"Turn off the lights! Turn off the lights quickly!"
"Don't make any noise, why is there still a boat at this hour?"
Xiaoxuan said in a nervous voice: "Could it be a fishing boat?"
Brother Yu whispered from the side: "It's unlikely. It's a fishing ban period now. It might be a public patrol boat. Be careful."
At around one o'clock in the evening, Brother Yu Xiaoxuan and I went back to the island to retrieve the sacks, but on the way back we saw a large ship with lights on in the distance.
Our boat was very noisy, so I turned off the engine in order not to be discovered.
After waiting for about ten minutes, the big boat with lights on the lake in the distance gradually disappeared from sight.
We started immediately and rushed back as quickly as possible.
When I got near the pier, I saw three flashes of flashlight in the distance.
This is a signal from Douyazai, proving that there is no one around now.
"Xiaoxuan and I will go back first. Brother Yu, you and Dou Sprout hide the boat."
"No problem Yunfeng, watch your tail." Brother Yu warned me.
"Um."
When I was walking back carrying the sack, I was afraid that there would be a tail, so I deliberately made two circles.
Facts have proved that I was worrying too much.
After returning home, lock the door and unpack the sacks as soon as possible to count them.
Putting everything on the table, he pointed at the strange-looking funerary object and said: "Yunfeng, I can't figure out what this thing is at the moment, but its properties are similar to that of a silver bottle. It has ancient Manichaean inscriptions on it. It's most likely...
Religious objects.”
Xiaoxuan frowned and asked, "What do these Maniic words mean?"
I shook my head: "I don't know... I guess it may be written in scriptures, something similar to the fragments of Mani's Sutra. This thing reminds me of Ashoka's Pagoda. Could it contain relics?"
It looked like the base of a flowerpot could be opened at the joints. Xiaoxuan said that you would know if you opened it and had a look. There might be some secret hidden inside.
Seeing my hesitation, he guessed my thoughts.
"Yunfeng, do you want to sell it to Zhuji people like last time?"
I nodded: "The people in Zhuji offered a very high price. If we sell it as is, the price will be at least 50% higher."
People are always like this. Once they taste the sweetness of something, they always want to try it a second time.
Xiaoxuan said: "The silver bottle is something that the people of Zhuji have been looking for, but I am not sure whether it is what they need. If not, then exposing the news will not be beneficial to us."
"So I asked if I should take a gamble."
"What are you betting on? What if there is a treasure map in this? There is a sheepskin map in the Asoka Tower. I think it would be better to open it and take a look. Don't lose the big for the small."
After listening to Xiaoxuan's words, I was shaken again.
According to my personality, I will definitely open it first and take a look. If the items inside are not valuable, then I will put them back and sell them, and tell others that they are original and unopened.
The problem is that after experiencing the silver bottle incident, I know that people in Zhuji are not easy to fool, and this involves the interests of the team, so after Douyazai and Brother Yu come back, we will have a meeting and vote by show of hands.
In the end, both Xiaoxuan and Brother Yu said they should let it go, but Dou Sprout Zai was determined not to let it go, so they just sold it, while the boss said he would let me make the decision.
Now if I say yes, it's three to one, if I say no, it's two to two.
"Brother Yu, I remember you are not a gambler. If you sell it like this, you can sell it for 800. If you open it and there is nothing inside, the maximum price is 100."
Brother Yu said with a serious expression: "Yunfeng, sometimes I also like to take a gamble. As a former Buddhist disciple... I feel it."
"What did you feel?"
Brother Yu rubbed the mani pattern carved on the surface of this thing with his big hand. He closed his eyes for three seconds, then opened his eyes and said, "I seem to feel the breath of the Buddha."
Dou Sprout asked: "What kind of Buddha? Manifo?"
"Okay, it's Jennifer's fault. It's a big deal. For the sake of entrustment, we'll make the decision tomorrow night. When it's daytime, I'll go to the Tang Dynasty to have a look."
Brother Yu nodded: "It's okay to test your breath, but don't reveal it."
I nodded.
We don't do research, we do money. The prerequisite for opening this thing is to know what it is and what it is used for.
.....
The next day, Datang.
As the New Year is approaching, Datang, as a foreign trade town in Zhuji, is already showing the spirit of the New Year. Small lanterns are hung on the green trees on the street. Young people on the roadside are wearing new clothes. They gather together in twos and threes to smoke and brag. They smoke.
His cigarettes are better than mine. Of course
, occasionally I can see a few young girls in work clothes sitting under the tree with sad faces and chatting. I guess they are complaining that they have not received their wages, because I heard that the wages in the factory here are every year.
Yes, the boss likes to recruit young people under the age of eighteen.
Young people with low social experience are easy to fool, but once their temper gets angry, they attack without considering the consequences. Therefore, before 2010, this town would occasionally kill the boss over wages, and the folk customs were strong.
If you ask me to say that it has something to do with Xiguatou, he is the boss of the Tang Dynasty. This is called the upper beam being out of alignment and the lower beam being crooked.
I drove to the bookstore, opened the door, and saw a middle-aged man I didn't recognize at all.
"Goodbye, what should I buy?"
"Who are you? Where has the old boss gone?"
Hearing my foreign accent, he switched to Mandarin and said: "I have been the boss here for more than ten years. Have you come to the wrong place?"
I went out and looked at the door, then came in and said, "I went to the right place. The pots of flowers on the window sill are still there. Please inform Uncle Xu that someone named Xiang is coming to visit."
When he heard the word "Uncle Xu", the middle-aged man's expression changed.
He locked the door directly, led me to the bookshelf in the last row, and whispered: "He is not here. Just wait for me for two minutes and I will make a call."
After saying that, he asked me to stay where I was and went to the side to make a phone call.
He spoke in a low voice and deliberately blocked the microphone, so he couldn't hear what he said.
Less than two minutes later, he came over to me and said: "He is discussing business with people at the Datang Hotel. You go there and find the front desk, and the front desk will take you to see him."
The Datang Hotel is across from the Datang Labor Market, and there is a gas station not far away. I just entered the hotel carrying a sack and was immediately stopped by a woman. The woman had a bad attitude, as if she thought I was celebrating the New Year.
Migrant workers came to ask for their wages.
I said I was looking for someone and I had already contacted him.
At this time, an older manager came and invited me to a private room on the second floor and asked me to sit and wait.
I sat there for more than an hour and almost couldn't sit still. The elderly manager came in again and said with a smile: "Excuse me, sir, Uncle Xu is eating, I will take you there now."
I didn't dare to show my impatience, so I picked up the sack again and followed him.
As a result, I walked out of the hotel and took me to a stall selling box lunches near a gas station.
There were a lot of people at the lunch spot, and a box lunch only cost three yuan. I immediately spotted Xu Tongshan in the crowd. He was eating his box lunch on a small table covered with oil.
He saw me and waved to me from a distance.
"It's you, kid. What do you want from me?"
"If you don't do anything, it's not the New Year. I'm here to give you a gift, godfather."
"When did I recognize you as my godson? Why didn't I know?"
"Last time! Have you forgotten? Last time you said you would let me and Xigua... no, let me and Xu Shun shake hands and make peace. Then wouldn't you be my godfather?"
He held chopsticks in his hand, chewed the food in his mouth, looked at me and said: "As expected of the person I like, your personality and way of doing things are completely opposite to Xu Shun, don't call me godfather, just call me Uncle Xu.
What are you doing to me, do you want to buy a gun?"
It's a good thing he didn't mention it. I got angry when he mentioned buying a gun, because that little gun made me laugh a lot on the street.
"Don't buy a gun," I said, pointing to the sack I brought, "I know Uncle Xu likes copper coins, so I specially packed a sack and sent it to you."
"There are two main things. A friend of mine named Ma Dachao went in because he injured someone. I was wondering if Uncle Xu could help and have someone released before the year."
"Hit someone to death?"
"That's not true. He was injured and the other person is still in the hospital." I said.
He nodded: "This is a small matter, what is the other thing?"