Midnight Restaurant

Chapter 236 The Scaled Tree
After Han Xin's incident passed, I sent Qiao Man back to China safely, and my life did not change because of this incident.

But then again, Lorenzo, I've always thought he wasn't bad.

Originally, I thought that Lorenzo had been dropped by me, and I didn't know if he would be unfavorable to Jennifer. After all, she is also the child's mother, right?Although I don't have those memories, I basically have no feelings for her.

Fortunately, Lorenzo felt that staying in New Orleans would always be troublesome, so he left after the matter was over.

As for where to go, I don't know.

But since he has no fighting spirit, there is no danger to Jennifer.

In short, it's best for everyone to have nothing to do.

It can be said that I am a big-hearted person.

Of course, no matter how big my heart is, there are some things that I will always worry about.It's what the proprietress repeatedly said, that this woman, Jennifer, has another purpose for me.Arranging for someone to kill me and the proprietress, and then constantly shifting the clues of the matter to me and the proprietress, and the dream that night... and the hallucination when I met her and Mo Ziyue.

What does it mean?

Are those my memories?

I can't understand this matter, and it's always stuck in my heart.

I always feel that this matter is endless, and this woman Jennifer will still appear in my life.Of course, it would have appeared, after all, it was Qiao Man's mother.As for the question of my life experience, I still don't know how to check it.

That day, I was bored sitting in the restaurant and playing with my mobile phone. It was 01:30 at night. I had been working for an hour and a half. The number of customers was good. Su Ya was killed by the proprietress. It's a lot of leisure, and I can occasionally look at the benefits, which is pretty good.

But most of the time, she is still in human form, and rarely turns into half-human, half-snake. After all, there are occasional living people eating in this restaurant, so it's not good to be frightened.

"That little crazy girl Yin Guoer asked for leave again tonight. I said Sister Lan, we might as well fire her and make trouble all day long." I had nothing to do, so I badmouthed Yin Guoer to the proprietress.

"Why, isn't Guo'er your fiancée? Are you going to fulfill your man's responsibility and support your wife so soon?" The proprietress smiled.

"Don't make trouble, I'm not a pedophile..."

"Really? But I gave you Xiaoya back then, didn't you want it too?"

The proprietress gave me a giggle, and Xiaoya, who happened to be beside me at this time, also smiled at me.

My face was full of black lines: "No, Sister Lan, you are really wrong to question my character... You don't know, that little girl is cute at first, I don't care, but she keeps asking me to euthanize you, you know Right? Also, at that time, didn’t I enter the fork in Heitong? Their family of green-skinned monsters is too disgusting, and their IQ is not enough... Really, no, really no.”

"Green monster?"

"Yup!"

"So it's like this..." The proprietress suddenly covered her mouth and chuckled.

"What are you laughing at? It's not just about this... and Yin Guoer's adoptive father, that Yin Banxian, you remember, cheating on me! If you didn't happen to meet you in the hot spring villa last time, I guess it's too late... ...It's too deceitful, this family, from the biological parents, to the adoptive parents, to Yin Guoer himself, is too deceitful."

Taking advantage of that girl's absence, I'm a very dark person.

"Speaking of which, that girl's adoptive father, Yin Banxian, is here again! Let me tell you, Sister Lan, that old boy doesn't usually come, so there must be nothing good to come... After the previous incident was over, I called several times and asked Do I earn extra money or something. Do you really think I don’t want my life?”

That's right, Yin Guoer asked for leave this time because his adoptive parents came.

After all, Yin Guoer's real identity is a high school girl. Although it is summer vacation, normal parents will never let their daughter, who is a girl, come out to work part-time in the middle of the night.

So she had to lie for several days, but it was none of my business. There was another reason why I complained so angrily.Didn't Yin Guoer stop renting with Qiao Man?Her parents came, so they were chased out by me and Qiu Le.I called my daughter and said that she and Qiao Man continued to rent a house together.

That's it, I have a home and can't go back. I've been in a small hotel with Qiu Le and Yinan for several days. The front desk of the hotel thought we were fucking gay. Want to curse.

"So, Sister Lan, hurry up and give that girl..."

"Hey, boy, don't complain... There is a guest, and it seems to be your acquaintance."

acquaintance?I was taken aback when I heard this, what acquaintance came to this restaurant again?What the hell?
I turned my head and wanted to slap myself at that time, did I open my mouth?The person who opened the glass door and came in was Yin Banxian!
"Hey? Ye Yan! Haha... boy, you really work here, ouch, isn't this Miss Du? Long time no see, long time no see! Boy, why don't you answer your uncle's phone call? It was too much last time I said goodbye It's been a long time, come to uncle to see if he has grown taller."

My face was full of black lines, and I pushed away this middle-aged magic stick.

"Don't make trouble, working hours...why aren't you doing it? Looking for me?"

"That's right, I asked Guo'er, and I said that you are a very good young man. You go to work in the middle of the night and work part-time during the day... What a man! Uncle likes you!"

I have black lines all over my face.

He fooled me from the moment he entered the door, he basically came with a purpose.I found out that my mouth is really open, what to say, what to say!
"No, Uncle Yin, what are you doing? Just say it. Anyway, I have to refuse."

"Say it straight, let me tell you, I have nothing to do at all... Hey, I'm hungry, that Miss Du, are you the boss?"

The proprietress nodded with a smile.

"Hehe, okay, I'm hungry too, let's chat while eating."

Well, now that I'm a guest, I can't be driven away.

And the most annoying thing is, the proprietress even let me go over to chat with Yin Banxian!
"No, Sister Lan, you don't want me to take risks with him, do you? Maybe I'll tell you about this person..."

The proprietress tapped the small silver knife in my pocket at this moment: "This is all for you. The purpose is of course for you to help me collect more dead souls with stories in the future. Do you think... I am for your self-defense? Go, here Ma'am work!"

My face is full of black lines, who did I provoke me?
So, I reluctantly stood in front of Yin Banxian and stared at him: "What are you eating?"

"Let me see... this steak or something, can I make it now?"

"can!"

"Oh...then I'll change it."

My face is full of black lines, you don't want to eat what you ask.

In the end, the old boy ordered a corn soup, omelet rice, and two other snacks, and began to eat while saying to me: "Hey, young man, you don't know. When I said goodbye last time, I felt that I was a businessman." The level is not very good, except for fortune-telling, I have no great skills. I think so, I can’t do well in this line of work, as the saying goes, doing a line of work, loving a line, and then I go to Taobao... Bah, no, it’s visiting famous mountains Da Chuan, together with some hermit masters, obtained several classics of Taoism and studied orthodox Taoism for a period of time...Uncle found that he is a genius, do you know? I learned it quickly! Now I can be said to be different from what I used to be. !"

My face was full of black lines, and I raised my eyebrows: "What you want to express is that I will be on a mission with you this time, and I will definitely not be in danger, right?"

"There is no mission, don't make trouble, we really have no mission this time... just a while ago, something happened in a village in my hometown, it's weird, listen to me..."

I have black lines all over my face, is this all right?
Isn't that the thing?
But I'm also quite curious, curious about how the old boy changed the subject in the end and asked me to help.

then……

"Tell me, let me hear what's going on."

"Let me tell you, this thing is quite evil... My hometown is in the southern mountainous area, which belongs to the southernmost part, and it is extremely hot! The village is also relatively backward, but there are many mountains and forests around it, and it looks like a virgin forest. , the trees are lush and leafy, and there are many wild animals, especially snakes, there are many snakes."

Yin Banxian briefly explained the situation, and then began to talk about the topic.

Originally, there was nothing to do in this backward small village. It was backward, and there was no TV.But one day, I don't know which coal mine businessman led a team into the mountain, and found that there was a coal mine in this village.In addition, the expansion of Yin Banxian's hometown meant that a section of mountain forest had to be flattened, and the village was transformed by the way.In short, it is to be demolished, and when the time comes, some money will be given to the villagers to let them move out.

But these mountain people have no culture, and the money is not enough to spend a lifetime.After entering the city, they don’t know anything. Young people can work as coolies, but the elderly, widowed and old, really need to beg for food.

So many people don't want to, but no one can handle this kind of thing better than the rich and powerful.

And just when the vast majority of the villagers agreed to rebuild and receive the money, Uncle Zhao, the biggest nail household in the village, refused to do it.

Moreover, this Uncle Zhao is very strange.

Although I live in this backward old village, in fact, his family is not short of money. He has two sons, who were all top students when they were studying. The income is not bad, at least, he can afford to support Uncle Zhao, so he doesn't need to stay in that small village.

This time when they heard that the village was going to be converted into a coal mine, the two sons came to pick up Uncle Zhao.

But Uncle Zhao refused to leave. When he asked him why, he set his eyes on a towering ancient tree in the middle of the yard. He said it was an old locust tree, which was said to be a ghost among trees, and it was planted in his yard. There are basically no people here.But Uncle Zhao's family has one.

Uncle Zhao looked at the tree and said, "No, you can't go... If I go, this old tree will be cut down... It can't be moved, it can't be moved."

I repeated these few words over and over again, and asked him why, but he didn't say anything.

But Uncle Zhao is an old man after all, how can he get over it?In the end, he was forced to drive away. It is said that on the day he drove away, Uncle Zhao screamed so loudly that no one moved. After arriving in the city, he fell ill and was bedridden.As for the locust tree in my hometown, I heard that it was cut off as soon as Uncle Zhao left!
If things stop there, there's nothing spooky about it.

But the problem is that no one expected that on the second day after the tree was cut, Uncle Zhao died inexplicably in the hospital. Later, when someone went to Uncle Zhao’s house to clean up other things, he found that The tree that was just cut down yesterday unexpectedly reappeared inexplicably today!

What's more, the strange thing is that there is no bark on the tree trunk, it has layers of scales, which looks like snake skin from a distance!

(End of this chapter)