Chapter 10: Waiting
Shen Yungui listened to the busy tone on the other end of the phone, was stunned for a while, and firmly turned off the mobile phone screen.
He was now curled up in a sandalwood cabinet.
The cabinet was only one meter high, and it was really reluctant to accommodate an adult man, not to mention that Shen Yungui was not small.
Even so, he tried to shrink and shrink again, wishing he could shrink into a rat and make a hole out of the house.
It's like a kid playing hide and seek.
It's just that if a child is caught, he will become a "ghost" at most, and he will continue to catch others, and he, if he is caught now, will probably really become a ghost.
Half an hour ago, when the woman who didn't look alive appeared in the store, he calmly closed the door of the cubicle, pretended not to exist, and gave her the storefront full of shelves outside.
But the female ghost was unwilling to accept his kindness, and honestly coexisted peacefully with him through a door until dawn, and then went back to their respective homes, what should they do. Instead, the moment he saw him, he rushed to the door of the cubicle and began to frantically smash the fragile wooden door.
Shen Yungui looked at the wooden door in front of him that was constantly vibrating and emitting an overwhelming wailing sound, took two steps back, took a deep breath, and calmed down his emotions.
Then he leaned over to the crack in the door and looked out.
As he approached the crack in the door, the woman stopped slamming the door, and stood quietly in the doorway, leaning on the crack and looking inside.
Shen Yungui saw a bloodstained face in the crack of the door.
The woman's face was covered with large and small scratches, and the flesh was blurry, and it was almost impossible to see the original appearance. There were only two black holes left in what should have been the eyes, and two lines of blood continued to flow down the corners of the eyes, leaving a clear red mark on the face, falling to the ground drop by drop down the chin. Soon it accumulated into a small pool.
It's like crying.
When this thought flashed through Shen Yungui's mind, for a few seconds, he even felt that this female ghost was quite pitiful.
But before he could hold back his pitiful mood for a moment, the female ghost stretched out her hand and slammed the door again, uttering a terrible scream.
This time it was aimed at Shen Yungui's head. Listen to the sound of the wooden door, if not for the fact that there are still fans in the way. He's probably having his head blooming and bleeding all over the ground by now.
The female ghost continued to slam the door outside, and the force became heavier and heavier, and fine cracks began to appear on the wooden door, and the cry of "squeak" was about to die.
Shen Yungui casually pushed over a chair, pressed it against the door, turned his head and took out a dagger in the drawer, and pushed the table to the door. Then he went straight into the sandalwood cabinet more than a meter high next to the table.
The fragile wooden door only lasted a few minutes after he got into the cabinet. And he broke in two, and fell to the ground.
After a shrill grinding sound, the table and chair were pushed aside to make way for the female ghost outside the door.
The female ghost in the black dress slowly "floated" in, standing in front of the desk and "looking" left and right.
Shen Yun shrank in the cabinet, took out a small piece of paper in his coat pocket, and casually pasted it on the wooden board on the top of the cabinet. After making sure that the piece of paper would not fall, he slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
After pasting the rune paper. He took out his mobile phone and began dialing for help.
The female ghost "looked" for a while. When he didn't find the person he was looking for, he began to pace back and forth in the room, pausing occasionally to touch things around him, not knowing what to do.
Shen Yungui listened to the prompt that no one answered on his mobile phone while squinting at the scene outside the cabinet.
I don't know what a tragic way the female ghost died. Almost every step left a bloody footprint, clearly imprinted on the ground.
Soon, the ground was full of layers of red footprints left by the female ghost, and Shen Yungui, who was huddled in the cabinet, felt a sense of pain.
When the is going to clean up tomorrow, just wandering around other people's houses barefoot. Do you have a sense of public morality?
Thinking so, he pressed the mobile phone again that no one answered and hung up automatically after five times, and dialed Shen Luotian instead.
Shen Luotian seemed to be more reliable than Xia Beifeng, so after hearing him say on the phone that he would be there soon, Shen Yungui immediately breathed a sigh of relief. He hung up the phone and looked out again.
The female ghost was no longer wandering back and forth, she directly occupied Shen Yungui's desk, flipping the spread pages on the table, and lowered her head and seemed to be reading seriously.
Damn, can you not touch my book, do you know that you are still bleeding down!
And your eyes are gone, can you see the words when you turn the book?
That book is an ancient book, you know, an ancient book!
Your grandfather isn't as old as he is! You know that you can't just flip it by hand!
And your hands are still so dirty, you can leave a piece of it wherever you touch it, it's very difficult to clean up, you know.
Shen Yungui roared in his heart for a while, if he wasn't afraid of death, he couldn't wait to rush out and beat her now.
At that moment, the cell phone in his hand rang.
A creaking Erquan reflecting moon rang out along with the buzzing vibration, echoing in the small cabinet, making the sound even more eerie and permeating.
Even the female ghost standing at the table froze when she heard the voice, and then she reacted and rushed to the side of the cabinet.
Shen Yungui looked down at the three words Xia Beifeng displayed on his mobile phone, and he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.
The female ghost reached out and scratched at the door, her nails scratching the wooden door, making a screeching sound.
There was a sound of "stabbing and stinging" on the phone, and the sound of Xia Beifeng was mixed in and came out intermittently.
"Hey!" Xia Beifeng roared loudly, "Uncle, where are you, is there anything wrong?" The signal here is too bad, if there is nothing too important, hang up first, and come back to it. ”
And the background sound of his shouting is a hoarse male voice who roars "love when you die", as well as sparse applause, noisy cheers, and the sound of colliding with wine bottles......
I don't know why. Shen Yungui's mood suddenly calmed down at this time, and he still had time to glance at the hysterical female ghost outside from the crack in the cabinet door, before he lowered his head and said to Xia Beifeng on the other side of the phone: "That female ghost just came out, and now she is blocked in the store and won't let me go out." ”
"Huh? What did you say? Xia Beifeng shouted in confusion: "Can you call from another place, I can't hear clearly!" ”
The female ghost was still scratching the cabinet relentlessly, and some small and broken sounds were hidden in the sound of the female ghost's nails scratching the wood. It didn't sound so obvious, but when it fell on Shen Yungui's ears, it made him feel very bad.
He squinted his eyes and looked inside.
There are some fine wood chips on the ground.
As the female ghost moved, more sawdust was falling slowly, piling up more and more on the ground.
Lao Tzu's sandalwood!
Are you so great that you're dead, just touch my books with dirty hands, and now you're still scourging my cabinet!
Do you know how much this thing costs?
Shen Yungui looked at the falling sawdust and felt that his heart was dripping blood.
"I said......" Shen Yungui shrank back again, leaning his back against the hard plank. Taking a deep breath, he shouted back, "There's a female ghost on my side now." Wearing a black dress, disfigured, eyeless, like to scratch the door, with blood all over her hands and touching my things, dirty and noisy, I have a headache, can you come and get her away for me now? ”
Xia Beifeng was silent over there for a long time, so long that Shen Yungui even had the illusion that "the signal is too bad and the connection has been disconnected".
"I see." He said in a non-fluctuating tone, "I'll go over now, you can wait over there for a while." ”
Then he hung up the phone cleanly, and didn't even give Shen Yungui a chance to ask him how long he would arrive.
A short busy sound came from the phone, mixed with the sound of a female ghost scratching the door outside. made Shen Yungui extremely upset.
He glanced up at the rune paper above his head, feeling the vibrating planks around him. sighed, lowered his head and pressed the phone screen to dial Shen Luotian's number.
By the time the sound of a car sounded at the door of the store, Shen Yungui had already shrunk in the cabinet for nearly an hour.
The female ghost had already given up scratching the cabinet, and turned around to wander around the store again. I don't know what she wants to do, look here and there, on the walls, on the shelves...... Countless bloody handprints were left behind.
Probably because of the lack of oxygen. Shen Yun was huddled in the cabinet, already a little confused.
He held the phone tightly in his hand, rested his head on the side of the plank, and breathed softly with his eyes closed. Occasionally, a spirit opens its eyes and glances at the rune paper above its head. Making sure it hadn't fallen yet, he closed his eyes again.
It's ****** bad luck.
How long will it take to clean it up?
Shen Yungui was calculating in his heart to sort out the mess that was messed up by the female ghost, and the more he thought about it, the worse he became.
There was a knock on the door of the shop, and then it creaked open.
The female ghost was flipping through a book next to the bookcase, but when she heard the sound, she turned her head sharply, threw down the book, and quickly ran to the door.
When she passed by the cabinet where Shen Yungui was hiding, she felt a chill, which caused the people in the cabinet to shiver and suddenly sober up.
Manuscript from the Qing Dynasty.
Shen Yungui looked at the thread-bound book that was paralyzed on the ground, and sighed again.
The female ghost rushed outside and was silent. Shen Yungui struggled to prick up his ears. Lean on the cabinet door and listen to the situation outside.
It was terrible quiet outside, not to mention the sound of fighting, and even the sound of a needle falling to the ground could be heard clearly.
What's the situation?
What's up there out there?
Couldn't it be an accomplice...... Wait, do ghosts have accomplices too?
Shen Yungui frowned suspiciously, and glanced at the thin slit with his eyes.
It was dark again, and nothing could be seen.
Before he could think about the situation, he felt the door of the cabinet where he was hiding suddenly opened.
He was leaning on the cabinet door and looking out, but the moment the door opened, he rightly threw himself forward. At the same time, he felt that his legs, which had been retracted all night, were not strong at all, and seemed to have lost consciousness.
The two legs in front of him took two steps back, giving up the place, and he threw himself on the ground.
"I'll ......"
Shen Yungui raised his head hard and looked at the person in front of him.
Shen Luotian held a cigarette in his mouth, put headphones in his ears, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and looked down indifferently at Shen Yungui lying on the ground.
The two of them stared at each other for a few seconds, and Shen Luo asked in hindsight, "Are you okay?" ”
Do I look like I'm fine?
Why can't you speak better than your brother!
Or is it stupid to read books?
Shen Yungui looked at the young man standing in front of him in surprise, and a thousand words flashed in his mind in a few seconds, but he didn't know that it was better to change which sentence to say, and finally had to answer a simple and rude word.
"!"
Shen Luotian tilted his head suspiciously.
"There was a traffic jam on the road." Shen Luotian explained in a low voice: "The serial car accident was blocked for half an hour, so it was a little late." ”
It's a bit late.
Hehe.
"My leg is numb." Shen Yungui struggled to prop up the ground with his arms and began to try to get up from the ground.
"Oh." Shen Luotian stood aside and responded, took another puff of cigarette, looked at the smoke in the air for a while, and then squatted down and asked Shen Yungui, "Do you want me to pull it up?" ”
Shen Yungui: "......"
He slapped away Shen Luotian's outstretched hand to him, and with the other hand propped up the edge of the cabinet on one side, he stood up with difficulty.
"No thanks."
After he stood up, he glanced back at the sandalwood cabinet that was more than a meter high.
There was a thick layer of wood chips on the floor, and there were deep scratches everywhere on the cabinet doors, which was simply miserable.
It definitely can't be sold, and it is estimated that it can only be rebuilt.
"!" Shen Yungui cursed in a low voice, and turned his head to look at Shen Luotian, "Where did she go?" ”
"I don't know, she's gone when she sees me coming." Shen Luotian looked around the room, stretched out his hand to fix his hair, and said irritably: "Probably still in this room, do you want me to dispose of it?" ”
"If you don't dispose of it, will you keep it as your daughter-in-law!" Shen Yungui stared at Shen Luotian, feeling that he really couldn't understand how this child's brain circuits were long, "What have you been thinking about all day?" ”
Shen Luotian let out a gloomy "oh", turned his head and walked towards the shelves outside, stretching as he walked, looking like he could lie on the ground and fall asleep at any time.
He wandered to the edge of a shelf and tilted his head to look at the third floor.
A twenty-centimeter-high porcelain vase stood there, glowing with a faint halo.
"Come out!" He shouted at the shelf, and punched the frame of the shelf.
The shelf shook twice with his movements, then regained its composure.
Shen Luotian spread out his fist and pasted it on the shelf, slowly holding his hand, as if he was grasping something.
The female ghost was casually pulled out of the shelf by his collar.
He lifted the female ghost into the air and glanced at her.
"Look!" Shen Luotian shouted at Shen Yungui, who walked out behind him, and said, "Caught it!" ”
Shen Yungui, who witnessed his series of actions, was stunned.
The female ghost looked at Shen Luotian, opened her mouth, and spit out a few words: "You're not...... Why ......"
(To be continued.) )