Chapter 3: Playing a Ghost Girl (1)
After three years of running the office, I have deeply experienced what it is like to live a life different from that of ordinary people. The office opens at midnight (23:00) and closes at 3:00. This time period is chosen because it is the time when ghosts are active. If the office opens too early, no customers will come; if it is too late, the ghosts will go back at 3:00 in the morning when the cock crows.
After arriving home at nearly 3:00, I still need to clean the ghost teeth I got, remove the blood stains on them, and boil them with potion for an hour before I dare to go to bed. Otherwise, the ghost teeth will lose their spiritual power when they leave the ghost body and will disappear at dawn. Boil them into black liquid with special potion, which is the raw material of black agate. Collect them in a sealed jar, and when you have enough solution of 100 ghost teeth, you can refine agate for money. Because this thing has an unknown origin and is in long-term supply, it cannot be sold through formal channels, and can only find buyers on the antique black market. However, there is no need to worry about this, my father has paved the way for me.
It was already seven in the morning when I finished these things. My mother prepared breakfast for me, and I went to bed after eating. I slept until four in the afternoon, and had lunch after getting up. I suspect that my father's early death is related to this irregular lifestyle.
It happened to be the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the Zhongyuan Festival, which is a traditional festival. People in both the south and the north will worship their ancestors on this day. Some people cannot return to their ancestral tombs to worship, so they often burn paper money at the crossroads where they live. It is said that there are money houses in the underworld that are specifically responsible for receiving property. If your descendants send ghost money and items here, they will give you the money and things in full according to the registered catalog.
However, this is just a folk legend after all. We have no way of knowing whether the underworld money houses are really so responsible, whether there are kickbacks, embezzlement and misappropriation, etc. After all, unless you experience the journey to the underworld in person, it is difficult to understand the real situation.
The business of the store is relatively flat, with an average of only one or two customers per day. Today is a festival, even ghosts are busy collecting offerings, probably no guests will visit. I hesitated whether to go or not. After thinking for a while, I felt that it would be hard to fall asleep if I didn't go at night, so I might as well go to the store to read a book and study magic.
I walked out of the door and walked through a dark alley, came to a small street, and walked 100 meters east, and it was my store. This was originally my old house. Later, the town carried out urban planning, and the old house was demolished, leaving only two storefronts. The door of the store is an old-fashioned wooden board, and there is no plaque on it, worried that the words "ghost" will scare people. The store is open, just open a piece of wood, basically only half a foot wide gap, so that ghosts can enter. People in the town know that our store is not doing an upright business, and no one dares to approach at night.
As soon as I sat down in the store, I heard the sound of high heels outside. Every time I heard this sound, I couldn't help but feel emotional. After three years, I haven't found a partner yet, how can I not desire a woman? But forget about the female ghost.
A graceful woman in pink clothes appeared at the crack of the door. Her face was particularly pale under the light in the house. But her lips were bright red, and her eyes were full of charm.
I raised my lips slightly, picked up the book from the table and flipped through it, ignoring her.
"Why is your door only open a crack? How can guests enter?" The woman said outside.
"If it's a ghost, there will be a way to get in." I didn't look up.