"Yunlu Street Station has arrived, please get off the bus passengers get off the bus from the back door, please be careful when you open the door, please go when you get off. ”

Xu Da dragged the huge woven bag, looked at the bus taillights that quickly disappeared, and sighed softly.

Looking up, not far away is the scattered cornices picked out by the antique buildings, and there is Yunlu Commercial Street. In order to appear magnificent, lighting effects are also specially designed. At night, the whole street looks like a dragon swimming in the sea.

However, the momentum is there, but the vitality is lacking.

That's right, a good shopping street, there are no customers patronizing.

"This year is sluggish, and the tenants can't pay the rent. If it continues like this, I'm afraid it will be closed. ”

Xu Da was born into a wealthy middle-class family, and Xu's father was successful in business in his early years and accumulated a lot of wealth. Which Cheng thought, approaching his old age, his head was hot. I bought a piece of land in the suburbs of Taowu City, poured out all my family property, built a commercial street, and named it Yunlu.

The imagination is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

Not long after the commercial street was built, seeing that merchants were moving in one after another, Xu Da, who had just graduated from university, had begun to fantasize about being an ordinary and boring rich second generation, living by collecting rent.

There are unforeseen circumstances, and my biological sister was in a serious car accident and injured her lumbar spine, just one step away from being paralyzed.

Fortunately, due to his young age, his body has survived the difficult times and there are strong signs of recovery.

So, my parents took my sister to the best rehabilitation center in the south for rehabilitation training, and the return date was undecided.

Xu Da, who was left behind, had to take on the responsibility of managing Yunlu Street.

Originally, I was full of ambition and wanted to prove myself. I don't want to, I didn't wait for him to play. A series of changes this year have completely wiped out his fighting spirit.

Citizens do not go out of their homes, even though Yunlu Street is close to the famous tourist attractions of Taowu City, there are still no tourists.

"It's been half a year, and it's going to go on like this...... Alas. The cost of the little sister's rehabilitation is 20,000 yuan per month, plus the living expenses of the parents......"

Thinking of Xu's father's call this morning to inquire about the situation on Yunlu Street, Xu Da had a headache.

In order not to worry her parents, and then affect her little sister's rehabilitation training, she can only prevaricate with lies that everything is fine.

The reality is already very bad.

It's so bad that in order to make ends meet, Xu Da had to respond to Guo Jia's call to set up a stall in the city center in order to make ends meet.

Today is the third day of his stall, and there are not many shipments, but he is angry.

On the property side, it was said that the booth fee of 600 yuan per month was agreed, and miscellaneous items were included. Today, I suddenly came to charge 20 yuan for sanitation fees. can't give a reasonable explanation, don't say it, and the attitude is still very arrogant.

Xu Da was not used to the people in the property and had a big fight with them. I came back early.

There is still a lot of contradiction on the bus, hesitating whether to go tomorrow or not?

"Go, why don't you go, the booth fees have been paid, and if you don't go, it's cheaper for them!"

After drinking several sips of wolfberry-soaked health tea to relieve the burning pain in his throat caused by the quarrel, Xu Da dragged the woven bag and walked back with heavy steps.

Although I still don't understand Lao Xu's hot-headed behavior of building Yunlu Street, I have to admit that the antique buildings on the commercial street are still very tasteful.

Walking into it, there is a sense of trance dreaming back to a thousand years.

After my sister's accident, in order to treat her, the only remaining property in the family has been sold. Xu Da now lives in the shop at the end of Yunlu Street.

The front is a shop, and the back is a courtyard, and the design is humanized and not homeless.

Put back the goods used to set up the stall, and with the wolfberry tea in hand, Xu Da walked towards the Li family stir-fry restaurant with leisurely steps.

"Daddy Li, no. What's delicious to eat today?"

Lifting the curtain of the stir-fry restaurant, the square layout is sparsely placed with a few wooden tables of old ships. Since it had been too long to receive customers, the counter had fallen into dust.

Daddy Li was nowhere to be seen, but there was a steaming casserole on the table in the middle.

Next to the pot, a note is held in a clay bowl. Xu Da picked it up and looked at it, it was left for him by Daddy Li.

He went to find an old friend to drink, and if he didn't come back tonight, he told Xu Da to eat well and remember to lock the door when he went to sleep.

Lifting the lid of the casserole, Xu Da was pleasantly surprised to see that it was actually a pot of dragon and phoenix pot.

This is Daddy Li's unique skill, even Xu Da, who doesn't like to eat snakes, can't help but move his index finger in the face of this dish.

Find chopsticks and take the lead in holding a piece of chicken to eat......

"Phew, the meat is too old. ”

Spit out the chicken, Xu Da shook his head in disappointment, "Daddy Li's cooking skills have regressed too much, and they are not as good as before." ”

Hesitant to eat or not, remembering that Daddy Li was sweating like rain in the kitchen and cooking carefully around the stove, he couldn't bear it, and picked up another piece of snake meat.

"Huh, snake meat tastes good. ”

Even if he was still far away from his expectations, and he couldn't bear to live up to Daddy Li's wishes, Xu Da worked hard to eat a pot of dragon and phoenix pot.

Daddy Li's original name was Li Chengye. He has never been married in his life, and has no children or daughters. At the age of fifty, he went to Xu's house to work as a nanny for Xu Da and his sister.

The reason why Father Xu took a fancy to Father Li among the female nannies was because he worked carefully. The most important thing is because of his cooking skills. It is said that when he was young, he won an award for chefs.

Father Li entered the Xu family and has been doing it for fifteen years.

After the accident, Xu's father couldn't bear to be adrift after Father Li lost his job, so he chose a shop for him on Yunlu Street and let him use it to run a stir-fry restaurant. By the way, Xu Da also has something to rely on.

Father Xu originally intended not to collect rent, but Father Li insisted on giving it. Father Xu couldn't help it, so he could only agree.

This year's situation is very bad, but Daddy Li has never asked for a deferment of rent payment. It also relieved Xu Da a lot of pressure.

Rice wine was added to the dragon and phoenix pot, and after drinking a few sips of soup, Xu Daren was already dizzy.

While the person was still awake, he closed the door of the store, returned to his house and fell asleep.

In my sleep, I heard strange noises...... Cooing, like a rat in a meeting.

Xu Da didn't care and slept deeply.

Until midnight, I was awakened by a burst of urine. I got up and went to the bathroom, and my hand clicked the switch on the wall.

In the gap between his barely opened eyes, he saw the moonlight spilling in from the window, his body yawned sharply, and his eyes turned to see his figure projected on the wall. This is nothing unusual.

Strangely, Xu Da noticed that there seemed to be something coiled on his chest!

He came to his senses in an instant, holding his breath and staring at the projection on the wall without blinking.

The thing on his chest seemed to have noticed Xu Da's movement and moved. So, Xu Da saw it...... A snake head!

It's clearly shaped like a snake.

Is it because I ate the dragon and phoenix pot at night and was retributed?

Finally, the outstretched hand touched the switch, and the room suddenly lit up.

Xu Da took a deep breath and looked down at his chest sharply.

It's really a snake.

But, to be exact, a black shadow. There are no patterns, and even the specific shapes are blurred.

If it weren't for those rather smart eyes, Xu Da would have thought it was a toy.

"What's that?"

"You're the thing!"

The "snake" actually spoke?

"To be precise, I'm a bug patcher, and I'm a bug fixer with a lot of fate. Because...... I've been eaten by you!"