The casual life of the flat space

"And the thirteenth item on this page, Cao's Incense Shop. His family has an ancestral craft of making incense. It is said that the placement of each item is very particular. Even if it is moved a millimeter, the smell of the incense will change, so..." Zuoya gave Bai Tieying a look that said "You should understand, right?"

"Haha... it's true... ah!" Bai Tieying pretended to be speechless, thinking: I am so lucky! Not only do I have a space, but I also got to meet General Zhao and Mu Qingqiu. Otherwise, with the means of County Magistrate Xiao, I might not be left with anything. But I am lucky enough not to live up to this luck. Didn't I save so many people by accident?

"Then what's the matter with this shop in Guanglefang?" Bai Tieying seemed to feel sorry for those merchants and abruptly changed the subject.

"This shop is the Cui family's grain shop. The business model is the same, but..."

"What's the matter?" Bai Tieying did a very good job of supporting the main actor.

"The Cui family cleared out the shop in June, and the shop has been empty ever since. The rumors about that started at that time. Many people said that that must have happened before, but the Cui family kept suppressing it. I guess they couldn't suppress it anymore... Also, that person might be the one on the street, so he came back to make trouble!"

Bai Tieying had just heard about how powerful the Cui family was. In June... that was when he had just taken action, he didn't know what the outcome would be. How could the Cui family predict the future?

"Didn't they say that this shop used to belong to the Cui family?"

"Hey, the origin of the Cui family's shop... ahem, they also bought it from someone else."

"How long have you bought it?"

"Oh, I don't know about that. If you want to know, I can ask a dentist who has been doing this for many years."

"It's okay. I'm just asking out of curiosity. There's no need to go through so much trouble. By the way, um, what exactly happened?" Bai Tieying continued to gossip.

"Oh, I tell you, it's really creepy!" Zuoya bent down and whispered, "At first, someone saw the ghost light in the middle of the night. When he told the neighbors, they didn't believe it. But after the rumor spread, other people really saw it.

There are many stubborn people in Shang'an. Later, a few idlers got drunk and wanted to see if they were brave enough. They said they would all stay at Cui's grain store tonight. Whoever ran away would have to pour night fragrance for the other four people for a month, and they had to shout that they were cowards all the way. So these idlers climbed over the wall and entered the yard.

It is said that as soon as they entered, they felt a gust of cold wind and were half sober, but for the sake of saving face, no one asked about it at the time, and they just thought it was their own illusion.

But a few grown men couldn't just stand in the yard and wait until dawn, so they started to move into the house, thinking that they could just find a bed board or a straw mat to spend the night on. In the blink of an eye, the night would be over.

But when the first man cautiously pushed open the first door he touched, he swore that he saw a pale-faced man facing him, but when he asked the four behind him, they all said they didn't see him.

Most grain shops are warehouses for storing grain, so there are few furnitures. So they continued to touch down, and strange things happened. This time it was the second person who said that he saw a person with a pale face, but the first person and the three behind him did not see him.

This went on and on until all four of them saw it. The fifth person then backed out and said that he would rather pour night incense for everyone for a month than go into the fifth room.

The idlers tossed about for a long time, broke out in a cold sweat, and had long since sobered up. Seeing that someone had admitted defeat, they also quickly took advantage of the situation and said that they would go back.

As a result, when they turned around a room, the pale-faced man suddenly fell from the roof and said to the fifth person sinisterly: "Why don't you come in?"

The fifth person later said that he was so frightened that he immediately passed out and lost consciousness. The other four people later said that they did not see him at all, and they only realized that the fifth person was missing when they were climbing over the wall. But when they found out that someone was missing, they were even more frightened and crawled back home.

The fifth person was found by the person who was pouring the night incense the next morning. It was said that he somehow fell asleep in the night incense bucket and was woken up by the first bucket of that thing. The news of the Cui family grain store making trouble... spread from then on. "

Zuoyaren shook his head while making a "closing statement", and it was unclear whether he was afraid or regretful. Bai Tieying felt that he was a little stingy for giving ten cents just now. If someone in the original world who wanted to lose weight heard such a story to suppress appetite, he would definitely eat less rice.

"Are these the only stories?" Bai Tieying wanted to get a few more jokes.

"Hey, Miss Bai! You are talking about this..." Zuoya gave Bai Tieying a thumbs up, "Of course there are more than these two, otherwise how can the price be lowered again and again? But the others are not suitable for you to listen to."

Bai Tieying was about to ask back, "What's not suitable?" Suddenly, he remembered that he was only ten years old. Well, there might be some limitations.

"Oh, what a pity!" Only Bai Tieying himself knew which "pity" this "pity" referred to.

"Isn't it a pity? The location of the Cui family grain store is so good! It is right in the middle of our Shang'an County. If the Cui family hadn't put in a lot of effort when rebuilding the county town, how could they have become one of the four major businesses in Shang'an later?"

“Rebuilding the county?”

"Yes, oh, you are young, and you may not have heard from the elders in your family that our Shang'an County was washed away by a flood nearly a hundred years ago. At that time, a small mountain in the east collapsed and buried half of the county.

By the way, Zhongjie. Going east from Zhongjie is the location of the original hill. When it was rebuilt, the original hill was included and it was built all the way to the current Maoer Mountain.

It is said that the Cui family had never been well-known before, but during the disaster, their family took out all their stored food and savings, and sent all the men and servants in the family to help the county magistrate at the time rebuild. This is why the county magistrate was not demoted, but was later transferred to the capital for his contribution to the construction of the new county town. "

Bai Tieying was surprised by Zuo Yaren's words. The Jiang family wanted to help the then county magistrate to take the position. Maybe they were also calculating that the county magistrate made a mistake and wanted to take advantage of it to step on him? Unfortunately, human calculations are not as good as "human calculations". The Cui family's desperate gamble was indeed right.

It seems that the county magistrate at that time also had some background, otherwise, no matter how well the post-disaster reconstruction was done, in most cases, the county magistrate, as the official in charge of the people, would become the scapegoat given by the court to vent the anger of the people.

There are doubts in this matter, but Bai Tieying will not discuss it with Zuoya people. She only cares about one thing - can she pick up this "leak"?