Opening a Shop in the Nightmare World

Xincheng Street is located in a bustling urban area of ​​Jiangdu. Although it is not a pedestrian street with people coming and going, but because the road in the middle is an important traffic route, and there are communities and schools behind the street, both sides of the road are bustling commercial areas. Walk a few steps You can see shopping malls, movie theaters and various restaurants and coffee shops full of petty bourgeoisie, which can be said to be the favorite location of young people.

Moreover, the sidewalks on both sides of the road have become a famous scenic spot in Xincheng Street after being refurbished once. The sidewalks specially designed for the urban environment are paved with light-colored floor tiles in different patterns. conspicuous.Green bushes and novel street lamps are also added beside the sidewalk, carefully separating the places beyond the sidewalk from the noisy main road.

There are also some transplanted cherry trees planted among the green bushes, all of which are local varieties with thin branches, and they have already passed the flowering period, but it is also possible to imagine that the street will be full of people in April next year.

The four-lane road can be regarded as a big road in the bustling urban area, and there are specially painted brick-red bicycle lanes on both sides, adding a slow-paced comfort to Jiangdu, a busy big city.

"A Cup of Tea Bookstore" is a new type of bookstore located near the sidewalk at a crossroad on Xincheng Street. Because of its superior location, the business is as good as the "Flower Tea Garden" next to it.

Although both stores have "tea" in their names, "Flower Tea Garden" mainly sells the store environment full of flowers, various kinds of scented teas of its own brand, and scented teas in the tea room in the store, while "A Cup of Tea Bookstore" is It is a two-in-one product of an ordinary bookstore and a coffee and milk tea shop, so the two stores have different main directions, each has its own audience, and occasionally attracts each other's audience, the business is good, and the relationship between the two store staff is also good.

I always thought that the life and business in Xincheng Street would go on like this, but suddenly one day, Xu Yuan, a summer worker at "A Cup of Tea Bookstore", a boy who was a sophomore at the beginning of school, suddenly discovered something. very strange thing.

That is between "A Cup of Tea Bookstore" and "Flower Tea Garden"... there is an extra store!

It was eight o'clock in the morning when I discovered this. Xu Yuan, who was rushing to open the store, got off the beautiful bus with his own bag and walked to the "Cup of Tea Bookstore" in a hurry, and then found himself The two familiar shops seemed to be separated suddenly by the wizards of the magical world, and a completely strange and impossible shop was squeezed in between!

There is only such a distance in the street. How can there be such a store without any impact? !

And the glass windows of this shop look very atmospheric, not like a small shop in the gap.

Xu Yuan subconsciously wanted to observe the entire street and the shops he was familiar with, but when he carefully wanted to count and measure, he felt his head hurt and he was dizzy.

"Xu Yuan, what's the matter with you?" Walking out of the "Flower Tea Garden" was a clean-looking girl wearing a floral apron. She was Xu Yuan's college classmate Su Yi. An ordinary girl with a warm smile is also the reason why Xu Yuan came to work in "A Cup of Tea Bookstore".

Xu Yuan knew that "Flower Tea Garden" seemed to be Su Yi's mother's store, and she would work here throughout the holidays, so she went to work at "A Cup of Tea and Books" just across the wall.But now, there is a whole store that appears like magic between them!

"I don't know if I'm dazzled or I'm crazy... Su Yi, have you seen this store?"

The store that Xu Yuan was looking at hung a beautiful but easily overlooked signboard with gold letters on a white background, on which was written an unclear word like "An Yu Yi Yu".However, Xu Yuan was not too entangled in the name of the store. After all, there were many similar petty bourgeois literary and art stores on this street, with all kinds of compelling ones. What he was entangled with was only the way this store appeared.

"Oh, this store seems to have opened last night. My mother also said that she rarely sees stores that open at night." Su Yi had a consistent smile on her face, "But the store has been empty for so long, so it's okay to open a new store. Not surprisingly."

"No, this store didn't exist yesterday!" Xu Yuan anxiously gestured his hands, "Aren't there only two stores here?"

"Yeah, this place was closed before, and a new store just opened last night." Su Yi and Xu Yuan were not on the same channel at all, with a look of course.

"No, Su Yi, take a look at our street. How could there be any closed shops here? Our two shops are always next to each other, and there are no other shops in between!" Xu Yuan seemed a little excited.

He didn't understand why Su Yi was so calm, was he the only one who felt that something was wrong with this store?

"You are so strange today." Su Yi took a step back, as if she felt that Xu Yuan who was speaking loudly was a little scary, "Let's not talk about it, I am still counting the things in the store, and it feels like a thief has visited, although the lost things are not There are many, but why don’t you open the shop right away?”

Thief?

Hearing what Su Yi said, Xu Yuan put the inexplicable store aside, hurriedly took out the key and opened the door, after all, last night was the last bookstore he left.

The layout of "A Cup of Tea Bookstore" is actually very simple. The boss divides the space into two floors. The lower part is an ordinary bookstore, and the upper part provides coffee and milk tea service. Let more people who like to read books go upstairs and sit and read slowly after buying books, so the business has been good.

As soon as Xu Yuan entered, he looked around, and found that the store was still in the same order when he left last night, and there was no sign of prying over the cashier, Xu Yuan was relieved.

As long as the money is fine, other problems are not too big. It is impossible for a thief to work so hard to enter the store just to steal a book, right?

"Hello, is the store open?"

Just as Xu Yuan wanted to go out to have a look at the store again, he saw a figure appearing at the door of the bookstore. It was a strange customer. At least Xu Yuan had been working in the store for nearly two months, and he had never seen anyone like him.

Tall, slim, fair-skinned and with long legs, even if he doesn't look at his face, Xu Yuan thinks that the other party is the kind of girl who will become a famous figure as soon as he enters the campus, and then there will be a fan club of the support group who will set off a bloodbath" shape".

After Xu Yuan sees the other person's face clearly... Well, maybe both men and women will have a bloody fight for him.

Almost no one can resist the silver chain of glasses across the neck, the smiling eyes behind the lenses, and the face that only appears in the mind when drawing ideas.

And for some reason, Xu Yuan suddenly felt that the visitor's smile resembled Su Yi's, but because of his excellent appearance, that warm smile was more dazzling than Su Yi's, and made his heart beat faster!

Xu Yuan felt that he had experienced many storms, and had seen many things that ordinary humans had never seen before, but he lost his mind for a moment when he saw the person coming, and then he reacted, saying hello: " Welcome, we are open for business."

"Thank you." The visitor walked in with long legs. His body and temperament were first-class. After entering the bookstore area, Xu Yuan, who was standing behind the cashier, stared at his back.

That kind of feeling is not a sudden obsession, and most people will not suddenly fall in love because of the other person's appearance. Xu Yuan is like seeing the most beautiful flower in the window of a flower shop. Although he has no money to buy it, he can't help but repeat it. to see.

He watched the customer walk from the children's area to the student tutoring area, then to the best-seller area, and then quickly walked to the counter with a few books, smiling and placing the books next to the cash register.

Logically speaking, there shouldn't be student guidance books in a petty bourgeoisie place like "A Cup of Tea Bookstore", but Xu Yuan's boss finally couldn't resist the crazy increase in income from the guidance books during the summer vacation, so he made a stand out, and the income was not good. vulgar.

But after seeing the customer in front of him bought "Xiaoshengchu Selected Exercises 300 Sets Answer Booklet", Xu Yuan still looked at him curiously. After all, this customer does not look like he has a child, maybe Purchased for my younger brother at home.

Except for the answer booklet, the guest bought ordinary bestsellers, and there seemed to be no other strange things.

"A total of 110 and four yuan." After Xu Yuan scanned all the books, he bagged them skillfully, "Mobile phone payment or cash payment?"

"cash."

The customer put a few banknotes on the cash register, and then took the bag of books from Xu Yuan's hand.Xu Yuan lowered his head and counted the banknotes in his hands, and found that the customer had actually given three one-hundred-dollar bills. He wanted to raise his head to return the money, but found that the customer had turned around and left, and even opened the door of the bookstore and walked out. .

"guest!"

Xu Yuan rushed out in a hurry, but he couldn't find the guest among the busy working crowd.If it wasn't for the three banknotes lying quietly on the cash register, Xu Yuan would even think that that person was just an illusion that he imagined when he was sleepy.

Half an hour after the "Cup of Tea Bookstore" opened, the clerk who was on shift with Xu Yuan arrived late.

"Brother Qi, have you seen the newly opened store next door?" Xu Yuan asked again without giving up.

"Yeah, it's true that a new store has opened, but I can't tell what they sell." The full-time cashier responded casually, not surprised by the appearance of that store at all.

"Don't you think... that shop seems to have popped up out of nowhere? Wasn't the 'Flower Tea Garden' next door to us before?" Xu Yuan still wanted to hear the answer he wanted from the other party.

But the cashier just smiled and said, "Xiao Xu, what are you thinking? Isn't the next door always empty?"

"..."

After handing over the work at hand to his full-time colleagues, Xu Yuan temporarily left the bookstore on the pretext that he hadn’t had breakfast yet. He still couldn’t figure out where the store next door came from, so he decided to go in and have a look for himself. .

Xu Yuan walked directly outside the store, looked up at the inconspicuous signboard with gold letters on a white background, and then looked into the store through the glass window. Inside the window, he saw two flower gardens with tall The green plants, which look like some kind of flowers that haven't bloomed yet, occupy two quite large spaces.Xu Yuan rarely saw someone planting so many words in the shop. After all, everyone had to pay attention to the problem of pests, and this shop called "An Yu Yi Yu" obviously didn't care about these things.

Obviously the glass window looked very bright, but when Xu Yuan wanted to continue to look inside, he found that he could not continue to see clearly because of the reflection of the mirror, so he hesitated for a moment and simply pushed the door and walked in.

"welcome."

After walking into "An Yu Yi Yu", Xu Yuan felt a little different again, because when the store door closed behind him, he found that the whole store was so quiet that he could hear a needle drop on the ground, and the air There seems to be a fresh fragrance, which makes people feel refreshed.

The interior decoration is mainly white wood. The wooden counters, wooden shelves and wooden fences around the flower beds are all white with beautiful wood grain, which looks quite natural.Moreover, there seemed to be a lot of green plants in the store. In addition to the flower beds, there were also drooping ivy on the two shelves, and there were large pots of green radishes that could hide people on the counter inside.

There is also a set of white European-style round tables and chairs in the store, and tender green radishes are also placed on the table.

At a glance...

Xu Yuan really didn't see what the store was selling.

There are tables, shelves, and flower gardens, but I don’t know if it’s because it just opened, the store doesn’t have the feeling of being full of products like a normal store, and people don’t even know what to buy for a while.

Moreover, Xu Yuan had already walked in for several minutes, but he still didn't hear the "Welcome" that should have been said.

Apart from Xu Yuan, there was only one "person" in the store. That person should be a clerk in the store. He was wearing a black shirt with buttons all the way to the neckline, covering it very tightly, but his face did not look serious. A man with a pale face, reddish but tightly pursed lips, and even a somewhat evil tattoo "sticker" next to the end of his slightly elongated eyes, like flying tail feathers.

The other party stood quietly behind the counter, staring directly at the tablet computer in front of him, holding a stirring stick in his slender and well-defined right hand, and was mixing an unknown drink in a large glass jug, his fingers were glaringly white , the texture is like jade that has been hidden underground for a long time, and occasionally it makes a light and crisp sound when it touches the glass teapot.

In short, he didn't even look at Xu Yuan who entered the store.

"Cough cough." Xu Yuan, who was ignored, couldn't help coughing lightly.

The "clerk" who noticed the arrival of the guests finally turned his head and raised his eyebrows, but his eyes seemed to be looking at the big pumpkins in the field.

At this time, Xu Yuan realized that the eyes of this "clerk" did not seem to be black. Although the color was very dark and deep, the moment he looked up, his pupils seemed to have a little red under the light.

Xu Yuan suspected that the other party's eyes should be dark red, but he didn't know if this guy with a strange temperament specially wore colored contact lenses.

"Ghost Umbrella, is the customer here?" The back door of the shop suddenly opened at this time, and a figure that Xu Yuan was very familiar with came out from behind the door. "Or a "careless" guest.

"How is it? The fruit tea ingredients prepared by Ye Li are not bad, right? Drinking water and a kettle are also prepared for you." The customer walked up to the "clerk" and leaned slightly to look at the colorful glass pot. Near the "clerk"'s arm, the eyelashes drooped, and the corner of the mouth was smiling, which made Xu Yuan who was watching by the side a little panicked.

The two people in front of me are completely different types. The guest has a jade-like temperament, elegant and gentle. When he stretches out his hand to lightly lift his glasses, there seems to be a slight smile from the corner of his eyes, like a famous flower that only blooms in a warm environment.And that clerk's aura was cold, but he was full of monsters, like a dead branch in a bonsai, who had been withered for a long time, but suddenly a red flower bloomed at the end of the branch.

The two people have different temperaments, but when they stand together, they look like a blooming flower in a dead bonsai, quite a scene.

After all...he still looks good, right?

"Sorry, what do you need?" When Su Zimo straightened up, he recognized the new customer who entered the store as a clerk from the bookstore next door, but he didn't know why the other party ran into "An Yu Yi Yu" and was in a daze for a while , just stood there motionless.

In the morning, in order to compensate for the small losses caused by the penniless Ghost Umbrella to the left and right stores, Su Zimo just took money and ran to the two sides, and asked Ye Ning to prepare some items that were kept in the house. The materials of scented tea and fruit tea make Guisan, who is addicted to making tea, dispel the idea of ​​"borrowing from friendly neighbors".

But I don’t know if it’s because of the daytime. The business of this special store has been poor. The only business in the morning was a young lady who was in a hurry to go out and bought it from the store for one yuan in a hurry. A pack of "Nightmare card rolling paper", the whole transaction process was calm and very ordinary.

Later, some people came to the store for a stroll, but because they couldn't find the products they wanted in the store, they shook their heads and walked out in disappointment.

In the process of entertaining guests, Su Zimo also discovered a very strange thing, that is, those guests who entered "An Yu Yi Yu" seemed to be unable to see the products on the second shelf. When choosing the No. [-] shelf, every customer had a puzzled expression on his face, and some even got angry because they felt that they were being played.

So Su Zimo is almost certain that those ghost weapons with stars seem to be difficult for ordinary people to see. Ordinary people can see ordinary products, while special people can see special products.

It's just that for the current "settled in a corner", ordinary commodities are too few and too simple.

"Guest, what do you need?" Su Zimo saw that the bookstore clerk was still in a daze, so he could only ask again.

And the little clerk kept looking around with weird eyes, and kept looking at Su Zimo and Guisan. After a while, he said in a difficult tone: "I, sit down for a while."

After speaking, the bookstore clerk walked to the set of white tables and chairs, and sat down cautiously.

This set of white tables and chairs was found by Su Zimo from the warehouse behind the main house. It is considered to be an obsolete courtyard table and chairs, but it still looks complete and clean, and it also fits the white and wooden tone of "An Yu Yi Yu".

Looking at the reserved bookstore clerk sitting there, Su Zimo tapped his finger on the counter lightly, and then said in a low voice, "How about pouring a cup of your special tea for the guests?"

Ghost Umbrella was worrying about the fruit tea that was about to overflow in the oversized glass jug. After hearing what Su Zimo said, the redness in his eyes seemed to be a little deeper. Immediately, he came out from behind the counter holding the huge glass jug in one hand. It was very relaxed, but I couldn't feel the weight that the glass jug should have.

Putting the huge glass in the other hand in front of the guests, Guisan just stood on a high place, straightened his back, and poured the fruit tea brewed in the glass pot directly.

The guest seemed to be frightened by the way the ghost umbrella poured the tea, so he leaned back instantly, and finally watched in amazement that all the fruit tea was poured into the glass precisely, and it was just full , without leaking a single drop.

"Um... I didn't order a drink." The customer shied away with some refusal, but was frightened by the horrible staring eyes of the ghost umbrella standing straight beside him, and dared not get up and leave.

Maybe it's because of some colleagues, the other party may see that the "material" in the ghost umbrella glass jug is too extravagant, not like the lemonade that some generous shops use to entertain guests for free.

"This is a free gift, and guests can refill after drinking." Su Zimo glanced at the counter hidden by Luluo, and found that the six large glass jugs he asked the maid to prepare were all filled with ghost umbrellas The "experimental product", if no one drinks it, may soon have to ferment.

Although it seems that such a business method is a bit of a loss, Su Zimo never planned from the beginning that this store would be profitable in terms of human money.

And only when the service is thoughtful, will the guests be in the mood to buy those products that are used to exchange for the remaining life, isn't it?

So catching one is one!

Thinking of this, Su Zimo had a spring-like smile on his face, and he instantly stared dumbfounded at the guest who just picked up the glass.

Because the fruit tea in the cup was too full, the guest took a big sip carefully. After feeling the refreshing sweetness of the fruit tea, he couldn't help but gulp it down.

But even when holding the glass, the guest seemed to be looking through the glass at Su Zimo standing at the counter.

Su Zimo lowered his head to complete the homework assigned by Su Hewen, so he didn't see the ghost umbrella looking down at the guest. The huge glass pot hooked with two fingers tilted down again. Before the cup in the guest's hand was put down, it was dropped from the sky. The fruit tea is refilled.

"Ah!" After realizing that the glass in his hand was full again like magic, the guest almost didn't hold it, and hurried forward to take another sip.

"Thank you, thank you." I have to say, this kind of... "amazing" service can make people feel a little scared.

"You're welcome, please concentrate on enjoying it." Guisan leaned slightly, emphasizing the word "concentrate".

Obviously Su Zimo had already returned to the back of the counter, but he couldn't help but follow the eyes of the customer. After he drank most of the second cup of fruit tea in his hand, he looked down and found... the cup was full again.

The glass used to entertain guests is very large, almost 600ml. Even if the first glass can be barely drank, it is impossible to be thirsty again when the second glass is reached.

But in the blink of an eye, the guest actually drank four cups under the eyes of the ghost umbrella, and felt that he needed to go to the bathroom, but just as he was about to put down the cup and get up, he found that the fruit tea in the cup...was full again.

"I think, I know what I want to buy." The customer, Xu Yuan, a college student from the bookstore next door, got up in a hurry, and after scanning the daily necessities of unknown brands on the first shelf, he walked to the second shelf, casually Pointing to the top mirror, "How can I buy this mirror?"

In the eyes of customers, it is a white European-style round mirror carved with flowers, which is a suitable gift for family members, and it is also the only normal-looking product on the second shelf.

But as soon as the customer's voice fell, Su Zimo behind the counter immediately stood up, walked to the second shelf, and asked in surprise, "Can you see this mirror?"

Su Zimo had experimented several times before. Ordinary customers who entered the store could not see any products on the second shelf at all, so this customer was the first one.

"This problem is exactly the same as when I saw your store before." The customer looked up and looked around the not-so-small store, "This store seems to have popped up out of nowhere. It’s really strange to create a different space that doesn’t exist in between.”

Su Zimo felt sure. Among the customers he asked, the bookstore clerk in front of him was the only one who thought their store was strange.

"Hello, I'm Su Zimo, the owner of our store, the ink of the pen and ink. I remember you are from the bookstore next door, right?"

"Yes, my name is Xu Yuan, the source of the source, a student who works in the bookstore next door."

"You must have been to some very magical places, right?" Su Zimo asked tentatively.

"Huh?" Xu Yuan seemed very surprised that Su Zimo asked this way, and after thinking about it, he said, "It should be regarded as a place that ordinary people would not want to go to."

"Is it dangerous?" Su Zimo raised his eyebrows and asked again.

"..." Xu Yuan was silent for a while, and continued to speak after a long time, "Sometimes there will be some dangers, but I never go there alone, so the dangers can be overcome."

"It doesn't sound like a particularly good tourist attraction, but it sounds like Mr. Xu has to go." Su Zimo looked at the mirror that Xu Yuan picked at the beginning, and slender fingers slid across the mirror , "In this case, I think there are more suitable products in this store than front mirrors."

"Really?" Xu Yuan looked a little absent-minded, he didn't know if it was because he was not interested in what to say, or because he was in a hurry to find the bathroom.

"How about this one?" Su Zimo picked up the exquisite perfume spray bottle next to him, and through the body of the bottle, he could see that it was filled with more than half of the liquid. "Maybe you will use it when you go out next time."

The label directly below the "perfume" said the price of 200 yuan, so Xu Yuan waved his hand quickly and said with a smile: "Sorry, I don't have a girlfriend, and I don't have the habit of spraying myself with perfume, and the places we travel are average. It’s all in the backcountry, and there’s no time for such things.”

"Guest, you are mistaken, this is not perfume." Boss Su raised the corners of his lips, "This bottle contains 'holy water', which can be used to drive away evil spirits, and ghosts will not invade!"

When he pronounced the word "Li Gui", Su Zimo specially added the accent, and then saw Xu Yuan standing opposite him turn pale.

Sure enough, the customers of this shop should be experiencers, or other non-human beings.