Chapter 33: Meeting the Dead in a Foreign Land
Sun Yan is used to traveling from south to north, and knows that the train station is a magical place. Everywhere you go, it's a gathering place for swindlers, thieves, beggars, showrunners, and pimps. In addition to this, free meals and accommodation are available near the station at all times.
Times are changing, and in the early years, when Sun Yan asked for food, there were big wooden signs around the train station, on which various recruitment advertisements were written on colored paper. Later, it was changed to plastic, plexiglass, and finally upgraded to an electronic screen. But everything is changing, these jobs are easy to find, as long as a few dozen yuan of introduction fees, in addition to absolutely not getting paid, it is not a problem to find a place to eat and live.
Soon Sun Yan got a job from an agency. Originally, the introduction fee was forty, but after some talking, he persuaded the other party to make a deal at a price of ten yuan, and even asked for two yuan before leaving.
This is a popsicle factory located in the backyard of an abandoned military district. Surrounded by tall weeds, the bicycle shed-like factory building next to a row of low houses is.
There are two large pools in the carport like a bathhouse, one for cold and one for hot. Sun Yan's job is to scoop the soup from the plastic bucket into an iron mold filled with wooden chopsticks, first put it into the cold pool to freeze it into a popsicle, and then take it to the hot pool to separate the popsicle from the mold, pour it into a wooden basin on a large board next to it, and further package and plastic it by several female workers.
This bit of labor was very easy for Sun Yan, and the only trouble was sleeping at night. Everyone else brought their own bedding, but he only had a thin layer of cardboard boxes on top of the wooden planks. It's okay, but the key is that there is no mosquito net, and the baby's fist-sized mosquito keeps him awake at night.
Sun Yan knew that even if he worked here for a year, he wouldn't be able to make up enough money to go back, so he had to think of another way. Two days later, in the afternoon, the opportunity came.
In charge of the workshop was the younger brother of the owner of the popsicle factory, who was not yet thirty years old, and he did not do any work, except to try to get the female workers to bed at night, and during the day he only liked to play chess with the factory accountant.
Sun Yan grew up watching the endgame on the street, and at a glance he knew that this person's level was too poor, but the accountant was even worse, but both of them were still obsessed with chess, and they held this chess game for most of the day.
Playing chess is about a chess opponent, and no one can still play with relish when they lose or win all the time.
"If you don't play, you'll lose an afternoon." The accountant finally couldn't bear it anymore.
"Hey, Lao Huang, let's have two more plates, and I don't have anything to do."
In the workshop, there was a two-hour break and a half-hour break, and Sun Yan was rushing the big bag of mosquitoes on the leather tube outside, and when he heard the conversation between the two, he leaned over.
"Boss, why don't I play a game with you." Sun Yan stared at the chessboard, showing great interest.
"You can play too? Come on. ”
The game was quickly reopened. Sun Yan calculated that the battle would drag on for a long time, and he was killed in the endgame. At this time, Sun Yan had the first hand, and he was about to win, but he deliberately took a wrong step.
"Hey, this doesn't count, it's a mistake." Sun Yan wants to repent of chess.
"Hahaha, there are no regrets, how can there be such a reason." Where was the boss's younger brother willing to give in, Sun Yan was quickly defeated.
"One more plate." Seeing Sun Yan's dejected appearance, the boss's younger brother became interested.
"But," Sun Yan glanced back at the workshop and said embarrassedly, "I'll start work right away." ”
"Come on, I'll go later, I'll have the final say here."
Of course, Sun Yan couldn't ask for it. In the next two games, Sun Yan was all designed to lose with an extremely slight disadvantage, as if his chess skills were affected by the mistake just now. Then he got up angrily, "Don't play, I really can't play you, if you want a little color, you can still fight." ”
The boss's brother's eyes lit up, "You want to gamble for money?" ”
Sun Yan was unconvinced, "It's not gambling, I think I can beat you, but I need some incentives, how about we have a game of ten yuan?" ”
"Good!"
Soon, Sun Yan lost two more sets. He gritted his teeth and said, "If you play the last game, you will lose two hundred, how about it?" ”
The boss's younger brother smiled, "Do you have two hundred on you?" ”
Sun Yan seemed to have lost his eyes, he took off his watch and put it aside and said hatefully: "If I lose, this watch will be given to you." ”
"Don't you regret it?"
"Willing to gamble and lose!"
This time, Sun Yan won in less than five minutes of the opening game, he put on his watch, looked at the boss's younger brother with a smile and waited to collect the money. But that guy also saw that Sun Yan was cheating him, so he simply didn't admit it, and in the end, he only gave Sun Yan thirty yuan.
Thirty is thirty, it's better than nothing. Sun Yan walked out of the factory at night, and first ate a bowl of hot dry noodles and two sesame balls, and finally satisfied his cravings. In the past two days, he was about to vomit from the white porridge mixed with thin soup and low water.
After buying some daily necessities, Sun Yan found a public phone. He thought about it and decided to borrow money from Zhou Jie to see if Zhou Jie could go to the post office to wire it to him. It may also be that Zhou Jie's number is easy to remember, Sun Yan only remembered her.
After getting through the phone, Sun Yan told him about the situation, Zhou Jie checked the flight and said, "You endure it for another day, there will be a plane the day after tomorrow, and I will pick you up." ”
"No," Sun Yan wondered, "Isn't that a waste of money?" You can wire me for three or five hundred, or a friend here can send it to me. Sun Yan didn't believe that Zhou Jie's family didn't even have this relationship.
Zhou Jie's tone hardened, "If you wait, just wait, the old military compound, right?" I'll pick you up the day after tomorrow. ”
Sun Yan had to say that Zhou Jie had already hung up the phone, so he had to go back first. Today is the fifteenth, and when it comes to the day when the stone is released, Sun Yan summoned him out behind his back and said: "You can move freely today and tomorrow, just don't make trouble." ”
The stone couldn't hold it back for a long time, and he was about to leave, when Sun Yan suddenly remembered something, stopped him and asked, "Did you see that someone took out my bag that day?" ”
"When I returned to my master, the slave could see clearly that it was an old man who did it, and I couldn't remind my master at that time."
Sun Yan was speechless, it seemed that he had to add a two-way communication function to the habitat of Shi and Jinyue, he nodded and said, "Can you still recognize him when you see him again?" ”
Stone smiled. Only then did Sun Yan remember that the stone lived on this, and waved his hand to let him leave.
The night is bleak, and the moonlight shines on the barren grass in the factory yard, making people feel like walking in a cemetery. Sun Yanru would never be surprised if he saw a beautiful woman transformed from a ghost or a fox here, just like now.
On the long-abandoned wooden bridge for training, a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old was sitting alone. She wore a knee-length skirt, her slippers fell to the ground, and a pair of white and tender feet hung and swayed in the air, and under the clear light of the moonlight like smoke and cold water, it was easier to provoke some strange desires of men.
Sun Yan sighed secretly. Long before his eyes were shaken by the bare feet, he knew that she was there, this was the only way to go back to the factory, Sun Yan knew that she was waiting for someone, and he only hoped that she was waiting for not himself.
"Little brother, can you help me down?"
Sun Yan had already crossed the wooden bridge, but was still stopped by the girl. He had no choice but to turn around, and after a careful look, he asked, "How did you get there?" ”
The girl is not ugly, but her hair is slightly yellow. Her thin body and slender arms couldn't hold up the skirt on her body at all, and it felt like she was going to slip down at any moment. Hearing Sun Yan's inquiry, she smiled happily: "Come up, but the shoes have fallen, can you carry me down?" ”
There was no shyness in the girl's voice at all, and there was even the kind of softness that is unique to southerners when speaking Mandarin. Sun Yan walked back, bent down to help her pick up her shoes, and put them on the wooden bridge beside her.
The girl lifted her legs and cocked her bare feet, "Little brother, can you put it on for me?" ”
Sun Yan did so, and then the girl jumped off the bridge and took Sun Yan to a hut. The room, a little further away from the workshop, had a large bed with a mosquito net and a desk.
There was no light in the room, and as soon as Sun Yan came in, she couldn't wait to hug the girl, but she skillfully slid away.
"Brother didn't expect you to be this kind of person, and you don't respect me at all." The girl complained.
"Ah, didn't you say you wanted to be friends with me?" Sun Yan was anxious.
"You have to do it when you make friends, let's talk about it first, shall we? Where are you from? ”
…… Sun Yan describes herself as a migrant worker who has just come from her hometown. The girl said that she had a good impression of him and wanted to get along with him, just for the sake of future plans, hoping that Sun Yan could do something more profitable. Sun Yan naturally did not refuse, and the girl was very satisfied, and asked him to find herself after work tomorrow.
"Brother, go back first, it's not good if the boss sees it. You can make a request to me, though. The girl seemed to know how to be shy at this moment, and lowered her head softly.
"Is it okay to ask for anything?" Sun Yan's eyes lit up and moved to her side.
The girl nodded silently.
"That's great." Sun Yan said happily as he got up to pick up the mosquito net, "Lend me your mosquito net." ”
……
The reason why Sun Yan wasted all this effort on the girl was because he inadvertently saw an acquaintance in the afternoon.
Since his Divine Mind has been upgraded, it has basically become a passive skill. Without Sun Yan deliberately casting it, he can automatically transmit useful or strange information around him to him.
On the other side of the back wall of the factory, there is a large warehouse, and there is a cold storage next to it, where the made popsicles are probably transported. Just when Sun Yan was playing chess with the younger brother of the factory director, he saw Master Yi, who he had seen in Cao's house, walking into the cold storage.
Master Yi switched to wholesale popsicles? Apparently impossible. Sun Yan had a premonition that he was going to have a story here, because Yi Cheng's body had been contaminated with evil energy, Sun Yan didn't know why Yi Cheng appeared here, but he understood that this Master Yi was no longer satisfied with simply pretending to be a ghost and deceiving people, and he had already begun to deal with real ghosts.
Although the cost of hiring a demon slayer is very high, if they encounter an evil demon or sorcerer who really harms the world, the Sun family will take action to get rid of it at any cost. But the premise is that someone must find the Sun family first.
Therefore, if this girl didn't take the initiative to stop Sun Yan, Sun Yan wouldn't care, but since she came to the door, Sun Yan decided to take a good look at what this popsicle factory had changed.