Chapter 1 The Beginning

The leperous monk came suddenly and left suddenly. Of course, under the old Taoist’s watchful eyes, he paid the bill.

“Is this guy sick, boss?” the old Taoist asked in annoyance. “I just stood next to him and listened for a while, and he actually advised you not to catch ghosts. If you don't catch ghosts, boss, where will your performance and ghost money come from?”

After saying that, the old Taoist waved his hand and turned off the lights in the shop. Even though it was daytime, the brightness in the shop dropped a lot after the lights were turned off. Then, as if presenting a treasure, he shouted:

“Monkey!”

The little monkey immediately jumped over, holding two plastic fans in its hands. The fans were also stained with silver glitter powder, and when waved, they really had a bright effect.

The old Taoist and the monkey stood in a row, stomping their feet neatly downward at the same time, and shouted:

“Our slogan is!”

“Strive! Strive! Strive!” (Chirp chirp chirp chirp)

“Our spirit is!”

“Fight! Fight! Fight!” (Chirp chirp chirp chirp)

“Our goal is!”

“Hell money! Hell money! Hell money!” (Chirp chirp chirp chirp)

“Okay, fall back!”

The monkey immediately retreated and jumped back to the bar.

Zhou Ze couldn't help but laugh.

“Hell money is justice, hell money is everything.

Boss, don't be fooled by him."

The old Taoist had a scar on his chest, said to be because he relied on hell money to avoid a knife aimed at his heart, so he had a deep obsession with hell money.

Zhou Ze waved his hand, indicating that he understood.

“Oh, is it you?”

The bookstore door was pushed open, and a young man walked in.

Zhou Ze knew this young man. He was an intern at the People's Hospital. Zhou Ze had pretended to be a doctor in the hospital to help people see a doctor, and he had been there several times. He had also helped him out of trouble a few times.

“What are you doing here?”

The young intern was very curious about Zhou Ze. The naturally dull person hadn't even found out about Zhou Ze's relationship with Doctor Lin, and still thought Zhou Ze was really a doctor.

Of course, it was also because Zhou Ze's medical skills were indeed superb, which really made it difficult for the young intern to tell the difference.

“Being a doctor has no future, so I’m doing business,” Zhou Ze said casually.

“Is this your bookstore?”

“I guess.”

At this moment, Tang Shi appeared at the staircase, looking at Zhou Ze.

“You sit here first, I’ll be right back.”

The young doctor sat down next to him, and the old Taoist poured tea very diligently. As long as you accepted the tea, the minimum charge was one hundred.

Zhou Ze walked to Tang Shi and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Are you free tomorrow?” Tang Shi asked.

“No.”

“Then what are you planning to do tomorrow?”

“Haven’t thought about it yet.”

Tang Shi nodded, indicating that she understood. “Then let’s have dinner together tomorrow night.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Tang Shi and Zhou Ze frowned at the same time.

Having dinner together tomorrow night is a normal social expression for ordinary people, but for these two people, it is no less than a form of torture.

Having dinner together tomorrow night, in their ears, can be translated as “electric shock together tomorrow night.”

“Let’s have tea,” Tang Shi changed her mind.

“Are there guests coming?”

“I guess.” Tang Shi looked around and said, “You can relax, I won’t compete with you for maids anymore.”

Zhou Ze smiled and nodded.

After talking with Tang Shi, Zhou Ze turned around and walked back to his original position. The old Taoist and the young intern were chatting very enthusiastically, and the two had the air of becoming friends despite the age difference.

Of course, with the old Taoist’s experience, he could chat with anyone from all walks of life and become a confidant.

“What’s wrong?” Zhou Ze asked.

“Boss, he said that the corpses in their hospital morgue always appear damaged or missing, but they can’t find out who did it. I just gave him an idea.”

As he said that, the old Taoist took out a plastic bottle from his pocket, which was fluorescent powder.

“I’m telling you, I guarantee it’s someone inside your hospital who’s doing it. You secretly sprinkle this on the corpse. If you catch the thief, then you, this intern, can also become a full-time employee.”

“Become a full-time employee at the Public Security Bureau?” Zhou Ze looked at the old Taoist. “Why are you giving others bad ideas?”

At this time, the young intern answered the phone. It should have been someone urging him to return to the hospital. After hanging up the phone, he smiled at the old Taoist, shook his hand, and turned to leave the bookstore.

“Boss, are there really people who steal corpses?” the old Taoist asked curiously. He knew that Zhou Ze was a doctor in his previous life, so he must know some inside stories.

“Yes,” Zhou Ze replied.

“Then why? Steal corpses to transplant organs?” the old Taoist immediately asked.

“Do you think organ transplantation is that simple? The conditions for organ transplantation are very harsh. It is basically impossible to steal corpses from the morgue for organ transplantation.

Generally speaking, in the past, they could be sent to some medical schools or research institutes for dissection experiments. After all, human corpses are not white mice, and experimental products are very scarce.

There are also some people who are more superstitious and will steal corpses to arrange ghost marriages. In addition, some people believe that drinking powder ground from the skull of a corpse can cure diseases. In short, there are all kinds of claims, so the phenomenon of corpse theft is actually quite serious, but now that cremation is promoted in China, it is much better.”

“Grind the skull into powder and drink it? Like pearl powder?” The old Taoist made a gesture of wanting to vomit.

Zhou Ze sat back in his seat by the window. A Nissan stopped in front of the bookstore, and a person got out of the car, a person who had previously returned to his hometown.

“You’re back!”

The old Taoist was very excited to see Xu Qinglang’s figure. He was tired of eating takeout, so he especially missed the days when Xu Qinglang was in the store.

Zhou Ze was very calm, but he also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. His plum juice was almost finished.

Xu Qinglang didn’t come in, but waved to Zhou Ze, then squatted down at the door of the store.

He looked like he had something on his mind.

Zhou Ze walked out of the store, stood beside him, thought for a while, and also squatted down.

“What’s wrong?” Zhou Ze asked.

Xu Qinglang didn’t rush to answer, but handed Zhou Ze a cigarette, then sighed and said:

“I went home for a blind date.”

“A happy event,” Zhou Ze said.

“Alas.”

“Didn’t you like her?” Zhou Ze asked.

Xu Qinglang shook his head. “I liked her too fast.”

“How fast? Did you roll around in bed?”

Xu Qinglang glanced at Zhou Ze, but didn’t deny it.

“Really fast,” Zhou Ze exclaimed.

“I’m not like you, I’m still normal,” Xu Qinglang reminded him.

“Then why are you wearing such a mournful face?”

“The problem is, after it was over, she put a sum of money on my bedside and left.”

“You were prostituted?” Zhou Ze was a little surprised.

Xu Qinglang was a little depressed and said:

“I originally agreed to have a blind date at a coffee shop, but the blind date partner had something to do temporarily and didn’t come. I didn’t receive the notice and mistook the blind date partner. Then I sat in front of her and chatted, then I asked her to go to the movies, then I accompanied her to go shopping, and then in the evening, she asked me to open a hotel to show me the script she had just written. She’s a screenwriter.”

“I bet it must be a fluorescent script, the kind that you have to turn off the lights to see.”

Xu Qinglang was a little helpless and reached out to scratch his hair.

“She left three thousand yuan on my bedside after she left. I treated her as my blind date partner and was a little surprised that she was so open and avant-garde, or is this love at first sight that I can’t control myself?”

“Most love at first sight is actually lust at first sight.”

“As a result, I found out that the facts weren’t like this.” Xu Qinglang was very conflicted.

“She treated you like a gigolo?”

“Can you shut up?” Xu Qinglang looked at Zhou Ze with a resentful expression.

“You took the money, you slept with the person, you didn’t lose anything.”

“That’s what I’m saying, but I feel like my self-esteem has been hurt. I’m a man with twenty-odd houses, but I was prostituted by a woman as a gigolo!”

“Actually, some things can be thought of from a different angle, and you might feel more comfortable.”

“For example?”

“For example, you are the gigolo with the most houses.”

“…………”

“Or, you are the person with the most houses who looks most like a gigolo.”

“…………”

“Sorry, I’m not very good at comforting people.” Zhou Ze patted Xu Qinglang on the shoulder and continued:

“Cheer up,

The bed is the most depraved place in the world, so why take a relationship that starts from the bed seriously?

By the way, did you go back to your hometown just for the blind date?”

“Not really. The ancestral graves at home are going to be demolished, so I went back to move the ancestral graves. By the way, a strange thing happened. I’ll tell you about it in a few days. Now I want to go upstairs and rest.”

Xu Qinglang stood up, pushed open the bookstore door, took a bottle of red wine from the bar, went upstairs, and returned to his room.

The whole afternoon passed relatively leisurely and easily. When it came to eight o’clock in the evening, Zhou Ze finally cheered up. Generally, at this time, the real guests should come to the door.

Xu Qinglang was probably trying to drown his sorrows in alcohol and didn’t come downstairs, so he still ordered takeout for dinner.

The old Taoist and the little monkey sat on a stool, the two of them having peanuts and wine. The little monkey’s alcohol tolerance was also brought out by the old Taoist.

The door of the bookstore was pushed open, and the door curtain made a crisp sound.

The person who pushed the door open and came in was the intern.

The old Taoist was a little drunk and reached out to greet the intern to come and have a drink.

There was no way, he couldn’t find another person in the entire bookstore who could drink with him, so he could only drink with the monkey. Now that a living person had come, he was naturally happy.

“I just got off work and forgot to pay you today. By the way, I still have to pay you for the fluorescent powder.” The intern was still so dull and honest.

“Don’t mention it, isn’t it just a hundred yuan for tea, and isn’t it just a hundred and fifty yuan with the fluorescent powder?”

The old Taoist said, pretending to be very generous.

The other party handed over the money, and the old Taoist took it very angrily, then patted the intern on the shoulder and said:

“If you really want to thank me, treat me to a meal at a restaurant. Let’s have a good drink and chat.”

After saying that, the old Taoist glanced at Zhou Ze with some guilt.

Zhou Ze nodded, as if approving the leave.

The intern didn’t refuse. He wasn’t a local and didn’t have any close friends here because of his personality, so he and the old Taoist put their arms around each other and left the bookstore together to find a tavern.

It was already dark, but the streetlights were still bright.

The old Taoist and the intern walked for a while. When they were about to reach the tavern in front, the old Taoist turned into a dark alley next to him, unbuckled his belt, and said:

“Sorry, I have to take a leak first.”

The intern didn’t stand on ceremony, stood side by side with the old Taoist, and also unbuckled his belt.

“Hey, you kid, you’re down to earth, I like it!”

“Haha, it’s quite exciting, urinating anywhere,” the intern was obviously corrupted by the old Taoist.

“What’s this? It’s human nature. By the way, did you apply the fluorescent powder I gave you at noon on the corpse?” the old Taoist asked.

“I applied it, but the corpse was lost again today. The hospital has called the police, but the police still haven’t found any clues.”

“It didn’t work?” the old Taoist said apologetically.

“Yeah, it didn’t work,” the intern nodded.

“Then forget it, let’s go Dutch on the wine tonight.”

“It’s okay, I’ll treat you,” the intern said.

“Okay, you kid have face, I’m optimistic about you!”

As he said that, the old Taoist didn’t wash his hands and patted the other party on the shoulder directly as encouragement!

“You’re old, it’s only right,”

The intern said with a smile.

The old Taoist suddenly froze,

He hadn’t noticed it before, because there were lights in the bookstore, and there were streetlights on the road,

But in this dark alley,

The old Taoist suddenly saw that when the intern smiled,

On the teeth in his mouth,

There was a faint layer of,

Fluorescence.