Midnight Bookstore

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

A great disaster disappeared without a trace. Although there were many waves, even the origins of the two shadows had not yet been investigated clearly. Except it had been dealt with in the end. Everyone in the bookstore heaved a long sigh of relief, although the atmosphere in the bookstore had changed after Lawyer An"s arrival.

Everyone worked much harder than before. Except for the biggest one, who still basked in the sun every day. The overall atmosphere in the bookstore… the theme of being a monk for a day and striking the bell once a day did not change in essence. If a wave came, everyone held on and dodged it. They continued to happily carry the broken wooden board and drift.

Unlike the relaxed atmosphere around them, Old Zhang had a feeling of being “messed up in the wind” at the moment.

“Zhu Shengnan… was dead?”

“The ma.s.sacre of her family… even the only girl who survived was dead?”

How could they continue investigating this case? Moreover, the girl was sent to the pharmacy.

“How about this, don"t report her death. First, report her as missing. Say that the child might have suffered some mental problems and escaped from the pharmacy.”

Lawyer An gave Old Zhang some advice, in short… This matter could not be related to the bookstore. At most, it had to be stopped at the pharmacy. Old Zhang nodded. This was the only way to handle it now. Any case involving supernatural incidents had to be muddled up. Old Zhang had to try to fool them.

Moreover, he also knew what had happened. His boss and the people in the bookstore had all worked hard to protect the lives and property of the people of Tongcheng. He could only admit that he had done this little bit of cleanup.

“Now, the direction of the investigation is that Zhu Shengnan"s father committed suicide after killing someone. I guess it should go down this line.” Old Zhang sat down and sighed.

“That"s right. Let"s just be the heroes behind the scenes. We don"t need awards or big red flowers. After all, we are all people who have deviated from the low level of interest.”

Lawyer An handed the “Super Super Cup” of coffee in front of him to Old Zhang. Old Zhang picked it up and took a sip. He almost spat it out, but he still swallowed it with difficulty. The taste of this coffee… wasn"t right.

“Oh right, there"s something else I want to tell you.” Old Zhang thought carefully, but he still had a headache.

“Except now that I"m troubled by Zhu Shengnan"s matter, I"ve forgotten about it.”

“Is it a big matter?” Zhou Ze asked.

“I perceive it to be a small matter.”

“Then it"s not a big deal.” Lawyer An stretched lazily.

“Then everyone can just wash up and go to sleep.”

“Okay, I"ll go back to the station first. I still have to keep an eye on the case.”

“Go on, go on.” Lawyer An sent Old Zhang out of the door.

Then, he stood outside and waved at Zhou Ze. Indicating that he had gone to investigate the matter of the two shadows. Zhou Ze nodded at him, indicating that he understood.

“Boss, do you want to take a shower?” Bai Yingying looked at Zhou Ze.

Zhou Ze nodded and walked into the bathroom. He had just taken off his clothes and turned on the sprinkler when the bathroom door was pushed open. Bai Yingying walked in with Zhou Ze"s clean clothes and put them on the railing. Then, she picked up the clothes that Zhou Ze had just taken off and prepared to take them out for a shower.

Zhou Ze continued to shower, Bai Yingying"s arrival did not affect him in the slightest. In the past, it was always Yingying who helped him take a shower when it was inconvenient for him to do it himself. Now, there was no need to be shy.

“Ah, boss… your clothes are torn here.” Bai Yingying pointed at the shirt and said.

“Oh, it got torn during a fight.”

Zhou Ze"s clothes were all bought by Bai Yingying. Usually, he did not worry about clothes. Anyway, his clothes would be prepared when he changed seasons. He was also satisfied with the size and style. Xu Qinglang was very dissatisfied with this.

As a man with more than 20 rooms, he found that he only wore a few hundred clothes and shoes. In the end, the guy who opened an unprofitable bookstore spent all his time in the sun. The clothes on his body were no less than $5,000. Why? Zhou Ze did not know about this. He did not know that Bai Yingying had always bought such expensive clothing for him.

In his previous life, Zhou Ze had never worn any branded clothing. He did not know about these luxury clothing brands. Anyway, he just took it from Yingying and wore it.

“Mend it.” Zhou Ze took a look at the clothes.

“It"s a small hole, is it okay?”

“No, Yingying will buy a new one for the boss!” Yingying insisted.

“It"s okay. You know how to sew, right?”

“It"s not about whether I know how to sew or not. If a man wears mended clothes when he goes out, what will people think of our house?”

“Okay, okay. You can do whatever you want.”

Zhou Ze did not argue anymore and started to apply body wash to himself. Bai Yingying walked over and skillfully rubbed Zhou Ze"s back. Zhou Ze turned off the shower, afraid that it would wet her clothes. Her delicate little hands kept moving back and forth on his back, this feeling… was very comfortable.

“Alright, I"ll take a shower by myself.”

“Then I"ll go out.”

After taking a shower… his previous fatigue seemed to have been swept away. Zhou Ze saw Little Loli still sitting at the counter, turning on the table lamp and doing her homework.

“You work so hard?”

Little Loli nodded.

“If you work hard enough, you might be able to get into a better university in this life.”

Little Loli held a pen and eraser and glanced at Zhou Ze without curiosity,

“Why don"t we take a look at the schools we went to in our previous lives and compare which one"s ranking is higher?

“I stole state a.s.sets back then. If I didn"t have a good university degree, how could I have been promoted so quickly?

“My position isn"t high, so why would I steal state a.s.sets? Have you ever heard of a worker selling state a.s.sets?”

“Fine, if you don"t get into Tsinghua University in this lifetime… I"ll break your legs.”

Little Loli gave Zhou Ze a middle finger.

“Oh right… Boss, I"m starting school tomorrow. I"ll be staying at home for a while.”

“Okay, you should let her out to accompany w.a.n.g Ke.”

Little Loli flicked her hair and said disdainfully,

“Maybe he misses me?”

Zhou Ze straightened his body and said to Little Loli sternly,

“You, don"t mess around.”

Little Loli gave Zhou Ze the middle finger again. After going up the stairs, Zhou Ze pushed open the bedroom door and saw that Bai Yingying was making the bed sheets. Because of his mysophobia, the bed sheets were changed almost every day. Including the pillowcases and other things. Zhou Ze subconsciously smiled whilst standing at the door as he looked at Bai Yingying, who was making the bed sheets.

“Boss, Yingying recently took a fancy to another apartment. The manager of the agency said that he could help negotiate the price. He said that the person who sold it was afraid that the property tax would reduce the price and was in a hurry to sell it.”

“It"s up to you.”

It was not convenient for Zhou Ze to say anything more about this, he was so shameless.

“Yeah, Yingying is also going to take a look. Maybe the house price can be lowered.”

“The sun is so big. It"s a little hot.”

“Boss, it"s night now. The sun can"t be out right now.”

“Yeah, you know it"s impossible.”

Zhou Ze laid down on the bed whilst Bai Yingying took off her coat and laid down in her pajamas next to him. She carefully covered Zhou Ze with the quilt and tucked the corner of the quilt.

“Yingying, do you still have money?” Zhou Ze asked.

“Boss, do you need money?”

“No, I"m worried that you don"t have any money.”

According to Yingying"s pace of buying a house… the funerary objects should have been p.a.w.ned long ago, right? She even went to sell a jade bracelet the day before yesterday and was going to help the boss change vehicles.

“Let"s get the Porsche Cayenne, okay?”

“No need, no need.”

“Boss, don"t be polite with Yingying. Maybe let"s buy another good one. It"s more expensive than Lawyer An"s.”

“No need, it"s the same as traveling in their car if you have something to do.”

“Except Yingying doesn"t want to see boss borrow the car keys every time. Yingying always feels that boss has been wronged.”

“No, there"s no need to buy a car. You know, I often get into accidents when I"m driving.”

“Huh? It doesn"t matter. You can fix it if you touch it. If you really can"t, you can change to another car.”

“The problem is that it hurts to touch your car.”

“Huh?”

“If it"s someone else"s car. It doesn"t hurt to touch it.”

Yingying nodded thoughtfully and exclaimed, “Boss, what you said makes a lot of sense. Is that the case, or is boss thinking ahead?”

“I didn"t think so much.”

“Also, don"t sell your funerary goods anymore. No matter how many houses there are, we only live in one. Those funerary goods are things that have accompanied you for 200 years. You should at least keep a few of them as a memento.”

“Boss, you"re so nice.”

Zhou Ze smiled.

“Don"t worry, boss. I still have a lot of funerary goods.”

“A lot of funerary objects? That"s impossible.”

He had borrowed money to open his bookstore, and he was constantly buying houses. How much could she have left?

“Don"t worry.”

“Are you lying to me?”

“I won"t lie to you.”

“I don"t believe it. There are still a lot of underworld banknotes under the counter. Next time you need to spend money, you should burn more underworld banknotes.”

“No need, no need. Yingying already has a lot of underworld banknotes. There are endless ones.”

“The Ming banknotes are all the hard-earned money that you earned from your hard work. When you need them, you can burn them to offset the misfortune. How can Yingying be embarra.s.sed to spend them?”

“You"re welcome. The Ming banknotes should have acc.u.mulated quite a lot by now. We can be considered rich people.”

“It"s okay, boss. I have a lot of them.”

“Then where did you put them?” Zhou Ze asked.

“There"s no place to hide them at home. I guess there won"t be many of them left with you. Otherwise, you won"t be able to hide them.”

As Yingying heard this, she got off the bed. She stood by the bed and looked at Zhou Ze.

“What"s Wrong?” Zhou Ze asked.

“Boss, didn"t you want to know how many funerary objects Yingying has left?”

“Huh?”

“Boss, get off the bed first.”

“Where are you taking me to see them?” said Zhou Ze as he got off the bed.

Yingying walked forward and pulled out the mattress. Zhou Ze"s eyes immediately widened as under the original mattress, that was the bottom of the big bed was filled with Jade Ruyi, Jade Cabbage, Buddhist Beads, calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver jewelry.

It was filled to the brim as there wasn"t any room for more. It was so bright that it blinded Zhou Ze"s eyes, it even made Boss Zhou have difficulty breathing. Did Madam Bai rob the National Treasury in her previous life, did she leave behind so much inheritance?

“Boss, even if you were hugging her in the beginning, the quality of your sleep wasn"t very good. It was very easy for you to be woken up.”

“Ever since she placed the funerary objects under the bed… boss, you sleep much more soundly. Yingying is smart, right?”

“…” Zhou Ze.