Chapter 10: The Old Man

He stood for a few moments before leaving the sports park. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info found a commissary to pay up the phone bill, and he called Dahong.

"Hey, Takuko? Where did you go, kid, and the phone has not been able to get through? I won't be there for the class reunion either! The voice on the other end of the phone was loud, although it was a complaining tone, but Zhuo Ji heard it warm in his heart.

"Da Hong, I'...... There's something that might be a bit of a hassle, see if you can help......" He didn't know how to describe it for a moment.

"If there's a fart, let it go! When did you become a mother-in-law and a mother-in-law? It's a troublesome fart, what you can help isn't called trouble, and what you can't help can't be troublesome! ”

"I have a neighbor named Liu Quan, who has been involved in a criminal case and has not been closed for more than a month and is still in detention. Do you think there's anything I can do to see him? ”

There was silence on the other end of the line.

After a while, a serious voice sounded: "Zhuozi, you tell me the truth, what's the matter, do you have anything to do with this case?" ”

"Great Flood...... I can only say this, classmate, you have known me for so many years, even if everyone in the world commits crimes, it is impossible for me to commit crimes! But this thing...... I don't really know how to tell you. Anyway, you just believe me, I have nothing to do with the case, I want to know some information for various reasons! ”

Silent.

"Detention facilities in your jurisdiction? Let's put it this way, Zhuozi, I may not be able to help, but I try my best. Don't turn off your phone, you kid, there's a message to notify you. ”

"Thank you......"

Zhuo Gui really didn't feel good in his heart. Let's talk about Yang Xu, what will happen if you ask for money for the third time? It's really hard to ask for someone, and people must be slowly alienating themselves. His father has a good saying, what kind of people are mixed in what kind of circle. You are poor, and if you are rich, you don't want to have anything to do with you, not because you are poor, but because a large number of facts have proved that poor people just want to find people to borrow money and cause trouble to others. Everyone is willing to associate with the right person and the rich, and it is not necessarily that the poor are poor and love the rich, because at least everyone is in the same situation, at least you know that people have a little money at home and will not open their mouths to you and will not cause you trouble!

In this society, trouble is a wall, and no matter how deep the relationship is, it will be isolated into strangers......

After checking the Internet for a long time, I found a place to rent 200 yuan a month, the staff dormitory of the old textile factory. It's a remote part of Xicheng District, far from the bustle of the city center, and even though it's daylight, it's deserted. It is rumored to be demolished and converted into a large wholesale market. But the developer seems to have been involved in something and stopped the project, and everyone else is staring, waiting for the developer to transfer the land at a low price. The three two-storey terraced houses are a bit like tube houses, and the residents are already in their teens. Zhuo Ji walked around, and there were only about less than ten households still living here. The house he rented was in the innermost room on the second floor, and the stairs were at the end, and this one was only lived by an old lady downstairs, and now there were two households. The landlord was a middle-aged woman, and when he was introduced, he kept receiving calls about mahjong tiles, and he hurried away as soon as he handed over the keys to the house. Pay one year's rent for two months, and there is a deposit of 1,000 yuan, if the house is demolished during the lease period, the deposit and the remaining rent will be refunded, and if it is less than a full month, it will be counted as 10 yuan a day. If you quit the lease early, the deposit will not be refunded, and it will be counted as a full month of living for the whole month. The landlord is very careful and a shrewd person, but Zhuo Hui didn't have the heart to care about these small profits, so he went directly to the bank to transfer the accounts before coming here to see the house.

It's not popular, it's a little gloomy, full of shabby debris and graffiti, and there is a faint urine mixed with the irritating smell of honeycomb coal. The government has made it clear that no honeycomb coal can be used anywhere, but no one has the time to take care of these people who live at the bottom of the city.

Stepping through the door, the dozen square meters did not seem crowded, because in addition to a single bed, there was only a folding wardrobe, a square table and a square stool. There is no toilet, if it is convenient, go downstairs and turn left, next to the second building.

This time it cost three thousand yuan, Zhuo Ji lay on the bed staring at the ceiling in a daze. The ceiling is also interesting, the gaps in the prefabricated panels are clearly visible, so don't leak when it rains.

When he just graduated, his mother gave him 20,000 yuan, and let him donate it to the hospital! As a result, there is no disease, and there are more special skills to the hell! Mom and Dad didn't know that he had used up all his money, and it had only been more than a year, so how could he have used it up when he had always been thrifty. And didn't you work a few jobs, but you still have some income.

What kind of livelihood do you find, don't you go to the construction site to move bricks? Top student of the Police Academy...... Thinking about it, he fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was night, and I took out my old-fashioned phone and looked at it, half past eleven. There was faint movement downstairs, he got up and went out to see, the old lady downstairs set up a small table at the door of her house, and set up some incense, candles, paper money or something. It's quiet here, but the first or two buildings that are still inhabited by people have already turned off the lights and gone to bed at this time, who does the old lady sell things to? He went downstairs to the old lady's door.

Next to the table was a honeycomb coal stove with a jug of water warm from a jug of pointed spouts. The old lady sat at the back of the stall and read the words.

"What time is it, old man, and you haven't slept yet?"

The old lady opened her half-closed eyes, looked at Zhuo Gui's weakness and said, "The old man can't sleep." ”

"There's no one around here, who are you selling this thing to? If you want to sell it, you can sell it on the street. ”

"It's half a month of July, and someone always comes to buy it, and if they can't walk, they put it at the door."

"How long have you been there? One night? Although it's summer, the night breeze is still a little cool, don't catch a cold. ”

"My granddaughter doesn't come back, she works the night shift, and she has been afraid of ghosts since she was a child, and she won't be afraid when she comes back when I set up a stall here."

Zhuo Hui nodded, and chatted with the old lady, who moved out a small stool for him to sit on.

This old man's name is Xia Qiongfang, who has participated in the Anti-American Volunteer Army, Zhuo Gui is in awe, and the old man is afraid that he will be at least eighty miles away. I finally came back alive, went home and stayed for a few years and was assigned to work in a textile factory, until the textile factory closed down. The old man never married, and her granddaughter was an abandoned baby picked up from the back of the textile factory 18 years ago. The old man who lives on his pension is not short of money, so he has brought his granddaughter up.

"So, Granny Xia, your granddaughter is only eighteen or nineteen years old? Isn't it supposed to be in school, where do you work night shifts? ”

"Last year, Fei Fei was admitted to an art school, and in the field, she felt sorry for the old woman and didn't go, so she found a job in the city."

Eighteen or nineteen-year-olds have not come back in the early hours of the morning, which class do they attend? Since entering the ghost path, Zhuo Hui has been a little curious about these things that sound supernatural, so he decided to accompany Granny Xia and wait for this little girl.

At three o'clock in the morning, the little girl returned. You can smell the smell of wine in her body from afar, and when she got closer, Zhuo Gui looked at her, her left eye socket was blue, and her face was a little swollen, and the child was beaten.