not a monster

At five o'clock in the afternoon, in the incense and candle shop, Wang Xilou was sitting at the front desk, using Douyin.

The temperature is getting warmer today, but she is still dressed in furry clothes. There is a bottle of bulk alcohol on the counter, with a straw inserted, and she takes a sip to warm her body.

There are two cotton slippers with rabbit ears neatly placed beside the counter. Under the counter is a fire box that is common in homes in southern Hunan. The little zombie Bai Shengsheng’s feet are placed on it. When the one is put down, the other one is tilted up again.

From time to time, rub the soles of the feet.

She also carried a hand stove in her arms, which is the ancient "hand warmer" held by the sisters in the compound in the Dream of Red Mansions in winter. It is made of copper and burns charcoal inside. It was bought in the late Qing Dynasty, and it has been used for only one or two hundred years.

This thing is more durable than a warm water bag. The warm water bag gets cold after a while. She is not used to it, so she took out this gadget from the warehouse that has accompanied her for more than 100 winters.

After warming up my hands, I slid to the next video, and the light from the screen hit my face.

At the beginning, Po Nu downloaded a bunch of junk software from her mobile phone, and Wang Xilou frowned, full of resentment.

I didn't expect it to be really fragrant now.

Wearing the wired earphones discarded by the young apprentice, she curled her neck and played vibrato. The light in the cramped incense candle shop was dim, and the silly goose cries of the beautiful proprietress could be heard occasionally.

Swipe your finger to skip to the next video.

"The strongest winning formation in backgammon, the underpants formation..."

Seeing the backgammon teacher, Wang Xilou squinted his eyes and concentrated his attention.

"Don't worry about how the white chess is played..."

"White doesn't understand at all...don't bother with white..."

"Don't worry about it... the victory is decided! No one can solve the underpants formation."

Wang Xilou's expression was very exciting, his eyes widened, he liked it and watched it again and again to see how the backgammon underpants formation was won in this video. During this period, he felt that knowledge was constantly pouring into his brain, and he repeated it more than ten times to ensure that he Remember, nod and slide to the next video.

After a while, click into my favorite place, find it out and review it again.

At this time, someone came to buy things, and called the boss twice weakly at the junction of light and darkness at the door.

Wang Xilou raised his head and pulled the brim of the knitted hat over his forehead.

They were three little ghosts around eight or nine years old, two boys and one girl.

"What do you want to buy?" Wang Xilou took his feet off the fire box, put them in the cotton mop, and stood up.

The boy who called the boss just now was a little fat man, and he asked again: "Do you have... do you have that thing for sale?"

Wang Xilou sized up the three of them and was sure they were not children from the old street. He frowned and asked, "Who told you?"

"Zhang Li lives here. He is my classmate. He told me that there are things for sale here..."

Wang Xilou squinted his eyes, condescendingly contemplating the three of them carefully.

Not an acquaintance, she actually doesn't really want to do this business, the risk is a bit high, if you are not careful, something will happen, after all, this thing has been severely cracked down recently.

She estimated the risk there, and the little fat man who asked the question swallowed. The atmosphere of the incense candle shop was gloomy, and the statues of Buddha and gods on the shelves were scary, and the air was full of wax and paper smells.

"follow me."

After hearing the words from the proprietress, the three little ghosts opened the curtain and entered the backyard, and the three followed happily.

Lifting the curtain leading to the backyard, the layout of the yard does not have curved cups and flowing water, but it can be regarded as one step at a time. This yard has a lot of carpentry elements, ancient style and old charm. Many flowers bloomed, many of which were withered, but some bloomed in four seasons or in winter. The sky around the courtyard was divided into broken parts by the dead branches of the old jujube tree that had grown exaggeratedly tall for an unknown number of years. A black cat sat upright on a stone table under a tree, with its head raised, and a blue butterfly resting on its nose.

The cracked sky, the butterfly, and the cat's eyes are all the same color. People who come in break the tranquility, the butterfly flies away, and the black cat also screams, running away like an elf.

"Wang Xilou, you're quarreling with me and Little Butterfly!" She was very angry.

Wang Xilou didn't bother to talk to her, he moved a box out, and said to the three people, "Come here."

Hearing the voice of the proprietress, the three teenagers came back to their senses, but what they didn't know was that they had just completed a time travel.

Because the scene here was like this 800 years ago.

Look at the box again, it's full of all kinds of cannons, black spiders, red spiders, fairy wands, flutter sticks, spinning tops, sky monkeys, electric light cannons...

"What do you want to buy?" Wang Xilou asked under his breath.

The three little ghosts were also very nervous, as if they were doing something bad, and they also spoke in a suppressed voice under this atmosphere.

"I want this……"

"This one is one yuan and five."

"Have you dropped a cannon?"

"Yes, it's at the bottom. I'll take it out for you." Wang Xilou dug and dug, and when he found it, he glanced at the three little ghosts: "...[-] cents a box, how many boxes do you want?"

"Three boxes! Do you want it?" The little fat man was very proud: "I invite you to play."

In the end, after selling more than ten yuan of fireworks, Wang Xilou took the pocket money from the little ghosts, whether it was grandpa or grandma, into the clothes bag, put the box back, and told the little guys not to tell the adults that there were fireworks here. Selling, others can't tell if they ask.

Now it’s getting stricter, I can’t sell fireworks casually, I’m just a stupid little zombie, I don’t know if I can sell it, so I secretly sell the ones that haven’t been sold out last year, and they’re all gadgets, rubbish Cannon fairy stick or something.

It shouldn't matter.

Just in case!
It doesn't matter if you want to catch her in, but I don't know if it will affect the little apprentice's entrance into college. The family is looking forward to such a college student!

The three little ghosts nodded frequently.

Sa Huan ran out, and heard yelling before walking far, saying to go back and play.

She sat back at the counter, took off her shoes and stepped on the firebox again to warm her feet, took a sip of wine with a straw in her mouth, and continued to vibrato leisurely.

Occasionally, an old sister-in-law or aunt came in to buy joss sticks and ingots, and business was better than usual as the Chinese New Year approached.

During this period, Ye Ji came out with her shark clothes in her mouth, and asked her to put them on for her. After Wang Xilou put them on for her, she ran into the yard again. A few minutes later, a black cat wearing a shark clothes came out of the backyard. , looked up at her, and ran out nervously with small steps with her tail cocked.

Just in time, a car bell rang outside.

"Where are you going?" It was the voice of the little apprentice.

"Where are we going?" Ye Ji asked sharply.

"you ask me?"

"My generation is going to the river to watch fishing."

"Remember to come back before dinner."

"Got it, meow!"

When the bicycle stopped at the entrance of the incense and candle shop, Wang Xilou looked outside.

The Wang Xilou 60s was overwhelmed by the [-] rods bought by the ticket at the supply and marketing agency. It was originally sent by Chifu this morning to send leaflets to ride out. It must have been windy and unreasonable on the way back, but I will not die. When they came out, the bicycles of the three of them were always a bit crowded, the wind was riding unreasonably, and the ponu sat in the back, a small size, sitting horizontally on the front bar, leaning against the arms of the little apprentice with a cold face.

They are all disgusted to death.

Wang Xilou saw the little apprentice came back, suddenly remembered something, clicked on Douyin again, and reviewed the backgammon underpants that he learned today.

After reviewing it four or five times, and after being full of confidence, three people outside the door had already come in talking.

"Is dinner ready?" Feng Wuli asked.

"Let's not talk about this, let's play backgammon with Master first."

"...Why so suddenly?"

"Hurry up, hurry up." She was ready, and put backgammon aside.

"..."

About a minute later, Wang Xilou couldn't help but fell into deep thought when he looked at the underpants array he had formed and the four chess pieces arranged in a straight line opposite him.

What's wrong!
She set up the formation, why did the opponent directly form four pieces? !

"Hey, I'm losing now, my precious apprentice is the best!" Po Nu fanned the flames.

After a long time, she mused, "You can't do this."

"There's something wrong..."

Wang Xilou looked at him coldly, the same as Chifu usually said when he saw him: "What's your attitude?"

Very good, it turned into a problem of attitude, Feng Wuli played again, and then watched her win the game with some strange underpants formation, then silently took back the chess pieces one by one.

Although she won, she still didn't seem very happy.

She raised her head and took a look at the man, but no matter how she looked, she didn't like it, so she gave him a kick, and walked back to the backyard to cook in a puffed up cotton slippers.

She studied it all afternoon!