Nocturnal

Qin Mochi and Li Yedu got out of the car, and squinted their eyes to look at Nanjiang Street not far away.The southern district has been under development in the past few years, so at a glance, there are old buildings of the past year, as well as fashionable and beautiful office buildings, which is quite a bit of the unique style of the mixed urban and rural areas.Qin Mochi hadn't been here much before, but there are many time-honored shops on Nanjiang Street, which were often introduced in travel magazines, and he had seen some of them.

"Is 'Yipintang' old?" Qin Mochi asked casually.

"Probably." Li Yedu was not very clear, "The senior brother is not from here, and I can't say which year he settled here. Now, it is in the front."

Qin Mochi looked in the direction of his fingers, and the first thing he saw was the small takeaway window sandwiched between the two door faces. Above the window hung a gaudy plaque with the words "Sakura Sushi". The people probably have good craftsmanship, and the people waiting in line outside the window for packing have been lined up to the bottom of the steps.On the north side of the sushi window is a beauty salon with exquisite plaques and pink lace curtains hanging inside the window, while on the south side is the "Yipintang" carved wooden window full of old-fashioned styles.These three shops with different styles are close together, which looks indescribably funny.

Li Yedu seemed to have guessed what Qin Mochi was laughing at, and he looked a little helpless, "I heard from senior brother that most of this street used to be for buying and selling antique calligraphy and paintings. In recent years, this area has undergone demolition, and many old shops have stopped. .”

Qin Mochi comforted him with a smile, "Things are rare and valuable, so your business will be good."

"I hope." Li Yedu glanced at the polished glass door of the beauty salon, his eyes slightly wary.

At first, Qin Mochi only paid attention to "Yipintang". When he was about to walk past the door of the beauty salon, he noticed a woman in a pink dress standing beside the curtain inside the glass door.There was a thin mist on the glass door, Qin Mochi couldn't see her face clearly, he could only see that she was tall and slender with long chestnut curly hair.

Qin Mochi looked twice for no reason.

Li Yedu noticed his slightly frowned brows, and asked casually, "What?"

"It's nothing." Qin Mochi looked away from the woman, wondering in his heart if he saw something wrong, or misunderstood something?Why did he feel that there was something like a black mist behind the woman?Qin Mochi looked at the Buddhist beads wrapped around Master Faming's wrist, could it be related to this?

Qin Mochi couldn't hold back, and asked one more question, "Who is that woman?"

Li Yedu raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes thoughtful, "She is the owner of the beauty salon, her name is Yao Jun."

"Have you always opened a shop here?"

Li Yedu thought for a while, "I'm not sure about this, I'll ask you brother later."

"Forget it," Qin Mochi said hastily, "I don't have anything to ask, I'm just talking casually."

Li Yedu smiled, looking at Qin Mochi with somewhat ambiguous eyes.Yao Jun is a flower in Nanjiang Street, and everyone nearby knows her. She is beautiful, with beautiful skin and hair, so her shop has more customers than other shops.After all, she herself is a living sign.Even his senior brother Na Kun said that because Yao Jun's beauty salon is famous, many rich wives from rich families come here especially, and "Yipintang" also made several big deals along the way.

Li Yedu walked up the steps first, and said casually: "Mr. Yao is a well-known beauty, she is smart, and her business is doing very well."

Qin Mochi glanced at the glass door of the beauty salon again, and Yao Jun was no longer there.This made him even more uncertain whether the cloud of mist he saw just now was his illusion.Hearing Li Yedu's words, he replied casually: "Is it famous? I think it's just average."

Li Yedu smiled, pushed open the door of "Yipintang", "Come in."

Before the words finished, a black shadow rushed over, Qin Mochi was startled, and then realized that it was a black dog kept in the store.The black dog is quite big, and looks...a bit familiar.As soon as this idea came to Qin Mochi's mind, he saw the black dog running around Li Yedu and running towards him, flicking its tail at him with a rather eager look.

"It can't be really you..." Qin Mochi squatted down to look at it, suspecting that it was actually the little guy he met on the highway that day.But the dogs all look similar, and they don't know how to introduce themselves, so he's really not sure.

The black dog looked at him for a while, then tentatively took two steps forward.

Seeing that it was intimate with him, Qin Mochi also liked it a little. He reached out and scratched its chin lightly, "You breed it in your store? What's its name?"

"It's called a walnut."

Qin Mochi's fingers paused, his mind was in a trance, "Walnut?"

The black dog flicked its tail more cheerfully.

"Who chose the name?" Qin Mochi moved his hand to its ear, and the black dog obediently let him touch it, his eyes narrowed slightly, with an expression of enjoyment.

"My brother." Li Yedu paid attention to his expression, lowered his eyes and smiled and said, "At that time, a walnut tree was planted at home."

"What a coincidence," Qin Mochi looked at him suspiciously, "When I was young, my family also planted a walnut tree, and I also raised a black dog named Walnut."

Li Yedu smiled happier than before, "Really? How long have you been away from home? Ten years? 15 years? Your dog is gone, right?"

Qin Mochi was dumbfounded.How long can a dog live?Could it be possible that the little fluffy thing that accompanied him to sit under the walnut tree and bask in the sun every day when he was young, could really live for more than ten years, and then ran all the way from the depths of Lishan Mountain to Laihai City to find him, the old little master?Even if its physical strength can support it to run such a long distance, how does it determine the direction?After all, his walnuts never left Lishan.

Qin Mochi rubbed Walnut's big head in confusion.On the one hand, he felt that he was thinking too much, and on the other hand, it was hard to believe that all this was a coincidence.Unfortunately, he had no way to prove it, because he was blind when he was young, so he didn't know what the walnut he raised looked like or what its characteristics were. He only knew that it was a black dog.As for the little Taoist leader who played with him every day... When we parted, he was only in his teens. Boys have a voice change period. Now that they have grown up, their voice has changed a long time ago. He can't hear it.

The black dog was scratched comfortably by him, and lay down happily, showing its belly.

Qin Mochi laughed.

Li Yedu raised his foot and kicked the dog's leg twice, "Go away, if you see a good-looking one, stick to it and eat tofu, how shameless?"

Qin Mochi, "..."

The black dog rolled over and bared its teeth at Li Yedu viciously.Two young men dressed as shop assistants laughed together, and one of them squatted down and clapped his hands, shouting, "Walnut, come to my brother, my brother will let you eat tofu."

The black dog sneezed disinterestedly, and swayed to Qin Mochi's side.

Qin Mochi patted its head, "Who raised it?"

"No one raises it," Li Yedu said half-truthfully, "It's just a stray dog, slavishly following us around. Hey, don't worry about it, come and see the treasures in our store."

The black dog happily followed behind Qin Mochi, and walked into the shop together, as if he was its owner.Seeing Qin Mochi sitting down on the swivel chair in front of the counter, he leaned over very familiarly and put his head on Qin Mochi's lap.The little clerk rubbed his nose and muttered resentfully, "Little heartless."

While rubbing the black dog's head, Qin Mochi looked at all kinds of jewelry on the counter.From the appearance, most of them are from the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, such as hairpins, bracelets, earrings, jewelry boxes and so on.There are relatively cheap silver ornaments, and there are also some items with relatively expensive prices, such as emeralds, gemstones and the like.Qin Mochi's knowledge of antiques is limited, and he was a little disappointed after looking around. He actually wanted to find out if there were any things that could be used as raw materials, and he was not very interested in collecting itself.

"Is your senior brother in the raw material business?" Qin Mochi asked Li Yedu, "Such as bare stones?"

Li Yedu thought for a while, "Let me ask you."

Li Yedu went into the inner room to make a phone call. Qin Mochi sat in front of the counter and stroked the fur on the back of Walnut's neck. Walnut's eyes narrowed in comfort.Looking at it, Qin Mochi felt that this intimacy seemed familiar.I wondered again if it was the walnut he raised when he was a child?

Qin Mochi asked the clerk who clapped his hands and shouted for walnuts just now, "How old are the walnuts?"

The clerk thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "It's about six or seven years old, converted into human age, and he is also a middle-aged wretched uncle."

Walnut's head rubbed against Qin Mochi's palm, and he opened his mouth unconsciously, showing a smiley expression, looking silly.

Qin Mochi's heart suddenly softened.

When Li Yedu came out, he was holding a fresh-keeping box, and when he saw Walnut flattering Qin Mochi, he had a look of disdain on his face, "Sexy, shame on you."

Walnut wagged his tail and walked around Qin Mochi without raising his head.

"It's quite cute." Qin Mochi smiled and pinched its ears, "How is it? What did your brother say?"

Li Yedu handed him the fresh-keeping box in his hand, "Hey, take a look first, can these be used?"

Looking through the translucent wall of the fresh-keeping box to see the red, green and green inside, Qin Mochi has already guessed what is inside, and when he opened it, it turned out to be all kinds of jade jewelry—but they were all broken.Jade bracelets that were broken into several pieces, gem rings with scratches on the surface, jade ring fingers that were broken in half, etc., filled most of the box with bits and pieces.

Li Yedu noticed the change in Qin Mochi's expression, and asked him tentatively, "Can it be used?"

"Most of them can be used." Qin Mochi picked up a silver hairpin and showed him, "Although the gemstone embedded in it has scratches on the surface, its color is very good. It will be very beautiful if it is re-cut." Qin Mochi's studio most cited What they are proud of is their perfect cutting process.

"And this." Qin Mochi held up half of an emerald bracelet and looked at the light, "Emperor green, a ring face of this color costs at least five figures. There is also this piece of old beeswax, which is actually very good in quality. Just need to work on it..." He said happily, but when he looked up, Li Yedu didn't look at the things in his hand, but kept staring at him, Qin Mochi felt inexplicably cramped with his focused eyes.

"how?"

"It's nothing," Li Yedu said with a smile; "Senior brother said, if you can use it, take it away. He seems to have some at home, and I'll find it for you later."

Qin Mochi was happy, "How do you calculate the price?"

Li Yedu showed a troubled look on his face, "We still have to calculate the price? These are useless things. The brother said it's a pity to throw them away. It's useless to keep them. Someone just needs to make room for him."

"Then how can I do it?" Qin Mochi and the boss of "Yipintang" have never met before, how can they take such a big advantage for nothing?

"Why not?" Li Yedu asked him, "We can't sell these things here, and it's even more inappropriate to reprocess them - the processing fee is worth more than them. Besides, we only sell antiques here. Do you understand? "

Qin Mochi frowned and thought for a while, "Well, I'll take this thing back, and after processing it, I'll take one-third of the profit to settle the bill. How about it?"

Li Yedu was a little helpless, "Okay, just do as you said."

Qin Mochi heaved a sigh of relief. These things may be tasteless to "Yipintang", but they are all good things to him. If they insist on not asking for money, he really has no guts to take them back.After careful consideration, even if they agreed to his proposal, if they deliberately designed him, it would not be without loopholes.But Li Yedu gave him a very reliable feeling, which was enough to dispel the slightest guard in his heart.

Qin Mochi and Li Yedu made a list of the contents of the box one-on-one, and they both signed it.Li Yedu made another phone call to report to Na Kun in front of Qin Mochi.Because of the proximity, Qin Mochi also heard the carefree voice of the man on the phone, a little bit dissatisfied, "It's just such a piece of crap, it's worth making a list... The more you live, the more difficult it is to open your eyes..."

Li Yedu glanced at Qin Mochi, and there was a bit of resentment in his eyes, "I told you, he was the one who refused to..."

The man on the phone scolded, "What a disgrace."

Qin Mochi smiled sullenly.

Li Yedu muttered into the phone, "I'm not happy at both ends."

"Okay, I still have something to do here, and I will pay him later so that he can come to me directly."

Li Yedu looked at the phone in his hand, and said to Qin Mochi, "He's hung up."

Qin Mochi smiled and said, "Thank you, Brother Li. Someday I have time, I would like to treat you to a meal."

Li Yedu hurriedly said, "No need."

"I'm not meeting you," Qin Mochi hurriedly said, "Isn't it... I think it's a good match."

Li Yedu looked at him and smiled, "That's good. I can do it any day, you can arrange it."

Qin Mochi also smiled, "Okay, then wait for my call."

Qin Mochi pushed open the door of "Yipintang", and saw a woman in a pink suit added to the sushi line at the next window.Around the end of the new year is the coldest season in Linhai City, but she only wears a thin suit, but her shop is next to her, and the people around her don't make a fuss about her clothes.

This is a very beautiful woman, with white skin, delicate eyebrows and eyes, and a charming style in every gesture.But Qin Mochi looked at her, but felt that her eyes were more of a kind of... provocation.Qin Mochi quickly glanced at Li Yedu who was beside him. Could this woman be mistaken?

Yao Jun crossed his arms and looked at Qin Mochi with a slight sneer.Her expression was so direct that it was difficult for Qin Mochi to pretend he didn't see her, but he really didn't remember where he had seen her before. For a woman as eye-catching as her, if he met, he should have an impression.In particular, there was a striking black mist covering her body. Qin Mochi would never forget such a special sight once he saw it.

Qin Mochi turned his head to look at Li Yedu, and saw that he was also staring at Yao Jun with an unfriendly expression, so he lowered his voice and asked, "What's wrong with this woman? Did you recognize the wrong person?"

Li Yedu glanced at him lightly, "Don't pay attention to her, crazy."

Qin Mochi noticed the slightly angry look on her face, and guessed that she probably heard Li Yedu's words.However, it is really difficult for Qin Mochi to feel close to a woman who has hostility in her eyes for no reason.

"Are you going back to the shop over there?" Qin Mochi asked him, "Shall I see you off?"

Li Yedu shook his head, pointed to the shop behind him, "I live in the back. It's very close."

Only then did Qin Mochi realize that the place where he parked when he sent Li Yedu home that night was the backstreet of "Yipintang", "Alright then, wait for my call."

Li Yedu nodded.

Seeing that Qin Mochi was going to leave, Walnut squeezed out along the half-open door, and rubbed against Qin Mochi's legs.

Qin Mochi rubbed its head twice, waved his hands and left.Behind him, Li Yedu reached out to touch Walnut's ear, but Walnut avoided him with a look of disgust.

"White-eyed wolf." Li Yedu looked at it depressedly, "When you see him, you start to turn your face and deny anyone?"

Walnut yawned, and wandered into the shop wagging his tail.

Li Yedu had no choice but to take it, sighed, and walked in.

Yao Jun, who was lined up outside the sushi window, was still looking straight at the direction Qin Mochi was leaving, with his brows slightly frowned and his eyes deep and unpredictable.