Chapter 53: Time Memories

After passing through the secluded old town, the trio walked through a bustling street. Near the artificial lake is Xicheng Road, where there is an old and dilapidated street.

"He's right here." Grandma took Rong Di and Cheng Jiaju to a photo studio.

"Shi Yi?" Rong Di said the sign of the photo studio.

The photo studio's signboard is made of wood, and the red lacquered word "Shi Yi" has already fallen off half of the paint, and you can still see the traces of being eaten by insects. Strangely, the signboard only has the word "Shi Yi", and if it weren't for the many photos hanging on the glass walls on both sides of the door, it really wouldn't be obvious that this place is a photo studio.

The door of the small shop is also a glass door, obviously this door is very old, when grandma pushed the door in, this door issued a "squeak~ yay! Voice. The sound was particularly harsh, as if it was time for everyone to fix it in advance.

This is a photo studio, and the most of the things in the store are of course photos, and in addition to that, there are cameras. The owner seems to be a camera collector, from digital cameras, to film cameras, and even point-and-shoot cameras! To Rongdi's surprise, this place actually has the oldest camera that can only be seen in movies. It's the frighteningly large wooden box camera that is held up by a stand and covered with cloth, and the cameraman has to twist his head to shoot a picture of a wooden box. Rong Di remembers that this kind of camera appeared in Jet Li's Wong Fei Hung series of movies.

The glass counter faces the door, and there appears to be a small door behind the door, blocked by a long cloth. A man pulled the curtain and walked out. As soon as he saw his grandmother, he smiled slightly: "Bai Li, a rare guest." I've brought guests this time. ”

This man is a typical Westerner-looking, with black hair and blue eyes, and a high nose. He wears a tuxedo suit, a tall gentleman's top hat on his head, and a cane in his white-gloved hand. By the way, he also wears unilateral glasses on his left eye, the kind of glasses with a chain on his right eye. To be honest, Rong Di never knew how to put on these glasses.

"Hello, I'm Shi Yi. Do you want to erase your memories or buy something you owned in the past? Shi Yi put away his cane and hat, and his demeanor was that of a polite gentleman.

"Shopping?" Rong Di said with some curiosity: "What's the matter with buying things that you have owned in the past?"

"You better ask Bai Li about this, she used to be a clerk for picking up memories." Shi Yi smiled evilly.

"Hmph, if it weren't for the red clothes, I wouldn't be willing to help you work." Grandma said to Rong Di with some displeasure: "This guy also opened a grocery store called 'Pick up memories', 'Pickup' is the 'pickup' of pickup, and 'Memory' is the memory of memory." That place is a grocery store where the visitor has owned things in the past, if you arrive at the memory, remember to take a look at the abacus at the front desk first, how much money is on the abacus is the price of the things you buy, no matter what you buy is this price, otherwise the clerk will revise the price. ”

"Isn't that the clerk who changed the price just you?" Shi Yi smiled slyly.

"You didn't make me do that!" Grandma said angrily.

Shi Yi smiled even more proudly, and only when he saw his grandmother's expression that she was almost cannibalistic did she restrain a little. "Okay, what the hell are you here for?" Shi Yi asked.

"Jiaju." Grandma said.

"Yes." Cheng Jiaju took a steady step forward like a soldier, "I want to delete my memory." ”

Shi Yi's eyes lit up suddenly, and he looked Cheng Jiaju up and down, "If you ask me to help you save your memories and come back and take out your memories in the future, you will have to collect money, if you want to permanently delete your memories, I am willing to spend money to buy your memories." As for the price, it depends on what kind of memory you have, and how long you have to look at it. ”

As he spoke, Shi Yi smiled strangely, lowered his voice, and said in an ethereal, demonic voice piercing his ears: "You, are you ready?"

The shopkeeper in front of him was not like a person, and he betrayed him with the chilling sound he had just made. The moment he spoke just now, Rong Di seemed to see that there was a smooth glass behind him, but there was no back of him in the glass, and there was just a pitch-black figure.

"Grandma, who is he?" Rong Di asked quietly.

"I don't know very well, I lost my memory, so I'm very attached to other people's memories." Grandma said seriously, "I think he should be a demon."

Rong Di shuddered violently, no wonder he felt terrified when he met his eyes. Whether it is an ancient legend or a current film and television work, demons are evil beings, they will fulfill the wishes of their summoners in a deceptive way, and then squeeze their desires step by step, and when they break the contract, the demons will appear and eat their souls.

However, Shi Yi in front of him doesn't seem to be bad, but like an honest and trustworthy ordinary trader. Rong Di thought about it, if it wasn't that grandma guessed wrong, then the gap between the legend and reality was a bit big.

Cheng Jiaju also seemed to be frightened, he had never been scared like this, when he recalled "Are you ready", that is, the moment when Cheng Jiaju and he looked at him, all the terrible memory fragments in his memory surfaced at this moment. Cheng Jiaju seemed to be pressed and out of breath, feeling like he was going to suffocate.

It took a long time for Cheng Jiaju to come to his senses. He replied, "I'm ready."

Shi Yi smiled: "Human beings are really interesting." As he spoke, he drew the curtain and invited, "Come in."

Cheng Jiaju hesitated, but still stepped into the small door. He trusted the landlady immensely, and now that the landlady was here, he was not afraid of any strange facts.

"If you don't trust him. You can also go in and have a look. Shi Yi invited again.

"Humph!" Grandma looked a little displeased, "Grandson, let's go in and have a look!" ”

……

Behind the small door was a secret room, with many glass cabinets and shelves full of things like test tubes, some of which had a picture rolled inside, some of which were negatives. Glass cabinets and shelves lean against the wall, and in the middle of the empty space is a soft sofa facing an old-fashioned camera. Well, it's the camera that appeared in Wong Fei Hung's movie.

Shi Yi motioned for Cheng Jiaju to sit on the sofa, then tapped the latter's eyebrows with his fingertips, and said, "Now you recall the memories you want to delete."

Cheng Jiaju was a little nervous, couldn't help but close his eyes, and began to recall the memory of seeing the contents of the memory card in the police station that day. Suddenly, there seemed to be a faint electric current coming from the center of his eyebrows, and Cheng Jiaju suddenly felt that his mind was being peeped at.

"I see, you want to erase this memory of how you know how to turn a human into a vampire." Shi Yi couldn't help but smile: "This is indeed an interesting memory, won't you regret deleting such a precious memory?"

"No, it won't."

Without waiting for Cheng Jiaju to finish speaking, Shi Yi hurriedly said, "You chose the pride of mankind, right?"

Cheng Jiaju was stunned, nodded and said, "That's indeed the case......"

"I like people like you who are righteous and awe-inspiring." Shi Yi smiled: "There will be no side effects from deleting memories, am I willing to buy your memories with two gold coins, is it a deal?"

"Deal." Cheng Jiaju agreed.

"Okay." Shi Yi took out two gold coins from his pocket and stuffed them into Cheng Jiaju's hand, "This kind of gold coin is very collectible, and if you sell it, you can sell it for a good price." ”

Cheng Jiaju looked at the money in his hand, this turned out to be a Yuan Datou made of gold, although he heard a friend who knew about antique collecting heard of the gold coin version of Yuan Datou, but he had never seen it. These two gold coins are in good condition, the obverse is the portrait of the left side of Yuan Guangtou, the figure is lifelike is a little obscene, and the back is the word "one yuan" of the currency.

"It's genuine, I still have a lot of money like this." As he spoke, Shi Yi had already come to the back of the old-fashioned camera, and put his head into the hood.

"......Take it easy," Shi Yi reminded.

Cheng Jiaju took a deep breath, "Okay! ”

"Smack!"

The bright light flashed, and Cheng Jiaju lost consciousness instantly. Shi Yi poked his head out of the hood, then opened a hidden compartment on the side of the wooden box and took out a photo.

"Done!" Shi Yi smiled triumphantly, showing off his new toy like a child.

Rong Di couldn't help asking, "Officer Cheng, what's wrong with him?"

"He's just unconscious, and it won't be long before he wakes up." Shi Yi smiled: "You can take a look at my collection, and if you want to use those photos, you can tell me."

As he spoke, Shi Yi took out a new test tube and put Cheng Jiaju's photo into it, and then wrote the date and Cheng Jiaju's name on it with a pen.

With the permission of the shopkeeper, Rongdi is also like a child who has entered the toy city, looking around at the things here. The photographs hanging on the walls actually moved, and Rondi thought it was amazing, and the newspapers and books in Harry Potter were such moving photos.

Since most of the photos were placed in test tubes, Rongdi could only look at the photos on the wall to relieve his boredom. Some of the photos are sweet times with lovers, and some are first-sight memories of murder.

Shi Yi explained: "This memory of Miss Melia, her lover died unexpectedly, and she has never been able to get out of the shadow of broken love. So she begged me to erase her memory, and this photo was taken in London in 1966. ”

"This one is the memory of a person with a split personality, and the photos are full of memories of his other personality killing people. He was tortured by another personality so painfully that I was asked to erase his memory. He thought that by doing so, he would be able to escape the punishment of his heart and the punishment of the law, but he was arrested by the police the day after he deleted his memory. Justice really won't be late. ”

Rong Di listened to him as he looked at the photos on the wall. Suddenly, there was a photograph that caught his memory, it was a seascape, and the sunset at dusk was particularly beautiful. The strange thing is that there is no figure in this photo, it is a simple landscape photo.

"What is this?" Rongdi asked.

"This is my favorite collection." Shi Yi smiled, but looked a little sad, "That girl gave me her most precious and beautiful memory. ”

Rong Di's brain is very big, and he has already thought of a relationship that ended in a breakup.

"You know what? If you want to see these memories from the perspective of the owner of the memory, you put the photo under your pillow and you will dream about the memory of the photo. Shi Yi smiled and said, "And you will also feel the mood of the owner of that memory, which is a hundred times stronger than the current VR movie."

As he spoke, Shi Yi took down the photo of the sea view from the wall and said to Rong Di, "Do you want to try it?"

Rong Di didn't have any inspiration now, and experiencing other people's memories and thoughts were very precious memories, so he agreed, "Okay, ......"

Saying that, Rong Di saw her grandmother's somewhat displeased expression, and then asked Shi Yi, "You won't be collecting money, will you?"

"The first time it's free, and then you have to collect money." Shi Yi showed a treacherous expression that all businessmen would show, "If you have any memories that you want to forget in the future, please come to me, and I will buy your memories at a reasonable price." You are also very welcome to bring someone to me to delete your memories. ”

Rong Di nodded, but saw that her grandmother turned her face away unhappily.

"Grandma?" He asked.

Shi Yi explained: "You are her grandson, it seems that your grandmother is still angry about her being a clerk in Shiyi." By the way, if you go and lose you, you might see your grandmother in the past. ”

"Why?" Rongdi asked.

"Because the things that are remembered are things from the past, you are also a clerk from the past." Shi Yi smiled: "That job is not tiring at all, if you want to do it, feel free to find me."

"Aren't you tired yet?! I had to deal with thousands of customers a day, and I didn't have to do anything, but I was just not happy! ”

Memories is a grocery store that only sells what visitors have in the past, and the store belongs to a different space. When grandma was working as a clerk inside, the last guest had just left, and another guest came! And the time point of each guest is different, sometimes they can't understand what grandma says, and it is very troublesome to deal with. At the beginning, Shi Yi said that this was a very easy job, and my grandmother knew that she had been deceived after doing it!

"Poof, who made you ask me." Shi Yi smiled slyly, "By the way, why didn't I know you had a grandson after knowing you for so long?" Didn't you just adopt two girls? ”

"I just recognized, this is my own grandson." Grandma replied displeased.

Grandma adopts two girls? In other words, in addition to the red clothes, there is another one? Rong Di asked, "In addition to Hongyi, grandma, have you adopted other girls?"

"I didn't take her long, and soon her parents took her back." Grandma seemed to remember something, and said, "That kid is amazing......

Shi Yi couldn't help but say: "That magical child is quite magical, and the children you adopt are not simple."

Grandma and Shi Yi both showed surprised and slightly nostalgic looks, Rong Di couldn't help but be curious about that girl's matter, and just wanted to ask something, Cheng Jiaju woke up. Grandma snorted, "Jiaju, let's go back." ”

"Amnesticized?" Cheng Jiaju kept some memories, although he didn't know that he had deleted those memories, but he felt much more relieved now, as if a big stone in his heart had been put down.

Seeing that her grandmother seemed to be angry, Rong Di didn't ask about the girl, and followed her out. Suddenly, he turned around and asked, "Shi Yi, will I return this photo to you tomorrow?"

"Let's put it there first, and I'll return it later." Shi Yi smiled: "I'm going to go out these days, I'm going to the beach for a vacation."

Achievement: Fill in the giant hole of memory!

In addition, I recommend a book by the group of friends, "Fox Shop", which is also a book about monsters.