Sure enough, as I thought, these bronzes are not just an ancient artifact handed down from ancient times. There must be unknown secrets behind them. But I can't ask so much now, no one will tell me.
.
But I am more confident. Lao An and Su Xiaomeng must have talked about me just now. There should be no problem in entering this small circle.
"When you come into our circle, I have to tell you something." Su Xiaomeng waved his hand in front of my eyes and said, "Don't be distracted, listen carefully."
"Say it."
"Do you have a job now? Or other means of making a living, doing business or something." Su Xiaomeng said to me seriously: "According to our rules, members of the circle must participate in activities."
There are very few members in this circle. In the past, those who entered the circle earlier had their own jobs or other things to do at first, because they were adults after all and had to support their families. But if you focus on one thing, you cannot take it away.
As a hobby, you must devote yourself wholeheartedly. In the following period, Lao An led others to start some businesses of their own, and the income was completely used to subsidize various activities in the circle. Over time, these people no longer
Already working.
In other words, if I want to participate in this circle, I can't do my own business. I smiled bitterly. In today's society, those who have all kinds of weird quirks are not ordinary people. They must have time and money as a basis.
"I have nothing to do here, and I have plenty of time, but you have to know that I want to figure out the bronze matter, which is very important to me." I said while thinking about it.
"I really can't make the decision on this." Su Xiaomeng said: "But don't be impatient, be patient."
"That's all."
"It's okay for today, we can go."
"What?" I was a little surprised, because I felt that no matter what, as the leader of this circle, Lao An had to at least talk to me a few more words: "Lao An, doesn't he have anything to say?"
"He didn't say anything." Su Xiaomeng lowered his voice and said in my ear: "Don't mess with him, he has a weird temper."
Su Xiaomeng pulled me away and I greeted Fan Tuan. He shook my hand warmly and said goodbye, saying that he would take care of me more in the future. Before leaving, I looked back and saw that Lao An was still sitting at the dilapidated bar.
, a person controls the pieces on the chessboard.
My heart is not at peace. I don’t know why. It is relatively smooth to get in touch with this circle, but I still can’t calm down. When I went out with Su Xiaomeng, the night was already very late. We walked two streets together, and Su Xiaomeng talked a lot.
, you can never let your ears rest when walking with her.
"Are you hungry?" She seemed to be in a good mood, laughing and pointing to the front, and said: "There is a small stall over there. Their grilled fish is delicious."
I have no appetite, but now that I have entered this circle, I will inevitably have to deal with Su Xiaomeng and other people in the future. It is still necessary to build a good relationship now. So I walked with her to the grilled fish stall and sat down to have a snack.
night.
The real delicacy is not found in those magnificent hotels. The food at this kind of stall is more to my taste. The fish is very fresh, grilled and charred on the outside and tender on the inside. It is quite delicious. Su Xiaomeng got out of shape while eating, two
She held the fish tail with her hand and gnawed it, making her hands oily. I looked at her, and she smacked her lips and smiled silly at me.
She was originally very delicate and cute. Under the not-so-bright light, her mouth was oily and her smile was innocent.
When I looked at her innocent smile, my heart suddenly skipped a beat, and I finally understood why I had been feeling uneasy.
No matter from Su Xiaomeng's story or my knowledge, Lao An's circle is very secretive, with few members and usually relatively low-key. It is difficult for such a circle to be formed without a special background or someone who is fully recognized by them.
Close. But when I came back in 1985 and discovered that Qingqing and the others were missing, an invisible thread seemed to appear, pulling me closer to this circle step by step.
Bronze patterns, posts on the forum, Su Xiaomeng’s replies and her narration, until today I officially came into contact with this circle...
In an instant, I felt like I was being plotted. It can be said that if it weren’t for Su Xiaomeng’s reply to me in the forum, I might not even know that there is a small circle in the world that is dedicated to researching and exploring bronze.
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I was a little confused in my heart, and at the same time I was a little more wary. I had to consider all the details that I could think of, but when I looked at Su Xiaomeng's pure and innocent smile, I couldn't help but secretly ask myself
:Are you thinking too much?
This is very contradictory.
This idea appeared in my mind, and my interest in eating fish suddenly dropped greatly, but I couldn't show it. After eating in a hurry, I settled my account and left. Originally, I planned to leave right away, but Su Xiaomeng touched his belly and looked embarrassed.
"This..." She smiled silly again and said, "Have you never been in love? Girls are very greedy, but they are also afraid of getting fat. If they go home and sleep after eating, they will gain weight.
Meat, my home is not far away, let’s take a walk and digest it.”
I thought about it and agreed, and she was very happy. As the night got late, there were not many people on the small street. We walked side by side, and she began to hum softly. In my impression, the weather that day was very good.
, as long as you raise your head slightly, you can see the starry sky above your head like a picture scroll.
At that moment, I felt sour in my heart. I couldn't help but think of Qingqing and her poor mother. I couldn't remember how many times I had seen such a bright night sky at night in the mountains. The sourness in my heart suddenly changed.
The piercing pain, as long as I see those twinkling stars, Qingqing's gray eyes will appear in my mind.
"What are you thinking about?" Su Xiaomeng saw that I was distracted, tilted his head and said, "Please be more attentive and send me home, okay?"
"Nothing." I shook my head, trying not to show any of my emotions: "Let's go."
"Let's compete." She laughed, pointed ahead, and said, "Let's see who can run to the corner over there first."
Before she finished speaking, she ran out with a smile, her petite figure looking so cheerful in the dark night street. I slowly followed behind, and she turned around and waved to me as she ran.
At the corner at the end of the street, Su Xiaomeng stopped, with a blush on her face. She took a few deep breaths, patted her chest and said, "Oh no, no, no, I have to exercise more. I just ran for a while.
Tired to death."
The conflict in my heart still continues. I really don't want to imagine her as that kind of scheming girl, but some facts have already happened.
"Okay, I'm almost home." Su Xiaomeng stood opposite me, tilting his head and waving to me: "You should also go back early and say good night in advance."
"Okay, I'm leaving." I felt like I wanted to escape reality. The contradictory thoughts gave me a headache, so I simply didn't want to think about it anymore. I glanced at Su Xiaomeng, turned around slowly, and walked back the way I came.
"Oppa!" Su Xiaomeng suddenly stopped me after I took a few steps out.
"What's wrong?" I stopped and turned around to ask her.
"It's nothing." She pursed her lips and thought for a moment, then smiled and said to me: "Thank you for the midnight snack."
I didn't sleep well that night, and I was tossing and turning all over the place. In the next few days, I didn't see Su Xiaomeng again, but she would call from time to time.
About five or six days later, she told me that there was a party in the evening and asked me if I was free. In fact, I knew that this was a courtesy inquiry. If I refused the party, I would definitely be disqualified from entering the circle.
Gotta choose.
"Also." Su Xiaomeng paused and said, "Can you bring that piece of bronze over? Lao An and the others want to take a look."
"Can."
"That's good." Seeing that I didn't refuse, Su Xiaomeng immediately relaxed and said to me mysteriously in the tone of a child trying to scare adults: "Let me tell you a little bit first. With your piece of bronze, Lao An
They might have something to do tonight."
This information was very important and made me a little excited. I didn’t expect that such a good thing would happen just after I came into contact with the circle. So I quickly got up, played with dumbbells for a while as usual, did two to three hundred push-ups, and then washed up.
Make yourself look more energetic.
Before dinner, Su Xiaomeng and I met first. I asked about some specific situations, but Su Xiaomeng couldn't explain clearly, because Lao An had to figure out many things by himself first, and only when the results were confirmed, he would tell the people below him as appropriate.
.Before I came, their bronze quantity was limited, and even Lao An doesn’t know about some things now.
"Don't worry about anything else right now. I'm hungry and looking for a place to eat." Su Xiaomeng said as if he was reminiscing about the nearby restaurants.
While eating, I couldn't help it, because I have been thinking about a question in the past few days. From my analysis, if an ordinary person just likes something, then it is impossible for him to do it because of these things.
People should give up their own things and abandon their lives. Adults should know in their hearts that preferences are just preferences, and life is the most real. But I can vaguely sense that members of this circle must give up some things.
For example, Fan Tuan didn't care about his own business and came here all the time. Not only did he have to pay for it, but when encountering special circumstances, he also had to follow Lao An and the others to run around in the wilderness. This is a pair of
For a fat man weighing more than 200 pounds, it is definitely a kind of suffering and torture.
So, what is Su Xiaomeng's motivation for entering this circle? She is so young and doesn't seem to have much experience, so how can she get to know these people?
I'm not gossiping, I just want to get to know those members in the circle first.
Thinking about it, I found an opportunity to ask Su Xiaomeng. She was holding a basin of boiled fish and eating it deliciously, but after listening to my words, she immediately stopped picking up the vegetables with her chopsticks, and her expression changed a little.
It was this change that made me feel a little more at ease, because those changes were obviously revealed as natural reflections, which shows that Su Xiaomeng will not hide her true thoughts completely and cleverly. In other words, she is definitely not a city-level person.
People of the sea.
"If it's not convenient to say it, forget it." I then said, "Just pretend I didn't ask anything."
"It's not that it's inconvenient to say." Su Xiaomeng put down his chopsticks, took a sip of tea slowly, raised his head and said to me, "I'm just afraid that you won't believe me if I tell you."