The string of ornaments swayed and made Zheng Tan's eyes dizzy, and he couldn't see clearly, so Zheng Tan reached out and took a closer look at the string of ornaments. After so long, even if Zheng Tan couldn't tell the truth from the fake, the feeling was similar.
When Zheng Tan was looking at the string of ornaments, Jiao Wei came running. They didn't have classes for three or four classes this morning. He just stayed in the library. During the rush hour after school, every time he ran to this road during this time, he would look on both sides of the road, especially those tall trees suitable for cats to sleep on their stomachs and those wooden chairs on the side of the gravel road. Zheng Tan is very picky about where to sleep. Sure enough, without much effort to find him, he saw the black cat lying on the chair.
"Black charcoal!"
Not knowing the man and the woman, Jiao Wei just called Zheng Tan's name and waited beside him. Seeing the man and the woman look over, Jiao Wei smiled and nodded at them without saying much. Not much to say.
Seeing Jiao Wei, although Zheng Tan was a little curious about the identities of these two people, eating was the most important thing at the moment, and besides, the two might not be really related to the bag, so Zheng Tan didn't waste much time. Jumped off the wooden chair and trotted towards the school gate with Jiao Wei.
After eating at Jiao Wei's restaurant at noon, Zheng Tan went to find a place to rest. Dad Jiao also called the restaurant to inquire, and knowing that Zheng Tan was here, he didn't say anything. At noon, Dad Jiao and a few teachers ate in the cafeteria, but he didn't come here.
He slept on a tall plane tree, and Zheng Tan planned to go out for a walk. He hadn't left the school for a few days. First, he went to Xiaoyouzi's junior high school to have a look, and then continued to walk until Hear the familiar sound of erhu and see the familiar flyover.
That old blind man is here today! It's rare.
This year, the old blind man has come to the overpass much less often. Sometimes Zheng Tan can't come across it when he walks here, only when he runs to the alley where the old blind man lives.
Zheng Tan was walking over there when he found a low-key black private car leaning to the side and slowly stopping not far from him. Two people got out of the car. It was the man he had seen at noon. one girl.
Zheng Tan looked at them, and the two who got out of the car also saw Zheng Tan.
"It's a black cat again? Is it popular to keep black cats here?" the woman said.
"It's the one I saw at noon." The man was a little surprised, then smiled, not paying much attention to it. Different cats look at people differently, and the black cat's look at people is very special, but even if it's the same cat, it's not a big deal to meet here.
"It doesn't have a cat tag," the woman said. It's not that she doubts the opinions of those around her, she just expresses her own doubts. Generally speaking, pet cats are hung with cat tags when they are outside. Although there are not many rigid requirements in this regard, since they are hung in the morning, why are they removed in the afternoon? Of course, this was just her short-term doubts, and she soon stopped paying attention to the issue of hanging cats.
The man and the woman looked away from Zheng Tan, stopped paying attention to Zheng Tan, and walked forward while chatting in a low voice.
Zheng Tan was only surprised when he saw the two of them, and he didn't bother to care about the others. He went his own way and went all the way to the overpass. Then, Zheng Tan found that the man and the woman had walked up the steps of the overpass just like him. After going up, the two stood against the railing in an empty space beside him. The woman opened the sunshade. The sunshine in this season is not so great. mild. The man looked at the middle of the overpass, and his eyes stopped on the blind old man who was playing the erhu.
"Thomas, that old man is the one you're looking for?" the woman asked.
"Um."
The woman was about to ask something more when she suddenly said, "Hey, that black cat has passed by!"
The two of them were very surprised. They had seen a cat with fat guts, but they had never seen such a fat cat. People on the overpass could walk on it calmly, as if everyone around was air. They had never seen a cat.
In the eyes of the two of them, the cat walked over to the old man who was pulling the erhu, and stood beside the box where the money was placed, swooping and fetching coins, Ding Ding fished out two in a row, and then stood on the big umbrella. He opened his mouth in the shade and yawned.
Two people: "… "
After a few seconds of silence, the woman said, "Thomas, that old man has such a good temper."
The man didn't say a word, but what he thought in his heart was: If his temper was really good, then there would not be so much blood and blood in the dark back then. People who fought with real swords and real guns, especially people like that over there, have a bad temper. Absolutely cannot be described as "good". It's just that the cat was too bold. Many people said before that many animals shunned the old man.
Zheng Tan yawned. He just found two game coins in the old man's box. Every September, when the school starts in September, there are always some people who think they are smart and throw them into the box. Some game coins, as everyone knows, when they think others are fools and play tricks, others also think that they are just trying to kill, but it's just that many people disdain to do it. Isn't there such a sentence, you look at the fool on the bridge, and the people who watch the fool are watching you around.
When Zheng Tan yawned for the second time, the old man finished the song and started to pack his things.
This makes Zheng Tan a little strange, isn't it time yet? The old man has something to leave early today
Not only Zheng Tan thought so, but several small vendors on the overpass were also muttering: "Why did the old man go back so early today? Do we have to close the stall in advance?"
"Come on, it's estimated that he heard some news. To be on the safe side, we'd better withdraw."
So, behind the old man, some small vendors also started to pack their things one after another. Of course, there are also some vendors who still stay there because the business is good. The old man hasn't come over for most of the year, don't they still set up stalls
Zheng Tan saw the old man collect his things and leave, and followed behind. It's been a long time since he went to the old man's side. He didn't know if Xiao Jiu was there recently. After walking a few steps, Zheng Tan found that the man and the woman were walking not far away. Looking back at them, Zheng Tan continued to walk. After a certain distance from the overpass, Zheng Tan saw a fruit vendor who was passing by quickly from behind, running in a hurry. Looking back at the overpass, the few vendors who stayed on the overpass were hurriedly packing up something. Obviously, there was an inspection passed, so they quickly packed up and left.
Looking at the slow-paced old man, Zheng Tan pouted.
After walking through the commercial street and into the familiar alley, the man and woman behind him kept keeping a distance of six or seven meters, and Zheng Tan was surprised again. These two people knew the blind old man
At the same time that Zheng Tan is different, the two at the back are also different. Does this cat know the one in front? ! Isn't this an ordinary cat raised by ordinary people in that university
Looking at the doorman's reaction, whether it was seeing the man, the woman or Zheng Tan, there were no other superfluous expressions.
Really know it!
After entering the house, Zheng Tan came to the living room with familiarity, jumped on a chair and sat down, much more natural than the two people behind him.
"Uncle Kun, long time no see." The man bowed slightly to the old man.
Zheng Tan shook his beard, "Uncle Kun"? Although this title is a one-word difference, compared to the public version of the title "Kun Ye" called by Ye Hao and the others, the relationship seems to be much closer.
"It's been seven years, Tang Mo, is your kid coming back now to enter the domestic market?"
The old man's tone also carried some rare familiarity. Zheng Tan couldn't help but look at the guy named Tang Mo. What is the origin of this person
Tang Mo smiled slightly, "That's what it means, but I ran into some trouble when I came back. I couldn't figure it out, so I came to ask you for help."
It's straightforward enough, and it has a tone of intimacy between juniors and elders. One shows that this person knows the old man's temper very well, and the other also shows that this person is really familiar with the old man. Like, Ye Hao and the others also said that the old man had no biological children. Zheng Tan would really think about that. If there is no blood relationship, it might be the reason of Tang Mo's parents.
"Oh?" The old man took a sip from the teacup without saying any extra words.
Tang Mo took a box handed by the woman next to him and opened it on the table in front of the old man.
There were several loose diamonds of different shapes, each of which was more than five millimeters, and the largest was nearly one centimeter. Zheng Tan didn't know how to evaluate the value of a diamond, so he just listened to their conversation with his ears.
The old man put down the cup, took the box accurately, brushed his fingers on the diamonds, picked up one, touched it, and smiled: "It's well done, better than before. Your father knows well, he will definitely be very happy. Happy."
Zheng Tan was stunned for a moment. Listen to these words. Are those diamonds that look very attractive? Are they fake
"Put graphite and some auxiliary materials into a special box, stuff the box into a special pressure cooker-like instrument, simulate the temperature and pressure of diamond formation below the earth's surface, the graphite changes, three days later, take out When you open that box, you will get a diamond crystal. Compared with the natural diamonds that take hundreds of millions of billions of years, their manufacturing speed only takes a few days, which is cheaper than the natural ones dug out from the mines. Much more, but that was only three years ago." Tang Mo picked up one and looked at the light reflected on it, with a confident smile in his eyes, "These are the products of new technologies, and the cost has increased slightly. , it only takes a few days, but they are no different from natural diamonds that formed naturally under high temperature and pressure more than a billion years ago, and they can grow."
"Congratulations. It seems that the jewelry market is about to start a war again." The old man's tone did not change much, and the interests behind this did not make him too excited, "I remember when your father proposed that plan back then, he said that once the As the technology matures, it will impact the market as much as the arrival of the steel age in the 1850s and the invention of the transistor in the 1940s.”
Diamonds, not only the role of gem decoration, it can also make computers run at a speed that can melt the internal organs of current computers, and electronic, mechanical and even thermal weapons will also penetrate and bring about reforms. Although there is still a long way to go from the ideal, and there are still many problems that have not yet been solved, Tang Mo feels that he has taken a big leap forward.
"Before that, I want to ask Uncle Kun to help me find a bag of experimental items stolen by rats." Tang Mo put down the diamond and said.
Zheng Tan straightened his ears and turned to that side.