Chapter 11 Broken Coins
I looked at the box and looked around again. In the afternoon, the passers-by were in a hurry, and most of them looked down at their phones. Many of them were curious about middle-aged people, and they just walked a few steps slower and then left.
I was at a loss and walked around the box several times. My hunger made me feel a little anxious. Seeing that I had moved just now, I didn’t move anymore. I thought it was an illusion?
I thought about it and kicked it up. I felt that it should have no response. Then I was sure that I was an illusion, but after this kick, the box suddenly felt like it was a kick, and it seemed that the thing inside also kicked it.
I was so scared that I took a step back and made a defensive look. But at this time, the box was gone again.
"Qiao Songnian?" I thought to myself that if there was a living thing inside, the iron b was called Qiao Songnian. "Are you in there?"
The box didn't move at all. I thought about it. Should the box that has been around for more than a hundred years be in ancient text: "Brother Qiao, can you do it?"
There was no movement again, I kicked again, and the box shook again. I thought to myself that I came from Huainan, would I want to speak Anhui dialect?
It was a bit nonsensical to think about it, so I had to give up, take out my super standby king of Jinke, and call a friend who lives in the building with me. The guy was in the water business and asked him to go to my room to ask Su about the situation. This box is so disgusting, if it can be thrown on the side of the road.
The guy lives downstairs in me. He is working early. He gets up at 3 o'clock in the morning and goes to the market. Then he goes back to the room and starts to sleep around 9 o'clock. When I called him, he was in a daze. I yelled a few times before he was willing to get up.
While holding the phone, he walked the stairs, and nagged me about a few women living in downstairs. I don’t know what business they are doing, and I dressed so charmingly every day. I lit a cigarette and listened to him on the side of the road. Suddenly, he choked.
I asked him why he stopped talking. He paused and asked, "Is the person in your room your friend?"
I said a huh, and the fish seller said, "Do you know what he does in your room?"
I had an unknown premonition, "What is he doing? Use shit to cover the wall?" To be honest, I have no worries about my broken house. If I really use shit to cover the wall, I have nothing to cover the wall. Anyway, I have been confused when I was drunk.
"He brought all the kids in the building over and was chatting with them."
"Give him your phone." I sighed, thinking that this person seemed to be a loving bitch. When the parents of the children found out, he would know how bad my reputation was in the building.
Then he heard a series of noise from children, and then Su's voice came over.
"Brother, are you making trouble?" I squatted under the tree on the side of the road. Su said calmly: "Help others take care of their children to make money, 5 yuan per hour. Don't you say you want to pay back your money?"
"Okay, thank you, then I'll ask you, what's going on with the box you asked me to pick up? There's something in this box, it's a living thing, it can move, it's fucking move!"
"Don't worry, it can't come out." Su said while coaxing the child: "You move back as soon as possible."
"Can't you get out?" I was stunned for a moment and thought to myself, I'm fucking, there is indeed a living thing inside? It's been more than 100 years, are there zombies inside?
"I will tell you in detail when you come back, don't worry, believe me, this box can make you a lot of money." Su said, I was furious and wanted to curse a few times, but he had already died.
"Your mother!" I cursed, looked at the box for a long time, and sighed, and the same sentence that I could make a lot of money to conquer me. I continued to drag the box. I dragged it to the intersection. I found a tricycle and returned to my building at a sky-high price of 50 yuan, called aquatic products, and got six or seven people to move the box back to my room.
When she returned to the room, Su was holding a child. When she saw me lying on the bed with sweat on her head, she just said, "Are you back?"
I took out a pack of cigarettes from under the pillow, sent two to everyone who helped, and drove them away. Then I closed me and asked Su, "What the hell is in this box?"
"If I answer your question, it will prove that you have joined the gang. We are in the same group. We have money to make money together, but we must also make efforts together."
"Okay, okay, no problem." My curiosity had overcome my vigilance and self-esteem. Su handed me the child, sat on my bed, crossed his legs against the wall, and said, "Start from the beginning. First of all, let me talk about who I am."
Then it was until the child's mother came to take the child away. In the 4 hours in between, Su told me about a world I had never heard of and didn't believe in at all. I finally believed in everything because this box was called Qiao Songnian.
This man named Su is from Huainan, and his ancestors were craftsmen. In ancient times, there were many kinds of craftsmen. Those who carved stones on the road could be craftsmen, and those who painted murals in Dunhuang could be craftsmen (people who have been to Dunhuang can clearly know how different the skills of the so-called craftsmen are). Although Su's ancestors were classified as craftsmen, they actually did very different things. They made various tricks for the royal family. These toys can be big or small, the big one could be a building, and the small one could be a small mechanism inside a walnut in a square inch.
This family was kept in the clan mansion in the Ming Dynasty. In the early years, they made a living by repairing ancient books. Later, the carpenter emperor was born. The family began to come to the forefront. Before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the people of this family moved back to Huainan and started doing business. After several generations, they became a little famous. The Qing royal family began to purchase some of their tricks as gifts from foreign envoys. Later, because of the repair of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, they became the royal craftsman. Under the style thunder.
This family is good at taking tricks and solving problems. Many ancient tools are renovated and parts are missing, and they can knock down the principle and repair them well.
In ancient times, there were two sides of each line. There were business on the surface, which was fair and reasonable. Just like authentic medicinal materials written on the front door of a pharmacy, it was really worthless. However, the insect merchants and grass thieves who obtained these medicinal materials had been trekking in the primitive jungle for many years and killing people and taking medicine. There are countless lists of them. An industry always has dark places. Strange tricks and tricks can be used to please the emperor or become harmful things. For example, there is a pot with a backhand that is wine, and a forehand that is poisonous. Most of them are from the Su family, but people who make such pots will often be implicated and die due to the facts.
During the entire process of working for the royal family, the Su family strengthened many overseas officials. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, according to the ancestral teachings, the Su family slowly withdrew from actual things and hid among the people. In order to avoid officials' searches, they chose this city and built that round house called Suyuan, which was also a prominent local family at that time.
"Then you Su family is quite a lot." I interrupted, "Why do you look like there is no one now?"
"No, Suyuan only has the most central courtyard. People living in the Su family are all for their families outside. The Su family said it was the Su family, and only the children of the family can have the surname Su, and other descendants of the foreign family can only have the surname Luo. That's because--" Su stretched out his hand and bloomed like a flower in front of me.
I was stunned for a moment. I had never seen such a beautiful hand. His fingers were very slender and looked soft and as if they were boneless. The nails were accurately trimmed, just like Guanyin's hands.
"These hands are the tools used by the Su family to make the most exquisite objects. It can operate six golden needles at the same time and assemble and disassemble the objects of the Cun Pills." Su said: "That's how the things in this box are made. People with the Su family surnamed Su are said to be the only son, which seems to be a curse. I am the current generation. My skills are no less than my ancestors."
"What about those with the surname Luo?" I asked.
Su joined hands, and when he opened them, a few golden needles had already appeared in the gap between his fingers. Then he collected the golden needles and disappeared, just like magic to show his hand's flexibility.
"Remember the No. 4 counter in the bank and that copper piece?" he asked.
Chapter completed!