Peach Blossom Shop

Chapter 104 Exchange
Zhang Zeyu nodded and didn't speak any more. He squeezed his chin and read "Biography of Three Lives" silently, thinking about asking Bai Le, who runs the bookstore, if he knows what book it is.

"Well, so you just looked at it and knew how to exchange Yinde?" Lin Manlu asked.

Zhou Ming nodded. He was a little nervous at first, but also because he just talked about the book, he was a little distracted. , If it were an ordinary person, who would have thought of it! However, two days ago, when I was returning home from the cram school, I heard two people talking about the address of the peach blossom shop, and calling for souls, and my heart moved. Thinking about trying it out."

When Zhang Zeyu heard it, he frowned again, "Someone talked about Peach Blossom Shop? Where did you hear it? What did you say?"

Zhou Ming shook his head, "I didn't hear the details, but I heard the address here and the evocation of spirits. When I just came here, I saw several monsters wagging their tails in the alley, so I was more sure."

Zhang Zeyu frowned even deeper, while Lin Manlu tugged at him, and said, "Yuyu, you're just worrying about it, maybe some foreign race is looking for our shop, what are you in a hurry for?"

Zhang Zeyu looked at her and tried his best to relax the expression on his face.

Only then did Lin Manlu turn her head in satisfaction, and said to Zhou Ming, "It is true that souls can be melted and exchanged for Yin virtues, but this method is too shameful, and our shop will not accept this kind of reward."

"But..." Zhou Ming became anxious.

"Don't worry, just listen to me." Lin Manlu waved his hand, interrupted Zhou Ming, and said, "You can tell us the reason for what you asked for first, and we have to decide whether to accept it or not." Accept your order, if you don't accept it, naturally there is no such thing as remuneration, but if we decide to accept your order, we can discuss how to calculate the remuneration, do you think this will work?"

After Zhou Ming listened, he lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head, "All right!"

Seeing this, Lin Manlu smiled, and then raised his hand, indicating that Zhou Ming could start to tell the cause and effect of what he asked for.

Zhou Ming looked at her, then at Zhang Zeyu, picked up the water glass that Xu Qingsheng had filled up for him just now, and drank it down again in one gulp, then began to talk anxiously about himself and his sister.

Zhou Ming's older sister is Zhou Yi, who is two years older than him. She is a very ordinary high school student. Two years ago, she jumped off the roof of the school's 12th-floor teaching building - committing suicide.

Zhou Ming couldn't believe her sister's suicide at first, because her family was harmonious, and Zhou Yi was an optimistic and cheerful girl since she was a child. Sometimes I would quarrel with Zhou Ming, but afterwards I would always buy him something delicious or fun.

How could such a sister commit suicide?
Lin Manlu and Zhang Zeyu exchanged glances—indeed, according to Zhou Ming's description, this girl is a mentally healthy girl, not the kind who would commit suicide.

Zhou Ming's home, after Zhou Yi committed suicide, fell into a gloomy atmosphere, and his mother would always call Zhou Yi's nickname inadvertently.For example, when eating, my mother would subconsciously yell, "Yiyi, isn't this egg you want to eat..." Before she finished speaking, the mother froze for a while, then dropped the bowl and chopsticks, covering her mouth After rushing back to the bedroom, my father sat aside, looking at the table full of rich dishes, shaking his head and sighing.

Zhou Ming's mood gradually changed from grief at the beginning to an inexplicable anger. Sometimes in the middle of the night, he would be pleasantly surprised by his sister's smiling face, and then he would take the family photo on the bedside and look at the smiling sister inside, murmuring Whisper asked - why do you want to commit suicide?Why do you want to leave such a cruel shadow on your parents and me?Why?
Zhou Ming never knew what happened to his sister before she was alive, but he knew in his heart that his parents knew about it, because he saw with his own eyes that when his father went to the grave a year ago, he put his sister's diary in his sister's grave. Zhou Ming’s eyes were deeply hurt by his father’s hair that had been dyed white within a year.

Zhou Ming didn't ask what happened. After all, people cannot be resurrected after death. What's the use of dwelling on the past? It's better to live a good life and let time heal everything slowly.

Hearing this, Lin Manlu nodded in satisfaction, thinking, this attitude is good.

Then, in the second half of the same year when the diary was burned, Zhou Ming also successfully entered high school. I don’t know if it was a secret arrangement. The high school that Zhou Ming entered was actually the same school as his sister’s. .

Although Zhou Ming was very happy to be admitted to this prestigious high school, he still felt a little complicated when he thought that his sister had chosen to end her life here.Therefore, Zhou Ming secretly made up his mind that he must not let others know that his sister was Zhou Yi who committed suicide here.

High school is a dormitory, Zhou Ming's father sent Zhou Ming to the dormitory to settle down, and then left in a hurry. It seemed that he was very unwilling to stay in this place that made him heartbroken for a second. Although Zhou Ming felt a little uncomfortable, but Still chose to understand.

Life in high school began so plainly.This is a prestigious school known for its enrollment rate, so from the first year of high school, the learning atmosphere was extremely tense. I got up at 6 o'clock every day, and I couldn't go to bed until at least 11:[-] in the evening.

This night, Zhou Ming also studied by himself until 11 o'clock. The moment he walked out of the teaching building, Zhou Ming suddenly didn't want to go back to the dormitory. He looked around and decided to take a walk around the playground.

So, Zhou Ming came to the school's 400-meter playground, and walked slowly along the plastic track, holding a book.There was silence all around, except for the sound of Zhou Ming's footsteps, making a "da da da da" sound.

"Ah!" Suddenly, a low-pitched cry broke the silence of the playground.

Zhou Ming was taken aback, and subconsciously followed the sound of the voice, and saw a few people vaguely standing on the stands of the playground. Before Zhou Ming could see clearly, he suddenly heard another cry that seemed more painful, " what!"

Zhou Ming took a step back in surprise, looked around quickly, turned around and prepared to leave, took a step, and suddenly turned around again in a strange way, then looked around nervously, stood on tiptoe, and approached quietly up the stands.

"Haha, why don't you run away?" A boy who was in the period of changing his voice laughed wildly, but his voice was still a little low, and Zhou Ming could only hear it clearly by hiding under the stands.

"Please, please, my dad will give me the money tomorrow, I, I will definitely pay it tomorrow." A begging voice was also a boy's voice.

Zhou Ming frowned—what's the situation?
"Tomorrow? Can you hand it in tomorrow?" There was another voice, the voice was a bit thick, and it seemed that the person who spoke should be a fat man.

"Yes! Yes! I will definitely be able to hand it in tomorrow! Please, let me go!" The begging voice said hastily.

"Since we can hand it in tomorrow, what did you run away just now? Huh? You couldn't have lied to us, right?" said the voice of the voice-changing period at the beginning, somewhat viciously.

(End of this chapter)