antique masters in modern times

"I found the spirit."

Zhu Dao originally followed Yan You's footsteps, but when he heard this, his scalp exploded, and he instinctively wanted to run, but stopped his feet again, and said nervously: "Brother Yan, where do I still have that Dao Talisman? take it out?"

"No, just take a pair of tongs and a box."

This formation sounded like catching a mouse, but Zhu Dao was too nervous to ask any more questions, so he immediately took something and handed it to Yan You.

Following the seemingly absent tiny claw marks on the newly laid plastic floor, Yanyou walked to the corner and gently moved a wooden box containing sundries.In the small gap at the back, a small group of black creatures curled up, their bodies still rising and falling with their breathing.

Zhu Dao's originally tense nerves turned into doubts after seeing this little thing: "Brother Yan, is it really a mouse?"

The movement around him made the little thing prick up his ears vigilantly.Before it tried to escape, Yanyou quickly put it in the box, handed it to Zhu and said, "This is a hedgehog. It runs to the yard at night and calls, and hides as soon as you move it, so you think you have met someone else." Clean stuff."

Zhu Dao was still dubious: "But why does it sound like an old man coughing?"

In order to answer, Yanyou gently picked up the tongs and fiddled with the hedgehog.The little thing curled up in a ball suddenly opened its mouth in panic and screamed, the sound really sounded like an old man coughing.It's just that now the truth is revealed, Zhu Dao no longer feels scared when he hears this voice, but just feels strange.

Yan You explained: "Hedgehogs will make this sound after eating salt. This is the kitchen, have you put the seasoning?"

Hearing Yanyou's words, Zhu Dao was stunned and hurried to look in the cabinet.As soon as the door was opened, a bag of flour brush fell down, and half of it was turned over and buckled on the feet, making a pair of big feet look like two steamed buns just out of the cage.

Zhu Dao was not angry at all, instead he said cheerfully: "Brother Yan, you really hit the spot! I feel like I have been robbed here, several bags have been bitten open, salt, monosodium glutamate, pepper, etc. A bunch of them. This little thing must have been eating and biting indiscriminately, eating salt by mistake."

After finding the culprit and finding out that it was a false alarm, Zhu Dao was overjoyed: "It turned out that this little guy was the guide, which made me tremble with fear for several days. Even my buddies were quite scared. Show it to them and have a good time."

As for the Taoist priest who claimed that the place was occupied by spirits and monsters, and that he needed to set up a banquet to solve it, Zhu Dao had already determined that he was a liar who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity.But the other party was a grey-haired old man, and he couldn't bear to teach him a cruel lesson, and was going to scold the other party to finish the job.He didn't expect to get back the money he had already spent for the banquet.

After making up his mind, Zhu Dao took out the lid and covered the green lacquered wooden box that was originally used to hold the nails tightly, leaving a small gap for the hedgehog to breathe.

After putting the hedgehog away, he was about to greet Yanyou to leave when he saw the box of rags that had "sheltered" the real murderer again, and said, "Brother Yan, wait a minute, I'll drag this box of sundries out, so I don't have to look back." Mice also come here to make their nests."

That box looks like a lot, but it's actually not heavy.Before Yanyou could help him, Zhu Dao picked it up and carried it outside.

After covering it, Yan You found a dark and inconspicuous thing in the corner where the hedgehog was originally curled up.The moment his eyes swept across, he suddenly had a premonition in his heart like when he saw the bronze mirror in the factory yesterday: Don't look at this thing as inconspicuous, but it must be an old one!

Suppressing the surprise in his heart, he asked, "What is this?"

"This... looks like an ashtray." Zhu Dao scratched his head: "This thing seems to have been swept out from the trash pile in the yard, and I don't know who picked it up while cleaning it for me."

Yanyou bent down to pick it up, and looked at it carefully.This thing is quite heavy, and it is so dirty that you can't see its true colors. It can only be seen that it is a round object with a thick bottom and a concave in the middle.There were a few broken leaves in it, and it really looked like an ashtray.

But if you take a closer look, you will find that it is concave, and occasionally there are a few places that are not dirty, showing golden yellow.It's just that those places are extremely subtle, if it is not for the sharp eyesight, it is impossible to find them at all.

Yan You was amazed: just now he glanced at it lightly, besides confirming the origin of this thing, he also believed in his heart that it was a gold-plated pearl box without a cover, which was specially used by the nobles in ancient times to store pearls.Why did my eyesight become so sharp?

After receiving the thing in his hand and weighing it for a long time, Yan You confirmed that his judgment was correct, but he couldn't figure it out.

However, although this matter is mysterious and mysterious, it is beneficial to oneself.Since he couldn't find the reason, Yan You had no choice but to stop struggling.

This broken box is not worth much, but it is still an antique.Yanyou is going to take it away, take it back and clean it up, remove the stains, and then take it to the ghost market to see if it can be shot.

Just as he was about to speak, Zhu Dao said first, "Brother Yan, since you like this thing, if you don't dislike it, you can take it away and play with it."

Yan You originally wanted to buy it with money, but upon hearing what Zhu Dao said, he quickly declined: "That's so embarrassing."

"It's just a worthless gadget. It doesn't matter. You have helped me a lot. What is this?" After the yard was taken away by the government, many residents changed back and forth, even if it was really valuable. The objects had also been taken away long ago.So Zhu Dao didn't care at all.

Zhu Dao said it very politely.Because the specific gravity of this half of the bead box is wrong, it is estimated that it was made of copper and tin and then gilded with gold. It is not pure gold, and the age is not too old. It should be made after the middle period of Qingshun.And the half-disabled one is worth more than a dozen yuan at most, so he no longer refuses: "Thank you very much."

"Brother Yan is too polite, I should thank you if I want to thank you." Zhu Dao locked the door indiscriminately, rubbed his hands and said enthusiastically: "I agreed to give you a thank you gift, but I don't know where you live? "

Yan You originally wanted to evade the past, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind again: "I don't need to give gifts, I want to trouble you with something else: my house collapsed, and after a while I raise enough money, I would like to invite you Help find a few people to repair it for me."

When he came in just now, he noticed that the yard was renovated quite neatly, and there were quite a few people who wanted to do the construction.The two members of the Yan family, one old and one young, have almost no connections. If they want to rebuild the house, if they can't find acquaintances, the next thing is to be slaughtered.As soon as Zhu Dao said he wanted to thank him, he immediately thought of this.

"The house collapsed? This is really... Cheng, Brother Yan, don't worry, I will take care of you. I will definitely find someone reliable for you. I will live here from now on. If you have anything to say, just say a word." It's done." Zhu Dao said immediately, patting his chest.

After locking the courtyard door and leaving, Zhu Dao dragged him to eat supper again.The state-run unit at this point has long since closed, but there are still many small stalls with different flavors in the back alleys, but only regular customers who are familiar with the road can find them.

The stall that Zhu Dao brought Yan You to was facing the moat, in an alley.It is a husband and wife restaurant, the husband is in charge of the spoon, and the wife greets the guests.Good at stir-fried rabbit meat, the tempting aroma floats far away at night.It is summer now, and many guests are sitting shirtless at the simple tables and chairs, shaking their cheeks and enjoying their meals.

Zhu Dao was obviously a regular customer here, and without even saying a word after being seated, the aunt came over happily and put a bucket of beer on the table: "Wait a minute, the food will be ready soon."

"Brother Yan, I'll go first. Thank you very much this time, otherwise I don't know how long my heart will hang on." Zhu Dao poured two glasses, and he did it first as a respect.

In the past, Yan You could drink quite well, and tasted a lot of good wine at various dinners.There are old brews from the Royal Secret Reserve, and new fermented grains made by the hotel, but I have never seen beer.Seeing that Zhu Dao was drinking so boldly, he probably had a weak drink, so he picked up his glass and wanted to do it.Unexpectedly, I choked after taking a sip: What does this taste like?Not to mention the weak taste of wine, there is also a strange taste that cannot be described.

But Yan You didn't show surprise, so as not to make Zhu Dao aware of the clues.He only said that he was not good at drinking, and put all the wine on Zhu Dao's side.Zhu Dao owed him favors, and he didn't dare to persuade him to drink, so he had to drink more.

With a few plates of side dishes and a few glasses of wine, Zhu Dao didn't ask about Yan You's origin, but he explained his own experience.

Zhu Daojia has lived in Sijiu City since his great-grandfather. He used to have a great family business, but later disappeared in the flames of war and quickly fell into decline.After his grandfather went bankrupt, he relied on his old connections to start a pocket business. He took goods from the owner's family and sold them to the west's family to earn errand fees.After liberation, he became a salesperson.

But Zhu Dao's father had no sons to inherit his father's business. After graduation, he went to a porcelain factory and worked in it for more than 20 years.Now it is the technical backbone of the factory.As for Zhu Dao himself, it was quite a toss.After graduation, I don't want to be assigned a job by the school, and I go to the south by myself.

At this moment, the Guangzhou area has gradually gained a momentum of prosperity, and several foreign businessmen have invested in electronic factories.Relying on small commodities such as radios and rice cookers back and forth, Zhu Dao has made a lot of money in three years, which is much better than working for a dead salary.

If there is no accident, he wanted to continue this business, but he fell in love with a girl at first sight when he went home for the Chinese New Year this year.These days, it is still adhering to the great man's "love not for the purpose of marriage is hooliganism", without the later long-distance love race, the young people have been together for a year and a half, and they feel that they are almost certified.The two talked for several months, and Zhu Dao came to the door with a gift.In the future, the Yue family is very satisfied with his character, but thinks that he does not have a stable job, so he is hesitant to marry their daughter to him.

Zhu Dao's mother also complained about her son's absence from home all the time, and took the opportunity to persuade him to close the business, find a job in the city, and settle down.Under the pressure from both ends, Zhu Dao could only agree.Relying on the face of the porcelain factory for many years, his father won a place for him, and he will go to work only after the honeymoon.

However, even though he got his mother-in-law's approval as he wished, and was about to marry his beloved girlfriend in, Zhu Dao still felt a little uncomfortable.

After taking another sip of wine, he said dejectedly: "Brother Yan, I also understand the reason why people's hearts are not enough, but I have lived for 26 years, and I haven't sat anywhere for half a month except home and school. Let me go to the office every day. Reporting to the office, isn't that killing me?"