"Brother Liu, why did you come back so early today? Hey, here are guests? I heard that my sister-in-law coughed again just now. Please go in and take a look..."
Hearing the movement in the yard, a door opened, and a man in his thirties opened the thick curtain and greeted Liu Wei'an.
"Erzi, thank you..."
Liu Wei'an greeted the man with a grateful expression. As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. These were old neighbors who had lived together for decades, and his wife usually asked them to help take care of them.
"Dad, you are back..."
At the same time, the door of the room where Liu Wei'an was standing was opened, and a girl of twelve or thirteen years old stuck her head out.
The little girl was short in stature and wore a braid. She was quite delicate, especially with a pair of particularly smart eyes. After seeing Ye Tian and Yu Qingya, she timidly retracted her head.
"This is my girl..."
Seeing the smile on her daughter Liu Weian's face, she introduced the two of them and said: "Xiaoye, Xiaoyu, come in quickly, it's too cold outside..."
When the thick curtains were opened, a burst of hot air suddenly hit the floor. Although the courtyard was not heated, every household had a stove, and the sealing was good, so the room was very warm.
Entering the door is the main room, but the main room of this small courtyard is very small, only about ten square meters in total. Except for a dining table in the middle and a washstand and stove at the door, there is not much space left.
There are two rooms on both sides of the main room, both of which are blocked by curtains. They must be the bedrooms of Liu Wei'an, his wife and their daughter.
However, this small room was filled with a strong smell of medicine. There was a clay pot on the stove next to the door, and Chinese medicine was boiling in it. The little girl stood aside and watched.
"Lanlan, come here, this is your brother Ye, and this is sister Yu, they are both top students from Huaqing. You have to learn from your brothers and sisters, and you will also be admitted to Huaqing University in the future, do you understand?"
After entering the house, Liu Weian called his daughter over. There were two college students standing in front of him. This was a good opportunity to teach his daughter by words and deeds. This is also a common problem for parents. When they see good students, they always like to use them to teach their own children.
"Hello, brother Ye, hello, sister Yu..."
Liu Lanlan greeted the two of them sensibly, and then said to Liu Wei'an seriously: "Dad, don't worry, I will study hard and get admitted to Huaqing University in the future!"
"Haha, Xiaoye, Xiaoyu, sit down, hurry up and sit down..."
After hearing what his daughter said, Liu Wei'an showed a happy smile on his face. He handed the thermos with dumplings to his daughter and said, "Go and heat up the mutton dumplings. You and your mother will eat some later..."
"Old Liu, who is here? Lan Lan, pour tea for the guests..."
Liu Wei'an's voice woke up his wife in the back room. Ye Tian could tell that the woman was speaking very weakly. After just a few words, she was already a little out of breath.
"Dongmei, you are two of my guests. I want to...want to see that bracelet..." Liu Wei'an was a little hesitant when he spoke. After all, his wife liked that bracelet very much.
After hearing what her husband said, the female voice in the room said: "Hey, take it then. I told you, Lao Liu, don't sell it so expensively. Just pay me some money. I won't wear this thing either..."
"That's not possible. This bracelet is not an ordinary item. I won't sell it for even a penny less than 20,000 yuan..."
Although Liu Wei'an was an honest man, he was very stubborn about the agreed price. He was afraid that Ye Tian would bargain after hearing what his wife said, so he deliberately spoke loudly just now.
"You guys, come in and get it..." Liu Wei'an's wife's voice sounded weak.
"Xiaoye, wait a minute, the smell of medicine is stronger in the room. I'll take it out and come out..."
Liu Wei'an walked into the back room and said to his wife with a smile: "Dongmei, Xiaoye bought three pieces of jade today. Hey, you guys have the same last name..."
"Dongmei? Last name...last name is Ye!!!"
Although there was a curtain, Liu Wei'an's voice really reached Ye Tian's ears, and Ye Tian was stunned for a moment.
"Okay, hurry up and show it to the guests..." The weak voice sounded again, but this time when Ye Tianzhong heard it, it was as loud as a thunderbolt from the blue.
"How...how is it possible? It can't be such a coincidence, right?"
Ye Tian, who looked normal on the outside, was already in a state of turmoil inside, for no other reason than that his youngest aunt was named Ye Dongmei.
Ye Tian often heard the name of this aunt from his father. She was three years younger than Ye Dongping, and she and Ye Dongping had a close relationship since childhood.
Even after Ye Dongping's eldest sister disowned her younger brother, Ye Dongmei secretly wrote a letter to Ye Dongping. However, Ye Dongping was extremely self-blameed at the time and did not reply to his sister, and the contact was cut off after repeated correspondence.
Looking up, he saw an old picture frame hanging on the wall in front of the table. Ye Tian couldn't care less about being polite. He quickly stood up and walked under the picture frame to look at it.
"Lanlan, is this you?" Ye Tian pointed to a black and white photo and asked Lanlan who had just put a glass of water on the table.
"No, that's mom, a photo of mom when she was young..." Lanlan shook her head, put the water with tea leaves on the table, and said: "Brother, sister, please drink tea..."
"Sister-in-law, it's really sister-in-law!" Lan Lan's last words were completely ignored by Ye Tian.
Looking at the young appearance of the woman in the photo, Ye Tian was 100% sure in his heart that this was indeed his sister-in-law. With Ye Tian's good eyesight, he could tell the difference at a glance.
Looking to the side, a black and white photo the size of a palm with jagged edges came into view.
In the middle of this photo, there are two middle-aged men and women in their forties and fifties sitting on chairs. On both sides and behind them, three girls and a boy stand from tallest to shortest. Ye Tian recognized them at a glance.
When he came out, the eight or nine-year-old boy was his father.
"This is really a coincidence. I didn't expect my sister-in-law and the others to have such a hard life?"
Looking at the almost empty house and thinking about the frugal appearance of his "brother-in-law" just now, Ye Tian felt sad for no reason. Neither he nor his father expected that his relatives' life was so difficult.
Lan Lan, who was introducing photos to Ye Tian at the side, suddenly saw that Ye Tian's eyes were red, and quickly asked: "Brother Ye, what's wrong with you? Are you blind? It's been very windy these two days. I was there yesterday
I was also blinded when I went to school..."
"Well, it just confused my eyes. It's okay. It'll be fine in a while..."
Looking at the smart and sensible "sister" in front of him, Ye Tian had an indescribable feeling in his heart. He had no brothers or sisters since he was a child. Seeing many classmates helping his sister fight, Ye Tian was very envious at that time.
"Xiaoye, what's wrong? Are you intoxicated by the smell of this Chinese medicine? Lanlan, the medicine is ready for mom to take in..."
After Liu Wei'an came out of the room, he also saw Ye Tian's red eyes, but he didn't take it seriously. The smell of this room was not ordinary, and many people were not used to it when they came in.
Only Yu Qingya glanced at Ye Tian strangely. Although the smell of Chinese medicine was unpleasant, even she could bear it, so how could it smell to Ye Tian? This smart girl had already noticed Ye Tian's abnormality.
"Xiaoye, come on, look, it's this bracelet..."
After Lanlan entered the room, Liu Weian spread a piece of flannel cloth on the table and placed a blood-red bracelet on it.
"Blood jade bracelet?!"
Ye Tian glanced around and couldn't help being surprised. The level of surprise was no less than when he learned that he had arrived at his sister-in-law's house. He didn't expect to see such legendary jade here.
Blood jade is a kind of red jade produced on the plateau of Tibetan province. Tibetans call it Gongjuema song, and it is commonly known as plateau blood jade. It is named because of its bright red color.
This kind of jade is extremely rare and is almost never seen in the world. It is said that in the Tang Dynasty, when Songtsen Gampo married Princess Wencheng, he gave away a piece of blood jade.
Today's blood jade is mostly artificial. In some cases, the jade is put into a dog's mouth, the dog is choked to death and then buried underground. Then it is dug out decades later to obtain the blood jade.
Another method is to put jade under the skin of a sheep, and let the blood slowly seep into the jade for several years to get blood jade. Another method is to use iron, copper and other minerals to corrode the color in the tomb, causing its structure to change.
Produce blood jade.
However, compared with the natural blood jade, these are much inferior. Ye Dongping has an unearthed blood jade dragon pattern pendant in his hand, so Ye Tian knows the origin of this thing.
There was a reason why Ye Tian believed that this bracelet was made of natural blood jade, because he felt an extremely strong fluctuation of vitality from this bracelet.
The bracelet contains not only the evil spirit, but also the auspicious spirit. The two are distinct and not fused together. This situation is definitely not something that can be possessed by acquired objects.
"Xiaoye, I didn't expect you to recognize this bracelet..."
Seeing Ye Tian call out the name of the bracelet, Liu Wei'an's face showed a burst of joy at first, but he hesitated for a moment and said: "I asked someone to look at it, and they said that this bracelet may have been stained with blood and was worn by a dead person.
It's unlucky to pass by, so... so the price is kept very low, and I've never been willing to sell it..."
"Who said it is unlucky to wear something worn by a dead person?"
Ye Tian blurted out, "What do they know? This is a naturally formed blood jade bracelet. It appeared once during the Republic of China and was bought with ten gold bars. Aunt...Uncle Liu, this thing is worth at least ten
Fifty thousand!"
"Ten...one hundred and fifty thousand?!"
Liu Wei'an's voice was trembling, "Xiaoye, are you... not joking?"
You know, in 1995, the value of jade was not very high. A piece of top-quality mutton-fat jade carving only cost tens of thousands of yuan. A bracelet worth 150,000 yuan was not worth Liu Weian's money at all.
