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I reached out and pushed Zhang Dongqiang:

"Get out of the car, we're leaving."

Zhang Dongqiang scolded with a smile, opened the door and got out of the car.

Shen Mo said hello to him, got into the car, looked at me suspiciously, and asked with slanted eyes:

"Why is he here? Was it that night? What's the trouble? ”

I smiled and shook my head and said:

"No, it's just that the evidence is not easy to find, after all, this kind of thing is a big god, sometimes it still has a certain effect on some relatively small things, and those people believe in this more, so it is a bit difficult for them to testify."

"What then?"

"Don't do it, he'll have a way."

Shen Mo's cousin does not live in her hometown, but in a small city not far from us, which is less than three hours away by car.

But it was a bit difficult to find where she lived, and it wasn't until it was almost dark that she found the dilapidated little building.

After getting out of the car, I teased Shen Mo and said:

"You kid really don't have a long heart, you can't even find where your cousin lives."

Shen Mo was a little aggrieved, and said dissatisfiedly:

"Can I be blamed for this? She only moved here last year, and I haven't been here twice, and each time it's a taxi, and I can't remember the road at all, and I can't remember it! ”

I smiled and took the gift from the car and followed her into the little building that was barely bright.

There are sundries piled up everywhere in the corridors, and some even simply guard against a large vat of pickles. It's such a corridor, let alone moving things, even if a fat person wants to walk over, it's hard to walk over.

Shen Mo and I cautiously walked to the fourth floor and knocked on a door.

This kind of old-fashioned building is estimated to be from the forties and fifties of the last century, with a corridor and houses on both sides, which are dilapidated. Every now and then a rat or two passes by.

Shen Mo knocked for a long time before someone in the house responded:

"Who?"

"Cousin, it's me, I'm Momo."

The footsteps in the room seemed to be a little flustered, and soon the door opened, and a middle-aged woman who looked very haggard appeared in the doorway.

Judging from the panicked footsteps when she heard Shen Mo standing outside the door, she should have been very excited, but her expression was very cold when she opened the door, and she just said lightly:

"Come in."

Shen Mo grimaced at me and whispered:

"Don't be angry, my cousin is like this, she can't express it."

I smiled and didn't say anything. followed Shen Mo into the house.

The house is not big, one-bedroom, and there are large and small cardboard boxes piled up everywhere, which are tightly wrapped with duct tape, and I don't know what is inside.

I found a chair and sat down and looked at the woman who poured water for us.

Shen Mo said:

"Cousin, don't be busy, we're not thirsty, sit down."

I didn't speak, quietly observing Shen Mo's cousin.

Although she looked a little old, she was actually just over fifty years old, but in terms of her movements and behavior, she looked like an old man of seventy or eighty years old.

This is obviously a bit illogical, and looking at her, it doesn't look like she is suffering from a serious illness at all.

My cousin sat down across from us, stared at Shen Mo for a while, looked me up and down for a while, sighed softly and said:

"When I grow up, I'm going to get married! This is the Liu Wu that your mother told me, right? Very nice young man, you guys are together well, live a good life, you don't have to come to see me, I'm used to living alone, and I'm still a little uncomfortable with people at home. ”

Shen Mo looked at me awkwardly and didn't speak.

I looked at the boxes that were all over the place and asked:

"Cousin, why do you have so many boxes in the house? Do you want me to put them together for you? ”

My cousin's face turned instantaneous, and she said sharply:

"No, you don't! Don't move! You don't have to worry about these things! Okay, I've seen it, you guys go back, I'm going to sleep. ”

Shen Mo wanted to say something, but I stretched out my hand to stop him.

In the evening, in the hotel, I asked Shen Mo:

"The last time you visited, did your cousin have so many boxes in his house?"

Shen Mo thought for a while and said:

"Yes, but this time it seems to be a lot more."

"Since when did the first box appear in her house?"

Shen Mo thought for a long time, shook his head and said:

"I don't know about this, it really can't work, anyway, she already had it before she moved here."

I nodded, and then asked:

"Can you recall when she started aging rapidly? She looked like she was seventy or eighty years old now. ”

Shen Mo stretched out his hand and slapped me and said:

"You're like seventy or eighty! Don't talk nonsense, where does my cousin look like seventy or eighty? ”

I looked at her calmly and said:

"Have you observed her movements? It's not a disease at all, it's a symptom of aging, can't you see it? Although I couldn't see it on her face, I could tell from the way she walked that she must have been declining due to aging. ”

Shen Mo asked nervously:

"What then? Is there something in her? ”

I shook my head:

"I haven't seen it yet, but this thing must be problematic. There is also a change in her attitude towards you, she took you with you when you were young before, and the relationship must have been very good, but now he suddenly behaved so coldly, and at first glance he pretended to be cold, I think she must have encountered something, and she didn't want to affect you, so she did that deliberately. ”

Shen Mo looked at me in surprise and said:

"You can see that? I knew for sure she did it on purpose, but I don't know why she did it, and besides, my mom told me that she was in a bad state lately and always spoke like she was talking like she was talking about the aftermath. My mom also said that she sent a bracelet to my mom and said it was for me to give her dowry when I got married, what the hell do you think she's going on?! ”

I thought about it and said:

"Your mother said that she was followed by that kind of thing after she went up the mountain to pick mushrooms, is this her speculation or what?"

Shen Mo thought for a while and said:

"It should be her speculation, but it's certainly not entirely speculation, there must be some other reason. But I can't say it either, I asked my mom, and she wasn't sure what was going on! ”

"And what about the chickens and ducks she said? Your cousin lives in the building, how do you raise those things? Where to keep it? ”

"It seems to be in the courtyard downstairs, you can also see this building, there are not a few families in total, basically they have all moved away, it seems that there are only three or five families left in a building, and they are all empty nesters."

I lit a cigarette, took two puffs, and said lightly:

"Tomorrow morning, I'll go around the nearby mountains and see where her chickens and ducks are, and I think the two things must be related."

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