Chapter 2: The Strange Restaurant
"Professor Jiang Wenhao, who is in charge of the archaeological work, believes that the tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty should be carried out in accordance with traditional archaeological procedures by using modern scientific and technological means."
"Ha, it turns out that Professor Jiang can also play officially." Hearing the news broadcast on this radio, Qi Lu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, snickered at the corner of his mouth.
"Well, I wonder how the professor's archaeological work is going?" Ding Xiaolan looked at the night outside the window and recalled the experience of Guanyin Temple.
Since there was no business to do in the past month, Qi Lu was afraid that Ding Xiaolan would be bored sitting in the company, so he took her to a neighboring city to play today, because Ding Xiaolan's shopping spree delayed time, and it was late at night when they came back.
At this moment, the moving car suddenly made a strange noise and stopped.
Qi Lu asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Lao Wu glanced at the light and said, "It may be a malfunction." ”
"Can you still open it?"
Lao Wu frowned and said, "It's enough." ”
The three of them got out of the car helplessly, Lao Wu opened the hood and began to check for faults, Ding Xiaolan pouted and said to Qi Lu on the side: "It's all your fault, this broken car has sunk to the Qingshui River, and after it is salvaged, you would rather overhaul it once than be reluctant to change to a new car." ”
Qi Lu replied with a smile: "No way, I like the old and hate the new." ”
"The engine was broken, so I called the 4S shop and asked them to send someone to repair it." As he spoke, Lao Wu took out his mobile phone, and just as he was about to make a call, he was surprised to find that the mobile phone was out of battery.
"I forgot to bring my charger, which of you will call the 4S store?"
"Oh, my phone is out of battery." Ding Xiaolan hurriedly looked for the charger in her handbag.
"Strange, why is my phone out of battery?" Qi Lu looked at the pitch-black mobile phone screen and frowned.
"It's a strange thing, is the charger also broken?" Ding Xiaolan found that her charger could not charge her phone at all.
Qi Lu lit a cigarette and began to complain about Ding Xiaolan: "As soon as I get in the car, I play WeChat, and I keep sending photos, so I don't know how to save electricity." ”
"Blame me? You didn't use your phone at all today, why didn't your phone have any battery? Ding Xiaolan replied to him unceremoniously, her face became gloomy, and she muttered: "It can't be such a coincidence, the three of them have no battery on their phones, and my charger is also broken?" ”
Qi Lu said lightly: "What do you mean to say, someone is making trouble?" ”
"I don't know." The mobile phone has always been on his body, and today everyone has not been in contact with outsiders, Ding Xiaolan is just instinctively alert to this sudden incident is a bit abnormal.
The sky was dark with blood, and there was not even a hint of wind.
Qi Lu's eyes straightened as he saw a long shadow suddenly appear in the middle of the road.
"What is this?" Lao Wu also noticed this strange shadow.
"It can't be a ghost, right?" Ding Xiaolan's goosebumps rose, and she shrank behind Qi Lu.
The shadows grew shorter and shorter, and at last an animal with fur as black as the night came up to them.
"It's a little black cat." Ding Xiaolan let out a long breath, and her pretty face returned to a rosy one.
"Why is this cat so familiar, where do I seem to have seen it?" Qi Lu lowered his head thoughtfully.
The black cat ran to Lao Wu's side, circling around his legs, wagging its tail from time to time to make a coquettish look.
"It's very human." Lao Wu was infected by its actions, and squatted down to stroke the black cat's head. "So well-behaved, not like a wild cat, it may have been abandoned by someone's family"
Before he finished speaking, Lao Wu screamed, and it turned out that the seemingly tame black cat suddenly opened its mouth and bit Lao Wu's finger.
"Little beast, see if I don't kill you!" Old Wu was so ashamed that he raised his leg and was about to kick it.
The black cat was extremely agile, and when he saw that it bowed its body, it dodged Lao Wu's flying legs, and then ran out of ten meters away, jumped into the grass on the side of the road, and ran away in a blink of an eye.
"Don't let me catch you, or I'll have to send you to a hot pot restaurant!" Lao Wu's finger did not bleed, but the skin was broken.
Ding Xiaolan said a little distressed: "Find a hospital to see, don't get rabies." ”
"Then we have to go back to the city first!" Lao Wu made a suggestion to them: "Why don't you leave the car here, and let's stop a taxi to go back first?" ”
"I agree!" Ding Xiaolan raised her hands in approval, she wished that the broken car had been stolen, so that Qi Lu could get a new car.
Unfortunately, it backfired, and the three of them stood on the side of the road for more than half an hour, let alone a taxi, and they didn't even see a passing vehicle.
Qi Lu said angrily: "Don't stop it, this is a suburb and a small road, there are not many vehicles passing by during the day, not to mention that it is night now, and there will be no taxis." ”
"What then?" Ding Xiaolan pursed her mouth again, she didn't want to sleep in the wilderness.
"Let's go to that restaurant and see if we can get someone to help." Qi Lu pointed to a restaurant in the distance.
After Lao Wu locked the car door, the three of them walked towards the restaurant.
This is a small restaurant, the neon sign is no longer legible, only the pole in the middle is still lit, and the lights on the other fonts have been extinguished.
"Something seems wrong." Lao Wu stopped in front of the restaurant, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.
"Go in, don't be suspicious." Ding Xiaolan was already hungry.
"I've walked this road a lot, but I've never seen a restaurant here."
Ding Xiaolan said: "It may be newly opened." ”
"Look at it." Pointing to the restaurant, which was converted from a bungalow, Wu said: "The house is very old, which means that it has been built for at least a few decades. I remember very well that last month I passed by this was a vacant lot, and there was no house at all. ”
"You must be mistaken." Qi Lu's self-confidence is capital, because he didn't smell the existence of evil information in the air at all.
"There's probably something strange in there." Lao Wu scratched his head and said worriedly.
"It's hard to say." Qi Lu raised his eyebrows with a smile. "If you're scared, just wait here. I'll just go in and eat with the beautiful woman. ”
"Excuse me, am I that timid?"
Lao Wu straightened his chest and followed closely behind Qi Lu, he didn't want to be hungry.
The dining room was a low, narrow room, with a few faded tables scattered haphazardly, and the utensils on the tables were nothing more than dishes with broken edges. Two large old chandeliers hung from the whitening ceiling, glowing dimly.
"Anyone?" After entering the store, Qi Lu looked at the deserted scene in the room and asked loudly.
"What's the matter?" As a lazy voice sounded, a middle-aged man with a fat figure stuck his head out from behind the counter.
Qi Lu hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Boss, our car is broken."
"If the car breaks down, go find someone to fix it, what are you doing here, I'm a restaurant, not a car repair shop." The boss interrupted him impatiently.
"Boss, you misunderstood, we came to you for a meal when the car broke down."
"Then you've come to the right place." The boss immediately changed his attentive face. "Our store is cheap and beautiful, the food is delicious, I want to make sure you still want to eat it, and you still want to come tomorrow."
The boss took out a rag and wiped down the table, while warmly beckoning them to take their seats.
Qi Lu and the others sat down, and Ding Xiaolan picked up the menu and ordered seven or eight dishes in one go.
"Can the three of us finish all these dishes? Besides, you're not afraid of eating fat. Qi Lu began to tease her.
Ding Xiaolan glanced at him, and said a little proudly: "Don't worry, Miss Ben is a beauty who can't eat fat, you just pay for me honestly." ”
"Is there any wine?" Lao Wu found that the wine in the jug had been drunk during the day.
"There is only Moutai in this store, do you want it, master?"
"How much is a bottle?"
"The business is too good, many varieties have been sold out, and now there are only three prices left: 588, 788, and 1080 yuan, what do you want to drink?"
"So expensive?" Lao Wu hesitated.
"Let's have two bottles of Moutai for 588 yuan." This ghost place doesn't see the village before, and there is no store behind, Qi Lu knows that Lao Wu's meal can't do without wine, and he doesn't want to ruin his fun.
After a while, the hot dishes were brought up by the boss, and Lao Wu also unscrewed the cap of the Moutai bottle.
"Hey, I said you were running a black shop?" The boss who was about to leave was stopped by Lao Wu.
"Master, how did you speak?" The boss had a gloomy face.
Lao Wu raised his wine glass, sniffed deeply with his nose, and said to him angrily: "You don't use fake wine to deceive me, I am a big brew in the wine tank, no matter what brand of wine, as long as you smell it with your nose, you can identify it." ”
The boss replied coldly: "You said it's not Moutai, is it mineral water?" ”
"You are obviously a rural rice wine mixed with water, and you are embarrassed to use it to pretend to be Moutai, don't take me for a fool!" Lao Wu was-for-tat.
"I think you're a fool." There was a sly glint in the boss's eyes.
"Fuck me!" Lao Wu slapped the table, stood up, pointed at the boss and scolded: "Lao Tzu has been in the rivers and lakes for so many years, and I have never seen such an arrogant goods as you, is it not begging?" ”
Qi Lu saw that the two were arguing, and quickly got up to dissuade them.
But at this moment, something surprising happened, the boss suddenly opened his mouth and bit the hand that Lao Wu was pointing at him.
"You're insane!" Lao Wu was furious, and punched the boss in the chest!
"Boom!" With a loud bang, in the surprised eyes of everyone, the restaurant disappeared without a trace, Qi Lu was surprised to find that they were sitting in the grass, and the boss had revealed his original form, it turned out to be the black cat that had bitten Lao Wu once just now!
"You hateful cat demon, I'm going to chop you up today!" Lao Wu knew that he had been tricked again, so he quickly took out a short knife and slashed straight at the black cat's body!
The blade passed through the black cat's body as if through the void, and the black cat turned into a jumble of light and disappeared under the noses of the three of them.
Lao Wu suddenly pounced, and his body also lost its center of gravity, if it weren't for Qi Luyan's quick hand to support him, he would have to fall into the mud.
"What a big enmity Lao Tzu has with you, you me twice in a row!" Lao Wu's heart couldn't be more depressed.
Qi Lu couldn't help laughing for a moment, but then said with a straight face: "It's not a cat demon. ”
"Yes." Old Wu, who had calmed down, nodded in agreement with Qi Lu's point of view, because he also noticed that there was no demonic energy and yin energy in this strange incident.
"Who the hell is this guy sacred, and why does he come to tease you one after another?"
Qi Lu held his chin in his hand, and his heart was full of doubts. As he spoke, he saw a fire in the distance.