"Boss, how did you sell this glass ball?"

In a market on the outskirts of L City, Zhao Yao held a few glass balls that he liked to play with most when he was a child in front of a stall selling old goods and asked, in their market, there are everything sold, new cars and old cars, hardware and clothing, furniture and furnishings, of course, Zhao Yao's favorite thing to visit is this kind of thrift stall that can only be seen in rural markets, the old goods here are not antiques, or children's trolleys, broken mobile phones, headphones and other things used at home, buy these things, all to save money, So business is pretty good.

"Oh, this one, that's all there are left, if you want them, one for a dollar."

The boss is an old man in his sixties, he saw that Zhao Yao was a ten-year-old young man, and he saw that he was dressed up, obviously not a big customer, after glancing at the glass ball in Zhao Yao's hand, he threw down a sentence and beckoned the person who wanted to buy his old sewing machine.

Zhao Yao was not angry because of the boss's unenthusiasm, in his opinion, it was normal, if it was him, it would be the same, these days, between a few dollars and a few hundred yuan, no one will choose the former, after putting those glass balls into his pocket, Zhao Yao took out a few small hairs from the pocket of the jacket he had been wearing for four or five years, and said to the boss:

"Hey, boss, give you the money, take it."

After walking around the market for a while, Zhao Yao really didn't find anything interesting to him anymore, counted the only ten yuan left in his pocket, and swallowed saliva for a long time in front of the stall selling pigs, and finally he was not willing to buy, touched his stomach, and Zhao Yao went home step by step.

"Grandpa, I'm back."

Pushing open the fence gate of his house, Zhao Yao shouted at his earthen house,

"Hey, my good grandson is back, I went to the market today, did you buy anything good? I'm hungry, I've made all the rice, it's your favorite sweet potato porridge,"

As Zhao Yao's words fell, an old voice came from the house, and then, an old man with a wrinkled face and a slight lame right foot on crutches walked out of the house, he was Zhao Yao's grandfather, Zhao joined the army, the old man's foot was blown up by a Japanese devil's shell during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the heel of his right foot was amputated, and he had to rely on crutches to walk, otherwise he couldn't walk for a long time.

"Well, grandpa, look at what I bought, hehe, I wanted you to buy me the glass balls when I was a child, you see, I haven't bought it yet, I'll play with it in a while."

As Zhao Yao spoke, he ostentatiously took out the six glass balls from his worn trouser pocket, put them in front of Zhao Senjun and shook them, and then put them in his pocket and went to the back room to eat.

Zhao Shenjun looked at Zhao Yao's satisfied and excited smile, and couldn't help but feel a burst of bitterness in his heart, twelve years ago, they had a big flood here, Zhao Yao's parents were washed away by the water in order to save Zhao Yao, until now they have not seen anyone dead or dead, so many years, the grandfather and grandson have relied on the family's three acres of thin fields to live, Zhao Yao was five years old, he saw that other friends were playing with glass balls, and he also wanted to, so he pestered Zhao Shenjun to buy it for himself, and if he didn't buy it, he would splash and roll on the ground, But at that time, Zhao Shenjun, who even had a problem with eating, had spare money to buy toys for Zhao Yao, so he beat Zhao Yao severely, and since then, for twelve years, Zhao Yao has never asked Zhao Shenjun to ask for any toys, and it was from that time that Zhao Yao gradually became sensible.

Farming in the countryside, only the wheat harvest and autumn harvest are busy, the rest of the time is very idle, Zhao Yao, who played with the glass ball in his yard for an hour, also felt very bored, after all, this thing was what he wanted when he was five or six years old, and now he is seventeen, after playing for a while, the excitement at the beginning has passed, and there is no interest in playing anymore.

"Hey, why is this glass ball a little different from the others?"

Zhao Yao, who was holding the glass ball to the sky to look at the patterns inside, suddenly found that among the six glass balls, five of them were colorful patterns in the form of sheets or balls, but only one inside, it turned out to be a very small gourd, Zhao Yao, who noticed this, also found that this glass ball did not seem to be made of glass, but it did not look like rubber, looking at the sun, it could block the sun's rays, this discovery made Zhao Yao more and more curious.

Rural teenagers are sometimes like kittens, boring life makes them develop the habit of encountering something they think is interesting, they will play for a long time and will not get tired, Zhao Lei, who played with this glass ball for a long time, suddenly had a whim, and wanted to use a knife to take out the gourd inside.

Thinking of it, Zhao Yao took out his kitchen knife from the kitchen, put the glass beads on the board left and right, and cut the beads with the kitchen knife in his right hand, but what made Zhao Yao wonder was that his kitchen knife was usually sharpened by his grandfather, and the meat and vegetables were cut with one knife, even the pork stick bone, it didn't take very hard to cut it, but today it was used on this bead, why didn't there be any traces left?

I tried several times, and I used all my strength to eat, but except for a gap the size of a grain of rice left on the kitchen knife, the beads were nothing at all.

"Grandma's, I don't believe it yet, I have to get you out of it today, hey, there is"

Zhao Yao, who was guilty of the shaft, suddenly seemed to remember something, and ran into his cabin with the beads, after entering the house, Zhao Yao put the beads on the old writing desk, and then pulled out his schoolbag when he was in school from under his bed, took out the pencil case from the schoolbag, and after opening it, in addition to a few pencils and ballpoint pens, there was only a sharp knife about ten centimeters long and slightly curved, the knife had no handle, and the whole body was wrapped around and around by thick insulating tape. Only a two-centimeter blade is left on the outermost, this knife is the pencil knife made by Zhao Yao's grandfather for Zhao Yao, I heard my grandfather say that this knife is part of the Japanese devil adjutant command knife he picked up on the battlefield before.

Zhao Yao's left hand bead and right hand knife, after seeing it, suddenly stabbed the knife towards the middle of the beads, it is strange to say, how to cut the sharp kitchen knife can not hurt its beads, under the blade of this knife, but it is like tofu was cut a deep hole, just as Zhao Yao was happy, the knife in his hand directly touched the small gourd in the beads, Zhao Yao only felt the blade in his hand, and the knife was cut down the middle part of the gourd.

"Ahh

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Yao only felt a pain in the middle finger of his left hand, and a three-millimeter-deep and one-centimeter-long opening appeared on Zhao Yao's finger, and below the wound, it was the sharp pencil knife, as if this knife was not to cut the beads in his hand, but directly to his fingers.

However, when Zhao Yao just shouted and didn't make the next move, the red blood in the middle finger of his left hand gushed out, but to Zhao Yao's surprise, the blood that spurted out did not fall on the table, but was absorbed by the small gourd in the bead along the gap cut out of the bead.

In just a dozen seconds, the small gourd in the center of the beads changed from golden yellow to bright blood red at the beginning, when the whole body of the gourd turned blood red, the beads wrapped in the gourd appeared dense cracks from the inside out, and then only heard a slight explosion of "bang", and the bright red gourd suddenly broke away from Zhao Yao's hand and flew into the air.

The small gourd grows in the wind, and in the blink of an eye, it becomes a big gourd with a height of twenty or thirty centimeters, it stops about one meter above the ground, and then spews out a puff of white smoke from the mouth of the gourd, and after more than ten seconds, a middle-aged man wearing a purple-black robe with a kind face appeared in front of Zhao Yao, holding the gourd that has obviously become more than ten times larger.

"Oh, the taste of blood is so good, I haven't tasted it in many years, I really miss it."

I saw that after the black-robed man came out, he first stretched out his somewhat purple tongue and licked the corner of his mouth, and then looked at Zhao Yao, who was already scared, with a pair of deep eyes

"Hey, boy, it's time to get back to your soul!"

Zhao Yao, who had been frightened by all this in front of him, had already fled the three souls and seven spirits, and his brain had already crashed, and the black-robed man yelled at him, and the three souls and seven spirits immediately returned to their positions, and asked in a trembling voice while moving their bodies back

"You, you, are you human, or are you a ghost!"

The black-robed man heard Zhao Yao freeze him as a ghost, although he was displeased, he didn't blame it, but just said in a very disdainful tone:

"Ghosts? Hmph, that kind of humble existence is also worthy of being compared to me, boy, let me tell you, I am an ancestral demon, and all the demons in the world are my descendants. ”

"Ancestral Demon? Demons? Could it be that there really are gods and demons? So, what do you want to do now? It's not like you want to eat me, I, I'm telling you, I haven't taken a shower for a month, and my body is very dirty. ”

Zhao Yao heard what the other party said, his brain couldn't turn around, he often saw things like gods and demons cultivating truth in novels, but in reality, let alone gods and demons, he hadn't even seen ghosts, but in his impression, since he was called a demon, it was definitely not a good thing, so let's save my life first.

"Hmph, of course there are gods and demons, if I hadn't lost the bet with the ancestral gods, otherwise how would I have stayed in this little gourd for tens of millions of years, okay, boy, don't talk nonsense, I can't exist for too long, otherwise the space barrier of this world will be broken by my power, I can realize your three wishes now, you can say it quickly, but let me remind you first, someone woke me up before you and made a wish, your wish can't be the same as theirs, otherwise it can't be realized, okay, time is limited, You only have a minute, and you're ready to go. ”