"Young Taoist priest? The one who can exorcise evil spirits and pray for blessings should be the orthodox Taoist priests from Longhu Mountain or Maoshan."
Chujiu guessed at the identity of the young Taoist priests. Most of the charlatans were not really capable of catching ghosts. They mostly relied on some tricks to deceive the people. Most of the young Taoist priests who could exorcise ghosts were from orthodox Taoist temples and traveled down the mountain.
"Uncle Ding, please continue and ignore Chujiu."
I had no choice but to let Uncle Ding continue to talk about Deng Deyou. I wanted to analyze more useful information from it.
Regarding the honorary vice president mentioned by Uncle Ding, I had another possibility in mind, but there was no way to confirm it.
Uncle Ding turned around and joked about the ninth day of the new year with a smile, and continued to tell.
The honorary vice president surnamed Wang had just recovered for a few days, and Deng Deyou came to find Uncle Ding and asked him to find ways to contact Chujiu and me.
Uncle Ding first informed Deng Deyou that he had sent me a paging message before without any response, and then asked Deng Deyou what happened.
"Damn it, it's a bad year. My warehouse is haunted. The man who looks after the warehouse for me refuses to do it anymore. I was on duty all night last night and I almost died of fright."
Deng Deyou's warehouse is a nearly 1,000-square-meter factory building on the outskirts of the city. Deng Deyou rented it from a reformed and relocated factory at a low price to display furniture, and specifically asked a person living nearby to take care of the warehouse.
Over the past few years, this warehouse manager has not made any mistakes. Not to mention missing furniture in the warehouse, there are even worthless tables, chairs and benches placed in the yard.
Deng Deyou liked this warehouse manager very much and would give him more bonuses every year and festival.
Just a while ago, this warehouse manager came to Deng Deyou's office and submitted his resignation. Boss Deng asked Boss Deng to immediately arrange for someone to replace him. He refused to continue working, even if he didn't get paid for that month.
Deng Deyou asked the reason, and the administrator told him that there were unclean things in the warehouse and that it was haunted. He saw it with his own eyes at night and couldn't bear to stay there any longer.
Although Deng Deyou knew in his heart that ghosts really existed in this world, they had appeared in his home before.
However, he still reprimanded the administrator with a straight face and wanted him to tell the real reason for his resignation. If it was due to salary issues, they could negotiate.
Unexpectedly, this administrator had the same attitude. He was determined to resign on the same day. He said that he had a family to take care of, and he would not do anything that meant he could make money or spend his life.
There was no one to be found for a while, and the warehouse was filled with furniture worth millions.
Among them, a group of customers have ordered furniture that will be delivered in the near future. It will definitely not be possible without an administrator at this time.
Deng Deyou had no choice but to ask someone to find a solution while preparing to guard him for two days.
So he agreed to the administrator's resignation and prepared to drive to the warehouse. Because he was on the way, Deng Deyou gave the administrator a ride.
When we arrived at the warehouse, the manager was a little embarrassed to let the boss stay alone in the warehouse, so he bit the bullet and decided to stay with Deng Deyou for one more night.
Deng Deyou inspected the warehouse and found nothing unusual.
The manager pointed to the innermost window of the warehouse and said in a trembling voice that this was what he saw at night.
Deng Deyou looked at the window and saw the leaves swaying outside. He guessed that because of poor visibility at night, the administrator was dazzled and mistook the swaying leaves for something else.
The administrator insisted that it was not a leaf. Even if the eyes were mistaken, the ears would not be mistaken.
Deng Deyou had no choice but to stay here for two days. If there were no problems, he would persuade the administrator to stay and help him manage the warehouse. After all, another person would definitely not be as familiar as he is now.
The two cooked a few dishes at a restaurant in a nearby town and drank a bottle of white wine. There was no heating equipment in the warehouse, so drinking some white wine would not make it cold at night. After all, it was still winter.
When we returned to the warehouse, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening. There was a bunk bed in the warehouse office, and there were spare beddings. The warehouse manager insisted that the boss sleep on the bottom bunk and climbed to the top bunk himself.
The two chatted about work matters for a while, and after drinking too much, both of them felt a little dizzy, so they fell asleep with their clothes on.
I don’t know how long I slept for, but Deng Deyou was woken up by the administrator’s low voice.
"Mr. Deng, did you hear any strange noises?"
Deng Deyou was sleeping soundly, but when he was woken up, he only felt dizzy.
After listening carefully for a while, I heard nothing, so I angrily asked the administrator to sleep peacefully and stop being suspicious.
The administrator was also puzzled. After Deng Deyou was woken up by him, the strange voice disappeared.
When I heard Deng Deyou say that he was suspicious, he even began to wonder if he was delusional.
Just when Deng Deyou was lying on the bed again and just about to fall asleep, a low howl of a mourning monster could be heard clearly.
Deng Deyou was so frightened that he woke up completely. The administrator of the upper bunk also sat up from the bed at this time, and both of them stared at each other nervously.
"Did you hear that?"
"Yeah, ghosts cry and wolves howl."
Deng Deyou was stunned for a long time. This scalp-numbing voice was indeed coming from the direction the administrator told him.
"Damn it, if you are upright, you are not afraid of your shadow being crooked. If you are not doing bad things, you are not afraid of ghosts knocking on your door. Let's go! Go and have a look!"
Deng Deyou finally decided to see what was going on. Firstly, Deng Deyou drank some wine and became more courageous than usual. Secondly, there was an administrator present, so the two of them always had someone to look after him.
Deng Deyou picked up the flashlight on his desk and felt a little uneasy. Suddenly he remembered that he had a self-defense electric baton in his car, so he asked the administrator to accompany him to the car outside first.
Taking out an electric baton from the car, Deng Deyou pressed the safety switch. The end of the electric baton glowed with fire and made a thunderous sound.
"These foreign products are just different. Come on, let's go take a look."
With the electric baton in hand, Deng Deyou finally felt more confident, and he and the administrator slowly walked toward the innermost part of the warehouse.
The closer they got to the innermost wall of the warehouse, the clearer the strange sound became. The strange sound of mourning made both of them feel their scalps numb. It seemed that the thing making the sound was inside the wall.
The two of them stood still more than ten meters away from the wall, and anyone could take another step forward.
The strange mourning howls suddenly stopped, and the two people stared at each other, not knowing what to do for a moment.
"Mr. Deng, let's go back to the office first. I feel a little nervous standing here."
The administrator spoke softly, as if he didn't want to stay for a second longer.
"Okay, let's go back first and talk about it during the day tomorrow."
Deng Deyou's heartbeat accelerated, and after standing for a while, his legs began to feel weak. When the administrator said that he would meet with the office, he immediately agreed.
Just when Deng Deyou was about to turn around and leave, a pale human face floated past the window on that wall.
"I go!"
Deng Deyou was frightened and panicked, and casually pressed the switch button of the electric baton in his hand.
With a crackling sound, the electric baton fell on Deng Deyou's feet. Then Deng Deyou's eyes went black and he didn't know anything anymore.