There are always people who want to eat me

There are still traces of Qiongqi's breath, and Guan Zong galloped all the way, until Qiongqi's breath was covered by the smell of pancakes, cold noodle, barbecue and other street snacks at the entrance of the alley.

The vegetable market has always had a strong smell, and after the morning break, there is garbage all over the place, and all kinds of snacks have been sold several times.These food stalls are placed across the street from No. [-] Middle School. Across a three-lane road, there is No. [-] Middle School where people come and go.

Guan Zong stood on the edge of the guardrail on the side of the road and took out the compass. The pointer turned around, not pointing towards the school, but pointing in the opposite direction. Fortunately, Qiongqi didn't go to school, otherwise there would be another big scene.

He stuffed the compass into the pocket behind his hip, and carried Yu Huang into the alley.

The hawkers who set up the stalls inside obviously didn’t encounter any strange things. They were all in full swing, and they were all in full swing. The uncle asked, "Did you see a cloud of black mist just now?"

The old man looked Guan Zong up and down, and said: "You are not young at this age, how come you are superstitious about catching ghosts like those students? I am so old that I don't believe this, these little ones Young, it's really getting worse, who still believes in ghosts, if there are ghosts, why hasn't my wife come back to see me?"

Yu Huang: "..."

His wife smiled silently at Yu Huang, and his eyeballs popped off. Yu Huang watched helplessly as the old man's hand passed through his wife's body and took out a ball of dough and began to knead it.

Guan Zong carried Yu Huang to the other side expressionlessly. He suddenly saw a black mist hanging from a tricycle. He squatted down, picked up the black mist beside the tricycle and rubbed it in his hand.

The middle-aged man selling rock candy pears let out a sigh of relief, and looked at Guan Zong as if he were insane: "Hey, hey, what are you doing? What are you doing squatting next to my car?"

Guan Zong put his finger next to his nose and sniffed it. It was indeed Qiong Qi’s breath. He raised his hand and shook it in the air, and the black air coiled around his fingertips gradually disappeared, probably drifting in one place. and go.

The middle-aged man's eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost. Just as he was about to speak, Guan Zong took out five yuan from his pocket and said, "Here is a bowl of rock sugar pears."

There are almost no buildings in the direction where the black air dissipates, only a row of dilapidated storefronts. The only storehouse is relatively new, and the facade looks quite fashionable.

The windows are pasted with window grilles for the New Year, and the big red characters for happiness are particularly foreign, more than a year in succession, rich and auspicious. Under the big red lanterns are several pots of evergreen ornamental potted plants, and a few pots of wintersweet. The beige petals are stretched in the wind, which is very beautiful. .

Compared with other shops, this shop is a bit out of place, but it seems to be listening to a song called Yangchun Baixue, which is refreshing but inexplicably weird.

Yu Huang saw that the layout on the door was also very particular, and said: "This house is located on the Dragon's Den, but we chose such a small place with a small courtyard, and the door does not open to the popular place, but to the back of the sun. It's really strange to walk around."

Guan Zong is not good at Feng Shui, but he understands a little more after listening to it, and he can feel what Yu Huang said.

Generally, the location of shops is very particular. A good shop has all the five tactics of "dragon, hole, sand, water, and direction". The shops that are close to it have to occupy one or two, but this shop is really weird. It is obviously a good shop. However, the location of Fengshui was deliberately turned into a yin house by him.It's like the feeling that there is an emperor who occupies a good palace and has to turn it into a slum if he doesn't decorate it well... Lack of conscience, isn't it?

It was a coffee shop, when Guan Zong pushed the door and entered, what he smelled was not the smell of coffee, but a faint fragrance of old books.He raised his eyes and looked around, and the decoration style of the entire store was completely different from the outside.

The big red happy characters are hung high outside, but the inside is filled with this dull and heavy historical atmosphere. There are many decorations with grids on the three walls, including utensils, books, puppets and some Yu Huang also said. Gadgets that don't know what they are, the only thing they have in common is that they are all old and more or less broken.

A young man in the shop was cleaning a coffee cup. When he saw Guan Zong, he put down the cup, smiled, and whispered, "Sit casually, what do you want to drink?" He pointed to the menu behind the bar and recommended, " Today's cappuccino is discounted, and the second cup is half price, would you like a cup?"

The second glass is half price.

Yu Huang's heart skipped a beat, thinking that the other party had seen through his identity, the waiter looked at Yu Huang and said, "Your pet is so cute." It was not Yu Huang's familiar tone, the other party seemed to be just an ordinary human, a monster Certainly not, maybe an exorcist.

Guan Zong looked around and found nothing unusual. There were a few students sitting in the store, some were reading books, some were doing papers, some were playing with SLR cameras, and they were taking pictures of the coffee shop. A few girls gathered in the corner Playing pen fairy together, whispering and giggling.

They found a place to sit down at random, Guan Zong ordered a cup of the cheapest charcoal coffee, he couldn't bear the taste and put it aside, Yu Huang jumped on the table and licked his mouth, with a look of eating Xiang: "too bitter!!!"

A plate of toffee was placed on the table, Yu Huang looked up, the young man smiled very gently, and said: "The toffee is homemade, if you still need it, go to the counter to get it yourself."

Yu Huang nodded blankly, the man smiled at Yu Huang, put the loose hair behind his ears, walked to the corner, picked up the pen that had been spinning on the table for a few times, Said: "I have been caught for the third time, and you are not allowed to play pen fairy in the shop again."

"Okay——" several female students said with a smile, "brother manager, you look beautiful again today!"

The store manager couldn't help laughing, and picked the most naughty female student among them and patted her forehead lightly, "Stop making trouble, it's time for class in the afternoon, right?"

"It's still half an hour, the store manager don't rush us~~~"

Guan Zong's gaze fell on the young store manager all the time. After turning around, the man returned to Yu Huang's table, sat opposite Guan Zong, and said, "Hello, Mr. Guan, I have known you for a long time."

"you are?"

"A dog seals the country's good fortune."

Guan Zong: "..."

Yu Huang was stunned all of a sudden, he took a few steps back to Guan Zong, and asked in a panic, "Why did you come here?"

"Idle and boring." Ji Liang covered his lips and smiled, "Why is Master Fenghuang so flustered when he sees me? I won't eat you."

Guan Zong went straight to the point and asked, "Have you seen Qiongqi?"

Ji Liang thought for a moment and said, "I saw the real shadow yesterday. He has been wandering around the supermarket, as if he was looking for something."

Guan Zong asked, "What happened just now?"

"I was taking a nap just now, and I did vaguely sense the aura of Qiongqi. Did he commit a crime in the human world?"

Guan Zong didn't answer Jiliang, he didn't believe what Jiliang said.

Yu Huang couldn't hold back, and asked: "Can I borrow your place to take a shower, I was slobbered all over by Qiongqi..."

"It's an honor." Jiliang nodded, and called the little brother behind the counter to take Yu Huang to the back lounge.

After Yu Huang left, Guan Zong wandered around the store for several times but still couldn't find anything suspicious. While waiting, time passed. Guan Zong picked up a snuff bottle placed beside the table and asked, "What is this?" What is it?"

"As the exorcist saw, this is an old snuff bottle."

The snuff bottle in Guan Zong's hand was baked with a layer of earth-colored porcelain, without a stopper, and a small hole was broken in the mouth of the pot. It seemed to be very old, but it was not more than 50 years old.

Yu Huang just took a shower and put on the clothes that Guan Zong picked up, he asked: "Are all the things here defective at 01:30 like this snuff bottle?"

"Lord Phoenix has good eyesight."

... Yu Huang listened to this sentence as if he was laughing at him, can you stop calling me Phoenix!

Ji Liang said: "The things here are all exchanged between me and others, and each has its own story. For example, this teacup was exchanged between me and a student from the third grade of the ninth middle school opposite. In the last month of self-study here, I exchanged places with my grandfather’s cup when he joined the army. This cup was a gift from his grandfather’s lover who died on the battlefield. I like these old and incomplete things. , they are charming."

Guan Zong asked, "What about this snuff bottle?"

Ji Liang replied, "It belongs to an old friend of mine."

"Which old friend?"

There was a crisp sound, and a student next to him accidentally knocked off his pencil case. He waved his hand at the people around him apologetically, grinned in embarrassment, and muttered while picking it up: "Why are you so careless, ah, so embarrassing .”

The student packed up his things and walked out of the store. When passing by this table, he forced a smile and said hello to Ji Liang: "Boss, I'm leaving first, and I'll come back tomorrow."

"Well, go slowly and pay attention to safety on the road."

Guan Zong's eyes followed the male student all the time, and he found a wisp of black air behind his ear and under his temple hair, and this black air was different from the one left by Qiongqi before, and the demon power was much stronger.

Guan Zong immediately stood up and followed behind the students.

"Wait—" Jiliang called Guan Zong to stop, and said with a fake smile: "Master Exorcist, you haven't paid yet."

"how much is it?"

"32." Ji Liang smiled like a profiteer, "Erase the change, and I'll charge you thirty."