Incense money from flower and bird shop

Ming Yan suddenly felt that the incense in the flower and bird shop seemed to be much stronger than usual these days.

He has been hiding away from others recently, leaving the shop to Xiao Congshuo, who is on a long vacation, to take care of it. I don't know what kind of skills this person used to get double the incense money.

Most of the dark red color in Ming Yan's eyes has faded, only the pupils are still red.Ming Yan looked at the mirror in astonishment, and secretly staggered: "Xiao Congshuo, is this the incense that he earned for a year?"

The powerless feeling had dissipated, Ming Yan went downstairs, sat behind the counter, staring at the sunlight outside the glass door.The smell of sandalwood lingers in the flower and bird shop, adding a touch of tranquility to the place with simple decoration.

"Young man, I haven't seen you in the store for a long time." Aunt Zhang, who was carrying a vegetable basket, greeted him with a smile.

Ming Yan smiled back and watched the regular customers go away.

"Is it better?" Xiao Congshuo finished cooking the oatmeal, but no one could be found upstairs, so when he came down to check, it was indeed in the shop.

Ming Yan sniffed the sandalwood aroma in the air, and asked Xiao Congshuo, "How did you earn so much incense?"

"Zhou Yu came here the day before yesterday and gave me a stack of money." Xiao Congshuo brought the hot oatmeal to Ming Yan's hand, and while talking, he didn't forget to add a handful of dried cranberries. I bought incense candles, and I borrowed a minivan to bring them back."

"Thank you." Ming Yan finally showed a smile, like the sunshine in autumn, peaceful and warm.

Seeing Ming Yan recovering quickly, Xiao Congshuo finally let down his heart, and laughed, "As long as you're well, I'll be at ease."

The two were talking and laughing when Xiao Congshuo suddenly received a call, the smile on his mouth slowly disappeared, and finally turned into full of astonishment.

Ming Yan realized something was wrong, and hurriedly asked: "What's wrong?"

Xiao Congshuo put down his phone, his brows were filled with sorrow: "I'm going back to my hometown, and a distant relative called and said that grandma was hospitalized."

"Let's go together." Ming Yan suddenly suggested, "If something strange happens, I can help you."

Xiao Congshuo looked Ming Yan up and down, and said hesitantly, "But your body..."

"It's recovered." Before Xiao Congshuo could speak again, Ming Yan hurried upstairs to change his clothes, "That's the decision."

Xiao Congshuo couldn't resist him, he could only agree: "As you like, my uncle Ming."

Upstairs, when Zhu Li learned that Ming Yan, who had just recovered from a serious illness, was going to follow Xiao Congshuo around, he was furious: "I can't go!"

Ming Yan glanced at the bird with its plumage standing upright, couldn't hold back for a while, and laughed out loud.Zhu Li felt that he was underestimated, and grabbed his ID card with both paws: "Don't leave!"

"Go—" Ming Yan snatched back the ID card easily and put it away, "I did it with great effort, don't hide it indiscriminately."

Zhu Li flapped his wings around Ming Yan angrily: "Could it be that Xiao Congshuo has fascinated you?"

Ming Yan smiled, didn't respond, and dragged the trolley case out the door.

In the guest room, Dabai nestled on Xiao Congshuo's bed, lazily opened his eyes, watching him busy packing his luggage.

Xiao Congshuo picked up the rabbit and finally found the "hidden" ID card.Dabai turned his head in embarrassment, secretly blaming Zhu Li, it was all his bad idea.

In order to ease the awkward atmosphere, Dabai took the initiative to make friends with Xiao Congshuo: "Brother Xiao, do you like Ming Yan?"

It seemed even more embarrassing to speak like this. The so-called chatting to death was probably like this.

Xiao Congshuo was taken aback by Dabai's words, he stopped packing his luggage, and after a long silence, he whispered, "Don't talk nonsense."

"I think you guys are tricky." Dabai said unconvinced, opening and closing his three-petal mouth, "One rescues one in distress, one takes care of one who is sick, lonely and widowed..."

Before he finished speaking, Big Rabbit suddenly realized that his four corners were hanging in the air, and was immediately thrown out of the door by Xiao Conshuo.

As the departure was imminent, Xiao Congshuo called Yu Lili and made an appointment to give her the key to the flower and bird shop.In addition to the "miraculous" Zhu Li and Da Bai, there are many birds that Ming Yan raises and sells in the store, and these small animals need to be taken care of.During the few days they left, Yu Lili was the only one left to rely on.

Next to the train station, Yu Lili hurried out of the subway and found Xiao Congshuo and Ming Yan as quickly as possible. Seeing how they were all ready to go, she couldn't help teasing: "Go back to see your parents?"

What Dabai said just now still lingered in his heart, and now that Yu Lili said it again, Xiao Congshuo laughed unnaturally.He tried his best to hide something, but because of his poor acting skills, he used too much force, Ming Yan hated it very much.

In order to avoid embarrassment, Ming Yan took the initiative to change the subject, handed the key to Yu Lili, and said with a smile: "The flower and bird shop, please take care of it."

Ming Yan only smiled slightly, and Yu Lili was completely bewildered, and said in a daze, "No problem."

She thought to herself, Brother Xiao is really lucky.

In the afternoon, they finally got on the train back to Xiao Congshuo's hometown, and they had only completed half of the six-hour long journey.When it was dark, the two sat with sore backs and dragged their luggage to catch the bus, and finally got on the last bus.

At midnight, they finally reached the town.Tonight, no matter what, Xiao Congshuo could not make it to the village, so Xiao Congshuo had no choice but to pick a small hotel with Ming Yan and check in.

"Get some rest, and you have to catch the early train tomorrow." Xiao Congshuo closed his eyes tiredly, especially worried about his grandmother's condition.

The elderly do not know how to use mobile phones, and they usually rely on paying calls to the grocery store at the entrance of the village to make calls.This time he became ill suddenly, Xiao Congshuo had no choice but to contact her.

Ming Yan slept in the next bed, watched Xiao Congshuo toss and turn, and comforted him: "Don't worry, your grandma will be fine."

While talking, Xiao Congshuo's cell phone rang again, it was his cousin.Is grandma ill?Xiao Congshuo was startled, and hurriedly connected the phone.

The uncle spoke in broken Mandarin and hurriedly asked, "Xiao Shuo, have you arrived in town yet?"

"It's already here, and I'll catch the early bus home tomorrow." Xiao Congshuo cared about his grandma, and hurriedly asked, "How is grandma?"

"What nonsense, I didn't say a word when we arrived. Your cousin and I have been waiting for you in the town for most of the night." The cousin seemed anxious, and his voice suddenly became high-pitched, "Hurry up and check out, we will drive overnight go back."

"But--"

"But what is it? Your grandma really wants to see you, and I really can't bear to see you."

In the end, Xiao Congshuo took Ming Yan to check out with full apology, got into the second-hand van driven by his cousin, and rushed home overnight.

While smoking a cigarette, the cousin talked to the two people in the back seat: "Xiao Shuo, is this your friend?"

Xiao Congshuo replied, "Ming Yan, my friend in City Z."

"It's good to have a friend, and I have a caretaker on the way." The uncle spoke poor Mandarin with local dialect, and after thinking about it, he spoke to Ming Yan again, "Thank you for taking care of our Xiaoshuo."

"By the way, young man, how old are you?" The cousin seemed to feel that his question was too abrupt, so he laughed a few times and explained, "His cousin is eighteen this year, so it's time to introduce someone to each other. I think the young man He looks very handsome, just right for my girl."

To be honest, Ming Yan didn't understand the local dialect, and didn't know how to respond to the greetings, so he looked at Xiao Congshuo in a foggy manner.

Xiao Congshuo is also very embarrassed. In the past 20 years, he has only met this cousin twice. The nominal relative is actually no different from a stranger.Now Xiao Congshuo couldn't accept him being so abrupt about his health, and even caring about Ming Yan's lifelong affairs.

"Your grandma is getting old. She accidentally fell a few days ago and broke her leg bone. She is still in the hospital." My cousin didn't care if the young people didn't talk to me, and said earnestly, "You have to come back often Look, it's not easy for her to live alone in the village."

Because of Xiao Congshuo's special nature, he was abandoned by his parents since he was a child. While his grandmother raised him with painstaking efforts, he was also excluded and isolated by the villagers, and even his relatives had no contact with each other.No one would associate with someone who could see ghosts, for fear of getting into trouble.

Xiao Congshuo knew that grandma could have had a good life originally, it was because of him that it was so difficult.

About an hour and a half later, the headlights of the car illuminated the field ridge near the village, and the grass dog guarding the house was awakened by the sound of the car, and howled one after another.

"It's already here." Through the dusty car window, Xiao Congshuo saw that the sky was twilight and the night was coming to an end.

Ming Yan suddenly signaled him to keep quiet, and asked in a low voice, "Did you hear anything?"

On the quiet ridge, apart from the sound of cars, there seemed to be someone weeping softly, ethereal, ethereal, and endless.Xiao Congshuo also heard this faint sound, and shuddered in the dark and eerie night.

Ming Yan looked back at the rear window of the truck, secretly tugged Xiao Congshuo's sleeve, and motioned him to look quickly——

The woman's long hair fluttered in the wind, covering her face, only the huge blood hole on her neck was exposed, which was shocking.In the blink of an eye, she had already disappeared into the night.

If Ming Yan hadn't pulled him to watch, Xiao Congshuo would almost have thought that he was dazzled and mistook Ye Xiao for a ghost.

"What is this?" Xiao Congshuo asked in a low voice uneasily, "She seems to be following us."

"It's a ghost." Ming Yan also only saw the long-haired woman drifting away, as to why she followed them, she couldn't explain for a while.

Entering the village on the front foot, encountering ghosts on the back foot, the suspicion in Ming Yan's heart is getting heavier and heavier.He always felt that Xiao Congshuo's trip home to visit relatives would never be peaceful.

Sure enough, Xiao Congshuo's cell phone rang again, it was an unfamiliar landline.

Xiao Congshuo answered the phone suspiciously, and heard grandma's voice on the other end, old and anxious: "Xiao Shuo, don't come back, don't come back!"

Xiao Congshuo was startled, his face almost turned pale, he was about to press on, but the phone was completely cut off.

Xiao Congshuo held the phone tightly, suppressed his panic, and asked in a steady voice, "Cousin, how is grandma?"

"I was hospitalized with a broken bone. I was almost notified of a critical illness, but luckily I was rescued." The uncle was still driving without looking back, and no one could see his expression.

Xiao Congshuo didn't want to have an argument with him yet, so he forced himself to calm down, and found another reason to probe: "I want to go to the hospital to visit her elderly right now."

Ming Yan also realized something, and added: "It's inconvenient for the elderly to be hospitalized alone, we want to go and watch for her now."

After all, the two looked at each other tacitly, and immediately understood what the other meant.Ming Yan put one hand on the doorknob, pressed it calmly, and found that it was already locked.He shook his head at Xiao Congshuo, implying that jumping out of the car was not feasible, and he just waited and watched.

The headlights illuminated the farmyard ahead, a whistle rang through the night sky, and the iron gate was slowly opened.The pickup truck drove into the yard, my cousin turned off the engine and got out of the car, still smiling: "It's late at night, why don't you go to a hospital, let's stay here first."

Xiao Congshuo pretended to be polite to him, thanked him with a smile, and expressed that he would take Mingyan back to live with him.

"No need, let's entertain." The cousin who was guarding the door looked at the two, smiled meaningfully, and locked the yard door behind her.

Looking at the locked iron door, Ming Yan couldn't help but let out a contemptuous laugh—you want to stop them with just such a door?

"My cousin is so hospitable?" Xiao Congshuo looked at them and asked coldly, "What did you do to grandma?"

The young cousin guarded the door and refused to budge, but told Xiao Congshuo the truth: "It is true that her old man was hospitalized, but it was just a fever."

Hearing that his grandmother was safe and sound, Xiao Congshuo felt a little relieved.Ming Yan stared at them coldly, and asked again: "What do you want to do to lead us here?"

"We originally only wanted to lure Xiao Shuo here, but you were unlucky and followed him back." The uncle let out a cold voice, his face became more and more gloomy, "Since it was delivered to our door, we are also happy to accept it."

"Just one more host is missing." The cousin looked Ming Yan up and down, very satisfied with his appearance.

Hearing the word "host", Ming Yan's first reaction was to take the body back to life, expel the original soul in the body, and let other people's souls occupy the magpie's nest.

What's ridiculous is that they don't know that the phoenix was born in nirvana and died in nirvana, so it doesn't have a soul.Dealing with him with the move of seizing the house is tantamount to useless effort.On the contrary, Xiao Congshuo is very dangerous. A mortal like him is the easiest to be tricked.

Ming Yan reminded him in a low voice: "Be careful, we will find a chance to escape."

"You can't escape." The man's gloomy laughter was annoying.

All of a sudden, Ming Yan became dizzy for a while, secretly thinking that these two people came prepared, and they wanted to put Xiao Congshuo to death.

Xiao Congshuo's condition will only get worse, with double images in front of his eyes constantly, and the world is swaying.He suddenly remembered that in the closed van just now, his cousin was smoking one cigarette after another.If you guessed right, those cigarettes are tricky.

It was too late to realize now, the next moment, the world was dark, Xiao Congshuo fell to the ground and fell into a coma.

"Xiao Congshuo—" Before Ming Yan finished speaking, he felt dizzy again, unable to support his body, and knelt on the ground on one knee.Consciousness was quickly withdrawn from his mind, and Ming Yan fell heavily beside Xiao Congshuo.