Soul knot

In the deep alley at the end of Yangliu Street, there is a bar that belongs to elves but never excludes humans.

The style of this bar is rather old-fashioned. When you enter the door and look up, you can see a patchwork of purple vines. There are small ball-shaped chandeliers hanging irregularly between the vines. , and through the oil-paper umbrella hanging upside down under the lamp, various colors of light are cast.

The interior of the bar is divided into several small areas, each of which is separated by screens or wooden bars. In each small area, there are also bamboo curtains hung between adjacent wine tables, which can be put down or rolled up at any time. .

On the surrounding walls, there are some small pieces of ancient musical instruments, small pendants, and candlestick-style wall lamps.

On the innermost side of the bar, there is a small singing table, which is not big and can only be seen by guests in a few small areas around it.

But the singing can spread throughout the bar.

It's not that the old man is completely shrouded in a barrier of demon power, but this barrier is not used to block the outside world, it is used to blind the eyes.

Most of the waiters in the bar are little demons with poor cultivation, and they can’t change a complete human form. This layer of barrier can prevent ordinary humans from seeing the monster shape, so the little monsters show a little ears, small tails and so on. It won't be seen anymore.

Gradually, this place became the favorite place for the goblins in Yuanchuan City. After all, they are all goblins, and they look friendly.

Of course, there are not only goblins but also many humans who patronize here.

Because the resident singers hired in the bar mostly sang lyrical songs, and when the resident singers were resting, they mostly played quieter pure music.

It’s not just an old friend, it’s not just a drink service. Most of the time, you can also talk to customers in need, from the boss to the waiter, except for the bartender, everyone can chat with the wine—of course, it’s limited to chatting.

Because of this, there are usually three types of guests who like to drink here.

The first type is people who simply want to bring their friends over here because of the style here.

The second type is people who have recently suffered emotional or career setbacks and want to be comforted, but have nowhere to confide in, so they can only come here to find some spiritual comfort.

The third type is repeat customers.

The atmosphere of not being an old friend has always been very good, the bar style is also considered unique in Yuanchuan, the chat service is quite distracting, and there are many repeat customers.Over time, whether the guests or the waiters are familiar with each other, they can call each other by nicknames.

December 27th was an unusual snowy night.

The front door of the No-Old Man bar was gently pushed open, just enough to pass through the crack of a person's door, and a small head stuck in.

It was a little girl who looked about ten years old, wearing the school uniform of Wenhai Middle School, carrying a small blue-gray cloth schoolbag on her shoulders, her hair was tied into a ponytail, her little face was flushed from the cold, and her eyes looked blankly and frightened at her. Looking inside.

After pushing open the door, Lu Yudong heard someone singing Faye Wong's "Red Bean", the voice was soft and hoarse, but it seemed to be floating in the clouds.

The air conditioner in the bar was fully turned on, and the moment the cold wind came in, the young man in a white shirt on the bar on the left cast his gaze over, and a hint of surprise flashed in his beautiful eyes.

After a short surprise, he winked at a passing waitress. The waiter came back to his senses, glanced at the door, and hurried over.

Lu Yudong thought it was someone who came to shock people, and his heart couldn't stop trembling. Unexpectedly, the waitress just pulled her in from the door, reached out and patted the snowflakes on her body, leaned over and asked: " Little sister, how did you come here? Looking for someone, or lost your way?"

Lu Yudong blinked, not knowing how to speak for a while, and looked in unconsciously.

Seeing that she didn't answer, the waiter still looked like she wanted to go in, and quickly reached out to stop her, and continued: "Little sister, this is a bar, you are still young, you shouldn't come here casually."

Lu Yudong heard that he seemed to have been ordered to evict, he quickly shook his head, and whispered with red eyes: "I, I came to find my sister..."

"Your sister?" the waiter asked.

"En!" Lu Yudong nodded.

The waiter tilted his head and thought for a while, and was hesitating whether to take the little girl in to find someone, when he heard the boss's voice.

"Huanxi, this is the child of Manzhu's family." Mu Shenshan circled out from inside.

After hearing this, Huanxi stopped blocking the child in front of her and turned around to do other things.

Seeing Lu Yudong, he trotted to the edge of Mu Shen Mountain, looked up at him, and whispered, "Uncle Mu!"

Mu Shenshan asked curiously: "How did you find this place?"

"Is Sister Manzhu working here?" Lu Yudong blinked her eyes sourly, and whispered, "My classmates said that she works here, and they said..."

Mu Shenshan asked: "What did they say?"

Lu Yudong couldn't help biting his lower lip, thought over and over again, and finally shook his head, not uttering the gossip he heard during the day.

Children can't hide things in their eyes, and they don't say it directly, but adults can guess it more or less.

Mu Shenshan said: "What do those brats in your class who don't even have long hair know? I'm a serious businessman. Your sister Manzhu is singing in there."

Lu Yudong's eyes lit up suddenly: "Is Sister Manzhu singing?"

When Manzhu sang, her voice seemed to be different from her usual speech, but she couldn't even hear it.

"Yes, she won't be able to find a job for a while, so she will come to my place to help." Mu Shenshan said, leading Lu Yudong to the bar, opened the side door of the bar, and gently pushed her in, "This is my lord. I can't let you in the place where you can only come, so you just sit here for a while, and I'll let her rest early later and take you home, okay?"

Lu Yudong nodded hastily, leaning on the bar table, tiptoed, and jumped onto the high stool, sitting very obediently.

"Don't run around." Mu Shenshan said, and told the "white shirt" beside him, "Chaomu, take care of me, I'm busy."

After Mu Shenshan left, "White Shirt" glanced at the child sitting beside him, and by coincidence, he met those clear eyes.

The child is still carrying a schoolbag on his shoulders, which looks very heavy.

He pondered for a moment, reached out to help take it off, and put it on an empty stool beside him.

"Thank you, big brother." Lu Yudong whispered, and buried his little head after speaking.

Bar guests came in and out, and each of them cast a curious look at Lu Yudong.

Some people even walked to the bar with a smile, and while ordering wine, they jokingly asked, "Xiaoyan, where did this kid come from? It can't be from your family, right?"

Faced with such a problem, "White Shirt" always shook his head without explaining, and only silently mixed drinks for the guests.

Fortunately, the guests didn't seem to care much about it, and if they couldn't get an answer after asking once, they stopped asking.

Lu Yudong sat in front of the bar, observing everyone who came and went, and found that most of the waiters in this bar wore decorations such as ears, tails, and wings.

Just like the waiter sister named Huanxi before, she was wearing a pair of orange cat ears, and she also had a cat tail behind her, which was fluffy and quite realistic.

In addition to kittens, there are also rabbit ears, sheep horns, dragonfly wings... I don't know if it is the service regulations of the bar.

Children always like furry things.

Lu Yudong wanted to touch it several times, but in the end he was too embarrassed to ask.

The clock turned to [-]:[-], and no guests came in for a long time, and the guests inside showed no signs of coming out.

Lu Yudong suddenly felt a little thirsty and wanted to drink something, but he didn't dare to talk to the taciturn "white shirt" beside him.

She shook her calf in a little bewilderment, and reached out to turn over a sign standing on the bar counter. She thought it was a price list, but it turned out to be a few lines of words.

"Please tell me... the wine you want, or your mood at the moment... If you need to talk heart-to-heart, you can find another waiter... Don't try to communicate with this little bartender..." Lu Yudong looked up after reading The "white shirt" beside him had a little more relief in his eyes.

No wonder the guests here don't talk to him very much, it seems that they have long been used to it.

This big brother looks very young, fair and handsome, with especially beautiful eyes, which makes people feel good when they see him.

It's just... so difficult to get along with.

"White Shirt" noticed Lu Yudong's curious gaze, reached out and turned the stand back, thought for a while, and said, "Yan Zhaomu, mine, my name."

When Lu Yudong saw this aloof big brother suddenly say something to him, a gleam of joy flashed in his eyes: "My name is Lu Yudong, and I will be 12 soon."

After speaking, there was no response, and the two fell silent again.

Lu Yudong turned around and looked at the wine in the cupboard, his eyes were full of curiosity, and he couldn't help asking Yan Zhaomu in a low voice: "Big brother, are you a bartender?"

"En." Yan Zhaomu replied.

"Is there any wine that I can drink too?" Lu Yudong asked cautiously.

Just now she saw that Yan Chaomu was mixing drinks for others, each glass was mixed in a different way, which made her very curious.

In the past, my father pointed to the wine and said it was tea, and tricked her into taking a sip. The taste was so bad that she remembered it for many years. She thought that she would not be interested in wine anymore, but she never thought that she would have a day of gluttony .

But it was obvious that Yan Zhaomu was not willing to mix drinks for her.

After thinking for a while, he bent down, opened the cabinet under his feet, took out Sprite, Coke, Mirinda, orange juice, peach juice, coconut milk and other drinks from it, and then closed the cabinet, saying: "These, you ,you can."

Lu Yudong looked at the row of drinks in front of him, finally chose a bottle of coconut milk, lowered his head and twisted the cap.

Yan Zhaomu put away the rest of the drink, and when he got up, he saw that Lu Yudong was still wrestling with the bottle cap, so he took it and helped him out.

"Thank you." Lu Yudong took it back, grateful in a low voice.

She held the coconut milk she had drank two sips in her hands, and Manzhu sang a song she had never heard before in a place that was inconvenient for her to enter.

she lives on july's torrent

The roof is overturned and the ideal is ten thousand feet

She took a nap in the reeds where the north wind hurriedly passed by

……

The prairie in her dream is white

The train rides on the joys and sorrows

She tasted the limited-time candies in every foreign land

……

Young children don't understand the song they hear, what kind of story and what kind of person they are singing.

She just felt that Man Zhu sang this song very well.

"Big brother." Lu Yudong raised his eyes and asked Yan Zhaomu, "What song is this?"

Yan Zhaomu: "Calendar, Lili Wanxiang."

Lu Yudong tilted his head blankly: "Everything is fragrant?"

Yan Chaomu was at a loss for words for a while, and he found a pen and paper from somewhere, wrote the title of the song on it, and pushed it in front of Lu Yudong: "This, this..."

"Thank you!" Lu Yudong lowered his head in embarrassment.

She seemed to know why Yan Zhaomu was silent all the time, he was stuttering.

My mother said that it is very polite to stutter repeatedly, and others will be unhappy because of it.

The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.

Fortunately, this embarrassment didn't last long. The singing in the bar was replaced by piano music. After a while, Manzhu came out from inside, with her head lowered, and she tied the lace of her cloak as she walked.

Lu Yudong was so happy that he jumped to the ground and waved his thin arms far away.

Seeing Manzhu, she stepped forward quickly, supported the bar with both hands, and said angrily: "It's late at night, if you don't go home to sleep, what are you doing here alone?"

Lu Yudong shrank his neck, blinked his eyes aggrievedly, squeezed out two "woo hoo" from the tip of his nose, and didn't dare to speak.

Manzhu remembered what Mu Shenshan had said to her in private just now, and couldn't help taking a deep breath.

Lu Yudong hurriedly came out from the side, tightly held Manzhu's slender wrist under the cloak with both hands, looked up at Manzhu, his eyes were full of obedience.

Manzhu couldn't laugh or cry for a while, she really had nothing to do with this child.

"Okay, let's go home." Manzhu patted Lu Yudong's head.

"Sister Hong." Yan Zhaomu handed out the schoolbag beside him.

"Almost forgot, thank you." Manzhu took it with a smile, and led Lu Yudong out of the bar who was waving goodbye to Yan Zhaomu.

On the way home, Manzhu thought for a while, looked down at Lu Yudong, and asked softly, "Lu Yudong, do you care that your classmates look at you strangely because of me?"

Lu Yudong shook his head: "No."

"Then why did you come to see me at night?" Manzhu asked.

"I'm just afraid...you do things you don't like for me..." Lu Yudong said, his voice getting smaller and smaller.

After hearing this, Manzhu couldn't help smiling: "I don't like it, you can see it, this job is not what you think, the only bad thing is that I can't accompany you at night..."

Lu Yudong nodded: "I understand."

She should have trusted Manzhu, and she shouldn't have believed anything her classmates said.

Perhaps this is the chaos of caring.

Lu Yudong thought about it, and felt that it was necessary to change the subject.

She shook Manzhu's hand lightly, raised her head and asked, "Sister, I saw that you have a lot of small decorations with ears, tails and wings. They are very realistic. Can you give me one too?"

Manzhu's footsteps froze suddenly, as if she suddenly remembered something, she frowned slightly.

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Anonymous user: My colleagues are all goblins, ordinary people can't see the body of a half-demon, but my children can see it, and they want me to ask for their ears, tail and wings, what should I do?Urgent, wait online.

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