Chapter 1

"The dishes are ready, take your time to eat, and call me for more if you're not eating enough. Boss Xiao Jiang, I have some Tremella soup here, how about I bring it to you? I made Tremella soup in a small pot this afternoon with red dates and wolfberries, it's very nutritious!"

Jiang Qi glanced at Wang Xinghua and saw that her eyes were full of "I can eat this" and nodded: "Thank you, Boss Zhao."

"Hey, what's there to thank me for?" Boss Zhao went into the kitchen and brought out a bowl of Tremella soup for Jiang Qi.

Jiang Qi:?

You call this a dot?

Jiang Qi had dinner, just after six o'clock, and now it was only a little after eight o'clock, and only two hours had passed, so he was not hungry at all. He was using chopsticks to serve the rice purely to pretend to eat, so that others would not see that Wang Xinghua ate all the food on the table alone.

"This braised pork is so much more delicious than the braised pork in the crew's lunch boxes. I knew that the crew was deliberately taking revenge on me by not ordering delicious lunch boxes for me." Wang Xinghua couldn't stop eating the braised pork that was just out of the pot. It was fat and lean, full of oil and water, and had a thick red sauce with a hint of sweetness. The fat part was stewed in advance to be quite soft.

"I don't think it was intentional revenge by the crew. If the weather is cold, the lunch boxes will be cold when they are delivered to the crew. They will definitely not be as delicious as the braised pork fresh out of the pot." Jiang Qi couldn't help but say a few words for the unlucky crew.

"Is that so?" Wang Xinghua showed a confused expression, but it was obvious that she didn't care much. After being confused for two or three seconds, she continued to eat.

"Xinghua." Jiang Qi felt that it was time to ask the really important question, "Can you knit?"

"Yes." Wang Xinghua said, swallowing the braised pork in her mouth, "Boss, I know a lot of things!"

As she spoke, Wang Xinghua put down her chopsticks and counted on her fingers to tell Jiang Qi how many things she knew: "I can sing opera, make lace, embroider wedding dresses, embroider flowers, do numerology, natural sciences, Chinese, foreign languages, and Western painting."

"If Zhuzi hadn't failed in his assassination attempt and got arrested instead, which implicated the troupe, my father would have taken me away to escape for fear of their revenge. I might have gone to college now. I had already signed up."

Jiang Qi was shocked. Wow, he’s a top student.

I just don’t know what the overall education level is like in Wang Xinghua’s parallel Republic of China with evil practitioners.

"Your girls' school teaches a lot of things." Jiang Qi initially thought that the girls' school that Wang Xinghua attended was the kind of school where cultural subjects were taught casually and the main focus was on learning various skills that would make it easier for girls to get married.

It was all because of the sentence in the host's manual, 'Mr. Wang sent Wang Xinghua to a Western girls' school in the hope that she would marry a good man in the future', which misled him and led him to believe that Wang Xinghua was studying in a bridal school.

Wang Xinghua picked up her chopsticks and continued eating. "Yes, there are quite a lot of them, but I can't learn many classes that require exercise, such as horse riding and Western dance. I have been in poor health since I was a child. When I was alive, I would be out of breath after walking a little. My father wouldn't even let me carry a glass of water."

"My father said that my disease was brought from my mother's womb, and no matter how many doctors I consulted, they couldn't cure it. I am not good-looking and I can't work. My father was afraid that after he died, I would die without money for medicine, so he sent me to the most expensive Western school and told me to study hard and get into university. There are many young men from wealthy families in the university. I can just marry one of them and I'll have enough money for medicine for the rest of my life."

Jiang Qi: ...

What a simple reason for wanting to go to college.

"Then it must have been very hard for your father to support you to go to a Western school."

Wang Xinghua nodded: "The tuition is expensive. Every time after paying the tuition, the troupe has to eat radish and cabbage for several months."

After the meal, Jiang Qi had a general understanding of Wang Xinghua's situation.

Similar to what was described in the host manual, Wang Xinghua had nearly complete memories of her life and a large amount of memories as a ghost. Her memories were so complete that she didn't even realize that she might have lost some of them.

She simply felt that she couldn't remember some things because they were not important and she had forgotten them over a long period of time.

Wang Xinghua and Wang Erya are different. Although both of them only lived in their teens (Wang Erya lived to be 16 years old, and Wang Xinghua lived a little longer than her, at the age of 17), the amount of memory they have is completely different.

From the time Wang Erya died until she was reincarnated into the underworld, she was in a dazed state of wandering soul and had no memory at all.

Wang Xinghua was trapped in the abandoned theater for nearly a hundred years, and she had memories of the past hundred years. So it was normal for her to forget some insignificant and boring memories.

After dinner, Jiang Qi took her back to the store. Wang Erya was still the only one in the hall. Jiang Qi asked Wang Xinghua to turn back into invisible mode first, and then asked Wang Erya to give her on-the-job training. He went upstairs to continue watching.

After extracting Wang Xinghua, a ghost who can turn invisible, sing and float, the quality of horror scripts published by Xinghe Script Club will surely reach a higher level. As Wang Xinghua's main script, "Red Tears" may become the next "Horror Doll House", so we must carefully check and study the process of publishing this script.

After watching the show with this idea in mind, Jiang Qi enjoyed the performance and scary plots.

When Xingzi and Beiru went in to scare people after the lights went out, Jiang Qi was thinking that if he could spare no expense, he could let Wang Xinghua blow up the lights in the room while ensuring the safety of the guests. Then Wang Xinghua would float around and pat people's shoulders while whimpering, and he could also put a Lili skin in the room at the same time, so that Lili could switch skins at any time to change the light bulb in the dark.

The question is the mechanism.

"Add some claw-grinding sound effects, and it would be better if there were more explosions and flying debris in the dark."

"I just don't know if Xinghua can guarantee everyone's safety. I need to let Lili teach her in this regard."

"So this book should be priced at 198, which shouldn't be too expensive, and we can add a few more opera performances. Alas, I haven't heard Xinghua sing an opera, but she has the skill of an opera lover, so she should sing well, probably better than Xingzi."

"Boss, what are you mumbling about?" Beiru and Xingzi came out of the ancient-style room. As soon as they went out, they saw Jiang Qi standing at the door and watching, muttering to himself.

"I'm thinking about where to add a few more opera performances and sell this book at a higher price," Jiang Qi said.

Xingzi immediately looked embarrassed: "Do we need to add some opera performance? I can only sing a few parts well. If you add more, I won't be able to sing."

Jiang Qi explained, "The new girl who just came for the interview doesn't look very well, but she can sing opera. She has a family background in opera singing. Her father is an opera singer and she has been practicing since she was a child. She should be able to come to work tomorrow. This script can be given to her in the future."

Xingzi's face was filled with shock, as if she had been devastated. She had not expected to lose this precious job on the first day of her part-time job. She was overwhelmed with grief for a moment.

Xingzi only felt that the non-existent tears in her eyes were flowing uncontrollably, flowing from the corners of her eyes into her heart, and her heart was crying silently.

"Boss Jiang." Xingzi felt that she could still try harder, "Can I still come to your store to eat employee meals in the future?"

Jiang Qi & Bei Ru:?

“…Come less often.”

"Thank you, Boss Jiang!"

After the internal test of "Red Tears" was over, Jiang Qi asked several guests for their opinions. The guests basically had no opinions and felt that this was a standard exclusive. It had horror, reasoning, plot, interpretation, and reversal, but the horror part was a little disappointing, far inferior to "Horror Doll House".

One customer who had played other horror books in the store said that he felt the scary parts were not as good as those in the ordinary boxed ones.

Jiang Qi humbly accepted the suggestion and said he would definitely make changes.

I guarantee that the things I scare people with from now on will be real ghosts, not humans!

Liu Lan was also on the internal test car. Jiang Qi asked her to take "Red Tears" back to study it, modify the process and performance, and add some content. This book will be written by Beiru and Liu Lan in the future.

After returning home at night, Jiang Qi found that Jiang Bing had not come back yet. It was not too late and he was not sleepy nor did he want to sleep, so he simply went upstairs to see how the new employees and old employees were getting along, and by the way announced the job changes of some employees.

Upstairs is very harmonious.

Everyone was doing the same as usual except Lili, who seemed a little unhappy. She didn't seem to welcome Wang Xinghua's arrival and didn't even want to enter the room. She sat on the sofa and knitted with Huang Fugui, watching a TV series she didn't like.

In the room, Wang Erya was taking an online math class, and Wang Xinghua was lying on the bed wearing Wang Erya’s teddy bear pajamas and playing with Wang Erya’s mobile phone.

"Hello, boss!" Wang Xinghua saw Jiang Qi greeted him enthusiastically, and it was obvious that the on-the-job training was very successful.

"Lili, come in for a moment." Jiang Qi said to Lili.

Lili reluctantly put down the silk cord and skipped to the door of the room. She stood at the door and was unwilling to go in. She really didn't want to get too close to Wang Xinghua.

Lili has always been repulsive to new ghosts. She used to be repulsive to the cavalry, and now she is repulsing Wang Xinghua. Jiang Qi thinks it's no big deal and that she will be fine after a few days of getting along with them.

"Xinghua, did Erya and Uncle Huang tell you what the general job in the store is?"

"I said it." Wang Xinghua put down her phone. "Boss, you run a shop called script-killing. It feels similar to my father's theater troupe. Others pay to come in and play, and we are responsible for the performance."

"...About the same. Do you have a general idea of Lili's main job?"

Wang Xinghua nodded: "Scary."

"From now on, you will take over Lili's job and let Lili give you all the books that require ghosts to float. If you have any questions about performance or scaring people, you can ask Lili and Arya."

Lili:!!!

"Okay, boss!" Lili answered before Wang Xinghua. She changed her previous rejection attitude and jumped directly onto the bed to cuddle with Wang Xinghua, who was wearing teddy bear pajamas.

"Sister Xinghua, I'm Lili, stick with me!"

Wang Xinghua was also very happy, even a little excited: "Can it really scare people?"

She had never intentionally scared anyone in all these years as a ghost. She had always been careful not to scare anyone, for fear that she would scare people away and leave no one to accompany her or have no food to eat.

What ghost in this world doesn't want to try the feeling of scaring people on purpose?

Wang Xinghua felt that her ghost life was about to reach its peak.

"Are people nowadays so weird? They are willing to pay to be scared by ghosts and they are not angry or scared. Can we really scare people however we want?"

"...In fact, they don't know that it's a real ghost that's scaring them, so you still have to control this aspect and never let them find out that you are a real ghost. Of course, you have to scare people in moderation. Don't scare them to death or make them sick, and don't hurt them. Make sure to ensure the safety of the guests."

"I never hurt anyone. I'm a good ghost." Wang Xinghua said.

Jiang Qi: ...

It wasn't hurting anyone, but the shouting of "paying money" made several crew members bleed from their noses.

"It's not okay to make someone's nose bleed." Jiang Qi warned, "Any injury, even a minor one, is considered as hurting someone."

Although it is normal to get minor injuries from bumps and falls when playing horror books and escape rooms, given Wang Xinghua's lethality, Jiang Qi feels that there should be some restrictions.

He doesn't want to be on Today's Talk.

"Ah." Wang Xinghua looked disappointed. "Are people so fragile nowadays? Even a little bleeding is considered an injury."

Jiang Qi:?

So what were you trying to do to scare people?

After learning about her future job, Wang Xinghua began to ask for employee benefits.

"Boss." Wang Xinghua jumped up from the bed, floated in front of Jiang Qi, landed, and handed him Wang Erya's mobile phone. The interface displayed on the phone was a shopping cart.

"Erya said we can buy clothes. Here are the clothes I picked out. Boss, can you place an order for me now?"

Wang Xinghua didn’t learn anything else in such a short period of time, but she learned how to shop online.

"I have to buy you some autumn and winter clothes. Erya's clothes don't suit you because your body shape is different and you are taller than her." Jiang Qi took the phone.

The price of the first item choked him.

A khaki trench coat that looked ordinary and not much different from those in Jiang Bing's wardrobe.

The price is an astonishing 12999.

What kind of windbreaker is selling for 12999? ? ?

What is this windbreaker made of? Even if it is made by ghosts, it shouldn’t be sold for 12999!

Is this reasonable?

Take a closer look, oh, it's a famous luxury brand.

The second item, 4999, is a pair of boots from a famous luxury brand.

The third item, 2888, is a hat from a famous luxury brand.

The fourth item, 17998, is a sweater from a famous luxury brand.

…

The items in the shopping cart were all added by Wang Xinghua today, with a total price of 198,705 yuan.

They are all clothes, shoes and hats, just two sets in total.

Two sets of 20w.

Compared with the items in this shopping cart, Jiang Qi feels that the discounted scripts in the script mall are conscientious products.

Although these clothes are really beautiful, Jiang Qi has to express his appreciation for Wang Xinghua's fashion sense, but.

It’s too expensive!

It’s ridiculously expensive!

Jiang Qi considerately helped her delete the items from the shopping cart.

"I can't afford it." Jiang Qi was very honest with the employees who had already joined the company.

"Boss, you are so poor." Wang Xinghua looked disappointed. "Then can I buy just one? Just that windbreaker?"

“I can’t even afford a windbreaker.”

Lili comforted Wang Xinghua: "Sister Xinghua, Banban has been poor recently."

“He can’t even afford a 10,000 yuan doll.”

"All"

The two prodigal ghosts felt extremely empathetic at this moment.

"Oh." Lili and Wang Xinghua sighed in unison.

Jiang Qi: ...

Is it my problem that I can’t afford these things???

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