The weekend was sunny and the weather was nice.
It was the first time that Chi Shen saw such good sunshine in his new home after moving. It had been raining continuously in the previous period of time, and the whole port city looked like it was going to moldy.
Looking at the beautiful sunshine, Chi Shen folded up the parasol and moved the flower pot next to the lounge chair a little bit to avoid accidentally stepping on the flowers in the pot.
Only then did he realize that he seemed to have bought too many chrysanthemums, and the entire small terrace was filled with chrysanthemums.
It's not his fault. Which flower grower can resist large, gorgeous flowers with different shapes and postures?
Chi Shen had roughly counted before and found that he had bought no less than twenty kinds of chrysanthemums. Because he was afraid that they would die, he always bought at least two pots. So it was normal for the chrysanthemums to fill this small terrace.
After moving away a pot of chrysanthemums that looked like a golden fountain, Chi Shen finally walked to his own recliner. He took his small blanket, lay down peacefully, and closed his eyes peacefully among the chrysanthemums.
Smelling the bitter fragrance of chrysanthemums, Chi Shen was still thinking before he fell asleep, he must be the contemporary Tao Yuanming, picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing...
Chi Shen fell asleep in the warm sunshine.
Not long after he fell asleep, ghosts popped out from the shadows of the living room and looked at him from afar.
Bai Wan spoke first: "Should we remind him?"
Ghostface turned his eyes away from the TV and looked outside.
In fact, it is quite pleasing to the eyes. After all, the beauty, the flowers, and the bright sunshine are just like a painting.
That's it...
"He seems to be dead." The red-clothed female ghost spoke sincerely, revealing the truth in one word.
Everyone else looked at the female ghost in red.
The female ghost in red looked at them innocently, as if she didn't know what she said.
Several ghosts looked towards Chi Shen again, and Bai Wan raised an opinion: "In fact, he bought relatively few white chrysanthemums, which doesn't look like a funeral."
Ghost Face also said: "Maybe we should remind him to buy some other flowers."
"Chrysanthemums are the most beautiful in autumn!" The female ghost in red expressed her opinion again.
Bai Wan lowered her chin and thought for a moment: "There is another question, who should remind him?"
The ghosts looked at each other and all took a step back.
The cabinet in the living room suddenly thought about it, and the cabinet ghost stretched out a hand and made a "five" gesture, expressing with gestures that there should be five ghosts here.
The red-dressed female ghost understood immediately: "I'll go call Brother Ji!"
"Where is handsome Ji?" Guilian looked around but didn't see him.
Then, they saw Bai Wan pointing in the direction of Chi Shen, where Ji Xingchen stretched out a hand from Chi Shen's shadow and put Chi Shen's hand that was exposed outside the blanket into the blanket.
A few ghosts: ...Forget it, let's just leave it that way, as long as they are happy.
Even if they wanted a funeral, what did it matter? It was OK as long as they didn't care.
Chi Shen slept until night. Ji Xingchen did not wake him up. Chi Shen slept comfortably. When he woke up, the sun was already setting.
The recliner is not really a good place to sleep. It is okay for a short nap, but after sleeping for a long time, Chi Shen just felt uncomfortable all over. He climbed up from the recliner and moved around, only to feel his body crackling.
"I'm so tired. I didn't expect to sleep for so long." Chi Shen rubbed his nose tiredly, "I have to ask Boss Li to pay overtime."
Ji Xingchen stood in the shadow drawn out by the setting sun. He tried to take the blanket from Chi Shen with one hand and help him put it away, but his hand went through the blanket, which made him pause slightly. However, he quickly adjusted his movements, withdrew his hand as if nothing had happened, and said, "You have to work overtime tonight."
"There's not much to do tonight, it's not that troublesome." Chi Shen put away the blanket himself and said with a smile, "Let's go eat! Is there anything you want to eat?"
Ji Xingchen shook his head: "Don't waste money."
Chi Shen said: "How can it be considered a waste to spend money on you?"
As the two were talking, they just entered the living room and Chi Shen saw a few ghosts poking their heads over. When they saw them come in, they all acted as if nothing had happened and did what they were supposed to do.
Chi Shen discovered that Bai Wan, relying on the fact that her head was covered by a red veil, turned her head 180 degrees. She was actually looking at them, but she still wanted to pretend that her back was facing them.
"Good evening." Chi Shen didn't try to find out what they were doing, but just greeted them happily.
The ghost in the living room responded, "Good evening."
The ghost face looked at the two of them, wanting to say something but stopping himself.
Chi Shen tilted his head to look at him: "Just say whatever you want to say."
Gui Lian looked at the TV screen again, and seemed to be a little overwhelmed by Chi Shen's words, but he rolled his eyes and quickly said, "I think watching TV is useless."
Chi Shen knew that he didn't want to say this, but whether it was a human or a ghost, they should have privacy. Since he didn't want to talk about it, he didn't continue to ask, so he replied: "Do you want to change the way?"
Ghost Face immediately folded himself twice and replied, "I want to go out and see the world. Maybe I can make some new discoveries."
"Okay, I'm about to go out, come with me to see the world." Chi Shen said.
Ghostface was stunned: "I mean..."
Chi Shen looked at him.
Ghost Face swallowed the rest of his words and said, "Following Big Brother means seeing the world. Let's go!"
Chi Shen smiled and nodded.
At this time, the red-dressed female ghost was also unhappy. She raised her hand and said, "I want to go too!"
"Okay." Chi Shen thought that tonight's matter was not troublesome, and it would be okay to bring one more ghost. "Let's go together, Bai Wan, are you going?"
Bai Wan turned her head 180 degrees, straightened it, and turned back: "Can I?"
Chi Shen waved at her: "Don't be shy, let's go out and play together."
As the sun sets, Chi Shen goes out with a house full of ghosts.
Li Xu and Xu Jiayuan were waiting for him downstairs. What they were going to do tonight was to solve some follow-up issues of the Hong Kong City serial murder case.
Seeing Chi Shen coming out, Xu Jiayuan was immediately shocked: "What are you doing? A hundred ghosts are traveling?"
Chi Shen carried a bag with Bai Wan's tablet and the red-dressed ghost's paper phone in it. As for the ghost face, he was just a lonely ghost without any possession, or in other words, he could go anywhere with water. Chi Shen also asked the cabinet ghost if he wanted to go out and play together, but got a negative answer. He seemed to think that the safest and happiest place for him was in the cabinet, and it didn't matter which cabinet it was, as long as it was a cabinet.
Carrying the objects that possessed them, Bai Wan and the female ghost in red followed him. Li Xu couldn't see them, but Xu Jiayuan could see the ghosts following Chi Shen.
Chi Shen said: "Bring the family out to play."
Xu Jiayuan immediately revealed an indescribable expression: "You call this family?"
Chi Shen looked at him with a smile.
The ghosts on Chi Shen's body also smiled at him, but the ghost's smile was always a little hard to accept. For example, the corners of the ghost's mouth almost reached the tip of the eyebrow, and the red-clothed female ghost showed two rows of sharp fangs when she smiled. As for Bai Wan...
Bai Wan's laughter was soft and faint. She sounded very ladylike and creepy.
"So you are Chi Shen's family. I'm so sorry. I've heard a lot about you." Xu Jiayuan immediately showed his most enthusiastic and brilliant smile. "I'm sorry, this is the first time I see such a special family. I'm a little shocked. Since Chi Shen said you are, then you must be. Let's go and take a look around together."
Li Xu, who was watching from the side, looked confused: ...Is there anyone who came to tell him what happened?
With Xu Jiayuan's warm welcome, Chi Shen got on the car with his family. There were also two ghosts in the car, namely, Floral Skirt and Huang Lingling. Now, there was not enough room in the car.
Bai Wan gave in first and returned to the tablet in Chi Shen's backpack. The female ghost in red also crawled back to the paper phone very unwillingly, making room for Chi Shen and Xu Jiayuan.
This time Xu Jiayuan was driving, and they headed towards the old town of the port city.
"We've investigated. Duan Rongxi moved to the old city ten years ago. He is still working as a teacher and has been named a special-grade teacher." Xu Jiayuan said as he drove. He looked at Chi Shen and Huang Lingling in a floral dress in the back seat through the rearview mirror.
Li Xu also nodded. He had already talked with Xu Jiayuan before coming. "The students all speak very highly of him and like him very much. However, he never married. Everyone thinks he might have a problem, so not many people are close to him."
Chi Shen looked at them and asked, "Being single is considered a problem?"
Li Xu sighed, "That's right. Everyone thought he was unhealthy or had a mental illness. That was the case at the time. I heard that many people tried to matchmake for him at the beginning, but he kicked them out later. Because he didn't get married, it affected his work. He could have been transferred to a better school."
Xu Jiayuan also said: "I have seen a lot of this kind of thing. Don't think that I have been a policeman for a short time, only two or three years. In these two or three years, you don't know what I have encountered."
He stepped on the brakes to let a car that suddenly rushed out to try to overtake pass first. Although he was young, his tone was still a bit vicissitudes of life when he said this: "Don't be fooled by the sound of our job being high-sounding. We are a special security bureau that specializes in handling matters that the police don't care about and mediating disputes between the Yin and Yang worlds. In fact, catching ghosts is not the most common thing we encounter. What we encounter most often are family matters."
As he was talking, Xu Jiayuan drove into a small road. There were all kinds of cars parked randomly outside. He drove through all kinds of strangely shaped cars with superb driving skills. "What about mother-in-law drugging her daughter-in-law and making her think she saw a ghost, buying villains to curse neighbors, classmates playing horror games to frame each other, and mistresses raising ghosts to keep their status and drive away mistresses. There are all kinds of weird things. Now I think these things are very normal when I hear them... Oh, of course your thing is not normal at all. I think Brother Yuan must have never seen such a thing in his 30 or 40 years since he was a child. As for the things I usually deal with, when we ask them, they say that such things will definitely not happen, and they are just trying to vent their anger. In fact, when we go to deal with them, most of the time, their things really don’t work, but there are also people who use real things to worship."
When Xu Jiayuan turned around, he looked at Li Xu and said, "I have actually encountered the evil god you mentioned, but he was not raised by the God of Wealth. He was a god with his own origin. That person wanted his daughter-in-law to give birth to a son, so he prayed every day. As a result, a monster was born. We went to deal with it, but we couldn't deal with the evil god, so we sent him to the imperial capital headquarters. I don't know what's going on with him now."
Li Xu got excited when talking about these things. He asked, "Having an origin, do you mean having a legend as a basis? For example, the poor ghost?"
"Yes." Xu Jiayuan said, "That's about it. I can't tell you the details, but I just want to say that although most of these curses are fake, what if you happen to encounter a real one? How can ordinary people control this thing? The family that worshipped the evil god, although only the mother-in-law was worshiping, the whole family suffered. His son's soul was hurt by the monster that was born, and he is still stupid now. The daughter-in-law is fine. The monster recognized her mother. Although she lost half her life when she gave birth, she is still alive after all."
Li Xu listened and sighed: "It can be considered retribution."
Xu Jiayuan also shook his head: "So these family matters are the most troublesome, they are hard to explain, and people's gossip is scary. Duan Rongxi's future was ruined just like this."
During the conversation, Xu Jiayuan had already driven around several alleys and finally stopped in front of a middle school.
This is an ordinary middle school in the old city. Not many people in Hong Kong know about it. Xu Jiayuan parked the car on the side of the road, got out and bought three grilled sausages. He came back and gave each of them one, saying, "He should still be attending the evening self-study class. He won't come out until around nine o'clock."
Li Xu nodded: "Then let's wait a while."
Xu Jiayuan pointed to the neighborhood opposite the school and said, "His home is right across the street. He has never been married and his relationship with his family is not good. He lives alone across the street now. We can go find him directly later."
Chi Shen glanced at the time. It was not yet seven o'clock, so it was still early. He said, "Then I'll take them outside for a walk."
Li Xu was puzzled: "They?"
Xu Jiayuan looked at the ghost following Chi Shen, and seemed to want to say something, but finally gave up. He could only remind him, "You...be careful, be careful."
The red-clothed female ghost climbed out of Chi Shen's backpack. She said happily, "Don't worry, we will be very careful! No one will get hurt!"
Xu Jiayuan stared at the female ghost who looked scary but managed to put on an innocent expression with that scary face: "Who told you to be careful not to get hurt? I told you to be careful not to bump into other people!"
The red-clothed female ghost couldn't understand: "...Ah?"
Bai Wan immediately came out of her backpack and held down the red-clothed female ghost, saying with a smile, "We will be careful not to affect other people. Don't worry, we are very skilled in this matter."
Xu Jiayuan nodded and let them go. After they left, he suddenly turned around and looked at Bai Wan's back.
He always felt that the yin energy was very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.
Soon Chi Shen disappeared in the crowd outside the school gate. It was seven o'clock, the time for day students to return to school for evening self-study after lunch. There was a bustling crowd outside the school, and some students seemed to find them strange and looked at them several times.
Seeing Chi Shen leave, Li Xu finally felt that he could ask the question he had just raised: "Was there someone following him just now?"
Huang Lingling said in the back seat, "Three ghosts, oh, no, there are four ghosts, and the big brother with glasses is also there, but he didn't come out."
Li Xu touched his neck and said, "This is too scary. I didn't expect Chi Shen to know so many ghosts. No wonder he was so calm before."
Then, he noticed from the rearview mirror that the two ghosts in the back seat were staring at him.
Li Xu was more familiar with them this time, not to mention that the two of them had protected him before. He even felt more intimate with them. However, when he saw the two of them looking at him, he felt a chill on his back. He asked, "Did I, did I say something wrong?"
Huang Lingling smiled with curved eyebrows and eyes: "Uncle, you are no worse than him."
Li Xu didn't understand at all. He always felt that this question shouldn't be asked any more, so he simply pretended not to hear it. He coughed dryly and said to the girl in the floral dress, "There are still two hours left. It will be soon."
The girl in the floral dress nodded silently.
In fact, the girl in the floral dress was very silent along the way. After arriving here, she physically stretched her neck to look in the direction of the school. Only when Li Xu said the pool was deep did she turn her head to look at Li Xu, and now she turned back to look at the school.
Xu Jiayuan also said: "Don't be nervous, think about what you want to say later, this may be your only chance."
The girl in the floral dress nodded, and the car fell into silence.
After getting off the bus, Chi Shen walked all the way forward. If there is any good place near the school, it is of course the snack street!
If a snack street can keep doing business next to a school, it must have excellent taste! After all, it is a business that relies on repeat customers. If it is not delicious, no matter how much gimmicks are made in the early stage, it will become deserted in a few days.
When he heard that they were coming to study, Chi Shen didn't even have dinner and got into Xu Jiayuan's car directly.
After taking a walk in the snack street, under the guidance of the red-clothed female ghost and Bai Wan's ghost face, he first bought a cup of hot cocoa, and then bought fried skewers, as well as roujiamo, chicken chops and chicken fillets.
Finally, Chi Shen sat down in a spicy hot pot restaurant and ordered dozens of spicy hot pots in one go. While waiting for the dishes to be served, he looked at his own shadow and asked, "Don't you really want to eat anything?"
At this time, his shadow finally moved and said, "Tripe."
Chi Shen laughed: "Boss, give me another portion of tripe!"
The efficiency of the spicy hot pot outside the school is very fast. Not long after Chi Shen ordered, the boss brought a large bowl of spicy hot pot and asked him: "Is your friend not here?"
If one person eats a whole bowl of this, he or she will definitely not be able to finish it.
Chi Shen smiled and replied, "They will be here soon."
The boss walked away smiling and went to greet other guests.
Half an hour later, Chi Shen went to pay the bill. When the boss came to clear the table, he found that there was still a lot of spicy hot pot left. He shook his head and muttered that young people nowadays were so wasteful. He picked out the meat from the spicy hot pot, washed it with hot water, and threw it into the dog bowl, thinking that it should not be wasted.
Normally the dog would rush over when it saw food, but this time it stayed far away from its own bowl and whined a few times.
"That's weird." The boss pulled the dog's leash and dragged it toward the food bowl. "Aren't you hungry? You don't even know how to eat meat?"
The dog immediately ran in the opposite direction with all its might. The boss pulled it several times until he was sweating profusely. He cursed and gave up, choosing to go and greet the customers.
As soon as the owner left, the dog immediately overturned his food bowl and ran away.
When the boss came back from work, he swept the floor again, cursing, and the dog resigned himself to his fate, changing the dog food, muttering, "This is really strange."
After eating the spicy hot pot, Chi Shen had less snacks in his hand, and he shared them all with the red-clothed female ghost and Ghost Face.
Bai Wan was relatively reserved and ate less, most of the time just to taste the food. But the female ghost in red was different. If Chi Shen hadn't stopped her, he even suspected that she would have swallowed the entire bowl of spicy hot pot.
After more contacts with the Special Security Bureau, Chi Shen has also mastered some methods of communicating with ghosts. Now they no longer need to burn incense or make offerings to exchange for food. Instead, Chi Shen directly calls their names and invites them to dinner.
This trick also allows them to enjoy the food on the table, which are the things they have eaten. Living people cannot eat them, otherwise it will damage their yang energy.
However, the food they had eaten still looked the same, but the taste was gone, as all the essence in the food had been eaten up by the ghosts.
After finishing his meal with his family, Chi Shen looked at the time and saw that it was almost time, so he went back with his snacks.
Li Xu and Xu Jiayuan, who were waiting in the car, both fell asleep. They both stayed awake all night last night, so it was normal for them to feel tired at this moment. However, as soon as Chi Shen came over with snacks, they woke up by the smell.
Chi Shen gave each of them a little. Calculating the time, it was exactly nine o'clock. Taking into account the time to clean up after evening self-study, Duan Rongxi would pass by here in ten minutes, and the two of them would have finished their meals just in time.
"Let me tell you something to be careful of," Xu Jiayuan said vaguely while eating a roujiamo (a Chinese steamed bun) in big mouthfuls, turning his head and speaking in a floral skirt, "You can't see him directly. This is the rule. We will also monitor you. If you show up, we will take you back directly. Do you understand?"
The girl in the floral dress nodded silently.
The broken parts on her face have healed back a little. Li Xu originally wanted to feed some of his own blood to make the floral skirt look better, but this action was stopped by Xu Jiayuan, because this might make the floral skirt go crazy. Ghosts cannot be easily contaminated by human blood, just like sharks hunt by smelling blood.
Chi Shen also looked at the floral skirt.
The floral skirt was originally shriveled after all the blood was drained out. After the battle with Bai Ran, it now looked even more miserable. She herself seemed to know that her current image was not very good. She grabbed the skirt with both hands and looked very hesitant.
"Here they come!" The girl in the floral skirt didn't have much time to think. Li Xu had already looked in one direction and whispered, "Duan Rongxi!"
A middle-aged man with gray hair walked out from the school gate. Although the years had left traces on his face, he still looked healthy, with bright eyes. He was a very handsome middle-aged man.
The girl in the floral dress's eyes lit up when she saw the man.
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