Xincheng Street is located in a prosperous urban area of Jiangdu. Although it is not a pedestrian street where people come and go, because the road in the middle is a major traffic road, and there are communities and schools behind the street, both sides of the road are bustling commercial areas, and you can walk a few steps. You can see shopping malls, cinemas and various restaurants and coffee shops full of petty bourgeoisie. It can be said that it is the favorite place for young people.
Moreover, the pedestrian streets on both sides of the road have become a famous scenic line in Xincheng Street after being renovated once. The sidewalks specially designed for the urban environment are paved with light-colored floor tiles in different patterns. Eye-catching. Green bushes and new street lights have also been added alongside the sidewalk, carefully separating off the sidewalk from the noisy main road.
There are also some transplanted cherry trees planted among the green bushes, all of which are local varieties with twigs and branches, and have already passed the flowering period, but you can also imagine the crowded scene of this street in April next year.
The four-lane road can be regarded as a large road in the bustling urban area, and there are bicycle lanes specially painted in brick red on both sides, which adds a slow-paced comfort to the busy big city of Jiangdu.
"A Cup of Tea Bookstore" is a new type of bookstore located near the sidewalk at a certain intersection of Xincheng Street. Because of its strategic location, business is as good as the "Flower Tea Garden" next to it.
Although both stores have "tea" in their names, the "Flower Tea Garden" mainly sells the store environment full of flowers, various kinds of scented teas of its own brand, and tea tasting in the tea room in the store, while "A Cup of Tea Bookstore" It is a two-in-one product of an ordinary bookstore and a coffee milk tea shop, so the main directions of the two stores are different, each has its own audience, and occasionally attracts each other's audience. The business is good, and the relationship between the two stores is also good.
I always thought that the life and business in Xincheng Street would continue like this, but suddenly one day, Xu Yuan, a summer worker of "a cup of tea bookstore", a boy who was a sophomore when he started school, suddenly found a piece of paper. Very strange thing.
That is between "a cup of tea bookstore" and "flower tea garden"... There is one more store!
When I discovered this, it was eight in the morning. Xu Yuan, who was rushing to open the store, took his bag and got off the beautiful bus with street characteristics. He hurried to the "A Cup of Tea Bookstore", and then found himself The two familiar stores seem to have been suddenly separated by the wizards of the magical world, and a completely unfamiliar and impossible store is squeezed into the middle!
There is only such a long distance in the street, how can there be no impact at all with such a store? !
And the glass window of this store looks very atmospheric, not like a small store in a gap.
Xu Yuan subconsciously wanted to observe the entire street and the shops he knew well, but when he carefully wanted to count and measure, he felt a pain in his head, and he kept getting dizzy.
"Xu Yuan, what's the matter with you?" Walking out of the "Flower Tea Garden" was a clean-looking girl wearing a floral apron. She was Xu Yuan's college classmate Su Yi. An ordinary girl with a warm smile, but also the reason why Xu Yuan came to the "Cup of Tea Bookstore" to work.
Xu Yuan knew that "Flower Tea Garden" seemed to be Su Yi's mother's shop, and she would work here throughout the holidays, so she went to work at "A Cup of Tea Books" just across the wall. But now, there is a whole store that appears like magic between them!
"I don't know if I'm dazzled, or if I'm crazy... Su Yi, have you seen this store?"
The store that Xu Yuan was looking directly at had a beautiful but easily overlooked signboard with gold characters on a white background, with words like "Safe in a corner" written on it. However, Xu Yuan didn't worry too much about the name of the store. After all, there were many similar petty bourgeois literary and art stores on this street, and there were all kinds of compelling ones. What he struggled with was only the way this store appeared.
"Oh, this store seems to have opened last night, and my mother said that I seldom see a store that opened at night." Su Yi's face was always smiling, "but the store has been empty for so long, and it will be a good idea to open a new store. Not surprisingly."
"No, this store didn't exist yesterday!" Xu Yuan gestured his hands anxiously, "Isn't it the only two stores here?"
"Yeah, this place was closed before, and the new store opened last night." Su Yi and Xu Yuan were not on the same channel at all, and their faces were taken for granted.
"No, Su Yi, look at our street. How could there be any empty stores here? Our two stores are originally next to each other, and there are no other stores in between!" Xu Yuan looked a little excited.
He didn't understand why Su Yi was so calm, was he the only one who thought something was wrong with this store
"You're so weird today." Su Yi took a step back, as if she felt a little scary for Xu Yuan who was talking loudly, "Don't say it, I'm still counting the things in the store, I feel like a thief has visited, although the lost things are not A lot, but you still open the store right away to see it?"
Thief
When Xu Yuan heard Su Yi say this, he put the inexplicable store aside first, and hurriedly took out the key to open the store. After all, last night was the last bookstore he left.
The layout of "a cup of tea bookstore" is actually very simple. The boss divides the space into two floors. The bottom is an ordinary bookstore, and the coffee and milk tea service is provided above. This layout reduces some people who sit in the bookstore and read books but do not buy them. More people who like to read books can go upstairs to sit and read slowly after buying books, so business has been good.
As soon as Xu Yuan entered, he looked around and found that the store was still as neat as it was when he left last night, and there were no signs of being pryed at the cashier counter or the like. Xu Yuan was relieved.
As long as the money is all right, and other issues are not big, it is impossible for a thief to work so hard to get into the store just to steal the book, right
"Hello, is the store open?"
Just as Xu Yuan wanted to go out to see the store again, he saw a figure appear at the door of the bookstore. It was a strange customer. At least Xu Yuan had been working in the store for nearly two months, and he had never seen anyone like him.
Gao Xiao, Qing Jun, fair-skinned and long-legged, even if he doesn't look at his face, Xu Yuan feels that the other party is the kind of person who will become a famous person when he enters the campus, and then there will be a support group fan meeting girls who will set off a bloody storm." shape".
After Xu Yuan can see the other party's face clearly... Well, maybe both men and women will have a bloody fight for him.
Few could resist the silver chain of glasses that slid across the neck, and the smiling, curved eyes behind the lenses, and the face that only seemed to come to mind when drawing ideas.
And for some reason, Xu Yuan suddenly felt that the guest's smile was similar to Su Yi's, but because of her excellent appearance, the warm-looking smile was more dazzling and heart-pounding than Su Yi's!
Xu Yuan felt that he was a person who had experienced a lot of wind and waves, and had seen many things that ordinary humans have never seen before, but he still lost his mind when he saw the person coming, and then he reacted and greeted: " Welcome, we are open for business."
"Thank you." The visitor walked in with long legs, his body and temperament were first-class, and after entering the bookstore area, Xu Yuan, who was standing behind the cashier, stared at his back.
That kind of feeling is not a sudden infatuation, and most people will not suddenly fall in love because of each other's appearance. Xu Yuan is like seeing the most beautiful flowers in the window of a flower shop. Although he has no money to buy it, he can't help repeating it. to see.
He watched the guest walk from the children's area to the student tutoring area, then to the bestsellers area, and then quickly walked to the front of the counter with a few books, smiling and placing the books next to the cash register.
Logically speaking, there should be no student tutoring books in a petty bourgeois place like "A Cup of Tea Bookstore", but Xu Yuan's boss finally couldn't resist the crazy high income of tutoring books during the summer vacation, so he still made a shelf, but the income was not good. vulgar.
But after seeing that the guest in front of him had bought "300 Sets of Selected Exercises of Xiaoshengchu: Answer Book", Xu Yuan still glanced at him curiously. After all, this guest did not look like a child, maybe it was Bought for my younger brother at home.
Aside from the answer book, this guest bought some ordinary bestsellers, and nothing else seemed out of the ordinary.
"A total of 114 yuan." After Xu Yuan had cleaned all the books, he skillfully put the books in the bag, "Mobile payment or cash payment?"
"cash."
The guest put a few banknotes on the cash register, and then took the bag of books from Xu Yuan's hand. Xu Yuan lowered his head and counted the banknotes in his hand. After realizing that the customer had given three hundred, he wanted to look up and return the money, but found that the customer had turned away and even opened the door of the bookstore and walked out. .
"guest!"
Xu Yuan hurriedly rushed out, but did not find the customer in the busy work crowd. If it weren't for the fact that the three banknotes were still lying quietly on the cashier counter, Xu Yuan would even think that the person was just an illusion he imagined when he was sleepy.
Half an hour after the "A Cup of Tea Bookstore" opened, the clerk who joined Xu Yuan was late.
"Brother Qi, have you seen the newly opened store next door?" Xu Yuan asked again without giving up.
"Yeah, they did open a new store, but I can't tell what they are selling." The full-time cashier responded casually, not at all surprised by the appearance of that store.
"Don't you think... That store seems to have popped up out of thin air? Wasn't the 'Flower Tea Garden' next door to us before?" Xu Yuan still wanted to hear the answer he wanted from the other party.
But the cashier just smiled and said, "Xiao Xu, what are you thinking? Isn't the next door always empty?"
"… "
After handing over the work at hand to a full-time colleague, Xu Yuan temporarily left the bookstore on the pretext that he hadn't had breakfast yet. He still couldn't figure out where the store next door came from, so he decided to go in and have a look himself. .
Xu Yuan walked directly outside the store, looked up at the inconspicuous golden sign on a white background, and then looked into the store through the glass window. He saw that there were actually two flower beds inside the window, with tall plants planted inside. The green plants, which looked like some kind of unopened flowers, took up two large spaces. Xu Yuan rarely sees people planting so many words in the store. After all, everyone has to pay attention to the problem of pests, and the store called "An Yu Yi Yi" obviously doesn't care about these things.
The glass window clearly looked very bright, but when Xu Yuan wanted to continue to look inside, he found that he couldn't continue to see clearly because of the reflection of the mirror, so after a moment of hesitation, he simply pushed the door and walked in.
"welcome."
After walking into "A Corner of Peace", Xu Yuan felt a little different, because when the store door closed behind him, he found that the whole store was so quiet that he could hear a needle falling on the ground, and the air was very quiet. All seem to have a fresh scent that lifts the spirits.
The interior of the store is mainly decorated with white wood. The wooden counters, wooden shelves and wooden fences around the flowerbed are all white, with beautiful wood grain, which looks quite natural. Besides, there seem to be a lot of green plants in the store. In addition to the flowerbed, there are also drooping ivy on the two shelves, and a large pot of green radish that can cover people is placed on the counter inside.
There is also a set of white European-style round tables and chairs in the store, and tender green radishes are also placed on the table.
At a glance...
Xu Yuan really didn't see what the store was selling.
There are tables, shelves, and flower beds, but I don’t know if it’s because of the newly opened business, the store doesn’t have the feeling of being full of goods like a normal store, and even people don’t know what to buy for a while.
Moreover, Xu Yuan had walked in for several minutes, but he still hadn't heard the "Welcome" that he should have heard.
Except for Xu Yuan, there was only one "person" in the store. That person should be the store clerk. He was wearing a black shirt, buttoned all the way to the neckline, and covered very tightly, but his face didn't look serious. Man, his face is pale, his lips are reddish but tightly pursed, and there are even some demonic tattoo "stickers" next to his slightly longer eyes, like flying tail feathers.
The other party stood quietly behind the counter, staring directly at the tablet computer in front of him. He was holding a stirring rod in his slender and well-bonded right hand, and was mixing an unknown drink in a large glass jug. His fingers were a little dazzlingly white. , the texture is like jade that has been hidden underground for a long time, and occasionally when it touches the glass teapot, it makes a light and crisp sound.
In short, he didn't even look at Xu Yuan who entered the store.
"Cough cough." Xu Yuan, who was ignored, couldn't help coughing lightly.
The "clerk" who noticed the arrival of the customer finally turned his head and raised his eyebrows, but his eyes seemed to be looking at the big pumpkin in the field.
At this time, Xu Yuan realized that the "clerk"'s eyes did not seem to be black. Although the color was very dark and deep, the moment he raised his head, his eyes seemed to be a little red under the illumination of the light.
Xu Yuan suspected that the other party's eyes should be dark red, but he didn't know if this guy with a strange temperament had special contact lenses.
"Ghost Umbrella, is the guest here?" The back door of the store also suddenly opened at this time, and a figure Xu Yuan was very familiar with walked out from behind the door. It was the one who I met in the bookstore before. "Or "careless" guests.
"How is it? Ye Ning's fruit tea ingredients are not bad, right? Drinking water and a kettle are also prepared for you." The customer walked over to the "clerk" and leaned slightly towards the colorful glass pot. Approaching the "clerk"'s arm, his eyelashes drooped, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, making Xu Yuan, who was watching beside him, a little flustered.
The two people in front of him are completely different types. The guest has a jade-like temperament, elegant and gentle. When he stretched out his hand to lightly hold his glasses, the corners of his eyes seemed to be full of smiles, like a famous flower that blooms in a warm environment. And the clerk's aura was cold, but he was full of demonic aura, like a dead branch in a bonsai. I don't know how long it took to lose, but a red flower suddenly bloomed at the end of the branch.
The temperament of the two people is different, but when they stand together, it is like a blooming flower in a bonsai with dead branches, which is quite a scene.
After all... still good-looking, right
"Sorry, what do the customers want?" When Su Zimo stood up straight, he had already recognized that the new customer who entered the store was the clerk of the bookstore next door, but he didn't know why the other party ran into the "An Yu Yi corner" for a while. , just standing there motionless.
In the morning, in order to compensate for the small losses caused by the penniless Ghost Umbrella to the two stores on the left and right, Su Zimo took the money and ran to both sides, and asked Ye Ning to prepare some prepared in the house. The scented tea and fruit tea materials made the ghost umbrella who was addicted to making tea dispel the idea of "borrowing from friendly neighbors".
But I don’t know if it’s because of the daytime, this special shop has been doing bad business all the time. The only business in the morning is a young lady who is in a hurry to go out and spends a dollar to buy it from the shop in a hurry. With a pack of "Nightmare Card Rolling Paper", the entire transaction process was smooth and very ordinary.
Later, some people came to the store for a stroll, but because they couldn't find what they wanted in the store, they shook their heads and walked out in disappointment.
In the process of entertaining the guests, Su Zimo also discovered a very strange thing, that is, those guests who entered the "A Corner of Peace" didn't seem to see the goods on the second shelf. When Su Zimo led them to the second shelf When the number of shelves was selected, every customer had a puzzled expression on their face, and some even got angry because they felt that they were being teased.
Therefore, Su Zimo is almost certain that those ghost weapons with star ratings seem to be difficult for ordinary people to see. Ordinary people can see ordinary goods, and special people can see special goods.
It's just that for today's "comfortable in a corner", ordinary commodities are too few and too rudimentary.
"Guest, what do you need?" Su Zimo saw that the bookstore clerk was still in a daze, so he could only ask again aloud.
And the little clerk kept looking around with weird eyes, and kept looking at Su Zimo and Ghost Umbrella.
Having said that, the bookstore clerk walked over to the set of white tables and chairs and sat down carefully.
This set of white tables and chairs was found by Su Zimo from the warehouse behind the main house. They are considered courtyard tables and chairs that have been eliminated, but they still look complete and clean.
Looking at the bookstore clerk sitting there, Su Zimo lightly tapped his fingers on the counter, and then whispered, "How about pouring your special tea for the guests?"
Ghost Umbrella was worried about the fruit tea that was about to overflow in the oversized glass pot. After listening to Su Zimo's words, the red in the bottom of his eyes seemed to be deeper, and he immediately walked out from behind the counter with the huge glass pot in one hand. It was very easy, but I couldn't feel the weight that the glass pot should have.
Putting the huge glass in the other hand in front of the guests, Ghost Umbrella stood tall, straightened his back, and poured the fruit tea brewed in the glass pot.
The guest seemed to be frightened by the way the ghost umbrella was pouring the tea, so he leaned his body back instantly, and in the end was surprised to see that all the fruit tea was poured into the glass precisely, and it was just filled , not a drop.
"That... I didn't order a drink." The guest shied away with some refusal, but was frightened by the terrifying stare of the ghost umbrella standing beside him, and did not dare to get up and leave.
Maybe it was the relationship between some peers, and the other party might see that the "material" in the ghost umbrella glass pot was too extravagant, not like the lemonade that some generous shops used to entertain guests for free.
"This is a free gift, and guests can refill after drinking." After Su Zimo glanced at the counter hidden by Luluo, he found that the six large glass pots he asked the maid to prepare were filled with ghost umbrellas. The "experimental product", if no one drinks it, may soon have to ferment.
Although it seems that this way of business is a bit of a loss, Su Zimo didn't plan from the beginning that this store would be profitable in terms of human money.
And only when the service is attentive, the guests will be in the mood to buy those goods that are used to exchange for Yushou, right
So catch one is one!
Thinking of this, Su Zimo's face burst into a smile that made people feel like a spring breeze, and he instantly stared at the guest who just held the glass.
Because the fruit tea in the cup was too full, the guest took a big sip carefully. After feeling the refreshing sweetness of the fruit tea, he couldn't help drinking it.
But even when he was holding a glass, the guests seemed to be looking at Su Zimo who was standing at the counter through the glass.
Su Zimo lowered his head and completed the homework assigned by Su Hewen, so he did not see Ghost Umbrella looking down at the guest, the huge glass pot hooked with two fingers tilted down again, and the cup in the guest's hand was dropped from the sky before it was put down. The fruit tea is filled again.
"Ah!" Like magic, after finding that the cup in his hand was full again, the guest almost didn't hold it, and hurriedly stepped forward to take another sip.
"Thank you, thank you." I have to say, this kind of... "amazing" service can make people feel a little scared.
"You're welcome, please concentrate on enjoying." Ghost umbrella leaned over slightly, emphasizing the word "concentrate".
It was clear that Su Zimo had already returned to the back of the counter, but he couldn't help following the sight of the customer. After he drank most of the second cup of fruit tea in his hand, he looked down and found that... the cup was full again.
The glass used to entertain guests is very large, almost 600ml. Even if the first glass can be barely drank, it is impossible to be thirsty again by the second glass.
But in the blink of an eye, the guest drank a full four cups under Ghost Umbrella's eyes. He felt that he had to go to the bathroom, but just as he was about to put down the cup and get up, he found that the fruit tea in the cup...was full again.
"I think, I know what to buy." The customer, Xu Yuan, a college student from the bookstore next door, got up in a hurry, and after scanning the various daily necessities of unknown brands on the first shelf, he walked to the second shelf, casually. He pointed to the mirror on top, "How can I buy this mirror?"
In the eyes of the guests, it was a European-style round mirror with white carved flowers, a gift suitable for family members, and the only item on the second shelf that looked normal.
But as soon as the guest's voice fell, Su Zimo behind the counter immediately stood up, walked to the second shelf, and asked in surprise, "Can you see this mirror?"
Su Zimo had tried several times before, and ordinary customers who entered the store could not see any products on the second shelf at all, so the customer in front of him was the first one.
"This problem is exactly the same as when I saw your store before." The customer looked up and looked around the not-so-small storefront, "This store seems to have popped up suddenly, in our store and the flower tea store next door. It's really weird that a different space that doesn't exist in between is created."
Su Zimo felt certain that among the customers he had questioned, the bookstore clerk in front of him was the only one who thought their store was strange.
"Hello, I'm Su Zimo, the owner of the store, I'm the ink of the pen and ink. I remember you are from the bookstore next door?"
"Yes, my name is Xu Yuan, the source of the source, a student working in the bookstore next door."
"You must have been to some very magical places, right?" Su Zimo asked tentatively.
"Huh?" Xu Yuan seemed very surprised that Su Zimo asked this question, and after thinking about it, he said, "It should be, it's a place that ordinary people wouldn't want to go to."
"Is it dangerous?" Su Zimo asked again, raising his eyebrows.
"..." Xu Yuan was silent again, and then continued to speak after a long time, "Sometimes there will be some dangers, but I never go there alone, so the dangers can also be overcome."
"It doesn't sound like a particularly good tourist attraction, but it sounds like Mr. Xu has to go." Su Zimo looked at the mirror that Xu Yuan had chosen at the beginning, and his slender fingers crossed the mirror. , "In this case, I think our store has more suitable products than front mirrors."
"Really?" Xu Yuan looked a little absent-minded. He didn't know whether it was because he was not interested in what to say, or because he was anxious to find the bathroom.
"How about this one?" Su Zimo picked up the delicate perfume spray bottle next to it, and through the bottle, you could see most of the liquid inside, "Maybe you will use it the next time you travel."
The label just below the "perfume" said the price of 200 yuan, so Xu Yuan quickly waved his hand and said with a smile: "Sorry, I don't have a girlfriend, and I don't have the habit of spraying myself with perfume, and we travel in general places. It's all backcountry, and there's no time for this kind of stuff."
"Guest, you are mistaken, this is not perfume." Boss Su raised his lips, "This bottle contains 'holy water', which can be used to exorcise evil spirits!"
When he pronounced the word "special ghost", Su Zimo specially emphasized it, and then saw Xu Yuan's face, who was standing opposite him, turn pale.
Sure enough, the customers of this shop should be experienced practitioners, or some other non-human beings.