Are these two people running the bar in the name of Master and me?

As soon as I heard Master talk about these two people, I was filled with curiosity about them.

As Master walked into the depths of the park, he could clearly feel that the light around him had suddenly dimmed a lot, like an invisible curtain blocking the night dome.

The light was a little dim, but the surroundings were very clear.

I saw a dark red sign sticking out of a white wall not far away, with the word "wine" written on it.

Aside from this simple sign, there was no other signal that the small door that appeared in front of us at this moment was a bar.

Master raised his finger and pointed to the word "wine" on the signboard, and said, "This signboard originally had the word 'quit' written on it, the word 'quit drinking', but it was changed to 'liquor' three or four years ago, and the name of our bar is called 'quit'." ”

I said, "Isn't it a self-inflicted sign to persuade people to quit drinking even though it's a bar?" ”

Master smiled and shook his head: "We don't sell alcohol in our bar. ”

As he spoke, Master had already walked to the door and knocked on the tempered glass embedded in the door frame.

Soon, I heard a response from the other side of the door: "Open at eight o'clock, if you need a private room, please book three months in advance." ”

The person who spoke should be a young man of the same age as me, presumably he is the "Gaidong" in Master's mouth.

"This is the code of the bar, if you should say, 'Come and ask for a bowl of soup', the code will be connected, if the people outside the door can't answer the code, we usually won't entertain." Master first turned his face to explain to me, and then shouted at the door, "I am the owner." ”

In the sound of hurried footsteps, the door was finally opened, and a young man of similar stature and appearance to me, but with eyes far brighter than mine, pushed open the door.

There were only a few small lights on in the shop, and by the dim light, I could only vaguely see a wooden bar standing in the direction of the door, and a cup was placed on the countertop, and the water in it emitted a very soft blue fluorescence.

The master entered the house first, and the third master Qiao also followed in with his heels, and I walked last.

In order to prevent the door from closing automatically, the young man kept standing by the door and pulling the handle.

As I passed by him, I stopped and looked at him carefully, and he swept his gaze up and down at me.

After a moment, he suddenly smiled at me: "You're Gai Dong, right?" Oh, you can call me No. 2, as for my obscene master, you can just call him Lao Du. ”

This is a very good talker.

Number two? It's a fitting name for him.

I smiled at him: "I just heard today that you have been helping me manage the hotel's livelihood, what about your master?" ”

He closed the door and responded: "He's over there at the No. 1 store, and we usually declare that we must quit the bar, which is just a branch." However, Lao Yingsheng has always been indispensable to quit doing it here, and the No. 1 store sells alcohol normally. ”

With that, he turned on the headlights in the room.

Through the bright lighting, you can see how simple the decoration style of the store is, with white walls and white roofs, a bar made of pure wood, a very simple-looking empty wine rack, and a dozen dark red swivel chairs, as well as several sets of pure wood tables and chairs leaning against the window, are all there is in the bar.

This extreme simplicity gives people an unusually empty feeling, as if the area in the bar has been magnified many times, and the emptiness in the heart has also been magnified many times.

Number Two pointed to the bar and said, "When I was doing business, I hid behind the bar, the shop was so dark that no one could see me, and we were both about the same size and face, and if we were standing in the shadows behind the bar at the same time, customers wouldn't be able to tell who was who." ”

Master turned his head and glanced at us: "You two are quite fated, and you got acquainted so quickly?" Ask him for advice on the store, and I'll take the others around. ”

Between the words, the master took Qiao Sanye and them up to the second floor.

Two ran to the back of the bar, pulled out a goblet, and poured me a small half glass of water, while I sat on the dark red stool in front of the bar, staring at the cup in his hand.

It was just drinking water, but Number Two seemed to use the water in his hand as a spirit, and the water was only a quarter of the glass, and he pushed the glass towards me.

The water cups here seem to be specially made, and the water is poured into them, making them look exceptionally crystal clear.

I picked up the water cup and played with it carefully, when I heard No. 2 take the initiative to speak: "My obscene master and I should have died ten years ago, and it was Master Du who gave us the opportunity to be human again." ”

He seemed to have a lot to say to me, probably more than I had in mind, and from the moment he walked through the door, he spoke very actively.

I asked him, "What do you mean by that?" ”

He didn't seem to want to talk more about the past, but only responded in general terms: "Hey, if you have committed karma, you should have been damned, and working in a bar is equivalent to accumulating merit and becoming a new person for us." Do you look at the water in the cup and notice something different? ”

"This glass of water looks exceptionally clean."

Number Two grinned at me, then pulled a small blue pill out of his pocket and tossed it into the water glass.

The pill melted when it entered the water, and soon, the dazzling ice blue color spread in the water cup, and it didn't take long for the water in the cup to turn into a uniform ice blue, and the water surface was slightly fluorescent of the same color.

I leaned in front of the cup and smelled it, there was no special taste, I guess it was an ordinary luminescent pigment that melted in the water at this time.

I asked No. 2, "Is this the Soul Soup?" ”

He looked at me with a look of surprise: "You guessed it at once?" Terrible! Do you know what is the difference between this kind of rejuvenation soup and ordinary water? ”

"It has color, it emits light, and other than that, in my eyes it's no different from ordinary pure water, but in the eyes of customers, it's very different."

"Oh my God, you're so smart."

"I don't have a high IQ, I'm just familiar with human nature."

"Be modest," said Number Two, pointing to the cup in my hand, "The soul soup in the store is for those who have just had their memories drained, and after their memories have been drained, they will feel a very strong thirst for a short period of time, and if you give them ordinary water, they will definitely blow up their stomachs." Add a little food coloring to the mineral water, and tell them that this is a soul soup, just take a sip to quench their thirst, they seem to be hypnotized, such a small half of the water to drink, sure enough, they don't feel thirsty. ”

"This is hypnosis, and the power of mental suggestion is sometimes immeasurable. You just said that the soul rejuvenation soup in the store is for people who have just been drained of their memories? What kind of business is we doing in this shop, Master has mentioned it twice before, but he didn't explain it thoroughly. ”