Chapter 159 The Lion King Is Angry

Old Zhang came, and Zhou Ze shrugged with some resignation, not rushing to send the old man to hell again.

Perhaps there really was something called fate.

Just like Gou Xin next door,

Fang Fang excitedly came over in the afternoon to tell Zhou Ze that the pharmacy's profits were expected to achieve a new breakthrough after the new year!

It was all quite emotional to think about,

The original darling of fortune, the child of destiny, the embodiment of the protagonist's mode,

After meeting the old Taoist,

He was sent to the emergency room for the third time.

Zhou Ze wouldn't have cared about this before, but looking at the changes in Old Zhang, in a single day, he went from being the most marginal, most useless ghost messenger in the bookstore to a big shot with the power of the Xiezhi sealed within him.

This cause and effect, this connection, did it really exist?

Although he didn't understand it yet, Zhou Ze subconsciously let it continue naturally, without needing to stubbornly interrupt it.

In many of the novels in his bookstore, the protagonists who liked to do this kind of thing definitely succeeded, but the process would also be very, very bitter.

This was something Boss Zhou was unwilling to accept.

When he walked out of the private room, Zhang Yanfeng was already sitting at the table, picking up his chopsticks and drinking the tom yum soup.

Zhou Ze also sat down and said to Lawyer An next to him:

"That person seems to have something going on. You and Old Zhang should go take a look later."

Lawyer An was a shrewd person,

And instantly sensed that something was wrong,

The boss was passing the buck!

He immediately said:

"I suddenly remembered that the designer I contacted wants to talk to me tonight about the design plan for the opposite side. I have to finalize this quickly, otherwise the construction team won't be able to renovate!"

"That's not urgent. You can do it tomorrow. It's not like we're in a hurry to live there anyway."

"No, Boss, there's another thing. Wasn't I helping that kid who jumped off the building's mother with publicity last time? Now it's time to start revealing the reversal. I have to personally operate and direct it.

There can't be the slightest negligence in this. If I mess it up, I'll be shooting myself in the foot!

Don't worry, Old Dao, I'll make sure that ungrateful family doesn't have an easy time!"

After speaking,

Lawyer An directly put down his chopsticks,

Quickly put on a woolen coat, and pushed the door open and left.

"Something up?"

Old Zhang really wasn't ambiguous at all.

After adding some food to his bowl, he got up and went to the private room.

Zhou Ze helplessly picked up his chopsticks and ate a few more mouthfuls of rice.

After a while,

Old Zhang came out with a clean bowl,

He didn't say anything directly to Zhou Ze, nor did he try to persuade him.

Instead, he sat down on the empty chair next to Zhou Ze,

Sighed,

And said:

"There should be a lot of children at the temple fair, right?"

Zhou Ze swallowed a mouthful of rice.

"Many people who have been working outside for a year will bring their families to stroll around the temple fair, right?"

Zhou Ze took a sip of soup.

"It's almost the New Year. Everyone should be beaming with joy, right?"

Zhou Ze put down his chopsticks.

"It's not like I'm not letting you go. Just go investigate it yourself. Check which famous old lion dance artist in Tong City recently passed away. Confirm the old man's identity, and then you'll have clues to follow.

Besides, you've seen what the old man looks like."

Old Zhang scratched his head a little nervously and said:

"I'm afraid I don't have the ability to do it alone..."

Zhou Ze rubbed his forehead,

Then he paused,

And said:

"Didn't they tell you?"

The old Taoist lowered his head and shoveled rice into his mouth.

No wonder he seemed to feel like he had forgotten something, so this was it.

"Tell me what?" Old Zhang suddenly seemed to remember something and said to Zhou Ze, "I was hit by a car when I went out today, but I didn't die."

"Pfft!"

The old Taoist next to him spat out the rice in his mouth,

While coughing, he joked:

"Try a bulldozer tomorrow."

Zhou Ze picked up a wet wipe from the table and wiped his mouth and said:

"That Xiezhi is now in your body, but it's not a threat anymore. You can slowly try to use and touch its power during this time."

"The Xiezhi is still in my body?"

Old Zhang was very surprised. He thought it had been taken out and destroyed. How could it still be in his body?

"Yeah, anyway, that's the result. There won't be any side effects. You can rest assured. As for finding a helper, to be honest, there aren't many people in the bookstore who can beat you now."

Suddenly,

You achieved great success in your divine skills,

And became an unparalleled martial arts master,

What kind of experience was that?

That was what Old Zhang was feeling right now, but he still felt instinctively unreliable. Wasn't this the boss feeding him chicken soup?

He was clear that Zhou Ze was very averse to these kinds of things. Zhou Ze was a lazy person, with a kind of "I just want to lie here and bask in the sun, who cares about the flood outside" kind of ideological awareness.

"Why don't you accompany me once, Boss? I think this matter is very complicated."

"Let me choose someone..."

"Boss, I'm a ghost messenger. You have to let me familiarize myself with the work, right?"

"Old Zhang, although your body is thirty years old, you're almost fifty years old combined. Do you know what it feels like for you to act cute and coquettish?"

"No, I just feel uneasy thinking about what might go wrong at the temple fair. There are a lot of people at the temple fair, and if something goes wrong, even a stampede would be a very serious event."

This was where Old Zhang's thinking and logic differed from Zhou Ze and the others in the bookstore. As an old criminal police officer, in his mind, various events generally had a risk level, and this kind of group event was the highest level.

It couldn't be said that Old Zhang had a bureaucratic mindset and only thought about maintaining stability. In fact, only these policemen who had been working on the front lines for a long time knew how terrible the consequences would be if something went wrong when people gathered together.

"Alright, you go investigate the old man's identity..."

At this moment,

The old Taoist raised his hand,

And said:

"Boss, there's no need to investigate. I know who that old brother is."

As he said this,

The old Taoist raised his phone,

And continued:

"I just logged into a Tong City lion dance bar. There are very few people in this bar, only a few hundred followers, but now there's a mourning post at the top with a memorial photo. It's the old brother who's in our bookstore right now."

Old Zhang took the phone and opened the post:

"Mourning the passing of Mr. Lü Yaozu, a famous lion dance artist in our city..."

At this moment,

The lion dance old man suddenly silently moved his face to Old Zhang's side,

And looked at the phone screen with him,

Confirming:

"That's right, it's me."

"Hiss..."

Old Zhang's hand trembled slightly.

Having not had much contact with the life of a ghost messenger,

At this time, he really had the feeling of experiencing a thrilling ghost movie.

"We'll go to your house. Has your body been cremated yet?" Old Zhang asked.

It was very strange,

To be asking a ghost a question...

The old man Lü Yaozu didn't answer,

Instead, he continued to lift his hands,

And danced:

"The Lion King is angry, the Lion King is angry, the Lion King is angry..."

The voice was shrill and hoarse,

Like an old-fashioned radio turned up to the maximum,

Piercing the entire night sky.

"He's channeling." Xu Qinglang said while slowly sipping a glass of plum juice in his hand.

When Zhou Ze saw the plum juice, he reached out and snatched the glass directly from Xu Qinglang's hand, took a sip, and felt the familiar coolness, sweetness, and stomach cramps, with a deep sense of nostalgia and aftertaste.

"What is channeling?"

Old Zhang was like a curious baby, earnestly asking for advice, as if he had returned to when he first joined the criminal police team as a rookie.

"It's like, when you've been in a certain industry for a long time, you might resonate with some things in that industry. This old man probably dedicated his whole life to the lion dance tradition, so after his death, he sensed something in the dark.

We see him as if he's going crazy,

But he's just using the way he can now,

To issue a warning to us."

"So, he's channeling the Lion King?"

"I'm not sure about that. Maybe the Lion King is just a title, like a Dharma beast, or like my Sea God, who knows what it is.

It could even be a belief passed down for thousands of years, like..."

Xu Qinglang smiled and didn't continue, like his master.

"By the way, Old Xu, have you discovered anything about that bead?" Zhou Ze asked.

After returning from Sichuan, he would start to solve Xu Qinglang's master's matter. The key was that guy was too active, so he had to solve him before he popped out again.

Xu Qinglang shook his head and said, "Not yet. I'll start preparing tomorrow, but I still have to wait for you to come back before I try to sense it. I'm afraid that if I stimulate him..."

"Oh, right." Zhou Ze nodded. If Old Xu tried to sense his master in the bookstore while they weren't there and really stimulated him, and his master suddenly came back to life, the bookstore might not be able to withstand it without him and the Iron Idiot.

As for Old Zhang... at least, the current Old Zhang wouldn't be able to.

While Zhou Ze and Xu Qinglang were talking,

Old Zhang was following the lion dance old man, constantly asking him something, but the lion dance old man just kept murmuring: "The Lion King is angry, the Lion King is angry."

"Let's send him down, we can't ask anything else, and if he stays in the mortal world any longer, I'm afraid his soul will have problems."

Zhou Ze walked to the old man's side and grabbed the old man's shoulder,

"Go down, we received your warning."

The old man's body suddenly wilted,

But his mouth was wide open,

And said:

"The Lion King is going to be angry, the Lion King is going to be angry, alas, the Lion King should be angry, the Lion King should be angry."

Zhou Ze opened the gate of hell,

This time the old man didn't struggle,

And took the initiative to walk there,

But before one foot stepped in,

The old man suddenly stopped, turned his head, and looked at Zhou Ze very seriously,

And asked in a serious manner:

"After going down, can I still do the lion dance?"

Zhou Ze hesitated for a moment, but still replied:

"If you have a lion in your heart, you can dance anywhere."

The old man's face showed a look of relief,

He raised his head, looked up,

And said with emotion:

"What a load of...bullshit."