It turns out that this storefront called "Mending Foot Shop" is run by my master. But I thought carefully about what my master usually looked like, and how I thought that he was not a business material.

But Senior Brother Zhuang was also saying to me: "Speaking of which, the expenses of the Soul Village have become bigger and bigger in recent years, if it weren't for Uncle Chai's storefront, I really can't imagine how the Soul Village has survived until now." ”

I glanced at the signboard of the door, and then looked at Senior Brother Zhuang with admiration, and I couldn't help but ask, "How much money can my master make in a year?" ”

This question has been hidden in my mind for a long time. Liang Houzai's master said that my master was rich, and Chen Daochang also said that my master was rich. I also know that my master can get more than 30% of the money earned from all the properties of the Soul Village, but my master also said that most of this money is used for the daily expenses of the Soul Village, and there is not much left every year.

So where did he get his money? How much money does he have?

But Senior Brother Zhuang didn't answer me directly, but just smiled at me and said, "You'll know tomorrow night." ”

"Okay, don't gossip here," Uncle Ke urged at this time: "Go to the town gate, everyone is here, just wait for a few of us!" ”

After speaking, Uncle Ke trotted all the way to the town gate, and a few of us didn't dare to slack off, so we followed Uncle Ke and walked quickly in three steps and two steps.

In fact, I have always been unable to understand, my Uncle Ke is obviously blind, but how can he walk so neatly, he shuttles quickly between the main roads and small roads in the ghost market, and he even knows where there is a pit on the ground.

The town gate hall is a three-story attic, much larger than my master's door, and on the roof there is a very thick wooden shelf, on which hangs a bronze bell.

Uncle Ke seemed to have calculated the time early in the morning, and when he led us through the entrance of the town gate, the bronze bell rang early or late.

When- When-

In this huge sealed space, the wide bells reverberate with echoes, as if there were countless large bells ringing at the same time, making it difficult to distinguish between the real and the unreal.

Uncle Xia sat on a Taishi chair facing the entrance of the hall, and there were two chairs on the left and one on the right beside him, on the left sat on the left side of the chair, but the chair on the right was empty, that should be my master's position.

When Uncle Xia saw us coming in, he frowned at Uncle Ke: "Why have you been so long?" ”

Uncle Ke smiled and didn't speak.

After that, Uncle Xia glanced at my master's position again, still frowning and muttering to himself: "Senior Brother Chai is too, are you still coming?" ”

Uncle Zhao leaned back in his chair and said to me Uncle Xia, "Senior Brother Chai is guarding the door outside, and it seems that he can't get out." Then he stretched his neck and shouted to the room next to him, "Renya, Renya!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a girl of the same age as me jumped out and ran out, and when Uncle Zhao saw her, he couldn't stop smiling.

At that time, I was still thinking, this girl can't be my granddaughter Zhao Shibo, right? I saw her with her hands crossed on her waist and shouted at Uncle Zhao: "Strange old man, you called me?" ”

Blame the old man? Listening to Zhao Shibo just called her "Renya", she should be the descendant of the Renzi generation, doesn't it mean that the people in the two veins of Tunmeng and Yuxian are very well-behaved, she dares to call me Zhao Shibo "strange old man"!

Her actions made Lu Renshuang suddenly glare: "Renya, don't mess around!" ”

But Uncle Zhao didn't look angry at all, and waved his hand at Lu Renshuang and said, "It's okay, it's okay." After that, he said to the girl named Renya: "Renya, there is nothing to do with you here, let's go out with your senior sister Renshuang, and you two should go too." ”

At this time, Uncle Xia spoke: "There is a way that you can't go!" This year, your master asked you to come because he had something to ask you, so you stayed. ”

As soon as I nodded to Uncle Xia, I heard Uncle Zhao say, "Let him go, anyway, Senior Brother Chai didn't come, and it's useless for him to stay here." It's better to take a stroll around the ghost market and see the world. ”

Uncle Xia glanced at my master's empty seat again, sighed helplessly, and then raised his head at me: "Go ahead, don't make trouble." ”

Just as Uncle Xia was talking, a lot of people came out of the rooms on both sides, they were all from the Soul Village, I have seen most of them, among them there are seniors of the "Zong" generation, and there are also senior brothers of the same generation as me, but I searched carefully in the crowd, but I didn't see Senior Brother Bao and Senior Brother Shi.

I quietly asked Senior Brother Zhuang, "Didn't Senior Brother Bao and Senior Brother Shi come?" ”

Senior Brother Zhuang shook his head: "The two of them went to Myanmar, and they won't participate in this year's ghost market." ”

Hearing Senior Brother Zhuang's words, I felt a little lost in my heart, originally I wanted to ask Senior Brother Bao and them about Liu Shangang's situation.

When everyone came to the lobby, Uncle Zhao waved his hand at Lu Renshuang again: "Let's go, there's nothing for you here!" ”

In fact, I originally wanted to stay and have a look, but I also know Liang Houzai's temperament, and there are so many strangers at this time, he must be very disgusted in his heart.

In desperation, I could only follow Master Renshuang's nephew.

After leaving the hall, Ren Shuang didn't know where to go, but said that Senior Brother Geng Youbo, who was in the Tunmeng lineage, had opened a shop in Dongshi and asked me if I wanted to go and see it.

Only then did I know that in addition to my master, there was such a senior brother who did not come to the town gate.

Anyway, the first time I came to the ghost market, I didn't have any ideas, so I took it to the East City by Renshuang.

In the foot market and the west market, except for my master's door, all the storefronts are simple houses made of rammed loess, with a roof made of reeds and grass on top, and on the edge of the roof, you can clearly see the scattered reed branches.

Even if it is a store, it is not much different from the West Market, except that the area of the earthen house is larger, and the roof has been simply repaired.

The East Market is a neat stone house, the stones used for the wall are hundreds of pounds of rough stones, and some stones are also inlaid with some unknown mineral deposits, which reflect a faint luster of reddish under the reflection of the lantern.

In Higashi, each store is not large, but there is a small courtyard connected to the door without exception.

After walking around the ghost market, I always have a feeling that the structure of the entire ghost market is not like a market, but an ancient village located in the depths of the cave. For example, the Mending Foot Line and the Town Gate Hall were built here later, and the style of these two buildings is mixed with other buildings, which seems a little out of place.

While thinking about these things in my heart, I was led by Renshuang and walked on the stone road of Dongshi, the stone bricks on the road were eroded by dripping water, and some of them had appeared small holes like honeycombs, and my feet stepped on them, but there was no rough feeling at all, and those small holes were shining with water, and when the soles of my shoes rubbed against them, I could hardly feel the friction.

Probably because I didn't know me well, Renshuang didn't talk much along the way, but it was the girl named Renya who seemed to be particularly interested in Liang Houzai.

I heard her ask Liang Houzai: "Are you a sister or a brother, how do I feel that you look like a woman and a man?" ”

Liang Houzai has been good-eyed since he was a child, he is thin and thin, and he doesn't look like a girl, and when I first met him, I almost got his gender wrong.

Liang Houzai was reluctant to talk to strangers, so he just replied sullenly: "I'm a man." ”

Renya looked surprised and said, "Huh? It's really a man. You're so good-looking, be my boyfriend! ”

Hearing Renya say this, I was also trembling in my heart, thinking to myself why this kid is so direct, just kidding!

I turned my head to look at Liang Houzai, and saw that Liang Houzai blushed and didn't speak, just hiding behind me.

Liang Houzai was reluctant to talk to strangers, not because he was cold, but because he was shy. Especially when I see girls, this shyness is even more obvious, I remember one time a girl in the class wrote a small note to him, I didn't see the content of the note, anyway, when he opened the note, the reaction was like this.

At this time, Xian'er got out of my shoulder, stared at Renya for a while, and said to me with a smile: "This little girl has a future, and she has the style I had back then!" ”

I have to say that Renya and Xian'er are really a little similar, both of them have a pair of big eyes with great charm, but Renya's eyes reveal a very stubborn liveliness, but Xian'er is a feeling that is difficult to explain clearly, sometimes I think she is also quite lively, but sometimes, I feel that Xian'er's eyes are always full of old spicy, and a little ill-intentioned.

I don't know if Xian'er had the appearance of a country and a city before her death, but during this time, she was nourished by the soul nourishing jade, and her appearance changed from that seven or eight-year-old girl to a slim girl. I don't say she's "slim" to compliment her, but she's like that, she's really beautiful, any one of her facial features has a kind of unimaginable delicacy, and when all the facial features are put together, it can give me an elegant and enthusiastic sense of immediacy.

Since Xian'er's appearance has changed, I go to see the girls in the class, and the girls I thought were beautiful, and that looked like that.

I'll admit that I like to stare at Xian'er's face, anyway, I just look at it, and I don't mean anything else, everyone has a love for beauty. But I also admit that I don't like to listen to Xian'er very much, and every time she opens her mouth to speak, she must not be at ease.

While Xian'er was talking to me, Renya kept staring at my shoulder.

I also feel strange in my heart, Xian'er was originally a spirit body, ordinary people shouldn't be able to see her, but looking at Renya's eyes, she clearly saw it!