Chapter 5: Ghost Shop

After that night, everyone put their minds into studying, and did not carry out any more activities, after all, the time before the college entrance examination is getting more and more urgent, and Long Daoling, as usual, entered the review before the college entrance examination.

Since that night's adventure, Long Daoling knew that he had some strange things on his body now, but he didn't forget his studies because of this, and he didn't summon the ghost servant, and the strange thing was that the ghost servant was the same as he said before, without his orders, and he wouldn't bother him.

For him, the book of 100 ghosts was just a strange book, and although he learned a lot about ghosts from it that night, he himself did not know much about the purpose of this book, and felt that this book was too mysterious to touch it casually.

In addition, after Long Daoling obtained the Hundred Ghosts Encyclopedia, he felt that there were some subtle changes in himself, compared to before, his current sense is particularly strong, his mind is also very clear, and it is easy to remember the homework he reviewed, therefore, he is very quiet and devoted himself to learning, almost forgetting the existence of the Hundred Ghosts Encyclopedia and the ghost servant.

Unconsciously, it's the weekend again, this weekend Long Daoling plans to stay in school to study, and don't go back to his aunt's house for the time being, he almost stays in the classroom this day, except for eating, he is studying seriously, and has completely reached a state of selflessness.

The time soon came to the evening, Long Daoling also ended today's study, because it was the weekend, the school did not need to study on its own, the evening was relatively free, today also studied for most of the day, after dinner, the time was still early, Long Daoling wanted to go to the town to go shopping, let himself relax, and go to the town for dinner by the way.

He walked aimlessly through the town, and by this time he was already hungry and his belly was drumming, and at last he saw a small restaurant at the end of the street, and walked in, this small restaurant was open in this location, and the business was not very good, there were almost no customers, only an elderly owner sitting at the counter.

There is nothing special here, but the shop opposite this small restaurant makes Long Daoling very concerned, because it is an incense candle shop, specializing in ingots candles and paper products for the deceased, this shop is a bit weird, the façade is not big, an iron door has not been opened since it opened, and I always see a pair of black iron door panels.

From a distance, a dilapidated cloth flag fluttered in the cold wind above the shop opposite the door, the flag was triangular in shape, and the word "shop" was written in black lacquer. It was with this flag that he knew about the existence of this store, and what puzzled him was that this store didn't even have a hanging signboard, and it didn't open the door to do business, which looked very weird.

Long Daoling ordered some dishes, ate them in the restaurant, and occasionally looked at the opposite side, and he also noticed that the owner of the hotel seemed to care about the shop as well, and was also staring at the opposite side.

Long Daoling asked the boss intentionally or unintentionally: "Boss, this shop on the other side feels so strange, doesn't it usually open for business?" ”

When the boss heard this, he looked at Long Daoling, and then walked over and sat down, his face didn't seem to be very good, and he said to Long Daoling seriously: "Sir, I won't tell you, the other side is very evil, and I will close the door after I finish your business!" ”

Hearing this, Long Daoling felt a little curious, so he inquired, it turned out that this shop was a ghost shop, when it came to ghosts, Long Daoling couldn't help but snort, he was studying at high intensity recently, and he hadn't heard this word for a long time.

Then, under Long Daoling's curious questioning, the boss began to tell the strange rumors about the shop.

The owner of this small restaurant is surnamed Zhang, and the neighbors call him Lao Zhang, because business is not very good, he is relatively free, and he sits at the counter and pays attention to the strange shop opposite. This has become a habit for Lao Zhang, who was the first to notice the opening of the shop, and the only one who has seen the haunting of the shop with his own eyes.

I remember that night, the moon was lonely and high, and Lao Zhang was sick to his stomach that night, so he couldn't stand it anymore and climbed out of bed to go to the toilet. Lao Zhang walked through the back door, which was a little more detour than the front door. When he turned the corner, Lao Zhang suddenly stopped, and there was an inexplicable chill on his back, which simply spread all over every pore on his body, so cold that he couldn't breathe.

At this time, Lao Zhang accidentally noticed that the door of the shop was actually open, and the candlelight was dancing through the door—the shop that had never been opened was quietly opened in the middle of the night......

Lao Zhang's eyes suddenly lit up, he tiptoed over, put his ear against the wall, and then he heard a "huh" voice.

A man said, "It's been a long time since I've come up to breathe......

"Don't frighten people, beware that the boss will make you survive or die." It's a woman's voice.

"Girl, don't scare me, we're all doing this, and we're dealing with dead people. Who can scare whom? ”

"Brother, you don't know what to do, it's okay, I don't care about your affairs in the future, so as not to have a good retribution for your kindness. Don't say it, let's get to work, I'm done moving......" The voice gradually became smaller, and no matter how carefully Lao Zhang listened, he couldn't understand it.

Lao Zhang moved his eyes up curiously, wanting to see the scene inside the shop clearly, and this sight almost made him lose his soul. The shop was empty, except for two pale paper figures standing in the middle of the empty shop with their backs to him.

The next day, the old man who opened a grocery store next door suddenly died in his bed at night, the door was tied to death from the inside, the old man's son knew nothing in his sleep, and after listening to those rumors, Lao Zhang felt that the old man's death might be related to the ghost shop opposite, the shop never opened, how could it be dead as soon as it opened......

At this moment, when Lao Zhang was sitting on the cabinet staring at the closed iron door, his relative came out of a room, this relative was his cousin, who had only lived here in the past two days, and temporarily settled in his house. Lao Zhang knew that this cousin had done unscrupulous things, and after working for a few years, he had saved some money and wanted to open his own small shop.

The cousin said teasingly: "Brother, are you staring at the other door like this, is there any treasure in it?" ”

"Don't talk nonsense! It was a ghost shop, and I was just curious when I stared at it. Lao Zhang said.

The cousin didn't speak again, just showed a strange expression.

Lao Zhang saw his expression and instinctively told him that his cousin must have been there, so Lao Zhang asked his cousin, "Have you been to the shop opposite?" ”

The cousin nodded, smiling and not answering.

Lao Zhang asked, "When?" How I don't know. ”

The cousin leaned into Lao Zhang's ear and whispered, "Brother, last night, I saw a lot of money there!" After that, he didn't say anything more, and he also noticed his cousin's unusual thoughts.

A few days later, one night, Lao Zhang was lying on the bed and felt inexplicably flustered, and there was a sound of rustling outside the house, which was especially weird in the dark, and the sound rang for a while, and then disappeared from the direction of the back door!

Lao Zhang's cousin did not come back, he was found dead in the shop opposite, his eyes were wide open when he died, it is said that he was scared to death, the shop was full of dark money, the dazzling white flowers, he lay on the pile of dark coins.

Lao Zhang felt dizzy after seeing his cousin's corpse, and he still remembered that the first few days his cousin whispered triumphantly in his ear: "Brother, last night, I saw a lot of money there, and I'm going to get rich." ”

He didn't understand, could it be that the money spent in vain was the treasure that his cousin had seen on the night before he died? My cousin doesn't care how bad his eyes are, and he won't see the dark money in a place as a colorful yuan.

After this incident, it spread immediately, and this strange shop has become a veritable "ghost shop" in the hearts of the neighbors. So, after the tea and dinner, people had a new conversation, and that little curiosity gradually sprouted under the stimulation of the bloody corpse, but curiosity was curiosity after all, and no one dared to approach the shop half a step after the death.

Soon after his cousin's death, Lao Zhang adjusted the position in the window of his house so that he could keep an eye on the movement of the "ghost shop" from morning to night.

Another night, Lao Zhang heard some movement in his sleep, he got up with a bone, sat on the bed and looked out through the gap in the window, and then his heart fell into the abyss. Through that gap, his eyes saw that the door of the ghost shop was open again, and two stiff backs, a man and a woman, were walking hand in arm, shoulder to shoulder, into the open door of the ghost shop!

Then, the faint, dim candlelight of the ghost shop disappeared the moment the iron door closed!

Old Zhang was stunned, he decided to find out the secret of the shop, so he put on his clothes, went out through the back door of his house, and trembled on tiptoe against the closed black iron door.

Lao Zhang put his ear on it, it was very quiet, and there was no sound at all.

Lao Zhang's hands and feet shook suddenly, he barely moved a few steps, only to gently press one eye on the narrow door crack to peek, he saw a candlestick, there was no wind, the candle flame was still beating, and the flickering light revealed a thick and strange atmosphere.

Then he saw another place of jewelry, genuine, and a few bundles of bills scattered on the ground, and he was sure that it was not the dead man's money, and at that moment his eyes suddenly widened, and his gaze was frozen, and then his face began to distort and distort.

For he saw two pale paper figures, a man and a woman, standing stiffly in the middle of the shop, and this time, not with their backs to him, they seemed to see themselves too, and with strange smiles on their faces, they stood intimately together, shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand.

Lao Zhang himself was so frightened that he immediately ran back to his shop, and that night, he fell seriously ill, and it took him about a week to recover, and from then on, Lao Zhang did not dare to snoop into the secrets there, and could only stare at it in the store.

And at night, after the surrounding shops are closed, the end of this street looks even more gloomy, because of the previous encounter, so he does not dare to open until late, usually only open until about 8 o'clock at the latest.

After listening to Boss Zhang's narration, Long Daoling looked at the closed ghost shop opposite, and there was an inexplicable chill on his back.