Chapter 47: Business Expansion
Tonight entering the dream, Li Jiahong found himself in the familiar forest, surrounded by mist, with a white misty cold pool not far ahead, ghost willows growing along the shore, and an ancient wooden house embraced by a pagoda tree standing quietly in this Misty Forest.
Li Jiahong had a vague feeling, approached the wooden house again, bowed slightly to the crimson evil spirit mask on the door leaf in front of the door, and then pushed the door to enter inside the shop.
Here, he saw Wei Jiang again, dressed in red clothes, sweeping the wooden house.
As soon as Wei Jiang saw the guest arrive, he smiled, while the guest knelt upon seeing him.
Wei Jiang was directly stunned, hurriedly helped the person up, “Mr. Li, look at you, what are you doing.”
“I don’t know how to thank you, this is the only thing I could think of.” Li Jiahong said with full sincerity on his face, “For every good person I met on my search for the lonely soul, I can think of a method to repay the kindness, but for you alone, I really don’t know.”
“You don’t need to thank me, this is originally part of my current duties.” Wei Jiang shook his head and said, “Moreover, you won’t be thinking of thanking me soon.”
Li Jiahong was puzzled when he suddenly heard the sound of the door being pushed open again, couldn’t help turning back to look, wanting to know what other guest besides himself would come, but saw a familiar figure.
“Miss Yu?” Li Jiahong was stunned for a moment.
“We meet again.” Yu Lianyun nodded, she was not surprised that Li Jiahong would appear here, “We are all guests who have come here before.”
Hearing this, Li Jiahong suddenly understood, so the people visiting the forest cabin from dreams now are all guests who have come to the shop before.
The two hadn’t caught up yet when soon another elegant gentleman with a feminine appearance, leaning on a cane, walked into the shop, he took off his hat, looking at everything around with eyes full of fanaticism and piety, as if deeply believing in every thing in the shop.
“Haimofen!?” Li Jiahong stared in shock with wide eyes, he never expected that the world-class music master was also a guest of the forest cabin, thinking of the rumors in recent years about Haimofen’s “seclusion and depression”, he couldn’t help but have a conjecture about the true story behind this gentleman.
“Very happy to meet you, sir.” Haimofen heard someone recognize him, and when he saw it was a new guest, his eyes lit up immediately, smiling as he reached out and walked closer.
Li Jiahong was also a bit excited with some fan emotions, but upon noticing that the hand Haimofen extended was wearing blade-equipped gloves, his expression instantly stiffened on his face.
This Haimofen, how is he not normal?
Haimofen, through Li Jiahong’s stiffened expression, then noticed the impropriety of his behavior, immediately took off the gloves apologetically, and reached out to the other again to show goodwill.
But as Haimofen took off the gloves, the even more ferocious and terrifying truth stung the human eyeballs even more, when Li Jiahong saw that hand full of holes and scars, Li Jiahong immediately felt his face stiffen even more.
What kind of horrific fact did this genius musician go through during those years of seclusion?
If the violin is Haimofen’s weapon, then his hands are his soul, and now Haimofen’s soul is eerily twisted, incomparably ugly, full of holes.
Li Jiahong had no choice but to grit his teeth and shake hands with Haimofen, feeling the terror that pierced the soul with every inch of roughness he touched, couldn’t help asking: “Your hand is?”
In response, Haimofen smiled lightly and said: “Ah, this, simply put, there was a bad-tempered butler who wanted to lead me to play violin for his master, I didn’t want to go, then they suppressed me, tormented me, if I didn’t agree they would destroy my hands, I had no choice, after finding Boss Lin’s help, I barely drove them away.”
“I see.” Li Jiahong nodded, but in his heart he wouldn’t lightly believe even a punctuation mark that Haimofen said, the other spoke abstractly and simply, but actually just thinking about what kind of being Boss Lin deals with, one could quickly imagine what kind of evil spirit thing each image mentioned in Haimofen’s words referred to.
“Hahaha, you’re all here.” At this moment, Lin Ling’s voice came from upstairs, everyone looked up, only to see Lin Ling with wet hair, wearing pajamas with a Q-version monk pattern, slowly walking down from upstairs, greeting with a smiling face.
When everyone saw Lin Ling, who had a youthful appearance and gentle speech, all felt a wave of nervousness, especially the three guests, who almost bowed to him with twelve points of respect: “Good evening, Boss Lin.”
“Very sorry to suddenly have you all come over at such a late time.” Lin Ling said with a face full of apology, “However, there is an important matter to announce.”
“Recently, to promote business, I plan to not only do physical store business, but also expand the business to the virtual world, and dreams are just right.” Lin Ling said with a smile, “In the future, there will be other new guests visiting at any time, everyone can freely communicate in dreams.”
After speaking, Lin Ling beckoned to Li Jiahong, “Mr. Li, come over here, there’s one more thing to announce, it concerns you.”
Li Jiahong was stunned, obediently came forward, the other two stood in place, they curiously perked up their ears to listen, wanting to know what Lin Ling was going to announce.
Lin Ling said: “Considering that Mr. Li you can no longer return the rented item in time, in accordance with the rental contract signed at that time, either pay compensation, or fulfill the obligation, work for the small shop until the debt is paid off.”
Hearing this, Li Jiahong already knew his fate, he secretly swallowed, “Uh, if paying compensation, how can it be paid?”
“Life is priceless.” Lin Ling said smiling, “So you should still fulfill the compensation obligation, help the small shop do more things.”
Hearing this, Li Jiahong fell silent, he knew he couldn’t escape Lin Ling’s clutches, could only say with a dry laugh: “Then what do I need to do?”
“Oh, actually it’s also very simple, just work the night shift, overnight is fine.” Lin Ling sighed, “Mainly I haven’t gone out for a walk in a long time, just want to get some fresh air outside.”
Hearing Lin Ling say “get some fresh air”, Li Jiahong and the other three guests’ hearts shook, as if seeing an ancient deity that could easily destroy the galaxy about to emerge.
Yu Lianyun stammered: “Can you still go out for a walk?”
Haimofen however said with a face full of excitement: “As expected of Boss Lin!”
Li Jiahong’s mind was full of chaos, his eyes dazedly looking at Lin Ling, not knowing what to say.
Lin Ling patted Li Jiahong’s shoulder, immediately Li Jiahong felt a stream of unfamiliar information surge into his mind, most of it about some rules of the small shop, like what can be touched, what cannot be touched, what measures to take if accidentally touched… as if in an instant he had lived the life of a 007 office worker.
“Then you start working today.” Lin Ling led Li Jiahong to sit in his own position, then briefly introduced to him the way of receiving guests in their small shop.
Li Jiahong, whether honored or unfortunate, from then on began his work life as the front desk clerk of the small shop.
Came late, begging for collections, tickets, etc.~~~~
