Xiao Huizi and He Xiaoer

After leaving the mall, I continued shopping for a while, planning to have dinner and then go to the movies.

Xu Zhihui looked at Lan Ying and He Zhizun holding hands intimately, and suddenly an idea came to her mind and she thought of what gift to give Lan Ying.

She planned to buy a couple's outfit for her elder brother and his wife, something special like the one she and He Zhijing wore. Although the gift was small, it was full of love. Giving other things would be meaningless to her elder sister-in-law.

As soon as He Zhijing said this, he immediately agreed.

Xu Zhihui took her sister-in-law to the third floor of the bustling square.

Relying on my memory, I finally found the second-hand shop after searching around. The shop was still shabby and inconspicuous, and there was still a black curtain drawn on the door.

Lan Ying looked around this "little black shop" and asked curiously, "Did you and Jing buy your couple outfits here?"

"Yes, let's go in and take a look."

Xu Zhihui lifted the black curtain and turned on a dim light from inside, but she could see clearly that nothing had changed in the store as it was last time.

The woman was lying on the table, dozing off with her head resting on the thick book on it.

Xu Zhihui walked forward and called softly, "Boss..."

The woman groaned listlessly, opened her sleepy eyes, raised her head and looked around. After calming herself down, she recognized him. "Hey, pretty girl, it's you."

The woman sat up straight, her eyes falling on the big White Rabbit shirt on Xu Zhihui.

Xu Zhihui saw that the book on the table had been replaced by another one called "The Complete Book of Divination", and thought: Has she completed the basics?

"Are you here to buy something again?" the woman asked with a smile.

"Yes, boss," Xu Zhihui nodded, "I brought my family here with me."

"I saw it."

The woman turned and looked at the other three.

The woman couldn't help but smile when she saw that He Zhijing was also wearing a White Rabbit shirt and the two of them were wearing couple outfits.

The two brothers wandered around the store curiously. Although the store was not big, it was quite interesting. There were some strange things on the shelves. For example, there was an ancient sword, an ancient copper lamp, and something that looked like a skull. I didn't know if it was real or fake.

The eldest brother picked up a clay statue and looked at it.

He Zhijing looked at the skull carefully, inserted two fingers into the eye sockets and dug twice, then touched it, and it felt quite real.

The woman said, “It’s fake.”

He Zhijing took his hand back and smiled awkwardly, "It looks very similar."

The woman turned around and said to Xu Zhihui, "He's your boyfriend? What a handsome guy he is. That dress looks great on you. You have really good taste."

"Thank you, boss. He's my husband."

"Are you married?"

The woman looked at Xu Zhihui again and said in surprise: "Pretty girl, you look completely different this time, what happened?"

"Changed?"

The woman narrowed her eyes and shook her head. “Last time you came, there was something on your body that you couldn’t see through, but this time it completely disappeared. It’s strange.”

Something you can't see through?

Completely disappeared?

Xu Zhihui pondered for a while and had a different understanding of her. Could this woman really be a wizard who had the ability to see through others?

"What do you want to express?" Xu Zhihui asked.

"That's a good thing," the woman said with a smile, "I want to express that you are a very good pretty girl."

"Thank you boss."

"What do you want to buy today?"

Before Xu Zhihui could answer, the woman turned to look at He Zhizun and Lan Ying and said with a smile, "Please take a look around. I have some things here that others don't have."

Lan Ying asked, "Do you specialize in collecting strange and bizarre things?"

The woman replied: "I run a second-hand store. These things are stored by others with me. If someone wants them, I will sell them."

"What if the owner of the item wants to take it back?" Lan Ying asked.

"It's sold, so what else can I do about it?" The woman pointed at the bunny shirt on Xu Zhihui and said, "Look, the clothes on the pretty girl were bought from me. Later, the man came to ask me, and I told him that I had sold it, and he was actually very happy."

Xu Zhihui quickly asked: "Who is that person? A man? A woman?"

"I don't know. I never ask people who they are," the woman shook her head. "He's a man, an old man, very tall, with pure white hair, no other colors."

"White-haired old man?"

Xu Zhihui couldn't imagine how an old man could have such a cute White Rabbit shirt. This old man was a little weird.

The woman nodded, then shook her head. "It's not quite accurate to say he's an old man. I saw he had a head of white hair, so I said he was an old man, but his face was very ruddy, so he didn't look like an old man. He looked more like a big, rough guy."

Xu Zhihui was also confused about who this old man was, and asked, "Do you have any more clothes like this? Other styles that can be used as couple outfits."

"Yes," the woman replied, "that old man left it behind."

She turned around and searched in the cabinet at the back for a while, then took out two pieces of clothing. When she unfolded them, she saw the pattern on them was two lions, one male and one female.

It is also a cartoon shape, with fluffy hair, cute and a little silly, with an exaggerated big mouth grinning. It doesn't feel like a ferocious beast at all, and it makes people want to pet it.

It is equally vivid and extremely realistic, and its style is the same as the White Rabbit shirt.

"Is it okay?" the woman asked.

"Wow," Lan Ying happily took it and looked at it, unable to let it go, "It looks great, I like it."

He Zhizun likes it too.

He just happened to have a soft spot for the lion and said, "Very nice, sell it to us."

The woman glanced at them and smiled, "I'll charge more for these two. Last time they were 2000 yuan each, this time they'll be 5000 yuan each."

"Ok, no problem."

Since it was a gift for her elder brother and his wife, Xu Zhihui couldn't let Lan Ying pay for it, so she quickly transferred the money to her boss.

Lan Ying accepted it.

The woman smiled and said, "Would you like to see anything else? I have other good things here. Since you are so generous, I will introduce them to you."

He Zhizun asked: "Anything else good?"

"and many more."

The woman went to the darkness at the back of the house and brought out a cage, a pet cage about 50 centimeters wide.

She placed the cage on the table and removed the cloth covering it.

Everyone came over to take a look and saw three little monsters in the cage. They were frightened by them on the spot.

These three little monsters are all different and look very strange, but they have one thing in common, which is that they look very ferocious and ugly.

Their appearance can only be seen in imagination, they do not exist in reality.

One was a black tiger with tusks and thorns on its body. One was a strange bird with a horse's body and a tiger's mouth. The other was a wolf with two heads and six legs.

These monsters have many features, but they are all reduced many times. Each monster has a circle around its neck, like a doll.

Seeing everyone, these little monsters were as excited as chicken blood, and wanted to rush out of the cage. The woman slapped the cage, and they rustled and retreated to the corner.

He Zhijing asked: "What are these little monsters? Where do they come from?"

"That white-haired old man left it here. He said he got it from a place called 'Black and White' and that I could keep it as a pet."

"Look, they are firmly controlled by the collar around their necks. They can't do anything bad and can only obey. Isn't it cool to have these pets? Although they are a little ugly, they are very special."

The woman explained with a smile.

Lan Ying and Xu Zhihui just thought they were ugly and disgusting. How could they be cool?

They shook their heads together and said, "No, no."

The woman said disappointedly, "You don't know what's good, forget it."

The woman covered the cage with the cloth again and put it back.

He Zhizun asked: "What is 'Black and White'? I've never heard of it."

The woman shook her head. "I don't know either."

"Where did that white-haired old man come from?"

"do not know."

"You have a good relationship with the old man?"

"It's not good or bad," the woman said calmly, "He put the things here with me and said that he would give me all the money from the sale. He didn't want to take a penny, so of course I accepted it."

He Zhizun didn't ask any more questions. This boss knew nothing. It was just a consignment store.

Maybe she knew but was unwilling to say it.

"Boss, let's go now," Xu Zhihui said, "We'll come back next time if we have the chance."

The woman nodded.

We just stepped out of the store.

The woman suddenly called Xu Zhihui, "Wait a minute, pretty girl, I have something to give you."