C2 (2/2)

”The hardest thing to do in this world is choice. The hardest thing to break is habit. And the most extravagant thing is balance, the peace after balancing everything!”

At that time, I was too young. I could understand every word of the old branch book.

In the lonely capital, there was always a gap between the bustle and me. Whenever I was alone, I would recall these warm and mysterious memories to pass the lonely time. Sometimes, I would even wonder if the Old Ancestor was dead or alive, why was he still walking in the village and mountains when his relatives couldn't see him, and if the shoes of the plum blossoms were really old books? And what did the circle of Luo see, and what did the symbol on my second sister's arm represent? The Luo family must have seen more than what my second sister saw. And after he said it three times with all his might, 'Don't look, don't look. Are you protecting my second sister? Are there some things in this world that you will never be at peace with?'

If I think too much, I'll go numb, and even if I don't experience it myself, I'll even suspect that it's some exaggerated version that's been passed on and stored in a distant memory. I don't want to dig it up, so I'll worry about it and start a good business with this small leather shop, and even if I can't live with it, I'll only be able to repay the old man. However, I never thought that everything had just begun, and it all started with me!

One autumn afternoon, I was warm and sleepy by the sun outside, a few maple leaves were falling, Xuan'er was stirring, I was holding a horror novel scanning ten lines.

A person wearing a black cotton jacket came out of nowhere. When I smelled the damp cotton that had not seen the sun all year round, he had already entered my shop. The new shop assistant eagerly greeted me.

In this business, you mustn't go up on the pole and sell socks on stalls, you just have to be enthusiastic. Just hold on to it and wait calmly like that, it's because you can't get away from the business. You are getting more and more aggressive, so the other party is getting more and more frustrated.

I got up and went into the shop. My footsteps were not light. The visitor had his back to the door of the shop and did not notice me behind him. At that time, I had been on guard.

We have our own supply of goods, which is to say, the generations of old hunters in the village. If we see those respectable customers, they would usually buy a few pieces, go back to look for them, order a piece of fur for one of our women, if you look at their grey faces, it's very low-key, the unremarkable kind of people walking on the street are usually the large number of two-way merchants, after they buy it, how to earn money from the middle is not something I can ask, of course, this is the rule of a few senior customers in the village every few years. I'm not here to collect furs, I'm here to sell my own goods. Normally, I don't come here to pick up goods that have my own origin, because for one thing, I don't lack it. I don't have time to take the money, so why are you giving me money?

So, a hunter who has been soaking in the mountains all year round will have an extraordinary hearing, and even if I were to approach him openly, he would still be very sensitive to it, let alone if I were to approach him openly. I am surprised that I am unable to pinpoint who this person is, or is not, or is not, or is dressed in the same outfit, contradiction, or pretends to be, someone who can even disguise his or her instinctive reaction, so I must be on guard against him.

In the end, I didn't guess correctly. After the new shop assistant introduced him for a long time, a hoarse voice came from his throat. It was a mute.

Oh, mute, inaudible, that was born. No wonder. My heart relaxed a little.

The man threw down a large snakeskin bag from his back. With such a shake of the bag, a few pieces of skin fell out. It seemed that my guess was right. It was a hunter that delivered goods to this place.