Chapter 17: The Strange Shopkeeper
"It's so handsome!" As soon as he walked out of the door of the grocery store, before he walked down the steps, Liu Mingming couldn't help but scream. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Shhhh Don't let anyone hear it! Gu Xiaoman glanced at her friend helplessly, and quickly pinched her arm to tell her to keep a low profile.
"But it's really handsome! That skin, so white, is better than a woman's skin. That nose is straight and straight......" Liu Mingming recalled with drooling.
"I told you a long time ago, but you still don't believe it!"
"Who would believe that a cashier at a grocery store could look like this! It's no wonder you've worked tirelessly every day to come here to buy things. I'll come every day from now on, haha! ”
"But ......," Gu Xiaoman frowned a little melancholy.
"What's wrong?" Liu Mingming looked at his friend's expression, and he would be wrong. "Don't worry, I'm just talking, at most it's too enjoyable. If you want to chase him, I fully support you, and I will never rob you. But you've got to hurry up, if the scouts find him first, then it's none of your business, haha! ”
"I didn't mean that," Gu Xiaoman sighed, "I don't think he likes me." ”
"How so? Didn't you say that the first time you went to his house to buy something, he was very kind and warm to you? ”
"yes, that's right. But when I went back later, I found that his attitude towards me was obviously not as good as the first time, as if he deliberately kept his distance from me. I think he probably saw that I was interested in him. If he is as handsome, he will definitely not look down on me, so he will have this attitude towards me. ”
"Come on! He's just a little handsome, and he's not a big star, after all, he's just a little cashier, what qualifications does he have to look down on our Miss Gu? Liu Mingming was shouting, and if he didn't pay attention, he kicked something under his feet. She looked down and saw herself kicking into a recliner. A little boy of eight or nine years old was lying in a chair, raising his eyes and glaring at them.
"Excuse me, kid, are you alright?"
"Don't gossip behind people's backs." Coldly threw out such a sentence, the child's eyes closed, no longer paid attention to them, and closed his eyes to recuperate.
Liu Mingming had never seen such a child who could teach adults such a lesson, he was so angry that there was smoke above his head, and he wanted to educate him as soon as his eyebrows were raised, but he was dragged away by Gu Xiaoman.
Every afternoon, the "Forget Words" grocery store is relatively quiet. At the moment, there was not a single customer in the store, Xiao Wenlu wore a clerk's uniform, patiently sorting out the change in the drawer.
His gaze casually fell on the middle row of shelves. There is a shampoo poster on the side of the shelf, on which a popular female star has long hair and a shawl, turns her face sideways, and smiles sweetly at Xiao Wenzhi.
The corners of Xiao Wenlu's mouth turned upwards unconsciously: she really looks like her.
"Because of the gravitational pull...... When you encounter a black hole, you will be sucked ......" Yang Qianqian's innocent expression appeared in front of him from time to time when he said this, and whenever this time came, he would always smile unconsciously. However, such a smile did not stay long on his face, and it would be covered by a gloomy haze. You can't think about her, you can't hurt her. Xiao Wenlu warned himself like this every time.
The afternoon sun shone in through the glass door, and Xiao Wenlu was warm. He yawned and fell asleep.
In a daze, someone pushed the door and walked in. Xiao Wenlu immediately cheered up, stood up, and habitually said, "Welcome!" ”
A man wearing sunglasses and dressed in black stood in front of the cash register and said expressionlessly: "Yes, the attitude is quite enthusiastic." ”
"Oh, it's you." Xiao asked for directions and saw clearly that it was the owner of this "forgotten words" grocery store standing in front of him.
"You've been working here for a while, are you still used to it?" The shopkeeper, who has always been silent, was uncharacteristically unusual, and rarely said one more word to him, which surprised Xiao Wenlu.
"I'm used to it." Xiao asked for directions and smiled and replied briefly.
"Don't miss your old life?" The shopkeeper suddenly asked without a clue.
Xiao asked for directions and immediately felt that something was wrong.
"I'm quite happy with the current state of life." Xiao Wenlu replied cautiously, deliberately not answering his question directly.
"With such a skill, do you feel too wronged to be a small grocery store clerk?" Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper actually chased after him.
Xiao Wenlu's muscles all over his body tensed, but there was still no special expression on his face. "I think with my ability, it's a good fit for this job."
"If you don't use your trick for a long time, won't you be rusty?"
As soon as these words came out, Xiao Wenlu could no longer remain calm. He frowned and said in a deep voice, "Boss, I don't understand what you're saying." ”
"I've made it so clear, so why are you pretending to be confused?"
"What do you want to do?" Xiao Wenlu's hands under the cash register were quietly clenched into fists, and golden light gradually revealed between his fingers.
"Don't waste your efforts, put away what little bit of your skills you have. Even if you do it, you may not be able to take advantage of me. ”
After saying that, the shopkeeper suddenly stretched out his right hand without warning, and pointed his index finger at him!
Xiao Wenlu reacted quickly, and hit two palms almost at the same time!
Xiao Wenlu's palm shone with dazzling golden light. He pushed forward hard, and the golden light only rolled and surged in the palm of his hand, but it didn't hit the other party!
Xiao asked for directions and was shocked. He had been practicing the magic for nearly twenty years, and this was the first time this had happened. The shopkeeper, who has always been expressionless, has a rare smile on his face at this moment. A mocking smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, and he said, "Didn't I tell you, no matter how powerful your skills are, you are not my opponent!" ”
Xiao Wenlu focused all his attention on his two hands, and the golden light in his palm became more and more abundant, but no matter how he pushed it forward, the golden light only stayed in his palm.
Although he couldn't see the eyes behind the sunglasses, Xiao Wenlu could also feel the pride of the shopkeeper now. The shopkeeper pointed to Xiao and asked for directions, and chuckled: "Don't be busy with your strength, you look down first!" ”
Xiao Wenlu looked down, and suddenly cold sweat trickled down: I saw that I didn't know when I was floating in the air, but my body was standing straight in place!
"How's it going, how does it feel to be out of the body?" The shopkeeper's fingertips emitted a curling blue light, faint but continuous, and long-lasting.
"Daddy!" A crisp child's voice came from the door. Xiao Lili stood at the door, looking shocked. He pounced on the shopkeeper with a light body, the shopkeeper stretched out his finger again, and the blue light passed, Xiao Liliang's body froze in place, and his soul came out of his body!
"Don't!" Xiao Wenlu shouted, opened his eyes suddenly, and found himself lying on the cash register, one arm numb.
"Nightmare?" A man's voice sounded suddenly, and Xiao was so frightened that he jumped up directly.
A tall, thin man in sunglasses and dressed in black stood in front of the cash register, staring at him with a smirk.
Who is it if not the owner?
Xiao asked for directions and looked at the wall clock on the wall, and it turned out that he had only slept for five minutes.
"Oh, it's you." The dream just now was too real, and seeing this poker face wearing sunglasses again at this moment made him feel indescribably awkward in his heart.
"You've been working here for a while, are you still used to it?" The shopkeeper asked seemingly nonchalantly.
"It's ......" Xiao asked for directions, and swallowed it back hard. It's all too familiar. His fists clenched again unconsciously, beads of sweat oozing from his palms.
"It's okay, you're busy." Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper put down such a sentence, turned around and went into the store's storage room.
Xiao Wenlu looked at his back, his brows furrowed slightly.
Xiao Wenlu has been working at the "Forgotten Words" grocery store for three months.
After separating from Yang Qianqian at the station, Xiao Wenlu and Xiao Lili, who had no body, had nowhere to go, so they had to stay here. As soon as the morning dawned, Xiao asked for directions and began the journey of looking for a job non-stop. Originally, with Xiao Wenlu's beautiful face, it would not be a problem to enter the entertainment industry, but what Xiao Wenlu was most afraid of was being known by too many people, so he specially applied for the most inconspicuous jobs.
That day, he went to a restaurant and went to interview for a job as a waiter. The proprietress of the restaurant's eyes lit up when she saw him, and she wanted to keep him without saying a word. But as soon as the boss saw the infatuated expression of the proprietress, he immediately rejected him without hesitation. As soon as he walked out of the door of the restaurant, Xiao Wenzhi heard a loud sound of tables and chairs overturning behind him, as well as the scolding of the boss and the proprietress behind him. Xiao Wenlu shook his head and walked away dejectedly.
Xiao Wenlu was walking aimlessly along the road, when suddenly, a man's emotionless voice sounded: "Hey, are you looking for a job?" ”
Xiao Wenlu was startled, followed the sound and looked over, only to see a tall thin man wearing sunglasses and dressed in black standing on the steps looking at him condescendingly, and a brand-new plaque hung above the glass door behind him: Forget the Word Grocery Store.
"You're talking to me?"
"Otherwise, with whom?"
"Who are you?"
"Naturally, it's the shopkeeper."
"How do you know I'm looking for a job?" Xiao asked Lu suspiciously.
"Guess." The man in sunglasses replied unhurriedly.
In this way, Xiao Wenlu became the cashier of the newly opened "Forgotten Grocery Store" in a daze, and he was also the only employee in this store.
For this shopkeeper, Xiao Wenlu was full of defense, because from the beginning, he was full of weirdness: when they met for the first time, he saw that Xiao Wenlu was looking for a job; Although he rarely appears in the store, as long as there are goods in the store that are out of stock, he can always make up the goods in time, and there is no need for Xiao to ask for directions to report to him; As a shopkeeper, he never cares about the business in the store, nor does he ask, occasionally appearing in the store, but also sitting in the corner drinking tea and reading the newspaper, with a completely indifferent attitude; He also didn't care about his employees, never inquired about the origin of Xiao Wenlu, and only asked about Xiao Lili's relationship with him; What's more, he always wears a pair of sunglasses like Wong Kar-wai, and he has never seen him take them off, and he is always dressed in black. Xiao Wenlu has been walking the rivers and lakes for so many years, and he has never seen any evil sects, but it is the first time he has seen such a mysterious person as him.
Even once, Xiao Wenlu couldn't help but say to Xiao Lili: "Lili, you sense, whether he is a human or a ghost." ”
Xiao Lili didn't even look at him: "I have already sensed it, and there is no ghost." ”
Although the shopkeeper is mysterious, but during the time that Xiao Wenlu has been working in the store, the two of them have been safe and sound, and the days are also rare and calm, so calm that Xiao Wenlu faintly feels a little uneasy. After all, since he was eighteen years old, he has never lived such a peaceful life for such a long time. For this kind of uneasiness, Xiao Wenlu joked that he might have been suffering from paranoia of victimization.
However, today's nightmare sounded the alarm for Xiao to ask for directions. People who practice magic never dream, and Xiao Wenlu has forgotten what it feels like to dream. But not only did he fall asleep in the store in broad daylight today, but he also had a very real nightmare, which made him very angry.
Who is this shopkeeper? Xiao asked for directions and kept asking himself.