Chapter 4: The Mysterious Building

I took Ru Yue to Su Rou’s house. It was a big house, so she didn’t have to stay in a hotel.

Liu Chunyan is very virtuous. When we arrived at Su Rou’s house, there were already several home-cooked dishes on the table. It was steaming hot, and it was really virtuous of Liu Chunyan to cook for us herself, even though she was pregnant with a big belly.

When Su Rou saw me come in with Ru Yue, he came over and said, “You have to pay for the food. My wife cooked it herself. The nanny is not allowed to do it.”

I took a dollar out of my pocket and handed it to Su Rou, saying, “Keep the change.”

Ruyue was even more direct. She waved her hand and a small spider was in her hand. She looked at Su Rou and said, “This is the descendant of Hua Feifei. If you give it to someone who understands, it is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Do you want it?”

Su Rou used the one yuan coin I just gave him to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and kept shaking his head, saying, “No, no! What a joke! I am Su Rou, after all, and I am a boss. I can afford to pay for a meal, no matter how much it is. Isn’t this a joke?”

After saying that, Su Rou put the one-dollar bill stained with his sweat back into my hand. I looked at it and laughed, and then put it into my pocket. One dollar is still money.

Liu Chunyan was used to our nonsense, and she smiled and greeted us to sit down. Su Rou did not tell Liu Chunyan too much about the past, and some things were absolutely confidential, but about my and Ruyue’s identities, she did say a little bit, and this kind of thing could not be hidden.

So, when Ru Yue suddenly produced a spider, Liu Chunyan didn’t really care. Besides, who from the countryside is afraid of spiders? Except for me, this rare flower.

We had a very happy meal, and the home-cooked dishes were not necessarily worse than those at the Gingko Restaurant. You eat with a certain mood. If I could, I would use all my money to go to the Bamboo Grove again for dinner with my master. Unfortunately, in this world, some people think that money can buy everything, while others think that money can’t buy anything.

Different moods, different perspectives.

After dinner, I stayed for a while and then went home. Ru Yue was used to seeing me leave at Su Rou’s, but when she saw me leave, she wanted to say something but didn’t say it.

Su Rou saw me off. When I got into the car, he said to me, “Sanwa, when are you going to do something about An Yu? You know, when I came here, the first person I contacted in the business world was him. He didn’t take advantage of me, but instead helped me. I don’t like his character, but I don’t want to see him really go to the end. Look…”

I started the car and said to Su Rou, “I’ll go tomorrow, but as he said, you can’t see anything during the day. After all, he has people from his company there, and it’s not a desolate place. I can still hold it down. In the evening, I’ll go in the evening.”

Su Rou said to me, holding the window of my car: “I want to go too.”

I was stunned and asked, “You too? Why?”

“I’ve made too much money and I’m bored. I miss the adventurous days when I was with you guys. With you here, I’m not afraid of anything (I’m not afraid of shit). I’m going. I’m really bored with this life. If you weren’t unwilling, I’d really want to drag you to set up a stall again.” As Su Rou was talking, he reached into my pocket and took out a cigarette.

I smiled and said, “I’ll pick you up tomorrow. If things don’t go well, you can leave at any time.”

“Got it.” Su Rou laughed heartily. He didn’t expect me to really agree.

The next evening, I drove to the company building where Su Rou worked and waited for him. In addition to me, there was also An Yu in the car. He was shivering and talking to me from the passenger seat: “Master Chen…”

“Chengyi.” I think that the first contact with a person can be described as a chance encounter, and the second time is half a familiar person. I need to correct him.

An Yu is a very sociable person. He doesn’t cause any unpleasantness when he interacts with people. He quickly corrected himself and said, “Chengyi, really, I’m sorry you’re willing to go today. The situation is getting more and more serious, you know? During lunch break, all the people in our office were possessed by ghosts. Several people resigned from their jobs this afternoon, and one of them was an elite I hired at a high salary.”

I raised my eyebrows slightly, then took a bottle of mineral water from the back seat of the car, opened the lid and handed it to him, saying, “Don’t worry too much, I’ll do my best.”

An Yu drank two gulps of water and said, “Hey, Chengyi, you don’t know. The meat didn’t want to help me at first, afraid of disturbing you. I also didn’t think of another way. I hired several Taoist priests and did several ceremonies, but it was useless. It got worse and worse. This would kill people.”

I was smiling on the side, listening to An Yu’s story, and I felt my face stiffen a little. But I didn’t laugh, and he was probably even more panicked.

It was still the same situation. I couldn’t tell what was going on in An Yu’s office building. After all, it wasn’t entirely ghosts that could cause these reactions in people. Feng shui, qi fields, and even some obscure “deceiving people” formations could cause these reactions.

And the person involved, An Yu, has no personal experience, so it’s really hard for me to judge the situation for a while, and I can only try to reassure An Yu and listen to him ramble on.

Fortunately, the meat was soon down, and as soon as it came down, it chased An Yu to the back seat of the car, and then he himself sat in the front seat.

As soon as he saw the meat, An Yu said in surprise, “I said what is Chengyi doing here? It turns out that he is waiting for you. Isn’t he going to my place?”

“Yes, I am. Look at me, I’m honest. I’ve come all the way here for you.” Su Rou said shamelessly.

“Are you also a Taoist priest?” An Yu looked puzzled.

Su Rou said mysteriously, “You guessed it right.”

I was too lazy to care about their nonsense, so I started the car directly. However, halfway there, An Yu changed his mind. He kept begging me, “Chengyi, what if I don’t go?”

“Chengyi, you and Su Rou are both Taoist priests. If I go, it will only make things worse.”

“Chengyi…”

I was so annoyed that I simply parked the car on the side of the road. Su Rou hurriedly got out of the car, opened the door, and “carried” An Yu down, scolding him, “Look at your cowardly appearance. It’s still your own company. Go get on a woman’s belly.”

An Yu was not angry, and handed me all the keys to the company with a smile.

However, at this point, neither Su Rou nor I knew that we had done something wrong, that is, we had dropped An Yu off halfway through the journey, which had made the matter very complicated.

The traffic in this city is not good. I drove for nearly an hour before I reached An Yu’s office building. On the way, I couldn’t help but say, “This is probably outside the Third Ring Road. How did An Yu get an office building here?”

“Sanwa, you don’t understand. Don’t look at this area now, but it’s definitely not a desolate place. It’s just the former urban-rural junction. But judging from various circumstances, this place will definitely develop in the future. The profits at that time, hey, you don’t understand these things. Anyway, don’t think that he is a top-level rich man here. Anyway, with his financial resources, he doesn’t have the financial resources to get an office building in a better location, in the city center. This is good enough.” Su Rou explained to me.

I really didn’t understand, so I found a place to park the car, took a few simple tools, and got out of the car with Su Rou.

An Yu’s office building was still very obvious, and Su Rou and I quickly found it. Su Rou kept telling me how strange this building was, so even the underground parking lot was not open for fear of something going wrong.

You know, people always think underground parking lots are scary, just like when we were kids, we always thought that dark places would hide ghosts.

I listened to Su Rou as we approached the office building. There was a doorman at the office building, an old man. When he saw Su Rou and I suddenly come here, he couldn’t help but look at us curiously and wouldn’t let us in.

“There’s no one here. What are you doing here?” The old man was quite alert.

Su Rou wanted to say something, but I pulled him behind me. I looked at my watch. It was only 6:40 p.m. and the whole building was empty?

So I asked, “It’s still early, why is there no one here? Don’t people work overtime?”

The old man snorted in disdain and said, “Only a fool would work overtime here.”