"This should be it?" Lao Zhou glanced at me, his expression was a little suspicious, although Zhao Ying is no longer in the world, her youthful, beautiful, and clean appearance still left a deep impression on me and Lao Zhou, and it is difficult for us to imagine that she was born here.

We don't look down on this kind of 'slum', but we always feel that the people here seem to be a little indifferent, alienated, and even defensive, although Zhao Ying is no longer human, but we don't feel this kind of thing in her, so she lives in such an environment, not only Lao Zhou, but even I am not very sure.

Thinking like this, I took the note with the address from Lao Zhou's hand, although the handwriting on this note has been a little muddy by Lao Zhou's sweat, but it is clearly written, this is it.

That's right, I pinched the note in my hand and gave Lao Zhou a positive look.

But in the next moment, Lao Zhou and I fell into another problem, Zhao Ying's home was found, what identity should we use to go to her house, and then find the clues we need? Zhao Ying was in a hurry that day, and only said one word, go to my house

"Otherwise, let's say it's her classmate?" Lao Zhou inquired about Zhao Ying's private information, she is really a college student, she is a junior today, her grades are not bad, and she has obtained the qualification to send graduate students.

It's very embarrassing, she went like this at this flower-like age, and it is very strange that she died less than three days ago, and the body was actually sent to the medical school as a teaching corpse and that kind of thing happened.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help frowning, and then said to Lao Zhou: "Look at your vicissitudes of life, and you don't pretend to be other people's classmates and say that it is a staff member of some department of the school, come to condole and comfort her family, right?" As I spoke, I took out my wallet and counted out a thousand yuan, which in 2000 was not much, and it was not too much as a condolence payment.

"So that's it?" Lao Zhou understood what I meant, he also took out his wallet, counted 500 yuan and put it in the stack of money in my hand, and then said a little embarrassed: "I don't have as much money as you, and this month's money is almost used." ”

I didn't say anything, I know Lao Zhou, his family conditions are quite superior, and his own money is also considered to be in the upper middle among his peers, so he has no concept of money, and he is basically a pleasure-type moonlight clan.

But he was very kind, and it could be seen that he suddenly sympathized with Zhao Ying's environment.

After discussing a couple of sentences, Lao Zhou and I walked towards Zhao Ying's house, we don't need to say anything about superfluous words, according to the tacit understanding between me and Lao Zhou, these are not needed.

Knocking on the door is Lao Zhou, compared to me, Lao Zhou looks more kind, because he is sociable, but also loves to laugh and I face strangers a little difficult to contact, in fact, it is not that I am indifferent, but I am not very sociable, in many cases, even a little shy, just use indifference to cover.

"Is anyone there? Anyone? "I don't know if there is really no one in the road, it has been almost a minute since Lao Zhou knocked on the door, and there is no movement in the house.

But since we had come here, we were not willing to give up easily, so we could only knock for a while in a row, and at this time, a woman came out of the shantytown next to us, standing by the door, and stretched out her head to look at us.

I was a little embarrassed, so I simply turned my head coldly again, but Lao Zhou smiled very kindly and said, "Sister, is this Zhao Ying's home?" ”

Originally, the people here had an inexplicable wariness of people, but I don't know if it was Lao Zhou's sister, the woman who called her felt comfortable, she replied kindly, and said, "Yes, who are you?" You don't know that Zhao Ying has already "

At this time, Lao Zhou appropriately showed a sad expression, but he was not pretending, he said: "Yes, we know that Zhao Ying has left, and we are the cadres of her school's student union, this time we are here to visit Zhao Ying and comfort her family." ”

"Oh oh, I just said that you two young men look like people, not like bad people, the school is quite kind, and they sent people to visit. You also have a heart, oh, our area has not been peaceful in the past two years, so I am a little wary of strangers. I knew that you were here to visit and condole, and I would help you find someone. With that, the middle-aged woman walked out of the house very enthusiastically.

She didn't knock on the door like me and Lao Zhou, but walked to the window next to the shed built by Zhao Ying's house, knocked on the window vigorously, and shouted: "Grandma Wen, Grandma Wen don't sleep, someone is looking for it, get up and open the door." ”

Lao Zhou and I looked at her with some inquiry, once she was defenseless against us, the whole person was quite cheerful, and said to me and Lao Zhou: "This is her grandmother at home, her ears are not good, and she can only call her by the window, and she can't hear when she knocks on the door." Poor Zhao Ying, now that she is gone, her grandmother has no one to take care of her. Her parents and younger brother are not in trouble. Mom and Dad know how to play cards, this Zhao Ying left, it was dark to play, I heard that I owe people money This brother will mix with society all day long, and some indiscriminate people will be together, that day I looked at the knife, but it was scary. When Zhao Ying was there, he also educated him. ”

As soon as the middle-aged woman opened the chatterbox, she couldn't finish talking, but Lao Zhou and I didn't mean to be impatient, but we had some understanding of Zhao Ying's life, and felt that this girl's character should really be very good, otherwise the neighbors would not praise it so much.

In addition, I just feel that she is more pitiful than we imagined, and I originally saw that fate could be changed but didn't want to, which strengthened Lao Zhou's determination to help Zhao Ying and me.

It's just that the two of us are careless, just sympathizing and sighing for Zhao Ying, but at the same time, we missed an important clue at that time, which is what the middle-aged woman said, this piece of the country, the past two years are not peaceful If you noticed this clue at that time

However, this is only if, where are there so many ifs in life?

"Speaking of which, when Zhao Ying was here, this small alley had to be clean, and when she was in school, she often cleaned this girl in our alley, it's a pity, I feel sorry for her." As she spoke, the middle-aged woman's eyes turned red, and it seemed that she really had some feelings for Zhao Ying, otherwise she wouldn't be like this.

Lao Zhou and I also showed a hint of heaviness on our faces, according to Zhao Ying, the reason why she was so unwilling was not because her body was desecrated, but because she died a little unclear, who was so cruel and harmed her? So you did it?

I remembered the dense soul and clenched my fist in my trouser belt again, and I thought the same as last night, if I can use this skill at this time, it is my duty to bring the beast to justice.

While we were silent, the middle-aged woman was surprised that there was no movement in the room, and was about to shout again, when an old voice finally sounded in the room: "Who is looking for me?" ”

"Grandma Wen, it's from Zhao Ying's school, I'm here to condolence you, hurry up and open the door. Not a bad person" Despite saying this, the middle-aged woman couldn't help but look at me and Lao Zhou, and she was still a little uneasy.

I heard that it was someone from Zhao Ying's school in the room, so I was silent for a while, and after a while, I said, "Oh, that's coming."

The old man's movements are always slower, Lao Zhou and I waited at the door for about a minute, the door was finally opened, and as soon as the door of the house opened, a damp and moldy smell came from the house.

"Oh, Grandma Wen, how long has it been since this dead Zhao Ying's parents came back?" We haven't seen the person who opened the door clearly, this middle-aged woman rushed into the house first, Lao Zhou and I understood what she meant, and came to see, maybe we were afraid that we would bully the elderly?

This middle-aged woman is very good-hearted, not as indifferent as she showed before, although she littered I thought nonsense, and then I saw a gray-haired, feeling a little difficult to stand, looking thin old man standing in front of the door, couldn't help but subconsciously help her.

"Old man, slow down."

"Okay, good" The old man's reaction was a little slow, and he didn't have much defense against me and Lao Zhou, and let me help her into the house I felt a little sour in my heart, not because of the overflow of sympathy, but because I saw that the old man's clothes were a little dirty, and his hair was a little knotted, it should have been a long time since anyone paid attention to it?

I took a look at the whole room and realized how messy it was, with unfinished meals, messy debris, clothes thrown everywhere, cobwebs in the corners, and musty smell coming from the road.

"This Zhao Ying's parents are really sad that their daughter is gone, and she can't ignore the old man. If I hadn't delivered food to the old man for several days in a row, would I have starved the old man to death at home? This enthusiastic middle-aged woman was scolding, and Lao Zhou's eyes were already slightly red.

I turned my head to look at the wall, there was still a portrait of Zhao Ying, smiling brightly, squinting and looking at me carefully, I suddenly groaned, and did not hurry to speak because there was a layer of black gas on the portrait, indicating that the dead person really had grievances.

This has nothing to do with Zhao Ying's own ghost, it seems that her ghost can't come back here, but what is the grievance?

At this time, in my ears, there was a weak whimper of the old man, and I saw that it was Zhao Ying's grandmother who was crying, was it because of the reason for mentioning Zhao Ying?