Chapter 13: The Ghost Hand
Looking at the notebook in my hand, I was stunned and dumbfounded, and there was not a word in the transcript made by Da Zhou's visit to Brother Wang.
The record book is still the same as before, and the position of even a scratch on it has not changed, and the clues of the visit are arranged up and down in turn. I remember very clearly that the transcript of Brother Wang's mother and son is Xu Jianfeng's account of his neighbor. And below, it is Brother Wang's neighbor, which is all visited by the Great Monday, and the order is impossible to mess up.
But now the accounts of the two neighbors are close to each other, except for the mother and son of Brother Wang, who should be in the middle, and there is no trace of evaporation.
I couldn't help but sit down in my chair, holding my forehead and feeling dizzy and nauseous, and my heart palpitated, as if I had a very bad premonition about to happen. Because I don't know why that's the case! There is no need for Da Zhou to act to deceive us, he doesn't remember that there are two people, Brother Wang, mother and son.
After a brief period of decadence, I slapped my cheeks to reinvigorate myself. I won't believe this for no reason, there must be a shocking conspiracy hidden in it, and only a calm and careful analysis can get out of this layer of shady scenes.
At this time, the big head walked in from outside with a black face, and as soon as he saw me, he shouted: "Hell, hell, this time it's really hell!" ”
I replied angrily: "See you big-headed ghost, where did you come from in broad daylight!" ”
"Listen to me, and you'll be able to see the ghosts." The big head pulled over a chair and sat down across from me, with a black face, biting his back molars, gesturing and foaming at the mouth.
It turned out that when he went to find the old residents of the unit building where Xu Jianfeng lived, no one remembered that there were two people, Brother Wang, mother and son! In the end, the big head was anxious, grabbed a resident's collar and forced him to ask if he was collecting black money and telling nonsense, could this person be willing? Scolding the big head is a neurosis.
"I look at his words and deeds, and guess what?"
"There's something to say, there's a fart! When is it, it's still fucking tricky! ”
The big head slapped the table and sighed: "Alas, these people may really not remember that there are two people, Brother Wang, mother and son." ”
"It's not possible, it's just that." With a black face, I threw him the notebook in my hand.
The big head took it and looked at it suspiciously, and then his face turned pale, and he gritted his back molars and spit out a word, day!
"Could this notebook have been tampered with?" I don't want to admit that there are ghosts, and I'm trying to find a plausible explanation.
Immediately after that, the first sentence shattered my hopes.
"No way, look here." The big head pointed to the line of words on the notebook, which said that Dapeng loves millet, just like a bird loves insects.
"Which product is the Roc?" I was full of doubts.
"You are the goods, Dapeng is me, the name Zhou Dapeng!" The big head pointed at his nose angrily.
It dawned on me that I was used to the big head, and I really forgot what his big name was.
"This is my handwriting, absolutely infallible, no one in this world can imitate my handwriting." The big head slapped the notebook categorically.
I took a closer look and nodded involuntarily. Indeed, there is no one in the world who can write words like a dog climbing a fence, except for the big head.
"When you say this, I suddenly remembered one thing, your name is Zhou Dapeng, the captain's name is Zhou Unwilling, and Da Zhou, the three of you are surnamed Zhou, will there be ...... here."
"What will happen, what's wrong with the surname Zhou, there are three people surnamed Zhou in a team, which shows that our old Zhou family is prosperous!" The big head didn't care.
"I always felt that something was wrong, this coincidence...... Hiss! I took a breath, and a vague thought flashed through my head, as if it was important but not clear, and I couldn't help but fall into a long thought.
The big head slapped the table vigorously, and roared angrily: "I said, Hao Yan, is your head missing, when is this happening, you still have the heart to think about this little thing!" Now it's a hell of a show, what are we going to do, you have an idea! ”
was interrupted by him like this, and the little thought in his head suddenly disappeared, and he couldn't hold on to it anymore. On second thought, too, maybe it's just a coincidence.
Much later, when I look back, my heart is filled with bitterness. The key to solving the mystery was missed in the blink of an eye. Sometimes, fate is always so tricky, intentionally or unintentionally giving you vague clues, but you can't easily catch them. It won't dawn on you until the moment the mystery is solved.
I slammed the table, stood up, and said, "Come with me." ”
"Where are you going?"
"Let's see if there are any ghosts!"
……
Datou and I drove to Brother Wang's house outside the suburbs again, and it was already evening, and the dilapidated houses looked even darker in the afterglow of the setting sun.
The big head closed the car door hard, looked at the house and said to me: "I am dissatisfied with you boy said, I thought this house was ghostly last time I came, and now I am looking at it like this...... It's even more fucking ghostly. ”
"It's up to you to say that!" I didn't get angry.
Compared to the last time, this old house with a small courtyard has not changed much, but it has clearly lost popularity. There was no smoke, no voice, not even the sound of insects, it was like a haunted house cut off from life.
The big head was in a hurry, and I couldn't wait to rush into the courtyard, I quickly stretched out my arm to grab him, and shook my head slightly to signal him to follow behind.
I held my breath, stared intently at my feet, sensed the changes around me, and slowly came to the gate of the courtyard. The corner of the door was covered with dust, which made my brow jump involuntarily.
When I walked into the yard and came to the door, the door was rotten, and it felt very disgusting to press it with my hands. But I clearly remember that the last time I came to the wooden door, it was still very strong, and the violent sound of Brother Wang closing the door was still lingering in my ears, and it had only been a few days, how it seemed like more than ten years had passed.
When I entered the house, the rotting moisture hit my face, and I couldn't help but cover my mouth and nose to take a closer look at the furnishings. The big head lit the lighter with a snap, came to the bed and grinned and stretched out two fingers to pick up a bed of broken cotton wool.
"The last time I came, I remember that Brother Wang's mother was covered with this quilt, which was still brand new at the time, why is it rotting like this now!"
I looked around and said, "It's not just the quilt, you don't notice, the things in this room haven't moved, but everything has become rotten and rotten as if it had been fast-forwarded for decades. ”
", what the hell is going on?" The big head threw the quilt back to the bed in anger, and turned around with a lighter to look elsewhere.
At this moment, in the dim light, the corners of my eyes jumped violently, and a pair of black-purple dry hands like chicken claws appeared silently at the strength of the big head and neck, and the void put on a posture to be pinched. Just when I wondered if I was dazzled, a blurred shadow of long hair covering my face and white clothes peeked out from behind my head.
Behind the unreadable hair, there were smiling, blood-red eyes!
In an instant, a trace of cool air penetrated from the hair to the soles of the feet, and the strange memories of childhood were violently recalled in the mind. I didn't dare to hesitate for a moment, reached out and grabbed the big head's arm, and used the Xingyi fist to throw him to the ground.
"Oh, I'm grass, Hao Yan, you ......!"
Before the big head could finish roaring, he heard a click above his head, and a large number of broken bricks and debris poured down, smashing right where he was standing just now.
A pale face like a piece of paper loomed in the rising dust, and the second half of the words were swallowed back into the stomach and turned into a gurgling saliva. If I hadn't dragged him like that, he would be lying dead on the ground by now.
In the dim light, I could clearly see that the pale face of the big head instantly changed into a frightened and inexplicable expression, and he opened his mouth as if he was about to shout something. I didn't even hesitate, I took advantage of a roll, and there was a bang behind me, and I didn't need to see that there was another pile of bricks and tiles smashing on where I was standing.
My face was pale, and I gritted my teeth and popped out a word, run!
I jumped out of the door, and the big head followed in embarrassment. When we reached the gate of the courtyard, we heard the ground behind us shake, and the house completely collapsed with a rumbling sound.
Standing at the gate of the courtyard, right under the noses of the two of us, the dusty and fine rubble flew in the sky, and the rotten house turned into a ruin of broken bricks and tiles.
Both of our faces were iron-blue, they looked at each other, their big lips trembled slightly, and they said with difficulty: "I just ...... See your neck ....... ”
"There's a pair of stiff black and purple ghost hands, right?" I blackened my face and said what he was saying.
He nodded stiffly: "You saw it too?" ”
"Hmm."
"But...... How do I see those hands as ...... It's like ....... ”
"Like what?"
In the faint light of the night, the big head and face were as black as a ghost, gritting his teeth and jumping out word by word: "It's like the hand of the old lady in Brother Wang's house!" ”