When the sun shines vigorously on the earth, the small town still looks like a small town. The trees on the East Street are always lush and leafy. Apart from the twos and threes of people on the street, the largest number are groups of tourist groups.
East Street is full of antique buildings, and most of these antique buildings are engaged in antique business.
Most of the shops on East Street have negotiated business deals with travel agencies. The travel agencies bring some older tour groups, and if you meet a few who don't know the goods and like to play with antiques, you can get a good deal.
These stores don't do much business on weekdays, but once they open, they make a lot of money. If you run a big business, you can spend a lifetime. If you run a small business, you can eat and drink for a year.
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This is also the reason why although there are many antique shops on East Street but little business, they continue to thrive.
Lin Sheng and I walked to the door of No. 17 East Street. Next to it was an iconic large locust tree. It was as lush as an antique shop and looked like an antique. It had lived for who knows how many years.
Antique shops continue to thrive.
Lin Sheng kept talking about the dream he had last night, "...I really saw the black and white impermanence. It turns out that the black and white impermanence looks like that..."
I looked at Lin Sheng and laughed twice, and said, "It's just a dream."
Lin Sheng said: "I have never had such a dream. I seldom dream. Yesterday was really strange. I dreamed about black and white. I heard them say that they wanted to take Mr. Xiao Long to see the King of Hell. This seemed a bit ominous.
Mr. Xiao Long, I think there’s nothing much to do in the afternoon, why don’t we go to the temple and burn some incense?”
I stepped into the door of the antique shop and said, "You think too much. It's just a dream. Why are you burning incense?"
After leaving for a long time, I walked into the door of the antique store again, and I felt like it was a world away. The antique store was still the same, unchanged at all. The treasures placed outside had not even been touched. My grandfather was sitting at the counter, lying on his back.
He rocked on the rocking chair and hummed a tune, with a leisurely posture like an old god.
I said: "Old man, your grandson just came back from hell, how can you still be so happy with this kind of virtue!"
"Hey, grandson, isn't what you said a bit contradictory? You have come back from hell, so naturally I will be happy. If I were not happy, I would probably cry. Isn't that just cursing you to death?" My grandfather opened his eyes.
He opened his eyes, turned his head and glanced at me, and said lightly.
I said: "That's right. If you are right, just keep having fun!"
I looked around the whole room casually and said, "Your place is pretty good. Do you know what happened to my place when you left suddenly? I never had any trouble with you before.
Well, you have to pay for it this time, otherwise your grandson and I will lose the money to get a wife in the future."
My grandfather glanced at me and said: "Oh, when did you think about marrying a wife? Didn't you say that you want to be carefree by yourself? Do you want to learn from your grandfather and me? Whose girl is like this now?
Attractive, could it be that she is a nurse from Seungdeok Hospital?"
"Although your grandson and I are short-sighted, I am not blind. Please don't hurt me. You don't know what the virtues of those nurses at Shengde Hospital are. Either their eyes are crooked or their mouths are crooked."
, Those with normal facial features are all heavyweights. No matter how big my appetite is, I can’t bear that kind of food!" I said as I walked to another chair next to my grandfather and sat down, and then turned to look at me.
Grandpa said, "Is there something you should explain to me?"
"Explain, explain what, should I explain something to you?" My grandfather pretended to be confused.
"Old man, don't pretend to be confused with me. Even if you don't tell me why you suddenly died or disappeared suddenly, you should at least tell me what happened after I fainted that day, right?" I looked at the old man and asked.
To talk to my grandpa, you can't rush it, you have to do it little by little. If you do it too hastily, it can easily have the opposite effect.
I'm not good at anything, I just have a lot of patience. I learned from my grandfather that the kind of grandson you have as an old man.
Just when my grandfather opened his mouth to say something, a large group of people suddenly rushed in, and suddenly the deserted antique shop became noisy.
When I saw it was Ye Qing, I knew it was a tour group.
Ye Qing is a woman in her early twenties. She has been cooperating with my grandfather since she was a tour guide and took tour groups when she was 18 years old. Every time she brings a tour group, my grandfather always earns a lot of money, so my grandfather
I particularly like her.
When Ye Qing saw me and my grandfather, he nodded to us and then started to introduce the antiques in the antique shop.
My grandfather got up from the recliner, shrugged and said: "What's there to say about the past? Aren't you already fine? Boy, go back to your business. I also have to do business to pay off my debts! I pity your grandfather.
I owe a lot of debt, and my grandson won’t help pay it back. He really has no sense of filial piety.”
I cursed in my heart, who told you, an old man, to buy arms? I really don’t understand why you bought arms. You are no longer in the business. Could it be that you are using arms to stop the army from playing rice dumplings in ancient tombs?
Oh! That’s no longer an anecdote.
Knowing that there was no point in staying any longer, and that the group that Ye Qing brought would definitely not stay for just a short while, I stood up, glanced at my grandfather and said, "I'll let you go today, old man, you
Don't run away this time, stay calm and do your antique business well. If you run away again, I can't guarantee whether Waizui and the others will come and destroy your antique shop."
As I said this, I walked to the door. When I passed by Ye Qing, Ye Qing leaned into my ear and said, "Let's have dinner together tonight."
"Okay, see you at the same place." I said.
When I walked to the door, I said to Lin Sheng who was escorting me out: "Lin Sheng, keep an eye on Mr. Long here this time and don't let him run around again. If there is any trouble, just call me, do you know?"
"Yes, Mr. Xiaolong." Lin Sheng nodded, "By the way, Mr. Xiaolong, I've already cleaned up your place, and I'll give you your key."
"Well. You go and help with the business, I'll just go there by myself."
"Master Xiaolong, if you need any help, just call me." Lin Sheng told me a few words and then turned around and entered the house.
Ten minutes later, I stood at the end of West Street, between two leafy sycamore trees, which was my exorcism pavilion.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been back, and when I saw these two sycamore trees, I felt emotionally torn.
I took out the key and opened my door. As expected, the room had been tidied up by Lin Sheng. It seemed that Lin Sheng came to clean it from time to time. The room was very clean and spotless.
The first thing I did when I returned to the Exorcism Pavilion was go to the counter and open my computer to process my emails.
During this period, Lin Sheng said that many people came to me to do business, and they must have received a lot of emails.
The computer was quickly turned on, and as soon as I opened my mailbox, as expected, there were more than forty emails.
I feel a little strange. No matter how much business I have on weekdays, there may not be so much. Although my business is not of the same nature as the antique business, the way of making money is similar. Although there are few openings, I can make a lot of money once I open one.
The money is enough for me to have food and clothing for a few months or even a few years.
This is the email address I use exclusively for work. Anyone who comes to me must be doing it for work.
Muttering in my mind, I took a quick glance at it, and found out that among the more than forty emails, more than a dozen were from the same person.
I have never seen a person send me so many emails in such a hurry. I thought to myself that this person was in big trouble. When I saw it, the latest email was sent today. I immediately opened it and read it.
one time.
The email did not explain the specific situation. It just asked me if I was Mr. Xiao Long, if I was in the ghost hunting business, and if I could catch zombies. When I saw this email, I quickly replied to him.
My realization stayed on the word zombie for a full three minutes. I thought about those hairy rice dumplings I met in the ancient tomb. I thought to myself, who would actually encounter a zombie? Is it possible?
I'm also a back-and-forth fighter. I can't do the zombie business even if I want to.
I directly typed two words, no. Then I replied.
Then, I looked at the other emails. Most of the others were about ghosts at home, or things that were haunted somewhere and needed me to deal with.
I first replied one by one, asking if there was still anything needed to be done. If necessary, call to make an appointment, or meet in person to talk. If not, come back to me next time.
After I finished sending the letter, I stretched out and lay on the lounge chair. I felt like I hadn't come back for a long time, but I felt particularly comfortable.
As soon as I was free, I was thinking about what happened before. I don’t know how it came out. I don’t know where Mo Yibai, Hua Bubai, Eleven, Ma Xiaolan and those people went. After staying together for so long, I suddenly didn’t hear Hua.
The sound of Bubai and Eleven bickering was really not used to my ears.
When I think of these people, I naturally think of An, those red eyes, and what the Lord of Hell told me yesterday. They are really one and the other. It seems that I will not be able to have leisure in the rest of my life.
I don’t know if Mo Yibai and the others will continue to move forward, or if they will return to a civilized society like me. Knowing secretly that our plan failed, I don’t know what their plans are. Will they let us go again, or organize another one by ourselves?
men and horses for exploration.
As I was thinking about it, sleepiness came over me. I lay on the chair and fell asleep without realizing it.
I had one dream after another. The dreams were extremely messy, and they were all fragments in the ancient tomb.
Faces kept appearing in front of me. I wanted to reach out and touch them, but I couldn't.
At the end of the dream, I saw those red eyes. In the pitch black, those red eyes stared at me in terror.
Then I heard a voice saying: Immortal Tomb, Immortal Tomb, what is in the Immortal Tomb, gold and silver treasures, power over the world, immortality, beauties... The voice sounded very happy at the beginning, but stopped abruptly at the end.
For a moment, it suddenly became sharper, as if it was an interfered electromagnetic wave, and then a very scary voice said, what is in the Tomb of the Immortals is the end of the world...