Wei Dahu had already introduced me on the way here, and the shopkeeper was also the Teng family, called Teng Shuli, who was Teng Boli's third brother. He's a little grumpy, but he's good-hearted, and he's kind to the guys in the store, both human and ghostly.

But Uncle Teng was still muttering when he saw me: "Now there are more and more ghosts in the city, the law and order are so chaotic, and it is too difficult to do serious business!" ”

However, he didn't come at me this time, and he beckoned me to follow him into the kitchen.

The kitchen of the Longevity Hotel is quite large, in addition to the four ghost chefs, there are more than a dozen ghosts serving as helpers. Uncle Teng introduced me to the chefs one by one, hey! With me, it happened to be a representative of the Fire Dragon Gang, Liushengmen, Jiugong Pavilion, Lao Bing's Family, and Yuanbaomen!

"This is Yu Lazi, head chef, you will listen to him in the future!" Teng Shuli pointed to one of them. Yu Lazi is naturally a disciple of Jiugong Pavilion and an apprentice of Yu Hot Pot. However, except for his short stature, which is like his master, he speaks quite kindly.

"You just came here today, and I don't have anything to arrange for you to do, so I asked Dahu to take you to the room to put it away, and then familiarize yourself with the situation in the store first!" Uncle Teng said to me, waved my hand and sent me away.

There is nothing to say in the dormitory, the two of them live in a room, in which the stone beds, stone tables and chairs, even the doors and windows are made of stone, and the chute under the bottom is used to open and close left and right. Although such doors and windows are not very convenient, the security is sufficient. The room that Wei Dahu had placed me in was already sleeping, but he didn't know who my roommate was.

After putting away the luggage, we returned to the lobby, and Wei Dahu introduced me to several nursing homes. I also wanted to ask them one by one which sect they were selected from, but Wei Dahu said, "Hey! It's just a sect on it, and they've all come here, and we're the people of the Longevity Hotel! ”

I think about it, even if the big guys have different sects, but since they have all entered the Yin City and worked together, they naturally have to be in the same boat, share weal and woe, and they can't distinguish between the other and me!

The guys in the Longevity Hotel, the number of ghosts is far more than people, and they are all doing the work of helping cooks, running halls and miscellaneous servants, and Yin Xiu only needs to be responsible for stir-frying and caring for the courtyard. These ghost guys have a less pleasant name, called "ghost servants".

Wei Dahu said that the shops in the Yin City generally use ghosts to serve ghosts, which is different from the ghost market in the yang world. There are few ghosts in the yang world, and you have to serve like an uncle. But there are too many ghosts here, just put a notice outside the door, and a bunch of ghosts will crowd to the door to apply!

Of course, there are also many shops that directly use ghost slaves. The difference between ghost slaves and ghost servants is the degree of freedom, ghost slaves have no freedom, they are like animals, and ghost servants are "free ghosts", come and go freely, and have wages. However, their freedom is also relative. In a place like Yin City, where people are noble and lowly ghosts, there is no way to protect themselves without relying on power.

The last colleague I saw turned out to be my roommate, he was the bookkeeper in the store, a tall and thin old man named Tian Laolu.

Tian Laolu's hair, eyebrows, and beard were all white, and when I asked, he said that he "should" be ninety years old this year!

I asked him, "Why should you say yes?" Are you so old that you have forgotten your age? ”

Tian Laolu knocked on his head and said with a smile: "I am Mr. Bookkeeper, although I am a little older, but my brain is good!" It's just that I was an orphan when I was born, and then I was adopted, so it's normal to be one year or two years old! ”

"Old Tian, how many years have you been in this Yin City?" As we all know, the Teng family likes to recruit young people to come in and work for them, and it is absolutely rare for a guy as old as Tian Laolu to come. If it weren't for Tian Laolu's special ability, it must be because he had stayed long enough!

"Alas! I've been in this city for more than forty years! I'm a lonely old man, I don't have children or grandchildren on it, what are I going to do when I go back? It's better to die of old age here! Tian Laolu lamented.

When I saw his desolation, I felt sympathy, and I comforted him. But Tian Laolu immediately laughed and said, "Hehe! I'm kidding! Like you, I am also from the Yuanbao Gate, and I am the only person from the Yuanbao Gate in Zuoqiu City! I can't die! If I die, my Tang Xiaocauldron master and nephew won't be able to raise his head in front of the Teng family! ”

I can't laugh or cry, this grandfather is really childlike, old and disrespectful!

However, Tian Laolu is actually the uncle of Donald Laoguo, which surprised me a little. But it can also be seen from this that the decline of Yuanbaomen can only rely on a ninety-year-old "uncle" and a foreign "nephew" to prop up the façade in front of the Teng family.

I chatted with Tian Laolu at the counter for a while, and found that we were quite close to each other. Although Tian Laolu is old, he has a very young mentality, and he especially likes to joke with others. With such a "roommate", there should be no shortage of people to talk to in the future.

Later, I became interested in the "Qin Granny" who played the pipa in the lobby, so I walked over to watch her play for a while. Granny Jean was short, not much bigger than the lute in her arms, but her fingering was unusually flexible and graceful, and the music she played was like the sound of flowing water in a stream, which was very pleasant and intoxicating.

When she finished playing a song and rested, I asked her, "A guy just now said, you knew I was coming, how did you do it?" ”

Granny Qin grinned, the wrinkles on her face rippling like water waves, "I don't just know how to play the lute!" ”

"Oh, then you can also tell fortunes?"

"Hehe, I don't need to tell the fortune!" Granny Qin laughed again, "I'm a pipa ghost, every time I play the pipa, I can predict the bad luck!" ”

"So powerful?" I was intrigued and asked, "Then you just played this song, what can you expect?" ”

"No disaster, no disaster, no joy and no sorrow!"

"No ......"

I laughed and said, "Aren't you fooling people?" ”

"Hehe, if you believe, you will be spiritual, if you don't believe, you will not be spiritual!"

I shook my head and didn't want to listen to her anymore, turned and walked away. If she is really so powerful, she will never just be reduced to performing in this longevity hotel, it is estimated that she is just an old ghost who likes to play tricks!

Although the boss and his friends complained, my first day at the Longevity Hotel was relatively smooth and nothing strange happened. Outside, there were occasional ghosts crying and wolves howling on the street, but every time I ran out to see the excitement, I found that it was a distant sound.

Compared with my fuss, Tian Laolu is calm and deaf to this, and it is estimated that he thinks this is the norm. So over time, I got used to it.

There are no days and nights in the Yin City, there are many ghosts, and the consumer group is also large, so it stands to reason that it can run 24 hours a day. But Yin Xiu is also a living person, and he still needs to rest and sleep. Therefore, Zuoqiu City stipulates that the daily arrival of the first child is the curfew period, and all the yin cultivators in the city are not allowed to go out except for the guards on duty!

Most of the yin cultivators in the city lived in the upper city, and only a small number of the business owners and associates lived in the lower city. During the curfew, all yin monks living in the upper city must rush back to the upper city, and the door will be closed at the same time. All the businesses in the lower city were to cease business, close their doors, and the living were not allowed to walk around the streets.

In this way, during these four hours of curfew, the lower city has become a world of ghosts, and the Yin city has become a real ghost town!

Although Zuoqiu City does not allow ghosts to kill people, it is still stranded on the street at this time, and safety cannot be guaranteed. In the rules that Tengbury told us yesterday, this was repeatedly emphasized. And Tian Laolu told me that the three most dangerous things in Yin City are: suppressing ghosts and bandits, violating curfews, and going to Death Ze to explore. These are the three most fatal situations in the Underworld.

I asked Tian Laolu: "What about the situation of suppressing ghost bandits and going to Death Ze to explore?" ”

"You can't do either of these situations!" Tian Laolu said: "It is the duty of the city guards to suppress ghost bandits. The yin veins under the ground are connected to the yin veins, and the caves are next to each other, like a labyrinth. In addition to the existence of a Yin City like Zuoqiu City, there are also many scattered evil spirits gathered together to cause chaos, specializing in robbing and mutilating passing caravans and expeditions. ”

"In order to protect the caravan, in addition to sending people to escort them, the city guards will go out every once in a while to suppress the ghost bandits. But those ghost bandits are in the dark, and Zuoqiu City is in the light, where is it so easy to exterminate? Therefore, killing ghosts and bandits is the easiest thing to lose your life! ”

"No wonder the guys in the caravan said that every year the Teng family must send manpower to the city guards, presumably no one dares to go!" I said.

Tian Laolu immediately confirmed my idea: "Well, the city guards have indeed been short of manpower, and they have to forcibly allocate quotas to various families and giant merchants, requiring them to send talents to the city guards every year. Every time the Teng family comes in through the exorcism competition, they are usually assigned to the city guards. ”

In this way, Cao Zhe's assignment to the city guard was predestined in advance. I came in through a cooking competition, and it is normal to be assigned to the Longevity Hotel, but what about Long Xiaoyan?

Yes! The caravan has to go around to trade and sell goods, and it is inevitable to encounter ghost bandits on the road, and they also need to be escorted by a dart master. It's just that this kind of danger is still a little lower than going to suppress ghost bandits.

"What about going on an expedition to the dead zeal? What kind of people would go over there? ”

Tian Laolu said: "There are all kinds of wild ghosts and rare medicinal materials in the dead Ze, and every big business house will regularly organize some capable and bold people to explore there and collect all kinds of treasures. The remuneration is very high! ”

"Then you have to have a life flower!" I smiled wryly.

"Hey, hey! In this Yin City, except for ghosts, there are also people who don't want to die! Tian Laolu said disdainfully, "Otherwise, why is there a gladiatorial arena in the city?" There's someone in there who is fighting for life and death with ghosts! ”

"You've been there?"

"Who hasn't been to see this Yin City? There are 1st and 15th days of every month, and you can go to see it if you have anything to do. ”

"When will you take me to see it?"

"Okay! But the number one priority now is sleep! Alas, you little doll, as soon as you come in, you pester me to ask this and that, my old man is at the point, but he is sleepy! ”

With that, Tian Laolu yawned long and soon fell asleep.