew that I had fallen from a height of several meters without protection. It is said that the bone crack is already very lucky, and it can be seen that my body is not bad. At least there is no shortage of calcium. I couldn't cry or laugh, I didn't know if I ate the ashes to make up for it, and I was a blessing in disguise. I went home to recuperate for a few days, and then I didn't go to the house in person.
After another week, I felt completely recovered. I just made an appointment with Bai Kai to meet.
There are two reasons, one is that several houses collected during this period need my signature.
Second, and a very important point, Bai Kai said that the worm confessed a house with bricks.
I didn't see Bai Kai for a few days, and I was surprised to find that he was a lot whiter. After a closer look, he found that he had bandages around his wrists. It seems that the worm was actually fed with blood. As for how he communicates with the bugs, I didn't ask in detail. He didn't want to answer more, anyway, I didn't understand what he said, so I didn't bother to care about what the keepers and small animals had to say.
We made an appointment to meet at a teahouse. Bai Kai laid out a hand-drawn map drawn on A4 paper on the table.
The map is not complicated, and there are a lot of landmark buildings marked around. For example, subway entrances, banks, buildings, roads, etc.
Bai Kai said that this house is on this map. The only problem at the moment was that he didn't know where the map should be.
I picked up the map and thought it was a difficult thing to do.
This kind of terrain looks too familiar.
Because the information marked on it is not specific. There is a subway entrance, but there is no subway station name. As for the rest, I dare say that this map can be applied to most of the country's big cities.
I said, "Do you have a map?" It's almost time for the treasure map. Where is this? China or the United States? Earth or Mars? Did you say it?
I teased Bai Kai a few words, and suddenly I was stunned.
I realized that the reason I knew it was familiar at first glance was nothing else, but that I did know this place.
This is the first house I bought when I started in the industry!
I checked it, and the more I looked at it, the more it looked.
It's been so long, and even though I've handled too many houses later, the first time will always be unforgettable.
I even lived in the house for a long time.
It wasn't until I got better and better that I moved to my current new house. I haven't made a move on that house, first, I plan to keep a souvenir, and second, I really don't lack that money. It's still empty.
I know where this place is. I speak a little uncontrollably knotted.
Where? Bai Kai is very excited, I damn it! Guide dog!
I rummaged through my belongings, but the key to the house was not on me. You come back with me to get the keys first, and we'll go straight to see it later.
Bai Kai probably never thought that I would be able to sell Guanzi one day, and followed me home with a puzzled face.
I drove straight to the house, and the closer I got to the house, all the landmarks on the map gradually appeared. Bai Kai obviously discovered this, Xiao Que, you still have some ability? It's really nowhere to find the iron shoes, it turns out that this place is your home!
I led Bai Kai upstairs, and a familiar smell came to my face.
I don't know how many times I've been in and out of this building. But I never thought that one day, I would come back here for another purpose.
Life is just amazing sometimes.
I opened the door, the air was a little muddy, and it took a while to open the window and let the wind get better.
There wasn't a lot of dust, and all the furniture was carefully covered with cloth when I moved it.
Bai Kai lifted the cloth on the sofa and sat down.
I said, the house may be here. Only this one in this area is a murderous house. If the brick hadn't been hidden here, I really wouldn't have been able to do it.
Have you had an accident before? Bai Kaihui was mistaken, thinking that I moved here because of someone's life.
No, I'll explain it to you anyway. Look, where is the most likely place to hide bricks in this house?
It wasn't my turn to look at it, and Bai Kai took out the black cloth bag again. When I opened it, I saw the bug for the second time, and it was really much more energetic than before. The wings were completely gone, and after being released, they were crawling around the table in circles. I saw that it was at the junction between its stomach and its upper body, and Bai Kai also tied a red thread to it. It's like a pet's neck sleeve, and it's quite funny.
Then, Bai Kai put the worm on the ground. We both saw that the insects didn't even hesitate, and went straight to a wall.