Chapter 6: Old Town No. 94
Lying in bed, I couldn't sleep from tossing and turning, and Zhang Leper always came to my mind, so I couldn't sleep anyway.
Seeing that the sky was getting brighter and brighter, I simply sat up, trying to smoke a cigarette to relieve my boredom, and then felt for a hard cigarette shell in my pants.
The cigarette shell looked very worn, with some unknown substance on it, and it looked very familiar.
Isn't this the cigarette shell I threw out of the window yesterday?
Thinking of Zhang Lezi's matter, I was very nervous and swallowed my spit.
Taking a deep breath, I was ready to crumple the shell and continue to drop it through the window.
I found that the cigarette shell in my hand felt different from the cigarette shell I made last night.
This cigarette shell is a little moist, even if it feels like just taking the money out of the washing machine.
Swallowing my spit, I silently thought in my heart, turned the cigarette shell over to the back, and saw a line of crooked words on it, and it took me a long time before I could barely recognize what was written on it.
"Driver, I see that your Yin Hall is black, something may happen recently, why don't you go to this place to find a Taoist priest?"
This is followed by a string of addresses.
I stared at the address for a long time and found it unusually familiar, and it seemed that Zhang Lezi also gave me the same address.
"Why are all my addresses the same?"
I stared at the address several times before deciding to check it out.
That old man is a relative of Xu Ke, and this identity can make me believe a few points.
I thought that in the future, he and I would become relatives, so I wouldn't cheat on my own family.
Besides, I'm idle in the dormitory today during the holidays, so let's just go and see what's going on.
It was still hazy outside, but I couldn't sleep at all, so I lay on the bed and tossed and turned for a while, and finally decided to get out of bed and throw it away for breakfast.
Because I had something on my mind, I ate a few bites at the breakfast stall, so I found a shared bicycle over there and went to the address.
The address written on the back of the cigarette shell is in the old town, which has been decaying since the new city was developed.
Except for some elderly people and migrant workers who still live in the old city, the rest have left. In addition, there are relatively few people living in the old city, and the economy is not very developed, so some basic facilities are broken and no one repairs them.
And the roads in the old city are also winding, I rode a shared bicycle for a long time and did not find the exact address.
I finally saw an old man walking with a cane in front of me, and stopped behind him with one foot of the brake, I picked up the cigarette shell in my hand and asked, "Uncle, where is No. 94?" ”
The old man turned his head very slowly, but the amplitude of the rotation became larger and larger, reaching 180 degrees.
It's the equivalent of turning your head over.
I had never seen such a strange phenomenon before, and I was so shocked that I fell to the ground with a person.
The old man was even more frightened than me, and his body turned around, and he covered his chest: "O young man, why did you suddenly open your mouth from behind the person, aren't you afraid of scaring me, an old man?" ”
I opened my mouth but didn't dare say a word.
When the old man saw me like this, he knew that I must have been frightened just now, and put on a look of contempt: "Haven't you heard of 'Wolf Gu'?" Young people should still read more books. ”
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" does describe Sima Yi as having this characteristic, and the arc of his head is larger than that of ordinary people, so not many people dare to look at him directly, let alone say bad things about him behind his back.
Relieved, I got up from the ground, patted the dust on my buttocks, and continued to ask: "Uncle, do you know how to go on No. 94?" ”
"Number 94? Are you here to find Xie Daocong? ”
"Yes, I don't know if you can take me over, uncle?"
"I'm afraid it won't work today, he should be fortune teller under the overpass at this point in time, you better come back later."
After the uncle said this, he still pointed me out an accurate direction.
I rode my bicycle to No. 94, which is a small 8-story building, the outer wall has long been mottled, revealing the inner wall, and an iron gate locks the entire residential building, and a combination lock is installed on it.
Buzz –
The phone in my trouser pocket sounded again, and when I pulled it out, I saw the WeChat message that was allowed to be sent to me.
She posted a picture of herself picking mushrooms in a pine forest, and next to him was the old man standing next to me on the bus.
Both of them looked at the camera with a smile on their faces.
Seeing this photo, I was relieved again.
In all fairness, when I came over today, I trusted Xu Ke Sanbo a little more than before.
In any case, you can't dig a pit for relatives.
And I don't have to go to work today, I plan to find an Internet café nearby to pass the time, and then ask the third uncle who is allowed to go to work tomorrow.
I made up my mind and wandered around the old town, but this place has been out of Huanghua for a long time, and I couldn't find an Internet café for a long time, so I could only buy some things at the commissary next door and squat on the curb of the road.
Fortunately, there are no workers in the old town to prune the trees, and the lush foliage can block out a lot of the sun.
After a day of squatting on the road, I didn't have anything but some flying bugs and a belly full of resentment.
The sun soon set on the top of the mountain, red like a poached egg that had just come out of the pot.
Touching my stomach, I rode a shared bicycle to No. 94.
Standing in front of the iron gate with the code, I was thinking about how to get in.
"Young man, I didn't expect us to meet again so soon." A voice came from behind.
I turned my head and saw that it was the old man who had shown me the way, and he waved the crutch in his hand and asked me to make way for him: "What are you doing standing here?" Hurry up and get aside, I'm going to open the door and go in now. ”
He came to the password door, pressed the password, and suddenly thought of something, turned his head to look at me, and his head was still turned 180 degrees as before: "Oh, you came to find Xie Daocong, it just so happens that he lives in the same building as me, I'll take you up." ”
Looking at the strange "look back" of the old man, even if I have seen it once, I can't face it calmly, so I quickly lowered my head and looked at the ground.
The old man took me upstairs, the stairwell was very narrow and only allowed one person to pass through, and if two people walked, they would rub against the wall.
The snow-white walls have been covered by various impressions, and the stairwell smells of disrepair.
The old man stopped, knocked on the door in front of him, left me and continued upstairs.
Buzz –
Xu Ke called: "Liang Fan, the third uncle told you not to make a mistake, you have to find that person named Xie Daoji." ”
"Who?" There was also the sound of footsteps inside the security door.