Prologue (I) 8
Until one day.
That was a few months after receiving the spooky puppet.
The strange puppet, it seems, only looks a little weird - in the next few months, this strange puppet, just like the other exhibits on the side, is still there, but the people who enter the store will look at this strange thing a few more times, and sometimes, they will ask about the origin of this puppet, of course, Huangfu Guanghe, or Brother Wang's introduction to this puppet, is limited to the short "history" of the time it entered the store, at most, it only adds the "legend" of the middle-aged worker 。
This puppet, gradually, was also stained with a little dust.
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This year's spring, compared to previous years' springs, seems to be a little less mild - at the moment, there are no meteorologists who can analyze the reason.
Of course, life in the city continues as it did in previous years—cars still come and go like this, but with new models, people on the sidewalk in front of the antique shop still walk in the hurry of office workers, returning home from work, passing in front of the door, and the sunlight is still like that, spilling into the increasingly old wooden floor.
It seems that except for a slightly lower temperature, everything else is no different from the past life.
Huangfu Guanghe sat behind the newly bought counter, looking at his phone, waiting for the customer to arrive - Brother Wang went on a date again today, but this time, the girl was already his girlfriend.
There was a "squeak" and the door opened.
"This is it!yes! this is it!" a young girl suddenly shouted, and walked in quickly.
Huangfu Guanghe was startled by the young girl's shout, and his whole body trembled involuntarily.
However, due to the professional habits he has developed over the past few months, he greeted the potential customer very warmly.
The young girl also seemed to realize that his shout just now frightened Huangfu Guanghe, so she began to laugh and say, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry...... I saw this, so I was excited!"
"Excuse me, which one do you want?" asked Huangfu Guanghe enthusiastically to the young girl in front of him.
"Can you show me this puppet?" the young girl asked the young girl expectantly to Huangfu Kwanghyuk.
It does seem strange to come to the store to buy puppets.
Huangfu Guanghe took down this peculiar puppet from the shelf behind him.
"I saw that post before...... It took a long time to find it!" the young girl said.
Huangfu Guanghe remembered that he had posted this puppet on an unknown forum before, but no one seemed to pay attention to it, he opened the forum APP, and flipped to the post from the record - that's right, the one on February 30 this year, the puppet in the photo was placed on the counter in a sitting position, and the photo was taken by Huangfu Guanghe sitting on the current son.
Just when Huangfu Guanghe was a little puzzled by how the young girl found the shop, the young girl told him that the blurred door number of the shop opposite in the photo revealed some clues.
"That's right, it's like a detective solving a crime!" the young girl smiled as he continued, "but that's just the first step!"
"Oh, solve the case, I want to hear about it!" asked the young girl curiously, "The first step? You mean, finding this puppet is only the first step?...... That...... Next, what are you going to buy this for?"
"Of course, I guess it's a whole bunch of secrets!" said the young girl, excitedly, "all right...... Let's not talk about that, let's talk about the price first!"
The young girl seemed to be in a hurry to buy the puppet, which had previously been unpopular in terms of purchase.
Huangfu Guanghyuk quoted a reasonable price, which was not very expensive, but he also asked the young girl to promise one thing - to tell Huangfu Guanghyuk about his guess and the reason behind the search for the puppet, and at the same time, Huangfu Guanghyuk also wanted to fascinate the young girl and continue to keep in touch with him in the matter of exploring the secrets.
The girl readily agreed—she said she needed a helper to solve a series of puzzles with her—and that it would be best if she was a fan of antiques.
"Alright, tell me what the hell is going on!" Huangfu Guanghe was a little eager to know about the first layer - according to the girl, the secret behind the puppet was like an onion, layer upon layer.