Chapter 5
Luo Yu put his arm around his shoulder and grinned, "Of course, I love taking in disciples the most."
Luo Zhi let him put his arm around his shoulder. Normally, he hated it most when ghosts did this to him, but at this moment, he pretended not to see it, and the man and the ghost continued to walk along the road.
On the way, he said, "Well, how are you going to teach?"
Luo Yu smirked, coughed, and made an awkward in-and-out gesture with his hands, saying, "Do you know what this means?"
Luo Zhi said, “I don’t know.”
Luo Yu always felt that he was pretending, so he asked, "Do you want me to explain it?" He wanted to see if he could find any flaws.
At this moment, they came to a tea stall, where cups of brewed tea were placed. Luo Zhi looked at them for a while and said to the ghost owner of the tea stall, "Make me a cup to reduce internal heat and clear the stomach."
When the ghost owner of the tea stall saw Luo Zhi's noble appearance, he knew who he was at a glance. He quickly put down the ordinary tea leaves in his hand, opened the drawer of the stall, grabbed a few handfuls of colorful dead leaves, and in a few seconds he prepared a cup of tea that could reduce heat and clear the stomach, and then politely handed it to Luo Zhi.
"Okay! Take it!" The ghost owner of the tea stall actually spoke with an accent.
Luo Zhi took it and handed it to Luo Yu.
Luo Yu didn't take it directly, but said puzzledly: "I'm not angry."
Luo Zhi said, "Yes. Drink it."
Luo Yu drank the cup of tea without knowing why. The tea was quite fragrant and tasted good, sweet.
As for the effect of reducing heat and clearing the stomach, he couldn't feel it.
Luo Yu chatted with the tea stall owner while drinking. "Hey, boss, I just heard your accent seems to be from northern Anhui. Where is your grave?"
He actually wanted to save the step of coming back to look for the ghost.
The ghost owner of the tea stall naturally would not remember where his grave was. First of all, every ghost needs to take a bath after entering the underworld.
The so-called "washing bath" is to wash away everything about each ghost when it was a human, leaving only its zodiac sign and appearance when it was a human, so that it can completely become a ghost and start a new life in this world like a newborn baby in the human world.
However, there are exceptions. For example, if the obsession is too strong or for other reasons, the memory will still be there after taking the bath.
The tea stall owner said in a rather aggressive tone, "I'm not even dead yet, and you're asking me where my grave is?"
“…………”
Luo Yu was completely bewildered, as he had no idea about the concept of posthumous bathing. Suddenly, Luo Zhi said, "The ghost will come and pay for that cup of tea later."
After he finished speaking, he looked at the confused Luo Yu and said, "Come on, I'll tell you why he's angry."
Luo Zhi told Luo Yu everything about the bath, and Luo Yu sighed after hearing it.
"So that's how it is. No wonder he suddenly changed his expression. What I meant was that I was cursing him to die soon." Luo Yu felt that he was all alone here. The convenience store probably hadn't even opened yet, but he was beaten to death here first.
No wonder the Ghost King sent him a partner, and he was his son.
If that's the case, doesn't it mean that Luo Zhi will team up with someone once every hundred years?
Luo Yu said, "Luo Zhi, do you partner up with a human every hundred years? What about those you partnered up with before? ... Do you get along well? Are there any who aren't afraid of you like me?"
Luo Zhi said, "No. This is my first time interacting with a human in the underworld."
Hearing this, Luo Yuda breathed a sigh of relief, though he didn't know why he had such a reaction. He said, "We've been together for most of the day. What do you think of me?"
Luo Zhi looked at him without saying a word.
Luo Yudeng felt a little embarrassed. He shouldn't ask such a question. If it was a simple question, it would be fine, but there seemed to be other things mixed in his mind.
After a long while, Luo Zhi said, "Your thoughts are not quite right."
Luo Yu: "..."
Luo Zhi continued, "But it won't affect your average character."
Average character, this description is really embarrassing, neither good nor bad.
Isn't that what it means to be very common?
Luo Yu said: "I see. Then are you curious about the impression you make on me?"
Luo Zhi shook his head and said, "The words and actions of humans and ghosts can all be faked, so impressions are not important. Besides," he paused, "if the first impression is too good, but it turns out not to be the same as before after getting to know each other, he will be very disappointed."
Luo Yu was a bit stunned. He seemed to know what Luo Zhi was trying to say, but he also seemed to not understand what he was saying at all. He said, "If I continue to perform better and better, will your evaluation of me change from today's average to high?"
Luo Zhi said, “No.”
“…” This confirmed his first impression of him. Is he so stubborn?
Luo Zhi said: "Actually, you don't need any evaluation. If you think you are good, then you are good."
"Don't let anyone or anyone judge you for who you are and try to change yourself. Just be yourself, and there will always be someone who appreciates you."
Luo Yu, however, grasped at his last line, "There will always be someone who appreciates it." He felt that Luo Zhi was deliberately trying to get rid of the ghost. He felt an inexplicable discomfort in his heart. Except in front of his parents, he was always outspoken. So he asked immediately, "Why is it that only some people appreciate it?"
Luo Zhi rarely showed a slightly surprised expression. His handsome face behind the gold-rimmed glasses seemed to be frozen. After a moment, he slowly spoke, his tone still as calm as usual: "Because you are human, ghosts can't appreciate humans."
The man and the ghost confronted each other for a minute.
Luo Yu was feeling a little down, and he said, "I know."
Luo Zhi turned his head away, not looking at him. He said, "The store isn't open yet, so you can go home early. I'll take you home to rest now so you don't miss finding a grave tomorrow."
Luo Yu was about to say something when he saw Luo Zhi waving his hand in front of his eyes, and a dazzling red light shot into his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, he was lying on the bed, and what caught his eye was the familiar shell-shaped chandelier and ceiling.
He took a while to get up from the bed.
But he found something wrong. The light in his room before the underworld was off, so why was it on when he came back?
It is impossible for Xu Xiaoxia and Luo Zeping to break into his room in the middle of the night, so who turned on the light?
Could it be... Luo Zhi is in his room?
Luo Yu jumped out of bed and called out softly: "Luo Zhi? Luo Zhi? Luo Zhi?"
It was completely silent.
Luo Yuduo sat back on the bed, sighed softly, and was about to turn off the lights and go to sleep when the voice he had been expecting in his heart rang out in the room.
"What's up."
It was actually Luo Zhi’s voice!
Luo Yu was overjoyed. He looked around but could not see a ghost in the room. Finally, he turned his gaze to the bottom of the bed.
He suppressed his laughter, quietly walked to the bed, and slowly bent down.
Upon closer inspection, Luo Zhi was indeed under the bed!
Luo Zhi was not wearing his glasses and had his eyes closed, looking as if he was taking a rest. His facial features were even clearer without his glasses, and he was truly beautiful.
Fortunately, his father mopped the room the day before yesterday, otherwise the floor would be covered with cobwebs and dust. Luo Zhi would probably be disgusted when he saw it, and he would also leave him with the impression that he was not fond of cleanliness.
But he is not that untidy, at least he saw the room...
Luo Yu glanced at the half-open wardrobe and didn't dare to label himself as a clean person.
In the half-open wardrobe, the clothes were in a mess, with underwear, socks, and clothes from all seasons crammed together, in all colors, spread out in a disorderly manner, an unsightly sight.
Luo Yu quietly stood up and went to close the wardrobe door. He thought: Luo Zhi has been lying under the bed since he came back from the underworld, so he probably didn't see it.
After closing the closet door, he looked around the other corners of the room.
Suddenly my head started buzzing.
He had four potted plants on his windowsill, but only one was still stubbornly green, barely surviving. The other three had already been buried.
Look at the corner of the ceiling next to the door of the room. It is occupied by a very beautiful spider web.
The white-painted walls were full of traces of his youth. On the four walls were a series of Japanese anime posters, of which the most common ones were ones with a man wearing a straw hat and smiling very cheerfully.
Fortunately, the bedside table is still tidy and organized, because the mess is all in the drawers.
"What are you doing?" Luo Zhi said from under the bed.
Luo Yu was startled, feeling like he'd been caught doing something bad, but he didn't do anything. He just closed the closet door. He said, "Nothing. I was just about to turn off the lights and go to bed."
No, why would Luo Zhi want to crawl under the bed? Luo Yu asked, "...Why did you want to crawl under the bed?" He thought for a moment, "My bed is 2 meters long, and it's not crowded at all for two men to sleep on it."
This bed was bought by Xu Xiaoxia four years ago. Since the child is entering college, he will definitely fall in love. And when he falls in love, he naturally wants to take her home to spend time with him. If it's too late to go home, he naturally wants to stay the night here. But our Luo didn't talk to any of his classmates, which made Ms. Xu Xiaoxia so anxious that she wanted to teach him the secrets of how to win over girls.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to talk, but he really can’t meet someone who can make his heart beat faster, who makes him think about her all day long. Not seeing her for a day feels like a long time, and not seeing her for a month feels like being in hell.
Luo Zhi said, "Adapt."
"Adapt?" Luo Yu thought for a moment, "Do you mean you will sleep here with me from now on?"
Luo Zhi: “Yeah.”
"Then come to the bed," Luo Yu squatted down and reached in to pull Luo Zhi out, "It's no problem for two grown men to sleep on the bed with a little baby between us. Don't sleep under the bed."
Luo Zhi remained unmoved, his eyes still tightly closed: "This isn't good."
Luo Yu was anxious. He would not give up unless he pulled Luo Zhi to bed to sleep with him tonight.
Since persuasion wouldn't work, then he'd just stay with her. Luo Yu immediately lay down on the ground, squinting at the beautiful woman's face, and said, "Then move over a bit, I want to sleep under the bed too."
Luo Zhi finally opened his eyes, glanced at Luo Yu, and said, "I sleep under the bed because I'm afraid your parents will suddenly come in."
Indeed, if one day Luo Zeping suddenly came in and saw a handsome man hiding in his son's room, and his son was 22 years old and had never seen him in a relationship..., ahem, it would be a bit easy for people to think of something wrong.
Luo Yu lay motionless. He planned to be shameless tonight. He said, "But I want you to sleep on the bed. I can't sleep if you don't. So I have no choice but to..." sleep under the bed with you!
Luo Zhi thought that what he said about not being able to sleep was that he was afraid of something like sleep paralysis, so he said, "I won't let you sleep paralysis. Go back to bed and sleep peacefully."
"I won't!" Luo Yu refused to listen. He wanted to sleep with him tonight.
Luo Zhi said, "Then go turn off the lights and I'll go to bed with you."
Luo Yu was stunned, then realized something. He stammered, "Are you sleeping under the bed because you can't see the light? I didn't think of that. Sorry, I'll go turn off the light now... Eh—no, who turned on the light?"
Luo Zhi said, "It's not important. Turn off the lights and go to sleep."
Luo Yu responded with "OK" and turned off the lights. He would check the surveillance video or ask his parents about this issue tomorrow.
As soon as the lights were turned off, Luo Zhi rolled onto the bed. He was very tactful and only took up a quarter of the bed.
Luo Yuye lay down, and in the moonlight, he could see Luo Zhi's slender bare feet. He couldn't help but wonder: How did he take off his shoes and socks so quickly just now?
Also, Luo Zhi cannot be seen in public, so I will have to find a grave by myself tomorrow. In that case, I have to find out how to burn the money tonight.
Luo Yu said, "Luo Zhi, do you know how much paper to burn now?"
Luo Zhi said, "About 2,000 yuan in paper money."
Luo Yu asked, "But didn't you know it just now?"
Time goes back to the five minutes after he left - that is, one hour in the underworld.
After Luo Zhi sent Luo Yu back, he summoned Wangwang over.
Fortunately, Wangwang is a ghost who does not bear grudges. In human terms, he has a sharp tongue but a soft heart.
As soon as the position was changed, he appeared again and again with a hum.
"Tell me what's going on." Wangwang's tone was less respectful this time. Of course, Luozhi didn't care.
Luo Zhi had called him here with the same question: "How are the money for the underworld and the paper money burned in the human world calculated?"
Wangwang was now lucid, so he could naturally answer the question. With a dog-like expression, he explained to Luozhi, "In the human world, we have our ancestors and our descendants; in the underworld, they also have their ancestors and descendants. So, burning money is closely related. If someone burns money for him, he will be happy in the underworld. If no one burns money for him, he will be like a beggar."
Luo Zhi actually didn't want to hear him talk about this. He said, "So how should this money be calculated?"
Wangwang snorted and got back to the point. "One yuan of paper money burned in the human world is equivalent to one hundred pieces of paper money in the underworld. However, to build a shop, you need about 1,800 yuan of paper money in the human world, which is 180,000 pieces of paper money in the underworld. But to be on the safe side, I suggest you burn two thousand. If you encounter a renovation ghost who asks for too much, you can still pay more and save yourself the trouble of burning more."
Luo Zhi thanked him after he found out, then changed the subject and gave him a cold warning: "Be more careful with your attitude towards Luo Yu in the future, otherwise you will end up in a stinking ditch."
Wangwang stopped talking, and his expression at this moment looked as if he had given his true feelings to the wrong person.
A red light flashed, and Luo Zhi came to Luo Yu's home in the human world, under the bed in Luo Yu's room.
Luo Zhi said, "I asked. You should have two thousand yuan."
Luo Yu lied: "No."
Luo Zhi said, "Then ask your mother for it tomorrow."
Luo Yu thought this was quite amusing. He suppressed a laugh and said deliberately, "But my mom will ask me what I'm going to do with it. I have to find a reason, otherwise she won't give it to me."
Luo Zhi: "You said you wanted to treat your friends to a meal."
"But I don't have any friends." Luo Yu said this pitifully, but in his heart he was actually very happy. Of course he did have friends, but for some reason he just wanted to chat with Luo Zhi like this.
Luo Zhi said, "Then just say you're taking your girlfriend out shopping."
Luo Yu said with good reason: "But if that's the case, my mother will ask me to take her home soon. Where will I find a girlfriend then?"
This time Luo Zhi didn't answer directly. After a minute, he said helplessly, "Give me your phone."
Luo Yu: "What are you doing?"
Luo Zhi said, "Ask your mother for money."
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