Inherit the family's old shop

Chapter 1
My name is Chen Jiujin. It sounds like an old-fashioned name. I heard that it was given by the old man back then. He said that I was born with a weak personality and that the obstacles in my life were difficult to overcome. I needed a weighty name to suppress me.

Later, this also echoed what the old man said at the beginning, the detours I have come here are more than his mother's three or five lifetimes combined, and I am afraid that I will not be able to talk about it for ten days and ten nights.Speaking of which, the first step to take the first step started from Liuzhou.

Back in the 90s, after graduating from university, I settled down in the provincial city, and my girlfriend went back to my hometown, and we were no longer together. The relationship gradually faded away, and within half a year, news came that they wanted to break up with me. We were not in the same place, and I didn't want to delay each other. I got anxious when I heard that, and took the train to her hometown, Liuzhou, Guangxi that day.

But when I first arrived here, my heart was cold. He got into the government unit by virtue of his relationship, and even got close to a small section chief. He was planning to get married by the end of the year. We are not shameless people. I pat my ass, Turn around and walk back.

Come on, I am here, but going back this time is not as easy as I thought.

That night, the train station was patronized by thieves, my wallet and ID card were touched clean, and even my broken pager was touched. After going back and forth, I didn’t even have a place to live. There was no way, As soon as I gritted my teeth, I settled down here in Liuzhou.

I searched and searched, I have no identity and no documents, and I don’t want it in general places. In the end, there was no way. It happened that a coffin shop was short of a wood watchman. I just found a place to lay my feet in order to make a living. down.

The wood of the coffin shop is placed in a large house. There used to be an old cripple inside. I have seen it for almost ten years, and now he is over 70 years old. The boss of the coffin shop was afraid that he might miss something, so he hired me. On the top of the young teeth, there is no shortage of old cripples to eat. In this way, I entered the old house in a daze, and met this old thing that I can't get rid of for half my life.

That night, I went to the old house. The house looked old. The wall on the east side was crooked, and it was propped up with broken wooden boards. There was a big red door with peeling paint in front of it. The two stone lions at the door have been corroded and disfigured. At the beginning, the man who lived in this big mansion was a rich man.

In the dead of night, this old house was originally on the edge of the city, and within a few hundred meters there was almost no human habitation. I entered the door, and the inside was pitch black. The lantern was on and off, and I walked towards the lantern, walked in and saw that the lantern was actually hanging on the door frame, and before it could make a sound, there was a sound like an old broken gong inside, "At night, who is wandering around there?"

I entered the door, and a thumb-length candle was on in the room. Under the candlelight, an old face like old bark squinted at me. The eyes were not big, but at first glance, the eyes that looked at me were still there. It's so damn good, it's like being targeted by a big wolf dog at night!
The old man got up, and he was indeed limping when he lifted his foot. I thought that this was the old lame man the boss was talking about, so I replied, "Master, I'm here to accompany you to look at the wood. The boss looks at you." I'm getting old, I'm afraid that something will happen to you alone in this place where there are no villages and no shops, let me come over and help to watch!"

The old cripple was stunned for a while, a row of old yellow teeth leaked from his mouth, and his mouth was full of tartar. Looking at the cigarette stick in his hand, he knew it was smoked. The old cripple stared at me like a thief, and was stunned for a long time Suddenly he laughed, "Hey, it seems that the little thing thinks I am old, and wants to find a little guy to replace my meal, but ah, my meal is not so easy to replace. Young man, you This young and strong man can't do anything when he goes out, why bother to grab this meal from an old man like me, listen to me, go early, you can't do the work here!

I was so happy when I heard it, it turned out that this old guy thought I was here to steal his job, to be honest, I really didn't have such thoughts, if I couldn't go home, I could do this in this unfamiliar place OK?

I hastened to explain. After a series of talking for a long time, the old cripple smiled and just kept looking at me. When I finished speaking, the old cripple shook his head, "If you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of your eyes, Gua Wazi, Don't listen to me, if something really happens, don't blame my old man.

The old cripple shook his beard and smiled like an old fox. When I saw that the explanation didn't make sense, I simply didn't bother to explain it. This road knows horsepower, and it's time to see people's hearts. It's useless to say more, that's it. Our first meeting broke up like this.

The old cripple lives in the backyard, the place is not big, there is a messy pile of leaves and wood, all of which are used to warm the kang in winter. Originally, the first time we met, we broke up the conversation, and I didn’t want to get away from this weirdness. The old man was too close, so he went out of the backyard and landed in a side room at the far end of the east. There was a broken bed and a few broken chairs inside, which were still usable. In the corner, there was a The old dresser, most of the yellowed copper mirror was missing. For convenience, I moved the broken dresser to the side of the bed, just to put a candle at night.

Busy to and fro until the middle of the night, the house was tidied up and barely livable. To be honest, living in this big mansion at night, I raised my head and looked outside. It was pitch black, so to speak. It's scary, but I've been quite courageous since I was a child. When I was a child, I walked the night road humming songs, passed by a cemetery, and dared to urinate on the side of the road!
Tired for a long time, I put on the quilt and fell asleep. I was tired and slept very soundly, but in the middle of the night, I suddenly woke up with a clever idea.

In fact, it can’t be called waking up. At that time, there was a jolt, as if someone was talking in a low voice, and after a while, the low voice became noisy. In the blink of an eye, there was the sound of squeaky erhu again, and later, it became like listening to a Beijing opera, and I actually heard a few opera words!
I was sober in my mind, because the voice was right next to my ears, and I wondered where the opera came from in this big house, but I didn't feel like I was dreaming, and I wanted to get up and take a look Well, I just feel like my eyes are sewn with hemp rope, and my body bones seem to be pressed, and I can't even move a finger.

Just when I was wondering, I vaguely saw a figure in front of my eyes. I couldn’t see the appearance clearly. I felt that the clothes all over my body were very loose, and I looked like a woman. The voice of babbling and singing was just It was passed from the place where the figure was.

"Cough, cough, cough, cough." Suddenly, a series of hysterical coughs sounded like a blow to my head, and my eyes opened suddenly, as if the sound came from the backyard. The cough sounded like an old cripple , I heard the sound as if my lungs were about to be coughed out. I was startled. I was afraid that this strange old man was ill. He got up without even wearing his pants, and ran to the backyard in three or two steps.

There was no light in the room, only the lantern on the door frame was on, and it was quiet inside, so there was no coughing sound. I froze for a moment, afraid that there was something wrong with the old man, so I went up and knocked on the door , Knocked a few times, and a moderate voice came from the room, "It's a big night, I'm all asleep, what can't be said tomorrow!"

Hearing the old man's voice, my heart was relieved, but I was puzzled. The coughing statement just now came from the backyard, but hearing the voice of the old cripple, it seemed that he was coughing to death.

I hurried back to the house, thinking of the sound that sounded like a dream but not a dream just now, I felt a little weird in my heart. At this time, the sky was already bright, I didn’t have a watch, and I didn’t have any time in my heart. I just looked at the sky and saw the sky A bit pale, no sleepiness, and sat down until dawn.

(End of this chapter)