Three white candles burned in the center of the room, holding the girls in it, and the worn-out curtains, which had turned gray, swayed in the wind from time to time, like ghosts swaying on the wall in the candlelight.

"Are you ready?" The girl with the word board in her hand asked with interest.

"Li Li, why don't you forget it?" The other girl said with some fear.

"Liu Xiao, you are such a coward!" The previous girl laughed. "I finally came in, and I wasn't going to leave like that. Besides, don't you want to know how Zhang Ke feels about you? ”

The girl known as Liu Xiao hesitated for a moment, and then Li Li looked at the people around her again: "Stretch out your hand and press it here." ”

"Otherwise, let's call Lu Xiaoling!" Liu Xiao pleaded again.

"What did you tell her to do? It's not scary at all to have that guy around. Li Li said. Hurry up! One finger per person! ”

Only when everyone's fingers were on the plate did she carefully pour some of the strange-smelling liquid into a small incense burner next to her.

"What's that?"

"Corpse oil~" Li Li said nonchalantly.

"Ah~~!!" Liu Xiao screamed.

"I lied to you!" Li Li hurriedly covered her mouth. "It's just a little bit of flavor to add to the atmosphere!"

Liu Xiao finally calmed down a little.

"Seriously?"

"Of course it's true!" Li Li said angrily. "I want to get some real corpse oil, but there's no way to get it!"

The faint fragrance began to diffuse, and Liu Xiao finally calmed down.

"So we're going to really get started?" Li Li looked at her roommates majestically, pricked her finger slightly, and squeezed a drop of blood into the center of the bottom of the upside-down saucer.

In the candlelight, the blood was a little frighteningly red.

"Diexian, please come out......" the girls began to whisper.

******

In the middle of the night, the phone rang suddenly.

I was awakened from my meditation, and it took me several minutes to adjust to the fact that the airflow that had only started to run slowly in my body half a month ago had become disturbed by the shock.

"Sun Yang?" Father's asked in the bedroom.

It's past two o'clock in the middle of the night, and the phone turned on at this time is usually nothing good.

"It's okay, a friend." I hurriedly pressed the answer button.

I was amazed by the caller.

"Xiaoling?"

"Do me a favor and hurry up to Yuanshan University! The old school building No. 4, you will know it as soon as you ask! ”

I was a little surprised, but didn't say anything, put on my clothes and said a word to my parents and went out.

Since that meeting at the law firm, our lives have never crossed paths, and even the books that Master Lu gave me were sent by Master Cao.

He didn't make any more jokes about me and Lu Xiaoling, but when we were together, we would inevitably talk about Master Lu's only relative.

"She's strong." Master Cao said this, and then said nothing.

It made me feel lost in my desire to do something for her.

As Master Lu's best friend, he helped with most of the things, and I didn't help much.

On the contrary, he gave me a lot of guidance and help after he was busy with Master Lu's posthumous affairs.

"What do you want to do in the future?" He asked me.

"I don't know."

If I still didn't know anything about the things behind the world like before, then I would probably continue to mix around like that in a daze, but now I can't pretend that nothing has happened.

I looked through the scriptures that Master Lu himself had commented on and commented on, and I deeply felt my narrowness and insignificance.

I used to be like a frog sitting in a well.

"What do you think I should do?" I had to ask Master Cao again.

"That's all we do." Master Cao said. "But you're not really getting started yet, and you're too young ......"

He shook his head.

This is actually very similar to Chinese medicine, people will always instinctively trust those doctors who seem to be older, but in fact, Chinese medicine and yin-yang magicians eat most of the time by experience, and their instinct is not completely unreasonable.

At my age, even if I enter the Dao in half a month and start refining qi in three months, as Master Cao said, I can be called an unprecedented genius, probably not many people will believe that I can slay demons and eliminate demons, right?

"You should open an antique book store, or a cultural toy store or something." Master Cao suggested. "These businesses are not tacky, and on the one hand, you can collect some things related to Taoism, and on the other hand, it is also convenient to turn to a heavenly master in the future. I have some rare books there, and some antiquities collected sporadically, and there are also some in Lu Lou, all of which have been obtained by accident over the years, and they are of little use to me, you can use them to open up the situation. ”

So I followed his guidance, rented a small shop in the flowers, birds, fish, insects, and cultural play market in Yuanshan City, spent some time doing anti-theft treatment, arranged the storefront, and set up the stall.

My parents were a little puzzled by the fact that I was suddenly going to start my own entertainment business, no one in our family had ever done this kind of business, and I had never shown any interest in this area before, which made them very worried.

However, after seeing the shop that Master Cao specially designed and arranged for me, they were more or less relieved.

At the very least, the first impression is very professional.

The name of the shop is Xinzhai, and Master Cao hopes that I can cultivate and polish my mind here and truly become a warlock.

Every day at ten o'clock, I go to open the door, then offer incense to the Sanqing patriarch, then clean up, take out the treasures locked in the safe and put them away, and then read the books all day.

Because I know very little about this industry, the price is what Master Cao helped me consult. According to him, because almost every warlock has been collecting all kinds of ancient books and antiquities that can be used as magic weapons for a long time, they have been experts in this line of work for a long time. Master Cao himself opened an antique shop before he became a Kanyu Warlock, and it was after receiving a magic weapon that his life changed.

But after some of the surrounding colleagues came in and asked as customers, they naturally showed a mocking smile.

"At your price, I'm afraid you won't be able to sell a copy in a year!" They said it with malice. "It's a lot like the real thing, but what do you ask?"

I didn't bother to tell them that these were real ancient books, not old fakes like theirs.

If it was me in the past, I might have been angry because of their contempt, but now I just smile and ask them to taste the tea that Master Cao sent me again.

It doesn't hurt for my peers to make fun of them and let their guard down. And for me, who has experienced life and death, this level of ridicule really can't make me interested.

Probably because I had a good temper and was willing to invite them to drink good tea, and although my shop was small, it made people feel comfortable to sit in, and a few people gradually began to feel a little embarrassed.

"You sell all those things, and you don't necessarily open once a year. Or like us, get some cheaper ones and sell them with them, so that you can attract some popularity and subsidize some income. ”

"Still don't need to." I always smile and say at times like this. "It's not that money."

They began to see me as a quirky kid from a rich family, because I often read a few Taoist scriptures, and the market called me "Xinzhai Sun Xiaodao", or Xiaodao for short.

I always open at 10 o'clock and close at 5 o'clock every day, and when I leave, most of the shops are still open for business, so people often ask me: "Xiaodao, is it open today?" ”

"Not yet." I replied with a smile.

"Will you come back tomorrow?"

"Come back."

"Then I wish you a good opening tomorrow!"

"Thank you!" As usual, I replied with a smile.

My parents didn't ask me how my business was, but I could tell they were still worried.

However, the things in the shop were all brought by Master Cao, I didn't pay a penny, and he paid off the rent for a year in advance, and all I had to bear was my daily eating, drinking, and Lazar, and the salary I had saved before was enough.

My mother quietly gave me a passbook, and I never went to pick it up.

Sometimes my former classmates and friends would invite me out to dinner and sing K, but after going through those things, I always felt a little empty in my heart, and these things that used to be interesting became boring.

When you've been through those things, will you still be satisfied with this mediocre world?

For me, these things can bring me far less happiness than a pranayama or luck a week.

They all say I'm getting old and old, and some say it's a common condition called magician syndrome, and the only way to solve it is to find a girlfriend as soon as possible.

Girlfriend?

I don't know why, but when they say that, the first thing that comes to my mind is often the stubborn girl.