RI Chapter 2

Hejiang Road is a famous funeral street in Jiangcheng, full of shops selling coffins and paper figures, with only a few selling legitimate goods. Number 44 is an inn called Changsheng Inn, which can be considered a rare specialty on this street. It is basically open during the day, but only after 10 PM every night will they remove two door panels, hang lanterns, and light the lights to welcome guests. Although Hejiang Road is dilapidated, most shops will do a simple renovation, but this one still uses the door panels from the Republic of China era. Some say this is a way for the owner to attract customers, while others say it is ancient-style decoration and that the owner is nostalgic.

Another night, Lei Yun skillfully hung up the lanterns and entered the house, lying on the counter playing games. At first, Lei Yun thought he had traveled to ancient times in his own world, but who knew that the subsequent dynastic changes were completely different from what he knew, so he gave up the idea of getting rich and survived to this point. Fortunately, now there is the internet, and he followed the trend and installed a computer in the store, connected to WiFi, and since then the night is no longer long and endless. He no longer has to hold those scholarly books and gnaw on them, but instead plays games.

“I went, your operation is like an elementary school student, so bad. What day is it today?” Lei Yun looked at the calendar and sure enough, it was Saturday, and elementary school students were already on vacation. “These kids, even old people of a thousand years old are angered to cursing in the streets by your bad skills.” He slammed the keyboard and then picked up his phone and ordered braised chicken and sat down, trying to use food to comfort his irritable heart. “This delivery guy, can you deliver before eleven o’clock?”

[You see this text, please exit reading mode, or go to the “source page” to read normally] [Please go to the source page to read, the following content is automatically replaced to prevent crawling] you – me, big – small, more – less, up – down, left – right…. After that, Lei Yun was still worried about cooking, until the appearance of deliveries, his quality of life declined sharply.

At eleven o’clock, a man in a yellow uniform rode an electric car and stopped at the door. Lei Yun took the takeaway from the delivery guy and hummed the end song of the recently popular TV series. The delivery guy rubbed his arms and said, “Handsome guy, it’s quite gloomy around here.” Lei Yun grinned and looked at him and said, “No way, this area is all selling things for the dead.” The delivery guy nodded and said, “Yeah.”

At this time, the white lantern at the door suddenly turned red, and the delivery guy was so frightened that his teeth chattered, looking at Lei Yun in horror. Lei Yun smiled slyly and explained, “This, why does it change color, enm, in fact, this lamp is just like this.” The delivery guy nodded like a rattle drum, riding his electric car and leaving quickly. “Hey, the cold delivery hasn’t been eaten yet, and I have to work to death.” Lei Yun reluctantly put the delivery under the counter, simply cleaned up the shop, and just sat down when a figure appeared at the door and politely knocked on the door.

“Enter.” The man was not very old, about forty years old, wearing a neat suit, with the air of a successful person. “Are you shopkeeper Lei?” Lei Yun sat at the counter and nodded in response. “Shopkeeper Lei, I want to ask you to help me send a dream.” Lei Yun sized up the person in front of him, who looked like he had money, and thinking about his consumption this month, Lei Yun cleared his throat and said, “One blood pearl, only half an incense stick’s worth of time.”

Blood pearls are transformed from ghost energy, and only ghosts without cultivation can afford blood pearls, but the person in front of him is obviously newly dead. Hearing this, the man frowned and said uncomfortably, “Shopkeeper, I, I don’t have blood pearls.” He looked up at Lei Yun’s expression and continued, “I heard from others that paying with money is also possible, human money.” Lei Yun’s expression changed slightly, this person is doing well, even knows about this.

Three hundred years later, the world war broke out, and there were too few living people, those people wanted to leave some words to their relatives in the mortal world, or see them, but they lived for a short time and had no blood pearls on them. Lei Yun refused them, and several female ghosts even sat in front of his shop crying, and came every night. Lei Yun finally couldn’t stand it and helped them, who knew that this spread and was known by other ghosts, and his place was surrounded by a flood of people every night. This incident scared the surrounding ordinary people half to death, crying ghosts every night, who could bear it? Finally, these ordinary people even hired a Daoist to catch ghosts.

Who knew that the Daoist was also a half-baked one, not only did not catch them, but was scared half to death, and finally, these people couldn’t stand it and hired the old Daoist from Qingcheng Mountain. The old Daoist was old and didn’t know much, but he had heard of Interspace Inn from others. Hearing the cause and effect of this matter, the old Daoist was also sighed, looking at the circle of ghosts at the door, the old Daoist gritted his teeth and invited the underworld runners to come down and discussed this immoral method. As a reward, Lei Yun had to burn more paper money to these underworld runners every year.

The matter of that year was handled quickly, and then it was peaceful for many years and few ghosts knew about it, how did this woman know? “Do you know, it’s been a hundred years since a ghost did this kind of transaction with me.” The woman nodded, her eyes firm and said, “I know, but, I must send this dream.” Seeing her firm appearance, Lei Yun took out a bank card from the counter and handed it to her and said, “Ask your family to transfer 100,000 yuan to this card.” The woman took it with both hands and nodded.

The long table full of bottles and jars had been cleaned up by Lei Yun. He built a row of cabinets on the left and placed the bottles and jars on it. Several familiar old ghosts came here, and they all said, “Shopkeeper Lei is getting more and more good at managing his life.” The woman lay under the long table, and Lei Yun stood beside her, forming a complicated hand seal with both hands, chanting non-stop. “Your name?” “Lu Jianxi.” “Dreaming of whom?” “Your son, Lu Tingchen.”

After speaking, Lei Yun opened his closed eyes and shouted, “Approved.” In a villa in an unnamed villa area surrounded by mountains, a handsome woman lay on the bed, frowning slightly. “Tingchen.” Lu Tingchen looked at the woman in front of him in disbelief, and suddenly knelt down and said, “Father.” Lu Jiandong looked at his son in front of him and sighed and said, “Tingchen, what you see now is my ghost, I am actually dead.” The opposite Lu Wen was a little unbelieving, and looked at his father in surprise. “Tingchen, listen to me, you have to be careful of your second uncle, he killed me.” Lu Jiandong’s tone changed from calm to roar.

Lu Tingchen was slightly stunned, looking at him, unable to believe it. Shouldn’t his father be in Lancheng? How could it be? Lu Wen had grown up with his uncle since he was a child, and had little opportunity to get along with his father, but after all, he was his father, and he still believed it. “I will investigate.” “Your body is in the wine cellar of the villa in Lancheng Xiangyuan, you will find it when you come.” Lu Wen nodded, and when he woke up and went to Xiangyuan, he would know the answer.

Standing aside, Lei Yun looked at the incense that was about to burn out, and the father and son in front of him were chatting hotly, but still did not mention money, he couldn’t help but interjected, “Hurry up and let your son transfer the money.” Lu Jiandong was stunned and nodded, suddenly reporting a string of card numbers. “That, Wen’er, after I wake up, transfer 100,000 yuan to this card, don’t forget.” Then Lu Jianxi’s figure slowly dissipated.

Lu Wen on the bed woke up suddenly, seemingly in disbelief that he would have such an incredible dream. He picked up his phone and called Lu Jianxi, he had little contact with Lu Jianxi, and it took him a long time to find him in his phone address book. After making three calls in a row, no one answered. He hurriedly got up, went upstairs, and asked the secretary to call the housekeeper of Xiangyuan. On the other end of the phone, the secretary said hurriedly, “President Lu, no one is answering.” Lu Wen narrowed his eyes, took his clothes and went out.

Lei Yun recorded Lu Jiandong’s account in the ledger, and asked him to put a handprint on it and said, “Okay, you can go.” Lu Jianxi smiled gratefully and left the inn. Not two minutes after the former person left, a graceful figure in a green cheongsam appeared at the door of the inn. Lei Yun looked at the man in front of him blankly with braised chicken in his mouth. The woman was born with immortal beauty, but she had a graceful figure, and her speech was extremely seductive. “Yo, shopkeeper Lei, business is good today.”

Lei Yun swallowed the chicken, took a bite of rice and said lightly, “Why are you here.” The woman’s name was Hu Lanlan, she was a real fox spirit. Two hundred years ago, she fell in love with a warlord and became his concubine. Who knew that in the end, her fox identity was discovered and she was caught by a Daoist, but Lei Yun happened to pass by and saved her. Since then, the infatuated fox spirit has been wandering in the world, hooking up with many men from good families, and even many male ghosts, some of whom knew that Lei Yun had a good relationship with her, and came to Lei Yun’s shop to complain to him, hoping to meet Hu Lanlan.

Hu Lanlan jumped to sit on the counter, lightly stroking Lei Yun’s white and tender face with her fingers, and said coquettishly, “Don’t people miss you?” Lei Yun took a bite of rice and said, “If you have something to say, don’t do this.” Seeing him like this, Hu Lanlan didn’t want to make herself bored, she just took out a black amulet from her waist and placed it in front of him. Lei Yun’s expression changed slightly, and he immediately asked, “Where did you get this from?” Hu Lanlan smiled coquettishly, “Now you know what people are going to do, you didn’t even welcome people just now.”

Lei Yun put down his chopsticks, took the amulet and looked at it carefully, it was indeed sent out from his place. Interspace Inn has three kinds of businesses, the primary business is to help people send dreams, sell medicine, plastic surgery, etc., the intermediate task is to help those ghosts find a partner, and the low-level task is to help ghosts fulfill their wishes. High-level tasks have rarely been entrusted in the past thousand years, Lei Yun can count them on one hand, because the price of high-level tasks is that the person who makes the wish must dedicate his own soul to the inn, and as the innkeeper, he must complete this commission, otherwise he will be punished by the underworld. This black amulet is the token between Lei Yun and the Yin soul, after fulfilling the wish, the Yin soul will take the amulet to him to complete the transaction.

Lei Yun frowned and looked at Hu Lanlan. “I saw this in Liujia Village, Shandong three days ago. Seeing it was my thing, I rushed over.” The amulet will not leave the Yin soul unless something happens to her.

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