The wooden planks on the pavement were arranged one by one, and the light seeping out from the gap that was a foot wide and had not had time to seal it caught Zhong Kui's eyeballs. Just a casual glance at him inadvertently.

Zhong Kui caught a glimpse of a slender and petite back in the shop, as if it was Xiaoqing who he saw in the ruined temple not long ago. When he was slightly stunned, his feet were fixed and did not move for half a minute, so he looked at the inside of the shop in place.

The boss in the shop had sharp eyes, he couldn't see the outside very clearly from the inside, and from his point of view, he could only see a person at the door. He had to get up and ask who it was.

The boss's stocky body appeared in front of the brilliant light, blocking half of the beam in a three-dimensional way, and he raised a hand to cover his forehead and looked out.

"Do you have a problem?" The boss asked.

"Oh! I want to ask, is there a girl named Xiaoqing here? Zhong Kui replied with the same wooden expression.

When the boss heard the other party say Xiaoqing's name at first glance, he paused in a daze and asked, "Who are you Xiaoqing?" ”

"A friend."

"Oh, you wait a minute." The boss said, not wanting to let Zhong Kui enter the shop, but turned around to look behind him and shouted, "Xiaoqing, someone is looking for you." ”

Hearing the boss shout Xiaoqing's name, Zhong Kui's heart suddenly jumped wildly. Secretly guessed; Is the girl I saw just now really Xiaoqing? Could it be the same name and surname? In the time of thinking, the boss of the shop removed a wooden board again and let another person come after him.

Hu Zhongkui saw a girl with two long braids appearing at the door, with a goose egg face, willow eyebrows, almond eyes, a small cherry mouth and a slightly upturned small nose, a fine floral cloth dress, gray linen trousers, charming, and not tacky.

Zhong Kui was stunned, but his mind was searching for the fragments that still remained in his memory; She...... Isn't it the vanilla that has appeared in my dreams countless times?

"Is vanilla you?" Zhong Kui stepped forward excitedly and shouted.

As soon as Zhong Kui's shout came out, the girl was so frightened that she quickly retreated, and replied hurriedly: "No, you recognized the wrong person." ”

Seeing this, the boss's face suddenly changed color with kindness, and he looked at Zhong Kui and shouted: "Get out, I recognized the wrong person, what else do you have to worry about." As he spoke, the boss used a wooden plank to block all the remaining light.

The cold wind swept from Zhong Kui's sluggish face, whether it was comfort or ridicule!

Looking at the closed shop, Zhong Kui suddenly lost his heavy legs and left the place to walk to the rented house.

Zhong Kui was unwilling to give up tracking down the whereabouts of Vanilla, and the next day, he came to a tea shop diagonally opposite the funeral shop very early, and inquired about the funeral shop from the side while drinking morning tea.

The tea shop guy saw that Zhong Kui gave more tea money than others, and he was a new customer, so he took special care of it. The guy was a young man who was very talkative, and he told Zhong Kui that the owner of the funeral shop was surnamed Lai, and there were four people in the family.

The boss, the boss, and an adopted daughter and a half-stupid son.

The adopted daughter's name is Lai Xiaoqing, and she is a girl named Hanako who was picked up by the owner of the funeral shop on the side of the road. At that time, the boss looked at the female baby, and she looked good, thinking that his only inheritor was stupid, and she was destined to not be able to get a wife for a lifetime, so he picked up such a girl and went home, just to find a wife for his stupid son.

Zhong Kui asked, where is Lai Xiaoqing's hometown.

The guy shook his head and said he didn't know.

Coming out of the tea shop, Zhong Kui walked straight to the funeral shop. With the ticket in his hand, he banged on the glass on the counter and shouted, "Boss." ”

The boss didn't come out, it was the boss lady who wriggled her fat ass when she heard a shout at the door, and walked out with a fart, looking at Zhong Kui with a face full of chrysanthemums and asking, "What's the matter?" ”

"Naturally, there is something to do with you. Who is idle and has nothing to do, and the egg hurts to come to your unfortunate land? Zhong Kui said with a cold face.

"Oh! Feelings are the buyers! Okay, may I ask who in your family is gone, and what you need. ”

"I bought my dad winter clothes."

"What color?" The proprietress said and lifted the glass of the counter, pointed to a stack of black, white, blue, and paper clothes in the counter that were specially burned for the dead and asked.

"All three colors, one for each." Zhong Kui spoke, his eyes drifting into the room. Seeing that the proprietress was matching various offerings, he casually asked, "Where is your Xiaoqing?" ”

"Wash your hair in the backyard!" The proprietress replied, and asked strangely: "This season, it's not the Midyear Festival, it's not the Qingming Festival, how did you think of sacrificing to your relatives?" ”

"My father is in the dark!"

"Oh, that's a must, you're so filial." The proprietress took a plastic bag and packed the things, handed it to Zhong Kui and added: "Two pieces and one cent, forget about one cent, give it whole!" ”

"Okay." Zhong Kui took out the money and handed it to the proprietress hand, picked up the things and left the store.

Zhong Kui really burned the sacrifice to Zhong Mingfa's grave, and this day was indeed his adoptive father's yin birth. After a prayer, a prayer, his father's kind appearance appeared in his mind, and his eyes couldn't help but moisten.

The county was helpless for the two sudden cases, and finally hung up the cases and precipitated them in the filing cabinet.

Zhong Kui was gifted and intelligent, and he was one of the best among dozens of students in the night class, and the literacy class also awarded him a certificate with a five-pointed star. He posted it on the wall at the head of his bed so he could see it all the time.

Zhong Kui's landlord is a lonely old lady who has no teeth and does not speak in a good way. The old lady was sometimes confused, and when she was confused, she kept repeating a sentence; "It's dark, and he hasn't even come back."

The old lady is also very sober, and when she is sober, she will care about Zhong Kui and say: "There are many bad people outside, you come back early." ”

Later, Zhong Kui understood from others that the old lady once had a son who should be a few years older than him, and once there was a martial arts fight in the county, and his son went to participate. When he left home, he left a message for the old lady, saying that he would come back when he was done. As a result, the old lady looked at the door, her hair turned white, and she still didn't see her son come back.

Maybe it's a coincidence! In the days that followed, Zhong Kui discovered that the old lady's son was the other skeleton that was entangled with Xia Zhi'an.

The old lady was also when Zhiqing was looking for the people on the list, and when he found out that the old lady was alone, he came up with the idea of letting Zhong Kui accompany the old man.

Unexpectedly, when the old lady heard Zhiqing's suggestion, she was as happy as if she was something. Mankou promised to give Zhong Kui a room, and he didn't want his rent.

Zhong Kui is very diligent and deeply liked by the old lady, and the two get along very well. He helped the old lady with the heavy work, and the old lady cooked for him.

Zhong Kui is going out tonight because tonight is another full moon night. As he went out, he summoned seven imps, and after such and such instructions, he strode out with his head held high.