At five o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Xilou was sitting at the front desk in the incense shop, scrolling through Douyin.
The temperature was getting warmer today, but she still wore three layers of furry clothes. There was a bottle of bulk liquor on the counter, with a straw inserted into it, and she took a sip to warm herself up.
Two cotton slippers with rabbit ears were neatly placed beside the counter. Under the counter was a firebox that is common in people's homes in southern Hunan. The white feet of the little zombie were placed on it. One was lying flat and the other was tilted. When the first one was put down, the other one was raised again.
I also rub the soles and insteps of my feet from time to time.
She also carried a hand stove in her arms, which was the ancient "hand warmer" held by the sisters in the courtyard in Dream of Red Mansions in winter. It was made of copper and burned with charcoal. The things in Wang Xilou were not all antiques, like this hand stove. It was bought in the late Qing Dynasty and has only been used for a hundred or two hundred years.
This thing lasted longer than a hot water bottle. The hot water bottle got cold after a while. She was not used to it, so she took out this gadget from the warehouse that had accompanied her for more than a hundred winters.
I warmed my hands, slid to the next video, and the light from the screen hit my face.
At first, Po Nu downloaded a bunch of broken software on her mobile phone, while Wang Xilou frowned and was full of resentment.
I didn’t expect it to smell so good now.
Wearing the wired headphones that were discarded by my little apprentice, I curled my neck and played Douyin. The light in the cramped incense candle shop was dim, and occasionally the silly goose call of the beautiful proprietress could be heard.
Swipe your finger to jump to the next video.
"The strongest winning formation in backgammon, the underpants formation..."
Seeing the backgammon teacher, Wang Xilou squinted his eyes and concentrated.
"Don't worry about how white moves..."
"White doesn't understand it at all...ignore White..."
"Ignore it...the victory is determined! No one can solve the pant formation yet."
Wang Xilou’s expression was very exciting, his eyes widened, he liked it and then watched it again and again to see how the video master won the backgammon underpants formation. During this period, he felt that knowledge was constantly pouring into his brain. He repeated it more than a dozen times and finally made sure that he Remember, nod and slide to the next video.
After a while, I click on what I like and find it to review again.
At this time, someone came to buy something and called the boss weakly twice at the junction of light and darkness at the door.
Wang Xilou raised his head and pulled the brim of his knitted hat over his forehead.
They were three little guys around eight or nine years old, two boys and one girl.
"What are you here to buy?" Wang Xilou took his feet off the firebox, put them in his cotton slippers, and stood up.
The boy who just called me boss was a little fat guy. He asked again: "Do you... do you sell that thing here?"
Wang Xilou looked at the three people and made sure they were not children from the old street. He frowned and asked in a low voice, "Who told you?"
"Zhang Zhang lives here. He is my classmate. He told me that there is something for sale here..."
Wang Xilou squinted his eyes and looked down at these three people carefully.
She's not an acquaintance, but she doesn't really want to do this business. It's a bit risky, and something could happen if she's not careful. After all, the authorities have been cracking down on this thing recently.
She assessed the danger there, and the little fat man who asked swallowed his saliva. The atmosphere of the incense candle shop was dark, the Buddha statues and gods on the shelves were scary, and the air was filled with the smell of wax and paper.
"follow me."
When the three little guys heard what the landlady said, they opened the curtain and entered the backyard, and the three of them followed happily.
Opening the curtain leading to the backyard, the layout of the yard does not have curved drinking water, but it can still be regarded as a scene. This yard has a lot of carpentry elements and has an ancient charm. The woody flowers half crawling on the wall are waiting for the early spring. The backyard plants There were many flowers, many of them dead, but there were also ones that bloomed in all seasons or in winter. The sky in the four directions of the yard was divided into broken parts by the dead branches of the old jujube tree that had grown exaggeratedly tall for unknown years. A black cat sat on the stone table under the tree, with its head raised and a blue butterfly on its nose.
The cracked sky, the butterfly, and the cat's eyes were all the same color. The people who came in broke the tranquility, the butterfly flew away, and the black cat also barked and ran away like an elf.
"Wang Xilou, you disturbed me and
Little butterfly! "She was angry.
Wang Xilou didn't bother to pay attention to her, moved a box out, and said to the three people: "Come here."
Hearing the voice of the landlady, 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 eight hundred years ago.
Look at the box again, filled with all kinds of cannons, black spiders, red spiders, fairy sticks, fluctuating lights, ground tops, flying monkeys, electro-optical cannons...
"What do you want to buy?" Wang Xilou asked in a low voice.
The three little ghosts were also very nervous, as if they were doing something bad, and they also spoke in a lowered voice in this atmosphere.
"I want this……"
"This is a dollar and a half."
"Did you drop the cannon?"
"Yes, it's at the bottom. I'll take it out for you." Wang Xilou dug and rummaged. When he found it, he glanced at the three little guys: "...50 cents per box, how many boxes do you want?" "
"Three boxes! Do you want it?" The little fat man was so proud: "I invite you to play."
In the end, after selling more than ten yuan worth of fireworks, Wang Xilou took the pocket money given by the little ghosts from his grandfather or grandma into his clothes bag, put the box back, and then told the little guys not to tell the adults that there were fireworks here. For sale, you can’t tell anyone if they ask.
It's getting stricter and stricter now, and you can't just sell fireworks and firecrackers 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 small gadgets. Cannon fairy stick or something.
It shouldn't matter.
Just afraid of what might happen!
It doesn't matter if I catch her, but I don't know if it will affect my little apprentice's entrance to college. The family is looking forward to having such a college student!
The three brats nodded frequently.
He ran out happily, but before he had gone far, he heard someone shouting, telling him to go back and let him go.
She sat back on the counter, took off her shoes and stepped on the fire box to warm her feet. She took a sip of wine through a straw and continued to scroll through TikTok leisurely.
Occasionally, an old sister-in-law or aunt comes in to buy incense, candles and ingots. As the Chinese New Year approaches, business is better than usual.
During this period, Ye Ji came out with her shark suit in her mouth and called her to put it on. When Wang Xilou put it on for her, she ran into the yard. A few minutes later, a black cat wearing a shark suit came out of the backyard. , looked up at her, then ran out nervously with small steps, tail raised.
At the right time, a car bell rang outside.
"Where are you going?" It was the voice of the young apprentice.
"Where are we going?" Ye Ji asked sharply.
"you ask me?"
"We are going to the river to watch fishing."
"Remember to come back before dinner."
"I got it, nya!"
When the bicycle stopped at the entrance of the incense shop, Wang Xilou looked outside.
The 28-year-old car that Wang Xilou bought with tickets from the supply and marketing cooperative in the 1960s was already overwhelmed. It was originally used by Chifu to deliver flyers this morning. He probably ran into Feng Wuli again on the way back, but he was going to die. The slave followed him out. The bicycle for three people was a bit crowded anyway. Feng Wuli was riding. Ponu was sitting in the back. He was so small that he sat on the front bar and leaned on his apprentice's arms with a cold face.
They are all disgusted to death.
When Wang Xilou saw his little apprentice coming back, he suddenly remembered something, clicked on Douyin again, and reviewed the backgammon pants formation he learned today.
After reviewing it four or five times and feeling confident, the three people outside the door came in talking.
"Is dinner ready?" Feng Wuli asked.
"Don't talk about this yet, let's play a game of backgammon with Master."
"...Why so sudden?"
"Hurry up, hurry up." She was ready and put the backgammon aside.
"..."
About a minute later, Wang Xilou couldn't help but fell into deep thought as he looked at the formation of his underpants and the four chess pieces placed in a straight line opposite him.
Something is wrong!
She set up the formation, but why did the opposite team directly connect into four? !
"Oh, we lose now. My precious disciple is still the best!" Po Nu on the side fanned the flames.
After a long while, she muttered: "You can't do this."
"There's something wrong..."
Wang Xilou looked at him coldly, and could only say exactly the same thing as Chifugi usually looked at him: "What is your attitude?"
Okay, it turned into a question of attitude. Feng Wuli played the game again, and then watched her win the game with some strange underpants formation, and then silently took back the chess pieces one by one.
Even though she won, she still didn't seem very happy.
She raised her head and glanced at the man. She didn't like it, so she gave him a kick and went back to the backyard to cook in her cotton slippers.
She studied all afternoon!
