In the ancient district of Tianyuan City, a young man is lying in a store called Shuifu Old Goods Store.

The young man's name is Shui Yi, the owner of this old goods store, 21 years old this year, a sophomore in the Chinese Department of Linghai University, but a month ago suddenly received a letter from his grandfather, who had been missing for two years, and the content of the letter was that he hoped that Shui Yi would rush back to inherit the family's old shop the moment he received the letter.

Originally, he would not have ignored this kind of request, after all, it was not easy to be admitted to Linghai University, and now he is only a sophomore, his studies have not been completed, and his graduation certificate has not been obtained, so he is asked to go back to inherit the old store that has no future, how can he be willing?

But this letter was the last request of his grandfather after his disappearance, and this weight was too heavy for him, so after some mental struggle, he decided to apply for a leave of absence from school to the counselor, hoping to take a temporary leave of absence for a year.

Although the counselor and classmates have been persuading him, he has already made a decision, obviously he will not give up so much, so he embarked on a journey back to his hometown under the puzzled eyes of his roommates.

After returning to Tianyuan, he reopened the old Shuifu store according to his grandfather's request, and started to be the boss with peace of mind, and he was a little glad that he did not rent out the old store, otherwise it would not be easy to reopen this time.

After everything was taken care of, he began to be his own little boss with peace of mind, but a month was about to pass, and his old store didn't even have a single customer, let alone business, which made his heart start to panic.

For a month, there is not a single customer, which is really a very incredible thing for him, his shop is in the most prosperous area of the ancient city, and in recent years, the government has focused on the development of tourism, and the traffic in the ancient city is getting bigger and bigger.

Seeing the people coming and going in the surrounding shops, but there were no customers in his store, he couldn't help but be extremely depressed.

What is the reason for this? Why is there no one in my old shop, and the scale of my old shop is not smaller than other shops around, so why don't you have a single customer?

This phenomenon is reasonable for a day or two, but now it has lasted for a month, and even if he is sluggish, he understands that something must be wrong!

But what's the problem? After a month of searching, he still couldn't find the reason.

At the moment, he is worried about his family's business, although the store is his own and he doesn't need it

Pay the rent and other expenses, but the rest still needs money, water and electricity bills, and his living expenses add up to a lot of consumption!

These are all things that need money, and although his grandfather left a considerable fortune, he can't bear it

Consume it.

So he has been trying to find a way to turn the situation around, what discounts, doing activities, a series of means, but the effect is very little, no, it should be said that there is no effect.

In the end, he finally gave up, and there was this scene, a bustling street

Shui Yi lay lifelessly on the rocking chair in the store, looking up at the sky blankly, as if he had lost his dream.

Now he began to regret it in his heart, and even had a plan to close the store and go back to college, after all, if he went on like this, he was afraid that he would starve to death.

Sighing helplessly, he couldn't figure out why things had become like this, he remembered that when he was in high school before, the business in the store was still very good, why did his grandfather disappear, why did everything change?

He has already made a decision in his heart, and if there is still no business this month, he will close the door and go back to college, although it will be a little difficult, but with his shameless spirit, he should be able to move the counselor.

After making a decision, his mood suddenly became much more relaxed, and he didn't sleep well last night, so he lay down in the rocking chair and gradually fell asleep.

When he woke up, it was already raining heavily, and the pedestrians on the street had gone into the shops to take shelter from the rain, and only a few pedestrians with umbrellas were scattered on the street.

Seeing this, his eyes suddenly lit up, but the light in his eyes quickly dimmed when he saw that the customers didn't even enter his shop to hide from the rain.

He watched the surrounding shops full of customers because of the rain, almost to the point of crowding, only his own shop was empty, and there was not a single customer.

He couldn't help shouting in his heart, do you want to do this, are you blind? Lao Tzu's shop sells umbrellas, you should buy them, even if you don't buy them, you can take shelter from the rain in my store, there is no charge.

It's a pity that no one can hear the cry in his heart, as if everyone is turning a blind eye to his shop.

Shui Yi couldn't help but fall silent, if before, he could still use the adjective of coincidence, bad luck to prevaricate the past, now he has no way to deceive himself.

There is definitely something wrong with my old shop! Otherwise, it would not be possible to not even have a person to hide from the rain.

The rain is still falling, and it's getting heavier.

Immediately Shui Yi noticed that something was wrong, as the rain became heavier and heavier, a layer of mist was formed on the ground, which was very thin at first, but soon the fog became

Thicker and thicker.

In the end, it even developed to the point that it was impossible to see the scenery outside the store, and even pedestrians and shops were hidden

In the thick fog.

But the strange thing is that although the fog is thick, it has never drifted into the store of Shui Yi, as if

There is an invisible force that separates Shuiyi's shop from the white mist.

Immediately afterward, a small bird condensed from the white mist suddenly appeared in the white mist, and the bird passed through nothing

The shape of the barrier flew into the store of Shui Yi.

All of Shui Yi's attention was drawn to this little white bird, the fog bird was only the size of a palm, I don't know what breed, with a white envelope in its mouth, and after flying around the store a few times, it finally landed on his shoulder.

At this moment, his jaw was about to fall, everything in front of him had completely subverted the three views he had shaped for so many years, so when the fog bird landed on his shoulder, he was still at a loss, the fog bird saw this, jumped on the table, put the white envelope on the table, and then looked up at Shui Yi, cried a few times and then rushed into the thick fog.

Then the fog of the outside world quickly dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the noise on the street reappeared, and at this moment, it was like suddenly returning to reality from a dream, and there was a sense of unreality!

The fog dissipated completely soon after.

The rain outside has stopped, and the wet road tells of the torrential rain just now, and the faces of different water are shocked and dazed.

Pedestrians on the street walked out of the old shop after seeing that the rain had stopped, and the street once again resumed its lively appearance, and there was no abnormality at all!

Finally, Shui Yi came back to his senses.

I am afraid that only I can see the scene just now, and others should not be able to see it, otherwise it would not be possible to be so calm.

He also suspected that he was dreaming, but when he saw the white envelope on the table, he was convinced that what he had just experienced was true.

His mind is in a mess now, because there are too many questions, he thought that he would come back this time just to simply inherit the family's old store and be a shopkeeper with peace of mind, but when he recalled the experience of this month, it was all weird.

First of all, his grandfather, who had been missing for two years, suddenly sent him a letter, but the credible date was two years ago, which means that the letter that let him come back to inherit the old store was written by his grandfather two years ago, and it only came to him recently.

Secondly, the old store that used to have a good business is now a customer as if he can't see his own shop, which is obviously problematic.

The last point is the mysterious fog bird just now, and the letter on the table!

He vaguely felt that his grandfather's disappearance was related to the strange events that happened to him recently!

Maybe that's why Grandpa was so anxious to ask him to come back and inherit the old shop.

He wanted to know the answer!

At one point, his eyes fell on the white envelope on the table, which had no signature or address.

He opened the envelope and found that in addition to a letter, there was a semi-circular jade pendant, and the face of the semi-circular jade pendant should be depicted as a fish, and the reason why it was uncertain was because this jade pendant was only engraved with a fish head, and the body part did not appear.

Just at a glance, he could see that this jade pendant was not complete and mutilated, it seemed to be only half.

After looking at it for a while, except for finding that the jade pendant material and work were extremely exquisite, there was nothing special.

He put down half of the jade pendant and took out the letter, but soon he found that he didn't know the words on the letter, and he didn't even know which country's text the letter was.

So he could only reluctantly put down the letter in his hand.

In order to find out what was written on the letter, he turned on his computer and began to look up the text of various countries, all without caring about the people on the street, and there would be no customers in the store anyway.

Soon he finished the various languages on the computer, and found that there was no country whose writing was similar to the letter in his hand, which made him look dazed.

He originally wanted to upload and post this letter, but when he thought of the strange origin of this letter, if he uploaded it like this, he was afraid that it would cause some other troubles, and after thinking about it, he finally decided not to do it for the time being.

He could only look at the jade pendant in his hand again, looking at the jade pendant in his hand, he seemed to have a sense of familiarity, as if he had seen it somewhere.

He frowned and began to recall, and finally he seemed to think of something, and hurriedly took the jade pendant upstairs to the room where his grandfather originally lived.

Most of the things in the small room were covered with a white cloth, he walked to the bookshelf, pulled down the white cloth, there was a pitch-black box the size of a human head on the shelf, I don't know what material it was made of, he had asked the old man the origin of this box before, but the old man did not explain.

He carefully took down the pitch-black box, there was a circular groove at the top of the box, and he put the half of the jade brought by the fog bird into the groove, although it was only half a piece, but it could be seen that if this jade pendant was complete, it would fit perfectly with the groove.

(To be continued...) ）