In the winter of 1995, there was light snow. I was only seven years old at the time, in the first grade of primary school. When that special guest broke into the teahouse of the second uncle in Xiaobailou with cold eyes and snowflakes, I was sitting in the room at the back of the shop watching cartoons. The room was not good for rain. I could vaguely hear the noise outside.

"Brother, I can't take this object from you."

The second uncle's voice was a little dissatisfied, and from what I know about him, since he said this, he has the intention of driving people away.

"Why can't you take it? This gourd is I spent a lot of money in Shenyang Road a while ago to collect, you see this workmanship, this texture, it must be valuable goods, all say that you collect good materials here, why do you refuse to come to me? ”

Wear a black raincoat. The bearded man said with some urgency, Tianjin people were originally in a hurry to speak, and at this time, the speed of speech was even faster.

"Your thing is new, and the base material of the gourd is good, but the texture on it is wrong. You see, the lines on your side are not made at all. And there is no bottom money underneath, and the gourd mouth also seals the eyes with these strange rune papers, can you tell me that I can accept it? ”

The second uncle waved his hand and shouted, how much do you know some strange things when you do antiques, and there are also some rules in the industry, new things are naturally not wanted, and things of unknown origin are best not touched, and He Liang's gourd is strange in the second uncle's opinion. Naturally, he was reluctant to get his hands dirty.

It's just that the other party was anxious when he heard this, and shouted: "You don't have long eyes, you are not a knowledgeable person in the circle, you deserve me to come here once." ”

The other party was about to go out when he said something, but the second uncle was also in a hurry, and when he heard the other party's mouth scolding, he shouted anxiously: "Don't go, say I don't know how to do it, right?" Okay, I'll find someone who knows how to show you. ”

Hearing this, I couldn't help but open the door and walk out, and saw a ginger gourd on the table, which was no different from an ordinary gourd at first glance, except that it was carved with some snake-like lines, criss-crossed. A few words that I couldn't understand were engraved on the round gourd belly, and the gourd ** fork was attached to two pieces of yellow rune paper, and two lines of strange words were also written on it with red cinnabar. Ghost drawing charms are average. On the outside of the rune paper, a layer of wax was sealed around the mouth of the gourd, and the slightest crack that blocked the mouth of the gourd did not show through.

After a few more glances, he suddenly felt that the gourd seemed to be alive and shook on the table.

I was startled, and hurriedly wiped my eyes, and when I looked at the gourd again, it didn't move again. There was just a trace of gray smoke wafting around the round and full belly of the eyes.

I walked over, pulled the second uncle's clothes and shouted, "Second uncle, what is this gourd?" How does it look weird. ”

The second uncle is on the phone. didn't have time to talk to me, so he said casually: "Wan Lin, you stay by the side, don't make a sound." ”

After about ten minutes, a person walked in outside the teahouse, thin and tall, holding a black umbrella and wearing a green cotton coat. I'm at home in a daze! ”

The second uncle hurriedly walked over, and said with a smile on his face: "Someone came to put a gourd, and I said that I didn't accept new things, and the seller said that I didn't know how to do it, no, please come and have a look." Third brother, you are well-informed, help me take a look, don't be a really good thing, I missed it. ”

I know this big man, his real name is Li San'er, the second uncle has always called him the third brother, with a big beard, a native of the Northeast, who seems to know a lot about antiques, and usually helps a lot in the second uncle's business. He had a lot of strength, and he used to lift me up and down to tease me. When he saw me this time, he also said hello and let me go next to him.

Li San'er put on gloves, stared at the gourd on the table, the expression on his face immediately changed, he carefully lifted the gourd, looked at the rune paper on it, opened his eyes, grabbed my arm, and asked in a low voice: "Lin'er, you stare at this gourd, can you see anything?" ”

The second uncle was not surprised by this coldness, but the seller shouted dissatisfiedly: "You ask a little kid, what does he know?" ”

Li San'er's eyes were crossed, and he shouted: "What do you know!" Shut up, this object can kill you! ”

The seller was also stunned by Li San'er, so he closed his mouth and didn't speak again. I touched my head, this kind of thing has happened more than once, and I can't say anything to Li San'er, so I looked at the gourd on the table again, and said, "This gourd seems to have a gray smoke around it, you let me touch it." ”

Li San'er immediately put the gourd carefully in my hand, and as soon as I touched it, I immediately screamed and shouted, "Why is it so cold?" It's colder than snow! ”

This gourd looks quite normal, as soon as I start it, there is a cool air that seems to be able to drill into the bones, and it suddenly pounces on my hand, and I almost didn't hold it. The seller was startled, hurriedly took it, fiddled with it on his hand and said, "It's not cold, what are you talking about, little boy!" ”

It's just that after seeing such an unusual move from me, Li San'er knew it in his heart, nodded at me slightly, pulled the second uncle and the seller into the corner, and the three of them muttered and whispered to discuss. Only the gourd was placed in front of me, I was also young at the time, and my curiosity was at its highest, and when I saw that the adults were not there, I looked at the gourd in front of me.

In the past, Li San'er also came to me several times with strange things, let me see, either a knife or a broken sword or something, every time I can always see some unusual pictures from these things, and several times I can hear strange voices. The village is dead.

This time, although he was unexpectedly frozen just now, his curiosity was still very strong, so he looked for it and played. When I took it into my hand again, the gourd was still very cold, and I couldn't hold it with my little hand, so I turned it upside down, and one accidentally dropped the gourd on the ground. I saw that as soon as the gourd landed, the wax on the mouth of the gourd immediately cracked, and fell loosely to the ground, and the rune paper was also torn open a small hole, I immediately reached out to pick it up, but at this juncture, I saw the blood-red light on the gourd flashed, and a black shadow suddenly jumped out of the mouth of the gourd, and the speed was very good, I only saw a trace, I didn't see it too clearly, the speed was too good.

At this time, the sound of the gourd falling to the ground attracted Li San'er and the second uncle, Li San'er saw the gourd falling to the ground, his face turned white at once, more terrifying than the white paper on the table, and pushed me away, and then picked up the gourd and looked at it, and shouted: "You little cub, you have done something bad!" ”

I had already found that after the red light flashed just now, the cinnabar color on the gourd mouth rune paper was much darker, and I was a little uncertain in my heart, and I was yelled at by Li San'er, and I stood on the side in a daze and didn't dare to speak, and the seller shouted: "If this thing is really as evil as you just said, I, I don't want it." The money you just gave me, that's it, don't come to me, I'm unlucky! ”

After saying these few words in a daze, the seller stumbled out and disappeared into the snow outside. The second uncle glared at me and walked to Li San'er's side, gave Li San'er a cigarette, and said in a low voice, "Is it really that evil?" You just said that this gourd is a sealed ......"

Li San'er shook his head, blocked the second uncle's words, turned his head to look at me, and asked with a cold face that was extremely serious: "Just now the gourd landed, did you see anything?" ”

I swallowed dryly and said stupidly, "Just now, I saw a black shadow rushing out of the gourd, and then ran out and disappeared. Three masters, isn't there something strange in this? ”

Li San'er didn't speak, reached out and took out a small piece of wood from his military coat, black, about the size of a fingernail, and burned it with a lighter, and immediately there were bursts of green smoke coming out, Li San'er waved the black wood in the air while waving his hand to signal me and the second uncle to step back, at this time I hid behind the second uncle and saw the green smoke floating in the air but not scattering, and gradually condensed together, and slowly seemed to become the appearance of a human face, the description was blurry, I couldn't see it clearly, I wasn't very sure, But the smoke floating in the air did not dissipate, and kept circling around the gourd, which I really saw.

"Like, like there's a human face! Why hasn't this smoke dispersed? ”

Not only was I surprised, but even the second uncle next to me was looking straight and said vigorously: "It's too godly, it's too godly." ”R832