"It's very serious, forget it, let's not talk about it." Shunzi took a deep breath and returned to her previous smile.
"Did you kill someone? Shunzi, tell me the truth. What did you do before?"
I asked him tentatively, and suddenly I really wanted to know about his past. This big boy is not as simple as he seems on the surface.
Shunzi turned to look at me, smiled and said, "Brother Yi, I don't want to talk about the past anymore. Please don't ask about it, okay? I don't want to recall those past events."
"Could it be..."
"Forget it, Yi Ge, Shunzi has his own difficulties. If he doesn't want to talk about it, don't make it difficult for him." Jiao Ba, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke.
I glanced at Jiao Ba, and he nodded to me gently, telling me not to ask any more questions.
"Well, since you don't want to say it, I won't ask. Even if you have no other relatives, at least you still have me. I am your brother."
I don’t know why, but I suddenly felt sorry for this big boy. Then I remembered that he had been away from home for so many years. From the first day I met him, he had never returned to his hometown once.
Even though I go back once or twice a year, he never does. I am such a failure as a buddy. I didn't discover such an important thing.
"Thank you, Yi Ge." Shunzi still smiled, still so sunny.
"Damn, that's so pretentious, we are brothers." I smiled and gave him a punch.
"I'm a little tired. Brother Yi, I'm going back first. I'm going to leave. You can accompany Brother Yi here to bask in the sun." Shunzi said hello and went back to the cabin to rest.
"Why don't you let me ask him?" After Shunzi left, I asked Jiao Ba.
"So what if you ask? He won't tell you." Jiao Ba's tone was very calm, without any expression.
"You are right. Even if I ask, it will be in vain. Lao Ba, what do you think he did before?" I looked at him doubtfully and asked.
"I don't know this, but it's definitely not a good thing. I've said before that you don't know him at all. Shunzi is not a simple person." Jiao Ba said with a smile that he had thought of for a long time.
"Hey, I didn't expect that everyone here has another side." I pressed my forehead with my hand and felt a little pain.
Jiao Ba looked around and said, "Brother Yi, come with me. I'll tell you something."
I followed Jiao Ba to the stern of the boat and stopped at a location near the side. There was no one here and it was quite secluded, making it a good place to discuss something.
"Tell me, what's the matter?" I asked softly.
"Take out those two navigation charts, and I'll take a closer look," Jiao Ba said with a stern look.
"Take it now?" I looked around. After all, it was on someone else's boat. I'm afraid it was a bit inappropriate.
Jiao Ba said nonchalantly, "Take it, don't worry, no one will come, it will be fine even if it comes, who knows what we are looking at."
I took out two nautical charts from my clothes. Since Mr. Mai put the nautical charts with me, I had to carry them with me. Fortunately, they were made of leather. If they were made of paper, they would have been soaked in the sea.
Confused.
Jiao Ba and I squatted on the ground and unfolded the two half-sheet nautical charts and spread them out. To be honest, even if it is a complete nautical chart now, it is actually not very big and it is very convenient to carry around.
"How's it going? What do you see?" I turned to look at him. This kid didn't speak. He just kept staring and touching it with his hands from time to time.
"Brother, I feel that the half of the nautical chart in Jenny's hand is not the original, but a copy." Jiao Ba said with a suspicious expression.
"Copy? How do you know?" My heart skipped a beat. I had suspected before that the navigation chart in Jenny's hand might not be real at all. There was a reason for this, just because there was an extra direction.
Under the arrow we discovered a Qing Dynasty shipwreck.
"It's obvious, why bother asking?" Jiao Ba said a lot of nonsense.
I glared at him and said, "Damn, aren't you a so-called antique expert? Then why didn't you see it at first, and now you're doing this again?" I really couldn't figure out whether he was an expert or not.
"I...how should I put it? When I saw Jenny's nautical chart before, I did have doubts, but you have to know that this kind of thing is different from antiques and it is difficult to distinguish. The most important thing is...
.." When Jiao Ba said this, it was a little hard to say.
"It's really an ink stain, what is it? Are you saying that?" I was a little anxious.
"It's the navigation chart in Jenny's hand. Even if it's not the original, it was painted by the ancients and definitely not imitated by contemporary people." Jiao Ba's face was a little heavy and his tone was serious, without the slightest hint of joking.
"You mean, is this a copy? Or a copy of something painted by ancient people?" This is a bit strange. According to Jenny, this nautical chart should be absolutely confidential and cannot be leaked. So what?
Who painted this fake painting?
"Yes, that's what it means. Moreover, the leather texture of these two nautical charts is slightly different, but if you don't look carefully, you can't tell it at all." Jiao Ba gently separated the two nautical charts.
, meaning let me observe.
I looked at it carefully and said, "It's just that the color is a little different. That's nothing." The nautical chart in Jenny's hand has always been carried with her. The remaining half of the nautical chart has always been in Zheng He's hand.
What’s underneath the coffin will inevitably be different.”
Jiao Badie smiled and shook his head and said, "If only it could be that simple. You can take a look again now."
He put the two nautical charts under the sun and winked at me. I looked at it carefully, but there was still no change. "What do you mean? There is no change?"
"Change the angle and move to the side." Jiao Ba waved his hand, asking me to move away.
I reluctantly moved two steps to the side, and it was about a 45-degree angle. When I looked at it again, I was stunned. This was obvious, very obvious.
Although Jenny's half of the nautical chart has not changed at all, it is still a piece of leather with a black route drawn on it, but the nautical chart found under Zheng He's coffin has undergone slight changes.
At the locations where the routes were originally drawn in black, two red punctuation points actually appeared. These two punctuation points should be the destinations on the navigation chart. In fact, these red punctuation points are black under normal circumstances, but under normal circumstances, they are black.
From this angle, it is red, just like RMB. From different angles, the color of the currency is different. This is really a strange discovery.