There was nothing to do left and right, so I walked around the store.

The thrift store is an old bungalow from the outside, at the top of the door, there is a rusty iron sign, on which is written "old county thrift store" such words, I speculate, the text on the plaque should be asked to write by a famous person, between the lines are full of elegant and capable bones, but the brand on the substrate is really a little unsightly.

Although the door is small, after coming in, there is a special cave, there are more than 100 square meters in the hall alone, there is no counter in the hall, only a few sets of plush sofas and three or four coffee tables, in the position of the door, there are a few carved wood old-fashioned Taishi chairs.

Beyond the hall, there was a deep porch, and on either side of the passage were eight houses, three of which were locked, and I was also curious, so I opened the door with the key that Yanan gave me, and went around each room.

These three rooms are all warehouses used to display antiques, and they vary in size, the largest is at least more than 200 square meters, and the smallest one is only about 30 square meters.

And the things in the house are not the same, the largest room, put antiquities before the Southern Song Dynasty, I can smell through the smell, most of them should be unearthed during the Qing Dynasty, and the remaining part has no smell of soil, it should not be a burial product.

And the smallest room is displayed, most of the things from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, which are also mixed with some old goods from twenty or thirty years ago, I remember the third master said, in the house, everything that has a service life of more than three years is counted as old goods, only fifty years ago, can be called 'old objects', and things before the Republic of China are antiques.

As for the remaining room, it is full of ancient artifacts from the Southern Song Dynasty to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the unearthed age of these things is no more than 70 years.

After that, I walked around the remaining rooms.

A bathhouse, a bathroom, two bedrooms, the smaller bedroom is prepared for me at first glance, it can only put a bed and a waist-high small wardrobe, surrounded by walls, there are no windows in the room, there is a TV above the small wardrobe, and the other bedroom is full of the special fragrance of lavender, which is also the smell of Yanan, it seems that she usually lives here.

It must be mentioned that in the room adjacent to the hall, there were brass bells the size of walnuts, each of which was suspended in mid-air by wires, and there was a hole in the roof from which all the wires extended, and in addition, almost every bell had a person's name attached to it.

To be honest, I also want to know what these bells are for, but the second master and the Yan Yanan are not there, even if I am curious, no one can give me an answer.

I looked at my watch, and it was almost time for lunch, so I closed the shop and wandered around the old alley.

Didn't the second master suggest that I take a look around the neighborhood first to understand the situation, I just took advantage of my leisure to take a look at the surrounding environment.

In fact, the thrift store is located at the end of an old alley, and the door of the store is directly opposite the entrance of the alley a kilometer away.

Yes, this is a long and narrow alley with a depth of one kilometer, on both sides of the road are all old bungalows like thrift stores, each house is a small shop, there are all kinds of business, selling wood carvings, selling trinkets, selling beef soup, as far as the eye can see, there are all kinds of signboards, they are hung on the white skin wall that exposes large red bricks, not ordinary messy, but all the signboards are all made of rusty iron, adding a sense of dilapidation to this alley.

In fact, I don't understand, why do these people open their stores in such deep alleys, can they make money?

I just walked and watched, and when the people in the store saw me, they all smiled and greeted me, as if they knew me very well, and out of politeness, whenever I saw people smiling at me, I would smile back.

After smiling a lot, I felt the muscles on my face stiffen, and I simply stopped looking at the store, and my eyes kept wandering over the rusty red signs.

After walking about two or three hundred meters, I saw a signboard in front of me that read "Chongqing Small Noodles".

I hadn't eaten this bite for a long time after leaving Chongqing, so I quickened my pace, but before I could get to the front of the store, a woman in her twenties-six-year-old came out of the door and asked me with a smile, "Do you want to eat noodles?" ”

I was a little disappointed when I heard her accent, it was a standard Mandarin, if I guessed correctly, she should not be from Chongqing, and the Chongqing noodles she made may not be authentic. But how did she know I was going to eat noodles?

Before I could speak, she asked me again, "How many bowls do you have?" ”

I walked to the front of the store and shrugged my nose, yes, what wafted out of the door was the smell I was most familiar with, the smell of Chongqing noodles.

She ushered me in the door, and I said to her, "Bring me five bowls first." ”

"Is five bowls enough?" She smiled at me, "Why don't you serve ten bowls first?" ”

I looked down at myself and asked her, "Do I look like a very edible person?" ”

"Ten bowls of noodles, more spicy!" She first shouted to the kitchen, then turned her head to me and said, "Aren't you the second master's apprentice, I heard from Yu Liyan, you can eat better than the second master, and you can eat two of the second master in one meal." ”

My eyes widened: "Do you know the second master of the family, and do you know about the second master of the family?" ”

He took a clean linen cloth, wiped down a table by the door twice, and beckoned me to sit down.

I sat across from her, and she folded the linen cloth squarely and said to me: "Everyone in the alley knows the second master, and Yu Liyan often comes to me to eat small noodles, so he is familiar with me." I heard him say, the second master plans to hand over the business of the thrift store to you to take care of? ”

I asked her, "What do you call it?" ”

She still had a smile on her face: "My surname is Jiang, I only took over the business of the noodle restaurant a few years ago, and the pastry shop next to it is also mine. ”

At first, I thought she was also a member of the family, but after a long time, it turned out that she was not.

I said, "Then I'll call you Boss Jiang, my name is Yu Ruofei, and in the future, we will count on you to take care of our neighbors." ”

Boss Jiang put the rag aside and sighed with relief: "You are quite polite, unlike that guy who pulls a face everywhere he goes, as if he is sad." Hey, your name is Yu Ruofei, one Ruofei, one Ruofei, what is the relationship between you and Qi Ru? ”

I think it's best not to talk about family affairs in front of outsiders, but just say, "Actually, I don't know him well." ”

Boss Jiang: "It's good if you're not familiar with him, the people who mix with him all look like they're urging their lives, and it's annoying to look at it." Well, you wait here for a while, and the meeting will be ready soon. ”

After saying that, she was about to get up and leave, so I leaned my neck towards her: "By the way, Boss Jiang, I have something I want to inquire about." ”

Hearing my words, she sat back down: "What's the matter?" ”

I said, "I just can't figure out why you're setting up a store in such a place?" Is there a lot of traffic on a regular basis? ”

Boss Jiang smiled: "The stores in our place are not open for half a year, and they are open for half a year. Although the flow of customers is small, it is not a lot of money. ”

I was immediately interested: "What do you mean by that?" ”

Boss Jiang asked me rhetorically: "Do you know why everyone uses rusty iron to make door plates?" ”

"I don't know, is there a special saying here?"

"Hearing you say that, I can roughly guess that the second master shouldn't have told you about the situation here. In fact, the board used in our store is not made of iron, but ebony, and the top layer looks like rusty powder, but it is actually cinnabar mixed with gold powder. Ebony, gold dust, and cinnabar are all used to deter ghosts. ”

"It seems that Boss Jiang is also a person in the industry?"

"Not really," Boss Jiang waved his hand: "We people, in your industry, are called 'Banmen Qing', that is, one foot in the industry, one foot outside the business, the people who live in this old alley string, all have dealt with ghosts, but we are different from you, we are destined with yin energy, there is no way to hit ghosts, and unlike you, you have great skills, everyone is here, just to take care of each other." Don't look at this alley, which is only a kilometer long, but it is all over the world, and there are people everywhere. ”

I glanced out of the shop, and directly across from the noodle shop was a woodcarving shop, and when I looked that way, the people in the shop also looked at me and gave me a smile.

Boss Jiang glanced back, then turned his head to me and said, "The boss of the wood carving shop is from Guangxi, adjacent to our shop, is a flower shop, the owner is from Fujian, and the mutton restaurant over there, the owner is from Inner Mongolia." ”

As she spoke, she raised her hand and pointed out the door, but from my position I could only see a small area directly opposite the door, and I couldn't see the mutton restaurant she was talking about.

I asked Boss Jiang, "What about you?" I feel that your Mandarin is very standard, there is no accent at all, where is your hometown? ”

Boss Jiang: "My father is from Chongqing, and the craft of making noodles is passed down by him. I remember when I was younger, my dad always hoped that I wouldn't be like him, seeing dirty things every three days, but I didn't expect that when I was 12 years old, I was scared out of my soul, and when I got better, I could see ghosts too. In fact, when I was a child, my dream was to be a traveler, but because of my special physique, I could only stay here and guard the family business, and I couldn't go anywhere. ”

I said, "What's the matter if you don't open for half a year, but if you open for half a year?" Since there is no flow, how do you usually do business? ”

Boss Jiang smiled: "These two shops like mine are doing pastry and small noodle business on the surface, but this is all a disguise, in fact, we specialize in processing cinnabar, but all the better cinnabar, the price of each tael is more than four figures, occasionally there are sects from us to order, an order is more than ten or twenty catties, isn't it a list to eat for half a year?" ”

As soon as she said this, I was a little worried, do you think they will mix cinnabar in the chili peppers? I've heard it looks poisonous.

Boss Jiang saw that my face was not right, so he asked me: "What's the matter, why are you frowning suddenly?" It's not because I'm worried that the food in our store won't fit, right? Haha, you just put your heart in your stomach, although we mainly live by buying and selling cinnabar, but the craftsmanship of making small noodles is also counted in the whole of Chongqing, and you are guaranteed to eat it once and you will not forget it. ”

I smiled: "I'm worried that you put cinnabar in your noodles." ”

"How is that possible, that thing is poisonous." Boss Jiang leaned in towards me and asked me in a low voice, "Do you know the bell room?" ”

I thought for a moment and said, "You mean, that room with bells?" ”