483 Searching for the Dead (3)
Curious, Shang Xiaoqing approached the bookcase and stared at the mouth of the bag carefully.
At one point, her eyes met the mouth of the bag, and she noticed that one of the eyes seemed to be looking at her, and in horror, she quickly took a few steps back and away from the bookcase.
Who knew that this retreat stepped on the foot of the shopkeeper behind her.
"Little girl, what's wrong with you? Uncomfortable? The shopkeeper asked, holding her up.
Shang Xiaoqing felt that there was definitely a problem with this boss, and there was definitely a problem with this used bookstore, she wanted to escape, but the voice of the twelve or thirteen-year-old boy actually sounded in her ears again: "Hey, little girl, are you scared like this?" ”
This time, she finally determined that the voice was coming from the bookcase, specifically the bag-wrapped book she had been staring at in the bookcase.
The mouth of the bag was still trembling and agitating, Shang Xiaoqing tried to calm down at this time, listened carefully, and seemed to hear the whirring wind from the bookcase.
"Little girl, why are you wearing so little, is it because your family is too poor? You're a woman, dressed like this, but it's very indecent. And the guy behind you, who is he? If you are touched by him, I'm afraid you'll have to marry him......"
The young man's voice sounded again, spitting, and said a bunch of words that made Shang Xiaoqing a little speechless.
Shang Xiaoqing finally understood a little. There is a problem here, I'm afraid it's this book, as for whether there is a problem with the boss and other books in the store, Shang Xiaoqing can't figure it out for the time being.
"That, this book is ......," Shang Xiaoqing pointed to the book and said.
The shopkeeper hurriedly introduced: "It is a book from the Warring States period. It is difficult to verify which country of the Warring States period it was, or which time period it came from. ”
By what is written in this book. Couldn't any of these questions be proven? Shang Xiaoqing said in her heart, but she didn't want to be serious with the shopkeeper, and she was now interested in reading this book.
An eye can be seen in the tube of the book, and there is actually a teenager's voice in the scroll, which really makes Shang Xiaoqing, who is in his adventurous youth, curious.
"Can I read this book?" Shang Xiaoqing asked. The rent for the book was 500 yuan an hour, and if she wanted to take it home, she would have to pay a deposit of 5,000 yuan. The daily rent is also enough to reach thousands of yuan.
However, Shang Xiaoqing, who only had 10,000 yuan, actually wanted to study this book carefully.
The shopkeeper didn't turn her down because she was a student and probably didn't have much money at all. Instead, he quickly unlocked the bookcase, took the book down and handed it to her.
"Well, can I take it back and see it?" Shang Xiaoqing said again, "But I didn't bring that much cash." Can I pay a deposit by card? ”
The shopkeeper nodded neatly. "Yes." Come with me. ”
"I may only rent for one day, when will I have to pay the rent?" Shang Xiaoqing said again.
The shopkeeper hurriedly said, "No hurry. That, you can read this book slowly, and you won't be in a hurry to return it. I see that you are a student, so you will not be charged rent. ”
The attitude of the shopkeeper made Shang Xiaoqing a little strange, if this ancient scroll was from the Warring States Period, it should be very valuable, and the shopkeeper actually didn't charge rent. What a miracle.
But Shang Xiaoqing was very anxious to know what was wrong with this ancient scroll, and there was actually a young man's voice talking. Moreover, there was actually an eye hidden in the scroll, so he quickly gave up the entanglement of the shopkeeper's attitude and shifted his attention to the ancient scroll in his hand.
To be honest, if an adult encounters this incident today, he may have been frightened a long time ago, but a middle school student like Shang Xiaoqing, who is in his youth, is full of all kinds of curiosity and fantasy about this matter, and he didn't even notice the strange expression of the store owner when he swiped her card and saw her leave.
What she didn't know was that seeing her turn around and walk out of the store, holding the scroll farther and farther away, until it disappeared, the shopkeeper let out a sigh of relief, and didn't know who to hang up the phone to: "Hey, Lao Li, let me tell you, the mage I asked you for last time is no longer needed, I think the dirty things in my house have been invited away." I decided to move immediately and move to another street......"
The shopkeeper found out early on that there were some problems in the ancient books handed down by his ancestors, but he didn't know how to do it, and he didn't know which book had problems. Today, Shang Xiaoqing's expression was strange when he read these ancient books, which attracted the attention of the shopkeeper.
The shopkeeper can be said to have read countless people, and Shang Xiaoqing is just a student, without the slightest scheming, and the shopkeeper soon found out that this female student may have dealt with the "dirty thing" that has been in the store.
Therefore, the owner of the shop, in line with the purpose of giving up an ancient scroll and sending away the dirty things, asked Shang Xiaoqing to pay the deposit, and then did not intend to give Shang Xiaoqing a chance to return the problematic ancient scroll, and moved away directly.
Shang Xiaoqing didn't know that the owner of the shop had the idea of "sending ghosts" and asked her to take away the ancient scrolls. She put the scroll in her bag, and when she got home, she immediately locked herself in the house, took out the scroll, took it out of the bag where it was kept, and opened it.
To Shang Xiaoqing's surprise, she didn't even know any of the characters on this ancient scroll, and she guessed that it should be an ancient character that had been discarded and not used in some time.
Because Shang Xiaoqing had just graduated from junior high school, he had very little involvement in ancient characters, and he couldn't recognize what these ancient characters were.
However, Lin Tingyu got her memory of this aspect, and found that these "ancient characters" were not words of a certain era at all, but were probably a kind of rune with special effect.
At that time, Shang Xiaoqing couldn't recognize the words on the book, she didn't even know whether the direction of the book was against or right, stared at the spread out book for a long time, and suddenly had an idea, so she copied some of the words on the book, and then rolled the book again.
She looked with one eye into the finger-thick space in the middle of the scroll.
She didn't see any teenagers, she didn't see an eye as before, but a room that resembled an ancient simple stone house.
After waiting for a long time, Shang Xiaoqing didn't see anyone on the other side of the scroll, just an empty stone house, and it seemed that this scroll was being placed in this stone house, so she could only see part of the stone house.
"Hey, kid, are you still over there?" Shang Xiaoqing shouted into the gap in the middle of the scroll, and then quickly put her ear close to the gap for fear that she wouldn't hear someone on the other end of the page. (To be continued......)