Sitting in a truck is certainly not very comfortable. There are many bends and it is inevitable to be swayed from side to side.
The driver stopped at a service station on the way and bought some midnight snacks for Zhou Ze and others.
Zhou Ze was holding a convenience bag in his hand and wanted to say something to the driver, but the driver just waved his hand and sat back in his own cab.
He seemed to just want to help the disabled, but didn't want to hurt their self-esteem too much.
"Hey, I'm really touched. In this day and age, such a fool... such a kind-hearted person,
Not much anymore. ”
Lawyer An took a piece of bread from the convenience bag in Zhou Ze's hand, tore open the bag and started eating.
Zhou Ze didn't have much appetite. After taking out a sausage, he asked Yingying to take the bag down and share it with Lao Xu and Hei Xiaoniu. They were injured and needed to eat something.
Fortunately, this place is not far from Dujiangyan. Zhou Ze and others plan not to go directly into Chengdu city, but to stop in Dujiangyan to rest first, and give everyone some time to catch their breath.
I left Yunnan in a hurry before, and was really scared by a series of unexpected events. Now that I am out of Yunnan, I can at least breathe a sigh of relief.
Zhou Ze bit open the sausage packaging bag with his teeth.
Then he passed the sausage to the marten on his shoulder.
The marten stretched out its nose and sniffed.
Then there was no response.
"Picky eater?"
Zhou Ze smiled.
"You should learn from your monkey brother. He eats everything."
The monkey would usually eat whatever the Taoist priest ate in the bookstore. Sometimes, the two of them would even sit together and drink some white wine with peanuts.
Of course, the spotted marten didn't know who the legendary Monkey King was, but in the face of Zhou Ze's words, it didn't dare to make any other comments. However, it still refused to eat the sausage. It curled up timidly on Zhou Ze's shoulder like a little bottom, intending to sleep on its side again.
Zhou Ze took a bite of the ham sausage.
Immediately frowned,
Corn flavor.
He can't get used to it.
For a long time, Zhou Ze always felt that corn-flavored ham sausage was simply inhumane.
The car started moving again, and after more than an hour, it arrived at the Dujiangyan area. Zhou Ze and others said goodbye to the driver here.
Before leaving, Zhou Ze placed a stack of RMB and a stack of ghost money in the compartment of the other party's cab.
Although they were mistaken for a disabled performing arts troupe with strong wills and showed warmth,
But I did receive their care.
Besides, this driver is also very nice.
Good people should be rewarded.
Everyone checked into a hotel in Dujiangyan. Zhou Ze and Yingying shared a room, and the rest of the people were assigned their own rooms. Although Hei Xiaonv and Lao Xu were weak, they could still take care of themselves.
Zhou Ze originally planned to arrange for Lawyer An and the little boy to accompany each patient, but seeing Lawyer An holding the little boy's hand pitifully and unwillingly,
Zhou Ze thought about it and let it go.
No words were spoken that night.
Everyone finally had a good sleep.
When I woke up the next day,
Zhou Ze stretched out his hand and opened the window in the room.
A breath of fresh air hits my face.
It makes people feel refreshed.
The environment of Dujiangyan is indeed good. It is surrounded by mountains and has beautiful scenery. It is not as noisy as Chengdu, so it is a very livable place.
Instead of going to the hotel for breakfast, Yingying went out and bought a lot of soy milk, fried dough sticks, buns and the like and brought them to the room. The rest of the people also gathered together for a meeting.
The black girl had overdrawn her physical strength before, but after a good sleep she recovered a lot and had a good appetite when eating.
Xu Qinglang still looked a little sick, his face still pale, and he was slowly tearing the fried dough sticks in his hand with his fingers and putting them into his mouth bit by bit.
His eyes would occasionally fall on the spotted marten on Zhou Ze's shoulder.
It can be said that
Most of the blame for Lao Xu's current miserable state lies with this spotted marten.
But now that this spotted marten has been tamed by Zhou Ze, Xu Qinglang would not be so bored as to bring up old grudges.
Zhou Ze tried to feed the marten some more, but it still showed an uncooperative attitude.
If Zhou Ze hadn't known that this coward didn't have the courage to commit suicide by fasting, he might have really thought that he was resisting loyally and unyieldingly.
After breakfast,
Xu Qinglang and Hei Xiaonv continued to rest in the hotel, while Zhou Ze and Lawyer An took Yingying and the little boy out of the hotel respectively.
It only takes half an hour to get from Dujiangyan to downtown Chengdu by train, which is really not far. We agreed to meet back in the evening.
Lawyer An and the little boy got a taxi and left first.
Zhou Ze was not in a hurry to leave, but strolled with Yingying on the streets of Dujiangyan.
"Boss, aren't we looking for someone?"
Yingying asked somewhat puzzled.
"Well, looking for someone."
Zhou Ze nodded without further explanation.
Zhou Ze strolled along the way for the entire morning and did not stop for even a moment. He was more dedicated than a real tourist.
At lunchtime, Zhou Ze stopped in front of a small hot pot restaurant, looked at the sign that read "Lao Rongcheng Hot Pot", smiled, and walked in.
Yingying naturally followed the boss. As soon as the two of them sat down, a waiter brought the menu and Zhou Ze picked up a pen to start marking.
Oh, I wore black gloves on my fingers so I wouldn’t directly show my bony hands and scare people.
As for the other missing arm, Zhou Ze is not interested in getting a prosthesis or plastic to support it.
After ordering the dishes,
Zhou Ze drank tea while waiting for the hot pot to be served.
"Boss, is this really okay for us?"
Lawyer An and the little boy went to Chengdu to investigate, while he and his boss were just eating and drinking here, and it seemed like they were really having a hard time.
"It's okay, you should eat something too, it's rare for you to go out."
Yingying doesn’t need to eat normally. She can be “full” just by sleeping with Zhou Ze, but that doesn’t mean she can’t eat.
Although the shop is small, the hot pot tastes good and the ingredients are clean. Zhou Ze was quite satisfied with the meal.
After eating, Zhou Ze waved his hand.
The waiter came over and asked, "Sir, are you here to pay the bill?"
"Call out your boss. I want to meet him."
"Okay, wait a minute."
soon,
The boss came out.
A tall middle-aged woman wearing an apron, who must have been busy in the kitchen.
"Sir, how was the meal? Do you think there is anything that needs improvement?"
The female boss walked up to Zhou Ze and asked kindly.
"I want to have a cup of tea with you."
The female boss's face changed.
The faces of the waiters nearby also turned ugly.
Everyone thought it was some gangsters coming to the door.
Who hasn’t encountered similar things when running a business
"Sorry, I'm busy here. It's inconvenient."
The female boss replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.
Zhou Ze put his hand into his clothes.
At this moment,
He suddenly felt like he was possessed by the Jinyiwei of the underworld banknotes.
After taking out a sign,
Thrown on the dining table.
Then he asked:
"Is it convenient?"
… …
"Captain, please have some tea. This is the new tea that has just been produced."
Zhou Ze took the teacup and nodded slightly, with a hint of reserve in his expression.
He was promoted to captain of police in Yunnan before, but Zhou Ze didn't feel the slightest feeling of being an official from Mu Chengen. Here, he found the refreshing feeling of a subordinate being respectful to his superior.
"Captain, are you here?"
The female boss recognized the accent. Zhou Ze was not a local. For a ghost catcher, his body would change, but his accent was difficult to change, and he was too lazy to change it.
After all, returning to life to be a ghost messenger, although it is also a job done undercover, it is not as serious as in spy dramas.
For example, Zhou Ze opened a bookstore on South Street, and this one opened a hot pot restaurant in Dujiangyan.
Everyone is full of life.
The only difference is,
Zhou Ze's bookstore is operating at a loss.
this,
Business looks good.
“I’m here to travel.”
Zhou Ze said casually.
"Um."
The female boss responded, knowing that the other party was unwilling to talk.
"Oh, by the way, you are a local, right? How old are you?"
"Thirty plus five makes thirty-five."
Thirty is the life span in the previous life, and five is the number of years as a ghost messenger.
Zhou Ze roughly calculated in his mind that she should be only about ten years old at that time, but he still held on to some luck and asked:
"How much do you know about the zombie incident at the end of the last century?"
Hearing this question,
The female boss was stunned for a moment.
She actually knew
This surprised Zhou Ze a little.
"Yes, I know a little."
"I don't want groundless rumors or rumors about gods and ghosts."
There are so many versions online, and we all brainstormed together, just like writing a ghost story.
Boss Zhou is a ghost himself, but he is still bored enough to listen to ghost stories
"Well, it's not groundless."
The female boss showed a bitter smile on her face.
Then he began to undress.
Yingying on the side fixed her eyes.
What the hell!
Zhou Ze rubbed his chin with his hand and said nothing.
Lawyer An took the little boy to the urban area of Rongcheng to look for clues, but he didn't go because he knew that it would be difficult to find an experienced ghost catcher in Rongcheng.
He didn't think about this last night, but remembered it the next morning.
Before leaving Chengdu, the blind man from Shanghai killed a group of ghost officials, including the little loli, in his ghost shop, leaving corpses all over the ground. Not to mention the surrounding areas, at least the local veteran ghost officials in Chengdu were basically wiped out.
The woman simply took off her coat, then chose a thicker down jacket from her office closet and put it on, then walked to the door.
"Please follow me."
Zhou Ze and Yingying got up and followed the female boss downstairs to the basement. This should be a small freezer where the hot pot restaurant stores ingredients.
The female boss opened the freezer door and walked in first. It was very cold inside, with the temperature about ten degrees below zero, but Zhou Ze felt very comfortable.
In his early years, before he met Yingying, Boss Zhou slept in the freezer every day.
The female boss moved a few boxes away and took out a key. There was actually a small compartment inside.
The size of a square, very hidden.
The lady boss opened it.
Then pull it outward.
Similar to the design of a morgue cabinet,
A steel bed was pulled out.
There was a frozen person lying on top.
Zhou Ze squatted down beside him.
This is a woman,
He was about thirty years old, and the body looked relatively white due to being frozen for a long time.
The female boss reached out and turned the corpse's neck to the side.
Zhou Ze's eyes suddenly focused.
There were two tooth marks on the female corpse’s neck!
"who is she?"
Zhou Ze asked.
"It's me."