Infinite Script Killing

Xu Tong nodded thoughtfully, wrote down the boss's words word for word, and put away the drink: "Be taught!"

"Don't dare, please help yourself sir."

The shopkeeper cupped his hands and continued to make plans. After Xu Tong got the wine, he walked out of the door. He looked back at the wine shop and made sure that the boss was not following. His face changed, he held the wall and uncovered half of the mask and started to vomit. stand up.

Can you stop vomiting? Drinking this wine is like a Sun Wukong burrowing into the stomach of his sister-in-law. Xu Tong endured it until he came out and dared to spit out the wine.

Although the shopkeeper was right, Xu Tong still didn't think there was anything delicious about this stuff.

However, since A-mei reminded herself, she probably didn’t deliberately deceive him to suffer. With this mentality, Xu Tong took out the note and searched around the ghost market in the direction indicated above. , and finally found the mysterious little shop she mentioned in a remote corner.

The front of the house is very inconspicuous, and the signboard above also gives people an outdated feeling from the 1980s.

【Shuiji Grocery Store】

Xu Tong gently opened the door curtain of the shop and took a look. He saw several large tables placed in the dark room, some were empty, and some were three or five people sitting together peeling peanuts and drinking wine.

There were only one or two people sitting sparsely on a few tables, and the room was so quiet that it didn't look like a grocery store at all, but more like an elderly tea and card club.

When they saw someone walking in, everyone in the room just looked up and then continued to do their own business.

There was no one waiting in this place, and there wasn't even a person on the counter. If it weren't for the fact that the name Shuiji Grocery Store was written on the note, Xu Tong would have doubted whether he had gone to the wrong place.

I just found a place to sit, and after a while, another person came in from the door. This person also wore a mask on his face and was obviously a player.

Xu Tong noticed the other party, and the other party obviously noticed him, and was obviously stunned, as if he was surprised that there were other players in this place.

The exhibition is a magical place. You may say how big it is, but it's actually not that big. If you stand at the highest point, you can overlook the entire exhibition, which is about the size of a small town.

But if you want to say that he is small, you would be completely wrong. There are many shops here, and they are not as bleak as the ghost market. If you enter an inconspicuous store, you may not know how much space there is inside.

Even now, few players dare to say that they have explored the entire ghost city.

And in this inconspicuous place, few people come. Occasionally, some people come in to take a look, but they don't understand the point and leave after a while.

So seeing other players there, the other party was also very surprised.

However, accidents were accidents. After nodding towards Xu Tong, he strode straight to the busiest table, and then sat directly in the middle, chatting with each other.

After chatting for a while, the other party took out an old incense burner from the prop book and placed it on the table. Several people at the same table looked at it and winked at each other. Then they saw a man wearing a hat, looking towards the player. Stretching out his arms, he dropped his wide sleeves with a flick of his hand.

Why! This is called price comparison.

It is an old custom. The price is determined by specific gestures on the sleeve. For example, if you say this thing costs forty, the index finger to the little finger is 4, and then the thumb and index finger are pinched to make a 0.

If you want fifty, just give a thumbs up alone and pinch 0.

Anyway, the two sides were slowly groping and gesticulating, and outsiders had no idea what the price was.

In reality, this old custom is no longer common. As for whether it still exists, yes, it can still be seen occasionally in the livestock markets in Shaanxi and Shanxi. Of course, people nowadays don’t have such big cuffs, so they are covered with cloth. .

After the two fumbled around for a while, the man in the hat seemed a little dissatisfied, and in the end the transaction didn't seem to be successful.

No transaction was successful, and the player did not leave. Instead, he sat there and chatted with a few people.

"interesting."

Xu Tong sat aside and watched, and when he saw this, he probably understood what was going on here.

Although this place is a grocery store, it is not a place where you can just buy and sell things casually.

We need to get closer to each other first and reach a certain level before we can proceed with the transaction. In short, it's a bit like fate.

It's no wonder that few people come to this place. Although the time at the exhibition is not the same as the time outside, there are only four hours outside here a day, but after all, it is limited.

Not everyone is willing to spend time in this place.

However, Xu Tong liked this place very much. Anyway, it was still early before the time agreed with Gao Zhuo. He took out the hookah pipe in his hand and slowly put the shredded tobacco on it. This shredded tobacco came from Gao Zhuo's father Gao Tian not long ago. Put a new cut of tobacco that I found for him.

It is said that outsiders cannot buy this kind of tobacco, and even those with money cannot buy it. Xu Tong has never had time to taste it. Now that he has the leisure, he might as well taste it.

I saw clearly organized tobacco leaves, which glowed a faint golden yellow under the light. I picked up a handful with my fingers and kneaded them gently, and I could smell a unique tobacco leaf aroma.

It's hard to explain how to call this fragrance. It's thick, but not pungent. It has a fermentation feeling eroded by time. When you pinch it between your fingers, it doesn't feel dry or hard, but feels as soft as young grass. .

After putting shredded tobacco on it, Xu Tong used a small fire to bake it. When the tobacco leaves gradually carbonized under the baking of the flame, a wisp of green smoke floated up, and the air seemed to be filled with the fragrance of the tobacco leaves.

Xu Tong took a light sniff and his eyes lit up. However, he did not smoke it directly. Instead, he put the water pipe in his hand and waited for a while. This water pipe smoke is not smoked with the mouth like other cigarettes, but has a smoke storage device. During the process, let the smoke stay in the chimney for a while, and then slowly taste it after you feel that the chimney has gradually gained temperature.

Xu Tong didn't understand before, and he only wanted to have fun every time. Later, when Gao Tianfang saw this, he laughed and scolded him for wasting things. He also blamed Gao Zhuo for being too impatient and not learning this thing properly, so Xu Tong never understood this. The true meaning of water pipe smoking.

Later, under the guidance of his senior brother, he gradually mastered the secrets.

And the hookah in his hand also has many mysteries. As the pipe gradually warms up, the patterns and colors carved on it become more rounded, giving people a feeling of life even though it is a dead object.

As he slowly took a deep breath, the smoke lingered between his lips and teeth. The warm smoke emitted a unique fragrance in his mouth. The taste was sublimated many times compared to cold smoke, and even more so than cigars. An extra layer of strong layering.

Xu Tong closed his eyes and felt the unique fragrance and temperature in the clouds of smoke. This feeling was like giving invisible time a layer of unique flavor, slowly tasting it in his mouth. Wearing the same.

At this time, he suddenly felt the flow of smoke around him. He opened one eyelid and saw an old man wearing a shabby cotton-padded jacket sitting next to him.

The old man sat next to him, closed his eyes and rested his mind. From time to time, his nose took a deep breath on the smoke next to Xu Tong, and he looked like he was enjoying it more than he did.

Xu Tong was happy when he saw this, and took out his tobacco and handed it over: "Uncle, would you like a sip?"

The old man looked at the cut tobacco and smashed it into his mouth. He carefully picked up a cut tobacco with his fingers and put it in his hand to look at it carefully for a moment: "What a good thing. The leaves of this tobacco are of the finest lemon yellow. One tobacco plant can produce Five or six slices is enough."

Then he put the tobacco in his mouth, closed his eyes and said slowly, "Yeah! Honey, sandalwood powder, bamboo leaf green, and soybeans."

After saying that, he took a light sniff at the shredded tobacco: "Okay, the lychee water should be mixed in when frying, and stir-fried slowly over low heat. This is real skill. After three months of fermentation, um, it's good stuff."

After looking at it, tasting it, and smelling it, the old man actually calculated the production process of the tobacco leaf to almost 90% accuracy. It can be seen that the old man's level of attainments on the road of drug addiction is already extraordinary.

"If you like it, I'll give you half."

Xu Tong said with a smile. He could see that the old man was extraordinary, so he just used this as a breakthrough.

As for this shredded tobacco, although it is rare, it is not a difficult thing for Gao Tianfang. After all, the Gao family's local prestige and power are still extraordinary.

"No, no rewards for no merit. I appreciate your kindness. It's a blessing that I can take a puff of this tobacco. If you let me, an old man, have half of it, my life will be shortened."

The old man said and took out a cigarette stick. Xu Tong took a look. Although the old man was dressed in rags, the cigarette stick was unusual. The bamboo stick, the white jade mouth cover, and the smoking pot looked like It's brass.

There is something special about this smoking pot. The copper pot has a white jade mouth. Copper has the effect of heat conduction and heat resistance. It takes half a pound of high-quality brass to make a smoking pot. The white jade mouth is white marble, which is soft and smooth in the mouth.

The most difficult thing is that this "pole" is the most difficult to choose. The iron pole is white, the copper pole is the worst, the wooden pole is medium, and the bamboo pole is the best. It is not the kind of grown bamboo. It needs to be made with old bamboo roots and bamboo whips. The bamboo joints on the top need to be dense and the shape needs to be good. It is very difficult to find the right one.

The old man's cigarette rod looks like he is old at first glance. The cigarette rod has a layer of glass-like texture from years of playing with it, and the dense and tangible bamboo joints add a bit of artistic beauty.

One look at the state of this thing and you know that this thing is probably half the old man's lifeblood.

Quickly pinching a handful of shredded tobacco, the old man's technique is also unique. He pinches it with his fingers and directly inserts it into the tobacco pot. After gently rubbing it in the pot a few times, he can rub it to make it soft at the top and soft at the bottom.

After taking out the flint and roasting it for a while, he put it in his mouth and smoked it. After two puffs, the old man smashed his mouth and started talking to Xu Tong: "Very few people come to this place. You must have something to ask for. Say, Let’s see, this old guy like me can still help.”

Or it is often said that the distance between men is often only a cigarette.

Xu Tong was not polite when he heard the words. After explaining his purpose, the old man glanced away, took the cigarette pot in his hand and pointed at the man in the corner behind him who was holding a stone in his mouth and said: "Then you go find him, but this man It’s hard to talk, so you have to be prepared.”