Chapter 13: The Ghost Market
I asked tentatively, "Boss, you've probably heard of it, right?" ”
"The famous ghost building in Beibei, I've heard of it. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"
I pulled up a chair and sat down and said, "I wonder if you've ever been?" I went there yesterday and I came across something interesting. ”
"What's interesting?"
Jia Shiduo listened to my report with a natural expression, I couldn't tell that he was acting at all? Or was it really me who was wrong that night?
Thinking about these questions made me look at him in a trance, and he looked up at me and asked, "What do you think?" ”
"Huh?"
"That's a good idea, just do it, serialize your ghost building story."
"Okay."
"Distracted in front of me, it seems that I usually manage you too loosely."
"It's the boss, you're so handsome, I accidentally fell into the gods."
Jia Shiduo smiled and said, "Next time it's like this, I'll take it seriously." Work hard, don't think about the mess, and put your mind right. ”
Why does he seem to have something in his words? I said, "Of course, I wonder when we will start to re-investigate the matter of the ancient coffin?" "In this matter, we are already a lot behind the people in the Cultural Relics Bureau.
Jia Shiduo raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do you have any new discoveries?" ”
There are indeed new discoveries, but there is no beginning and no tail, and Meng Yingjiu took the information sent to me by Zou Zhou, and there is no evidence, so I still don't say it, so as not to explain it badly.
"Nope."
Jia Shiduo said: "Then wait a little longer. ”
Waiting like this, the magazine seems to have forgotten about the ancient coffin. I always persuaded myself to forget these things during the day, and I didn't want to worry about whether it was Jia Shiduo and Shen Wuluo that I saw in the Bai family's house that night, because these things were always related to Meng Yingjiu, and I couldn't suppress my sadness when I thought of him.
But midnight dreams and thinks that I should find the answers to these things, so I fall into this infinite loop.
Everything in the world is unbearable, but remove the word "unfounded".
Soon the Chinese New Year was over, and Jiang Yi was also forced to go on a blind date by his family, so he asked me to help him and accompany him to play one
scene, of course, he has to accompany me to my house to act, otherwise we will not have a good year. I asked him why he didn't go on a blind date, maybe the girl was good, but he said that he had someone he liked, but that person was deeply in love with another man.
That was the first time I cut my hair short and met Jiang Yi, and I saw Jack, without Xiao Jiu, Jack was very much
Lose. Jiang Yi didn't ask Xiao Jiu about it, I always felt that there was some secret between him and Meng Yingjiu, but no matter how I asked him, he denied it.
Life and work are back on track again, and the stories of ghost houses serialized in magazines have received a good response.
In addition to the home and office, the place I go to most often is drunk, but every time I go, I don't meet Uncle Qing, Ah Zhi also explained at the beginning that Uncle Qing went out, and later, the two of us reached a tacit understanding, I didn't ask, he didn't say, we ignored this person. But I think Uncle Qing should be deliberately avoiding me.
I have become his Ah Zhi's apprentice, and he will tell me about antiques in his free time. When he's busy, I'm listening to how he deals with people who come to buy and sell things. Sometimes, we do our own things, I write novels, he plays games. It's only when he's playing games that I remember he's only 19 years old.
It seems that my novel should end here, and Meng Yingjiu's story has been written, but I'm just thinking about it
test, what kind of ending should be given to them in the story. The reality of the ending is too sad, but if I want to imagine a happy ending now, I will undoubtedly stab myself with a knife.
I asked Ah Zhi, "Do you like a happy ending or a tragedy?" ”
"Do you tell your story?"
"Well, I don't know how to write the ending of the story."
"You don't want to write truthfully?"
"I... I don't know how to wrap it up. ”
Ah Zhi thought for a while and said, "I like endings that can continue to be associative, and no story is really said."
The end is really over. ”
Not really over yet? Could it be that Uncle Qing said something? Will Meng Yingjiu come back?
Just as I was about to ask, Ah Zhi also realized that his words might make me relate.
He immediately added: "I just want to say that the unfinished meaning can capture people's hearts the most." Don't think about it! ”
"Really?"
"Well, I've read so many novels, and the only thing I can remember is those endings, the meaning of which is unclear, I can't forget it until now, and the rest is over after reading it."
"Okay."
"Don't talk about that, I'll take you to the ghost market tomorrow morning."
I've heard Ah Zhi say it a few times, but I didn't expect him to suddenly be willing to take me there today.
The ghost market is actually a night market, and this kind of market is generally traded from the second half of the night to before dawn, which is a certain difference from the current night market. The ghost market has a wide range of goods, including wood, cloth, newspapers, gold, silver and jade, broken copper and iron. However, it mainly sells antiques, among which the goods are mixed, there are not only improper sources, but also rare items, and there are more fakes, so people call the night market "ghost market"
After dinner, we rested in the store, Ah Zhi was downstairs playing his game, I was sleeping upstairs, at 4 o'clock in the morning, Ah Zhi woke me up and said, "It's almost time, let's go." ”
The road ghost market is in the old alley not far from the antique street. On the way, I asked him, "Didn't you always want to take me with you?" Why did you figure it out today? ”
"You've grown a lot lately, so you can go and see it, so you should be distracted. But you have to listen to me in everything, the people in the ghost market are very complicated, they travel late at night, and they disperse before dawn, and they can't figure out where they came from. ”
"Okay, master!"
This is the place where the two districts meet, and there is not much care on either side, there are no street lights on several streets, and everything can only be done by the faint light of the sky. In the distance, I saw some dark shadows and the light of the flashlights in their hands floating around, like ghosts carrying lanterns floating in the dark night, and those who didn't understand what was going on would definitely think that they had strayed into hell.
As you get closer, you can see people on both sides of the street setting up stalls on the ground, buying all kinds of things. Ah Zhi said that these things are both real and fake, and the light is not good, the people who buy things rely on their own experience, and the transactions between the two sides are all based on wishful thinking, and they can only consider themselves unlucky when they buy fake things.
Ah Zhi said: "How about it, let's test you, you go and see what those things are worth." ”
We didn't really buy it, and I'm not scared, just take a look. Walking down this street, I thought it was okay two things, but Ah Zhidu signaled that I had a problem, and left after fooling around with the seller, which made me a little disheartened.
At the end of the street, there were a lot of people around, and Ah Zhi and I also went over to join in the fun. It turned out that there were three people grabbing a doll bowl, and no one would let go, and the price was getting higher and higher.
I looked energetic, but Ah Zhi pulled me to the other side and whispered to me, "Those two are Tuo." ”
"How do you know?"
"Coincidentally, I saw the two of them talking in the back street last time I left."
"That can't prove it, what if we just happen to meet again this time?"
Ah Zhi smiled and pointed to his ear and said, "Because I heard their conversation." ”
Shunfeng Er is another nickname of Ah Zhi, and I don't doubt his words. Looking at the two people in the crowd again, I hurriedly asked the two of them to make eye contact with the seller, and psychological cues are indeed very important.
At this time, I noticed an old man who was setting up a stall next to the crowd, he was squatting on the ground and smoking by himself, not caring at all about the excitement next to him, not even looking at it, just staring at a small wooden box in front of him on the newspaper.
With the light next to it, it looked like it was a stone inside, but I had a strange feeling.
When I got closer, I was even more stunned when I saw the contents of the wooden box. Inside the wooden box was a small stone the size of a glass bead, with some patterns on it, but it was smooth, like a pebble. Isn't this the imperial chess I lost in Jinyun Mountain!
I reached out to test its temperature to see if it was my Imperial Chess. As soon as I squatted down and stretched out my hand, the old man grabbed my arm and said, "This thing can't be touched." ”
Ah Zhi said: "You have to take a good look at things before you can make up your mind." ”
The old man hesitated for a moment, then let go of his hand.
As soon as my fingertips touched it, I found that the stone was extremely hot, like a charcoal fire that was burning brightly!
I pinched it, and a sharp pain came from the palm of my hand, but the burning pain made me feel inexplicably reassured. After a moment, I let go of my hand and asked, "Where did you get this thing from?" ”
Ah Zhi pulled me up and said, "You don't ask where you come from in the ghost market, you can't ask this kind of thing here!" ”
The old man looked at me fiercely, and I said, "This is my thing!" ”
The booth that was originally deserted, because of our voice, gradually people came around.
I asked, "This is my thing!" Where did you get that? ”
When the old man heard me say this, his face sank. Ah Zhi asked the old man, "Can you take a step to speak?" ”
The old man did not speak, but looked at me, then gathered up his things on the ground and said, "Let's go." ”
This is the end of the story of the Ghost Mansion Feast, and the next chapter is the third chapter "The Blood Curse of the Emperor".
The hundred gods still protect the emperor's chess, and the defeat is really a tragedy for eternity.
The stone of the emperor, so those who cast a hundred gods are also obedient. Meng Yingjiu's amulet "Emperor Taiqi" in Lin Min's mouth brought others a bloody disaster? Is there something wrong with it?
In order to find out the secret of the Emperor's chess, Lin Min also embarked on the road of exploration. But the search for answers is always thorny, and new questions arise one after another.
Is anyone concerned only with what can be done to lift that cruel curse? And some people are more concerned about whose underground palace is under the mysterious northern foot of Lishan?
What kind of thrilling and bizarre things will happen to them with their own purposes? (To be continued.) )