Boss Jiang glanced out of the door, lowered his voice, and said mysteriously: "In the past few days, you have to keep an eye on those bells." ”

I couldn't help but wonder, "Keep an eye on those bells?" Why? What the hell are those bells for, I think each bell has a person's name on it. ”

Boss Jiang said: "Those are the residents in the old alley. Whoever lives here has to give a part of his soul to the family, who in turn attaches his soul to the brass bell. ”

I immediately frowned: "Give the soul to the family?" ”

At that time, it seemed to me that snatching people's souls was definitely not something that people in the righteous path would do.

Boss Jiang seemed to see my concerns, so he said to me: "This is also a helpless thing, the people who live in this place are easy to provoke evil physiques, and our family members seal our souls in the copper bell. Second, after our soul is attached to the brass bell, the bell can be connected to our numerology, and once we have an accident, the bell will ring. ”

I scratched my temples: "The old man took the soul from you to protect you?" ”

Boss Jiang smiled: "This is the business of your old family, you are responsible for protecting us, and we, every time we make a list, we have to give the old family a bonus." In addition, it is not the family that takes the soul from us, but we give it voluntarily. ”

When Boss Jiang said this, a man with five big and three thick came out of the kitchen, he went back and forth several times like a gust of wind, put ten bowls of small noodles on the table, and then returned to the kitchen like a gust of wind.

"Taste it." Boss Jiang pushed a bowl of noodles in front of me.

I grabbed a pair of chopsticks from the chopsticks and tried to take a bite.

The hemp, freshness, saltiness, and taste are all very authentic, and the only drawback is that it is not spicy enough.

Boss Jiang asked me expectantly, "How is it?" ”

I said, "It's good, it's just not spicy enough." ”

She smiled helplessly: "This is also a helpless thing, we can't buy good sea peppers here, and we can't get that spicy taste out of anything." ”

I nodded, "Yes." Hey, you haven't said it yet, why should I keep an eye on those bells, could it be that people in the alleys often have accidents, and the bells often ring? ”

Boss Jiang: "No, if there is no accident, I can ring one or two bells a year." I'm thinking that you just took over the business from the second master, and you may have some trouble recently. ”

I couldn't help frowning: "You mean, you will run around to make trouble?" ”

"That guy can't run, he'll definitely come to make trouble," Boss Jiang leaned back in his chair and said while thinking, "But he won't move the neighbors in the alley, and he won't let the bell ring." Seriously, I'm not worried about that, I'm worried about someone else. ”

I asked her, "Who are you worried about?" ”

Boss Jiang pondered for a moment before speaking: "People from other sects, I have lived here for more than 20 years, and I have seen a lot of people in the sect, and I can see that the interpersonal relationships between your old family in the industry are more complicated, some sects have a good relationship with you, but there are also some sects that regard your family as enemies." In the past, they were afraid of the prestige of the second master and did not dare to make trouble here, but once the thrift store changed hands, they might have some actions. You must know that this old alley is a gold mine for people in the industry, and many sects want to get a piece of the pie from here. ”

I ate most of the bowl of noodles in one go, and felt that it was not spicy enough, so I got a spoonful of chili powder from the spice box in the corner of the table and poured it into the bowl.

Boss Jiang: "You are really good at eating spicy, but I heard Tong Liyan say that it is better for people who practice martial arts to eat lightly." ”

I smiled: "I've been here in Bohai for more than a year, and to tell you the truth, I rarely eat spicy food, but I feel that if the noodles are not spicy, they are not noodles." ”

Boss Jiang: "Yes." ”

As she spoke, she looked out the door again: "Look at this day, it looks like it's going to rain." ”

Since this morning, the sky has been very cloudy, but this has nothing to do with me, I just eat my food, Boss Jiang looked out of the door, and he was distracted.

When I brought the last bowl of noodles to me, the sky was completely overcast, and the rain did not have any prelude, it just started suddenly, I ate the noodles, listened to the sound of the rain outside the door, and felt very comfortable.

When I settled the bill, Boss Jiang brought an umbrella, a pen, and a notebook, and said to me: "While everyone is not closed, you'd better go around the shops and record everyone's name." Lest when the bell rings, you won't know whose family has an accident. ”

I pointed to the Sanyo thing in Boss Jiang's hand: "How much?" ”

Boss Jiang smiled: "Don't need the money, the book and pen will be given to you, and the umbrella will be returned to me next time I come to dinner." By the way, my full name is Jiang Huiling, and I have already written it in your notebook for you. ”

I have to say that Boss Jiang is a person who is very good at dealing with people, and when you get along with her, you will not have a sense of distance at all, and you will naturally be able to talk to her.

After I came out of the small noodle shop, I went from house to house, asking the name of the owner of each shop and writing them down in a notebook one by one.

Every shopkeeper knows that I am a member of the family, knows that I am the apprentice of the second master, and also knows that I have taken over the business of the thrift store from the second master, everyone has shown great enthusiasm for it, some are true feelings, some are hypocritical, but it doesn't matter, anyway, I have to deal with them often in the future, who is true and who is fake, and I can slowly find out in the future.

Almost all the shops were open, except for a stationery store in the middle of the alley, and when I came to the front of the store, I heard someone talking in the room, but when I knocked on the door, the sound inside stopped abruptly, and in addition, I felt that the light in the crack of the door suddenly dimmed a lot, apparently the people inside turned off the lights.

I was wondering in my heart when I heard someone next to me say to me: "The shopkeeper of this store is called Song Ziyi, he is a person over there, and he won't open the door for you." ”

I turned my head and saw that the person who was talking to me was the owner of the scrap shop, Yu, who had been calling me "big shopkeeper" when I entered his shop just now, and in addition to that, he often popped out a few uncommon old words in his mouth, so that sometimes I couldn't fully understand what he said.

"Are you familiar with the owner of this shop?" I pointed to the closed door and asked Boss Yu.

He shook his head: "He is such a person, these neighbors in the alley are not welcome, and I am not familiar with him." ”

After speaking, Boss Yu retreated into the house.

I tilted my head, grabbed the umbrella with my side face, opened the notebook again, and wrote a few words on it: "Stationery store, Song Ziyi." ”。

walked around the alley, in addition to Song Ziyi's stationery store, there was also a shroud shop that was not open, and I heard from several nearby bosses that the owner of this shop was surnamed Wen, and he was a corpse chaser, and he went to Yunnan in the past two days, and he couldn't come back for a while.

I also heard from the owners of several nearby shops that there are three shops in the old alley, and this shroud shop is one of them, and the other two stores are Boss Yu's scrap shop and Boss Jiang's small noodle shop.

The so-called store is to say that they opened the store here to help the old family watch the scene.

Jiang Huiling said that she herself is a half-door Qing, but in fact, she is not at all, this guy is Hei Miao's Gu girl, and she also cultivates the Nanyang head lowering technique, I heard that her cultivation is not high, but her means are particularly powerful, and she is one of the two women who are the most difficult to mess with in the whole alley, and the other woman is my cousin Yan Yanan, she and Jiang Huiling are best friends.

Boss Yu is a rough man with five big and three rough on the surface, but the craftsmanship handed down by the ancestors is related to midwifery, I also heard Boss Wang at the mouth of the alley say that Boss Yu is specialized in delivering ghosts, I am curious, can ghosts still get pregnant and give birth, for this, Boss Wang can't say anything.

Originally, I also planned to pay a return visit to Boss Yu and ask him what was going on with the ghost delivery, but after all, I was not familiar with people, and I arrived at the door of his store, but I was embarrassed to go in.

Seeing that the rain had stopped, I took my umbrella and returned to Boss Jiang's small noodle shop.

As soon as I entered the store, Boss Jiang leaned on the counter and smiled at me, I put the umbrella on the counter, and said, "Didn't you say that you were Banmenqing, but what did others say, you are Miao Jiang's Gu Master?" ”

Boss Jiang smiled: "I'm not a Gu master, I'm a Gu girl, there is still a difference between the two." How's it going, after going around the alley, what did you find? ”

I opened the notebook, quickly flipped through the names of the people written on it, pouted and said, "It always feels like each of you has a secret...... The people who live here are not the same as the people outside. ”

Boss Jiang showed a hint of curiosity: "What's the difference?" ”

I casually found a chair to sit down and said to Boss Jiang: "I can't say it either, I just think that the temperament of the people here is different from that of the people outside." Anyway, I feel that the people who live in the alleys are a little ...... Weakness. You and Boss Yu are exceptions. ”

Boss Jiang smiled: "Have you seen Yu Wenhuan?" What about Wen Haoming, have you seen that guy? ”

"He went to Yunnan and is said to be back after a while."

Boss Jiang stretched out his hand and wiped it lightly on the umbrella, the umbrella was still wet, but she wiped it so gently, and the water stuck to it dried up in an instant.

She set her umbrella in the corner and said to me, "Their souls are incomplete, and they are very empty on the surface." ”

I said, "But it's just that the face is a little weak, but no matter what you do, you still look like you're alive, and if you don't look at the face and only look at the back and movements, you will feel as if these people have taken stimulants." ”

Boss Jiang smiled: "That's because of the keel." ”

"Keel?"

Boss Jiang: "Well, in fact, in the early years, this was a dragon burial pit. I also heard the second master say that as early as the Tang Dynasty, there was a three-legged dragon falling from the sky and falling in this place, and there is still a kilometer-long keel buried under the ground of the old alley. ”