The car stopped at the intersection of Langwei Street. After Chen Xiao got out of the car, he looked back at Fenghuang in the car. He hesitated and asked in a low voice, "Aren't you going in with me?"
Phoenix smiled and shook his head: "No."
"Then... when can we meet again?" Chen Xiao looked into Phoenix's eyes.
Phoenix's smile was still as bright as the morning sun: "It won't be long."
After saying that, she finally got out of the car, still clinging to Chen Xiao's arms, stood up on tiptoes, kissed Chen Xiao gently on the lips, and whispered in Chen Xiao's ear: "I will miss you, I hope you You will also miss me.”
The car drove away slowly, and Chen Xiao stopped on the street. It wasn't until the car disappeared that he sighed sadly as if he had lost something, and turned around and walked towards the unfinished street.
In the coffee shop, Champagne was boredly flipping through a copy of last month's "Ruili" magazine. Then he heard the doorbell ringing softly. Seeing Chen Xiao push the door and walk in, Champagne suddenly exclaimed and quickly left. She walked around the counter and ran up in a few steps. Her eyes were fixed on Chen Xiao, her eyes filled with an almost pious fanaticism...
Chen Xiao looked at the champagne rushing towards him like a long-lost lover, and couldn't help but froze. He just let the champagne plunge into his arms... Huh
fortunately…
Champagne grabbed Chen Xiao's torn jacket with both hands, his eyes seemed to be radiating light, and he screamed excitedly: "Wow! It's a genuine BURBERRY! It's the latest casual style this year!! Last month It was just published in a magazine!!!”
Her fingers trembled slightly, and she lovingly stroked the fabric of Chen Xiao's clothes, her eyes like those of a fanatical religious person.
Chen Xiao was speechless and looked at the champagne stupidly.
Champagne suddenly raised his head, anger flashing in his beautiful eyes: "You! What the hell are you doing! What the hell is going on!!"
Chen Xiao touched his nose: "Well... a friend took me away, so I didn't go home..."
"Bah! Who asked you to come!" Champagne immediately interrupted Chen Xiao and asked quickly: "Do you know that this is a genuine BURBERRY product, or this year's latest casual model, which was only released last month! Globally limited edition!! Such a work of art! You actually made it tattered! Oh my god! You still smell like sewers! Did you go into the sewer wearing such a wonderful work of art?! This is BURBERRY!!”
Chen Xiao felt depressed: This fashion madman...
I had been missing for such a long time, and when I came back it was in tatters. I didn’t even care about it, but only stared at my clothes...
At this time, Lao Tian slowly walked out of the door of the coffee shop. He held a cigarette between his fingers. He did not light it, but sniffed it in front of his nose. Then he coughed twice and looked at Chen Xiao, with a calm smile on his face: "You're back?"
"Well, I'm back." Chen Xiao nodded, but looked curiously at the unlit cigarette in Lao Tian's hand.
Lao Tian was a little embarrassed and laughed: "I want to quit smoking, so I didn't dare to light it. I just took it out and smelled it."
With that said, he put away the cigarettes.
Quit smoking... Only a ghost can believe it. Since Chen Xiao met this guy, he has quit smoking almost twice a week, but he only lasts for two days at most each time.
Lao Tian walked up to Chen Xiao, looked him up and down, and said with a smile: "You look good, what's going on with you? Did you fight with someone again?"
"Yes." Chen Xiao smiled: "Sorry for making you worry."
"No way." Lao Tian waved his hand: "You are neither my son nor my grandson. What should I worry about? Besides, are you a girl? If you run out all night and stay out all night, others may take advantage of you. ..." At this point, he rolled his eyes, looked back cautiously at the store, and lowered his voice: "Keep your voice down, Zhu Rong is training the poor cook inside. This woman is very angry. She was very angry with you when you disappeared. It’s very irritating, and you’ll be in trouble if she comes out.”
After saying that, he went up and opened the champagne, and then pulled Chen Xiao out: "Let's go quickly, be careful when the flame girl comes out. It won't be pleasant to set a fire."
Champagne looked at Chen Xiao eagerly from behind: "BURBERRY..."
Chen Xiao thought for a while, then simply took off his coat and said with a smile, "I'll give it to you if you like it."
Even though his clothes were full of holes, he happily collected the champagne, then jumped back and ran back. Before leaving, he smiled at Lao Tian: "Don't worry, I won't tell Zhu Rong!"
…
Lao Tian pulled Chen Xiao out of the coffee shop quickly and walked along the unfinished street to the other end. After leaving the coffee shop, Lao Tian was not so anxious. He and Chen Xiao slowly wandered side by side on the unfinished street, deliberately stretching and squinting to enjoy the warm sunshine.
After a while, Lao Tian looked at the sky and said softly: "Is she... okay?"
"You mean..." Chen Xiao hesitated.
"The girl who took you away, Phoenix." Lao Tian smiled slightly, with a very leisurely expression: "Is she okay?"
"...It's okay." Chen Xiao nodded, paused, and asked Lao Tian: "Do you know she took me away?"
"I guessed it." Lao Tian smiled softly, put his hands behind his head, walked forward slowly, and said leisurely: "Last night, she took you to the suburban prison, and I followed you all the way. Alas... You and her..."
When Lao Tian said this, he seemed to frown, but then he continued to laugh and said: "That's all, an old guy like me won't have to say anything about you young people's affairs."
But Lao Tian's attitude made Chen Xiao couldn't help but ask further.
"Old Tian, you, do you know Phoenix?" Chen Xiao caught up with Lao Tian and looked at him: "Can you tell me, what kind of girl is she?"
"You ask me?" Lao Tian stopped, took out the cigarette again, and sniffed it in front of his nose, but his expression seemed to be a little evasive: "You and her... don't you even know her? What kind of girl is she?"
"I don't know how to describe it." Chen Xiao shook his head and said seriously: "I think she is very mysterious. There are many things that I can't understand or see through. She seems to be..." He thought for a moment and looked up. Looking at the sky: "It's like this sunshine, which makes me feel very bright, warm and comfortable, but I can't touch it or grasp it."
Lao Tian looked at Chen Xiao, but Chen Xiao's eyes were very determined. Finally, Lao Tian retreated and he sighed helplessly: "Okay, what do you want to know?"
"Everything you know." Chen Xiao looked at Lao Tian without flinching.
Lao Tian smiled and winked at Chen Xiao: "First point, don't worry, she is very young, about the same age as you. She is definitely not an old monster like Zhu Rong who looks young but is actually a hundred years old. "
Old monster... You yourself are more than four hundred years old, right
Chen Xiao couldn't help but smile.
But Lao Tian suddenly stopped smiling. He subconsciously touched his pocket, probably looking for a lighter, but couldn't find it. He couldn't help but sigh: "Oh, now I hope that guy Zhu Rong is around again."
Then, as if he was very casual, he pointed with his hand: "Let's go find a fire."
He seemed to just raise his finger to a place casually, but when Chen Xiao looked in the direction of his finger, he couldn't help but froze.
The place Lao Tian pointed to was surprisingly another shop on Luanwei Street!
It’s also the one that has never been opened!
Clockwork!
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There are several shops on the unfinished street, Zhu Rong's cigar shop, Gonggong's wine shop, Lao Tian's car repair shop, and the coffee shop that Chen Xiao is now responsible for.
But apart from that, there is also a clock shop that has been closed on the unfinished street. When Chen Xiao first came here, he once heard Zhu Rong talk about it, as if the owner of this watch shop was their friend, but later he left for some reason.
This clock shop has always been closed and never opened. And when the few old guys from Luanwei Street were together, they would never mention this place in their words, as if they would never mention this unhappy matter.
But at this moment, Lao Tian...
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Before Chen Xiao came back to his senses, Lao Tian had already walked directly towards the watch shop, and even waved back to Chen Xiao: "Come here, what are you doing standing still?"
The door of the watch shop was closed, the lock hanging on the door was rusty, and the rolling iron door was covered with dust.
Lao Tian raised his head and looked around like a thief, then quickly touched his arms, and finally took out a key!
"Haha, Zhu Rong and Gonggong don't know, but I have always had the key here." Lao Tian said, inserting the key into the lock, twisting it lightly, and heard a click, and the lock opened.
"Don't tell them!" Lao Tian made a gesture to shut up, then quickly opened the door and ducked in. After Chen Xiao followed him in, Lao Tian quickly closed the door and made sure no one saw him. Then he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
The rolling door blocked the sunlight, making the store very dark. The air was a little stuffy, but it didn't seem dirty or turbid.
There wasn't even much dust on the display windows and counter glass inside.
"Actually... I often come here quietly by myself, behind Zhu Rong and Gonggong's back, to clean this place." Lao Tian seemed to smile, then walked behind the counter, felt under it for a while, and found the lamp. switch.
Snapped.
The lights are on. The store was bright.
This clock shop covers an area of about 100 square meters. The walls are covered with clocks of various shapes, square, round, flat, angular, and two ancient pendulum clocks. It's just that it's been too long, all the clocks have stopped, and the hands on the clocks are pointing in different directions, looking messy.
In the window next to it, there are various small and exquisite clocks.
It can be seen that this place is more like a watch collection store. Because Chen Xiao saw several old and classic brand-name clocks in the window.
Here, I even saw a few old-fashioned mechanical Swiss watches.
"Tissot from the 1980s? Yi? Is this a plum blossom watch? It looks so strange. Wow, this seems to be the first watch made by Bulgari! Is it a replica?"
In addition to some modern clocks, there are also some ancient pocket watches, hanging watches and the like placed in the windows further inside, all of which look like antiques.
Chen Xiao stared at the things in the window with his mouth open.
If these things are not imitations but genuine ones... then their value would be amazing! What is unimaginable is that there are so many priceless watches here, but they are just closed casually with such a metal rolling door...
Lao Tian stood next to Chen Xiao, quietly looking at everything in the window, his face and eyes were a little complicated.
Chen Xiao turned around and said, "Old Tian, this place..."
Lao Tian raised his hand and pointed to the wall on the upper left: "This watch shop has a history of more than a hundred years. In recent years, the last shop owner moved to this place. Look at the wall there. , all hanging are photos of the previous owners of this watch shop.”
Chen Xiao looked in the direction of his finger, and after just one glance, he was stunned! !
A row of photos hangs on the wall.
The first one is an old, yellowed black-and-white photo. Judging from the sharpness and wear and tear of the photo, and from a technical point of view, it is obviously an extremely old photo.
In the black and white photo, an oriental woman smiles gently. Although the primitive photography technology seriously distorts her beauty, even so, the woman's smile in the photo is still so graceful and moving, and her eyes are as bright and bright as the bright moon.
What particularly surprised Chen Xiao was that this woman's appearance was 90% similar to that of Phoenix... If you hadn't looked carefully, you would have almost thought she was Phoenix herself!
"This is the first owner of this watch shop." Lao Tian stared blankly at the woman in the black and white photo, with a hint of infatuation and a hint of obsession in his eyes, and said quietly: "Her name is It’s called Mingyue.”