die

"What's the situation?" Zhang Deng pinched the A4 paper with the female ghost on it, and the photo on the paper became crumpled under his pinching.

Zhou You took a sip from a bottle of Red Bull, and asked Zhang Deng to sit down.

"Don't worry, I'll explain to you." Zhou You rubbed his temples, "There is more than one haunted house in Binhai, several of them are old, and many of them have supernatural phenomena, and this one is no exception."

"I went to a lot of haunted houses in the past year, and I buried some eyeliner around the haunted houses one after another. Otherwise, how would I get in business? You mentioned that female ghost, but in fact, she is quite famous in the Binhai ghost circle. , but no one wants to accept it.”

"Why?" Zhang Deng was puzzled, "Why didn't you accept her?"

Zhou You took the photo in his hand, pouted: "There are two reasons."

"What?"

"One is that everyone doesn't want to take the trouble." Zhou You sighed, "This kind of female ghost with a little bit of Taoism, just wait for the skin to fall off. I, a little eighteenth-rate Taoist priest, should stand aside Well done."

"What about the people in the industry who are a bit knowledgeable? Why don't you clean it up?" Binhai is so big, I don't believe there are no powerful people. Zhang Deng folded his arms and looked at her.

"The problem is, she didn't hurt the lives of living people, anyway, as far as I know, she didn't hurt everyone's interests, and she's still a ghost, who will take care of her?"

Zhang Deng was stunned.

This fucking...is the reason?

"According to those novels and dramas from ancient times to the present, ghosts will hurt people one day. But she didn't, and there were also capable people and strangers who had close contact with her, and finally said not to provoke her."

"why?"

Zhou You took a deep look at him.

"do not know."

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Zhang Deng walked out the door with a huge grass in his heart.

The owner of the haunted house has been away for a long time, and takes a negative approach to the handling of the house.He sent emails or processed applications to many gods, but the asking price was not high, only 5 yuan was paid for a villa of [-] square meters, so ordinary capable people would disdain to come here, and the remaining little Taoist priests coveted the money, Most of them can't handle it.

Zhang Deng didn't understand, since he was not in a hurry to use the house, why did he ask for a low price to hang the house out?

He put on the pink apron from the dumpling shop, took the takeaway ice box, and started his afternoon work in a puzzled manner.

This is the beginning of the summer vacation. The college entrance examination candidates have just had their holidays, and there are more takeaway orders.Zhang Deng didn't even have time to watch QQ, he was busy until 04:30 in the afternoon.

Zhou You finally called Zhang Deng after delivering the last dumpling.At that time, he was sneaking to the convenience store to buy a small bottle of soda and was sipping on it desperately.

"Did you see the message I sent you?"

Zhang Deng was baffled, and when he clicked on QQ, he found that Zhou You had sent more than ten messages.

"No, what did you say?" He didn't bother to listen to the voice, and asked Zhou You directly.

Boss Zhou on the other end of the phone sighed and rubbed his forehead.

"I just went to your house to check. Gumantong has completely disappeared, but there are other traces on the door frame. Did you provoke that female ghost?"

What the hell is Zhang Deng thinking, I still have to talk about her looking like that?

"Sister, please don't think so... I am so hungry, don't I? Besides, I haven't described the appearance of that old lady to you. You are not afraid of me, but I am afraid of you. So what is the situation now, the door frame of my house is broken ?”

"It's more than abolished. The ghost spell on the door of your house, I just asked the master, it is a ghost-attracting technique similar to hypnosis. In the last few nights, your house will become a floating spirit and a ground-bound spirit nearby." The party is contracted. The ghosts will come here in a daze if they get this trick, and leave until daytime."

Zhang Deng suffered a great shock in his heart and was temporarily unable to process the news.

Zhou You couldn't hear Zhang Deng's voice at the other end, so he raised his voice by an octave: "Hello? Zhang Deng? Are you still alive? Hello?"

After a long while, she heard a voice choked out of her throat.

"...Damn Zhou You, you have to compensate me well. I just paid my three months' rent..."

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He would definitely not be happy to compensate Zhang Deng for sleeping on the sofa bed.

Not only was he not happy, Li Li's white-haired rabbit even grinned to express his disapproval.Regardless of his stern look, he was unambiguous about the object of protection, and even proposed to let Zhang Deng live in his own house.

Zhang Deng: "Where is your home, and how are the conditions?"

Li Li: "It's on the opposite side of the river, in a [-]-square-meter riverside community. There is a piece of land over there that belongs to our family, but it's a bit crowded..."

Zhang Deng: "What? Why are you crowded?"

Li Li: "I live on the first floor with my aunts, second aunts, third aunts and fourth aunts. There are seven uncles, eight uncles and ten uncles upstairs."

Zhang Deng: "...I'll stay in the guest room."

Li Li: "No problem, but you have to lock the door, my brothers and sisters always like to run to the guest room."

Zhang Deng: "...what are you doing?"

Li Li: "What can a young rabbit do?"

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Zhang Deng sternly rejected Li Li's invitation, and rejected him in very formal, affirmative, and precise language.

The reason is that he doesn't want to be rounded to death by the rabbit.

Li Li expressed his disappointment: "Hey, don't think of our rabbits as being so dirty. I'm the only one in the family who can change form. The other rabbits are not in heat 24 hours a day."

Zhang Deng's eyelids trembled and he rolled his eyes: "But I don't want to see white rabbits in the corridor as soon as I open the door, and then you appear naked again with a 'poof'."

Li Li wanted to defend himself with a few words: "I am not, I did not..."

But he quickly shut up, because he really likes to act in his original form at home.

The city is sinking to the west, and there are many young men and women scattered in the dumpling shop. The manager is a young white girl with white skin and a raised nose. Every day, she competes with Zhang Deng as if whoever stays longer in the shop, but loses every day. Because she is always out of the store for three hours in the afternoon.

"Zhang Deng! Can you come over and help?" The store manager blew on his bangs vigorously, blowing away the broken hair stuck to his mouth.

"Taibai!" Another employee called her, "There is a problem with Dengdeng's residence, and I am looking for a place to stay."

Mrs. Li—nicknamed "Li Taibai" because of her complexion, muttered: "Why didn't he say it earlier? There is a sofa bed on the second floor of the OD dance studio...it's so late and the person in charge has left..."

Zhang Deng didn't hear this. He sent a message to all the old friends in the city, but it was Friday, when the friends went out to play monsters, and most of them wanted to be on another person in the end. .

Zhang Deng gave up that kind of life a long time ago, and he didn't develop a deep friendship with ordinary people this year. His mobile phone was hot from his beating, and he still couldn't find a place to stay.

But he had one choice left.

After looking at the phone twice, he still sighed and dialed Liu Bai's number.

"Hello? Zhang Deng? It's not time to play games yet?" Liu Bai's voice sounded a little surprised.

Zhang Deng squeezed his own people hard: "I'm sorry, Liu Bai. I can't play games tonight. My house...has a serious problem with the drainage system, and I can't even get down. I want to ask if you can let me stay for a few days. Night."

The people over there were silent for three seconds, making Zhang Deng almost think that he was going to be rejected, so he answered him: "Okay."

Zhang Deng breathed a sigh of relief, said a few more words of thanks, and hung up the phone.After a while, Liu Bai sent his location.Looking at the address on the screen, Zhang Deng felt happy for the first time today.

He knew that Liu Bai would not reject him, and stayed with him in front of the game console for three or two weeks. Even though he tried his best to let out the aura of "reject" and "stay away" every time, his small movements and careful thinking would still put him off. His thoughts are exposed.Maybe he didn't even realize it himself.Zhang Deng knows that the steps to get a boy are generally much easier than a girl, but he still has a little idol baggage, and poverty also makes him lose his mind.

It's not good to have no money!

He got on the subway with his bag on his back, wondering when he would be able to get rid of these ghostly daily routines, and live his life by the sea normally from nine to five.

Just like the little guy with a mobile phone reading comics by his side, or the sleepy office worker leaning on the junction of the carriages, anyone is fine, as long as they live an ordinary and fulfilling life.

It's just a little truth that he has always understood, even if he wants to ignore it, it is futile.

Either it never occurs, or it repeats itself.

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Unlike Zhang Deng, the little Taoist Zhou You was thinking about other things.

Sitting in her small office, with the light on the iPad in front of her, she suddenly jumped into another message.

It was Kong Ying's news. She didn't even look at it, so she looked away.

There were more information about the female ghost in red on the table. She read it carefully, and then looked at the sword hanging on the wall.

"5 yuan..."

Zhou You rubbed his temples with complicated emotions, and was suddenly choked speechless by the reality.It is not an act of righteousness to cheat a friend for tens of thousands of dollars.Although she told herself countless times, Gu Mantong followed Kong Ying's scent, while Zhang Deng was just unlucky and was always involved in supernatural events.

It's not her fault, it's not her fault, she is Zhang Deng's boss, and it's only natural for employees to wipe their asses.If you look at it from the perspective of a non-friend, she is not wrong.

But she just couldn't see Zhang Deng as a friend, she just couldn't see him as an outsider.

Zhang Deng is stupid and stupefied, emotionally messed up, and his attitude towards life is not positive at all, so he might be run over by a car just casually thrown on the street.I don't know where this strange doting idea came from, but Zhou You didn't think it was strange.

Just a little envious of him.

Well, maybe a little bit of jealousy.

Jealousy among friends is the hardest thing to deal with and the hardest thing to deal with.Whether to announce it openly, or to bury it deep in my heart, it doesn't feel good no matter what, but a friend is a friend, and there may never be such an interesting person in the world.

"Alas..." Zhou You sighed, and made up his mind, and glanced at the quartz clock on the wall. It was not six o'clock, and it was still dark outside the window.

She grabbed the backpack that had already been packed on the table, walked to the wall in two or three steps, and took down the copper sword.

After pulling it out and taking a look, she stuffed the sword into the magical backpack, put on her earphones, and went downstairs stepping on the beat.Instead of looking at the people in the store, he walked through the lobby as if there was no one else around, and went straight out of the main entrance.

Li Li heard her sonorous footsteps in the back kitchen, the movement of squeezing the dumplings in his hand froze slightly, left the dumplings and rushed out of the shop.He yelled, "Where are you going, Zhou You? It's time to eat!"

However, there was only a row of light dust rolled up by the little eDonkey in the distance, and she ignored Li Li at all.The little white rabbit stood at the door, with rice noodles from dumplings still on his hands.He was stunned for three to five seconds, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.