The strange case of the demon book

? Huo Wencai has become a lantern man.

Electric lights are not popular now, and the electric lights on the streets are enforced by Director Chen when he was still in office. Before Director Chen, the streets of Guangzhou City were all lit by hanging oil lamps, the streets were dark, and the roads were ugly. It is clear that Director Chen later invited the electric lighting company to supply the streets and roads in Guangzhou City, so now Guangzhou City is still brightly lit at night.It's just that not everyone can afford to install this lamp, only the rich and powerful can afford electric lamps.But ordinary people still use kerosene candles.Director Chen has done many things, and these things have brought many changes to the people of Guangzhou City. Even the gates in inner streets and alleys were removed for the convenience of the patrolmen patrolling day and night.However, Director Chen's resolute methods also offended the dignitaries and common people in Guangzhou City, so no coffin shop was willing to sell him a coffin after he was plotted to die by Long Dudu.

Huo Wencai walked on the street with a large string of lanterns behind him, and people who needed lanterns asked him to buy lanterns.After walking to the floating market, several of them have been sold.

Ma Wenrui smiled happily when he saw Huo Wen turned into a lantern man: "Brother, it's fine. This is really convenient."

"It's suitable to sell this now, and I'll change to other ones after the Ghost Festival." Huo Wencai put the lantern next to Ma Wenrui's stall after speaking.The sky is not yet dark, and the time when the floating market is really lively is when the sky is completely dark.

The lanterns that Huo Wencai brought some boat owners would buy if they wanted to exchange them.

After watching the stall with Ma Wenrui for a while, Yatou went back to practice, Yatou said to Ma Wenrui and Huo Wencai: "The class master said that I will be able to perform on stage after the Spring Festival next year, and Brother Wenrui and Brother Wencai will definitely come to see it. "

"Okay, definitely go." Huo Wencai and Ma Wenrui encouraged.

After the girl left, Huo Wen sighed: "What a good girl." This made Ma Wenrui proud: "No, that's my wife!"

Huo Wencai bumped Ma Wenrui with his shoulder: "Look at your complacent look. When you get married, I'm going to drink until I'm not home."

"Hey, you want to get me drunk, no way..." The two chatted on this topic.

It was only then that Huo Wen thought of the women he had met in the past twenty years. At that time, he liked his junior sister, but now his feelings for his junior sister are slowly disappearing.As for Tang Manzhu, Huo Wen knew clearly that he didn't actually love her, but was just as amazed by her as other men.

Sometimes Huo Wencai wonders what is love.The cuteness is right in front of my eyes, but I still don't understand it.

Huo Wencai was sincerely happy for Ma Wenrui, the girl is sensible and beautiful.According to Ma Wenrui, the two of them didn't stop them from communicating, but the girl wanted to learn to sing, so it was so delayed.It is still rare for a woman to be an actor, because of Ma Wenrui's support, the two families followed the girl.

"Brother Wencai." It was Shitong, who took rouge, gouache and jewelry to the floating market to sell.

"Let's go, my brother will go sell things with you." Huo Wencai said.

"Okay." Shitong said happily. He has more and more money in his hands. One day he will be able to buy a small shop.

After the setting sun sank into the Yuejiang River, Huo Wencai carried the lanterns and river lanterns with Shitong and went to the floating market to sell them.

Huo Wencai let the lantern attached to the puppet brighten the lantern behind him, so Huo Wencai's whole body lit up, Huo Wencai was so eye-catching.Boat owners with flower boats would also exchange for better lanterns with the flower girls on board. Some boat owners saw that Huo Wencai had river lanterns, so they followed Huo Wencai to buy them.Because there will be a lot of river lanterns during the Hungry Ghost Festival, and the river lanterns on the Yuejiang River will flicker for a while.

The boatman called Huo Wencai: "Seller of lanterns, do you have river lanterns?" Huo Wencai stopped and looked, wasn't this the boatman who carried Yuan Xi back then, this boatman didn't have a bride on board today, so Huo Wencai jumped on him boat.The boatman seemed to have long forgotten Huo Wencai: "Give me thirty river lanterns."

"Okay." Huo Wencai counted the river lanterns in his hand and asked the boatman, "Is Yuan Xi here?"

"Are you her guest? That woman is bewitched. I don't think she will come again." The boatman said disdainfully.

"Bewitched?" Huo Wen was taken aback.He remembered Zhang's advice to Yuan Xi back then.

"That's right. That girl doesn't know what's going on, she kneels down to worship a puppet every day, and at that time she brought that puppet to the boat to worship. I saw that puppet was very evil, so I drove it away." He said that after Yuan Xi was driven away, there would be no Huaniang on his boat, and he would not want to make money or eat without Huaniang.

So seeing that Huo Wencai had a river lantern in his hand, he wanted to get some river lanterns, and he would sell them if he needed them.

"His man doesn't care about her?" Huo Wencai remembered that Yuan Xi had a man, although he didn't know why his man allowed her to pick up guests on the ship and be a flower girl.

"You said Brother Qiu, among the women who follow Brother Qiu, Yuan Xi is the most promising." The boatman said viciously.

"Brother Qiu doesn't care about her!" Huo Wencai frowned, his own woman doesn't care what kind of man he is.

He remembered that Yuan Xi's man was under Tie Ye's subordinates and was in charge of the casino in the floating market.Just letting his own woman be a flower girl in the floating market, this is unreasonable.

"How do you manage? That bitch is a disobedient one. Brother Qiu even beat her up, but it's useless. She can do whatever she wants, so it's hard to kill her." The boatman sneered.

What happened to Yuan Xi?Huo Wen was in a terrible state of mind, a woman couldn't live in peace.

Thinking that Huo Wen was Yuan Xi's benefactor, the boatman said: "I advise you, don't meddle in her business, so as not to get into trouble."

The boatman's words were also a warning to Huo Wencai, if he wanted to redeem the flower lady from the floating market, he had to pay a large sum of money to those flower girls who had a bustard, otherwise the flower girl who was picking up customers in the floating market would not be able to escape.Although Yuan Xi is free, the man behind her is brother Qiu, who dares to move, it depends on the owner to beat a dog.

Huo Wencai was very depressed. He took the money from the boatman and continued to sell lanterns.Huo Wen, who was not in any mood, heard someone calling him in the midst of the commotion from one boat to another.

"Huo Wencai."

Only then did Huo Wen look back.The glamorous woman with heavy makeup, wearing pearls on her neck and smoking a cigarette is Jinghong.After Huo Wencai boarded the flower boat where Jinghong was, Jinghong, who was smoking a cigarette, signaled Huo Wencai to enter the flower boat. Huo Wencai put the bamboo box with the lantern behind his back on the flower boat, and then put the river lantern against the flower boat. Bamboo box.

The lanterns brought in hung on the bamboo inserted in the bamboo box looked prosperous.

Huo Wencai got into the flower boat, and the inside of the flower boat was a different world, the smell of rouge and gouache made Huo Wencai dizzy all of a sudden.The flower boat can accommodate several people, and the boat is covered with blankets and hung with small lanterns that are lit, making the whole cabin very bright.In the middle is a small table with tea on it.Huo Wencai and Jing Hong sat face to face, and Jing Hong poured Huo Wencai a cup of tea.

"Miss Jinghong, what's the matter?" Huo Wencai asked, Jinghong is not the kind of person who will come to you whenever she has nothing to do.On the contrary, Jing Hong is the kind of person who is very organized in doing things, so it must be something to stop him.

Jing Hong took a puff of her cigarette but didn't see her melancholy expression lingering: "Yuanxi was borrowing money everywhere the day before yesterday. I borrowed money from her a long time ago, how about you give it to her for me."

After a pause, Huo Wencai said, "Okay. Just where does Yuan Xi live, and how is she doing recently?"

Jing Hong said: "I'm afraid Yuan Xi really has it in her stomach. I just don't know what she is pregnant with."

"What!" Jing Hong's words made Huo Wen terrified.These words reveal a strange message that is not optimistic.

"I really don't know what she's been tossing about in the past two years." Jing Hong continued to say lazily: "Do you still remember what I said about the Dongying puppet master? Yuan Xi enshrined the things given by the Dongying person at home, Now her belly is swollen, but Yuan Xi hasn't received a single client in the past two months. Brother Qiu asked her to have sex after he knew she was pregnant, but Yuan Xi refused, so Brother Qiu beat her up He wanted to throw that evil thing out. But Yuan Xi was protecting her, saying that it was her child. Brother Qiu had no choice but to make her torment, but he cut off Yuan Xi's money, and he was not allowed to spend the boatman on the boat to let Yuan Xi pick up guests. .So Yuan Xi has been borrowing money everywhere these days. The news about Yuan Xi has spread all over the water market, and now everyone thinks she is a lunatic."

Huo Wencai's heart sank and then he felt helpless, what right did he have to interfere with Yuan Xi's affairs.

Jinghong handed six silver dollars to Huo Wencai: "Give it to her for me."

"Okay." Huo Wen took it.

Without further words, Huo Wencai took the silver dollar and left Jinghong's flower boat.Seeing that Huo Wen came out so quickly, the boatman knew that this was Jinghong's friend and not a guest.Huo Wencai picked up the bamboo box and picked up the river lantern and left. Jing Hong rolled up the boat curtain and looked at the string of lanterns behind Huo Wencai with a smile on his face:

This Patrolman Huo is really a good person, who would step forward to help someone he doesn't know very well if nothing happens.

It took only one night for Huo Wen to sell out all the river lanterns, and there were still more than a dozen lanterns left.Huo Wencai went ashore with the lantern box on his back, and Shitong had already gone back, so Huo Wencai put down the lantern box for Ma Wenrui to pack, put the things on the wooden cart, and the two said goodbye and went back.

After Huo Wencai returned home, boiled water, took a shower and went to bed, by the light of the lantern, Huo Wencai sprinkled the money from the purse on the bed and started counting.The doll is happily jumping on the bed.

After counting today's income, Huo Wen smiled and said to the puppet: "Lantern, how much do you want?"

The lantern said coyly: "I want two." Huo Wencai gave the two silver dollars to the lantern, and the lantern hurriedly stopped: "No, no, I want two small ones." Then he returned the two silver dollars to Huo Wencai .Huo Wencai was surprised: "Two copper coins are enough." How can two copper coins be able to buy medicine, at least a dozen copper coins are needed to buy it.

"Well, that's enough." In fact, Lantern didn't know how much it cost to buy medicine, he just wanted to buy some medicine that could transform himself.

Huo Wencai reached out and touched the lantern: "I'll be with you tomorrow, if it's not enough, I'll make it up."

"Well, thank you master." Lantern said happily.

"You are welcome, we are a family." What Huo Wencai said made Lantern puzzled.He doesn't understand what home is.

One person and one demon lie on the bed and go to sleep.