Chapter 281: A Look at Wicker Alley
In terms of the character of the blind bear, he is very likely to do this kind of thing, I was secretly mentally prepared, and asked a few more questions.
It looks a bit like a large plate of chicken but it's not the same, I don't know what the name of this dish is, the plate containing the dish is three times bigger than Hao Jian's face, all kinds of ingredients are piled up in the plate into a hill, and the noodles at the bottom are finger-wide and have absorbed the soup, and the noodles alone have to have a pound up, this amount can't help but make me glad that I only ordered one, otherwise it would be really easy to die here today.
In fact, my meal is not so large, but under the gaze of the middle-aged couple, I still ate a fine light, holding my stomach for a long time to feel comfortable, and when I checked out, I euphemistically proposed to borrow the back door to pass by, although the middle-aged couple was strange but didn't say anything, the woman also took me a wooden stick from the kitchen, saying that there are often snakes in the ruins for me to take self-defense.
When I came out the back door to the demolition area, I found that it was not as dilapidated as I imagined, except for a few houses that showed signs of collapse, most of them were relatively well preserved, and even a considerable part of the houses had complete glass.
I walked along the street for a while, and it didn't take much effort to find Wicker Lane, although there is a word "lane" in the name, but in fact, it is no different from the general street, on both sides are the old houses converted into facades, doing basically restaurants and other businesses, in the first few years there are several century-old shops located here, but then they have been relocated, and I don't know if I received the news of demolition in advance.
Find the No. 6 house by the house number, look at the signboard This was originally a barber shop, the most striking thing is a whole wall of floor-to-ceiling windows, but unfortunately the glass has long been broken, and the things inside have been emptied, and there is a thick layer of dust on the ground, and you don't need to look closely to know that there is nothing inside.
I said in my heart, could it be that the blind bear is playing me? Standing at the door, he looked carefully left and right, and suddenly found that there was a dark red handprint on the edge of the door frame, and the color of the handprint was red and brown, which was the color that could only be formed after the blood dried up.
I got close and smelled it, and sure enough, there was a faint smell of blood, it seems that this bloody handprint has not been left for a long time, it should have been left by the blind bear when he came, otherwise the smell on it would have volatilized clean.
Seeing that the size of the handprint is also about the same as the palm of the blind bear, I pursed my lips and pressed my hand lightly on it, trying to deduce what the blind bear did here at that time, because there are several steps at the door, and the palm print is right-handed, when I press the door panel with my hand, my body naturally turns to the left, but I look at it for a long time and find nothing.
Sighing lightly and turning around, I was about to push the door when I suddenly caught a glimpse of a black shadow flashing in the crack of the door, I was shocked and subconsciously clenched the wooden stick, raised my legs and kicked the door wide open, and then three steps and two steps rushed into the door, only to find that it was a few stray cats, I was scared by one was running around, one of them panicked, and rushed straight towards me!
Although I am not disgusted with cats, but stray cats do not know how many bacteria and viruses there are, in case accidentally scratched it is not a joke, quickly leaned sideways on the door panel to make way for stray cats, and the wooden stick in his hand knocked on the wall behind the door with the movement, and it made a "dong dong" sound!
"There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there!" I was secretly happy in my heart, and while closing the door with my backhand, I knocked on the wall with a wooden stick a few times, and finally locked the empty sound in an area half a meter square.
Because there are floor-to-ceiling windows next to it, this wall must play a load-bearing role, and it stands to reason that there should not be such a big hole, and nine out of ten people have deliberately dug it out like this!
I didn't expect to make progress so soon before I came, so I hurriedly picked up the wooden stick and started smashing the wall, the broken wall skin fell like snow, and after a while, a big black hole was revealed, I reached in and took out a dirty men's jacket from it, shook off the dust and looked at it and I was stunned, because this was actually my grandfather's coat!
At first, I thought it was just a similar style, but after careful inspection, I found that it was the coat that my grandfather used to wear, because my grandfather was the kind of inverted triangle body type, so the newly bought jacket would be sent to the tailor shop to change the waistline before wearing, he had a lot of clothes that I sent to change, and even just by looking at the stitches of the waistline, I could tell which tailor it was!
Since I found out that my grandfather may be involved in this matter, this is the first time I have received substantial evidence, my hands began to tremble unconsciously, and then I remembered that my grandfather used to sew hidden pockets in the cuffs to hold some change and other things, and when I opened the sleeves of my coat, I saw that there was a palm-sized hidden pocket, and it seemed that there was something inside.
I carefully pinched it twice, it felt like a folded piece of paper, and when I took it out, it turned out to be a folded brown paper envelope, the folded position had been weathered and cracked, and it had obviously been left for a long time.
I thought about putting the envelope and coat next to me, and then checked the hole in the wall myself, and only after making sure that there was nothing else before I opened the envelope, there was a letter and a small key inside, and after seeing the handwriting on the letter, my mind suddenly "buzzed", because this is my grandfather's handwriting!
"Xiao Miao, when you read this letter, it means that the situation is beyond my control, I'm sorry to involve you in this matter, but in order to prevent more innocent people from dying, I can only make this helpless decision, please forgive me for my selfishness - Yu Chang wrote it himself."
I read the whole letter word by word, and suddenly I felt a sense of relaxation in my heart, at this time I didn't know where this feeling came from, and after a while I figured it out, it was because I knew that grandpa was not a bad person, so I didn't have to worry about how to meet grandpa.
At the moment, I folded the letter paper and put it in my pocket, and then began to study the key, which looked a bit like the key to the desk drawer, and my grandfather left it for me but didn't say where to use it, which means that the lock opened by this key is accessible to me, and after a little recollection, I remember that there is an old elm box at home.
As far as I know, the box may be older than my father, and has been locked and left untouched for as long as I can remember, and after my grandfather died, I moved it to a small warehouse to dust, and the lock on it seemed to be the same as this key.
I recalled the details of the lock in my mind, and the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was possible, and I pinched the key and couldn't wait to go home and test it immediately, but the wall I dug up was the same color as other places, indicating that no one had touched this dark grid recently, which means that this coat was not hidden by the blind bear, and I haven't found what he left behind!