Chapter 13: Ghost Accounting

I took the morning star with me and soon came to the town. From a distance, the lights are very dense, but when you come to the town and look at it again, it feels quite sparse. The town was quite large, and the road ran through the middle of the town, stretching into the darkness far beyond the town. Due to the late night and the cold weather, many of the townspeople had already slept, and most of the town's shops were closed.

Morning Star was limply half-curled up in his seat, looking a little tired, yawning from time to time.

"Sleepy?" I asked.

Morningstar smiled at me and shook his head slightly.

I braked the car, took off my coat, and draped it over her, "Sleep when you're sleepy, good." ”

Turning around, I finally found a small restaurant that was still open, and when I parked the car again, Morningstar was already asleep. Only one head was exposed outside my wide coat, and the eyelashes hung down long, trembling slightly with the slow breathing. I smiled, leaned down, gave her a gentle kiss on the cheek, pushed the car door and walked down...

The restaurant was deserted, with only two diners with misty eyes and thick faces sitting opposite each other drinking. I ordered two fried pancakes with shredded pork and ordered the boss to pack them, and after arranging for the young man to do it, the boss poured me a cup of hot water. The boss had a good heart, and when he saw that I was shivering with cold, he took down the kettle on the stove in the counter and ordered me to go in and bake my hands to keep warm.

"Where did you come from, this young man, why do you wear such clothes on such a cold day?"

The boss asked with concern, while asking, he stared at me up and down, probably curious about the black and white on my body, like a crawling out of the chimney... Actually, I had just climbed out of the chimney...

"Oh, from over there," I smiled.

"Over there?" The boss looked up and scratched his head.

I thought to myself, the brick kiln factory is only a few miles away from this town, and I don't know if this boss knows about the situation.

"Uncle, I want to ask you something."

"What?"

I waved my finger, "Why did the brick kiln factory in your south of the town stop production, is something wrong?" ”

"Zhennan Brick Kiln Factory," the boss muttered, and then slapped him on the leg, "Oh, I heard that there are dead people there!" ”

"Dead people?" I frowned.

"Well, it was a few days ago..."

"How many days?"

"Probably," the boss scratched his head and thought for a moment, "probably a little over a week." ”

More than a week... I said in my heart, the time of the dead is quite close to the time of Boss Huang's 'evil'...

"How many people died in that brick kiln?" I asked.

"One, like... a..."

I thought to myself, could it be that the person who attached to Boss Huang and ran to the park to see Xiaoqing's father was the ghost of the man who died in the brick kiln factory? …

"Uncle, do you know who died in the brick kiln factory?"

"How do I know that?" The boss spread his hands, "I don't know the people inside, I went there once last year when the brick factory was doing business, and I haven't been there since..."

"Doing something?"

"Uh-huh." The boss said, "The brick factory died last year, six at once, five workers plus the boss." After the previous boss died, he was replaced by a new boss. When the new boss first took over the brick factory, he invited a group of Taoist priests to do the ritual for three days, saying that it was to drive away evil spirits, and many people in our town ran over to see it..."

When I returned to the car with two boxes of fried biscuits, I saw that Morning Star had woken up.

"You guy, you don't even wear clothes when you go out, are you cold?"

I shook my head.

"It's not cold yet, my mouth is frozen blue, put on my clothes quickly..."

"It's okay for me to be cold, I just want to wronged you, there is nothing delicious in the town, I can only eat this..."

I opened a box of fried cakes, and Morning Star sniffed it and said with a smile, "It's very fragrant." Then I picked up a piece of chopsticks and put it in my mouth, and praised it while chewing, it's delicious, you eat it too...

In the warm car, I and the morning star are facing each other, and you eat fried cakes one bite at a time. The previous horror on the chimney is now like a world away from me. Only those who have experienced the catastrophe of life and death will know how happy and beautiful every minute and every second of ordinary time is...

"Look at how sloppy you eat...", after eating, Morningstar pouted at me and helped me wipe a piece of meat from my mouth.

I 'hehe' smiled.

"Did you ask anything?"

"Huh?" I was stunned.

"This town is not too far from the brick kiln factory, and the people in this restaurant may know about the brick kiln factory, don't you ask?" Morningstar said.

I repeated the boss's words to Morningstar.

Chenxing lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "Could it be that Boss Huang went to the brick kiln factory... Go and bring back the ghost of the dead man? …”

I pondered and didn't answer.

"Ah Leng."

"Huh?"

"Anyway, we have to find out the reason for Sister Qing's father's death, and then find a way to save him, okay, I think he's so pitiful..."

"Hmm." I nodded and looked at the time, "But what I need to do now is to find a bathhouse as soon as possible." Because, my star beauty looks even more pitiful..."

It was nearly twelve o'clock in the night, and the sky was covered with cold rain. It's not very far from the city, and if I can't find a bathhouse in this town, I'm going to take Morning Star to the city. Unexpectedly, after driving around, I actually found one, and it is still open. The bathhouse is small, the baths are not open until the morning, and as for the baths, there are only two, one of which is being renovated, that is, only one is available. There were two bathtubs in the bathroom, as well as two small beds for resting after the bath, and I added some money to the boss and said that we would rest until dawn before leaving. The boss was full of alcohol, helped us put the water in place, staggered out, and slammed the door shut.

The rain hit the windowpane with a soft and ambiguous sound. The bath room was steaming with shisha and the heat was filling. Under the fumigation of this hot air, I felt that every blood vessel in my body was expanding, the muscles on my calves were bulging, and the pores on my body were open and closed for a while.

I pressed my heartbeat and looked at the morning star, only to see that her face was flushed like a flower blooming in the warm spring. The whole person was wrapped in hazy water vapor, there was a feeling of both reality and illusion, in a trance, I didn't know whether I was in a dream or in reality... It wasn't until the morning star looked at me that it woke me up... Somehow, I felt that there seemed to be something inexplicable and indescribable in Morningstar's originally clear eyes, as if it was conveying some kind of message to me...

After making eye contact with me, Morningstar quickly looked away, and without saying a word, his chest rose and fell slightly. Finally, I settled down, endured the parched discomfort of my lips, and said hoarsely, I... I'll go outside first, and I'll come in and wash when you're done...

The morning star didn't look at me, didn't say anything, just stood silently. I bit my lip, turned around, and walked towards the door, feeling that my legs were extremely heavy, swollen as if they were about to burst, and as if I was being pulled by some inexplicable force, the more I walked, the more I walked, the more difficult I became, and finally I couldn't walk... Inspired by some kind of power, I turned around suddenly, only to see that the Morning Star had also turned around at some point, and stood face to face, staring at each other with their chests rising and falling for a while, I opened my arms, met it, and hugged the Morning Star tightly in my arms...

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"Ah Leng..."The voice of the morning star seemed to come from the sky, "turn off the lights..."

The rain was still falling outside, and it was rushing and slow.........

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Early the next morning, I took Morning Star's hand and went to the antechamber of the bathhouse, where Morning Star leaned against me in a soft, very natural posture, his face flushed, and the fragrance mixed with water vapor floated out of her gap and went straight to my nose...

I decided to ask the owner of the bathhouse if he knew the details of the death in the brick kiln factory. The boss looked like he was hangover, like a pile of soft meat, curled up on the sand, yawning while playing TV programs, listening to me mention the brick kiln factory, the boss suddenly sat up straight as if he had been electrocuted, and his eyes widened.

Looking at this, he may know something.

"Sue me, who is the one who died?" I took a deep breath and asked straight to the point.

"Accountant Wang of the brick kiln factory." The boss said.

"Accountant Wang, how did he die?" I asked.

"I don't know the specifics..."

"Aren't you familiar with him?" I frowned.

"He has been an accountant in that brick kiln factory for several years, and he has always come to my bathhouse to take a bath..."

"Then when I mentioned the dead people in the brick kiln factory just now, why did you react so strongly?"

"Because—" The boss trembled, sweating all over his head, "because I saw him the morning after that accountant died!" ”

"What did you say?!"

Morningstar and I glanced at each other and said to the boss, "What's the matter, you speak slowly, don't worry." ”

"Early that morning... I was sleeping against the sand, and in a daze, I saw the accountant come in, dirty, as if he had crawled out of a mound of dirt. So I got up and asked him, and I said, Lao Wang, where have you been, and you have done this. He just looked at me like that, spoke slowly, and said that he went to xx county (the county seat of Xiaoqing's family). So I asked him, what are you going to do there? He said he went to see someone. I wanted to ask again, but he interrupted me and asked me to put a jar of water for him, saying that he was going out and needed to take a good shower... After putting water on him, I went back to the sand and fell asleep again. When I woke up, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that something was wrong, and I ran to the bathroom to take a look, but I didn't see Accountant Wang at all, a tank full of clean water, and I didn't even move. At noon, news came to our town, saying that the brick kiln factory had died, and it was the accountant Wang who died... Only then did I know that I had hit a ghost, and I realized that Accountant Wang meant that he was going to 'go far away'..."

"So, you redecorated that bathroom to get rid of bad luck, right?" I asked.

"Uh-huh..."

The words of the bathhouse owner made my back break out in a cold sweat, and Morning Star's hand was cold, clutching my hand tightly. Suddenly, something seemed to come to me.

"You mean, Accountant Wang has been working in a brick kiln factory for several years?"

"yes, he used to the boss when he wasn't dead, and the boss... Oh yes, also surnamed Wang..."

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