The looming hope is like a shackle coated with honey. In the absence of any clues, Jingyang was able to train normally at least every day, occasionally taking a few minutes out to pray for Fata's health. But now that he has got the box, he is like a moral ruler on his back, and he doesn't think about tea and dinner every day, and he always feels that he is not as good as a beast if he does nothing.

It was an alarm clock with the switch off, always tinkling in his heart. finally survived until the weekend, and he dragged the dazed Gu Ding into the car early in the morning.

"I didn't sleep until five o'clock......" Gu Ding complained all the way, putting his head on the car window and yawning long.

"You think I slept well? Hear you shouting all night long, 'Win and rest!'" ’”

Although it is not the first time to come, Jingyang still has difficulty adapting to the environment of Sanmen Trail. A row of old motorcycles full of potholes blocked the already loose streets into driving test sites; The two on-the-go drivers refused to give in to each other, relying on scolding and decibel to decide who would exit the battlefield first; The little ones were running around on the road in their adult boots, braking the oncoming cars to a sudden stop, and kicking them back and forth unreasonably.

"Do you have gossip, how much can you reward for catching the source of the fake?" Gu Ding struggled to sit up, his eyes narrowed as if they had been glued.

"I haven't heard of it."

"So you're working so hard?"

"I didn't think about it, I just thought that if I found it, Fatah would have a big reparation."

"You are just self-inflicted," Gu Ding took out a tone of educating children, but couldn't help yawning again, "It's all said, it's not all your responsibility to miss the test......

"Get out of the car!"

The car had just entered the first corner, and it was difficult to move any further. In the middle of the road stood a group of bear children, they were picking up dirty stones to practice throwing from the window on the third floor, although Jingyang launched a horn offensive but with little effect, this group of troublemakers first overturned the mailbox and spat on the front cover of the car, until they saw the driver angrily get out of the car, only to scatter and flee in a bandit-like laughter.

Today's streets are sparsely populated, and the sun seems to have been adjusted, and the seemingly warm golden light is like a street lamp, full of brightness but very hot.

"Wait two more weeks for a big wave of warmth," Gu Ding shrunk his neck to the point where it was imperceptible to the naked eye, "We should come back then." ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Jingyang pushed the reluctant body, "You go over there, don't let go of the toys, gift shops, especially near the school." ”

Gu Ding reluctantly agreed in an almost inaudible voice, and left with uneasy steps. Jingyang didn't waste any time, turned around and started the investigation from the other direction.

If grocery stores have a ceiling, this one is the case, with towering shelves that are irregular, from celery to clogs to diapers and raincoats.

And the bored proprietress was playing cards with herself, playing a pair of sixes with her left hand and two eights with her right hand, and when she saw someone walking in, she just glanced at it with a very distracted squint.

"Excuse me, do you have such a box here?" Jingyang took out his treasure from his pocket.

"Don't buy anything, do you want air?" The proprietress was yin and yang, and took out four twos in her left hand to continue to fight with herself.

In order not to startle the snake, Jingyang didn't wear a uniform today, so he had to take a bag of cumin-flavored pots so that the inquiry could continue.

"Six dollars."

"Can you wrap it up now?" He settled the bill quickly.

"I didn't say I had this box," the proprietress played with words, pulling out a small plastic bag from under the counter, "Here, that's all." ”

But after all, the money has already been paid, and now I have to swallow my anger and continue to ask as planned.

"Are there any unburned fireworks?"

"No, the black carpet outside, you can try your luck." The proprietress shook her head to the left.

Jingyang followed the instructions to look for it, but what he didn't expect was that compared to his will, his stomach and pockets couldn't hold it in advance.

When he came out of the eighth store, he had eaten a piece of meat floss bread and a bag of crab sticks, and he still had a clockwork toad, a wood-plastic keychain and a twin spinning top in his pocket, but the inferior toys were still missing.

There was no progress this morning, and Jingyang shrunk his neck. Before, he could rely on hope to resist the cold snap, but now he only felt the cold wind rush into his chest.

Back to the car, Gu Ding didn't sneak back in advance, this kind of dedication, but saw a lazy figure in the window of the breakfast shop.

Gu Ding was sleeping soundly on the back of his chair, and the small half of the sandwich had already soaked into soft mud in the milk.

Jingyang walked into the store, and the steam mixed with five or six kinds of steamed bun flavors arched up enthusiastically, and he shivered with happiness.

"Hey, wake up!" He walked over to the table and patted the fleshy face.

"Uh...... Hey? Oh...... "Returning to the cage is not a cure-all, and Gu Ding, who woke up, was still a little confused.

"Did you get a clue?"

"When I asked about a hammer, none of the stores had this box."

Jingyang also lost motivation in his heart, after all, the news given by Ye Geng was originally with a speculative tone, but it was still early at this time, and he was unwilling to leave.

"Since we're here, let's find 12 o'clock, and then let's go eat lottery hot pot."

Relying on the temptation of delicious food, Gu Ding finally pulled the door, and the two rubbed their hands and scanned the street in front of them. The shops here don't talk about layout, and it's hard to tell what kind of business the boss is doing from the tattered signs.

"It looks like a magic shop, go check it out!" Gu Ding simply didn't want to freeze, so he stretched out his hand and pointed to the nearest small store with a yellow plaque.

The words "Dirty Spell Magic Box" on the plaque are only half left, and they are still dangling like this, and I don't know if it is an artistic effect or a screw falling off, anyway, when they walked in, the two people subconsciously protected their heads.

The boss is a middle-aged man in his fifties, as soon as he saw someone walking in, he immediately changed his lazy state, straightened his chest and said loudly, and even the black and white curls looked more energetic than just now.

"Are you two beginners or masters? Do you need to recommend it to you? ”

Jingyang and Gu Ding were looking for unburned fireworks on the shelves, but all they saw were strange props. A pair of white gloves that are roasting back and forth on the fire but are unscathed, two strange teapots that are constantly filled with water, and a strange fish tank where you can see only aquatic plants when you see the fish on the side, as well as a number of realistic fake thumbs and belt buckles with hidden lattices. The lingua franca is stretched thin here, nothing can be named, and no guest would have to get lost in this cottage without a professional guide.

"Boss, are there any fireworks?"

"Yes, how many do you buy?"

Jingyang, who didn't have much hope, began to stutter when he spoke excitedly.

"Three...... No, no, just one, let's try it first. ”

The boss hunched over into the beaded curtain behind him, and after a jingle of bells, he walked out with a large bag, which had been unattended for some time, and smelled a choking dust three meters away.

After peeling back the layers one by one, the interior is well preserved. This non-burning firework is still the same style as the previous two years, slightly thinner than a can of beer, and children who are too young can only hold it with their hands.

"Play casually," the boss took out one and waved it left and right, "It's so strict this year, I dare to sell the quality is no problem!" ”

"This burst of shots is so many, will it overheat?"

"Impossible!"

The boss told the two of them to stand aside a little bit, pressing their hands tightly on the switch. The spout spits out a bright and bewitching bouquet of fireworks, but when it hits the door, it disappears, both in color and sound, but without leaving a trace of smoke and dust.

"One charge is 166 rounds, and there is no problem with 300 cycles!"

"Are there any poor quality?" Gu Ding's face was serious.

The boss was stunned for a moment, and it is not a good person who usually makes such strange requests.

"Don't look at it as a triad, but my stuff is great."

"We want to explode easily, the kind that breaks when we use it."

The boss's face was no longer confused but disgusted, and he reached to the right and reached out a thick bat from under the counter.

"Bad as soon as you use it? Come, see which one is worse first, this stick or your head! ”

Jingyang hurriedly pushed away his roommate to do the remedial work, while Gu Ding rolled his eyes, simply didn't make a sound, and ran to the side alone to fiddle with the invisible ink.

"I'm sorry. He didn't sleep well yesterday and couldn't talk much, so we just want this, can we use this kind of box to pack? Seeing that the boss's face returned to calm, and the stick was stuffed into the bottom of the counter again, Jingyang seized the opportunity to continue to follow the vine.

"This ......," the boss looked through the fragments of the box in front of him, and finally pouted, "I'll have to look for it." ”

The boss slipped into the curtain behind him, and there was a clang, a crystal ball clattering, and the magic hat being knocked to the ground.

It was not an easy time to rummag, and when he came out a while, he was panting like a sheep that had just crossed the fertile crescent.

"Whew, there's no such box, but there's a lot of stock?"

Jingyang's loss is as obvious as the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, not only because the probability that the non-burning fireworks in front of him is a fake has been reduced by a few points, but also because the packaging box found by the boss is really ugly.

The box was printed with a few ugly naked mole rats, their front teeth sticking out like crowbars, and the folded skin that had been uneven since birth, and their black bean eyes were hairy enough to be different from the size of a pair that needless to say.

The designer seems to have a deep prejudice against cuteness, and even if these special rats are paired with bow ties and boots, they still can't arouse any desire to touch Jingyang.

"Hell it doesn't have a lot of stock." Gu Ding, who had just walked back, turned his head in disgust, probably taking a look at it was a challenge to his aesthetics.

"So picky, you want the box to be for girls, right?"

"It's not...... Be. Jingyang's whole person was immersed in the depression that the target was not in this store, and he also coped with it when he replied.

Just a few days ago, he thought that he had obtained the key to avenge Fata, but he didn't expect that it was really as Squint Eye Eagle said, this key was not important at all.

"Then how can there be enough fireworks or not, or some throat candies." The boss saw that the guests were not in a hurry to leave, and immediately offered his sales skills.

"What the hell is it?" Gu Ding subconsciously touched his neck.

"A must-have for a little whirlwind in the ballroom, one goes down, it shines from the throat to the stomach, and it is absolutely safe, and you can be relieved by drinking half a bottle of coconut water." The boss pulled out a button-sized orange jelly bean from a small tin can, which looked like hard candy, but he didn't expect it to make a splash of oil when pinched.

"Let's go, Jingyang, we don't rely on this crooked way to attract girls." Gu Ding still remembers the hatred that he almost took a stick, and his dissatisfaction with the boss will be difficult to correct for a while and a half, and he doesn't want to stay longer for a minute and walks out.

"It's ridiculous, love is the most difficult magic trick to solve. You don't rely on your talent to attract girls, do you want to use a handsome fake face to trick the other party into chatting with you? ”

The boss was still arguing in the store, but the two young men had already walked out of the door one after the other. Towards noon, Gu Ding's shivering illness was cured, and the gradually warming temperature finally hatched his neck out of the collar.

"Let's go, next one, there's still an hour. But don't deny the lottery hot pot! I don't believe it's so bad luck this time, huh...... What about people? ”

Gu Ding looked back and found that the energetic roommate was standing at the door of the magic shop, nodding slightly thoughtfully, as if he had discovered a new universe.