"I also think that sweet is the authentic taste."
I subconsciously agreed, then immediately realized that he had misunderstood.
"It's not that kind of meat dumpling, it's a 'zongzi demon,' or a hanged ghost!"
"Huh?" Zhang Qiang's puzzled voice came from the other end of the phone.
I recounted the ceremony of sending meat dumplings to Zhang Qiang and everything that happened in Gejia Village to him. After listening, Zhang Qiang was shocked.
After a long while, he murmured on the other end of the phone:
"Your trip was truly spectacular."
"Exciting? It should be dangerous, right?" I said, somewhat puzzled.
At this moment, Luo Tianhe brought Li Huai, who had finished washing up, to me.
"Who are you talking to on the phone?"
He asked casually.
"Zhang Qiang, let me ask him if the Taoist priest has returned yet. It's a pity he hasn't."
"Okay, you go ahead and get busy, I'll hang up now."
Zhang Qiang on the other end of the phone realized that I seemed to have something to do, so he hung up.
"How is it? Has Daoist Zhang Qingxiao returned? Will he come with us?"
Luo Tianhe looked expectant and fired off a barrage of questions.
With Master Zhang Qingxiao backing him up, he felt this trip was practically a sure thing.
I shook my head, shrugged, and said:
"No, and Master Zhang Qingxiao won't be back for another two days."
"So, we have to go by ourselves?"
Upon hearing this, Luo Tianhe was somewhat disappointed.
After hesitating for a while, I finally voiced my thoughts.
"Luo Tianhe, why don't we wait two more days until Daoist Zhang Qingxiao arrives before making any plans?"
"Wait two more days?" Luo Tianhe said, enunciating each word clearly. If it were someone else saying that, he would have kicked them.
After all, his good brother was suffering in the dark in his grave.
"That's right," I said, forcing myself to speak.
“Tell me your reasons.”
Luo Tianhe remained expressionless.
Li Huai, who had been yawning just moments before, suddenly snapped back to reality when he saw the tense atmosphere around us.
This was the first time he had ever seen this situation between me and Luo Tianhe.
No matter what had happened before, Luo Tianhe and I had never felt this kind of confrontation; we were always as close as one person.
"Do you remember that ghostly Taoist priest? I always felt that guy was too eerie! I want to ask Master Zhang Qingxiao if he knows anything about the inside story, and if he has time, I can ask him to come with us. I feel it would be very dangerous if the three of us went there rashly."
I finished speaking quickly, then looked at Luo Tianhe. His brows were furrowed, and he was clearly struggling with something.
I know he doesn't want to wait, but he also doesn't want to kill us.
"Luo Tianhe, the choice is yours. If you say you want to go now, I will definitely not let you go alone."
I said that, sat down on the sofa, and felt a sense of relief wash over me.
Li Huai yawned.
"I'm fine with anything. You can call me after you've made your decision. I'm so tired. You have no idea what kind of torment I went through in the orphanage. I couldn't sleep well every day."
After saying that, while Luo Tianhe was still struggling with his decision, she leisurely returned to her room.
I was speechless. Li Huai is really carefree.
Even looking at the atmosphere we have now, which is different from the past, we can tell that this matter is by no means simple.
But he only has one thing to say: if you call him, he will go.
Seeing that he was still struggling and couldn't seem to make a decision, I decided to call Bai Yang to ask her if anything had happened recently.
The call connected quickly, and Bai Yang's lively voice came from the other end:
"Boss, you're back."
"Yes, you're back. How have you been lately?"
"Boss, you're really something! You promised me a day off, but you left my phone number on the wall of the funeral home. I get called every day. You're such a jerk!"
Hearing this, I couldn't help but chuckle.
I had expected this; there would probably be no signal in the mountains, and those people couldn't get through to me when they tried to call.
When they came to the store, they found it was closed, which must have been devastating, so I left Bai Yang's phone number there.
“We’re in the service industry, after all. How can we serve our customers well if we don’t even give them a message? Besides, it’s just a phone call; you don’t have to do any work.”
"Just answering a phone call?"
Bai Yang on the other end of the phone seemed to be gritting his teeth as he spoke.
“You know what? People call me every day, telling me all sorts of stories. It feels like I’m receiving calls from ghosts. Some of them even call me in the middle of the night.”
At this point, Bai Yang seemed somewhat aggrieved.
"So, are there any cases worth taking action on?"
After hearing Bai Yang's words, I felt a little embarrassed, even though he had his sister with him and was basically immune to most horror stories.
But some of the calls were like ghost stories, and even I was scared by them.
Bai Yang thought about it carefully.
"Most of them are strange, and I don't know if it's something we can get involved in, but there's one I feel we can."
"It's strange, how strange?"
I couldn't help but be curious. Instead of asking what we could solve, I wanted to know just how many eerie stories were behind the phone calls she received.
"Oh, it's like this. A girl called me and said that she woke up at two o'clock in the morning to go to the bathroom. She picked up her phone and found that it said, 'Please unlock in one minute.'"
Those few words gave me the creeps.
"So what did you say to her back then?"
"What else can we say? Let her call the police. I bet someone hid under her bed and secretly unlocked her phone in the middle of the night."
Bai Yang's words were simple, but they sent chills down my spine.
Even if it wasn't done by a ghost, this kind of thing can still scare people to death!
"Hehe, there's more. A girl called me before and said she's been encountering strange things lately."
“Once, she went to the library to look for information. In a corner of the library, she was looking for the book she needed, but suddenly someone behind the library bookshelf handed the book to her.”
"And that book was exactly what she needed."
"What's wrong with that? It's just helping out, and it's even a little heartwarming."
I didn't think much of it and just said it casually.
"Hehe, that's a corner of the library. There's a wall behind the library, so how could someone be handing her a book from behind a bookshelf?"
"Moreover, the girl was a lawyer, and the information she came for was about a murder case from many years ago, and the victim's body has not yet been found."
"That person just handed her the file directly. How did she know that this girl was looking for this?"
Suddenly I felt a chill run through my body, a cold air rushing from the soles of my feet to the top of my head, and I couldn't help but tighten my clothes.
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