After dinner, Tsubaki still didn't come back, Guan Qing left early because of something at home, think about it carefully, it seems that there has been no time in the store for a while, there is a thick pile of greeting cards on the table, and in a few hours there will be monsters of all sizes to take away these blessings, and there are traces of frequent use on the pen barrel in his hand, and I think this is the only thing my mother left me.

Originally, it was just treasured as a relic of my mother.,Since I came to Tianbei Grocery to work as a ghostwriter.,I suddenly discovered the secret of this pen.:All the words written by this pen.,In front of monsters and humans, they will automatically transform into what they can understand.,Or what they should see.,The world of humans and demons is originally different.,And this pen seems to build a bridge in the dark.。

From that moment on, I also suddenly realized that the fact that I could see youkai must have something to do with my mother, and this pen might lead me to the answer. But none of the youkai I've seen so far know this pen, and none of them can explain why I saw them.

By the way, there really is a youkai who may know the answer, Tsubaki. But why didn't she tell me? She dodged every time she talked about it, maybe the little guy just said it casually.

Before I knew it, I had sketched the shape of Tsubaki on the paper. Glancing at her watch, she had been gone for too long, but I didn't know where to look, and at this time, someone walked into the store.

"Hello, what do you need?" I habitually asked, the visitor was a man my age, but he was wearing a very formal three-piece suit, which was a time when few customers came to the grocery store, let alone a person dressed like that.

"Lightning. "Not a single word was superfluous, and when I went to help him get a lighter, I saw him looking up and down the furnishings in the store.

"This is the lighter you want, do you need anything else?"

"No, how much?"

"Three-dollar. ”

"Is it okay to have coins?" he didn't look at me as he spoke, as if he was looking for something in the store.

"Yes. ”

Everything seemed nothing special, but I felt a sense of unease for no apparent reason. There was something about this man that I knew but didn't quite like that, but I couldn't tell what it was.

"You live nearby?" I asked as I took the money, and the unique aura prompted me to want to know more about this person.

"Not far. ”

"Did you just move here recently?" seems to be asking too much.

"Yes. He finally turned his attention to me, "How do you know I've just moved in?" Even though he was the same age, and even smiling when he spoke, I still didn't feel good, threatening, to be precise.

"There are a lot of regular customers in this area, and I haven't seen you before, so I asked a few more questions. I took out a sticky note and wrote my phone number, "This is our contact information, if you need anything in the future, you can call this number, and we can deliver it to your home." ”

He accepted it without even looking at it, and kept looking at me with an unfriendly smile, "Stores that don't even support mobile payment support delivery?" His eyes told me he wasn't asking me, "Are you an employee of this store?"

I also smiled and nodded, of course, there is no delivery service for Tianbei groceries, except for the customers I want to know.

"It's better for you to close the shop early and go home every day, right? He put away his smile and turned to leave.

"Thank you for your concern, I stay here. ”

The strange guest stopped at the door and tilted his head slightly, "What's your name?"

"Yek. ”

He left without saying anything, except for a somewhat eerie smile before leaving.

An hour later, there was a sudden movement in the window, and I thought it was Tsubaki coming back, so I walked to the window and poked my head out, only to see a large snake coiled around its body, the golden snake was three meters long, and its black bean-like eyes were looking at me.

"You asked me to help you send flowers, right?" The big snake that has always been golden suddenly came to Tianbei groceries, and there was no hibernation on such a cold day, so it was definitely not an ordinary snake.

As soon as he finished speaking, the golden snake entered the store through the window, and when I looked back, the snake had turned into a child who looked like he was five or six years old.

"Sure enough, you're Lord Yek. He looked at me respectfully, like a pretty girl.

"As the legend goes, the snake spirit is indeed beautiful. With that in mind, I asked, "Are you a boy? or a girl?"

"We don't care much about gender, but by human standards, I'm supposed to be a man. "He also has a girl's voice.

"Oh... Just as I was looking for you, you showed up on your own. Where does the hostess you said live with kindness?" "Tsubaki hasn't been back for a long time, I have to go and see for myself."

"It's near Yuji, and there's a tall bauhinia tree in the courtyard at the door. ”

"Uoiso?" If I'm not mistaken, there should be parks around Uoiso, and there are no houses, "Are you sure it's Uoiso? ”

"Yes, it's just not easy to find. "The snake is determined.

"Okay, then I'll go and lay flowers for you tomorrow morning. "I wanted to ask him why he had to send flowers, but the idea of a yokai is usually strange, so I didn't ask more.

The snake left a few pieces of unprocessed turquoise as a reward, and I may one day become a supplier to the Guan Qing family's jewelry business.

Today's monsters are very punctual, and they took away all the greeting cards in less than one o'clock, because of the fatigue of the previous days, I fell asleep soon after lying down, but I didn't sleep well all night, and the courtyard planted with bauhinia appeared in my dream, and there was a familiar figure standing in it, but I couldn't see the face of the figure clearly. The next morning, Tsubaki still didn't come back, so I left a note for the old man, bought a bouquet of flowers, and decided to go to the courtyard to have a look.

Yuji is a gathering place for fishing enthusiasts in a city when the weather is relaxed, although it is not far, but there is no bus or subway to go directly, most of the people who go there to fish are self-driving, fortunately, the air is very good today, I simply walked over as a walk, but when I arrived at Yuji, I did not see the garden with bauhinia that the snake said.

"Ahhh

"What's the fuss, it's not every day in the summer when people come to catch fish. Another voice said.

I turned around and looked down for a long time, two little monsters that looked like mushrooms were whispering behind my back, and I crouched down to look at them.

"But it's winter!"

"Who knows what he's coming for, leave him alone, he won't see us anyway. ”

"But what if another sect comes again!"

"How is it possible, I haven't heard of other demon slayers in this piece. ”

Two little youkai walked in front of me side by side as they spoke, and one of them looked up at me, and we stared at each other for three seconds.

"Ahhhh

"Nonsense, he must have just been looking at bugs. The other replied calmly.

"Oh, that's it, it scared me. ”

The two yokai continued to walk forward side by side.

"The Zong family you two are talking about, is there a bauhinia tree at the door?" I tried to get as close to them as possible, otherwise it would be easy to lose sight of them.

The two monsters stood still in unison, turning their heads to look at me at the same time like robots, and after three seconds of staring at me, the two guys hugged each other and shouted, "Ahhh

I didn't expect them to have such a big reaction, and I hurriedly apologized, "Ah, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you... I just wanted to ask if there's a garden with bauhinia in the area?"

"You're not here to get us?" said the calmer little monster.

"It's not. ”

"Really, not?" said another youkai.

“... Not really. ”

"It didn't turn out that he came to arrest us, if you didn't say it earlier, it scared us to death. The two guys said in unison.

"I didn't say I was here to get you... Besides, why am I arresting you?" looks like I'm being taken for a demon hunter.

"Okay human, since you're not here to catch us, I'll tell you where the courtyard is, but why are you going to that dangerous place?" said the calm little monster.

"I'm going to find a friend, she's a cat, she should have been here yesterday. ”

"Cat, then I don't know, if you're sure you're going there, you'll see two leafless plane trees along the riverbed all the way north, and you'll see the clan courtyard through them. Another youkai said.

"Okay, thank you. I held out a finger to shake their hands, but they ran away screaming, leaving me with a black line. But I can't care about it so much, let's find the mysterious sect first. The serpent bowed, the demon family, Tsubaki's disappearance, the courtyard that couldn't be found, and the succession of things told me that it wouldn't end so easily, especially the demon killers, maybe they would know the reason why I saw the monster.

Following the path guided by the little monster, I saw the two plane trees, most of the trees in City A this season are only bare trunks, but these two trees are very luxuriant, I passed between the two trees, and I felt a warm breath in my face.

As if traveling to another season, the air is warm and humid, the courtyard in front of you is full of greenery, and the bauhinia at the door is blooming.

An old man opened the door and looked at me with some vigilance, and only let me in after I had explained my intentions, and led me into a spacious and bright room, which was decorated with antique furnishings, and it seemed that it was the master's reception room.

Footsteps and words came from outside the room, "Hello, I heard that you came here for your mother," the voice was as light as the footsteps, it seemed that it was the owner of the house, "I didn't go out to meet you, really..."

The moment I looked up, I was also stunned.

In the middle of the night, the owner of the footsteps opened his mouth first, and a threatening smile appeared on his face, and the lightness just now could no longer be heard in his voice, "Yesterday in Tianbei groceries, it was also me and you two who met, and today we met unexpectedly, and it was the same again." ”