"Shopkeeper, how did you get this tree?" Qiu Ling asked curiously, looking at the tree in the yard.
"Is it beautiful?" Yuan Yuanyuan didn't answer, but asked her directly what she thought of the tree.
"It's beautiful." Qiu Ling said, "It's just like something out of a fairy tale."
After finishing her cram school class, she came to the pub to find Tang Shi. In comparison, Qiu Ling obviously had much less spare time than Tang Shi. This was the first time she came to Yuan Yuanyuan's place during this period.
Yuan Yuanyuan looked at the tree, then turned around and looked at the person she had laid flat on the corridor.
The man was now covered with two layers of quilts, with a fire burning next to him, and he was still wearing the same hospital gown.
…
Originally, Yuan Yuanyuan wanted to take this guy directly to the police station, but then Yuan Yuanyuan thought about it and suddenly gave up the idea.
This person... just now when he passed by the yard, he seemed to see the trees in her yard.
Yuan Yuanyuan lay beside him and sniffed for a long time, but couldn't tell what kind of creature it was... If he said it was a human, it felt a little strange, and if he said it was a monster, the monster smell was not strong. So Yuan Yuanyuan didn't dare to call the police directly for a while.
She and Tang Shi carried the man to the corridor, covered him with two quilts, lit a fire and waited for him to wake up. Whether it was a human or a monster, as long as they had spiritual power, they would not die so easily, so Yuan Yuanyuan was not too worried about him getting into trouble for the time being.
Just like that, Yuan Yuanyuan completely forgot about the guy behind her. She turned around, got a basin of water, and continued to wipe the windows and doors.
…
Holy shit… where is this
He opened his eyes dazedly and looked at the surrounding environment. Before he could fully open his eyes, he was dazzled by the green.
What the hell... What the hell... What the hell is going on
He turned around and looked at the big tree next to him. The sunlight shone through the leaves, casting mottled shadows on the ground.
Not far away there was a pile of snow that had been swept up, piled up into a small snowman. He looked at the snowman, then looked at the big green tree over there, and suddenly he felt as if he had come to an extraordinary place.
He rubbed his eyes and looked several times, but it was still the little snowman and the big green tree, without any change.
After looking around again, he found himself lying in a small corridor. Not far away from him, there was a person wearing a black down jacket, covered completely...
"Hello, um." He asked cautiously, "Excuse me... where is this?"
"Ah?" The man in the black down jacket turned around and saw only a dark patch. "This is my home. You fell down at my door."
“… I’m sorry.” His tone was inexplicably awkward.
This feeling... inexplicably feels like a scam.
"It's okay." The man in black in front turned his head back and said, "Where is your home? I'll take you back."
After hearing this, he sat there and fell into inexplicable silence.
…
Yuan Yuanyuan watched the person behind her wake up. When he sat up, his eyes were very confused.
… This look made Yuan Yuanyuan feel a little threatened, because although she had taken this man in for a while, she didn't want to play the old-fashioned plot of "Who am I? Where am I? What's my name?" with him at all.
So Yuan Yuanyuan chose to strike first and asked him directly where his home was. If he really ran away from a hospital, she would just do a good deed and send him back.
The man sat there for a while, staring blankly at the side. Yuan Yuanyuan kept looking at him cautiously, worried that he would suddenly say "Where is this?" Fortunately, this guy was not that unreliable and just turned around and said something to Yuan Yuanyuan.
He was very careful when he spoke:
"Brother, do you tell fortunes?"
…
Three days later.
The branches of the trees in the yard were swaying slowly in the wind, and a row of quilts and clothes were hung on a bamboo pole.
The man who was hanging clothes was wearing a military coat and his hair was messy like a chicken coop.
Yuan Yuanyuan was sitting in the corridor, looking at the man over there, thinking to herself what the hell I have done, he was originally a handsome guy, how come he has become like this rough guy after just three days.
As a clothing store owner... After a few months of opening the store, she finally looked a bit like a boss and the small store finally hired a clerk.
Congratulations, congratulations.
This guy's name is Liu An, and he's a little monster.
She is quite pretty, with a baby face, but she never smiles and always has a wooden look on her face.
According to what he said, he was receiving treatment in the hospital when he suddenly met a Taoist priest. He felt scared and had to run away halfway.
Yuan Yuanyuan asked him where he was from, and he said he was from City S.
Yuan Yuanyuan asked him again why he went to the hospital. He said that there was a big monster over there causing unrest in the city recently, and he was one of those involved.
The big monster who had been protecting him was accidentally attacked and he was injured. The monster hospital was overcrowded, so he went to a human hospital.
When he said this, his tone was very calm. Yuan Yuanyuan actually admired his attitude. Although his experience sounded miserable, he obviously seemed to have a strong ability to endure it, or to be more precise, he had a big heart.
As far as Yuan Yuanyuan knows, S City has been in chaos recently, all because of Yu Wu. On the day C City opened, many monsters from S City poured in, all of them fled here because they couldn't survive.
However, there are only a few monsters that escape to the larval area. At least Yuan Yuanyuan has only seen one in these few days, but there are dozens in other areas.
Yuan Yuanyuan discovered that Liu An liked to daydream when he had nothing to do. She didn't know what he was thinking about, but for her, she didn't have to stay on the first floor all day to watch the store these days, and sometimes she could go home to catch up on some sleep.
"Shopkeeper, how do you do this?"
"Well... try to pronounce the spell more clearly, and then learn the previous one first."
Liu An has been quietly hanging up quilts and clothes. He has been living here these days. The salary in the store is very low... It’s better to say that it’s nothing. Food and accommodation are provided every month, but he doesn’t have to worry about other things.
He has recovered a little bit in the past few days, but for him, these two days are like a rebirth.
So he didn't want to do anything now. He just wanted to stay quietly in this small place, look at the tree honestly, and rest for a while.
The tree in the yard is very big, and it is a real treat to look at it in the dead of winter. Liu An feels that the reason he stayed here is because of this tree.
Otherwise, with such a low salary, who would be willing to do this
He was hanging out clothes when he suddenly heard someone coming in the door. He turned around and saw a very beautiful female monster in white walking in.
Liu An slowly stopped hanging the clothes. He looked at the female monster in white coming in, then looked at the boss who stood up, and his eyes slowly moved.
"That's the shop owner's girlfriend." said the little girl standing next to him. "But she doesn't come to see the shop owner often. But the shop owner said she is a lotus demon."
Liu An sniffed it and found that there was indeed a pleasant lotus fragrance.
He gradually began to move again and continued hanging clothes.
The place that took him in was a clothing store. He stayed there for several days before he realized that this was a place that sold clothes.
The key point is that there are almost no customers in this store. If the boss hadn't told him in person that this is a place to sell clothes, he really wouldn't know what this place is for.
When he went out to buy groceries these days, he took the opportunity to inquire about the situation of this store. According to other people's descriptions, this place was inhabited by a very bloodthirsty, eerie and strange monster.
While listening to them, Liu An silently turned his head and looked at the yard where a big tree grew.
No way…
The courtyard behind him, which originally had a fresh and clean style, suddenly became inexplicably gloomy and terrifying.
According to the vegetable selling aunt, the big monster lives here because this is the monster breeding area, so he wants to take the opportunity to catch the lone little monsters and then eat them to practice some evil magic.
A big tree grew in their yard to confuse the little monsters, the aunt said as she scolded a little monster next to her, telling her not to always think about playing in that yard, because there was a very scary monster there.
Hey... You guys are obviously monsters.
However, even other monsters are afraid of this big monster, which is enough to show what a terrifying character he is.
When Liu An heard it for the first time, his eyebrows frowned slightly. He returned to the store and when he entered again, he became interested in this store.
However... these days he discovered that there seemed to be only one real clerk in this store, and that was the black-clad boss in a down jacket when he first met him.
"Why don't you speak?" said another little girl next to her.
"Well... I've been in a bad mood lately." Liu An said.
This was another little girl. It was the first time he saw her and it took him a long time to finally confirm that she was a real human being.
He was puzzled for a long time, but he didn't say much about it, after all, he was just a fellow who was taken in.
"Why are you in a bad mood? You always have a stern face. You have a stern face more often than your boss." said the girl named Qiu Ling.
Liu An looked down and saw Qiu Ling sitting in the corridor, wearing a down jacket and holding a thick "Wu San" in her hand.
"Are you preparing for the college entrance examination..." He squatted down, looked at the book in Qiu Ling's hand, and inexplicably recalled the past few years.
"I'm in a bad mood... maybe something happened to me." Liu An said.
He looked at Qiu Ling's curious eyes and didn't know what to say to this little human girl. There were many things that he couldn't say... But he was willing to talk more with this rare little human girl.
In this completely unfamiliar place, only this little girl could make him feel a sense of familiarity.
"It's just... academic matters." Liu An said finally.
He looked at the big tree in the yard and said, "It's just... I worked so hard to get into a school that I thought I would never be able to get into, but suddenly I was expelled."
"I dropped out of school." Qiu Ling suddenly stuttered. She felt like she had asked a naughty question.
“When I first went to school, it was quite hard at the beginning. In fact, at the beginning… I felt that I was different from other people.” Liu An said with his head down.
He thought for a moment, then suddenly smiled and continued, "Others were picked up by their parents, loved by their teachers, and had a smooth journey. I was admitted to school by carrying a sack of homemade buns and begging for mercy... But now I've been expelled and don't know where to go."
"Then, then can't I just ask the teacher for mercy?" Qiu Ling was completely stuttered this time.
"No way." Liu An simply sat next to Qiu Ling. "The school is very strict. I committed a crime, so I deserved to be expelled... Now, I don't know where to go. In fact, I just wanted to get a degree at the beginning, but after so many years, I feel that all my efforts have been in vain."
This time Qiu Ling didn't dare to respond at all.
"So you should study hard in the exam." Liu An suddenly turned around and said.
He thought about a lot of random things.
Actually, he said a little too much today, but at this time, he was still very happy to be able to find someone to talk to about recent events.
Suddenly, there was a chaotic sound outside the door.
"What's wrong?" Liu An said.
"Shopkeeper, something happened over there?" Qiu Ling said.
The two of them looked at the man who had just gone out with the female monster in white and suddenly came back. His footsteps were so hurried that it seemed as if he was carried by the wind.
"What's wrong, boss?" Liu An asked.
"I don't know, seems very anxious?"
Yuan Yuanyuan was indeed very anxious.
She had just heard from the female monster in white that some people from the Taoist priest side were actually trying to kill her recently.
Yuan Yuanyuan continued to look confused until the female monster in white showed her the most recent wanted poster.
…For a moment, the whole world seemed to be spinning for Yuan Yuanyuan.
OMG.