Chapter Twenty-Three: The Mysterious Visitor
This thing is new, I came all morning, wandered around my small shop for a long time, and spoke very professionally, and it turned out that I came to sell something?
My first reaction was, of course, that of course, liars, and in this world, scammers in the antique world are no longer as they used to be, and they love to engage in so-called big scenes and pretend to be bosses.
On the contrary, the more simple, mysterious, and marketable he pretended, but unfortunately, he met me who had no intention of doing business, and he was even free of perfunctory and curiosity, so he didn't bother to listen to what he was going to say next.
Therefore, when he said this, I wiped my face and said casually: "Brother, selling things is free, I will wait for the opening of a small business and working capital, and then I will receive the goods." ”
My sentence basically blocked all the retreats, because I expressed one meaning - no money.
I thought that after I said this, the middle-aged man would retreat but didn't want to, he kept looking around, and even looked a little cramped, suddenly turned his head, looked at me and smiled.
I didn't really care, thinking about whether the negotiation between Lao Zhou and the female ghost would go smoothly at night, I swear I just saw the middle-aged man's smile out of the corner of my eye, but I felt frightened inexplicably, and I was stunned behind the counter for a moment.
That smile is so mysterious, I don't believe that in the real, real-life world, I can see such a smile like the mysterious character in the anime, suddenly revealing a smile full of some kind of unknown and conspiracy.
Let me, who has always been insensitive to the good and bad of things, also have a sudden heartbeat to speed up, and outside the small shop, the originally gloomy but still strange bright sky also disappeared suddenly, making people feel like a stormy scene in an instant, flashing behind this man, becoming the background reflecting his weird smile.
'Knock''' 'Knock' 'Knock' My heartbeat at this time, inexplicably, I heard it very clearly, but my whole person was a little distracted, as if someone deliberately disrupted my thoughts at this moment, so that it couldn't concentrate at all, and I couldn't remember this scene.
Is the call of fate finally coming? In such a moment of confusion, I couldn't understand why this thought was floating in my mind, and it was extremely clear.
Five years ago, the sunset in the distance, but the drizzle in the near distance, now clearly appear in front of me.
"Master, do you really want me to go down the mountain, and I am not allowed to step into the mountain gate in the future?"
"Master"
"yes, am I not clear enough? Still not leaving? It's obviously a face that wants to try its best to pretend to be impatient, but the distress and reluctance in his eyes can't be concealed.
At that time, the master may not have known the way, but in the past five years, his inadvertent eyes have been the only hope that has sustained me for so many years.
"I'm not leaving, what am I doing wrong? You must drive me down the mountain? I want to meet my brother. ”
"You don't need to see your senior brother, don't worry about what to pay attention to after the mountain in his situation, I also told you in detail last night, let's go."
"I'm not leaving, if you insist on me leaving, then you can kick me down the mountain."
The drizzle of that day seemed to drench all the memories, so much so that now I think of everything with a bit of dampness, including the eyes, with the smell of dampness, as well as the unique sourness and heat.
The call of fate has come? Why do you think of the scene when you go down the mountain when this sentence comes up, is there any connection between this?
Unfortunately, I couldn't think at all, because at that moment, my thoughts were all knocked down and shattered
"Little brother, you opened such an antique shop at a young age, and there are still some good goods in the store, and the financial capital is not abundant, are you sure not to buy it?" When I was close to losing consciousness, an abrupt voice suddenly pulled me back to reality, and the scene of the storm and strange smile just now was suddenly shattered.
In a trance, I looked out of the store again, it was still gloomy, but there was a strange bright sky, and the person in front of me had a smile that was almost flattering and humble, how could there be any weird smile.
"I don't want to" I subconsciously refused, but in the next moment, when I remembered the scene just now, my whole body muscles were tense, and I stared at the visitor very defensively, and drank in a deep voice: "Who are you?" ”
There seemed to be a flash of weirdness in the eyes of the person who came, but it seemed to be panicked and puzzled, and then he bowed lower, as if begging me, and said, "Little brother, you? "But, as I spoke, I noticed that something had been placed on my counter, covered with a black cloth.
When did he come to me? Putting such a thing on my counter again? Was it when I lost my mind just now? Could it be that everything I just saw was an illusion?
I can't tell what I feel like a story has begun, from the day Lao Zhou broke into my shop at noon, it was unveiled, so my life will not be peaceful from now on, and more and more strange events will break into my life.
This middle-aged person appeared because of this, should I have hallucinations, should it be normal?
Thinking of this, I took out a lighter from the counter, the cold touch of the metal made my heart settle down a little, I habitually 'snapped' to flick the lighter, wiped the grinding wheel, the bright flame lit up, like a glimmer of hope in the dark night to bring light, but also bring peace.
In the reflection of the firelight, the middle-aged man's smile became more and more humble and flattering, but the strange feeling lingered.
I took out a cigarette from my jacket pocket, lit it with this fire, and when the smoke rose, I turned off the lighter with a 'snap', and my mood was completely calm.
In this mood, I looked up at the middle-aged man's eyes and said, "I'm sorry just now, I think of the 'taking medicine' (being accused of buying fakes from antiques), and I'm in a bad mood, and people are a little distracted." ”
As I spoke, I pulled out another cigarette and handed it to the middle-aged man.
"Oh, oh" The middle-aged man heard this, showing a smile of understanding, he was reached out to take the cigarette and held it, a mouthful of yellow teeth was a little dazzling, but it did not give people a very dirty feeling, he reached out and touched the black cloth covered with something, lit the cigarette I gave him by my fire, and after taking a deep breath, he said: "Little brother, do you think I am a liar?" ”
"No, who can not have more eyes in this business? After all, one in and one out is generally not a small number. "I coped with it a little perfunctorily, rubbing the lighter in my hand, in fact, both me and him should have understood that these were just some kind of scenes, but we had to talk.
"That's the same reason, but what I want to say is that I am a person who talks about eyesight, if a person doesn't have my eye, even if it is broken copper and iron in my hand, he will buy it at a high price, and I won't sell it. If that person is in line with my eyes, even if I have a rare treasure in my hand, I can sell it at a loss, and sometimes, even if it is given away for free. The middle-aged man was very serious.
I didn't know what it was, but I always felt that there was some kind of strange light shining in his eyes.
"Huh." I looked down and laughed, but instead of inhaling the smoke in my mouth, I threw up my head and spat out a smoke ring, indicating noncommittal. Just because these words are very 'touching', in fact, it has almost become a common saying in the antique world, like buying and selling things, seeing people say this, I want to answer, I have to be serious, but it is stupid Even though we are just talking about the scene, this scene has to be acted, is it?
"Little brother, do you think I'm joking?" The middle-aged man was serious, biting the cigarette I handed him, his eyes narrowed slightly, but his eyes were like needles, about to pierce the bottom of my heart.
"No, I'm just curious, why did you find me, what do you want to sell to me? As I said, I don't have any liquidity here, so I'm afraid I can't afford it. I smiled and said, I don't know what the road is, but as we talked, my heart gradually became calmer.
"Let's see what I'm going to sell, right? This is a treasure for me. As he spoke, the middle-aged man pulled open the black cloth of the thing on my counter.
And I couldn't help but turn my eyes to it, and when I saw what was placed on it, I couldn't help but let out a low sigh, this is