Chapter 1
A green moon is embedded in the black screen-like night sky. The clouds are overlapping and the moonlight cannot shine through. The darkness seems to swallow everything.

Between heaven and earth, everything is quiet.

Most of the shops on the streets of Shancheng are closed. Except for the dim street lights, there is a shop at the end of Baixin Street with a faint halo, which seems a little out of place with everything around it.

Suddenly, a black shadow flew across the night sky, and finally landed not far from the shop, drifting staggeringly towards the shop.

The shop's plaque looks old, with five characters on it: Jiuzhai Food Shop. Only the two characters "Jiuzhai" are gilded, and the next three characters seem to have been added later.

Two white lanterns hung high at the door of Jiuzhai. The faint yellow light inside seeped out from the pale white, making the alley that was not yet dark under the moonlight look mysterious and deep.

Under the lantern, a pair of paper figures of a boy and a girl sit upright, with small cherry mouths and strange looks. Their cheeks are blood red and their lips are raised, as if they are smiling at the passers-by.

Anyone who happens to pass by Jiuzhai will feel terrified.

The black shadow has floated in front of Jiuzhai. It looks a bit ethereal, as if it can be dispersed by the wind, and the general outline of a person can be vaguely seen.

Looking around, Jiuzhai Food Shop is full of incense candles and wreaths. There is a colored wooden rocking chair on the right side of the empty space in the middle. A small table of the same color is also placed aside. On the table there is a bottle of Feizhai Happy Water and a bottle of water. A plate of melon seeds and a bag of potato chips.

Lying on the rocking chair with her legs crossed was a person wearing a black facial mask. She was Jiang Nian, the owner of Jiuzhai Food Shop.

Jiang Nian is 22 years old. After graduating from college, she took over her master's incense shop.

However, she felt that the incense and candle shop did not sound good, so she changed it to Jiuzhai Gourmet Shop. Incense and candles were originally the food of those in the underworld, so changing the name seemed reasonable.

Jiang Nian is not a particularly stunning beauty, and her appearance is considered to be of high quality, but the tail of her eyes is slightly raised, making her look very seductive.

However, it seems a little unlucky for a girl to be guarding the incense and candle shop, and many of the neighbors around her don't like to communicate with her.

Today is Saturday. Jiang Nian's favorite idol participated in a variety show that happened to be broadcast. She took the time to unlock her phone, and took out a longer mobile phone holder from the back of the rocking chair behind her, extending it thirty years in front of her. centimeters or so.

As soon as I fixed my phone, the show started.

"Welcome to our "Busy Saturday". The place we are going to today is Haicheng! The purpose of this trip is to understand our traditional culture and how our ancestors conquered Haicheng and made it our homeland. "

The show lasted for two hours. Jiang Nian leisurely opened Feizhai Happy Water, tore open the packaging bag of potato chips, and started to follow the variety show.

The black shadow slowly floated in front of Jiang Nian and stopped beside Jiang Nian.

Jiang Nian looked at the phone in fascination, and the smile on his lips never faded, as if he didn't notice anything was wrong around him.

Half an hour later, the black shadow began to think.

"Why is this man so stupid? He can't even ride a bicycle. He has left other girls behind. The boys in our village have been able to ride bicycles since they were young."

"She's quite good-looking, but she doesn't have much brains. She's too stupid. Is there anyone who still likes this?"

Jiang Nian took a deep breath, pursed his lips slightly, reached out and grabbed a handful of melon seeds and started eating them.

"Crack!"

If you look carefully, you can see that Jiang Nian chewed the melon seeds with a bit of force, and the sound of the melon seed shells being bitten sounded extremely crisp.

However, these sounds did not affect the stable output of the black shadow at all.

"He actually doesn't know how to cook. Such a man can't find a wife in a mountain city. All the men in mountain cities cook." "I feel so hungry when it comes to food. Why don't I scare this sister and turn on the incense candles anyway?" Shop owner, is it not too much to ask her to offer me some incense and candles? And I don’t know what’s in the house, it’s so fragrant, the more I smell it, the hungrier I get.”

After thinking about this, the black shadow gradually began to appear, revealing the appearance of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl. She was covered in blood, and her hands were like claws. She was stuck between Jiang Nian and the mobile phone, just like that. Staring at Jiang Nian.

Jiang Nian put down the melon seeds in his hand, reached out and slapped Zhang Yuehong on the shoulder.

"It's blocking me from watching TV."

Jiang Nian's words just now made Zhang Yuehong's ghost body sway. He was so aggrieved that he couldn't react for a long time.

No, she is a ghost!

Can you give ghosts the respect they deserve?

Zhang Yuehong was silent, she looked down at her body.

Now he looks exactly like he did before he died. He is covered in blood and bones can be seen in some places. Logically speaking, it is quite scary.

But the sister in front of her was a little too calm, and she was suddenly stunned. After all, ordinary people should not react so indifferently when seeing ghosts, and it was impossible to touch her when they appeared.

"I, you, why can you hit me?" Zhang Yuehong shrank to the side and sobbed in a low voice.

Jiang Nian took back his hand and looked over, and then he noticed that the ghost in front of him now had a very weak soul, as if he was malnourished.

The ghost in front of me didn't have any bloody aura, so it must have done no evil.

Although he knew that taking it just now would not hurt her, Jiang Nian was still a little embarrassed, as if she was bullying the little girl.

"Don't cry, are you hungry?" Jiang Nian asked in a low voice.

I heard she said she was hungry just now. She didn't look like a new ghost, but she didn't have any ghost energy. No wonder her soul was so light.

Zhang Yuehong immediately forgot to cry and nodded desperately, "Yes, yes, I'm very hungry. Sister, can you give me something to eat?"

"Wait."

Jiang Nian took off the mask on his face and stood up, walked to the altar, took a stick of incense from the incense tube on it with his left hand, and snapped his fingers with his right hand. The incense was lit and green smoke floated up.

Zhang Yuehong looked a little aggrieved at Jiang Nian's actions. After all, she had been hungry for months, but Jiang Nian's behavior made her know that the other party was probably a Taoist, so she didn't dare to eat too much. explain.

A scent of sandalwood penetrated Zhang Yuehong's nose, and her greed was aroused. She stared at Jiang Nian's hand with almost blazing eyes.

Jiang Nian still held the incense in her left hand and kneaded the incense in her right hand. The incense in her hand turned into a wisp of green smoke and floated like Zhang Yuehong.

Zhang Yuehong subconsciously opened her mouth and sucked the green smoke into her mouth. Her hunger suddenly disappeared and she became stronger.

"It feels so good. I haven't felt this good in months. Thank you sister." Zhang Yuehong returned to her normal appearance and spoke to Jiang Nian.

"No need to say thank you, just a stick of incense." Jiang Nian waved his hand. "Since I'm not hungry anymore, let's go quickly. I still have to catch up on dramas. It's me today."

While speaking, Jiang Nian accidentally looked away from Zhang Yuehong and stared ahead with his pupils shrinking.

(End of this chapter)

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