Manager Zhang didn't feel embarrassed when Miao Qiang dodged him. He smiled slightly and followed him back to the lobby downstairs.
When the two returned to the bar, the cashier Xiaona was sitting next to the cash register wiping tears.
Manager Zhang hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong with you? Why are you crying? Did you see something dirty?"
Xiaona choked even more and said: "Sister Zhang, take a look, what's going on here?! The finance department will go to work tomorrow morning, and I'm not allowed to lose money!"
While talking, Xiaona opened the cash register and took out a few hundred-dollar bills.
Looking at the red banknotes in her hand, Manager Zhang asked doubtfully: "Why, are you collecting counterfeit money? How many times have I told you, when you collect large denominations, you must use a banknote detector to check clearly.
Why do you never have a long memory?"
After hearing this, Xiaona said aggrievedly: "Sister Zhang, how can this be fake money? Take a good look at it. I'm almost scared to death."
With a puzzled look on his face, Manager Zhang took the hundred-dollar bills into his hand. When he looked at them, he threw them to the ground with a cry of "Oh my God!"
Miao Qiang, who was on the side, bent down to pick up the banknotes from the ground and couldn't help but smile. These were not hundred-yuan bills. They were clearly a few ghost coins.
But don’t tell me, these coins are made quite similar to real money. No matter the size, color, or pattern, they are the same as real money. If you don’t look carefully, it’s really easy to be fooled.
It's just that the portraits of great men on these coins are of the Jade Emperor, and the words on them are "Tian Di Tong Bank." The most distinctive thing is that on the back of these coins, there is a cinnabar seal.
On it were engraved in small seals the four characters "Inspection and Supervision of the Underworld".
Miao Qiang looked at the beautifully carved seal marks, shook his head and said with a smile: "This cinnabar seal is really novel. I'm afraid it's difficult to buy such a ghost coin on the market."
Seeing that he was still thinking about saying this, Xiaona couldn't help but roll her eyes at him, then took Manager Zhang's arm and said, "Sister, what's going on? This money belongs to the family of three in the private room on the second floor just now, and they were pressed at the cashier before eating.
Yes, they also said more refunds and less compensation.”
"I didn't know what was going on at the time, so I thought it was five hundred-dollar bills. And I also checked it with a banknote detector, and there was nothing wrong with it."
After hearing this, Manager Zhang asked: "Then how did you find out?"
Xiaona raised her head, pointed at Miao Qiang outside the bar with her chin, and said, "This is not as big of a commotion as you just made. I immediately thought of money, so I hurriedly opened the cash register to check. After seeing this
Don’t scare me to death, there are just a few hell coins inside.”
At this moment, a voice came from the door and said: "You are blinded by a ghost."
After everyone heard this, they immediately looked towards the door. They saw a thin old man with a stooped figure walking in at some point.
The old man came to the bar, took the few Ming coins from Miao Qiang's hand, looked at them, and then said with a smile: "Don't tell me, it's quite similar."
At this time, Manager Zhang smiled and said: "Uncle Kan, why don't you go to bed so late?"
Lao Kantou chuckled and said, "Today is the Ghost Festival, and I'm a little worried, so I came out for a walk."
When Miao Qiang heard this, he thought to himself: "Hey, there is something in this old man's words."
So he hurriedly took out a cigarette from his pocket, handed one to Lao Kantou, lit one himself, and said, "Man, I think you know something from what you said?"
After Lao Kantou blew out a puff of smoke, he smiled mysteriously and said, "Boy, I know a lot of things."
Then, Lao Kantou looked at the people around him and said, "What, what do you mean, do you want to hear it?"
Seeing Miao Qiang and the others nodding their heads, Lao Kantou took a deep breath of his cigarette, as if he was lost in memories.
This old Kantou is seventy-six years old. His nickname is Kan Weidong. He is a real old man in the Yingbin Building.
When he started working at the age of eighteen, he came to the Yingbin Building. At that time, the Yingbin Building was still a state-owned hotel and one of the largest restaurants in Bingcheng.
Working here can be said to have good benefits and high remuneration. The most important thing is that state-owned enterprises were an iron rice bowl at that time.
In the days when tickets were available, working in a hotel was very lucrative. At that time, I don’t know how many people wanted to get into the Yingbin Building. They were dragging their connections and using the back door. They all wanted to hang out here.
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Since Kan Weidong entered the Yingbin Building, he has heard a lot of gossip in private, all of which are rumors about the haunting of the Yingbin Building. However, these people only dare to discuss it behind the scenes and never dare to make it public.
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After Kan Weidong got acquainted with these people, he learned a lot of secrets about Yingbin Tower from their mouths.
It is said that during the Puppet Manchukuo period, this was the Japanese gendarmerie, and countless ordinary people and people from the Kuomintang and the Communist Party died here. The North Square, not far from the Yingbin Building, was formerly a mass grave.
So the yin energy here is very strong.
On the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army, which had received the news in advance, in order to shrink its troops and avoid the fate of being encircled and suppressed, mobilized all the defenders here and followed the large troops into the mountains.
As soon as the Japanese withdrew, the place became empty. But the building was empty, but the inside became even more terrifying.
At night, people living nearby would always see figures wandering around this building. At first, these evil spirits just dared to wander around the building, but it didn't take long for these guys to become restless.
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Either they would come out from time to time to catch a substitute, or there would be children from nearby families who were sucked by them and died young.
Seeing that things were getting worse and worse, the puppet government, in order to appease the people, invited an eminent monk to free the wronged souls in the building.
Unexpectedly, the eminent monk shook his head after seeing this, saying that his magic power was too weak to transcend these innocent souls. However, there was a method that could suppress them.
The mayor of the puppet government was very happy after hearing this. He doesn't care whether you are exalting or suppressing, as long as you can settle these evil souls, you can use any method.
So under the guidance of the eminent monk, the mayor ordered people to dig a pit more than ten meters deep not far from the Yingbin Building.
In the words of the eminent monk, this is the eye of the earth, where the Yin Qi is the strongest, and where lonely ghosts like to come and go to practice.
As long as we dig a three-foot-six deep pit here and place three animal sacrifices in the pit, all the innocent souls in the Yingbin Building will be attracted to them. Then I will cast a spell to seal them here.
After everything was ready, the eminent monk took out a blood-stained cassock and wrote scriptures on it with cinnabar.
As night fell, just as the eminent monk said, the innocent souls in the Yingbin Building seemed to be going crazy, scrambling to plunge themselves into the deep pit.
When the last innocent soul was plunged into the pit, the monk raised his cassock, and the cassock filled with scriptures spread out in the air and fell into the pit.
As the cassock covered the pit, the innocent souls in the earth's eye let out piercing screams and tried desperately to escape. However, the magic power of the cassock was amazing, and no matter how hard they struggled, they could not escape.
Seeing this, the eminent monk wiped the sweat from his bald head and said: "The seal has been completed. This method can guarantee a hundred years of worry-free. Hurry, order people to fill the hole."
In this way, the grievances in the building were suppressed. It was not until after liberation that the building was transformed into the Yingbin Building.
At that time, the Yingbin Building was mainly used to entertain experts from the former Soviet Union, and it had always been peaceful. Until the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, it stopped for a few years. After the Cultural Revolution, it was contracted from a state-owned hotel to an individual.
Lao Kantou stopped talking and put out the cigarette butt in his hand in the ashtray on the bar.
Seeing this, Miao Qiang hurriedly handed him another one, took out a lighter, lit it for him and asked, "Is this the end?"
After taking a deep breath, Lao Kantou chuckled and said, "It's over? This is just the beginning!"
"The person who contracted this place at that time was Mr. Zhang's grandfather Zhang Chunlai. Chunlai was a few years older than me. After he contracted this place, he couldn't bear to open all the old people in the store, so he left us behind.
Keep working for him."
"However, the Yingbin Building at this time was old and dilapidated. In addition, due to the disaster caused by the Red Guards in those years, it could not operate normally. So Brother Chunlai wanted to renovate it. In fact, his idea at the time was
Taking advantage of the renovation, we expanded the Yingbin Building. But who knew that this expansion would cause trouble!"