met free Chapter 122: Deceased Wife (10)
Chapter 122: Deceased Wife (10)
Sheh glanced at him, picked out the largest piece from the bag of crushed biscuits he had crushed, and handed it to Shi Jinzhe.
The three-layer sandwich biscuits were too dry to swallow directly, so Sheh ate them by pinching a handful from outside the bag.
The one in her hand was the only cookie that survived with its body intact.
Shi Jinzhe grabbed Sheh's hand holding the biscuit, brought it to his mouth, and took a bite.
"Thank you." He held the half-bitten cookie in his hand and turned to open the door.
Meng Chengxi was so bored that he started counting the stripes on the wooden door, and the door of room 403 was finally opened.
Shi Jinzhe swallowed the biscuit and said, "Sorry for the wait."
"Not long, just ten minutes." Meng Chengxi followed Xiao Fang. He tilted his head and stood at the door and asked Shi Jinzhe, "Can he come in?"
He had seen Sheh's snake tail, but Meng Chengxi didn't know whether they would like others to see it.
Xiao Fang is just my roommate. I tacitly allow him to follow me, but that doesn’t mean others agree.
Shekh was sitting in the house and heard the question, so he answered, "Come in."
There are ghosts in the copy world, so it’s not surprising to have another snake.
Here, even if he is seen by others, it will not affect Shi Jinzhe's daily life.
After getting the promise, Meng Chengxi turned around and warned Xiao Fang, "Shut up and don't make any noise when you get into the house."
Xiao Fang nodded repeatedly, the flesh on his round face trembling, "I understand."
He followed Meng Chengxi in and closed the door. When he saw the tail on the ground, Xiao Fang uttered a muffled sentence from his hand-covered mouth: "#%...#shui～"
"...What are you talking about?" Meng Chengxi raised his eyebrows in confusion, "Are you chanting a spell?"
"Yes... it's my hometown dialect. Hehe, I was a little excited and said it out loud."
Xiao Fang took his hand down with a strange look on his face, without fear, surprise, or even confusion or panic.
There was only excitement and surprise written all over his face, and his eyes even glowed when they focused on Sheh's snake tail.
In front of the three people, Xiao Fang first rubbed his hands on his clothes, fiddled with his hair twice, then stretched his clothes hard, smoothed out the wrinkles, and tidyed up his appearance.
He spoke to Shek very cautiously, "Hello." His expression was so tense, as if he had seen a vision of the Buddha, and he was afraid of offending Shek.
"What did you just say?" Sheh was very curious. This was the first time someone looked at him with such respect.
"Words to compliment you on your good looks." Xiao Fang repeated the words, her neck turning red with shyness.
Without his hand blocking him, Shi Jinzhe could now hear his accent clearly, "Are you from southern Fujian?"
Meng Chengxi pulled Xiao Fang and said, "Stop staring at me."
How could this kid be so tactless?
Shi Jinzhe's eyes had already moved around his body twice, as if he was looking at a piece of meat to be appraised.
"Ah, no..." Xiao Fang explained hurriedly, "This is the first time I've seen such a big snake, like this, I'm so happy, sorry."
"You like snakes?"
Shi Jinzhe could see a kind of satisfaction from Xiao Fang's expression, which looked like his dream had come true, as if he had died without regrets.
His expression when he asked the question was calm, but upon closer inspection, the corners of his mouth were pursed.
It turned out that he was the only one who was afraid of snakes. When he first saw Shehe, he was so scared that he didn't dare to move.
He looked at Sheh's face, and she seemed to be in a good mood because of the attitude of this little round-faced girl.
Shi Jinzhe inadvertently developed another layer of resentment towards the Cheng family.
If he hadn't been afraid of snakes from the beginning, would Sheh have been nicer to him?
"It's more than just liking, it's love!"
The eyes of inquiry were staring at him, and Xiao Fang realized it later and immediately made up for it, "Everyone in our family likes it!"
"The Minyue people worship snakes. Although people now say they are descendants of the dragon, my elders prefer to say they are descendants of the snake. We all like snakes. Every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, while others celebrate the Chinese Valentine's Day, we celebrate the Snake King Festival."
"Is there such a festival?" Sheh became interested. There was actually a place that worshipped snakes like this.
Xiao Fang: "Yes, we have a snake king temple there. Every year during the festival, every family welcomes the snake. In my family, my great grandfather doesn't say the word snake to avoid taboos."
"If not snakes, what should we talk about?"
"Xie, these two words sound similar in the dialect, so he likes to say Xie. When we see snakes in our family, we are always very awed. When snakes enter other people's homes, they have to find ways to get snake repellent to drive them away, but we can't wait to burn incense and offer sacrifices to them. As the saying goes, when a snake enters the house, it means a noble person, so we have to treat it well."
"That's right. The totem worship in many areas of Minyue is the snake." Meng Chengxi was particularly fond of watching "The Gods and the Ghost" for a while, and he had also heard of this kind of folk custom.
Sheh's heart was in turmoil. He hooked his fingers around Shi Jinzhe's and looked up at him. "Let's go play there after we get out."
Shi Jinzhe had no choice but to ask Xiao Fang, "Do you usually have this kind of activities?"
Seeing the tail of the snake disappear, Xiao Fang said in astonishment: "Let's go after the New Year, on the first or fifteenth day of the lunar month. It's the end of the year now, and there's nothing to see if we go."
Shi Jinzhe: "It's okay, we can just go and experience the local customs."
There is still more than half a year to the seventh day of the seventh month, and Sheh certainly doesn't have the patience to wait that long, so he takes her there first.
"Then let's complete this mission quickly!" Sheh's usually slow speech speed increased, and his emotions changed significantly.
Shi Jinzhe knew that this had hit her interest point and he couldn't wait any longer.
He turned around and asked Meng Chengxi about the matter, "Did you find anything when you came here?"
Meng Chengxi folded his arms and leaned against the wall. "Something happened to the resident in 503 upstairs."
"Someone died? The player didn't die, but something happened to the natives first?"
“She didn’t die, but she went crazy. She beat anyone who came close to her and kept covering herself with a blanket, saying she was cold and someone was touching her. The group of people with the girl couldn’t call 120, so they demanded compensation and check-out fees from the hotel. They made a scene on the first floor for the whole morning.”
"Where is the girl who lives with her and has a cat?" Sheh told the three people about the conversation she heard yesterday. "The two of them quarreled over the cat, and the girl didn't return to her room even after finding the cat."
Meng Chengxi: "She found it. She said that she returned to her room in the morning and was scratched in the face as soon as she opened the door. Her cat was almost snatched away and thrown to death by a madman because of the vicious person."
Shi Jinzhe asked: "Where is the girl now? How is she?"
Meng Chengxi: "When I came up, the room was changed. The compensation issue is still under negotiation. The front desk said that it is up to the boss lady to ask about this matter. He can't make the decision."
"Before you came up, this matter was not over yet, right?" Shi Jinzhe pondered, "The boss lady lives on the seventh floor, let's go and see what they are going to do. They are crazy, this matter will definitely not end well."
The four of them discussed it and decided to go downstairs and find out what was going on under the pretext of joining in the fun.
After opening the door of Room 403 and stepping into the corridor, Shi Jinzhe unexpectedly met the female receptionist in a red shirt.