As soon as you walk into the door, you will feel a burst of rich oil fragrance, mixed with a faint layer of fruit wood, which is the unique taste of Quanjude, exuding an inexplicable magic that stimulates people's taste buds.

Compared with many well-known hotels, the decoration of Quanju Dede is not gorgeous, but has a simple feeling, and the decoration of many places always makes people feel that they have walked into a small shop at the entrance of the alley. However, although it is not gorgeous, it still outlines the most unique taste of old Beijing.

It's just that we came all the way to enjoy the food, and we have a heavy responsibility on our shoulders, so we can't delay it for half a minute.

We walked straight to the front desk, but there was already a long line in front of us, and the chairs next to it were full of people. We wanted to go directly to the front, but were glared back viciously by a few aunts, and now this situation is really helpless, although it is extremely urgent, but the queue is still to be queued.

"Dao Chief, there is something I don't understand very well." I took advantage of the waiting break to chat with Zuo Daochang. "Before you saw Jiao Yuqin that night, you guessed that he had encountered a ghost, I'm curious how you deduced it? Why couldn't someone else want to assassinate him? ”

"Because the old aunt said that he was cold all over his body and had no body temperature, which is the most basic characteristic of a ghost. In the future, as long as you see people who don't have body temperature, 90% of them are related to ghosts. Zuo Daochang explained nonchalantly. You haven't seen a ghost yet, have you? Is it? ”

I nodded. "I've seen a lot of all kinds of yokai now, but to be honest, I've only seen ghosts in movies."

In fact, these literary and film works have extremely ugly ghosts, and human beings always have a subconscious that the underground space is dark and terrifying. In fact, ghosts are not that scary, and to a certain extent they are very pitiful. Zuo Dao Chang said. Because they are a marginalized ethnic group. ”

"Anyway, there's nothing else to do now, so you can tell me more about it."

"In fact, a living entity will face two choices at the end of its life, one is to go to Heaven, of course, this is an opportunity that few people have, and the other is to go to the underworld to work, and then wait for reincarnation before reincarnation." Daoist Zuo said while fiddling with the feng shui plaything in his hand. "These people who go to work in the underworld are collectively called 'ghosts', but these ghosts are divided into two categories, one is to be honestly confessed in the underworld, like this, in fact, life is relatively comfortable, you think, how many hellish coins will be burned in the world every year, how many resources will be in the underworld. The other is because of some resentment in life and fled back to the world from the underworld, this kind of situation is more miserable, belonging to the homeless, the kind that can be traced, everything has to be done secretly, they belong to the marginalized individuals. ”

"And do they have a chance to sneak back? Do you want to stay adrift in the world forever? ”

"In principle, no, but there is a good saying, nothing is absolute, and as far as I know, there are even many ghosts who have even slipped into the heavenly court, and some of them have become gods."

"This! That's outrageous, isn't it? "As far as I know, Heavenly Court is a place that many goblins and people have dreamed of for a long time, and many monsters have practiced for thousands of years just to go to Heavenly Court to experience some prosperity, and there are ghosts who don't have to do anything, and sneak into Heavenly Court, which is also unbelievable.

"There is no way around this, whether it is Heavenly Court or Hades, there are loopholes in the system."

"Are these ghosts as ugly and powerful as in the movies?" It's okay not to say this, but as soon as I say it, there are a lot of doubts.

"How is that possible? In fact, what you were like in life is what you become a ghost is what you are, and as for what you do, it's all inherited from your life. "Daoist Zuo was already a little impatient when he was asked." Boss Liu, don't be wordy, if you have the opportunity to go to the underworld by yourself, many things will be clear. ”

The conversation between the two of us was actually very peaceful, just like in the tea house and the Ping'an Futai incense shop, but this unpretentious conversation made the few big men standing in front of us fidget, and they stared at us with trepidation, like two uninvited guests.

"I'll go, these two people are insane, right?"

"I don't see it, you see that the two of them talk and act like normal people, it doesn't look like they're talking nonsense."

"This kind of talent is the most terrifying, let's not eat here, it's hard to have a meal and don't be swept away by them, it's too unlucky." Why don't we go eat Donglaishun. ”

"Dude, why don't you order first?" The big man closest to us smiled stiffly at us, and then walked briskly to the door of the store with a few people in his travel. "Eat well."

I didn't expect things to go so smoothly, and within a few minutes, we unconsciously lined up in the front row, and the front desk girl in Tang costume greeted us warmly.

"Two?"

"We don't eat, we're here to investigate the situation." Zuo Dao Chang said coldly.

"Skipping meals?" The girl's eyes widened and her expression was wooden.

"Haha, he's joking you, how can you skip dinner at noon." I hurriedly picked up the conversation. "That's right, we're the two."

“…… This joke is really vulgar and cold. The girl held her forehead in embarrassment.

"But before we eat, there's something we'd like to ask you? I believe that the girl is so enthusiastic that she will not agree. "I spoke in an extremely tactful tone, for fear that he would reject us.

The girl smiled helplessly. "Okay, it looks like you're really going to investigate, let's say, but hurry up, you see there's a long line of people in the back."

I cleared my throat and spoke at an even pace. "I just wanted to ask if there was a person named Jiao Yuqin who came the night two days ago? With his other two friends. ”

"Jiao Yuqin? How do I know who Jiao Yuqin is? Aren't you really here to make trouble? Sister Zhou frowned and pursed.

"If you think about it, they're three people." I went on to add. "One Beijinger, and two outsiders."

The girl shook her head dissatisfied. "I said boss, don't be funny, we have such a large flow of customers every day, not to mention two days ago, even what happened last night, I can't remember."

"That Jiao Yuqin, he is more than two meters tall, tall and thin, just like a bamboo pole." Zuo Daochang hurriedly said, although he spoke indifferently, he was able to grasp the main point at a critical time.

"Ahh I remember, isn't that the famous Jiao Baye in Chaoyang District? I really didn't know his name was Jiao Yuqin, he did come. The girl clapped her hands and suddenly realized. Did something happen to Jiao Baye? ”

"It's nothing, it's his wife who is suspicious and sent the two of us to check the post." I said in a flash of inspiration. "Do you know where he went next?"

"How do I know that? I'm not his bodyguard, but that night I saw the three of them get drunk and go out, shouting something, I must be happy tonight. ”

"Must be happy?"

"yes." The girl nodded. "But you can go to the hall on the second floor and ask the fattest roast duck master Lao Wang, he has been in charge of Jiao Baye's table that night, he should be able to know a rough idea."

"Okay, thank you." We thanked her and prepared to go upstairs and hurry to find the person we were looking for.

"No! You have to order food before you can go up. The girl said angrily. Delayed me for so long in vain. ”