Huasheng Street is very popular on Saturday morning.
This street was once called "foreign street" because it sold more foreign goods in the early years, and now it has evolved into a comprehensive commercial street. There are all kinds of shops on both sides of the street, clothing, department stores, handicrafts... a dazzling array.
Looking around, there are countless shops on both sides of the street, and there are various mobile vendors selling toys, balloons, flowers and snacks on the street.
It was the weekend, and there were a lot of people shopping. Standing at the intersection, Xiao Yining and his party were a little dazed.
Because I don't know the specific store name and address, looking for that Feng Shui sword seems to be a needle in a haystack right now.
Mi You, who came here for the first time, looked at the noisy street and thought about the difficulty of finding an antique shop, so she couldn't help asking Lin Xiu: "Is this street long?"
As soon as he could see, he saw the names of two shops that were related to Wenwan. Lin Xiu replied a little stiffly: "It's not short."
So what to do
The two turned their heads to look at Xiao Yining.
Xiao Yining turned his head and greeted with confidence: "Come with me."
Although he is a road idiot, Xiao Yining is not a problem for this kind of directional looking for things instead of finding the way.
She took Miyou and Lin Xiu to find a secluded alley, took out a fairy-inviting talisman folded into a triangle from her bag, pinched the talisman with her left hand, pinched a finger with her right hand, and silently recited the fairy-inviting mantra.
In just a few breaths of time, a yellow light and shadow pounced on him, it was Huang Xian'er who was best at tracking.
Xiao Yining closed his eyes and meditated: "Disciple Xiao Shi, looking for a refined steel Fengshui sword. It was enshrined by the Lin family. It is full of viciousness. It was just bought by an antique dealer on Huasheng Street."
After thinking twice, she opened her eyes, and there was a faint yellow light in the depths of her eyes.
In front of her eyes, a yellow line floated in the air and slowly stretched towards Huasheng Street.
It's done!
Xiao Yining was overjoyed, and quickly greeted Mi You and Lin Xiu: "Follow me."
Xiao Yining kept walking along the yellow line. The yellow line meanders forward, like a small animal running around various obstacles and pedestrians with sensitive movements, and finally stops at the door of a store, blinks a few times, and disappears.
"It's here."
Xiao Yining looked up, and there was an antique wooden plaque hanging above the store door, with the words "Boyuanzhai" written on it. There is also a pair of couplets hanging on both sides of the store door, the first couplet: Antique, full of antiques and elegant rhyme. The second couplet: Trendy and new, a crescent moon writes Chunhui.
This is indeed an antique and play store. It's a pity that the store door is locked at the moment, and the lights inside are not turned on. You can only see the antique racks in the store through the glass window.
Lin Xiu stepped forward and pushed the door: "Didn't it open?" She knocked a few times and tentatively called inside: "Is anyone there? Boss?"
No one answered.
"Then, is that sword there?" Mi You tentatively looked inside.
Xiao Yining patted her: "Do you know him? You haven't seen that sword before, have you? Let Lin Xiu see it."
Lin Xiu obediently opened the door and tried hard to identify the things on the shelf through the glass, but she didn't see the sword.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
A middle-aged woman's voice came from the side.
The three girls turned around when they heard the sound, and saw a woman in a red coat who looked about forty years old in the nearby clothing store, who was pushing open the door of the clothing store and asked, "Who are you looking for?"
Xiao Yining smiled: "Ah, hello sister, we're looking for the boss of Boyuanzhai, why isn't their house open?"
"Yeah, yeah," Miyou echoed, "Isn't it time to open the door? What time do we have to wait for it to open?"
The woman in the red coat simply came out, pointed at the door of Boyuanzhai and said, "Boyuanzhai hasn't opened for the past two days, and their boss has something to do. Don't wait here."
"Ah?" Xiao Yining was a little disappointed: "We traveled a long way, why can't we catch up?"
The red coat sighed: "In their family, the men usually go outside to receive the goods, and the proprietress looks after the store. But the proprietress found out that she had diabetes a few days ago, and it was quite serious. If there were any complications, she was directly hospitalized. No, just No one is opening a shop."
"Ah, this..." The three girls looked at each other.
At this time, some customers walked into the clothing store, and the red coat didn't bother to talk to them, and turned back to the store to greet the customers.
Lin Xiu's face was ugly: "Could it be because of that sword? Otherwise, why would there be no accident sooner or later, and it happened to catch up with this time and find out that he was seriously ill."
Xiao Yining frowned: "It's hard to say, although I haven't seen where the sword is, there is a high probability that it is in this shop."
Miyou was anxious: "But we can't get in, how can we deal with this?"
Lin Xiu shook her head: "Even if it goes in, it will be very difficult to deal with. I can't just say that there is something wrong with this sword, otherwise even if the boss doesn't let me buy it back on the spot, he will definitely go back and find trouble with my cousin. My aunt has already Let’s go, what can we do if we make a fuss again now.”
Xiao Yining agrees with Lin Xiu's words: "Besides, people may not believe you if you say it. After all, you paid a lot of money to buy it back. But if you don't say it, it will be difficult for us to get in touch with that sword directly."
"What's the use of talking about it now, we can't even get in, and we can't even see the sword." Mi You concluded.
Things are at an impasse.
In any case, this trip was a failure. Although the three girls were all concerned about the seriously ill lady owner of the antique shop, they could only shelve the matter for the time being until there was no better solution.
Maybe it was God's will in the dark, that night, Xiao Yining had a dream.
In the dream, she was standing at the door of a store with familiar couplets hanging on both sides of the store door. It was the antique shop "Boyuanzhai" that she had visited during the day. A thin, haggard middle-aged man came over, opened the door of Boyuan Zhai with a key, and walked in. Within a few minutes, he came out again holding several wooden boxes.
For some reason, Xiao Yining felt that the Feng Shui sword must be in these boxes.
The middle-aged man drove a long distance with the wooden box to a temple. He gave the wooden box to a master in the temple, and the master accepted it with folded hands. The middle-aged man did not leave, he turned around and went to the main hall of the temple, offered incense, then knelt down three times and kowtowed devoutly and respectfully, and finally hung a red ribbon for wishing under the wishing tree in the temple.
Xiao Yining saw that the red ribbon was written stroke by stroke: May my wife be in good health and live a long life.
When he woke up, Xiao Yining breathed a sigh of relief, and told Mi You and Lin Xiu the news he got in the dream.
Miyou was a little emotional: "So he probably donated all the antiques and toys he had recently collected to the temple, just because his wife fell ill after that, and he thought it was unlucky that these hindered his wife's health."
"Don't worry." Xiao Yining said: "Loving couples will have a longer-term fate. He may not know the real problem with that Feng Shui sword, but because he loves his wife, even if there is only a little unlucky factor, He'll try to figure it out."
Love may be a more powerful force than metaphysics.
(end of this chapter)