Zhang Liping walked for about ten minutes, and came back with a swagger, and I knew that this matter was settled when I saw his confident appearance.

Zhang Liping proudly stretched out his hand and hooked his thumb back, and said, "It's rented, I'll go to see the house."

I laughed, "Okay, it's still so foolish." ”

Chen Hui coaxed Zhang Liping: "Hurry up and go."

Zhang Liping smiled: "I haven't come back for so long, won't you help me pick up the wind?"

Chen Hui said: "It's good if I don't splash your face."

Zhang Liping slapped the table violently, startling me, and then pointed at Chen Hui: "Little rabbit, don't be arrogant to me."

When Chen Hui heard him say this, he stood up silently, raised Zhang Liping's head high, deliberately moved his shoulders, and threatened condescendingly: "Yo, what do you want."

Zhang Liping said timidly: "I haven't seen you for a few years, why do you grow so strong." While speaking, he lowered his head, bypassed Chen Hui in a gray manner, and ran out of the door, Chen Hui was feeling superior to himself, who knew that Zhang Liping suddenly turned around and scolded: "Little rabbit cub, is it useful to grow strong, scold you, what can you do to me, there is a kind of you coming out."

As soon as Chen Hui heard this, he chased out without saying a word, and Zhang Liping saw this, so he ran away.

I looked at Jiang Xue and smiled bitterly: "These two people will pinch as soon as they meet."

Jiang Xue held the water cup and said, "His coming back this time reminds me of what happened when I was a child."

I also sighed: "Yes, more than ten years have passed in a flash, and our Jiang Xue has grown into a big girl."

A flush appeared on Jiang Xue's face, and I gossiped: "Hey, when are you going to confirm the relationship with Chen Hui, don't keep hanging that stupid boy."

Jiang Xue glared at me and stuffed the water cup in her hand to me, drinking water can't stop your mouth.

I spread my hands and smiled, Chen Hui came in from outside, sat on the sofa, gasped and said, "This old boy is really fast."

I said, "Didn't you listen to him, he wandered purely on his feet, and you still ran with him."

At this time, Zhang Liping came back again, poked his head out of the door, looked at me and said, "Lin Cheng, you take the time to give the house money to Aunt Liu, and I will tell her that you will pay the house money."

Hearing this, I put down the water glass and slapped the table: "Chen Hui, catch this old boy!"

……

Turn the day.

On the desk in front of me, there is a copy of "Horror Stories", on the old-fashioned brown-red desktop, which has been drawn with a fountain pen in my spare time, and two five-day bags of chrysanthemum tea are brewed in the antique teapot, and the fragrance also overflows from the spout.

Chen Hui and Jiang Xue were sitting on the sofa, and there was a solemn and serious atmosphere in the room.

I said: "I also thought about it just now, I plan to close this shop and do some other business, it just so happens that Jiang Xue has also resigned, we can't survive if we don't do something."

Chen Hui said disappointedly: "Don't catch ghosts in the future?" ”

I said: "This stall will be handed over to Zhang Liping in the future, and we can still work part-time." ”

Chen Hui smiled: "That's fine." ”

Jiang Xue said, "But what kind of business do we do?"

I looked lazy: "This is not in a hurry, let's think slowly."

Chen Hui said: "Let's open a toy store, I always wanted it when I was a child."

I hurriedly waved my hand: "There are not many schools in this area, no."

Jiang Xue: "I think if you want to do business, you should combine the situation of this street, such as opening a small supermarket."

I nodded thoughtfully.

Jiang Xue continued: "In addition, if you want to do business, you have to find a place to deliver those things at home."

There were eight ghosts in my house, all of them were ghosts who had not yet reached their longevity, and I caught them in the world, and I had a good heart, and I couldn't bear to let them go to ashes, so they were put in an umbrella, and when they could be reincarnated and sent to the underworld.

I picked up the phone: "It's simple, since Zhang Liping is back, let him handle this matter for us."

Chen Hui: "Don't be anxious, to be honest, they sleep much more steadily with me at night, and anyone else dares to come to our house to steal things?"

Me: "If you want to live in the same room with a ghost, you are probably the only one in the world."

Chen Hui said: "People who are rich, some raise tigers, some raise lions, see how much our family drags, and directly raise ghosts." ”

Chen Hui said with a nymphomaniac: "When will I catch a female ghost who is as beautiful as a flower, then I will be even happier."

After speaking, I saw that Chen Hui's face twitched obviously, and I was stunned for a moment, and then turned my head to look at Jiang Xue, with a smile on my face.

Jiang Xue was flipping through my "Encyclopedia of the Supernatural", and she didn't raise her head expressionlessly, as if she hadn't heard the sentence just now.

I said, "Do you want someone who looks like a flower, do you want someone who looks like a flower?"

……

The phone was dialed, and Zhang Liping's slightly obscene voice came: "Which one is better at fortune telling?"

I scolded: "Looking for Lan Xiang in Shandong, China?"

Zhang Liping: "Yo, it's Lin Cheng, what's the matter with me?"

I smiled and said, "Aren't you able to pinch and calculate, you can calculate what I have to do."

"It's not a good thing to find me at this time, and I won't do hard work."

Me: "If you don't do it, you have to do it, and the house you live in now is my money."

Zhang Liping: "Okay, okay, joking with you, what's the matter with me?"

Me: "There are a few femininities in the house, and I want you to help me find a few homes."

Zhang Liping: "This little thing is not a piece of cake for your Uncle Zhang?" That's ......."

Me: "Your uncle, don't rely on the old and sell the old with me, don't think about anything, this is a voluntary activity, without a penny from you."

After saying that, he hung up the phone in a lightning flash.

Zhang Liping, the old boy, used to go out in the park, hunched up, wearing a round-framed sunglasses all day long, a piece of cloth on the ground, and a bamboo pole next to him, pretending to be blind all day long.

The fortune-telling industry, which seems simple, actually requires great wisdom, and you can see at a glance whether others have something on your mind, and secondly, there are fortune tellers with a mouth, step by step, to lead into the trap, and the nature of the industry is very different from that of psychiatrists.

has been in this industry for so many years, even if he is an honest person, he has to become an old fox, not to mention Zhang Liping, it is not an exaggeration to describe him as an old treacherous and cunning, and when dealing with this kind of person, I am worried that he will be circled by him if he says a word.

It didn't take much effort, Zhang Liping appeared in front of our door, and the house that Aunt Liu found for him was not far from me, and he walked here in about 100 steps.

Zhang Liping has only been back for more than a day, and it seems that he is back to his old business, with a black coat pulled from nowhere, with a small black sunglasses, I don't know which small theater I thought I ran out of to talk about cross talk, and I still held a thin fishing rod in my hand.

Chen Hui: "Yo, the equipment will be gathered so quickly." ”

Zhang Liping opened his hands, turned around in front of us, and then pulled the coat on his body, with a proud face: "Aunt Liu sent it." ”

Then he took out his fishing rod: "Aunt Song, his little grandson." ”

Chen Hui smiled: "You ran back and collected the rags?" ”

Zhang Liping said with a straight face: "Fart, this is all given to me by them who admire my talent." ”

I sarcastically said, "Yo, you're now an idol for middle-aged and older women." ”

Zhang Liping said with a smile: "That is, as long as people are talented, there will be people to follow them wherever they go." ”

Chen Hui and I shouted in unison: "I'm bah! ”

Then the two of us put their arms around Zhang Liping's thin shoulders left and right: "Zhang Daochang, that Aunt Song's husband, although he is over fifty years old, he is still the coach of the boxing club, you can do it yourself." ”

Zhang Liping's face suddenly stiffened: "Boxing club? ”

Chen Hui nodded: "There are a lot of students, all of them are young and strong, and they are proficient in all eighteen weapons. ”

As he spoke, he patted Zhang Liping's thin shoulder.

Zhang Liping turned around and was about to go out after hearing this, but I stopped him and turned his head to look at me in a daze.

"I'll go and return Aunt Song's little grandson's fishing rod to him, it's great for children to fish more."

I waved my hand, "Don't don't, my business here is more important."

Jiang Xue pulled out a sack from under my desk, and I bent down to untie it, revealing a black umbrella.

Zhang Liping glanced at me, squatted down, pulled out an umbrella, and put one hand on it, and when he reached the middle of the umbrella, the umbrella under Zhang Liping's hand suddenly bulged, and then flattened.

"So much?"

Me: "I've been caught in the past few years, I can't let it go, I can't bear to kill it, so I can only stay here."

Zhang Liping said: "I have a friend who can probably help you."

Chen Hui said disdainfully: "You have so many hearts, and what about friends?"

Zhang Liping: "Of course, your uncle and my immortal wind dao bone mana are boundless, I have made friends with heroes all over the world over the years, no matter people, gods and ghosts, you have to give me three points of thin noodles."

Me: "If you don't brag, we can have a good chat."

I said, "Alright, let's get down to business." ”

Chen Hui shook the key in his hand: "I'm going to drive?" ”

I picked up the sack on the ground and beckoned: "Don't be stunned, you two will close the door and go." ”

Zhang Liping and I walked out first, and the dog who was playing mahjong at the door saw me coming out with a sack, and walked around next to me with his arms, "Xiaolin, what are you taking?" ”

Zhang Liping relieved the siege and said: "It's just a few broken umbrellas." ”

The dog glanced at him and turned to look at me, "Who is this man?" ”

I said, "He's a friend of mine, and he just moved in yesterday." ”

When the dog heard this, he nodded meaningfully: "I heard from others last night that such a person moved here, and you dare to love it?" ”

Zhang Liping said respectfully: "Contemptible Zhang Liping, you will be able to read fortune telling, please take care of me in the future." ”

The dog smiled: "It's kind of interesting, by the way, why are you holding so many umbrellas?" ”

I laughed and said, "It's all before, it's useless now, I'll sell it to the rags." ”

Dog: "Don't mind, this thing is quite new, it's a pity to throw it away, you just give me two." ”

As he spoke, he snatched the sack from my hand, and I hurriedly protected it: "Alas, alas, this is not good. ”

The dog pointed at me: "Lin Cheng, you are not benevolent, we have been in the neighborhood for so many years, you don't give me a few broken umbrellas for you?" ”

Me: "You don't know, we can't touch the umbrella in our business, otherwise it will cause trouble." ”

Dog: "Where did you come from so much?" ”

I untied the sack and took out two umbrellas: "In this case, if you don't believe this, you can take it with you, and don't come to me if something happens." ”

Zhang Liping also waved his hand and said, "Don't come to me." ”

The dog looked at the umbrella in my hand, hesitated for a while, put down the sentence "Who is rare", turned around and walked away.

Chen Hui and Jiang Xue also walked out of the house, looked at the dog's back and said, "What's wrong?" ”

I waved my hand and said, "It's okay, let's get in the car." ”

……

All the way is the road led by Zhang Liping, Chen Hui doesn't care about anything, Zhang Liping points where to turn, and spares more than 20 minutes in the city, because there are too many cars on the road, Chen Hui is in a hurry, and he has been walking and stopping, almost shaking out the food that Jiang Xue and I ate, and finally arrived in the suburbs.

Walking up the mountain road, you will see a steep mountain on one side and a cliff on the other, and you can see the small mountain village at the foot of the mountain from the car and looking down.

On both sides are green hills full of green trees, and halfway up the mountainside, you can also see houses made of stones, Jiang Xue sighed: "How good it would be to live here, how clean and how pure it should be."

Chen Hui said disgustedly: "There is not even a toilet in the toilet, the toilet in the open air, especially in the summer, there is a swarm of mosquitoes..."

Zhang Liping said: "Okay, the conditions are all good, when I traveled, I didn't even have toilet paper in the mountains, and I went to the toilet..."

I stretched out my hand and slapped them in the face, saying, "Stop, it won't be harmonious if you talk about it any more."

bent after bend, and finally came to the place Zhang Liping said.

It is also a courtyard made of stones, built against the mountain, but it seems that the place inside is not small.

Zhang Liping walked to the small door with his head held high, and shouted inside: "Old man Yao, you come out for me."

No matter how heart-rending shouting is, there is no movement inside.

I said, "No one is there, is it?"

Zhang Liping scratched his head: "Then let's go over the wall and go in."

Jiang Xue said: "Isn't it okay to go over the wall? How rude. ”

Zhang Liping: "What's wrong, if you believe in your uncle, you will be fine if you go over the wall."

Chen Hui: "I still listen to you, "Your uncle", this sentence is uncomfortable."

I said, "Come on, let's flip it."

Chen Hui waved his hand: "How can it be so troublesome."

As he spoke, he walked to the door, stretched out his hand and grabbed the iron lock, pulled it hard, and with a "snap", it broke into two, and kicked the door open: "Isn't this coming in?"

We: "......"

Step in, inside quietly, very neat small courtyard, facing the gate of a hall, there is a side room in the west, east is a small alley, there is a pavilion in the southeast corner, surrounded by lush plants, looking at people feel comfortable, the ground of the yard has a paved bluestone road, a stretch to the door of the hall.

I sighed, "Such a pure place must be a master of the Tao."

"Who are you?"

We heard this hoarse voice, and when we looked back, we saw a white-haired old man standing behind us, looking kind and extraordinary.

The first impression I had when I saw him was that he was a master of the world, that bearing, that posture, and I didn't even know when he appeared behind us.

Zhang Liping shouted: "Old Yao, where did you just go?"

The old man saw Zhang Liping bow his waist and bowed his hand: "It's Zhang Lao, I don't know if you have come to greet you from afar, I hope you will forgive me."

We looked at Zhang Liping in surprise: "Old Zhang?"

Zhang Liping held his head high, walked up to Lao Yao, and waved his hand magnificently: "Forget it, it's not so particular."

Lao Yao said hoarsely: "I saw you outside the door just now, and just as I wanted to call you, the lock was picked open."

Chen Hui scratched his head embarrassedly: "I will pay for the lock."

Lao Yao smiled kindly: "That's not necessary."

While speaking, Lao Yao stood respectfully, I thought that Lao Yao's Taoism was not shallow, but seeing that he was so respectful to Zhang Liping, I muttered in my heart for a while, generally speaking, the ability is big, and the small ability has to be respectful, now I don't know if Zhang Liping is hiding it deeply, or this old Yao Tou has looked away.

We whispered, "When did this old guy become so prestigious?"

The two of them stood there for a while, and Zhang Liping waved his hand to signal us to come over.

Lao Yao: "Are the things you brought fierce?"

Looking at it closely, Lao Yao's eyebrows were slightly white, and he smiled knowingly, a bit of a fairy wind bone.

I said, "No."

"That's easy, you come with me."

Our group followed Lao Yao to the hall, which can be divided into two parts, one wall is a cabinet shelf, on which many urns are placed in order, and on the other side there is a table, covered with a yellow gossip cloth, on the table there is a stack of talismans, an ever-bright lamp, and a brush.

Lao Yao walked to the table, took the sack in my hand, took out an umbrella from it, closed his eyes, and put it to his ear to listen.

After a while, the old man opened his eyes, picked up a brush, and wrote three words on a piece of yellow paper, "Li Xuecheng, and wrote another line of small characters, like eight characters of birth." ”

Then he took out a straw from under the table, and while chanting the words, he pasted the yellow paper with the name on the back of the puppet.

Zhang Liping whispered: "This is to transfer Li Xuecheng's soul to the puppet."

I said, "I know."

Zhang Liping was taken aback: "How do you know?"

Chen Hui said: "The horror novels that my boss has read can circle the earth three times in a row."

……

It didn't take much effort, the old man had done everything, and the umbrellas that had become ordinary were neatly stacked aside, and there were already rows of puppets on the table.

The old man put the puppet on the shelf here, lit incense in front of them, turned his head and made a gesture of please.

Chen Hui pulled Zhang Liping aside: "Look at people, you look like a master of the Tao like that, how can you look like you, you look like a bandit."

Zhang Liping said: "Can you not judge people by their appearance like this."

Chen Hui: "This is your hard wound."

Zhang Liping: "I am beautiful inside, and my heart is as pure as spring water."

Chen Hui sneered: "Your spring water was stained with bear urine, right?"

Jiang Xue said, "Okay, you two don't make trouble."

Chen Hui pursed his lips and ran to Jiang Xue's side stupidly: "Xue'er?"

"Cher?" I was taken aback.

Even if I grew up with Jiang Xue, I don't dare to call Jiang Xue so ambiguously, although the little girl is quiet, but when the wind is calm, there is always a storm hidden.

Jiang Xue looked at Chen Hui coldly: "First, call me Jiang Xue, and second, I'll go back and settle accounts with you."

Chen Hui pulled me happily: "Boss, have you seen it?"

Me: "What do you see?"

"Jiang Xue didn't beat me this time, I have made progress."

I patted him on the shoulder: "Poor child, may God exist with you."

Chen Hui said: "What's the use of him, Lao Tzu was still playing with mud when he galloped to the killing field."

The old man came out and took us to the gazebo, poured a pot of tea, surrounded by willow trees, shaded by greenery, and there was a pool behind it, but it seemed to be untended, and the pool had dried up.

Lao Yao said: "Zhang Lao finally came once and continued to feel this beautiful scenery?"

Zhang Liping looked at us: "Since you're here, let's enjoy something that you can't enjoy in the city."

Chen Hui said: "Is there that thing in this mountainous area?"

Several of us looked at each other with special eyes and smiled.

Zhang Liping said: "You think too much, you don't have that thing."

Lao Yao asked suspiciously, "What are you talking about?"

As soon as Zhang Liping wanted to speak, Chen Hui preemptively said, "Swimming naked."

Zhang Liping was stunned: "Naked swimming?"

Chen Hui said: "Yes, isn't it, you can't swim naked in the city now."

Zhang Liping scolded: "Nonsense, who cares about you."

I asked, "Daochang Zhang, which one are you talking about?"

Zhang Liping smiled: "That's it."

At this time, a breeze came, and all the lively people were quiet, their whole bodies were relaxed, they felt relaxed, everything was transparent, their bodies were in nature, and their brains were empty, and Chen Hui, who was most uncomfortable, was also lying in the pavilion at this time, closing his eyes and recuperating.

Zhang Liping said: "Sleeping here is a feeling that you can't enjoy in the city."

Looking at the old man, he closed his eyes slightly, sat upright on the stone bench, put one hand on the stone table, and the other hand on his lap, so uneasy.

It was then that I realized the difference between my usual meditation and the Taoist meditation, which is really thinking calmly and feeling all things, and I just want to kill time.

The surroundings were clean and the mood was smooth, and suddenly I felt a sense of tiredness, so I slowly closed my eyes.

When I opened my eyes again, it was dark, and there was darkness around me, and the table lit this candle, and the old man was still sitting there, sipping the tea in his cup.

Chen Hui, Jiang Xue and the others also fell asleep on the stone bench.

"It's dark?"

When I shouted, everyone woke up, Jiang Xue and Chen Hui reacted the same as me, only Zhang Liping showed indifference: "What's the noise?"

I slept extremely comfortably, and I felt a sense of purity that I had never felt before.

Zhang Liping: "Alas... I knew I was coming by myself, and it disturbed my dreams. ”

I stood up and kicked him: "Sleep what, it's time for us to go."

Chen Hui turned over reluctantly and said, "Boss, stay here tonight." ”

Before I could speak, the old man said, "A good dream only takes a night's sleep, you wake up, go down the mountain early." ”

Zhang Liping also stood up, seemed a little anxious, and said, "Hurry up, we have to go." ”

We got up and were about to leave, Zhang Liping said again: "You give me something, I just came back, this thing is not easy to prepare."

Chen Hui said: "Old man Zhang, what are you doing?"

The old man told us to wait here, then turned around and left, and when he appeared, he had an extra burden in his hand: "Everything we can use is here."

When he got something, Zhang Liping desperately held it in his arms and didn't touch anyone, Chen Hui grabbed it twice, but he didn't grab it, so he gave up.

……

Then I drove all the way down the mountain.

Chen Hui complained: "What's wrong with the front, routine inspection?"

I opened my eyes and saw that there were a lot of police cars parked in front of me, one red and one blue light was extremely conspicuous in the dark night, and the barrier was pulled far away, and then I looked inside, a black car was parked in the middle of the road, the door was open, all around was debris, a mess, and several policemen were taking pictures with cameras inside.

"Was this a car accident?"

Jiang Xue was faint: "No, it's murder, it's Wan Jianjun, chairman of Hengtong Group, who died."

We looked back at Jiang Xue, who spread her hands and said, "I have seen through the thoughts of the police."

Zhang Liping said: "If you don't go out, you know the world, and now you don't get out of the car, you know the strange and bizarre circumstances of the case."

Chen Hui said: "It doesn't rhyme at all."

At this time, it seemed that a policeman noticed our car and rushed towards us.