"Tick tock...tick tock..."

The sound of dripping water in the bathroom was particularly harsh in the silence.

I stopped what I was doing and stared at the mirror on the sink. The moment I lowered my head to wash my face, it seemed like a pair of eyes were watching me in the darkness.

Turning off the faucet, I turned sideways and looked behind me.

Empty.

He breathed a long sigh of relief, turned to face the mirror and straightened his hair again.

Suddenly, my face in the mirror suddenly changed.

A man's face slowly emerged, his eyes were empty with blood and tears, and there was a piece of crumbling carrion hanging on the right side of his face.

I put my hands on the sink, took a deep breath, and yelled in an extremely impatient tone: "I've seen ghosts like you a lot. I'm warning you for the last time, my antique store is opening today, don't cause any trouble for me!"

My name is An Sheng, and I have a secret.

I can see ghosts with my left eye.

On a hot summer day, with the scorching sun in the sky, the cement floor is like a big baking pan, baking people's patience.

In the commercial street at the foot of Yuren Mountain in Yiding City, an old man, a young man and a grandson were squeezed into my antique shop of more than 40 square meters, which made me almost run out of patience.

My antique store opened today, and although there were quite a few customers, most of them came in out of curiosity. Occasionally, there were also a few couples who got into a quarrel after asking about the price and finding it too expensive.

I lay on the front desk with great interest, cracking melon seeds and watching the customers coming and going. I occasionally smiled and responded to them with one or two clichés. Anyway, once the prices were laid out, there was nothing more to say. If I said too much, it would be a waste of my words.

The grandfather and grandson in front of me still had no intention of leaving. I glanced at the clock on the wall and calculated that the two of them had stayed there for more than an hour.

I have been paying attention to them for a long time. At first, I thought that the grandfather and grandson only came to the store to use the air conditioner, but there must be enough to use the air conditioner. I put my hands on the counter and tilted my head forward. It turned out that these two people had been there all the time.

Standing stupidly in front of a guqin.

There is something strange about these grandfather and grandson.

Since they entered the store, they have not spoken to me, the store manager, nor have they turned around to look at other antiques. It was as if their souls were taken away by the guqin in front of them. However, other customers could not see these two.

Like humans, there was no reaction to their actions.

"Both."

The new store just opened today, and it hasn't had time to open yet. If I let these two people stay here any longer, I'm afraid I will have to charge them for air conditioning.

"You two, are you interested in this guqin?"

Seeing that these two people didn't talk to me, I walked forward while cracking melon seeds and tapped the old man's shoulder with my hand.

The old man trembled all over, turned around and looked at me with some horror.

"Wow -" the melon seed peels in my hand spilled all over the floor, and I complained while holding on to the counter behind me, "Well, old man, you're shocking me. You and your grandson have been standing here for so long, and this guqin

Is it so beautiful?"

The little boy next to me seemed a little afraid of me, and subconsciously shrank behind the old man, only sticking out his little head to look at me.

At a quick glance, I recognized that the old man's clothes were an old uniform. The improved version of the Ming Dynasty gown was an old item from the Republic of China period. Although it was not expensive, it looked 90% new.

It should be left behind by my ancestors.

"Girl, I've caused you trouble." The old man said kindly, looking a little embarrassed, "This Spring and Autumn Guqin is so charming that my grandson and I stopped and looked at it for so long."

I didn't expect that this old man was an expert. I walked around the counter, opened the display case with the key and took the guqin out. There were no other customers in the store anyway, so since the old man liked it, it didn't hurt to let him take a closer look.

"This guqin seems to have some mysterious power." The old man leaned down and looked at the guqin in front of him carefully, "What is this guqin called?"

"Go around." I said casually while wiping the counter.

"The lingering sound is lingering, what a good name. No." The old man suddenly raised his head and looked at me. He didn't show any kindness as before, but asked me with a sullen face, "Is this the harpooning harp?"

I felt something was wrong, so I subconsciously took a few steps back and stammered, "Yes...yes."

The old man's brows furrowed into a "Chuan" character, and he grabbed my wrist and asked, "Isn't this piano destroyed?"

The coolness from my wrist went straight to the sky, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on my back. I saw that the tips of my fingers had turned purple due to lack of blood supply: "Let go first!"

What the hell is this old man doing? What else can the guqin do to him? If you like it, just offer it at a good price. I'm just a businessman and there's nothing hard to discuss.

This can't be the latest blackmail method, right?

"This is a demon piano!"

The old man grabbed my arm with both hands and jerked it forward, his eyes widening as if they were about to fall out of their sockets, looking like a cannibal.

"Bang-dang-", I was so frightened that I stumbled and fell to the ground, and the back of my head hit the counter behind me.

"Old man, please don't scare this girl."

Suddenly a man's voice came from behind the ear.

I looked back and saw a man standing behind me who was over 19 meters tall and wearing all black, with black half-sleeves, black leggings, black Martin boots, and a black leather jacket draped over his shoulders.

When did this person come in? No matter how he walked, there was no sound.

The man in the leather jacket helped me up. I rubbed my head and thanked him repeatedly. Looking carefully, I saw that this man should be about the same age as me. He has a steep and pointed chin and a pair of beautiful pink and phoenix eyes. He is also a handsome guy.

"Hurry up and destroy this demonic piano." The old man seemed a little afraid of the man in leather, so he whispered to me and took his grandson away.

"Grandpa, my sister can see it too." Before the little boy could finish speaking, the old man covered his mouth, picked him up and hurried out of the store.

I dusted myself off, turned around and drank all the water in the thermos cup.

"This guqin is called Yaoliang, and it is the beloved Qin of King Chuzhuang." There was a crisp sound of strings behind him, and it was the man in leather playing with the Yaoliangqin on the counter. He continued, "The King of Chuzhuang has

However, this Qin did not come to the morning court for seven days in a row, forgetting all important national affairs, and the people regarded this Qin as a demon Qin."

"Monster piano?" I felt a little unhappy and asked the leather-clad man in front of me, "This piano has been following me for so long, how could it be a demon piano?"

I have to thank my antiques-obsessed dad for getting this piano. It’s one of his best-kept treasures.

Besides, it’s clear with just my eyes whether it’s Yao Qin or not.

"Yao Liang has its own power of temptation, which can attract fairies and ghosts within a radius of a hundred miles. Those who are attracted will stop in front of Yao Liang, lose all senses, and refuse to leave." The man in leather clothes raised his eyes and raised his eyebrows.

He smiled mysteriously at me.

Something was wrong, something was really wrong. Only then did I realize that the grandfather and grandson had no breath of living people at all.

Is it possible?

My heart suddenly tightened, and I remembered that the clothes and behavior of the grandfather and grandson did not look like modern people. Suddenly, I remembered the words of the little boy before leaving, and all kinds of terrifying conjectures instantly appeared in my mind: "You mean that the grandfather and grandson are not

people?"

The man in leather clothes raised his eyebrows with a smile, but there was no trace of fear on his face: "I heard this too."

"Look at me, I usually watch too many horror movies." I forced a smile, picked up the rag and wiped the table, changing the topic.

Ghosts are nothing strange to me, but now that I have finally come to live in a new city, I don't want to be treated as an alien by others.

"First take a look at the antiques in the store to see if there are any that you like. The prices are easy to negotiate on the first day of opening. I'll get you a glass of water."

I quickly got up and went to the back room to get a tea cup.

"It's rare to find an antique dealer as young as you."

I walked out of the back room with a teacup in hand. After looking around, the hall was empty. The man in leather clothes just now had disappeared.

not good.

I then turned to look at the counter, and the Spring and Autumn Guqin on it was gone.

Damn, this guy is not only a liar, but also a thief.

I quickly put down my tea cup and chased out, but except for Aunt Wang from the next door shop who was sitting and sunbathing, there was no one outside, and I didn't even see a ghost.

"Aunt Wang. Did you just see a man in leather clothes come out of my store? Which direction did he escape to?" I pinched my waist and couldn't help but leaned down and asked Aunt Wang at the door of the store.

Aunt Wang looked serious, not like she was lying to me: "What man in leather? I just saw Uncle Hai and his grandson walking out of your store, and there was no one after that."

"Uncle Hai?"

"Yes, that's the weird old fortune teller on the front street. What were you talking to yourself in the store just now? The little girl met a ghost in broad daylight."


Chapter completed!