Chapter 2: Advent
"A successor?"
Lu Yue instantly realized that this matter was not simple, this Xu Wen may have known that his body would have problems, could it be that the box contained his suicide note?
And a successor usually means a succession, and this phrase is not informative. Could it be that this Xu Wen has some special identity?
It can't be the replacement of the first-to-last student, right?
But there were no other clues at the moment, and Lu Yue only had a little bit of Xu Wen's own memory in his mind, and finally he settled down and opened the box tremblingly.
The box isn't huge, and it looks like it's half the size of a shoebox. Lu Yue opened it and found that there was only a note and an irregular object wrapped in a black cloth, he thought about it and decided to look at the note first, and when he picked it up, he found that there was only a short sentence on it:
"My house has everything you need to know, and the key is in the left pocket."
Lu Yue hurriedly touched his left pocket, and sure enough, he suddenly touched a key. This made him calm down a little, and he looked at the strange thing wrapped in black cloth, which for some reason seemed familiar.
Out of caution, Lu Yue did not directly lift the black cloth on the top of this thing. He looked around for a moment, first to make sure that there were no teachers and deans outside the door, and finally carefully took two napkins from the table in front of him and slowly lifted the black cloth that covered them.
Before opening it, Lu Yue guessed all kinds of strange things. However, after seeing this thing, he suddenly gasped, and threw the box directly on the ground with a trembling hand, and the memory of a terrible past event instantly revived in his mind!
Lu Yue is a scholar who studies antiques, and his institute has close cooperation with several other museums, and usually appreciates and restores many antiques and calligraphy and paintings. Later, someone in Lu Yue's family fell ill, and in order to make more money, he had to take over some private restoration work and do maintenance for some old books.
About three days ago, Lu Yue had just finished the restoration of a batch of old books, and was about to leave the client's house when he suddenly attracted attention to a strangely shaped stove in their cabinet. The stove was rusty, only half of its body, and it had a strange twisted shape, looking like a meteorite smashed into the ground. However, the strange thing is that there are many strange creatures carved on this stove, those things are human, beast and snake bodies, and the whole furnace is in a state of entanglement, and there are two wings dragged behind it, which looks like the monsters described in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
Due to the age of this thing, the faces of those monsters were covered with bronze and green flowers, and their expressions were particularly hideous. Lu Yue suddenly had a strong curiosity about this antique, so he approached the customer to ask for clarification. However, when the customer saw this thing, he put on a very taboo look, and only after Lu Yue's repeated questioning did he explain the reason.
It turned out that the client's home was in a very remote mountainous area when he was a child, and the family had always been poor, but later a relative made a fortune in business outside the home and gave the family a sum of money to build a new house. The stove was dug out of their house during the renovation of the foundation, but that night a mudslide broke out in their area, flooding their newly built house. Fortunately, the customer's mother went out to the toilet that day and found out about the danger, otherwise their family of three would have been buried.
Because this stove is carved with those strange things, the locals think that their family is because of the stove gouging out, but there is another group of people who think that this stove may have the effect of fixing the house and fixing feng shui, so this stove is kept in their house, but now he doesn't want this thing anymore, seeing that Lu Yue wants it, he opened a price, planning to let him take it.
Lu Yue has been in contact with antiques for many years, and he can see at a glance that the value of this stove is extraordinary, so he bought it out of his own pocket, thinking that he would study it for a few days before appraising it to those curators. However, a strange thing happened in Lu Yue's house that night: the four pots of flowers he put next to the research table all rotted overnight, and the rhizomes on them were all lying on the stove, and the leaves all showed a strange half-roll shape, looking like those ministers who worshiped the emperor, and there was a strange beauty when you looked closely.
However, Lu Yue didn't think much about it, he guessed that maybe some chemicals made the flower crazy, but he didn't dare to accept this thing, so he simply took some photos and immediately sent the stove to the museum. However, I only slept once, and the next day I crossed directly!
And the culprit is lying quietly on the other side of the box at the moment!
Rumble!
Lu Yue suddenly felt a tingling of his scalp, and countless questions poured into his mind like a flood of beasts. How did this Xu Wen get this stove? Could it be that he really used this stove to cross by himself?
Or, could it be that this stove is really cursed? Does Xu Wen want him to be the next owner of this stove? And then he himself was free?
Lu Yue suddenly felt dizzy at this moment, he forcibly endured the discomfort and quickly threw out those unrealistic ideas, and began to seriously examine the stove. Soon he found out the problem, the whole furnace was dark gold, and those bronze and green flowers were all gone, although Lu Yue could still recognize through those monster reliefs that it was indeed the other half of the furnace, but the whole had been completely renovated, and he almost didn't recognize it!
After studying cultural relics restoration for so many years, Lu Yue knows that this kind of renovation will cause the greatest damage to cultural relics, and it will never be used unless it is absolutely necessary. What's more, this Xu Wen's restoration technique is very rough, and some parts are even brushed with paint, and Lu Yue can't figure out what this Xu Wen is going to do for a while, who is he?
And what do you mean by successor?
At this time, there was a brisk bell for the end of class on the radio, and Lu Yue quickly put away the things and stuffed them back into the table hole, and then quickly filled in the papers, already having a plan for the next step in his heart.
Anyway, you'll have to go to this kid's house first!