The night was deep, the moonlight was cold, and there were three or two stars in the sky, hanging on the horizon.

The dim alleyway,

Stalled wagons,

Skinny man,

Huge wreaths.

At the door of the store, where light and darkness were intertwined, the thin man held a wreath and smiled at Lin Fan.

If ordinary people see this scene in the middle of the night, they will inevitably panic and get goosebumps.

But fortunately, Lin Fan is not an ordinary ordinary person.

Therefore, seeing that the man opposite showed a mouthful of big white teeth and smiled at himself, Lin Fan also turned up the corners of his mouth slightly, smiled back, and nodded.

Seeing that Lin Fan responded to him, the thin man also nodded, and then continued to be busy carrying the goods.

Watching him busy back and forth, looking at the goods in his hands, Lin Fan had a guess in his heart.

So

He is,

Opened a dead goods store?

Is

Interesting.

It's no wonder that they unload here in the middle of the night, and if it's daytime, they may be disliked.

After all, in the tradition of the Chinese nation, life and death are the biggest things in life.

This kind of item that represents death, ordinary people are afraid to avoid it, for fear of committing a taboo.

Fortunately, this street is relatively remote, there is not much traffic, and there are no shops around.

Moreover, the entrance of his shop is not directly facing the street, but in the alley, which is also suitable for opening this kind of shop.

Lin Fan also took a fancy to the reason why the flow of people on this street was relatively small.

Then, he turned around and went back to the store, ready to go upstairs to take a shower and rest.

......

After Ma Hou moved the wreath in his hand, he walked out again, and found that Lin Fan on the opposite side had turned around and entered the house and went back.

Standing next to the truck, he somehow took out a gossip compass that was less than the size of his palm, and placed it flat in the palm of his left hand.

I don't know what he muttered, but the pointer of the gossip compass suddenly moved, and after slowly turning around a few times, the pointer pointed to the direction across the road.

After a few breaths, the hands began to shake again, unable to distinguish the direction, as if there was interference from other magnetic fields nearby.

Putting away the gossip compass in his hand, Ma Hou glanced meaningfully at the store that Lin Fan had entered, put on an extremely serious and unfathomable expression, and remained silent.

suddenly

"Hurry up and move it, how late is it? If you're not sleepy, I'm sleepy! ”

A rough and extremely impatient middle-aged man's voice came from the cab of the truck.

Ma Hou suddenly stumbled and immediately put on a smile,

"Ouch, ouch, I'm sorry, brother!"

Where is there still a look of profundity just now.

"Hurry up!"

"Okay, brother!"

"What time is it?"

"It's going to be done soon, brother!"

"If it's slow, I'm going to have to add money."

"Ouch, right away, brother!"

Ma Hou stepped up his work, quickly moving the last bit of things from the truck and putting them into the shop.

Put the last item down, and sit on the box,

"Ouch, I'll go! I'm tired! ”

He reached out and wiped the sweat from his face, the stains on his hands made a black handprint on his face.

Feeling the slimy touch on his hand, he put his palm in front of his eyes and looked at it,

"Grass!"

"Are you alright?"

Outside the door, the truck driver's voice came again.

"Ouch, alright, brother!"

I didn't know and thought he was a buddy and the driver was the boss.

Ignoring the dirty things in his hands, Ma Hou immediately got up and came to the window of the truck.

With a grin, revealing his big white teeth, he reached out and took out the cigarette in his pocket, took out one, and said earnestly,

"Brother, you smoke!"

"Hmm."

The driver reached out and took it.

"Come, brother, light a fire for you!"

The driver stuck his head out, caught the fire, and took a deep breath.

"Hiss——, ——。"

Smoke is exhaled from your mouth and inhaled through your nose into your lungs.

"It's as much as it should be, I won't charge less!"

The driver's tone was much softer than just now, as the saying goes, don't hit the smiling person when you reach out, seeing that he is so courteous and polite to himself, he will not be so impatient anymore.

But the money that should be collected still has to be collected by himself, and coming out so late to pull the goods is not the reason why he gave more money.

"Ouch, brother, don't worry, yours is indispensable."

Looking at the driver in the driver's seat, a hint of discoloration flashed in Ma Houxiao's eyes.

Immediately, Ma Hou quietly took out a wallet from another pocket, pulled out a stack of banknotes from it, and counted them in front of the driver.

Among them, half are red hundred-dollar bills, and the other half are bright yellow banknotes that look inferior.

"Come, brother, your money."

He handed over all the money in his hand to the driver, but the driver did not notice anything unusual and put the money in the personal pocket of his pants as usual.

"Well, okay, refresh."

"Come on, brother!"

"Yes, little brother, continue to look for me next time you have a job."

"No problem, brother."

The driver threw the cigarette butt out of the car,

"Okay, then I'll go first."

"Okay, you slow down, brother."

Extinguishing the cigarette butt under his feet, Ma Hou stepped aside and asked the driver to drive the car away.

Seeing the driver drive away, Ma Hou beckoned and shook his head,

"Tsk, tsk, it's a loss."

Ma Hou didn't care about the driver's impatience just now.

Although he is only in his twenties, he is young, but he has already seen a lot of the world.

When he was young, he survived by eating hundreds of meals and wearing hundreds of clothes, until he met his master later, and since then he has followed his master to the north and south, traveling the rivers and lakes.

How to be a person was the first lesson that the master taught him.

First of all, you can learn to be a person, so that you can do things better.

Therefore, the scene just now was just a drizzle for him.

The road he has traveled and the stories he has experienced are unimaginable to ordinary people.

Ma Hou returned to the store, looked at the messy goods on the ground, and sighed,

"Well, I'm busy."

He just came to Rongcheng from other places some time ago, and in order to seek a safe business, he rented a house in this place, opened a ghost shop, and did this business of selling dead people's supplies.

Although he is quite tactful and always smiles at people, he hides an obsession in his heart that ordinary people can't understand.

This is not the first time he has come to Banyan City.

Four years ago, he followed Master and traveled all over the world to settle in Banyan City.

His master is a Taoist priest, not an ordinary Taoist priest who recites scriptures for others, but a Taoist priest who has real skills and exorcism.

Originally, he thought that this trip was just a short stop, just like every city he had passed through before.

But I didn't expect that when I exorcised ghosts and evil spirits, there was an accident.

In order to protect himself, the Master was severely injured and his Taoism was destroyed.

After resting, he took him back to his hometown according to Master's wishes.

But it didn't take long for him to be seriously injured, which damaged his soul, causing his old man to run out of oil and die of his lamp.

Before he died, he confessed to himself that he would learn a serious craft that could support him, and that he would never follow his old path again.

Because he was afraid that one day he would encounter such an unsolvable thing, and finally hurt his life.

Ma Hou agreed to the master.

After sending off the master, he guarded the mausoleum for three months.

After guarding the tomb, at the beginning, he still listened to his master's explanation, wanted to let go of the past, went to learn a craft to make a living, and since he returned to the life of a normal person.

But more than three years have passed in such a peaceful life.

Sometimes you want to live peacefully, but life doesn't make you peaceful.

Because of an accident, Ma Hou was once again involved in an evil spirit incident.

He escaped by luck with what he learned, but his friends around him were not as lucky as himself.

This experience awakened the grief hidden in his heart, the old and new experiences, and the two escapes from death, made him even more sad.

He hated the evil spirits that plagued people's lives.

As a result, he had hidden the regret in his heart for three or four years, that is, the death of his master, and he could no longer hide it.

He could no longer just keep it in his heart as if it had never happened.

So he quit his job, took out the objects he had inherited from his master that he had hidden for several years, and came to Rongcheng alone.

Before leaving, he went to the master's grave to kowtow and apologize for not being able to live an ordinary life like the old man's last wish.

I also swore that from now on, I will use what I have learned all my life and inherit the will of my ancestors to drive away ghosts and punish evil spirits.

Although, the time he has been learning from his master is not too long, and he has not learned much at all, compared to his master, he does not know much.

Because if it weren't for that accident, I could have practiced with my master for at least ten years, but unfortunately it backfired.

After all, life is not as good as it should be.

But that doesn't stop his heart, the heart that exorcises evil spirits. Nor can it erase the hatred in his heart, the hatred of evil spirits and evil ways.

Even if one day he follows in the footsteps of his master, he is not good at learning and can't complain about others.

This is the path he has chosen, his way, and his life.

He picked up the gossip compass he had put down, picked up the hidden Dao heart, came here, came to Banyan City, and came alone to this place where grief and regret were hidden in his heart.

If the evil spirit is not removed, it will not be returned!

"Ouch!"

Due to being busy for too long and his physique was already thin, he was overworked, so his legs were weak, and he accidentally slipped under his feet and almost fell.

"it!"

"Your uncle!"

......

After the truck driver finished delivering the goods, he drove out of the city and came to the suburban road, heading home.

Tonight's order did make him a lot of money, and the price was much higher than usual.

With a happy mood, he galloped along the empty night road.

The foot with the accelerator under his foot is still pushing hard, accelerating.

The window next to the cab was open, and the night breeze poured into the car through the window, blowing him extremely comfortably.

The driver whistled and hummed a ditty.

suddenly

"Shhhh......h

"!"

All he could feel was a burning sensation in his left thigh, which was pressed against the thigh in his pants pocket, as if something in the pocket was on fire.

"!"

The burning sensation is becoming more and more obvious,

He slammed on the brakes, and at the same time his left hand hurriedly reached into his left leg pocket and pulled out the stack of money in his pocket.

Under a burst of braking, the car stopped sharply at the corner, and his whole person was brought forward by inertia, his left hand lost strength, and the money in his hand was blown away by the wind.

"!"

He was just about to turn his head to see where the money had fallen, when he found a large stone tumbling down from nowhere on the road at the corner.

If you don't stop just now and hit it at your usual speed, something could be wrong......

The driver immediately broke out in a cold sweat.

When he came to his senses, he looked down to check the fallen money.

However, no matter how much he searched, he only found half of the money.

......