"Mr. Ji?" Su Ran called the man in front of him.
Ji Zhong's soul paused for a moment, then slowly turned around and looked at Su Ran with confusion and doubt on his face.
"Who are you?" Ji Zhong asked, "Are you calling me?"
Su Ran felt a little sad, "Don't you remember your name?"
Ji Zhong blinked and thought for a while, then rubbed his head and murmured in a low voice: "Yes, who am I? What is my name? I don't remember it at all."
"Then do you remember why you are here?"
After Ji Zhong was stunned for a while, he shook his head again, "I don't remember. My mind seems to be blank. I don't know why, but I don't remember anything."
Ji Zhong frowned and then said to himself, "Who am I? Why am I here? What did I do before? How come I don't remember anything."
"Your name is Jizhong, the president of Jiangning University. Do you still remember it?" Su Ran tried to remind.
"Jiangning University...Jiangning University, Jizhong." Jizhong lowered his head and read these six words repeatedly, staying there and thinking for a while.
"By the way, my name is Jizhong, and I am the president of Jiangning University." Jizhong suddenly raised his head, his eyes no longer empty. He seemed to have remembered his name and identity, but soon he lowered his head and frowned. "But why am I here? This is... Heyuan Restaurant? But why is it different from the Heyuan in my memory..."
Su Ran breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that he had not completely lost his memory. At least he could still remember his name.
"Mr. Ji, this is 2022, it is no longer 1990."
"2022? Why is it 2022? I clearly remember that it was still in 1990 in my memory. Why did it suddenly arrive in 2022?" Ji Zhong was shocked and couldn't understand what happened.
Su Ran thought for a while and continued to ask: "Mr. Ji, where is the last memory in your mind?"
Ji Zhong rubbed his head and thought back: "Let me think about it, it seems that it was also at the Heyuan Restaurant. It must have been in the evening. The chef of the restaurant, Lao Wang, prepared a hot pot meal for me and Principal Li and then went back.
That night, Principal Li and I drank a lot and talked a lot. After that meal, we put aside our old grudges and prepared to work together to make the school better.
Just when the two of us reached the climax of our conversation, and then..."
"Then the drunk Li Hanmin broke in from outside." Su Ran continued to remind.
"Li Hanmin? Who is Li Hanmin? Why does it sound so familiar?"
"Li Hanmin is Principal Li's nephew and the school's newly recruited history teacher."
"Oh, yes, I remembered that there was such a person." Ji Zhong's memory was awakened again, "I remember that I helped him take over a gambling debt of 5,000 yuan during the day. Yes, he is Li The principal's nephew.
Yes, that night, when Principal Li and I were having a great time drinking, Teacher Li Hanmin and Li rushed in from outside. He also drank a lot of wine. When he came in, he started to accuse Principal Li, and then, and then... ..."
"Then Li Hanmin and Principal Li got into a fight. You didn't want the uncle and nephew to get too violent, so you went up to start a fight."
"Ah, yes, I went up to start a fight between the two of them. I remember that Teacher Li was still holding half a wine bottle in his hand, which was very dangerous. But it seemed that something serious happened during the fight. But what exactly was it? What happened? My memory is so bad, why can’t I remember it again?”
Su Ran didn't remind Ji Zhong this time, because she knew that Ji Zhong still needed to figure out the key part of the memory.
After a long time this time, Ji Zhong's originally confused expression suddenly changed, from doubt to surprise, then to disbelief, and finally to a look of loneliness.
"I remembered that during the fight, the scene was too chaotic for a while, so the half of the bottle was inserted into my chest. No wonder I don't remember, I was already dead that night."
Ji Zhong shook his head, and then looked at his now translucent body. The students around him were passing by the two of them, and no one noticed their existence at all.
"So now I am just a soul after death?"
Su Ran nodded and gave Ji Zhong a positive answer.
"Then you are the person sent by the underworld to pick me up?" Ji Zhong looked at the girl in front of him. Although she is a rare beauty, she looks only seventeen or eighteen years old. Could it be that the underworld is recruiting such young girls now? A girl?
Su Ran shook his head, "Mr. Ji, my name is Su Ran, and I am not from the underworld. I am a freshman in the 2022 class of Jiang University. I can be considered your junior."
Ji Zhong seemed a little surprised, looking at the girl in front of him up and down, and nodded after a long time, "I didn't believe in the theory of gods and ghosts before, but now it seems that you don't seem to have left this world like me. , but being able to communicate with my soul must have special abilities such as opening eyes in our era, right?"
Su Ran hesitated for a moment and nodded, "That's right if you understand it that way."
"I didn't expect that Jiang Da would still have such wonderful people after so many years." Ji Zhong sighed, "If possible, please help Jiang Da when it is in trouble."
"I will definitely do it, don't worry." Su Ran nodded heavily and looked at Ji Zhong, "Mr. Ji, now that you have remembered your identity and previous experiences, do you still remember why you came? Here?"
Ji Zhong pondered and recalled: "I remember that after I died, I went to the underworld and drank Meng Po soup on the Naihe Bridge. I must have forgotten all the memories at that time.
But I don’t know why, when I’m about to reincarnate, I feel like something is unfinished and I can’t enter the path of reincarnation.
Later, the feeling became stronger and stronger, so strong that I escaped directly from the guards in the underworld. I didn’t know which road I took, so I kept drifting in a daze. When I regained consciousness, I would be with you. Chatted. "
Su Ran frowned. If it was according to what Ji Zhong said, then it actually took only a few days from the time he died and entered the underworld, to going to Naihe Bridge to drink Meng Po soup, and then to the road of reincarnation. So why? It took so long to reappear.
"By the way, it's because the flow of time is different." Su Ran suddenly said.
"Huh? What?" Ji Zhong was stunned.
"The speed of time passing in the three realms is different. Three days in the underworld is equivalent to thirty years in the human world." Su Ran explained: "So, Mr. Ji, although you have only experienced reincarnation in the underworld for a few days, process, but thirty years have passed in the human world.
Recently, Li Hanmin wants to contract the school's restaurant to Chen Hao's Laolang Group. It should be your obsession with Jiangda as the principal that makes you involuntarily want to return to the human world. "
"Chen Hao? Laolang Group?" Ji Zhong frowned, "I really want to have some impression of this Chen Hao. Teacher Li owed him a loan shark before.
But why does the school's restaurant have to be outsourced again, and the school has no money? "
Ji Zhong looked around. Although the restaurant in 2022 has not changed much from that in 1990, from the renovated facilities and decoration, it does not look like there is no money.
Su Ran shook her head, "Because of the development of the times, many university restaurants have been basically demolished and rebuilt. The new decoration style can attract students more, and can also be used as a school sign, which is also very helpful for the enrollment work." help.
But regarding the catering industry, after all, the school is not as professional as outside decoration companies, and it doesn’t know much about the types of dishes, so I thought of contracting it out to make a big reform. "
"So that's it. I didn't expect that the times would develop so fast." Ji Zhong said thoughtfully: "I have some impressions of Chen Hao's Laolang Company. Their catering business has big problems, and Chen Hao's Hao was just a gangster living on the streets at that time, and he was very irregular in his behavior. It would be really irresponsible to the students if we handed over the school cafeteria to them."
"By the way, if it was a normal bidding, their company shouldn't be able to turn, right? Did someone use some means in the middle?" Ji Zhong looked at Li Hanmin who was respectfully in front of Chen Hao, and seemed to have guessed something. , "What is Teacher Li's status in the school now?"
"Because of what happened that night, Li Hanmin was the only witness present, so in order to prevent him from revealing more truth, the school also gave him great benefits. Now he is already a veteran of the school. He is a professor and has a high status. Many school leaders are his former students and respect him very much."
Ji Zhong looked at Li Hanmin's back and sighed, "If Principal Li was still alive, I would be very happy to see Teacher Li so upbeat now."
"I'm afraid he will be even more angry." Su Ran shook his head, "If he continues on the path he is on now, he can maintain his reputation in his later years.
But at this time, he started gambling again, and he asked Chen Hao to borrow money, but Chen Hao caught him. Now that no one is watching him in school, it would be too easy for him to use some means to let Chen Hao obtain the right to operate the restaurant. "
Hearing Su Ran's words, Ji Zhong felt a little lonely, "He finally got his wish."
Looking at Ji Zhong's disappointed expression, Su Ran took a deep breath and was about to say something to comfort him when she suddenly found that the space between the two of them began to become blurry, and soon everyone and everything around them became blurry. It disappeared before our eyes, and everything we looked at was covered in gray.
Su Ran frowned and looked around cautiously.
Beside the two of them, a black mist suddenly appeared out of thin air, then grew larger and larger, and soon condensed into the shape of a door in place.
The moment she saw the door, Su Ran quickly realized something, moved a few steps forward, blocked in front of Ji Zhong, and stared at the door.
Seeing Su Ran's actions and looking at the door again, Ji Zhong seemed to understand something and his expression calmed down.
With a slight fluctuation in the air, a young man wearing a black suit and black tie, and a young woman wearing a white suit skirt came out of the mist-filled door.
Both of them were unrecognizable faces in the crowd. They looked past Su Ran and looked at Ji Zhong behind her with cold expressions.
"Black and white are impermanent." The features of the two people in front of him were so identifiable that Su Ran recognized their identities on the spot.
Black and White Wuchang didn't pay attention to Su Ran, but stared at Ji Zhong closely.
After a stalemate for a while, Hei Wuchang was the first to fall silent, "Ji Zhong, you violated the rules of the underworld without authorization and escaped from the underworld to the human world. According to the rules of the underworld, you must immediately follow us back to the underworld, and enter the thirteenth level of hell, and suffer three hundred Only after years of bitter cold can he be reincarnated."
"Three hundred years of bitter cold? Isn't it a bit too severe?" Su Ran frowned.
"Ji Zhong's escaping from the underworld without authorization is a serious crime!" Bai Wuchang said sternly, "Because of his perfect merits and deeds during his lifetime, he was exempted from the punishment of being dismembered. The punishment of bitter cold is already a favor to him from the Inquisition Division."
"After the soul goes to the underworld, it is not uncommon for the soul to return to the human world because of some obsessions or unfinished business in the human world, right? It's just that this time, Mr. Ji, it's because you people in the underworld didn't pay attention. This can't be the case. Is it Mr. Ji’s fault?”
"Mortals still dare to point fingers at things in the underworld?" Hei Wuchang then looked at Su Ran, "You are a mortal, but you dare to leave your body without fear of being eaten by ghosts or evil spirits? Get out of the way quickly and stop meddling in other people's business. , otherwise I will take you back to the underworld together, and your life on earth will end!"
After hearing Hei Wuchang's threat, Ji Zhong sighed and patted Su Ran on the shoulder, "Classmate, they also follow the rules. Although I don't understand these, I also know that it is wrong to escape from the underworld without permission after death. So it’s appropriate to receive some punishment, let them take me away, don’t get you involved.”
Su Ran shook his head, looked at Black and White and snorted coldly, "There can be punishment, but this time I can't blame you entirely. You can't be reincarnated for three hundred years and have to endure the bitter cold punishment of thirteen levels of hell. Such a punishment is too much." It's heavy.
Mr. Ji, you don’t have to worry about getting me involved, let alone black and white, even if Pluto comes in person, he can’t do anything to me. "
"Bold! How dare a mere human being disrespect Pluto!"
As soon as Su Ran finished speaking, Black and White Wuchang became furious. The surrounding environment was also shrouded in a large black mist, and the sound of chains rubbing against each other was faintly heard in the black mist.
"Since you are so ignorant of life and death, then come with us to the underworld!"
Black and White Wuchang took a step forward at the same time, and two thick chains slowly stretched out from the black mist behind him, and were caught by Black and White Wuchang in his hands.
"Classmate, I have already died once, and it's just another trip to the underworld. But you, at such a young age, why do you need to involve yourself." Ji Zhong sighed, "Listen to me Come on, get out of here now and let me go with them."
Su Ran shook his head and said nothing. He looked at Black and White Wuchang approaching step by step. There was no trace of panic or fear on his face. Instead, there was a sarcastic smile on the corner of his mouth, which seemed to be mocking the two people's incompetence.
Su Ran's reaction made Black and White Wuchang even angrier. The two looked at each other and threw out the chains in their hands.
But the next moment, the chain stopped in mid-air as soon as it flew out of the hand, unable to take another step forward. Hei Bai Wuchang was a little confused and activated the chain again to try to tie up Su Ran and Jizhong.
But before the two of them had time to make a move, an extremely powerful force suddenly hit them. The two of them flew out instantly and fell heavily to the ground. As soon as they raised their heads, they felt a tightness in their chests. They couldn't bear it. Blood spurted out in one mouthful.
"Is this what Jiang Chuan taught you? It makes you so bold that you dare to come to the human world and take living people down at will."
Cold voices came from all directions, and each sound was like a knock on the heart of Black and White. After saying this, they couldn't help spitting out another mouthful of blood. They sat on the ground supporting each other, unable to stand up. .
Black and White Wuchang raised his head in horror. In front of Su Ran and Jizhong, there stood a young man with a stern face. The man stared straight ahead, without even looking down at the two people lying on the ground.
"Uncle, these two people are so arrogant. They are doing evil things on their own in the underworld every day. There must be many people who are still alive who have been deliberately taken to the underworld by them." Seeing Zhang Ziqing coming, Su Ran quickly took the opportunity to complain.
Compared with Su Ran's relaxation, the moment he saw Zhang Ziqing, Black and White's heart suddenly fell to the bottom.
The man in front of them was very familiar to them. Let alone the two of them, even if Master Pluto came in person, they would have to have a better attitude in front of this man.
"Master Ziyan, I didn't expect you to come here." Without even thinking, Black and White Wuchang reacted quickly, and the two of them quickly knelt on the ground with support.
"Didn't expect that? Is there any place in the world that I can't go to?" Zhang Ziqing's face was expressionless.
"No, no, we two definitely didn't mean this. Please calm down, Mr. Ziyan." Black and White Wuchang suddenly felt the pressure doubled, and unconsciously lowered his head again.
"Three hundred years of bitter cold is too harsh a punishment. Ji Zhong's escape from the underworld without permission is not entirely his fault." Zhang Ziqing lowered his eyes and glanced at the two of them, "You go back and tell the Inquisition Division to ask him to go to Huangquan Road to do it." Be a roadkeeper for a hundred years.”
"Ah, this..." Black and White looked at each other for a while, hesitantly.
"Go back and tell Jiang Chuan that it's what I meant." Zhang Ziqing emphasized his tone slightly.
Black and white Wuchang suddenly felt the pressure increase greatly, as if someone was pressing his head to the ground, and he couldn't lift it up.
"As you command, Master Ziyan!"
Zhang Ziqing nodded and stopped looking at them. The two of them felt that the pressure on their bodies had disappeared without a trace. However, despite this, they did not dare to get up immediately. They still knelt on the ground and did not dare to move.
"Mr. Ji, do you have any other wishes that you would like me to help you fulfill?" Su Ran looked at Ji Zhong and asked.
Ji Zhong thought for a moment and then nodded, "There are really two things, I'm afraid I'm going to trouble you."
"Mr. Ji, please tell me, it's not troublesome."
"Chen Hao from Lao Lang, I still owe him five thousand yuan, but I left him before I could pay him back. So if you can, can you go to my current home and tell my son to ask him to help I returned the five thousand yuan to Chen Hao.
This is a debt before me that must be repaid. "
Su Ran nodded, "Okay, I took note of Mr. Ji, what about one more thing?"
"You have also seen that it is about the restaurant bidding. I hope you can help and prevent Chen Hao from getting the right to operate the restaurant. Otherwise, the food and health of these children will not be guaranteed..."
Although Ji Zhong hasn't finished speaking yet, Su Ran already knows what he means, "Don't worry, Mr. Ji, I won't let Chen Hao and Li Hanmin succeed, and I will also tell the truth about what Li Hanmin did back then." Let it be known to the world that a person like him does not deserve Principal Li to suffer on his behalf!"
Ji Zhong smiled happily, looked at Su Ran and nodded: "Goodbye."
"Goodbye, Mr. Ji."
