I open a restaurant in Mysterious Recovery

Chapter 551: The Price of Memory, a Secret Enough to Silence Someone
"Maintaining a good relationship with the store manager is very important and is the foundation for now. Unfortunately, the plan to capture the store manager has basically been scrapped. If we can pull the store manager to the headquarters' camp, everything will become much simpler."

Cao Yanhua sighed, and seeing that Cao Yang was a little absent-minded, he couldn't help but laugh and scold: "We haven't even finished talking about the matter yet, and you're already distracted?"

Cao Yang was helpless. "I'm just thinking about something. If I'm not mistaken, Xiong Wenwen will come to trouble me soon, right? If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."

Last night, Xiong Wenwen was originally planning to go to the Peace Hotel to participate in a virtual game, but after drinking a glass of wine, she got drunk.

Then Cao Yang sent him back.

When the child wakes up, his sticky personality will give Cao Yang a headache.

"Don't worry, there is one more thing. Since there are guests born in the Gengshen year entering the Peace Hotel, it means that we can learn a lot of information from them. This is good news. We can prepare in advance for how to better deal with supernatural events in the future, as well as some hidden people and things. I have arranged someone to do this, but you must also seize the opportunity, understand?" Cao Yanhua said seriously.

Cao Yang nodded, then smiled evilly, "Uncle, if you give me special treatment like this, aren't you afraid that others will know and misunderstand you?"

Cao Yanhua's expression remained unchanged. "You have sealed off the surroundings with the ghost domain, are you still afraid of being heard? Do you really think I am an ordinary person who knows nothing?"

The ghost wind that Cao Yang bought from the "store manager" also had the smell of a corpse. In other words, the ghost that he bought from the "store manager" and originally belonged to Fang Shiming had the smell of a corpse, and when the wind blew, it was everywhere.

There was nothing wrong with Cao Yanhua's nose, so there was no way he couldn't smell anything, nor could he not feel the wind around him - although this was not an enclosed space, it was not a place where strong winds could blow.

Cao Yang smiled awkwardly, "Hey, hey! Well, I'll leave first."

Cao Yang left directly through the ghost realm, and not long after he left, Xiong Wenwen rushed over angrily: "Where is Xiao Cao's grandson? Tell him to come out. I'm going to make him pay! Hey, Lao Cao, you're here too?"

The veins on Cao Yanhua's forehead were throbbing.

Xiao Cao’s grandson?
If Cao Yang has become a grandson, then what should I do as Cao Yang's uncle?
For a moment, Cao Yanhua's eyes turned dangerous when he looked at Xiong Wenwen, and Xiong Wenwen noticed this instantly and immediately lost her previous arrogance.

He was obviously a ghost rider, but when faced with the gaze of an ordinary person like Cao Yanhua, he was actually scared and retreated, and even turned around and ran away: "I'm going to find Xiao Cao's grandson...that guy. Goodbye, Minister!!!"

"This boy!"

……

It was Wei Jing who escorted Li Jun, Ah Hong and Lu Zhiwen to the Peace Hotel.

He called Guo Fan to the headquarters and transported the three people over by ghost taxi, and the price was three yuan for their lives.

"thank you boss."

Guo Fan was filled with joy. Ever since the last time Yang Xiao took his car, he had not been a taxi driver since then. Now he didn't even dare to speak loudly in front of other people in the shop.

Who made him the only employee who did not create any benefits for the store?

For the "store manager" who attaches great importance to the development of Peace Hotel, employees who cannot create benefits are no different from waste that wastes food.

Guo Fan's position mainly involves driving when the "store manager" needs him, but he also needs to pick up and drop off customers to earn fees on other days.

But after such a long time, he has only earned six dollars so far, which is very embarrassing.

Guo Fan has always been worried that he would lose his job because of this, so he attaches great importance to every opportunity to drive out. He will not charge less or even no money just because everyone is a colleague from the headquarters!

Fortunately, Wei Jing didn’t plan for this.

With nine ghost suppression quotas, and with supernatural phenomena occurring more and more frequently across the country, it is not difficult for Wei Jing to imprison some evil ghosts.

"Old Wei, please take care of our business more often when you have the chance." Guo Fan greeted the guests warmly. He also admired Wei Jing's ability to "make money".

At the same time, I also feel a little envious and jealous.

If he had Wei Jing's ability, he wouldn't have to drive so hard and wait for no customers for a month or two.

At that time, he would drive the ghost taxi around every day. When he came back, he would take the ghost to exchange for money, and then go to the "store manager" and tell him that this was today's harvest.

By then, wouldn't his status in the Peace Hotel continue to rise steadily?

Virtual games, meals, drinks, they are all trivial matters. Only the approval of the "store manager", only his approval, and only the position in the Peace Hotel are the most fundamental principles!
These people at the headquarters are so stupid that they are missing the point!
"Don't just stand there and watch. Help me move the people into the store." Wei Jing suddenly said.

Guo Fan's eyes widened, his heart full of resistance, "The money you gave is the fare for the ride. It's already very good that I didn't charge you three yuan per person. You still want me to..."

There was a ghost at the door of the hotel, and the ghost looked at him with a strange look, as if he was ready to betray him at any time.

note.

This is not about the ghost being open-hearted to Guo Fan, but about him being open-hearted to Guo Fan!
He was 100% sure that if it weren't for the restrictions of the Peace Hotel, if it weren't for the suppression of the "store manager", he would have been torn out of his heart and liver by the ghost messenger long ago. How could he still be alive today?

It’s okay now, at least during working hours, the ghost catcher cannot attack him. And when it’s time to get off work, the ghost catcher will have a date with Fang Shiming, so he doesn’t have to worry anymore.

But this doesn't mean that he is willing to hang around in front of the ghost catcher whenever he has nothing to do.

What if, what if?
He only has one life, and even if he has the White Mist Seed, he won't really die, but wouldn't it be more painful to be in the half-dead state that Fang Shiming was in this morning?

Anyway, he would rather die than take this order!
but……

It’s okay if you can’t kill him.

Looking at Wei Jing's dead eyes, Guo Fan suddenly thought of his parents, relatives and friends. Finally, he sighed and whispered, "I'll help you. Don't look at me like that."

In fact, he also knew that the headquarters would never use his relatives to threaten him, but just like his attitude towards the ghost messenger, he didn't dare to take the risk.

Compared with the nature of ghosts, he dare not gamble on human nature!
Before he gets the complete approval of the "store manager", or even his approval, it is absolutely impossible for him to completely break away from the headquarters, or even turn against the headquarters.

Wei Jing didn't say anything, he just carried Li Jun and Ah Hong up and stepped onto the bluestone path.

Guo Fan just carried Lu Zhiwen on his back and followed Wei Jing silently, and soon passed the commemorative coin exchange office, Ghost Lake Fish Pond and the billboard.

On the side of the road, the ghost peddler of the Gengshen Year was still squatting there, with the posture of a peddler traveling from village to town. The lids of the two cargo boxes under his shoulder pole were opened, but when he looked up, he could see nothing but darkness, as if there was a piece of black cloth on top, just covering the cargo boxes.

And if you watch it too much, it makes you feel dizzy.

Guo Fan quickly withdrew his gaze, horrified, and dared not look any longer. Then he felt a gaze ranging from "hot" to cold looking towards him.

As soon as he raised his head, he met the eyes of the ghost catcher Lao Fan. His heart skipped a beat and he almost missed a beat.

"Damn it, why is this thing targeting me? Are you so short of a place to be in? When I get promoted, I'll make sure you're in trouble!"

Guo Fan cursed in his heart, also to reduce the anxiety and fear in his heart.

Fortunately, it was working hours now, and the ghost catcher Lao Fan had to do his job as a doorman and could not leave his post without work requirements, so Guo Fan carried Lu Zhiwen and walked into the door smoothly.

"Huh? What's going on? What happened to Lao Lu, Lao Li, Xiao Hong and others? It can't be the same as Xiao Fang and Xiao Yang, right?" Lin Yuan was at the cashier counter, communicating with Wang Chaling and others. Suddenly, he saw what Wei Jing and Guo Fan did, and was shocked... and happy.

Well, it was quite a surprise.

This is all money!

"Boss, you can hardly suppress the smile on your face." Liu Qingqing rolled her eyes secretly and hurried forward to help. Of course, she didn't pick them up, but guided them to the room.

As for the matter with Wang Chaling, we naturally have to wait and see.

Patients first!

Lin Yuan also said to Wang Chaling: "This is the situation. The time machine is not perfect yet. They can't take away the memories and experiences here. Although you can, in order to prevent the impact of excessive abuse of these memories, you need to spend money to buy protection. Divided by year, each year's memory will cost at least ten yuan before you can take it out of the hotel. Otherwise, you can only know that your parents have been here, but you don't know what your parents have experienced in the past. You can think about it carefully. After all, this is much cheaper than reading a diary."

After saying this, Lin Yuan went upstairs first.

"It seems that everything here is based on 'money'. Next time we come in, we can try to bring some money, or a ghost in."

Wang Lu thought to himself that maybe he should go to Taiping Town when he has time.

I don't know if the ghost bank there is still there, if it is, I can go there to exchange some ghost money, at least it is much cheaper than exchanging three yuan for a ghost in the Peace Hotel. Of course.

The effect of ghost money is slightly worse than the life-saving money of the Peace Hotel, that is, the commemorative coins, but to the "store manager", their value is the same.

“This has its pros and cons.”

Wang Chaling did not agree immediately, but lowered his head to analyze the situation.

They talked a lot in room 215 today, especially about everything that Wang Lu and his wife had experienced, which shocked Wang Cha Ling greatly.

At the same time, he had some hesitation about resisting the Wang family's blood curse.

Perhaps, this is not a curse, but a heritage!

But when they were leaving, the "store manager" stopped them and told them the information just now: if they want to bring the memories of Wang Lu and his wife into reality, they must pay!
If it weren't for these memories, after returning to reality, Wang Chaling would definitely stick to his previous choice and keep looking for opportunities to lift his own blood curse.

Judging from the current situation, it seems that only the Peace Hotel has the ability to lift this blood curse for the time being.

As long as Wang Cha Ling arrived at the Peace Hotel, he would automatically recover all his memories of the past that the Wang Lu couple had told him, and would temporarily give up this idea.

But what if?
What if Wang Chaling also found the right method in real life and succeeded?
Wang Chaling didn't dare to gamble, and neither did Wang Lu and his wife. At least the hard work of three generations couldn't be ruined by a "prodigal son".

"Every entry in the diary is very important, and contains important people and events. The timeline involved is not limited to one year, and may even span several years or even more than ten years. If you just spend money to buy memories year by year, there will still be important information, but the situation is within this year and cannot be extended forward or backward. There are also many daily memories in it. Daily memories are not very useful, but..."

Having said that, Wang Chaling stopped and looked at his parents.

Wang Lu said: "You are right. Daily memories are indeed not very useful. These two methods have their own advantages, but there is no need to entangle them. At least when we are in this hotel, we have complete memories and can choose how to buy memories and what to buy. And the most important point is that you can bring back the memories that happened in the Peace Hotel."

At the end, Wang Lu's tone became somewhat dangerous, and Wang Cha Ling felt a chill on his back. He subconsciously took a step back, swallowed his saliva and said, "Dad, what do you want to do?"

"I just don't want to waste time."

Wang Lu glanced at his wife, and after getting her consent, he turned around and went upstairs together.

Before Wang Cha Ling could breathe a sigh of relief, the ghost of the Wang family came over, picked him up, and followed Wang Lu and his wife upstairs.

"The Wang family's family tradition is really good." Yang Xiaotian, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said this.

Yang Jian: “???”

Seeing his son's vigilant eyes, Yang Xiaotian laughed heartily, then patted Yang Jian on the shoulder and said casually: "I am not married yet, and I have not given birth to a child, but I can see a son who is not much younger than me. To be honest, my heart is a little complicated, but this is the fact anyway. In the future, I owe you and your son a lot, but I have also made some arrangements. It's a pity that some arrangements seem to be useless."

Just by listening to Yang Jian talk about his experiences over the years, especially the newspaper ghost he encountered after becoming a ghost rider, and the ghost dream puzzle he found in the fish pond in his hometown, he knew what his future self had done.

These things originally belonged to him and were part of his supernatural puzzle.

Ghost dream can drag people into a nightmare. Even if the nightmare cannot kill the target, the ghost newspaper can be used to take off the target's face while the target is trapped in a nightmare and unable to resist.

Whether it is not putting the face back or changing the other person's memory, it is a good choice.

Later, his health deteriorated and he was faced with death. He had to dismember himself and tried to pass everything on to his son.

Facts have also proved that his son is very outstanding, no worse than himself, and even has a tendency to surpass his father.

As a father, he was very happy, but the things he left behind, especially the newspaper ghost and the ghost newspaper, were actually taken away by the "manager" of the Peace Hotel, which made him feel helpless.

Obviously, the damn newspaper will not be returned.

"I'm living a good life now, and mom is living a good life too, so you don't have to blame yourself so much. But you, you can't bring your memories back, and you can't change anything that happens to you in the future, and you will die at a designated time. But here you have all your memories, which is like waiting to die. It's very painful, right?" Yang Jian had a stern face, but his words were full of concern.

Unlike when he faced Yang Xiao, that was just the ghost body left by his father in the Ghost Post Office, not his real father.

But the person in front of him actually came out of the past and was his real father... Of course, this father had not given birth to him yet in his own timeline.

Facing Yang Xiaotian, he felt very complicated and could only deliberately put on a stern face to hide his panic.

After all, he is just a senior high school student under 20 years old.

"You're right, so I've decided that I won't come here unless there's something important to do." Yang Xiaotian stretched lazily, looking at Yang Jian with nostalgia in his eyes, but speaking resolutely.

Yang Jian pursed his lips and said after a long while: "Do you want to see my mother?"

Yang Xiaotian was startled, then shook his head and said, "No need. If she saw me alive, and I am several dozen years younger than her, her heart would collapse."

Yang Jian's heart skipped a beat.

He was just thinking about reuniting his parents, but ignored this point.

His mother is not young now, but Yang Xiaotian is only a few years older than him... Wait! So Yang Xiaotian is an old cow eating young grass?
Yang Jian suddenly discovered something special!
The timeline when Yang Xiaotian came here is the Gengshen year, which is about forty years from now, and Yang Xiaotian now looks to be in his twenties, which means that Yang Xiaotian's actual age now is at least sixty or above.

But what about my mother?
Good guy!
Really good guy!

Yang Jian's face darkened instantly. Even though he knew that Yang Xiaotian was his father, he couldn't help but curse in his heart: beast!

"Of course you don't have to worry. The manager can 'invite' us here once. Maybe he will still call us here even if we don't want to come."

The smile on Yang Xiaotian's face suddenly faded. Thinking of the person who appeared in front of him, his heart became extremely solemn.

It is clear.

That is the real store manager, the real him, not the "store manager" who was separated out as Yang Jian and the others knew, but who had a normal consciousness that ordinary people could recognize.

He is very dangerous.

He is very domineering.

Although Lin Yuan did not actually attack him, he could still feel the strength and dominance hidden beneath Lin Yuan's casualness.

If I really confront such a person, the result might be...

But he had no way to say this out loud right now. Even if he just had this thought, a terrifying sense of crisis would suddenly come over him.

As long as they really make up their minds and are ready to speak, this terrifying murderous intent will instantly descend and wipe them out.

If you can't beat them, join them!

Just like when he faced the mysterious bus, he looked at Yang Jian with envy, "You have such a good opportunity, you should seize it. Maybe this era will have a different future."

A different future?
For some reason, Yang Jian felt extremely sad and under a heavy pressure, which made it difficult for him to breathe. "According to the store manager, the time machine has limitations now, which is why this effect occurs and you are unable to bring your memories back. If the time machine in the store is updated and has more powerful functions, can this situation be changed?"

Yang Xiaotian's eyes lit up, "This is a good idea. If it can really be done, then I don't want to die so early!"

If given the chance, no one would want to die.

What's more, Yang Xiaotian's condition at this time was not particularly bad. It was far from the point where he needed to use a ghost bus to hit himself in an attempt to achieve the special state of a ghost dream crash.

His desire to survive is still very strong.

"How can we upgrade the so-called time machine? This should be an excuse made by the store manager. There should be no specific machine. Even if there is, he can't take us to see it. After all, such an important machine must be a secret." Yang Xiaotian asked.

Yang Jian pondered, "In the beginning, Peace Hotel was just a hotel like this, with a short path in front of the door. Up to now, it has also undergone several upgrades, and the conditions for such upgrades seem to be that a very powerful ghost or ghost rider has settled in the hotel. Is it possible that Peace Hotel is improving its strength by attracting guests? If this is true, then it can explain why the manager is so obsessed with running a hotel, even though he is so powerful."

Yang Xiaotian seemed to have suddenly thought of something, his expression condensed, "Is it possible that after these ghosts entered the Peace Hotel, they became its puzzle pieces, thus enhancing its spiritual power? Then will the ghost controllers who stay here be in the same state?"

what?
Yang Jian was shocked, but after thinking about it carefully, he was not sure. "Many people have lived here before, but they still maintain their own identities. It's just that their consciousness is affected, and they are full of good feelings towards the Peace Hotel and the manager. This..."

Having said this, Yang Jian stopped talking, but his heart was already filled with shock and horror, as if he had discovered something, a secret that was enough to get him silenced!

(End of this chapter)