In the blink of an eye, one day in early April, I received a call from Shu Yao, her tone on the phone was much lighter, and she wanted to recover well, she invited me to sit in the store in the afternoon, Shu Wanyou wanted to talk to me, and I agreed.

After noon, I brought some gifts to Xun Gu Xuan, Shu Yao was tidying up the counter on the first floor, saw me coming, pointed upstairs, I nodded softly and went upstairs, Shu Wanyou sat on the sofa upstairs, with a tea set in front of him. When he sees me arrive, he beckons, and I'll be on the couch next to him.

"Uncle, I don't know what your taste is, I saw that there was an old-fashioned roast chicken on the side, so I bought you two, and it was good to drink at night." I put the old Daowai roast chicken in the rope net pocket under the coffee table.

Shu Wanyou smiled and said, "Don't say it, I'm really good at this, his roast chicken is different from other people's houses, they are all fresh chickens bought in the morning, mixed with his family's ancestral secret ingredients, and hung on the hanging stove in the backyard, the taste can be spread for ten miles, but this process, he doesn't let anyone see it, and only roasts 30 a day, and one more is not baked, you can buy it at this time, you have to line up in the morning, and it's really difficult for you." When I was a child, I went to the door of his house to smell, smell, and nibble on steamed buns, at that time there was no money, that is, during the New Year's Festival, I could buy only to satisfy my hunger, and then I had money, and I couldn't put it down. But I can't drink this wine, and I don't dare to drink it. ”

Shu Wanyou poured me tea, first talked about the tea ceremony, said that the snow in winter, the green tea in summer, I don't understand the tea ceremony, but I think the tea cup is too small, like feeding chickens, take it up and drink it all. Shu Wanyou saw it, and said with a smile, "After all, it's a young man, this vitality is rare." I knew he was saying I didn't understand the tea ceremony, so I laughed embarrassedly.

Shu Wanyou said a few words, I felt that the time had come, so I asked, I heard the old grandson say, you have seen the origin of the bead, judged that this is the object of the Qing Palace, you also told him the secret of the treasures of the Qing Dynasty, are these things true? There is a military bunker on the hill in my hometown, and a lot of guns and bullets have been dug up in it. I talked about the discovery of the bunker when I was a child, and said that I thought of the discovery of the old grandson, and felt that this bunker was not just an arsenal. Shu Wanyou took a sip of tea, took out a purse from his arms, took out a bead from it and handed it to me......

"He sold it to you?" Shu Wanyou smiled and shook his head, "This is not the old grandson's one, in the past few years, I have collected no less than ten such beads, all of which were obtained by chance when some farmers were farming and workers were mining, and the discovery points of these beads were all in the Changbai Mountains and the Daxing'an Mountains, so do you think this is a coincidence?" ”

I held the bead, my hand was warm, there was also a stripe of flocculent in it, Shu Wanyou continued, "My surname is Shu, my ancestor is a flag person, is a red flag, Shu's surname is Shu Mulu, one of the eight surnames of the Manchus, my ancestor is the founding minister of the Qing Dynasty Yangguli, when the emperor married the princess to her, it can be said that our family was a first-class famous family at that time, you know the literary family Lao She, we are actually the same clan, but he is a side branch. My family is a trace, but to my grandfather's generation, the Qing Dynasty is declining day by day, we are also in the middle of the road, although my grandfather is a flag man, but has long been not treated by the family, when the Old Summer Palace was expanded, he got a book, called "Shen Tu Zhi", at that time it was used as a garden display item manual, Shen Tu, refers to the general ritual utensils used in the past dynasties, which is painted with graphics, listing the form, use, materials, etc. of the ritual vessels of each generation, this thing was considered a secret document at the time, my grandfather was the flag man of the four flags, At that time, he was arranged to be a steward inside, and he was responsible for collecting ritual vessels from all over the country, so this book became his reference book.

At that time, the expansion of the Old Summer Palace had been completed, and the Eight-Nation Alliance had not yet entered the capital, and my grandfather was really in contact with the royal treasures accumulated by the previous dynasties and the treasures collected from all over the world. Whenever the sun set, my grandfather would admire it alone and marvel at the ingenuity of these treasures. However, when my grandfather was amazed and amazed, he heard the scholar of the Hanlin Academy say with a slight mockery: "Although everything in the garden is extremely exquisite, and the craftsmanship and ingenuity are unparalleled in the world, if the value of gold, jewelry, and jade is far less than one-thousandth of the treasure of King Chuang." ”

My grandfather knew that Hanlin, that person had been two generations of emperors, and his knowledge was naturally extraordinary, as soon as he said this, the grandfather who followed behind him couldn't help but stay in place. That Hanlin went on to say, it is rumored that after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he opened the treasury and saw that the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was abundant, the treasury was full of gold bricks and silver ingots, and treasures such as gold beads, jasper, and corals were everywhere. But this treasure is gone.

In fact, about Li Zicheng's whereabouts after the defeat, he has always been a mystery, and it is rumored that he became a monk and lived until the Kangxi period. Some say that they live in seclusion in other places, but in short, they have a good death. Some people say that it fell into the hands of the Jurchens, when the emperor Taiji entered the customs, the Qing Dynasty sat firmly, and these treasures became the capital of the Qing court to expand the treasury. This is also the most likely conclusion, but the Jurchens originated in Changbai Mountain, that is, our side of Acheng, they worship this place as the dragon vein, legend has it that they dug countless caves in this mountain as a treasure house, just afraid that one day they will lose their power, and then return here, with the treasure full of mountains to make a comeback. And this treasure hidden in the depths of the mountain has become a royal secret passed down by the Qing Dynasty emperors for generations, and the map guiding this treasure is still unknown. We've always treated this story as a legend, just as a story. But it wasn't until one year, when my grandfather and I went to a relative, and what happened to her family, made me think that maybe this was not a legend.

About 40 years ago, I was more than 10 years old, followed my grandfather, father wandering, to Changchun, went to a friend, at that time the year was not good, the family had eaten the last meal without the next meal, no one was willing to come to relatives, three mouths, plus my half-sized son, that was a bottomless pit, but this relative I remember, she treated us very warmly, let me call her Aunt Fang, that Aunt Fang is about 50 years old, although she is a village woman, but her bearing is extraordinary, her gestures are extremely elegant, although the home is old, but it is spotlessly clean, she uses clay pots, planted flowers and plants, and decorated the cottage very warmly. The usual crude utensils, she actually used a paintbrush to draw beautiful pictures, like a work of art. And the person she married was just a local civilian farmer, the village Han was 7 years older than Aunt Fang, but he looked like he was 20 years older, usually untidy, smoking, drinking, I always felt that this huge gap was there, how could a woman like Aunt Fang marry such a man. After living there for a long time, we found that although the man was fierce outside, he was very afraid of Aunt Fang at home, and only Aunt Fang was the first to look forward to everything.

We have lived for a long time, the amount of food is very large, and the money on my grandfather is almost spent, after a few days, Aunt Fang took out a string of beads and asked my father to go to the pawnshop in the city, and my father went to the pawnshop, and actually exchanged for 40 catties of food stamps, which was a large number in those years, with these grains, we lived in her house for a while.

I heard my grandfather say that Aunt Fang used to be a Gege in the Qing Palace, and she married here in order to escape. She knows a lot of secrets and legends of the Qing Dynasty, Aunt Fang is very good to me, she taught me painting, reading, she can also speak Japanese, and usually sing some Japanese songs to me, so during that time, she was my teacher, the first person to educate me on the way to escape.

I have seen with my own eyes some of the jewelry items in her collection, which are exactly the same as the beads of the old grandson, but the color and water are much stronger than the old grandson's. So when I saw the beads of Lao Suntou for the first time, I dared to conclude that they were objects in the Qing Palace. "Shu Wanyou finished speaking, I have already heard God, this story is too unbelievable, according to him, the place where the Japanese built the villa is one of the treasures, but since this secret is only passed on by the royal word of mouth, how did the Japanese know? How can you dig so accurately? Did the last emperor Pu Yi know about this secret, and since he knew this secret, why didn't he recruit troops, retreat outside the customs, and then try to dominate the industry?

Shu Wanyou saw that I was silent, his face was full of suspicion, and he said with a smile, "I can't believe it, right?" I thought it was a story my grandfather told me, but after I saw the beads of the old grandson, I didn't think it was a legend. And in my distant relative, I have also heard a lot of secrets, of course, those secrets are wide-ranging, the content is complicated, the plot is bizarre, I just three days and three nights can not finish telling, you just said that there is a military base in your hometown, I personally think, like those two villas, in fact, they are all disguises, maybe it is also one of the treasure places. ”

In fact, what makes me feel the most strange is that Aunt Fang that Shu Wanyou said, since she is a Gege from the Qing Palace, why did she run away to the countryside in the Northeast? I asked again, but Shu Wanyou smiled and picked up the tea, blowing a layer of foam on it, and laughed without saying a word. I was thinking nonsense, Shu Yao called us upstairs, "You two still say, aren't you hungry?" There is a mutton shabu in front of me that tastes good, I booked a single room, let's go eat. ”

Hearing Shu Yao call us to eat, I realized that before I knew it, we had been chatting for almost 4 hours, I quickly got up and said goodbye, although Shu's father and daughter tried their best to stay, I still shirked, after all, Shu Yao's leg injury was just right, Shu Wan was sick for a long time, it was not suitable for sitting for a long time, and he had been delayed for so long just now, I really didn't dare to disturb him too much.

On the way back, I kept thinking about Shu Wanyou's words, that small village is by no means that simple, how many secrets are there in that big mountain? Our childhood adventure only opened a crack in the door, and more secrets were still hidden behind that door, and maybe I should go back to the village again.