Chapter 27: The Photo
Xiu'e, how heavy this word was, everyone present understood. It was this woman, who finally couldn't resist the pressure of life, and chose to leave my second uncle behind, and ran away with that Zhuo Anu back then, although according to my current perspective, her behavior was actually understandable.
Her own father-in-law husband brother-in-law is the village notorious evil spirits, although everyone will not ostensibly ostracize her, but with the toes can understand, in the back of the absolutely no less than be pointed out, plus the living conditions at that time is indeed too poor, a woman with a disabled child is not easy, looking for someone else to marry again for fear of their evil spirits husband to find trouble.
Life was indeed unfair to that woman, and she did not withstand the devastation and chose to escape.
It can be said that it was Xiu'e who changed the life of my second uncle, Zhao Laobai.
If not, Zhao Laobai is still Li Erdan, but there is no denying that if Zhao Laobai is still Li Erdan, it is estimated that he will have a hard time marrying my wife, Orchid, who later became the flower of the village, and, of course, he won't have today's achievements.
It seems that the time and the destiny of everything is not clear.
My grandmother once asked Zhao Bajie could ever want to find Xiu'e, at that time Zhao Bajie's answer was to look for no news, and at this time, my father said this sentence, so that the original wind and fire of the second uncle instantly a little bit of a loss of concentration.
I originally thought that the reason my old man photographed that jade pendant was only because it looked like the jade pendant in my house, but I didn't realize that it was still a little bit related to Grandma Xiu'e.
"Brother, tell me, what's going on?" Zhao Bajie lit a child's cigarette and asked my old man.
"Back then, my family has a complete this jade pendant, it itself is two halves of something, is considered my family's heirloom treasure, right, in the Xiu'e aunt and Zhuo Anu left, my grandfather did not have anything else to give them, sent half of it out, after many years I just have so little memory, today's auction of this jade pendant with that one, is indeed very much imagined. " My old man said.
"En?" I instantly wondered.
My old dad waved his hand and said, "I know that your grandfather's notes said that Zhuo Anu eloped with your grandma Xiu'e, in fact, it's not, at that time, your grandfather had no choice, he knew that your grandma Xiu'e wasn't easy, and he was afraid that your grandpa Guozhong would come to look for trouble, so their departure was considered to be the acquiescence of and even support from your grandpa, and after they left, your second uncle was passed over to Zhao's family, and after that his whereabouts were unknown, and he had no idea of what happened to him. Your grandfather in the first few years of this matter has been grudging, that he is the one who harmed your second uncle, the content of his notes, should be the reason why he is regretting it, this you can ask your second uncle."
Zhuo Anu's elopement with second uncle's grandmother was tacitly approved by grandpa? –I was depressed, but I was also immediately relieved. Still, that in itself was an understandably helpless choice.
If that was the case, then everything was easy to understand and explain.
I have a whole jade pendant gifted by Li Guozhong at home, and my grandfather gave half of it to Zhuo Anu and Xiu'e as a traveling allowance, and as a result, that half has now arrived at this auction.
My old man speculated that Xiu E may have fallen in the hands of Huang Lao, this is no excuse, but looking at the unnatural face of the second uncle, I feel quite bad, after all, after reading my grandfather's notes, I think the Li Erdan is the most tragic character, he obviously did not do anything, a small child almost bear the weight of life can not bear.
My old dad finally looked at my second uncle and said: "So the value of this jade pendant itself you will not look away, he may be worth a little for me, after all, I still have the other half of the hand, but for that person is worth money, he so want to get, I think if he is not a real fool, perhaps with Xiu'e aunt is also more or less a little bit of relationship."
Pops' words made Second Uncle's face even more ugly.
"Second uncle, don't worry, this, maybe my old dad looked away, second, you said that this jade pendant might have been resold by them at that time, it's been thirty years, and it's not necessarily from their side." I advised Second Uncle.
Second uncle waved his hand and said, "It's fine, it's been decades, how old am I. Besides, do you guys really feel I'm that fragile?"
Although the words are so said, their own old mother, decades without any news, any one would like to go looking for, my second uncle still made a phone call, seems to be with today's auction to greet the people said: "Old black, tonight's that last plucked away half a la the jade pendant of the Lord, do you know who is it?"
Uncle Two was on speakerphone, so I heard the voice over there and said, "Master Eight, what rules of the road don't you understand? Is it convenient for me to divulge this information? There are a lot of people who are curious about that master, who made him so big?"
"I'll do you a favor, it's not a big deal." The second uncle said directly hung up the phone, that is quite domineering, but this is also in my expectations, today the second uncle can let the bodyguard with a gun into the auction house, surely will not be really afraid of the owner of the auction house.
After five minutes, the second uncle grabbed the phone and looked at it, apparently came the message, after that stood up and said to us: "Go."
Second uncle drove, the back of a few cars to follow, to the Hilton, a group of people volubly got off the car, that old black or gave my second uncle face, directly to the master where to live are sent over, and so we arrived at the room, found that the door of the room is hidden.
And the table in the room, there is a yellowed old photo, the second uncle took the photo looked at a long time, trembling handed my old man.
I went over to look at it, on the photo was a man and a woman, dressed in what seems to be very old-fashioned nowadays, and the photographic technology at that time was average, but still you could tell from the photo that the clean-cut woman and the handsome man, it was indeed a very suitable couple.
"This is your Grandma Xiu'e when she was young." My old man said.
I looked at my second uncle, he was clenching his fists, that person grabbed this jade pendant tonight, and now that I saw this photo, I can be sure that it's not a coincidence, that person, even expected that we would come looking for us, so he left the photo on this table.
"Check this Zhou Dalong! Check! I want to find it out even if I have to go to heaven! Live to be tough die to see the corpse!" Second Uncle roared in a low voice.
If he said he wasn't nervous about this kind of thing, did he really not get nervous?
After we exited the hotel, the second uncle's mood has not been very good, has been frowning, but so late we still separate, as long as I am in Luoyang, Chen Jiuzi and I are cohabitating relationship, before and she is alone feel nothing, today after the people risked to save me, I was feeling very embarrassed.
All the way I don't know how to talk to her, at the time of getting off the bus, I really can't help it, said a big thank you, this little girl just calmly looked at me, making me run away.
Waiting for us to return to their own house, in the corridor, I saw our door stood a person, Chen Jiuzi two subconsciously walked to my body, after today's matter I also know the lightness of the matter, did not show off, and even ready to run at any time.
We stood and did not move, that side of the person standing in our doorway but raised his hand to do surrender towards us, walking close to me to see clearly this person looks very familiar, I feel that I know him, but can not think of who he is.
"Old Huang's henchman, Mr. Zhai." Jiu Liang whispered.
"Little brother San Liang, I want to talk to you." That Mr. Zhai smiled kindly at me and said, his face full of sincerity.
"Didn't manage to take my life, and now you want me to enter the trap?" I said.
"Please believe me, I came here with sincerity, I came today, it has nothing to do with Mr. Huang, it's on behalf of my personal identity. Also, I can help you answer a lot of things, things you don't know." He said.
"Go to the house to talk." Chen Jiuzou promised for me.
"Thank you, this young lady." Mr. Zhai said.
When we arrived at the house, Chen Jiuzou went back to his room, I sat on the sofa with this Mr. Zhai and I spoke, "Tell me, what is it that you want from me? We didn't seem to know each other before."
"I know about that dream you had." Mr. Zhai said to me.
It was this again! I feel like this matter is actually quite humiliating, heck a bunch of us have been made to look like monkeys by Old Huang!
"Yeah, I know you know, and even more so, I know you're capable, what are you telling me this for?" I asked.
"That bottle with the white hair inside is a fake, it was deliberately placed in that position beforehand by Old Huang, you should know this, so I would like to ask you, aren't you curious about where that altar you rescued in your dream is?" He asked.
"What with what?" I said, confused a bit by the relationship between those altars.
"The altar in your dream, in fact, has also been dropped, which is very complicated, in three words I can't tell you clearly, well, I can only say to you now, that the yellow-skinned spirit, indeed, ran away, and now its whereabouts are unknown." Mr. Zhai said.
CHAPTER XXVIII Mayday
"I still seem to be unable to understand what exactly you are saying." I asked.
"The altar that Old Huang dug up that day was a fake, there should have been a real one in that place, don't you think so?" He asked me.
"Right. And then what?" I said.
"The real one is at my place, there should have been a Yellow Skinned Spirit inside of him itself, I did find a Yellow Skinned Spirit inside, but this Yellow Skinned Spirit is no longer the same Yellow Skinned Spirit, which means that the one that you let go is just the fake Yellow Skinned Spirit, while the real one was let go ahead of time, hiding it from all of us. " Mr. Zhai said.
"And then?" I probably understood what he said, but I wondered what it could have to do with me. Letting go or not letting go of that yellow-skinned spirit was nothing to me personally.
"I would like to ask you for a favor." Mr. Zhai said.
"I say you're not mistaken, asking me for a favor? What favor can I do for you?" I asked.
"You can, the relationship between your family and Yellow Skin is unclear, and in my current situation, no one can help me except you. I won't let you help me for nothing, I know you need money, young people have their own ideas at the same time they need money to support them, and if you help me, you're my friend, Huang Lao is just my guest. Between friend and guest, I know how to make a choice." Mr. Zhai said.
I lit a child's cigarette, this favor itself is not for nothing, he said he could give me money, for money, I lack, no one is not lacking money no? But I will not betray my principles because of money, the main thing is that the words behind him, after helping him, I will be his friend, he is implying that I, if I help him this time, he will help me in the future. In other words, he would be the undercover agent I had planted beside Old Huang.
"To be honest, I do lack money, but I don't want to make a big deal out of anything, I know exactly what I'm capable of, and at the very least, I want to know exactly what you want me to do now that you're looking for me." I asked.
Mr. Zhai pulled his sleeve up and stretched out an arm to me, "That's it."
I looked at it with a chill, only to see that on Mr. Zhai's arm, it was full of rotten meat, piece after piece, as if he had been plucked out with a knife, it looked very disgusting, I said, "I want the money very much, but I really don't know what I can do."
"I killed that weasel, this is that weasel spirit's revenge on me. To be honest, when Huang Lao looked for me I didn't want to take this job, but I owed him a favor before I couldn't help it, and if I caught the sealed weasel spirit at that time, I was sure I could kill it, that's why I took that job, and at that time, that place, it was a yellow-skinned tomb, and the burials were of three of the most reputable members of the yellow-skinned family, one of which is now in Huang Lao's hands, and was chopped off by me a , The remaining one, on the other hand, was let go, and without that chance to kill them all in one fell swoop, I'm no match for the Yellow Skinned Spirits." Zhai said.
"And then what?" I asked, "You want me to help you kill that old yellow skinned spirit, I'm sorry Mr. Zhai, I think you're looking for the wrong person, what you can't do, I can't do it even more, I can't earn this money, you should look for Huang Lao, he'll surely still know more powerful characters."
"No, the only one who can help me is you, Mr. Huang that person, I know him, at that time, beheading that little yellow skinned spirit, in itself, he could, but he let me do it, in itself, it is to push me out, I still can't not know what he wants to do? His history of making a fortune is a history of crossing the river and removing the bridge." Mr. Zhai said.
"What do you need me to do?" I asked.
"There's only one person who can save me now, and that's Huang Lao's senior brother, He Anxia. You should know about Master He, right?" Mr. Zhai looked at me and said.
I immediately stood up and said, "Stop bullshitting, okay? I admit that I do know of this person, He Zhengen, he is older than my grandfather, and there hasn't been any news coming back for over thirty years, not to mention whether or not his old man has sailed away to the west, even if he is still alive, can I have a way to find him?"
He pulled my arm, then he took the small leather bag beside him and said, "This is a gift to meet you, I heard Elder Huang say that your old man is the disciple of Realist He, and there is a possibility that he can contact that Realist He, and Realist He won't be dead because the Supreme View has not yet fallen. I believe him."
I glanced at the open fur, estimated that there are three to two hundred thousand inside, the heart is not greedy that is impossible, if not back to the village, this money I do not know how many years I have to struggle, for the sake of the money, I really not good to refuse, but I still said: "can not contact to the real He, that's my old man's matter, contact not, or the real He is not even able to save you, that's none of my business."
Mr. Zhai clasped his fists at me and said, "That's all I have to say, I understand, in any case, this favor of my little brother, I accept it."
Finished, Mr. Zhai left a business card, said there is news on the phone to him, Mr. Zhai said goodbye after I received the money, last time a million is a check, but this time it is cash, looking at this much cash I can not calm my psyche for a long time, how I have never found that the money can be earned so easily?
The next day, I returned to the lock village early in the morning, because this time is my own private work, I did not call Chen Jiuzi two send me, their own one person car back to the village to find my old man, that Mr. Zhai looking for me to do things told him.
"Now the Princess Tomb this side of the disturbance into this, if He Zhenzhen if alive, should also come back, you really can if, contact him ah?" I said.
When I spoke to my old man, he was at home tidying up his flowers and plants, and without even looking up, he said to me, "How old was I when He Zhengen left? How many years have passed since then, where can I contact him?"
"Dad, I feel like you're hiding a lot of things from me." I said to him, it was something I've been wanting to say to him for a long time, and in terms of Elder Huang's regard and Pop's behavior during this period of time, I even felt as if I've reacquainted myself with this man I've been calling Dad for more than twenty years.
Just before last night, I couldn't have possibly thought that he would be someone who could stab someone with scissors, but he did that.
He stopped what he was doing and said, "I'm keeping something from you?"
"Yes, haven't I? I am your own son, can't you even trust me?" I said aggressively.
"Are Lin Bachian and that Fatty Liu not the ones you provoked into the village? Also your second uncle gave you a store and you really went to be your manager. Do not count the idea in your own heart? Other I will not say, your second uncle's side of the business, you'd better not dip, if I'm not wrong, he and Huang Lao should be the same, but also do the business of inverted bucket, you do not see his understanding of antiques?" My old man asked me.
"This society, do what as long as you can make money on the line, do you care if he is a bucket of children or do what? Even if the dumping child so what? That some of the treasure buried in the ground rotten is not as good as digging out to see the light of day is not it?" I said.
My father glared at me.
I stood next to him for half a day, he did not spit again to speak, after a while I feel no fun, the heart is also quite aggrieved, I'm also considered their own business, for him to raise his hand to do things he died not to help.
Just when I was about to walk out of the yard, my old man stopped me, said: "Tell that Mr. Zhai, stormy night, lock head village to see."
I was overjoyed and said to my old dad, "Thank you, old dad!"
"Tell your second uncle, the Princess Grave is still not the time, everything should not be forced, depending on fate." My old dad once again explained.
"But Second Uncle is all set to run the sandpit." I said.
"Why does Huang Lao want to go? Do you think he's really afraid of the Yellow Skinned Spirit? You go tell him that He Anxia is still alive!" My old man glared at me and said.
-Getting this answer I was overjoyed, the matter of the Princess Tomb's side is actually something I don't really care about, because I've always felt that that level of competition nowadays I can't participate in it at all, I found my second uncle first, he was alone in the study fuming, and when he saw me come in he just nodded to me.
"Second uncle, my father asked me to pass on a message to you, the princess grave is not yet the time to move." I said.
He raised an eyebrow and said, "What. Did he say why?"
"He says Hoan Shim is still alive." I said. –This question made me think all the way, He Anxia He real person dead or not, and the princess grave can move have a ball hair has a relationship?