Nocturnal

"This gentleman," the old master was still a few meters away, but his voice seemed to be whispering in his ear, which gave Qin Mochi a very strange feeling, "Do you know a person named Bai Shu?"

For a moment, Qin Mochi doubted whether the old master was talking to him, but he was indeed walking towards him, and his slightly fierce eyes stared at him intently, making his back feel chilly.

"Sorry, you said...who?"

The old master stopped two meters away from him, and repeated word by word: "Bai Shu from Beixin Road."

Qin Mochi shook his head, feeling a subtle sense of vigilance in his heart.This is obviously just a thin old man, but somehow it makes people feel very dangerous.

The old master frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and then asked: "Rong Xin from Badaoling Farm, have you heard of it?"

Qin Mochi felt puzzled, "Who?"

"Rong Xin from Badaoling Farm." The old master repeated it patiently, looking carefully at Qin Mochi's expression, "Have you heard of this person?"

"Sorry, I haven't heard of it." Qin Mochi thought in his heart that he was looking for someone?The family got separated?His eyes and menacing expression just his own misunderstanding?

Qin Mochi breathed a sigh of relief, and kindly reminded him: "There is a radio in the office of the commercial building on the second floor, and you can find people through the radio." He pointed his finger at the top of his head, and soft light music was playing in the hall, occasionally interspersed with Discount information for some shopping malls.

The old master seemed to smile a little, looked him up and down, with a thoughtful expression.

Qin Mochi looked at him with question marks all over his head.

The old master ignored him, shook his head, turned and left.

Qin Mochi felt that as he turned around, the invisible thing that was pressing on him disappeared, and at the same time his heart was relieved, he also felt a little bit afraid, what exactly does this inexplicable old man want?

Ning Ning called him in the store, "Brother Tang, call."

Qin Mochi agreed, and was about to turn around when the old man stopped in his tracks and said without turning his head, "Young man, it's best not to leave the city if you have nothing to do."

Qin Mochi was slightly stunned, and it was difficult to determine whether he was talking to him or not.What does out of town mean?In two days, he will go to an acquaintance to see the raw materials.

Qin Mochi took two steps, and when he turned around to look again, the old master had disappeared.

The caller was Yang Ke, a jeweler. Several jewelry companies in Linhai City have cooperative relations with him. He is the raw material supplier that Qin Mochi has cooperated with for the longest time, and he has a good personal relationship with Qin Mochi.Qin Mochi is in a small business and doesn't get much goods, but he has a good eye, and Yang Ke will often come to him with things he is not sure about.

As soon as Qin Mochi answered the phone, Yang Ke yelled, "Qin Mochi? Are you there?"

"Yes, yes," Qin Mochi said hastily, "I saw off a guest just now, what's the matter?"

Yang Ke said excitedly: "I bought a few colored diamonds here. They are not big, but they are of good texture and beautiful color. How about them? Are you interested?"

Qin Mochi's heart moved, "What color is it?" The young couple who received just now wanted to order a wedding ring with fancy colored diamonds, but good colored diamonds are not easy to come by, so Qin Mochi didn't dare to say anything, and only said to try his best to find a way .Yang Ke really dozed off on this call, and it was a coincidence that someone sent him a pillow.

"Come and take a look," Yang Ke said, "This is someone else's private collection. If the family is not in a hurry to spend money, they will not give it to me. You say just a few, give it to those big companies, The amount is a bit small. Brother, I think of you."

Qin Mochi hurriedly said: "Where are you too far away? I won't be able to make it back at night. Tomorrow. I'll be there early in the morning."

"Okay." Yang Ke said bluntly: "Our village is going to kill pigs today, you wait for me to get you some authentic local pork." Running around in the south and the north, he chose to make his home in the village. He is also a strange person.

Qin Mochi hurriedly said: "Get some more. I went home for dinner last night. My aunt also said that the so-called local pork bought in the specialty store is not tasty."

Yang Ke said with a smile: "No problem, brother, I live in the village. Is there anything new you want to eat? If you come over tomorrow, I will bring you a few native chickens, which I raised at home. I will let you eat it later. Twice."

Qin Mochi smiled and agreed, and when he put down the phone, he suddenly remembered what the old man said just now, "Don't go out of the city".

Qin Mochi suddenly hesitated in his heart.

The aunt Qin Mochi mentioned on the phone who complained about the bad taste of pork was Xia Zhinian and Xia Zhifei's wife Lin Tang.Lin Tang used to be a middle school teacher, but when he became ill, he retired to take care of his husband and children.Qin Mochi had just turned eight years old when he was sent back to Xia's house. His father Xia Hong had remarried at that time and had two sons, Xia Zhijie and Xia Zhiwan, so he didn't want to recognize Qin Mochi at all.Lin Tang had a big fight with him, and angrily took Qin Mochi back to his home.

This raising is more than ten years.

So Lin Tang and Xia Zhi, including the two brothers Xia Zhinian and Xia Zhifei, were completely different from the rest of the Xia family in Qin Mochi's mind.

As for Qin Mochi's biological mother, he had never seen her before, and no one around him had mentioned her, so he stopped asking questions over time.Either she died, or she left him and left, no matter which kind of truth is not worth looking forward to for Qin Mochi.Qin Mochi had poor eyesight when he was a child, and he could hardly see anything before the age of eight.So his memory before the age of eight is very vague, he only knows that he lives in the mountains.But which mountain it was, who he lived with, and who sent him back to Xia's house, he couldn't remember.

Qin Mochi's memory seems to be missing a section, and the end of the memory he can recall is the summer when he was eight years old, and he was sent back to Xia's family.He remembered being very sad and terrified at the time.For the first time in his life, he came to the city, surrounded by strange people, and he was almost terrified.

Perhaps because this memory is too deep, Qin Mochi is unusually sensitive to other people's attitudes.When he won the international award for the first time, some media interviewed him and called him a perfectionist.In fact, Qin Mochi knew it well, he just couldn't bear other people's dissatisfaction with him.

This is also the reason why he has been unable to regard Xia Hong's family as his family after more than ten years.

When he graduated from university, he used Lin Tang's private money as start-up capital to set up his own studio, but he rejected Xia Hong's financial assistance.Over the years, Lin Tang and Xia Zhi have been persuading him not to hold grudges against his father.But Qin Mochi never called Xia Hong his father.Even Grandpa Xia said helplessly that he "has a strong temper and loves to hold grudges, and he will take revenge. I don't know who he followed."

Qin Mochi looked at the red light at the intersection in front of him, thinking in a daze that he probably followed the person who raised him.It's a pity that I don't remember all of them.

Qin Mochi hadn't thought about these things for a long time, but the old master he met today and the thoughtless words he left made Qin Mochi a little uneasy. He always felt that this old man was not just as simple as finding someone.His speech and behavior, especially the impenetrable feeling when he was close to him, made Qin Mochi feel faintly afraid.

The red light turned green, and the vehicle slowly passed the last intersection out of the city.Further on is the West District of Linhai City. The West District used to be a rural area, but later it became an agricultural science and technology park and a demonstration park. Further forward is a small mountain. People in this area call it Badaoling. There are people.Yang Ke's small farm is halfway up the mountain, and a stone was found at the gate of the yard, with three big characters engraved on it: Yangjiazhuang.

After Yang Ke got divorced, he moved to the countryside, contracted an orchard, and raised a lot of animals: dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, geese and so on.But these are just for fun when he has nothing to do. The main business is jade and jewelry.

Qin Mochi parked the car at the door, and before he got out of the car, he saw a group of dogs running out of the yard when they heard the noise, whining around the fence and chasing each other with their tails between their legs.Qin Mochi waved his hand at the camera above the gatepost, pushed open the fence gate, and walked in along the path paved with colored gravel.

A few pieces of irregularly shaped land near the fence gate were opened by Yang Ke to plant some flowers and plants, and further inside was a vegetable garden. After Yang Ke moved here, he asked someone to open two wells, and further inside was an orchard.After all, Yang Ke is not a professional fruit farmer, and all the fruits he likes are planted in the orchard: cherries, blueberries, peach trees and a few sporadic apple trees.The house is built in the peach grove. It is a small two-story building commonly seen in farmhouses. It is surrounded by a half-person-high stone wall. There is a stone mill in the yard, and clusters of red peppers are hung under the eaves. The fat black cat was basking in the sun on a mat under the verandah.When Qin Mochi walked in, the black cat raised its head and gave him a vigilant look, stood up and slipped out through the gap between the wooden railings, and ran away.

Qin Mochi said in his heart that this is really a heartless little thing. When he came last time, he nestled in his arms and ate the small dried fish he fed. It has only been less than two months, and he has become unfamiliar with him.

Qin Mochi walked up the steps and pushed open the half-hidden door, "Old Yang?"

Yang Ke's voice came from upstairs, "Here."

Qin Mochi changed his shoes, strolled through the living room, and as soon as he went upstairs, he saw the door of the study room was open, and Yang Ke was walking around playing with something.There are several boxes on the floor of the study, two of which have not been removed with sealing tapes.

"Why are you alone?" Qin Mochi was curious.He hides a lot of valuables in this room, and his assistants and bodyguards live downstairs, and it is rare for Yang Ke to be alone.

"Let me send you to the village to line up." Yang Ke pushed the box aside and said pantingly, "The pigs they butchered are local pigs, so you don't need to take them outside. The villagers will divide them all themselves, and they can't get even. , and the set of limited supply. I let them all queue up."

Qin Mochi laughed, "Then I really have to thank you."

"It's not just for you," Yang Ke squinted at him, "I still have several people here."

Yang Ke is in his 30s, with a slightly fat body, wearing a pair of thin-rimmed glasses, and he talks to everyone in a friendly manner. He looks more like a scholar than a businessman, but he can't speak. Ruffian.Qin Mochi always felt that the "gentle scum" mentioned in the book refers to people like him.

"Where are the things?" Qin Mochi stepped over the packing box, casually flipped through the two small boxes on his desk, occasionally Yang Ke also threw samples here.

Yang Ke took out a small bag from the drawer and carefully poured it on a plate lined with black velvet. "The largest diamond is less than three carats, and the rest are about two carats." Yang Ke emphasized, "This But how many years have people selected thousands of choices and saved them, treasure them."

Two pink diamonds, one green diamond, and one yellow diamond are really beautiful together.But Qin Mochi was not satisfied with what he saw, "Why are they all cut?"

Yang Ke hurriedly said: "Isn't this cut very well?"

Qin Mochi shook his head.Whether a gemstone is beautiful or not has a great relationship with its cut. Even for gemstones with the same hardness and refractive index, the dispersion of each gemstone is different.Qin Mochi felt that he was born to do this job. He had a keen insight into the texture and luster of gemstones, and he was always able to find the most perfect cutting angle.So when he saw these colored diamonds, he felt regretful instead.Cutting again would be a loss to the gem itself, and he was a little reluctant to do it.But accepting such a cut was an unbearable thing for Qin Mochi.

Yang Ke persuaded him, "Think about it, he has hidden these things at home for decades. Of course, the cutting technology at that time was not as good as it is now."