According to the address given to Li Chenfeng by the woman before her death, Li Chenfeng took a taxi the next morning, which was not far from his bookstore, and the drive was about an hour and a half.

Her home is a small two-story building, but it looks very dilapidated from the outside, the red brick walls are not plastered, and the walls are blackened and red, perhaps because of the frequent use of honeycomb coal in the house.

Li Chenfeng stretched out his hand and knocked on the big iron door painted with red paint, but there seemed to be no reaction inside, so he followed and knocked a few more times, thinking that there might be no one inside, but just as he was about to leave, there was a sound of footsteps inside.

The door was opened by a young woman in a purple dress, her figure was very slender, and her appearance was very beautiful, but her eyes were a little strange, her pupils were white, and there seemed to be no light at all, and the whole person looked low and weak.

Her voice is very small, and the speed of speech is also very slow, the words of a sentence seem to pop out one by one, not at all coherent, such a tone is not like a human, but like the voice of an immature artificial intelligence on the mobile phone now.

"Excuse me, what's the matter with you?"

The woman's godless eyes stared straight at Li Chenfeng's face, which made him very uncomfortable, so he said with some embarrassment: "I'm sorry, I want to find someone, is Miss Zhao Haitang here?" Oh, yes, I'm a friend of hers, and I heard about something going on with her some time ago, so I came over to visit. ”

Zhao Haitang is dead, this is Li Chenfeng's heart is very clear, the reason why he wants to say this is just to get close, if this woman is Zhao Haitang's relatives or friends, she should have already received the news of Zhao Haitang's death, Li Chenfeng said this, at least he can have the opportunity to enter the house to "mourn", so that he will also have the opportunity to investigate the cause of her death.

After listening to Li Chenfeng's words, there was no change in the expression on this woman's face, and there was no sadness or joy in her expression.

"Zhao Haitang, I'm sorry, I think you're in the wrong place, I don't know this person."

Li Chenfeng looked a little surprised for a while.

"Zhao Haitang, a young woman, she should have lived here for a long time before."

"I'm sorry, I really don't know, if you don't have anything else, please leave."

Before Li Chenfeng could say another word, the woman had already closed the iron door.

He took out his mobile phone very puzzled, and looked at the message sent by Zhao Haitang in the group, and the address on it was indeed here.

So he asked, "@赵海棠, there seems to be a problem with the address you sent me, there is a woman living in this place, but she doesn't know you. ”

Zhao Haitang: "That's right, I did live where before. ”

Li Chenfeng: "Then do you have any relatives or friends before your death, maybe I should go and find them." ”

Zhao Haitang: "I don't remember anything since I lost my memory, I only have this address in my memory, and the boy who called me mom." ”

Li Chenfeng: "Is that boy your biological son or ......?"

Zhao Haitang: "I don't know. ”

Li Chenfeng sighed, it's difficult to do now, I don't know anything, I just remember such an address, but the people who live in it don't know him.

Just when he was at a loss and was about to knock on the door again to ask her for clarification, an old woman suddenly came over behind him and asked very enthusiastically: "Young man, are you looking for Zhao Haitang?" ”

Hearing this, Li Chenfeng suddenly felt a burst of joy in his heart, and said, "Yes, old woman, do you know her?" ”

The wife said: "My house is right next to here, and she has been neighbors for more than ten years. ”

Li Chenfeng looked a little puzzled, stretched out his hand and pointed to the iron gate behind him and said, "So she lives here?" ”

The woman nodded.

"But when I knocked on the door just now, the people inside said that she didn't know Zhao Haitang."

At this time, the wife sighed and explained to Li Chenfeng: "That woman has gone crazy, and now she doesn't know anyone, and she even forgot her name. ”

Listening to the wife's words, she seemed to mean that the woman who opened the door just now was Zhao Haitang, but this is too strange, isn't the real Zhao Haitang dead?

So Li Chenfeng asked tentatively: "Old woman, your family lives close to her, have you noticed anything different about Zhao Haitang recently?" Or is there something big going on in her home? ”

The woman suddenly frowned at him and said, "Young man, who are you?" What do you ask these for? ”

"Oh, actually, I was a friend of Zhao Haitang many years ago, and recently I heard that something happened to her family, so I came to take a look."

The wife saw that Li Chenfeng had a kind face, and she didn't look like a bad person, so she nodded and said, "So that's the case, then you shouldn't have seen her for many years, right?" ”

Li Chenfeng smiled and nodded. "Yes, yes, I haven't seen each other in years."

"Recently, nothing major has happened to her family, but in her current situation, I'm afraid nothing can be considered a big deal for her except death."

Hearing this, remembering that she said just now that Zhao Haitang had gone crazy, Li Chenfeng looked very puzzled. But he felt that no matter whether the woman just now was really Zhao Haitang or not, there must have been some big changes here in the past few years.

"Old woman, what the hell is going on?"

The woman said, "Do you know about her marriage ten years ago? ”

Li Chenfeng shook his head a little embarrassed, he didn't know her in the first place, and it was definitely impossible to know these things.

"We haven't been in touch with her for too long, so I don't know what happened to her over the years."

"I see, then I'll talk to you, and you should understand.

She married here eight years ago, his husband is a worker in a nearby factory, usually the income is not low, so the two of them had a good life at that time, this small building was also built when they got married, at that time our area was also such a two-story building, so many neighbors at that time were quite envious of her family.

But less than a year after they got married, her man learned badly, first eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling outside, taking less and less money from the family, and then he became addicted to drugs, not only lost his job, but also contracted a bad disease, and a good family collapsed.

At that time, Zhao Haitang was already pregnant with a child, and in order to make a living, she even went to the factory to wash oilcloths with a big belly in the winter, earning hundreds of yuan a month, and her life was very difficult.

But her drug-addicted man still asks her for money all day long, and if she doesn't give it, he beats her desperately, and if it weren't for the persuasiveness of our neighbors sometimes, the child in her womb might have been beaten out so alive.

Half a year later, the child was born, and her man also died of a vicious disease.

After that, she worked hard to pull the child to be able to walk and talk, but one night when the child was three and a half years old, the doll suddenly had a high fever that did not go away, Zhao Haitang was so anxious that she took the child to the hospital with the only few thousand yuan of savings in the family, because it was a big night in winter, there were no cars on the street, and when she arrived at the hospital, the doll was already out of breath.

Zhao Haitang's life is not good, she married a man who is not a thing, the doll originally became her only thought, and when the doll died, she went crazy.

Since then, she has basically stopped talking to us outsiders, and has locked herself in the house all day, sometimes crying and singing in the house at night, which makes our neighbors feel shocked. ”