My name is Ji Li, and I have been unlucky since I was a child.

My birth date was not good, and I was frail and sick when I was a child, and I was unlucky.

People go to school to pick up coins, and I go to school to step on them.

Half of the year is spent in the hospital.

When I graduated from elementary school, my mother took me over the mountains and found a reclusive Taoist priest.

He gave me a drink of talisman water, and after that the inexplicable bad luck was gone. Although he was still unlucky, he finally never encountered the bloodlight disaster again.

But when I took the high school entrance examination, I was only admitted to a secondary school to study auto repair.

When I arrived at the school, I found this professional pit, and I heard the senior say that now the workers have experience in auto repair and hairdressing.

The school is even more excessive, and the teachers are all nearby car repairers.

For two whole years, only dismantling was taught, not repaired.

After graduation, I went out to work, and when I went to the auto repair shop, I could only do the work of unloading tires.

After two months of work, I was overwhelmed, so I just went home and played games.

Later, my dad couldn't stand it anymore and sent me to a relative's toy store.

said that the other party wanted to hire an artist. I've been art since I was a kid, so I was told to give it a try.

The store is on the newly opened pedestrian street in the county, and I thought it was a place to sell toys, and it took half an hour to get to the pedestrian street by electric car from home.

The shop was on the second floor, and I walked up the stairs next to the noodle shop.

There are no windows in the corridor, and only two people can pass through the narrow hallway.

On the wall is written "Red Doll Shop".

Upstairs, only one door was open to the left and right.

It was pitch black inside, and there was a man sitting on the innermost workbench.

I knocked on the door and said I was here for work.

"Ji Li, right?"

The man looked up and turned on the light.

The light bulb is not lit, and the surroundings are hazy.

The cabinet on the left is full of models of heads, and on the right there are various wigs.

All kinds of projections make my heart beat faster.

The owner is in his forties and has a strong look.

He spoke very kindly.

"Just call me Lao Du, can I go to the night shift? The job is simple, keep a vigil and entertain if there are guests. Sometimes I can't get busy, help me out. Eight p.m. to eight a.m., eight thousand in January. ”

To be honest I don't want to work here, but he gives too much.

I will give 8,000 for a casual vigil, which is higher than the salary of the master I was with before.

It turns out that pie never falls from the sky.

Especially someone as hapless as me.

But I was too young to say yes without even thinking about it.

He showed me the environment of the doll shop, most of which were parts.

Only the last locked storeroom, where the complete doll is placed.

"Don't usually come in here, especially if you hear something." Lao Du said casually.

My hairs stood on end.

He laughed, "Lie to you, it's really some cowardice that I locked the room." My dolls are very realistic. ”

I can't see it from the outside, but I didn't expect this doll shop to wrap up the entire second floor.

I didn't even know it was so profitable to sell dolls.

The room opposite the stairs was my duty room.

The duty room is quite normal, with a folding bed and a pair of tables and chairs. The only strange thing is that there are no lights.

It looks black.

I came in the morning, so it didn't take long to introduce the store.

The boss told me to go home first and come back after dinner in the evening.

I'll go back first.

The little niece of the family is playing with a doll.

I don't think anything is wrong when I look at it, but there is always a feeling that something is wrong in the doll shop.

It could be that the light is too dark.

Anyway, I'm usually in the duty room.

I came over with my laptop in the evening, and the boss said that I was casual at night, so I thought about playing games to pass the time.

When I arrived at the store, the boss worked with me.

If there are customers, just make a note of their needs, and the price list is all on the counter.

The pedestrian street in the county town is not so prosperous, and more than eight o'clock people will disperse, and it is estimated that there will be no guests.

After Lao Du left, I went back to my room and tried to open the window, but I found that the window was sealed with a tight layer of barbed wire, wrapped tightly.

Not a little bit of light can get through.

I felt very strange in my heart, and hurriedly closed the curtains, out of sight.

Turn on the computer and play the game, and feel a little better.

By twelve o'clock, I was wrapped in a quilt and fell asleep, but it was nothing.

After waiting for a month, Lao Du didn't press his salary, and ordered 8,000 to me, my heart was so beautiful that I was bubbling, and I was used to this kind of life.

After a few more days, I finally welcomed my first guest of the night.

At around nine o'clock in the evening, I was playing a game and had a good time, when there was a knock on the door.

I walked over and opened the iron gate of the corridor, and saw a middle-aged woman with a dim bulb on my headlamp.

"This is a red-clothed doll shop, right? I'm looking for Lao Du. ”

"The boss is off work, do you want to order something or pick up the order?" It's the first time I've met a customer in the store.

Invite people into the store.

Speaking of which, this store doesn't even have a place to receive customers.

But I watched the boss's work never stop every day, and I didn't know where the customers came from.

The woman entered the store and looked around with a frown.

"What do you need?"

I asked again.

"I'm going to make a doll."

Of course, you can't do anything else when you come into our store.

I took out the notebook, "Do you want to make it special or general?" ”

The woman seemed to know very well, "I'm going to make it, that's all the information." How long does it take to get it done? ”

She took out a photo from her bag and gave it to me, a picture of a doll.

"That's what I did."

She said.

There is a string of numbers on the back of the photo.

I put the photos away, took out the old brochures, and asked the woman to choose the material. The price of each item is different, and the time is different.

The woman just flipped it hastily, "Just ask for the most expensive one." ”

I told her it would take two weeks to pick up the order, and she nodded absentmindedly.

Then I paid a deposit of 5,000 yuan.

I don't know why, Lao Du's request is to only accept cash.

The woman seemed to know the rules, and took out a wad of bills from her bag.

Leave the phone before leaving.

I put my things away and went back to playing.

The next day, Lao Du came over, and I handed Lao Du the money and photos I received yesterday.

Lao Du accepted the things, didn't say anything, and took out two of the banknotes and told me that they were commissions.

I happily took the money.

His eyes swept to the photo, but he saw yesterday's doll in a trance, as if it was a real person.

When I looked closely, the photo had already been put away by Lao Du.

I think I must have been dazzled, collected the money and left.

Two weeks later, in the evening, Lao Du took out a large cardboard box and said that it was the specific one that the woman wanted.

"Don't open it, just give it to the customer." Lao Du said casually.

I nodded and left the carton at the door.

This thing is quite heavy, to say the least, it weighs one or twenty pounds.

Are dolls so heavy?

When Lao Du was leaving, he told me again, "Don't open it." ”

I blinked, but I was a little curious.