ebookland Chapter 240 Police Officer, Help Me, There’s a Ghost
Chapter 240 Police Officer, Help Me, There’s a Ghost
At the end of the year, Lao Zhong's originally deserted incense and candle shop became much busier, and people who came to buy things crowded outside the door.
Su Chen and others went in after they had finished their shopping and left.
Old Zhong was pounding his old waist and directing a child to get something.
Glancing at him, she was stunned for a moment, then smiled: "Xiao Su, what do you want?"
"Cinnabar, a little more." Su Chen said, glancing at the incense shop, "A few more incense sticks, Uncle Zhong, your big incense sticks look good."
Lao Zhong was proud: "Really? What I can get from the store must be good. This incense can be burned all day and all night! How many sticks?"
"Six roots, right?"
Su Chen carefully looked at the child who was helping to carry things: "A relative's child?"
"Hey, his parents died early, and he's a sensible guy. I asked him to come over and help for a few days."
Old Zhong supported his waist and sat down on the chair, beckoning the child over: "Awang, come here, this is Master Xiao Su."
The child called out "Master Uncle" obediently.
Su Chen carefully examined his face and smiled at Lao Zhong: "You were lonely and miserable when you were young, but you are a hardworking person. You will enjoy happiness in your middle and old age."
Old Zhong was happy: "Xiao Su, if you say that, I'll tell my elder sister and she'll be relieved."
Awang said thank you and quickly turned around to help pack things.
Old Zhong sighed: "My old sister can't hold on for much longer."
"This kid... I mentioned it to Ayu earlier. Ayu said he would help him transfer to school here and help him look after the stall in the future, and he would pay him a salary."
It is indeed something that Ayu can do.
Su Chen smiled, paid the money, turned around to buy some paint, and after returning to the incense shop, he carried six incense sticks and went home.
Awang was stunned when he saw Su Chen suddenly disappear.
Old Zhong was also a little surprised, but soon smiled and said, "Awang, Xiao Su's predictions are very accurate. As long as you work hard, you will have everything in the future."
The little guy nodded blankly: "I understand, uncle."
"Hey, did you buy some incense?"
Seeing Su Chen coming back with the incense, Liu Chunhua looked at it carefully and said, "Is this incense good? Don't turn around and it will go out in the rain."
It is a tradition to light incense on New Year's Day.
Whoever burns the thickest, largest, and longest-lasting incense is said to be favored by heaven, and will have a smoother year ahead. If the incense burns out, it means heaven is angry, and bad luck will plague the family for the entire year.
"Mom, how could what I brought back not be good?" Su Chen smiled and untied the rope that tied the incense. "I bought six sticks. We'll keep two for our family. I'll give the rest to my eldest and fourth brothers. I'll also go to Ah Hu to get some bamboo strips."
Old Man Su was puzzled: "What do you want to pierce?"
"Make some for both," Su Chen pointed at the paint he had bought. "Ahua lives in a shabby thatched hut over there. He's so miserable. I thought of making a paper house, a paper horse, and a paper man, and burning them all over there."
Liu Chunhua was stunned: "Ah? There really is a house over there?"
"Mom, what are you talking about? Of course there are some that were burned, but many of them were not made with the right skills, so the houses would not last long. The same goes for paper horses and paper figures. The broken thatched houses that can be preserved were probably made by the ancient masters."
"Then you should get more. Ah Hua has suffered a lot in our family. If you have the ability to make her suffer now, then you have no conscience."
"Mom, I know."
Even though Su Chen worked very quickly and made two paper houses, four horses, and four paper people, and also drew talismans with cinnabar and colored them with paint, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.
After calling Honghong and the others to help burn these for Xu Jiahua, Su Chen went to the foot of the mountain in the western suburbs of Cuicheng and unexpectedly found a group of lights there.
I walked closer and took a look: "Captain Lin?"
Lin Jingchun breathed a sigh of relief when he saw him.
"Master, I'm sorry to disturb you so late at night. It's really..."
"Did someone call the police?"
Lin Jingchun nodded. "They say more than 23 people are missing. The exact number is unknown, but a total of motorcycles were found here, which means there are more people than not. Master, there's a place over there that we can't enter. I suspect..."
"Don't doubt it, everyone is inside and they are all alive."
Lin Jingchun breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.
"As long as it's okay, it'll be okay."
Su Chen added: "The formation I set up."
Lin Jingchun was stunned: "...Ah?"
Su Chen took back the Taoist power of the Tongyin Talisman that was still remaining in the air, and looked at the young men who were collapsed on the ground. Some of them had fainted directly, and some were even urinating and defecating. He pinched his nose in disgust.
"Is it fun?" he asked. "Is the racing exciting?"
How could the few people who still had some sense have the time to answer him?
He quickly got up and ran towards A-Mao and the others who were wearing uniforms.
He ran and shouted, "Uncle police, help me! There's a ghost, there really is a ghost!"
Su Chen smiled and gave a brief explanation to Lin Jingchun, who then suddenly understood.
He had previously thought that Su Chen had received a request for help from Director Zhou.
"Take them back and educate them properly. If they still like taking risks, don't bother with anything. It's all fate!"
"Okay Master."
The young man who reported the case ran over.
"A Tao, are you guys okay? Where's Brother Long? Didn't he say he was competing here? Where's Brother Long? Are you still going to compete? I still want to earn the 500 yuan bonus..."
"Brother Long? Brother Long fell into a trap... No, Brother Long was taken away by a ghost!"
"Yes, yes, Brother Long must have been taken away by a ghost. That ghost..."
The young man who spoke suddenly trembled and turned to look at Su Chen in shock: "Ahhh, ghost!"
Su Chen couldn't help laughing.
It seems that he was really scared.
He drew a calming talisman in the air and slapped it between the young man's eyebrows, and the young man's frightened expression instantly calmed down.
Su Chen pointed to his own shadow on the ground.
"See? I'm human."
The young man's lips trembled: "Then, then Brother Long..."
"I did capture him. His grandfather missed him so much, so I took him to see him."
The young man was stunned: "...Huh?"
His head was knocked by Ah Mao: "What? It's a beautiful year, but you have to come here to race like crazy. You just happened to run into the master, otherwise several people would have died tonight, do you know that?"
The man covered his forehead in frustration: "How is that possible? We're really good at riding bikes, there's no way anything could happen to us!"
Ah Mao was annoyed: "Then why are you in trouble now?"
"There's a ghost!"
"So you know there are no ghosts on this mountain?"
The young man fell silent.
Su Chen slapped calming talismans on the young men one by one. Seeing that everyone was awake and standing up, he smiled at Lin Jingchun and said, "I'll go bring Xie Qianglong back."
Entering that world again, Su Chen raised his eyebrows.
Where is the ghost?
When he saw two houses with lights on in the distance and the dark gray shadows outside the houses, he suddenly understood.
He had made paper people and paper horses for Uncle Ye and the others before, but this was the first time he made a paper house.
Because it was for Xu Jiahua, he put even more effort into it.
After the paper house burned, it fell into this world, emitting golden light and was very bright.
It is a unique existence in this dark world, no wonder it attracts so many ghosts.
As Su Chen approached, the ghosts saw the Taoist power in him and automatically retreated a little.
Xu Jiahua was talking to a ghost messenger.
"You have two houses, and you can't live in them all. Why not share one with us in the underworld? We won't ask for it for nothing. What conditions do you have? Please propose..."