After taking over the ghost shop for three years, I deeply understand what it is like to live a life that is not normal. Every night, we open at the beginning of Zishi (23:00) and close at the end of Choushi (3:00) in the early morning, because this period is the active period of ghosts. If we open earlier, there will be no customers. If we close later, after 3:00 in the morning, the roosters will almost crow, and it is also the time for ghosts to go back.
I got home at around 3:00, and I had to wash the blood off the ghost teeth I got, and boil them with potion for two hours before I dared to go to bed. Otherwise, after the ghost teeth leave the ghost body, they will lose their spiritual power and disappear at dawn. I boiled them into black liquid with special potion, which is the raw material of black pearls. I put them in a sealed jar, and when I have enough solution of 100 ghost teeth, I can refine them into pearls and exchange them for cash. Because the way to this east is unknown, and there is stock for a long time, I can't sell it in the right way, and I can only find buyers on the antique black market. Fortunately, I don't have to worry about this, my father has already left me a way.
After finishing all these things, my mother prepared breakfast for me at seven in the morning. I ate and then went to sleep. I slept until four in the afternoon and then got up to have lunch. I suspect that my father's early death was related to this abnormal life.
Today is the first day of October, Ghost Festival, which is a traditional festival. People in both the north and south will worship their ancestors on this day. Some people who cannot return to their ancestral tombs to worship often burn paper money at the crossroads where they live. It is said that there are money houses in the underworld that are responsible for receiving money and property. As long as your descendants burn and send it to you, they will give you the ghost money and items according to the registered catalog.
But it is just a folk legend after all. It is unknown whether the money houses in the underworld are so responsible, whether they take kickbacks or embezzle money. Unless you actually go to the underworld, you will understand everything.
The business in the store is not very prosperous, with an average of one or two customers every day. Today is a festival, and the ghosts will be busy collecting sacrifices, so there will probably be no customers. I hesitated whether to go or not. Finally, I thought that if I didn't go, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night anyway, so I might as well go to the store to read some books and think about some spells.
Go out through a dark alley, and then you will reach a small street. Turn east for 50 meters and you will find my shop. This was originally my old house, but later the town carried out some kind of town planning and demolished the old house, leaving only two storefronts. The door of the shop is still an old-fashioned wooden board, and there is no plaque on it, for fear that the words "ghost" would scare people. When the shop door opened, it was just a piece of wood, basically a gap of more than half a foot wide, just enough for ghosts to come in. People in the town knew that our shop was not doing an upright business, and no one dared to approach it at night.
As soon as I sat down in the store, I heard the sound of high heels outside. Every time I heard this sound, I couldn't help but feel excited. After three years, I still haven't found a partner. How can I not desire women? But forget about female ghosts.
A slim woman in white clothes appeared outside the door. Her face looked particularly pale under the light in the room, but her lips were red and her eyes were full of spirit.
I sneered, picked up the book from the table and started reading, ignoring her.
"Why is the door only open a crack? How can customers come in?" the woman said outside.
"If it's a ghost, it will find a way to get in." I didn't look up.