In the winter of 1995, it was snowing lightly. 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 the cold wind and snowflakes, I was sitting in the room behind the shop watching cartoons. The room was not well insulated. 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, with my understanding of him, since he said this, he had the intention of driving people away.

"Why can't you take it? This gourd was collected by me at a great price in Shenyang Road a while ago, you see this workmanship, this texture, it must be a valuable item, they all say that you have good materials here, why do you refuse to come to me? ”

Wearing a black raincoat. The bearded man said in a little anxious manner, Tianjin people were originally in a hurry, but at this time, they were in a hurry, and the speed of speech was faster.

"Your thing is new, and the base material of the gourd is good, but the texture on it is wrong. You squint, the lines on your side are not made of crafts at all. And there is no bottom money underneath, and the mouth of the gourd is still sealed with these strange rune paper, do you say I can swallow it? ”

The second uncle shouted while waving his hand, how much do antiques know some strange things, and there are also some rules in the industry, new things are naturally not wanted, and things of unknown origin are better to be touched less, not to mention that this gourd is strange in the second uncle's opinion. Naturally, he is reluctant to be angry.

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 as he spoke, but the second uncle was also in a hurry, and when he heard the other party's mouth scolding and infamy, he shouted in a hurry: "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 at first glance was no different from an ordinary gourd, except that it was engraved with some snake-like lines, criss-crossed. A few words that I couldn't read were engraved on the belly of the round gourd, and two yellow runes were pasted at the mouth of the gourd, and two lines of strange words were written on it in red cinnabar. Ghost drawing charms are average. On the outside of the rune paper, a layer of wax is sealed around the mouth of the gourd, and the slightest crack that covers the mouth of the gourd is not revealed.

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

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.

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: "Wanlin, you stay by the side, don't make a sound." ”

After a few 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! ”

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 his gloves and stared at the gourd on the table, the cracks on his face immediately changed, and then he carefully lifted the gourd, looked at the rune paper on it, and then 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 situation, 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 slightly 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 squinted at the gourd on the table again, and said, "This gourd seems to be surrounded by a puff of gray smoke, 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 breath that seems to be able to drill into even the bones, and it suddenly pounces on my hand, and I almost didn't hold it. The seller was startled, hurriedly took it, and after a slight swing on his hand, he said, "It's not cold, what are you talking about, little brat!" ”

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, and asked me to show them, either knives or broken swords or the like, every time I could always see some unusual pictures from these things, and several times I could hear strange voices.

This time, although I was unexpectedly frozen just now, my curiosity was still very strong, so I thought about having fun. 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. As soon as the gourd landed, the wax on the mouth of the gourd immediately cracked, and it 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 flashing, and a black shadow suddenly jumped out of the mouth of the gourd, the speed was very fast, I just saw a trace, I didn't see too clearly, the speed was too fast.

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

After saying these few words in a daze, the seller stumbled out and quickly disappeared into the wind and 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, "Are you really so retreating?" You just said that this gourd is a sealed ......"

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

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, took a lighter and burned it, and immediately there were bursts of green smoke coming out, Li San'er waved around in the air with black wood, and waved 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, gradually condensed together, and slowly seemed to become a human face, the description was blurry, I couldn't see clearly, not very sure, But the smoke floating in the air did not dissipate, and kept circling the gourd, which I really saw.

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

Not only was I taken aback, but even the second uncle next to me looked at it with straight eyes, and said vigorously: "It's too godly, it's too godly." ”R832