When I woke up the next morning, Master Liu was no longer at home, so he just left a note on the table with a phone number written on it, saying that I was going back to the provincial capital to contact that person, and he would send me a note. Tell me about some cases that I have to handle myself.
So I took the note, went out to eat some food, greeted Cao Yunuo and headed back to the provincial capital.
When I got back here, I called according to the number that Master Liu gave me. The person who answered the phone was a woman who asked me who I was, and I said, "My name is Shi Yong, and it was my foster father Liu Chunan who asked me to find you. ."
There was a slight stunned moment, and then he said, "Wait for me for ten minutes, and I'll go back to you later."
After hanging up the phone, I found a small restaurant near the train station to grab a bite to eat, and before the meal I wanted came, the call came back, she asked me where I was, and I said, I am on the train After dinner near the station, she said: "Master Shi, my surname is Ma, my name is Ma Suyan, and I am the introducer of the 'Gan Rest Center' in the provincial capital. Are you free in the afternoon? Let's meet, I want to talk to you about something. Explain."
I said, I would be free after dinner, so Ma Suyan invited me to a coffee shop near the train station. I waited for her at the door for more than ten minutes, and she came over. She was wearing a black leather coat. , with good lines, light makeup, short hair, and a good looking person, probably about the same age as Wang Jin, she asked me why I didn't go in, and I was a little embarrassed: "I've never been to such a place, I don't know. What are you doing in there?"
Ma Suyan suddenly realized and said, "I'm sorry, Master Shi, because I didn't think well."
At the same time, she discussed and looked at me a few times, and then she led the way in front of me, led me into the cafe, and after finding a place to sit down, she ordered two cups of coffee and some desserts and dried fruits, but she didn't let me order anything. , this is also considered to be taking care of me. After all, I don't know the name of the coffee here.
After everything came up, Ma Suyan said to me, "Master Shi, I thought you would be in your thirties at least, but I didn't expect you to be so young."
I smiled and said, "I'm sorry."
Then she didn't continue to talk nonsense with me, and went straight to the topic. The thing she wanted to explain to me was very simple, that is, the process for me to take the case in the future. First, she would use her personal connections to inquire about the provincial capital and a few nearby people. Once the supernatural events in the county have eyes and eyes, she will change her identity to approach people related to those supernatural events, and then introduce me, the so-called master, to them.
Some incidents will charge some money, and some things will require me to solve them for free, which mainly depends on the financial situation of the people involved in the incident.
If once the fee is charged, Ma Suyan will first take a part, she will keep some of this part, and the other will be handed over to the organization, and the rest of the money will belong to me and my assistant.
After Ma Suyan finished speaking, she asked me if there was anything I didn't understand. I thought about it and asked Ma Suyan, "Do you know where my assistant Wang Junhui is?"
Ma Suyan was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Master Shi is joking again, the rules of our industry, I will not inquire about your residence and whereabouts, only contact by phone, and you and I are only one line. Contact, how would I know about your assistant?"
Master Liu didn't tell me these rules at all, and of course I didn't know. After hearing what Ma Suyan said, I didn't ask any more questions. As for when my assistant would come to me, I could only wait for his call.
When I went back to school, I unexpectedly found that Li Jiahao was alone in the dormitory. I asked him why he didn't accompany his girlfriend Qu Xiaoyou on weekends, and he smiled and said, "Xiaoyou went back to his hometown at night. I just got to school, so I'll pack up in a while and go to the train station to pick her up."
Knowing that he had something to do in the afternoon, I didn't talk to him any more, and started to make up for sleep alone in the dormitory.
In the evening, You Xiaoqing called me. The content of the call was to talk about some interesting things about her school. I don't know why. Every time I talk to You Xiaoqing, I feel that there are very few words and always She felt that she could not get up poor, so she talked for a few minutes by herself, and she felt that it was meaningless, so she said to me: "Xiaoyong, are you free next weekend? Our school club activities, give it to me Two movie tickets, come with me to see it."
I thought about it and agreed.
The days went by very peacefully, and in a blink of an eye, it was the weekend, and my assistant still didn't call me. I was thinking, the next time I take a case, I will definitely deduct his wages, hum!
I also went to watch a movie with You Xiaoqing on the weekend. I don’t remember the name of the movie, but the content is probably about the love between men and women. It's all acting, not real."
You Xiaoqing wiped his eyes and said, "Xiaoyong, it's really boring to watch a movie with you, but next time we'll watch it together, okay?"
It's boring to watch it with me, but you have to watch it with me! ? But I still agreed.
Time passed quickly, and my position was not as busy as I imagined. I took on a case for several months, and my assistant never showed up. I even forgot about him later.
It was May, and it was early in the morning, and people in the city were also wearing summer clothes.
In the middle of May, Ma Suyan called me and said that a strange thing happened in a town in Xia County, near Shanxi, and I needed to solve it, but this time the cost was allocated to me. It will be relatively low, because this time the main thing is a hawker in the town who wakes up early to fry fried dough sticks and buy soy milk.
I said it didn't matter what the cost was, and asked her to tell me the details, so she told me the general process over the phone.
The stall owner is Zhao Zhengjun, one of the only three breakfast stall owners in the town. It is located in the west of the town. Because it is close to the edge of the town, it is also the one with the worst business among the three breakfast stall owners. Just for a living.
The strange thing started in early April this year. Zhao Zhengjun is a very careful person, so that he can remember how many tofu brains, how many soy milk, and how many fried dough sticks he sells every day, so he also has a habit of closing the stall every time. When you go back, check the account and see if the money you earn is the same as the number you have in your heart.
The most powerful thing is that this Zhao Zhengjun often only makes mistakes once out of ten times, which can be said to have an excellent memory.
Hearing Ma Suyan say this, I couldn't help but interject: "It's not surprising that he has a good memory. He won't pay just to ask us to check this for him, right?"
Ma Suyan smiled and said let me not be impatient and listen to her first.
Before April, Zhao Zhengjun rarely made mistakes, but in April, Zhao Zhengjun found that the money he received every day would be less than a bowl of soy milk and a dough stick, but it was not much money, Zhao Zhengjun thought that he might have made a mistake. , I didn't take it to heart at first.
But this kind of thing continued for a month, and Zhao Zhengjun felt that something was wrong. Even if he made a mistake, he wouldn't be wrong every time with a fried dough stick and a bowl of soy milk, and he was wrong for a month.
In order to find out what was going on, he checked the box in which he put the money. One day he found that there was an inconspicuous layer of paper dust at the bottom of the box. At first, he thought it was when he got up early to turn on the stove and accidentally got it in. Yes, I didn't think much of it.
But on the second day, in order to prevent the box from entering the ashes, he closed the box tightly when the fire was lit, but when he was waiting for the day to settle accounts, he still lacked a fried dough stick and a bowl of soy milk. money, and there is a thin layer of inconspicuous paper dust inside the box.
This time Zhao Zhengjun was a little scared, because there were many stories in their town about ghosts buying things with ghost coins. After the dawn, the money would change back to its original shape, or simply turn to ashes.
So Zhao Zhengjun began to wonder if he had hit a ghost.
But this business has to be done, so he paid special attention to the people who came to buy things when he set up the stall the next day. He still couldn't find any problems, but when he counted the money, there would still be one less. The money for fried dough sticks and a bowl of soy milk, and then an extra layer of paper ash.
Hearing this, I couldn't help but ask Ma Suyan: "Is this news accurate? There are many versions of this kind of story in the country. Some say that gas stations have received coins, and some said that flower shops have received coins, but they are all people. Making it up to bluff people, won't it be bluffing this time too?"
Ma Suyan said: "This time it shouldn't be fake, Zhao Zhengjun, a small stall owner, can't make much money in a month, but this time he is willing to spend five-figure money to settle this matter, although it is allocated to us We only dropped two or three thousand on the body, but for him, it was already quite a lot. It can be seen that he is really afraid, or maybe he has already seen the right master. As for the fear, he didn't tell us. "
After hearing what Ma Suyan said, I believed it a little bit, so I asked her to send me the detailed address of the town, and I would rush there as soon as possible.
After hanging up Ma Suyan's phone, I thought of a reason and asked the school for another week off.
And on the afternoon of the day I took a good leave, I received another call, I asked who the other party was, and they said, "Shi Yong, I'm Wang Junhui, your assistant, I heard that you have a case, so I'm here to report to you."
Wang Junhui? My mysterious assistant
I asked where Wang Junhui is now, and he said, let me wait for him at the gate of the school, and he will come to me here.
So I got angry and went to the school gate to wait for my assistant. I had prepared a lot of lines to reprimand him.