Cat Gu Notes

"Let's go. What's the matter?"

Zhang Zhu stepped forward hesitantly, Xia Mingruo said again: "Look, this is really hopeless."

Zhang Zhu didn't leave, and turned back to Xia Xiubai, "What are you talking about?"

Xia Xiubai put on airs and refused to say anything at first, and waited for a long time before being begged for a long time before he sighed softly and said, "You think they are asking about the whereabouts of the cultural relics, but they are actually trying to save you. Those two things were obtained by us occasionally. Yes, I didn't think much of it at first, but later I realized that they were weird."

He observed Zhang Zhu's face, and asked in a caring tone, "Are you okay?"

Seeing Zhang Zhu shaking his head numbly, he continued: "When we found out, we were terrified, and were about to bury these two things in a no-man's land. Who knew that someone who didn't pay attention was secretly taken to the county seat, Then it fell into the hands of your brother-in-law and you. We pursued it not because we were reluctant, but because we really couldn't let those two things stay in the world."

"You also saw your sister's situation last night." Xia Mingruo winked at his father, and continued, "She was lucky, she only looked at the box, if she also looked in the mirror, it would take half a month or ten days , you are going to arrange for my sister’s funeral.”

Zhang Zhu said, "Eh? That mirror isn't rust..."

"It just looks rusty." Xia Mingruo interrupted him, "I tell you that from ancient times to the present, soul-absorbing mirrors have been made rusty, black, and blunt. How can I deceive you idiots? But in reality Anyone who has come into contact with the soul-absorbing mirror and the soul-locking box...well, it's all over, you can go, lest we change our minds."

Zhang Zhu said urgently: "No, then..."

"Let's go!" Leopard yelled at him, "Could it be that you can't bear to part with me?"

Xia Xiubai greeted and said: "Brother Yuwen, Leopard, son, let's go too, we won't be able to catch the bus back to the provincial capital if we are late."

The four guys pretended to walk forward for 30 meters, and the uncle whispered: "Don't believe it, you have passed it, look at what names you made up, have you heard too much storytelling?"

Xia Mingruo was also annoyed: "I made it up, but he seems to believe it."

"You kid is playing indiscriminately, how can we pick it up now?"

Zhang Zhu looked at their backs and hesitated for a moment, then chased after them: "I... transferred it to Ma Minghui, the woman just now."

"So she wasn't your partner? Why didn't you tell me earlier?!" Leopard roared back.

Zhang Zhu wiped off his cold sweat and shivered, he was afraid, he was a hard-nosed person, usually bullying the weak and afraid of the hard in the county, but when he really did things, he was a pussy.It was indeed the first time for him to participate in reselling antiques. If he hadn't been drinking too much last night, or if his brother-in-law Liu Amao hadn't pulled him in suddenly, he wouldn't have dared to touch cultural relics with ten guts.

According to him, although Ma Minghui is only in his 30s, he is a "luzi" in the local area. The so-called "luzi" is someone who has connections with transnational cultural relics smuggling groups.Ma Minghui used to shop for goods from Liu Amao, but Liu Amao was frightened by his wife's poisoning last night, so he actually transferred the things to his brother-in-law.Ma Minghui was not willing to go short, so he found him that night and promised to buy him at a much higher price, moreover using foreign exchange certificates.Zhang Zhu agreed without thinking.

He pulled the Xia family father and son and refused to let go, and asked the people who had touched the two cultural relics what the consequences would be. Those two guys deliberately hung him up, and you would know after just saying something, which made Zhang Zhu very anxious.

Leopard asked Zhang Zhu, "Where does that girl live?"

The uncle said: "He knows what a fart! Go to Liu Amao and ask."

Liu Amao is still in bed in the hospital.His wife woke up, but her whole body turned blue, even the whites of her eyes were slightly blue, looking like a fat bronze statue from a distance.Liu Amao's complexion was gray, his hair was disheveled, and his face was covered with criss-cross nail marks.

He really gave up on those two cultural relics, so he gave Ma Minghui's address without even thinking about it, and told Xia Mingruo and the others that Ma Minghui's younger brother, Ma Mingwei, was the driver of the county health bureau, and he often used buses to pick up Ma Minghui in and out. county seat.

"If you want to recover the baby, you have to hurry up. Ma Minghui might be transferred tonight."

Xia Mingruo and the others quickly ran downstairs to Ma Minghui's house.Cultural relics dealers like Ma Minghui have always lived in seclusion, but as the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves stealing, you are afraid of thieves thinking about them. Thieves always have a way.

The uncle said: "Just keep an eye on this girl, and call all the buddies in the tea shop to help."

"How come? No car."

"What a car! You have to come here by tractor!"

At six or seven o'clock in the evening, those buddies really went into the city against all odds.When Xiao Shi saw the uncle and the leopard, he called out, "Huh? Isn't this Master Li? You came back from Lop Nur?"

The uncle smiled and said, "I'm back, I'm back."

Xiao Shi said in a jiggle, "We all thought you were dead, and we've been terrified for so many days." Xia Mingruo slapped Xiao Shi on the head and said, "Shi Weidong, are you bored? Is it time to reminisce about the old days?"

Xiao Shi said: "It's all my fault that I didn't straighten my mind and deeply understand the spirit of the Party Central Committee's documents, so that I was always riding on the neck of others. Sure enough, class struggle can't be forgotten, and I have to be an iron fist..."

These more than a dozen people squatted together in the alley near Ma Minghui's house, all of them looked solemn, and the first reaction of others when they saw it was to take a detour.

It was dark and the rain was falling, but the curtains of Ma Minghui's house were still drawn, and the curtains with green bamboo patterns on a white background were motionless, and the people below were waiting like ants on a hot pot.

"Turn on the light." Xiao Shi said softly, "Why is there no movement, do you think she will transfer tonight?"

"Probably yes. She is different from ordinary cultural relic dealers who are looking for suitable buyers. She is a transnational smuggling group who is responsible for receiving goods, and she will sell the goods immediately when they arrive." Xia Mingruo said, "Just wait."

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, but no one complained. Everyone thought of a question: If Ma Minghui really wanted to transfer the cultural relics tonight, how should we stop her?

"Call the police." Someone suggested.

Wang Xin grabbed the man's arm, wanting to kneel down.Once he reported to the police, he would be indefinite at most, and at least he would be reeducated through labor. He would always pay a heavy price for his temporary greed.

Suddenly, two beams of light suddenly illuminated the alley, and everyone jumped up and pressed against the wall, holding their breath and hiding in the shadows.

"It's probably his younger brother Ma Mingwei's car, and she's leaving." Xia Mingruo said in a low voice.

The car did not stop at the entrance of the alley, but drove directly to Ma Minghui's downstairs.A tall woman appeared from the stairs carrying a travel bag and got into the passenger seat.

"Keep up! Keep up!"

Everyone chased the dark green jeep out of the municipal committee's family compound and watched it disappear at the corner of the street. When they were at a loss what to do, suddenly a bus stopped in front of them with a scream of sudden braking, and the leopard in the cab poked out. Half body, shouted: "Come on!"

Everyone rushed forward, and only after they got on did they realize what kind of bus it was, and it was clearly a funeral car.There is a huge "Dian" character in the middle of the front of the car, and the walls of the car are covered with black cloth. Wreaths, paper carts, paper horses, paper figures, white cloth, and black gauze are all available, but most of the seats have been removed because they need space to put them in. The gaudy paper coffin; on the elegiac couplet pasted on the rear window of the car, one side says "sound and appearance are present" and the other side says "nobility lasts forever".When everyone sat inside and turned on the lights, they all looked quite immortal.Lao Huang sat in the middle of the coffin lid, dignified and solemn, like a totem.

The uncle took off his rubber shoes and slapped the leopard: "I told you to get a car! Just get me such a thing!!"

While dodging, Leopard leaned on the steering wheel and said, "There is no way, I can't borrow cars from other units!"

Xia Xiubai stopped him and said, "Hey, Brother Yuwen, be careful!"

During the quarrel, the car shadows of Ma Minghui and his brother disappeared, and the students asked where to chase them.The uncle thought for a while and said, "Toward City Y."

There is no train in the county seat, only the nearby city Y. If Ma Minghui wants to transfer cultural relics to Hong Kong or further afield, he must first pass through Y city and then transfer to Shanghai. Ma Mingwei will not drive his official car to Shanghai.

They were chasing with full horsepower, when they suddenly found that the green jeep that Ma Minghui and his brother were riding was parked on the side of the road ahead, and there was no one in the car.

"Don't worry about it, rush over." The uncle commanded, "Only by blocking the front can we seize the opportunity."

Wang Xin was a little more familiar with the county seat, and said that it seemed to be the family building of the Health Bureau nearby.Xia Mingruo said: "I don't understand. They didn't put those two cultural relics together. I put one at my sister's house, and one at my younger brother's house. When the time comes, I will take them together. In fact, we will be able to eat together if we go down at this time." .”

The uncle shook his head and said, "This is someone else's territory, and we are not the police. If we act rashly, we may be arrested by them instead."

They drove more than ten kilometers in one breath and stopped on a narrow concrete bridge.This place is in the wilderness, surrounded by farmland, and the villages are several miles away. Only a dim yellow fishing fire occasionally lights up in the big river under the bridge.The rain was pattering down, and the undulating rice fields that could not be seen were connected with the gloomy sky. Xia Xiubai listened to the singing of frogs and insects, and said it was wonderful.Others are not as leisurely as he is, and they are all discussing what to do.

Leopard got out of the car, turned around and said that he had been to this place before, and the crematorium was just across the bridge.Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and they saw a dark building with a tall chimney in the middle.

Xia Mingruo asked: "Is this where you got your car?"

Leopard smiled wryly and nodded: "I'll send it back to them when it's used up. Alas, in fact, I'm most afraid of death. Master is in a hurry to ask for a car, so I have no choice."

He changed direction again: "Look, the cemetery