Early the next morning, Zhou Shi washed his face, had breakfast, and asked Xiaosi to help him find a donkey cart and prepare to leave back to the inn.
"I made a little profit yesterday, but the most important thing is to restore the reputation and get the restaurant back to normal operation. Alas, as long as those two losers don't cause any trouble again."
Soon, the driver drove the cart to the door of the store. It was a flatbed cart pulled by a donkey. Xiaosi and Agui saw him get on the cart and watched the shopkeeper go away.
"How long will it take us to arrive?" Zhou Shi asked the driver.
"I will definitely send you to Zhou's store before dark. Don't look at me, an old donkey. I am full of energy. I can't even catch up with a horse when I run!"
"That's not necessary." Zhou Shi waved his hands quickly, recalling his experience from the inn to Fengde Building, thinking that if he vomited on Mr. Mo, he would become a customer of the inn that day.
The donkey cart moved steadily, but Zhou Shi was bored sitting in the cart. He fiddled with the iron abacus aimlessly with his fingers and made a to-do list in his mind:
"First of all, after the ghost bride-Xiao Lin incident, I need to search the Zhang family's side room again to see if there are any clues left. Then ask Mr. Mo to hand over the business of the inn to other walk-ons, and then he can enter
The city is here.
"Oh, it is really unethical to entertain dead people in a restaurant. You must not be discovered by anyone, especially those who work in the restaurant. Agui, Xiaosi, Lao Zhao, Master Chen, and the waiters in the kitchen, they
They all live in the store. If you know that you are the place where ghosts rest next to you, you will have to resign.
"It's midnight when the ghosts come to their seats. As long as they clean the store early and let them rest early. People in farming societies are different from me. They work at sunrise and rest at sunset. If they are not used to staying up late, they probably won't notice. p>
"But where does Mr. Mo live... I'm afraid he can't pretend to be a small worker in a restaurant with his dignified appearance. I can only humiliate him and let him hide.
"Jiang doesn't know how many flamboyants there are, but don't stop trying. We have to ask Mr. Mo to take care of them in advance."
While his thoughts were swirling, Zhou Shi's heart also ignited hope.
Jiangdu Prefecture is a metropolis with a population of one million. I don’t know how many dead people have to be settled, and I don’t know how many treasures can be obtained from the iron abacus.
I don’t know how much time he has left in his life. There is not much time left for him to overcome the curse of the iron abacus.
The weather is very good today. There are a few clouds in the sky and it is not too sunny. The farmland on both sides is green and yellow, and the autumn harvest is about to begin. Is there an ox cart or donkey cart passing by? The driver will be very enthusiastic
They greeted each other in local dialect. Such a rural picture allowed Zhou Shi to temporarily put his worries behind him.
In the afternoon, the donkey cart arrived at a village.
Zhou Shi suddenly woke up and asked the driver: "Old man, is this Tanzi Village?"
"Yes, it's not far from Zhoujia Store."
At that time, when Zhou Shi asked Liu Xiaosi to hire a car, he only said that he was going to Zhou's store. First, he was afraid of exposing the location of the inn. After all, there was a poison master hiding in the dark and watching covetously. Second, he was afraid that what happened in the underworld would be known to outsiders. He didn't know.
What a big mess it will create.
But now, Zhou Shi has changed his mind.
"I'll get off here."
"Ah? This is still far away from Zhou's store!"
"I also have relatives in Tanzi Village, and I happened to go to his house for a ride. I paid for the ride."
Zhou Shi got out of the car and went straight to the Zhang family compound.
"Let's go to the side room now to avoid having to make another trip. It's about an hour before sunset, and there's not a difficult road to the inn. You can walk in the dark, and you'll definitely get there before the third watch."
He skillfully found the Zhang family compound according to his memory.
"Last time I went through the front door, but now I'm afraid someone is at home, so I might as well climb in through the wall."
The wall of Zhang's courtyard was not very high, so he tied the iron abacus behind his back, rubbed his hands, took a few steps, tapped his foot on the wall twice, and then grabbed the head of the gun with his fingers.
After practicing "Stele Hand", his physical fitness has improved a lot. Although he is still far from a real martial arts practitioner, he is not the former big shopkeeper who has no power to restrain a chicken. Especially with his hands.
The strength. Now, he can pull his body up just by grabbing the protruding wall with his fingers.
He only exposed his eyes and saw that there was no one in the yard, so he easily rolled into the yard and landed steadily.
"Where are the butler and the servants? By the way, the autumn harvest is coming soon. The butler may have taken people to see the fields."
All the land owned by Zhang Yuanwai's family is rented to tenants for farming. Whenever the autumn harvest is approaching, people are sent to check the growth of the crops in the fields to see whose land cannot pay the rent this year. Especially this year, Zhang Yuanwai's "
Under the coercion of "Yin Chai Judge" to reduce the land rent, Nao You is busy.
You're really lucky, but there are probably people in the main house and backyard, so you still have to be careful.
Zhou Shi quietly moved to the door of the side room and found that the door was taped up with several pieces of yellow paper to suppress evil.
"It seems that Zhang Yuanwai listened to my words and sealed the side room, but isn't this a bit too much..."
He tried it with saliva and found that it couldn't be peeled off at all. He simply split the yellow paper with his nails and pushed the door open.
The inside of the house is much cooler than outside. This is not because of the yin energy, but because the side room is facing the yang side.
"Nothing has changed, that is, the bodies have been removed and the black curtains covering the windows have been removed."
He glanced around, starting from the door and checking carefully along the wall.
Suddenly, his body stiffened.
There is a small shrine hanging on the wall, which is dedicated to Guanyin.
It is said that this side room was once used as a wedding room, so it is normal for there to be a Guanyin who gives birth to children. In addition, the windows of the room were covered with black gauze when he came in last time, and the room was dark, so Zhou Shi didn't take a closer look at it.
But this time, under the bright light, he found that the head of the Guanyin was somewhat damaged.
The eyes were wiped out.
A chill ran down Zhou Shi's spine. He recalled the ruined temple he was in when he just traveled through time, and it was also the place where Shopkeeper Zhou died!
The eyes of the Buddha statue in the ruined temple were also wiped out!
Coupled with the death of the salesman Chen Zhu, the bride turned into a ghost...
Zhou Shi's brain felt like it was going to explode. What is the connection between this?
He wanted to bring back the blinded Avalokitesvara to show Mr. Mo, but he didn't dare touch the weird statue, so he had to give up.
"Anyway, there will be a chance to come again in the future, and after Zhang Yuanwai discovered that the 'seal' of the side room was lifted, he would be more cautious and would not come in at will, let alone move the things inside.
"Let's withdraw first..."
Zhou Shi opened the door and took one last look at the statue of Avalokitesvara.
The eyeless statue exuded a strange coercion, making him dare not raise his head and look directly at it.
Gods and Buddhas close their eyes, unable to bear to see the suffering of the common people...
What is the purpose of erasing the eyes of gods and Buddhas?
……
At midnight, there was a faint flicker of candlelight in the inn next to Zhou's store.
A figure hides in the distance and observes quietly.
After the moon got rid of the entanglement of the dark clouds, the man started to move. Under the moonlight, you could see that his arms were wrapped in thick bands, and there were two hideous scars on his face through his right eye.
He quietly touched the door of the inn, clenched his fist, and pushed the door open.
Just when he was about to step into the store door with his left foot, his body suddenly trembled and he turned around...
"Bang!"
He was punched hard in the face and flew into the store, with blood splattering everywhere.
A loud shout came from outside the store: "Do it!"