genius girl photographer

Chapter 441 Box
Baixi Forest Farm is located in Qixi, J City. The place is remote and remote, and the forest farm is close to a village called Shashu. There are not many people left in this village, and the way of life is very old, traditional, nothing. The special thing is that there is an interesting custom.

In this village, as long as someone dies and a child is born on the same day, it is considered as the continuation of life. A tree will be planted on this day, which represents the cycle of people. They think that the older the tree, the more Soul, so there is a towering tree in Shashu Village, with deep roots and luxuriant leaves, twists and turns, the shade of the tree covers the sky, and the ancient tree is extremely tall. It is regarded as a sacred tree by the local villagers and a beacon for all the dead. When a wanderer dies in a foreign land and can't find his way home, he just needs to follow the sacred tree to find his way home.

It is said that this tree has been preserved for hundreds of years, and it is the spiritual support of people in Chashu Village. When they went up the mountain to cut trees, smelt steel, and mobilized the whole people to find wood and steel, someone had the idea of ​​this tree, but he He chopped it up with an axe, but the tree was fine, but he himself was struck to death by a lightning bolt and burned to charcoal.

After that, the tree really became a god, and people only dare to worship it respectfully and dare not have any wrong thoughts.

People nowadays don't think it's so strange to hear this. Standing under a tree in a thunderstorm is a scientific truth. Everyone knows that thunder will leave the tree, but according to the people who witnessed the incident back then, that person's When the ax struck, it just opened a small hole in the big tree, and blood was left on the trunk. He saw that it was bright red, and there were bloodstains on the left and right sides, which looked like the big tree was crying, so he Thinking of this, what he kept saying was that if the sacred tree got angry, that person would suffer.

Li Xiruo listened to it as a story for the time being, and now she was only thinking about where Gu Minghan was, and she lost her mood about other things.

After the two arrived in City J, they drove to Qixi. This is a small place, and you can't see the prosperity of the city. The facades on the street still maintain the style of the 90s and [-]s, and there are wild dogs running around on the street from time to time. Go, fight with each other, children are also twisted into a ball on the street, the woman who sells clothes and the elder sister who sells lo-mei next to her are eating melon seeds, a few old people gather together to play chess, and there is a cup of tea next to them, but There is no time to drink at all, and the eyes are fixed on the chessboard, concentrating on thinking.

Dao Yan said to Li Xiruo: "There is only one bus line from Qixi to Shashu Village, and the bus leaves in the afternoon. I'm going to the street to do some shopping now. You wait for me here."

Li Xiruo nodded casually, and didn't hear much of Dao Yan's words, because her eyes fell on a hunchbacked woman at the entrance of the alley.

This hunchbacked woman with disheveled hair and brown cloth clothes moved a small bench at the entrance of the alley and spread it on the ground with a few pieces of rags that I didn’t know where to put together. On the left were some jewelry made of rough ore, and The old things in the village are sold, but the right side is under the banner of fortune-telling, with copper coins, azimuth maps and so on.

People don't know that is her main business for a while.

And Li Xiruo noticed that it was her hands, both of which had six fingers, and ordinary people were used to five fingers, and now they saw one extra in both hands, which was not pleasing to the eye no matter how you looked at it. The last little finger is small and misshapen, but it can still move, which makes people want to pull it out when they see it.

Li Xiruo touched the Yu Jingshi in the cloth bag, and was about to go up, when he saw three people dressed in other places walking up together.

These three people are two men and one woman. The man standing in the middle looks young and wears an old coat that doesn't fit on purpose, but a pair of shoes reveals his financial resources. Standing on his left is a short man, He is about 1.6 meters tall. He is different from the man in the middle. He has been carefully dressed, but he is still a little timid standing next to a young man.

The most normal one is the girl on the far right, with meticulous short shoulder-length hair, slender glasses, and a plaid shirt that looks like a nerd, but there is a shrewdness in her eyes.

As soon as she arrived at the booth, she just looked at the hunchbacked woman, then lowered her head and scanned the things she was selling, constantly calculating the value, while the other two people saw that the six fingers looked like centipedes, and started talking about it. They felt that they were doing something. It's not impolite to discuss in secret, but the hunchbacked woman heard their words clearly.

But she was not angry, she looked up at the three of them with a smile and said, "Three young people, what do you want to buy?"

Zhou Run also stared at the hunchbacked woman's eyes for a moment. This woman had squinted eyes. Her head was facing him, but her eyes were facing Zuo Siqi on his right. He couldn't help thinking that everything was wrong with this woman.

Zuo Siqi knelt down and picked up an old wooden box. The top of the box was already dusty, and the decoration on the outer shell was that kind of bright red and green flowers. Because of too long time, it was worn very blurred, and the sprayed paint had already faded away. faded.

Zhou Run also looked at the old wooden box, and said with disgust: "What's so good about this, didn't the professor ask us to find something that can better represent Shashu Village?"

Listening to Shashu Village, the hunchbacked woman hurriedly pointed and said, "That's it. This is something from Shashu Village. It's a good thing. Look, it's locked. Maybe there are some rare treasures inside."

Qian Mansheng on Zhou Runye's left snorted coldly and looked at Zuo Siqi: "I used to have a lot of these wooden boxes in my hometown. Didn't there used to be such boxes on every kang in the countryside?"

Zuo Siqi picked up the box with a calm expression, touched its material, and said to Qian Mansheng: "This is pineapple wood, not an ordinary box."

But what she was interested in was not the material of the box, but the two herrings reflected on the wooden box, entangled together, it seemed that they were playing in the water, but when she looked closely, they were fighting fiercely. I have never seen a pattern on a box sprayed like this, but spraying paint on this kind of mahogany for decoration itself also shows that the previous owner did not know the goods and did not know the value of the box.

The hunchbacked woman squinted and smiled: "The little girl knows a lot."

Qian Mansheng heard the hunchbacked woman praise Zuo Siqi, his face was a little dissatisfied, and he said in a rough voice, "How much is this box?"

The hunchbacked woman turned her head to Qian Mansheng, but her eyes were on Zhou Runye, and said, "One thousand."

Qian Mansheng just smiled: "Then why can't you afford to rob? Oh, yes, just like you, you can be recognized at a glance if you want to pretend to be a robber."

Zhou Run also felt that this was too much, and reminded Qian Mansheng in a low voice, but what he got in return was dissatisfaction: "Did I say something wrong? What kind of broken box is worth a thousand, isn't this just a trap for you guys?" Fool?"

The hunchbacked woman stretched out her sixth finger to hook the lock: "Maybe there is a treasure in it, a thousand for a thrill, don't you young people just like this?"

Zhou Run also looked at Zuo Siqi uncertainly: "Are you sure it's this one?"

Zuo Siqi nodded, helped his own glasses and said, "This is the same as playing blind boxes with you. You will never know whether you are getting a limited edition or a regular one until you open it. This is a kind of dopamine economy. Before opening it, because of the infinite imagination, the adrenal hormones surged and the heartbeat accelerated. This feeling has to be paid in the current society."

Zhou Run was also dizzy when he heard this, and hurriedly asked Zuo Siqi to stop talking, but he still believed in Zuo Siqi's vision.

They are doing folklore research, and now they come to Shashu Village to do a research project. They sent a sum of money to him for safekeeping, and asked them to find the most representative things in Shashu Village. Unexpectedly, Zuo Siqi saw this box I won't leave.

Her grades in professional courses are the best, and she is the favorite student of the professor. Originally, this fund should be handled by her, but Qian Mansheng doesn't know why he doesn't like Zuo Siqi so much, and has a big disagreement with her, so in the end this The money fell into Zhou Runye's hands.

Zhou Run is also from a typical wealthy family. He doesn't think it is expensive, but the funds are limited, and they have to share it by themselves. He has no problem, but when the time comes, Qian Mansheng will make trouble again. Stumbling, he really couldn't bear it.

Seeing that Zuo Siqi wanted this, Qian Mansheng pointed to the lock and said, "Then what if she locked this lock by herself? It's just the mentality of fools like you."

Zuo Siqi looked at him: "According to the rust of the lock, this box is older than the boss. You can only say that it is the lock on her family, not her."

"you……"

Qian Mansheng stared at Zuo Siqi, and it seemed that a quarrel was about to start. The hunchbacked woman said with a smile: "It seems that this young man thinks that 1000 yuan is a disadvantage. Well, my side job is fortune-telling, so I will do it for this young man." Do the math, no money."

Qian Mansheng took a sip: "Feudal superstition."

Zuo Siqi pushed his glasses to the bridge of his nose: "Our profession is to break superstition and reshape the essence of folk customs, but before removing the dross, we must fully understand it and know the whole picture before we can make an evaluation."

Qian Mansheng frowned, not very willing, Zuo Siqi rarely smiled: "It turns out that classmate Qian is afraid."

"Whoever is afraid, forget it."

The woman smiled and asked him to stretch out his hand. Qian Mansheng was puzzled, but he still stretched out his hand. Twelve fingers immediately clung to Qian Mansheng's hand, which made him feel sick.

The hunchbacked woman slanted her eyes and touched his hand bones, from fingertips to his wrist, and got into his sleeve. Goosebumps immediately appeared on Qian Mansheng's hands, but he heard the woman say: "Arm It's hard to eat and wear if you have a thin tip, long and flat elbows, poverty is unavoidable, the palms are thick and boned, rough and rough, and when the palms are cold, you will have difficulties."

Qian Mansheng was taken aback. The hunchbacked woman's long series of words seemed to him to be mocking his poverty. These two words appeared all over his body. He was about to get angry when he heard the woman sigh: "Forget it, take this box away, I won't accept money from people who are in trouble, bad luck."

(End of this chapter)