I took out the book from the box under the shelf. Sure enough, on another page, there was vague writing and a picture. The picture showed a building with some young people in front of the building.

Playing, with smiles on their faces, they looked very happy.

Li Qiang closed the book and put it away.

He turned back to the front hall and opened the hotel door.

On the southeastern horizon, there was already a clear white fish belly, and the sky was about to light up. Through the hazy morning light, Li Qiang saw a group of people standing in front of Li Qiang's hotel.

They were a group of young men and women, all wearing red and blue overalls. Yes, they were the dead souls of the garment factory.

They died tragically, and their souls were trapped in that building again after death. If Li Qiang hadn't desperately broken the iron chain, opened the building door, and with the help of Mr. Bai, collected the

Their little devils. I'm afraid their souls will be imprisoned in that building for many more years.

They stood in front of Li Qiang's door, motionless. They just stared at Li Qiang, and Li Qiang also looked at them. There was an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Although it has been more than ten years since he left Liujia Town, and Chen Hao has always taken special care of Li Qiang over the years, Li Qiang still occasionally recalls Li Qiang's childhood. Li Qiang always feels that Li Qiang is unfortunate and was forced to leave after encountering a dream demon.

Home, leaving relatives.

But compared to these young people who died unjustly, Li Qiang was many times luckier than them.

Thinking of these, I can't help but sigh.

Just when the sun was about to show its head, a dilapidated bus drove from the west and stopped in front of Li Qiang's restaurant. The driver was a middle-aged driver. He wore black sunglasses and his face was as cold as ice.

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The ghosts lowered their heads and bowed to Li Qiang. Li Qiang was startled. The reason why he was scared was not because of fear of ghosts, but because he felt that Li Qiang could not bear it.

Then, they turned around, got on the bus, started the car, and headed east.

This car didn't make the slightest sound whether it was coming or going. It was like a gust of wind.

Watching the shadow of the car getting further and further away, and finally disappearing from Li Qiang's sight, Li Qiang couldn't help but sigh, it's another injustice and another cause and effect. Ghosts are reincarnated as humans, and people die as ghosts. In this reincarnation, what's the point of life?

Meaning? What’s so scary about death? What’s the difference between life and death?

The fat landlady slept until noon and then slowly woke up. Li Qiang asked her how she felt. She frowned and thought for a while, but said that she had been troubled by nightmares for a while, and last night was the most comfortable sleep she had.

I woke up feeling relaxed and refreshed as never before.

Li Qiang asked her what the previous nightmare was about. She hesitated for a while, shook her head and said she couldn't remember.

Of course she didn't remember, because of her nightmare, she was taken away by Li Qiang, in the kitchen at the back.

She thanked her profusely, took out some money from her pocket, and insisted on keeping it with Li Qiang. Li Qiang did not refuse, and Li Qiang knew that she would feel at ease only if he kept it.

She hailed a taxi in front of the door and went home.

Li Qiang turned around and went back to the house and found that Mr. Bai had woken up and was sitting at a table, stretching.

"Look, doesn't it feel good?"

"Ah? What did you say?"

Li Qiang was confused when asked.

"Li Qiang is saying that you helped people get rid of nightmares, helped ghosts redress their grievances, and Fatty Qin got the end he deserved. Isn't that great?"

Li Qiang nodded,

"It feels good? I don't feel that much. I just feel that if I weren't involved in this matter by chance, I don't know when the grievances of these evil spirits will be redressed. I don't know when the people involved will be able to feel at ease."

Mr. Bai smiled,

"A coincidence? Do you think this is all a coincidence?"

"Ah? Did someone deliberately involve Li Qiang in this?"

Li Qiang asked in confusion, Mr. Bai smiled and said nothing.

Mr. Bai shamelessly stayed with Li Qiang for three days. He ate and drank Li Qiang's food every day, and was picky about Li Qiang's dishes. He either disliked the lack of oil or water in the dishes or didn't like that there wasn't enough meat.

It is strange to say that during the few days he was here, no matter day or night, not a single customer came to visit, and he ate all the dishes in the kitchen by himself.

Li Qiang was always thinking about Liang Yu and had no intention of arguing with him, so he asked him if he had any good ideas. What he could tell Li Qiang was to ask Li Qiang to find the woman named Qinglian, saying that she was the only one.

Only then can he teach Li Qiang how to control his dreams.

Li Qiang felt that that woman was too evil, and the scary method that Fatty Qin used to raise the brat must have been taught by her. So in Li Qiang's mind, she was evil. How could Li Qiang worship an evil person as his teacher?

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But Mr. Bai disagreed. He said that Qinglian was once his lover. They had been together for many years and he knew her well. It was just that she suffered some injustices back then, so her personality was a bit extreme and her temper was somewhat violent.

In fact, she is kind at heart.

What's more, the evil spirits in Hongfei Hotel are different from usual ones. When they died, they came into contact with the Yin Qi hidden deep underground, so their souls can wander around the Yin and Yang realms, facing the evil spirits of the underworld.

no way.

Therefore, extreme methods must be used to deal with them. Qinglian is the only person who can teach Li Qiang to control dreams.

Dreams are not the real world. You can achieve things in dreams that are unimaginable in the real world. Therefore, only by being able to control dreams can you be invincible. When the time comes, dealing with those evil spirits will be easy.

Li Qiang still hesitated, but when he thought about it carefully, Liang Yu was still trapped in 307 of that hotel. Li Qiang didn't know how long the spell that sealed the door could last, so he was worried every day.

Li Qiang hesitated for a while, and finally nodded in agreement. He secretly thought about a passage written in a book written by Li Qiang's master Chen Hao:

"Heaven is going to entrust this person with a great responsibility, but his mind and will must first be tortured, his muscles and bones must be starved, his body and skin must be taxed, and his actions must be disturbed..."

Perhaps you have to learn advanced skills, and you have to endure some things that you cannot accept in principle.

So Li Qiang asked Mr. Bai:

"That lover of yours, where should Li Qiang go to find her?"

He spread his hands, curled his lips and said:

"I don't know about Li Qiang. When he was in front of the clothing factory, Li Qiang ruined his good deeds. She will definitely be angry with Li Qiang. She can't tell where she will go when she is angry..."

Li Qiang was very angry in his heart. He kept talking so lively and repeatedly urged Li Qiang to join Qinglian's disciples. But now he didn't know where he was. Of course, Li Qiang had no place to look for him. So what he just said was wrong.

It's not all nonsense.

Li Qiang was about to question him, but he frowned, pondered for a while, seemed to have remembered something, and then said to Li Qiang:

"Go northwest from Chaoyang Temple Hotel, about seventeen or eighty miles away. There is Sanhe Village there. Across the north mountain of the village, there is a ravine. He used to live in the ravine, so why not go there and look for it?

look."

This is still like a human saying, Li Qiang nodded in agreement. Since it has

Once the matter was decided, there was no need to delay any longer, so Li Qiang planned to set off immediately and follow the route Mr. Bai pointed out to Li Qiang to find Qinglian in the ravine.

Anyway, Mr. Bai said, if everything goes well, it will only take ten or eight days to learn this skill at best.

Li Qiang originally planned to ask him to write a letter to Li Qiang as a recommendation. He and Qinglian only met once that day, and Li Qiang felt that she was an evil person and must be moody. It would be difficult to get close to her without an acquaintance as a guarantor.

he.

But Mr. Bai kept waving his hands and refusing. He said that there is a word called deep love and deep hatred. When Qinglian pursued him for nothing, he did not agree, so Qinglian must have a grudge in her heart. If this letter

If you write it, it may make him angry immediately, but it is better to just go by yourself to avoid a lot of hatred.

Although Li Qiang is full of reluctance, it seems that this is the only way at present. Li Qiang cannot abandon Liang Yuzhi.

What's more, Li Qiang feels that if, as Mr. Bai said, he really has the ability to control dreams, it will definitely be particularly helpful to Li Qiang's collection of 7749 nightmares in the future.

Before leaving, Chen Hao once said to Li Qiang that after more than ten years, the Dream Demon has not given up on chasing Li Qiang and others, so it is not a bad thing to improve his abilities.

In fact, Li Qiang planned to set off right away, follow the direction directed by Mr. Bai, cross the mountain from Sanhe Village, and go to the ravine to find Qinglian.

But Mr. Bai refused to leave and said with a smile that he would stay in the hotel.

Li Qiang looked him up and down and said, you don't know how to cook and can't entertain customers, so what's the use of staying here?

He shamelessly said that he had nowhere to go, so he stayed here to help Li Qiang look after his house. He just closed the door of the shop and slept inside every day.

Think about it, after all, there are still those bottles and jars in the kitchen at the back, especially those collected nightmares, and the big jar of Suspicious Soul Soup. So there should always be someone in the store, otherwise, wait until Li Qiang comes back.

After that, I'm afraid this place will become a paradise for rats.

So Li Qiang handed him the key, turned around and was about to leave, but he grabbed Li Qiang's arm and said,

"The food in the kitchen at the back is all gone, I have to buy some, but Li Qiang is drinking from the northwest these days..."

I have never seen such a shameless person, living in Li Qiang's shop for nothing

, and asked Li Qiang to prepare food and drink for him.

There was nothing we could do about him, so we had to ask him to get on a tricycle and take Li Qiang to Sanhe Village, while buying some vegetables on the way.

It was an afternoon when Li Qiang and the two set out. It was somewhat cloudy but also cool.
Chapter completed!