"Didn't come?"

I frowned, glanced at Yuxin, and asked the stall owner who sold the bracelet, "Did he come yesterday?" ”

"Yesterday... Came a little in the morning and then left. ”

I thought for a moment and asked, "Do you know where this uncle lives?" ”

"I don't know about this, I'm out of town."

"I know—" said a stall owner in the distance.

"Oh?" I looked at him.

The stall owner told us a general location, some distance from the scenic area. According to the location mentioned by the stall owner, Yuxin and I came to a residential area. The community is not big, the buildings look quite old, and some tiled houses are scattered in between. After asking several households, we finally asked the address of the old man who sold the newspaper. It was a tiled house, located in a small courtyard, next to a recycling station. On the courtyard wall, small advertisements were posted everywhere.

Looking through the iron gate, I saw a small electric tricycle parked in the yard. There was a crack in the door, and when I looked inside, it was so dark that I couldn't see anything clearly.

"Is anyone home?" I knocked on the door.

In a moment, the door creaked open, and an old man on crutches appeared in the doorway. The old man was thin, sickly looking, with a pleated face and a washed white tunic on his body.

"Who are you looking for?" The old man asked vigilantly.

"We... Are you the uncle who sells newspapers at the newsstand next to the rockery in the scenic area? I asked.

The old man hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

"Uncle, we have something to look for you." Yuxin said, "It's not convenient to talk here, can we go in?" ”

The old man looked at Yuxin, finally nodded, limped out of the house, and opened the courtyard door for us.

When I followed the old man into the house, I saw a mess everywhere, filled with a smell of damp mold, and in the corner of the wall, there were many old newspapers and magazines stacked.

The old man sat down on a chair against the wall, put his cane aside, and asked, "What are you looking for me?" ”

"About your nephew." Yuxin said.

"My nephew?" The old man was stunned.

"That's right, he died before he became an adult, buried in the suburbs, that nephew of yours." Yuxin said.

The old man looked at us in a daze, and it took a minute or two to come back to his senses, "What do you ask him to do?" ”

"We..."

Yu Xin and I said in unison, Yu Xin waved her hand, "Ah Leng you say." ”

"That's the uncle." I took a deep breath, "We want to know how your nephew died, and who else knows where your nephew is buried." ”

"Why do you know this?"

"Because, the night before yesterday, someone instructed a thug in the city to dig up your nephew's bones from the grave and take them to an abandoned kindergarten in the city's Xikai District. Later, as if he had hit an evil spirit, the man was attached to his back by the skeleton and jumped from the stairs. ”

"You... What did you say? The old man's eyes widened.

I repeated what I had just said, stared at the old man and said, "If you don't believe what I said, you can go to the Municipal Criminal Police Brigade to ask." ”

The old man turned a deaf ear, his eyes were hooked, and he muttered, "How can this be? …”

I felt that the old man's expression was a little strange, and I glanced at Yu Xin.

"Uncle."

"Huh?"

"Do you know anything?"

"I... I—" the old man muttered, "I saw my nephew the night before! ”

"What?"

I frowned, feeling a chill in the room, Yuxin stood next to me, her face was a little pale, and instinctively grabbed my arm.

The old man told us that the day before yesterday was relatively cold, and there were no tourists in the scenic area. He pulled the roller shutter early and rode home on his electric tricycle. On the way back, the old man bought some braised pork and a pound of soju at the market. When I got home, I ate and drank by myself by the fire. At about eight o'clock, there was a sudden power outage in his community, so he limped to the small shop to buy candles, came back and lit them and continued to drink. Wandering around, the old man leaned back in his chair and fell asleep.

I don't know how long I slept, the old man was awakened by the cold, when he opened his eyes, he saw that the candle was extinguished at some point, he touched it with his hand, but he didn't touch the lighter, the old man stood up on crutches, and when he was about to look for it, he heard a 'bang' from the iron gate outside, and it didn't feel like the wind was blowing. He remembered that his electric car was still outside, and he was afraid that someone would come in and steal the battery, so he took advantage of the strength of the wine and walked outside in a daze.

Outside, the old man saw that the courtyard door was open, and a child was squatting at the door with his back to him... The old man didn't think about how the courtyard door was opened, but just thought, whose family is this child? Why don't you go home to sleep in the middle of the night when it's so cold and squat at me? …

Thinking like this, the old man walked towards the child, and as he walked, he asked, "Whose child are you?" … The child didn't say a word, and he didn't move while squatting. When he got closer and closer, through the reflection of the residual snow, the old man suddenly appeared, the clothes that the child was wearing were not from this era at all, but the kind of really good clothes that had just risen during the reform and opening up...

At that moment, the boy slowly stood up and turned around... The old man was shocked to see that this child was none other than his nephew, who had been dead for more than 20 years, his own nephew! … The old man was stunned on the spot, and saw that the child's face was faintly green, as if he had been coated with a layer of paint. The boy craned his neck, stared straight at the old man for a moment, grinned at him, and stepped back outside. At this time, the old man suddenly appeared, and there was a person standing on the side of the road outside the courtyard gate, judging from the figure, it was a thin adult man. When the boy stepped back to the man, he took him by the hand, and the two of them went away...

As for how he got back to the house and how he fell asleep, the old man didn't remember anymore. When he woke up, it was already dawn, and thinking back to the experience of last night, the old man thought that it might be his own nightmare. As usual, the old man went out of the house, drank a bowl of hot porridge at the morning market, and went to his newsstand. After sitting in the newsstand for a while, the old man felt unwell, as if he had a cold, so he closed the door and came back, bought a few pills at the pharmacy to eat, and rested until today...

Yuxin looked even paler, and I gently patted her on the shoulder as a sign of comfort, and asked the old man, "How did your nephew die?" ”

The old man said that it was more than 20 years ago, and his nephew was in kindergarten at that time, which is the one that is now abandoned in the district. On that day, the old man's brother and sister-in-law went to visit relatives, and the old man sent his nephew to the kindergarten. At that time, the old man was nearly forty years old, and he didn't have a wife, and his brother and sister-in-law had such a son in their forties, like a baby pimple. After sending the child upstairs, the old man saw that the female teacher was very beautiful, so he accosted someone else in the corridor and let the child run around in the corridor.

While chatting with the female teacher, the old man accidentally glanced at the child and saw that the child had climbed onto the concrete guardrail wall on a stool in the corridor. The old man was frightened, and as he walked towards the boy, he called out to him to come down. The boy squatted on it, first smiling at him, then slowly standing up. Just as the old man approached him and stretched out his hand to carry him down, the boy suddenly fell backwards and fell. The old man hurried to the rescue, and he himself climbed over the concrete wall and fell from the upper floor, as a result, the knee of his right leg hit the ground heavily, and the crushed fracture, and the child, because of his head on the ground, fell to his death on the spot.

Afterwards, the old man's brother and sister-in-law refused to pay for his leg treatment out of anger, and in desperation, the old man had to go to Ye Langzhong for help, delaying the injury, and finally leading to osteitis necrosis, and finally had to amputate his leg. After the amputation, the old man broke with his brother and sister-in-law completely, and there was no more contact...

"You mean, your nephew fell to his death in that kindergarten?" I asked.

"Hmm."

I felt a chill in my heart, looking at this situation, the reason why the sixth master asked him to dig the child's grave and get the bones to go to the kindergarten was to recruit the dead ghost child who fell to death in the kindergarten many years ago. It seems that what Yuxin and I saw when we were on the 'Mushroom Building', and the 'thing' that talked to the sixth child on the broken floor, should be the dead ghost child. 'He' beckoned the sixth man upstairs, and then attached him to the sixth child's back, driving him to jump off the stairs and 'take' him away... As for what the old man saw that night, the 'skinny adult man' standing on the side of the road outside the courtyard gate, should be the sixth dead ghost, and before they left, the 'child' brought him over to see the old man... Supposedly, normal people can't see ghosts, except in special circumstances, such as the old man's drunken state that night...

"Who knows about your nephew falling to his death in kindergarten back then?" I asked.

"A lot of people know that." The old man said.

I nodded, and said to myself, the question I just asked was a bit stupid. The death of a child in kindergarten should have been a big deal at the time. As for the place where the child's bones are buried, although so many years have passed, there should be many people who know it... In this way, although we found out who the child in the grave belonged to, and learned the cause of his death, we can analyze the cause of the sixth child. However, I still have no clue about who the sixth master is and where he is.

"Are you two going to sit here for a while and wait for me to come back, or are you going to leave now?" The old man said suddenly.

"What, is the uncle going out?" I asked.

"Well, I'll go to that kindergarten, where my nephew fell to his death, and burn the paper for him." The old man said.

I looked at Yu Xin, Yu Xin nodded at me, and with my understanding, I said to the old man, "Let's go, uncle, let's go with you." ”

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