crossing yin and yang

After leaving Jieshuizhai, walk west along the street for more than ten minutes, and the quaint cultural street will be left behind, and what stands in front of you will become a low-rise residential area. This is the old city that has not yet been renovated. Most of them are tube buildings built in the 80s and [-]s. There is no planning and layout at all. The buildings are densely packed together, and the chaos also brings out a strong market atmosphere.

At this moment, it was completely dark, and the street was full of stalls operating in the street. All kinds of snacks and the smell of barbecue mixed together, coupled with the yelling shops and diners, made the street even more noisy miscellaneous.Wei Yang stepped quickly, bypassing the crowd in a blink of an eye, and walked into a deeper alley. After a while, a dilapidated small building appeared in front of him. Unlike other residential buildings, the residents of this building with lights on at this time were There are not many, most of the rooms are dark, and there are a few people at the stairway gathered together, who are talking about these things. The man with the sharp mouth and monkey cheeks in the middle heard footsteps and looked up. He looked down again when he saw a familiar face. Turning his head away, Wei Yang walked quickly into the cave without looking sideways.

The environment in the corridor is worse than the outside. The originally narrow corridor is filled with all kinds of sundries. It doesn’t know how long it took for the lights to go out. Walking in the dark is like walking into a minefield. There will be a pungent smell, and I don't know what is going on inside.In such a community, any tenant with a normal head would probably not come to rent a house. It looks like a high-risk area, but Wei Yang knows it very well. In terms of safety, this building may be ranked first in the city. A few, because this place is not for ordinary tenants, but a place where three religions and nine streams live together.

Those who set up stalls to tell fortunes, counterfeiters, petty theft, and those who stand on the street to attract customers... In the old society, they were typical "jianghu people", but the original organized "business underworld" has long since ceased to exist. , it is more like a spontaneous gathering place for those who are on the dark side of society.To them, it doesn't matter what the neighbors are doing. It is serious to do their own business well. At the same time, they will never reach out to their neighbors.Therefore, no matter whether you have money or not, thieves and burglars never patronize this building. On the contrary, this dilapidated tube building is much safer than those high-end residential areas with guards during the day and security guards at night.

After walking through the long corridor, Wei Yang opened the door of his house. He rented a single room at the end of the corridor. Seeing that the walls inside are mottled and faded, and the concrete floor is somewhat dented, except for the wooden bed and an old desk in the corner of the room, the whole room can only be described as barren, but Wei Yang closed the door with a relaxed expression, He stood quietly at the door.

Half a minute later, a black figure crawled in from the balcony, moving at an excruciatingly slow pace. Seeing that guy, Wei Yang smiled, knelt down and said hello to him: "My lord is passing by today!" How are you doing?"

The guy called "Master" is a tortoise, to be precise, a nondescript tortoise. It looks stupid, but it's not too small. Its shell is as big as the bottom of a basin. Crawled out of the pool, his paws were still a little wet, and he dragged out a long watermark.Wei Yang was not in a hurry, and waited patiently for the turtle to get closer, then reached out and touched its wet shell, and said in a low voice: "After this order is completed, how about we change to a new home, I want a new pool with a rockery ?"

The tortoise didn't know if it understood, so it blinked its small mung bean-sized eyes unhurriedly, stretched its neck and rubbed Wei Yang's fingers as a greeting, and slowly crawled away.Seeing Master Turtle's movements, Wei Yang showed a real smile on his face, which was not so cute, but with a bit of tiredness on the contrary. He let out a long breath, stood up and walked towards the desk.

If you say that this house has the most life atmosphere, it might be the desk. A few old books are piled up on the table. Papers can be seen everywhere, most of which are written. There is also an old black leather notebook. at the table.Wei Yang opened the stool and sat in front of the desk, took out a small wooden box from his pocket and placed it on the desk.

The phalanx was naturally contained in the box, and when the lid was opened, Wei Yang hesitated a little, then reached out to pick up the phalanx.The bones are not as cold as imagined, but warm when touched, like a piece of warm jade.Rubbing it lightly with his fingertips, he found that there was really a circle of fine and dense lines engraved on this bone, which didn't look like words, but looked like some kind of pattern, clever and unique, and also revealed a sense of mystery. breath.

If you have seen such a thing, you will never forget it, but Wei Yang found that he didn't have any relevant impressions in his memory. He just felt that this joint looked familiar, and even blurted out "bone array".How did he know that this thing was related to the formation?Or, is this thing really a magic weapon?

Wei Yang grinned in his heart. He has been in the Feng Shui circle for a long time, and he has seen too many deception methods. He actually doesn't believe in those strange things. Deception tricks are just a matter of high-end and low-end techniques. There are very few so-called "cutting-edge products" in the entire industry, and things that can be called "magic tools" are hard to change. No one can say Know exactly what these instruments can do.He absolutely does not believe what kind of "formation" this small bone can form.

However, it is not a formation, but it is not necessarily a good thing.Just looking at the lines on the joints, you can tell that it took a lot of effort, and the feel is different from ordinary bones. Maybe you should ask an expert in an antique shop to take a look?After playing with it up and down for a long time, Wei Yang still couldn't see anything from the joint, so he gently put it back.However, looking at that white phalanx, the sense of familiarity in his heart suddenly swelled a little, and a possibility came to mind, could this strange sense of familiarity be related to something he had forgotten?

When Wei Yang was young, he was involved in a serious car accident. His parents died on the spot. His grandfather took him back to his hometown in the countryside. However, after returning home, he fell seriously ill and forgot everything before the age of three. Don't even remember the details of the crash.People around him have always told him that this is a good thing, that it can avoid childhood shadows, but those missing memories are like a moat, separating him from the past, and even making him unable to remember the appearance of his parents, even looking at the photos. Feel strange, for a child, of course it is not a good childhood.

If this bone formation really has anything to do with that year... Wei Yang shook his head suddenly, and reached out to cover the box.Thinking too much, how can there be such a coincidence, and what's the point of chasing the reflection of the year, things have long been changed.If this thing is really a good thing, it's better to find an expert to sell it for some money.Putting those thoughts behind him, Wei Yang grabbed a few pieces of paper from the side and began to write and draw, preparing for the "big picture" in a few days.

That night, Wei Yang had a rare early sleep. Due to the low floor, the room was still damp and cold after nightfall. He curled up in the quilt, tightly clutching the quilt beside him, sleeping unconsciously.I don't know when it started, a faint white light seeped out from the small wooden box on the desk, reflecting it, the white jade tablet hanging around his neck also lit up, the two rays of light collided faintly, An invisible air wave suddenly spread in the room.As the ripples spread, a small red mole suddenly appeared on the tiger's mouth on Wei Yang's left hand, like a drop of delicate blood, congealed on the surface of the skin.

There was a sound of crawling on the floor, the tortoise slowly came to the middle of the house, squatted down on the west side of the room, stretched its neck and raised its head, staring firmly at the shiny wooden box. at every turn.

In the early morning of the next day, the biological clock in Wei Yang's body started to work automatically before dawn, and he woke up on time.Stretching his waist lazily on the bed, he turned over and got up, before he put on his slippers, he found something was wrong on the floor. Looking carefully, it turned out that Master Turtle was lying in the middle of the room in a daze, as if he was reading on the desk. Something, the neck is stretched out, and the turtle shell is a little dry.

"Has a rat?" He walked over lightly, and looked at the table curiously. The master has indeed squatted on the mouse and cockroach several times, and he has quite a record. He can be regarded as a mutated "house turtle", but There was nothing on the desk at the moment, not even a mouse footprint, he bent down and touched the shell of the turtle with a smile, "Why, I feel uncomfortable sleeping in the water basin, so I am in a hurry to move?"

The tortoise didn't pay attention to him, but slowly retracted its stretched neck, and moved to the balcony step by step.Not sure what the master was messing with, Wei Yang carefully checked the food bowl and water bowl, and began to wash after making sure there was nothing wrong. However, when he was squeezing the toothpaste, he frowned, raised his left hand, and saw the palm approaching A red mole suddenly appeared on the tiger's mouth. It was small in size but quite dark in color. If you didn't look carefully, you might think it was bleeding from a cut on your hand.

"Could it be an allergy?" He touched it suspiciously, and found that the red spot was neither painful nor itchy. Wei Yang didn't get distracted, so he put down his hands and continued to brush his teeth.

Half an hour later, after packing up, he lifted his feet and walked out the door.The sky was still gray at the moment, and there were no people on the street except for the hawkers selling breakfast and the old men and women doing morning exercises. His pace was not slow. turn off the alley.

Due to urban planning, the back alley of Wenhua Street has the same small second-floor layout. It is a row of houses that are not too high. However, the antique business pays attention to inventory and stocking. Most of the back alleys are sold by the shops facing the street and become temporary warehouses. , also provides some private transactions.Standing in front of an antique small courtyard built with green bricks, Wei Yang reached out and patted the copper knocker.

"Who! It's so early in the morning..." An unhappy voice came from the courtyard, as if he was still angry after getting up.

Wei Yang smiled and said, "Brother Ming, it's me."

There was a pause in the door for a moment, as if finally realizing who was knocking on the door, there was a sound of kicking plastic slippers, and the door was pulled open with a creak.It was a young man who came to answer the door. He didn't look very old, he was slim, his face was dark and thin, and he had some sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks, just like a monkey. It was Liu Ming, the second housekeeper of Jubaozhai, nicknamed Heipi.Heipi rubbed the gums in the corners of his eyes, and said hello: "You came so early, you have big business again?"

"The size of the business depends on whether there are good products." Wei Yang walked into the courtyard gate without knowing the truth.

The small courtyard has been transformed into a warehouse, large and small boxes are stacked together, some boxes are not tightly covered, and you can still see the jade bracelets stacked inside. This kind of bracelets can be sold for at least thousands in stores, but Now it's lying in the yard like a pile of junk.Hei Pi didn't care about these odds and ends, he walked all the way to the innermost shelf before stopping, and raised his neck: "Here, all the magic instruments on the plate are there recently, let's see what you need."

Different from the pile of boxes just now, this shelf has obviously been taken care of. Not only is it placed relatively inward, but also posted "Buddha Artifacts", "Four Elephants", "Chinese Zodiac", and "Mascots" on the shelf by category With labels like , everything is neatly placed in the wooden box, and it looks like it has been upgraded to a higher level.

Wei Yang didn't talk nonsense, and directly opened a few boxes in the column of "Four Elephants".The so-called four images naturally refer to Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, and Xuanwu, which are one of the most basic elements of Fengshui. Except for the magical instruments of the Feng Shui Bureau, almost no one would put them at home as ordinary ornaments.Jubaozhai was originally engaged in the antique business, and it was also a distribution center for all kinds of "consecrated" items. Of course, there were also many four-figured wares, but Wei Yang shook his head at a glance: "If these are not expensive, there are even higher grades." order?"

"You don't even like it?" Hei Pi was startled, "The quality of the four-element artifacts this time is very good, especially those few bronze turtles, which are already considered high-quality goods."

"I've already used one copper tortoise, so it's not easy to use a similar one." Wei Yang thought for a while, then asked, "What about the jade? Is there a better one?"

"Oh, don't tell me, there really is something." Heipi slapped his head, remembered something, turned around and shouted to the side room, "Uncle Qi, Ah Yang is here to see the goods, can you take him in to have a look?" ?”

After a long time there was no response from the room, Hei Pi curled his lips: "I guess I'm carving something again, come with me."

Next door is a closed studio. When you open the door, you can see a high-wattage incandescent lamp inside. An old man is leaning over the workbench. There is a small root carving in front of him, and he is tinkering with something.Heipi explained: "The old Huaigen who just came back from the plate, the old man is addicted, so ignore him."

Wei Yang obviously understood Qi Shu's temper very well, and followed Hei Pi to the small room inside.The security level in the room was obviously higher. Heipi twisted the combination lock for a long time before opening the metal cabinet, and took out a small square wooden box from inside.

"How about looking at this?" Hei Pi raised his eyebrows slightly, and Hei Pi opened the lid of the box, only to see a smear of jade color in front of him.

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Business location: In the old society, the hotel was specially provided for Jianghu businessmen. When ordinary people came in, they were "full of people and had no room". Big, and only those who have lived in the lower part of the business, or even often live in the lower part of the business, can be considered a veteran of the world and know some rules of the world that others don't know.