Fang Rui, who woke up, lay on the bed and smirked for a while, before being reminded by Philip that he would be late for work if he didn't get up again, and rushed to the bookstore, Fang Rui started his part-time life, constantly riding around the garage in the jeep that didn't need to be driven, solving those books that were either spitting fire or bubbling water, and could even split himself into several books. www.biquge.info It is the basic norm for Fang Rui to be busy as a dog every day and tired as a dog, but what surprised him was that his sick leg did not hurt under this kind of heavy load, it seemed that the leaf that Grandpa Mu gave him really had a miraculous effect.

In this way, a week passed, and that morning, after Fang Rui solved five or six restless problem books as usual, he was called by Old Man Luo to the third floor of the wooden house, in his office.

"This book is missing pages!" Old man Luo said to Fang Rui and Bai Jingjing the string book that had been purified a week ago.

"Oh, no!" The beef jerky chewing in Bai Jingjing's mouth suddenly became tasteless.

"Missing pages? What do you mean? "Fang Rui, this little white doesn't understand anything.

"Missing pages is missing a few pages, I don't understand the meaning of such a simple one?" Bai Jingjing glared at Fang Rui, disgusted that he had lost face for himself.

"If the book of life is missing, it cannot be reprinted." Old man Luo handed the Fusang wooden box to Bai Jingjing and said, "Go and find the missing page back to fill it." ”

"It's annoying to have to do this kind of tiring work again!" Bai Jingjing muttered very dissatisfied, but still took the Fusang wooden box.

"Bring it with you this time!" Old man Luo pointed at Fang Rui who was standing aside.

"Why? He won't know anything, and I'll be held back when the time comes! Bai Jingjing yelled angrily.

"Since you're taking a teacher, you have to take it out to educate you!" Old Man Luo didn't even raise his eyelids to look at Bai Jingjing and Fang Rui, picked up the teacup and took a leisurely sip.

Fang Rui still understood the meaning of serving tea and sending guests, and helplessly dragged Bai Jingjing out of Old Man Luo's office, Bai Jingjing snorted angrily and stuffed the Fusang wooden box into Fang Rui's hand and said, "Since you are going, let's start helping with the work!" ”

"Okay, okay, can't I just take it? Jingjing, don't be angry, it's good to bring me, at least I can help you carry your bag. Also, how about I buy you ten packets of potato chips? Fang Rui said to Bai Jingjing with a smile.

"How can ten packs be enough? At least 20 packs! As soon as Bai Jingjing heard the potato chips, her eyes immediately lit up, and she soon stopped rejecting Fang Rui's little follower.

Fang Rui shook his head a little funny, although this teacher master doesn't know how old he is, he still lives like a young girl, he is still a full foodie, he has no resistance to all kinds of food, he especially loves potato chips, and she has eaten all the brands of potato chips on the market. Therefore, for Bai Jingjing, everything can be solved with a pack of potato chips, but if it doesn't work, it can be two packs. This time, Fang Rui used twenty packets of potato chips at once to get Bai Jingjing to agree to take him, it seems that this time the external work will not be easy.

Bai Jingjing only gave Fang Rui an hour to go home to pack his luggage and settle Philip, but fortunately, now Fang Rui has the money to buy a lot of canned cat food and cat food at home, which is enough for Philip to have a week's rations.

After taking the luggage, under Philip's reluctant eyes, Rui finally left the house, but for Philip's dissatisfaction, Fang Rui felt that it was more unhappy that no one shoveled for it these days, not that he, the owner, could not go home to accompany it.

Back in the bookstore wooden house, Xiaoguo was putting the Fusang wooden box on a desk in front of the map, and a semicircular lid full of spells immediately appeared on the surface of the originally ordinary desk, wrapping the Fusang wooden box, and the spells were like dancing elves beating and rotating rhythmically around the wooden box, and finally all the spells turned into gold threads that gathered together like a weaving to form a small piece of gold rope, and the gold rope drilled out of the cover and crawled towards the map on the wall like a snake, Finally, it stopped in the upper right corner of the map and circled into a small circle. The map of Kyoto and the other two provinces appeared in the blank space around it, and the rope circle just enclosed a place called Heishui Prefecture in ** province.

"The missing page is right here." Xiaoguo lightly pressed the semi-circular cover on the wooden box of Fusang on the desk, and disappeared.

"It's amazing!" Fang Rui sighed on the side, the original seemingly ordinary desk actually has the function of finding missing pages, which saves a lot of trouble.

"Alright, let's go!" Bai Jingjing snapped her fingers, and Fang Rui's first business trip officially began.

Walking out of the bookstore, Bai Jingjing was not busy setting off to Heishui County, but took Fang Rui to the bun shop, saying that she wanted to find the murderer's mother first, who was also the deceased, and the mistress of the holder of this book of life to understand the basic situation, which might be helpful in retrieving the missing page.

"Can the old man answer our questions when he goes in like this?" Fang Rui and Bai Jingjing stood in front of the closed bun shop, Fang Rui was very unconfident, whether the other party was willing to open the door for the two of them was a problem.

"Don't worry, just don't talk later." Bai Jingjing had already knocked on the door.

After a while, footsteps were heard from inside the shop, and the side door of the shop opened, and an old woman with white hair and a haggard face opened it for us. Before she could ask, Fang Rui saw a faint red light floating in Bai Jingjing's eyes, and the old woman's originally puzzled expression turned into Mu Ran, and she turned around and led us into the store without saying anything.

Fang Rui kept in mind that Bai Jingjing told him not to speak, and could only watch as the old woman began to narrate her past and the case with the deceased as if she had been hypnotized.

The old woman's name is Zhong Li, who is from Heishui County, ** Province, where the page of the book of life is missing, and she grew up with her neighbor, the deceased Lu Mingzheng, as a childhood sweetheart. Lu Mingzheng has shown a musical talent since he was a child, no matter what instrument can be easily mastered in a short period of time, he is also a very famous musical prodigy in that small county town that is still very poor. And Zhong Li herself is just an ordinary girl except for a little beauty. As they grew up, the two embarked on two completely different paths, and when Zhong Li finished attending secondary school, he lost contact with Lu Mingzheng. A few years later, Zhong Li married Ma Xun, although the two did not earn much, but they relied on hard work and hardship, and they could be regarded as jumping out of the small county town of Heishui County and coming to the capital to work hard. It's a pity that Ma Xun died in a traffic accident not long after arriving in the capital. Zhong Li relied on the compensation obtained from the traffic accident, which can be regarded as opening a bun shop to make money to support herself and her son Ma Junhai. Ma Junhai is also competitive, and he was admitted to the medical department of a very famous university. Since Ma Junhai went to university, Zhong Li has run a steamed bun shop alone, because she is kind, and sometimes often gives some steamed buns that were not sold that day to some homeless people. One night, when she was about to go out to the street to look for a homeless man with a small bag of buns, she actually found Lu Mingzheng who was performing on the street! Unexpectedly, the music prodigy of the year was reduced to the days of street performing for a living, first, the soft-hearted Zhong Li not only gave all the buns, but also hired him to help in his own bun shop.

In this way, although he has a musical talent, Lu Mingzheng, who is indeed unlucky and fell on the street, has entered Zhong Li's life, Zhong Li, who lost his father in his early years and is now not by his son's side, seems to have found a second spring, two lonely hearts warm each other, reminiscing about the past and quickly coming together. Zhong Li was full of joy and wanted to get her son Ma Junhai's blessing for her and Lu Mingzheng to be together, but she didn't expect that her son Ma Junhai, who seemed to have no opinion on the surface, had already hated this man who snatched his favorite mother. Ma Junhai, who was full of ruthlessness and unwillingness, couldn't attend school properly after knowing that his mother Zhong Li had another man, and he always regretted that he boarded in school to let Lu Mingzheng take advantage of the loophole. Under this kind of thinking, Ma Junhai soon had no intention of going to school and hung up on several classes, and because he was angry at school, he was persuaded by the school to beat someone who only looked a little like Lu Mingzheng to the teacher. Ma Junhai, who was returned home, was happy in his heart, and for him, he had time to monitor Zhong Li and Lu Mingzheng at all times.

The originally ordinary but warm world of the two was broken, and the son Ma Junhai, who was suspended from school and went home, made Zhong Li very heartbroken, and the hardships of many years finally came to naught. But reality always needs to be accepted in constant pain, Ma Junhai became the owner of the steamed bun shop, and Zhong Li gradually relieved when he saw that he was still hardworking and willing to work. Ma Junhai often gave Lu Mingzheng a look on his face, and he didn't say much, but he could always make Lu Mingzheng understand that he was an unpopular person. He still has the backbone to propose to leave, Ma Junhai is very happy, but Zhong Li quit, and even proposed that he and Lu Mingzheng leave the capital together to return to their hometown Heishui County to retire, and this bun shop is left to Ma Junhai to operate.

Unexpectedly, his mother would rather want Lu Mingzheng than his own Ma Junhai suddenly became murderous, and one evening, while his mother, who went out to buy a train ticket back to his hometown, was not at home, brutally killed Lu Mingzheng and hid his body in the freezer. Coincidentally, not wanting to become a spoiler of the relationship between Zhong Li and Ma Junhai's mother and son, Lu Mingzheng originally planned to leave alone on that day, and also left a letter to Zhong Li. This is why Zhong Li thought that he left by himself after reading Lu Mingzheng's letter after returning home, and when the acquaintances around him came to ask, it was Zhong Li who explained that Lu Mingzheng went somewhere else to make a living.

Ma Junhai was ecstatic about his good luck, but it was not a way for Lu Mingzheng's body to be stored in the freezer. So, Ma Junhai, who had studied medicine, dragged Lu Mingzheng's body out of the freezer in the dead of night, and the corpse, which had already been frozen hard, was sliced piece by piece by him with a large kitchen knife to cut meat into several packs of meat slices that could not see any meat. The bones were smashed and chopped up, turning into bags of garbage that could be easily taken out and thrown away. If Fang Rui had called to report it a few days later, Ma Junhai might have disposed of these meat buns and broken bone buns.

After understanding all this, when he walked out of the bun shop, Fang Rui couldn't help but ask anymore, "What kind of demon method are you?" Can people say these privacy without reservation? ”

"Don't worry, this spell can only be used on people who are unstable, and it is ineffective for those who are strong-willed. Mrs. Zhong has just lost her lover and son, and she is in a trance so that I can do it as soon as I can. Bai Jingjing explained.

Fang Rui was still very worried, but since Bai Jingjing said so, it was not good to ask any further, Bai Jingjing was silent all the way, her face was a little gloomy, and it was not until she arrived at the airport that Bai Jingjing sighed and said to Fang Rui: "I may guess which page Lu Mingzheng's life book is missing." ”

"Which page?" Fang Rui asked curiously, just by relying on Zhong Li's statements, can you know the missing page of the book of life?

Zhong Li said that Lu Mingzheng had an amazing musical talent since he was a child, and from his posthumous fate, we can also see that his talent is indeed in the control of musical instruments. This kind of person is at least a good musical instrument, if not a big accident. However, Lu Zheng made it clear that he finally became a street performer, Zhong Li said that Lu Mingzheng was unlucky, and every time the opportunity came, he always missed it. Such an unlucky man who has no luck at all, I think the missing page in his book of fortune is 'luck'. Bai Jingjing explained.

"Luck is actually a page in the book of fate? Can this also be missing? Fang Rui was even more curious.

"There are so many things in the book of life, I can't explain it to you for a while. I have only encountered more than 100 cases of missing pages in more than 40 years, of which 90% are caused by accidents, and the remaining 10 are man-made, and usually these missing pages caused by human reasons are the most troublesome. Bai Jingjing said that she and Fang Rui were ready to line up to board the plane, Fang Rui looked at Bai Jingjing with a solemn expression, and estimated that the work of this business trip would not be too easy.

After getting off the plane, the two took a short bus for a day and a night to arrive in Heishui County, and found a simple guest house to live in, and then Bai Jingjing took Fang Rui to a newsstand next to the guest house, and without saying a word, he bought all the county-level newspapers and magazines in the newsstand in the last three weeks.

Taking these newspapers and magazines back to the room, Bai Jingjing gave all the magazines to Fang Rui and said to him: "You are responsible for circling all the news in the magazines." ”

"Isn't it all news that can be in magazines? How to circle? Fang Rui was a little confused, didn't he come here to find the book of life? How did it become a nestled room reading newspapers and magazines now?

"Anything strange is news to us, and the most the bookstore can tell us is where the missing pages are in the approximate location, and the exact location is up to us. Although Heishui County is not big, it is not small, how can you find it without any clue? However, the lack of pages in the book of life will always cause some strange phenomena or people, so as long as you look for the nearest books and newspapers, you can always find some clues. After Bai Jingjing finished speaking, she pointed to a small piece of article in the newspaper and said, "Look, this news is very interesting, a child who fell into the water in Qiu Persimmon Village miraculously survived." ”

"How is it interesting to just be a child who hasn't drowned?" Fang Rui felt strange.

"This news said that the river is very fast, and since the summer vacation, there have been 2 children who have drowned in the cool water, and the child was out of breath when he was rescued from the water, and when everyone thought he was dead, he suddenly choked on a mouthful of water and came back to life." Bai Jingjing circled this article with a pen, grabbed a bag of potato chips and said to Fang Rui, "Start work, find news!" ”

Fang Rui shook his head a little helplessly, he couldn't get Bai Jingjing's so-called news point at all, so he could only start to look at the magazine in his hand.