seven relics

He still remembered the address of the debt collection company that he had glanced at on the contract signed by Bao Zhimei earlier, so he led the way to find it.The debt collection agency is located on the third floor of a residential building. Late at night, the house was still lit. Lian Jiangyue looked around and saw two tall and lush maple trees facing the house, so he walked to the tree. Next, he jumped in the air and rushed up the tree.Qian Baisui and Ma Zun came up, and the three of them hid themselves among the branches and leaves, all looking in the direction of the debt collection agency.

The company was full of smog, with two tables of poker, surrounded by more than a dozen people, among them was Brother Ting, surrounded by a group of people who squeezed his shoulders and beat his legs, held ashtrays, and held peanuts With a wave of hands is a stack of red banknotes, full of style.The rest of the people were either smoking or touching cards with their legs crossed. There were many hundred-yuan bills on the table.Ma Zun pointed to a chandelier on the ceiling and said, "Turn on the light, let's go in."

Lian Jiangyue held him down and said, "Wait."

He took out his mobile phone and quietly called the police, saying that someone from a certain household in a certain community gathered to gamble.Soon, a police car arrived, and two policemen in police uniforms got out of the car and entered the residential building. After a while, someone from the debt collection agency walked away from the gaming table. After a while, the two A policeman got out of the police car and swaggered to the gaming table. One patted Brother Ting, and the two shook hands with a smile. Brother Ting lit a cigarette for the policeman and motioned him to sit down. The sleeves squeezed away a fat man wearing a gold necklace at the gaming table, and started fighting with the fat man's banknotes.

Ma Zun clenched his fists, filled with righteous indignation: "Damn it, a nest of snakes and rats!"

He said with resentment: "It seems that the kid who handed over today is probably released by them."

Lian Jiangyue said: "No wonder they came to make trouble last time, I called the police, and the local police station was so perfunctory."

At this moment, Qian Baisui was playing with the two stones in his hands, and said, "Will they go?"

Lian Jiangyue yelled "slow down" again, Ma Zun got a little impatient, pushed away his blocking arm, and said, "What are you doing? Can this fight be over?"

Lian Jiangyue nodded, but she was still squatting on the top of a tree. She pointed the camera of her mobile phone at the debt collection company, took a few photos, and said, "Let's go!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard two swishes in his ears, and then there was a bang from the debt collection agency, the lights went out, and someone in the crowd shouted: "Tripped?"

The three of them kicked open the window and entered the dark room, not to mention Lian Jiangyue and Qianbaisui's skill, Ma Zun's skill is much higher than that of ordinary martial arts practitioners, and when they met When it comes to these three teachings and nine streams, at most they are just muscular bastards, and it is no problem for him to beat thirty of them.In a blink of an eye, the debt collection company and the group were all knocked to the ground by them, unconscious.The three of them were about to leave, but the door of the company was opened, and a beam of flashlight came in, and the three of them hurriedly found a place to hide.

"Brother Ting?"

Lian Jiangyue recognized that it was Hong Hong's voice, and he also smelled some barbecue skewers.

Hong Hong took a few more steps in, she probably stepped on someone and screamed, then she took a picture around the room.Lian Jiangyue watched her in the dark, and saw that she dropped the plastic bag in her hand, looked around, grabbed the money on the gambling table, and stuffed it into the gap between the plaster and her hand. Hold on tight to the money.

Seeing this, Lian Jiangyue pulled her in front of her, covered her mouth, and said, "Taking their money, you have to think about the consequences."

Hong Hong looked around in the dark, she couldn't see Lian Jiangyue clearly, but she recognized his voice.She said, "It's you? Let go, I won't shout."

She added: "There is a safe in the room over there." Shan, and, three, タ.

After hearing this, Ma Zun flashed into a room and came out with a small safe in his arms.

Lian Jiangyue let go of Hong Hong, and Hong Hong ran to the window, throwing the banknotes in her hand downstairs.Ma Zun looked at it and signaled her to get out of the way. Seeing that there was no one on the road, he threw the safe down.He was so powerful that he smashed a big hole in the asphalt road.The safe also cracked open, and many colorful banknotes flew out.He also attracted the attention of many people in the residential building, and people shouted from up, down, left, and right.

"Look! Money is falling from the sky!"

"Look, look!"

Hong Hong laughed loudly, turned her head to look at Lian Jiangyue, and said, "Hurry up, I'm going to call someone."

Lian Jiangyue left with Ma Zun and Qian Baisui through the gate.

But he didn't go back to Baojia Village immediately. Instead, he found an Internet cafe that could print things, printed out the photos taken on his mobile phone, went to the supermarket to buy paper and pens, envelopes and glue, stuffed the photos into the envelope, and sealed it. , write: the achievement of the seam in the transfer tube.He slipped the letter under the door of the Evening Post office.Then, he went to Xinmin Hotel again, asked the front desk for Lao Shen's contact information, made a phone call, said that he needed a car now, and asked Lao Shen to meet at the entrance of Xinmin Hotel.

While waiting for the bus, Lian Jiangyue asked the front desk: "How much are you willing to sell for the wardrobe in the room I lived in?"

Monk Zhang Er at the front desk couldn't figure it out, Lian Jiangyue directly offered a price: "Five hundred?"

Ma Zun asked Qianbaisui from the side: "Why does he buy other people's wardrobes?"

Qian Baisui couldn't tell, Lian Jiangyue had bought the wardrobe for 650 over there.The front desk asked him for the address, and he asked someone to deliver it to him during the day.Lian Jiangyue said: "We can just move back by ourselves."

"Now?"

"Yes, now."

The front desk was even more confused, but they still took Lian Jiangyue and his party upstairs.Entering the room, seeing the wardrobe, smelling the smell, Qian Baisui patted Lian Jiangyue, laughed loudly, and said, "Okay, let's try what this fake Liuhuamu is like!"

As he said that, he slapped the closet, and the closet fell off the ground. Qian Baisui stuffed his feet into the gap between the closet and the floor, kicked it up lightly, and the closet immediately fell apart into seven planks.

The receptionist looked dumbfounded, rubbed his cheeks, swallowed his saliva, stepped back with a smile, said: "You three are busy, you three are busy..." and disappeared.

The three of Lian Jiangyue fought against the seven planks and went downstairs. Lao Shen's car was already waiting at the door.Seeing him, Lian Jiangyue waved at him and pointed to the board on her shoulder: "Put the trunk?"

Seeing their moving company-like posture, Old Shen was stunned for a while before getting out of the car, hurriedly opened the trunk, helped loading and unloading the wooden boards, and asked hesitantly, "It's late at night, you come to the hotel... to buy wood?"

He glanced at Qian Baisui and Ma Zun, laughed together, and said, "These two are..."

"My friend." Lian Jiangyue said.When Ma Zun heard this, his expression changed immediately, and he argued, "Whoever is his friend, I will help!"

Qianbaisui smiled and pulled him into the car.Lian Jiangyue continued to talk to Lao Shen: "You said your nephew is from the Wine Trade Association, right?"

"Do you want to buy wine?" Old Shen patted his chest, "That's easy to do. If there is no wine on the market, I promise, I will give you the cost price!"

Lian Jiangyue smiled and said, "Let's talk in the car."

He and Old Shen also got into the car, and said, "Let's go to Baojia Village."

On the way, he briefly talked about the Bao family's affairs.After hearing this, Old Shen patted the steering wheel again and again, and said excitedly: "I, Old Shen, will definitely help with this. Don't worry, my nephew listens to me the most on weekdays. I will definitely report this name to you!"

Lian Jiangyue was still uneasy, and said: "Otherwise, I will visit your nephew in person tomorrow, and beg him."

Old Shen waved his hand, pointed to the phone and said, "I'll call him right now."

As soon as the phone call was made, Lao Shen chattered a lot in dialect, and asked Lian Jiangyue for a WeChat account. After a while, a person named "Dr. Minshijiu" sent a friend request.Lian Jiangyue added him, Dr. Jiu sent a registration form and said: Fill it out before noon tomorrow and give it to me.

He also sent a voice message: Registration fee, three thousand, transfer now?

Lian Jiangyue was about to transfer money, when the back row suddenly stretched out a hand to hold him down.Lian Jiangyue looked back, and it was Ma Zun who was holding him down, and he kept winking at him.Lian Jiangyue understood what he meant, he was worried that Lao Shen and this so-called nephew were cheating money.

Lian Jiangyue asked Old Shen: "You didn't lie to me, did you?"

Old Shen let out two breaths: "Brother, if you say that, I'm going to be angry. What do I call this? This is called duty, and this is called helping with swords. If you are afraid that I will deceive you, I will give you the registration fee." out."

Lian Jiangyue smiled, transferred three thousand to the wine doctor, and said, "Okay, you said you didn't lie to me, then I believe you."

After a while, they arrived at Baojia Village. Lian Jiangyue intentionally introduced Lao Shen and Bao Renhui to each other, but Lao Shen said, "It's getting late, you should rest, there will always be a chance to meet." Then he drove away.

After getting out of the car and unloading the boards in the yard, Ma Zun specifically talked to Lian Jiangyue, and he said, "Aren't you afraid that your three thousand dollars will be in vain? I think that old boy has some problems."

Lian Jiangyue said: "He said he didn't lie to me, I am willing to believe him."

"You know him very well? Have you known him for a long time?"

"I'm not familiar with you. I didn't know them until I came to Min City not long ago." Lian Jiangyue looked at Ma Zun and said, "I don't lie, and I'm willing to believe that others won't lie to me."

Ma Zun looked at Lian Jiangyue strangely, and said, "I think you also have some problems." He also left.

Lian Jiangyue and Qian Baisui entered the house, and at a glance they saw Bao Zhimei pasting white paper on the living room wall.She heard the movement, turned her head, saw them, and nodded to them.

Bao Zhimei's long hair was twisted short and disheveled. She still had the same tracksuit and the same pair of sneakers on her feet.But people seem to have changed a lot, and they can't feel the breath of Bao Zhimei in the past-her eyes have become cold, without warmth, and her face is expressionless.She and Bao Renhui, who had been cursing quietly and furiously in the yard before, looked like brothers and sisters.

A red bruise was faintly visible on her neck.

Bao Zhimei turned her head again.

Qian Baisui stepped forward and chatted up with her with a smile: "Xiao Bao, go to bed first."

Bao Zhimei said: "Go to sleep in your room. Bao Renhui and I are going to study the formula here. It may take us all night and it will disturb your rest."

Not only did Bao Zhimei speak calmly and calmly, but she even thought of others, and even said that she would study the formula with Bao Renhui... Qian Baisui had a cold war, and stabbed Jiangyue with his elbow, and the incident happened. Abnormally, there must be a demon.

Lian Jiangyue was also wondering when she saw Bao Renhui coming out of the toilet, walked over, stopped Bao Renhui, blocked him at the toilet door, avoided Bao Zhimei, and asked him in a low voice: "What's wrong with your sister? "

Bao Renhui was making a video call with a woman holding a little boy with her head down. The two said goodnight to each other. When the video ended, he switched back to a movie viewing interface without even raising his eyelids. Then he answered Lian Jiang Yue: "She said that she is not even afraid of death, is it possible that she is still afraid of studying Wanxiang wine with me?"

He yawned and walked away from Lian Jiangyue: "I'm starving to death."

He rummaged through boxes and drawers in the kitchen, muttering, "Where's the instant noodles I put here? There's only one pack left. Which of you ate it?"

No one answered, so he came out with a bag of quick-frozen dumplings, raised his chin towards the bedroom, and said, "Go to the bedroom with the old man to sleep. There is a big bed in the room. The smell is not so bad, but the walls are burnt black. It's ugly."

Bao Zhimei said at this time: "I'll get you quilts and make a bed."

She went into the bedroom.

The bedroom was divided into two rooms, inside and outside, with a bead curtain hanging in the middle to block it out. The inside room used to be her parents' room, and the outside room used to have a bunk bed. Bao Renhui slept on the top bed, and she slept on the bottom bed.The walls are covered with movie posters and animated posters. When she was a child, after school, she would nest here to avoid the annoying heat of the winery and the smell of fermented products that filled the living room.The classmates said that she also had "that" smell on her body-that smelly, sour smell.Even if she moved house, left the brewery, left those fermented grains, those molds that had been in the house for many years, wore brand-new clothes, and cut fashionable hairstyles, the new classmates still pointed at her and pinched her. Nose passed in front of her.They even intensified, mocking her tangle-prone and oily hair, satirizing her increasingly uncontrollable body shape, saying she was like a piece of oily stinky tofu.

She doesn't want to see these classmates anymore, she just wants to stay with her father and mother every day.Dad is always so gentle to her, always regards her as the apple of his eye, and mother will never say that she smells bad, that she is fat, or that she is ugly.She also didn't want to see Bao Renhui, they were obviously the same parents, why was Bao Renhui so slender, so handsome, and he had so many friends?So likable?

Later, my father's wine shop made more money and sent Bao Renhui to study in Australia. Later, my mother fell ill and could no longer go to the shop to help sell wine, and could no longer go to the wine shop to wash rice and wheat. She couldn't even lift the pots and pans at home.My mother was born with lung disease, her face was always pale, her lips were always red, and she often couldn't use her strength when speaking.Whenever the mother wants to say something, Shangguan Yuzhan must convey it on her behalf.

As long as mother's lips move a little, Shangguan Yuzhan will understand everything.

When did Shangguan Yuzhan come to the Bao family?

Bao Zhimei can't remember.She hastily finished junior high school and never stepped out of the house again, and her concept of time has become blurred.The family moved to the urban area very early, but after their mother fell ill, the doctor advised her to retreat, so they moved back to live in the old house.Bao Zhimei followed her mother back to the old house.As for Shangguan Yuzhan, she would come to the old house to stay for a while every day. Her mother was lying on the bed, and she was lying next to her mother, reading newspapers and magazines to her.Shangguan Yuzhan really knows how to dress up, and she wears different clothes every time. Shangguan Yuzhan is really beautiful, with thick black hair, bright black eyes, ruddy face, small cherry-like mouth, and her snow-white skin.Shangguan Yuzhan likes to stretch her snow-white calf out of the bed, hook her leather shoes with her feet, and bite her mother's ears sideways.

Mom is always happy to see her.My mother said: "Your Aunt Shangguan and I have known each other since we were young. We are both children of the Geological Bureau. Aunt Shangguan's father later went to trade and was shipwrecked on a freighter."

"Aunt Shangguan brought back only a case of American-made bourbon whiskey and a felt hat."

Bao Zhimei remembered that Shangguan Yuzhan really loved wearing a woolen hat, and she also liked to draw two mustaches on her lips, put on a suit and trousers, and tap dance in her mother's room for her to see.

When her mother left, Shangguan Yuzhan showed her a tap dance, dragged her to dance together, and said to her: "Zhimei, your mother is watching us in the sky. If we are happier, she will be happy, otherwise she will be happy." Resenting her own short life, accumulating resentment and turning into a demon, she will become a cannibal old hag, grabbing children to eat everywhere, you don't want her to become an old hag?"

Bao Zhimei said: "Aunt Shangguan, you are lying to a child. When a person dies, he is dead. It would be great if she could become an old witch. Let her come to me, and I will see her again."

Shangguan Yuzhan laughed when he heard it, drank the wine, hummed a little song, patted Bao Zhimei on the head, and hugged her.Bao Zhimei likes to be held by her.She could smell her mother from Shangguan Yuzhan.

But Shangguan Yuzhan, who likes to laugh so much and wants to be happy like this, is also unhappy sometimes, mostly in the middle of the night, when she is sitting on the big bed in the bedroom, holding a wooden box, and weeping silently.After she married her father, she lived in the old house, took care of wine making, and also took care of Bao Zhimei's daily life.Her father came once a week, and sometimes Bao Zhimei didn't even miss her father very much. What she missed was Shangguan Yuzhan who was happily dancing and drinking.Once, she secretly saw Shangguan Yuzhan crying again, so she walked into the room, reached out to wipe her tears, leaned on her, and hugged her.

Shangguan Yuzhan patted her arm, took a sip of the wine, and said, "This jar of wine has to be put back, and you can drink it when you are older. This is the wine made in the year your mother gave birth to you, Zhimei Ah, there are memories in wine."

After finishing speaking, Shangguan Yuzhan closed the wooden box and locked it in the closet, looking happy again.

At this time, Bao Zhimei took out a quilt from the closet, spread it on the big bed, walked outside, and glanced at a wooden box on the table.That was the wooden box that Shangguan Yuzhan locked up.

Bao Zhimei walked over, opened the box, and found a letter. This was a letter sent to Xinjiang to a person named Lianwuchen. For some unknown reason, the letter was returned.Postmarked in 1980.

There is also a lock of hair tied with red cotton thread in the wooden box, a few old photos, and in a photo from an upward perspective, Shangguan Yuzhan is leaning on a section of water-green railing, looking at the camera, with his right leg tilted back , with a red high-heeled shoe hooked on his right foot.She had a great laugh.

I don't know who took the photo, but the signature on the back reads: Yuzhan, Amusement Park.

Bao Zhimei recognized that those were her mother's words.

The rest of the photos are photos of mother and Shangguan Yuzhan.

Bao Zhimei took out the letter to be sent to Lian Wuchen, stuffed a ball of silk scarf on the table into the wooden box, and closed the box.The silk scarf was originally in this wooden box. Half an hour ago, she dug out the wooden box she secretly hid, found the silk scarf, hung it on the beam, and hanged herself .

But the silk scarf was too fragile, and it tore immediately. She fell heavily on the ground. Bao Renhui knocked open the door and came in. Seeing her, she had a pale face and a big mouth. She thought he would yell at him, but Bao Renhui Hui just helped her up, and said to her: "Okay, you are not afraid of death now, are you still afraid of studying Wanxiang wine with me?"

Panting heavily, Bao Zhimei replied, "I want to take Shangguan Yuzhan home."

Bao Renhui said cursingly, "Why mention her at this time?"

"She's not a mistress."

"do not talk!"

"I'm going to say."

Maybe it was her great courage to escape from death, or maybe she was reborn from Nirvana, and she looked completely new. Facing the brother she had been avoiding all this time, Bao Zhimei suddenly started talking non-stop: "What did you discuss in the living room just now?" I heard everything about it. At that time, I was still very happy. I thought, if I can’t do something, someone will continue to do it. If Bao Renhui is replaced, maybe it can be done. I comfort myself, I am also dead And no regrets. But..." She choked, "Bao Renhui, do you know that wine has memory, but..." She had a lot to say, but when she couldn't express it well, she became incoherent. Said: "Shangguan Yuzhan used to be so beautiful, so happy, why did she grow old, she became so melancholy, she would forget so many things, she forgot me, she forgot her mother... I don't want it! "

Bao Renhui stiffened his neck and said, "You can do it, you can't even drink wine, you tell me shit that wine has memory."

Bao Zhimei smiled and reached out to him. Bao Renhui squeezed her eyes and shook hands with her reluctantly.Bao Zhimei said: "Let me recommend a movie for you to watch."

Bao Renhui didn't want to talk to her anymore, and went straight out.Bao Zhimei followed, took a pair of scissors in the kitchen and twisted her hair.

At this time, her cut hair could still be seen in the kitchen sink, Lian Jiangyue was cleaning the hair, Bao Zhimei called him and handed him the letter.

Lian Jiangyue took the letter, read the delivery address, and said softly, "It's a racecourse."

Bao Zhimei asked him: "Why don't you open it and take a look?"

Lian Jiangyue smiled, and put the letter under Bao Renhui's dumpling pot.The letter burned.Bao Renhui shouted: "Quickly put out the fire!"

Lian Jiangyue threw the burning letter into the sink and let it burn away.Bao Zhimei was dumbfounded, and Bao Renhui scolded: "Go crazy!"

Lian Jiangyue said: "This is a letter to Lianwu, not to me. He is already dead, so let's burn it and give it to him."

He turned on the faucet and washed away the ashes from the burning.When Bao Renhui's dumplings were cooked, Bao Zhimei took four bowls and four pairs of chopsticks and set them on the dining table. She saw that Qianbaisui was sitting at the dining table and fell asleep.The three of them watched the movie on Bao Renhui's phone while eating dumplings.

He was watching a documentary about how one man mixes and mixes cheap wines to pass them off as premium wineries.

Bao Renhui said quietly: "Maybe it will be possible."