incense shop owner

After separating from Ke Susu, Xia Guhan returned to the driving school to idle away class time.

He lived like this for the next few days, and when he finally filled his class time and signed up for the second exam, Xu Lan's university also started.

After school started, it was impossible for Xu Lan to come to the driving school to practice driving every day, and Xia Guhan saw her less frequently.

After Xia Guhan finished three subjects and four subjects, and successfully got his driver's license, he never saw Xu Lan again.

With the help of Ke Susu, Xu Lan started a new life. The last time Xia Guhan saw her in the driving school, she changed a lot.I almost came out of the attitude of self-denial and inferiority, and I became a lot more cheerful, much more radiant than a month ago.

Presumably Ke Susu spent a lot of time on her.

Time to enter October, after the National Day holiday.

The continuous autumn rain finally brought a little chill, and the heat that had been burning for several months finally showed signs of receding.

Xia Gujiang sat on a plastic stool in the incense store, with a freshman in his left hand and a sophomore in his right, and a junior lying on top of his head, looking very comfortable.

"Xia Guhan, are you really not going?" Xia Gujiang turned his head to look at Xia Guhan who was nestled on the electric massage recliner, and asked several times.

Xia Guhan still didn't respond, expressing his rejection with silence.

The assessment for recruiting members of the special department started this month, and the higher-ups wanted to invite Xia Guhan to be an examiner in the past, and give questions to the celestial masters who applied to enter the special department.

Xia Guhan refused.

So the special department sent Xia Gujiang over to grind Xia Guhan.Actually grinding Xia Guhan was secondary, the main thing was to know if it was possible for Xia Guhan to join the special department.

The higher ups respect Xia Guhan's wishes, but it doesn't mean they give up on letting Xia Guhan enter the special department, or will there be a miracle after a lot of hard work?

Xia Gujiang received the orders from the leader, but he also knew Xia Guhan's thoughts. Every time he came over, he would routinely ask questions. Xia Guhan didn't answer, and he didn't bother him anymore.

"By the way," Xia Gujiang remembered something, "I saw Yu Yatong in the application form yesterday."

Xia Guhan moved on the recliner.Regarding Yu Yatong, he hadn't heard about it since he came back from Jiangzhou, and he didn't know what happened in the end.

"At the time we finished handling the case in Jiangzhou City, I met Yu Yatong once." At that time, Yu Yatong looked a little haggard, probably because she knew that Chen Wenjun had died, and she was overly sad.

Xia Gujiang thought for a while and continued: "She asked me to say sorry to you, she shouldn't have approached you with a purpose and wanted to use you. But after I came back, I was busy with the special department assessment and forgot. "

Yu Yatong deliberately approached Xia Guhan, including the evil spirits who chased and killed her at that time, all arranged by herself.The purpose is to portray himself as a victim, making it easier to get close to Xia Guhan and at the same time gain trust.

She still doesn't know that the person who asked her to do this was not Chen Wenjun, but a spiritual doctor pretending to be Chen Wenjun.

But no matter who told her to do this, the fact that she approached Xia Guhan for a purpose is irrefutable.

Xia Guhan said "Oh." He accepted Yu Yatong's apology.

"I haven't seen her yet, and I don't know if she has come out." Xia Gujiang said with some concern: "If she hasn't come out of her emotional injury, she may not pass the assessment of the special department."

After all, it still depends on the psychological quality.

Xia Guhan closed his eyes again, and did not express any opinion on this matter.

Whether Yu Yatong can come out or not depends on herself.

Xia Gujiang played with [-] for a while, when the phone rang.

He took out his mobile phone and glanced at the news, a smile suddenly appeared on his brow and eyes, with a little bit of schadenfreude, and a little bit of gloating.

In the end, I really couldn't hold it back, looking at Gu Jinnian who was sitting next to Xia Guhan, the malicious emotion in his eyes was undoubtedly exposed.

Sensing Xia Gujiang's gaze, Gu Jinnian looked away from the phone and looked at Xia Gujiang.

Xia Gujiang: "Hey hey."

He didn't say anything, and waited for the time to watch the show.

Gu Jinnian was not curious at all, and continued to read the novel with his head down.

Xia Guhan also heard Xia Gujiang's full-fledged laughter after watching a good show, and after a little thought, he guessed what was going on, and laughed too, and tapped Gu Jinnian's lower back with the tip of his toe. with.

Gu Jinnian grabbed his foot with his backhand, and scratched his sole lightly in retaliation.

Xia Guhan wasn't afraid of ticklish, he put his legs on Gu Jinnian's thigh without hesitation, and moved like a grandfather, beckoning Gu Jinnian to press him.Gu Jinnian gave Xia Guhan a massage with moderate strength, with a look of helplessness and doting in his eyes.

He could see it, brothers Xia Guhan and Xia Gujiang were both suffocating in their hearts, waiting to see his excitement.

But what is there to watch about him?

Not long after, footsteps came from outside the incense shop, very light and slightly hesitant.

Xia Gujiang looked up, and after a while, a girl appeared in his vision.

"Excuse me, is Master Xia there?" the girl asked in a low voice.

Xia Guhan put away his feet on Gu Jinnian's lap after hearing this, and sat up from the reclining chair.

The girl's voice was very familiar. When Xia Guhan saw the person, it turned out to be an acquaintance - Xu Lan.

Seeing Xia Guhan's eyes light up, Xu Lan trotted into the incense shop.

She nodded to Xia Gujiang, "Hello."

Looking at Xia Guhan again, "Master Xia, it's... Sister Susu asked me to come to you." Having said this, she bit her lip, took out a bank card from her bag, and said with some hesitation : "I have encountered some problems, and I hope Master Xia can help me. I don't have much money, and it's all here. If... if it's not enough, I can issue an IOU, and I will definitely return it to you in the future."

Xia Guhan was sitting on the reclining chair, with a sleepy look in his eyes.He yawned lazily, and didn't take the bank card, just said: "If you have any questions, just tell me."

He obviously didn't do anything, and the bank card flew back into Xu Lan's bag.

The meaning is obvious, Xia Guhan doesn't intend to take Xu Lan's money.

Xia Gujiang got up and pushed a stool over, "Don't be nervous, sit down and talk slowly."

Although Xu Lan had met Xia Guhan several times in the driving school before, she had never communicated with Xia Guhan, and she didn't know much about Xia Guhan.All her knowledge of Xia Guhan comes from Ke Susu. She can feel Ke Susu's respectful attitude towards Xia Guhan, so she naturally thinks that Xia Guhan is a high-ranking person who is not easy to get close to.

However, after actually getting in touch with Xia Guhan now, Xu Lan's impression of him has changed.It's still not easy to get close to, but it doesn't seem to be as high as she imagined.

Xu Lan took a deep breath, calmed down her nervous mood a little, and then said what happened to her.

***

In mid-September, Xu Lan went to Wuzhou Agricultural University to register and officially became a college student.

Although she is a native of Wuzhou, the school stipulates that all freshmen live on campus, and Xu Lan lives in the female dormitory 404.

Almost every school has its own ghost stories, and Wuzhou Agricultural University also has its own ghost stories. After listening carefully, these ghost stories are actually similar.

But by coincidence, that ghost story happened in Xu Lan's dormitory, 404.

I heard from seniors and sisters that a classmate in 404 committed suicide five years ago.

The time of suicide was in the dead of night in the middle of the night.

She slept on the upper bunk, and while her roommates were asleep, she cut open the main artery on her wrist with a knife.The bright red thick blood trickled down from the upper bunk, and the sound of "tick" and "tick" sounded in the silent dormitory.

The roommate who slept in her lower bunk turned over in her sleep, and continued to sleep on her side, with one hand sticking out of the bed.In a daze, she felt a warm liquid dripping on her hand, a little itchy, subconsciously stretched out her hand to scratch it, but caught a warm liquid, and woke up.

The lights in the corridor hadn't been turned off, and a hazy yellow light came in from the small window on the door.

As soon as the roommate sleeping in the lower bunk opened his eyes, he saw the black hair of the roommate on the upper bunk hanging down, smudged into a thick black mass in the dark night.

The roommate was taken aback, and couldn't help scolding: "Are you sick? You don't sleep in the middle of the night, is it interesting to play tricks?"

As he spoke, he turned on the flash of the phone and shone it like a flashlight.

Light makes vision clear.

The roommate who was sleeping on her upper bunk leaned half out of the upper bunk, her head drooped naturally, her face had lost all color, and a pair of eyes stared at her intently.

The hand on the railing of the upper bunk was still dripping with blood.

"Tick."

"Tick."

When the seniors told the story, they were full of emotion, as if they had seen what happened with their own eyes. Xu Lan and her roommates were the residents of the dormitory where the ghost story happened. Chill.Back in the dormitory that night, the four roommates crowded together, you looked at me and I looked at you, and finally turned on the lights until dawn.

However, the impact of the horror story also has a time limit. After about a week or so, the roommates have completely recovered, and occasionally they can use this story to make jokes.

Xu Lan didn't take it too seriously.

Another week passed, and when Ke Susu was sure that she had almost walked out, she left Wuzhou and went back to Jiangzhou.Xu Lan's ex-boyfriend didn't know where he got the news. He firmly believed that after Ke Susu left, without Ke Susu's influence on Xu Lan, Xu Lan would forgive him and get back together with him.

So I went to Xu Lan's school to pester Xu Lan.

Acknowledge your mistakes in public, confess your love in public, give gifts in public...

The more people around you, the more affectionate your ex-boyfriend will be.He just wanted to use the pressure of the crowd to kidnap Xu Lan morally and make Xu Lan agree to get back together with him.

He knows Xu Lan well.

Xu Lan is sensitive and inferior, and lacks paternal love since he was a child. As long as he shows a little importance to Xu Lan, won't Xu Lan run back to him like a dog?

The ex-boyfriend was full of confidence, but Xu Lan's response slapped him in the face severely.

No matter how many people he showed his strong love for Xu Lan in front of, and no matter what he did such extreme things—kneeling down and slapping himself, threatening Xu Lan to commit suicide, etc., Xu Lan resisted the pressure and did not Promise to compound.

Because Xu Lan knew that the other party was a rotten person, rotten from skin to bone!It's not that the other party likes her, it's just that she was too easy to bully and control before, so he just wanted to coax her back and continue to squeeze her.

Xu Lan's heart is as hard as iron, and it is conceivable that her ex-boyfriend returns home every time.Being rejected too many times, the ex-boyfriend became angry and began to spread rumors about Xu Lan in school.

In his mouth, Xu Lan is a slut who has been slept through by men, who never refuses anyone, and all the nobility is nothing but refusal and welcome... He tried his best to humiliate Xu Lan as a slut.

Of course, not everyone believed what he said, but Xu Lan still heard other people's comments about her more or less.

If she hadn't kept in touch with Ke Susu and Mimeng.com's psychiatrist during that time, Xu Lan felt that she might collapse and return to the state when she was dating her ex-boyfriend again.

Fortunately, she persevered, and with the help of a counselor, she called the police.

The ex-boyfriend who made the rumor was detained, but for Xu Lan, the matter is far from over.

From the day the rumor spread, Xu Lan was sensitive to the change in her roommate's attitude towards her.

Xu Lan is majoring in plant protection, and her three roommates are also classmates of the same major. Except for Xu Lan, who is a native of Wuzhou, the other three roommates all come to school from other places.

Not long after the start of school, we are just getting to know each other, and we are still in the stage of getting along with each other, and there is still a sense of distance between each other.

After what happened to Xu Lan, two roommates in the dormitory mostly sympathized with Xu Lan, thinking that it was her misfortune that she was stalked by a scumbag. In the days when the rumors spread, they comforted Xu Lan a lot. The relationship between the three of them was very close. few.As for the last roommate, she was one of the few who believed the rumors.

This roommate is named Lian Mengyi.

In fact, ever since Xu Lan's ex-boyfriend came to the school to seek reconciliation, she had no eyes for Xu Lan, and many of them rolled their eyes at Xu Lan behind their backs, thinking that Xu Lan was conceited.When the rumors made by her ex-boyfriend spread, Lian Mengyi believed it immediately, and rolled her eyes from behind to face to face.

Not only that, but Lian Mengyi also likes to discuss Xu Lan with others and give pointers to Xu Lan.Seeing that no one agreed with her in the dormitory, she told the people in the other dormitories that the content was repeated over and over again: flies don't bite seamless eggs, Xu Lan's ex-boyfriend treated her so well, it must be that Xu Lan really did something sorry for his ex-boyfriend.

Not only that, but he also likes to exaggerate Xu Lan's mistakes and belittle Xu Lan everywhere.

Less than a month after school started, Xu Lan and Lian Mengyi had several quarrels.

The contradictions were once irreconcilable.

At this moment, something unexpected happened.

During the [-]th holiday, Xu Lan's family was in Wuzhou, and the other two roommates who had a good relationship with her lived closer to Wuzhou, and they all went home during the holiday.

Only Lian Mengyi's family is in other provinces, so she didn't go back and stayed at school throughout the holiday.

When the November holiday was over and Xu Lan and her roommate came back, Lian Mengyi was still sleeping on the bed with the curtains drawn tightly.

They didn't have a good relationship, so Xu Lan didn't care.

During dinner, Lian Mengyi finally opened the curtain and appeared in front of everyone.

Compared with seven days ago, Lian Mengyi's changes are really too great.Her hair was messy and greasy, and the pajamas on her body were not only crumpled, but also had an inexplicable sour smell, and she hadn't showered for a few days.She looked haggard, she seemed to have lost a lot of weight during the holiday, her skin was sagging, and her eyes were dark circles.

A roommate couldn't stand it anymore, and asked Lian Mengyi with concern, "Lian Mengyi, are you okay?"

Hearing the sound suddenly, Lian Mengyi jumped up like a frightened bird, then looked at the questioner with a dark voice, her voice was hoarse and sinister, "Shut up! Who told you to control me?"

The roommate stuck a cold butt with a hot face, curled his lips and vowed not to meddle in other people's business again.

In the middle of the night, Xu Lan was sleeping, and suddenly heard a loud "bang", and was woken up immediately.

There were two other roommates who woke up together.

As soon as the light was turned on, Xu Lan knew where the loud noise was coming from - Lian Mengyi, who was sleeping soundly on the bed, fell off the bed.

He was lying on the ground right now, motionless.

She didn't even cry out in pain, she just passed out.

At the moment, Xu Lan couldn't care about the grievances between herself and Lian Mengyi, so she called an ambulance and took her to the hospital overnight.

Fortunately, she was rescued in the end, and Lian Mengyi woke up at noon the next day with multiple fractures in her hands and ribs, and she was lying on the bed unable to move.

But the most serious thing is Lian Mengyi's mental state. She woke up, but she was haunted by something. Even in the hospital ward with bright and clean windows, her nerves were tense and her eyes stared embarrassingly. Looking around, once someone approaches her, she shrinks herself regardless of the pain in her body, and keeps saying: "Don't...don't come close to me!"

Even if she was the only one in the ward, she would suddenly startle, "Ghost! There is a ghost!"

Everyone who visited Lian Mengyi said that Lian Mengyi was haunted by ghosts.Coupled with the ghost stories that have been circulating in the 404 dormitory, more people believe this.

All of a sudden, everyone in Wuzhou Agriculture and Forestry University panicked.Xu Lan's two roommates even pestered the counselor to move out of dormitory 404. If 404 is really okay, why did Lian Mengyi become like this?

Xu Lan was also worried.

There are some things she didn't tell her roommates. After Lian Mengyi's accident, she could always hear the sound of dripping water at night, "tick tock" echoed in the quiet and empty night, and seemed to fall on her ears.

Xu Lan was very scared. Once when she was chatting with Ke Susu, she told Ke Susu about her hidden worries.

Ke Susu suggested that she come to Xia Guhan.

***

"Master Xia, things are almost like this."

Xu Lan talked for a long time, and only after she finished speaking did she feel her mouth was a little dry.

Xia Gujiang handed her a bottle of water, "Drink first."

"Thank you." Xu Lan thanked shyly.

"You don't have to worry," Xia Gujiang comforted her with a smile, "That thing won't hurt you for the time being, you go back later and burn some paper for her, and she won't pester you anymore."

Xu Lan didn't understand Xia Gujiang's meaning, she looked blank, "Why?"

Xia Gujiang: "She thinks she taught Lian Mengyi a lesson for you, and you should thank her."

After a pause, Xia Gujiang said with some amusement: "That is to say, even Mengyi's mouth is so broken that even ghosts can't stand it."

Lian Mengyi messed up and slandered others, not only Xu Lan and her roommates were angry, but even the ghosts in dormitory 404 couldn't stand it, so she took the initiative to teach Lian Mengyi a lesson.

Although Xu Lan didn't ask the ghost to teach Lian Mengyi a lesson, Lian Mengyi's main object of talking was Xu Lan, which formed a cause and effect. The ghost believed that he helped Xu Lan solve the trouble, and Xu Lan wanted to thank her.

Now it's just the sound of water drops at night to remind Xu Lan that if Xu Lan hasn't discovered the ghost's intentions, the ghost might entangle Xu Lan and make Xu Lan aware of her existence in a more aggressive way.

At that time, Xu Lan's shock was minor, and she was likely to be hospitalized in an accident like Lian Mengyi.

Xu Lan heard the unfinished meaning in Xia Gujiang's words, and was a little dumbfounded.

So if she didn't know Xia Guhan, would she never know that there was a ghost haunting her?Even if she found out later, she couldn't deduce that the ghost just wanted her thanks.

Why are you so overbearing and unreasonable?

As long as Xu Lan thinks of Lian Mengyi's fate, she will be afraid for a while.

Fortunately, she followed Sister Susu's suggestion and came to Xia Guhan, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous.

Thinking of this, Xu Lan hurriedly got up and kept bowing to Xia Gujiang, "Thank you, thank you very much."

Xia Gujiang laughed a few times, accepting Xu Lan's thanks.

Xu Lan thanked Xia Guhan again, and then directly bought incense sticks and paper money at Xia Guhan's incense shop, and decided to go back and thank the ghost who did good deeds and wanted to leave a name.

but……

Xu Lan hesitated for a while, but still asked: "Grandmasters, can I buy some talismans to defend myself?"

After all, ghosts are in the dormitory. Although they can't see them, they can still be afraid.With the talisman, my heart will be more or less at ease.

"Don't buy it." Xia Guhan lazily replied two words.

Xia Gujiang explained to her, "That ghost has no intention of harming you for the time being, and even helped you. Once you buy the talisman back, even if it's just for self-defense, she will mistakenly think that you want to harm her. The result is predictable. Know."

Xu Lan understood what Xia Gujiang meant, and that ghost would only feel that his kindness was being treated as a donkey's liver and lungs, and Xu Lan didn't even dare to think about what he would do when he became angry from embarrassment.

Even though he didn't get the talisman, Xu Lan thanked Xia Guhan and Xia Gujiang, and went back to school with incense sticks and paper money.

Once back in the dormitory, Xu Lan burned the incense sticks and paper money, and expressed her gratitude to the air.

Sure enough, there was no more dripping sound that night.

***

In the incense shop.

Xia Gujiang watched Xu Lan go away, and then asked Xia Guhan: "Are all the ghosts so kind?"

Xia Guhan rolled his eyelids and glanced at him, "Don't you know the answer?"

It wasn't that the ghost had good intentions, it was just that what Lian Mengyi did just happened to step on the sensitive point of the ghost, which made the ghost and Xu Lan feel the same way, so they took the initiative to teach Lian Mengyi a lesson.

This ghost hasn't completely deteriorated yet, and still has humanity left, otherwise Lian Mengyi would not just fall off the bed.

Xia Guhan nodded seriously.

So, it's better not to speak ill of others behind their backs, thinking that they are behind their backs, but who will fall into their ears?In the end, like Lian Mengyi, being taught a lesson was a minor matter, but losing her life was a major matter.

Xia Guhan glanced at the time, and seeing that Xia Gujiang hadn't planned to leave yet, he reminded him, "Don't you still have something to do?"

"No……"

As soon as he opened his mouth, Xia Gujiang realized that he still had something to do, and left in a hurry.

He hurried all the way, and finally arrived at Wuzhou Airport before the plane from Qinzhou landed, and greeted the chief examiner of the special department assessment together with other members of the special department.

Ten minutes later, the person they wanted to pick up arrived.

Walking in the front was a middle-aged man. He was wearing a Chinese tunic suit, with gentle and handsome features.

But when Xia Gujiang saw him, his scalp couldn't help but tingle. This was a subconscious reaction, and it was awe engraved in his bones.

When someone approached, Xia Gujiang immediately stood up and called out: "Uncle."