Taboo Master

Chapter 10 Tea Room Night
I followed my grandfather's instructions and hurried back to the county seat.

It was a bumpy road again, and when I arrived at the teahouse sweating profusely, it was already getting dark.

As expected, there were still no guests in the tea room. The boss sat there alone, reading a newspaper boredly, rubbing the jade in his hand.

Seeing me coming back, he didn't have any expression on his face, but his eyes were obviously unfriendly. I greeted him, wiped off my sweat, and immediately picked up a rag to wipe the table and set up the chairs, for fear that he would trouble me again.

But when he watched me work, he stood up, walked slowly to the side, looked at me for a long time as if he didn't know me, and suddenly said, "Is this table dirty?"

I was taken aback, and said casually, "It's not dirty."

He glared: "It's not dirty, what are you wiping it for? Boil the water!"

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but said with a bitter face: "Boss, it's closing soon, why boil water?"

"After burning, send me to the house, I want to drink tea!"

I agreed, but my stomach started to growl. The boss gave me a sideways look. I forced a smile and said, "I'm in a hurry to get back. I'm afraid I'll delay things in the store. I haven't eaten yet."

"Didn't eat?" He frowned, and said, "You're late, there's no food, drink some water."

After finishing speaking, he raised his head and walked away with his hands behind his back, with a slight hunchback, just like a miser.

Bah, I made a face at him from behind, with such a virtue, I deserve no guests.

I was too lazy to argue with him, so I ran to boil a pot of water, waited for it to boil, and then carried it to him, but he had already locked the back door, so I didn’t understand. Lock the back door and how can I bring you water?Come on, it's probably to torment me on purpose again, he doesn't drink, I drink.

I found a cup, gulped it full of water, and grabbed two pieces of snacks left by the guests in the kitchen. I fooled my stomach. At this time, it was completely dark.

Looking at the time, it was almost eight o'clock, so I got up and closed the door of the tea room, closed the windows, and was about to close up and call it a day.

It's just that when I closed the last window, I hesitated. If I shut myself in like this, what if I can't get that thing later and run away?
After thinking about it, I still didn't close the window after all, but quietly left a gap, so that I can escape through this at any time, which is a way out for myself.

Then, I moved a chair, stepped on it, took out a "town" formula, stained it with some saliva, stuck it on the top of the beam, and pressed it a few more times before jumping off and looking around , In the dim tea room, I was the only one standing under the beam, the air was so quiet that I could almost hear my own breathing.

And that weird wall clock, ticking.

My heart is a little hairy.

But this is not over, I took out the box my grandfather gave me from my arms, opened it, and took out a stick of thick and short incense sticks from it, my grandfather said, this is called soul-inducing incense, which can not only attract souls, but also attract ghosts .

I subconsciously swallowed my saliva and glanced around. The black figure from yesterday shouldn't be staring at me in the dark, right?I thought to myself, and suddenly regretted it, looked at the words pasted on the beam of the house, and the soul-inducing incense in my hand, and suddenly felt a little unreliable, can this thing work?
I couldn't help feeling a little terrified, but I understood that this was the first lesson in my life, no matter how scared I was, I had to persevere, this was the fate of the Han family.

After thinking wildly for a while, I sat blankly at the table and waited for a while. Grandpa said that the effect of this incense will be best if it is lighted around midnight.

But I only stayed up until ten o'clock, and I couldn't stand it any longer. For some reason, a burst of tiredness hit me, and my eyelids kept fighting. If I didn't light up the incense again, I was afraid that I would fall asleep.

After hesitating for a while, I still lit the soul-inducing incense, but I only lit one. Grandpa said that one of this incense is for attracting ghosts, and if I light three, it is an offering. Forget one.

I put the soul-inducing incense on the table and placed it under the clock. The strange fragrance penetrated into my nose, but I immediately became energetic. The tiredness just now was swept away, so I pretended to look at it for a while. Newspaper, so I fell on the table and fell asleep, but secretly observed the movement in the house, my heart was beating wildly, nervous and excited.

I don't know, what will happen in the future?

In fact, my grandfather told me to turn off the light after doing these things, lest the thing not come out, but God is sorry, I am already feeling cold like this, how dare I turn off the light?

That's it, if it doesn't come out, it means that this matter is destined to have nothing to do with me. After these two days, when I return to school, it has nothing to do with me at all. I glanced at the clock and thought to myself .

After about a quarter of an hour, the incense head had been burned for a while, but there was nothing unusual in the room. I was wondering secretly, when suddenly there was a roar from the back door, which almost scared me half to death.

"If you don't turn off the lights in the middle of the night, you're going to die, I said why the electricity bill has increased by dozens of yuan this month!"

I was startled, but it turned out that the boss was yelling in the back room, and my heart was beating wildly. This voice was scarier than seeing an evil spirit. I had no choice but to answer and turn off the light quickly. up.

It's over, the room was pitch black this time, I huddled in a corner, looked around nervously, suddenly felt that I was so timid, I secretly scolded myself: I have no future, the family inheritance needs you to carry forward, now there is even a ghost Didn't see it, are you afraid of a fart?
Just when I was silently encouraging myself, there was a slight noise from nowhere, as if something had fallen over, and then, a gust of cool wind passed by behind me
At the same time, the wall clock on the wall suddenly let out a strange hiss, and then stopped swinging
Immediately I regained my energy, and hurriedly raised my head, only to see a faint black shadow rushing up the beam in the darkness, and then disappeared.

My heart is beating wildly, I feel like a rabbit ran into my arms at this moment, no, it should be a kangaroo running into it, thumping and jumping desperately.

I stared nervously at the beam. In the darkness, I could vaguely see a figure crouching on the beam. It looked a bit like a cat, but its size was much bigger than an ordinary cat.

Where did this ghost come from?I didn't see it clearly, I looked at the wall clock again, and it had indeed stopped swinging, and the time at this time happened to be midnight, exactly eleven o'clock.

Most likely, it's the ghost of the wall clock, right?I sat at the table, resisting the urge to jump up, waiting for a miracle to happen.

However, time passed little by little, and I peeped over the beam, but the miracle I was expecting did not happen. The black shadow was clearly lying on the beam, next to the word "town", but I The pasted note didn't respond at all, as if it was just a piece of insignificant waste paper.

I couldn't help being dumbfounded, my thumping little heart gradually sank, my dear grandfather, I locked all the doors, and that's the end?
Suddenly, the black shadow turned its head, as if it had discovered something, and scanned the room. Suddenly, it stood up again, stared in my direction, and moved forward slowly, as if it was about to jump down .

I was flustered, and subconsciously took two steps back, staring at the black shadow. As soon as it stood up, I could clearly see that the note with the word "town" was ten centimeters in front of it. , it turned out that it wasn't that the note didn't work, but that it hadn't touched it at all.

Go forward, go forward.
As I muttered to myself, my heart almost reached my throat, and I kept stepping back, thinking that it was only a little bit short, as long as it took one more step forward, it would be successful
Suddenly, I seemed to have bumped into something, and my waist hurt a little. Looking back, it turned out that I had retreated to the side of the counter and was hit by a corner of the counter, but I accidentally looked up and was shocked. There was a figure standing there!
But when I took a closer look, I denied my own opinion, and I couldn't help being shocked.

No, this is definitely not a human, because it is impossible for a human to grow up like this
(End of this chapter)