After staying in the Internet cafe for several hours, Xia Lian didn't know whether he was awake or fell asleep. When it was close to five o'clock and six o'clock, Xia Lian was driven away by the pain in his left leg. The last trace of sleepiness. Seeing the sky outside the glass door of the Internet cafe begin to brighten, Xia Lian got up and went to the front desk of the Internet cafe to check out, and took advantage of the dawn to go out to take a breather. You must know that the turbid air in the Internet cafe is not pleasant, although people feel more secure, But the concentration of second-hand smoke almost cost him a few years of life on the spot.
Slowly walking on the road, it is too early to go to work at this hour, the gate of the office building is probably not open, Xia Lian was thinking about whether to find a breakfast shop that opened earlier to cushion his stomach, when he heard the jingling of bells After a sound, Xia Lian, who was still in the sensitive stage of nerves, immediately turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a thin old woman bending over tremblingly in the alley on his left, struggling to pick up The plastic bag that I accidentally picked up just now, and the cans that rolled all over the floor.
A pot rolled to his feet, Xia Lian squatted down to pick it up, walked towards Grandma and picked up all the pots on the road. It is not easy to pack the cans early in the morning. Originally, Xia Lian thought that grandma would be a bit dirty and overwhelmed by life. When he approached, Grandma just turned around to accept the jar he handed over, and when he met his eyes, he realized that Grandma's eyes were very lively, even a little sharp. His hair was gray but neatly combed, and his clothes looked old, but they were all clean and neat.
Grandma was also watching Xia Lian at the same time. After taking the cans and thanking her, she put them into another unbroken big bag.
Xia Lian turned around and was about to leave, but Grandma stretched out her hand and grabbed him: "Don't go!"
"Huh?"
"Your face is dark, and you look a little weak. Did you provoke something bad recently?" Although Grandma is a head and a half shorter than Xia Lian, her palms are very strong. Look up and ask.
"You can see something's wrong with me?"
"Of course, young man, judging by the way you look now, your days are numbered..."
"What can you do?" Seeing that Grandma guessed his situation just by observing him, she seemed quite powerful. With a dead horse as a live horse doctor, Xia Lian told his grandmother in detail all the strange things he encountered in the rental house these days.
"According to what you said, there is still salvation now." Grandma replied confidently after hearing what Xia Lian said.
"Then how can I save it?"
"I have a box of incense here." While speaking, Grandma turned sideways and opened the linen bag she had been carrying all this time, found a dark red palm-sized wooden box and a silver rectangular utensil from inside, and handed them to Xia Lian, "You Every morning and evening, I light a piece of incense in the rental house and put it in this device. People are also smoking in the house, and after this box of incense is finished, all the human-shaped mildew spots you mentioned will disappear."
"Then the handprint on my leg?"
"They'll all disappear too. They're all gone, and the fingerprints are naturally gone too. Young man, don't worry~" Grandma was talking, and she stuffed the wooden box and utensils into Xia Lian's palm.
Clenching the objects in his hands tightly, Xia Lian didn't know whether these things would be useful, but the grandmother who happened to meet him helped him so enthusiastically, which really warmed his heart.
"Thank you so much, mother-in-law."
"Hey, you're welcome, young man. This box of incense is 280 yuan, and the utensils that hold the incense are 200 yuan. The total charge is 480 yuan."
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Xia Lian really never expected such a development.
Seeing that Xia Lian fell into silence and did not respond, Grandma seemed to have reacted suddenly, and immediately said empatheticly: "Young man, do you not bring cash? I know that many young people don't like to bring cash now. It's okay, you want to scan the QR code?" Or swipe the card?" With lightning speed, Grandma skillfully took out the paper and machine full of QR codes from her satchel, and stared at Xia Lian with piercing eyes.
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