Nearing dinner time.

Tan Zhou was preparing meals in the kitchen, while Jiu Jiu and Yang Jin were sitting in the living room fighting for the remote control.

"How old are you and still watch cartoons?" Yang Jin was a little disgusted with Jiujiu's favorite cartoons.

"I'm not human!" Jiujiu pointed out confidently, "You're an old ghost who still plays games!"

"What's wrong with playing games!" Yang Jin wanted to continue, but the doorbell rang first.

"Go and open!" Yang Jin changed the subject, pushed and tweeted twice, motioning him to open the door.

Jiujiu was still a little reluctant, but he saw Tanzhou poking his head out of the kitchen, and hurriedly floated over to open the door.

The visitor is no stranger.

Jiujiu tilted his head and greeted implicitly: "Hello."

"Hello, Mr. Mermaid." Duan Lingfei nodded towards him. He had seen Jiujiu last time, so he was naturally not surprised this time. He just asked, "Excuse me, I just want to ask Xiaojin if he came to look for him. you?"

"Yes..." Before Jiujiu finished speaking, Yang Jin's muffled voice came from inside the room——

"no!"

Duan Lingfei raised the corners of his mouth helplessly, and said to Jiujiu: "May I go in, please?"

"Yes." Jiujiu agreed, and let him in sideways.

Tan Zhou also came out of the kitchen when he heard the sound.

Seeing Duan Lingfei, he joked, "I heard you don't give him water?"

"Who said that?" Duan Lingfei laughed, walked up to Yang Jin and sat down next to him, and looked at him, "I won't let you drink water?"

"Don't you dare to say otherwise?" Yang Jin retorted with her waist inserted, as if this action seemed more imposing.

"I don't allow you to drink red wine." Duan Lingfei rubbed his eyebrows and explained, "You have been allergic to alcohol since you were a child, even if you become a ghost, it's best not to touch alcohol."

"I don't care!" Yang Jin turned her head, and her words were a little sour, "I saw you drinking red wine with the little girl. It's so romantic to drink in the rooftop garden and watch the moon."

"Huh?" Duan Lingfei couldn't hide his smile, leaned over, pinched Yang Jin's chin, and forced him to face her, "Do you care?"

"I don't care!" Yang Jin frowned, but unfortunately she couldn't escape Duan Lingfei's shackles, so she could only curse, "You pervert!"

Seeing the two of them getting closer, Tanzhou coughed heavily.

"Hey, go out and do things that are not suitable for children. I have a lot of children here, and the influence is not good."

This is not wrong.

The little ghosts who were still playing around in the room had stopped their movements a long time ago, and now they all looked at Yang Jin curiously, among them were a few paper figurines with expressionless faces and a ignorant Chirp.

"Okay." Duan Lingfei said, carrying Yang Jin onto his shoulders effortlessly, "Then I'll go first, and next time he comes over, remember to call me."

"Wait." Tanzhou stopped him and handed him the note he had written long ago, "Help me check these people."

It was rare for Tanzhou to ask for help, Duan Lingfei took the note unexpectedly, and agreed without thinking: "I will give you the answer as soon as possible."

Tanzhou smiled at him gratefully and said no more.

Watch them go away.

Jiujiu was still a little worried when he closed the door: "Sir, do you think he really won't bully Brother Yang again?"

"No." Tanzhou affirmed.

"But he won't let Brother Yang drink water." Jiujiu puffed up his face, and his short eyebrows were wrinkled into a ball due to tangle.

"That's because Yang Jin drank too much vinegar and didn't need to drink any more water." Tanzhou said casually, and changed the subject again, "What do you want to eat tonight?"

"I want to eat meat!" Jiujiu immediately put aside the worries just now, and only sighed, "The food on your ground is so delicious."

Jiujiu lived in the deep sea before, and apart from all kinds of fish, the only food he could eat was kelp and aquatic plants. Now that he is ashore, he knows that there are so many kinds of ingredients on land, and he can’t wait to let Tanzhou change the dishes every day. .

"Come here and help me wash the vegetables." Tanzhou pulled him away and walked straight into the kitchen.

And all the little ghosts in the living room silently glanced at the incense burner on the ground, and couldn't help but support their faces enviously and thought: When will we be able to eat meat!

***

Duan Lingfei moved quickly, and sent him what Tanzhou wanted the next afternoon.What Tanzhou was looking for was the person who appeared in the contractor's book. In order to prevent too many people with the same name, he specially memorized a few names with special characters and their ages.

Tanzhou knew from the contractor's book that they were all orphans without father and mother. Now, comparing the detailed information given by Duan Lingfei, it is not difficult to find that their physical illnesses are mainly concentrated in congenital mental retardation and autism. syndrome and cognitive impairment.

The strange thing is that they were all sent to a nursing home called Tianai by the orphanage after they became adults, and they were all reported as missing persons in the end, without further details.

"Tianai Nursing Home?" Tanzhou frowned, and his intuition told him that there must be something wrong with this nursing home.

However, before he could think about it, Jiujiu pushed open the door of the study.

He wasn't the only one who came, and Ah Da who was carrying two big boxes followed behind him.

"Sir, the gold shop has sent over the statue of the ghost emperor." Jiujiu pointed to Ah Da beside him, a little ashamed, "I can't touch it, so I can only let Ah Da carry it."

"En." Tanzhou stood up, walked to Ada, and said after confirming the contents of the box, "Put it away first, and take it over tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" Jiujiu was a little puzzled, "Shouldn't the sooner the better be suppressed?"

"Wufang Ghost Emperor is a god after all, so there is no reason to bury him right away." Tanzhou pinched the tip of his nose, "Tomorrow we have to choose an auspicious time, so as not to offend the gods."

Jiujiu nodded half-understood, looked down at the paper-thick Ada, and told him to put it down quickly.

After disposing of the statue, Tanzhou took Jiujiu and walked out of the room: "Now accompany me to a place first."

"Where are you going?" Jiujiu asked in confusion.

"nursing home."

Shortly after.

The car in Tanzhou parked steadily at the gate of a nursing home on the outskirts of the city.

In the eyes is a white low building, surrounded by an open space full of weeds.The entire nursing home was surrounded by two-meter-high iron railings, and the words "Tianai Nursing Home" were scrawled in red paint on the door, which looked old and simple.

"Sir, what are we doing here?" Jiujiu lay on the outside of the iron railing of the nursing home, a little confused.

Tanzhou stood behind him, looking into the courtyard with deep eyes.

At this moment, an old female voice sounded behind them: "Who are you?"

Tanzhou turned his head abruptly, facing a grandma who only reached his chest.

"What do you want to do here?" Grandma glared at Tanzhou viciously, her eyes were deep-set and somewhat piercing.

"Are you from this nursing home?" Tan Zhou didn't answer directly.

Grandma gave him a strange look, and then laughed idiotically: "Hahaha, how could I be a black-hearted person here? If you do bad things, you will be rewarded in this world!"

"Grandma, do you know something?" Tan Zhou grabbed her shoulder, "Did a lot of people go missing in this nursing home?"

"Missing?" Grandma shrank her neck, lowered her mouth, and shouted nervously, "This is all their excuse! How can there be so many missing!"

Fearing that her voice would be too loud and attract people from the nursing home, Tanzhou simply pulled her into his car and asked, "Since they are not missing, where have they all gone?"

"Pretty girls, one by one, are all being sold to the mountains to be wives!" Grandma's eyes widened in horror, "Two years ago there was a girl who didn't want to, and jumped off the roof in a red dress... But those people have the cheek to say that she is mentally ill, what a shame!"

"Except for the girls?" Tanzhou guessed roughly, but he didn't expect that there were girls living in this nursing home who were persecuted.

"What else?" Grandma tilted her head in distress, her eyes filled with a layer of hatred again, "There are also those strong young men who were all sold as coolies! Those who are easy to manage stay in the city, and those who are not easy to manage They sent them to coal mines and brick kilns. Anyway, they have no relatives, so they will die when they die, who will care about it.”

Tanzhou took a breath, seeing that the old lady was not in a good state of mind, so she just continued to ask, "How do you know these things?"

"My son was congenitally mentally retarded. My husband divorced me because of this, and I was left alone to take care of my son. In order to support my son, I went to work alone in a big city. Who knew that on the night I left, my son secretly I went to the train station with me, but got lost. I have been looking for him for 15 years, and finally found this place, and then I learned that he...he was sold to a brick kiln, and he died of exhaustion!" Grandma said here, biting He clenched his teeth, "I wanted to sue them, but they insisted that my son escaped from the nursing home by himself. The human traffickers are wearing hypocritical human skins, and they are still recruiting more orphans in the name of rescue!"

Tanzhou held his forehead heavily, a little hard to digest the whole thing.

"However, I have almost found enough evidence now." Grandma laughed sullenly again, "The man who comes here every Wednesday, his construction site is full of orphans who go out from here. Do you know? He Fearing that the matter would be revealed, so I silenced those people, what a cruel heart!"

"Every Wednesday..." Tanzhou repeated, finally connecting the whole thing.

"That's right, I specially buried the dead man's clothes in his construction site just to scare him!" Grandma's eyes widened, "I don't believe he dared not tell the truth in front of ghosts!"

It turned out that the previous supernatural events were all done by this grandma alone.

Tanzhou paused, looked sideways at Jiujiu who was sitting in the front seat, and had an idea——

"If you want ghosts, I have a lot ready-made here."

The author has something to say: two lines, one is the abandoned hospital line, the other is the human trafficking line, the two have nothing to do with each other.

The prototype of this human trafficking is that I read a piece of news about black brick kilns before. At that time, it was said that some people with insufficient intelligence were abducted and sold to remote areas as coolies, and abused and oppressed these workers. This behavior is really heinous and evil. Everyone must be punished.

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