When Old Zhang came, Zhou Ze shrugged helplessly, but he didn't rush to send the old man to hell.
Maybe, there really is such a thing as fate.
Just like the firewood shop next door,
Fangfang came over excitedly in the afternoon to tell Zhou Ze that the pharmacy's profits are expected to achieve a new breakthrough after the new year!
I feel sad when I think about it,
The original favored child of heaven, the son of luck, the spokesperson of the protagonist mode,
After meeting Lao Dao,
He was sent to the emergency room for the third time.
Zhou Ze would not have cared about this before, but looking at the changes in Lao Zhang, within a day, he went from being the most useless ghost messenger at the edge of the bookstore to a powerful figure with the power of Xiezhi sealed in his body.
Does this kind of cause and effect, this kind of connection, really exist
Although he still couldn't figure this out, Zhou Ze subconsciously let it continue to take its course. There was no need to interrupt it stubbornly.
In many novels in my own bookstore, the protagonists who like to do this kind of thing must have succeeded, but the process can also be very, very painful.
This is something Boss Zhou is unwilling to accept.
When I walked out of the box, Zhang Yanfeng had already sat down at the table, picked up his bowl and chopsticks, and was drinking Tom Yum Goong soup.
Zhou Ze also sat down and said to Lawyer An next to him:
"That person seems to have some problems. You and Lao Zhang can go check him out later."
Lawyer An is a smart person.
I immediately realized something was wrong.
The boss is passing the buck!
Immediately said:
"I suddenly remembered that the designer I contacted wants to discuss the design plan for the opposite side with me tonight. This needs to be finalized quickly, otherwise the construction team will not be able to decorate it when they come!"
"There's no rush for this. We can do it tomorrow. There's no rush to live there anyway."
"No, boss, there is one more thing. Didn't I help the mother of the kid who jumped off the building to hype the incident last time? Now it's time to start exposing the reversal. I have to go and take charge of it myself.
There can be no negligence in this regard. If you mess it up, you will end up shooting yourself in the foot!
Don't worry, old Taoist priest, I will make sure that ungrateful bastard and his family don't live in peace!"
After that,
Lawyer An put down his bowl and chopsticks.
He hurriedly put on a woolen coat and pushed the door open and went out.
"What's up?"
Old Zhang is really not ambiguous at all.
After adding some dishes to his bowl, he got up and went to the private room.
Zhou Ze picked up the chopsticks helplessly and took a few more mouthfuls of rice.
After a while,
Lao Zhang came out with a clean bowl of rice.
He didn't say anything directly to Zhou Ze, nor did he try to persuade him.
Instead, he sat down on the empty chair next to Zhou Ze.
Sighed,
road:
"During the temple fair, there should be a lot of children."
Zhou Ze swallowed a mouthful of rice.
"Many people who have worked outside for a year will bring their families to the temple fair."
Zhou Ze took a sip of the soup.
"The New Year is coming soon, everyone should be very happy."
Zhou Ze put down his chopsticks.
"No one's stopping you from going. Just go and investigate on your own. Find out which old and famous lion dance artist in Tongcheng has passed away recently. Once you confirm the old man's identity, won't you have clues to follow up on the case
Besides, you have seen what the old man looks like."
Lao Zhang scratched his head somewhat unconfidently and said:
"I'm afraid that I don't have the ability to do it alone..."
Zhou Ze stroked his forehead.
Then he paused for a moment.
road:
"They didn't tell you?"
The old Taoist lowered his head and ate his meal.
No wonder I seemed to have forgotten to say something, it turned out to be this.
"Tell me what?" Lao Zhang suddenly seemed to have thought of something and said to Zhou Ze, "I was hit by a car when I went out today, but I didn't die."
"puff!"
The old Taoist priest next to him spat out the rice in his mouth.
While coughing, he joked:
"Let's try with a bulldozer tomorrow."
Zhou Ze picked up the wet wipes on the table, wiped his mouth, and said:
"That Xiezhi is now inside your body, but it is no longer a threat. You can slowly try to use and access its power during this period of time."
"Xiezhi, is it still inside me?"
Lao Zhang was very surprised. He thought it had been taken out and destroyed, so how could it still be in his body
"Well, this is the result anyway. There won't be any side effects, so just rest assured. As for finding helpers, to be honest, there aren't many people in the bookstore who can beat you."
Suddenly,
You have accomplished great feats.
He became a peerless martial arts master.
What kind of experience is this
This is how Lao Zhang feels now, but he still instinctively feels it is unreliable. Could this be chicken soup given to him by his boss
He knew clearly that Zhou Ze was very disgusted with this kind of thing. Zhou Ze was a lazy person, with a kind of "ideological awareness" that as long as I could lie here and bask in the sun, I didn't care about the flood outside.
"Boss, please accompany me once. I think this matter is very complicated."
"I'll pick one..."
"Boss, I'm a ghost messenger. You have to help me get familiar with the business, right?"
"Old Zhang, although this body of yours is thirty years old, your two lifetimes combined are almost fifty. Do you know how it feels to act cute and coquettish?"
"No, I feel uneasy when I think about what might go wrong at the temple fair. There are many people at the temple fair, and if there is trouble, even if it is a stampede, it will be a very serious incident."
This is where Lao Zhang's thinking and logic differ from Zhou Ze and other people in the bookstore. As an old criminal detective and policeman, in his understanding, various events generally have a risk level, and this kind of group incident is the highest level.
It cannot be said that Zhang's official-centered thinking only focuses on maintaining stability. In fact, only those police officers who have been working on the front line for a long time know how terrible the consequences will be when crowds gather together and chaos occurs.
"Okay, go investigate this old man's identity..."
At this time,
The old Taoist raised his hand.
road:
"Boss, there's no need to investigate. I know who that old brother is."
Saying,
The old Taoist raised his cell phone.
Continued:
"I just logged into a Tongcheng Lion Dance forum. There are not many people in this forum, only a few hundred followers. But now there is a mourning post among the top posts. There is a photo of the deceased, and it is the post of this old brother in our bookstore now."
Lao Zhang took the phone and clicked on the post:
"Mourning the passing of Mr. Lu Yaozu, a famous lion dance artist in our city..."
At this time,
The old man dancing the lion suddenly put his face close to Lao Zhang's face without saying a word.
Looking at the phone screen with him,
Confirmed:
"Yes, it's me."
“Hiss…”
Lao Zhang's hands trembled.
He had little experience in the life of a ghost messenger.
At this moment, I really felt like I was experiencing the excitement of a horror movie.
"We will go to your house. Your body has been cremated now, right?" asked Lao Zhang.
Very strange.
Questioning a ghost...
Elder Lu Yaozu did not answer.
But continue to hold up your hands,
Dancing Road:
"The Lion King is angry, the Lion King is angry, the Lion King is angry..."
The voice is shrill and hoarse,
Like an old radio tuned to the highest setting,
Piercing the entire night.
"This is spiritual communication." Xu Qinglang said as he slowly sipped a glass of plum juice in his hand.
Zhou Ze saw the sour plum juice, reached out and snatched the cup from Xu Qinglang, took a sip, and felt the familiar cool sweetness and the familiar stomach cramp, with a deep sense of nostalgia and aftertaste.
"What is psychic?"
Lao Zhang was like a curious baby, asking questions seriously, as if he had returned to the time when he was a newcomer in the criminal police team.
"When you work in a certain industry for a long time, you may resonate with some things in this industry. This old man must have dedicated his entire life to the inheritance of lion dance, so after his death, he sensed something in the dark.
We thought he was going crazy.
But he just did it the way he could now.
It’s a warning to us.”
"So, is it the Lion King?"
“I’m not sure about that. Maybe Lion King is just a title, like a magic beast or my sea god. God knows what it is.
Even, it could be a belief that has been passed down for thousands of years, like... "
Xu Qinglang smiled and said nothing more, just like his master.
"By the way, Lao Xu, did you find anything about that bead?" Zhou Ze asked.
After returning from Sichuan, the next thing to do is to deal with Master Xu Qinglang's problem. The key is that this guy is too active, and we have to deal with him before he jumps again.
Xu Qinglang shook his head and said, "Not yet. I will start making preparations tomorrow, but I still have to wait for you to come back before I try to sense it. I'm afraid that if it's stimulated..."
"Oh, that's right." Zhou Ze nodded. If Lao Xu tried to sense his master in the bookstore when he and the others were not around, and it was really stimulating, and his master suddenly resurrected, the bookstore without him and Tie Hanhan in charge might not be able to bear it.
As for Lao Zhang... ...at least, the current Lao Zhang can't do that either.
While Zhou Ze and Xu Qinglang were talking,
Lao Zhang was following the lion-dancing old man, and kept asking him questions, but the lion-dancing old man just kept muttering, "The lion king is angry, the lion king is angry."
"Let's just send him down. We can't get anything out of him. If he stays in the world of the living any longer, I'm afraid something will happen to his soul."
Zhou Ze walked up to the old man and grabbed his shoulders.
"Go down, we received your warning."
The old man's body suddenly became weak.
His mouth opened wide.
road:
"The lion king is going to be angry, the lion king is going to be angry, oh, it's time for the lion king to be angry, it's time for the lion king to be angry."
Zhou Ze opened the door to hell.
The old man did not struggle this time.
Take the initiative to go there.
But before you step in,
The old man suddenly stopped, turned around, and looked at Zhou Ze seriously.
He asked seriously:
"After going down, can you still dance the lion?"
Zhou Ze hesitated for a moment, but still replied:
“If you have a lion in your heart, you can dance anywhere.”
The old man showed a look of relief on his face.
Look up, lift your head,
With emotion:
"What a... bullshit."
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