Chapter 173

"That's different. Do you want to go?"

The car owner asked.

"Go ahead."

Paradise said.

At a small noodle restaurant on Mianmian Street, the two found a table and sat down. The boss asked for their requests and brought them two bowls of noodles. As soon as they walked back, they felt a little uneasy, wondering if it was going to rain soon. They looked up at the sky, but didn't think it was because of this. They lowered their head to look for their phone, found it and made a call, but the call didn't go through. They felt a little annoyed and sat back in their seat.

The noodle shop owner was looking at his phone with a frown on his face when some more customers came in, sat down at a table and asked the owner to order. The owner quickly put his phone away and walked over to greet them with a smile. After they placed their orders, they talked with a smile while the owner cooked the noodles, prepared the seasonings and brought the noodles to their table. He turned around and was about to sit down when his phone suddenly rang.

The boss answered the phone, listened for a while, frowned, showed an impatient expression, and replied: "No need."

There seemed to be a woman's voice on the other end of the phone. She had a loud voice and a temper that was neither good nor bad. Compared to the boss, she was relatively calm.

The two men almost quarreled. The boss hung up the phone and muttered to himself, "Minding my own business, what a problem. Do you know your own business clearly? You care about other people so much. It's really annoying."

The clock next to him rang, and the boss turned his head to look. The clock on the wall rang again, and the boss seemed to be reluctantly happy. He tilted his head to look, and the customers over there finished their meal and wanted to pay. The boss turned back to collect the money from them, waved to them and said, "Come back next time! If you think it's delicious, you can recommend it to your friends. If you think it's not delicious, remember to tell me what's wrong and I'll change it!"

The customers left one after another, and the shop became a little empty. Leyuan and the car owner finished their noodles and stood up to pay the bill. When the boss collected the money, he glanced at them and suddenly hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't. It seemed that he needed something but couldn't say it for a moment.

Leyuan looked around and didn't see anyone else around. He confirmed that the boss was not looking at them like that because of someone else, but he didn't know what the boss was thinking. If it were usual, he might have asked one more question, but he had just finished solving a problem today and didn't really want to continue solving other people's problems. He was a little tired and squinted his eyes.

After leaving the noodle shop, the car owner glanced at Paradise and asked, "Do you want to go to bed early tonight?"

Le Yuan said, “I think it is necessary.”

The car owner laughed and said, "What a pity! I went to the supermarket and was planning to have a meal with you, but it seems that I won't be able tonight."

Leyuan thought about it and nodded: "Indeed."

The car owner said: "Then let's go back quickly and don't worry about anything else."

Paradise said, “Okay.”

They returned to their residence and Le Yuan went to bed early. There were no nightmares at night, and no one else was singing or talking. The room was very quiet. There was nothing else but himself. He felt great. After a comfortable sleep, Le Yuan woke up in the morning. The morning sunlight looked good, gentle and cool, with a little insignificant fleeting light and golden light falling like a neat forest at night.

At first glance, it looks like there is a layer of soft and expensive silk on the ground.

Leyuan got up to wash up, and the car owner came over and knocked on the door: "Are you going to the noodle shop on Mianmian Street today? I saw that it's a good time to go for breakfast. It's normal to have noodles for breakfast, right? What did you think of the noodles yesterday? If the taste is okay, let's go now! I can't wait."

Leyuan wiped his hands and said, "Okay."

The two of them went out together and slowly walked to the noodle shop. There were already many people here, but some of them left soon. They had finished eating. The noodle shop owner very attentively wiped the table with a white towel, quickly asked them to sit down, and asked them with a warm smile what they would like to order. It seemed as if nothing had happened. Maybe it was just a whim yesterday.

The owner of the car stated his request and after he placed his order, the boss turned around and went back to work, quickly bringing over the hot, bright red noodles and asking them to eat them quickly, saying, "If you leave it out for too long, it will get cold and won't taste good anymore, haha."

After saying that, the boss turned around and went to cook noodles for other customers with his hot white noodle soup.

People around have left and new ones have come. The store has been busy and bustling all the time. It seems that the boss's business is good. Looking at this situation, logically speaking, the boss should have nothing to worry about.

The car owner and Leyuan finished their noodles and went to the boss to pay. The boss hesitated for a moment and asked Leyuan, "Did you burn paper money at the intersection on the Ghost Festival before? I have something I want to ask you to do, but I don't know when you are free to listen to me."

The car owner looked at the park and then at the boss: "We are free most of the time, but you look very busy. I'm afraid you can't get away for a while."

The boss smiled and said, "No problem, no problem. I just asked casually. Since you are all free, I feel relieved. I will find you as soon as I am free."

He nodded, thanked them, took the money, waved to them, and let them leave early.

It’s not that we’re in a hurry to kick out the customers who have finished their meal, but you can tell that business is so good that it’s really busy.

The two walked out slowly, and the car owner said to Paradise, "I have other things to deal with later, so I won't be going home."

Paradise responded.

The car owner asked: "Are you going back to rest?"

When Leyuan thought of the complicated expression on the noodle shop owner's face, he nodded and said to the car owner, "I'm afraid there will be things to do later. I need to rest for a while before considering other things. If I don't take the time to rest now, I will probably be too busy to rest for a while."

The car owner smiled and said, "Well, let's separate here."

He waved to the paradise and turned away.

Leyuan nodded and turned away.

After a while, when the noodle shop owner and the car owner were eating noodles in the park again, he looked around and asked quietly, "Excuse me, can I have your contact information? Either one will do. I think it will be more convenient for us to contact each other in the future. I don't need to know your address, I just need to know how to contact you as soon as possible."

Leyuan looked at the car owner, who said, "Then you don't need mine. You're not looking for me. You have your own contact information, right?"

Leyuan took out his cell phone and gave the contact information to the noodle shop owner.

The noodle shop owner thanked him gratefully and turned to leave happily. It seemed that he was still very busy today and could not tell everything at once. Leyuan stopped him and asked, "Boss, what's your name? I can take notes."

The boss turned around and smiled as if waking up from a dream: "Oh, I forgot to mention this. You can call me Boss Liang."

Leyuan nodded, added a note and asked, "Boss Liang, what do you need our help with?"

The boss rubbed his hands, blinked his eyes, and said nervously, "Well, there are still too many people here. Let's talk about it another day."

Paradise looked at the car owner, and the car owner said, "It's not impossible. What's wrong with us playing for a while longer?"

Paradise said, “Okay.”

The boss smiled at the two of them and turned to greet other customers.

After a while, when we met again, the boss's face looked as pale as a frost-bitten eggplant, and he looked very bad. He coughed from time to time, and had to stop when walking on the road. He couldn't walk too fast at all. The door of the noodle shop was also closed. Although it was still broad daylight, which should have been the day for the noodle shop to open, the boss now couldn't even remember that he was open.

Much more miserable than before.

"I'm sorry to have you come to see me at this time, and to have you meet such a gloomy person. I'm really embarrassed."

The noodle shop owner saw Leyuan and apologized immediately.

Leyuan said: "Nothing, what's the matter?"

The noodle shop owner said: "I, I had a nightmare."

He looked even more embarrassed, his face was pale, but as he spoke, his face gradually turned red. He lowered his eyes and spoke in a low voice, as if he was afraid of being overheard. He looked around but did not dare to look closely. If he stared at one place for too long, his eyeballs would jump in their sockets, just like a terrified person who suddenly saw a ghost in the corner and wanted to run away in fear.

"This nightmare did not start today. I started having nightmares frequently around the Ghost Festival. At first, it was only at night. I would dream of a dark place with the sound of dripping water. After that, I would walk forward in my dream and I would see a little light in the dark place. I would walk forward along the light and see a narrow gap.

If I walked forward, I would see that there was an eye stuck in the gap. The eye was looking at me, motionless, and laughing at me.

I don't know where that place is, but after so many times, it feels like a closed, dripping, problematic grave.

The problem is, I don't remember having a grave like that in my house. Even if there is a grave in my house, it is impossible to see an eye inside after the crack! This must be a nightmare. To be honest, I went to the hospital and the doctor examined me. He said that I just had some insomnia and dreaminess, which was a small matter. He prescribed me sleeping pills, which I took, and I fell asleep very easily.

However, taking the medicine has a great impact on my business. No matter whether it is day or night, I always doze off after taking the medicine, which makes me unable to do anything. I have to find a way to maintain my energy. When I am extremely sleepy, my strength becomes less and my concentration becomes poor. Everything I have is ruined by those medicines!"