Hyakki grocery store

Sometimes surviving is not about being forgiven, but because there are things that need to be lived to repay. - white ghost

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Jiang Tao remembered that he seemed to have fallen into a coma, and when he woke up again, he found that he was lying in a room with dim light, his whole body was chilly, as cold as if he was lying naked on ice.

"Ahhhh!"

When Jiang Tao looked up at his body, he couldn't help shouting in fear!At this moment, Jiang Tao could clearly see his naked upper body, which had been cut open from the chest to the pelvic cavity!

What's even more frightening is that Jiang Tao's upper body can't see any bones and flesh and blood. Instead, it looks like... It looks like damp and rotten wood, with various residues stuffed inside.

At that moment, Jiang Tao wanted to vomit, but how could he still have such a function when his stomach was cut open?

No, why was he still alive after his stomach was cut open?

"you're awake."

A familiar voice came from beside Jiang Tao, he turned around stiffly, and saw Boss Bai sitting there with a disgusted face, just staring at him.

"Boss..." Jiang Tao was surprised to find that he could still speak, but his voice sounded a little leaky, probably because his chest was completely opened.

"Boss!" A big man like Jiang Tao cried at this moment, "My body...my body..."

"Because you violated the precautions, your whole body is rotting." The white ghost looked at Jiang Tao with a half-smile, "This kind of rot changes from the inside out, so soon your skin and face will also be damaged." Become like the inside of the stomach."

Jiang Tao was frightened in an instant, and he couldn't even shed tears. It was hard for him to imagine such a scene, and it was hard to imagine that violating the precautions would have such terrible consequences, so Jiang Tao's whole body trembled at this moment, um... ...including the upper body that has been dissected.

"Old...boss..." The mournful expression on Jiang Tao's face was extremely ugly to Boss Bai, "I still have a little money in my bank card, can you help me divide the money into two parts, one for Liu Nannan, Give one to my parents, and then tell them I've drowned myself? Don't... don't let them see me rotten to the core!"

"Oh?" Boss Bai raised his eyebrows, "Would you like to watch them search for the corpse in the river again?"

"Then, boss, you can kill me now!" Jiang Tao closed his eyes as if going all out, "Anyway, I'm not a good person, and I violated the agreement, and messed up Zhong Qin's show, and you killed me for the sake of the world. Killed."

"That's a good idea." The white ghost nodded seriously, "I hate guests who violate the agreement the most."

"Come on!" Jiang Tao still closed his eyes, thinking that Boss Bai would stab him to death in the next second.

"Or, after you return to your own body, I will kill you."

"Ah?" Hearing what Boss Bai said, Jiang Tao opened his eyes with some doubts, and then saw Boss Bai getting up from the chair, walking around and walking to the other side of his body.

There, too, was an identical chair, except that a fat-looking man was sitting on the chair, with his head drooping as if he had fallen asleep.

No, not right!That's exactly what he looked like!

Jiang Tao opened his eyes in disbelief, and his pupils also shrunk. He stammered and said, "That, that is, what's going on?"

"Always remind me that I have done a loss-making business." Bai Gui lifted his chubby chin so that Jiang Tao could see his own face clearly. Temporarily preserve this body. Guest, I regret to inform you that you may need to bear the cost of preserving the freshness of this body."

"But, but my current body..." Jiang Tao didn't understand what happened. If the person sitting there was his original body, then what happened to his current body with the stomach cut open.

"So didn't I say that? This ring is the ring of destiny that belongs exclusively to the guests." The white ghost bent down to look at Jiang Tao who was lying on the ground, smiling like an old fox, and prepared to take off the ring on Jiang Tao's left hand. "If you take off this ring, the guest's fate will return to the original track."

No!

The second the boss took off the ring, Jiang Tao's mind was reminded of the last time his body swelled like a balloon.

"Do not……"

But before Jiang Tao could stop him, the boss had already taken off the diamond-encrusted gold ring.Perhaps it was because his stomach had already been cut open, this time Jiang Tao did not experience the familiar sense of swelling, instead his eyes went dark again, and after a long period of dizziness, the light appeared in front of his eyes again.

"It's so heavy." The moment Jiang Tao opened his eyes, he felt the heaviness from his body, as if it was very difficult to lift his hands.Once upon a time, Jiang Tao was actually very familiar with this heavy feeling, and he also felt inferior and self-loathing because of this feeling.

But now, Jiang Tao suddenly felt like crying again.

In fact, Jiang Tao really cried.

"Wow!" Like a child who has been bullied, he sat on the chair in front of the white ghost with a heavy shell, and cried desperately!Tears flowed unhindered from his squinted eyes, and the cries that seemed to be venting almost penetrated the tight soundproof walls around him.

Crying and looking at the ground in front of him, Jiang Tao could still see his completely deformed face and body lying there without a sound.This feeling is as if I have died once.

When Jiang Tao cried for three days and was dripping with joy, the only person who was tortured seemed to be Boss Bai who was still standing in this room.

How could someone cry so badly, and so ugly?

Boss Bai expressed his disgust.

"I said at the beginning that our transaction is only a three-month short-term commodity." Boss Bai put down his hands covering his ears and pointed to the "body" that had been completely scrapped on the ground. It is the precious doll that I rent out to the guests. I just use this ring to bind the doll and the soul of the guest. In addition, no matter the body, joints, skin or eyes, every part of this doll is the source Because of the extremely expensive material, it’s expensive.”

"As the guest can see, this doll has been completely scrapped due to the guest's unrestrained overeating and excessive use beyond the time limit." The white ghost looked at the doll that was completely scrapped from the inside and outside with some regret. , "The customer is unwilling to pay up to one million in compensation. This business is really losing money."

At this moment, Jiang Tao wanted to understand what the boss said before, the story about car rental that the boss told, and the real reason why the boss suddenly raised the price to 100 million.

"Such a loss-making business is a horrible black history." Boss Bai said, but he really didn't know where to take out a sharp dagger, half-closed his eyes and looked at Jiang Tao, "Just wipe it out."

"Wow, I'll pay! I'll pay! Whether it's the cost of compensation or the cost of keeping my body, I will pay! Even if I don't have enough money, I will work to make money!" Jiang Tao cried to Bai The ghost promised, "Boss, I'm sorry!"

"He's in his 20s, but he's crying like a [-]-jin fat man. It's really ugly." Hearing that Jiang Tao was going to pay, Boss Bai's expression softened a bit.

Instead of teaching disobedient guests, it is better to find a way to make disobedient guests obediently pay.

This is the boss's first rule of doing business.

"I was originally a fat man of [-] catties, and I have always been!" Jiang Tao moved up from the chair, and bent down to Boss Bai at a [-]-degree angle. This movement is really not easy for Jiang Tao at the moment, " Boss, I'm sorry!"

"I'm not the only person you're sorry for." The boss curled his lips and opened the door of this small room directly, "But you are lucky, at least you... have a chance to do it all over again."

Maybe Jiang Tao's body has not been exposed to sunlight for too long, but the moment the door opened, he covered his eyes reflexively, and couldn't help but look out the door the next second, as if looking at a whole new world .

Jiang Tao took a deep breath, and seemed to feel that the air around him was completely different from when he was in the doll.

When staying in the doll, although the air is sweet, it seems to hide the rancid smell with a sweet and greasy smell.

When staying in his body, the long-lost air gave Jiang Tao a feeling of being alive again.

It's good to be alive!It's nice not to just rot!

"Don't cry!" Looking at Jiang Tao standing at the door shaking his shoulders, Boss Bai stretched out his long legs from under his skirt and kicked Jiang Tao out of the room.

After Jiang Tao rushed out of the room like this, the white ghost took a last look at the completely damaged doll on the ground, snapped his fingers with his right hand, and the golden-red flame instantly turned the whole doll into ashes... To make the two different-colored gemstones for the eyes, and Zhong Qin's ring that was swallowed by Jiang Tao.

"Remember one thing." Back in the lobby of the grocery store, Boss Bai looked at Jiang Tao who finally stopped humiliating, "Sometimes you survive not because you are forgiven, but because you need to live to pay for something."

"Yes!" After Jiang Tao nodded heavily, he rummaged through his body.

"What do you want to do now?" Boss Bai looked at Jiang Tao who was groping up and down for some reason, wondering what this guy who died once was doing.

"I..." Jiang Tao sniffed, "I will give the money to the boss, and I will pay the rest."

"And then?" The boss is really not used to Jiang Tao who is so active in paying.

"I..." Jiang Tao couldn't help lowering his head, "I want to apologize to Mr. Zhong, and then... go home and have a look."

He was suddenly homesick.

"Zhong Qin asked me to tell you that never seeing each other again is the best way to apologize." Bai Gui spread his hands and told the truth, "Besides, he doesn't want to see Jiang Haibotao appearing in the entertainment industry or even social networks again. So, very Unfortunately, we inform our guests that Jiang Haibotao has been blocked."

With that said, Boss Bai handed Jiang Tao a piece of paper.

"This is Zhong Qin's bill for you, including the loss of wages for the competition staff and the mental damage of the players. This may be the last relationship between you and "Sing with Soul"."

Hearing what the white ghost said, Jiang Tao was stunned for a long time, until the boss was about to leave, he breathed a sigh of relief, and bowed deeply after receiving the bill.

After paying part of the compensation as best he could, and earnestly writing down the IOU to Boss Bai, Jiang Tao finally left the grocery store and wandered the streets outside for a long time dragging the heavy shell.Although his body was so afraid of being tired, Jiang Tao walked for hours without knowing it, and he didn't stop until his legs could no longer move.

Many figures emerged from his mind, among them was Liu Nannan who had endured him for several months...the person he had the least courage to meet.

There is also Qin Zhiqiang, a good friend who was ignored by Jiang Tao, and everyone who ruined the game by himself.But what Jiang Tao wants to see the most now are those people...

He still had some small change in his trouser pocket, and Jiang Tao used the money to buy a ticket to the next door, Phoenix City, and returned to the community where his parents lived in the dark, dragging his newly recovered legs, wheezing again Climbed six floors, stood at the door of a familiar house, and tremblingly pressed the doorbell.

After pressing it once, Jiang Tao never dared to press it a second time.

I thought my parents were asleep and it was impossible to hear the doorbell again.But a few minutes later, a sleepy voice came from inside the door.

"I thought I heard the doorbell just now."

"Are you dreaming?"

"I must have heard it!"

Hearing the voices belonging to his parents, Jiang Tao's tear glands couldn't help it again.

When the door was opened, Jiang Tao's mother's old and tired face appeared inside the anti-theft iron door.And Jiang Tao's mother rubbed her eyes when she saw her son standing at the door, whom she hadn't seen for more than half a year, as if she suspected that she was still in a dream.

"Son... son?" Jiang's mother looked at her son who came back in the middle of the night in surprise, and the first sentence she blurted out was, "Why are you so thin?"

Jiang Tao, who had been kept by the boss for several months without eating or drinking, but was still fat and lawless, laughed and cried the moment he heard those words.

"What's wrong? Did you commit a crime? Tell Mom well!" Mother Jiang urged anxiously, and immediately opened the big iron gate, "Is there someone chasing you?"

"Mom." Jiang Tao wiped his tears, "I just missed you all of a sudden, and I really want to tell you that I will find a job in the future. Although I may not be able to bring your daughter-in-law back, I will definitely I honor you well."

"Son, you really committed a crime, right?" Mother Jiang still couldn't react.

"..."