1

Three o'clock in the morning.

The third floor of Xinling Bay.

Coming up the stairs and turning left, the second room was rented out by one of the three rooms in a row, and the name of the shop was "Tsunefen Say". It is engaged in the wholesale and retail of paper people, paper horses, wreath ingots, incense and candle offerings, shroud urns and other things. It is said that this is the most profitable shop of all the trading in this building, and there are no three storerooms to fit, and there are many wreath paper figures in the aisles, and no one will come to steal such things.

At this moment, a chubby cat, hiding in the shadow of the moonlight, seemed to approach here in fear. It looked up at the three big words "Chang Fen Said" on the wooden plaque at the entrance of the store, and muttered to himself:

"Life is impermanent, death has a share, so say? There's something to this shop......"

I suddenly felt a heavy underworld aura upstairs in Sang Xiaoge's room just now, and I wanted to check it out the next day, but maybe it was because of the natural biological charm of the cat, which "remains curious even if it is killed", and at night I was very energetic, and finally regardless of my incapable physical state, I ventured out of a blowhole, and approached the store little by little.

The lights at the front of the store are still on - the funeral shop is generally like this, after all, you don't know when people will die on this day, and according to the northern tradition, people have to change into shrouds, arrange a mourning hall at home, put on the spirit card incense candles, relatives change mourning clothes and a series of other work, so to open this kind of shop must have the consciousness of being woken up by knocking on the door in the middle of the night to sell things.

Under the lonely incandescent lamp in front of the store, the two paper figures were tied with plastic packing ropes - not for fear of running away or being stolen, but for fear of being blown away by the wind. The two paper figures, a man and a woman, crying and laughing, dressed as ancient servants, with a layer of paper skin wrapped around the inner bones made of bamboo, and the facial features of the brush paintings, although rough, are very vivid.

The blue cat looked at the two paper figures, and couldn't help but be stunned, and always felt that the paper figures were still unfinished.

It carefully walked around the paper figures, and under the slightly short-sighted cat's eyes, it slowly made out that behind the two paper figures, each carved a row of charms on the wall, and at the end of the charms, close to the ground, each equipped with a bronze mirror.

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Bronze mirror wards off evil spirits.

Therefore, many homes or sculptures will place a bronze mirror above the lintel. However, this shop placed the bronze mirror close to the ground, and it was a pair as soon as it was placed.

"It's kind of interesting."

The blue cat muttered in his heart, and took a closer look at the two rows of charms. I felt familiar with those complex patterns for no reason, but I couldn't remember anything. Perhaps, this spell is hidden in the memory that he has cut off.

It eventually gave up on studying the spell and turned its head to move on, the door to the south of the door of the two rooms. Under the window, a half-foot-wide wooden window sill was extended, and a long frozen persimmon was placed on the window sill.

The blue cat jumped on the windowsill, and its four chubby short legs landed flexibly between the frozen persimmons and the frozen persimmons, and walked to the other side against the window.

Inside the window was a thick curtain, blocking the scene inside the window. However, in the adjacent position of the two windows, there is a gap of more than ten centimeters, faintly revealing an obscure light. The blue cat walked silently along the windowsill, stopped in front of the gap, and tried to look inside.

Curse this damn myopia!

It looked at it for a long time and was blurry, and finally realized that something was wrong, because the focal length was wrong. When I looked inside, I was actually right behind the glass, and there was something close at hand that blocked my view.

The focus of the eyes was adjusted to an inch in front of the eyes, and I looked up and down, forehead, this is the nose, this is the mouth, this is the eyes with glasses...... Suddenly, the whole cat's fur exploded!

Just behind the glass, an old, withered face, through the glass window, was staring at it!

"Meow ......"

With a broken scream, the fat cat fell out of the window in embarrassment, then knocked over a cardboard box on the ground, knocked down two wreaths, and ran down the hallway, then almost rolled down the hallway, and ran back to the Institute of Unknown Events in a puff of smoke.

3

Maybe it was because he was scared enough yesterday afternoon, and with the half bottle of red wine, Sang Xiaoge slept until more than nine o'clock in the morning. Moreover, when I woke up today, my feet did not feel as cold as before, but warm and very comfortable.

She stretched, picked up her phone from the bedside table and looked at the time, and was suddenly stunned.

Because, when she straightened up, her feet touched a fluffy, round, hot mass.

"Whoa" lifted the quilt and saw the fat cat, holding his feet, and falling asleep. At this point, the quilt was lifted, perhaps dissatisfied with the glare of the light, and one of its front paws was blocked in front of the eye.

"It must have been last night when I forgot to close the door after going to the toilet and let this thing run in."

Sang Xiaoge thought to himself.

Sitting on the bed in his pajamas, he rubbed his ten toes on the cat's soft belly, recalling yesterday's events.

Yesterday, what happened to me was the most incredible thing in my life. Even at the moment, it still feels unreal.

I picked up my phone and checked my account balance.

Well, it's true.

None of this is a dream.

However, to confirm it again, she reached out and hugged the fat cat, who had slept until it looked like it, to her lap, and then shook it from side to side, waking it up.

"Who let you into my room?"

Sang Xiaoge asked murderously.

"Oh mom!"

When I woke up from my sleep, I saw a woman in front of me with a disheveled head, two pieces of eye feces hanging from the corners of her eyes, and a fierce face, so frightened that she turned her head and wanted to run, but the back of her neck was firmly grasped by a slender hand, and her four short legs ran in vain in the air, and she quickly gave up.

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"Let go of Prince Ben! Or it will look good for you! The blue cat really spoke and threatened.

"You explain to Hongu first, how did you run into Hongu's bed?" Sang Xiaoge pinched the cat's fat face, and took advantage of the cat in his words.

"You went to the toilet last night, this king...... This king took the opportunity to come in. "Obviously, this cat is also a master who refuses to suffer, and the prince has been directly promoted to king.

"Without the permission of the mourning family, you bold slave dares to go to the bed of the mourning family? What a big dog guts! "Sang Xiaoge upgraded again.

"Hey! Only when a dead husband can he call himself a mourner! How can anyone curse herself as a widow for no reason? The blue cat looked at the woman in front of her helplessly and said.

"you!"

Sang Xiaoge pressed the fat man in the quilt with his backhand, and then wrapped it in three layers of quilts repeatedly, and then he went to the bathroom to wash up leisurely.

5

"You said there would be a lot of business in the future, it wouldn't be bragging, right?"

After washing, Sang Xiaoge asked while slapping water on his face in the mirror.

"You don't have to worry about this, but I've swallowed those demons in the past few days, and my body is in a weak period, so it's best not to take on that kind of dangerous case. It's okay to tell fortunes and test marriages. Besides, the things I ordered didn't arrive in a day. ”

Mr. Lan sat on the edge of the washbasin, licking his front paws and washing his face as he replied.

"Huh? By the way, you haven't eaten anything since yesterday, do you want to go to Wangfushi to buy you some cat food or something? Sang Xiaoge asked, looking at it from the mirror.

"I don't want to go to that woman!"

Mr. Lan's body couldn't help but tremble, and the fear of being picked up by that woman last night and being dominated came to his mind.

"Humph! You can sleep at the end of my bed in the future, but if you dare to do anything excessive to me, I will send you to Wang Fuyu to be castrated, do you hear? Sang Xiaoge threatened the fat cat, and asked, "Then what will you eat in the future?" Do you want a litter box? ”

"I don't have to eat." The blue cat dodged Sang Xiaoge's eyes a little: "But it's okay to eat, but I don't eat cat food...... The litter box is even more unnecessary! I use the toilet myself. ”

"Ahh Is it? Then you can use it for me now. Sang Xiaoge said with interest.

"Get out! I'm a man, how can I make you look at the toilet! The blue cat jumped off the washbasin and walked slowly to the front store.

6

This morning, the Institute of Unknown Events received six deliveries.

Sang Xiaoge ordered Xiao Dezi to send them all to his room.

Then, with some jealousy, she watched as the fat cat used its sharp nails to expertly unpack.

There are three compasses in one chest.

In one box were dozens of copper coins.

In one box is a siphon pot and coffee beans.

Inside one box is a set of four near-luxurious coffee cups......

"Hey, Fat Blue Paper, are you going to open a coffee shop?" Sang Xiaoge looked at the blue cat who was happy to open the box and asked.

"Before I became a cat, this was the best bite." Mr. Lan opened the last box and took out the tablet in a vicissitudes of tone, and said while skillfully turning on the registration: "You ask Xiao Dezi to go downstairs to buy some alcohol and mineral water, and I will teach you to brew the purest handmade coffee." ”

With great curiosity, Sang Xiaoge went out and told Xiao Dezi to put down the game and buy alcohol and other things. I was curious to go back and see what other tricks the cat was doing.

The tablet was registered, and Sang Xiaoge helped charge it, and Mr. Lan pointed to the wooden mailbox in the last box for her to hang up at the door of the store. It is claimed that this is the key prop for the prosperity of the store in the future.

When the mailbox was hung up, Xiao Dezi also came back. But he met a man at the door, and after saying a few words, he led the man into the house.

Sang Xiaoge noticed that Mr. Lan's body was obviously trembling on his lap.

Looking up, following Xiao Dezi in was an old man with gray hair, tall and thin, grinning, showing a few burnt teeth.

"I'm the boss upstairs, it's okay, just visit the neighbors."

7

The older generation has the habit of the older generation, for example, visiting other people's homes, from beginning to end is polite nonsense, and the purpose of the trip is often said at the time of farewell.

The old man introduced himself and said that his surname was Chang and his name was good. His shop has been open for three generations. After the demolition of Xinling Bay, the house on the third floor was divided into two floors, and the business was still maintained.

In his familiar nagging, a pair of eyes that occasionally shone with fine light, always glancing at Mr. Lan on Sang Xiaoge's knee from time to time. And this fat cat used her big head to put Sang Xiaoge's hand at the beginning, asking her to grab her head, and then kept making a purring sound, and slumped on Sang Xiaoge's leg in an unusually comfortable posture, her eyes squinted, and she couldn't say how pleasant.

Chang Youdao finally said his intention when he turned around and wanted to leave:

"Then I'll take my leave, my deal is not suitable for you to be a guest. But shopkeeper Sang, I'm in the white business, but I often encounter things that are not easy to explain. Well...... I almost didn't think that in the past two days, there was a family in Houliucun New District, and they encountered some trouble. The other party's family will ask 20,000 people to solve it, if you have to be free, you can go and see. Although it is just a small amount of money, it can settle in the white circle. This is the address and number, if you go, you can mention me. ”

"Promise him."

Without waiting for Sang Xiaoge to react, Mr. Lan on his knee immediately whispered to her. Of course, in the ears of Chang Youdao and Xiao Dezi, the cat just whispered a "meow".

Sang Xiaoge took the note handed over by Chang Youdao, along with Chang Youdao's business card, pretended to groan for a while, nodded and replied:

"Well, thank you. I'll go over and have a look in the afternoon. ”

"Is this...... According to the rules of the white circle, you'd better go there at night. ”

Chang Youdao said with a smile, and then officially said goodbye and went back.

8

Under Mr. Lan's command, Sang Xiaoge brewed a pot of coffee in a siphon pot. The fat classmate of Sandra, a teenager addicted to the Internet, actually put down the game in his hand and carefully watched every process of Sang Xiaoge's coffee making, showing strong interest.

As the bubbling coffee slowly descended from the siphon pot, Sang Xiaoge divided the coffee into three cups. Then Mr. Lan jumped on the table in the stunned eyes of Xiao Dezi, leaned his round face on the coffee cup, and drank it with one tongue at a time.

"Oh my God! Sister, what's the origin of your cat? Don't eat cat food and drink coffee! ”

"What is this!" Sang Xiaoge took a sip of coffee, grinned bitterly, stuck out his tongue very playfully and said, "Even this coffee pot, coffee cup and tablet computer were bought by it." ”

Xiao Dezi glanced at his unreliable old sister with resentment and said, "Sister, I'm stupid, but it's not to the level of being mentally retarded!" ”

"Believe it or not!" Sang Xiaoge rummaged through the notes and business cards left by Chang Youdao in his hand, and frowned: "This old man is so strange, why do you want to go at night?" ”

"There are dead people in the house, and hauntings have to be made at night. Isn't it possible to run ghosts all over the streets in broad daylight? Xiao Dezi cocked his chubby orchid fingers, pinched the coffee cup, and tried to make an aristocratic style, sucking coffee a little bit in reply.

"It's not easy to shop upstairs. I don't see any malice in his behavior today, go and see, if there is danger we won't enter the door - if it's a small problem, I say you do it, and solve it easily. ”

Mr. Lan's chubby face left the coffee cup and said thoughtfully. Then he seemed to have made up his mind and added: "It's better to make some preparations, I said you write it down and let Xiao Dezi buy it." ”

Afterwards, Sang Xiaoge pulled out a piece of paper and wrote down things like glutinous rice, rooster blood, cinnabar powder, etc., and asked Xiao Dezi to buy them.

The Institute of Unknown Events has returned to its normal tranquility.

9

Sang Xiaoge sat on the sofa, put his feet in finger socks on the table, played with Mr. Lan's tail with his toes, watched him drink a large cup of coffee with a mess on his face, and then began to wash his face with his front paws.

"I said, old blue, what are you from? We've all lived together, you can't be so indifferent, can you? ”

"It's 'secretive'. Don't mess around with idioms. ”

Mr. Lan glanced at her with disdain. Then, he chose a more comfortable position to lie down and said in a vicissitudes of tone:

"I came up from below, because I had some trouble, and my soul was mistakenly thrown into this cat's body. For the soul, if the human body is a pot, then the cat's soul is a small bowl. So I was forced to cut off most of my abilities and memories, so I can't tell you what you're asking me about. But I know a few things—"

It glanced at Sang Xiaoge's full face of eating melons, and said helplessly:

"First, I escaped from the underworld, so I must keep a low profile, at least until my abilities are restored."

"Second, there has been a great chaos in the underworld recently, the seals of the Yin and Yang worlds have been loosened, and many spatial cracks have appeared, so there will be a lot of things like yesterday when the hundred ghosts of the Yang world have been walking at night recently."

"Third, this is a ...... for your family" Mr. Lan raised his two chubby front paws, bent his two fingernails downwards twice, and made a quotation mark motion with great difficulty: "This is an opportunity for your 'Institute of Unknown Events'." You can get more commissions and make more money. And I took this opportunity to slowly find a way to regain my strength. ”

Sang Xiaoge's eyes turned upward, and at the same time he blew the hair curtain, retracted his feet from the table, leaned forward, and asked Mr. Lan face to face: "Hey! I said you wouldn't have been some great traitor in hell in your previous life, would you? If you regain your strength, will you eat me? ”

Mr. Lan glanced at her angrily, and his expression as a cat looked very bad: "I can't remember to tell you!" Besides, with your small body, you can't eat enough to stuff your teeth. At most, it's difficult to sign first......"

Sang Xiaoge grabbed the back of the fat cat's neck, lifted it up from the table, and said viciously: "What Wangfushi said is really right! Believe it or not, I'm going to take you to her pet store and castrate you? ”

10

Without waiting for Xiao Dezi to come back, Sang Xiaoge locked the door, took a taxi with Mr. Lan and went to a pet supply store first, chose a special glasses frame for cats, and went to an online appointment glasses store to measure Mr. Lan and match glasses.

The first time the optical store received this kind of business, several female clerks surrounded the fat cat with great interest, watching it sit obediently on the swivel chair and put their eyes on the eyepiece for refraction. And under Sang Xiaoge's translation, he really obediently looked into the distance and closed his eyes......

In the process of waiting for the lenses to be sharpened, Mr. Lan was hugged by several female clerks, and took the opportunity to "touch the mi's fortune" for several people.

11

Under the "secret" command of Mr. Lan, Sang Xiaoge and Xiao Dezi processed the materials they bought back into pieces of bizarre "weapons and equipment", and after a rather sumptuous dinner, Xiao Dezi carried a large canvas bag, Mr. Lan carried a small bag for pets, Sang Xiaoge carried a bag smaller than Mr. Lan's, and the two of them called a car and set off to Houliu Village.

In fact, this Houliucun New Area is very close to Xinling Bay in a straight line, but it is separated by a north-south railway, which needs to go north for 500 meters, cross the tunnel bridge, and then go around to the west.

This is an urban village, which was built a community during the renovation of the old city a few years ago. But the one they were going to was one of the most stubborn nail houses of the time, and at this time there were four or five dilapidated courtyards, and the largest courtyard in the center was hung with white paper lanterns, and crooked wreaths on both sides, which looked particularly desolate and miserable against the backdrop of a large number of brand-new buildings.

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They were greeted by a young man in a neat black suit. A strip of white cloth was tied around his waist, and a black gauze was wrapped around his arm. In the North, it's a collateral relative, or a helping friend's attire.

The other party looked at the obviously too young duo in front of him with a little doubt, but he didn't raise any doubts, and only indicated his identity in the obvious northern dialect:

"Grandpa Chang introduced you here, right? My surname is Liu, just call me the fourth. Come in with me and I'll give you a briefing. ”

Entering the courtyard, in the center, there was a black lacquered coffin.

Paper money is all over the ground, on both sides of the coffin, paper people and horses, paper villas, cars, paper computers and mobile phones are dazzling. In front of the coffin, there is a 24-inch black-and-white photograph on the table, in which a woman who does not look very old is looking at the outside and sneering at the distance between life and death.

In front of the photo, there are three incense sticks in the incense burner, and two white candles on either side, the flames are swaying, and the smoke is thicker than the smoke of the three incense sticks.

Next to the coffin, there was a row of people wearing linen and filial piety. When they walked into the courtyard, suddenly one of them raised his head sharply, looked at Sang Xiaoge, and let out bursts of mad laughter.

"Hey, hey, hey, ......"