Yu Garden Food Festival
"I'm in your direction at four o'clock. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" The voice on the phone seemed to be deliberately low.
Yan Chuxin turned around and found that he didn't need to look for it at all, and saw Chen Tianyou in the crowd at a glance. He wears a long camel-colored trench coat, but it is very old, with a back curtain and, worst of all, a deer-hunting hat.
When Chuxin walked towards Chen Tianyou, he was deliberately lowering the brim of his hat and looking around cautiously, and passers-by looked at him in surprise.
"Isn't that low-key enough?" Chuxin heard him talking to himself.
Chuxin couldn't help but smile and said, "Why are you dressed like this?" Where is this low-key? ”
"Isn't it appropriate? Aren't the detectives who handle cases in TV dramas dressed like this? ”
"TV series? What era of drama are you watching? ”
"Wesley, isn't Xiao Guo dressed up like this?" He looked innocent.
Chuxin was even happier: "Okay." If you want to cosplay, you can refer to a trendy detective drama, like a roll or something, I think the black trench coat is more handsome. ”
Chen Tianyou couldn't understand the new nouns that came out of her mouth, and he no longer paid attention to the gazes of passers-by.
Chu Xin glanced at his appearance again and asked, "What is the nature of our work?" ”
"On the surface, we are similar to Feng Shui masters. But Feng Shui masters do the work of prevention in advance, and we are engaged in remedial work after the fact. ”
Chuxin raised his eyebrows, revealing a questioning expression.
"To put it simply, a feng shui master does the work of environmental science, such as the direction of the groundbreaking, the taboos of development, and the choice of construction methods. The retoucher does a job similar to forensics, and we are responsible for investigating cases that the police can't decide. ”
"That'...... That is, we are responsible for ghost hunting? Chuxin gasped.
"How can we have this qualification, we are not Hades. Every soul wandering in the world has a cause and effect, which means that there are always people and things in this place that they can't let go. In fact, the netherworld also has its own rules, and it will not be in force in front of people unless it is absolutely necessary. Our job is to help find out why, enlighten them, and persuade them to leave as soon as possible. ”
"And what are we dealing with today?"
"In the past half month, the Chinese Folk Food Festival in Yu Garden has been held here."
Chuxin looked around, the eaves of Shikumen, the stove of the old house, as if in the alleys of old Shanghai. The surrounding stalls sell all the gourmet dim sum of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and the surrounding ancient towns, with bright colors and original flavors. In the open space in the distance, the famous wooden hammer cake is being made on the spot, and there are many people taking pictures on the spot, and she can smell the sweet but not greasy smell accompanied by the rhythmic "click" sound and the shouting of strong men in the hitting.
Chen Tianyou took her around to a stall in the middle, which was very different from the surrounding bustle, the courtyard was cold, and a few people came to patronize it.
The shopkeeper was a lean middle-aged man, who saw them approaching, thought it was a customer, and greeted them warmly.
"Brother Zhong? We were called by your nephew to help see the Tao. ”
The man, as if he had seen a relative, became more enthusiastic, grabbed them by the hand, and gave up his seat.
The three of them crowded in front of a small table, and Boss Zhong roughly explained the reason for the incident.
Their shop is exhibiting for the third year, because it is the old famous crab shell yellow, and the business has been good. But for some reason, the beginning of this year was not smooth, and at the beginning, there would be freshly baked dim sum disappeared every other day, and they didn't pay attention to it. Later, there were often children who came to patronize and cried for no reason, desperately pulling their parents away. There was an accident last Sunday, and when the stall was about to close, the helper Aunt Feng had a heart attack and was sent to the hospital and was not saved.
"They all said there was something unclean in our stall."
Chuxin looked around, except for the kind of friends who died miserably or dressed strangely, and the others were mixed in the crowd and she could hardly tell them.
"I think it's the rumors that other stalls are angry about our good business. But now that something so big has happened, it has affected the reputation of our store, and Aunt Feng's children will also come to ask for an explanation. So, I'd like to ask the two masters to take a look.
Chuxin couldn't help but smile, looking down at the strap skirt she was wearing today, she couldn't afford the name "master".
"No problem, it's not hard to solve. The remuneration is according to the amount agreed in advance? ”
The boss nodded.
Chen Tianyou pulled his original intention to the open space on the edge of the shop.
"What is the price you negotiated?"
"2000, I'm eight and you're two."
"This is seriously inconsistent with the price I said before! I don't read much, don't fool me! ”
"It's a small job, improvised. Or? I'm seven and you're three. ”
Chu Chu glared at him, this profiteer's skill in pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger is deep enough, and he even looks so sincere when he detains his subordinates.
"Nope. I'm four, you're six. "The original intention is not to be outdone.
"Alright, let's get to work."
I saw him raise his left arm and roll up the sleeves of his trench coat, revealing a mechanical watch with a large surface, which was probably the most precious thing he had on his body.
He began to turn the button on the side of the watch, and when the hands reached four o'clock, a strange scene happened.
She saw a blue light slowly shoot out, covering the entire block, and gradually, she saw some doorways, and there were individual "people" in the food court who looked a little different, as if they had been filtered by PS.
A pair of siblings were rubbing the small pull-back car on the toy stall, and the shopkeeper looked at the car he was driving forward a little confused. A fashionably dressed middle-aged uncle secretly poured some to taste at every stall with liquor, shaking his head as he tasted. An aunt dressed as a cleaner is picking up empty bottles from various stalls, picking one and throwing them away.
The beginning is happy, it turns out that they also like food festivals, and there should be a community when the number of "people" is combined.
Chen Tianyou saw that she was smirking and knew that she had seen it too, but strangely, there was nothing in front of the crab shell yellow stall.
Chu Xin couldn't help but ask: "Only we can see this light?" ”
"Like you and me, sometimes you can see them, but it's hard to pinpoint them in a crowd, like astigmatism in the eyes. The function of this light is somewhat similar to the glasses that people wear, helping us to correct and see more clearly. Chen Tianyou patiently explained.
"It's so advanced! So how long can this last? ”
Chen Tianyou was a little uneasy, and whispered: "I forgot to charge it before I went out, and I can only last for an hour at most." ”
"What? You're too unprofessional too. So what if the perpetrator doesn't come? ”
"I just hate this kind of electronic products now, I have to charge every day if I don't play, and the power consumption is too much." Chuxin suddenly found that his worried appearance was quite cute.
The two of them sat on a small bench and waited, and the watch began to display a low power reminder. Just then, a violent quarrel came from behind the stall.