It was already dawn, so I had to get up and wash up. In the mirror, my eyes were full of bloodshots. When he entered the industry earlier, Qin Yiheng said that long-term contact with unclean things is easy to break Yangshou, looking at the current situation, I am afraid that I will really die early.

After waiting at home for a while, Qin Yiheng called me and told me to go downstairs. I got downstairs into his car, and I didn't wait for him to speak, I told him about yesterday's experience, and after finishing speaking, I hurriedly stuffed the seal that the old man gave me yesterday into his hand. It's not that I'm angry, but because I'm really sleep-deprived, I'm afraid that if I don't hurry up now, I'll be dizzy for a while, and I'm more likely to miss something.

After Qin Yiheng heard this, he put out the fire of the car, looked at the seal for a long time, and then asked me, "Didn't that old man say what his name was?" ”

I shook my head and said, "It's not that I'm incompetent, that old man's city is too deep. After that, I asked, "What is this seal for?" ”

Qin Yiheng raised the seal higher, looked at it a few times in the sun, and said, "This thing is not an evil thing, under the seal is a very simple rune that suppresses souls and suppresses evil." But it's because it's simple, that's why it's a little weird. As he spoke, he turned the seal over and pointed to the rune on it and told me that this kind of rune is too widely used, not only Taoists will use it, but also many immortals who invite the gods to come to the body will make it, and even some old men and old ladies who have seen the world can write it, and the strokes are not complicated. But because of this, it is too simple, it stands to reason that it should not be engraved into a seal, which anyone can write, and it is also very easy to write, and it is redundant to engrave the seal.

Throughout the ages, it is true that some runes have been carved into seals, but only a handful, and there were some specific uses at that time, which had to be used in seals. Speaking of this, he lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then looked up and told me that he might have guessed the meaning of the existence of this seal, that is, the user of this seal needed to make a large number of soul-suppressing talismans in a very short period of time, and it was too late to write by hand, so he came up with such an idea.

Qin Yiheng pursed his lips, "tsk", and continued, but he couldn't figure out what would happen that would require so many soul suppression talismans, and besides, it would be in a harsh time. This is really outrageous, because this kind of charm, a family only uses one, although it is not harmful to use too much, but it has no value-added effect.

His analysis gave me a wake-up call, and I thought to myself, this thing is for mass production of spells? Is it a certain insider who has taken on a big job and unified the house stickers for a building or a community? I thought about it again, since that old man found me, and he was so mysterious, would he want me to find a house with a lot of soul suppression talismans? It's just that the old man's hint is very vague, thinking about it, I asked Qin Yiheng, what does the old man mean when I asked me to find the same thing?

Qin Yiheng lit a cigarette, thought for a while, shook his head, and sighed: "I'm afraid this thing won't be conclusive for the time being, listening to your description, it's certain that the old man has a problem, and if the hat is really the same as the one left by Liu Cripple, I'm afraid this old man is probably the reason for Liu Cripple's disappearance." The water in the middle is unfathomable. ”

Listening to his emotion, I was not too moved, probably because I was too sleepy. Many people who stay up all night know that it is better to wake up after sleeping for an hour or two like me, and it is better to be clear without sleeping. I also lit a cigarette and took a big puff before I reacted, Qin Yiheng pretended to be a ghost before he came, and asked me what should I buy, what is the situation? And yesterday he was so good, why did he disappear for a day?

When asked, he threw away the cigarette butt, started the car, took a deep breath, and told me: "After I got up yesterday, I also accidentally found that the Spring Festival couplets given by Fang Wanjin were not written by Fang Wanjin!" Fang Wanjin is famous for measuring words, and his calligraphy attainments are naturally not too bad, and he is a person who likes to show off his face, the Spring Festival couplets are a tool for him to show off his penmanship, and he has always written it by himself, especially if he sends it to friends like this. I was worried that something was wrong, so I hurriedly went to find a trip to Fang Wanjin, but the old man's shop had been closed, and I asked the surrounding shops, and they all said that the old man had left a message that he would go back to his hometown to purchase, and he would only come back if he bought enough things. ”

"I'm afraid that something happened to Fang Wanjin, I drove to the railway station, the airport and the long-distance bus station to inquire all day, but there was no news of the old man. When I gave up in the second half of the night and was ready to go home, I suddenly reacted, if Fang Wanjin stayed, going far away was not the point, the point was to buy enough things. Speaking of this, Qin Yiheng tilted his head and looked at me solemnly, and said, "When I had no leisure in my mind before, I actually forgot such an important thing. Today is the day of the opening of the cage street! After that, without waiting for me to ask, he started the car and set off.

He started very fast, and the road from my house was very narrow, and it was a test of skill. I didn't dare to open my mouth for a while to ask him what the cage street was, I looked at the oil gauge, there was only half a tank of oil left, and I estimated that he would not go far, so I simply didn't ask, thinking about waiting until I got to the place.

Sure enough, Qin Yiheng had no intention of going out of the city, but just drove around the city, and then went straight to the development zone in the west of the city.

On the way, I was still thinking, why have I lived in this city for more than 20 years, although I rarely drive by myself, but at least the road is almost the same, why have I never heard of such a place as Cage Street? As a result, when the car was parked, I realized that the place we came from was not a street at all, just a very narrow alley, the kind that cars can't drive into, on the edge of the development zone, in the middle of two rows of self-built houses in the suburbs.

After getting out of the car, Qin Yiheng didn't explain, and took me inside. There were already seven or eight people in the alley, all gathered around, and what they were watching couldn't be seen from the outside.

The two of us squeezed out of one place and stood still, and then I saw a long case solving in the middle, and there were several bird cages on the case, and in each bird cage there was a wooden box, large and small.

The group of people around were all pointing and pointing, but no one touched it.

I was a little confused at first glance, is this the legendary black market transaction? It can't be some antiques or something stolen from an ancient tomb, right? I figured out what this place is called Cage Street, buy things for plastic bags with others, and buy things for a bird cage here?

I wanted to ask Qin Yiheng, but when he saw that I was about to speak, he signaled me not to squeak, and handed me a cigarette, which was regarded as blocking my mouth. When I saw him like this, I could only smoke and wait and see.

When the cigarette was almost finished, two more people squeezed in from outside the crowd, both of them were fat-headed and big-eared, one was fatter than the other, and they didn't open their mouths when they came in, but the fatter one stepped forward in turn to pick up the bird cage and shook it a few times, similar to the old man who walked the birds in the park in the morning.

When he had shaken the cages one by one and put them away, he went out of the crowd, leaving another fat man, looking around and clearing his throat.

The more I watched, the more interesting I felt, I knew the case of placing a bird's cage, and I had learned about it after watching a TV station's treasure appreciation program, this thing was not a table, but a case used by literati in ancient times to see paintings. There is a bamboo bird cage on it, which can be regarded as traditional Chinese culture. Now this fat man clears his throat and is ready to sing Peking Opera? The group of people in the enclosure are all ticket holders?

Who knew that after the fat man cleared his throat, the people around the case all took several steps back. Qin Yiheng also dragged me and told me to step back together.

Then, the fat man standing in front of the case opened his mouth, pointed to the first bird cage and asked, "Is this a release?" ”

Immediately, one person in the crowd responded. The fat man nodded, drew a little, and called the person who responded to come out. The man stepped forward and carried the birdcage and followed the fat man to a self-built house in a single courtyard behind him. After waiting for about ten minutes, the fat man came out again, still pointing to the second birdcage and asking, "Is this a release?" ”

There was still one person in the crowd who responded, and walked out of the house as usual, carrying the birdcage and following the fat man into the yard. After a while, the fat man came out again.

I was completely stunned, and I took a closer look just now, and the birdcage was not new, and there were even a lot of bird droppings in several birdcages, and the wooden box inside did not look like a new object. What the hell is this thing for? What did the fat man say? I think this one looks a bit like an auction!

Qin Yiheng stared intently at the fat man. When the fat man opened his mouth to ask about the third bird cage, he directly answered the "put", and stood up out of the crowd and told me to follow the fat man carrying the bird cage to the yard.

When I entered the yard, I found that most of the yard was covered with shacks, and there were many bird cages in it, and some were covered with red cloth, but from the outline, they were also bird cages, and there were countless of them. I didn't have time to take a closer look, I don't know if there is a wooden box in every cage, anyway, as far as I can see, there is a wooden box inside. This place is becoming more and more evil, making it look like a market for flowers, birds, fish and insects, but the contents don't match at all.

We didn't have time to think about it, we walked through the yard and entered the house, and the fatter fat man before sat in a place in the living room and waited, and when he saw the two of us coming in, he nodded his head and said hello, and then moved out a POS machine from the side. Qin Yiheng was not ambiguous, and swiped the card when he stepped forward.

I glanced at the amount displayed on the POS machine, and it was quite a lot, tens of thousands. I said in my heart that his mother is so expensive, didn't Qin Yiheng come to gamble again?

However, I couldn't ask in front of the two fat men, so I could only wait for him to swipe my card and take me out of another door of the self-built house, and then I patted him and asked him what he was doing.