"I've been watching him by his side."

"He's always there for me, but he's only looking at lifeless things."

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In mid-October, Canghai often went out to run errands, and was often away from home for ten and a half days, and Xiaoxi and Xiaoha were also sent out of the country by Canghai. Staying at home is boring, and the sea in Jixiangge won't let her go, for fear that she will cause some trouble.

So, Zitong got a job in a coffee shop on Daxing Road, five stations away from Gujie, as a night waiter. The house of this coffee shop was built by European immigrants in the twenties and thirties of the last century, and the decoration of the store is quite elegant, very European architectural characteristics, the name comes from Italian, and the Chinese name is "阑山".

And for this job without any technical content, Zitong did a very hard job. Greet every customer with a smile and take the initiative to sweep the floor and wipe the table.

It was raining lightly that night, and there were fewer cars coming and going on the street, leaving only a couple sitting by the window. As soon as the boy entered the store, the two began to quarrel fiercely, and the girl was very angry, her head kept swinging as she spoke, and two huge and unique multicolored bells rang on the ponytail.

When encountering this kind of customer, they can only stand at a distance as waiters.

Colleague Xiaohui smiled: "Isn't it that the man is ten minutes late, this has been scolded for two hours, I suggest that they should really learn from the Lei family." ”

Lei is the boss of "Yan Shan", a Chinese-Italian half-breed with light blue eyes, who doesn't talk much because he doesn't speak very well in Chinese. In his thirties, he looks a little old, often wears a dark red shop suit, and lives in an alley not far from the coffee shop. I often come to the store to make rounds and always have a sad look on my face. He has a bad temper, but he never defaults on his salary, and he often gives extra bonuses to his employees.

I heard that Lei used to live in Italy, and because he fell in love with a Chinese female student who went to Italy to study, he resolutely moved to China with his wife and rented this store to open "Yan Shan".

But seven years ago, Lei and his wife were in a car accident while traveling to Tibet, and Lei was slightly injured, but his wife fell into a deep coma and has not woken up yet.

Because Lei is mixed-race, tall, with deep eyebrows, and a mature man's charm, there are as many women who pounce on him like a carp crossing the river. But Ray turned a blind eye to any temptation, and has been taking care of his wife for several years, going back and forth between the coffee shop and home countless times a day.

"Kara......"

The couple had been arguing for almost an hour when the sound of cups and saucers breaking. The girl with the colorful bell on her head yelled at the boy with coffee juice on her head: "Break up, don't come to me in the future!" Then he grabbed his bag and rushed out the door.

The boy sat for a long time, then turned his head sharply and shouted, "Waiter, don't settle the bill yet!" Do you like to watch the excitement? ”

They broke good cups, the carpets and chairs were full of coffee, and finally they used their waiters as punching bags. Zitong and Xiaohui glanced at each other, tacitly played double reeds, and quoted a perverted compensation price.

It seems that the boy is not short of money, and he leaves without blinking.

Zitong was cleaning up the mess with a broom, and someone asked, "The guest broke it, the cup?" ”

She turned her head to look, met a pair of deep light blue eyes, and hurriedly said, "Yes, the guest has already been asked to compensate." ”

He crouched down and carefully picked up the indigo cup and saucer fragments one by one: "This is a cherished cup," he said, his expression serious and his brow furrowed, "later, reckless guests, give them, with white cups." ”

Jane is his wife's name.

How can you tell if a guest is reckless? Zitong muttered secretly, but still replied, "Okay, Ray." ”

Lei felt that calling him "boss" was too much, so he asked all the employees of "Yan Shan" to call him by his Chinese name.

After cleaning up the mess, Lei went to the back kitchen to inspect, Xiaohui sent the remaining materials back to the warehouse, and Zitong stayed in the store alone.

Business wasn't good tonight, and only two guests came after the couple left, and they didn't order anything, so they just sat down and left. Seeing off the two guests, Zitong closed the door and turned around, and suddenly saw a woman sitting in the darkest position next to the closet. Dressed in a silk bandeau white dress, her dark curls poured down her shoulders like a waterfall. Hanging his head slightly, he didn't know what he was thinking.

When did she come?

Zi Tong took a breath of cold air, because the weather was very cold on October nights, and a thin skirt obviously couldn't keep out the cold. Picking up the menu, Zitong walked towards her. Before he could get to him, he was taken aback again. She wore a pair of red high heels with broken heels on her feet, and her shoes and white soles were covered in mud.

It was rude to stare at the guests, and Zitong put the menu in front of her: "Miss, please order." ”

She looked up at Zitong, as if she was a little surprised, her eyebrows were picturesque in the light of the dark red chandelier.

At this time, Ray shouted at the counter, "Tong, come here." ”

Ray rarely speaks loudly in front of guests, and it seems that he is angry about the cup. Zitong smiled at the woman and returned to the counter. Sure enough, under the pretext that the counter was a little messy, Lei complained and asked her to remember that she must be neatly arranged next time. She is a night shift worker, and she is not in charge of tidying up the counter, but Lei is the boss, so he loses his temper Zitong can only agree with "yes" and "okay".

Ray lost his temper and finally waited for the closing words: "Pay attention next time." Also, after work, don't forget to lock the door. ”

Zitong listlessly lowered his head and sent Lei out of the door, and returned to the fireplace to say sorry to the guests, but found that the position was empty, and the people had left early.

After waiting for a while, no more guests came, Zitong and Xiaohui closed the door and left.

Because today's action is slower, the No. 6 bus is gone, and Zitong has to go to the next bus stop to take the No. 16 bus. When I was about to reach the location, I suddenly saw a lot of people and cars gathered on the highway bridge. Those people were holding flashlights and cell phones, and they were shining on the embankment below. Listening to their discussions, it seems that there is a female corpse underneath.

Because there were too many people, Zitong couldn't see the situation on the embankment at all. I was about to leave quickly, when I suddenly noticed a girl standing outside the bustling crowd. She was drenched, her eyes blurred, and her neck crooked at an eerie angle. His skin was as white as thunder, and it was extremely dazzling in the dark night. Zitong didn't recognize her appearance, but she remembered the two huge colorful bells on her head deeply. Seeing that the people around her ignored her, and let the girl stand in the rain, Zitong was a little unbearable, and walked over to talk to her.

Walking five paces away from her, her scalp was numb. There was a wound on the girl's neck, half a neck deep, and Bai Sensen's flesh turned out horribly, and even her trachea could be seen, but there was not much bleeding.

"Heavenly ......" Zitong was about to shout loudly, and a hand reached over to cover her mouth.

"Little ordinary, don't make a sound, don't look around, follow me." It turned out to be Feng Jiu who spoke, and he appeared again.

was taken aback by the girl's appearance, and knew in his heart that she was not an ordinary person, so he was half-dragged and half-dragged by Feng Jiu in front of his car not far away, not daring to look at the crowd again.

"Go up." He grinned.

"Do what?"

"Send you back."

"It's okay to be courteous." When that's all that, I'm leaving.

blocked Zitong's way, and his eyes bent with a smile: "What, are you afraid that others will see you and the handsome guy together to attract jealousy?" ”

I have to say that Feng Jiu is still a good-looking man who makes people's hearts ripple. Different from the casual dress in the past, today he wore a long slim-fitting black trench coat, deliberately leaving his arms open, revealing a loose black T-shirt with a large collar and a sultry strong waist. Wear a pair of black flared pants underneath to set off the already slender thighs even more sexy. The same person, just changed his clothes, and he changed from a beautiful young man to a trendy man with temperament.

But unfortunately, Zitong has a certain immunity to his aggressive beauty, and she only has her handsome guy in her heart, so she glared at him, pulled the car door and got into the passenger seat.

There was a faint warm fragrance lingering in the car, the same as the smell on Feng Jiu's body. He lowered his head and stuffed the wet umbrella under the seat, and two things fell into his neck, scratching Zitong a little. When I felt it, I saw two short hairs, swarthy, standing up like needles, and the whole body was glowing with a faint blue light.

Feng Jiu sat in the driver's seat: "I'm sorry, I'm re-cultivating, I've been changing my moult recently, and there are always leaks in the car." ”

Moult? Zi Tong stared at these two hairs, he had long been accustomed to it, it turned out that this wolf demon had been reborn again.

Because it was raining heavily, the car drove very slowly. Zitong, who had been busy all day, was a little tired and sat in her position in a daze.

After a while, Feng Jiu suddenly spoke: "I'm so sad, I haven't seen you for so long, and after waiting for so long, you can't find anything to tell me." For example, thank you, I miss you so much, don't be so cold, I helped you again. ”

Zi Tong turned his head to look at him and said lightly: "What is there to thank!" I don't blame you anymore for the snow in the east, it's not bad! ”

Looking ahead, his expression stiffened, and he stopped talking.

"I didn't let you send me today. Why didn't you let me talk to that girl? Seeing Feng Jiu's expression, Zitong regretted mentioning the matter of Dongfang Piaoxue to him, so he changed the topic.

"Talk to her and you'll regret it so much. Little Pingfan, you have to remember," he retracted his mind and said seriously, "Don't be too curious when you see strange things in the future, if you let them know that you can see them and be entangled by them, not every time you will be lucky enough to meet me." ”

"Strange stuff? That girl is also a demon? ”

"The demon has divine sense, she doesn't, she's a ghost."

The girl just now was a ghost? Zitong felt a chill. Since entering the auspicious pavilion, it seems to have stepped into another world, and strange things have happened one after another.

Zitong sighed tiredly, turned his head to look at the rain and mist outside the window, and suddenly realized that something was wrong, the car had already passed by the ancient street and drove away. Hurriedly greeted the driver: "Feng Jiu, you have crossed the ancient street." ”

He looked at Zitong and raised his eyebrows slightly: "I said it, the reward hasn't been given to me yet, and if you don't get paid, you won't be allowed to get out of the car." ”

"Okay, what do you want?" It seems that if this account is not settled, this stingy monster has to pester her every day.

Hearing this, he parked the car on the side of the road, moved his body to face me, and his eyes were so bright that water was dripping: "The moon is dark and the wind is high, the wind and rain are mixed, lonely men and widows, you and I are nong." Xiao Pingfan, the old guy in Canghai is not here, it is better for us to shake the car. ”

"Pervert !!" The explosive words fell into his ears, Zi Tong couldn't help but slap his face for a while, there was a crisp sound of "pop", and in less than a moment, five red fingerprints gradually appeared on his right cheek.

Zi Tong was stunned, because he didn't expect Feng Jiu, the monster, to dodge it.

Then he saw Feng Jiu raise his hand and rub his face expressionlessly.

Because he swung too hard, his palms were painful and numb, and Zitong straightened his chest weakly: "You deserve it, who told you to intend to treat me badly?" But the drum was pounding in his heart, afraid that this monster would turn his face and eat her.

"That's right, listlessness isn't for you." Feng Jiu's face with big red fingerprints bloomed with a shameless smile again.

Zitong scolded while opening the door: "Stinky black hair, shameless!! I'm calling someone again!! ”

The car door was stuck and couldn't be opened, and the body was forced to cling to the car door. In a fit of anger, Zi Tong turned his head sideways and pointed to the side of his face: "Come on, Wangwang, lick this." ”

"Whew......" he chuckled.

However, because of the murder that happened nearby, the business of the coffee shop was much quieter at night, and there were no customers after nine o'clock. Xiao Hui skipped class and ran to the Internet café next door to play, the chef slipped away, Lei hadn't come to inspect the store yet, and Zitong was the only one left in the huge coffee shop.

Zitong sat behind the counter, reading an e-book in the dim light. Suddenly, a low sigh rang out in the shop, empty and distant.

She hurriedly stood up: "Welcome." ”

No one answered, and when he came back to his senses, there seemed to be no one else in the empty shop except for her and the scarlet chandeliers. It was so quiet that you could hear the second hand of the old grandfather clock not far away. Then the sigh she heard just now must be an auditory hallucination, she thought.

Zitong lowered her head and was about to continue reading, when another sigh sounded from her side. She turned her head and was startled. Two steps away on the right-hand side is a glass window, outside which is black and hollow, due to the action of light and the accumulation of water vapor on the window glass. A pure white figure stood outside the window, hands and nose pressed against the blurred glass, staring straight at her with black holes. I can't see clearly, I can only tell that she is a woman based on her figure.

Who is so bored lying on the window at night, trying to scare people to death? Zitong was a little angry, picked up the towel that cleaned the glass and walked out, trying to use the excuse of cleaning the glass to drive the man away.

But when I opened the door, I saw that the person outside the window was gone. The street in front of the store was empty except for the gray neon lights of the other shops.

Suddenly a little cold on his body, Zitong shivered, hugged his arms and returned to the store.

Just closed the door and was stunned.

A woman sat quietly in the darkest corner, with dazed eyes, tall and tall, with long hair and a shawl, and a long white silk dress.

It's the woman I saw last night, Zitong was standing at the door of the store just now, how did she get in?

Zitong Fox suspiciously picked up the menu on the welcome table and walked over, and before he could get in front of her, he saw the bright red leather sandals on her feet. Unlike yesterday, today her shoes look like they were newly bought, clean, and the leather surface reflects the sparkling light.

Zitong smiled and put the menu in front of her: "Welcome, please order." ”

Without flipping through the menu, her eyes were still staring blankly ahead, she asked softly, "You...... Can you see me? ”

Zitong was a little inexplicable: "Of course I can see the guests." ”

Hearing Zitong's answer, she seemed to be relieved, and slowly raised her head to look at Zitong.

A faint fishy stench came to her face, accompanied by some of the liquid that was dripping from her head and seeping from her white dress, similar to the color of her shoes.

"Don't be afraid...... I want to ask you for help......" she said.

But how could Zitong not be afraid, when she opened her mouth, she wanted to scream loudly. But his throat was so tight that he couldn't breathe, and he didn't make a sound at all for a long time.

"Tong, rag, put it at the door, no."

Another sudden voice frightened Zi Tong to almost jump up, and when he turned around, he saw Lei Zheng frowning and cleaning up the glass cloth that Zi Tong casually put on the welcome table. The fishy smell around him suddenly disappeared, and when I looked again, the seat in front of me was empty.

"And broomsticks, you, come and see......" Ray was still there counting people.

Zi Tong hurriedly ran over, grabbed his arm, and gasped in horror.

He frowned puzzledly, "Are you very, fearful?" After laboriously organizing Chinese for a while, he simply asked in English, "AreyouokWhat\'swrong?" Are you alright? ）”

Zitong shook her head: "Nothing."

Zitong thought to himself that if he said that his coffee shop was haunted in front of Lei, he would definitely fire her.

Soon it was time to get off work, and Zitong was still nervous. Fortunately, there are a lot of people who work the night shift tonight, and there are people around me all the way.

Back at home, Zitong went straight to the bathroom.

Washing and washing, suddenly a spirit, only to feel a cold air on the back of the whizzing rush, the body instantly burst out of countless goosebumps, at the same time a strange smell spread behind her, faint, if there is no drill into the tip of her nose.

It's fishy.

"Don't be afraid, I have no ill will. I don't have anyone I can ask for but you. ”

The thing behind me spoke, and because I was impressed, I remembered that it was the voice of the strange woman I met at the "Yan Shan" coffee shop.

"My husband is in danger, please help him."

"My husband and I loved each other very much, but I was in a car accident and died."

"My husband is very uncomfortable and wants to resurrect me."

"Coming back from the dead is a rebellious thing, there will be punishment, I want to remind him, but he can't see me at all."

"Please tell him for me, let me go. Otherwise, I will not be able to ascend to heaven, and he will be in danger of his life. ”

"You must help me."

Although Zitong didn't answer, she said to herself.

Zitong couldn't bear the harassment, and finally spoke: "I don't know your husband." ”

"You know, his name is Lei ......" Before she finished speaking, her voice became blurred, and the coolness behind Zitong instantly disappeared.

Then a warm scent came from the bathroom, soft and soft, lingering around the nose. It dispelled the fishy smell in the air, and it was very comfortable and reassuring. Smelling and smelling sleepiness, it came up. (To be continued.) )