The second aunt walked to the bedside and sat down.
She looked at me from a distance and said, "It's been two years since you left.
You haven't even sent a letter to your family for so long.
I wonder if your family is worried about you.
These two years, I think about you every day, just think, if I don’t come back for so long, I won’t be deceived into a pyramid scheme, and I won’t want my family to know if something happens.”
I held the wooden box, feeling indescribably embarrassed.
When I first entered college, I occasionally contacted Xiaowei.
Later, when I returned to his home, the contact was completely severed.
However, it has been so long that I have not exchanged letters with my aunt.
Where am I and what am I doing?
Don't even know.
My aunt asked me: "Tell me, why don't you want to contact me?"
I didn't know how to answer, and I became more and more uncomfortable.
In the past, when I talked about why I didn't contact my family, I always spoke plausibly, saying that I was used to being lonely, and that my aunt and Xiaowei had their own lives, and I just didn't want to disturb them.
But when I actually faced my aunt's questioning, I realized that these were all excuses.
I was just escaping from this family affection.
I used lies to build a barrier for myself, thinking that as long as I locked myself up, I would be protected from harm.
I even thought that as long as I had this barrier, my heart would become stronger.
But I didn’t expect that when this barrier When the barrier was torn apart, the me who had been hiding inside was so fragile.
Now I finally understand why Taoist Master Kongyun said that I am a person who has forgotten how to feel, just because I buried myself so deeply that over the years, I only remember the appearance of the layers of barriers, but never I haven't seen myself clearly.
I didn't speak, but the second aunt hadn't finished her words: "Well, it was the same when Zu Ye was young.
Sometimes he would be away from home for more than half a year without any news.
I know he was afraid that I would worry , so they refused to tell me many things.
I also know that people in your line of work have their lives hanging on their waists every day, and they don’t know when they will be gone.
But whether it’s life or death, at least there is confidence. " "Ma'am."
I called my aunt, interrupting her thoughts.
The second aunt looked at me and slowly closed her lips.
I gave my second aunt a smile: "I will come back often as long as I have time in the future."
The second aunt sighed: "Stop comforting me.
I know that people in your line of work don't have much time to spare."
I tried to change the topic: "I met my third uncle in the autumn of last year."
After hearing what I said, my aunt was also shocked: "I haven't heard from Chuan Sheng for several years.
Is he okay?"
I said: "When I met him the year before last, he was quite good, but I don't know about it now.
After he sent me back to his home, my third uncle disappeared, and he still hasn't disappeared until now."
The aunt sighed: "Oh, you people are all like this."
It's really true when I think about it.
First, my father disappeared without a trace, as if he didn't exist in the world at all, and then my third uncle.
Now in the eyes of my aunt, I'm afraid even I have become like them.
The second aunt didn't seem to want to continue discussing such a topic, so she pointed to a cabinet next to me: "The key is in the small box containing Olay."
The reason why I kept holding the wooden box and not opening it was because there was a lock on it, and it couldn't be opened without a key.
When the second aunt said this, I immediately understood what she meant and quickly opened the drawer.
There are a lot of scattered things in the drawer.
Some of them are old objects collected by my second uncle in the past.
They are not worth much.
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The most expensive ones are only dozens of yuan discounted now.
There are also some folded items.
The little clothes should have been worn by Xiaowei when he was a child.
They were kept by his aunt and placed here.
After searching for a long time, I found a small box that used to contain Oil of Olay.
When I opened it, I saw that there was only a small key that was thinner than a screwdriver.
This thing should be made of gold.
After so many years, the top bit There is no rust at all, and there is still a faint golden glow.
Before I opened the wooden box, the second aunt said to me: "Before my ancestor was in a car accident, he spent a whole day visiting the village where you lived when you were a child.
When he came back, he put this box and a He handed over the key and asked me to keep it safe.
Thinking about it now, Zuye might have felt that something was going to happen to him
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In fact, in my impression, the second uncle's behavior was a bit abnormal in the half month before his car accident, but I only have a vague impression of what happened at that time.
As for what was abnormal about the second uncle, first Time and I can't remember too many details.
I unlocked the wooden box and opened the lid.
I saw a thick layer of soft gauze pressed inside.
While untying the soft gauze, I asked my aunt: "What happened to the car accident that my second uncle encountered that year?"
It’s something” The aunt could only sigh: "It was just a car accident.
What else could it have been?
Later, Yong Bing also found someone to investigate.
It was an ordinary traffic accident.
The person who caused the accident was a driver of a big car.
He drank a lot the night before.
Drinking, I just drove out of home the next day and bumped into your second uncle."
The past is too painful to look back on, and when it comes to this, the second aunt can no longer talk about it.
But I still have some doubts in my heart, why did Sun Yongbing specially find someone to investigate this matter?
It seems that the relationship between him and my second uncle is not very good.
I didn't dare to ask any more questions, I just silently pulled apart a large piece of soft gauze.
Under the soft gauze, there was another red thin piece, suppressing the thing hidden deep in the box.
This thin piece should be made of pig iron.
Due to years of embroidery rot, the original color can no longer be seen.
What on earth is it?
If it is pressed layer by layer, it seems that without the soft gauze and pig iron sheets, it will pop out of the box on its own.
With such doubts, I used force to pull out the thin slices rusted in the blind man's body.
And when I saw what was underneath, I was stunned.
What was placed inside turned out to be half a pure copper-green ancient coin.
It looked as if someone had cut it from the middle with a sharp instrument.
The fracture was extremely smooth, and there was a complete engraved on the incomplete coin.
The Xun hexagram, and the two hexagrams Li and Dui that are only half left.
I immediately picked it up, turned it over and saw that on the other side of the ancient coin there was a complete word "宝" and two half-remaining characters: You and Ming.
Netherworld Tongbao I immediately took out a Netherworld Tongbao on my body and compared it.
There was absolutely no mistake.
The half ancient coin in my hand was one of the four Netherworld Tongbao.
But why is there only half of it left?
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It is said that although this thing is made of black copper, because it is infused with the pure Yin energy from the Yin Cao underworld, the weapons in the world cannot hurt it at all.
After that, I carefully sensed the Qi field on this half of the ancient coin.
The extremely pure Yin Qi was no different from the Netherworld Tongbao in my hand.
Since it is not a fake, why is only half of this ancient coin left?
Where did the other half go?
The second aunt saw the thing in my hand and said very puzzledly: "Isn't this my brother's thing?
Why is there only half of it left?
Where did that thing in your hand come from?"
I said: "I found this Netherworld Treasure from an old house in the southwest border.
Did my dad often carry it with him?"
While asking, I raised my hand and shook the half ancient coin in my right hand.
The second aunt said: "He always carries it with him and never leaves his body.
In the past, he protected this thing like a treasure and wouldn't let anyone touch it.
Why didn't he take it with him when he left?"
I asked my second aunt: "Ma'am, was this box brought by my second uncle from the Qiang village?"
The second aunt nodded firmly: "Definitely.
When he went to the stockade, he had something like this in his hand when he came back.
My family has been poor since I was a child.
Although I haven't seen much of the world, I can still tell that this fragrant wood The box is not an ordinary thing.
With our family’s financial resources, we cannot afford such an expensive thing.”
I quickly put away the two pieces of Netherworld Tongbao and said to my second aunt: "Ma'am, I have to go back to the village to have a look.
If there is nothing else to do at noon tomorrow, I will book a banquet and you take Xiaowei with you.
We haven't seen each other for a long time."
Let’s eat together.”
The second aunt stood up: "Why are you so anxious?
Can't you go tomorrow?"
I shook my head: "I can't say I'm in a hurry, I just want to go back and take a look as soon as possible."
After saying that, I left the small bedroom in a panic.
The second aunt also followed, but her steps were not as fast as mine.
I had already rushed to the living room, and the second aunt was still walking on the corridor.
Originally, I thought Sun Yongbing would show off to Li Huaishan and Qianan, but when we arrived in the living room, Li Huaishan and Sun Yongbing were chatting happily.
From what they said, they seemed to want to join forces to do some business.
I waved to Li Huaishan and the others: "Ergou, sister, follow me back to the old village."
Having been with Li Huaishan for so long, he understands my temperament and knows that I am not a person who gets anxious for no reason.
He didn't waste any time at that moment.
He put down the tea cup in his hand and pulled Qian Yanan towards me.
Sun Yongbing didn't recognize me until now.
When he saw that we were leaving, he stood up politely and sent us to the door.
He kept chattering along the way: "Why are you leaving in such a hurry?
I ordered food outside." , Let’s go after dinner.”
In the past, he always treated me nose-to-eye, and I was annoyed with him from the bottom of my heart.
His politeness made me feel uncomfortable.
As soon as I left the hospital, I turned to him and said, "I am a man."
If not."
Sun Yongbing was stunned for a moment, and then his face turned completely dark.
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I didn't want to talk to him, so I took Li Huaishan and Yanan and walked quickly, and returned to the parking lot in less than 20 minutes.
Just when I unlocked the car and was about to get into the cab, Li Huaishan stretched out his hand to block me: "I'll drive, and you sit in the back."
I frowned: "What's wrong?"
Li Huaishan got into the cab sideways: "I think your condition is not quite right, so it doesn't matter if it's just the two of us, but now that Yanan is in the car, I'm worried
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