In other words, for the Spirit Record Bureau, there will generally be fewer tasks in winter. Because many special creatures also have the habit of hibernating, but not as long as other hibernating animals, generally only about a month. In addition, in cold temperatures, it is difficult for the alienation process of corpse or demonization to react normally, so in winter, there are few strange spirits. Therefore, generally speaking, in December, the various action groups of the Spirit Record Bureau enter the state of meeting, summarizing the work of the year and deploying the tasks for the coming year. And this state usually lasts until New Year's Day, and even in some places, until the end of the Spring Festival.

Almost a month has passed, this is a Saturday after the New Year's Day, Xiahoudun appeared in the office of the leader of the Yuanrang group as usual, although there are few tasks, but the office still has to come.

"Didn't you say before that there would be an expatriate mission after New Year's Day?" Xiahou Yuan sat on the sofa in the team leader's office, drinking coffee leisurely, while watching the news with his mobile phone, "Why is there no news yet?" ”

"What's the matter? Are you still looking forward to me going? Xiahoudun sat on the office chair, closed the newspaper in his hand, put it on the table, then picked up the coffee cup, stirred it with a spoon, and glanced at Xiahouyuan, "My left eye has been jumping for the past few days." ”

"I didn't expect you to go, so I asked you about your plans." Xiahou Yuan was still lying on the sofa, playing with his mobile phone, "Besides, people say that your left eye jumps rich, maybe you have something good to do this time abroad." ”

"What's so good about being sent out?" Xiahoudun asked, taking a sip of coffee.

Xiahou Yuan put away his mobile phone, looked at Xiahouyuan with a wicked smile for a while, and then said softly: "Bring back a sister-in-law again." ”

After listening to this, Xiahoudun smiled disdainfully, then put down the cup and quietly looked out the window.

Xiahou Yuan was very surprised when he saw that Xiahoudun did not respond, so he asked, "Brother, why do you ignore me?" ”

Xiahoudun smiled again and said, "Do you think you are worthy of my attention when you say this?" ”

"It's not boring, it's just a casual remark." Xiahou Yuan took a sip of coffee, put the paper cup on the coffee table again, simply lay on the sofa, and played with his mobile phone, "I have nothing to do in winter, and I am in a panic." ”

"You can't do anything if you have nothing to do, you can't do it if you have too many things, it's too difficult for you to serve." Xiahoudun said, got up and walked to the bookcase, and began to pick up the book.

"Hey, I'm not..." Xiahou Yuan got up and was about to say something, but was interrupted by a knock on the door, and found that the secretary Liu Wenjing was standing at the door and wanted to come in, so he had to stop talking.

"What's the matter?" Xiahoudun turned his head to look at Liu Wenjing, and then continued to look for the book.

Liu Wenjing smiled, walked a few steps into the house, and said, "Team leader, there is a couple outside the door who want to see you." ”

Xiahoudun took a book from the shelf, put it on the desk, and asked, "Did you say what you were looking for me?" ”

"It seems to say that the house is haunted." Liu Wenjing replied.

"Haunted?" Xiahou Yuan sat up and replied on the side: "This kind of thing should be brought to the Investigation Department first, why are you leading here?" ”

"It's for them to go to the investigation department," Liu Wenjing pouted aggrievedly, "They have to find the team leader." ”

Xiahoudun glanced at Xiahouyuan, and then said to Liu Wenjing: "Okay, let them in." ”

"Okay." Liu Wenjing smiled at Xiahou Dun, and then ran out lightly.

After a while, a man and a woman who looked to be in their thirties walked into the team leader's office. The man had a fat head and big ears, wore glasses, looked blessed, wore a brand-name down jacket, and his leather shoes were also imported; Women are even more jeweled, and there is nothing from top to bottom that is not a luxury.

Xiahou Yuan saw the two people coming in, so he moved away from the couch and sat on the single sofa on the side.

"You two, please be seated." Xiahoudun took a large number of them, led the two of them to the sofa, then poured them two cups of water and put them on the coffee table, leaned on the office desk, and asked, "What do you call the two of you?" What are you looking for me? ”

"My name is Zhu Jun, and this is my lover Wang Juan." The man spoke, "The house is haunted, and I invited many masters to see it but couldn't understand it, and then I heard that we have a special spirit of the Xiahou team leader here, so I came to ask you to help us exorcise the demons." As soon as Zhu Jun finished speaking, Wang Juan, who was sitting on the side, poked him with his elbow, he reacted for a while, and continued to add: "Money is not a problem. ”

This kind of person who comes up to raise money, or say something ghostly and strange to love, Xiahoudun has seen a lot, so he didn't have much reaction, he turned around and picked up the coffee cup on the table, took a sip, and put it back, before he asked unhurriedly: "What kind of ghost is there in your house?" ”

Zhu Jun glanced at his wife next to him, thought for a moment, and replied: "Actually, none of us have seen it properly, but occasionally we can hear the laughter of a child, or sometimes we can catch a glimpse of a child with our peripheral vision, but when we turn our heads, we don't." ”

"Are you sure it's not a hallucination?" Xiahou Yuan, who was sitting on the side, couldn't help but ask.

Zhu Jun shook his head a few times after hearing this, and said solemnly: "Absolutely not, definitely not an illusion." ”

"I'll tell you." His wife, Wang Juan, picked up the water cup and took a sip of water, "Where to start?" She put down the glass, sighed, and said, "That's right, in fact, the haunted home is my mother-in-law's house to be exact." Alas, my mother-in-law passed away at this time last year, and now my father-in-law is left alone in the house. ”

"It's my fault," Zhu Jun accosted, "My mom is gone, and the two of us rarely go to see my dad." I'm busy with work, and I don't have time to see him when I'm old. I said I wanted a child before, and I said that he would take it after I gave birth, but I haven't given birth to it yet. ”

"As a result, my father-in-law was stunned," Wang Juan's voice was loud and fast, and as soon as Zhu Jun finished speaking, she followed up, "I have to buy several people's portions when I go out to buy vegetables every day, saying that it is to cook for the children." The neighbors' uncles and aunts also said that my father-in-law sometimes spoke very loudly at home, and the laughter of children was often heard in the house. ”

"Maybe it's to pick up the children from the nearby welfare home to have a meal at home, but I don't know." Xiahou Yuan lay on the sofa and said.

Xiahoudun intervened and glanced at Xiahou Yuan, signaling him to continue listening and not to speak.

"The two of us started thinking the same way, and my wife said it was a good thing." Wang Juan said: "But the neighbors on the left and right said that they saw my father-in-law coming in and out alone, and he had no children. I went to look for him at home and didn't see the child. Wang Juan picked up the water cup, took another sip of water, and continued: "As a result, the two of us went and stayed for two days. At first, I didn't find anything, but the old man was very happy to see us coming. Later, I found out that something was wrong, I could always faintly hear the laughter of children, I asked my lover, and my lover said that she heard it, didn't you? As she spoke, Wang Juan glanced at Zhu Jun.

Zhu Jun nodded and agreed, "Yes, yes." ”

Wang Juan said this, gesturing with her hand with some excitement and said: "I always feel that something is wandering around me, look around, and there is nothing." Once, just like that, I got up at night to go to the bathroom, and I saw a child in the living room, dressed in a girl's clothes, and she was standing there, on one leg. At first, I thought it was her face covered by hair, but it turned out that she actually had her face growing back. I shouted, and the boy was gone in an instant. The next day I told my father-in-law about this, and began to say that I saw the flowers, so I said a few words, I said it was not a hallucination, my father-in-law blew up the cat at once, what to say, what? Wang Juan glanced at Zhu Jun again.

Zhu Jun said eatingly: "My father said that if we dare to find a Taoist priest or something, we will not recognize my son." ”

"Yes!" The more Wang Juan spoke, the more anxious she became, "You say, is my father-in-law stunned?" Are you haunted by ghosts? ”

"The head grows back ......" Xiahou Yuan sat up straighter, lowered his head, and muttered quietly.

"Yes, yes, it's on the back of the head." Wang Juan said, "I was scared at the time. I found several masters behind the old man's back, but I couldn't tell what it was. ”

When Xiahou Yuan heard the word "master", he couldn't help but laugh, but he didn't say anything to Wang Juan, just turned his head to look at Xiahoudun and said: "Listening to the description, it must be a small mountain ghost, but it appeared in the city for some reason." ”

"There are also people who live in the city, and they are called 'sher'." Xiahoudun picked up the coffee cup again and explained to Xiahouyuan, "The only thing recorded in the book is the mandrill, which is what we often call the little mountain ghost. They say that they live in the mountains or in the countryside, they look like children, they only have one leg, they grow backwards, and they like to harass others. As the millennium progressed, the mountain spirits also moved to live in towns, called 'shers', while others lived underground and were called 'caves'. But these are all the ways they were before they became adults, and when they became adults, they would all grow into the same appearance as humans, and they were collectively called 'ghosts', which is what we usually call 'mountain ghosts'. ”

Xiahou Yuan listened with relish, nodded frequently, and said, "Oh." I see, this is the first time I've heard of it. ”

On the side, Zhu Jun and Wang Juan were confused, the two looked at each other, and Zhu Juncai asked weakly, "Team leader Xiahou?" What did you just say? Is there anything wrong with my dad? ”

"Don't worry, it's okay." Xiahoudun glanced at Zhu Jun with a smile, took a sip of coffee, put the cup on the table again, and straightened his tie, "Mr. Zhu, take us to your house to see the situation." ”

"Okay," Zhu Jun hurriedly got up from the sofa, "I'll drive you over." ”

"This, this is going?" Wang Juan also stood up from the sofa and poked her husband next to her with her elbow, showing a somewhat uneasy expression, "Don't you need to prepare something?" ”

"Ready?" Xiahoudun took off his suit jacket from the hanger, and asked as he wore it, "What are you going to prepare?" ”

Zhu Jun hurriedly answered: "Yes, it's just some charms and spells, I see that other masters have them." ”

Xiahou Yuan got up from the sofa, pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "You can't invite that master before, and the real master won't be interested in using that." With that, he drank his coffee, threw the paper cup into the paper basket, and prepared to go out.

Wang Juan and Zhu Jun looked at Xiahou Yuan suspiciously, thinking that none of the older masters had ever said this, and they didn't know if this young man's words could be trusted, so they couldn't help but beat a drum in their hearts, and they looked at Xiahou Yuan in unison.

Xiahoudun nodded helplessly, said "Yes, yes", and led the husband and wife out of the office, glanced back at Xiahouyuan, and whispered: "You are poor." ”

Xiahou Yuan stuck out his tongue, followed Xiahou Yuan, and set off with Zhu Jun and Wang Juan and his wife.