Chapter 102: Second Uncle
This experience seems to be very long, in fact, we fought for only one day and one night, and when I recall it, I am exhausted and dazed, I fell asleep, and I don't know how the vigil was arranged. Early the next morning, a thick fog rose in the crater, and a layer of white smoke floated on the surface of the swamp ahead, which looked like a dream.
Everyone packed up the bamboo raft and returned to the original way, and the black stone monument on the edge of the swamp, which had almost gone through thousands of years of wind and rain, stood silently in place, gradually shrunk into a point in sight, and finally disappeared. This time there was no yin and yang fox trouble, our trip was very smooth, everyone walked and stopped, bypassed Shangyao Village, did not go to the village to spend the night, camped for two days, out of the mountains.
We stayed in the hospital in the local county for two days, some big wounds on the body could not withstand the toss, except for the less injured Zhen Rui and Zhong Gong, Gu Wenmin and Tofu, I stayed in the local hospital for several days before returning home, the details of this are not shown for the time being, but said that several of us were almost injured, so we went back to our respective homes.
Wen Min had to go back to Beijing as usual, saying that he was reporting safety to his family, and by the way, when the 'holiday' was over, he had to go back to work.
Tofu and I went back to the shop in Shenzhen.
It was early autumn, but the weather in Shenzhen was hot, and this season was no longer than the long sleeves and coats in the north, and we still wore short clothes.
The bright sun is not as vicious as the summer, which makes people more sleepy, after returning to the shop, the first thing I did was to ask the one-eyed dragon to clean up the evil Buddha sent by Xiao Jing, it seems that the one-eyed dragon has not been affected, seeing that I wrapped that thing and buried the tofu in the garbage heap not far away, I couldn't help but be surprised: "Owner, flies are also meat, just throw them away?" ”
I said, "You're still the palm of our shop, but this time it's gone, that thing is very evil." After speaking, the origin of Pan Ya Buddha was explained to him, and the one-eyed dragon was afraid again and again, and then threw the thing away with tofu.
After finishing this matter on my heart, everything was idle again.
Actually, I wasn't really idle, and there were a lot of things that weighed on my mind, but I couldn't find a clue at all.
The antique shop is not a shopping mall, and most of the time it is relatively deserted, sitting on the chair hill of the store, I recall the intermittent words of my grandfather before he died.
"Take it and go...... Rescue, save people...... Place, map...... Looking for white, white ......"
The so-called it is obviously the magic lamp that was found out of the soil by grandpa, and what does it mean for me to save people? Is it a saving statement? Could it be that my grandfather came to me the last thing to see, is the legendary corpse lamp? What does a map mean? The white character that the last one said, Bacheng was the leader of the operation at that time, and my grandfather asked me to find him, what are my plans?
Obviously, Grandpa had regained his memory at that time, and he had a lot of things to tell me. It's a pity that it's too late, and it only becomes this intermittent sentence in the end.
In addition to the things that grandpa confessed before he died, there were more doubts lingering.
For example, who took the two missing lights.
Since grandpa will let me go to find someone surnamed Bai, does it mean that the other person who escaped at that time was the team leader Baiye?
What happened to Grandpa's team in that tomb at that time?
The one who made his grandfather lose his memory and turned into a tomb keeper is obviously not the Earth Ghost King, but another mysterious force in the ancient tomb, so what's going on?
Countless questions lingered in my heart, but the most common ones all pointed to one person: Lu Su!
Bai Ye, I have no clue at all, if I want to find him, he is also a headless fly, but as long as Lu Su puts in some effort, he will definitely be able to find it, only he knows everything that happened in that underground palace fourteen years ago. On Lu Su's side, in addition to me, Zhen Rui is also looking for it, probably trying to find out what happened to Zhen Dong.
Tofu and I don't have much power, it's not easy to find someone, and I have to wait for news from Yuanrui.
The rest of the time, I began to think about the map that my grandfather had mentioned.
What does this map refer to?
Could it be the map I found in my grandfather's basement? Grandpa asked me to save people, who did I save? I took the so-called magic lamp in my hand and played with it, and the texture was a bit like iron, which was unremarkable. After using the last magic lamp, the ghost king of that place has such an incredible amount of power, it seems that the legend that this lamp has magical power is not groundless.
Grandpa gave me this thing at the moment of life and death, there must be a purpose, but, how should this lamp be used? It is obviously not okay to hold it in your hand like tofu and make a wish, and after thinking about it, all the problems have returned to the original point: Lu Su. He had been one of the participants in the search for the lamp, and only he really knew about the magic lamp.
Grandpa had too many things to say before he could say anything, and there was no mention of the curse, and the whole thing was at an impasse.
I sat in my chair and pondered, and there were two things in front of me, the lamp and the map.
The map was a parchment scroll, which Grandpa found from the bottom of the strange bowl where the Queen of the Elephant was buried, and what was found at that time was a silk book, which was not easy to preserve, so Grandpa drew the map with a parchment scroll.
There are several place names on the map, all handwritten, but I have never heard of the names, it seems that it is an ancient map, and the names on it have probably changed.
Saving people, maps, magic lamps, white masters...... What's the connection?
In this impasse, time passed day by day, everything in the store was on the right track, and in the course of business, I was connected with many connoisseurs in the antique market, and even if I didn't know him, I could still hear the name. It was the end of September, and the business in the antique shop was deserted, and the one-eyed dragon was taking care of it, and Tofu and I were actually very idle.
There are generally three ways for the goods in the shop: one is that someone takes the initiative to sell at the door, we collect low and sell high, and the second is from the hands of the tomb robbers who are inverted, but the second is generally everyone in the industry has a special line, and there will be a group of tomb robbers who cooperate with them.
Time passed, seeing that the business in the store was good, the one-eyed dragon said that it should charge more things, not the best one, as long as it is moderate, those who do business know the way, too inferior and too good goods, are not the most profitable, generally the compromise goods are the most profitable, because of the large sales. As soon as the one-eyed dragon said this, we planned whether to pull a line of soil masters to harvest.
Although Tofu and I can fight ourselves, the experience of these two fights was not smooth, and we didn't want to run around anymore, so we were ready to take the lead.
The one-eyed dragon said, "I know some people on the road, so I might as well contact those old fellows, and they will send them to us when they have the right goods in their hands." ”
I thought okay and nodded in agreement. Immediately after that, the one-eyed dragon handed me the manual account of the month in and out, he was in his thirties, close to forty years old, and he couldn't use a computer, so he got a few account books, and the income from the store was carefully recorded on it. The discrepancies on the antiques belong to the small amount but the gold content is large, and it does not look complicated.
Two months have passed in a blink of an eye, and in winter, Zhen Rui has contacted him several times, but there is no news from Lu Su.
The weather is getting colder day by day, at night, the three of us go out to eat as usual, it is a Shaanxi noodle restaurant not far from the antique shop, the hot noodle soup is particularly warm in winter, while eating, the phone of tofu rings, he is eating noodles, while answering the phone: "Hey, who?" ”
The one-eyed dragon and I were eating, and we noticed that Tofu's face changed, and then said, "It's about me!" Then he hung up the phone, buried himself in the noodle soup, sweating profusely, and didn't say a word. The one-eyed dragon glanced at me, wisely did not speak, and I wondered in my heart: Who made this call? How is tofu the same as a fried cat?
At this time, I saw that Tofu was in a bad mood, so I didn't ask, and after a while, Tofu wiped his mouth and said, "My second uncle called." ”
The one-eyed dragon was surprised and said, "Yo, you still have a second uncle?" ”
Tofu said angrily: "What's so strange about this." ”
I was even more surprised than the one-eyed dragon's puzzlement, because I was very clear about the family affairs of tofu.
Tofu was born in a wealthy family, his father opened a sales company, and the development was good, when his parents died, Tofu was relatively young, so the company was managed by his second uncle. This person is very dark-hearted, and he himself has opened a small company, so during the period of taking care of the eldest brother's company, he signed various deficit contracts, and through this legal means of moving the owner to the west, the company of Tofu's parents was emptied.
When Tofu was older, although he knew about it, he was powerless to change it. His second uncle sent tofu to finish college, and then swept the tofu out of the house, in the past few years, he has never come and gone, and he has not seen a phone call during the New Year's holidays, why did he suddenly call?
I knew that something was wrong, so I couldn't help but say: "If you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, he called, I'm afraid it's not a good thing, right?" ”
Tofu was in a very unhappy mood and said, "You're right again, I don't know what tricks that old boy plays, and suddenly he said that he wants to give me a house." ”
The one-eyed dragon didn't know what to do, so he gave a thumbs up when he heard the words, and said, "Then your second uncle is generous enough and righteous enough." ”
I only feel more puzzled, his second uncle is a black-hearted person, why is he suddenly going to give away the house? Just thinking about it, I heard Tofu say, "Do you remember my little villa?" He renovated it two years ago, and before he used the company's rights to sign a deficit contract, his house was transferred to his name, but he just called and said that he wanted to return the house to me, do you think this person has something wrong with his head? ”
I said, "So what do you think?" ”
Tofu said: "It's about my birds, I have nothing to do with him, in fact, I thought about it later, in that situation, he didn't rob, other relatives would also rob, although this thing was done a little darker, but I didn't abuse me all those years, I didn't want to have anything to do with him anymore, so I said no." ”
When Tofu said this, I couldn't help but squint my eyes and remember something from a long time ago.