When I walked out of the police station lobby, I happened to see the young monk Yuquan.
Yuquan also saw me, and he waved from a distance, "Brother Yang, over here, over here!..."
I went to the front of Yuquan.
Yuquan said with a smile: "Brother Yang, you finally came out. I have been waiting for you here for more than two hours. Amitabha, if you don't come out, I will starve to death."
Although Yuquan was joking with me, my ears were very good and I still heard the "gurgling" sound in his stomach. It seemed that Yuquan was really hungry. It was true that we had been busy with the nightmare ghost these two days and had not had a good meal at all.
I looked at my watch and it was a little after ten o'clock in the evening.
This time is not too late for people in the city.
Waving to Yuquan, I said, "Let's go, let's go eat something first. This time, the matter of the nightmare ghost has finally come to an end. Although it is troublesome, we still gained a lot. Let's celebrate a little! ... ... Let's go, Yuquan, what do you want to eat? It's my treat!"
In fact, even if I didn't say I would treat you, I would still have to treat you, because Yuquan only had a little over ten yuan on him. That was the incense money that his master, Master Xiangyun, left for Yuquan when he left Xiangyun Temple.
"Then let's have barbecue! Brother Yang, you city folks always add a lot of seasonings to your barbecued food. I love the big, fat meat skewers the most. And the big kidneys, they all taste great."
Yuquan is really a foodie. He has no dietary restrictions at all and eats everything. He is really like a small version of "Lu Zhishen".
"Okay, no problem! Then let's go eat skewers and kidneys!"
I smiled and replied.
Afterwards, Yuquan and I came to the police station compound.
The sky outside was still pitch black, with the stars and the moon hidden in the dark clouds. Standing under the sky, I found that humans are so small, so small that they are insignificant to the entire city, the entire earth, the entire Milky Way...
But even though it is so insignificant, everyone lives tenaciously for a better tomorrow. So do I. I hope that as a ghost-catching Taoist priest, I can solve my "problems" as soon as possible, that is, the five disadvantages and three shortcomings.
Otherwise, I will never have the chance to breathe the fresh air in this sky again.
Ma Qiang's Beijing Hyundai sedan had been driven back here by the people from the Municipal Bureau.
So, there was no need for Yuquan and I to run to Fanghua Women's University. We just got in Ma Qiang's car.
The car quickly drove away from the police station.
Not long after the car started on the road, it passed a village in the city.
This urban village is a completely different scene compared to the quiet city. It is bustling and noisy, as if it is out of place in this city.
There are many food stalls in the urban village, all brightly lit, with round tables close together, filled with customers eating skewers and drinking beer. It seems that business here is really booming.
I stopped the car close to the roadside and got out with Yuquan.
However, compared to other barbecue stalls, the barbecue stall in front of a small house was unusually deserted. Other barbecue stalls had more than ten or twenty tables of customers, but this small stall only had two tables of customers.
The round tables were placed there with empty seats, and many people passed by but did not stop. It was as if they did not know that there was also a barbecue here.
Shouldn't it be like this? Logically, the food stalls in this urban village are all next to each other, and the food they cook should be similar. But why are there so many customers in other places, but so few here
My heart
I couldn't help but feel suspicious.
The owners of the kebab shop are a young couple. The husband is responsible for grilling and the wife is responsible for entertaining guests.
Maybe because there were not many customers, the two young couples were leaning against the wall and chatting in low voices.
But when Yuquan and I looked at the two of them, I realized something was wrong.
The couple were both stained with ghost energy. In particular, there was a thick black ghost energy between the eyebrows of the young man. It seemed that he had been haunted by ghosts for a long time.
Yuquan also noticed something was wrong, and came close to me and whispered, "Brother Yang, something is wrong. There is something strange about that couple. They are both contaminated with ghost energy to varying degrees. It seems that a ghost is causing trouble for them!"
I whispered back to Yuquan, "Don't worry, I'll apply some Crow's Tears first and see how it goes."
Then, I secretly smeared the crow's tears on my eyelids.
When I opened my eyes again, I was completely stunned.
I stood there in a daze, motionless, the corners of my mouth trembling slightly, and I was unable to speak.
"Brother Yang, are you okay?"
Yuquan called me.
I gently handed the small porcelain bottle of crow's tears to Yuquan and said solemnly, "Look for yourself."
Yuquan looked at me in confusion, then he took the porcelain bottle.
Yuquan also smeared the Crowless Tears on his eyelids.
When he opened his eyes, his reaction was similar to mine, his mouth was a little wide and there was a hint of surprise in his eyes.
Because thirty or forty ghosts appeared in front of us.
Those ghosts were hanging over the empty seats. Their expressions were different and ferocious. There were all kinds of ghosts, ghosts of the wrongly killed, ghosts covered in blood, ghosts of drowned, ghosts of hanged... Even in front of the two tables that had guests, there were ghosts hanging over there.
Several air-eating ghosts were floating in front of the two tables with guests. They stretched out their long heads and continuously absorbed the "air" emitted by the food on the round tables into their souls.
The guests were completely unaware and continued to eat with gusto.
I wondered why there were not many guests here, it turned out that this place was occupied by ghosts. Those ghosts were not very powerful, they were just ordinary little ghosts. But they could appear here and move around.
There are quite a few people here, so ghosts should be afraid of the yang energy in people, right?! But they are not.
This means there is a problem.
And I noticed that on the backs of the young couple, there was a ghost lying on each of them. Both ghosts were innocently dead, and their exposed souls were covered in blood. The white porcelain eyes of the innocently dead ghosts were like the eyes of a cooked fish, which was terrifying.
"Brother Yang, this... this... how could this happen?" Yuquan asked me in a trembling voice.
I shrugged and said, "How should I know? Let's go over and sit down first."
Yuquan was surprised and said, "Brother Yang, do you mean to go to this barbecue stall to eat barbecue? ... ... I think we should forget it. Otherwise, let's go to another stall. It's really hard to eat while staring at those ghosts."
The young monk Yuquan became timid at this time.
I raised my hand and slapped Yuquan hard on the forehead, angrily saying, "How can this be! Since we have encountered a ghost that harms people, we have to help. Otherwise, the couple will definitely not live long."
Then, regardless of whether Yuquan was willing or not, I pulled him and walked towards the stall.
When the young couple saw the guests coming, they stopped talking.
The woman, with a smile on her face, walked quickly towards Yuquan and me.
"What would you like to eat, both of you?"
"We have the best skewers here, freshly grilled and sold, absolutely fresh!"
The female boss entertained us warmly.
When I looked over at her, I saw the ghost on her back sucking life out of the female boss's body. The ghost's long red tongue was like an earthworm, constantly reaching into the female boss's nostrils and mouth.
Perhaps it noticed that I had seen it, so the ghost stared at me with its scarlet eyes, looking fierce. I pretended not to see the ghost and turned my head away.
When I turned my head away, the dead ghost lay on the female boss again and continued to suck the vitality from her body. If she continued to be sucked like this, I believe that within half a month, this woman would die of organ failure.
Seeing that Yuquan and I didn't say anything, the female boss raised her voice a little and asked, "Dear guests, what would you like to eat? I'll ask my husband to grill it now. We have beer, skewers, tendons, silkworm pupae and so on here."
I put my thoughts aside and said to the female boss with a smile, "Then let's start with twenty skewers of lamb, five skewers of grilled leeks, five skewers of grilled silkworm pupae, and three skewers of kidneys!"
The female boss nodded, and the pen in her hand kept writing on the list in her hand.
"Then you two, would you like some beer? We have Harbin Beer and Tsingtao Beer here, both taste great!"
Yuquan was a little nervous and said quickly, "We don't want the beer. After we finish eating, we'll leave. We still have things to do."
Seeing Yuquan's serious face, the female boss put away the smile on her face.
She said, "Okay, I'll get ready. Please wait a moment."
After the female boss left, I glared at Yuquan fiercely.
Yuquan said a little embarrassedly: "Brother Yang, don't look at me like that. I'm thinking about ourselves. We just went through what happened at Fanghua Women's University, and we should have taken a good rest. But now we have encountered this kind of thing again. I think we should not cause trouble for ourselves."
"Besides, there are quite a few people here now. If we start fighting, it won't be very convenient for me."
I was really surprised to hear Yuquan say this.
I said to Yuquan in a deep voice, "Whether it is convenient or not is not up to you. I think that whether you are a monk or a Taoist priest catching ghosts, you must have professional ethics. Otherwise, you are simply incompetent and cannot eat this bowl of rice."
After saying that, I turned my head away and ignored Yuquan.
Seeing that I was angry, Yuquan apologized quickly, "Brother Yang, don't be angry, I was wrong. It's not that I don't have a sense of public morality or professional ethics. I just think that there are too many people here, and these ghosts appeared in the crowd. I think this is very abnormal."
"I'm just afraid that we won't be able to help and will get into more trouble!"
I didn't pay attention to Yuquan's words. I stood up and said to Yuquan, "If you want to eat, stay. If you don't want to eat, you can go back to your Xiangyun Temple now."
Yuquan was stunned by what I said. After a while, he said with a red face: "Brother Yang, please don't be like this. My master asked me to follow you. If you chase me away, I will be too ashamed to see my master."
"Well, Brother Yang, I'll listen to you!"
I curled my lips, a little smile appeared on my tense face, and said, "That's it! ... ... So, Yuquan, you stay here for a while, I'll go check on the boss over there. I want to find out what's going on."
"Okay! Then you go ahead, Brother Yang. I'll wait for you here."
(to be continued)
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