After Waking Up, I Inherited a Bookstore 130

Chapter 130: Skin-Changing Ghost

On the table was a box with ten smooth, moist red beads.

The blood-red beads, you could see the red liquid inside slowly moving.

Gu Huan put on her gloves and picked one up to admire, in disbelief.

“You refined this?”

“Mhm,” Liu Chuxia nodded.

“I think one million a piece is worth it,” Gu Huan said, looking at the beads with some obsession.

“Is that so? Then it seems I was thinking too low. Oh, right. I’ve improved this bead a bit. Didn’t it only last for half a month before? Now it can last for a month, and the effect is even better.”

Gu Huan’s eyes widened. Her gaze towards Liu Chuxia was particularly excited. She said excitedly, “Is there a comparison for the better effect? What’s better specifically?”

“For example, before, if you were possessed, you had to wear it for three days to get better. Now, you only need to wear it for one night to solve it. Also, the previous Blood Pearls could only defend against small ghosts. Now they can defend against more dangerous ghosts and monsters. But I still have to say, this thing can’t be saved after it’s used. Remember that,” Liu Chuxia said, taking a sip of tea.

“Good! Good! Good! How about this? The starting price will be one and a half million. I’ll just take a slightly higher commission. Before, it was five percent. How about eight percent for this one?”

Liu Chuxia looked at Li Hanyan. “What do you think?”

“What does A Xia think?” Li Hanyan didn’t answer her but asked back.

“I think it’s feasible.”

“Then you can decide for yourself. It’s fine. I’m here.”

“Okay.”

Liu Chuxia turned to look at Gu Huan and said, “Okay.”

Gu Huan stood up happily. “I haven’t introduced myself yet, have I? My name is Gu Huan. I look forward to our cooperation in the future!”

“I look forward to our cooperation.”

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By the time the two of them returned to the bookstore, it was already past seven in the evening. After taking a shower, they both lay down on the bed.

“Hanyan, how much do you think this bead can sell for?”

“No less than fifty million,” Li Hanyan said calmly.

Liu Chuxia sat up, a little surprised. “So much?”

“Mhm. But I can’t be sure of the final amount. After all, this thing hasn’t appeared in a long time. For it to have such good quality the moment it appears, I think those suspicious old men probably won’t offer too high a price. So we probably won’t make much this time.”

Li Hanyan wrapped her arm around Liu Chuxia’s waist and held her in her arms.

“That’s not a lot?”

“It’s not. If we want to buy yellow paper from the Jiang family, a piece of yellow paper the size of a test paper can at most produce six talismans, and one costs two hundred thousand.

We need too many. And it’s not just talismans. We also have to buy swords and many magical artifact materials. These things are all very expensive. This money is spent like water.”

“I didn’t expect it to cost so much to fight the ‘Master.’ It’s really a big battle.”

“Don’t think too much about it for now. Just wait for Mom’s news with a peace of mind.”

“Mhm.”

Neither of them had the tension of an impending battle. Maybe it was because it had been too quiet recently.

“A Xia, let’s do it blindfolded once.”

“Isn’t that a bit too exciting?”

Li Hanyan didn’t care about that. She gently tied a red silk scarf over Liu Chuxia’s head, covering her eyes.

That night, Liu Chuxia experienced a different kind of feeling.

Early the next morning, Jiang Jiajia knocked on Liu Chuxia and Li Hanyan’s door.

Li Hanyan opened her drowsy eyes and looked at her. “What is it?”

“Yang Fenglan said there’s a situation on her side.”

“Hmm? Did Yang Fengzhen show her true colors?”

“I can’t explain it here. Let’s go to the Yang family first.”

“Oh.”

Li Hanyan closed the door, yawned, and then went to wake up Liu Chuxia.

When Jiang Jiajia and Xiao Nian had gone to the Yang family to understand the situation before, Yang Fengzhen might have noticed something. After that, she had been very quiet, and they couldn’t find any suspicious points about her.

If not for Jiang Jiajia secretly using her eye-opening art, she would have probably been deceived by her.

But until December, this thing hadn’t made a move. Li Hanyan had originally thought that if Yang Fengzhen still hadn’t made a move, she would force her to reveal her true form in the middle of the month.

She hadn’t expected her to lose her patience.

The group went to the Yang family. The few ghosts just stayed at the bookstore to guard the house.

When they arrived, a woman in a professional suit came to receive them. After leading them to a room, she went out.

Then another person came in to serve them tea.

After waiting for a short while, Yang Fenglan pushed the door open and came in.

Her face was not very good. “Ladies, I’ve found my real sister. But the fake one has escaped.”

“You found her? Then how is your sister now?” Liu Chuxia asked.

“Her condition is not very good. She’s been locked up for at least half a year. Her mental state is very chaotic now,” Yang Fenglan said, sitting on the sofa, rubbing her face with some fatigue.

“It’s good that you found her. I was afraid you wouldn’t. Don’t worry about the fake one. We can track her down. I’d like to see what kind of ghost this is,” Li Hanyan said, patting Yang Fenglan on the shoulder.

Yang Fenglan nodded.

“Tell us briefly about the process,” Jiang Jiajia said, placing a cup of hot tea in front of her.

After calming her emotions and adjusting her state, Yang Fenglan said, “I’ve been paying attention to her movements, but my people would always disappear for no reason, so I had no idea where she had hidden my sister. For some reason, she was very abnormal today.

She didn’t make my people disappear. Instead, she led them to a place. It was a large, abandoned warehouse. It was very winding inside. She led my people around in there for a long time.

My people came back and said they had been walking for at least an hour before she led them to my sister. But when they went to look for her afterwards, she was gone.”

Liu Chuxia frowned. The more she listened, the more she felt that something was wrong.

“Why did she lead your people around for an hour?”

Yang Fenglan shook her head. “I don’t know.”

Li Hanyan took out her phone. The red dot on it had been stationary in one place since just now.

She hoped it wasn’t what she was thinking.

“Fenglan, we’ll be going now. Keep a good watch on your sister. I’m afraid she’ll come back for you.”

“Okay.”

Li Hanyan drove the car quickly through the city. The red dot on her phone was still stationary.

“Is this thing broken?” Jiang Jiajia guessed.

“How can it be broken if it’s lit up? The worst-case scenario is that the thing found out and found a way to take it off,” Li Hanyan said, looking at the road ahead with a frown.

“Don’t worry. Maybe it’s just resting somewhere,” Liu Chuxia said, not believing it herself. Who in their right mind would stand in an alley for so long?

When they arrived, it was just as Li Hanyan had guessed. The thing had discovered her tracker.

“How did it find it? Wanfeng said that ghosts can’t easily find this thing,” Li Hanyan said, looking at the small black square in her hand.

Liu Chuxia looked at the clothes on the ground, picked them up to take a look, and then found a transparent, human-skin-like thing.

Her hand trembled, and the thing fell to the ground.

“Is this… human skin?” Jiang Jiajia asked uncertainly, walking over to take a look at the thing on the ground.

“No,” Xiao Nian said with certainty.

Li Hanyan put away the tracker and walked over to take a look.

After a moment, she said, “It’s a Skin-Changing Ghost.”