Chapter 1 The Voice of the Night
Ghosts have always been illusory. Some people treat them with the attitude of believing that they are not trusting, while others believe them deeply. But no matter which kind of person, there are very few who have truly seen ghosts. Even if they happen to see them by chance, they will doubt themselves, wondering whether it is an illusion caused by fatigue.
However, whether it is luck or sadness, I belong to the third category, the kind of person who has seen ghosts. From the beginning to the end of doubt, and as the experience gradually increases, I become more and more envious of those firm atheists.
Just like a young man living in an ivory tower, he will always maintain his initial innocence, which is also a kind of happiness.
Okay, let’s get to the point if you feel the most. Let’s get to the point.
My name is Jie Fei, and I was born in an ordinary rural family in the northeast.
The story starts with the first job I found after graduating from college.
It was 2008, and it was July.
The annual high-temperature barbecue weather is coming again, and the heat waves in the entire Yanjing City are rolling, constantly refreshing the high-temperature extremes.
I just broke up with my girlfriend perfectly reflects the anxiety I should have as a loser.
I urgently need a job that will allow me to survive in this huge city.
At that time, there were recruitment newspapers all over the streets in Yanjing, and I bought one on the side of the road. There were countless jobs listed on it, but except for the news of scammers who borrowed talent to seek children and public relations between men and women, no exception, they all needed a bachelor's degree or a minimum of one year of work experience. It was obviously very unfriendly to me, a junior college student.
I read the whole article with a bitter face for a long time before I found such a recruitment message in the corner of the newspaper.
"Qi Tianchuan's private agency urgently recruits shop clerks, with a monthly salary of 800 yuan to provide food and accommodation. It is required for men, aged between 20 and 35, to have any work experience..."
800 yuan was already an extremely low salary even in Yanjing at that time. However, what I liked was not this basic salary, but the three extremely realistic words of food and accommodation. If it were not for this, even if I had a salary of 2,000, I would have to survive in Yanjing.
"Qi Tianchuan, a private agency?"
The name of this store looks a bit weird. I have never heard of an agent or a private nature before. However, due to life, since I have made up my mind to leave the rental house that made me sad as soon as possible, I simply took a try-out attitude and looked for the address above.
I changed three buses and interspered around the alley for more than two hours before I stopped in front of a remote courtyard that was so remote that you wouldn't believe it was a dignified Yanjing City.
The yard has no gate, it is just a circle of iron fences, leaving a gap of four or five meters wide for people to enter and exit.
Going through the gap, you can see that green plants are planted everywhere, and all kinds of trees that cannot be named grow vigorously, with green eyes full of green, bringing a rare coolness to this midsummer.
In the middle of the trees, a straight cement road leads directly, and at the end is an ordinary bungalow. The mottled red brick walls are covered with dense crawling zombies. Only the occasional residual gap in the surrounding corners can the original materials of the wall be seen. In addition, the house has no more eye-catching signs and does not look like a business place at all.
"Isn't it because I'm looking for the wrong one?"
I knocked my forehead suspiciously, and I can't forget it until now. When I was looking for the store's name plaque, I found it out of the corner of my eye.
On the side of the door, it seemed that someone wrote a few words in blue chalk, because the color has faded a lot in the long run. It is really hard to find if you don’t look carefully. Moreover, there are a few words blocked by the leaves of the crawler.
I reached out and pushed the leaves away, and all eight chalk words that seemed to be playing with elementary school students were revealed.
Qitianchuan Private Agency.
This is my first impression of my place to live for several years in the future. Now I think about it, but I didn't think so much about it when I was in urgent need of work.
Soon, when I entered the door, I saw my future boss and brother, a young man with a very beautiful and elegant appearance, with fair skin as white as milk, as if he could pinch out water.
Let me put it this way, if you close your eyes and grab his hand, you will definitely not believe that it is a man even if you beat him to death.
The most annoying thing is that this guy also has a very handsome facial features. Although he is jealous, I have to admit that if this guy is now, he will be at the standard male god level and will be able to charm a large number of ignorant and brainless young girls.
After meeting, the conversation between Qi Tianchuan and I was very simple. One was willing to fight and the other was willing to be beaten, and the job was quickly finalized. He took me to check each room briefly.
It is very obvious that the home style is only the living room is transformed into an office, and the other rooms are the same as the original housing.
The house is not new, but the pink and white walls are very clean, with air conditioners, showers, and everything they should have. Overall, the environment is quite good, at least a hundred times better than the rental house I rented in the city that had no air conditioning and shared a bathroom.
Food and accommodation are free, there is a refrigerator and kitchen, and you can get reimbursed for buying vegetables. In terms of salary, in addition to the basic salary, there is also a business commission of 15%. Even though I was not sure what the business was at that time, I was already very satisfied with all this.
After a simple handover, Qi Tianchuan drove his cool Hummer H2 to send me back to the rental house to pick up the gift, which made me more confident about his identity as a novice or rich second-generation. Then he took the excuse of being busy with work and left alone.
It was already evening after I broke up and I had no appetite. I just cooked some instant noodles in the kitchen for dinner. Then I lay on the bed, thinking boredly about the sweet past with my girlfriend, my mind was chaotic, and I didn't fall asleep until late at night.
No words all night.
It was already nine o'clock in the morning when I woke up the next day. The agency was really deserted, and there was no one to disturb my sleep. I thought I had really found a job that was extremely leisurely, but I didn't know that it was time for the store to be opened until tonight.
I was doing nothing during the day and no one consulted me, and Qi Tianchuan didn't come to check it out. I cleaned the room bored and watched TV for a long time. Until night, I continued to lie down in boredom.
I was sleeping in a daze until midnight. Subconsciously, I suddenly felt chill all over, as if my whole body fell into an ice cellar.
"It's not that the air conditioner is turned on too low."
I muttered in my heart, and didn't open my eyes. I was too lazy to get up and find the air conditioner remote control. I reached out and pulled the quilt and wrapped myself tighter.
At this moment, some small and slim, hazy, as if they were in the sky, and softly whispering in my ears came into my mind.
The voice seemed a little angry, and he kept repeating a few words.
"Why haven't you opened a store yet?"
"Hurry up and open a store?"
"Time has passed, we have been waiting for a long time to come..."
“Get up quickly…”
"Open a store...open a store..."
...
"Who? You're so annoying, you're sleeping in the middle of the night." I patted my head irritably and drove away the buzzing sounds. However, as soon as the words fell, the sounds not only stopped, but became even more loud and louder.
It was not until this time that I was suddenly shocked and I woke up instantly.
"Who? Ah—"
Chapter completed!