When the man came back holding the box, his face was full of smiles and even a little excited.
The woman pulled Liangliang and looked at him, wondering: "What is this?"
"Hey, good stuff."
"Um?"
"Didn't I help Old Liu's family build a house these two days? I dug this out!"
"Eh?" The woman's expression changed and she frowned, "This is something from the old Liu family, how can you take it back?"
"No, no, it was originally a piece of wasteland and cannot be considered as their family's property." The man explained.
"Then you should also tell Lao Liu." The woman said with a straight face.
The man scratched his head and whispered: "I suspect this is an antique. If I really tell Lao Liu, he will not let me take it away."
The woman's attitude this time was very firm.
"You are helping the old Liu family build a house, and they are giving you money. Even if you dig out something, you should tell them that if they want it, you have to give it to them. You can't be greedy." The woman stretched out her hand. , gently touched the back of Liangliang's head, "We can't take ill-gotten gains."
The man was dumbfounded.
"It's not that serious... How about we open it first and see what it is?"
The woman looked at him and pursed her lips: "It's okay to have a look, but if it's really an antique, you have to give it back."
"Well, if it's really valuable, I'll tell the old Liu family. If I can sell it for some money, we can split it between the two families and we won't suffer any loss." The man said with a smile.
The man sat in the yard, placed the box on the small square table, found a small brush from nowhere, and carefully brushed off the top layer of soil.
When he dug out the box before, he was afraid of being seen, so he hurriedly bent over and hid it in his clothes and ran home.
So until now, he still doesn't know what is in this box.
The man turned the box over and over, but he didn't know how to open it.
At this moment, Gu Yuan was looking at the box on the flower bed.
The surface of the box was uneven, and it looked like some rune-like patterns had been left on it by carving.
I don't know why, but when the man carried the box into the yard, he felt a chill.
And now, the feeling that that box gives Gu Yuan is...
very dangerous!
He didn't know why he had such an idea. It might be an intuition. If he could speak, he would definitely shout at the man.
"Don't open that box! Throw it away!"
What's sad is that Gu Yuan is just a flower.
He couldn't make any sound.
Finally, the man's patience was slowly worn away.
He found a tool and slowly knocked it open along the cracks in the box.
When the box was pried open, Gu Yuan suddenly discovered that a black mist appeared in the box, and in the black mist, there was a hideous and terrifying face.
The man subconsciously took a deep breath, and the black mist was sucked into his body along his slightly twitching nose.
At this moment, Gu Yuan clearly saw that a shadow suddenly appeared behind the man, and soon, that shadow slowly merged with his original shadow.
But the man and the woman seemed not to notice anything.
Men, in particular, are just a little disappointed.
"What? It's empty inside. There's nothing there..." The man casually closed the wooden box again.
The woman teased: "It's just you who comes back with an empty box as a treasure."
"Hey... it's really strange." The man said with some confusion, "When I came back with it in my arms, it felt heavy, and I was wondering if there might be gold bars inside."
"You are just obsessed with money. Okay, wash your hands and get ready to eat."
"Okay!" The man put the wooden box aside casually and didn't care at all.
Gu Yuan looked at the man, feeling very uneasy.
He was sure that what he had just seen was absolutely correct, especially that ferocious grimace. Just looking at it would make him feel a little cold.
But nothing happened now.
The more this happened, the more uneasy Gu Yuan felt.
But nothing seemed to happen in the next two days.
It seems calm.
However, when Gu Yuan saw the man, he always felt that something had changed in him, but he was not sure what the change was.
A few days later, Gu Yuan gradually discovered that the man came home later and later.
In the past, it was still bright when the man came back. Later, he came back in the evening. Now, he doesn't come back until dark.
When a woman prepares a meal every day, she will pull Liangliang and stand at the door looking forward to it.
Gu Yuan was just a flower, but when he saw the worried look on the woman's face, he still expected the man to come back soon.
Only when he heard the familiar bells of the Erba Dagong did he breathe a sigh of relief.
"Have you been busy lately? Why are you back so late?" the woman asked with a frown.
The man parked his bicycle and smiled, but his eyes averted with guilt.
"There is nothing I can do. The factory no longer has a guaranteed job. The factory's performance has not been good recently. Many people have been laid off. I just want to work more."
The woman didn't think much about it and just told the man to wash his hands and eat quickly.
At the dinner table, she said again: "Don't worry too much. I think it would be good for the old Liu family's son and daughter-in-law to be laid off. You can do bricklayer work occasionally and save some money. We are the same as the old Liu family." , do some small business.”
The man just nodded, his attitude a bit perfunctory.
The woman looked at him with worry in her eyes.
However, at this moment, Gu Yuan didn't know what she was worried about.
the next day.
The man still went out early, and the woman was busy at home all morning, first cleaning, and then washing clothes. Just as she was watering the flowers, a middle-aged woman came to the door.
"??????????????? Osmanthus sister-in-law, why are you here!" When the woman saw the middle-aged woman, she hurriedly came down from the flower bed with a smile on her face.
The sweet-scented osmanthus sister-in-law walked in while nibbling melon seeds. She clicked her tongue twice and said: "Yuqin, you are really good at raising flowers. The flowers that were taken away from you last time are all wilted. You can go there tomorrow." Check it out for me."
The woman was always warm-hearted, and since it was about flowers, she agreed immediately.
After all, this is her area of expertise.
But then, she frowned again.
"Sister-in-law Osmanthus, do you have anything to say?"
Sister-in-law Guihua looked into the room and whispered: "That guy from your house went out again?"
"Yes, at this point, I definitely have to go to work." The woman felt strange, "What's wrong?"
"I heard that your man now goes to the old cotton factory after get off work every day to bet money on Pai Gow with Wang Mazi and others. Didn't you advise me?" Sister-in-law Guihua asked.
At this moment, the woman's expression suddenly changed.
"Gambling money? This...this can't be done. He doesn't like playing with money. That means playing cards with his relatives during the Chinese New Year. How can he..."
Sister-in-law Osmanthus nodded: "Then maybe I misunderstood. Okay, you get busy first, I'm leaving."
After seeing off Sister-in-Law Osmanthus, the woman returned to the yard and sat down like a puppet on strings, but her expression was extremely ugly.
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