Urban Night Returner

"Is there no way to drive away the poor ghosts?" Shen Gu read "Sending the Poor Essay" from the beginning to the end, and found that it was useless. "Didn't the poor ghosts also be sent away when Han Yu wrote it to the end?"

"Yes." Zhong Lecen was peeling fruit on the sofa, and said helplessly, "That's why poor ghosts are hard to deal with. A great writer like Han Yu, who has both literary fame and fortune, can't hold back poor ghosts, let alone Not to mention ordinary people. The main reason is that the poor ghosts come at the right time. The worse the luck, the more arrogant the poor ghosts. At that time, people didn't know that it was haunted by poor ghosts, and they would not do anything about them, so there was no effective way to drive away poor ghosts for so many years."

Shen Gu sat next to him: "Don't worry. The predecessors couldn't do anything, so maybe we can't think of a way. Didn't you say that being poor is a long-term struggle? Then take your time."

Zhong Lecen cut the fruit into small pieces, and muttered in his mouth: "Why do I feel that since I met you, there have been so many things like this. How could there be so many things before, and I couldn't find them everywhere. Now it's good, I will deliver it to my door Come……"

Shen Gu pinched his nose: "What are you talking about? Do you think I caused these things?"

Zhong Lecen hurriedly dropped the knife, raised both hands before breaking away Shen Gu's hand, and rescued his nose, "It's very possible, ghost tricks..."

Shen Gu pushed him down on the sofa and tickled him: "You are so bold! If you don't fight for three days, go to the house to expose the tiles, right?"

Zhong Lecen laughed so hard that he almost lost his breath: "Let go, let go! Can't I dare not? Let go!"

Shen Gu didn't want to finish it, he still put his hand on his waist: "I'll fix you again!"

Zhong Lecen didn't dare to move while lying down, but he didn't want to be outdone: "You are really a warlord."

Shen Gu pressed on Zhong Lecen, making him breathless: "The warlord, what's the matter?"

Zhong Lecen put his arms around his neck: "It's nothing. I want to eat fruit, but I haven't eaten it yet after cutting it."

Shen Gu kissed him first, then picked him up and sat on his lap, took a small fork and fed him a piece of fruit: "Why don't you ask your second uncle? Or ask Dongfang Chen, if it doesn't work, report it. Don't think about it for yourself, this is actually my job, and the special affairs department didn't pay you."

Zhong Lecen checked his collar critically: "This one is a bit dirty, don't wear it tomorrow. You love money more than me now, and I have been working for nothing without salary. Some things are used to it. There is no one to discuss it. Although Le Yang can draw a talisman for me, he is too far away to help me, and I don't want him to worry. Besides, you used to report tasks that you couldn't complete? No matter how I say it, my surname is Zhong, people from the Zhong family can't afford to lose that face!"

Shen Gu really likes to see him lift his chin, looking so invincible.When we first met Zhong Lecen, he was gentle and introverted. Although he showed a little calculating appearance, he was still extremely low-key, even so low-key that he could be bullied.It's different now, he handles "business" with confidence, and even dares to slap the table at people like Zhang Shengyi - Shen Gu can't help being very proud when he thinks that these are all "used" by himself.

"Oh, by the way," Zhong Lecen finished, and suddenly remembered something, "Where's the box of green mud that the sea monster sent? I didn't see it when I packed up yesterday, did you put it somewhere else?"

"No, I used it."

"Use?" Zhong Lecen wondered, "What are you using that for? Have you found the usage?"

"No, didn't Liu Wu say that it's the best pottery clay, I'll use it to burn something for fun." Shen Gu was afraid that his gift plan would be exposed if he kept asking, so he quickly changed the subject, "Don't Said, I almost forgot something, and I was disturbed by the poor ghost you said. I met Xiaoxi today."

"Xiaoxi? Didn't you ask about Konghua?"

"Kong Hua didn't have much contact with her, she just reported her safety. Don't interrupt, I'm talking about Xiaoxi, I saw her boyfriend."

"A boyfriend?" Zhong Lecen was very happy, "What do you look like? How old are you and what do you do?"

Shen Gu coughed lightly: "Cough--I, I have seen his safety card."

"What?" Zhong Lecen was taken aback, his expression changed, "Security card? Demon?"

Shen Gu sighed: "Lang Yiming, from Inner Mongolia -- no, I guess they are Inner Mongolian wolves. However, according to Xiaoxi, they are better than ordinary friends. This Lang Yiming is a little bit more modest, Xiaoxi himself He also said that he treated her as an ordinary friend."

Zhong Lecen became angry: "What are you doing? Did you make a mistake? Be ordinary friends? With a wolf?"

"Hey, how does Xiaoxi know that he is a demon?"

"That won't work either! That girl Xiaoxi—if she's really an ordinary friend, would she tell Kong Hua that she's her boyfriend?"

Shen Gu sighed: "Actually, I can see that Xiaoxi is moved, but Lang Yiming is still sensible and didn't intend to lie to her. Xiaoxi knew it in his heart, otherwise he wouldn't have told me that. "

Zhong Lecen stopped talking, and sighed for a long time: "She knows in her heart that she still wants to be with him? Doesn't that mean she really fell in?"

"Humans and demons—is there any harm?"

"If the demon doesn't intend to harm people, it won't do any harm. But the lifespan of a human and a demon is too far apart, so..."

"I greeted Lang Yiming. I said that Xiaoxi is my friend's sister. He made it clear."

"I hope..." Zhong Lecen had a headache, "I'm afraid he understands that Xiaoxi doesn't understand."

"You can't control other people, and you can't help her with this kind of thing. Xiaoxi can only think about it for herself. As long as Lang Yiming has a sense of proportion, it should be fine, right?"

"I don't want to think about it anymore." Zhong Lecen waved his hand, "I have time to visit Xiaoxi. By the way, I haven't been to Jilian for a long time. I still have to visit Feifei and Pai Gow. I don't know how the business of Jilian is doing recently. I was supposed to go there on May [-]st, who knew there would be so many things in the clinic."

"Well, I'll go after a few days of rest. Don't worry, I won't be able to run away. By the way, I have to change the tortoise shell box that holds the green mud. Don't use that."

"what happened?"

"I made a joke today. I met a tortoiseshell spirit, and as a result, I showed her the tortoiseshell box."

"Ah?" Zhong Lecen's eyes widened, "You - you are amazing! Thanks to you, ordinary spirits dare not fight with you. If you were an ordinary person, you would definitely suffer!"

Shen Gu shrugged: "I was wronged to death, and I didn't make the tortoise shell box."

Zhong Lecen said with some emotion: "It's no wonder that monsters are incompatible, tortoiseshell, ivory, rhinoceros horn, all kinds of fur... whoever can bear it."

Before he finished feeling, there was a loud noise downstairs, and something was smashed again.Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen looked at each other, and sighed at the same time for a long time-don't worry about monsters, even human affairs, this can't be handled well...

Dongfang Chen didn't go home on May Day because the guidance period hadn't passed yet, so he was still staying at Home Inn.When Zhong Lecen went in, he suddenly felt guilty: "We have been on vacation for several days, and we didn't come to see her. There is a girl with a dog, and her eyesight is not convenient. I don't know how she has passed these few days."

Shen Gu also felt a little sorry.In any case, Dongfang Chen was always alone thousands of miles away from home, and they didn't show their friendship as landlords, which was a bit unreasonable, at least, it was also a sign of lack of love from colleagues.

As they said so, they had already arrived at the door of Dongfang Chen's room.As soon as they knocked on the door, they heard the golden retriever guide dog barking twice, turned the door handle, and the door opened, revealing the golden retriever's docile dog face, wagging its tail at them.Zhong Lecen was about to bend down to touch Jin Mao's head when he heard someone talking in the room: "This is the lotus pod of Daming Lake. The lotus seeds are crispy and sweet when eaten raw. Try it."

Shen Gu heard: "Heizi, this kid is back from Jinan." Little Heizi's father is in the Jinan Public Security Bureau, and he can only come back during the holidays.This May Xiaoshen boy went to Jinan, and he had asked for another five days' leave, but he didn't expect this kid to come back early.

Shen Gu pushed the door open and went in, and sure enough, he saw Xiao Heizi, who was busy in the world, was putting a big bag on the coffee table, and was taking things out. Dongfang Chen was sitting on the sofa, and his eyes were already full of odds and ends.Shen Gu walked behind him and patted him on the shoulder: "Daming Lake is not allowed to pick lotus pods casually, right? Besides, are there lotus pods at this time?"

Little Heizi was in a hurry: "Why are there no lotus pods at this time? It's just that they haven't matured much. It's not sweet when it's really ripe. It's delicious now."

Zhong Lecen smiled and said, "Then how did you pick it?"

Little Heizi blushed slightly, and coughed dryly: "You don't care how I pick it, it's fine anyway. Divide it up between the two of you, and try it too."

Zhong Lecen raised his eyebrows at Shen Gu: "We don't dare to eat this, and it wasn't brought for us, right?"

Shen Gu followed suit: "That's right, we don't dare to take favors."

Little Heizi blushed when he said that, and he simply turned his head: "Don't pull it down, I won't give it back. Dongfang, I'll give it to you, if you can't eat it, you can feed it to the golden retriever."

Dongfang Chen smiled slightly.Her face is always as white as jade, and even her lips are bloodless. Even when she smiles, she doesn't feel warm, and she is still deserted and lifeless: "Why are you here too? What's the matter?"

When she said this, Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen felt a little embarrassed. Speaking of which, the two of them really went to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. Except for the guidance class a while ago, most of the time it was Xiao Heizi who went with her. Shen Gu seldom showed up for the souls collected for the sharks or for daily patrols.Not to mention Zhong Lecen, she was always worried that she would make a small report to the Special Affairs Division, and she was always on guard.Although Dongfang Chen said this casually, both of them were a bit awkward.Shen Gu coughed dryly: "Well, I have indeed encountered some troubles recently. Have you seen wasted and poor ghosts?"

Dongfang Chen was stunned: "Wonderful and poor ghosts? Why would you ask this? Have you seen it?"

Shen Gu nodded, and briefly talked about what happened in 402 these days. Dongfang Chen frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head: "I haven't seen it before. Every New Year's Eve, the lights at home are wasted, so naturally I won't see it." Waste. As for the poor ghosts, they only hear their names. You also know that I can’t actually see things in the world. I can't get what I get."

Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen didn't speak.Indeed, Dongfang Chen couldn't see the books and things in Yangjian at all. Even if someone told her to wear crimson clothes, she didn't know what color crimson was.When the Dongfang family discovered her extraordinary talent, they specially sent people to follow and guide her all day long, and even took her to various places where it was easy to see ghosts, and explained to her one by one, so that she could recognize all kinds of ghosts.But as long as it was a ghost she hadn't seen, she could never know it for herself.

Xiao Heizi didn't think much about the doorway here, but seeing Dongfang Chen's rare gloomy expression, he couldn't help but comfort him: "You already know a lot of ghosts, so I can't see ghosts yet. "

Dongfang Chen smiled faintly, did not answer his words, and only said to Shen Gu: "Although I have never seen a poor ghost, I have also heard from my uncles that poor ghosts are hard to send, at least from what they told me, I don't know of any way to get rid of poor ghosts. I'm sorry, but I can't help you."

Although Shen Gu didn't expect to get the method of expelling poor ghosts from Dongfang Chen, he was somewhat disappointed.Although the Dongfang family is not good at exorcising ghosts, Dongfang Chen is quite special, and the Dongfang family also arranged special training for her. If she has never heard of any method to drive away poor ghosts, then she may not be able to do it if she asks others. Method.

Zhong Lecen hurriedly said: "It's nothing, the method of expelling poor ghosts is indeed not found in any ancient books, I don't know if it's normal, we just have to find a way."

Dongfang Chen was silent for a moment, then smiled: "I remember that the Special Affairs Division didn't seem to pay you salary."

Zhong Lecen laughed too: "Yes, so I'm doing a white job."

Dongfang Chen was silent for a while, and then said: "Are you doing it for Officer Shen?"

Zhong Lecen blushed slightly, and then calmly said, "Yes. Of course, it's also because my surname is Zhong."

Dongfang Chen smiled again: "Very good." These three words were spoken very sincerely, with a bit of indescribable envy and melancholy.The golden retriever guide dog whined, and ran to rub against her legs. Dongfang Chen bent down slightly to stroke its long fur, and did not speak again.Little Heizi couldn't stand the atmosphere, so he picked up a small lotus pod and peeled it: "I brought it back with great difficulty, you can taste it, it won't be sweet when it dries up."

Zhong Lecen poked Shen Gu quietly, and the two found an excuse and left.Shen Gu sighed while driving: "What's wrong with Heizi, is he interested in Dongfang Chen?"

Zhong Le Cen gave him a white look: "It's so obvious that you still can't see it?"

"Dongfang Chen is not bad, but I don't know what Heizi's family thinks."

"Yes--" Zhong Lecen sighed.Dongfang Chen is considered a genius in the celestial master's practice, but in the eyes of ordinary people, she is just a blind person. Who wants a good child in their own family to marry a blind wife?

"Forget it, don't worry about others. Heizi, the holidays haven't passed yet, and I have to go to work. Take you to the clinic?"

"it is good."

But Shen Gu didn't go to the bureau, but turned to Changsheng Tao Bar.When Hai Changsheng saw him coming, he had a complicated expression on his face.Shen Gu nodded to her: "Sorry, I didn't know your identity last time, so I brought that box here. But that thing is not mine, it was given by someone else."

Hai Changsheng's expression changed subtly, and finally let him into a small cubicle.The holiday has passed, and there is no one in Tao Bar today.Shen Gu took out the green clay in a different box and sent it over: "This is also a gift from someone else. A friend of mine checked it out and said it is good quality clay. I want to use it to burn something, can you help me take a look? The knowledgeable friend you mentioned last time, you were talking about yourself, right?"

Hai Changsheng took the box, picked it up with his fingertips, and twisted it lightly, shaking his head: "The friend I mentioned is indeed not myself. My friend can also make pottery, but her family has made pottery for generations, yes Real clay is very researched. I also learned a little from her, Mr. Shen can indeed be used as clay, but—"

Shen Gu cheered up: "But what? You know this thing?"

Hai Changsheng put the green mud under his nose and smelled it, and then said: "I dare not say what it is. But I have seen this kind of mud in the eyes of the sea before. I was still young at that time. , was swept into the sea eye by the storm ocean current, and escaped desperately. Although panicked at the time, there was only this kind of green mud in the sea eye, so the impression was still very deep. Although the green mud in this box looks like clay, it is estimated that It can also be used as terracotta, but I don’t think it’s really terracotta. As long as this color is mentioned, there is absolutely no terracotta.”

"Sea eyes?" Shen Gu pondered.About what kind of mud should be in Haiyan, Zhong Lecen really never told him.

Hai Changsheng caressed the ordinary plastic box, and said thoughtfully: "And the tortoise shell box last time is not an ordinary thing. Although it should have passed thousands of years, the aura in it still contains Inside. Others may not be able to see it, but we are a close race, but we can feel it. It is not an ordinary tortoise shell, but the shell of a spirit turtle."

"Spiritual tortoise?" Shen Gu searched in his mind, but he didn't think of such a tortoise.

Hai Changsheng saw what he was thinking and shrugged his shoulders: "Spirit turtles are not a type of turtle, but an old turtle that has lived for more than 800 years. Although turtles are known as thousands of years old, they are actually exaggerated. After more than 800 years, it is close to becoming a god. After the spirit tortoise is [-] years old, its volume shrinks. The tortoise shell box you brought is not the tortoise shell of the young ghost, but the tortoise shell of the spirit tortoise. It is by no means an ordinary thing. But why it resembles ordinary clay, I can't figure it out."

Shen Gu had already decided to use this "clay" to burn something to send to Zhong Lecen, but now that Hai Changsheng said so, he couldn't make up his mind.After thinking for a while, he took out a picture: "In this case, I'll use clay to burn at your place. This is the pattern I chose. I want the clay used for the pair of bracelets you are wearing."