Chapter 1: The Conspiracy of the Mirror 1
My name is Tian Xin, a native of the north, and I am the small owner of a watch shop. The watches sold in my store are all high-quality imitation watches, with complete brands, low prices, and good quality.
It stands to reason that it should sell well, but I am not good at management, since the opening of this store, the scholarship I earned by studying hard when I was in school has been almost lost, and the balance on my bank account has been in single digits.
At the end of this month, if a pie doesn't fall from the sky and hit me on the head, I guess my career as a boss after graduating from college will be over.
I majored in psychology in college, because of my excellent grades, I won awards during school, and I originally hoped to stay in school after graduation, first become a psychology teacher, and then slowly become a professor, and then I can make a fortune by writing academic papers.
But because he was young and ignorant, he offended the head of our department, not only broke his dream of staying in school, but also missed several psychological research institutes, and finally became the owner of a high-imitation watch shop with the help of his aunt.
At around 8 p.m. that night, my watch shop was as deserted as usual, and I played with my phone for a while, but I was really bored, so I decided to close the shop and go home to sleep. I had just started to clean up the store, when a mother and daughter came in from outside the store, the mother was about 40 years old, dressed very fashionably, middle-aged, but the charm was still there, and the girl looked like a high school student.
I have a lot of fashionable watches in my watch shop, so most people come here to see the novelty, so I didn't rush to greet them, I glanced at them quickly, and continued to wave the mop in my hand.
As I approached the girl, I inadvertently glanced up at her, and saw that the girl's eyes were full of horror, and her brain was fluttering in a small amplitude, and I saw her reaction as if I were not a watch shop, but a haunted house.
The major I studied made me see at a glance that this girl had a more serious underlying mental problem, and my heart began to be unsettled, and I continued to observe the girl in front of me, and found that her eyes were constantly moving rapidly, as if she was hiding from someone.
The mother and daughter quickly finished shopping in my small shop and were about to leave, I hurriedly stepped forward to grab the girl's mother, and the child's mother glanced at me and teased: "Guy, why don't you buy a watch and let me go?" ”
I smiled and said, "Sister, you misunderstood, I actually have something else to tell you." ”
She gave me a quick look, then said, "You say, I'll listen." ”
I then made a look, meaning to let the girl avoid it, and she reluctantly pulled the girl aside, and then went back to the store with me, and said with some displeasure: "Say it quickly, what's the matter?" ”
I said faintly: "Your child seems to have a little mental problem, but it is not serious, but it needs to be treated, and it will be fearful if it is not cured, but you can rest assured, I studied psychology in college, and I am sure that I can be optimistic, you believe me right." ”
The woman was very emotional after hearing this, and the old man with a pulled face said angrily: "I think you are a little mentally unwell, okay, I don't have time to talk to you, the child has to go back to homework quickly." ”
After she finished speaking, she turned her head and left, and her overreaction emotion confirmed my opinion even more, she must have known that her daughter had a certain problem, but she didn't want to admit it.
After the woman was gone, I continued to tidy up the house, and soon forgot about it.
In a blink of an eye, half a month passed, and there were still a few days left before the end of the month, so I began to sit on the chair in the store early in the morning and think about what to do after the watch store closed, when a panicked woman suddenly came in outside the store, and I looked up and saw that it was the middle-aged woman who had come to my store before.
The middle-aged woman was unexpectedly polite when she visited this time, and first asked me my name and what to call me, so I introduced: "My name is Tian Xin, you can call me Xiao Tian." ”
She said with a smile on her face: "My name is Zhang Fang, you can call me Sister Zhang." ”
I greeted politely: "Sister Zhang, what's the matter?" Look at which watch in the store, my brother gives you a discount, and you can be regarded as a repeat customer. ”
Zhang Fang smiled awkwardly and said, "What kind of watch to buy, it's my daughter, she has an accident." ”
I was stunned and hurriedly asked, "What's the situation?" ”
Zhang Fang sighed and said: "This kid has become more and more serious in recent days, he yelled when he saw the mirror, and smashed almost everything in my house that could reflect light, and he locked himself in the house since yesterday, and no one could call out, that, Xiao Tian, didn't you say that you studied psychology, why don't you help us take a look?" ”
I thought to myself that there was nothing wrong anyway, so it was better to accompany her to have a look, and I immediately agreed.
Zhang Fang's house is not far from my store, I sat in her car, and soon came to her home, I wasted a lot of twists and turns, before I went into the bedroom, Zhang Fang also had to follow up, I refused, I said if you are really not at ease, just send a voice recorder in, but when I communicate with her alone, I don't want to be disturbed by other factors.
Zhang Fang stayed outside, and her daughter Zhou Li was sitting on the bed at this time, in a very terrible state, she looked at me vigilantly for a long time, and her eyes always stayed on my wrist.
I glanced at the watch on my wrist, and suddenly thought of what Zhang Fang said, her daughter smashed all the reflective things, it seems that she should be afraid of reflective things in her heart, so I took off the watch, threw it into a pen holder on her bedroom desk, and deliberately found a piece of paper to cover it.
I took two steps closer to her, and she curled back on the bed with her knees folded.
I said very gently: "Don't be afraid of me, I am an unarmed weak scholar, and I can't even pinch an ant to death if I have little strength." ”
Zhou Li shook her head nervously, glanced at me quickly, and didn't say anything, but she didn't go crazy, which is easier to do, saving me from using drugs, which would be more troublesome.
I continued to move a few steps closer to her, all the while I was doing all sorts of strange movements to distract her, and as I went, I stumbled upon a glimpse of the bedroom window, which had been smashed, but it was summer, and if it was winter, it would be enough for the family.
Although Zhou Li leaned on the back of the bed, she was not still for a minute, always shrinking a certain part of her body, or nervous as if she stretched her neck forward violently, her eyes were full of alertness and uneasiness.
I was getting closer and closer to her, and when we reached a relatively close distance, I stopped, stopped walking, and sat down slowly on the bed, when I noticed several CDs of Mozart on the desk opposite, and I had an idea, and said softly, "You like classical music?" ”
When I asked this, I noticed a glimmer of light in Zhou Li's eyes, and secretly rejoiced, and then said: "You are more special, many students like to listen to pop songs, and it is rare for anyone to listen to classical music at such a young age, it seems that you have a high taste." ”
Zhou Li finally spoke: "I like to listen to practice problems when I do them, which will speed up my speed of doing them." ”
I immediately clapped my hands and said, "This is a very commendable move, a good concert makes our brains relax quickly, as soon as the brain relaxes, inspiration comes, I think we might as well listen to a few tunes now." ”
Zhou Li said: "Those are all CDs from before, but now they are no longer used, and I now listen to them on my mobile phone." ”
I followed her and said, "Then you can play me another song on your phone." ”
I noticed her body tremble violently, and then I heard her say, "I've broken the phone." ”
I knowingly asked, "Why did you break your phone?" ”
Zhou Li suddenly shouted: "Because the mobile phone can reflect light, I can see it through the mobile phone, it's too scary, it's too scary." ”
Zhou Li cried after speaking, the crying was still very loud, and soon I heard a knock on the door, I shook my head helplessly, walked over and opened the door, Zhang Fang probed in and asked, "Xiao Tian, how is it?" Can you handle it? ”
I knew the subtext in her heart was that if you can't do it, I'm going to change people, but then I have to be a little bit of a bag, so I stubbornly said, "No problem, don't worry." ”
Zhang Fang nodded thoughtfully, and was about to close the door, when I continued: "Sister Zhang, for better results, you'd better cooperate with my work, unless I call you for a while, or you won't come in for the time being." ”
Before she could reply, I gently closed the door, and then returned to Zhou Li, I just left, she didn't cry, this will I sit down again, she is like the beginning, curled up on the back of the bed, her eyes are full of alertness and unease, I saw that I had just lost all my efforts, and began to think of a new way, I glanced at the pen holder on the desk again, and then walked over and took out a pencil, and found a piece of paper, and drew a broken mirror on it.
After the painting was finished, I presented it to Zhou Li and patiently explained: "You see, the mirrors in my paintings are like the windows in your bedroom, if you hate them, you can easily scrap them, and they are impossible to fight back, so you don't need to be afraid of them." ”
Zhou Li suddenly lowered her voice and said to me: "You are wrong, I'm not afraid of the mirror, I'm just afraid of her in the mirror!" ”