The voice was not very high, and it could be heard just a step or two away from the door.

"Give me back your head."

I chuckled inwardly, rolled over and got up from my chair, and bubbled up my head with the cold wind flowing down my spine, my eyes staring straight at the door, but I didn't dare to move.

"Who!"

After hearing no movement outside the door for a long time, I shouted again with a sigh of relief.

At this time, there seems to be a wind outside, especially on the bank of the Haihe River, the wind sounds so poignant, whining and blowing, shaking the door and creaking, just like someone is desperately slamming the door outside, and the sound of slamming the door is all ringing in my heart.

Niu Erpao is here?

But I already handed over my head to the police station, and if you want to find it, you should go to the police station, what are you doing here?

The river breeze had been blowing for a long time, and there was a tendency to gradually subside, and I walked quietly on tiptoe, my ears pressed against the door, and I was slightly relieved to hear no footsteps outside.

"Where's my head?"

When the voice floated in through the crack in the door, the scalp exploded at that time, and the legs and stomach shook a few times, but he couldn't support it, so he sat on the ground directly, staring at the crack in the door, and scolded directly.

"Fuck you, your head is in the police, you have the ability to go to the police station, if you don't get out, Lao Tzu directly asks the Buddha to cover your face, cover your nine-fold clouds and thunder, chase you eighteen layers of hell oil pot fried, anyway, tonight is either you die, or I live!"

When people are terrified to the extreme, they are angry.

sat on the ground and scolded the thing outside for a long time, shouting until his voice was hoarse, and he didn't hear any movement.

After a stalemate for about half an hour, when I felt that no matter whether it was a person or a ghost outside the door, it seemed that it had already left, I took a few deep breaths, got up from the ground, and shuddered to open the door, a cold wind blew into the shop, the street was empty, and at this time it was already silent, only a street lamp isolated in front of the door, dim light, shining on the cold and bleak bank of the Haihe River.

Scared to death!

I let out a long breath, wiped the sweat from my neck with my hands, and couldn't help but poke my head out and look at both sides before closing the door, turning around and walking back to the counter, and hurriedly calling Jin Yiyi.

Although it is inevitable to worship ghosts and gods in this business, this does not mean that I have to accept the possibility of the guy who knocked on the door just now, the Niu Ergun who had his head cut off in the morning.

What is a ghost, the Bodhisattva is carved from wood, the ghost is what people think, as the saying goes, there is no ghost where there is no god, what Buddha and beast Tianzun have been worshiped in this shop for so many years, and now more than 50 denominations of RMB have not been picked up, how can this ghost thing be so effective.

I sat down in my chair and shivered and lit a cigarette, waiting for Jin Yiyi to come over and get an idea.

Jin Yiyi is always more prescient than me in this kind of thing, and at noon he went to Xishi Street to pick up the car and went directly to the Nankou Alley of Xicheng to find out the news about Niu Erpao from the fork.

Speaking of the fork line, I have to mention the theft of the door, all the business without capital in the world can be attributed to the thief of the door, is the largest side door in the eight elements of the old society, which includes the "tomb, Tibet, Shun, wind" four branches.

"Tomb" refers to the tomb of the king, this line of work is to rob the tomb, in the door of the door is called "shovel line", the tomb robbery is called "inverted bucket" or "kiln". Those who do this business make holes and open coffins, and they make money from the dead;

"Zang" refers to treasures, all of which are ownerless treasures. Those who do this are called "basket shops" in the thief's door. In the south, it is called "Baobao", and in the north, it is called "Xiangling" or "Holding Sheep". This group called itself "the Soil Basket" or "Shepherd", and acted most secretively.

"Shun" is to steal, to transfer the house, to steal money and things, in the theft of the door is called "kidnapping", self-proclaimed "Lao Rong" or "small locks", to put it bluntly, is a thief. There are many ways to steal. There are also various ways to enter the house, the most common is "open peach orchard" (digging holes) or "turning high ridges" (upper rooms). Those who open peach orchards are generally called "earth rats", while those who climb high ridges are called "snitches".

"Wind" refers to stealing news or mouth, and there are some special tokens, which are called "forks" in the theft. This kind of person calls himself "Lao Zhou", often pretending to be a charlatan or a fortune teller, hired by people, listening to some top-secret news or stealing some confidential information, similar to a spy.

With the development of society and the times, some of the out-of-the-way businesses have gradually faded out of people's sight, only the theft is still active, but most of the business in it is not able to see the light, and it is carried out underground, so even if we know about them, we only know some skin from hearsay.

Jin Yiyi has met a lot of people in the middle of the door in the past few years, according to his words, he can also be regarded as half of the "fork" of the people, eyes and ears, even if he falls into the pit in the northwest desert, he can meet acquaintances to pull him.

I didn't have the idea of studying this statement in the past, although this person is mercenary and has an eye for money, but the efficiency of doing things with money always makes people feel more at ease and satisfied.

After Jin Yiyi came, his thoughts were similar to mine, no matter whether it was a person or a ghost who knocked on the door outside just now, the small shop of Lao Zhaitang must have been targeted by some character.

The gods will not fight with the little ghost, unless the little ghost enters the temple and robs him of his incense.

Niu Erpao just died less than a day, Jin Yiyi didn't get too much useful information from the fork shop, the only thing worth noting is that the customer who swept the two baskets of Niu Erpao in the ghost market yesterday morning was a middle-aged man who claimed to be surnamed Liu, not a native of Tianjin, and his accent was a bit like he came from the capital.

This is neither good nor bad news.

We urgently need to know now whether Niu Erpao's death and the human head that was stuffed into my arms are also in the plan arranged by that character, if not, it will be the two of us who drink cold water and plug our teeth, wear robes and hit ghosts, and we deserve to admit it.

But if it is, the next thing will be a big trouble, although it is now a society ruled by law, but every year in the Haihe River I don't know how many dead bodies without identity to pick up, these dead bodies to the last ten three can be claimed by the family is good, the remaining seven corpses, it has become a headless homicide, no one can say what is going on.

The two of them sat in the shop and thought about it, Jin Yiyi turned his head to look at me and asked, "There are no outsiders now, you make a deal with your buddy, did you take something from someone?" ”

I shook my head, "No, the goods in my little shop are all imported from you, you know better than me what the price and what the quality of the goods, can there be any earth-shattering things?" ”

Jin Yiyi looked at me suspiciously, and then said: "Don't forget, although Niu Erpao's head is now in the police station, his half-stretched body is still outside and has not been found. ”

My hands trembled and I almost dropped my teacup on the floor.

"You tell me the truth, I also made an appointment to meet in two hours, if you don't give me the bottom again, I think, these few nights, you will not be at peace here."

Seeing the rare serious look on Jin Yiyi's face, I thought about it and told him the whole story of the old man who was holding the treasure in the store last night.

"That book is still with you?" Jin Yiyi asked.

I nodded, "I hid it in the dark compartment, and it wasn't stolen." ”

"Show it to me."

"Are you sure you want to see it?" I asked, staring at him.

Jin Yiyi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and sighed, "Forget it, the less one person who sees this thing, the less dangerous it is, but we have to find out whether that fairy is here for this book, or is it for the toad." ”

Jin Yiyi said to the point, I also thought about it, such a weird toad don't say to see, it's the first time I've heard of it, and then think of some of the words and demeanor of the old man when he entered the door, it's not impossible, it's the old man who threw the treasure that the promised person held back to me, and the thing can't be found, so he will put all the sins on me, after all, the Buddha clears the nest, not like stealing, more like looking for something.

"Could that thing come to me tonight to ask for a head, and tomorrow to go to your house to ask for a body?" After thinking about it for a long time, I felt that I had to give Jin Yiyi a reminder.

Jin Yiyi glanced at me, stood up and said, "Don't talk nonsense with you, I have to go." ”

After Jin Yiyi left, I stared at the ancient book under the counter and was stunned, and there was only one thought in my mind: could there be something terrible recorded in this book......

In the middle of the night, I locked the door, carefully checked all the doors and windows in the house, turned off the lights, sat down behind the counter with a flashlight, took a deep breath, and turned the first page of the old book:

The chief of ten thousand thieves, the thief is respected.