Chapter 14: Tricky Reception
Just as I was thinking this, a man finally got up, and he packed up his things and came to the front desk to settle the bill. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info After the man left, the remaining two people also came to check out and left one after another.
"Amazing, what kind of incense is this?" I asked curiously.
Feng Xue snuffed out the flame of the candle and put it away as he said, "It's just ordinary incense, but I've added a medicine to its ingredients that relaxes the nerves."
"Oh~ I see, no wonder they suddenly want to leave, it turns out that the nerves that have been tense have been relaxed, so the feeling of sleepiness swells up instantly, and they want to go back to rest, right?" I understand.
Feng Xue nodded and gave me a smart look.
"I'm going to close the door." Feng Xue said and went to pull down the automatic door outside the café.
When she pulled down the outside door, I realized that I was locked inside.
"Hey, Feng Xue, what about me, are you going to leave me here?" I shouted at the shut-ching iron door.
"Ding, it's noisy, I'm still here." Feng Xue came out of the small door on the side and said impatiently.
"Huh?! How come there is a door there? I looked curiously at the little door, and there was a street lamp outside the door, and the pale light illuminated the small square of the doorway.
"This is specially for special guests." Feng Xue didn't say much.
I was about to ask her who the special guest was. At this moment, the bell at the door suddenly rang, and I looked towards the door, only to see a man in a suit and leather shoes, wearing sunglasses, and carrying a somewhat worn briefcase at the door, his clothes were stained with water, and his hair was a little wet.
Seeing this, I subconsciously looked out of the door, and through the open small door, I saw that the place outside under the street lamp was dry ground, which made me wonder how this person got all the water.
I was wondering when the man came up to us.
"A cup of black coffee, no added sugar." A low, hoarse voice came from the man's mouth, and I noticed that his lips were pale and his face was a bloodless grayish.
Seeing this, my first thought was: Is this person working overtime and staying up late for several days?
Feng Xue didn't speak, but handed him a blue towel the size of a children's bath towel, which I thought was for him to wipe the water on his body. He nodded with the towel, found a corner spot, spread the long towel on the chair, and sat down steadily.
"Why are you so dirty as a suspect of Chiguoguo, how uncomfortable he should be." I whispered to Feng Xue, who was grinding coffee beans on the side.
Feng Xue didn't reply to me, but said to me, "Didn't you just ask me why I had to let them leave work on time at half past six?" Here's why. ”
Following her gaze, I saw the man sitting quietly, and even though there was air conditioning in the café, he was still sitting motionless with his hair wet, as if he didn't notice the cold.
I looked at him, and then I suddenly realized that the man had no shadow, he had his back to the light source, and it was supposed that there should be his shadow on the table, but no matter how many times I blinked, the table was still white, and there was no afterimage.
"......" I looked at Feng Xue with a suspicious expression, and Feng Xue was making coffee at this time.
She said to me without looking back, "You guessed it, he's not human. There are a lot of ghosts gathering here after 10 o'clock, so I don't want the staff to stay here for long. ”
"Then it won't take half past six to let the family go back." I said.
"There are too many fixed numbers in the world, even if they get off work at nine o'clock, in case they leave something behind, come back to get it, and encounter these things, I don't know if they have the life to go back." Feng Xue said in a flat tone, but I could hear her concern.
"Those, well, things, are they going to hurt the people on this street?" I asked with some concern.
"No, they know how to follow the rules, and it is precisely because they abide by the rules that the upper realm allows them to be received, and there will be a store like ours that opens after ten o'clock." Feng Xue said.
"In other words, as long as they don't harm the humans outside the store, they can be treated normally, right?" I asked, and Feng Xue nodded lightly in agreement.
"The other meaning is, if a human breaks into our store, it's not responsible for security, right?" I asked again.
"Yes, so we're here after ten o'clock, and the doors are closed, and they're coming in through a specially opened passage." Feng Xue said, bringing the brewed coffee in her hand to the guest.
It turned out that this was the "special guest", I nodded with a little understanding, and then I realized that Feng Xue was also a person with a knife mouth and a tofu heart.
Just thinking like this, I saw Feng Xue walking towards me, there was no extra emotion in his eyes, and he looked like ten thousand years of ice.
A strange thought popped up in my head: if fish tofu is also tofu, then it means that it is snow sealing.
Then many ghosts came to the shop one after another, fierce and weak, some mutilated and some wet like the first customer.
Quietly lined up one by one, never talking much, every guest could get a towel from Feng Xue, and they also obediently spread the towel on the cushion.
In just a few minutes, the store was full of ghosts, I printed out all their needs, and Feng Xue was in charge of making what they needed.
If you want to say why I was still a human two days ago, I will receive them so calmly, I just want to say, my brother is a fierce ghost now, and it is trivial to face them, they are afraid that I am almost the same.
Watching Feng Xue make something no different from the food that is normally given to humans, I couldn't help but ask, "Aren't they ghosts?!" Can they eat these things? ”
"These things look average, but the ingredients are researched and specialty, and even ghosts can eat them." Feng Xue said to me busily.
Looking at the full café, I muttered curiously, "Why are there so many ghosts here?"
"This place was originally reclaimed from the sea, before the reclamation, this area was a soul corner, every night, the souls of the nearby sea will be involuntarily attracted here, they always feel that they can hear the call of their hometown here, so it is also considered a comfort to the soul."
"When this area was first built, strange events often occurred, and then it was taken over by our spiritual realm. After negotiation, we built this café to cater to ghosts who do not want to be reincarnated, and at the same time take care of them. Feng Xue explained.