"Where?" Zhou Ze asked.
"In Xingfa Community, a man and his daughter were holding hands. I remember." The woman said confidently, "I knew that man before he died, and I had a quarrel with him! He actually wanted to take advantage of me and flirt with me!"
Zhou Ze frowned slightly and warned: "If you lie to me or try to play some tricks to kill someone with a borrowed knife, I will make sure you don't even have any chance to do anything."
"How can that be possible, brother? Even though I'm dead, I'm still a good person. Go ask around in my neighborhood and see who says that Sister Hong is a kind-hearted person."
Zhou Ze waved his hand, signaling her to be quiet.
The girl didn't know who Zhou Ze was talking to. Of course, Zhou Ze spoke in a very low voice, as if he was whispering to himself.
"I think a friend told me that there is a family in Xingfa Community that has a dog similar to this one. You can go there and ask." Zhou Ze said.
"Really? Okay, I'll go right away."
After saying this, the girl took out her wallet and prepared to pay.
"Forget it, no more."
"It's my duty. Thank you, boss, for the information." The girl took out five hundred yuan and forced it on Zhou Ze.
"Let's talk about it after we find it." Zhou Ze still refused to take the money.
"Well, thank you, boss."
The girl wiped her tears and left the bookstore.
"What a good girl." The woman was still sitting on the tiles of the bookstore.
"You can go now, too."
"Brother, I finally found someone who can hear me talk, can't you chat with me for a while longer?"
The woman looked as if she was saying, "I'm really having a hard time holding it in and enduring it."
“No time.”
Zhou Ze sat back behind the counter, picked up the nail clippers and continued trimming his nails.
"Brother, I'm afraid your bookstore here doesn't have much business?" The woman was still trying to find something to talk about.
Zhou Ze seemed to suddenly remember something and asked, "Want to go down?"
"Go down?" The woman was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't understand.
"Go where you should go now." Zhou Ze just remembered that he seemed to be a part-time ghost messenger.
"Can I not go down?" The woman said with some difficulty, "My son is taking the college entrance examination this year, and I want to accompany him until the exam is over before I leave."
Poor parents in the world.
"If your son knew that his deceased mother was still accompanying him to review at night, he would definitely be moved to tears." Zhou Ze joked.
I guess she won't be moved to tears, but there's a high chance that she'll be frightened to the point of falling ill and fail the college entrance exam.
"I'll just keep you company and watch." The woman said a little aggrieved.
"It's up to you." Zhou Ze waved his hand, too lazy to say anything else. When the little loli was giving instructions, she said that unless he deliberately crossed the line to be a judge, he could do whatever he wanted based on his mood.
Anyway, the little girl didn't give herself any performance reports requiring her to capture a certain number of ghosts per month or quarter.
"Brother, how did you become a human?" the woman asked curiously.
Zhou Ze frowned slightly.
The woman's body trembled several times and she dared not speak anymore.
About a quarter of an hour later, the woman said to herself that her son should be back from evening study and left the bookstore.
After she left, Zhou Ze walked over and turned over the bench the other person had just sat on, but did not see a single ghost money.
"After all, she is a woman who knows how to live."
Zhou Ze sighed, wondering if he had too good a temper.
After all, I am just a temporary worker and a member of the system. How dare you come here empty-handed and leave empty-handed
Do you really not treat temporary workers as cadres
Pushing the door open and walking out of the bookstore, Zhou Ze took out a cigarette and lit it. Xu Qinglang from next door seemed to have just finished cleaning and walked out wearing an apron. He looked at Zhou Ze, then squatted down next to Zhou Ze and asked for a cigarette from him.
Two men squatted in a row.
Behind
It is an almost abandoned commercial center, and in front of it is an empty road.
"Was the little girl picked up by her mother?" Xu Qinglang asked.
"She went downstairs." Zhou Ze replied.
"Oh, he went down." Xu Qinglang exhaled, "After going down, it will be difficult to come back."
"I don't know either." Zhou Ze shook his head.
Just as the little girl said, when she went to hell, she just walked a short distance on the Yellow Springs Road and then came out. She never experienced the real horror of hell.
"What does hell look like?" Xu Qinglang asked, blowing out a puff of smoke.
"I don't really understand."
There was nothing much to talk about, but it would be even more boring if they went back to the store. After finishing their first cigarette, they naturally lit up their second one.
"Where is your wife?" Xu Qinglang brought up the topic.
"Separated." Zhou Ze curled his lips.
"hey-hey."
Then, silence again.
Next,
It's the third cigarette.
"I'm going back to my hometown soon. I'll make some sour plum juice tomorrow and leave some for you."
"Thank you, you're not from here?"
"We are from the sea."
Menhai is a county district under Tongcheng.
"One of my relatives is getting married. To be honest, I don't want to go, but I can't not go. After all, we played in the mud together when we were kids and shamelessly followed the wedding procession to ask for red envelopes and prize money."
"Does he want you to go back as a bridesmaid?" Zhou Ze asked.
"Yes, the bridesmaid..." Xu Qinglang understood and immediately glared at Zhou Ze, "It's the best man."
"Were you married in your previous life?" Xu Qinglang suddenly asked.
"No." Zhou Ze replied.
"That's great, I got a wife for free in this life."
"She is not with..."
Zhou Ze paused and didn't continue.
Obsession,
Xu Le's obsession,
Still here!
Well, that's definitely the case.
"If you are alive, then live well. My parents are gone, completely gone, and I have figured it out. I have to grow up and find my own life.
Maybe, I can have a girlfriend in a while."
"It's more likely to be my boyfriend." Zhou Ze blew out a smoke ring and finished off the opponent.
"Hehe, I have been planning my future wedding in my mind since I was very young, what style, what design, what pomp..."
"Isn't this something only girls would think about?" Zhou Ze asked.
"Can't a man have a vision? Shut up, or you won't have any juice to drink tomorrow!"
Zhou Ze nodded and said, "Okay, I'll shut up."
"I'm planning to have an antique wedding, a very retro one.
I don't want a luxury car, I want a sedan chair with eight bearers, like the ones in the movies.
I will then rent a horse and put on a Ma褂 or Hanfu.
That atmosphere,
Do you understand
Zhou Ze stretched out his hand and pointed forward.
"Is that the case?"
Xu Qinglang was stunned for a moment, squinted his eyes forward, and asked: "What is it?"
"You can't see?" Zhou Ze asked.
Xu Qinglang's face froze and he hurried back to the store. Soon, he was rubbing something shiny in his hand and rubbing it on his eyes. Then he let out a cry of surprise.
indeed,
On the deserted street ahead, a red sedan chair carried by eight people was moving towards here.
The bearers had red ropes tied around their waists and red ceremonial crowns on their heads. The eight bearers moved in unison.
When traveling, nine shallow and one deep,
Therefore, the sedan chair would shake every once in a while, and the sedan chair bearers and the two suona players in front would jump together.
Looks very festive.
But in this deserted area, the sudden appearance of this scene was enough to scare passers-by to death.
Even Xu Qinglang opened his mouth for a moment when faced with this situation, feeling a little at a loss.
"Your wife?" Zhou Ze pointed at the wedding procession in front and said.
"Bullshit." Xu Qinglang took a few steps back, almost retreating back to the store. Seeing Zhou Ze still squatting there, he shouted, "Why don't you go back? This is a ghost wedding!"
"Can you throw a bouquet?" Zhou Ze patted his trouser legs and slowly stood up.
"If you catch me, I'll make you my husband." Xu Qinglang snorted coldly, "Do you want to be the owner of a bookstore or be captured and become the husband of a female ghost?"
"So serious?"
Zhou Ze was a little surprised. The ghosts he had seen before didn't have such great abilities. To be more precise, they didn't have such great influence.
If the owner of the sedan chair could really capture people's souls and have them follow her back to "get married", would she care or not
That woman could have turned a blind eye to it. After her son finished the college entrance examination, she would have lost her obsession and disappeared into hell. But the man in front of him,
With such a grand ceremony, this role is definitely not that simple.
Zhou Ze still didn't move. Xu Qinglang stood in the store and looked up at the talisman paper pasted on him. He still felt a little uneasy, but seeing that Zhou Ze was still unmoved, he was even more angry and cursed:
"You are just a rookie ghost. They are all spirits. If you retreat, she might not provoke you."
Zhou Ze still didn't move. Faintly, he felt that the mark on his palm seemed to be a little hot, as if reminding him that the person in front of him needed to be sent down, otherwise it would affect the world of the living.
As for the previous woman, Zhou Ze let her leave and the mark had no reaction, which was considered as tacit consent. But this time, the mark reminded him.
Temporary workers,
It's not easy to be one,
Generally, when something goes wrong or there is any mistake or negligence at work, it is usually the temporary workers who take the blame.
Zhou Ze is now in a very embarrassing position.
The wedding procession stopped ten meters away from Zhou Ze.
The two bearers stretched out their hands and lifted the curtain of the sedan chair.
There was no one inside.
The suona player walked towards Zhou Ze and bowed one meter away from him:
"My wife heard that the emperor was promoted to a higher position, so she asked us to invite him to her house to congratulate her."
The man playing the suona has a handsome and delicate face, but his skin is very white, and his blush and lipstick are a bit too much, making him look like the paper figurines sold in paper-making shops.
"You became a ghost messenger?" Xu Qinglang walked out of the store, feeling as unreal as if Wang Xiaodan, the penniless neighbor, suddenly became the mayor.
"If you become rich and powerful, don't forget me! You actually kept it a secret from me!" Xu Qinglang came over and complained to Su Bai. That kind of charm was so crisp and crisp that it was enough to make Bai Yang bow down.
"I have something I would like to ask you, sir." The suona player bent down and asked respectfully.
"Tell me, what's the matter? No problem, leave it to him! From now on, he will be in charge of this piece of land!" Xu Qinglang looked very happy to be taking over other people's business, and was very annoyed.
"When the lady ordered us to come to take over the mission, she also wanted us to capture a man and bring him back to marry her.
It is said that the man owns more than twenty houses, which is just the right match for my wife.
May I ask, sir, do you know where this person is?"
“… …”Xu Qinglang.