Like the silver bottle sold to me by taxi driver Yu Dingcheng, the thing we found on the island is also made of silver, so I temporarily call it "silver box".
There was a Manichaean text engraved on the silver box, and I drew three of the words from memory.
Since Mani's gestures are complicated and look like patterns at first glance, I drew them crookedly, maybe like six points.
"How's it going? Do you know me?"
Xiguatou looked at it carefully for two minutes, frowned and said, "It does look like ancient Mani language, but I don't recognize it."
"You are a Manichae, I thought you knew him."
He raised his eyes and said, "It's the Wisdom Sect. Manichaeism is what it was called hundreds of years ago. There are people in the sect who understand Manichae. Let me go back and ask you, where is the approximate location where this stone tablet was found?"
Where is the stone tablet? I said with my usual expression: "I accidentally found it near Shilin Island in Nanhu District. There is one thing I want to ask, whether that silver bottle is one of the items in the previous set."
"You don't need to know this."
"I need to know that the thing came from me and I sold it in a daze. Now I want to know more about the relevant background. Why is it unnecessary?"
The watermelon head touched his nose, looked at me and said, "Do you think I'm so fooled, or do you think I didn't investigate how you got that bottle? I've already found someone else for that taxi driver, and the reason why I paid for it is from
You bought it because your godfather said so, so you have to know how to behave appropriately and be grateful when you take money."
"Haha, who am I grateful to? Even if I bought the silver bottle for one dollar, even if I sell it for 100 million, it is still my ability. I did not buy or sell by force."
What Watermelon Head meant was that he had already investigated clearly, and he knew that I had made millions of dollars in price difference on the silver bottle, so I should be grateful for his generosity.
This makes me very uncomfortable. This is not how business is done.
Originally, I planned to have a good chat and ask some other questions without talking more than a few words, but now it seemed that it was not necessary, so I got up and left.
"If you don't know etiquette, shouldn't you say hello before you leave?"
I stopped, turned around and said, "You still want to fight?"
He stood up and said, "Okay, but the question is, do you dare? I'm afraid you will cry and call your parents like last time. Tian Sanjiu is your father, everyone knows it."
I laughed and said, "As a parent, I can play with bamboo dragonflies better than you. How old are you? Only three-year-olds can play with these toys. In addition, you can also ask your dad to come out and help. Your dad will definitely take care of you."
He looked at me, said nothing, and stretched out his little finger to touch his lower lip.
I slammed the door.
My current hostility, Xiguatou, is not only directed at me, but also against Tian Sanjiu behind me. After all, only a very few people know the existence of Xu Tongshan. On the surface, Xiguatou is the boss of the Tang Dynasty and a member of the Zhuji Gang.
's boss.
Because of what happened to the Fujian Gang last time, Xiguatou, the apparent boss, lost face on the street, so he naturally doesn't like me.
I don't like him even more.
He has a sloppy hairstyle, and he also likes to collect bamboo dragonflies. He is a typical psychopath.
Carrying my things to the parking place, I just took out the keys and suddenly found that four tires had been punctured by someone, and at the same time, engine oil was flowing all over the floor under the front of the car.
I took a look upstairs.
Take a deep breath and tell yourself to calm down, don't be impulsive, and don't let a small thing make a big mistake.
I didn’t want this car anymore, so I spent 500 yuan to take a taxi from Zhuji back to Qiandao Lake.
.....
This evening, it's about ten o'clock.
"Botou, what does this flower mean?"
He looked at the small pot of Bianhua flowers I brought back, and said with deep meaning: "Yunfeng, this flower is not interesting, but the person who gave it is interesting. This Xu Tongshan is not a simple person. Although we have never met him, he is telling me
To show respect, you are also discussing with me."
"What to discuss?"
He sighed and shook his head: "It's useless to say it now, you will understand later."
Dou Yazai held the bowl and said: "The person who sent the flowers is interesting? Could it be...that the boss of Zhuji who is hiding behind the scenes is a man of glass. He has an admiration for the boss, so he used Fengzi's hand to send potted flowers to express his feelings.
?”
His head and face turned dark instantly.
I kicked Dou Sprout and scolded him with a smile: "Don't fucking guess. Xu Tongshan is a normal man. Where is the silver box? Take it out."
Dou Sprout said anxiously: "You can't open it! What should I do if it's worthless after opening it!"
I looked towards the head.
Nod your head at me.
The secrets hidden in the box will never be known until you open it.
The silver bottle has a hidden mechanism, and the same goes for this silver box. In the past, there was a copper mechanism box usually used to spin dice, called a "bet box", and its secret was at the bottom.
"Bring me a flashlight and a screwdriver."
"I don't have a screwdriver, but can I use a knife?" Xiaoxuan said.
"The knife may not be very easy to use." I ran to the kitchen and got a pair of chopsticks. I used Xiaoxuan's knife to sharpen one end of the chopsticks. Then I turned the box over and looked carefully with a flashlight.
"Do you see it here?"
"What's going on here? No problem." Dou Sprout said as he came closer.
I wet my hands with saliva and rubbed the area hard.
Soon, the original patina faded a lot.
After looking at the right place, I used my sharpened chopsticks to poke it down.
There was no reaction at first, but as I increased my strength, the front end of the chopsticks suddenly sank in.
"Most people don't notice that there is a pin hidden here."
Then I slapped the bottom of the silver box hard, and there was a muffled sound.
"Fuck! It's open!" Dou Sprout shouted.
What appeared in front of a few of us was a small light blue round box, which had a certain degree of light transmittance, but was not completely transparent.
I touched it with my hand. It was cold and seemed to be a kind of light blue glass.
When I opened this small round box, what I saw was a lump of brownish-yellow color and irregular shape. It had no smell and felt very hard.
"What the hell is this? A fossil?"
Brother Yu stared at this thing for a while, then his expression suddenly changed and he said, "Is it possible that this is a piece of meat?"
Xiaoxuan's face also changed, and she asked Brother Yu why he felt so.
Brother Yu frowned and said, "The color looks a bit similar. I've seen the way the eminent monks in the temple look after sitting in a vat."
He raised his head with a gloomy face and suddenly said: "No need to guess, Wen Bin feels good. This is a piece of waxed meat. It has been processed before, and the box is well sealed, so it has been preserved."
Having said that, it must be.
The question is what kind of meat is this?
My heart was beating a little fast. Both the boss and I knew the answer, but we didn’t dare to say it outright because no one would believe it if we told it to others.
There is a piece of bone in the silver bottle, but there is a piece of waxed meat in the silver box. What is the meaning behind this?
The origin of the silver bottle is unknown. We only know that it was fished out of the lake with a fishing net more than 30 years ago. But we found the silver box, and we know how it came from.
Don't want us to look at this thing anymore. He put the silver box away and said, "It's getting late. I haven't had a good rest in the past two days. Go to bed early. I'll talk about something tomorrow."
I couldn't sleep at all because I thought again of what Xu Tongshan said to me at that time.
"What to borrow? What to pay back?"
I put on my slippers and turned on the light, took a cup of hot water, then sat under the light and began to carefully read the handwritten materials Xu Tongshan gave me.
He didn't tell me the whole story at that time and asked me to guess.
Even this meeting was mysterious.
I know the reason.
Because, there is a high probability that he doesn't know either.