"It's time to work again today, or there will be no food for the next few days. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Qin Ran smiled bitterly to himself, and was a little helpless.

Qin Ran didn't go to school well when he was a child, he often skipped school, fooled around with friends when he had nothing to do, surfed the Internet, drank alcohol, and played cards. This also led to him being contaminated with some habits that did not look good in the eyes of ordinary people since he was a child. But Qin Ran's nature is not bad, he just likes to use his crooked brain, always thinking about how to be greedy. Because he didn't focus on studying, after a period of school, he dropped out of school and began to wander the streets, becoming a well-known "street gangster" in the area, opening his eyes every day, just thinking about how he could get some money to spend. At the beginning, Qin Ran made a little money by reselling pirated CDs, but after being arrested by the chengguan a few times, he felt that this industry was not profitable, so he gave up. Later, I also handed out flyers and posted small advertisements, but I felt bored, and in the end, it was gone. Just swaying like this, shaking to the age of 20, Qin Ran is still dead, idle all day long, heavy work, can't endure this hardship, easy work, and doesn't have the knowledge and skill reserves, so he can only look at the sky and sigh. Until one day, a serendipitous discovery completely changed his life.

That day, as usual, Qin Ran held a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other, boredom dangling on the street, thinking about how to get some money to spend today, Ta pulled his shoes, walked aimlessly, and a cool breeze blew in his face, gradually penetrating his back along his back, "How did this wind ****** blow, it was so cool to blow on the back." Qin Ran felt a sense of comfort in his heart, and took the opportunity to pick up his clothes, and the hem of the T-shirt was placed on his chest, "Cool!" Qin Ran is this good, don't look at his poor life, as long as there is a little bit of comfort, he can forget all the previous troubles. But this cool breeze blew the clouds away, and the sunlight passed through the edge of the clouds, instantly illuminating Qin Ran's skin with hot pain. "It's only May, how can this sun be as vicious as July and August." Bringing the beer to his mouth, he poured a few sips in one go, stabilized his mind a little, and flattened his clothes, Qin Ran felt that the sun was unusually bright, and his heart was always panicked, so he quickly drank the remaining wine in the bottle. "It's cool for a while, it's hot for a while, what the hell is the weather, play with me?" cursed secretly in his heart, remembered the cigarette in his hand, and was about to take a puff, but when he took a closer look at the cigarette, there was not much left of the cigarette he had just taken a puff, and it felt like the light just now, and the cigarette butt seemed to be about to ignite. Qin Ran's palms kept sweating, and he looked up at the sky, there was not a trace of clouds, it must have been the wind just now that blew the clouds away. The forehead is also oozing sweat, and the hairs all over the body are about to stand up, no, it is more like a feeling of wanting to leave your body.

"Damn, if you stay for a while, Lao Tzu will suffer from heat stroke" Qin Ran walked forward quickly, thinking about finding a shady place to avoid the sun. While looking around, he hurried forward. Bang, without paying attention, Qin Ran collided with a man walking towards him. There was a fire in my heart. Raised his head and scolded, "How did you walk, you don't have long eyes, do you!" Qin Ran was unceremonious, glaring at the other party fiercely with his eyes. I saw that the man was wearing a peaked cap on his head, the brim of the hat was pressed very low, and his specific facial expression could not be seen clearly, wearing a black T-shirt and a pair of relatively fat military pants on his lower body. The pants looked a little old, the top of the pants had been polished a little, and there were a few patches on the sides of the legs. "What age is this, and it's patched, this person is strange enough. "Wearing a pair of dusty canvas shoes. The stolen goods accumulated in the seams of the shoelaces can be clearly seen. Qin Ran was actually a little secretly happy in his heart, just now he said how to find money today, isn't this a door-to-door deal, it doesn't matter who hit me, I have to eat him today. Qin Ran had an abacus in his heart.

"Eh, I'll talk to you, how did you walk, such a wide street, you can bump into me?" Qin Ran wiped the sweat from his forehead that was about to drip to the corners of his eyes with his hand, and then threw the sweat on the man, and then reached out and grabbed the man's collar hard. The man didn't speak, he wiped the sweat on his clothes in disgust, and wanted to push Qin Ran's hand away, but he didn't expect Qin Ran to increase his strength and pull the man directly in front of him.

"Don't pretend to be dumb, this ghost weather has upset me, don't come to block me" Strangely, the man was not annoyed, just smiled slightly, motioned for Qin Ran to take his hand away, and said in a slightly vicissitudes of life; "Young man, I'm really sorry, I was in a hurry just now, and I didn't notice you." I can't pay you again. "Listening to the sound is like an older person, and he is still relatively cultivated. Qin Ran's heart is not bad, although he is idle all day long, he still has a basic moral bottom line, he will not do things that hurt the heavens and reason, and he is not very good at bullying the old and weak, so when he heard the voice of an old man, his heart softened a little, but thinking about today's meal money, he still pretended to be very fierce

"What do you say?"

"What to do"

"You hit me, don't play stupid, lose money"

"Okay, okay, come, open your hands".

The old man didn't seem to be angry or in a hurry, as if he was waiting for Qin Ran to say something about losing money. Qin Ran was overjoyed in his heart, and thought that it would take some effort, but he didn't expect it to be so easy. As he spoke, he wiped the sweat from his palms on his T-shirt and stretched out his hand in front of the old man, ready to take the money. The old man didn't make the action of taking out the money, but just took a step forward, got closer to Qin Ran, pulled Qin Ran's left hand over, and made a joint shape with his own hands, sandwiching Qin Ran's hand in the middle. Only then did Qin Ran feel that the old man's hands were full of wrinkles, and the skin on his hands was rough, and the touch was very obvious. It seems that the person in front of him should be not young. Holding Qin Ran's hand, the old man kept chanting words in his mouth, "Where there is light, there is a shadow, and where there is a shadow, there is gold", this burst of rhetoric made Qin Ran listen inexplicably, but he was not annoyed at all, but felt a trace of coolness passing through his whole body, just like the gust of wind that had just blown, the hairs on his whole body seemed to have no sense of breaking free, and they retracted little by little.

After finishing speaking, the visitor took his hand back and looked at Qin Ran with a smile, Qin Ran was a little scared, and suddenly said: "Remember, some things are forever inseparable."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" This preface did not match the afterword, which made Qin Ran irritable again. I just wanted to ask what was going on, but at this time, Qin Ran realized that there was a cold thing in the palm of his left hand, wasn't it because of the coolness just now? Muttering, Qin Ran took the thing in his hand and looked closely, and found that it looked like a one-yuan coin, but when he looked closely, it was not the kind of coin in circulation, it was slightly larger than an ordinary one-yuan coin, and the pattern engraved on it was also very strange, the picture was engraved with two people standing facing each other, one holding a pistol in his hand, and the other person just compared his fingers to a gun. The two guns meet in the middle of the coin, surrounded by some vine-like decorative motifs covering the coin. Qin Ran was fascinated, and kept playing with this strange coin in his hand, and suddenly, as if he remembered something very important, he hurriedly raised his head and glanced around, where was the shadow of that strange person.

Qin Ran was full of wonder, what did this person want to do? He lowered his head and looked at the things in his hand, stunned.

It is also strange that since the strange man said those words and left, the sun seems to be less hot, but has returned to the warmth that it should have been in May.

Where there is light there is a shadow, and where there is a shadow there is gold. What does it mean? The first sentence is very easy to understand, but it is just a simple physical phenomenon, and in the second half of the sentence, what does this shadow have to do with gold? Qin Ran became more and more confused.

"Damn, it doesn't matter, it's probably a crazy old man, he doesn't want to lose money, so he just said something strange to fool me, forget it, don't worry about him." Relieved by this, he immediately put the coin in his hand into the pocket of his pants.

Walking to the door of a drink shop, the crowd in line blocked in front of him, Qin Ran leaned against the wall of an alley next to him, looking at the people in front of him, thinking about how to make a living. I took out a cigarette from my trouser pocket, lit it and smoked it, and in the process of touching the cigarette, I found the coin again.

"If this gadget is a valuable object, I'll go to the oil head in a moment and see if it's there. How much can be exchanged for some money. Qin Ran took a puff of his cigarette, then threw it on the ground, "Go try your luck." ”

With that, the corner entered an antique connoisseur's shop.

"Oil head. Let's see how much I can exchange this thing for," Qin Ran broke in with a big grin.

"I said Qin Ran, where did you go to get something, you kid likes to play tricks, you haven't paid me back the money you borrowed from me last time, and you came to borrow money again this time?"

After graduating from junior high school, he followed his father to the coast to do business, because he often had to meet customers, in order to make himself look not so immature, he also learned from his elders, combed his big back hair, and after a few years of mixed money, he didn't want to follow his father to wander outside, so he took some savings and returned to Cibei City, where he grew up. When I came back, at the station, the first person I saw after getting off the train was Qin Ran, and when I learned that Zhang Zhensan was coming back, Qin Ran waited at the station early. Unexpectedly, as soon as they met, they were shocked by Zhang Zhensan's oily hairstyle, so from then on, Qin Ran kept calling him oily.

"Why can't you expect me to be better, it's not that I won't pay back the money I borrowed from you. Don't talk about the money, show me what the hell is going on with this thing?"

The oil head took his hand, weighed it carefully, and suddenly became angry.

"I said Qin Ran, you are becoming more and more unreliable, you actually used a game currency to fool me?

"Don't fucking open your eyes and fart, am I the game currency? You can take a good look at it for me again" Qin Ran heard the oil head say this, and his heart was also angry, such a joke, no one can stand it.

"See for yourself, is this in-game currency?"

Qin Ran looked at the serious and slightly angry expression of the oil head, realized that things didn't seem to be so simple, and hurriedly picked up the coins on the counter and looked at them. Qin Ran was surprised in his heart, that's right, it's still the pattern I saw before, the two fought against each other, one holding a gun in his hand, and the other gesturing to the gun. That's right? It's not like an in-game currency design at all.

The grinning voice of the oil head pulled Qin Ran back from his contemplation.

"See for yourself, if these two things look the same, don't blame me for not being affectionate for a while, it's not that I said you, Qin Ran, your kid is getting worse and worse now, and you used your little cleverness to use on my head. ”

Qin Ran hurriedly compared the game coins handed over by the oil head with his own coins, these are obviously two different things?

"You're saying the two coins are identical?"

"It's in front of you, you won't look at it yourself, I can still lie to you" The more you talked, the more angry you became, thinking that looking at the iron-like physical evidence, Qin Ran could behave so innocently, it can be seen that he has not been a fool on the street since he was a child, he is really cheeky.

"This. Qin Ran stopped talking. I settled down again and took a closer look. Make sure you're not dazzled. That's right, the oil head is not the same as the coin I saw. Could it be that this little object will still choose people?

"Oilhead, there may be a little misunderstanding, I'll explain to you later, I can't say it clearly now, my brain is a little messy. ”

"Don't explain, you kid has run out of money lately, I haven't found the next family with money, so I've found my head."

"There may really be a misunderstanding, when I figure it out, I will come to you" Qin Ran heard what Youtou said, his face was a little unbearable, although he was thick-skinned, but he was still a little embarrassed to hear Fa Xiao make fun of himself like this. Qin Ran put his strange coin in his pocket, pressed it again, and then turned around, ready to leave.

"Wait a minute", the oil head shouted to Qin Ran, "I still have some money here, you can use it first" and handed over 500 yuan as he spoke.

Qin Ran was not polite, took the money, put it in his pocket and said: "When the Flying Emperor Tengda arrives in the future, brother, I will cover you." ”

Then without looking back, he walked straight out. Leaving the oil head to smile helplessly.

Qin Ran ran out quickly, constantly recalling what the old man said, "Where there is light, there is shadow, where there is shadow, there is gold", thinking about the strange thing in his pocket, his heart couldn't help but feel furious.

Before I knew it, I was back at the entrance of the alley in front of the drink shop, and there was still a group of people in line blocking the way. Qin Ran leaned lazily against the mouth of the alley, and felt that a cool wind was blowing on the wall behind him, and he was shocked, and when he turned around, he found that it was an ancient blue brick wall. The wall is made of plum blossom masonry, and there is a trace of moss in the bricks, and the strange thing is that the bricks do not seem to be so tightly fitted with the bricks. From one of the cracks, a vine grows, which is a topwood flower, which generally grows in inaccessible places on the outskirts of the city, the roots are full of barbs, the petals are golden yellow, and there is a pearl-sized particle in the center of the flower, just like a golden bean, called Topstone, which is the seed of the Topgold flower. The general gold flower is hovering upward, but the gold flower in front of you not only grows in the downtown area, but also grows down in a straight line along the wall crack.

"Why are there so many strange things today?" Qin Ran was very puzzled, and then he noticed that the leaning body, illuminated by the setting sun, pulled out a long shadow on the ground, this shadow was surprisingly black, and it felt like there was a force pulling it. The shadow just hit the body of a fat man in front of him, the fat man was wearing a floral shirt, big pants, and the big gold chain around his neck looked particularly dazzling in the sun, and his trouser pockets were bulging, and it seemed that there were a lot of banknotes in his wallet.

Qin Ran complained in his heart, damn, if only I could grab his wallet, I could live a comfortable life. As he spoke, he reached forward, closed one eye, and aimed at the fat man's trouser pocket like a gun, and grabbed it with his hand. I thought it would be good to have an addiction. At this moment, his elongated shadow also happened to retreat in front of the fat man's trouser pocket and made the same action, the difference was that the shadow of his hand reached directly into the fat man's trouser pocket and picked up the wallet!