Chapter 26: Ghost City

The design of the window of the nanny room where I live is very strange, the sunlight can't shine in the daytime, and the lights must be turned on when staying in the house, and I rarely go out and walk around, because some time ago Yue Qianling's tossing, there has been no progress on the matter of the Ming Fourteenth Tombs.

So I basically stay in the room except for three meals a day, and the window of the room is actually just a palm-sized skylight, and at three o'clock in the morning every night, the moonlight just shines in and shines in the corner of the room.

I opened my eyes in a daze, and in the only place where the moonlight could reach, I saw a woman sitting, dressed in a white dress with long hair that blocked the moonlight and made it impossible to see her face.

I was stunned, covered in cold sweat, sat up from the bed, moved too fast, touched my head again, shrank to the corner of the bed and didn't dare to come out.

"It's time to get up." The woman said as she stood up and walked over slowly.

In the moonlight, the face slowly revealed, and a smile of curiosity hung on the corner of her mouth.

"Qianling?!" I breathed a sigh of relief and looked up. "People are scary, they are scared to death, you don't sleep most of the night, and you come here to scare me."

"Whoever has the kung fu to scare you, get up quickly." She threw the clothes in my face.

"Get up?" I asked with a blank look on my face. "What are you doing now?"

"Go shopping with me." The more Qianling spoke, the more excited she became.

"Shopping?! Right now?! I looked at her dumbfounded, and it took me a long time to react. Miss, I'm begging you, don't toss anymore, what time is it, you're going shopping, what hell are you going to? ”

Yue Qianling suddenly nodded and laughed happily.

"You're really right, just go to hell!"

Xiao Lianshan heard a noise, ran over from the house, and saw me getting dressed very reluctantly, and Yue Qianling, who was standing next to me, was very excited.

"Brother, what are you doing here?"

"Qianling asked me to accompany her to go shopping." I said sleepily and weakly.

"Now? It's only three o'clock in the morning, and there are no ghosts for most of the night. Xiao Lianshan said in surprise.

"How do you know if you haven't seen it, I'm taking him to hell today." Yue Qianling twisted her head and said seriously.

"Brother, wait for me, I'll get dressed, and I don't feel at ease when the two of you go out in the middle of the night."

"Whichever side is cooler, you stay at home and watch the door." Yue Qianling shook her head and said insistently. "It's useless for you to go to this place today."

I rubbed my eyes, sighed heavily, and walked to the door and patted Xiao Lianshan on the shoulder.

"I can't live by myself, you just stay at home honestly, it's enough for her to toss me alone."

Coming out of the villa, Yue Qianling drove the accelerator and never let go, I had a feeling that she was in a hurry to reincarnate, and I couldn't help but want to sleep several times, but I was woken up directly by Yue Qianling.

I don't ask where I'm going, life and death don't matter to me anymore, as long as I can squint for a while, thank God.

The car came to a slow stop, and I looked at the time in a daze.

Half past four in the morning.

On the side of the road, under the dim lights and dappled shadows of the trees, there were crowds of people everywhere, bustling with people, and a car passing by, illuminating the blurred faces of the roadside or leaning or pulling the cart, like ghosts.

I slowly came to my senses and looked at everything in front of me with curiosity.

"This ...... What is this place? ”

"Ghost City!" Yue Qianling replied nonchalantly.

"Ghost City?"

I frowned and got out of the car, only to find that both sides of the road were full of stalls, walked a few steps and looked left and right for a long time, and found antique furniture, four treasures of the study, ancient books and paintings, agate jade, Chinese and foreign coins, shadow puppet masks, religious tokens, national costumes, "Cultural Revolution" relics and even daily necessities.

In addition to arms, drugs, and people, you can think of anything of value here.

I was also interested, and asked curiously while looking at the dazzling array of goods on the stall.

"Qianling, what the hell is this place?"

"This is the Jiuyan Bridge, speaking of this market, it can be traced back to the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, when the national fortunes declined, and many dignitaries and dignitaries fell into the middle of the road, so they stole the antiques at home and sold them." Yue Qianling said as she squatted in front of a stall. "After all, this is a very important thing, and you can only choose to trade with lanterns at three or four o'clock in the morning."

It dawned on me, and I nodded and laughed.

"Oh, so this is a ghost market."

Yue Qianling turned her head and said solemnly.

"Don't laugh, this place is not simple, I think back then, there were some unknown objects in the ghost market, because they all have unspeakable secrets, most of them can only be sold at a cheap price, so there is a rumor that "the ghost market produces good goods". ”

I rubbed my forehead helplessly and said with a wry smile.

"You dragged me here in the middle of the night, just to find good goods, everyone is stupid, as long as you are smart, good goods are waiting for you to pick."

"My dad said that you are quite proficient in antique appreciation, and even Uncle Huo is willing to bow down, so I brought you here today mainly to see how much knowledge you have." Yue Qianling pursed her lips and said proudly.

In addition to the dazzling array of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, there are people in the ghost market of Jiuyan Bridge.

After not walking a few steps, Yue Qianling suddenly stopped, smiled and pointed to an old man on the side of the road.

"Look, you're with you."

I looked in the direction of Yue Qianling's finger, an old man in his sixties, sitting cross-legged, cool air at more than four o'clock in the morning, the old man was wearing thin clothes, but he was full of energy, his gray beard fluttered slightly, quite a bit of a fairy wind bones.

There was a table on the stall, a paper fan in his hand, and a sign behind him with four words written on it.

The iron mouth is straight off.

Before I could react, Yue Qianling had already pushed me to the stool in front of the table and sat down.

"He's going to tell fortunes."

As soon as I wanted to get up, I found that Yue Qianling's hand was pressed on her shoulder.

"Give him a plan for the future." Yue Qianling said with a wicked smile.

"You don't believe this, why are you doing so many things?" I fidgeted.

Yue Qianling lowered her head and whispered with a smile in my ear.

"Now it's the old liar who meets the little liar, I just want to see how good your ability to swindle is."

"You! Where is there a joke about numerology days. ”

I was in a hurry and found that Yue Qianling's hand was harder.

The old man saw that there was business coming to the door, so he could let me go, closed the paper fan and pointed to the signboard behind him.

"Little brother, don't be afraid, these four words are not the gold that I Zhao put on my face, I have set up a fortune telling stall in the ghost market of Jiuyan Bridge for thirty years, and I am called half a fairy to save face, and I am not allowed to ask for money."

I didn't have anything to say, so I smiled dryly and nodded.

"Okay, you can count my future."

"Birthday?" Zhao Banxian's paper fan is full of shapes.

"This ...... I don't know my birthday. "I said with some embarrassment.

"You don't pretend, how can you not know when you were born." Yue Qianling pushed me, glared and said loudly.

In fact, I really don't know, Qin Yishou has never mentioned it to me, and I don't dare to ask, at least in the world, other babies have red eggs to eat on their birthdays every year, and I have never eaten them.

"It doesn't matter if you don't know, plum blossoms are easy to count, Qimen Dunjia, and divination lottery little brothers can choose any of them, I am proficient in everything."

I thought about it and decided to draw lots, which was simple and the most time-saving.

Zhao Banxian handed over the sticker, didn't hold it steadily, and slid out one, and was about to put it back again, I shook my hand.

"No, it's just this one."

"The red face is beautiful, Hugh is worried, the peach and plum are in the twilight, and the auspicious people are at ease." Zhao Banxian looked at the sign in his hand, glanced at Yue Qianling who was standing next to me, shook his head and said. "Little brother, your signing is not good or bad."

"What the hell does that mean?" Yue Qianling asked curiously.

Zhao Banxian shook his head and thought about it and said.

"Little brother, the so-called color word is a knife on the head, the ring is in the color, the peach and plum are in the twilight, it means that you don't want to go to the three and the twilight, pick the peach blossoms and worry about Li Xing, Ji Ren is at ease, is to treat the girl next to you, she is your nobleman, and she will be able to turn evil into good fortune in the future."

"Three days and four evenings...... The ring is in color. Yue Qianling leaned back and turned back after listening to the laughter. It's pretty accurate, I'll just say you're, no one believes me yet, hahaha, look, it's all worked out for you, and I'm still your nobleman, you have to be nice to me in the future, otherwise if you offend me, no one will help you turn evil into good fortune, hahaha. ”

I nodded calmly and said nothing.

"How much?"

"Hehe, everything depends on fate, if the little brother's life is good, he will give more, and if his life is bad, he will give less." Zhao Banxian shook the paper fan and said indifferently.

I took out the money from my bag, counted the thirteen dollars, and hurriedly looked for it in my bag.

Zhao Banshan looked at me very generously, and as soon as he made a move, he gave him all the money he usually made in a day, and he couldn't close his mouth with a smile.

"Little brother, enough, enough, just follow the fate, don't force it."

"It's not enough, it's five dollars short." I smiled meaningfully and pushed the five yuan I had asked for from Yue Qianling in front of him. "A total of eighteen yuan, you order it, and the signboard behind you is just under the eaves, the rain just fell last night, all of them are dripping on your signboard, you better move the table a little forward."

Zhao Banxian put away the money, looked back and saw that the signboard was really wet, and hurriedly pushed the table forward by half a meter.

When Zhao Banxian told me a fortune, many people were curious, and they all gathered around to watch, and when I left, I saw an old man in the crowd, his eyes were completely different from others, and he looked at me with a faint hint of surprise.

Yue Qianling and I hadn't gone far before we heard a commotion behind us, Yue Qianling walked back curiously, and there were more people around Zhao Banxian's stall.

"It's so dangerous, if I hadn't pushed the table forward just now, it would have hit me on the head." Zhao Banxian got up from the ground and said with palpitations.

A cat lay on the eaves and accidentally kicked down a sliding brick, which just landed behind Zhao Banxian, Zhao Banxian was startled, turned around and fell to the ground without sitting firmly, just breaking the vase of the stall next to him.

"Master Zhao, this is the goods I just recovered from the countryside, and the things are worthless, but you can't let me lose them."

"Don't shout, I broke the thing, I will pay for it, how much money."

"It's all neighbors who have been setting up stalls for decades, don't get you, according to the price I charged, eighteen yuan!"