[Town Soul] Zhao Yunlan Small Theater

Chapter 24 Scene 5

New Year approached.

Shen Wei's school was on holiday, so he cleaned up the house today, and then sat at the desk with an ancient book to read, while listening to Zhao Yunlan's non-stop phone calls.

Yes, Zhao Yunlan spent the whole morning lying on the bed and answering the phone. The super long data cable that caused trouble was dragged from the socket under the desk to the bed. paralyzed by use.

"Why do you have so many calls?" Shen Wei asked taking a break.

"I can't help it. Isn't it the Chinese New Year coming soon? The affairs of the office have to be arranged, and the relationship in all aspects must be moved around. Actually, although the Spring Festival is said to be a holiday, it is the busiest time for me..."

Without saying a word, the phone rang again.Zhao Yunlan followed up and said a few words, and Shen Wei found that he was completely naked.

"The new location of the Special Investigation Office has been confirmed!" Zhao Yunlan hung up the phone and looked at Shen Wei excitedly.

"what?"

"I mean, the place where I work will probably be able to move in the spring of next year." Zhao Yunlan lay on the bed happily: "It's right there with you, No. 9 University City, so I can be closer to you when I commute to work. Shen Wei , I have already thought about it, and I will buy a school district room there, so that we can sleep until 8 o'clock every day and then get up, and we can get home after work. By the way, I will leave you a big room Is the study room good? You can also bring your students to the house from time to time... and the dead cat of Daqing! Build him a super luxurious cat litter on the balcony, but you must explain to him in advance that visiting relatives is fine, but don’t make light bulbs if you have nothing to do! ...How about letting him live in the house here? What do you think, Shen Wei?"

Shen Wei looked at Zhao Yunlan firmly: "Okay."

Zhao Yunlan smiled and dimpled at Shen Wei.Shen Wei was in a trance for a moment.

Jian Jia Cang Cang, white dew is frost. The so-called Yi people are on the water side.

The love in ancient books is hidden deep in the dark yellow paper, and the time that has flowed through the millennium is longed for by future generations.

The life and death agreement is broad, and Zicheng said. Hold your hand and grow old together.

Those moving oaths are engraved in the world, witnessing the vicissitudes of life forever.

Tens of thousands of years of long and dark waiting are shining brightly because of this momentary smile.

Shen Wei pursed his lips slightly, in this apocalyptic time, he was enjoying the satisfaction of this moment extravagantly.

The phone rang again, and Zhao Yunlan picked it up lazily like a big cat: "Hey~ who... oh, Minister Gao! It's rare.... Tsk, why bother! This is what it should be! That's right, it wasn't you who thought highly of me at that time, that's why you arranged your nephew here. Xiao Guo is very diligent, and he works hard with you, and has a bright future!... Oh, what a coincidence, no no, no no To save you, I was injured a few days ago when I was handling the case, and I am still laying on my stomach on the bed, oh no, I am lying down!...Don’t worry, it’s a small injury, how could it be the minister’s turn to come to express condolences in person, change tomorrow I will definitely go to the appointment when I get well, definitely!...Well, that's it, I will guide you when I have time!"

Shen Wei watched Zhao Yunlan's expression miraculously change from laziness to enthusiasm, and he exchanged pleasantries with the person on the other end of the phone, making it impossible for you to come and go.

"Minister Gao of the General Administration." Zhao Yunlan hung up the phone and explained to Shen Wei: "It's Xiao Guo's second uncle. I don't know why I suddenly called today, saying that I have a meal when I'm free, and thank me for taking care of me." His nephew for a while."

Shen Wei: "Yes."

Zhao Yunlan frowned: "This guy has no other abilities. He is famous for being a man. It stands to reason that his nephew has been here for more than half a year, and he just called now...is this normal?"

Shen Wei didn't quite understand the relationship between mortals, so he glanced at Zhao Yunlan.

"Besides, the phone call just now was meant to exchange pleasantries, but it might as well be an inquiry." Zhao Yunlan suffered from an occupational disease, lying on the bed and kept reasoning: "Judging from his tone, it seems that he only recently found out that his nephew was assigned to the special investigation department. This No, didn't he arrange it? I mean, it's Xiao Guo's brain... oh no, it's dangerous for us to deal with the case, this uncle's brain is full of water, so he will put his nephew in."

Shen Wei lowered his eyes, proving that he was also thinking seriously.

"Even Minister Gao didn't know about it, who was running it... the leader?" Zhao Yunlan felt a pain in his head: "Forget it, it's not a big deal, I'll ask Xiao Guo in another day. By the way, we just Where did it go? Is the house right?"

"Huh?" Shen Wei's thoughts haven't changed yet.

"Yes, I also want a bigger kitchen, the kind that has everything, and then learn to cook with you when I have time. Cook what you like! Don't worry, it won't be instant noodles...Shen Wei, you Are you listening?"

Shen Wei settled down: "I was just thinking that it's not good to let Daqing live outside all the time. How about I give him the keys to my house and let him live with me. Anyway, it's on the opposite side, so it's convenient for me to take care of it."

Zhao Yunlan: "Let him stay outside and reflect! It's fine to go out privately, and dare to throw the ruler secretly. I get angry when I mention this, and I turned against him!"

Guo Changcheng sneezed four or five times in a row, and as soon as he turned around, Chu Shuzhi took off his scarf and wrapped it airtightly around him.

"Brother Chu, no need, aren't you cold?" Guo Changcheng refused repeatedly.

"Wear it!" Chu Shuzhi patted him on the body: "Wearing so little to go out, thinking of freezing to death outside?"

"No, it's not..." Guo Changcheng shook his head, for some reason, this winter was extraordinarily cold.The weather forecast said that probably since last week, a cold current from Siberia has surged in, causing the outdoor temperature to drop to an unprecedented low recently.He put on the thickest down jacket before going out, but he still couldn't resist the biting cold.

"Give it to me." Chu Shuzhi took the big bag and small bag from Xiao Guo's hand.

Half of it is the items that the Special Investigation Office needs to purchase during the Chinese New Year—in the past, Zhu Hong went out to purchase in advance, but she is not in a good mood recently, so she simply made a list and pushed all the things to Xiao Guo, and stayed in the office by herself I kept watching movies like "Green Snake", "Twilight", "King Kong" and so on.The other half is the necessities of life such as rice and clothes that Guo Changcheng spent the year-end bonus to buy for the lonely and widowed elderly in the nursing home.

"Is all the money spent on this? Why don't you buy yourself a dress!" Chu Shuzhi was a little dissatisfied.

"Actually, the heating in the office is very good, and it's not cold at all if you don't go out..." Guo Changcheng touched the soft scarf on his body, and argued in a low voice.He bought this scarf for Brother Chu after he came out of the hospital last time. He remembered that Brother Chu said he didn't need other styles of clothes, so he chose a black cashmere scarf for him in the mall to match the color of his clothes.Unexpectedly, it would match Brother Chu's temperament very well, and he wore it almost every day after the cold weather.Xiao Guo felt very happy when he thought about it.

"Stop talking nonsense." Chu Shuzhi opened the car door, stuffed Guo Changcheng into the back seat, and put all the bags in, "If I hadn't come over, would you still be waiting for the bus?"

Xiao Guo sniffed his nose. He is used to being frugal. Just now, the cold wind was blowing at the bus stop for 10 to [-] minutes before he got to the bus. He was debating whether to hail a taxi, and finally received a call from Brother Chu. , Said that he heard that he had gone shopping for the New Year, and drove to pick him up.

Guo Changcheng thought for a while and said, "Brother Chu, can we go to the nursing home first? The weather is so cold, I want to send the clothes to the old man earlier."

"You don't care about yourself?" Chu Shuzhi frowned.

"I...?" Guo Changcheng looked down at himself, he has always had very low requirements in life, and he has no hobbies other than helping others, he was a little puzzled when Brother Chu asked him this way: "I'm fine. The year-end bonuses are paid out enough, and Director Zhao is so kind to us, he called us early to say that we will celebrate the New Year together in the office, and I don’t need to buy anything for this year’s New Year. What else should I worry about?”

Chu Shuzhi glanced at him through the rearview mirror: "Didn't your aunt say that she would introduce a girl to you? You don't care about your own life? You plan to go on a blind date dressed like this, huh?"

Guo Changcheng blushed: "You say this, brother Chu. I, I have already been rejected... It is not suitable."

"Which doesn't fit?"

"Just, it just doesn't fit."

"Which point is inappropriate?" Chu Shuzhi completely regarded Xiao Guo as a prisoner for interrogation.

Fortunately, the young man seemed to answer all questions: "I think the conditions are too good for her, so she shouldn't like me. Besides, even if she likes me, what can I bring her? I don't have a car or deposit. Now I still rent a house to live in, and the job is dangerous, oh Brother Chu, I’m not saying that my job is not good, I really like my job! I just don’t think I’m suitable, anyway, I’m not thinking about it now.”

Chu Shuzhi nodded. Ever since he heard Xiao Guo's aunt say that he would introduce a girl to him at the dinner table of Minister Gao's house last time, he has been a little unhappy in his heart.This feeling is like knowing that ghost has a crush on Xiao Guo before, and always feels that his things are being coveted by others, and he is vaguely agitated like lost.Fortunately, Xiao Guo's answer was quite satisfactory. He glanced at the young man shrunk in the back seat from the rearview mirror, and silently drove the car to the nursing home.

The nursing home that Xiao Guo mentioned is located in the suburbs of Longcheng, a considerable distance away.Chu Shuzhi drove the car, and the sun gradually set, and the sky turned gray, and the birch forest on the roadside shook its lonely branches rustlingly in the cold winter wind.

"Brother Chu, look!" Guo Changcheng suddenly shouted.

Chu Shuzhi heard the sound and looked out of the window. At the end of the sky, groups of crows rolled away in black, covering the last ray of the setting sun.

The crow clan had been expelled from the demon city because of their previous feud with the monster clan. They could only choose to live in cold suburbs or villages. Now, for some reason, these crows living in the suburbs escaped here collectively as if they had made a deal.

"What happened to them?" Guo Changcheng asked.

Chu Shuzhi shook his head, and suddenly remembered a common saying.

The sky is ominous, Raven Prophet.

In fact, it was not Chu Shuzhi, but Daqing who felt the turmoil first.

Animals have far more acute premonitions than humans. It is said that before the Tangshan earthquake, the first people who showed anxiety were barking cats and dogs and groups of migrating mice.The first and most sensitive to the shock of the Three Realms are the road gods, then the land closest to Dafeng, and then all kinds of senior monster elders.That is to say, when other people knew nothing about the coming storm, some senior elites of Yaozu had already predicted it with their keen insight and began to arrange to deal with it.

Although Daqing is not an elder of the Yaozu, he is a Taoist who has experienced the experience of Kunlun Mountain and eaten the green fruit on the big sacred tree, and barely made it to the top of the Yaozu pyramid.On that day in the hospital, after he introduced Shen Wei's identity to Zhu Hong with a sense of prescient superiority, he suddenly felt his heart sink.This feeling is very strange, it seems that something heavy is suddenly pressing on my heart, and it seems that some worrying things are about to happen.He meowed and shook his flaxen hair, but he couldn't shake the uneasy feeling out of his mind.Daqing, who has always been magnanimous, felt a little ashamed that he suddenly had the unfounded worry of a stupid human being. He stuffed the small bottle containing the ghosts to Zhu Hong, then turned and left the hospital.

Relying on intuition, Daqing walked all the way to Antique Street. The Chinese New Year is almost here. This old street, which usually has few customers, is now even more empty. Most of the small shops on both sides of the street are locked. Yes, the owners of the three or four shops with the doors open are also sitting on wicker chairs at the door of the shop, drinking tea and lazily basking in the sun.The noon sun was shining brightly, and everything around him was too normal, but Daqing still felt a faint fear creeping slowly in his heart like an earthworm.He ran for a while, until he stood under the old locust tree, and the uneasiness all over his body eased a bit.

The bell around his neck was still jingling with inertia, Daqing collected himself, and tried his best to dispel the idea of ​​going directly into the big locust tree.There is a demon market there, he knows.Not to mention it's broad daylight, even at night he couldn't just barge in with a dull head.The Yaoshi is a place where the elders of the Yaozu gather to discuss matters. Although I am a noble cat demon of the Kunlun God, and the boss of Zhu Hong, the niece of the fourth uncle of the Yaozu leader Snake, it would be too much for me to go in without a pass. Impolite.

You must know that Lao Zhao has always been more concerned about these vain face projects, and Daqing doesn't want to get beaten for his rude trespassing.

Cough, thinking of being beaten, Daqing felt a dull pain in his buttocks.Ever since returning from Kunlun Mountain, Chu Li has looked at himself a little strangely. Does he really think that he has been beaten?Daqing thought about what Wang Zheng said last night, recalled the look in the guard's eyes, and let out a muffled snort.As the deputy director of the special investigation department, it is a shame to be mistaken for being spanked!

From the perspective of introspection, Daqing has always felt that he can be regarded as the most powerful and unyielding fine breed in the special tune, which is due to the noble cat blood flowing in his bones.Think about it, if Xiao Guo went out to steal tools and accidentally injured Zhao Chu, Zhao Yunlan would have knelt down and confessed his mistake in the director's office with self-criticism without Zhao Yunlan's opening; Old Chu probably wouldn't admit his mistake , but Zhao Yunlan would never hesitate to beat him or punish him; let alone Lin Jing, this coward can be regarded as the thickest-skinned special agent, in order to avoid a beating, he will probably invent a voice-controlled fully automatic housekeeping robot overnight What kind of holding it in front of Zhao Yunlan to ask his subordinates to show mercy - Daqing always felt that Zhao Yunlan, who was living in a pool at home, needed such a thing very much.Ah bah bah bah, shameless human beings.I don't even think about who I am, Lord Daqing?A cat with backbone!Am I doing something wrong?Didn't going to Kunlun Mountain help Lao Zhao regain his memories and throw away the ruler?It was a wise move by those who know the current affairs, and it has benefited all the colleagues of the special mediation office.As for accidentally hurting Lao Zhao... Cough, well, I do feel a little guilty.But didn't Zhao Yunlan say anything?Besides... didn't he go to ask Professor Shen to take the blame?Anyway, he doesn't care, and he doesn't need to take it to heart.

It’s just that recently, I can only live in the office again... Daqing lazily walked along the wall, his scalp tingled when he thought of those colleagues, he really didn’t want to face the sympathetic eyes, he might as well be in this antique street Just stroll around.He turned his head to look around, and walked into the antique shop closest to the big locust tree.

The store was quite cold, and Daqing sneezed.Before he could speak, the shopkeeper standing behind the counter stared at the golden bell on his neck.

"Good fun," he said.

Daqing meowed proudly, and before he could open his mouth to show off the quality of the golden bell, he heard the man continue to speak: "...things from dead people."

Daqing almost cursed.

"The Ershili Pavilion outside Shanhaiguan, the centuries-old bones have turned into ashes." The middle-aged man said again in a low voice.

Daqing opened his eyes wide: "What did you say?"

The shopkeeper glanced at Jinling again, raised his hand and fiddled with his abacus twice: "This thing was dug out by the Crow Clan from the pile of bones of the dead...Do you want to sell it?"

Daqing felt that his brain began to ache again: "This is given to me by my master!"

The shop owner nodded, and began to lobby very professionally: "There is a great god tree in the bell, and mortals can live for a hundred years if they get it. Such a good thing, why don't you consider selling it? What can be exchanged in my shop is not just money. .”

Daqing turned around and wanted to leave.

The shop owner was very sorry for the big business that was about to be lost: "You are a cat demon who has gained the Tao, and the big Shenmu is just icing on the cake for you. Don't you see what you need more from me?"

Daqing's hair stood on end: "Can you tell that I'm not human?"

The shopkeeper pointed to the two tattered lanterns with the words "Suppressing the Soul" hanging at the entrance of the shop: "Yin and Yang are switched, and the three realms are reincarnated. I am here to guard the entrance of the Yellow Spring at the big locust tree. If you think about it If you want to change anything, come and find me again. I’m waiting anytime.”

Daqing meowed softly, it turned out that the big pagoda tree was a transfer station, not only leading to the demon city, but also the real entrance to the underworld.

He scratched the back of his neck, and suddenly felt that the antique street was too weird.

Forget it, it's better to go back to the special mediation office.