At the dinner table, everyone's eyes were fixed on Nan Yuanman.
Nan Yuanman, her little belly round and full from eating, was slowly sipping her soy milk when she heard this. She blinked and hesitated before asking, "Can't I stay at home?"
Her little shop is still open. What if someone comes to her for something while she's out? What if they need to buy a coffin?
"Of course!" Feng Jingcheng was instantly delighted. He had recently been learning how to do business from Feng Zining, and with Yuanyuan staying at home, he could see her every day when he came home from the company!
Feng Zining subtly curled the corners of his lips, his voice gentle: "Yuanman can be wherever she wants."
Feng Congqian didn't offer any opinion; he would follow wherever Nan Yuanman chose to go.
After all, the child is so young, it's normal for him to be inseparable from his father.
Upon hearing this, Feng Xingchi looked dejected and disappointed: "I understand, Yuanman doesn't like me anymore. She'd rather stay home than go out with me..."
"I didn't!" Nan Yuanman exclaimed hurriedly, "Second brother, Yuanman doesn't dislike you! Yuanman likes you! She likes you the most!"
As the little dumpling spoke, it snuggled closer to him in the direction of Fengxing Pond.
Feng Yanxiu pursed his lips, said nothing, and lowered his eyes to say, "It's okay, I'll take Yuanman to H City again when there's a chance."
Nan Yuanman listened to his words, but felt a pang of sympathy for him. She quickly leaned over and blew him a kiss with her pouty lips: "Fifth Brother, Yuanman likes you too! I'll play with you more often in the future!"
Feng Yanxiu smiled broadly: "Okay."
Feng Zining was unhappy: "So, Yuanman doesn't like me anymore?"
"I like it too!"
The little dumpling worked hard to carry water and finally "coaxed" all her brothers to go to work.
Nan Yuanman wiped the fine sweat from her forehead, feeling exhausted. Although being with her brothers was wonderful, serving water was too much of a hassle. She decided to avoid gathering like this so often in the future...
As soon as Nan Yuanman turned around, she saw Feng Congqian with his arms crossed, looking at her with a half-smile.
Nan Yuanman's face fell: "Dad, you're still laughing!"
She threw herself into Feng Congqian's arms, mischievously wiping all her sweat on his clothes. Feng Congqian pretended not to see and picked Nan Yuanman up in his arms: "Let's go, I'll take you to school."
After a peaceful day, Nan Yuanman went to the outskirts of town with Feng Congqian to perform orphanage rituals that evening.
The ritual of bestowing the ghosts lasted for three days, and Nan Yuanman became familiar with the wandering ghosts in the capital.
Some wandering ghosts, having lingered in the mortal realm for many years, have lost much of their attachment. After receiving Nan Yuanman's promise to burn paper money for them every year, they are guided to the underworld by her.
There are still some wandering ghosts whose obsessions have not been extinguished. As long as they do not harm people, Nanmanyuan will let them drift around.
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As night deepened, in a rented room in a certain residential area.
Despite it being a sweltering day, the young girl in the rented room was wrapped tightly in the blankets. She had earplugs in her ears, but she could still hear the sounds of drinking and gambling coming from upstairs.
The girl glanced up at the ceiling with slight fear, then wrapped herself even tighter in the blanket, not letting go despite being drenched in sweat. Her hands trembled as she frantically texted her cousin, "Ange, are you there? Can I...can I come to you? My rented apartment seems haunted, I...I'm scared..."
The girl is a recent college graduate who rented this room a month ago because it was the closest to her company, clean, spacious, and cheap.
At first, she thought she had found a bargain and was overjoyed for several days. However, three days after she moved in, she kept hearing people drinking and playing drinking games upstairs in the middle of the night, as well as children running around and the sound of chairs being dragged on the ground.
The sound continued until 3 a.m. before disappearing.
The girl lived alone and thought she could put up with it for now, but who would have thought that the noise from upstairs would start later and later, sometimes at midnight after she was fast asleep, and sometimes at one o'clock in the morning.
She works during the day, and the noise from upstairs at night makes it impossible for her to sleep or rest. Unable to bear it any longer, the girl impulsively went upstairs and knocked on the door, asking her neighbor to be quieter.
At first, the neighbor agreed very kindly, but after only a few hours of peace, it started again.
Moreover, the sound of guessing the code grew louder and louder, as if it were being shouted in her ear.
The girl was furious. Originally, she didn't want to go directly to the property management company to save face for them, but this time she simply went directly to them and asked them to take care of it.
But to her surprise, the property management told her that no one had lived upstairs for the past three years!
The girl didn't believe it. If no one lived there, who answered the door when she knocked that night? And who was making the sounds of guessing games and shoes clattering around that she'd been hearing these past few days?
The property management staff, unable to bear her pestering them any longer, went to get the keys to the upstairs apartment themselves, opened the door for her, and told her, "Three years ago, a family of four did live here, but the woman of the house became seriously ill, and her husband put the house up for sale to pay for her medical treatment."
The property management company didn't tell the girl that the house had been listed many times, but each time someone came to see it, nothing came of it.
The girl was completely stunned when she saw the empty room, and for a moment she really thought she was hallucinating.
However, after seeing the property management off, she heard the sound of people playing dice games upstairs again that night!
The girl considered moving out, but she had just graduated and didn't have much money. It was also difficult to find such a cheap apartment in Beijing that was so close to her company.
In addition, she had already paid six months' rent at the time...
After weighing the options, she had no choice but to continue living there. However, she was driven to the brink of collapse by the noise that had been raging for days. When she heard it again tonight, she couldn't help but send a message to her cousin.
Tao Ange was about to go to sleep when she saw a message from her cousin right after taking melatonin. She frowned slightly and quickly asked her what was wrong.
Yu Luosheng quickly explained what had happened, biting her lip to keep quiet, and tearfully messaged Tao Ange: "Cousin, I'm scared... Can you come pick me up?"
Tao Ange couldn't sleep now, especially since it was July...
Without delay, she quickly contacted a male friend who lived nearby and took him with her to pick up Yu Luosheng so that she could stay at her home for the night.
The next day.
Another weekend, Nan Yuanman and Feng Congqian were snuggling together, their chubby little hands tapping away on the tablet, replying to all sorts of random messages popping up in the background.
[Your Baby Pig]: Boss, do you have a lucky charm? The kind that will make me earn 500 million a day.
[Nan's Coffin Shop]: No, but I can sell you 500 million ghost money.
...
[Pepsi Sweet]: Boss, do you have the love potion from novels? My ex-boyfriend cheated on me, and I want to put a love potion on him and a big boar.
...
【Pure-hearted Cockroach Hot and Spicy】: Boss, I want to order ten coffins and send them to my boss at the company. I wish him a speedy ascension to heaven and me to wealth, oh no, I mean, a promotion and wealth.
...
As Nanmanyuan was processing the issue, he suddenly saw a very familiar ID.
[Borrow another 50 billion from the God of Wealth]: Boss, can you catch ghosts?
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