At eleven o'clock in the evening, there was silence on the hill of the Linghe County Cemetery, and in the dark night, where you couldn't see your fingers, rows and rows of granite tombstones were erected.

When Zhong Zhengnan walked into the largest cemetery in Linghe County, he immediately felt an eerie and terrifying atmosphere rushing towards him.

Although it was not the first time he had been here, the routine of doing business once a month still made him resist.

Without it, it's just because Zhong Zhengnan has to walk for forty minutes to get home after finishing his errands here.

Zhong Zhengnan sometimes thinks about whether he should hire an assistant to replace himself to run errands here.

After all, an hour and a half round trip is a terrible pain.

With a sleepy yawn, he lifted his feet and walked towards the first row of tombstones. As he walked, he sighed: "Alas~ According to the previous efficiency, I am afraid that tonight will be another sleepless night." ”

What's more, thousands of tombs, and I don't know when I will receive them!

Zhong Zhengnan complained fiercely in his heart.

When he walked to the first one on the left of the first row of tombstones, Zhong Zhengnan took out the pack of white wolf cigarettes that he bought for seven yuan from his trouser pocket, then took out one from it and put it in his mouth to light it, then squatted down and inserted the burning cigarette in his mouth into the small incense burner in front of the tombstone.

At this moment, if someone sees what Zhong Zhengnan is doing now, it is estimated that they will not be scared to death or pee.

"I don't sleep at home in the middle of the night, and I go to the cemetery more than ten miles away to light a cigarette for the dead, this kind of thing is estimated to be something that I, a big fool, can do all the time."

"It's not right, it should be the whole Linghe, because in other cities, there are probably big fools like me who run to the cemetery in the middle of the night to light cigarettes for the dead."

"Hahaha-"

Looking at the smoke rising from the cigarette butt in front of him, Zhong Zhengnan slowly stood up with a smile, then stretched out his right hand and patted the tombstone in front of him that was already slightly yellowed and said softly: "Uncle, it's time to pay the protection fee this month!" ”

After saying this, Zhong Zhengnan's heart once again rose to the idea that I am a big fool.

Fortunately, there is no second person in this cemetery at this time except for him, otherwise Zhong Zhengnan would definitely find a crack in the ground and get in.

"As a school grass with good moral character, except for occasionally skipping class to go to an Internet café, I actually come here in the middle of the night every month to do some ridiculous things, which is simply insulting the name of the top ten outstanding teenagers in Linghe County, Zhongzhengnan." Zhong Zhengnan thought indignantly in his heart.

There was no wind tonight, but the cigarettes lit by the incense burner burned very fast.

The cigarette that had just been inserted into the censer burned two-thirds of the way in the blink of an eye, and from time to time there was a cloud of smoke coming out as if someone were spitting.

When the white wolf cigarette was only the butt of the cigarette, Zhong Zhengnan helplessly spread his hand and stared at the top of the incense burner and said, "Uncle, I'm very busy, please hurry up." ”

After the last bit of fire on the butt of the cigarette was annihilated, an old voice came from Zhong Zhengnan's face: "This cigarette is a little hard to smoke!" Young man, next time, can you bring a box of soft-wrapped China for the old man to taste? ”

Yes, the one who owes money has become an uncle.

Zhong Zhengnan's face was black, looking at the gray-white mist in front of him, and he was a little angry and said, "You really think I am the second generation of rich officials!" These seven yuan of white wolf are my pocket money for two days, if it weren't for you to buy cigarettes, these seven yuan would be enough for me to go to the Internet café for four hours. ”

"Okay... Well, it's the old man who is wrong. The gray mist shook slightly.

"Whoa! This is the old man's protection money for this month. ”

After the old man's voice fell, a drop of pure white liquid suddenly floated out of the gray mist.

Seeing this white liquid, Zhong Zhengnan hurriedly took out a small cyan bottle from his pants pocket, and then carefully took the white liquid in front of him into the small jade bottle.

"Be the first to get it!"

Putting the white liquid into the small jade bottle, Zhong Zhengnan immediately stopped staying in front of the first tombstone, and turned around and walked towards the second tombstone.

"Grandma Li, it's time to pay the protection fee...

As with the first tombstone, when Zhong Zhengnan arrived at the second tombstone, he immediately repeated what he had said on the first tombstone, only this time it was not the old man who answered, but the voice of an old lady.

This time the speed was a bit fast, and almost not long after Zhong Zhengnan's words fell, a drop of white liquid slightly smaller than the previous one floated out from the gray-white mist in front of the tombstone.

After carefully putting this drop of white liquid into the small jade bottle, Zhong Zhengnan muttered in his heart: "I have never understood why the yin crystal condensed by Grandma Li with yin qi is smaller than that of Uncle Wang. ”

With the doubts that he had not figured out, Zhong Zhengnan continued to raise his feet to collect protection money from the third tombstone.

"Uncle Zhang, it's time to call it protection money."

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The night was long, and time passed bit by bit, Zhong Zhengnan mechanically came to one tombstone after another to collect protection money.

Two hours later, Zhong Zhengnan felt that his legs were as heavy as lead, and he had to use the strength to feed with almost every step.

"Damn, it's good that it's just once a month, otherwise I won't be alive, master." Seeing that Dongfang was gradually beginning to show white, Zhong Zhengnan wailed in his heart.

Collecting protection fees sounds very majestic, especially to collect protection fees from the dead, which is even more bullish than hanging to the sky. However, this kind of drudgery, Zhong Zheng Nanning has never gotten it.

Until now, Zhong Zhengnan has remembered the first time he came to Linghe Cemetery in the middle of the night.

That night was like tonight, and I couldn't see my fingers. At different times, when he first came here, Zhong Zhengnan clearly heard the gust of yin wind and the howl of ghosts and wolves. If it weren't for Zhong Zhengnan's child's body protection, he would definitely be scared out of his body.

Tens of thousands of tombstones, like tens of thousands of evil ghosts, although of course it was dark in front of him, Zhong Zhengnan still made up his own brain.

The ghost with the green face and fangs, the ghost who died tragically on half of his body, and the old ghost like a zombie... There was even the dead baby who laughed miserably.

Zhong Zhengnan used to come here with his father to visit his grandfather's grave during the day, and he never felt that Linghe Cemetery was so terrifying, until he came here for the first time to collect protection money, he didn't know that there were tens of thousands of ghosts here。。。。。。

From the first time Zhong Zhengnan came here to collect protection money and was scared half to death, to now his face is calm and calm, Zhong Zhengnan's contract career has passed for three years.

Standing on the eighteenth step at the top of the cemetery hill, looking at the rising sun slowly rising on the eastern horizon with his eyes in the distance, Zhong Zhengnan's thoughts seemed to return to yesterday for a while.

"Big brother, I'm new here, what is the protection fee?"

Just as Zhong Zhengnan was about to let out a long roar with great pride, a timid girl's voice suddenly came from behind him.

Hearing the moaning from behind, Zhong Zhengnan was stunned, and then turned around and looked back.

In the eye, it is a girl with an elegant temperament and a pale face.

I saw her standing alone in front of a tombstone that had just been erected in the last row of the cemetery, staring at Zhong Zhengnan in confusion.

"Alas~ Is there a new one again?"

Zhong Zhengnan sighed again in his heart, then looked at the girl opposite and began to explain what the so-called "protection fee" meant.