Chapter 01 of the urban romance novel "Bright Star".
It's been almost four months since I came to this cosmetics warehouse. Every day is very regular and uneventful, going to work at half past eight in the morning, leaving work at twelve at noon, taking an hour to eat and resting, continuing to work at one o'clock in the afternoon, and then leaving work at five o'clock. The cycle repeated, but an incident I experienced a month ago that I still remember to this day, this bizarre experience, every time I think about it, my heart is broken beyond words.
On that day, I came to the door of the warehouse as usual, and was about to take out the key from my pocket and open the roller shutter door when my phone rang, and I heard the sound, and I knew it was a short message. Due to the fact that there have been a lot of harassing advertisements recently, I will not read the general short messages in time. Often when I'm not busy, when I look at my space to leave a review, I take a look at what the content is, and delete it if it's boring. But that day, I "chuckled" in my heart, and inexplicably took out my mobile phone and looked at it after walking into the warehouse.
Because the other master Feng in the warehouse that day took a half-day off, and I was the only one in the morning. So I think the reason why I am a little abnormal is that I am worried about things at work. After all, Master Feng is a very careful master, and during the previous leave, he would also send me a text message to remind me to give priority to that list, so as not to affect the activities of the store.
But when I opened the text message, it was not from Master Feng, it was an unfamiliar number, and the content of the text message was very simple, just a somewhat familiar name and an address. The address is also a bit impressive, it should be around here, because I also rented a house near here, as if I had seen this house number. But I couldn't remember it for a while, so I didn't pay attention to it, maybe, who sent it wrong!
Prepare the remaining list on the table, wait for Master Feng to come in the afternoon, check it, and it will be shipped without any problem. Then, when I was idle, I began to clean the warehouse, and by the way, I familiarized myself with the products that were not commonly used in the warehouse. Although I have been in the warehouse for two or three months, I am usually too busy to get acquainted with it completely. After all, there are hundreds of products in the entire warehouse, some of which are not commonly used, and indeed I am very unfamiliar with the position. Take this opportunity to familiarize yourself with the list of these products in the future, and I will be able to quickly prepare the goods.
As I was sweeping into a corner, I stumbled upon a dusty box. I wiped off the thick layer of dirt on it, revealing a courier slip with a date dating from 10 years ago. And it was returned, apparently with the wrong address. When I looked at the address on it clearly, I was surprised to find that this address turned out to be the address on the text message I received earlier, which is really weird!
Suddenly, my scalp tingled, and I remembered the first day I had been working in this warehouse. On that day, the weather was overcast, with a drizzle of rain and dark clouds, and the occasional dull thunder. Even though it was daytime, the warehouse was extremely dim because there was no sunlight, and only a few white energy-saving lamps were on. In fact, when I came to this warehouse for an interview, looking at this simple warehouse building in disrepair, looking at the mottled walls and rusty steel structure inside, I would inadvertently think of the scenes in the horror movies I once watched. I estimate that a girl, if she is alone, will never dare to stay inside.
Because I was not familiar with the company's personnel on the first day of work, when Master Feng went to the toilet, a pale woman came to the warehouse, and I thought it was also a colleague of the company. She said that she was looking for a box, because I was not familiar with the storeroom and could not help her, so after turning around herself, she did not seem to find the box she said, so she regretfully left. During this time, I noticed that she had been staying at one of the shelves for a while, very sadly.
After Master Feng came back, I also told him that a female colleague had come just now and said that she was looking for a box, but she didn't find it, so she left. I also described the girl's appearance, but Master Feng said that the company did not have such a female colleague. I also asked where the girl had turned inside, and I pointed to a shelf and told Master Feng where she had just stood for a while and then left. Master Feng's face changed, and he hurriedly ran over to carefully inspect one of the products on the shelf, and was relieved when he found that it was not too much.
Afterwards, Master Feng told me that there was a product on the shelf just now that was the most expensive of all the products, a gift box called "Bright Star". In addition to a bottle of cosmetics, there was also a Swarovski crystal necklace that told me not to let strangers in the future. Because the warehouse had lost products in the past, I immediately said that I would get acquainted with the company's employees as soon as possible, and there would never be a similar situation in the future.
After a busy day, I felt very tired when I came home in the evening, probably because I hadn't done manual labor for a long time, and the whole day of moving the box seemed to fall apart. When I'm tired, I like to drink a little bit to relax. So, I opened the liquor on the bedside table, took out a packet of peanuts, poured myself a drink, and before I knew it, I drank too much, dizzy, and fell asleep.
That night, as I rarely dreamed, I had several nightmares one after another, all of which were the woman I had seen during the day. It's just that her face is even paler in my dreams, and I always dream that she is constantly wandering around the warehouse, as if desperately looking for something. When I approached her and wanted to ask her what she was looking for, she suddenly looked at me and said something that looked like an address, and after saying that, she seemed so sad that she burst into tears. But her tears flowed and turned into blood, and then, inexplicably, disappeared, and I woke up in a cold sweat.
After waking up, I lit a cigarette, went to the courtyard, stood in the middle of the courtyard, looked at the moon in the sky, and smoked silently. The house I rented was in the same yard as the landlord, and the first floor was all rented houses, and the landlord lived in it himself above the second floor. On the first floor, in addition to my house, there were five other families, and it was already past three o'clock in the night, and the yard was quiet, and there was not a trace of light around, so the neighbors must have fallen asleep. The moon that night was also surprisingly hazy, and I remember that one of my favorite tomb robbery novels, "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", mentioned that this kind of moonlight seemed to be called the Mao Moon, and it was also the night when ghosts were most likely to haunt.
Thinking of this, there happened to be a cold wind blowing, and suddenly, I felt a chill in my back, and goosebumps all over my body rose. I subconsciously looked back and looked around, it was hazy in the moonlight, this kind of suburban house, the alley is deep and secluded, and there are no street lights, and the yard is naturally extremely dim. The clothes that the neighbors were hanging on didn't look like clothes at this time, like a lot of people standing there, high and low, but they didn't seem to have heads, and they looked surprisingly oozing. In particular, there was a white trench coat, which looked like a woman in white, except that it looked taller than me, and it was obviously hanging from a clothesline. In addition, I know that the landlord has a woman who is very tall, loves to be clean, and does laundry almost every day, and she has a white trench coat like this.
When I came back during the day, every time I saw this row of hanging clothes, I didn't feel anything, but sometimes when there were too many hangings, I had to go back to my room and bow my head under the clothes, and when I encountered clothes that were too long, I had to turn my hand to the side to get over. Every time I was seen by the woman who loved to wash clothes in the landlord's house, she always came apologetically and helped me take off a few pieces of clothes that blocked me from going back to the room and hung them in other corners, and every time I smiled and said, it's okay, it's okay. Sometimes, I also joked with her, praising her for being really diligent, washing clothes in a day, more than I washed in a year, she always, helplessly shook her head, and said with a wry smile, what to do if you don't wash, there are children at home, there are a lot of dirty clothes to change every day, and it feels uncomfortable not to wash. Each time, I smiled deeply sympathetically and went back to my room.
In the past, when the moon was bright, it was normal to look at it, and every piece of clothing could be seen very clearly, adults and children, and even the colors were clear at a glance. But that night, it was all a uniform gray, except for the white trench coat, which was particularly obvious, the rest of the clothes were hidden in the night, and only simple outlines could be seen. In a trance, I seemed to feel that the white trench coat was very familiar, very similar to the one worn by the woman who appeared in the warehouse during the day, and recalled the picture in the previous dream, as a gust of wind blew, I had the illusion that the woman seemed to be floating towards me, and even I saw her eyes, and the blood flowing from the corners of those eyes. I hurriedly threw away my cigarette, walked briskly back to my room, and closed the door with my backhand.
In the second half of the night, I hardly slept well, and every time I fell asleep, I would be awakened, and in my dreams I always felt that the woman was going to say something to me, but every time I always wanted to cry first. The next morning, I got up very tired, and when I left the yard, I saw that most of the clothes that had been hanging had been taken back by the woman from the landlord's house. She was still there as usual, rubbing vigorously against a large basin of dirty clothes, and I nodded to her and said hello, and hurried to work.
When I arrived at the warehouse, Master Feng looked at me with a very bad face and asked me what was wrong. Naturally, I can't say that I dreamed of the woman I saw during the day yesterday. I just said that I went to work on the first day yesterday, and I had a two-month break before, and my body was still a little uncomfortable, so it should be fine in a few days. Master Feng didn't ask any more questions, and the two of us were busy with the distribution again, and in the process of distribution, whenever I passed by the shelf where the woman stayed yesterday, I would always think of her inadvertently and the box she was looking for. But because the warehouse is full of large and small boxes, and I have just come to work in this warehouse, I am also confused about what is in these boxes in the warehouse, so naturally I can't help it, so I can only wait for her next time to come and let Master Feng help her find it.