Manual of the Monster in City

21

    "This is……"

    Jia Qingming swallowed.

    Although he was fully prepared before opening the box, after unpacking the tightly packed layers, the moment he saw the price in it, the corners of his eyes twitched.

    "You mean... a living thing?"

    The big white foam box is full of crushed ice, and some biological ice bags are kept at low temperatures in it to prevent the crushed ice from melting. In this sandy beach-like ice pile, there are buried blue-shelled hairy crabs.

    "Of course. Now they just fall asleep because of the low temperature. They will definitely be alive when they warm up a little bit! Anyway, the customer service told me that, if there is death, remember to tell me, then... I will give a bad review. Oh!"

    "I didn't get to my point at all! I didn't ask you about the life and death of hairy crabs!"

    "I beg you." Bai Ling waved at him, shaking his hand as the shopkeeper, and snickered while covering his mouth. But he didn't leave, he just leaned against the kitchen door and watched Jia Qingming handle these fresh hairy crabs.

    Jia Qingming sighed.

    He knew that once Miss Bai Ling got into the mystery, there was usually nothing serious about it.

    He fished out a dozen hairy crabs from the ice pile and put them in the clear water. These hairy crabs were all tied up by the big five flowers. There was no life or death. Jia Qingming first used a small brush to scrub the crab shells, but they looked very clean. In this way, each one is treated, and almost all of them are relieved in cold water.

    Jia Qingming poked the crab's eyes lightly and saw the reaction of the crab's eyes shrinking, and said to Miss Bai Ling: "Don't worry, it's alive."

    "Ah, that's great. Both Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai have been looking forward to it for a long time."

    "Why do you suddenly think of buying this kind of thing?" Jia Qingming processed the crabs while heating the steamer with water. Taking advantage of this time, chatting with Miss Bai Ling is also excellent.

    From this level, Jia Qingming thinks that Miss Bai Ling is still a good person. At least there is no such thing as a cat and a dog in the room waiting for dinner or something! (Xiao Bai said that I am innocent!)

    "What is this kind of thing! This creature called the Chinese mitten crab is the most delicious at this time. Mr. Qingming really knows very little about traditional culture." Bai Ling said, leaning on the side, "Traditional culture. But there is a saying that there are nine females and ten males. That is to say, in September, you will eat the crab roe from female crabs, and in October, you will eat the crab paste from male crabs. Although it is a bit early, Xiao Hei and the others can’t wait."

    The water in the steamer boiled, Jia Qingming probably processed the crabs here, so they placed them on top. "Oh... this way. So, did Miss Bai Ling buy male crabs this time?"

    "It's a female crab."

    "Hey? Isn't it October now? Did I have a holiday on the eleventh holiday?" Jia Qingming said, starting to doubt in his heart. "No wonder I think it's over so soon."

    "Ah, that's true. Mr. Qingming really doesn't know anything about traditional culture. The month mentioned in the nine-and-a-half month refers to the lunar calendar."

    "Okay." Jia Qingming put the hairy crabs tied up by the big five flowers on the steamer, and the blue-shelled crabs face up to the sky.

    "Why does Mr. Qingming want to put it like this?"

    "In this way, the crab oil and juice will not run off when steaming." In the area that he knows better, Jia Qingming feels that he has finally made a comeback.

    "But it doesn't look good at all, and it's very indecent."

    "Hey, I'm going to die, I still care about the indecent question!" Jia Qingming regained his image as a science emperor after complaining. "Anyway, if Miss Bai Ling does it by herself in the future, she can also try this way. Look at the steamed crab with the navel facing up, it will taste better."

    "No. I never cook." Miss Bai Ling raised her Hanfu sleeve to cover her mouth, with a cold face.

    "Why?"

    "The gentleman is far from cooking." Bai Ling said lightly, with cold air on his face.

    "The gentleman mentioned by the ancients does not include girls, right?" Jia Qingming complained about black lines on his face.

    "The times are different. Xiao Hei! I'm ready to eat~~ Eat to eat."

    ————

    "Right, Miss Bai Ling."

    "Huh?" Bai Ling, who was dismembering the crab with a knife and fork, took out the crabmeat and crab yellow and raised his head to look at him. The movements of his hands did not stop at all, as if a skilled surgeon was performing an operation.

    The one you eat is called a gentleman.

    Qingming, who was anxious about the ancient prose, still thought of a word called "Paoding Jie Niu".

    Looking at Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai, they directly abandoned the tableware and grabbed them with their hands, but Jia Qingming felt that the way they eat was the way normal people chose to eat.

    The room was filled with the sound of sucking the cavity inside the crab shell, with a damp feeling of full juice.

    "Shenting County Middle School, is there really any spiritual legend?"

    "Yes." Bai Ling put a piece of white crab meat into his mouth. "Or, which school...no, where there is no spiritual legend. As long as there are people, there will be strong thoughts, and there will be spirits. But the demons and the like are all wandering in the world, and they can't be met. Oh."

    Who would want to beg a demon or something?!

    "What I asked is the real one." Jia Qingming asked, "Yes, it really exists. A supernatural thing."

    "Perhaps. After all, school is a chaotic place. Although the order is in order, the more it is in such a place, people can't help thinking in their hearts if something weird happens. For example, in a horror movie. The kind of killing game that you will be killed if you fail to do the exam questions."

    "Is there really that kind of ghost that kills the scumbag?" Jia Qingming complained about a black line on his face.

    "In fact, it’s the same everywhere. As long as there are people when people’s hearts and voices converge and resonate strongly, something like spirits will be formed. It will gather what they need and attract them, so ghost houses are in the city. Under the hype of the legend, it will probably become eerier and eerier."

    Bai Ling smiled faintly and poured some red vinegar in a small dish to serve. The snow-white crab meat was dipped in the vinegar and stained with a dark red wine:

    "From this point of view, the Stealing Heaven Pavilion also exists in this way-charging the price, fulfilling the wish, and gaining or losing, in fact, in the law of balance of the law of heaven, it only demolishes the east wall to supplement the western wall. What you really get in this kind of transaction is that... the spirit that is born out of desperate desire."

    "So this is ah."

    It sounds harmless to humans and animals, and it doesn't look like a profiteer at all.

    "Ah. Hadn't Haruaki just started ordinary campus life. Why did you start to inquire about spiritual things again?"

    So Jia Qingming told Bai Ling that bad idea that Xiao Shanshan had told him in the afternoon-to organize a Shenting High School Monster Incident Investigation Agency.

    "Isn't that great?" Bai Ling asked.

    "Yes, yeah, kid, this club is very suitable for you. Or that you are the necessary treasure of every supernatural phenomenon detection club!" Xiao Hei also interrupted.

    "Ahhh, school life is really good. I really want to have fun." Xiaobai said, pulling off a crab claw.

    Why are you all so skilled?

    "But I don't want..."

    "I don't want to be related to supernatural events and these unscientific things?" Bai Ling said, sighing, "Is Mr. Qingming a child? Only children always think about avoiding responsibility. Mr. Qingming As a manager, you must never be lazy."

    Xingxun's appearance is almost like a guardian who speaks hard.

    Seeing that Qingming didn’t continue to say anything, Bai Ling continued: “Shen Ting High School’s words are indeed very possible. From the perspective of geomancy, being on the yin veins of the earth is easy to breed yin and negative. Idea. In addition, the school created an artificial lake. The water is a feminine thing, and it is the living water drawn from the underground river, which serves as the source of the artificial lake. The water from the underground river...but the most yin thing..." said this When speaking, Bai Ling's voice was very soft as if telling a secret, but instead made the atmosphere mysterious.

    There seems to be something terrible.

    "...Of course, this kind of influence actually varies from person to person, and it can also be said to be a useless superstition to study this kind of thing." She changed her conversation.

    "So I didn't say it at all!"

    "Otherwise, is the underground river an underwater playground where ghosts gather?" Bai Ling's rhetorical question made Qingming speechless.

    However, Bai Ling's face suddenly approached him.

    Her face was very close to him, and he could clearly see Bai Ling's eyes, like an ancient well without a bottom, perhaps because of some weird illusion, Jia Qingming felt that her black pupils In the depths, there is a faint purple light showing.

"But... please be careful recently. If Haruaki is there, maybe something... terrible will appear."