Grandpa looked at the long flute in his hands, and his expression seemed to want to sell but didn't want to sell. In fact, I can understand, because every item that he thinks can be traded will not stay around for a long time, and will go out if he gets a hand and a difference; if the item can remain in his hand, it will not be easily shot as long as more than one year. Besides, this human bone flute is an object he has played with for more than 20 years, and he really does not want to sell it.
Perhaps it was because of his grandfather's thoughts that Ma Changxi didn't persuade him anymore and put things in front of him, "Qiye, you don't want to sell me now, but it won't be long, but you will come to me."
Grandpa frowned slightly. "How, can you know what will happen in the future?"
Ma Changmao shook his head and said, "I do n't have the ability of an unknown prophet, but I know too much about human bones. I dare say that it won't take long before you will get this thing. You can rest assured that I will definitely not do things that are down. If you want to sell something, you can always find me. The price will not change. "
"I'm assured that you have this sentence. Let's wait and see. Maybe I'll sell things to you." Having said that, his grandpa's expression proved that he didn't believe what Ma Changmao said.
Ma Changyi pretended not to know, and said to me, "Aquatic is not young this year. Are you ready to inherit the family business?"
I was already twenty-five years old at the time, but the antiques business relied on eyesight to eat. The younger I was, the shallower the way, and of course the family members were not assured to let me receive the goods independently. After hearing this from Ma Changzheng, my grandfather laughed and said, "Mr. Ma, you are a man who runs the big pier. If you can take our aquatic animals out and open your eyes, this flute will be sold, and I will give it to you."
Ma Changxi waved his hands again and again: "Business and friendship are two different things. If aquatic is willing, follow me out and see if there is no problem. To be honest, I have been looking for an assistant for many years, but you also know that if you find an arrogant That's the person who leads the wolf into the room! Otherwise, Aquatic would be my assistant? "
"Great, thank you so much." Grandpa smiled.
"The grandfather Qi said that the word Xie could be seen outside. By the way, I'm going to get a big object tomorrow, and Aquatic is able to watch the big show just after his debut." He laughed.
"Oh, so you found the baby again?" Grandpa asked.
Ma Changyi deliberately made a mysterious look and said, "When you ask your grandson, it will be done. I will sell it first." He said, looking out the window, "I will leave before the time is early. Tomorrow at 7:30, I will be on time to pick up the aquatic animals. "
At the time, I couldn't imagine that Ma Changxuan was a deeply hidden person. I thought he was really an antique merchant and really needed an assistant. I didn't realize that my special constitution would cause trouble.
In the early morning of the next day, Ma Changxi arrived as promised. I packed up a pack of clothes and followed him out. I was in a good mood. Ma Changyi drove a large black Cherokee. After I got on the car, I found a person lying on the back seat of the car. At this time, he was facing in, covered with a blanket and was snoring. The sound was almost like a train crossing a cave.
This talent is the real protagonist of this story, and Ma Changzheng and I can only be regarded as his supporting role. What happened later is enough to prove my point.
Ma Changyi smiled and said to me, "Stop trying to stop talking as much as possible. After disturbing him to sleep, the trouble is great." Then, he started the car to the west. Because of this sentence, I didn't even ask where the destination was. Traveling in the wind and sunny days is very comfortable, so I fell asleep shortly after getting on the bus.
When I woke up again, it was almost noon, and the car had descended from the expressway to the national highway. I saw that both sides of the road were full of tall and lush windbreak forests, and there were green fields of rice behind the trees. However, the sky is no longer clear, but it is covered with dark clouds. From time to time, a strong wind blows from the window, and it seems that heavy rain may fall at any time.
Not only me, but the man sitting in the back of the car also woke up. He was wearing an army green peaked cap, and even his mouth was wrapped in a blanket, only a pair of bullseyes were staring out of the car, motionless.
Ma Changxi said, "The place we are going to now is Dongping Village, and it is about an hour away."
"What are we going to collect? Can you tell us?" I couldn't help asking.
"The things we collect are quite special. They are not the same as the old things you usually deal with. They are called" eyes of the river demon "in our own words."
"Eyes of the River Demon, what is that?"
Ma Changyi glanced at me and said, "You'll know in a while."
As soon as his voice fell, he heard the sound of thunder from the window of the car. The raindrops of beans suddenly arrived, and the sky became more gloomy. I don't know why. Suddenly, I had an ominous premonition, and goosebumps burst into my body.
My reaction is called "overcast" in metaphysics. I never thought I would be an "overcast".
The overcast people are not very mysterious people. The vernacular explanation is that such people are more likely to hit those things that are not clean. Once something uneven happens in a certain area, the overcast person must be felt first.
These people must have three particularly obvious external characteristics: thin body, fair skin, and relatively neutral appearance. This is exactly what I look like. In the words of my mother, I can only feed one face after feeding.
It was because of this special constitution that I tried all the hardships in the subsequent "business", and of course got some cheap. Everything has good and bad sides, so I don't know if my constitution is good or bad for me.
However, at that time, Ma Changzheng didn't know that I was a overcast person, because it did not mean that those who met these three conditions must have been overcast persons, and at that time, I just felt that I was weak and had a cold in my body.
There is not much rain in the southwest. The destination is a small village surrounded by mountains. The terrain is very similar to that of Nata River Village. The mountains here are gentle, the vegetation is abundant, and the possibility of debris flow disasters is not high. Because the southwestern region is dry all year round, villagers will dig large pits to store water in case they are needed.
The car stopped at the village entrance. At this point, the rain had stopped, but the road was too muddy and the car could not continue forward. However, the local villagers seemed to know the time of Ma Changyu's arrival and waited at the entrance of the village early.
After getting out of the car, I peeked at the people behind the car. He is about 1.8 meters tall, in a black suit that looks like the gangsters of the old society, two heavy eight-row eyebrows on the bottom of a pot, a nose like a courage, wide mouth, and the facial features seem very cruel. At first glance, people are afraid.
The old man who came to pick up Ma Changzheng was very kind to him, and repeatedly said, "Mr. Ma can come this time. Thank you on behalf of the folks."
Ma Changxi waved his hands again and again: "Mayor Mao Cun is not polite, this is just my business. You take me to the incident to see the situation first."
Mayor Mao Cun seemed a little hesitant, and Ma Changmao laughed, "You can rest assured that nothing will happen if we are here."
After hearing what he said, the old man's frowned frown was only slightly stretched. Then he led the way, through a small mountain village and a field of peanuts, to the foot of a large mountain. He pointed to a small pond road about 100 meters in front of us: "The pond was originally clear, but after three days of heavy rain, the soil on the mountain was washed down, and the pond gradually became turbid. In the village, animals were lost. At first there were only kittens and puppies. Later, on a heavy rain night, everyone in the village heard a cow screaming for a long time, because no one had seen the house because of the rain. As a result, in the early morning the next month, I heard Ernie Yue crying loudly at the entrance of the village, saying that her old ox was eaten by a monster in the pond. We rushed near the pond and saw the yellow mud in the pond turned dark. Red, not only there is blood, but also the scattered internal organs of cattle floating on the water. This cow, which has been raised for seven years, usually depends on it. She died early, her two sons went out to work, seven or eight There was no news in the year, it was estimated that he was cheated into the mine and killed the mine owner to save money. This bitter woman usually relied on the old cow to cultivate a few acres of thin fields, but she did not expect that the cow would die by death. " Here, the old village chief is tight again Since brow, sighed.
Ma Changzheng looked closely with a telescope and said, "Where did this pond come from? How deep is it?"
Mayor Mao Cun said: "This water pond was in the early years. It is groundwater. It has never been withered since I remembered it. Even if the water is pumped out today, the water in the pond can be stored overnight. I had a big yellow cormorant. One year ago, I came from a two-meter-long yellow cormorant that was as thick as an arm. At that time, the villagers were scared enough. They set up a platform by the river for seven days to do rituals. It was taken out of the net and sent to the reservoir for release. But Huang Huang did not kill his life. "
Ma Changxi nodded and said, "Leave this matter to me, you can rest assured. Regardless of what's in it, I promise it will never have a chance to do evil again."
After hearing what he said, Mayor Mao Cun was grateful. Ma Changzheng asked the village chief Mao to prepare a live sheep and five large tanks. I am a little bit baffled, shouldn't I come out to collect antiques? How did he become a monster?
Perhaps because of the thoughts in my heart, Ma Chang said: "You do n't go deep enough to do antiques. There are a lot of old things that are very evil. You need to use some means when you collect them." Take out a square wooden box from the backpack that you carry with you. When you open it, you can see that there is a string of beads made of red and jewels. Each one looks bright in the sun, but the gap between the beads is large. It seems missing a few.
Ma Changyi said, "This whole string of beads is neither ruby jewelry nor jewels, but a string of eyes of the river demon. This is a rare treasure. The price is at least five times higher than the best ruby. You asked What exactly is my Eye of the River Demon?
After the villagers were ready for Aries and the big tank, Ma Changzhen went to the "Ferocious God" and said, "Brother, can you see it?"
A pair of bullseyes of the "Ferocious God" suddenly became fierce, but nodded but did not speak.
Subsequently, the "Furious God" rushed the goat forward, but walked extremely slowly. The heavy rain had long stopped, but the sky was terribly gloomy, and the slightly icy cold wind blew on me slightly. The vast space on which we are based is so alarming.
Many villagers stood not far behind us, looking nervously at the "vicious god". It seems that Ma Changzheng knows the power of the "fierce god" very well, and follows him freely. I hesitated for a moment and followed up.
The closer you get to the water pond, the stronger the stench in the air becomes. The goat seemed to feel something, and raised his head from time to time. Suddenly, there was a ripple of ripples on the calm water surface, and the "Furious God" immediately raised his hand and made a "stop" gesture, but the goat could not understand what he meant, and he kept walking towards the pond. It reached the shore, and it didn't mean to stop. Soon, it walked into the puddle, stopped until the river was submerged in its neck, and stood still in the water. I saw the dark red turbid pond water, the white sheep's head looked very dazzling. A few minutes later, a weird vortex appeared on the calm water, and the vortex quickly approached the goat. When the goat found the whirlpool, he made a scream of screaming, turned to run on the shore, but his body slammed up, and immediately he was pulled into the depth of the water pool. Ripples in circles.
A few seconds later, a large amount of blood suddenly turned up. Immediately afterwards, the goat's head floated up, and the cut surface was flat, showing that the teeth of the "river monster" who bit his head was extremely sharp. The eyes on the goat's head were wide, but it was dull, and his long mouth pulled out his long tongue, drifting slowly to the water shore ...
Immediately after, a few blisters emerged from the dark red slurry, and a large dark cyan ridge of the fish emerged quietly from the water.
At this moment, I heard a sound of exclamation from the villagers behind. It was also the first time in my life that I had seen such a huge body of fish, and my inherent fear of aquatic life made me soft and air-conditioned.
The fish has no scales, and the body width above the surface is similar to that of a large torpedo. After a while, the water surface extended two long and thin fish whiskers, standing upright like antennas. Then, a giant fish head followed the long beard and emerged from the water.
The fish head was fat and big, the head was dark blue, the chin was pale, the teeth were full of sharp teeth, and a pair of fish eyes were bright red, staring straight at me. At that moment, I suddenly hallucinated and felt like I was in hell. Because if not for hell, how could there be such a terrible creature?
"Ferocious God" pulled out a black package from his carry-on puppet. He was about to walk towards the fish monster. Suddenly, the sky began to drop rain lines again, and a new round of heavy rain was coming. He stood and looked at the sky, immediately put the black parcel back in his pocket, turned to us and said, "Hurry up and wait until the rain stops."