Chapter 2: The Rusty Ring

The cottage on the second floor is a storage room of four or five square meters, Jia Liyu pushed the door in, and wrapped a ball of spider webs around his head, he reached out and tore off the spider webs on his hair, looked left and right, and found that the house was full of old things such as bellows, sewing machines, sickles, three-legged buildings for sowing seeds, and tin buckets, these old objects he had seen when he was a child, but now they have not been used for many years, and they have been vacant for a long time, and they are covered with dust and exude a stale musty smell.

Jia Liyu walked to the old-fashioned and dilapidated vegetable cupboard, opened the two small windows on it, and saw that there was nothing in the cabinet except a half-rotten cake basket. He closed the small window and opened the middle drawer, which was equally empty.

"It looks like the thing is in the cabinet below. ”

Jia Liyu squatted down, opened the small door of the cabinet, and sure enough, he saw that there were some things inside, including a small wooden box, a black box, a sling, a harpoon head, and a bundle of thick rope.

"It's all fishing stuff. Jia Liyu took out the black box, blew the dust on the box, and then opened the box.

"That's a lot of stuff. Jia Liyu flicked the contents of the box with his hand, and found several fish hooks, four or five conchs, two strings of fish bones, a rusty dagger with a gap, and a pair of tattered gloves.

Jia Liyu took out a conch and put it to his ear, the distant sound of the waves sounded in his ears, of course Jia Liyu knew that it was not the real sound of the sea, but the resonator gathered and increased the vibration frequency, so that some subtle sounds could be heard, and the same effect could be achieved with a glass and a thermos.

So, science is sometimes a fairy tale and a romantic rival.

Put down the conch, picked up the dagger next to him, gestured twice, and thought to himself: "Do you want to grind it with a stone and then take it to the school to defend yourself?"

After thinking about it, he finally shook his head and sighed secretly: "If you really bring a dagger over, it will be reasonable and unreasonable at that time, and if you are impulsive again and hurt people's lives, your life will be ruined, and it is not worth it." ”

Jia Liyu put the dagger back, ready to look at the fish bone again, and when he picked up the fish bone, the thorn on the fish bone happened to hang the glove, and when the glove was pulled away, a rusty ring-like thing was revealed underneath. "Ring?" Jia Liyu put down the fishbone, picked up the ring, and said in the grunt voice of "The Lord of the Rings", "myprecious!"

The ring had been covered in embroidery and had lost its original appearance, but Jia Liyu could roughly tell that the ring should have come from somewhere in the fishing boat, maybe it was one of the iron cables, or it could be some kind of accessory on a giant fishing net.

Jia Liyu rubbed the ring a few times with his hand, but only rubbed off a thin layer of yellow rust, and still couldn't see the material inside.

"It looks like you're going to have to use a steel wool ball. Jia Liyu took out a piece of tissue paper from his pocket, wrapped the ring and put it in his pocket, and then went through other things, and turned out the anchor, compass, and a book of "Romance of the Gods" in the small box.

"This book is supposed to be a pastime to spend at sea at leisure. Jia Liyu reached out and stroked the book that had been yellowed and blackened, and found that the book had become a hard piece, obviously unable to read.

Jia Liyu put the book back and took out the compass, but he looked at the dense gossip directions marked on it, and was a little dizzy, thinking that he would be interested in studying it in the future.

After rummaging through the cabinets for a while, and then didn't find anything of interest, Jia Liyu left the hut with the compass, although this trip to the hut failed to find the treasure of the suspected cultural relics, but at least it was not empty-handed.

"I took out my grandfather's compass. After going downstairs, Jia Liyu showed the compass to her grandmother.

"Well, it's better to take it out than to put it there and rust it. "Grandma was supportive.

Jia Liyu smiled and nodded, sent the compass back to his room, and then went to the kitchen to find a steel wool ball to "bathe" the rusty ring. Jia Liyu embedded the ring in the steel wool, squeezed it tightly with one hand, and began to rotate the ring with the other hand, wiping it as a whole, and the yellow rust slowly fell off.

The ring has turned about a dozen times, and the body of the ring has appeared in some places, the color is dark black, like wood and jade, and after a few turns, the original shape of the ring shows eight or nine out of ten, Jia Liyu scooped a scoop of water from the water tank to rinse the ring, and a finely carved black ring appeared in front of him.

"It looks more high-end than iron rings and silver rings. The more Jia Liyu looked at it, the more he liked it, he kept rubbing the ring, everywhere his fingers went, there was a cool feeling, and the picture of the waves flashed in his mind inexplicably, and Jia Liyu immediately decided to carry it as a pendant.

I went to the drawer and found a nylon lanyard, and put the ring on my neck, so Jia Liyu took the first pendant in her life to help her grandmother cook.

When sitting in front of the stove and lighting the fire, Jia Liyu took out the ring from time to time to stroke and admire, feeling happy and happy like a child who got his beloved toy for the first time, and forgot for a while that he would have to face the school bully Ye Feng next week and the first quality inspection exam in the province next week.

Jia Liyu was having fun when he suddenly heard someone calling him, hurriedly stuffed the ring into his clothes, and turned around to see his seven-year-old cousin Jia Xiaowei standing at the kitchen door with a note in his hand.

"Xiaowei, what are you holding in your hand?" Jia Liyu asked with a smile.

Jia Xiaowei walked over and handed the note to Jia Liyu and said, "The third brother gave it to you." ”

Jia Liyu took the note, flipped it twice, then sneered, and threw it directly into the fire, Jia Xiaowei didn't understand what tricks the two cousins were playing, so he turned around and ran to play.

The "third brother" in Jia Xiaowei's mouth is Jia Beicheng, Jia Liyu's former hair is small, and now he is an enemy. The two were admitted to Bailu No. 1 Middle School together, and they have always been inseparable, and their relationship is closer than that of brothers, but an incident happened in the second semester of the first year of high school, which caused the two to turn against each other.

Jia Liyu watched the note being burned to ashes little by little, and there was no big fluctuation in his heart, the past has passed, and it is impossible to forgive him in the future, why should there be anything to do now?

After grandma cooked, Jia Liyu went to the card field to call grandpa to eat, and when he went back, he happened to meet Jia Beicheng, Jia Liyu pretended not to see it, and continued to walk back, Jia Beicheng stopped him and asked: "Xiaowei said that you burned my note?"

Jia Liyu ignored it, bypassed Jia Beicheng and walked forward, Jia Beicheng no longer stopped him, and said loudly behind his back: "Carp, you are no longer the top student of the stars and moons in junior high school, what else do you have to be proud of? Do you know that you will be beaten to death by Ye Feng when you return to school next week?"

Jia Liyu turned a deaf ear, and Jia Beicheng added: "As long as you are willing to beg me once, I will ask the thirteen young people to intercede for you." ”

Hearing the words "Thirteen Youths", Jia Liyu stopped, then turned around and walked back to Jia Beicheng, and said word by word: "How can you be cheeky to mention anything to me **** Thirteen Youth, do you still want a little bit of cheekiness, traitor?" After speaking, he turned around and left, and heard Jia Beicheng sneering behind him, and said: "A poor student who has nothing, pretending to be high, it will be too late for you to come to me again." ”

On the way home, Jia Liyu's heart made waves again, thinking of the "thirteen young men" mentioned by Jia Beicheng, and hooked up some unpleasant memories.

The so-called thirteen young people are Lin Yaozu, the only son of the director of the Education Bureau, and he is also the top student in the "rocket class" of Bailu No. 1 Middle School, and he is an authentic son of heaven.

Of course, Lin Yaozu's two identities above are not the root of Jia Liyu's uneasy conversation, the real reason for Jia Liyu's righteous indignation is his other two identities, Yao Menghan's boyfriend and Jia Beicheng's "master".

The bloody grudge in the second semester of the first year of high school happened to a few of them, when Jia Bei became an opportunity to peel apples and lobsters for Lin Yaozu, and even though he knew that Jia Liyu and Yao Menghan had an unusual relationship, he still helped Lin Yaozu chase Yao Menghan.

After Jia Liyu returned home, his mood gradually calmed down, especially when he asked about his grandfather going out to sea to fish, and his attention shifted to the vast and mysterious ocean.

After eating, Jia Liyu went back to his room to do his homework, wrote his homework for a while, and then took out the ring and played with it for a while, as if it was really the magic ring with special powers in the movie.

Jia Liyu studied until half past eleven, went to bed, lay on the bed, still holding the ring and reluctant to let go, and then fell asleep.

The night outside the window was like ink, the silence was deep, a gust of wind blew from nowhere, blowing into Jia Liyu's bedroom from the window, and suddenly, a golden light lit up on his chest, mysterious and abnormal.

Jia Liyu's body was soon completely enveloped in golden light.