Chapter 27: Authentic Shrimp and Egg Stir-Fry

  Hong Jie nodded and then naturally wrapped her arm around Ling Fei's, following him up the stairs. With him by her side, Hong Jie felt much more at ease.

  After walking for five minutes, Ling Fei suddenly felt a sense of unease. Something didn't feel right. Logically speaking, after two minutes, the two of them should have already reached the tea house on that floor. But why hadn't he seen the exit yet? Moreover, the light around him was getting increasingly dim and seemed to be the same everywhere, as if it would never come to an end. Could it be that they had encountered the legendary "ghost wall"?

  "What's wrong?" Hong Jie asked, her mind now fully focused on Ling Fei, and as soon as he stopped, she instinctively became a bit worried.

  "We've been climbing stairs for so long, I think we should have passed the skirt floor by now. How come we haven't seen the exit of the stairs? And look, it's all the same up and down here. There's a trash can upstairs with a red paper on it, and downstairs there's another trash can in the same place with white paper on it. The broken holes on the papers are even identical. Do you think this is normal?" Ling Fei said, pointing to a trash can at the corner, and as he spoke, he also realized that he and Hong Jie had really encountered a ghost wall.

  Hong Jie was startled and trembled for a moment, then grabbed her bag and said in a slightly trembling voice: "I have a small anti-wolf flashlight in my bag, shine it to take a look."

  There's a wolf-repellent flashlight, why didn't you take it out earlier? Ling Fei was completely speechless towards Hong Jie. Usually so clever, but now she's being muddle-headed, this is really impressive. Such a thing can actually happen, I'm impressed.

  He quickly pulled over Hong Jie's bag, and under the light of her phone, he swiftly unzipped it. There was indeed a small black flashlight inside, which he hastily retrieved and turned on. A strong beam of light shot out, illuminating the trash can perfectly. Now they could see clearly that there was a "three" written on the white paper on top of the trash can.

  Another glance at the one below, Ling Fei was really hairy, and fine sweat broke out on his back, just like ants crawling on his back, that one was also a three-word phrase.

  Just then, the flashlight's light flickered once and went out. He immediately pressed the switch several times with force, but it didn't work. Even when he slapped it hard, it still wouldn't light up.

  "I told Bingbing to come and pick us up." Hong Jie was so anxious that she almost cried, and then she wanted to make a call. However, Ling Fei sighed and said: "Don't bother calling, it's no use, we're already inside now, don't think about contacting the outside."

  Although Ling Fei said so, Hong Jie still called, but inside the mobile phone there was only a hissing sound, and even the usual sweet female voice that couldn't get through didn't respond.

  "What to do? What to do?" Hong Jie's voice was trembling with tears. At this moment, whether she was a strong woman or someone who knew kung fu, she was still afraid. Women were like that, at critical moments, they would often be controlled by their emotions, commonly known as losing their composure.

  "Don't cry, cover your eyes and don't look," Ling Fei said softly, grasping Hong Jie's shoulder. "Listen to me, don't cry, stay calm, I'm here, I'll take care of these foolish things."

  "Is it okay if I don't look?" Hong Jie shook her head vigorously, telling her to close her eyes. She didn't dare to, what if she closed her eyes and something suddenly appeared beside her, or Ling Fei dropped her and ran away? Although deep down, she believed that Ling Fei wouldn't do that.

  "If you want to watch, don't regret it. To deal with this kind of ghost wall, there are actually two methods. First, that is to use the most unpleasant words to scold them and scare them away. However, I haven't scolded anyone for a long time, and many ways to scold people have been forgotten. Then only the second method can be used, which is also the most effective." Ling Fei said with a bitter smile, then directly pulled down his zipper.

  "What are you doing?" Hong Jie's face suddenly turned red, and she took a step back. He wouldn't dare to take advantage of this opportunity to do something to himself, would he? If he dared to, she'd kick him to death and make sure he never became a man for the rest of his life.

  "I'm going to pee, and that's why I don't want you to look," Ling Fei said, twisting his body and pulling out the thing he used to urinate. To deal with evil things, one must use even more evil methods. Anyway, he had drunk a lot of water at night, so it was just right to relax a bit. Besides, when he got tense, he wanted to pee too.

  Hong Jie listened and really wanted to kick Ling Fei, this madman, who actually thought of relieving himself in the corridor, did he still have any public morals? But when she was about to kick him, she looked at his back and didn't want to kick him anymore. Along the way, he had helped them out several times, solving their problems.

  "No way, how can you be like this, you scold, don't allow that kind of behavior." Hong Jie shouted, a big man urinating in front of her directly, she couldn't accept it.

  "Scold? I'm not very good at scolding." Ling Fei was stunned, but then he said, "Okay, I'll scold you, but you're not allowed to laugh."

  "Alright, I won't laugh, as long as you don't do that." Hong Jie said in a low voice with a red face, as long as he didn't do that it was fine, but how could she laugh after hearing such scolding words?

  "You bunch of good-for-nothings, wasting oxygen while alive and land when dead. If you've got guts, come out...” Ling Fei immediately started scolding, and as he did, he also happened to pull up his zipper, but just as he did, his face twitched and his hair got caught in the zipper. What bad luck! How could the zipper catch his hair? This is unscientific! He was usually very careful."

  "Why did you stop scolding?" Hong Jie looked at Ling Fei in surprise, having just scolded him for two sentences before stopping. Was it that difficult to scold someone?

  "My hair is all messed up, damn it...!" Ling Fei said. It's bad luck to have this happen in front of a beautiful woman, and to make matters worse, he actually said it out loud. What kind of situation is this?!

  "Your own fur?" Hong Jie was stunned, but then she understood what Ling Fei meant, and with a snort, she couldn't help but burst out laughing. He's really good at making things weird, who would have thought something like this would happen?

  "You're still smiling, you'll die from pain! You bunch of idiots with boils on your heads and pus on the soles of your feet, spewing out immoral smoke from your mouths... You harm yourselves, your families, and even the living after you're dead... Get stuck in your grandfather's hair, you want to watch the excitement, right? Your fathers should have shot you all against the wall from the start..." Ling Fei continued scolding with a bitter face, but his hands couldn't help but gently rub his crotch. This was terrible, it was stuck too tightly, probably needed scissors now."

  Two minutes later, the surroundings suddenly lit up. Scolding people is indeed useful. Look, they were standing between the third and fourth floors.

  "Alright, hurry up and go help me find a pair of scissors." Covering his lower body, Ling Fei slowly moved forward. He didn't dare to walk quickly, or it would be painful, like being pulled apart. This was probably what they meant by "shrimp pulling eggs", the zipper was like a shrimp's claw clamping down on his hair.

  "Serves you right, who asked you to think of doing such a despicable thing." Hong Jie scolded, but letting her go up alone, she still didn't dare, so she walked to Ling Fei's side and gently held his left arm: "Let's go, I'll support you up."

  "Slow down, it hurts." Ling Fei said, taking a step and pulling his pants up again. He had already pulled them up several times now. If he had known, he wouldn't have worn such pants. In the future, he won't wear such pants either.

  Pushing open the door to the fourth floor, Yīngyīng jiě just happened to be walking out, still holding her phone and getting ready to make a call. However, upon seeing two people supporting each other as they came up from the stairwell, Yīngyīng jiě was taken aback: "Why didn't you take the elevator? What's wrong with Língfēi dàshī?"

  "The elevator is malfunctioning, we walked up here, are there scissors inside?" Ling Fei said irritably, how could he say that he was being taken advantage of?

  "Ah, you guys... Ah, why didn't you close the door properly?" Ice sister suddenly burst out laughing, her eyes also looking at Ling Fei and Hong Jie with some playful intent. The two of them didn't take the elevator, but instead walked up the stairs, and his pants zipper wasn't fully closed, with a bit of black hair sticking out. And Hong Jie's face was so red... Could it be that they did something fun in the stairwell that both men and women like? Did things not go smoothly and get stuck?"

  Ling Fei took one look at that gaze and knew he had been misunderstood, but he really had no way to explain it. The more he explained, the deeper the hole he dug for himself, so he could only shut his mouth, put on a straight face and not speak. If he let things go any further, probably nothing would have happened.

  It was not easy to get into the teahouse, but then he encountered even more troublesome things. The scissors were there, but all around him were women, and there was no place to use them. Everyone was curiously staring at his hand holding up his pants, and the door was still open, making it impossible for him to explain himself.

  "Give it to you, go there and solve it." Hong Jie also handed the scissors to him with some embarrassment, then pointed to a corner and said. Now everyone looked at each other's eyes with that kind of meaning, she didn't know whether to scold him or what.

  "This is not your business, it's not like I'm going to kill you or anything. This small knife, just moving it a little hurts." Ling Fei muttered, and immediately a severe pain spread across his arm. He raised his head again, and Hong Jie was biting her red lips, staring at him with wide eyes.

  "Fine, I was wrong, I'm too proud of myself." Ling Fei said, reasoning with a woman is asking for trouble, if he had known earlier, he wouldn't have come. Later, he still had to deal with Qin Jie who was obviously already drunk and sitting there foolishly smiling. What bad luck, this ghost hand is really something, encountering a dead end, why didn't it come out to help?

  "Hey, you two are developing quite quickly, aren't you? Just met yesterday and now it's come to this?" Ice beauty walked up to Red Sister and whispered: "How could you let him take advantage of you like that?"

  "No, he's on his own, I have no idea how he got stuck." Hong Jie said, but she also felt that such things couldn't be explained clearly, and thinking about being harmed by this guy made her glare at Ling Fei with hatred. However, looking at his struggling appearance, she wanted to laugh again.