Chapter 1: A Rainy Night
A new grocery store opened on the corner, the shop is not fashionable at all, and there is no new and attractive faΓ§ade, it has just opened after a simple renovation, and the only thing that makes people look at it more is the name of the store.
Up and down the grocery store.
The owner of the grocery store seems to be a very lazy young man, named Su Ran, although he has a beautiful face, but he looks lazy, which makes people feel that this person is unreliable, there is no business at all, and his favorite thing to do every day is to sit in front of the store and watch the beauties on the street walk around, the opening time is uncertain, it completely depends on the mood, but the closing time is very punctual, and the door closes at sunset.
It's night, it's a rainy night.
Because of the rain, there were no people on the streets, and it was already a quarter past twelve o'clock in the evening, and on such a night, even the night owls on the side of the road had already gone home.
A girl, who looked to be only about ten years old, carried a swarthy umbrella, and she was the only one walking on the street, her shoes wet with muddy water.
The girl came to the upper and lower grocery stores, took a look, and knocked on the door.
There was no movement in the shop, and the boss had already fallen asleep at this time.
The girl continued to knock on the door, and the dull knocking seemed a little calm in the rainy night.
"Who," Su Ran's impatient voice came from the store, "I didn't see that the store is closed, I want to buy something, hurry up early tomorrow." β
The girl didn't say anything, but continued to knock on the door.
"Alright, alright, don't knock, don't summon ghosts in the middle of the night." Su Ran's habitual voice, even the footsteps had a lazy smell, the door of the store opened, Su Ran poked his head out and glanced at the girl, especially at the girl's dark umbrella, "Unlucky." β
Open the door and let the girl in.
After the girl came in, she closed the umbrella and put it by the door, and took a general look at the furnishings in the grocery store, which was no different from the ordinary grocery store, except that there were fewer things, she looked at Su Ran and got straight to the point, "Boss, I want to buy a candle." β
"Where are you going?"
"Below."
"When?"
"Today."
Su Ran nodded, "Yes, did you bring the reward?" β
The girl took out a piece of jade pendant, which looked very new, as if it had just been completed, "Is this enough?" β
Su Ran glanced at it, "It's not pure, it's not enough." β
The girl gritted her teeth and hesitated, "I only have this, if it's not enough, you see, what can I give you?" β
Su Ran smiled, "I think you're quite young, why don't you live for twenty years?" β
The girl glanced at Su Ran, there was firmness in her eyes, and she didn't hesitate too much, "Okay!" β
Su Ran smiled, accepted the jade pendant, and took a candle from the shelf, white, only a short finger length, "Pay the money with one hand, and deliver the goods with the other." β
The girl raised her hand, Su Ran held it, and after a while, the girl left with the candle, but when she left, she was already a woman in her thirties.
Su Ran watched the girl leave, he didn't need to know the other party's name, nor did he need to know how she found here, he knew that today, he had another twenty years of the best lifespan, and a piece of fine green soul jade.
And the candle that Su Ran gave to the girl is actually a guide sign that can lead to the underworld, to put it bluntly, it is a door card, with a candle, you can go to the underworld to see your relatives for the last time, what you didn't say before you died, what you didn't explain clearly, what you didn't make a will, what you regret your decision, you can go to see again and ask for peace of mind.
This is what is known as the following.
And Su Ran's upper and lower grocery stores are actually a store that can communicate the two worlds of yin and yang, and the customers are not only people and ghosts, but also all kinds of monsters and elves.
Black Umbrella!
Only the person who comes to the grocery store with a black umbrella will Su Ran do real business with him, if not, then all you get is bread and drinks.
Tonight, the girl came here to buy candles, whether it was lifespan or green soul jade, it was a very ordinary thing for Su Ran, turn off the lights, yawn, and go to bed.
Early in the morning, Su Ran was still asleep, and was woken up by the noise outside, getting up made Su Ran want to beat someone, and he was not allowed to sleep early in the morning, so he had no choice but to go out, and he saw that the street not far away, surrounded by a crowd, and the police cordon, thought that something was wrong.
There is a bustle to see, Su Ran will naturally not let it go, and when he stepped forward, he saw that there was blood on the side of the street, there was a corpse, which had already been covered with a white cloth by the forensic doctor, but the bloody arm that was exposed made Su Ran's face sink.
"What's going on? Dead early in the morning. β
"Who knows, I heard that it was a woman who was walking at night and was bitten alive by a pack of wild dogs."
"No, we haven't seen wild dogs here in years, and even some stray cats and dogs will be disposed of very quickly, right?"
"I heard that they were robbed and killed."
"It's really a thousand cuts, how could a woman like a flower and jade encounter such a thing."
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Su Ran looked at the bloody arm, which was mostly marked by the bite of wild beasts, and even the bones were exposed, Su Ran glanced around and wanted to leave.
A police car roared in, a heroic policewoman walked down, and the people around shouted, Captain!
A female captain?
The policewoman stepped forward to look at the corpse, her eyes moved, and then asked the forensic doctor, "How?" What did you find? β
"The preliminary identification shows that this person was bitten by a large dog breed and died, and all the vital points on his body were injured," the forensic doctor shook his head, "For so many years, it is the first time I have seen such a horrible corpse, if I didn't know that it was done by a large dog, I really don't believe that someone can do it." β
The female captain nodded.
"This is just a preliminary matter, and further ones need to be brought back for a closer dissection, after all, the conditions here are limited, and there are many people."
"It's hard work," the female captain got up and glanced at the crowd around her, "Xiao Liu." β
"Captain," Xiao Liu came running.
"If you find anything, can you confirm the identity of the deceased?"
Xiao Liu shook his head, "Maybe it's really a big dog, in addition to the blood stains of the deceased, some animal hair was also found around, as for what breed of dog it is, it needs to be brought back for further testing." Xiao Liu paused, "As for the identity of the deceased, we didn't find anything on her that could prove her identity, and this person didn't even have a bag or a mobile phone, as for whether someone snatched it away or she didn't have it, it's not clear." β
The female captain frowned, "In this way, there are no clues at all, our small county town has not had such a murder case for a long time, send the brothers out, the surrounding monitoring, and the shops are carefully investigated to see if we can find any useful clues." β
"Yes!"
The female captain and the forensic doctor, as well as Xiao Liu's words, were very small, and the surrounding crowd couldn't hear them at all, but they were all listened to by Su Ran.
Su Ran watched the corpse being carried away, and then turned around and went back to the grocery store, "It's really bold, dare to spread wild in my territory." β
At this moment, the female captain just now walked in, "Boss, excuse me." "Look at the display and decoration in the store.
Su Ran greeted the guest with a smile, "It's a comrade policeman, sit down." β
The female captain looked around, "The boss's shop is newly opened?" β
"Yes, it's been less than a month since it opened," Su Ran smiled, "Excuse me, is there something wrong with the police comrade?" β
"I think you must have seen what happened just now, I just want to find out, did you hear any movement last night?"
"There's no movement, I've always been very heavy in sleep," Su Ran said, "Everyone here knows that I always close early, and after that, I play with my mobile phone and play games in the store, and then I go to sleep." β
The female captain nodded and pointed around, "I think that although the boss is newly opened, it is better to set up this monitoring as soon as possible, firstly, it can prevent thieves and thieves, and secondly, it is also very useful for your own safety and the security around you." β
"What Comrade Police taught me is that as long as I earn money, I will arrange it as soon as possible."
The female captain smiled, "Okay, I won't disturb the boss doing business," tore off a post-it note, "My name is Xiao Ling, this is my mobile phone, if you think of anything, you can call me at any time." β
"Okay, okay, the police and the people are a family."
Su Ran sent the female captain away, and glanced at the post-it note, there are still people using this these years, it seems that this Xiao Ling is quite retro, and put it away with a smile.