Chapter 54. The owner of the shop, surnamed Chen

Hu Zongren turned around and patted Li Jia on the shoulder, and said buddy, you are really amazing, just a word, let us find a new clue. I also said to Li Jia, yes, thank you today, it can be regarded as a great help. There's nothing to do with you now, so if you're in a hurry, you can go home and tinker with your machine.

Li Jia's eyes slanted at me, and through his thick lenses, I seemed to be able to sense that he was not happy with me. Sure enough, he said to me, I'm not going back, it's just getting fun, and I haven't been able to crush the bad guys' tricks. Hu Zongren also said to Li Jia, it's not that you won't be allowed to go with us, but you may not have much contact with what we are going to do, and it is estimated that you will be afraid. Li Jia said that he didn't care, he must follow. It can be seen that he has been really idle lately, and he can't sit still. I said to Li Jia, but we don't know what will happen to Lu Dao next, those bad people are all extremely vicious people, if you follow us, it will be dangerous, you see that you haven't even had a girlfriend yet, if something happens, how can we explain it to your parents.

This is indeed the truth, Li Jia seems to be a person who has no interest in women. If I were one of his kind who stayed at home all day, I guess my hard drive would be filled with all kinds of teachers' teaching videos, and most of these teachers' names were more than four words. But Li Jia doesn't seem to be very interested in these things, and all she knows is that she is tinkering with her own strange gadgets. Li Jia pushed the frame with her finger and said, it's because of the danger, that's why it's fun.

I think I'm reasoning with him, but he doesn't understand at all, and if I keep talking, I guess he'll start holding my thighs and start spilling. So I had no choice but to let him follow us, I reminded Li Jia, we don't know what strange things will happen to Lu Dao next, I don't care if you help me or not, but you must not pull our hind legs, this time it's all real guys, I don't want to be like that usual, remember, this is not a drill!

As long as I stayed with Li Jia for more than an hour, I was easily affected by his special frequency, so much so that I began to speak in a strange tone.

After returning to the garage, Fu Yunni asked me what I should do now. I looked at the time, it was not yet four o'clock in the afternoon, although it was not late, but for Mr. Chen on that business card, it was not necessarily. Because the business card says that the store he runs mainly sells all kinds of shoes, there is an unwritten rule in the Chaotianmen wholesale market, because most of the merchants have their own fixed sources of goods, so they have begun to load and unload goods at the dock at four or five o'clock in the morning almost every day. This means that they must rest much earlier every night than we ordinary people, and because of this, almost the entire Chaotianmen wholesale market is closed at about four o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, I found the store, and counting the time to hurry, it is estimated that there is no one in the store. Moreover, the business cards left by several Taoist priests of the Xuanyuan Society are asking us to find this person, the shop is dead, but the person is alive, who knows where this Mr. Chen is at this time. Fortunately, there was a phone number on the business card, so I told Fu Yunni that we would call this Mr. Chen later.

Then I asked Hu Zongren to call Situ and tell him what we had learned today, and asked Fu Yunni to send Mr. Situ the white porcelain wine glass and doll eyes we found in the cave to see if he could detect any new clues. The coffin was still in my car, and according to our habits, if we were looking for other parts of a broken thing, we wouldn't put them together to avoid any accidents.

After Hu Zongren finished the call, I handed over the car keys to Fu Yunni, first, because it was too hard for you to let a girl in the family take the car by herself on a hot day. Second, the location of Hongya Cave where we are currently located is not very far from the Chaotianmen Wholesale Market, so we can just take a taxi ourselves. After Fu Yunni told Hu Zongren to pay attention to safety, she drove away.

I was standing in the garage with Hu Zongren and Li Jia, Li Jia was still carrying his remote control model in his hand, I took out the phone, called according to the phone number on the business card, and turned on the speakerphone. After the phone was connected, a man who sounded a little hoarse and felt very unenergetic fed me, and I suddenly realized that I didn't know how to talk to the other party about this call.

I asked him, are you Mr. Chen? He said yes, who are you? I said I found you based on the business card that someone gave me, have you been in contact with a group of Taoist priests recently? This is my own thought, because since the Taoist priest of the Xuanyuan Society left his business card to us, and even engraved his information on the wooden card, it seems to be able to show that this group of Taoist priests and this Mr. Chen should know each other. But Mr. Chen was very surprised and replied to me, "What kind of Taoist priest?" He doesn't know any Taoist priests? I hesitated for a moment, and then asked him, then do you know Xuanyuan? He seemed to be a little unhappy, and said loudly, I know Xuanyuan Sword, Xuanyuan will I don't know Xuanyuan Dao! Besides, who the hell are you? Why did you call me for some reason and ask me about this? Are you the ones who made all those strange things in my store?

Well, I realized that all the things that led us to this Mr. Chen turned out to be because something strange happened to him, and something strange, needless to say, is a ghost thing.

I looked at Hu Zongren, and Hu Zongren also understood that if we didn't figure it out, maybe we wouldn't be able to pass this test. So Hu Zongren nodded to me, meaning to ask first. So I asked Mr. Chen, what strange thing happened in your store? Mr. Chen suddenly became angry and said I know that someone must be secretly messing with me behind my back, you are the developer group, right? Let me tell you, if Lao Tzu said that he would not move, I would not move if I died! I hurriedly said to Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen, you misunderstood, I am not a developer, yes, we received a business card from you, and we have been dealing with some friends in the religious circles recently, so I took the liberty to call you, and you said that you encountered some strange things in the store, if I guessed correctly, there must be some ghosts and monsters, right?

Mr. Chen seemed to calm down a little, and he said that he didn't know what it was, but for several days, it had not stopped, and he could not even open the door to do business. I told Mr. Chen, "It's a coincidence, and you probably won't believe it, but I happen to be a person who specializes in catching ghosts for food." He said that you are also a Taoist priest? I said it's not the same sect but it's the same origin, if you can trust me, I'll come to you to take a look, but I promise you, I'm really not a developer, I can't even figure out where you are, and it's only today that I learned that there is such a person as you, why do you want to get along with you for no reason?

After a bit of talk, Mr. Chen finally agreed to meet me. I told him I'd take a few more people with me, because I had some personal matters to attend to, and now it seemed inevitable that we would have to sort out the troubles you had before we could move on. I didn't tell Mr. Chen about some specific things, ordinary people like him, the less they really know, the better, my master once told me that most people can live in peace and contentment, because they know too little of the truth, otherwise, we wouldn't have to pretend to be ghosts with people every time.

Mr. Chen told me the specific location, this place is behind the Chaotianmen Wharf, is the oldest batch of commercial buildings built in Chongqing's Chaotianmen Market, and although I have never been to that place, I know that almost the entire building is full of footwear products. We weren't far away, so we waited for him in the shade for a while after we got there. Mr. Chen looked less than 1.7 meters, very thin, almost 50 years old, but his cheeks were sunken. It looks a lot like the kind of cancer patient who has undergone several chemotherapy treatments. When he saw us, although I still greeted him politely, from his eyes, I could still see that he was extremely distrustful of us, and even insisted that we were the magic sticks that the developer deliberately found in order to occupy his shop. Hu Zongren was a little angry at this time, and he said to Mr. Chen, we are really forced to come here, we have to do your business here before we can continue to do our own business, who do you think is rare that your stall is not haunted? I told you that we are not developers, I don't know who you are here to show us a bad face?

Hu Zongren's voice was loud, and he didn't seem to be a kind-faced person. So he was so angry, this Mr. Chen was really a little scared. I think Hu Zongren has already made the relationship a little stiff, so he has no worries. I said to Mr. Chen, "Well, tell us about your store."

Mr. Chen said that the incident happened four days ago, and recently he has been talking to the developer clearly, his own façade has been in business for 20 years, with the whole building to be demolished, so many of the merchants in the building have moved away, he has become one of the few nail households, he said that it is not that the compensation is not in place, but the location to be relocated is too far, he has lived in this area for a lifetime, and he is not willing to go to such a far place to do business, but if he does not do business, he has no way to support his family.

I had a bit of an unpleasant quarrel with the developer that day, and I closed the store relatively late that afternoon, but when I opened the store again the next day, I found that almost all the shoes on the shelves in the store were placed on the ground.