"I just thought about it. My Maoshan Incense Candle Shop has just opened. The most important thing at this stage is not making money, but fame!"
"So... I won't take your money for this business, but you will have to give me a good publicity later?!" Zhang Fan touched his chin and said with a smile.
He said this mainly for two reasons. One is that the other party does not seem to have much money. When he was a senior, he went out to work as an intern to make money, but he could not earn much at all. Even the unscrupulous intermediaries even maliciously deducted a lot from him.
So from the other party's point of view, Zhang Fan can still understand. Besides, she is a girl after all, so she doesn't need to worry about it so much. If you don't make money, you won't make money, and he doesn't care, as long as it's not short of a few hundred dollars.
The second thing is that his current store has just opened and the business is very poor. There is a need for people around him.
The person who "helped" had no idea that a store like his was open. If it hadn't been for the people who accidentally entered the store, there wouldn't have been a single customer for weeks.
What he said about playing with fame was true, and he didn't mean to lie to the other party.
"Is it true?" The girl blinked, looking surprised. If that were the case, it would be great. What happened to her this time would really be saved.
"Tell me, have you encountered anything recently? A normal person needs a yellow talisman, either because he has encountered a supernatural event, or there is something wrong with his brain!!"
"I think you are very normal, you don't look like someone with a brain problem!" Zhang Fan laughed and made a tentative joke, appearing approachable and extraordinarily gentle.
After finishing speaking, Zhang Fan asked the girl to come in to talk. It was windy and cold outside and he was afraid that she would freeze. Seeing this, the girl did not shirk, sighed, walked into the store, and sat back on the sofa.
"Boss, to be honest... I have indeed encountered some things recently..." The girl seemed to have thought of something terrible, her face became slightly pale, and there was fear in her eyes.
"Dare I ask... what do you call me girl?!" Zhang Fan narrowed his eyes after hearing this, pondered a little, and asked.
"My name is Zhou Xiaojing! I'm from Dahai City, and I'm currently attending college in Dadong City. Since I'm in my senior year, I need to intern outside for half a year to get my diploma!"
"In order to work better, I rented a house to live near where I work..." Zhou Xiaojing said here, her words stopped suddenly and she fell into silence, but the fear on her face became more intense. .
"Then what?" Zhang Fan picked up the hot tea on the coffee table, took a sip, and asked in confusion. He always felt that Zhou Xiaojing encountered some supernatural events while renting an apartment, otherwise she would not be so aggressive and looking for yellow talismans to ward off evil spirits all over the world.
In fact, yellow talismans like this have no effect at all on dealing with supernatural events. After all, they are not made by those who have attained the truth. You may not believe it, but the yellow talismans in his shop are basically bought from the wholesale market.
There is no use in exorcising evil spirits at all.
"Hey! It's hard to explain in words."
"This house I rented...it...is haunted!!" Zhou Xiaojing took a trembling sip of tea and said with a look of horror on her face.
"Haunted?" Zhang Fan asked pretending to be surprised.
"Yes! It's haunted!"
"Every night when I sleep until midnight, I can always hear the sound of footsteps in the living room...and the house that I have tidied before going to bed will become messy the next morning. If it is just It doesn’t matter if it’s just one or two days, but it’s like this every day…”
"I stayed there for a week and couldn't bear it anymore. I went to the landlord's house the next day to inquire about the situation, but they didn't tell me the truth. I later learned through a neighbor's aunt that this was the room I lived in. Someone has died before, and the previous tenant hanged himself in the living room!" Zhou Xiaojing said this, her eyes widened, and the fear in her heart was infinitely amplified, as if she had returned to the scene of the death.
"I now seriously suspect that the ghost of the tenant has not left at all and is still lingering in the living room... The footsteps late at night are coming from him... He wants to find me as a scapegoat... ." There were tears in Zhou Xiaojing's eyes, and her face was full of despair.
She was just an ordinary college student. She left her hometown and traveled all the way from Dahai City to Dadong City to go to college alone. Now that something like this happened, she suffered an extreme mental breakdown.
She didn't dare to tell her family about this kind of supernatural incident, for fear that they would be worried. The only boyfriend she could talk to was completely indifferent and didn't care about her at all. If it weren't for her long-distance relationship with her boyfriend, These feelings, I'm afraid she had already proposed breaking up before.
"So that's it, then what you encountered this time is not simple! Just relying on a yellow talisman won't do the trick!" Zhang Fan touched his chin, pinched his fingers pretending to be mysterious, and wrinkled He said with a frown.
He was acting, pretending, and his demeanor and behavior were completely imitated by Sai Laoxian. Sai Laoxian often puts on this posture of seeing through the world of mortals. As he said, the more inscrutable he is, the more incomprehensible he is.
"Ah! Boss, what should I do? Boss... you have to save me... I'm still young and I don't want to die yet!!" Upon hearing Zhang Fan's words, Zhou Xiaojing was frightened. He cried loudly, his face was extremely pale, without any blood, and he looked very frightened.
Seeing that Zhou Xiaojing was frightened and crying, Zhang Fan hurriedly coughed a few times, turned away his thoughts, scratched his head with some embarrassment, and said: "But it doesn't matter, fortunately you met me this time! I, Zhang, have been around since I was three years old. Start learning Taoism. This kind of exorcism will be easy for you! It's just a drizzle!" Zhang Fan handed Zhou Xiaojing a tissue and asked her to wipe her tears, and told her not to be nervous, this matter will be taken care of by him. .
Zhou Xiaojing took the tissue, wiped her tears, and said with an uneasy look on her face: "Boss...I...have no money...I can't afford you..." .”
"It's okay! Didn't I tell you? I'm helping you this time for free, but after it's done, you have to help me promote it to people around me. The store has just opened and is not famous yet..." Zhang Fan said with a smile.
"Boss...thank you, I don't know how to thank you...you are such a good person!!" Zhou Xiaojing was very excited after hearing this, looking at Zhang Fan who was not much older than herself. , as if he thought of something, his face turned slightly red unconsciously, and he felt a little moved in his heart.
This boss is really a good person.
"Boss. I still don't know what to call you..." Zhou Xiaojing hesitated and asked.
"My name is Zhang Fan!" Zhang Fan smiled, then turned around and went back, found a backpack, put some yellow charms in it decently, then said hello and led Zhou Xiaojing out.
Before going out, he asked Su Mei'e and her son to keep an eye on the store and not let anyone break in rashly. Because the Maoshan Incense Candle Store is guarded by two fierce ghosts, Zhang Fan usually doesn't lock the door when he goes out.
When they came outside, Zhang Fan and Zhou Xiaojing waited outside for nearly half an hour before they stopped a taxi and went to the place where Zhou Xiaojing rented.
On the way, Zhou Xiaojing asked Zhang Fan innocently why he didn't buy a car? Logically speaking, don’t the bosses who open shops and do business generally have cars?
Hearing the sound, Zhang Fan blushed, touched his nose in embarrassment, and replied seriously with four words - No driver's license!
...About twenty minutes passed before Zhang Fan and the two got off the car in a dilapidated and remote old community.
This old community is very vicissitudes. It has been baptized by the years. Most of the buildings on the floors have serious paint peeling off, exposing the blue and red bricks inside. The anti-theft windows on the outside of the wooden windows are rusty. When the wind blows, they change and creak. Stop, if you look at it, it will give people a feeling of old age.
There are many willow trees planted around the old community. In winter, these willow trees turn yellow and dry without a single leaf. They sway in the wind alone, giving off a cold and desolate feeling.
"Your environment is a bit too bad!" Zhang Fan looked at the living environment of the old community and sighed helplessly.
There is garbage everywhere in the surrounding area. The community is empty and lonely, with only a few old people walking on crutches.
In response, Zhou Xiaojing smiled bitterly and told Zhang Fan that she was very poor and didn't have much money, so it would be great to find such a place to live.
She doesn't have many requirements for where she lives. After all, it's just a temporary place. She will move out when she has money.
After listening to what Zhou Xiaojing said, Zhang Fan gave her a meaningful look, feeling quite impressed by the girl in front of him.
She came all the way here to work alone and lived alone in a community with such a poor environment. If it were her, she might not be able to do better than her.
After a moment of silence, Zhang Fan told Zhou Xiaojing that if she lived alone, she should pay attention to safety when commuting to and from get off work, so as not to encounter any danger.
Zhou Xiaojing was very touched by Zhang Fan's concern and repeatedly promised that nothing would happen. Zhang Fan briefly communicated with her for a while, then Zhou Xiaojing led the way and went to her house to exorcise the evil spirits.
Zhou Xiaojing nodded in agreement. I don’t know why, when Zhou Xiaojing looked at Zhang Fan, she felt an inexplicable sense of peace in her heart without any resistance. Before, no matter how courageous she was, she would not have dared to let a stranger go to her. address.
Zhou Xiaojing walked in front to lead the way for Zhang Fan. Ten minutes later, Zhou Xiaojing stopped in Unit 2 of Building 5 in the old community.
Opening the iron gate which was not very flexible, Zhou Xiaojing took the lead and stepped inside to lead the way for Zhang Fan. In this old community, the floors are not too high, and since it was built a long time ago, facilities such as elevators are not installed at all.
