5, special residents(1/2)
【Welcome!】
"Hehehe——"
"whee--"
It was like the sound of wind, swirling and echoing in the industrial-style office building.
It's not like the sound of wind.
It's the little girl's laughter.
The crisp silver bells that were supposed to ring in the spring breeze bloomed faintly in the darkness...
Wanqi Linmu withdrew his gaze from the beheaded welcome bear at the gate, and quickly scanned the surroundings with calm, even slightly arrogant eyes.
Focus on the row of bloody words "Hell is empty, the devil is in the world".
The iron-gray walls were no longer crying blood. In the dim light, the old-fashioned chandelier was shaking as if it was suffering from Parkinson's disease due to the locust-like wind, and kept screaming "squeaking".
Casts a mottled halo.
Under the mottled cold light covered with ashes, a little girl in red suddenly appeared, standing under the words in blood.
Blood red tutu skirt, blood red leather shoes, blood red flower hairpin.
In her arms she held a doll with the same blood-red dress.
The doll has a round little face and a sweet and pure smile... but one of its arms is broken.
The little girl in red caressed the doll's severed hand lovingly, staring at the forest trees with dark and dull eyes, like blood-mouthed eyes.
"Big brother..."
"Let's play with dolls!"
"Look, my mother bought it for me..."
The little girl in red raised the corner of her mouth and revealed an unusually pure smile.
But in the strange dark night, there was a strong sense of ridicule.
This is a graveyard, and it's the middle of the night. A little girl in red suddenly runs out. If ordinary people saw it, they might have run away screaming "Ahhhh".
Wanqi Linmu's eyes scanned the surroundings, but paused briefly on the little girl for less than a second, and then moved over naturally, as if he didn't see her.
Ignoring the little girl at all, Wanqi Linmu walked back to his desk and sat on the lonely office chair.
"Clatter, crash, crash -"
Continue to look through the information in your hand.
"Big brother——"
When the little girl in red saw that Wanqi Linmu was ignoring her, she immediately approached the doll with the broken hand, her pale face, bright red lips, and an intriguing smile.
"Big brother——" The little girl in red circled Wanqi Linmu twice and said in a long voice: "Can you see me?"
Wanqi Linmu didn't reply, as if he still couldn't see the little girl, he continued to focus on the handover information at hand.
"Brother, you can indeed see me."
The little girl was still working tirelessly, and when she spoke this time, her words changed from questions to affirmatives.
"Can you see me-"
"Big brother! Don't ignore me——"
The little girl circled around Wanqi Linmu twice, and after deciding that Wanqi Linmu could see her, she put away her "mischievous" sinister smile.
He held up his little hand, jumped up on the desk, held his cheek, and looked up and down at the Wanqi forest trees.
"Brother, are you the new administrator? It's amazing, even the previous administrators can't see us!"
"You must be able to see me and talk to me!"
"Brother, aren't you afraid?"
"Let me tell you a secret! I am a ghost!"
The little girl in red appears holding a broken, blood-stained doll, which is a standard feature of horror movies. But in the blink of an eye, the chatty rhythm has turned this horror movie into a nonsensical comedy midway through.
And gone forever...
"Wow---"
Wanqi Linmu flipped through the handover materials page by page.
He knew that the little girl was not an ordinary person, so he just pretended not to see it.
Wanqi Linmu has a special physique for so many years, and at least he has learned some means of self-protection.
Don't strike up conversations, don't make small talk, and don't meddle in other people's business.
These are three basic rules.
Wanqi Linmu had no intention of paying attention to this chatty little girl.
"Big brother! Big brother! Big brother!" But the little girl didn't mind singing a one-man show, and her body seemed to be shining with a golden light of excitement.
"Brother, what is your name?" The little girl introduced herself: "My name is Tongtong, and I am a resident here!"
Tongtong...
Wanqi Linmu stopped turning the page, raised his head, and looked at the little girl in red for the first time.
"Oh! Big brother! Did you look at me? We made eye contact!"
"Wow - big brother, your looks are at the level of an idol!"
"Super handsome, cool eyes, so cool!"
Wanqi Linmu ignored her chatter, glanced at the little girl in red, then lowered his head and quickly flipped through the handover information in his hand.
Handover list - list of tenants' arrears.
Wanqi Linmu had just seen the name "Tongtong". Although he only glanced at it, Wanqi Linmu has a good memory, especially when it comes to money.
really!
Open the tenant's arrears list, and Tongtong's name will be on the first page.
"Resident Arrears List"
Debtor: Tongtong
Residential address: No. 4, Row B1
Arrears type: Resident rent
Unit price: 400 yuan/month
Years of arrears: Starting from 2009
Special remarks:…
There is also a page of notes after the list of arrears, indicating what "resident" means.
Happy Cemetery is a public welfare cemetery, which means that Happy Cemetery cannot make a profit.
Therefore, the cemetery has been very deserted in recent years, unable to make ends meet, so that the administrator resigned one after another, working harder than cutting leeks.
But in fact, the cemetery has a huge income, which the previous administrator did not know at all.
That is - "resident's rent".
Cemeteries are public welfare for ordinary people, but they are not public welfare for some lonely ghosts who come to stay, rent long-term, short-term rentals, or simply "buy a house" to settle down.
To put it bluntly, Kaixin Cemetery is engaged in two businesses...
A kind of openness to the sun.
One that is open to the underworld.
For these "special groups", Happy Cemetery is more like their large hotel in the human world.
However, over the years, the management of Kaixin Cemetery has been relatively chaotic. The recent administrators have ordinary eyes and cannot see these "special residents" at all, so they have no way to collect rent.
As a result, the amount of arrears piled up...
Duoduo!
The tip of the pen poked at the list of arrears, and Wanqi Linmu raised his head.
The look he looked at the little girl this time was much "friendly".
Wanqi Linmu finally smiled back, and it was no longer a one-man show for the little girl.
Wanqi Linmu has a handsome appearance, revealing a classical beauty, tending to be soft and delicate, but his face is always cold and cold, which is in sharp contrast to his softness. Many people in the school nickname Wanqi Linmu
, joking that he is a cold beauty.
When Wan Qi Lin Mu smiled, the little girl was immediately dumbfounded, with a dull look on her face like "Wow - how can she be so beautiful!" "Brother, I'm a fan of you!" "What kind of divine appearance is this!"
Wanqi Linmu smiled without hesitation, picked up the account book on the table, and waved it in front of the little girl's blank face.
To be continued...