"That's weird. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info "I imagined in my head that I would go through two auctions that were almost like mirrors, and I shuddered at the horror and a chilling sensation ran down my spine and permeated my whole body. I coughed unnaturally, hiding my embarrassment.

When he came back to his senses, he found that Li Zhilin seemed to be a little concerned about this matter, and he stared at the empty roasted wheat cage in front of him silently. The three of us froze in this strange silence, each with no more to say. Until the proprietress appeared again to break the silence: "Yo, what are you three young people doing with a tiger face, Grandma's breakfast here is so unpalatable?" ”

"No, it's not." I stood up and hurriedly explained, "Grandma's breakfast was delicious, we had a lot of fun, but we were a little tired, so we didn't chat." ”

But the proprietress didn't take my words seriously, but shook her head and smiled, pulled a chair and sat next to us, and raised her chin at Li Zhilin: "Don't lie to me." I know the two of them didn't just come here to eat, so let's go, what's the trouble? ”

Hearing the proprietress say this, the corners of Li Zhilin's mouth rose slightly, and Jiang Yuan's eyes were no longer worried just now. The proprietress raised her eyebrows and looked at the two people in front of her who were gradually happy, but her eyebrows and eyes were slowly clouded with a layer of sadness. was silent for a few more minutes before Li Zhilin took the initiative to tell the cause and effect of the matter: "That's how it happened, I was supposed to help in the past, but I got into trouble after taking over the extraneous branches. ”

"So what do you need me to do?" The proprietress looked at us in front of her for a long time.

"We need to find the boss." Li Zhilin was blunt.

When the proprietress heard this, she moved her gaze to the door curtain, and her tone was stained with a touch of tiredness: "You know that such a request is a bit difficult for me, right? I've already washed my hands, so I don't want to get involved in these grievances anymore. I'm afraid I won't be able to help you this time. Also, I advise you children to give up. It's not something you should be involved in, it's not too early, there's still work in the kitchen, so let's leave when you're done. Today's meal is considered to be invited by Grandma. ”

"Are you evicting you?" Jiang Yuan, who hadn't spoken for a long time, spoke at this time.

Grandma hesitated a little, but finally nodded and began to clean up the tableware on the table: "Some things are deaf to the ear, which is the best choice for Grandma now." You don't want Grandma to be embarrassed, do you? ”

Jiang Yuan didn't pay attention to the boss's words, but continued to say to himself: "But doesn't Grandma know? We come to you just to get useful advice. We didn't let you come forward, but you should know better than us that once you step into this circle again, there is no room for you to get out of the way, we don't want to get into trouble, we just want to find what we need. Under the thick threatening question, he could hear the sigh hidden in Jiang Yuan's words.

The proprietress paused as she cleaned up the table, and then she stacked the dishes together as if she hadn't heard anything, and walked to the back kitchen. It's just that when she was about to enter the door, she stopped and whispered in a helpless tone: "You have said it yourself, you can't get out if you step into this circle, why do you still insist on going your own way without listening to Grandma's words?" Jump in and you'll never get out. ”

"We know, and we don't want to trouble you." Li Zhilin said that he once again sincerely begged Grandma to give even a hint, "It's just that we have already jumped in, but we don't want to die in vain." ”

"How many people have lived a lifetime in a daze, just to be confused and ask for peace. You guys. The proprietress sighed, and finally decided not to argue with the two storytellers anymore, "Go to the ghost market in the south of the city to find the old bowl." This is the only news I can tell you. Also, Grandma still hopes that even if you don't achieve anything, you will be safe. After saying that, the proprietress walked into the back kitchen without looking back.

"You may be disappointed by that." Li Zhilin whispered, and the proprietress was stunned for a moment after hearing the back, and then disappeared behind the door curtain.

Jiang Yuan didn't say anything, but his face was not very good-looking, he stood up and walked out, seeing that we were not moved, he turned his head with a sullen face and urged us to leave: "Everyone has issued an order to evict customers, is it annoying to stay here?" ”

I was so frightened that I shuddered and turned my head to look at Li Zhilin. Li Zhilin smiled at me: "You go back to the car with him first, and I will leave the money in the past." ”

"I don't want to go back with you?" I really don't want to be in the same space with a barrel of explosives.

Li Zhilin just symbolically patted the top of my head: "You go back first, just don't pay attention to him." If there is someone with him, he will not hurt himself. I wanted to apologize to the hostess, after all, it was rude for us to be so abrupt today. Alright, let's get over there. I won't leave you alone for too long. ”

I returned to the car with a nervous mood, Jiang Yuan's temper was very scary, he pursed his lips and swiped his mobile phone without saying a word, even if he didn't speak, he could feel the temperature in the car drop to freezing. I didn't dare look back, so I could only peek in the rearview mirror to see how he reacted. "What are you looking at?" He suddenly looked up, and the two of us looked at each other at that moment.

I hurriedly looked away and squeaked and explained, "No, it's nothing. While complaining in his heart, Li Zhilin has not come back.

"Did Zhilin tell you something?" Jiang Yuan's tone was also very bad.

I shook my head, still decided not to tell the full truth: "He said he was going to apologize to the hostess." ”

"Eventful." Jiang Yuan complained, and then stopped talking, I was relieved, I had been worried just now that I would accidentally tell Li Zhilin that I asked me to stare at him not to hurt myself. The heart that has been carrying it finally settled the moment Li Zhilin opened the car door.

"The hostess said to take care of yourself."

Jiang Yuan snorted coldly, but the corners of his mouth still couldn't help but raise a little upward: "Worry about it." Although he said this, he could feel that he was in a better mood now than just now.

By the time the car drove out of this small urban village, the skyline had gradually been rendered a thin layer of white. I don't know if it's because I'm tired, but none of the three of them spoke. The car slowly drove into the city, and Li Zhilin proposed to take me home.

"I'm sorry for you." Li Zhilin and I thanked him, but I suddenly remembered Mi Zhen, and I was a little overwhelmed for a while. Maybe it was because he felt my awkward emotions, Li Zhilin turned his head and asked me if I was tired when he was waiting for the red light: "You have a very bad face." ”

"I'm a little sick from the car." I don't know how to explain how I'm feeling right now.

"I'm so tired." Li Zhilin probed the temperature of my forehead with his hand, "I was too nervous yesterday, let's go home and have a good rest." ”

I just wanted to nod, but I heard Jiang Yuan's low taunt from behind: "It's really not like Uncle Mo's child at all." ”

"What did you say?" I turned my head in surprise, "You said Uncle Mo." ”

Before I could finish asking, Li Zhilin coughed a little, and wanted to stop Jiang Yuan from speaking a little angrily. But unfortunately, this didn't seem to threaten Jiang Yuan by half a point, he pursed his lips, still looking indifferent: "She will know sooner or later that we know his father." ”

I couldn't say anything in surprise, I looked at Jiang Yuan with wide eyes.

Jiang Yuan suddenly stepped forward and said with a smile: "We are still very good friends." ”

"No, it can't be." I subconsciously chewed on the news.

"Why?" Jiang Yuan smiled and moved forward a little more, "Don't think you know your father well. ”

"Jiang Yuan." This time, Li Zhilin Zhijie stepped on the brakes.

Because of inertia, Jiang Yuan suddenly rushed forward, and his nose hit my backrest: "! He rubbed his nose and scolded, "What are you doing!" ”

"I think you're spending too much today." Li Zhilin was obviously a little angry.

"Hush." Jiang Yuan muttered dissatisfiedly, but he didn't say anything else, and sat back in his place quietly. But he touched his forehead and laughed maliciously.

I deleted my mouth a little embarrassedly, and at the moment when Li Zhilin braked just now, my upper body that turned backwards bounced under the drive of inertia, and hit the backrest hard. It was also because of this collision that his lips happened to be attached to Jiang Yuan's forehead. The moment on the notebook, I immediately turned my senses and covered my mouth, and an inexpressible sense of disgust rose in my heart. I took out a tissue from my bag and wiped my lips vigorously while looking at Jiang Yuan, who was smiling proudly in the back seat.

Li Zhilin looked at me apologetically, and then glared at Jiang Yuan, who was sitting in the back with a look of indifference: "Jiang Yuan apologizes." ”

"Why? I didn't mean to. Jiang Yuan obviously didn't eat Li Zhilin's set, and still sat in the back seat with a wicked smile as if he didn't care about himself.

"Forget it." I didn't want to dwell on this matter more, so I touched Li Zhilin's arm: "Just now I accidentally bit a dog." ”

Before Jiang Yuan could say anything more, I brought the topic back to their relationship with my father: "Don't hide it from me anymore, I think your attitude towards me from the beginning is because of my father." Although it felt a little sudden to be said by Jiang Yuan just now, I still want to know the things I didn't know in the past few years. ”

Li Zhilin is still a little hesitant: "I just think it's not time to tell you everything." ”

"Then when do you think I know when to change it? Do I want to know my father's business and still need your permission? "Because I was so angry, I could hear myself in my pocket at the end.

Li Zhilin didn't look over, stopped talking, and stopped looking at me.

After practicing another seven minutes of stalemate, Jiang Yuan said lazily: "I don't think you really look like Uncle Mo's child at all." Without waiting for me to refute, he continued, "If Uncle Mo had encountered the same situation, he would rather rely on his own strength to find out the truth than cause trouble for others. Your relentless pursuit like this now will only embarrass Zhilin and make you ugly. Have you ever wondered why your dad was hiding these things from you? ”

I was completely stunned by this question, and I felt a slight bitterness in my heart. yes, why didn't Dad tell me these things? I think since my dad didn't want me to know, he must have told them not to say anything to me. If it weren't for the desperate Mi Zhen who had no choice but to find me against the obstruction of that friend, maybe Dad's experience would be a 'secret' that I would never know. Thinking of this, although I am unwilling, I can also understand Li Zhilin's embarrassment. I looked out the window, and the summer morning had quietly arrived, and the colors were changing from black, gray, to white. I smiled bitterly: "Yes, he doesn't want to say it himself, how can you be told by him." ”

Li Zhilin was still at a loss as if Ran was more at a loss than just now, and he stumbled and explained: "No, I mean to say, I'll explain it to you slowly in the future." ”

"No need." I turned my head to look at him, "Just like Jiang Yuan said, I can't always rely on others to give me answers. Besides, the answers given to me by others may not be true, and it will make me feel down-to-earth to look for them myself. ”

Li Zhilin wanted to say something, but was stopped by Jiang Yuan: "Don't have too long, I think the little girl can get out of danger smoothly, I believe her vitality is comparable to Xiaoqiang." ”

"You're disgusting." I turned my head and glared at Jiang Yuan, who was gloating there, "I'm not Xiaoqiang." ”

"The child is really coaxing, and he has recovered his spirit so quickly." Jiang Yuan muttered quietly in the back seat.

I didn't hear clearly, "Huh? But I didn't hear a reply. When he wanted to confirm again, Jiang Yuan put on an impatient look again, urging Li Zhilin to send him home quickly.

The awkward atmosphere just now is slowly disappearing, and the topic between us is back to the hotel proprietress who asked for help just now: "You have a good relationship with the proprietress just now." Were you good friends before? "Thinking of the attitude of the proprietress and the two of them, and even letting them take care of their own grandma, it piqued my curiosity.

What I didn't do first was that when I first proposed the title, both of them looked a little unnatural, as if they wanted to avoid the topic. "That, grandma used to do this too. I mean, before the proprietress opened the restaurant, she was an antique dealer. Li Zhilin explained some award-winning actors, but mentioning the boss's previous career suddenly diverted my attention and made me shift from exploring interpersonal relationships to the boss's life experience.

"It's not just an antique dealer. The important thing is that the proprietress turned out to be a very good antique dealer. Jiang Yuan then added, "That's why we went to her for news." After all, only she knew who would be most interested in what had been cursed. ”

"Cursed?" When I heard the word curse, my heart skipped a beat inexplicably, and I couldn't help but get nervous.

Seeing that I was no longer entangled in the previous things, Li Zhilin also became interested, and began to talk endlessly about the previous story of the boss lady: "But I can remind you that you are stopping me from talking first, and there is still a way back." But as soon as I get out of the way, you'll know so much that it's best not to touch on it. You know curiosity kills cats, right? ”

I shook my head and stuck out my tongue: "I only know Schrödinger's cat." Besides, I'm not a cat, and curiosity doesn't work for me. As I spoke, I crossed my hands and gestured with a big X. Li Zhilin shook his head as if he had been defeated by me, and said the next story with a helpless smile.

Before the proprietress opened a 24-hour restaurant in the urban village, she was also a very famous antique dealer in the city. She is not famous because she has a lot of famous treasures in her shop, on the contrary, she sells mostly ordinary porcelain that is not famous, and the only thing that is somewhat famous in the store is some calligraphy works, but not to the extent of rare treasures. What's more, when everyone goes to her antique shop to consume, they don't come for masterpieces. On the contrary, it is important to like the 'unknown' porcelain in his shop. The reason why they fancy those unknown porcelain bowls and plates is not to buy them home to decorate their homes, but to keep their peace after death. These ordinary porcelain, which attracted them, were called ghost objects - funerary objects with cursed meanings.

Just like the curse of Tutankhamun in ancient Egypt and the coffin lid of the priestess of Yamanra, both of which used to make a fuss because of the curse, although there was a reasonable explanation later, but still could not fully explain those supernatural phenomena and cursed words. This also makes many people believe that although these antiques with curses will harm the living, they are like talismans for those who are buried in the earth. In particular, some wealthy merchants in Southeast Asia believe in this very much (there is a custom in Southeast Asia to build villas for themselves after death, called 'mountain villas', which will place the ashes of family members, but also some 'daily necessities'). They believe that death is the seriousness of life, even if the body leaves this world, the soul will still get eternal life, and these 'mountain houses' are the dwelling place of their souls, so in order to make them enjoy themselves after death, so the interior decoration of the 'mountain houses' is no different from their life. This is very similar to the concept of burial in the Song Dynasty - in the Song Dynasty, because of the concept of treating life as death, not only the structure and decoration of the tomb and the house where he lived before his death were the same to a certain extent, but the furnishings in the tomb were also similar to those of the deceased, mainly porcelain and lamps for the deceased to use after death. ）

Although these villas are not accessible to normal people, there are still some people who are lost in greed and want to disturb the peace of the souls who inhabit the 'villas'. These wealthy businessmen tried all kinds of methods, but in the end they were still in vain. Whenever I went back to worship my ancestors, I would always find that there were some valuables missing from my home, which made the rich merchants very distressed. Until someone proposed to place some curses in the 'mountain villages', as in the pyramids of Egypt, curses disturb the rest of the dead. It may sound like nonsense, but it has been confirmed that when these cursed items were placed in the Villa, there were fewer thefts of valuables in the Lodge than before. At first, it happened from time to time, but after a while, both stolen items and cursed 'wards' were returned to the 'lodge' again. Since then, the trend has flourished, and there are even rumors that these cursed objects will bring bad luck to the living greedy, but to those who have passed away, they can bring endless good fortune to the living future generations. It is precisely because of their own curse that the living dare not make a mistake and protect the peace of the deceased, that the living will receive the favor of the deceased. Therefore, these curiosities with curses can be described as feng shui treasures of another meaning for the floating of some seasonal superstitions.

And these cursed antiques are not formal in themselves, they are basically the income of tomb robbery decades ago, and they have changed hands several times and reached the proprietress several times. Because it is not a tomb robbery and immediately sold stolen goods, but it is not considered a legitimate income, it is a product of a gray area. And not many people know about this so-called 'feng shui effect', and most people still stay away from this kind of cursed thing, so most of the people who patronize the proprietress antique shop are some regular customers. Another reason why the proprietress is very good at looking at feng shui, but it is not the feng shui of the house, but the proprietress is very good at choosing a cemetery.

It is precisely because of these two reasons that the proprietress has completely been called the 'ghost lady' in the stock, and when the proprietress was still running an antique shop, someone once summed it up like this, if Mr. Yao is not at peace at home, looking for a ghost girl, there will be a way to keep you peaceful. Therefore, when most of the auction items in our auction this time had a bad connotation, the first person that came to Li Zhilin's mind was the proprietress . So when Mu Zixuan wanted to find the mastermind behind the scenes, Li Zhilin also knew that only by asking for help from the boss could he help them find the answer to their questions. At least the proprietress can narrow down the scope of the investigation, instead of looking for a needle in a haystack like Mu Zixuan.

However, Li Zhilin also guessed that the proprietress might refuse to help them, after all, the reason for the proprietress was that she wanted to stay away from this circle. If it weren't for the desperation, they wouldn't have made this decision to upset the proprietress upset. When I asked the proprietress about the reason for closing the store, Li Zhilin was stunned for a moment, but finally explained the reason. The proprietress never asked about the origin of the goods when she received the goods, which caused a lot of trouble for herself after another harvest. I don't know if it's because she is rich and red-eyed, so someone will cheat her. The goods she received that time were stolen and sold to her by a thief from another antique shop, and then she was the one who harmed the proprietress and pretended to buy the thing, and then spread rumors about the matter and made up something that did not exist, saying that the proprietress wanted to monopolize the business of 'ghost weapons' (the name for those cursed antiques in the proprietress shop) and hired people to steal the 'ghost weapons' of other sellers as her own sales. Originally, this kind of rumor, according to the logic of normal people, is simply vulnerable, but unfortunately there are too many people who make money from the red proprietress , so in the end, the rumors are like passing through the evil, and the reason why the proprietress will not suffer from any cursed things is because the proprietress herself is really a 'ghost girl', and anyone who approaches her will be cursed, this kind of absurd and nonsensical lie, but there are still people who believe it. These misunderstandings and injuries, which are more terrible than curses, make the proprietress miserable, and in the end, the proprietress business is also faltering amid these unfounded rumors. In the end, the proprietress closed her antique shop, and with the little money left, she opened the current all-night restaurant.

Probably for fear of meeting people who don't want to meet, the hostess's restaurant is open from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., and the license number provides cheap late-night snacks and breakfast for those who live in urban villages who leave early and return late. Because the location of the business is mixed, it also gives the proprietress a natural protective barrier.

It was also a last resort to disturb the proprietress this time, but fortunately, the proprietress at least did not completely refuse their request, at least gave a clue.

"Old bowl?" I was reminded of the hostess's last tip. After listening to my words, Li Zhilin nodded, but smashed his mouth again, showing embarrassment.

"What's wrong?" I stared at Li Zhilin curiously.

Li Zhilin hesitated for a long time before he spoke: "Lao Wan, this person, is a trouble. ”