By the time Yue Jiuling, Ya Zi, and Ye Dongfeng had secretly arrived, Xiao Baicai had already finished empathizing with the fourth and final tree.

"How's it going? Have you gotten any clues?"

As soon as Ye Dongfeng saw Little Cabbage, he immediately went over and asked, "Little Cabbage, what did you talk about with your kind?"

Xiao Baicai had just spent a lot of effort empathizing with the situation and was quite tired, but he still nodded and said, "Yes, we have a few clues, but not many."

Bai Xinyu opened a bottle of water and handed it to Xiaobaicai, saying, "Here, you've worked hard. Have some water first."

Yue Jiuling also went over and said, "How are you feeling? If you're too tired, go back and rest for a bit. It's afternoon now, and we need to go to the incense and candle shop."

Today is the last day of the Ghost Festival. After dark, the ghosts that stayed in the human world last night will come out again. Then at midnight, the gates of hell will open, and the ghosts will return to the ghost realm.

It's just that some ghosts are reluctant to leave the human world because they are attached to it. So in recent years, the metaphysical department has started to spend their own money to buy some good things for the ghosts to coax them back to the ghost world. Of course, if they encounter some particularly difficult ones that they can't coax back, they don't mind resorting to a violent enforcement action.

So when Yue Jiuling said it was time for them to go to the incense and candle shop, everyone stopped lingering in the alley. Bai Xinyu, supporting Xiaobaicai, said, "How about this, Xiaoyi and I will take Xiaobaicai back first, and you guys go and choose your things."

Mu Xiaoyi also said, "That's right, you guys helped us choose ours too, since we'll be reimbursed anyway."

"Alright, let's go then."

Seeing that Bai Xinyu and the other two had all left, Yue Jiuling and the others headed in another direction. The incense and candle shop they were going to was just an ordinary shop that dealt in the dead. The reason they chose to go together instead of each person buying a bunch of things was that they wanted to make some paper offerings themselves.

While paper offerings made by ordinary people are still useful after being burned, they only retain their original purpose. However, the paper offerings made by these people are different because they are reinforced by their own hands and can be used by them.

For example, if ghosts take something and then become disobedient, their new clothes and shoes can be used by their spirits to control and punish the disobedient ghosts.

This feature may sound incredible, but it is indeed incredibly powerful.

So, Ya Zi, who was making paper offerings for the first time this year, found it quite strange after hearing about it. He even approved of the method, saying, "So that's why we suddenly had to send things to those ghosts. This is the reason. But this method is pretty good. We don't have to start by yelling at them. If they go crazy and hurt ordinary people, it will be troublesome. So we should try to appease them first, and only beat them if that doesn't work."

Since Ya Zi started working at the management office, his temper and thinking have changed a lot. Although he is still a bit short-tempered and a bit stingy, he is at least much more restrained than before.

Yue Jiuling laughed when she heard Ya Zi's words. She teased him, "Oh, so Young Master Long can have such thoughts? That's really rare. I thought you were going to just go and beat up the ghost."

Ya Zi knew that Yue Jiuling was saying this on purpose, so he pretended to disagree and shook his head, saying, "Hey, Jiuling, how can you say that about me? I used to have a bad temper, but I've changed now. So you can't keep looking at me with the same old perspective. My thoughts and actions are different now."

"Oh, really? Hmm, I didn't feel anything."

Yue Jiuling knew, of course, that Ya Zi's personality and temper had changed a lot, but she still wanted to tease Ya Zi.

"Sigh~ Look at you, you don't care about me at all, you don't even know how much I've changed~"

Ya Zi looked at Yue Jiuling with a pitiful expression, making Yue Jiuling feel uncomfortable teasing him any longer: "Alright, I won't tease you anymore. Look how fast Dongfeng and Yinni are walking, while the two of us are dawdling. Let's go!"

Because the two of them chatted too much in the back, Ye Dongfeng and Yinni, who were walking ahead, were now quite a distance away from them.

Seeing that her two friends ahead of her were almost at the incense and candle shop while they were still dawdling, Yue Jiuling quickened her pace to catch up.

When Ya Zi saw Yue Jiuling walking fast, he also quickened his pace, saying, "Why run so fast? We're not racing against them. We can buy things whether we go in fast or slow."

Actually, Ye Dongfeng and Yinni had already noticed when Yue Jiuling and Ya Zi were 'left alone', but they were too lazy to pay attention to the two 'talkative' people behind them and walked away on their own.

The incense and candle shop wasn't far; they found it easily on an old street. So, once inside, the group immediately explained their purpose: to have the owner teach them how to make some simple and ordinary paper offerings.

Although the owner had never encountered such customers before, he was willing to teach them some simple paper cutting and paper making because Yue Jiuling and her group offered a reasonable price and bought quite a lot of things.

While teaching them how to cut clothes, the owner asked curiously, "Are you making these for your relatives or friends? You're even learning in person; that shows a lot of sincerity."

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