At this time, the fat man had already turned around, and when he heard the security guard say this, he felt as if he was deliberately finding fault and making things difficult for himself.

So the fat man became angry and shouted angrily at the security guard: "What do you mean? You're on a hook with us today, aren't you? Do you believe that my fat man made you unable to see the sun tomorrow!? ”

The security guard in the door saw that the fat man was so threatening to him, and immediately said angrily: "Come in if you have the ability, I am really not afraid of people like you!" ”

As he spoke, he had already held the baton in his hand again.

Although Gao Chao was helpless and unhappy, he still quickly grabbed the fat man, and then said to the security guard in the door: "This master, don't blame my brother for talking like this, you see that we came all the way to find Xia Lao to do something, you just said that you will not be allowed to enter without the consent of the owner, it's okay, this is your rule, we should abide by it, but now that we have told you, we are looking for Xia Lao, and you also know Xia Lao, it's a big deal, you can help run errands, go and ask him the old man, Let's just say that someone from Qibaoxuan in Qingshuitang has come to see him, and he will definitely let us in......"

At this point, the security guard shook his head in the door, waved his hand, and said to Gao Chao helplessly: "I said brother, didn't I deliberately embarrass you and didn't let you go in to find his old man's house, but you don't know it yet?" Xia Lao, he's gone! ”

Gao Chao and the fat man were stunned for a moment, and said at the same time: "Gone? ”

The fat man hurriedly asked, "Where are you going?" He doesn't live here anymore? ”

The security guard glared at the fat man, and then said angrily: "It's not that I'm gone, I'm dead, and I'm no longer alive!" ”

When Gao Chao and the fat man heard this, they looked at each other, Gao Chao secretly said that it was not good, but he didn't expect that he was still late, so he hurriedly asked: "Master, is this true?" ”

The security guard nodded, and said with some sadness on his face: "Can this still be fake?" His old man is usually very good to us security guards, so when he was at the memorial service, we security guards also specially asked for leave to participate in it and send him off for the last time. ”

Gao Chao nodded, and asked again: "Then when did his old man leave?" ”

The security guard sighed and said, "Not long, last month." ”

When the fat man heard this, he sighed and said, "Come on, our brothers are a step late, the old gentleman has traveled west, let's think about other authoritative figures." ”

Gao Chao was also very helpless, but since everyone was gone, he had no choice but to nod silently, thinking about going back with the fat man.

But when they were about to turn around and leave, the security guard in the door said to them again: "Hey, what are you two looking for Xia Lao for?" ”

For such a question, how can Gao Chao and the fat man answer it?

However, Gao Chao replied, and immediately replied: "We are looking for Xia Lao to let him see something." ”

The fat man was stunned on the side, he looked at Gao Chao, but he didn't know why Gao Chao said this to a stranger.

But Gao Chao knows why, because he understands that trust is often built in the mutual exchange of information, so when a person asks a question, the best way is to answer truthfully, so that he will get some equally honest information from the person who asked the question.

Gao Chao's idea was quickly verified, and the security guard listened to Gao Chao's answer, nodded thoughtfully, and then said: "Although Mr. Xia is no longer here, his granddaughter came over today, and she should still be at Xia Lao's house." ”

Gao Chao was suddenly a little surprised in his heart, because his father once mentioned that Mr. Xia has been a loner all his life and has a strange personality, he has not even married, how can he have a granddaughter?

If it is an ordinary person, he may not pay special attention to this matter, because the person he is looking for is no longer there, even if his granddaughter is here, he can't help much, but Gao Chao is by no means an ordinary person, at this moment, in his opinion, since this matter has been touched by him, and there are strange things in it, then he must take care of it, and he must find out, because he is superb, and Gao Chao is definitely not an indifferent person.

So he didn't even hesitate, so he said directly to the security guard: "Great, master, can you contact Mr. Xia's granddaughter, just tell her, Qingshuitang Qibaoxuan's old friend is here, and he also brought something that Xia Lao is very interested in." ”

Perhaps out of respect for Mr. Xia, the security guard has decided to help Gao Chao and the fat man, so a respected person, even if he dies one day, the emotions he left in the world are still affecting the world, from another point of view, this is a continuation of his life.

The security guard nodded, then turned around and walked into the security room on the side, on his desk, there was a visitor's sign-in book, he looked through the content of the previous page, found the phone number that claimed to be Mr. Xia's granddaughter, and then used the fixed landline in the security room to dial the phone over there.

On the other end of the phone, a natural and sweet voice came, and when the security guard relayed Gao Chao's words to her, the other end of the phone was silent for a while, and then Mr. Xia's granddaughter really agreed to Gao Chao and the fat man's request and allowed them to enter Yuelu Villa.

Things in the world are always like this, when a person is determined to do something, he often goes through hardships, but it backfires, and finally ends up in a failure, but when a person does not report much hope, he suddenly finds that the water has come to pass, and he has no intention of inserting willows, but the willows have become shady, which is simply a mockery of life for people.

Gao Chao and the fat man thanked the security guard, and they were already walking along the winding mountain road in the villa area of Yuelu Villa.

Although the path in the villa area is lit, but it is particularly deep, when they bypassed the layers of bamboo forests, rockeries, courtyards, and finally according to the address given to them by the security guard, when they came to the villa in front of Xia Lao, the two of them really believed that the original villa was indeed a broken house in Yuelu Villa.

In fact, it is not only a dilapidated house in Yuelu Villa, but even in the countryside, it can definitely be regarded as a dilapidated house.

This villa is a three-storey small building, the top floor is a slope roof, the top is full of ruins and broken tiles, the outer wall of the whole building has long been peeled off, under the dim light, only the gray-white concrete is exposed, all the front windows, basically do not see a complete glass, and the wooden window frames have also been decayed, as if as long as there is a wind, it can blow off the window edges, and even the whole small building is blown down.

At this moment, the fat man felt very puzzled, so he asked Gao Chao beside him: "Old Gao, can such a house be inhabited?" ”

Gao Chao is also thinking about this problem, although his father once said that Xia Lao's house is very broken, but no matter how broken it is, it must be able to live in people, and now it seems that living in such a small building, I am afraid it is not as comfortable as sleeping under the overpass.

Gao Chao was also puzzled, so he said to the fat man beside him: "I don't know if I can live here, but Xia Lao did live here before his death, I think there must be some problems here." ”

As he spoke, Gao Chao had already walked forward.

The lawn in front of the villa has long been turned into a dilapidated garden overgrown with weeds, and in this season the grass is yellow and shriveled, and among the grass that is half a man high, there is a path leading to the door of the small building.

On the path, there is only gravel, which is very awkward, and there will be a crisp sound when walking, Gao Chao grabbed a handful of gravel on the path with his hand, and looked at it carefully thoughtfully.

The fat man was not interested in this gravel path, but he was not used to walking on it, he preferred to walk in the grass next to it, and then cursed, and quickly ran through the grass to the small building.

The main entrance of the small building is wooden, miserable white color, the paint surface on it has long been dry and cracked, and it seems that the door panel is also a little deformed, the fat man knocked lightly twice, but no one responded in the door, so the fat man ran to the window on the side to look in, but he couldn't see anything, and the small building was dark.

The fat man felt that something was wrong, so he quickly turned around and whispered to Gao Chao: "Old Gao, there is a problem, the lights in this house are all dark, there is no light at all, it seems that there is no one at all." ”

Originally, Gao Chao was full of suspicions about that Xia Lao's granddaughter, but at this moment, seeing that the fat man was right, the light was indeed dark in the small building, and there was no response to knocking on the door, he couldn't help but feel a little weird, so he hurried to the door and decided to go in first to have a look.

So Gao Chao said to the fat man: "You wait for me outside, if there is something I will call you!" ”

The fat man nodded and said, "Be careful." ”

Gao Chao turned the handle on the wooden door, but found that the door was locked, and he pushed it twice harder, only to find that the wooden door was still strong and not as fragile as it looked.

So he stood at the door, knocked on it twice, and shouted, "Is there anyone?" There's no one for me to go in! ”

There was still no response, only the dark windows and the miserable white wooden doors.

So Gao Chao lifted his breath and decided to kick the door open, this is still a skill he learned in the army in the past, although he has not done it for several years, but at the moment he is still full of confidence in himself.

But who knew that just when he was about to raise his leg and kick hard, in the corner on the left side of the small building, someone suddenly shouted softly: "Stop!" What do you want? ”