December 7, 9 p.m.

Tianyi glanced at the clock on the wall, then closed the book he was reading, got up and stretched.

He walked to the bookshelf in the back row, ran his fingers over the labels of the books in the middle row, and said the words: "2010, 2000, 1990...... Chemicals, hygiene products, wilderness survival...... Well...... There is...... Household appliances. ”

A few minutes later, he walked out of the store with a VCR in his arms.

Outside, under the window of the bookstore, an alcoholic sat drunk, humming and chirping.

Although looking out from the house, this is a blind spot that cannot be seen, Tianyi seems to have known that there is a person sitting here.

"Mr. Ikeda, are you so drunk that you forgot the direction you want to go home?" said Tenichi with a smile.

Ikeda waved the bottomed wine bottle in his hand indiscriminately: "Don't be verbose! Lao Tzu is very sober! Wine! Hurry up and get it!"

Tianyi squatted down: "Mr. Ikeda, I want to trouble you to do something." He put the video recorder next to Takeshi Ikeda: "Help me sell this." ”

"Bastard!" Ikeda suddenly shouted, then paused, and hiccuped: "Are you a rag when you are a Lao Tzu?

Tianyi ignored him, stood up by himself, and walked towards the bookstore: "It is recommended that you take it to the shopping street in the south of the city to sell it, find a few more video stores, someone should collect it, and the price will definitely be higher than selling scrap iron." ”

Ikeda still shouted in a daze, "Hey, bastard, can't you hear me?"

Tianyi had already entered the house with one foot at this time, he leaned out of the door, turned his head and said, "Oh, by the way, please do this by tomorrow afternoon, the money after the sale will be all yours, and you can come to my store to get another reward." ”

Before he could finish speaking, the door of the bookstore was closed.

And the drunk man outside the door, after sobering up a little, picked up the video recorder on the ground and accepted the deal.

............

On December 8, Matsuo came to the bookstore half an hour ago.

"Hey, boy, the rag you threw at me yesterday has been sold, did you say you would be paid?" Ikeda went straight to the point as soon as he entered the room.

Tianyi smiled and said, "Hehe...... I really appreciate people who get straight to the point. He threw the book he was reading on the table: "Unfortunately, I can't give you some more money for drinks as you think." He stretched out his hand and made a "please" gesture: "This is the extra reward, you can take it." ”

Ikeda didn't even intend to touch the book: "What, bastard, are you fooling me?!What is the use of books!" He turned around and wanted to leave, swearing in his mouth: "Damn, hurt Lao Tzu for nothing." ”

Tianyi put his hands on his head, "Are you sure you want to give up the reward for this transaction?" Mr. Ikeda. ”

Ikeda didn't look back and walked out: "That's right, bastard boy, you can keep your nose and wipe your nose." ”

In the next second, Tianyi burst out laughing like crazy.

Ikeda paused: "Are you sick? ”

Tianyi shook his head, gradually stopped laughing, and took a sip of coffee, "Hey...... If you want to be an idiot, there is indeed one in this house......" He raised his eyes and looked at the ceiling: "I accepted a blank check from someone else to fight a boxing match, and after being found out, the other party was completely fine because of his deep background, and his career was completely ruined, and then he drank and gambled, and was in debt, and finally his wife committed suicide, and he left Tokyo with his young son to live a happy life with four walls." His gaze shifted down again, just in time to meet the angry Ikeda Takeshi: "You say, is such a person an idiot?"

Ikeda suddenly burst out, flipped over the table, grabbed Tianyi's collar with both hands and lifted him up, "Who are you?! Who told you this!"

Tianyi tilted his head and continued to laugh, indifferent to the other party's behavior: "Hehe...... It's all written in that book. ”

Ikeda let go of Tenichi and turned to take the book of the heart on the table, but a force from nowhere lifted him up from behind him and threw it three meters away. He landed on the boxed tables in the center of the room, where the mountains of books were scattered about, but they weren't crushed.

Strangely, Ikeda didn't feel the pain, and he was like an object that was picked up and put down again, instead of falling to the ground.

Tianyi lay back on his couch again, his feet on the desk in front of him, his heels just pressing down on the black book on the table.

"There are two things I need to warn you, Mr. Ikeda, the first is that even if you are an idiot, your memory is not bad enough to forget what just happened, so you should remember that you have given up my pay. Since you have chosen to give up something, you have to pay some price to regain it, otherwise, even if I do use it to wipe my nose, it has nothing to do with you.

The second thing, please don't flip over my desk, this desk is like a boundary, and in recent years, all those who have chosen to flip over it have been chopped up and fed to pigs. ”

Ikeda stood down from the table and asked alarmedly, "What the hell did you just do?"

Tianyi: "That's not important, the important thing is that I let you understand that violence is with me, and it can't solve the problem." So, let's talk about the deal, you just need to complete one little thing I told you to take the book. As he spoke, he retracted his feet under the table, picked up the book, opened it casually, and placed one of the pages in front of Takeshi Ikeda.

"Let me check it a priori, so that you can believe that the content and authenticity of this book are not made up by me. ”

Ikeda saw that his thoughts were written in black and white, and the grotesque and absurd reality made him break out in a cold sweat: "Why did you do this?"

Tianyi replied: "The reason for my actions, you won't understand it." All you need to know is that my bookstore has a lot of people's secrets, and you can come to me to trade and see other people's books after you get your books back. Even if you're stupid, you should understand how much you can gain when you have a past or a plan for the future that someone else doesn't want to reveal.

Those who are high-ranking and powerful, who control the economy or the military, you should know how valuable their thoughts are. Oh, of course, I also have a book by an alcoholic like you, and even if it is of little value, I can't rule out that some people will read it and use it as an after-dinner joke or something. ”

"Okay, I see, what do you want me to do?!" Ikeda asked eagerly.

Tianyi scratched his head: "It's just a very simple thing, the afternoon after tomorrow, you go to the izakaya as usual, and then go home at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and then don't say a word to your son until dawn." ”

Ikeda hesitated for a moment, then replied, "What does this have to do with my son?!" I warn you, don't get him involved. ”

"I'm just keeping you silent. Tianyi: "Of course, writing on paper, or gesturing or something, you don't even think about it." ”

"I think you'll know about it, right?"

Tianyi sneered, he put away Ikeda's book, took out another book and flipped through it: "You can go, don't affect my business." ”