Chapter Seventy-Six: The Office
With these chairs, the old cat seemed to see the clues. None of us will doubt the judgment of the old cat, this guy is very thief.
"Look at these chairs, this room is sunny, and if these chairs had been here for twenty years, they would have been sunburned. But no, they all look brand new. This means that they will certainly not be here for more than twenty years. "But they all have scratches on them, which means that these chairs have been sat on many times." What does this mean? These chairs have only been installed here in the last 20 years, and they have been used for a long time since they were placed...... The abrasion marks are all similar, indicating that they are being exploited at the same frequency, i.e. at least five people are present here regularly. ”
The old cat preached the Tao, and we were all convinced.
Rhubarb looked at the room and shook his head: "There is obviously a sign prohibiting entry here, but there are so many people moving here in private...... It's weird......"
Xiao Feng also nodded: "It's really strange, let's go find Grandpa's office first." ”
Saying that, Xiao Feng led us to move to the second room next to us, but after coming in, the situation inside surprised us again.
The room was empty, and there was nothing inside. Only on the wall is a picture of eight horses.
This picture of the Eight Horses is a very common painting, and this one is just a very ordinary fake, without any details worthy of consideration.
The old cat looked at it for a moment, pointed to the painting and said, "This picture of the Eight Horses has been here for many years, and you see, even the color is about to fade." ”
The old cat is right, the white horse in the painting has become a yellow horse, and the black horse has become a brown horse, which has indeed gone through a lot of wind and sun.
And my focus was on Xiao Feng, looking at this room, I quickly asked, "Xiao Feng, is this your grandfather's office?" ”
Xiao Feng looked at it. Shaking his head slightly: "No, it's too close, the next office may be my grandfather's office." ”
Since there was nothing else in this room except a faded picture of the Eight Horses, we simply left and went straight to the next office.
However, when we walked to this office, the four of us were stunned, and we were all stupid.
Because the door of this office is different from the door of the rest of the rooms. Although the doors of the other rooms are also very old, they are all dark brown solid wood door frames, and the gold-colored metal painted doorknobs look more decent.
However, this door does not have a wall frame at all, and the iron door with green paint has peeled off the paint on the outside. The scarlet rust iron door frame was exposed, and the doorknob was a round metal head at the lowest end of silver, with a yellowed seal attached to it.
The seal reads in Chinese characters with a capital letter: January 1996 seal.
It seems that this place has been sealed for a long time, and if this seal was really sealed in January 1996, then it has been at least nineteen years and eleven months by now.
"It's here, it's here!" Xiao Feng suddenly whispered excitedly: "I still remember this door, I still remember this green iron door, kick it, and it can make a long and clattering sound!" "Servant birds.
Unexpectedly, Xiaofeng was also a fun-loving little girl when she was a child. There is also a bad habit of kicking the door.
But seeing that this room has been sealed for so long, I don't know what secrets are inside?
From ninety-six to the present, such a long time, I don't know what has become of it and how much ash has fallen in it.
However, at this time, the old cat suddenly reached out and touched the seal, and said suspiciously: "No, this seal has been touched." ”
"Huh?" When we heard this, we hurriedly leaned over.
The old cat touched the seal, and gently lifted it, and the lower end that fit the wall was suddenly removed.
That's when I noticed that the lower end of the seal was very strange.
There was a trace of the dried glue on the seal, but there was something black and dusty in the dried glue.
Moreover, after the glue dried, the solid layer was clearly divided into several layers, with different colors and shapes.
"See? There is actually some dust in these glues, and they are layered, which means that this seal has been plastered with glue more than once. To be clear, the seal had been glued to the door several times. The old cat said in a deep voice.
"You mean that this seal was first sealed in '96, but in the time between '96 and now, there have been other people who have gone in and snuck in and glued the seal to the door?" Rhubarb asked.
The old cat nodded: "Yes, that's why there are several layers of seals, and there will be dust sticking to this seal." ”
Xiao Feng was a little discouraged when he heard this: "Could the important evidence in Grandpa's office have been taken away in advance by someone with ulterior motives?" ”
The old cat shook his head helplessly: "It's very likely, but we should also go and see it anyway." ”
Saying that, Xiao Feng and I got into this room first, although we entered through the door, but the ghost entered the door with a yin wind.
Sometimes a room is very well sealed, and the doors and windows are closed tightly, but some people will feel that the wind is blowing, which is not an illusion, but a ghost through the door or through the wall.
So now that I'm in this sealed room, it's the same effect.
As soon as I entered the door, a smell of dust came to my face, and the air flow in the room began to flow because of the yin wind I brought with me.
However, when I entered the door, I was shocked to find a huge bookshelf in front of the door!
The bookshelf is supposed to be placed against the wall, but the bookshelf in front of me is placed horizontally and directly in the aisle, and to exaggerate, this bookshelf almost acts as a screen.
However, such a bookshelf makes the whole room look eerie.
After a while, Xiao Feng also came in, and was stunned for a moment when he saw the bookshelf, and then said with a smile: "It's here!" This is Grandpa's room! ”
I asked, "The bookshelves in your grandfather's room have always been arranged like this?" Doesn't that seem too strange? ”
Xiao Feng said with a smile: "Grandpa seems to have a strong sense of privacy, he always felt that it was too unreasonable to see his desk as soon as he entered the door, so he simply put this bookshelf as a screen, and said that this is also in line with Feng Shui." ”
I suddenly nodded, and walked towards the room with Xiao Feng.
However, when I looked down, I saw a thin layer of dust on the ground, and perhaps many people had come in over the years, but certainly no one had come recently, because the dust on the ground had said it all.
Turning from the bookshelf is a sofa where two chairs rush together, and in front of the chair is a small round coffee table.
On the small coffee table is a boxy tea box with red-crowned cranes painted on it, which was a common decorative painting of that era.
I reached out and lifted the lid of the tea box, and found that there was still tea powder that had already dried up and blackened......
It seems that after the disappearance of Xiao Feng's grandfather, the layout and structure of this place have not changed.
Underneath the coffee table is a set of tea utensils, but it has also been stained with the traces of time.
Then there is an old writing desk, made of dark brown solid wood, very old-fashioned design, and there are drawers everywhere, which is very inconvenient.
There was a chair stuck under the desk, just as old.
Behind the chair are tightly closed windows, with plain white curtains, and the end of the curtain is embroidered with small red letters: Serve the people.
Everything was old-fashioned, and when I entered this room, I seemed to instantly travel back in time to ninety-five years.
There are a lot of things on the desk, the most striking is a huge radio with a silver alarm clock next to it.
While I was lingering on these things, Xiao Feng suddenly hugged a photo frame and sobbed in a low voice.
I looked down and saw two people in that frame.
Grandpa and granddaughter.
Needless to say, the identities of these two people are also known.
Xiao Feng's eyes were big and cute when he was young, and Mr. Liang Xuexiu was also a very handsome middle-aged man in the photo.
The photographs were in color, and at that time there was already color photography technology, but because it had been placed on the desk, the whole picture had begun to fade.
Looking at Xiao Feng, who couldn't cry, I gently patted Xiao Feng's shoulder and comforted him in a low voice......