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Chapter 14 Ghost Fairy
It wasn't even noon yet, so the restaurant wasn't crowded. A waiter was leaning against the doorway, looking around bored. Suddenly, he saw someone approaching. His expression immediately changed, and he greeted them warmly, "Please come in, gentlemen! You won't regret dining with us! Our chef is an apprentice from the capital, and I guarantee the food you enjoy will be just like what the famous chefs there prepare!"

Lu Qing glanced at the shopkeeper who was busy counting the bills behind the counter and asked, "Why don't I see your old shopkeeper?"

"Oh, you're a regular customer!" The waiter was taken aback and said quickly, "It's just that I'm not very good at seeing. I didn't recognize you. I was wondering why you looked so familiar to me just now!
Guests can sit inside, it is quiet here, next to the window, and you can eat while enjoying the scenery!

"Old shopkeeper... Hey! Let's not say such unlucky words so early in the morning, so as not to affect your appetite!"

Lu Qing glanced at him but didn't ask any further questions. The three of them sat down at the table by the window. He gestured to Fu Lu to hand the two rabbits in his hand to the waiter and said, "Let the chef show his best skills. But be careful when peeling them, don't damage them."

As he said this, he took out a small silver cake from his arms and handed it over.

When the waiter saw the silver cake, he immediately smiled so much that his eyebrows were not visible. He hurriedly took it with both hands and his attitude became more enthusiastic: "Okay! The distinguished guest wants to take the leather back to use it, so I can save it!
Please wait a moment, I will send the rabbit to the kitchen first and then bring you a pot of good tea!"

The young man was quick and efficient, and he quickly sent the rabbit to the kitchen. He also brought a pot of tea and three teacups, and placed them respectfully on the table. He was about to leave when he was stopped by Lu Qing.

"There are not many customers this early in the morning. Why don't you stay here and chat with us?" He gestured to Fu Lu to pour tea while he started chatting with the waiter.

The young clerk was a talkative person to begin with, and the silver cakes he had just brought were heavy in his arms. He stole a glance at the new shopkeeper, who was adjusting the beads on the abacus behind the counter, nodded, and put on a smile: "All right! If you don't mind my noise, I'm happy to chat with you and help you relieve your boredom!"

"I've been to your shop a few times before, and I'm quite acquainted with the old owner." Lu Qing took the teacup from Fu Lu's hand. "You just said you were worried it would bring bad luck, but what happened to him?"

"Sir, you...are you completely free of taboos?" The waiter knew that the other party would not give him so much money for no reason, and that he must want to find out something. He was secretly speculating, fearing that the other party would ask about something that he would not dare to talk about. When he heard that he just wanted to ask about the old shopkeeper, he breathed a sigh of relief, "Actually, our old shopkeeper passed away a while ago!

If you had come a month earlier, you could have seen him!"

"I remember that although your shopkeeper was a bit old, he was always in good health. How could he die suddenly?" Lu Qing's face changed slightly. "Could it be... that there was some kind of plague in your county?"

"Don't panic, dear guests. Look at all the people coming and going outside. Doesn't it look like there's an epidemic?" The waiter waved his hand and pointed out the window. "Everyone's fine. The old shopkeeper...his death was a bit sinister. That's why I didn't dare mention it to you in person just now, for fear that it would offend you!"

"Oh?" Zhu Yu, who had been silent until now, just happened to join in the conversation, looking very interested in what was going on. "Could it be that in broad daylight, some kind of evil spirit is causing trouble in your county?"

The waiter waved his hands hurriedly and glanced at the new shopkeeper on the other side: "Dear guest, please don't speak so loudly!"

He squatted beside the table, pretending to wipe it with a rough white cloth in his hand, and whispered to Lu Qing, "Your Excellency is not a local, right? Where are you from? Have you heard along the way that there is a 'ghost temple' here?"

Zhu Yu shook his head, and Lu Qing said nothing.

The clerk hurriedly said, "There's a mountain temple about a dozen miles from our county town. It's been abandoned for years, but for some reason, it's suddenly become very popular again. Some people go there to pray for wealth, and soon they get a windfall. Others also go there to pray for wealth, but not only do they not get any gold, silver, or treasures, they even lose their lives."

Later I heard that the mountain temple must have been abandoned and occupied by some monster. That monster can make people rich, but it can also cause people to die suddenly.

If you are destined to be rich, you will be able to become rich. If you are not destined to be rich but still try to get it, you will die a violent death.

Anyway, there are all kinds of opinions! "

"So weird?" Zhu Yu looked very interested and asked the young man, "Did your previous shopkeeper also go there to make a wish?"

"I'm just guessing about this," the clerk said with a wry smile. "No one wants to know about going there to seek wealth. People say that the temple is very evil. If anyone goes there to seek wealth, wouldn't that be tantamount to admitting that they have evil intentions and want to get rich from unknown sources?
But our old shopkeeper is usually stingy. About two months ago, one day, he bent down, and guess what happened?

With a clang, a silver ingot fell out of his arms!

Such a boss! "

The young man used his hands to show the size of a silver ingot: "Don't worry about you laughing at me, my dear guests. As far as I can remember, this is the first time I've seen a silver ingot that's intact!"

Zhu Yu also showed an expression of surprise. Although his reaction was slightly exaggerated in order to cater to the boy's emotions, it was not entirely fake.

You have to know that ordinary people only have to spend a dozen coins to buy a dou of rice, and a piece of coarse cloth for making clothes has to cost only a hundred coins. Even if the whole family works hard from dawn to dusk to make a living, they can only earn no more than 200 coins, and they have to exchange the money for food and clothes before they even have time to hold it.

Poorer people have never even touched a silver coin in their entire lives, let alone a silver ingot.

The waiter made a living in a restaurant, and naturally there were some generous diners among the customers. However, judging from the surprised expression on his face when he saw the small silver cake weighing one or two taels that Lu Qing gave him, it was not difficult to imagine how surprised he would be when he received a ten-tael silver ingot.

"How did the old shopkeeper... die? Did he die in that 'ghost temple'?" Zhu Yu lowered his voice and asked the waiter.

"Of course not! If he really died in that temple, I guess no one would still believe in it!" The waiter waved his hands, "At the beginning, there was no trace of him alive, and no trace of his body dead, it was as if he had vanished into thin air!
People outside say that the ghosts in the ghost temple eat people without leaving any bones behind. It has been like this before. A living person disappeared overnight!
Later, the family searched everywhere and finally found him. They said he was inside the trunk of a hollow old tree that had been struck by lightning. That person..."

The young man shuddered and lowered his voice a few degrees: "The whole body is dry and pale, as if everyone has been squeezed dry!
Anyway, everyone said that the old shopkeeper must have been disrespectful to the ghosts and gods, which angered them and caused him to lose his life instead of making money.

If you ask me, the idea of ​​whether you are destined to be wealthy is more reliable!
Our old shopkeeper was not destined to be rich and noble, and he didn't have such great blessings, but he insisted on asking for such a huge fortune. It's really not enough to fulfill his wish, and he even put his life at risk! "

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