An Jiu recounted the scene he saw back then.
"I only learned from Boss Gu later that this kind of requiem loves to stay near people who are dying, especially those with stronger souls."
"Because it is said that when a person has a strong soul, while the requiem bird sings, it will also absorb part of the other person's soul."
Meng Xiaotao's fingers moved slightly, and there was a magnificent wave in her heart, but she didn't show the slightest on her face.
She pretended not to understand, and asked, "Why does Boss Gu bring this bird back?"
An Jiu shook his head, just about to open his mouth to speak.
But I don't know when Boss Gu will come back, even sitting in a chair, taking a sip of tea leisurely.
"No, I brought it back after looking good." Gu Huaiyu's voice was extremely weak, it seemed that it was the same reason.
The mist from the tea gradually covered the expression on her face.
For some reason Meng Xiaotao's heart suddenly jumped quickly.
There was a grin reluctantly at the corner of his mouth, and the voice said dryly, "Oh, this way, I thought it was the reason."
Gu Huaiyu didn't speak any more.
An Jiu didn't know when, seeing that the atmosphere was not right, he sneaked away.
After a long time, Gu Huaiyu sighed.
Put the teacup in his hand on the table.
The sound of the cup colliding with the table top broke the frozen atmosphere in the store.
"Little Tao, I don't know what's wrong with you recently." Gu Huaiyu said, "but I hope you can understand that no matter what happens in the future, don't do unnecessary things."
Meng Xiaotao's voice was dry, and her fingers were bent together because of entanglement, "But what if I want to change that..."
Gu Huaiyu's gaze fell on her, and her tone became colder than ever before, "I just said that no matter what will happen in the future, you can't change it, and don't do superfluous things."
Meng Xiaotao fell silent.
Gu Huaiyu looked at her, but finally his heart softened. She said softly, "Xiao Tao, obedient."
Meng Xiaotao felt very wronged in her heart, and there was no sound, but her tears fell on the table.
Gu Huaiyu stepped forward and wiped her tears away.
"You are like this, how can I rest assured you." Her tone was very helpless.
Meng Xiaotao raised her tearful little face, her voice choked a little, like a child who doesn't want adults to leave, so he is snarling, "Then don't leave us."
Gu Huaiyu only sighed and did not answer her.
Rubbing her head quietly.
After a long time, Meng Xiaotao finally stopped crying.
It's just that her eyes are now swollen like a walnut.
It was red and swollen, and even looked a bit funny.
Gu Huaiyu handed her the towel soaked in hot water, "Apply it."
Meng Xiaotao didn't answer, so she looked straight at her without saying a word.
Gu Huaiyu was helpless, and finally pointed to her to do it himself.
While helping Meng Xiaotao put her eyes on, she said slowly in her ear, "Xiaotao, you have to understand that no one can stay with you all the time."
"If Xiao Jiu knows, he will definitely be like me." Meng Xiaotao said.
Gu Huaiyu's hand that helped her put the towel on stopped suddenly, but then continued, with a weak voice, but he was quite sure.
"He won't know."
Meng Xiaotao didn't speak any more, and the shop fell silent again.
After Gu Huaiyu finished what was on her hands, she sighed silently as she looked at the invisible Meng Xiaotao.
"If you take a rest today, leave things alone in the store," Gu Huaiyu said.
Immediately, she turned and left, but she seemed to remember something, paused in her footsteps, and said, "The matter in the basement, I assume you have never entered."
She wasn't sure if Meng Xiaotao had ever entered.
It's just that Gu Huaiyu didn't want this matter to be the rock in her heart, so she made Meng Xiaotao pretend that she had never entered.
It doesn't care if she actually went in.
Meng Xiaotao didn't speak, and kept silent all the time, looking very depressed.
After this incident, the store seemed to have restored the atmosphere of the past.
It's just that Meng Xiaotao would be in a daze from time to time, not knowing what he was thinking.
And An Jiu tried to use various methods to pry out the cause of her troubles from her mouth every day.
Until this day, a strange thing was received in the store.
Antique shops not only need to sell antiques at fair prices.
Sometimes, some goods will be purchased.
It is already two o'clock in the morning at night.
Generally this time is the heaviest yin qi of the day.
Therefore, the customers who come in to buy and sell are not necessarily people, and sometimes they are stranger customers.
Meng Xiaotao stared at the counter with a tangled face, with the crown of jewels all over it.
She can roughly see what kind of crown this thing is for.
Ancient people's crowns and hair have special requirements, so they are relatively easy to identify.
The only thing that made her entangled was because the crown looked very new.
To be precise, what was in front of her was a phoenix crown.
It is generally a headgear worn by women when they get married.
In addition to the unnatural newness of this phoenix crown, it was the things on it that gave her a strange feeling.
The crown of the phoenix was carved with the appearance of a simple phoenix, but the position of the phoenix's eyes and the edge of the bird's beak were all unnatural red.
Meng Xiaotao tried to wipe the red on top with her hands.
I want to see if it was contaminated.
As a result, as soon as she was about to reach out, the person who came to sell the phoenix crown stopped her.
The one who came with the phoenix crown was a young woman.
She has a nice face, fair and delicate skin, and a small beauty mole at the corner of her eye, and she speaks in a soft voice.
But what was said makes people feel a little puzzling.
"Don't touch this phoenix." The woman said softly.
Meng Xiaotao was a little surprised, and asked, "Why do you say that?"
The woman put her broken hair on her ears behind her ears, looked down at the phoenix crown on her hand, and explained softly, "I don't know, but I always have a strange feeling. That feeling reminds me all the time. So I can't touch that phoenix."
Having said this, the woman smiled embarrassedly, "Speaking of Ms. Meng may not believe it, I did not believe my instinct before, but whenever I try to touch, various things happen. Stop me from touching."
Meng Xiaotao thought for a while and asked, "Then if I touch it, it will be like this?"
The woman hesitated and said embarrassedly, "I'm not sure, after all, I can't say anything about this."
When Meng Xiaotao heard this, she knew something, so she put her hand back and raised her eyes to look at her.
"Miss Liu, can you tell me about the source of this phoenix crown?"