I think this kind of inference is not particularly technical, and anyone who knows a little bit of common sense will calculate it like this, but Wang Haitang is super admired by Ma Yuan, and her hands are a little excitedly intertwined, "Boss Ma, you really know how to calculate, my parents really named me for this reason." ”

Ma Yuan said kindly, "Begonia flowers are good, although begonia flowers are not as delicate and dazzling as rose lilies, but it is beautiful and connotative, without a flamboyant appearance, but the character is extremely tenacious, and it is a really interesting soul." ”

Wang Haitang smiled shyly when he said this, and his eyes showed a look of smugness.

"Boss Ma is erudite and talented, I admire it." I gave a thumbs up and slapped my ass.

Ma Yuan glanced at me, then turned his face to look at Wang Haitang, "Are you here to pick up a book?" Come, I'll recommend a few books for your cousin to read on the 2nd floor. ”

Wang Haitang nodded hurriedly, then looked back at me and motioned for me to hurry up and go to the second floor.

I scratched the back of my head a little embarrassed, this little girl was so proud that she wanted to drive my cousin away quickly because Ma Yuan praised her a few words?

"Okay then, I'll go upstairs to read a book, and trouble Boss Ma to recommend it to you."

Ma Yuan looked at me with a smile and said meaningfully, "By the way, I'll talk to her a few more words." ”

My heart was pierced by a sharp and invisible knife, and I was cold, Ma Yuan was hinting to me that the content of his conversation with Wang Haitang was confidential, and I couldn't eavesdrop on the side.

I coughed and laughed, "Okay, okay, Begonia, then I'll go up to the 2nd floor to read the book first, you pick it up and come to me." ”

"Okay, cousin." Wang Haitang said and waved to me again, as if he was saying goodbye to me, obviously we were only one floor apart.

I turned around and walked up the stairs, deliberately slowing down and looking at Boss Ma and Wang Haitang with my spare eyes.

Ma Yuan naturally led her to the bookshelf next to her, this is the blind spot of my vision, I can no longer see them, and I can't hear what they talk about clearly, standing here eavesdropping is too childish.

I pressed my curiosity back into my stomach and walked briskly up to the second floor.

I wandered in front of the bookshelves a few times, flipped through more than a dozen books, and sure enough, as Ma Yuan said, every time I came, I would see a different book than the previous one, this guy didn't know how many books he had saved, and he could actually change blood every once in a while like a large shopping mall, so that customers could experience the enjoyment of shopping without repeating.

At this time, I also noticed that the decoration on the second floor is slightly different from the first floor, but it is also the same color.

The bar is different from the bookstore, the bar only has one floor and one plane, and the bookstore has two floors and two planes, so according to Mike's design manuscript, it is just a presentation of a plane, and the design of the second floor of the bookstore, I guess it is a change that has added Ma Yuan, which should hide an ulterior secret design.

For example, the special design of feng shui yin and yang, the entire bookstore is not an ordinary bookstore, this should be a very important contact point for their organization, or an information distribution center, or even their command center.

Although I saw a lot of books here that I hadn't seen before, I didn't find any books that caught my attention.

I continued to rummage in front of other bookcases, it had been more than half an hour, Wang Haitang had not come up to look for me, what was she talking to Ma Yuan below, or that she had picked out the book and was reading it below, but she just didn't want to come up and disturb me.

I moved the idea of secretly going downstairs to see her, but after a few seconds, I snuffed it out again, and if Ma Yuan saw through it, then I would be slapped in the face.

With my hands in my pockets, I wandered aimlessly among the bookcases on the second floor.

At this time, a guest reading a book came over with a book, I quickly put my arm away, leaned to the left to prevent touching him, but I measured the wrong distance, and my right elbow hit the bookcase next to me, and suddenly "snapped", a book fell at my feet.

The guest was startled, thinking that he had knocked it down, and he quickly bent down to pick it up.

I quickly crouched down and picked up the book first, "I'm sorry, I accidentally dropped it." ”

"Oh, it's fine." The guest smiled at me, got up and walked away.

I picked up the book and patted the dust on it, but there was no dust either, after all, the floor of the bookstore was very clean.

At this time, I noticed that this book is much larger than the average book, and even a few centimeters larger than the art textbook in elementary school, and the written cover is particularly elegant, without a word, it is the kind of fruit-green crepe paper, but it is very old, and the whole book is 5 centimeters thick.

What's inside?

I opened it curiously, and was stunned, this is actually a painting that folds and sticks the first and last pages, just like the "customs clearance booklet" taken by Tang Seng in Journey to the West, it seems to be a small book, but in fact, it is very long to unfold, and every time he goes to a country, he will take it out and ask the king to stamp the jade seal.

I unfolded the painting in the book, and it was more than a meter long, and when I saw the content on it, I was so surprised that my palms felt cold.

This is actually another ink painting, and the picture on it is the fish seller wearing a hat and a robe.

The portrait is located in the center of the whole painting, while the first half and the back half are blank without a single word.

What kind of ghost book is this?

I carefully rummaged through every page, including the cover and cover, there was not a single word, only this strange painting, obviously the weather was a little hot and humid noon, but it made my back feel cold, the image of the fish monster has now become a huge shadow in my heart.

"Cousin, I've already picked out the book."

Thinking of Wang Haitang's voice behind me, I hurriedly closed the strange book, turned around and smiled at her, "Pick it out, did Boss Ma recommend it to you?" ”

"Yes, I picked 5 books and put them below, cousin, did you find the book you were looking for?" Wang Haitang said this, but she stood there and didn't come over, and she looked at the bookcases around her with very uneasy eyes, her expression was very disgusted and resistant, as she said before, old objects with ages and stories will make her uncomfortable, so she doesn't like this place.

"I just saw this book and it was very interesting, but the paintings in it are really weird."

"Strange, what's in there?" Wang Haitang frowned slightly and looked at me in surprise.

She grabbed the corners of her clothes with both hands and tore them constantly, and her face became more and more pale.

Seeing her behave like this, I immediately dismissed the decision to show her the ink painting, and she had recovered a little bit now, and if I let her see such a strange painting, exactly like her so-called father figure, would it cause her to fluctuate dramatically again.

Now I shudder when I think of the time when she sat at home in her soul, and from time to time she would tell me that she had seen dark shadows, heard strange noises, and was clamoring to go back to her hometown, and I didn't want her to fall into the psychological shadow of fear again.

I smiled, "It's strange in this book, the picture inside is actually blank. ”

"Blank, how come?" Wang Haitang looked at me in disbelief, and she walked over, ignoring the fact that there were bookcases with old books that she hated.

"It's blank, nothing, look at it, there's not a word, I want to ask Boss Ma." I shook the book, showed her the cover and cover, and showed her that there was not a word on it.

But she reached over and wanted to take the book, I was nervous for a moment, then retracted my hand, deliberately opened the first few pages and turned a few times for her to read, "Look, it's all blank, and there's the back, don't you think it's weird?" ”

Fortunately, my acting skills were quite superb, and she reached back with her hand, thinking that the book was really as I showed her, and it was all blank, without half a word.

Wang Haitang looked at me a little frightened, and stammered, "How can this be...... There are such books...... It can't be a defective product with a wrong binding, right? I once heard from a relative who worked in a printing shop, and that some books would be thrown away if they were wrong in the printing, and some would buy them back for other uses. ”

I smiled, "It's okay, I'll ask Boss Ma." “

I said, taking the lead in front, and she followed me without saying a word, but it seemed that the air pressure behind me was much lower.

When I walked to the cash register, Boss Ma had already packaged the books, and it was still a very special cloth bag, which was hand-sewn, not the inferior mass-produced cloth bag.

"I recommended these 5 books to her, and she should have a lot of gains after reading them." Boss Ma said with a smile, at this time, his temperament and expression looked very ordinary, he was a very friendly bookstore owner, which was completely different from the yin and yang weird one just now.

"Okay, how much?"

I took out my wallet to settle the bill, but he waved his hand, "Haitang has already settled the account just now, and he said that he would buy it with his own money, so don't embarrass her as a cousin." ”

"Begonia, why did you buy it yourself?" I looked back at Wang Haitang.

Wang Haitang smiled embarrassedly, "I can still afford the money to buy books, and Boss Ma said that how books are bought by others with their own money, it is not called a gift, it is just a very low-level acquisition, the soul of the book cannot be bought, and only the paper that can buy the book is meaningless." ”

Hearing Wang Haitang say this, I almost opened my mouth to swear, Ma Yuan, an old rascal, he said some bottomless words in front of me to stimulate me, and even if he provoked me, he still had to say this kind of thing in front of Wang Haitang, she is a young girl, I don't want her to be brainwashed and instilled with special thoughts in this way by anyone who is not pure.