As soon as the bell rang, Lilac's and I's faces changed.

Lilac said before that the soul bell on the plaque at the door will only ring when the store opens at eleven o'clock and closes at four o'clock, and if it rings the rest of the time, it means that there is an extremely heavy yin qi that has collided with it, and the copper bell sends out a warning to warn the people in the store.

I couldn't help but look at the twelve paper figures in Lilac's hands, while Lilac looked out of the curtain.

"Is anyone there?"

Then I heard a childish voice outside the curtain, and I breathed a sigh of relief, as it sounded like the pigtailed girl who had been here yesterday.

"It's coming!" I answered, got up and was about to go out. But Lilac pulled me by the hand, went to the curtain, and glanced out, with a nervous look on her pretty face, and even cold sweat overflowing from her eyebrows and feet.

"What's wrong?" Seeing her look like that made me nervous too.

Lilac turned her head, looked at me seriously and said, "That little girl outside... Do you know? ”

"I don't know it, but I came to buy a string of gold ingots yesterday." I glanced out of the curtain and was sure it was the little girl with her bloated hair and braids.

Lilac nodded, but with a solemn expression that looked like she was facing some terrible ghost.

"Then find a way to deal with her, be careful, don't offend her!"

"It's... What's wrong? Isn't it—" I thought of a possibility, and my face turned green. Could it be that this cute little girl who looks seven or eight years old is also a .........

"Don't ask, you send her away first, remember, don't offend her, otherwise my uncle won't be able to protect you when he comes back!" Lilac didn't explain to me, but pushed me out, and didn't forget to whisper a whisper.

I returned to the dimly lit lobby and faced the girl standing in the hall. When the little girl saw me, she smiled, and her flushed face did not seem to have the slightest gloomy atmosphere.

"Hello uncle!"

"Y-Hello, little sister, are you here to buy something again?" I forced myself to compose and walked to the counter as I talked to her.

But to be honest, although Lilac behaves like a great enemy, it seems to me that it is much easier to face this little girl than to face the blue-faced fanged demon.

The little girl grinned at me, grabbed some change from her pocket and put it on the counter: "Uncle, I want a string of gold ingots!" ”

I looked at the change, which I thought I had given her yesterday, so I drew a five-dollar note from it, and then took a bunch of gold paper folded ingots from the box on the cabinet and handed it to her.

"No, take it." I don't know what she is doing with these ingots, can they really be used as currency in the underworld?

The little girl took the ingots, put away the rest of the money, and squatted in the corner to count several times, as if she was a little bad at counting.

I waited patiently for her to finish counting, forgetting before I knew she might be a ghost.

After a while, she stood up after counting, and looked back at me before going out, her big round eyes were bright and clear: "Uncle, you are a good person, I am not very good at counting, and you will not chase me." ”

When I was called uncle at my age, I was actually a little bit estranged in my heart. But when I heard her say this, my heart was also a little sour, and at the same time, I was a little angry, could it be that Sun Hong's old man would still drive people away?

"Uncle is the owner of the shop, and you are a guest. Come in, where is the reason to drive people away? I walked out of the counter, maybe because I saw that the little girl was too human-like, I couldn't help but feel compassion, "Little sister, if you don't know how to count, in the future, in the store, my uncle will teach you a little bit, okay?" ”

"Really?" Hearing this, the little girl was obviously excited, and even her eyes lit up.

"Of course, Uncle doesn't lie." I smiled and squatted down, and was about to reach out to touch the little girl's head, but she pounced on me and gave me a hug.

"Uncle is a good man!" The girl said excitedly, then let go, waved at me and ran out, "Goodbye, uncle!" ”

"Goodbye, run slower, don't fall." I was a little embarrassed to be hugged by her, and walked to the door and shouted at her, but in the blink of an eye, the little girl was gone.

Just as I was about to breathe a sigh of relief, Lilac in a white and green dress ran out in a hurry, and shook her hand and knocked on my head without saying anything: "You idiot! ”

This knocked me to the ground, and I replied unconvinced: "What's the matter? Don't you keep hitting people, okay? ”

"You still say? I'll hit you with an elm pimple! Lilac looked angry and helpless, and her beautiful face was red with anger, "I asked you not to provoke her, it's better for you to stick it to your face?" I wonder how you live so big, that kind of ghost can't be avoided by others, and you still bump into it yourself! I'm by you! ”

"But, I... I think she's quite normal..."Seeing the anger on Lilac's face and the anger, my voice was unconsciously weaker, it is better to say that I also reacted, I did have a little sympathy just now.

"! That's because you haven't opened your eyes yet, and you can't see the strong evil aura on her! Lilac glared at me, looking like she hated iron but not steel, "It's the first time I've seen that kind of evil spirit." Generally speaking, that kind of evil ghost can't enter the 'paper clothes', but her evil aura can calm the soul bell, don't you say? ”

"It's... So powerful? Hearing Lilac's description, I was also afraid, "That... Then I don't teach her words..."

"You try?" Ding Xiang sneered and said, "You may just be beaten up, deceive ghosts, and deceive the kind of ghosts that are rare in the world, don't talk about you, my uncle doesn't have that guts." If you regret it now, then I won't forget to burn some paper money for you next year, senior sister. ”

When I heard this, my face turned green, and I wanted to slap myself twice.

However, Lilac sighed again and said to herself: "Uncle Shi is really, a layman." It seems that I have to teach you to open your eyes first, or you will die on your mouth sooner or later. ”

"That little girl..."

"She? You just figure it out by yourself, teach what you should teach, it seems that you are the first person ever to be a teacher for a ghost in a piece of paper, and your courage is commendable, junior brother. In the end, Lilac stopped glaring at me and returned to her previous attitude of schadenfreude.

Over the next few hours, Lilac really opened up a different world for me.

She hid behind the curtains, and told me from every guest who came that they were human beings or ghosts, and if they were, let me tell whether they were hanged or drowned, or dead.

I have to say that this elf-eccentric senior sister is amazingly bold, and sometimes before the guests go out, they will tell me that it is a hanged ghost, and the angry black-haired girl's tongue sticks out more than three feet long, and her eyes are about to fall off!

I couldn't laugh or cry, I never thought that one day I would play a round between ghosts and people, and finally sent the hanged ghost lady away, and the brass bell jingled to remind me that it was time to close the store.

It's four o'clock in the morning.

I breathed a sigh of relief that the man in black did not show up.

"Let's go, junior brother, help senior sister, I'll go to the station and get my luggage first." After I finished the finishing work and turned off the plaque light, Lilac clasped her hands around her chest and leaned against the door and shouted to me.

I yawned while locking the door, and said listlessly, "Okay, senior sister, let me ask, where do you live?" ”

I saw that there was no room that could be used as a bedroom in a piece of paper, except for the lobby, which was a warehouse for stacking divine products and a processing hall for making paper supplies, and I couldn't help but be a little curious about where this beautiful senior sister would stay.

"Where to stay? You can help me open a hostel. Lilac took it for granted that one of my yawns was forced back, and she looked at the beautiful Xiangxi girl next to her in disbelief: "Please, you are my senior sister!" Moreover, I'm a student, where did I get so much money? ”

"You don't want me to lay in the shop, do you?" Lilac raised her delicate eyebrows, looked at me and said, "I don't want to sleep on the ground, I don't care, you have to find a way for me!" ”

…… Are you a little girl who ran away from home?

I suddenly felt a little headache, this elf-quirky senior sister may not be as reliable as I thought before.

In the end, I had no choice but to take her back to my home, introduce her to my mother and grandmother, and make room for her at home.

Compared with my apprehension, Lilac herself is down-to-earth and generous, and she calls her sister sweetly when she opens her mouth, and she can't find the north at the corners of my mother's mouth.

However, after letting Lilac into the guest room, my mother gave me a backhand slap, which made me dizzy, and I looked at my mother in disbelief and asked, "What are you doing!?" ”

Am I so owed?

"You little, bring your girlfriend back for the summer vacation and don't say a word in advance, I'm in a hurry!" My mother was always right, she glared at me, then didn't listen to me at all, and went to prepare lunch with an inexplicable thought, "Oops... I have to buy some food at noon, not to mention, the little monkey has a good eye, and the girl is so handsome. ”

"No, Mom, she's not..."I blushed, although I had expected it for a long time, but now I was still ashamed, and just about to chase down to explain, Lilac put down her luggage and came out of the room and grabbed me, and asked, "Why are you going?" ”

"Go explain it to my mother!"

"Explain what? Anyway, it's not true, I'll explain to my aunt that I'm my uncle's niece, and he's not here for a while, so I've only come to stay with you for a few days. Lilac also heard her mother's words, but this Xiangxi girl didn't seem to care very much.

"That's... All right. I nodded, but there was one more thing I wanted to confirm.

"Why are you going? Help me drop my luggage. Lilac asked me suspiciously.

I rolled my eyes and replied, "I'll leave my luggage myself, in case you have those underwear or something...... I'm going to Zhangjia Village, I'm not worried about Zhang Bin's matter, I'm going to confirm it. ”

"Zhang Bin? The ghost who was going to kill you last night? Lilac grabbed me and glared at me like an idiot, "Are you stupid?" What if that ghost is really him? You're not going to die? ”

"Uh... Then you come with me? "I reacted too, so I wanted to take the cloves with me.

Dan Lilac shook her head and said hesitantly: "No, I have to hide your twelve paper man stand-ins, so that the man in black can find him for a while, so that I have time to prepare to deal with him." If you have to go... So be it! Lilac thought of something, her eyes lit up, and she asked, "Senior brother, do you know if there are any places where there are many dead people here?" Or where there are many dead people buried. ”

Hearing this, I looked at her a little strangely, probably thinking that what I said was a little strange, Lilac quickly explained: "Don't look at me like this, I'm not cursing people." I have to make a life-saving means for you, otherwise if you go to Zhangjia Village and meet a demon who asks for your life, you will definitely die. ”

"Where there are a lot of dead people," I thought with a frown, and a place name flashed through my mind, "There it is, Raven Ridge!" ”