Thick black clouds obscured the starry sky, and a light rain began to blur the city.

The night, it was already deep, the clock of zero o'clock fell quietly, not bringing a ripple to the city, it seemed that zero o'clock was nothing special for most people, overtime should be overtime, sleep should be slept, as for those girls who are still chasing dramas, or fans of the game who are participating in team battles, they simply do not notice that the time has reached the next day.

On one of the city's more remote streets, it's a different story.

Fenglin Street, a street with a slightly allegorical name, this street is one of the few ancient streets in the city, like many cultural ancient cities, the decoration on this street is very retro, and most of the goods bought and sold in the shops have a certain historical atmosphere, antiques, jade, cultural toys are numerous, and it does not look too different from other ancient streets.

But, that's just what you see...

At the same time as the bell rang at zero o'clock, the lights suddenly lit up on the ancient street that had fallen into pitch black, and the harsh sound of "creaking" door bolt rubbing echoed in the ancient street, and the door of an old two-story building slowly opened, and the dim light crossed the threshold from the room behind the door and spread out in front of the door of the small building.

"The time has come, open the door to welcome the guests, and send them back behind closed doors." A low, faint voice rang out at the same time as the door was fully opened, and without trying to listen carefully, it was impossible to hear what it was saying, as if it were not meant for the guests.

The light in front of the small building has been completely spread, but it only covers the three feet in front of the small building's door, and it is still dark in the distance, as if there is an invisible wall erected there, completely blocking the two spaces.

It was pitch black on this ancient street, and there were no pedestrians to be seen, but gradually, there was a sound in the small building, which was the sound of a person's footsteps, and the sound of dishes colliding with the tabletop, the footsteps of the person were not slow, and they shuttled through the small building very rhythmically, but I didn't know what he or she was doing.

"There are so many guests today!"

The footsteps in the small building disappeared, and a half-grown boy in black clothes and black pants walked out of the small building, stood at the door, looked at the empty door of the small building with those shining eyes, and waved his hand a little bored: "Today is full, come back tomorrow." ”

After saying a word, the boy in black closed the door of the small building again, turned around and stepped on the steps, and walked towards the second floor.

"Boss, it's full, it's closed." It was still the little boy in black who spoke, at this time he was standing in a room on the second floor of the small building, opposite the boy was a Taishi chair, and on the top of the Taishi chair was sitting a person, this person was wearing a set of wide black casual clothes, holding a mobile phone in his hand and was busy with something.

"Hey, landing 98K, look at my brother's fly with you!"

"Damn, sneak attack, headshot, there's someone over there, come and pull me!"

... ...

Well, this person was playing a game at this time, and he didn't hear a word of what the boy said just now, but judging by the young man's movements, it was obvious that the battle was very fierce now.

"I went, and I died again, who are they, they must be hanging!" I don't know how many times the game character fell to the ground this time finally no one can pull him back up, his teammates have hung up, the young man casually dropped his mobile phone on the table, picked up the teacup and angrily drank the tea that had cooled in the teacup.

"Eh, Blackie, what are you doing here? Isn't this time to open the door and welcome customers? ”

Only then did the young man notice the boy in black standing in front of him, and asked the boy in a very surprised tone, there was a little reproach in his tone, but it was more casual.

"Brother Lin, did you hear me, I've been standing here for more than ten minutes!" The boy in black looked at the person in front of him very helplessly, and his tone revealed deep helplessness.

"Ah, you've been standing for more than ten minutes, what time is it, it's just twelve o'clock, the teahouse should still be open, why did you come up so early?"

"It's full, I don't know why today, it took less than half an hour to open the door, and the guests were full, so I came up to call you, that is, the one you landed into a box."

"Alright, alright, I know, I'll go down now. But it shouldn't be, why is it full so quickly today? ”

Hearing the boy mention the box on the ground, the young man's face suddenly turned red, and while getting up from the Taishi's chair, he began to change the topic, and the question he asked didn't want the boy to answer at all, and he walked down from the second floor talking to himself, and he didn't hear a voice from downstairs for a long time.

The boy in black did not follow the young man, jumped to the windowsill, leaned to the side, and looked at the rain curtain outside the window with his eyes.

He has been here for three years, this small building is a small teahouse to be exact, the name is Gujing Teahouse, this teahouse is very strange, the door is completely open during the day, it can be opened or not, but every night at eleven o'clock, at the moment when the bell rings, the door of the teahouse must be opened to welcome guests.

The reason is very simple, there are spirits and souls who will come to the teahouse at this time, but there is no one, and the teahouse will not take over the business of the living people at night.

The owner of the teahouse is called Lin Mo, twenty-five years old this year, a college student who has never gone to college, it may be a little strange to say this, but it is easy to understand that the boss's university degree certificate is bought with money, although it is useless, but it has been displayed in the bookcase like a treasure by Lin Mo. As for why Lin Mo didn't go to college, Lin Mo didn't take the college entrance examination, let alone go to college.

As for this boy in black, his name is Lin Tian, he can't remember what the name is, but the iron plate around his neck is engraved with the word Tian, so after being taken in by the owner of the teahouse, he has the name Lin Tian, although the name was given by Lin Mo, but Lin Mo has never called the word "Lin Tian", and has always used Xiao Hei to call the boy in black.

Lin Mo has been down for half an hour, but he has never come back, and there is no sound coming from the first floor, as if Lin Mo has disappeared like that, but the boy in black has long been accustomed to all this, and he reached out to the back of the cabinet next to him, Lin Tian had an extra bag of snacks in his hand, and he opened the bag very skillfully, took out something and stuffed it into his mouth, his eyes were still looking at the dark rain curtain, and he said a word in his mouth vaguely.

"Well, the small dried fish, it's still plain and delicious..."