“Do you want to replace me?”

This question stunned Zhou Ze.

What does this mean?

Was he, a black户 (unregistered resident) hiding in a city, about to become a local civil servant?

The surprise was too sudden.

Zhou Ze hesitated to accept.

Free lunches do exist, but most people who encounter them end up being crushed to death by the pie.

Most importantly, Zhou Ze didn't think saving her life was worth such treatment.

The driver's incident, for example, hadn't been clarified yet. This little loli (cute girl) might be cute, but that was just her appearance.

Xu Qinglang had said that she had appeared in his shop and, expressionlessly, extended her tongue to collect the souls of his parents.

No matter how Xu Qinglang pleaded and begged, she remained unmoved.

You can't expect such a person to be grateful. Just be thankful if she doesn't bite you.

As a ghost messenger of the underworld,

How much drama had she seen?

How much evil of humanity?

How much resentment of ghosts?

She wasn't a simple young girl, and couldn't be.

"What, you're not talking?" the little loli asked again.

"I don't know what to say. Are you just asking casually?" Zhou Ze asked cautiously.

"You can answer that you don't want to," the little loli said.

Then, silence.

The little loli added, "Then, I'll drag you down."

"..." Zhou Ze.

Okay,

That's more like it.

Why have multiple-choice questions?

Just fill in the blank.

The question is: the answer *must* be 'yes', or you'll be shot.

"I agree," Zhou Ze replied, without hesitation or entanglement.

The little loli turned around, smiled, a little innocently, then slowly walked in front of Zhou Ze, pretending to be an adult, wanting to straighten his collar.

This seemed to be a way for superiors to show importance to their subordinates, a bit like an ancient emperor granting his ministers the opportunity to dine with him.

But the little loli was too short. Standing in front of Zhou Ze, she couldn't straighten his collar, so she could only straighten his belt.

"Pick me up," the little loli pouted, ordering.

Zhou Ze bent down and picked up the little loli.

The little loli reached out to straighten Zhou Ze's collar, then frowned, seeming to think that being held by Zhou Ze like a daughter was inappropriate.

"Do I look stupid like this?"

"Very cute."

The little loli reached out to slap Zhou Ze's cheek.

In that instant, Zhou Ze's fingernails rapidly grew long and black, and black whirlpools swirled deep in his eyes.

The little loli stopped, a meaningful smile on her lips.

Zhou Ze didn't make any further moves.

"Do you know that showing anger and resistance in front of me is a very stupid thing to do?" the little loli asked.

"Doesn't matter, I've already died once anyway."

"That's because you were lucky. You left the road to the Yellow Springs after only a short distance. You haven't experienced the pain and torment of hell!" the little loli said loudly. "That kind of torment can make all those who commit suicide and go to hell regret it immensely! It's better to live poorly than to die well. This is not just empty comfort."

"Is that so?"

"Put me down."

Zhou Ze put the little loli down.

The little loli leaned back, looking at Zhou Ze. "Do you know why I chose you?"

Zhou Ze shook his head.

"Because you're smart, or rather, you're calm and know your limits," the little loli said, counting on her fingers. "The underworld has order, the human realm has laws. There are many people who sneak out for various reasons, but you're the calmest one I've ever seen."

"I don't believe that's the real reason," Zhou Ze said.

"I don't want to tell you the real reason." The little loli stretched. "I'm tired and want to go down, so I happened to meet you, and you won't cause me too much trouble, so I chose you.

"Heh, recently there was a guy in Rongcheng who was making a lot of noise. He was clearly a pitiful stowaway, but he claimed to be a judge, and as a ghost, he wanted to exercise his judgment in the human world. Tell me, isn't he stupid?"

"Stupid," Zhou Ze replied. Then, Zhou Ze suddenly remembered that the old Daoist (Taoist priest) seemed to be from Rongcheng. "What happened to him later?"

"He was banned."

The little loli tilted her head, her face innocent. "The rules are flexible, but if you cross the line too much, there's no hope at all."

"Is he dead?" Zhou Ze asked. "I mean, was he caught and returned to hell, or was his soul scattered?"

Hearing this, the little loli's face showed a hint of anger, as if her sensitive point had been touched.

"You don't need to know that."

The little loli grabbed Zhou Ze's palm, her small hand facing Zhou Ze's.

Immediately afterward, Zhou Ze felt a burning sensation in his palm. When the little loli moved her hand away, Zhou Ze saw a black rune in the center of his palm.

The rune wasn't complex, like an eye.

"The underworld has order, the Yellow Springs can be crossed," the little loli said seriously. "Send those who should go down, and you can directly scatter those who should be scattered.

"Of course, if you want to roar when you see injustice,

"That's fine,

"But you bear the cost yourself.

"If you mess up, you bear the consequences."

The little loli yawned, as if she was tired.

"You said you're tired. How long will you rest? Am I just filling in?" Zhou Ze asked.

"I'll tell you when I get back," the little loli prepared to go downstairs.

Zhou Ze continued to ask, "What am I supposed to do? Patrol every night,

"Find ghosts,

"And then,

"Mess with ghosts?"

"The door is in your hands. Do whatever you want. You can continue to run your bookstore. You're a ghost, a ghost who has returned to life by possessing a corpse. Those dirty things and miscellaneous objects will consciously gather around you.

"To them, you're like a candle in the dark night. They're the moths.

"Also, after I left that mark on you, it's like upgrading you from a candle to an incandescent light bulb, enough to blind their dog eyes."

"..." Zhou Ze.

The little loli went downstairs, and Zhou Ze followed.

"I'll read a book for a while and leave later. The mother of this body will come to pick her up later."

The little loli sat down on a plastic chair, casually picking up an illustrated book to flip through.

Zhou Ze stood next to her, not exactly serving her, but he had some questions to ask.

"Speak," the little loli said.

"This... is there a salary?" Zhou Ze asked. "You know, what I'm doing here is a losing business."

"The economy is sluggish. It's getting harder and harder to earn money from the living," the little loli sighed.

"Yes," Zhou Ze echoed.

"Then earn money from the dead."

"You can't spend the money of the dead," Zhou Ze shrugged.

"That's because your method is wrong." The little loli spread her hands. "Get some hell money, the kind that the dead give."

Zhou Ze took out a stack of hell money, divided it in half, and placed it in the little loli's hands.

"You've earned quite a bit," the little loli glanced at it and smiled.

Zhou Ze didn't mention that half of it was given to him by the old Daoist who came from Rongcheng last time. In the dark, Zhou Ze felt that letting this little loli know about this would bring him trouble.

The little loli took the money, opened the door of the bookstore, and squatted on the side of the road.

"Lighter."

Zhou Ze handed over the lighter.

The little loli burned the hell money, and the ashes were quickly blown away.

Then, the little loli stood up, patted her hands. "Okay."

Zhou Ze stood in the wind, a little disheveled.

"Did you burn it in advance to my account at the underground bank?"

"Wait and see. The popularity here is still not enough." The little loli and Zhou Ze, one big and one small, stood at the door of the shop, waiting for about half an hour.

The little loli's delicate face was a little red from the wind. Zhou Ze wasn't afraid of the cold, but standing by the road and staring like an idiot felt weird.

Finally,

A pot-bellied man walked past the two of them, and then, a wallet fell from the man. The man didn't notice at all and continued walking.

Zhou Ze went up to pick up the wallet and found that there were actually thousands of dollars in it, as well as an ID card, bank card, and other things.

"Should I return it to him?" Zhou Ze asked tentatively.

The little loli "pfft" laughed.

"This person did something wrong, so this is considered breaking his wealth to avoid disaster. This money is yours."

The little loli pushed open the door, entered the bookstore, and rubbed her hands. Obviously, she was quite frozen in the past half an hour. It was still warmer in the bookstore.

Zhou Ze walked in with the wallet, a little disbelieving. "He won't call the police?"

"This money isn't burning your hands at all," the little loli said impatiently.

"Great, so if I'm short of money in the future, I'll just take hell money and stand at the door and burn it, and someone will take the initiative to send money, right?"

Zhou Ze didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he also found it interesting.

Xu Qinglang came over at this time, carrying a large bottle of sour plum juice.

"Hey, there are only so many materials in the store, so I can only make these. There are more, wait..."

As soon as Xu Qinglang pushed the door open and came in, he saw the little loli sitting there. He staggered, and the bottle in his hand fell to the ground and shattered.

Sour plum juice splattered all over the bookstore.

Zhou Ze looked at Xu Qinglang, signaling him to restrain himself.

The little loli didn't seem to take Xu Qinglang seriously at all.

Indeed, a person who was lucky enough to have a little bit of mysterious power wasn't worth her looking at.

"Whose daughter is this? So cute, hahaha, come, little friend, Uncle has a tank of small goldfish at home. Do you want to go home with Uncle to see them?"

Xu Qinglang's smile was very awkward, forced out.

The little loli just uttered one word: "滚 (Get out)."

Xu Qinglang smiled again, turned around, and went back to his shop.

"Do you think I'm being too much?" The little loli looked up at Zhou Ze.

"A little," Zhou Ze said truthfully.

"Then I'll tell you, the driver's death was just because I was bored sitting on the school bus at the time and revealed my true form to make a joke.

"Would you think,

"Even more too much?"

The little loli tilted her head, looking at Zhou Ze with a cute expression.