Chapter 9: The Supermarket in the Late Night
A well-known large supermarket chain group took over a supermarket in a suburban town, this supermarket had an operator before coming here, an investor from South Korea, the brand was the one that made a lot of noise some time ago, this was built for more than two months and then closed down, at that time, it was not because of various sensitive issues at this stage, but because of many rumors and overtime employees saw and heard, as well as the night shift security guards of the shopping mall, and finally led to no one daring to go and closed down.
When the supermarket first got up, a bunch of young Han people went to patronize, and there were many to interview for jobs, although the salary was average, but in order to be fresh or there was no shortage of people, at the beginning it was true, but the good times did not last long, after it was built, there was an area on the second floor of the supermarket that sold children's toys, tricycles and the like, all of which were children's products.
At the beginning, when the supermarket worked overtime at 11.00 at night when the employees loaded the goods, a male employee who was responsible for unloading saw that there were two or three little boys hiding behind the wall of the staircase at the corner of the back door to look at him, and he felt very strange, who brought the child over? And brought more than one? Strange, when unloading often feel that there are a pair of eyes behind themselves again, after unloading are more than 12.00, a few people proposed to go out to find a place to eat something home, after leaving just unloaded this male employee talked about this matter, is it who brought a child to come, others said did not pay attention, this matter is over.
Later, the security guards of the mall also felt that someone was staring at themselves when they patrolled the point, but there was really no one around, the night shift in the mall was generally 5 people at least, one of them was on the middle shift that night (3.00 pm to 10.00 pm), drank wine outside and packed some dishes to send to these colleagues on night duty, everyone used to be from the same school, and some were friends who knew each other to work here, so they came to care about it.
The night shift was very happy to see something to eat, everyone came to sit down and eat, there were talking and laughing and chatting about something that had nothing to do with work, at this time the building blocks in the children's area on the second floor of the surveillance video automatically floated up, and then began to list and put together, the toy cars on the side also started to move by themselves, and a few of the tricycles in the rows moved by themselves, and went around the toy area twice, and the security guards who were eating and drinking did not notice this at all.
The next morning, the female staff in the toy area came to work, and after coming, she saw toys all over the ground, irregular tricycles, and building blocks scattered everywhere, and she was very angry, thinking that it must be the security guard on duty at night, or the unloading of the goods at night came to get it, and scolded a few swear words while cleaning up, and counted the number at the same time, everything is right, all are missing, it is definitely not a thief, it must be a late departure or a night shift, and the thief will not be so boring to steal these things.
At noon, the female employee said a few words to others, and others asked her to go to the security guard to see the surveillance, saying that she couldn't forget it, she didn't think it was a big deal, pull it down, and what if she didn't let it be seen or deleted, forget it, forget it, just think of yourself as unlucky.
It's 12.00 p.m. again, the supermarket security guard, the first floor and the third floor went to patrol, the second floor found a place to smoke a cigarette, played with the mobile phone for a while, calculated the time is almost gone back to the security room, during the time when he smoked and played with the mobile phone, what happened last night was repeated again, the building blocks in the children's area, the puzzles, moved by themselves, the toy cars neatly placed on the shelves drove up on the ground, and two of the tricycles in the rows moved by themselves, circling around the toy area...
The female employees on the day shift during the day came and saw this scene again, and said that it must have been done by the security guards, and there was no unloading arranged for the night shift last night, and there was no purchase last night, it must be these security guards, neurotic, so adults are still the same as children, there is a problem, and they don't clean it up after playing, so they just let it go, and they owe scolding.
With a displeased mood, she went to the day shift again, she was supposed to work the night shift today, but because the class had to learn to drive, the two of them switched the day shift and night shift, temporarily transferred for a month, and the supervisor agreed, so there was no problem. The night is here again, and the people on the night shift today are the first day's ones, and a few people together began to eat and drink again, and they didn't patrol, so they said that there was an alarm, and when someone heard the sound, we rushed down, who could run, rest assured.
The female employee of the day shift came, saw all this in front of her, sneered and began to clean up, as if she was used to it, it lasted for more than a week, the spirit of the female employee began to become not particularly good, one night the security guard of another shift was patrolling on the second floor when he heard the sound of the children's area, there was the sound of cycling, and the sound of the toy car winding, and the sound of running barefoot, the security guard said that it was broken!! Who left the child here?
Quickly sped up and ran over, everything was normal, there were no children, only toys scattered all over the place, building blocks, and two tricycles that left the team, the security guard said what was going on? Didn't clean up the night shift? It's too irresponsible, forget it, I can't care about it, and it's useless to get angry with her.
The next morning, the female employees of the day shift came to take it for granted, and cleaned up for a while, originally felt nothing, at this time there were a few night shift security guards who did not walk from the staff passage, and took the escalator down from her front, she saw that they were talking and laughing, and they left like this, and they fell to the ground with the building blocks in their hands in anger, and began to clean up again after being silent for a while.
In the afternoon, I told the supervisor about this, and the supervisor said that he would react to the head of the security department, and the director said it very tactfully, but the emotional intelligence of the head of the security department was not so high, and he didn't understand, and what the director said was: "Please don't do superfluous things when you work on the night shift security guards, just do a good job, I heard some words, if the store manager goes there, we will all be implicated." The Minister of Security thought that this meant that the group of people kept running out at night, or brought people in to play, or something like that, and severely reprimanded the night shift staff.
The reprimanded security guard thought it was not to drink at night, so he didn't drink that night, went out to patrol, and found that the toy area was very messy on the second floor, and he didn't clean up, and the next morning when he got off work and had a meeting, he screened this matter to the minister of security, and the minister of security told the supervisor, and the supervisor told the day shift again, and told her to clean up the night shift and then leave, and then the day shift exploded, you said you wanted to learn to drive, I only changed shifts with you for a month, and you turned out to be good, forget it if you are not grateful, and you don't clean up at night? I thought it was the security guard's fault, but it was so embarrassing that I waited until the night shift came and said the problem.
The person in charge of the night shift is obviously a little haggard, although the spirit of the day shift is a little poor, but compared with the night shift, the night shift is a bit like a patient, which makes the originally angry day shift a little embarrassed to say this too strongly, thinking that it is because of learning to drive during the day and going to work at night, so she tactfully told her to clean up a little, and she often has to clean up again when she comes during the day. But he still said yes.
That night, the security guard was on duty and found a mess, and during the day, the day shift came and found that he didn't even clean up, and the tone was a little tougher and said to the night shift, and the night shift said that he was obviously cleaned up, you think, the supervisor has to check every night, and she can't go at all if she doesn't clean up, so the day shift thinks it must be the fault of the security guard, and finally broke out after a week, and when I came in the morning, I had a big fight with the night shift security guards who were just leaving, and the supervisor and the minister of security came over, and pulled away two groups of people, and the day shift thought that I was working hard and you were still making trouble, I don't have a good job of playing with children's toys at night, a group of neurotics, the security guard said that this female employee has a nervous disorder, the wicked person sued first, and he didn't clean up every night.
Noisy to the office of the Minister of Security, female employees asked to see the monitoring, the security guard did not dare, because he was lazy at night, did not follow the said two hours of patrol to patrol, not only him, all night shifts are like this, but still agreed, the supervisor did not follow in, just when the two groups of people quarreled, the supervisor heard a bunch of children laughing, looked around and found no one, strange, where did the children laugh before the door opened? I hesitated and looked around.
On the other hand, the Minister of Security called the supervisor with a walkie-talkie, and made an appointment to go to the monitoring room to see the monitoring, night shift security, female employees on the day shift, the Minister of Security, and the supervisor went to the monitoring room together, and began to call out the monitoring, during which the security patrol was not in place and was scolded by the Minister of Security, and everything in the children's area was cleaned up, it is worth noting that when the female employees in the children's area of the night shift cleaned up, when they lowered their heads and bent over to return the toys to their positions, they suddenly threw themselves forward and fell, and then looked back in horror, I looked around and saw that there was no one, it didn't look like I had fallen, it was obvious that I was being pushed down, but I didn't see anyone.
And then look down, At about 11.47 p.m., one of the tricycles in the row moved by itself, and came out in a circle, and then at 11.55 another one moved, and came out to circle with another car, and at 12.00, the toy car floated down from the shelves and began to run on its own, and the building blocks also floated down from the shelves one by one, and the other toys were also the same, and everyone who saw all this was stunned, in addition to those people just now, and the staff of the monitoring room were also watching, this scene made everyone stunned and speechless, and the director was stunned for a while and said: "This matter, don't say anything about it, don't tell anyone, I'm going to report it to the above, and see if someone can solve it, it may be a magnetic reaction generated by a nearby electromagnetic processing factory."
This sentence obviously can't reassure everyone, if it's true, then why are the ones next to it all fine, only the toys in the children's area have problems? The supervisor found the store manager, and the executives, and then put this surveillance video, the store manager is a Korean insisted on finding a monk to solve, and specifically found one from South Korea, take a plane to solve, that night the Korean master, in the face of this piece and read and said, after the end, said to everyone that it would be fine, turned around to leave, everyone just left the children's area, they heard the toy inside, the sound of the tricycle sounded again, the bold supervisor and the head of the security department ran over, I saw the floating toys and tricycles suddenly stop, the floating toys fell from mid-air, and the tricycle also stopped, but the pedals still slowly turned for a while.
Everyone ran away, the Koreans didn't know what to do, they wanted to invite the priest to come, and it was useless to invite the priest to come, so it was a month of messing around, many people were afraid of quitting and quitting, and they often said this outside, and no one came to this place slowly, and the two female employees in the children's area who resigned and didn't do it have been in a better state of mind day by day since they resigned, and the people around them said that they became more beautiful.
In the end, because there were no customers to patronize and no one to work, it went out of business, and then a well-known large supermarket chain in Taiwan came to take over, and heard some words, so I found someone to see, and found a Taoist priest from Hong Kong, and the old Taoist priest came in the kind of old man's burlap clothes, and did not speak, the old Taoist priest walked directly to the children's area, looked around, and said: "You are looking for me to solve the matter here, right?" The person who just took over heard that there seemed to be a problem here, and after nodding in agreement, he planned to let the old Taoist priest go out to eat together.
The old Taoist priest waved his hand to signal that he would not go, and said: "Don't leave anyone after 9.00 in the evening, you go and prepare something first, go buy three paper puppies, three paper kittens, and then fry 24 pumpkin balls, five large bowls of bone broth, go quickly, move here after 9.00 in the evening, and I will come back at some point." After that, he found a place to rest.
At 9.30 in the evening, the old Taoist priest came to the children's area, and put the three paper puppies and three kittens in a circle, and then put 24 pumpkin balls in a circle, and put five large bowls of bone broth in the balls, and he stood in the middle and closed his eyes and read something in his mouth, and after nearly twenty minutes, the old Taoist priest opened his eyes, took out a piece of two thumb-sized things from the pocket of his clothes, put it in his mouth like chocolate and ate it, and then swallowed it with a painful expression on his face, and told the people nearby to leave here, everyone left, and went to the monitoring room.
Three or five people were staring in the monitoring room, and someone asked the old Taoist priest what he had eaten just now? Some people say that the old Taoist priest just ate mud, and after eating, he can communicate with the "good brother".
The old Taoist priest from the monitoring does seem to be talking to people, but I don't know what to say, because I can't understand and can't hear, at this time in the monitoring, the puppies and kittens tied up in the paper all moved, and they have been circling in a circle, just like a merry-go-round, the pumpkin balls have become flat, and the bone broth has spilled out, and these phenomena have lasted from 10.00 to 10.30, and after stopping, the old Taoist priest walked out of it and came to the monitoring room.
The old Taoist priest said: "Look, at twelve o'clock, if these things are moving, then it proves that there is still something to talk about." One of them asked, "Master?" Why don't you just take these ghosts? Want to negotiate with them so politely? Is it because they are too powerful and fierce? The old Taoist priest shook his head and sighed and said: "It's not because it's too powerful, it's because it's too pitiful, that place used to be a black clinic, and often gave others secret abortions, abortions, and after the fetus, the stillborn babies were thrown directly nearby, and they were not even buried, these unformed fetuses accumulated into resentment, turned into little ghosts, and did not reincarnate again but stayed here, because they were all abandoned little ghosts who empathized, did not believe in adults, did not go to reincarnation, turned into ghosts here, and stayed here, I can accept them, But they're pitiful enough, let them eat and drink well, have had enough, and go after they've calmed down. ”
The others didn't say much after hearing it, and at twelve o'clock in the evening, the kittens and puppies began to move, but they moved irregularly, as if there were children riding and playing, the old Taoist priest smiled and said: "Okay, you don't need me to come in the future, put things in place before 12.00 every night, the number and shape are all according to today, and last for a while, when the balls are gone, there is no soup in the bone broth, and the kittens and puppies tied in paper are arranged in rows, and you can open your business, and the business is prosperous." ”
One asked, "Master?" Arranged in rows are they arranged? The old Taoist priest nodded, and said that everyone should leave, don't leave anyone behind, let's all leave here, come at 9.00 every day, prepare the things and put them away, and then leave again, come back after 6.00 the next day, and come back to see the situation.
Everyone left as instructed, and one morning after doing this for more than three weeks, a person came to check, and found that the kittens and puppies were neatly arranged in a row, and the 24 pumpkin balls were all gone, and there was no soup in the bone broth only bones, and the others were excitedly notified, and everyone came to look at it, and went to the monitoring room to see the monitoring, and the kittens and dogs in the monitoring played for a while and fell to the ground crookedly, and the pumpkin balls disappeared in twos and twos, and the soup in the bone broth disappeared little by little, Then the kitten and puppy who fell to the ground stood up again, as if they were being held, one by one put on the very edge, into a neat row, and then the monitoring flashed, the picture was distorted, jumped, and found that the monitoring suddenly became much clearer than before, and it was over.
Several people called the old Taoist priest to consult, and the old Taoist priest said: "The children accepted your kindness, ate your things, drank your soup, played with your toys, and now he wants to repay you, you can open the door for business, one thing to pay attention to, you must put songs, all must be children's songs, and you must continue to play them at night when no one is around, and you can stop after 49 days, and they will not help you, and they will have to leave when the time comes." ”
After listening to the words of the old Taoist priest, everyone thanked them a thousand times, and then immediately opened the business, although many guests have heard some words, but they are not afraid, but feel that they are inexplicably happy when they enter the supermarket, and the employment situation has also been improved, the staff is soon saturated, and the business has been good to no, some guests occasionally feel strange, why play children's songs every day, but they don't think much about it, and go home happily after buying things.
After 49 days, several insiders turned off the music and let everyone go home, even the security guards, a few people came to the children's area to look around, it has become a place to sell CDs and books, suddenly a little wind blew, several people felt inexplicably sad, and some people had tears in their eyes, and then cried, everyone couldn't tell what was going on, maybe because the opening was not easy to come by, or it could be because they were pitiful for the children's suffering, and more likely because they were reluctant to let these children go.
That night, several people bowed three times to the empty place and said three words of thanks, each full of sincerity and tears.
To this day, the supermarket is still open, there have been no problems, and the nearby businesses have also been stained, from the time when it was on the verge of closure, to the current customers are like clouds, these nearby businesses do not know how hard-won it is now, maybe they should also say thank you.