Hyakki grocery store

Before Papa Ke could come up with an answer, Bai Gui put down Ke Lan from his hand and asked her to stand in front of him.

Fingers across the facial features of the puppet girl, Boss Bai's voice is as demagogic as if it came directly into the mind.

"I have been studying the art of puppetry. No matter how expensive and rare materials are needed in the production process, I will definitely find ways to find them."

"It is precisely because at all costs, the dolls in this store are perfect in appearance, and after wearing the camouflage skin, they are no different from human beings."

"But no matter how real and beautiful the puppet's appearance is, there is one problem that I can't solve until now, and it can even be said that there is no progress." The white ghost put his hands on Ke Lan's shoulders, and looked at the Ke family couple seriously. "That is, I can't make the puppet generate its own soul at all."

"But..." There is too much information in the white ghost's narration, which made Ke Lan's parents unable to understand it for a while.

"Intelligence, self-awareness, or the ability to judge, these are all things that can only be possessed by living beings." Boss Bai slightly curled his lips and narrowed his dark red eyes, "And these puppets are just dead things after all. "

"All I can do is stuff a human soul into a doll's body."

The white ghost let go of the hand on the girl's shoulders, watched Ke Lan walk up to his shocked parents step by step, and said in a calm tone as much as possible: "I am Ke Lan, and I have been Ke Lan from the beginning."

"The soul of Ke Lan who died in a car accident entered the body of this puppet." Ke Lan put his hand on his heart and tried to feel it, and he found that the heartbeat of a puppet is different from that of a human after all.

"Why didn't you say it earlier!" Mother Ke covered her face in disbelief, "Could it be that the one I've been tormenting all this time is my own daughter?!"

Mother Ke thought of how she had vented the grief of losing her daughter on the "doll", thought of the wounds on Ke Lan's body, thought of Ke Lan's crying, her body was crumbling, and if it wasn't for Ke's father who supported her, she might have fainted Fall over.

Even so, Mother Ke's face turned pale and her breathing became short of breath.

"She didn't say it at the beginning because she was afraid that after you knew the truth, you would recklessly keep her in the world forever." The white ghost sighed slightly, "Even if she said it again, no one would believe it."

"The transaction between the Ke family and the grocery store was originally based on secrets." Boss Bai looked at Ke Lan, "Your parents don't know that you are the real Ke Lan, and neither do you. The physical activity is because your parents gave their lives."

"Life? What's going on here? Boss, you clearly said that the price of the transaction is..."

Ke Lan looked back at Boss Bai in surprise. She remembered that it was also a winter when things started.

At that time, she was already a ghost, but she still lingered beside her parents because of her reluctance.

Before she died, Ke Lan had a slight hatred for her strict parents, but she saw her parents grieve at her funeral, saw her mother become mentally unstable because of her death, and saw her mother cut her wrists when she was insane , but the bodyless self can't stop...

Ke Lan began to have a distorted illusion that maybe she really did something wrong.

Parents love themselves in a way that is not gentle, and it is extremely strong love.

She began to question herself abnormally, and her soul was floating like a candle.

Always floating around her mother in the form of a soul, Ke Lan was afraid that her mother would do some terrible actions that would hurt her again.

Until one day, Ke Lan's mother heard about the Hundred Ghosts Grocery Store from somewhere, so she insisted on going there.

That was the first time Ke Lan saw Boss Bai, with an amazing presence, just standing there seemed to be a world of his own.

When Boss Bai heard that the guest in front of him wanted to revive his daughter, he immediately shook his head and refused.Ke Lan thought it was nothing at the time, after all, her mother's request sounded like crazy talk.

In this world, how could someone come back from the dead?

But Boss Bai's excuse made Ke Lan feel a little strange.What Boss Bai said was: "Sorry, ordinary people simply cannot pay the price required to resurrect others."

Could it be that there really are special human beings who can resurrect others in this world?

Ke Lan saw that his mother took a lot of money and put it in front of Boss Bai, but the grocery store owner was unmoved.

The mother begged for a long time outside the store, and did not leave until night fell.Just when Ke Lan was about to go home with her mother, she suddenly found the boss Bai in the store smiling slightly in her direction.

"Can you see me?" Ke Lan's translucent body passed through the glass door and floated in front of Boss Bai, "Can you really see me?"

"Are you that lady's daughter?" Boss Bai didn't answer Ke Lan's question, but instead asked, "Since he's dead, he should be prepared to return to the ashes. Why linger here for a long time?"

"Boss, if you can really see me, can you convey something for me?" Ke Lan's attitude became respectful. "Although I can feel someone calling from afar, I can't leave because I'm worried about my mother."

"The success of many things in this world does not depend on whether you can or cannot, but whether you want to or not." Boss Bai looked at the soul floating in mid-air, and suddenly smiled, "If you are reluctant to part with your family in the world, I have a way."

That was the first time Ke Lan saw the doll made by Boss Bai, and in the form of a ghost, he watched Boss Bai modify the doll in his hand to look like her.

Boss Bai agreed to lend her the puppet body, and as a price, Ke Lan became Boss Bai's experimental product.

The doll has no soul, but when the doll is fused with a foreign soul, it becomes the research material that Boss Bai needs.

So... She should have already paid the price, why did her parents still have to pay the price?

Waking up from the memory, Ke Lan stood in front of his parents and expressed his doubts to Boss Bai.

"The difference between the living and the dead is actually very obvious." Boss Bai rubbed the top of Yunmian's hair next to him. The little guy seemed a little unsteady at the moment, "The living can move on their own, but the dead can't."

"Ke Lan, you have paid the price, you have the shell of the puppet, but you still need some extra energy to make the puppet move."

"According to the original arrangement, the energy in the puppet should last for three months. After the time is over, I will take the puppet away from Ke's house according to the original plan, and end all your karma. "

"After all, the longer the dead stay in the world, the more unpredictable consequences will appear."

"But after three months, Mrs. Ke is unwilling to let go." Boss Bai looked at the depressed mother Ke, "Mrs. Ke hopes that the doll can continue to stay at home, and even hides the doll. After reaching a deal with the Ke family, your parents, Ke Lan, will be responsible for the energy needed by the doll after three months."

That's why they pay three months of life every three months.

Because of the strict love of his parents, Ke Lan escaped and became the fuse of the car accident.

While the mother was in agony because of her daughter's death, she deceived herself, attributed all her faults to her daughter's disobedience, tortured herself repeatedly, and eventually collapsed.

The daughter hopes to accompany her parents as a doll, but because she knows that she will go far away, she conceals her true identity.

The Ke family couple, who didn't know that the puppet in front of them was their own daughter, regarded the puppet as a substitute for Ke Lan, and they were neither willing to give it up nor treat each other sincerely.

A substitute is a substitute, a doll is a doll, even if it can cry and hurt, it is not a living thing itself.

Because of this misunderstanding, the Ke family vented all the pain after losing their daughter on the doll.

Ke Lan would ask Boss Bai to terminate the transaction, not only because of the physical pain, but also because of Ke's mother's increasingly terrifying mental state.

The existence of the doll reminds Mama Ke of her daughter's death all the time.

There is no warmth in the company of dolls, only torture.

It wasn't until the end that Ke Lan knew that the boss was right.

Dust to dust.

Earth to Earth.

Now that you have died, you should not expect to stay. Only going away can bring ultimate peace.

"The two are our customers, so I have honored the March agreement. And Ke Lan is also a customer of our store." Boss Bai walked behind Ke Lan and put his arm around the shoulder of the doll girl, "At the request of the customer, this The transaction is hereby terminated."

Seeing Boss Bai taking Ke Lan away, Mother Ke reached out her hand to keep her, but in the end she hung down powerlessly.

The scene in front of her seemed to reappear from yesterday. Mother Ke seemed to be standing on the road again, watching "Reaper" take her daughter away.

This time, she finally started to ask herself a question.

Whether it's the ten years with Ke Lan, or the year with the puppet, what has she brought to her daughter?

Is it happiness, or pain?

She suddenly wanted to ask herself——

Since you don't want to give up, why don't you cherish it?

Unfortunately, it's still too late.

"Lanlan!!!!" Painful cries resounded throughout the corridor.

Boss Bai just turned around with the puppet Ke Lan, and the trembling girl asked in a low voice, "Boss, did I do something wrong?"

"There's no right or wrong." The boss shook his head, "For me, it's just an expired deal."

After all, this transaction ended safely, without any extra problems, and without a worsening ending. Although there were only regrets left, it was the most common joys and sorrows in the world.

But as soon as Bai Gui took Ke Lan away from Ke's house, he saw a familiar little brother Mu standing there in a daze.

"..." Boss Bai looked at the little brother with black lines on his head, "How long have you been standing here?"

The little brother stammered, not knowing what to say, and finally followed Boss Bai's footsteps quickly downstairs and walked outside the apartment.

Let Ke Lan, whose consciousness is also a little wandering, stand aside, and Boss Bai directly hugged little Yun Mianmian, and then said to the young man with a very serious expression: "No matter what you heard or saw just now, you must forget it immediately."

"Yeah!" The young man nodded like garlic.

"If you leak these things..." Boss Bai raised Yun Mianmian up in front of his little brother, "Come on, Mianmian, make him a super fierce expression!"

If it weren't for the danger of wiping out the brain, the boss might have used a more direct approach.

After Yunmian heard the boss's order, she immediately tightened her face and looked at her brother very seriously.

"Be more aggressive."

After the little follower nodded to show his understanding, he opened his mouth to reveal the canine teeth on both sides, and then put on the most fierce and fierce expression, and then...

"Wang!"

Boss Bai: "..." What about the agreed racial deterrent?

Young man: "..." So... so cute.

What a shame!Yun Mian immediately stretched out her small hand and covered her flushed cheeks.