"The demolition notice is coming down, just at the end of next month."

Lu Dahai took a sip of wine, threw two peanuts into his mouth, and said while chewing: "In the past few days, you have cleaned up the shop, thrown away what should be thrown away, and sold what should be sold, anyway, there is nothing valuable, what is lacking at that time, and I will buy it again when I move to a new house." ”

"Hmm."

Lu Banxin took a bite of rice, a little absent-minded, and after thinking about it, he felt that it was necessary to remind him.

"Dad, grandpa said this shop can't be ......"

"Can't do anything, he said that this demolition matter can be useful? Besides, your grandfather has been gone for six years......"

Lu Banxin didn't speak again, and took advantage of his father's pouring of wine to look at the black and white portrait on the desk behind him.

The old man has kind eyebrows, wise eyes, full earlobes, and his skin is not as old as ordinary old people, and he is by no means a short-lived person in terms of appearance, but unfortunately he died before he was sixty.

Grandpa's death hit Lu Banxin very hard, her mother died early, and there was not even a decent photo left at home, and her father was busy all day long, rarely at home, and the only one close to her was her grandfather.

But Grandpa was very strange, he rarely left the Square Alley, and after dark he would go back to the basement, knocking and banging inside, and he could often hear strange sounds.

Lu Banxin asked several times, but her grandfather fooled her with a bear lollipop, and she still doesn't know what her grandfather was busy in the basement at night.

"That's it, when you get the money, just change the cemetery for your grandfather and use more paper money." Lu Dahai said again.

"Hmm." Lu Banxin nodded, dialing the food in the bowl, a little unate.

Lu Dahai took the wine glass and drank it all, was silent for about five seconds, glanced at the portrait with his spare eyes, and his perennial dull expression also changed slightly at this moment.

……

The Lu family's shop is located on the east side of Sifang Lane, a total of three floors, the first floor sells some groceries, the second floor lives people, the basement has always been occupied by grandpa, grandpa rarely let Lu Banxin go down when he was alive, after grandpa died, his father added a lock to the door, and she couldn't go down again.

After eating, Lu Dahai went out, Lu Banxin packed up the dishes and chopsticks, walked to the staircase leading to the basement, and suddenly remembered that his grandfather often played with an old pocket watch when he was alive, like a baby, and usually didn't let himself touch it at all, until he died before he handed the pocket watch into his hands, and told him to treasure it himself.

At that time, Lu Banxin was still young, and he was a little afraid of his grandfather's relics, so he threw them in the basement, and now in retrospect, he feels very sorry for his grandfather. The old pocket watch is a grandfather who left him a thought, and the shop is about to be demolished, but this thought cannot be lost.

Lu Banxin hesitated for a while, rummaged in his father's bedroom for a long time, and finally found the key to the basement.

When he opened the door, there was a strange fragrance in the dark, and there was no smell of mildew in the whole room, which surprised Lu Banxin. The air in the south is humid, especially this kind of basement is impermeable on all sides, and the smell is definitely not good after covering it for six years, but the air inside is not only turbid, but also fresh with a bit of intoxicating fragrance, which is very unusual.

Lu Banxin was very cautious, and walked down the steps cautiously, and after his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he found that something like a firefly was flashing in the distance. She hurriedly took a few steps back, staring at the point of light with some vigilance.

After waiting for a while, I didn't find anything abnormal, and then I walked into the house.

After turning on the light, the cramped space is unobstructed, a single bed, a table, a chair, a table lamp, a half-person high wooden box in the corner, and a wardrobe next to it.

The glowing spot was next to the pillow, where the old pocket watch that Grandpa had left behind was on it.

Lu Banxin stared at the pocket watch for a full minute before reaching over, just touching the dial, a cold air quickly penetrated into the internal organs along the fingertips, Lu Banxin shivered, the hair stood up instantly, she screamed, the light didn't have time to turn off, and she rushed out of the basement.

As soon as the front foot walked, the ground suddenly cracked a three-inch-wide crack, and the terrible sound of the wind came out from the depths of the ground through the crack, and the temperature of the entire basement instantly dropped to freezing.

Lu Banxin ran to the staircase, and noticed a cold wind blowing behind her, whimpering and wandering in the corridor, she was very scared, her legs were weak and her feet were empty, and she rolled back down the stairs, lying horizontally in front of the basement door, facing the house, and before she could get up, the strange picture in the house completely scared her silly.

I saw a light blue ball of light suddenly shoot out from the old pocket watch, like a blue cloud, floating in the air, and finally suspended at a height of one foot from the ground, and the crack in the ground was below.

The light cluster slowly sank, as if it had been kneaded into a slender pillar of light by a pair of invisible hands, the shape and size were exactly the same as the crack in the ground, and it seemed that it was ready to block the crack in the ground.

Just when the pillar of light was less than an inch away from the ground, an extremely long black mist came out of the crack and quickly condensed into a huge black tiger in the air.

The black tiger was suspended in the air, its tail poking into the cracks in the ground, each of the four beast claws was the size of a head, and its two eyes were like an abyss that could not see the bottom, staring at Lu Banxin at the door.

Lu Banxin was so frightened that her body was not possessed, her limbs were completely paralyzed, and even breathing became very difficult, she gasped for breath, trying to stand up, but she didn't get up after trying several times, she could only lie on the ground and tremble.

The black tiger bowed its back, its two front paws pressed down, its head held high, and it looked like it had just woken up and stretched its waist, and it seemed like it was ready to strike a fatal blow to its prey.

Lu Banxin bit her lip, the figure of the black tiger in her eyes was gradually expanding, and just as the black tiger was about to pounce on her, the old pocket watch on the bed burst out with a dazzling light, and the two pointers instantly turned into two lightsabers, stabbing at the back of the black tiger's heart.

The black tiger was originally transformed by smoke, and when he noticed that the lightsager was slashing at him, his head was short and scattered into a handful of thin smoke clinging to the ground, so his speed slowed down. Lu Banxin saw the opportunity, and with the last shred of reason, he rolled back with his head in his hands, avoiding the black mist's attack.

The two lightsabers missed, circled in the air and staggered together, merging into a huge scale, pressing down on the black mist, just right against the basement door.

The black fog was pressed squarely, unable to advance or retreat, and squeaked like a mouse.

Lu Banxin leaned against the door, looking at the scene in front of her, shocked and frightened, but at this time, a past event appeared in her mind very clearly.

That day was Lu Banxin's tenth birthday, and his grandfather was very happy to drink a few more glasses, and took out a wooden box on the dinner table, saying that it was a birthday gift for Lu Banxin, so that she could treasure it.

Lu Banxin was very happy, holding the wooden box and not letting go, when he returned to the house and opened it, he saw that it was a plain small stone, but it was a little cold in the hand, in order to make her grandfather happy, she didn't mention this gift later.

Later, my grandfather became seriously ill, and before he died, he handed over the old pocket watch to himself, telling her to keep the old pocket watch and the little stone.

At that time, Lu Banxin was too young to take it seriously, and now that he thinks about it, these two things should be related to the strange things that happened today.

Thinking of this, Lu Banxin couldn't be afraid, crawled back to his room with his hands and feet, and took out the wooden box that had been dusty for many years from under the bed.

When I opened the box, I was greeted by a strange fragrance, and the smell was exactly the same as what I had just smelled in the basement.

Lu Banxin hurriedly picked up the stone and sniffed it vigorously, and suddenly his spirit was lifted, the whole person was refreshed, and his uneasy mood slowly stabilized.

This change made Lu Banxin more sure of her guess, she put the small stone in her pocket, and returned to the basement door.

The cry of the black fog gradually subsided, and the light on the big scale also faded a lot, and the old pocket watch still flickered with fluorescent, and it was so stalemate for about an hour, the black fog finally turned into a wisp of green smoke and dissipated into the air, and the pillar of light in the room had also filled the gap completely, and the ground was as smooth as new, as if the crack had never appeared.

The basement returned to its previous calm, the hands of the old pocket watch were still moving, and Lu Banxin sat by the door, looking at the two things left by his grandfather.