29. Midnight Bazaar

A friend's house downstairs is a Buddhist club, in fact, when I say this, the old Zhengzhou people know where it is. I used to sneak in this Buddhist club when I was a child, and I also learned to kneel on the mat and kowtow to the Buddha like an adult. The bhikshunis who practiced inside were very kind to the children, and as long as they didn't mess around, they would leave us alone and give us fruits and snacks to eat. However, it seems that this Buddhist society has moved a few years ago. But there are still people who go there to burn incense.

The story was told to me by a friend's neighbor, Aunt Zhao, who is now a very devout Buddhist. Insist on chanting sutras every day. But a few years ago, she was not like this, at that time she was just a housewife who was busy with firewood, rice, oil and salt every day. Her belief in Buddhism was entirely due to a peculiar experience. We all think that it was the Buddha who enlightened her.

It all started with his son. Aunt Zhao's son is a typical troubled teenager. People are extremely smart, but if they don't study well, they stop going to school after graduating from junior high school, and they mingle with a group of young people all day long. But there is nothing wrong with it other than drinking and often staying up late. And the child's mouth is very sweet, and he greets the neighbors when he sees him. So the family didn't pay much attention to it.

In 2009, the child somehow coaxed Aunt Zhao to relent, and gave him some money, because the child said that he wanted to learn to do business. As a result, I went out for a few months, and came back in a beautiful way, saying that I was in the coal business with others and made a lot of money. Ask him where the money is? The kid triumphantly took out a title deed, and it turned out that he had paid a down payment to buy a house. As we all know, 2009 was a period of crazy expansion of China's real estate market. It's incredible that this kid has the vision to buy a house. Aunt Zhou was so happy that even the neighbors, relatives and friends praised the child for his promising. As a result, this troubled teenager at the beginning became a prodigal son in everyone's eyes in a blink of an eye.

In the admiration of everyone, the child began to move around, encouraging relatives and friends to give him money as capital and make a lot of money. However, many people rejected him. Most people praised him, but said it was impossible to give him a lot of money to run it. However, he was not without gain, and at his instigation, his uncle, an honest worker, agreed to him, and mortgaged his house to him as capital, in a vain attempt to make a lot of money through this "capable" nephew.

As time passed, the truth was revealed, and it turned out that the child's so-called success was all false. He didn't do any business at all, and he didn't get a penny back. That so-called title deed is also fake. This kid has never returned the more than 100,000 yuan he defrauded this time, and he has not been heard from until today.

Aunt Zhou was so angry that she fell seriously ill. Almost died in the hospital. After the old couple sold the house and repaid the money cheated by the child, they begged others not to call the police. The two spent all their savings and almost ended up on the streets. With everyone's help, I reluctantly rented a hut to live in. Over the past year, Aunt Zhou has been trapped in an embarrassing life, and she misses her departed child, and washes her face with tears every day. The body is also getting worse and worse.

One night, she couldn't sleep and leaned on the window trying to catch her breath. Her window was facing the side street in front of the Buddhist Society. She was surprised to find that the little street was so lively at night. On both sides of the street, snacks are made, such as fried rice cakes, fried fritters, steamed buns, and oil tea porridge...... The whole nine yards. The middle of the side street is full of people. She looked at her watch, and it was three o'clock at night. I usually don't pay attention to it, and I can't imagine that there is a night market here.

Aunt Zhou couldn't help but open the door and walked around the street. The street was not long, and she felt very tired when she walked to the corner of the street, so she sat down at a food stall, intending to rest for a while and then go back. At some point, a bhikshuni sat on the seat next to her. When the nun saw that she was not looking good, she began to talk to her. Aunt Zhou couldn't tell the reason herself, but she felt that this nun was very trustworthy, so she poured out all the bitter water in her stomach. As for what the nun said to her, Aunt Zhou refused to tell us, only said that the nun was sincere and seductive, full of wisdom, and this remark opened Aunt Zhou's heart and soothed the bitterness in her heart, and from then on, Aunt Zhou completely converted to Buddhism. From the second day, he chanted the Buddha every day. Now, her situation has improved a lot, not only is she well, but her husband is a few years older, but because of his outstanding skills, he has been rehired by the factory, and his income is also good.

There was only one thing she could never figure out, and that was that the next day, when she looked out of the window at 10 a.m., all she saw was an empty street.

30. Molars

There is an East Street in Zhengzhou, and I have a friend who lives here. The community he lives in is relatively old, and he doesn't even have a garage, so he parks his car in the yard of the community at night.

Once working overtime, he came back late. The downstairs is already full of cars. He had no choice but to drive in, stopping at the innermost part of the courtyard. When he got home, his wife had already gone to sleep. He was just about to take a shower when he suddenly realized that he had forgotten his phone in the car. He was a typical cell phone addict who had to put on his shoes and go back to the car to get his phone.

At this time, it was already 11 o'clock at night, he was walking alone in the quiet community, and after retrieving his mobile phone, he walked back, and suddenly found a very dilapidated two-story building next to it. It looked like it had been uninhabited for a long time, the small building was dirty and messy, and the glass on the windows was broken. He doesn't usually go here, and he hasn't paid attention to this small building. At this time, I was curious. Walk to the window of the small building and shine a flashlight into the window.

He imagined that such a dilapidated small building should be messy and dirty inside, but he was surprised to find that although the outside of the small building was dilapidated, the inside was neat and spotless.

The staircase of this small building is inside the house, just to the left of the first floor, a spiral interior staircase. Kind of like our duplex now. He was thinking that the design of this building was quite chic. Suddenly, he felt a chill, as if something had passed through his body. He shuddered. I didn't dare to look at it anymore, so I went home.

The next morning, while still asleep, he was woken up by his wife. His wife said, "What's wrong with you yesterday, grinding your teeth all night, and grinding it specifically against my ears, it's noisy." He was stunned after hearing this: "I don't have this problem!" "You're still pretending, do you want me to record it for you?"

Not only this day, but later this friend grinded his teeth as soon as he fell asleep, and the grinding was terrifying, "creaking", and later scared his wife. One day, my friend's mother-in-law came to see them, and the old lady was an old resident of this community. After listening to this, the old lady's face was solemn: "It's okay to go and get close to that small building." It's not clean in that building. This friend is even more curious. Urging his mother-in-law to ask what was going on. The old lady told a strange story she had seen with her own eyes when she was young.

There is no way to verify when this small building was built, anyway, no one lived in it when the old lady was young, and the neighborhood said that the building was not clean. It is said that there are homeless people who spend the night in it, and they always hear inexplicable footsteps, and when they get up to check, there is no one. Later, no one dared to enter this building. But strangely, although no one went in, the small building was kept clean.

There are always some people in the world who don't believe in evil, and a young man nearby is not only not afraid when he hears about this building, but also has to find out. The young man was an orphan and had no relatives. Born silly and bold. So, despite the persuasion of others, he brought a bed and lived in a small building.

The small building was very clean and almost spotless. The young man went up to the second floor and slept at the top of the stairs. On the first night, the young man was very alert and did not sleep soundly. In the middle of the night, I heard footsteps, and it sounded like I was going up stairs. The young man shouted, "Who? The footsteps were gone. He waited all night and nothing happened.

The next day, the lad came again, but today he had a flashlight. In the middle of the night, the footsteps sounded again, and the young man jumped up, turned on his flashlight, and shone towards the stairs. He was amazed to find that there was a young girl standing on the stairs. "Who are you?" The young man snapped. The girl waved her hand in a panic: "Don't shout, I'm also a resident of this neighborhood." When he heard that it was a nearby resident, the young man was relieved and called the girl up, and the two began to talk. The girl claimed that her surname was Liu, and her home was nearby, but the house was demolished, so she went upstairs at night to see if she could stay. The two men talked quite speculatively, and it was not until dawn that the girl left.

The young man was also a bachelor, and when he saw that the girl was beautiful and the two were quite speculative, he gradually fell in love with the girl. In fact, he was also confused, how dare a single girl sneak into an unclean small building in the middle of the night! Seeing a strange man, not only was he not afraid, but he talked happily! Why do you have to leave before dawn? If you think about it, you have a lot of doubts. But the young man was carried away by love, not only did he not want this, but he was fascinated, and stayed in the small building every night to meet his goddess. And the girl never missed the appointment.

At first, everyone didn't know, and when they saw that the young man was fine, they praised him for being brave, but after a long time, the young man missed his words, and was tricked out of his true feelings by a few buddies. A few buddies were curious, and everyone secretly discussed it and went to see what was going on at night.

In the evening, a few buddies slipped into the small building, carefully climbed to the second floor, and sure enough, they heard the young man's voice, but a few people looked at it through the hazy moonlight, and they were so frightened that they couldn't possess their bodies. There was no young girl, I saw that the young man was hugging a dry wood and talking to himself. Several people fled from the small building.

The next day, the young man came to them angrily to settle accounts, saying that they frightened his girlfriend last night, and said that his girlfriend said that he couldn't go to that small building in the future, just because his buddies were making trouble. He left after a lot of noise, and when he left, he snorted angrily that he had made an appointment with his girlfriend and would have a new place to date in the future, and he would never let others know about it again.

From that day on, the lad was missing. After someone called the police, the police did an investigation, but to no avail, and later he was included in the missing population, and to this day there is still no one alive or dead.

It's been a few years, and my friend's teeth grinding problem disappeared naturally two years ago. And that weird little building is still in their community, but it's still unattended and unwatched.