I open a bookstore in the human world

It took Song Lan a lot of effort to convince Tang Laoba that he was not a ghost but a human.

"Little brother, it's fine." Tang Laoba really deserves to be an old Jianghu, and his psychological quality is still passable.At this moment, he no longer trembled, and returned to his previous state of vigor and vitality. He gave Song Lan a thumbs up, "The camouflage technique is powerful enough, did you learn it?"

Song Lan tilted her head and smiled: "That's right." He didn't say anything else, just trying to cause a misunderstanding, making Tang Laoba mistakenly think that his previous appearance was also made up.

"Sure enough, it's different to be born in a professional class," Tang Laoba smacked his tongue. "We can't compare with wild people like us. By the way, where did you put that set of equipment, take it out and have a look."

As he said that, Tang Laoba looked around in the bookstore and started looking for it. He didn't regard himself as an outsider at all, and seemed to have completely forgotten that his current identity should be regarded as a "prisoner".

Song Lan's cheeks twitched: Sure enough, he is an old brat who has been in the rivers and lakes for many years. This thick-skinned person can be used as a city wall.

Hu Xiaowu was not as thick-skinned as his master. He was still tied to a chair, watching his master looking around in the bookstore as if nothing had happened, and suddenly felt that he was still far away from becoming a teacher.

"Hey, what's that? I'll go and have a look." Mr. Tang's eyes stopped on the postcard rack next to the gate, and he walked there as he spoke.

With a sound of "pa", Song Lan hit Tang Laoba's shoulder with a heavy palm, with a lot of strength.

Tang Laoba's face trembled, and he almost couldn't hold back a curse word, but he swallowed it back anyway. "Little brother, what are you doing?" Tang Laoba asked Song Lan with a sneer.

Song Lan looked at Old Ba Tang with a half-smile, and said, "You want to run?"

"...How can it be! Little brother, you misunderstood, I just haven't seen that thing, I want to go over and have a look." Having said that, in fact, Tang Laoba really wanted to slip away, and he saw that the person in front of him must be If you are good at stubble, you will find ways to leave.It's a pity that he still underestimated the other party's ability. It seems that this time he really has to fall here.

"If not, then obediently don't move, or do you want to be tied up too?" Song Lan raised her eyebrows.

Tang Laoba looked at the apprentice who was tied up by the standard, and weighed the distance from himself to the door. He became honest in an instant, lowered his eyebrows and said: "Little brother, you really misunderstood... Then, then I will move to the head office." Bar?"

It was only then that Hu Xiaowu understood what had just happened, and looked at Master with contempt: "Old man, you just wanted to leave Lao Tzu and run alone just now!"It's a shame that you often say in front of Lao Tzu that "a teacher for one day will be a father for the rest of his life", shameless!

Although Tang Laoba made a promise, Song Lan still tied him up just in case, so Kaixin also tied him up. The master and apprentice sat face to face, wanting to cry but not crying.

"Don't worry, I won't call the police." Song Lan said leisurely, "I just want to ask you to do me a favor..."

After Tang Laoba digested Song Lan's words, he couldn't help being a little curious: "Boss, you have such good makeup skills, why did you let me and my apprentice pretend to be ghosts?" He really couldn't figure it out. He is much smarter than him, why doesn't he scare people himself?

Song Lan smiled and didn't answer this question, but asked: "How is it, can you accept this condition?"

Tang Laoba swallowed his saliva: "What will happen if you don't accept it?"

The smile on Song Lan's face gradually disappeared, and she glanced at him meaningfully, her tone was very gentle: "What do you think?"

Tang Laoba: "..." Threat, this is Chi Guoguo's threat!

"Anyway, you are considered proficient in business," Song Lan continued, "Don't worry, I will never treat you badly after the matter is completed."

Tang Laoba's eyes lit up: "Is there a reward?"

Song Lan nodded with a smile: "There is a reward."

Tang Laoba and Hu Xiaowu looked at each other and gritted their teeth: "Success!"

***

After letting Tang Lao Ba and Hu Xiaowu go, Chi Zhou asked Song Lan in confusion: "Brother Song, I want to ask you a question."

Song Lan smiled: "You want to ask me, why don't you pretend to be a ghost to scare people yourself?"

Chi Zhou nodded. He wanted to ask this question just now, but because Tang Laoba and Hu Xiaowu were present, he held back silently.

Song Lan didn't play sloppy this time, and said bluntly: "There is no need for this. It is not necessary to kill chickens with a sledgehammer. Tang Laoba and the others are enough. What if we really play and scare people into fools?" It is not impossible. Of course, looking at Tang Lao Ba's reaction earlier, he knew that people with a strong psychological quality—commonly known as Erpilian—would be terrified. If anything happened, Song Lan was worried that it would affect her mission score.

Taking a step back, if the other party is not frightened, but becomes suspicious, it will not be a good thing for Song Lan if he really invites a ghost-hunting celestial master to perform the deed.He wasn't afraid of those monks and Taoists, but since he was in the human world, it was better to keep a low profile.

"But what if the other party recognizes Mr. Tang and isn't frightened?" Chi Zhou still didn't understand.

"Brother Song just wants them to recognize you." Xie Daonian's calm voice came from outside the door. He did not know when he had cleaned up the mess in the garden, and he was standing at the door holding some broken flowers and leaves.

Song Lan raised her eyebrows: "Did you see it?"

Xie Daonian nodded slightly, entered the door, carefully placed the branches and leaves in his arms on an empty table, and took out a set of tools for making herbarium from the cabinet. "You sent Tang Laoba and the others on purpose to let the other party discover the flaw, so that the other party will know that they have been exposed, and then they will restrain themselves."

Song Lan was noncommittal: "Otherwise, they would continue to play tricks behind their backs endlessly, buzzing like flies, which is really annoying."

Chi Zhou suddenly realized: "Brother Song, you deliberately asked Tang Lao Ba and the others to go, just to give them a warning. However, what if they ran away instead of looking for each other? Sigh, you should have left that apprentice just now. If you are a hostage here, let his master go."

"It's useless," Song Lan shook her head and said, "A person like Tang Laoba can betray himself, and he certainly won't take his apprentice into consideration. Even if the little one is left here, if he wants to run away, Still running."

"Isn't this kind of person too cold-blooded?" Chi Zhou frowned, "Brother Song, why don't you let them go?"

Hearing that Song Lan and Xie Daonian looked at each other and smiled, Xie Daonian smiled and shook his head: "Chi Zhou, after talking for a long time, don't you find anything different here?"

"Different?" Chi Zhou was stunned, and looked around, "No... Wait, where did Brother Kaixin go?" Only then did he realize that he hadn't heard Happy's voice since just now.

Xie Daonian laughed loudly, glanced in Song Lan's direction intentionally, and said, "Your Brother Song asked Kaixin to follow them. With Kaixin, those two people couldn't escape even if they wanted to."

"I don't think they will really run away." Song Lan said slowly, "People die for money and birds die for food. These people who are open to money will not hesitate to take risks when they hear that they have money. In order to get paid, I think They're going to do a good job."

Song Lan asked Kaixin to follow, mainly to ask Kaixin to supervise the workers to check whether they had completed the task seriously, not to prevent them from running away.

Only then did Chi Zhou feel completely relieved: "So that's the case, what are we going to do next, Brother Song?" This is more interesting than playing games, which makes Chi Zhou excited.

After all, he is still a boy in the second stage of middle school, with nowhere to spill his blood, and he is eager to do things all day long.

Song Lan smiled: "You should clean up the store first, tidy up the messy places, and it will open after dawn."

"Oh..." Chi Zhou was a little disappointed.When the hero's dream is shattered, come on, let's go to work obediently.

***

With the help of those netizens on the supernatural forum, the news that someone deliberately framed the Shadow Bookstore gradually spread, and more people came to visit the bookstore. Song Lan took the opportunity to recruit a few more clerks, and the store's business began to get on the right track.

As for the others, Mr. Tang and the others have remained silent since they pretended to be ghosts. They seem to have stopped, and they seem to understand that the Shadow Bookstore is not easy to mess with. The two sides have temporarily entered a stalemate.

After Tang Laoba and his master and apprentice completed their tasks, Song Lan paid them as agreed. As soon as they got the money, the two left Shan'an City immediately—the owner of the shadow bookstore surnamed Song felt that he was very evil. I don't want to stay in this city anymore.

Song Lan stayed in Shan'an City for the time being, because he received invitations jointly sent by several other bookstore owners in this city.

The invitation invites him to a tea party this Saturday.

"Hongmen Banquet?" Xie Daonian finally made those remaining flowers and leaves into delicate plant specimens, glanced at the invitation in Song Lan's hand, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

Song Lan shrugged: "Who knows? Maybe they want to negotiate peacefully."

"Then are you going?" Xie Daonian asked.

"Why don't you go?" Song Lan had a slight smile on his lips, without any anxiety or uneasiness in his expression, "It's just right, I can also see what their plans are."

***

The tea party was not specially held for Song Lan. The owners of these private bookstores in Shan'an City would get together to socialize every once in a while. It happened that Song Lan just caught up this time.

But this does not mean that those bookstore owners accepted Song Lan, an outsider. As Xie Daonian said, this is more of a "Hongmen Banquet".

Arriving at a certain high-end club specified on the invitation, just now when I entered the resplendently decorated lobby of the club, a mature woman with a graceful figure walked in front of me.

"Boss Song," Ou Meng pursed her red lips and smiled coquettishly, "Welcome."

Although Song Lan had never met Ou Meng before, she knew her name.This woman seemed weak, but Song Lan knew that she was definitely not as harmless as she appeared on the surface, otherwise she would not be able to become the person in charge of one of the four major bookstores in Shan'an City.

The so-called four major bookstores are not official rankings, but a ranking list made by the boring folks.Although it is not official, it can also be seen that the positions of these four bookstores in the hearts of the citizens of Shan'an City.

The four bookstores are: Zheng Jun's Baiwen Bookstore, Yuan Xingliang's Elegant Bookstore, Ou Meng's Rainbow Bookstore, and Liu Degui's Blue Sky Bookstore.

To be greeted by Ou Meng in person, Song Lan felt a lot of face. The bosses of other bookstores around looked at it and discussed in private, discussing who is this young-looking man in front of him.

"I heard that the owner of the shadow bookstore was invited to today's tea party, could it be the one in front of you?"

"No way? That man is so young?"

"It's really scary to be able to manage a bookstore at a young age."

"It's a good show this time. Wasn't it rumored that the shadow bookstore was haunted earlier? I heard that Zheng Jun and the others were behind the scenes."

"These four major bookstores have been rampant for so long, someone should come and punish them!"

……

"Boss Ou is even more beautiful than the one in the legend," Song Lan said with a decent smile, and lightly shook Ou Meng's hand that was offered to him. An offended feeling.

"Boss Song is attending our tea party for the first time. Come, let me introduce you. This is Liu Degui, Boss Liu..." Ou Meng led Song Lan towards the crowd, and introduced everyone to Song Lan seriously. Walking together, everyone around was amazed - this Ou Meng has always been very proud, except for Zheng Jun, since when has she been so enthusiastic about others?Is it really because of Song Lan's good looks?

"This is Zheng Jun, Boss Zheng, who opened the Baiwen Bookstore." Ou Meng brought Song Lan to Zheng Jun, stopped talking after saying this, and stepped aside, his eyes flickered slightly, as if waiting Putting on a good show.