Chapter 1

December 21, Saturday, light rain, temperature 1℃~6℃, southeast wind level 3, humidity 92%.

It is suitable for getting married, getting a marriage certificate, breaking ground, burying, breaking ground, getting married, coffining, and drawing toys.

This time Jiang Qi looked at the alarm clock in advance, because each time he drew the Toy Spirit it would take some time, causing the time for the drawing to be moved back. Today's time for drawing the Toy Spirit was 4:51 pm.

Since Saturday was full of classes, today all the books except for Old John's "Kill the Script-Killing Shop Owner" were horror books. Someone might come out to search for evidence in the corridor at any time, and the locker room was occupied by Old John. The space in the utility room was too small to draw the Toy Spirit, so Jiang Qi simply took the recycling bag back home and drew it at home.

Anyway, it only takes twenty minutes to walk from the store to my home, so I can just walk a few more times every day and count it as my step count on WeChat.

Jiang Qi took this opportunity to put the recycling bag back home. It was not good to keep such an important prop in the store's storage room all the time. What if a thief broke in at night and stole the recycling bag?

It is almost the end of the year now and thieves are eager to get sales and go home for the New Year. They are on the move frequently. A thief broke into the small supermarket in the alley last night. The cash register was directly pried away, and the owner of the small supermarket was so angry that he cursed the damn stupid thief in the merchant group for the whole morning.

According to the owner of the small supermarket, there was only 5.02 yuan in the cash register (the owner had the habit of taking money out every day), but the cash register itself was worth 1,200 yuan. The thief pried away the part containing the money and it would cost several hundred yuan to repair it.

A thief can steal from a supermarket today and a script store tomorrow. As long as the thief does a market survey, he will find that the store with the best business in the alley is actually the Galaxy Script Society.

Now Lili goes home with Wang Erya every day, and there is no one to watch the store at night, so the store may not be safe.

"Mr. Boss, can you give me a warhorse this time? Although the racing driver said he could take me for a ride, I am a cavalryman after all, not a racing driver. It is a bit unreasonable for me to drive a racing car." The cavalryman waved his sword excitedly.

Since the toy spirit draw is done at home, Wang Xinghua and Lili are going to dress up as ghosts, Tutu is following Wang Xinghua all the time, the racing car is going to deliver goods, Wang Erya is going to learn from Wang Xinghua, Old John is going to open a book, and Huang Fugui has already confirmed that he will go back in the future and is not as interested in the toy spirit as before, so the only spectators this time are the cavalry and the sunflower.

Jiang Bing wasn't at home either. She went to the movies.

Although the cavalry did not spend much time with the racing car these days (the racing car was busy delivering goods every day), he was still somewhat infected by the racing car's overly lively personality. When he had nothing to do, he would jump up and down and wave his sword a few times, and the frequency of changing the battery was much higher than before.

"I'll try my best." Jiang Qi said that this was not something he could achieve by just trying hard. He glanced at the time and it was already 4:47. It was time to wash his hands.

Jiang Qi walked into the bathroom and started washing his hands with the rose-scented hand soap that Jiang Bing bought.

"Why does the boss need to wash his hands? His hands are not dirty." The cavalryman didn't quite understand.

"I know, Boss, this is feudal superstition, it's a sacrifice." Sunflower felt that she understood. "I saw it when I was watching TV with Miss Lanlan at the front desk. The people in the TV show had to bathe and burn incense before praying or doing anything. They also had to burn incense and worship Buddha, wear strange clothes and dance strange dances."

"Ah, then Mr. Boss is going to dance later. Will he have enough time?" The cavalryman opened his mouth wide.

At 4:50, Jiang Qi returned after washing his hands.

He washed his hands very carefully this time, and even used the 7-step hand washing method, just hoping to get a Buzz Lightyear for himself, or if that didn't work, a mount for the cavalry would be fine.

"Mr. Boss, do you want to change your clothes and dance?" The cavalryman looked at Jiang Qi expectantly.

Jiang Qi: ???

What?

At 4:51, amid the expectation of everyone (actually there were only two toy spirits watching), Jiang Qi reached into the recycling bag.

My hands, which were washed exceptionally clean with rose-scented soap, touched something very soft.

This touch...

Plush toy?

Jiang Qi wanted to grab the stuffed toy he had touched, but found it was quite heavy. He grabbed it shallowly and had difficulty exerting force.

Changing the angle, Jiang Qi pulled out the fifth toy spirit in one go.

A super big one, about one meter long and 40 centimeters wide, very soft, looks to have a very good texture, and has a very cartoony and cute blue fat-headed whale shape.

"Hello, Mr. Wizard." The fat-headed whale looked at Jiang Qi with its big embroidered eyes. "I am a fat-headed whale. Can you help me find the little master I want?"

"Just call me Mr. Boss." Jiang Qi found that the first sentence he said to each toy spirit was this, "When I was handing over the work to Wizard Kaka, there were some problems. What kind of little master do you want?"

"Any kind is fine, as long as they are underage." Fathead whale can be said to be very unselective of its owner. "As long as they like me, even adults are fine. We stuffed toys are the least picky about our owners. If you are very busy and embarrassed, Mr. Boss, you can help me find an adult owner who likes to sleep."

"Like to sleep?" It was the first time that Jiang Qi heard such a strange request for his master.

Fathead Whale said a little embarrassedly: "Because my ability is to help the master fall asleep quickly, have a good dream, and rest up, so that he can have better energy to go to school the next day."

"If you don't mind, you can sleep on me. I'm a pure cotton whale doll. The fabric and cotton stuffed inside are the best. They are soft and comfortable." The fathead whale shook his tail. "But I can't move, and I can't get wet. It's not easy to clean, so I'd like to trouble you, Mr. Boss, to help me choose a little master who loves cleanliness, patience and likes me."

Suddenly, a very suitable candidate appeared in Jiang Qi's mind.

Wang Erya.

She loves cleanliness, patience and likes the spirit of toys. She couldn't sleep before but can now, and she really needs Fathead Whale to help her fall asleep, after all, she is under a lot of pressure from studying now.

"I actually have someone here who is perfect for you, and she can talk to you."

"Really? That's great. It would be great if we could communicate. Then I could ask my little mistress what kind of sweet dream she wants before she goes to bed every day."

Jiang Qi called Wang Erya.

The call was connected after more than ten seconds: "Hello, boss, what can I do for you?"

"Arya, I just drew out a new toy spirit. You might be its master. Come back soon."

"Really?" Wang Erya's voice was full of surprise. "Okay, boss. I'll be back right away."

The phone was not hung up yet, Jiang Qi could vaguely hear the conversation on the other end of the phone.

"Sister Xinghua, the boss said he has drawn a toy spirit that is willing to choose me as its master!"

"How do you spell football? Ah, boss, are you drawing the Toy Spirit today?"

"Well, he told me to go back quickly."

"Then Erya, please come back quickly! This is an emergency and it also counts as make-up time. You must explain this to your boss when you return. This is the word card I made at noon today. I will recite it while walking on the way home until basketball. I will do it again at 9 o'clock in the evening."

Reading at midnight

"Your dictation just now was not very effective. You made 6 mistakes out of 40 words. For tonight's dictation, you need to add this afternoon's dictation together and do it again."

Jiang Qi: ...

How cruel!

"Erya, don't listen to her. Walk carefully when you come back. Don't memorize words while walking to avoid being distracted. What if something unexpected happens?" Jiang Qi said loudly.

Wang Xinghua on the other end of the phone obviously heard it: "Oh, sorry, Erya, I forgot you are not a ghost now. It's really troublesome to be a human. You have to look at the road when you walk."

Jiang Qi: ...

When Wang Erya was not a human being, she had to look at the road when she walked.

Among so many of us/ghosts, you are the only one who walks without looking at the road.

"Okay then, we'll study the vocabulary cards when we get back. Go ask Uncle Huang for 20 yuan, go to the small supermarket and buy a pair of headphones. Take my phone with you. It has the English listening exercises I downloaded. You can use one ear to listen on the way to develop your sense of language. Leave your phone to me and I'll play with it."

"Boss, you have to reimburse me for the money I spent on these headphones!" Wang Xinghua said into the phone.

"…I'll reimburse you and send you a red envelope via WeChat."

"That's great, Erya, you should go ask Uncle Huang for 20 yuan and use that 20 yuan to buy the headphones. That's great, with this 20 yuan, I only need 4,872 yuan to buy the pair of earrings I like." Wang Xinghua was very happy.

"Sister Xinghua, how much did the pair of earrings you liked originally cost?"

"4999."

Jiang Qi on the other end of the phone couldn't bear to listen any longer: "Erya, hang up the phone. Be careful when you come back."

"Okay boss."

After hanging up the phone, Fathead Whale asked apprehensively, "Mr. Boss, does my future master have a heavy academic workload?"

"It's quite heavy." Jiang Qi nodded. If Wang Erya wanted to complete the entire junior high school curriculum within 9 months, the academic workload could be said to be quite heavy.

The fathead whale encouraged himself quietly: "Then I'm going to work harder!"

More than 20 minutes later, Wang Erya appeared at the door with Wang Xinghua's mobile phone and earphones in one ear.

"Wow, what a big whale doll!" Wang Erya exclaimed when she saw the whale doll that was one meter long.

"Hello, Master Erya." Fathead Whale called out "Master" as soon as he saw her, and acknowledged her as his master on the spot, saying shyly, "I am Fathead Whale. Can you give me a nice new name?"

Wang Erya carefully touched the soft tail of the puffer whale, and the puffer whale happily wagged its tail like a puppy.

"Are you really willing to let me be your master?" Wang Erya didn't expect happiness to come so suddenly.

"Of course." Fathead Whale said, "Master Arya, you can touch my head. My head feels very comfortable."

Wang Erya quickly touched Fathead Whale's head, thought for a moment, and said, "I'm not really good at naming. My own name was given to me by my boss. If your original name was Fathead Whale, then can I call you Fathead?"

"Sister Xinghua's rabbit doll is called Tutu. She said that giving the doll a name with a double character is cute and easy to pronounce."

"Thank you, Master Arya, I like this name very much." Fathead Whale said happily.

Jiang Qi, the Cavalry and Sunflower stood silently at the door and watched.

"That's great." The cavalryman was full of envy, "I'm so envious that the fathead whale can find an owner who loves it as soon as it comes out."

"Actually, Mr. Cavalry, if you are in a hurry, you can find the owner quickly by relaxing the standards a little." Jiang Qi hinted.

Here is one.

Relax the age standard, get a job on the spot, and never be unemployed.

"I'm not in a hurry. Please take your time looking for it, Boss." The cavalryman said considerately.

"Me too." The sunflower shook its branches.

Jiang Qi: ...

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