Seeing that what this man said was quite evil, I couldn't help but ask, "Why do you scare people to death?" ”

The man swallowed several mouthfuls of saliva in quick succession, "That day, I was fixing the TV after dinner when I heard someone knocking on my door. I opened the door and saw that it was a colleague who lived downstairs and looked panicked. I asked him, "What's wrong with you?" He said, quick, let's go, go see Old Man Liu, I feel that something may have happened to him. I was nervous all of a sudden, what happened? Oh, yes... The colleague said that from early in the morning until dark, he didn't see Old Man Liu come out of the house, the lights were not turned on in the house, and no one answered the door. I said in my heart, this old man Liu shouldn't have something to think about and commit suicide. Hurriedly put down the work in hand, I called a few more neighbors, and went down to the old man Liu's residence on the second floor. Standing at the door and screaming several times, but there was no response, I reached out and grabbed the security door and pulled it out, and the door opened by itself. I asked my colleague, isn't the door open? He picked at the back of his head and said, "It's weird, when I called it just now, this door was obviously locked...

"Pushing open the wooden door inside, I banged my head and several people walked in. The lights in the house were not on, and it was cold, so I thought, it's not strange for the old man to live here alone. While walking, I called, Uncle Liu, Uncle Liu? … Still no one answered, I think something must have happened. Courageously, I walked to the door of the cubicle, lifted the curtain of the door, and I looked inside with my phone, oh my mother..."

This person and Xiao Qingzi are like a family, and both of them are startled when they speak.

"See what?" I asked.

"I see, I see... Paper man, a paper man..."

"Paper man?"

"Yes, a paper man, sitting on the bed of Old Man Liu, holding a paper bowl in his hand, is pulling and eating the paper in the bowl, 'Dululu', like eating noodles..."

Thinking about that scene, my back is also a little chilly.

"And then?" I asked again.

Then, a few people who were following me also saw it, and ran out crying and crying. I didn't run, not because I was bold, but because my legs were so weak that I couldn't run at all, and I almost fell to the ground and fainted. When I returned to my soul, I saw that although the paper figure had white powder on his face, his hands were human hands, and the old tendons on his hands were high. At this time, the paper man noticed me, stopped his chopsticks, turned his face, and looked at me... I found out that this is not a paper man at all, it is an old man Liu, he is wearing a paper clothes, a paper hat on his head, and white powder on his face.

"Seeing that it was him, I was not so scared in my heart, so I had the courage to ask, Uncle Liu, what's wrong with you? He smirked at me, and I asked several times, and he pointed to his clothes, and then to his hat, and said, "Do I look good in this dress?" … I don't dare to say that it's not good-looking, I keep saying that it's good-looking, it's good-looking. He laughed again and said, "This is my official uniform..."

"Official uniform?" I frowned.

"Yes, that's what he told me, I looked at it carefully, not to mention, it really looked like an official uniform, and the hat on his head looked like a black gauze hat. I asked him, I said, Uncle Liu, what are you doing in official uniforms? He said, I'm an official, of course I have to have an official uniform... I said in my heart, it's bad, this old man must be a ghost, what's the matter? Just thinking about it, Old Man Liu picked up his paper bowl and stretched it out to me, do you want to eat? It's delicious... When I got closer, I saw that there was no note in the bowl at all, but money, a hundred-dollar bill cut into strips. When the old man saw that I didn't eat it, he said, "This thing is a big supplement." As he spoke, he put the bowl in front of him, licked it with his tongue, and licked a piece of money, and sucked it into his stomach... I couldn't take it anymore and ran out screaming...

The next day, the old man seemed to be all right, and came out of the house. We asked him about last night, and we all thought that since the old man was fine, it meant that the ghost who had been on him was gone, and he must not remember what happened last night. I didn't think that the old man remembered it clearly, and claimed that he was an official... Only then did we know that the old man was not a ghost at all, but a mental problem. Since then, the old man often wears his 'official uniform', and walks around our family compound in the middle of the night, which can scare people to death. The people who lived on the second floor said that they woke up in the middle of the night and often heard the sound of 'clicking' coming from the old man's room, like sharpening knives... In this way, who dares to live, although everyone does not despise this old man Liu because of this, and still respects him, but the days when he can't sleep every day and are afraid of something will happen are really uncomfortable. Therefore, one after another, the residents of the family home moved away one after another, and those who owed the old man money also returned the money to him. In the end, we were left with only a few households..."

"So, do the old man's sons and daughters know about this?" I asked.

"I know, I don't know. They don't care about that. They wish that something was wrong with the old man, preferably a terminal illness and a violent death overnight, so that they could divide the old man's money..."

I thought to myself, what a brute.

"Actually, the old man is not normal except at night, and he is normal at other times, and he has never told anyone that he is an official, or anything like that. The rest of us have been living in this courtyard for a long time, and nothing has happened..."

"Then, you should also know about the old man who spent all his money last year?" I asked.

"That's for sure, we don't know how he spent it. This was a mess last year, oops..."

"What's the trouble?"

"Yes, the old man's sons and daughters came to make trouble, like a criticism meeting, and surrounded the old man in this big courtyard for a whole day. All kinds of scolding, crying, screaming, drinking medicine, hanging... Oops, don't mention that mess. When they were thirsty and hungry, they bought food and drink one by one, and gave nothing to the old man. The old man sat on the ground like a criminal, clutching the corners of his clothes with both hands, and tears were falling from his eyes. We can't see it, send food and drink to the old man, and all kinds of persuasion, his children scolded us for being nosy, and what else to say, we are not the parties, we will only say lightly, I don't know the pain in the hearts of the parties, if we are replaced by the parties, seeing so much money wasted, maybe the old man will be hacked to death with a knife, and the people who chop it into meat sauce have... You say, "Is that a human talk?" ”

I bit my lip and didn't say a word, and the flames 'rubbed' up to my head.

After the quarrel, none of his sons and daughters came to see the old man. It seems that one day last month, the old man's little daughter-in-law came once. ”

"Little daughter-in-law?"

"Yes, it's not the current little daughter-in-law, it's the one that the old man's youngest son married before he was developed, the one in the countryside, what's it called, we don't know the name..."

"Why did she come?" I asked.

"Heh, people seem to have climbed to the rich master, and there is a driver to follow, who looks a little fatter than before, carrying a small bag, and painting makeup on his face, but no matter how he dresses up, he can't cover that rustic atmosphere. In fact, she came here to show off, didn't your son look down on me and don't want me after he got money? Look at my current mix, it's not worse than him, he has a house and a car, I also have it, and I also have a driver, does he have it? …”

I couldn't laugh or cry, and suddenly my heart moved, "What does that woman look like?" ”

"Long..."

The man gestured with his hand. I said in my heart, it should be that Li Juanjuan, but I didn't expect that she was actually the little daughter-in-law of this old man Liu! I think that the female teacher in the kindergarten, the open-toothed person who introduced Li Juanjuan to the brick kiln factory, should be Li Juanjuan kicked off by Old Man Liu's youngest son not long ago...

These seem to be coincidences, but I don't think they're coincidences...

"And then? Uncle went on to talk about it..."

"Then the woman's display was finished and left, the bag was not good, no matter how good the bag was for her, it was like picking up dung, and she didn't look at the ground when she walked, if it wasn't for the driver to pull it, she would have fallen down the stairs, and we were so funny."

"Then, before Old Man Liu died, did he have any unusual behavior?" I asked.

"Unusual behavior? No, no..."

"Or, has anyone ever come to him?"

"No, no one has come to him since his little daughter-in-law came once..."

I nodded.

Xiang Feng had been standing behind me and listening silently, and suddenly said at this moment, "What was the 'official uniform' that Old Man Liu was wearing at the beginning, can you please ask Uncle to describe it to us?" ”

"Yes..."

The man closed his eyes, drooped his head and thought for a moment, and then described it to us in a row.

Xiang Feng and I glanced at each other, judging from this person's description, it seems to be the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty! Then why did Old Man Liu use paper to make himself a set of official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty, and also said that he was an official? Also, Yuxin and I didn't find any official uniforms in Old Man Liu's house the night before, where did the official uniforms go now? …

"Huh? I said, what are you two doing, why are you so interested in Old Man Liu's affairs? ”

This man told us a lot of things, and it wasn't until this time that he reacted.

"Oh, we—" I smiled, "nothing, just curious, just ask." ”

The man looked at his watch, then shook the fish in his hand a few times, "I don't have time to tell you again, I haven't cooked yet..."

"Uncle, wait!"

"How?"

"That's... Where is the residence of Old Man Liu's youngest son, please tell us, we have something to look for him..."

This man gave us an address.

"What do you think?" Xiang Feng said.

I smiled wryly, "It's a bit complicated. ”

"Indeed." Xiang Feng smiled slightly.

I looked at the time and said, "Let's find a place to eat something, sort these things out while eating, and then go to Old Man Liu's youngest son's house... Hey, by the way, I remember that when I drove the car and came over slowly, I saw a Sichuan restaurant on the side of the road, go, I will pay for it, let the handsome guy have a good meal of hometown flavor..."