Chapter 97: Memories
Jiang Yun didn't care too much, and put all her mind on exploring the ancient books.
Wei Tu looked at the fragment of Lu's book in the window, and his thoughts were suddenly pulled back to his childhood.
At that time, he had just followed his parents to the countryside, and he had changed from a city man to a farmer, as if everything was difficult to adapt to......
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"Rewind Time to 1968"
Wei Jun, with his wife Yang Hongying, his eight-year-old son Wei Tu, and his three-year-old daughter, Wei Lan, moved their family from Beijing to the remote village of Maogang.
Wei Jun: "Xiao Tu, come, sing a children's song to my father again." β
"The king does not stand, I do not speak, and soap is not white...... Seeing the green dragon to ......"
Wei Jun showed a satisfied smile and gently touched his son's head: "Xiao Tu, you must remember that the Lu Clan's lip dictionary must not be known to others!" β
Eight-year-old Wei Tu was ignorant and didn't seem to understand the meaning of his father's advice.
It is said that the years urge people to grow old, and in a flash, it was 1974, and Wei Jun had reached the age of not being confused.
Yang Hongying, who was crying with joy, took her husband's hand: "Dajun, I heard that there are many opportunities to return to the city this year, and our family is finally looking forward to the end!" β
Wei Jun looked worried: "Go back? As long as we don't hand over the book for a day, they won't let us go back! β
There is an opportunity to return to the city, and the gang is afraid that they will not be able to sit still!
"After so many years, are they still unwilling to let our family go?" Yang Hongying frowned.
Wei Jun's eyes lit up: "No, I have to keep a back hand." β
Fourteen-year-old Wei Tu led his sister home from school in the evening.
"Dad, Mom, we're back!"
The room was quiet, and there was no one.
The brothers and sisters of the Wei family looked at each other for some reason, and they heard many people from the village outside, and they shouted: "Xiao Wei, your parents were bitten to death by wild beasts on the mountain!" β
On this day, Wei Tu cried very sadly......
After dealing with his parents' funeral, he accidentally found a letter left by his father in the mattress.
There are a lot of words written on it, most of which are fragmentary daily life.
Just when Wei Tu was puzzled, he saw that at the bottom of the letter, his father had specially written two small characters - Qinglong.
οΌοΌοΌ
It's a code letter!
Wei Tu used the LΓΌ lip dictionary taught by his father to outline the important words one by one, and finally gathered them into a sentence.
"The seventh tile of the stove beam"
οΌοΌοΌ
Wei Tu was shocked! Could it be that the parents are hiding some secrets?
He did not act immediately, but waited until it was dark before quietly climbing onto the roof of the stove house.
When the tiles were uncovered, inside was a palm-sized oilcloth bag.
Wei Tu opened the cloth bag, which contained an ancient book, the handwriting on the cover was a little blurry, and the three words of Lu's book could be vaguely seen.
The book was written by the Lu clan, a family that produced a number of master counterfeiters, who covered a wide range of fields, from gold, stone and jade to calligraphy and painting, and even bronze and wood ware.
These skilled craftsmen have written down their exquisite skills and left them for future generations to revitalize their families.
In order to prevent the leakage of the unique secret book, they deliberately made up a special code word - Lu's Lip Codex.
Only when the two are combined can we truly see the superb technology in the book.
Wei Tu cautiously opened the yellowed and fragile paper, but he didn't expect a letter to fall from it, which was a letter written by his father to himself.
My son's personal enlightenment:
I hope you don't read this letter, because when you do, it means they're coming!
Something must have happened to me and your mother!
And the cause of all this is due to the Lu book, this evil book, the counterfeiting process in it is too exquisite, once it falls into the hands of someone with a heart, the consequences are unimaginable.
Fortunately, over the years, it was your parents who kept it, and we used the contents of the book for archaeological research, and found many fake antiquities.
But paper can't contain the fire after all, and the secret of this book is still known to them!
They stole half of my translation notes and framed me and your mother, causing us to move our family.
Son!
I am writing this letter to you, not to take revenge, but to hope that you can keep the Lu family book and never let it fall into the hands of thieves! Remember! Remember!
Take care of Xiaolan for us!
Dad: Wei Jun
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Thoughts were surging, and Wei Tu, who had returned to his senses, was pulled back to reality.
He always thought that there was only one book of the Lu family, but he didn't expect that there was another one!
And according to my observation just now, this book is also genuine, but the content of the two books is different.
The book in his hand is mainly about calligraphy and painting, and the book in the bidding meeting is about gold, stone and jade.
Wei Tu sighed heavily, the amount of information he had received was too great, and he needed to smoke a cigarette to brush up his thoughts.
"Xiao Yun, I'll go outside to smoke a cigarette, you accompany Uncle Gu, don't walk around."
After explaining, he turned and left.
Light a cigarette and let your thoughts spread like white smoke.
Who are they mentioned again and again in my father's letters?
And the goal of these people is the Lu family's book.
The cause of death of their parents is related to them, so now that the fragment of Lu's book has reappeared, will these people also show their traces?
Since the death of his parents, Wei Tu has never stopped thinking about revenge.
He wants to capture these people with his own hands and bring them to justice, so that he can sue his parents' spirits in heaven!
Wei Tu took a deep breath of cigarette, looked into the distance with deep eyes, and the white smoke ring he spit out slowly dispersed in the air.
The enemy is in the dark, I am in the light, this matter, for the time being, Uncle Gu can't know, once he intervenes, this group of people will be more hidden.
If you bid in your own name, it will soon arouse the alarm of that group of people, and even provoke even stronger suppression.
Wei Tu felt that before he was ready, it was wise to keep Taoguang and obscurity.
"Brother Tu, you've smoked a few cigarettes, look at the cigarette butts here!" Jiang Yun came over with a pout.
She continued: "The teacher asked me to call you, the bidding will start soon, by the way, I decided to auction that ancient book, the reserve price is only two hundred, so let's play with it." β
Hearing this, Wei Tu forcibly suppressed the urge to tell the truth.
He couldn't let Jiang Yun know about this, because the more he knew, the easier it was to be in danger!
Similarly, Wei Tu did not want her to bid for the Lu fragment.
"There are so many rare things in the bidding party, why did you fall in love with this book?"
Jiang Yun choked, how does this make people go?
I can't say that this book is related to my own net worth and life!
She thought for a moment and held back two words: "I like it!" β
Now it's Wei Tu's turn to choke, okay, everyone says they like it, what else can they do.
However, I can take this opportunity to see who will bid?!
Maybe one of these people is the "they" that my father always mentioned!
(End of chapter)