Chapter 007: Shroud Shop
I was stunned, at that time, the housing prices in our county were less than 2,000, and it was impossible to say whether the annual income of all the people in the village added up to 1 million, 2 million, which was a very stupid price.
Old man Ge just smiled when he saw my reaction, and then told me that he could show me a way to make money, as long as I was willing to do it, it would be absolutely no problem to earn two million in ten years.
I won't believe a word of his words, a small child, earn two million in ten years? If money was so easy to earn, China would have realized a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way long ago.
But Old Man Ge continued, I don't have a choice, not to mention that Xiong Sanming's family and Boss Wang will never let me go, there is still a hidden force in the village that wants to put me to death, the corpses of those children last night were artificially made, and I have only one way to die if I stay in Shuanglong Village.
And if I want to save Bai Ling, I can only choose to believe him.
After listening to Old Man Ge's words, I was silent, thinking back to the events of that day, it was indeed someone who lured me into the locust forest, and these people can even create "zombies", and it is not easy to kill me.
After Old Man Ge said this, he didn't say anything more, and walked out of the house by himself, and went to explain something to his grandparents.
After the police stabilized the mood of the villagers, they took me to the police station in the town to understand the situation, and my grandparents and old man Ge accompanied me, and I didn't know what old man Ge and grandparents said, on the way they persuaded me to leave Shuanglong Village.
In the end, I had to grit my teeth and agree, staying in the village is a dead end, so it is better to gamble, if what Old Man Ge said is true, then there is a glimmer of hope for the resurrection of Bai Ling.
When I arrived at the police station, the police asked about the situation that day, and I still used the same rhetoric as I did with Old Man Ge, because I was only twelve years old, and the events of that night were indeed very evil, and the police had no clues, so I left the interrogation room after a while.
After coming out, grandma sat on the chair and wiped her tears, and grandpa sat and smoked without saying a word.
Next to my grandparents, there was a man in his fifties, dressed in a white-washed sky-blue linen dress, with a weather-beaten face, vicissitudes of life but resolute, two deep-set eyes, deep and bright, looking very divine, staring at me intently at the moment.
I was so frightened by him that I trotted behind my grandfather.
"Yangwa, come here!" Grandpa pulled me in front of the man with a serious face.
"Get on your knees!" Grandpa's stern voice made me irresistible, and although I had doubts in my heart, I still knelt down without hesitation.
"This is your Genbo, you will go to the provincial capital with him in a while, and you will listen to Genbo's teachings in the future, and don't take the wrong path." After hearing this, I finally understood what was going on, and I cried out loud.
The man, known as Genber, still stood there with a blank face, staring straight at me.
Seeing this, my grandfather got up and came to my side, and knelt down with a "poof".
"Brother Li, our Yangwa will trouble you in the future......"
Grandpa, who has been hard all his life, knelt down for others for me, at that moment, I suddenly felt that my grandfather had a somewhat rickety body, he was so tall, and he was born in my world to hold up a piece of the sky with this rickety body.
The man who had been expressionless all the time finally reacted, stepped forward and helped his grandfather who was kneeling on the ground, saying things like reassuring grandpa.
I knelt on the ground, unable to stop crying, turned around and kowtowed three times to my grandparents.
"Yangwa, remember, you are the seed of our old Chen family, and you can't cry like a girl at any time!" When my grandfather said this, I could clearly see tears slowly sliding through the corners of his eyes......
After that, they sent me and Genber to the station, and my grandmother told me all the way about paying attention to my body and studying well.
When I boarded the bus to the county seat, Old Man Ge whispered to me, "Before you fully understand that passage, remember not to go back to Shuanglong Village, otherwise not only will your life be lost, but your grandparents will also be harmed." ”
Finally, the car drove away from the land where I had lived for 12 years, and at the back of the car, the figures of my grandparents gradually blurred, and a new world gradually appeared in front of my eyes......
After more than ten hours of driving, we finally arrived in the provincial capital, which was the first time I had sat in the car for so long, and I even vomited bile along the way.
As soon as I got out of the station, I fell asleep in the taxi and didn't know where I went, until in the evening, when Genber woke me up.
As soon as I woke up, I was immediately startled, the place where I was was full of funeral supplies such as shrouds and paper figurines, and there was a large wooden shelf and a glass container outside the room, in which some daily necessities were placed.
The dim light shone on these dead objects, revealing an eerie aura, and a suffocating sense of oppression took me breathless.
Genber first patted me on the shoulder, told me not to be afraid, and then told me that my future job was to run the shop, and made some strange requests.
For example: I rest during the day and go to work at night; When working at night, you can only light candles, not turn on the lights; When a guest comes, you can only do business if the candle is lit three times, otherwise you have to send the guest away.
After saying that, Genber also brought me a quotation that was more than ten times higher than the market price, and asked me to sell the things in the store at the above price, and all the money sold every night must be locked in a small drawer in front of the container, and I was not allowed to hide it privately.
He also said that if I agree, then I will start working tonight.
In the face of all this abnormality, I had a premonition, I was scared, and I wanted to shirk it several times, but when I thought that this was my only hope for resurrecting Bai Ling, I still gritted my teeth and agreed.
Genber gave some more trivial matters, and went upstairs.
I was the only one left in the shop, and I trembled with the fear of the end, and by the dim light I came to the door of the shop and looked out.
I found that there was an old street outside, and there were two-story old-fashioned buildings on both sides of this street, probably because the flow of people was too small, most of the shops had been closed, and the street lights were in disrepair, and the whole street was black and hollow, giving people an eerie feeling.
Frightened, I retreated to the store, found a candle in the container, lit it, and turned off the light.
The faint light of the candle flame was not enough to dispel the darkness of the entire old street, but it was like a firefly, giving a touch of light to the dark night.
I don't know if it's a psychological effect or what, the moment I turned off the lights, I felt a cold and strange aura coming from all directions, pouring into the shroud shop, and the temperature here seemed to drop several degrees in an instant.
At that moment, I was about to cry in fright, and I curled up on the chair in front of the shelf.
After waiting for about half an hour, a middle-aged man came in, I saw that the candle flame did not respond, and I was just about to send him away, but before I could speak, the man hurried away, and he was scolding and saying something like bad luck.
After that, three or four people came in succession, and they all reacted in the same way as the middle-aged man, which made me even more scared.
It wasn't until two o'clock that an expressionless old man came in, and the old man had just stepped into the store, and the candle flame shook strangely three times, which meant that he could do business.
I was afraid to ask him what he needed, but the old man didn't speak, and pointed to a paper man in the shop.
I hurriedly looked at the price list and was a little embarrassed to say that it was four hundred yuan.
The old man was still expressionless after hearing the price, but he really took out four sheets of Grandpa Mao from his pocket and put them on the counter.
I took the money a little excitedly, and it didn't look like a fake, so I handed him the paper man, and the old man took the paper and turned around and walked out of the store.
For a long time, I still couldn't believe that someone really paid 400 yuan to buy a paper man.
After that, another business was made, and nearly 600 yuan was recorded in one night, and it was not until after four o'clock that I closed the door of the store and prepared to go upstairs to rest.
The fear in my heart has been replaced by joy, I can't imagine that Old Man Ge and Genber really didn't lie to me, at this rate of making money, I really have the possibility of making two million in ten years.
This also means that there is a glimmer of hope for the resurrection of Bai Ling.
I slept until about 12 o'clock in the afternoon, and Genber had already bought a boxed lunch waiting for me, and I ate together.
When I asked Genber why there were so many strange requests, Genber just said that the store was selling things to people in the "industry".
I asked again if the money I received yesterday was real, and he said yes.
Hearing this, I don't want to think about it anymore, some groups do set some strange rules, and if you are not in the circle, you can't understand it at all.
Anyway, as long as I can make two million safely, I don't bother to pay attention to the rest.
After eating, I thought I could go out for a walk, but who knew that Gumber pulled me to teach me to read and write, and in the evening he took me to learn a set of boxing at the door of the store, not to mention how embarrassing......
This kind of day has lasted for more than seven years, and because nothing has happened, I also feel that the weirdness of the shroud shop is commonplace.
And according to the records in the ledger, I almost made more than 1.5 million, which is only one step away from the goal of 2 million.
In addition, Genber has taught me a lot of things in the past seven years, but most of them are gods and ghosts and other things, and I only learn them as a task, and I don't think it's of any use.
On the contrary, I began to feel a little ashamed of my boxing skills, but after seven years of polishing, I have created a strong physique, and I gradually like to practice boxing.
By the time I was twenty years old, Genber was away from home to deal with some things.
He left in a hurry, only saying that someone would deliver me on time, and then telling me to follow the rules of the store and disappearing, and I couldn't even get through on the phone.
On the first night of Genber's departure, I lit candles as usual, and I don't know what went wrong, and today's customers seemed to be a little different.
First, a man in his thirties came and bought a small notebook, and then leaned against the glass case and talked to me about football.
He said that he had watched the ball for more than ten years, and the national football team finally entered the World Cup, and told me that he was a die-hard fan of the national football team, and this time he spent a lot of money betting on the national football team to win, and then analyzed and demonstrated his guess from various professional angles.
I have basically never watched football, but the "good name" of the national football team has still heard of it, and the news of the Russian World Cup has been broadcast on TV in the past few days, and I have heard it, but I didn't expect the national football team to enter the World Cup, which still makes me a little curious, so I chatted with him without a match.
Before leaving, the man handed me a cigarette and told me that I must buy the Chinese team to win, and he guaranteed me a lot of money, I smiled and didn't speak, but I took the cigarette he handed me and put it on my ear.
Then a few more guests came, all of them uncharacteristically and very talkative, and one of the young and beautiful women even invited me to go out for a drink with her, although I decisively refused, but it was still a little fluttery.
At four o'clock, I went upstairs, and when I was playing with my mobile phone by the bedside, I remembered the cigarette that was caught in my ear, took it off and lit it, and just took a puff and was choked and coughed.
What kind of smoke is this? Why is it so strong?
I subconsciously glanced at it, and just this glance, I was so frightened that I almost threw the cigarette in my hand on the bed......