"This is your brand?" I asked.

My aunt looked at me, "Do you want to buy it?" This is our old lady's, and I don't sell it for any amount you give...... Alas, how much can you pay? ”

I'm not interested in the brand, I feel sorry for spending ten yuan, and I bought it as a chopping wood. I asked, "Your old lady, where is she?" So, I'd like to inquire about this children's hospital. ”

"It's thirty or forty years old, what are you asking about that?" The aunt is suspicious.

I said, "You don't know, this children's hospital used to be an orphanage. I have an aunt who was adopted, and it is said that she came out of this hospital, and now our family is helping her to investigate her life history, which is also her lifelong wish. ”

The aunt nodded: "Yes, yes, this hospital is indeed an orphanage." Since you're doing business, come with me. ”

She took me to a room in the back, where there were many jars, some of which were open and I could see that there was milk in them. I guessed that it might be a process of their home-grown yogurt.

Under the window of the room, an old lady sits, leaning on a wicker chair, dozing off with a book in her hand.

"Mom, someone is looking for you." The aunt shouted.

The old lady slept very lightly, and opened her eyes with a shiver, "Who?" ”

There was a small bench next to her, and I dragged it over and sat down: "Auntie, I have something to ask you about, do you know about Chengxi Children's Hospital?" ”

The old lady took out her reading glasses and looked at me, her thinking was quite clear, and her mouth was fluent: "Young man, who are you?" ”

I rehashed the trick I just had, saying that I was looking for a home for my aunt.

The old lady was very enthusiastic: "Thirty years ago, I worked as a nurse in this orphanage, tell me what your aunt's name is, I can definitely remember that I have a good memory when I was young." ”

I remembered the experience of exorcism with my third uncle, when the ghost woman was called Liu Guizhi, so I casually said: "Her name is Liu Guizhi." ”

The old lady closed her eyes and thought about it, shook her head and said, "I haven't heard of it." Are you sure she's from our orphanage? ”

I said, "She said yes, and she said she remembered a few friends. ”

"Tell me who they are." The old lady said.

"There's one called Bell." I say.

The old lady's eyes suddenly lit up, and then dimmed again, and she leaned back in her chair and murmured, "Xie Ling, there is such a child." I remember him, his head is quite big, he was naughty when he was a child, I remember one time......" She was talking, stopping and laughing: "I'm sorry, what about your aunt, how did you talk about the bell." ”

"My aunt said that the bell was an important clue, and it would be nice if we could find him. Auntie, tell me more about him. "I feigned regret.

The old lady said: "Xie Ling was not originally surnamed Jie, he was later adopted and changed his surname, and we used to call him Datou in the orphanage." The old lady told me two things about being naughty when I was a child, I was so bored that I couldn't help yawning, who knew that the old lady's temper was quite big, and she immediately said tiredly: "More than 30 years have passed, I don't like to mention this matter very much, and no one is interested in Chen sesame and rotten grain." ”

What else do I have to say, the old lady said, "You go to Xingmen Middle Road, where is the old site of the Children's Hospital." I've never heard of that Guizhi you're talking about, so you can inquire about it again. ”

When I asked again, the old lady looked really tired and began to doze off.

I had no choice but to come out of the house, and the aunt was waiting outside and asked me what was wrong. I reluctantly said that the old lady began to sleep again. The aunt said: "My mother is like this, old children and children, often playing temper, don't be surprised." ”

I said, I'll go somewhere else and ask.

When I came out of their house, I went directly to Xingmen Middle Road, and after inquiring, I finally found a shabby field in a shantytown, which was filled with piles of garbage, surrounded by loess walls, and with barbed wire gates open. There were a few homeless people scavenging inside, wearing thick torn cotton jackets, sorting through the rags in the cold wind.

According to the information inquired, the Chengxi Children's Hospital was here at that time, and time has changed, and it has become like this.

I stood in the doorway of the ruined field and imagined that about 30 years ago, when the bell was still very young, he was a toddler here and joking with other children.

I suddenly felt that the value of coming to this special trip, the unraveling of the bell is just a clue, and many things across time, space, reality and illusion can be kinked together.

I realized that maybe Jieling asked me to come to his physical body, which was not the ultimate goal, and he seemed to be pointing me out something in the dark, across reality and ghosts.

According to the ability and thinking of the bell, before making an adventure, he has already made the most appropriate arrangements for himself. His body must have been somewhere safer, guarded by someone he thought was safest.

Thinking of this, I smiled with relief, took a breath of cold air, put my hand in the pocket of my trench coat, and turned to walk out.

Someone behind him suddenly spoke: "Young man, borrow a fire." ”

Looking back, it was a homeless man who spoke, this man was disheveled, with a scruffy beard, wearing a torn cotton jacket and a hemp rope tied around his waist.

I took the lighter out of my pocket, and he showed me two dirty hands, which meant that he didn't touch the lighter anymore, and asked me to light it for him.

I approached him, lit the cigarette in his mouth with a lighter, and he took a puff: "The world says that the gods are good, but this cigarette can't be forgotten." ”

I saw he didn't speak.

The homeless man smiled: "Young man, I used to be a poet, do you believe it?" ”

I smiled and didn't answer.

He laughed, patted me on the shoulder with his dirty hand, and in my stunned amazement, he swaggered into the garbage dump to pick up the rubbish. I dusted off my shoulders and thought I had a nervous break.

I thought about the dumb riddle left by the bell, and I was ready to go back, I think my idea was right, the bell has its own arrangement, the reason why he told me like this, I'm afraid there are other deep meanings.

I took a taxi to the high-speed rail station, and on the way I received an inexplicable phone call. The phone didn't show the number, but I answered it anyway and asked who.

A strange woman's voice came from the phone: "Wang Qiang? ”

I thought it was an insurance company or something, so I hung up the phone, "I'm still busy, I'm going to have a board meeting soon, let's talk about something." ”

"You don't want your three million dollars anymore?" The woman said.

I didn't react, "Haha, big liar, still three million dollars ......" and hung up the phone.

When I was done, the taxi driver next to me looked at me: "Scam call." ”

"Yes, isn't it to say that I have three million dollars, and I have no overseas connections." I laughed.

The taxi driver said, "Yes, now these scammers have all kinds of tricks, if you want to trick him, it's easy to say, let you pay a little transfer fee first." ”

I smiled and nodded, and suddenly it occurred to me that something was wrong! That's three million dollars! At the beginning, I promised to help Azanwei and help him snatch the opportunity for the female ghost in the tomb of 10,000 people to become an immortal, so that he could live forever. He said that when it was done, he would leave me his three million dollars.

Later, for so long, I didn't believe it when I saw that the New Year was coming, so I guess there must be no drama. Unexpectedly, there was a phone call.

I hurriedly used the phone to find the number just now, but I didn't know what technical means were used to hide the number, and I couldn't find it at all.

This made me anxious. Three million US dollars, according to the lowest exchange rate, is also 20 million small, when the time comes, it will be enough to buy a house, buy a car, and open a store. I can't finish it with knurling. When the time comes, if you marry a daughter-in-law, your life will be considered complete.

When I arrived at the high-speed rail station, I didn't rush to buy a ticket, I sat in the waiting area, waiting for the phone to call. I can't wait for the left to come, and I can't wait for the right to come, and I'm going to scratch the wall in a hurry.

I thought about it calmly, at that time, Azanway said that if he really achieved the goal of eternal life, he would use a ghost method to tell his assistant, at that time I also thought, this assistant will not swallow the money, right? I called her a liar, she wouldn't run away with the money in a fit of rage, would she?

While I was waiting, the phone rang, and I almost threw my phone out, but when I saw that the number was blank, I knew that it must be the person who called. I took a deep breath and quickly answered, "Hey? ”

"Are you Wang Qiang? Do you know about $3 million? "It's the woman who speaks.

I suppressed the excitement in my heart: "I am Wang Qiang, who are you?" Of course, I know about the three million dollars, which Azanway left me. ”

"I am Azanne's assistant," said the woman, "Azanne has conveyed to me that the money will be delivered to you." ”

My throat tightened: "Do you want me to apply for an international account or something?" ”

"We'd better hand over in person," the woman said, "I hope you can come to Malaysia." I'm in Penang now. ”

I was full of bitterness: "Don't be so troublesome, you have to go abroad, Malaysia is also a big country, can't you find an international bank to call me?" ”

"Nope." The woman said, "The three million dollars were not cash, not checks, but a diamond." ”