talk all night

"Yo, have you really decided to come to work?" Lin Hu raised his brows with a half-smile, and there was always a hint of sly teasing in his black eyes.

Lin Hu led Fu Xiaoyan to turn a corner, walked around the tables and chairs to a printed sliding door at the innermost side of the store, put his hands on the doorknob lightly, stared at Fu Xiaoyan and asked again. "Is it really decided?"

"Of course, what else is there to pay attention to?"

"Okay, then come in with me to sign and recognize it by the way. This store sells drinks casually outside, and does a little other business inside." Lin Hu blinked his eyes, and the smile on his face returned. It deepened a bit, "Look at this..."

"Hula!" Pulling open the sliding door forcefully.

"Come on, come in quickly."

Fu Xiaoyan paused at the door, horrified in his heart.

What he saw from the transparent printed glass sliding door just now was clearly similar to the scene in the coffee shop, so he took it for granted that the rear was probably a place like a luxury box.Unexpectedly, as soon as the door was opened, there was an antique long corridor in front of me!

It is completely different from what you see outside!

The corridor is illuminated by candle lamps on the wall, which is soft and bright.But the wind blowing from the door did not cause the candle to flicker even a little bit.

The bonsai stands on both sides of the corridor are scattered with miniature plants of various colors, but most of them are potted flowers of unknown origin.On both sides of the promenade are tightly closed carved wooden doors, which are arranged opposite each other and extend to the end of the road.

A distant sandalwood fragrance wafts faintly in the air.

The promenade stretched from the feet of the two of them to the deepest point as far as the eye could see, and at the end it seemed to merge into the darkness without end.

It is like a heavenly road that connects the present and the past, and exists between reality and illusion, leading people to different breakpoints unconsciously.

When the two of them walked in completely, the door behind them closed automatically, and instantly disappeared into the wall without any trace!

"Don't look at it as such a straight road. In this 'corridor', if I don't lead the way, ordinary people can easily get lost and never get out." The mouth of the lake.The light of the fire made his face shine like a jade carving, but there was some unknown meaning faintly in his eyes.

"Boss, you are a bit powerful." Fu Xiaoyan exaggerated indiscriminately on his lips, but in his heart there was a capital letter in his heart.

Lin Hu told Fu Xiaoyan that apart from the disguised coffee shop on the outside, the real main body of this small shop is the hidden "corridor".

Those who have no predestined relationship open the glass door, and what the naked eye sees is just an ordinary box; but if a predestined person has the opportunity to come to the "corridor", they can pay a certain reward to trade with him, so as to get everything they want. Information, secret techniques, or something that does not exist outside, everything is available.

Lin Hu seemed to have seen through the surprise on Fu Xiaoyan's calm appearance early on, and led the latter to a room on the right side of the corridor, and watched with a smile as he picked up a labor contract that he had memorized earlier on the table. Distressed.

"There are no fixed working hours here, as long as you come to have fun when you have time. Of course, the remuneration must be distributed according to your labor income, and the orders you receive personally must also be counted. I will comprehensively consider all aspects. ” At the end, he added a sentence rich and generous, “In short, I won’t treat you badly.”

"Of course, I'm actually not the real owner here, and I just worked for others for a few years."

"..."

"Okay, let's come out after signing." Lin Hu led him to another place, "Then Yuan Heng is also there, just in time for you to come, take him away quickly."

Fu Xiaoyan's gaze followed his slender fingers to the back of a door.

"Yuan Heng? Why are you here?"

Behind the door is a spacious room of [-] to [-] square meters. In the room, there are all kinds of tables, chairs, cabinets and screens, which are antique.Several pictures of mountains and rivers are interestingly hung on the walls on both sides.

Yuan Heng stood in front of one side of the bookcase as if searching for something. Hearing this, he turned around and raised his eyebrows to look at Fu Xiaoyan.

"Yuan Heng is a frequent visitor here." Lin Hu explained, "Besides, he also came here as a clerk before. See, this room is reserved for him."

Yuan Heng nodded, his expression was calm, and his voice fluctuated slightly: "There is really no change here."

It has been violated for more than 600 years.

Spring went and autumn came, and the vegetation withered and flourished. The time that passed in such a hurry did not seem to leave any traces in his life.

Even the room in the corridor remained the same as when he left.There were still two pieces of shortbread left in the small plate, and the yellow and oily color was appetizing; the book of strange tales on the desk had been turned over a few pages, as if the master would come back at any time to pick it up and read it.

With no expression on Lin Hu's face, he snorted inexplicably.

Fu Xiaoyan leaned forward, saw that the shortbread on the plate was tempting, and stretched out his hand to pinch a piece.He didn't know that it had been put on hold for a long time, thinking that Yuan Heng came to Linhu to prepare it, so he opened his mouth and bit it.

"Ah!" The back of his hand hurt, and the shortbread fell to the ground. "Yuan Heng! Why did you hit me!"

Yuan Heng ignored him, returned to the bookshelf and carefully put back the few books he had just taken out.

"Are you greedy for something that's been on the shelf for so many years?" Lin Hu looked at him strangely, "You look so broad-minded, I don't know who you look like."

"It looks so fresh, who knows it's an antique. I don't trust you two." Fu Xiaoyan smiled, walked up a few steps to the bookshelf, and picked up a few books at random. "Ghost novels, travel notes of mountains and rivers, hey, interesting!"

Yuan Heng put a book in his hand on the bookshelf and said, "Go back."

Leaving the Linhu store, Fu Xiaoyan always had an intuition that something was wrong with Yuan Heng.

Although Yuan Heng usually looks like this in the eyes of outsiders with a paralyzed face that is so indifferent, so cold that it is a bit unearthly, but today, what is going on with this person who still looks stern and often distracted?It can't help but make people a little confused and worried.

He raised his hand and patted his shoulder, asking, "Are you okay?"

Yuan Heng paused and continued to move forward. "Well, it's okay."

As for Yuan Heng's past, Fu Xiaoyan never asked deliberately, but just pieced together the sevens and eights from the sporadic information that was rarely revealed in the other party's words.

Recalling the not-so-good meeting at the beginning, he fell into a trap because of his inattention, and was caught by others.With his hands and feet bound, he can only be slaughtered.Blood flowed from the opening of the wrist, and covered the box with strange texture in front of him.The massive blood loss made him feel a little cold, and even with all the means, he was still powerless under such circumstances.

Yuan Heng appeared at that time and saved him.

He knew that Yuan Heng came out of the box that broke the seal with his blood.He also remembered that Yuan Heng's first words when he saw him were: "Linxuan, why are you trapped here?"

He knew that Yuan Heng mistook him as an old friend.

As for the name that Yuan Heng mentioned the only time, he saw it again today at the annotation of a travel note on the bookshelf in that room.At that time, it seemed that he cared too much, so Fu Xiaoyan just flipped through it.And Yuan Heng's reaction after leaving there made him even more curious.

Regarding the theory of reincarnation, he knew that there was indeed a possibility.But the dead are so past, and it is no longer meaningful to be obsessed with finding those scattered traces.

What's more, Yuan Heng didn't mention anything to him, so he naturally treated the other party as a brand new friend.

Besides, although he has been responsible for the other party's board and lodging, when he has a problem that cannot be solved and asks for help, Yuan Heng never refuses, and always solves it neatly.Over the past few days, Fu Xiaoyan has long regarded him as a reliable elder friend.

This made Fu Xiaoyan a little embarrassed to see the latter's appearance of being troubled by something.

"Is there anything bothering you? You can talk to me." He blurted out what was in his heart, "Although it may not be able to help you solve it, but don't hold back."

"It's okay." What I got was a two-word response.

So cold, I don't know what to answer with these two words.Fu Xiaoyan was a little annoyed.That's right, it's not uncommon for people at this level to talk to you, and you can't help much.

"It's not any trouble, and there's no secret, just a little emotion, don't worry." Yuan Heng slowed down, and added: "Do you want to know anything about Linhu's store, or what happened in the past , you can ask me.”

"Okay, okay!" The awkwardness in my heart disappeared in an instant, Fu Xiaoyan jumped up happily, and secretly glanced at Yuan Heng, seeing that the other party didn't notice, he quickly straightened his waist and started walking normally, "Hurry up, it's the green light! Walk carefully, haha, tell me well when you get back, I’m so curious!” I was afraid of poking your heart, so I didn’t have the nerve to ask.The second half of the sentence endured and did not say it.

"okay."

The night is getting darker, and the scorching heat of the day gradually dissipates under the blowing of the night wind, leaving only a trace of coolness.It was midsummer, but the outdoor temperature was surprisingly low at this point.

Back at the residence, Fu Xiaoyan asked Yuan Heng for a long time.

And Yuan Heng is probably more suitable for listening.You ask a long list of questions, and he can't come up with a few words. Fu Xiaoyan asked this question happily, and he listened quietly. When Fu Xiaoyan finished asking, he would simply answer one or two. To answer a sentence, sometimes even a few words, and Fu Xiaoyan had to associate the specific meaning by himself, which was a strenuous effort.

Later, Fu Xiaoyan didn't bother to talk much, anyway, his curiosity was almost satisfied.He knew that Yuan Heng and Lin Xuan worked together at Linhu in the past, that Yuan Heng and Lin Xuan were close friends who had known each other for many years but had been sealed away by the other party for many years without knowing why, and that the two had also hunted down demons everywhere Taking the mountains and rivers together, the annotations on the several geographical records on the bookshelf were made at that time...

Fearless and fearless, walk all over this great river and mountain.It's so carefree and wanton, what a pleasure, it makes people yearn for it.

With an inexplicable agitation in his heart, Fu Xiaoyan decided to go downstairs to throw out the trash after finishing the takeaway.When I turned back, I remembered that the juice in the refrigerator was almost gone, so I went to a roadside convenience store to buy a few cans.

The camphor trees with lush branches and leaves swayed under the moonlight, reflecting a large group of indistinct shadows.

The streets are still bustling with people coming and going.The clarity of the night is completely different from that of the day. The lights in the distance are lit up one by one, and the moonlight covers the nearby streets with dots of hazyness.Some boundaries seem blurred.

In the dense night that is gradually spreading, some people can enjoy the short-lived freedom outside the order under the guise of the light moonlight.

Fu Xiaoyan changed the juice in his hand to another, avoiding a young girl who was running and jumping in an unfashionable long sweater, continued to walk unhurriedly in the eyes of the other party, shook it as if nothing had happened, and relaxed His right hand seemed to be talking to himself: "It's too heavy, change your hand."

Under the moonlight, there is no shadow of the girl.

It's not human, and the breath is very clean, so I won't bother you.Fu Xiaoyan walked briskly and hummed happily.