Chapter 470: Human Nature is Ugly
After the figure of the blind old man appeared at the entrance of the room, the pestle turned his head parallel to his left shoulder, and then slowly turned his head from left to right until his head was parallel to his right shoulder, and then sat down on the right side of the room with a bamboo pole. Read the full text of the latest chapter
The blind old man's reaction. It made me sure that he was not blind.
Having been silent since entering the room, I lowered my head and whispered in my ear to ask me what was wrong, and I put my face on his arm to tell him something about the blind old man.
She reached out and patted me on the head, but didn't say anything more.
Not long after the blind old man came to this room, other people came at the entrance of the room one after another, and the arrival of a family of three made me look at it a few more times.
A woman with tears on her face holding the hand of a cute little girl. The little girl looked ignorant, and the man wrinkled his forehead.
The family of three sat down not far from me and Yutaili. I heard the man say to the woman again that he didn't want to go back or not, that he didn't want to come here and pawn anything.
The woman disagreed, sobbing and saying that since she came, she at least had to know if she could meet the pawn standard before leaving.
The man kept his arms on his lap and his head in his hands, and the little girl's timid voice asked the woman what was wrong with her father.
The woman glanced at the man and then glanced at the little girl, and the little girl was immediately silent, pouting her lips, and tears immediately dripped down, but she didn't dare to pronounce it.
At this time, there was a vacant seat in front of the bookcase, and the woman immediately picked up the little girl and pulled the man to walk quickly to the vacant position.
According to the first-come, first-served principle, this time the pawn should be the turn of the blind old man.
The blind old man had just risen from the bench after there was another vacant seat in front of the bookcase, after the woman picked up the little girl and pulled the man briskly to the vacant place. The blind old man sat down again.
Paying attention to the conversation between the family of three and the person behind the bookcase, I knew that the family of three was pawning the soul of a little girl and asking for a large sum of money.
In a family of three, the man is the biological father of the little girl, and the woman is the stepmother of the little girl.
The man's business is on the verge of bankruptcy, and once the bankrupt family will be reduced to the streets, the woman does not know where to learn about the pawnshop's deposit, so she encourages the man to come to the pawnshop to pawn.
The woman told the man behind the book that she had only heard that the soul was the most precious, and that if the little girl's soul was not enough to pawn, then she could add anything else. [A lot of good novels]
After the man behind the bookcase said that the little girl's soul could be exchanged for that large sum of money. The woman's voice could not hide her joy, and the man began to regret it.
The man said that he had only come to want to know if the pawnshop was really anything that could be pawned, and that he had disturbed him and left.
The woman began to cry, saying that she also knew that this was too unfair to the little girl, but if the business went bankrupt, it would be the family that had no hope, and the three of them would have no tomorrow for the rest of their lives, so Mo Ruo would sacrifice the little girl.
At this time, there was a vacant seat in front of the bookcase, and the blind old man went to the vacant seat with a bamboo pole and sat down.
The blind old man sat in the empty seat in front of the bookcase, and the man behind the bookcase got up from his seat and said to the blind old man to wait, and then walked towards the screen, and the blind old man sat quietly in front of the bookcase and waited.
After the blind old man sat down facing the bookcase, I let go of the arm I was holding and sat up straight. Glancing at the family of three.
The man sitting in front of the bookcase twisted his body, his expression looking hesitant and his eyes full of guilt and chagrin, and the woman's face was full of sorrow, begging the man not to think about anything, but also for the child in her womb.
The woman said that she understood his feelings, that she loved this daughter as much as he did, and that she was reluctant to exchange the little girl's soul for the liquidity of the business.
It's just that it's helpless and it's not easy to come here, and today it's inevitable to exchange the little girl's soul for that fund.
If she had already given birth to the child in her womb, she would not hesitate to replace the little girl's soul with the soul of her own child in exchange for a prosperous man's business.
The woman said that as long as the man is good, she can do whatever she wants.
The man glanced at the woman, then at his daughter, who was standing beside her, and when the man looked at his daughter, the woman stopped the little girl behind her without a trace, and reached out to touch her belly.
The man withdrew his gaze, sat up straight, and picked up the pen to sign.
After the man finished signing, the man clapped his hands twice after the bookcase, and the man with a wooden expression came out from behind the screen and forcibly took away the little girl who finally realized the crisis and began to cry loudly.
As soon as the little girl was brought into the screen by someone with a wooden expression, no more cries were heard.
After the bookcase, when the little girl was forcibly taken away, the man took out a cash check and handed it to the man.
The man took the cash check and glanced at it, then excitedly got up from his seat and held the check for the woman to see, his face showing no guilt or chagrin at the moment.
The eyes of the people behind the bookcase were indifferent, and the man and woman disappeared from the room in an instant.
After the man and woman disappeared from the room, the man's gaze behind the bookcase turned in the direction of me and Yutaili.
When I saw the man's gaze in the direction of me and the bookcase, I was instantly frightened, and it immediately made me even more heartless to pawn before entering this pawnshop.
At this time, I reached out and took me in my arms, covering my eyes with my big hands, and I stiffened my body and leaned on my arms, still feeling a cold gaze on me.
It wasn't until I felt that the cold gaze was no longer on me that I let go of the big hand that was covering my eyes.
I saw that in front of the man behind the bookcase that I had glanced at before, there was another guest sitting down at this moment.
It was at this time that the man returned after the book was written in front of the blind old man, and the blind old man began to tell him what he had come here to ask for.
The blind old man said that he wanted to know where the statue of the Hydra he had lost before, that one of his eyes had been pawned, and that he had pawned his arm or leg this time.
After the bookcase, the man's eyes instantly turned silver-gray, and after staring at the blind old man, his eyes returned to normal, saying that the blind old man needed to leave a kidney before he could make this pawn business.
The blind old man agreed directly without hesitation, and after signing, after the bookcase, the man took the blind old man into the screen, and when he came out again, he handed the blind old man a note, and the blind old man's figure disappeared from the room.
Seeing the blind old man disappear from the room, I frowned slightly, and I whispered in my ear, calmly, saying that it was useless to be anxious. Fork Island Joy.
I turned my head and asked when we were leaving, and he said he would wait until the man he had just glanced at him and finished his business.
I asked when the person would be busy at the entrance of the room where new people would appear from time to time.
The pawnshop is closed and the time period for dealing with the pawn of the remaining people on the spot, and we only need to wait until noon.
I asked him in a low voice why he was waiting for that person, and he said that because he could speak, he was the only pawnshop.
"Acquaintance, then he just glanced at you or me." I whispered to Tsutori.
"The so-called acquaintance is not it, I just happened to pawn it with him a few times, so I can talk a few words, he just glanced at you not me." Toriri answers my question.
"Look at me for Mao." I was amazed that he had come to this pawnshop a few times, and my heart fluttered when I heard him say that the man was glancing at me.
"Because you're a guest, it's normal for him to look at you." Akiri explained it to me.
"There's no other reason." I don't think the truth is as simple as she says.
"Maybe it's these objects you wear that attract his attention, and of course, it doesn't rule out that he has a covetous heart for your beauty like a flower." Yu Taili lowered his voice with a light smile.
"Even if you wait until he's done, he probably won't reveal anything about the master behind the scenes to you." I glanced at the indifference on the man's face.
"Not really, but I can induce him to reveal something, and he said before that the leak let me know that the person behind the pawnshop appeared in the pawnshop, that is, between noon and the end of the day." The smile in Yutaili's voice increased.
"They are also human beings, but they can only serve pawnshops for the rest of their lives when they are selected, and they will become more and more indifferent when they see too much of the ugliness of human nature." ćžšĺ°č added pronunciation.
"Selected?" I didn't understand the meaning of these words.
"The people who can come here to serve the pawnshop are all selected by the owners behind the pawnshop, and the selected people have a common characteristic, that is, they are more calm and indifferent than ordinary people." Shan Taili solves my doubts.
"What happens if you don't come?" I continued to ask about Mt. Tantai.
"If you don't come, it will bring ruin to your family, and few will volunteer to dedicate the rest of their lives to the pawnshop." Yutaili sighed softly.
"Does that mean that once they come here, they will serve the pawnshop until the moment they die." I frowned at the answer I heard.
"Yes. After they are chosen, their faces will not age, and their lifespan will be longer than that of ordinary people, even if they die, their souls cannot do without this place. The black mist on our way here was created by the souls of countless such people after they died. Tantaili's voice became deeper and deeper.
I was silenced by the answer, and when I glanced at the man behind the bookcase, I felt that his indifference was much more helpless.
I sat quietly on the bench with Tsui Taili, watching the people in the room come and go, paying the price in exchange for what we wanted, and finally waiting for noon.
When all the guests in the room had left except me and I, I took my hand and walked in front of the man.
But at this time, the temperature of the dark paint in the room plummeted instantly, and the laughter of men filled the space.