The Plow

The people in the third compartment were mixed.

In the early years when Ling Shu went out, he always sat in the third compartment.

Some well-known literati would rather take the third carriage in order to save some money.

But this did not make the third compartment much more scholarly.

Those who travel from south to north to carry goods, those who travel thousands of miles to visit relatives, and those who travel far away while they are young, are all crowded in this dusty carriage. Looking around, it is almost all gray and black. Long gowns, sometimes wearing suits, are also dimmed by the dust. After a long journey, most of their faces are tired. Few people can look out of the window like the passengers in the first and second class carriages. Leisurely and elegant.

The sky was getting dark, and even though there were electric lights in the carriage, it was shaky and dim. Ah Cai had to hold up the kerosene lamp and flashlight in his hand to barely make out the faces of every passenger.

Some people were dozing off, woken up by the light, their faces were unhappy, and they were about to lose their temper, but when they saw Ah Cai's clothes, they suddenly fell silent, turned over and continued to sleep.

Because conductors like Ah Cai are often not very nice to the passengers in the third car, and often scold them. Passengers, based on the idea that more things are worse than less things, don't provoke them if they can.

Twelve were guarded by Ling Shu and followed them obediently.

"Sir, I didn't see the bamboo hat."

Ah Cai raised his eyebrows at Twelve: "There is no one behind, they are all loaded with goods, you are not lying to us!"

Twelve cried and said with a sad face: "I don't dare to lie anymore if I have ten more courage! When I was in charge of finishing it for him, he gave me the gold leaf, and the two of them settled their grievances. He wouldn't tell me where he was hiding. !"

Ling Shu said: "Go to the back and have a look."

The last two sections of this train are used to load some goods along the way. Each one is ordered in a wooden box with a person's height, and the number is written on it, and it is transported from Nanjing to Tianjin.

"What's in here?" Ling Shu walked through the aisle in the middle of the box and asked Twelve back.

"I heard from them that it seems to be filled with enamel. It is consigned by the Nanjing Enamel Factory to sell in Tianjin. Someone will pick it up at the station. The breath here is stagnant, and it is uncomfortable to stay here for a short time. He should not be here. ?” Twelve hesitated.

There was no light in this carriage, and the air was far more suffocating than in the third carriage. Large boxes stood like beasts in the darkness, and flashlights and kerosene lamps could only glimpse a corner of them.

In the aisle and deeper, there are many shadows that cannot be detected. The movement of the train rumbling on the rails outside seems to be separated by a layer, like another world born out of thin air.

Ah Cai is timid, even with Ling Shu walking in front, he still feels creepy.

The fast-backing lights on the railroad track flickered occasionally, leaving flickering shadows at his feet, and Ah Cai couldn't help but look down.

The more I look at it, the more I feel that these shadows are erratic, and they seem to have their own self-awareness. After the previously crowded carriages have lost the noise of life, they suddenly become empty and deserted.

Ah Cai's eyes suddenly froze.

He seemed to see a black shadow flickering.

Ah Cai suspected that he was wrong, raised his sleeve, rubbed his eyes, and looked again.

The shadow is gone.

At this moment, Ling Shu and Yue Dingtang had split up and were looking for someone.

Ah Cai was a little scared and hurried to follow.

He didn't pay attention when he was walking, tripped over a wooden board under his feet, and fell straight into the mud.

Looking up, Ah Cai saw the flickering shadow behind the box again.

Looking again, Ling Shu and Yue Dingtang are holding Twelve in another direction.

He got up and stepped forward cautiously.

I didn't shout out immediately, because I was afraid that Lingshu and the others would find a false alarm when they came over, and would blame him for making a fuss. Ah Cai felt that he could do something for the two officers, and maybe he could also get along like Twelve just now. Yinyang rewards.

After a few seconds, he regretted it.

Just as Ah Cai approached the box, a hand suddenly stretched out and dragged him in!

"Well!"

Ah Cai didn't even have time to call for help, his mouth was covered, and then there was a piercing pain in his back!

A dagger pierced through the chest from the back of the heart.

One kill.

When Ah Cai died, he couldn't turn his head to see what the person who killed him looked like.

But as long as he turned his head, he could see a thin and wizened man standing on top of the box, holding a bloody knife in his hand.

The news of Ah Cai's murder was covered up by the noise of the speeding train outside the window, but Ling Shu still noticed something wrong.

"Ah Choi!"

He raised his voice, but there was no response.

Ling Shu raised his eyes.

In the dim light, he realized that Yue Dingtang was also looking at him, and the two exchanged a specious look. Ling Shu thought that Yue Dingtang let him go, and was about to push the twelve in his hand to him. But he chose to get up and walk over in person.

Twelve is uneasy.

He has seen the skill of the bamboo hat.

Although this person is short, his shots are lightning fast, and he doesn't even need a gun, because his short dagger is faster than a gun. In close combat, guns are often of little use, but sharp weapons can make people hard to defend against.

Twelve began to regret that he had easily confessed to the bamboo hat.

With the cruelty of the other party, if Ling Shu and the others can't subdue him this time, it might be difficult for them to escape.

Yue Dingtang approached the box step by step.

The bamboo hat on the back of the box also clenched the short dagger in his hand.

As long as Yue Dingtang took another step forward, he would be able to strike quickly and stab the opponent to death.

However, Yue Dingtang stood still.

One step away, no more, no less.

The bamboo hat secretly regretted it.

He was also very strange, did Yue Dingtang put an extra pair of eyes beside him?

The footsteps stopped, and not even the sound of breathing could be heard.

The bamboo hat pricked up its ears, and leaned its head forward.

Suddenly, a dangerous alarm bell made him subconsciously turn his head back!

Half a step late.

The back of the bamboo hat was blocked by a hard object.

"do not move."

Dou Li knew that Yue Dingtang didn't want to kill him.

Because he still wants to ask more sources of news about gold foil Tibetan from his own mouth.

Since you don't want to do anything, then you're welcome!

The bamboo hat turned around and kicked without hesitation, Yue Dingtang Guo then retreated out of the way, he took the opportunity to swipe to the side, wanted to leave the carriage, but found that the carriage door was locked, so he had to turn around immediately, and rushed directly to Yue Dingtang, trying to Put him down first before killing others.

At the very moment, Yue Dingtang not only didn't raise his gun - even if he raised his gun, it was too late to shoot - instead he rushed towards the dagger of the bamboo hat!

Just then, the gun rang out.

The bullet came from the other side.

The bamboo hat screamed and fell down in response, the dagger in his hand was snatched away by Yue Dingtang, and two gunshots, bang bang, were overshadowed by the train's whistle.

Ling Shu came over, put the gun on his head, and spoke in a brisk tone.

"Your name is a bamboo hat, right? We don't want to kill you, but if you move around, you will not only hurt your legs, but your whole body. There are many wounds that can be hit, but not fatal. Anyway, your life is not enough." It’s worth the money, and it’s not bad to make you die of pain slowly, what do you think?”

The wound was bleeding, and the bamboo hat was sweating profusely, and he could only pant for breath.

Yue Dingtang went straight to the body search.

Ling Shu strode to check on Ah Cai's situation, and shook his head after a while.

There are a lot of miscellaneous things on the bamboo hat.

In addition to a book wrapped in a thick cloth, some oceans, some small change, a dagger, and even a grenade were found.

Yue Dingtang opened the thick cloth layer by layer.

Several white flakes came into view.

It was the size of a palm, and felt a little cold to the touch.

It is not gold, not jade, not bamboo.

what is that?

"Ivory."

Ling Shu was the first to call out the famous head.

His fingers followed suit.

Characters as thin as grains of rice are carved on a thin piece of ivory.

"Ivory scriptures?"

Under the ivory scriptures, there is a thinner stack of gold leaf, the shape is more complete and exquisite than the one obtained by Twelve before, and the value is naturally not the same. There are also engravings on the gold leaf, but the font is too small to read clearly. I'm afraid I can only look at it in broad daylight.

"Where did you steal these things?"

Bamboo hat gritted his teeth and did not speak.

"what!"

In the next second, Ling Shu stepped directly on the gunshot wound on his leg.

He didn't need to show any kindness to a ruthless person who could kill two people in succession.

"Brother Dou Li, if you don't say anything, I'm afraid this leg will be useless. If you recruit it, we will bandage it for you. When you get off the car, we will find you a police station and send you to recuperate. Maybe there is still a way to survive."

The hat closed his eyes.

"I took it from, from that person surnamed Zhang!"

"Who is Zhang? The person you killed in the dressing room?"

"..."

"How do you know he has these things? What are the origins of these ivory scriptures?"

"He used to be a pawnbroker, and he liked to brag when he drank too much. Once I happened to be at the next table with him, and I heard him bragging to his companions, saying that he had met a bad guy, and he had a lot of good things in his hand. At least he could sell several times. A bungalow, half my life I will never worry about food and drink, when he flicks things over, I will give up completely, I was in urgent need of money at the time, so I took care of it..."

The voice of the bamboo hat became lower and lower, Ling Shu kicked him lightly again, the other party screamed in pain, and then raised his voice again just now.

"After he left Fengtian, I followed him all the way, from Fengtian to Beijing, and then from Beijing to Nanjing. He met a lot of people, as if to sell his treasures, and there were always people around him. I didn't find a chance to do it. I just thought about this train, and then, that's what you saw!"

Ling Shu: "Where did these things come from, did the surname Zhang tell you?"

The bamboo hat gasped and said, "He said it, I don't remember clearly, it seems that, it's surnamed Guan... yes, it's surnamed Guan! The Fengtian Guan family! The Guan family that many people know, their second master, Guan , Guan Qizhi, all the things were bought cheaply from him! He said that the surname Guan, who likes antiques and doesn't know much about goods, was told in twos and twos, and the things were in his hands, without any trouble at all!"

Ling Shu remembered that their destination this time was also Fengtian.

Coincidentally, Yue Dingtang's uncle is also surnamed Guan.

Yue Dingtang nodded slightly to Ling Shu.

Sure enough, it was the Guan family.

That is to say, that Chaofeng surnamed Zhang stole a set of treasures from Yue Dingtang's second cousin by chance, and changed hands. He was assassinated and seized the treasure by the bamboo hat who coveted the treasure. , who would have met Ling Shu and the others, went around and around, and everything returned to the Guan family like a curse.

"By the way, the person surnamed Zhang also said, he said, he said... Now that something happened to the Guan family, the family is in turmoil, and many treasures that were originally held in the hands of the old lady Guan have been released, and they are scattered in various houses. It’s a good opportunity for acquisition, the Guan family has a rich family, accumulated over several generations, maybe some rare treasures can be found!”

The bamboo hat couldn't bear the pain, and many things that he didn't intend to tell were all told by Ling Shu.

Yue Dingtang asked: "Grandpa Guan has several sons under his knees, all of whom are old. Even if he dies suddenly, the family will not be in chaos. Where does the turmoil come from?"

Bamboo hat: "It's too messy. If you go to Fengtian, you can see for yourself! I, I really said everything!"