Reading Agreement

The car accelerated for more than 20 minutes, and finally stopped in a public parking lot in an ancient town.

After getting out of the car, Gao Yang's eyes were full of confusion, and he saw a four-column archway standing there from a distance, with an all-wood structure, complicated brackets, beautiful auspicious patterns engraved on the flower board, and "loyalty, filial piety, righteousness" written on the upper forehead. , Xiaerfang wrote "Yunjian Ancient Town".

"Is there a big difference in the content of these two forehead archways?" Gao Yang looked at the archway and said to himself.

"The area of ​​Xia'erfang has been around for too long, and the content has long been unknown. At that time, the ancient town was just being developed, so the words 'Yunjian Ancient Town' were directly listed, and the words written by a well-known calligrapher were invited. The four words of time in my hand cost more than 30 yuan for each word." Shi Zhen locked the car door and walked to Gao Yang's side.

Gao Yang became curious: "How do you know so clearly?"

Shi Zhen pouted and said, "This ancient town seems to be free now. When it was first developed, tickets were charged. I paid 69 yuan to enter the venue. Naturally, I will spend a little time thinking about where I am going."

When he said this, Gao Yang could only laugh awkwardly.

"Eh? Where's the glasses?" Shi Zhen asked Gao Yang's insincere smile, suddenly.

Gao Yang touched the bridge of his nose, and said perfunctorily, "I'm asleep, I should get out of the car."

"Oh." Shi Zhen glanced at him, obviously only seeing him sleeping by the car window, how did his glasses fall into the car?He drove smoothly, neither overtaking nor changing lanes at will, his glasses slipped a little, how could they fall off?

"Let's go?" Gao Yang looked at the entrance of the ancient town in the distance and asked.

"Let's go." Shi Zhen nodded and asked again: "Don't you wear glasses?"

"It's a bit heavy, so I won't wear it anymore," Gao Yang said.

"Okay." Shi Zhen raised the corner of his mouth with a smirk, opened the back door and looked around, and saw the glasses lying on the back seat, he reached out and took them and put them directly on the bridge of his nose, instantly giving himself a bit of elegance .At the end, I still don’t forget to add: “I spent [-] on this thing anyway, I just enjoy the difference brought by the glasses.”

Gao Yang was taken aback for a moment, then curled his lips and muttered: "Obviously Situ Feng picked it for you."

Shi Zhen's ears were sharp, and the people around him were talking, and every word was poured into his ears. He turned his nostrils to Gao Yang and said arrogantly: "It's not that he gave me the one he picked for me. I just fell in love with it." It’s just that his mouth is faster than my hands. This pair of glasses is in my eyes, and it’s my money. In a word, it’s mine, it’s mine, it’s mine!”

"Understood, it's yours, and you have to tell it three times." Gao Yang walked past him with his head down, resentful in his heart, the glasses were put on his nose properly, why did he take them off?Mad.

Passing through the majestic archway is like entering another time and space. No matter how modern, prosperous, internet, and fast the outside is, the time and space behind this archway naturally condenses a unique ancient flavor, which has long been left in the long river of time and space. The imprint of it, unless completely destroyed, is immune to the surrounding reality.

After walking through the bustling old street behind the archway, the first multiple-choice question appeared at the intersection.Shi Zhen turned left without hesitation and headed deeper into the ancient town.

Walking to the interior of the ancient town, small bridges and flowing water houses appear one by one, the flow of people is like weaving, and there are happy tourists and picturesque scenes everywhere.Due to the hype of advertisements and the Internet, this town has rapidly jumped from a traditional ancient town to a place that must be passed by in the city in a very short period of time, and tourists must visit it.

Gao Yang followed Shi Zhen, catching every bridge and every thing in the town with cheerful eyes, looking enviously at the various special gifts in the hands of tourists, and greedily sniffing the smell of meat and rice dumplings in the air.He looked left and right, and looked around happily, and accidentally created a certain distance from Shi Zhen.

Gao Yang watched the cruise ship rowing past in the small river, and the tourists sat in the cabin drinking tea and eating pastries.The boatman with a felt hat on the bow shook his paddle and rowed.

Gao Yang watched the leaf boat slowly pass the bridge hole, and finally disappeared at the bend in the distance, so he was reluctant to turn his head, and found that Shi Zhen was gone. "It's over!" Gao Yang was startled, squeezed out of the crowd and looked around, but there was no sign of Shi Zhen anywhere. He was a little anxious, afraid of being scolded, so he went to the bridge to look around, but still did not see Shi Zhen.

There is no way out, I can only call him, maybe I will be scolded again.Gao Yang reluctantly took out his mobile phone, found Shi Zhen's number, and pointed to it with trembling fingers.

"Stop calling, I have no hands to answer the phone." Shi Zhen's voice came from behind him, cold and familiar with impatience.

Gao Yang turned around, looked at Shi Zhen with aggrieved eyes, and then his eyes fell on the two boxes of delicious stinky tofu in Shi Zhen's hand, his eyes instantly shone with a strange light. "What are you doing... Can you finish two boxes? Don't you think it's unhygienic? You..."

"Pick up a box, so much nonsense." Shi Zhen said impatiently, and pushed the box in his right hand to Gao Yang: "I recommend you to eat sweet sauce and hot sauce together."

"Will it make your mouth smell bad if you eat it?" Gao Yang slightly took the box in doubt, but couldn't hide his joy.

"It's not for you to eat shit." Shi Zhen rolled his eyes and ate, walking down the bridge.

Gao Yang was in a mess in the wind: "..."

The two ate stinky tofu, drank some passion fruit drink, and slowly followed the flow of people to the core area of ​​the ancient town.Walking through several ancient bridges, looking at the green water flowing through the bottom of your feet, passing through the buildings with white walls and black tiles, you will soon step into a corridor facing the river.

Shi Zhen handed Gao Yang a piece of chewing gum, and said casually, "Eat one, and you don't have to worry about eating anything before."

"Oh." Gao Yang put the sugar in his mouth, there was a faint sweetness, like peach flavor.

"I only ate a box of stinky tofu. It's a bit of a loss. I'll eat some later when I come out." Shi Zhen suddenly stopped and glanced at the long and thin alleyway on the left hand side, which leads to a deeper part of the ancient town. Most tourists don't pay attention. I just missed it.

"Do you want to go from here?" Gao Yang looked at the long alleyway, between two tall white walls, only one person could be allowed to walk.

"En." Shi Zhen nodded, walked in with long legs.

Gao Yang chewed candy and followed him. After walking for 600 meters, he turned right, and the alleyway suddenly became much wider, basically allowing two people to walk in parallel.But Gao Yang didn't intend to go up, and still followed behind Shi Zhen, he turned when he turned, and went straight when he went straight.

The seven turns and eight detours were already quite far away from the noisy scenic spot. After another turn, Shi Zhen's steps finally stopped outside a courtyard.The stone-carved door of this courtyard has been dilapidated, the words on it have long been obliterated by time, and the stone carvings at the door have long since disappeared, leaving only two pedestals that have been integrated with the ground.

The two walked in, and inside was a large courtyard surrounded by three places. There were taps and sinks installed at the door of each household, and various living utensils could be seen everywhere, such as washing machines, storage racks, pots of various sizes, and recyclables stacked together. items and more.

On one side of the yard is a public drying place, with an old flowered quilt hanging on it, and a few pieces of children's laundry.There is a simple flower bed in the middle of the yard. A loquat tree has passed its fruiting period, and a tree with green leaves is left in the picture.However, the unknown flowers around it are in full bloom, red, blue, white, purple and yellow, all kinds of colors occupy a little bit, adding a bit of vitality to the whole yard.

At this time, a middle-aged woman was washing vegetables in the sink. When she saw a stranger coming in, she turned her head and reminded, "Boy, this is not a scenic spot. You have gone to the wrong place."

"I'm looking for Lao Lin." Shi Zhen replied.

"Oh, the first one on the right hand side should be sleeping." The middle-aged woman pointed to a door slanted above Shi Zhen, and then yelled: "Old Lin, Lao Lin, come out quickly, someone is looking for you." Her voice was loud, The neighbors on the left and right can hear it clearly. If you climb high, you can probably hear a little bit on the other side of the ancient town.

"Who? It's called..." The closed red-lacquered wooden door creaked open, and a head popped out from inside. It was not very old, but it had snow-white hair.

"Me." Shi Zhen stood on the side of the yard and looked at him.

"...Wow!" Lao Lin was taken aback for a moment, then exaggeratedly shouted, and slammed the door shut.

Shi Zhen: "..."

Gao Yang: "?"

There was silence in the yard for more than ten seconds, and a gust of wind blew past, making the loquat trees rattle.

"You...Old Lin..." The middle-aged woman stopped what she was doing and said suddenly, "Are you here to ask for a debt?"

"No." Shi Zhen replied directly, and glanced at the red lacquered door, which was made of wood, and could probably be kicked with two feet.

"Then why is this old thing running away? It's startled." The middle-aged woman didn't affect her mood because of Lao Lin's fear. A pile of clothes was dragged out of it, stuffed quickly in a wooden basin, and finally picked up the basin to hang the clothes one by one on the drying place.

"Old Lin usually owes foreign debts? He gambles?" Shi Zhen asked while looking at the door.

"Who knows what he is in debt for? Probably because of his small naughty workshop." The middle-aged woman answered while drying her clothes.

Shi Zhen raised his eyebrows, thinking whether to knock on the door again, or to kick the door directly, when the red lacquered wooden door creaked... and opened.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Ha Shi, I was wearing home clothes just now, so rude, so rude." This time Lao Lin opened the door greatly, stood on one side in formal clothes, and respectfully welcomed the two people at the door.

The layout of the house in this courtyard is simple, as soon as you enter the door, you will see the living room, which is unobstructed and clean.

The living room is divided into two sides. On one side is a rattan sofa and a coffee table. There is a chest of drawers in front of it. On it is an old-fashioned TV, which is playing a long TV series.The bookshelf standing against the wall is also made of rattan, and there are various art books and some small pottery decorations on it.

On the other side of the living room is the dining area, with a large square table and two chairs placed against the wall, with an insect-proof cover in the middle of the table, revealing a few half-eaten plates and a small wine glass.

"Please sit down, please sit down." Lao Lin graciously invited the two of them to take their seats, and brought two cups of tea in disposable cups from the back hall, carefully placing them on the coffee table: "I didn't know you were coming, I was not prepared. "

"Temporary decision, excuse me." Shi Zhen asked Lao Lin to also take his seat, and his tone was quite polite.

Lao Lin hurriedly turned off the TV, and sat on the single rattan sofa: "I wonder if Mr. Shi is here this time, what's the matter? Do you want to order custom porcelain? Or handicrafts? Or bigger pieces like last time?"

"Do you have new products?" Shi Zhen asked.

"There are a few, but they are not high-quality goods, so I didn't dare to show Mr. Shi, for fear that I might not catch his eyes." Lao Lin said truthfully.

Shi Zhen said lightly: "It's okay, you can give him a good look, you don't know how his aesthetic taste is?"

Lao Lin laughed, not daring to say more.

Shi Zhen glanced at the living room and asked, "How's business going?"

"Fortunately, a few things were sold in the small shop yesterday, and the rent, water, electricity and coal have been earned back. In addition, the handicraft store you introduced last time also placed an order. I made a small profit and solved my urgent need. Thank you so much for clearing up the loan factor owed to the bank before.”

"You're welcome. The things are good, so they will be sold." Shi Zhen said a few words politely, then changed the subject and said, "But I'm not here today to buy things, but I want you to look at two things for me."

"Tell me." Lao Lin took out a pair of glasses from the box under the tea and put them on the bridge of his nose, respectfully the whole time.

"Here, please take a look." Shi Zhen took out a small briefcase the size of one and a half palms from his pocket, untied the rope, and poured out two things from it.

These two things are very small, packed in a small plastic bag separately, Gao Yang recognized at a glance that they were porcelain shards and wall scraps picked up from the construction site.

"Let me see." Lao Lin was quite cautious, took a pair of plastic gloves and put them on, used tweezers to take out the tiles from one of the bags, and found a magnifying glass to look carefully, front and back.

The porcelain pieces came from the platform of the corridor, most of which have been damaged, leaving only five or six centimeters long and wide remnants, with some outlines of petals and veins left on them, which seem to be yellow epiphyllum.

After checking the tiles, Lao Lin then took out smaller stone flakes from another plastic bag, which were very brittle, and lime powder kept falling while he was taking them.The stones are remnants of the broken wall, and the red, yellow, and blue lines on them have faded to the point where they are almost hard to see with the naked eye.Lao Lin looked at it with a magnifying glass for a while, then put it under his nose and smelled it, doubtful light flashed in his eyes.

"How?" Shi Zhen asked as he watched Lao Lin put down the stone.

"May I take the liberty to ask... where did this come from?" Lao Lin asked tentatively.

Shi Zhen answered him: "A hollow stone platform."

There was surprise in Lao Lin's eyes, and he asked: "Is there still a wooden board on the stone platform, made of peach wood?"

"There is a piece of peach wood." Shi Zhen's eyes widened, and he asked, "What the hell is this?"