"This is a society governed by law. Be careful not to lose business and get into trouble." The fair-skinned man dropped these words and entered the store without looking back.
"Dahei, bite him to death." Heizi gasped in anger and opened his mouth to say this.
"I'm afraid you want to kill your junior brother." I couldn't help but punch Heizi.
Fortunately, Dahei was not a fool. He just looked at me and didn't really step forward to bite anyone to death.
We had suffered losses in the city, so neither of us dared to be impulsive again. Although the fair-skinned man was mean-mouthed, he was telling the truth.
The two angrily returned to the store, with Heizi pacing back and forth angrily.
"Stop walking around and dazzling me." I couldn't help but speak.
"Tell me, is this something humans do?" Dahei stopped and shouted loudly.
"That woman seems to be new here. I haven't seen these people before." After all, I have been in the town for six years, so I know all these officials and masters, and I have met some of them.
"It must be because we have made tens of thousands of yuan from selling mahogany swords in the past few days, so these people are jealous and want to run us away." Heizi slammed the table and said breathlessly.
"You won't listen if I tell you not to sell me..." I said angrily.
"Is this my problem? And our things are real. Those handicrafts in his shop are simply machine-processed crafts. If someone buys them to deal with evil spirits, wouldn't that kill someone?"
"It must have been told by the villagers. I'm going to settle the score with them. These heartless people don't know how to repay gratitude, but they still hurt us..." This is the first time I've seen Heizi so angry, and it's also the first time he has. So much to say in one breath.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that to you. You're right, but taking revenge now won't solve the problem. We have to find a way to save the master's shop." Heizi's words made me feel ashamed.
"If you really can't do it, you have to pay." I added.
"What the heck, didn't you listen to that pretty boy? That woman is his cousin. She obviously wants to kill us. If we pay this time, we won't have a good life in the future." Heizi does have more social experience than me. This is indeed the case.
"Then what do you think we should do?" I was really at my wits end.
"How about I call Uncle Wang?" I thought for a while and then said.
"It's useless. It's indeed our fault. It's a fact that we operate without a license." Heizi calmed down when he heard me say Uncle Wang.
However, I didn’t inherit any of Master’s previous connections. Even if there were people like Uncle Wang, they knew me and I didn’t know them.
We had no choice but to close the store door obediently. The two of us stared at each other in the store, scratching our heads to think of a solution.
"Don't think about it. I'm so angry and have nowhere to vent. I need a drink." Heizi said and took out the phone.
The night market in the county is at the vegetable market next to us. It is a vegetable market during the day and a night market at night. In the past, we two brothers were reluctant to eat, but it seems that today we only have to spend some money.
Heizi made a call and ordered a lot of barbecue. Not long after, someone knocked on the door.
After a few glasses of strong wine, I felt much relieved.
"If it doesn't work, let's just pay. Anyway, we have to keep the master's legacy." I put down my glass and looked at Heizi with a smile.
"That's all we can do..." Heizi smiled helplessly.
"Okay, let's rest. Tomorrow is July and a half, so I have to get up early to prepare." I said and got up and walked upstairs.
Every year in July and a half, the master would place some tributes outside the shop door, light ingot candles, and burn some paper money.
In our line of work, respecting tradition is very important.
The next day Heizi and I got up early and took Dahei to the market, preparing everything we needed.
On this day, all the shops in the county closed early, and lights could be seen everywhere on both sides of the street, but most of them were from the older generation.
Young people like me and Heizi are special exceptions in this sacrificial group.
Time has arrived on the third day, and such a day is even more torturous than waiting for the old zombie to appear.
Heizi and I took the money and came to the place where the girl with glasses worked.
After some hard talk, Heizi finally relented and agreed to shorten our shutdown period to one month, but we had to apply for a business license within this time.
But as Heizi said, they are deliberately targeting us, and the process of applying for a business license is very difficult.
"Sometimes, ghosts are better than people..." On this day, the two of them were sitting dejectedly on the steps outside the store, and Heizi suddenly said this.
"How do you say this?" I was a little distracted and didn't understand what Heizi meant.
"Because the human heart is more terrifying than ghosts..." Heizi said and closed his eyes in pain.
"I finally understand why master chose you." Heizi's words shocked me.
"Why?" Heizi opened his eyes suddenly, waiting expectantly for my answer.
"You are more enlightened than me." I stood up with a smile.
"Shopkeeper, why is the door closed?" Uncle Bai's voice came.
When we looked up, we saw Uncle Bai pedaling a tricycle and stopping in front of us.
"Why are you crying so early in the morning?" Seeing that we were silent, Uncle Bai got out of the car and walked towards us.
"Uncle Bai, that's it..." I looked up with a wry smile and told everything.
"Hey, any difficulty that can be solved with money is not a difficulty. In this world, except for life and death, it is all trivial. Eat a sesame seed cake first. There are always more solutions than difficulties." Although Uncle Bai looks unattractive, he can always make people feel sunny. It feels like every time I see him, he is smiling.
Dahei already knew Uncle Bai, and he took it when he handed him the sesame cakes.
"Uncle, this is what you said to wake up the dreamer, thank you." Heizi took Uncle Bai's sesame cake with both hands and bowed deeply.
"Hey, I'm just a bad old man who buys sesame seed cakes. Don't praise me like this. You are still young and there is still a long way to go. Now that you have defeated the evil spirits, don't lose to the triviality of the world." Uncle Bai said and handed it to me. A pancake.
At this moment, I just felt that the old man in front of me, who was less than 1.6 meters tall, suddenly became much taller. The temperature of the sesame cake made me feel warm in my heart.
"Uncle Bai, thank you." My eyes were hot and my heart was filled with gratitude.
"Don't thank me, I'm old and no longer useful, but there is still hope for this matter..." Uncle Bai said with a slight smile, turned around and stepped on the three-wheeler.
Before I could ask further questions, Uncle Bai had already pedaled away on three wheels.
"Now that you have fought evil spirits, don't lose to the trivial matters of the world. This old man is not like ordinary people..." Heizi looked at Uncle Bai's retreating figure and repeated the old man's words.
"I didn't expect that as cultivators, we are not as clear-eyed as the old man. No wonder the master wants me to cultivate my mind and nature all day long. If it weren't for what Uncle Bai said, I still wouldn't understand..." I said and looked at my hand. There are still steaming hot biscuits inside.
"In that case, let's prepare the materials again and apply for the business license. At most, we'll pay more." The gloom cleared from Heizi's face and he stood up happily.
"Yes." I also stood up, and the two of them pushed the door open and entered the store.
We were rummaging around the house when there was a knock on the door.
"Boss, why are you here?" After hearing Heizi's words, I hurried downstairs.
The person coming here is not the bespectacled woman who dealt with us.
"I have something, and I would like to ask you two for help..." The bespectacled woman looked embarrassed, and the wry smile on her face could not hide her embarrassment.
"Please come inside, please." Heizi was stunned for a moment, but immediately smiled and raised his hand to invite the bespectacled girl into the store.
In fact, as soon as she entered the store just now, I felt a hint of cold air, which was definitely not the breath of a living person.
Now I took a closer look and found that this aura did not come from her. This meant that someone in her family was contaminated with evil spirits.
The girl with glasses smiled at me awkwardly, hesitated for a moment, then walked in.
As long as evil spirits are involved, personal emotions are not important.
I smiled and motioned for the bespectacled girl to sit down, and made a pot of good tea in front of the tea table.
"Leader, just tell me if you have anything." Heizi also sat down with a smile.
"Is anyone in your family infected with evil spirits?" I handed over a cup of tea and got straight to the point.
The bespectacled goddess looked visibly startled, and her eyes immediately changed when she looked at me.
"People around me say that you are heavenly masters who have descended to earth. I was confused. I will apologize to you for what happened earlier. Please save my son..." The girl with glasses started to cry as she spoke.
His son is thirteen years old and is in junior high school.
A few children, who were not afraid of tigers when they gave birth to calves, actually made a bet to eat the tributes placed on the roadside. It was half of July, and now three days have passed.
