"You're finally dead!"
Sitting behind the bar, Zhou Yanliang's face was a little blank. The woman's voice that suddenly appeared in his mind was so clear and quickly faint, as if it was just an illusion.
Looking at the empty shop, he always felt that something had happened just now, but he didn't know what to say.
It was as if something had happened, but he had forgotten it.
At this time, there was a "bang-bang" sound coming from the bar in front of him, and a sharp sound rang out, "Zhou Yanliang, why are you getting more and more ill-bred? Talking to you makes me feel like air!"
Zhou Yanliang raised his head and looked at the middle-aged woman sitting opposite him. Only then did he come to his senses and hurriedly said, "Sorry, mom, I just seemed to be a little hallucinating..."
"What illusion? You just take my words as a piece of cake. Don't think that you can rest assured if Ning'er marries you. If it weren't for the expert who pointed to the two families, how can you marry my daughter! Now, you look at such a shabby bookstore all day, and you can't even make a thousand yuan a month. How can you support Ning'er? You can't afford a lipstick!" The woman patted the old bar counter, completely ignoring that the bar was going to fall apart.
Zhou Yanliang had a bitter look on his face. He just lowered his head and listened. He didn't dare to explain anything.
The person sitting opposite him was his mother-in-law, Song Fengxue. He had opened a small clinic in Qing Province. Although it was not big, he still had a million yuan every year.
His father-in-law, Ji Zeming, was a professor in the history of Qing Continent University. Compared with such a person, his junior high school education was no different from illiterate.
As for his wife, Ji Xinning, not only had a face and figure that was comparable to that of a big star, but also she had been a top student since she was a child. After graduation from college, she started to run a large enterprise and started to manage the middle-level management at a young age, with an annual salary of more than 500,000.
On the other hand, Zhou Yanliang's parents passed away in a car accident when he was in his second year of primary school. Thanks to the Ji family's support, he reached junior high school.
Things about his parents had hit him too hard. At the same time, he had been living under someone's protection since he was a child. Gradually, he became cowardly and introverted. When he was in junior high school, he didn't go to school anymore.
In other people's opinion, he took the initiative to drop out of school because of his poor academic results. In fact, Zhou Yanliang didn't want others to say that he always spent the money of the Ji family.
This bookstore was the only legacy left by his parents. However, in today's society, who would buy books? The business of bookstores was getting worse and worse. The profit per month was less than a thousand yuan.
What everyone couldn't understand was why Ji Xinning wanted to marry such a loser. Many people talked behind her back, saying that Zhou Yanliang was a soft-hearted person.
Zhou Yanyu knew a little about the reason, but he always felt that what the so-called "tall man" said was bullshit. There was a disaster in the Ji family. Without him, the family would be destroyed.
Could it be possible?
Now that the Ji family was on the rise, how to look at it? It didn't look like there was a disaster at all.
"I don't care what Mr. Ji said. Anyway, I won't let my daughter stay in the fire pit all the time. There are still three months before the Spring Festival. I won't make things difficult for you. After the New Year, you two will get divorced. At that time, I will give you five hundred thousand dollars, and no one will owe each other from now on!"
Listening to her mother-in-law Song Fengxue's words, Zhou Yanliang still lowered his head and nodded sullenly.
Looking at his appearance, Song Fengxue was even more angry. How could such a wimp man be worthy of his daughter? He didn't know why he was so muddled that he really believed what he had said more than 20 years ago!
"Bastard, it's so annoying to look at you at a glance!" After Song Feng finished speaking, she slapped a few old books on the bar counter to the ground and then left.
Zhou Yanliang raised his head, and the bitterness and grievance on his face were obvious. But what his mother-in-law said was true, and he was indeed not qualified to be with Ji Xinning.
Despite being scolded like this, Zhou Yanliang still stood up and sent his mother-in-law away.
After leaving the store, Song Fengxue drove away directly.
"Are you scolded again?" A man in his thirties stood at the door of the beef soup shop and asked.
Zhou Yanliang gave a wry smile and nodded. Just as he was about to turn around and enter the house, a six-year-old little girl ran to him from the store. She blinked her big eyes and asked, "Brother Zhou Yanliang, can I read a book after finishing my homework?"
The man came over and picked up the little girl, saying, "How many times have I told you? Call me uncle."
"It doesn't matter, Brother Wang. In fact, I really hope to have a sister like Xiao Ling." Zhou Yanliang said that after his parents died, his relatives no longer contacted him, so they hoped to have a family relationship with each other more than anyone else. When they were talking to the little girl, Zhou Yanliang suddenly saw that there was a blood red light on the little girl's forehead, which was very conspicuous.
"Ling, your forehead..."
"What's wrong with your forehead?" The little girl touched her forehead and asked.
Zhou Yanliang looked at her and then looked at Brother Wang who opened the beef soup shop. He asked in confusion, "Can't you see it?"
"What can't I see?" Brother Wang was also puzzled.
Zhou Yanliang didn't know how to explain, but he was afraid that he was under too much pressure and had hallucinations. He had to shake his head and said, "Nothing, wait for Xiao Ling to finish her homework and let her come to see a book."
"Never mind today. I have to go back early to buy beef," Brother Wang said.
Zhou Yan didn't try to persuade him. He nodded and went back to his store.
After picking up the books that his mother-in-law Song Fengxue had dropped off from the floor, Zhou Yanliang sat behind the bar for a long time before he gradually came to his senses.
At this time, he suddenly noticed that there seemed to be something more on the bar.
There were a few antique walnuts that had just been cut, but they were not good-looking. His father-in-law, Ji Zeming, was very fond of this kind of entertainment. After a while, it would be his birthday. Zhou Yanliang wanted to try his luck to see if he could find a pair of better-looking gifts as gifts.
In addition to the walnuts, there was also an ancient white book next to it. There were a few obscure symbols or words on the cover.
Zhou Yanliang was very sure that he had never seen such words before, but he knew the meaning of it clearly in his mind. "Tao Te Ching, I'm thinking that it's done."
There was a trace of doubt in Zhou Yan's eyes. He didn't remember that he had such a book.
What made him even more surprised was that when he looked at the book, he actually saw six golden lights the size of rice grains hanging on the cover. To be precise, it was seen by his left eye.
If he closed his left eye, he would find nothing in the sky above the bar. When he opened it, the ancient book and the golden light were still there, which made Zhou Yanliang stunned.
He had a vague feeling that the sudden appearance of his left eye and the ancient book on the bar had something to do with what he had forgotten just now. But no matter what he thought, he couldn't remember what he had forgotten, as if a period of memory had disappeared.
After hesitating for a moment, Zhou Yanliang slowly reached out his hand and touched the ancient book that could only be seen with his left eye.
Surprisingly, even though only one eye could see it, it felt as if it was tangible.
The cover of the book was like some kind of leather, with warm and soft tentacles. However, the book gave people a feeling as warm as skin, which was very strange.
Curiosity defeated other things. Zhou Yanliang slowly opened the cover, only to find that the inside page was blank.
He gave a wry smile and thought, "What's this?"
Looking down at the antique walnuts in his hand, Zhou Yanliang sighed. If he gave them to his father-in-law, he would be thrown into the trash can on the spot, wouldn't he?
However, what's so interesting about this kind of thing?
Zhou Yawang picked up the antique walnut with one hand and rubbed it with his palm, while Zhou Yansheng picked up the strange book with the other hand and wanted to study it again.
The page was still blank, and it looked like there were many pages. In fact, there was only one page that could be flipped, and the rest seemed to be stuck together.
Zhou Yan said with a sigh again. Feeling the friction of the palm of his hand, he subconsciously thought of the introduction of the Wen-playing walnuts.
As for what the best walnut looked like and how to distinguish it, it flashed across his mind.
At this time, Zhou Yanliang suddenly felt that there seemed to be something more in his hand. He looked down and could not help but be stunned.
They saw a table full of antique walnuts, all of which were amazingly big.
He was dumbfounded. Why were there so many walnuts all of a sudden? At this moment, he caught a glimpse of the internal page of the wordless book. A couple of walnuts slowly emerged from the page.
This scene almost threw Zhou Yanliang off the chair.
"Is it coming out of the book?"
Looking at it carefully, there was still a line of words on the page, which looked so familiar. Thinking about it carefully, wasn't it the introduction to the most perfect Wen-playing walnuts he had just recalled in his mind?
"So, what I'm thinking about has come true in this strange book?"
