Chapter 14: The Past

"Hostess." The three of them came to the front desk on the first floor, and when they saw that there was no one, Jin Guo shouted.

The little fat man who was doing chores rushed over from the kitchen with a bowl of noodles, and saw that the three of them were a little "menacing", and asked, "Three big brothers, what's wrong?" What's going on in the middle of the night? ”

Lei Baoquan asked, "What about the boss?" ”

"The hostess came home and I was on the night shift. I'm hungry just now, so I'll get some noodles to eat in the back. Do you want to? The little fat man said with a smile.

"No, it's just the two of you in this hotel?" Lei Baoquan asked.

"This hotel is opened by the boss and the boss's wife, the boss runs his own factory, so he will take care of the hotel to the boss's wife, anyway, there is no one at ordinary times, and I am alone on the night shift." The little fat man ate as he spoke.

"Fat brother, we have something to ask you." Li Bai whispered.

"You ask."

"Is there anything wrong with the room at the end of the corridor upstairs?" Li Bai got straight to the point.

When the little fat man heard this, he hurriedly swallowed the noodles and shook his head: "I... I don't know, you ask the hostess. ”

"How so? It's just you and the hostess, and she's sure to have told you what's going on in that room. Jin Guo said.

"I really don't know, big brother, I'm a part-time worker, who can tell me about this kind of thing?" The little fat man still shook his head.

Lei Baoquan yawned, sorted out his emotions, and said, "Little fat man, do you know what I do?" ”

The little fat man looked at Lei Baoquan's serious appearance, and his heart was a little drummed: "You... What do you do? ”

"He's a cop!" Li Bai suddenly shouted loudly on the side in order to deter the little fat man.

This shout frightened the little fat man and almost threw the bowl in his hand, and also scared Lei Baoquan shuddered.

"What are you shouting? Scared me. Lei Baoquan reproached.

Li Bai scratched his head and said, "I didn't want to scare him......"

"Little fat man, listen up, I used to be a policeman, if I think you have something suspicious here, you know what I would do, right? Well? Lei Baoquan glared.

The little fat man was shocked, put down the note, and asked tentatively: "Big brother, are you also scaring me?" ”

"Nonsense! You tell me? ”

The little fat man saw that these three people didn't seem to be easy to mess with, so he didn't care if he was a police officer or not, even if he was a ruffian, if he fought in the middle of the night, no one would help him.

Thinking of this, the little fat man immediately changed his smiling face and said, "Big brother, I have long seen that you are not an ordinary person, it turns out that you used to be a policeman, no wonder you are upright!" ”

Lei Baoquan turned his face to Li Bai and said, "This kid has a fight with you." ”

Li Bai smiled awkwardly and said to the little fat man: "Don't say it's useless, just tell us what you want to know!" ”

The little fat man rolled his eyes, it seemed that he couldn't hide tonight, he asked the three of them to sit down, poured a cup of tea for everyone, sat opposite him, hesitated for a long time, and sighed.

"Do you think you're in a hurry? If you want to say it, let's talk about it, what kind of atmosphere is it here? Li Bai said impatiently.

"Brothers, I'll tell you that there is indeed a problem with this hotel." The little fat man finally began to speak.

Lei Baoquan and the three of them motioned for him to continue, although there was no one else around, but the little fat man still carefully lowered his voice and said: "I have never told anyone about this, I have been here to do chores for about ten months, and when I came, the proprietress clearly told me that the room at the end of the corridor cannot be entered, and don't go there if you have nothing to do." I didn't think anything was there, I thought there was something in the room. Until one night, when I was on the night shift, and a guest asked me to help him change his sheets, and when I finished changing him, and guess what? ”

The little fat man's small eyes swept at the three people, as if waiting for them to respond.

"If you want to say it, just say it in one breath, let's guess the fart, if we can guess it, we still need to ask you? Don't talk about cross talk, okay? Lei Baoquan glanced at him and said, then turned to Li Bai and said, "Look, this kid looks like you when he speaks." ”

The little fat man wanted to have an "interaction", but he was damaged, and continued dejectedly: "When I walked to the corridor, I heard movement in that room. I was quite strange at the time, thinking that someone had gone in, so I went over to see what was going on, but the closer I got there, the clearer the sound became, as if it was the voice of a woman speaking, and the voice was not clear, and I couldn't hear what was being said. ”

The little fat man took a sip of water in the middle, and when he saw that the three people were fascinated, he said politely: "Try this tea, I collected it myself, and I can't drink it anywhere else." ”

"Can you hurry up!" Li Bai was anxious, this kid was even more verbose than himself.

The little fat man nodded awkwardly and continued: "I thought it was a guest who went in, so I went over and knocked on the door, and the sound was gone all of a sudden, so I asked who was inside, and no one answered, the door was locked, because the proprietress didn't give me the key to this room, so I could only do it in a hurry." Later, I panicked, thinking that I had entered the thief, and quickly called the proprietress . But the proprietress listened to me and reprimanded me and told me to leave me alone, so I didn't care about it at the time. ”

Li Bai listened to it for a long time, but he didn't hear anything serious, and said, "You have been talking for a long time and talking a lot of nonsense." ”

"Don't worry, I heard some people from the neighborhood say that when this hotel first opened, a woman died, and it has not been peaceful since then." The little fat man continued.

"What woman?" Jin Guo asked.

The little fat man was embarrassed and said: "I don't know, I was curious to ask people, and they immediately said that they didn't know, as if they were very evasive about this matter, so I have always been very confused." The little fat man spread his hands and said.

"Uncle Lei, look at what I'm talking about, there must be something going on here, otherwise why don't these people keep their mouths shut?" Li Bai said.

Jin Guo thought for a while and said, "Since the little fat man said that he had died before, he should have filed the case at the police station, right?" ”

"That's right, if there was a murder, it should be." Lei Baoquan also suddenly brightened.

When the little fat man heard the two of them say this, he interjected: "But I heard that it was a natural death, and the police station didn't care." ”

"What do you call a natural death?" Li Bai asked.

"It's not that he kills, it's not suicide." Lei Baoquan replied.

"How did that kill?"

"It could be death from illness or sudden death."

"Then it is clear that it must have been a female guest who had come here to stay before, and suddenly died in that room, and the ghost lingered after her death. And after we came, because of my special physique and handsomeness, it always haunted me. Li Bai analyzed.

Lei Baoquan pouted and said, "Hehe, you are really talented." ”

"What I told you just now, don't say it, if the boss lady knows, I won't be able to do the chores." The little fat man instructed again and again.

"Then let's go upstairs and sleep first, and we'll talk about it tomorrow morning." Jin Guo said.

Lei Baoquan yawned again, stood up and walked upstairs, and said to Li Bai as he walked: "This night has been enough for you, you said that since you came here, you have slept peacefully one day." ”

Li Bai was not to be outdone, and said, "Uncle Lei, don't talk so much, we only lived for two days in total." ”

In the second half of the night, the three of them fell asleep and did not speak all night.

Li Bai's mobile phone alarm clock rang, and the three of them opened their eyes, dressed neatly with their hands and feet, finished washing, and prepared to catch the morning car back to Yungang City.

The three of them walked downstairs, and the little fat man was lying behind the front desk asleep, and he didn't know that his saliva was running down his chest.

Lei Baoquan walked to the front of the stage, knocked on the table, the little fat man woke up, saw that it was Lei Baoquan, wiped the saliva on his mouth, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Check out."

"That's it? Don't stay longer? The little fat man asked as he went through the formalities.

"It's a bit of a problem to go back."

"You can't be scared by what I said last night, right?" The little fat man laughed.

When Li Bai heard this, he immediately said as if showing off: "We are scared by you? Just you? Have you ever seen a female corpse without eyes? Have you ever seen a dog with a human head on it? Have you ever been ghosted? ”

The little fat man was stunned by what he said, and shook his head with blinking eyes.

"I've never seen any of this, so I'm embarrassed to say it's scary?" Li Bai said with his head held high.

The little fat man lowered his head to look for money, thinking to himself that this person couldn't be mentally ill, right?

After checking out of the room, the three of them rushed to the bus stop, but before the car came, Li Bai lifted the bag on his body and asked, "Uncle Lei, what are we going to do when we go back?" ”

"In this way, we will go our separate ways after we go back, I will go to the bureau to find Sun Duo to see if there are any clues found in this case, you can find out about the bus girl ghost on the Internet, and also, what we promised the old man last night, we have to go and repair his grave." What about Kim... It's time to go back and see how your sister is doing. Lei Baoquan said.

Jin Guo smiled and said: "It's okay, my parents have been guarding over there, and I told her about the things we encountered before, she is very interested and supports me to do things with you, so I thought about it, go back to see her in a while, and then go to Jigang Town to find Uncle Li." I think whether it's a female ghost in a hotel or a female ghost in a bus, Uncle Li should be able to deal with it. And to repair the old man's grave, Uncle Li may also be needed. ”

"Uncle Li is so old, can you come?" Li Bai said worriedly.

"I'll go back and tell him he'll come and help us." Jin Guo replied.

At this time, the No. 24 bus came leisurely from a distance.