At the beginning of March 2010, because I rearranged the layout of my home once, the previous table-mounted color TV officially entered the ranks of obsolescence. And it happened that a huge domestic electrical appliance store was doing a Women's Day theme promotional event, so I did not hesitate to spend a huge amount of money up to 3000 yuan to buy a 32-inch LCD TV with a large screen display at the moment, with USB external and network online functions. When the merchant delivered to me downstairs, I proudly raised the signature pen in my hand, and signed my name on the confirmation sheet of "Caring for Nongshim's Three Rural Products" handed to me by the delivery man under the envy and longing eyes of the neighbors around me.

After installation, I tried it for a few days and it worked very well. So I'm still using that TV to this day. And at that time, in order to show off my high-end electrical appliances, I invited Hu Zongren to come to my house and watch with me a high-definition Hollywood blockbuster I had just downloaded from the Internet, "Bomb Disposal Unit".

I heard that this film won an Oscar.

There is absolutely no shortage of beer in my house, and Hu Zongren and I are both good drinkers, and we can kill almost half a case of Laoshancheng beer around a pack of drunkard peanuts, so the first thing he does when he walks to my house is basically to open the refrigerator and find wine to drink. Sister Cai was not at home that day, and I forgot what she was doing, so Hu Zongren and I, two big men, sat silently in front of the TV, enjoying this controversial and cruel movie.

When I saw Hu Zongren's phone ringing halfway through, I pressed the pause button, and was about to despise Hu Zongren, when you watch a movie and answer the phone, Hu Zongren picked up the phone and said, Oh, teacher, I can't leave this time, I'll come over directly when I'm done, okay?

Hu Zongren's phone is more old-fashioned, so even if I don't turn on the hands-free function, I can still hear the human voice mixed with the sound of electricity on the other end of the phone. It's just that I can't hear what the other party is saying, but from the tone, I feel that the other party is a woman, and he is more anxious. Hu Zongren perfunctory a few words to the other party, saying that he would go over as soon as he was busy, and then hung up the phone in a hurry.

Then Hu Zongren asked me, I'm done, why don't you continue to put it? I thought to myself that Hu Zongren was not a local, and on the phone he said that he would go over when he was busy, indicating that the other party was in Chongqing, so it must be what business he received. So I asked him, do you have any business to do?

He took a sip of wine and said, "It's okay, it's just that someone found him yesterday and asked him to look at the house in their neighborhood, and it seems that there is something wrong with that house." I asked Hu Zongren, but don't you look at feng shui? Hu Zongren said, listening to the other party's meaning, it doesn't seem to be a matter of feng shui, but that there is something somewhere in this building, and I will accompany you to finish this film later, and I will go over again, don't worry.

I pressed play, but I couldn't calm down and watch the movie anymore.

It's my personal bad habit, I must admit it. Although Hu Zongren and I had tossed enough between Hu Zongren and Cha Wudao before that, although it was a happy ending in the end, it made me feel unprecedented retreat from that period of time. But I'm like that, the more I don't want to get involved with these things, the more I try to avoid them, but when I really know that these things are so close to me, I can't control the itching in my heart.

Smoking is addictive, drinking is addictive, and it seems that catching ghosts will also be addictive.

After watching absent-mindedly for more than ten minutes, I couldn't help it, and directly pressed the power button, and the whole living room was quiet again. Hu Zongren glared at me angrily, which seemed to mean to say, I was watching it, what do you mean by turning off the TV for me? I looked at him and said, let's watch the TV later, the list you received, go get busy now, I'll go with you!

I especially emphasized that if I can't help, forget it, if I do, you can invite me to a meal, I don't want money.

And it turns out that in all the lists that Hu Zongren and I have cooperated with since then, we will both share the commission, because we both understand that taking people's money is the only way to eliminate disasters for others, no matter how much money is there, we have to take some, otherwise, it will be called meddling in things, and cause and effect will arise.

Based on Hu Zongren's understanding of me, I think he guessed my mind at that time. He knew that I couldn't sit still and was addicted. So he drank the remaining half bottle of beer and said okay, let's go.

We're both drinking, so let's take a taxi! I said to Hu Zongren.

Good! He promised, what a good middle-aged man who abides by the law.

took a taxi at the gate of the community and went straight to Yuanjiagang, Hu Zongren didn't tell me anything else in the car except that the destination was Yuanjiagang, because he was worried about scaring other taxi drivers. People are desperate to live for a month, and life is not an easy task. Hu Zongren has a habit of chatting with taxi drivers. I also thought he was just talking a lot, but when I asked him what he liked to talk to, he told me that because the brother in a city knows the city best. It is estimated that they have heard a lot about the trivial things in this city, and sometimes they can continue to dig because of them as soon as they inquire casually, so as to make a single business.

Although Hu Zongren is very arrogant, he is not stupid.

After getting off the bus at Yuanjiagang, Hu Zongren told me that when he received the phone call yesterday, he knew about the simple things.

He said that the other party was an eldest sister of the property management company in that building, which was a mixed use of businessmen and citizens, a high-rise building, with households in it, and many small companies such as beauty clubs and advertising companies. The building was repaired around 2000, and it is a single building with a small podium. The area of the podium is all leased to a number of car sales companies and supermarkets. In the past six months, residents of that building have repeatedly complained that there are serious problems with the quality of the elevators, and every time it is the young women in the building who are offended. The company invited the elevator maintenance unit for maintenance as early as the owner said, but found that there was no problem at all. But there are a lot of elderly people living in the building, and because they are older, they may have seen a lot of things, and for them, I am afraid that the degree of fright has already been greatly reduced. They also reported to the property management company that when they took the elevator, they occasionally heard a woman's cry from the corner of the elevator.

Hu Zongren told me that it is said that it is a very sad kind of crying.

I pondered in my heart, because this kind of ghost has actually been encountered by Hu Zongren and I many times, although the way it appears each time is different from the nature of its own obsession, but it is basically certain that these female ghosts are all unwilling or unwilling to die, otherwise how can there be a strong obsession, causing them to remain in the world to scare or even hurt others.

Hu Zongren said that he also learned about it on the phone, and the eldest sister who promised the property management said that she would go to the scene today to take a look, and it was better to say it in person if there was any specific situation. When he said this, Hu Zongren patted me on the shoulder and said, this time I am going to be busy, I can buy two TVs like yours at home!

I gave him a blank look, and despised him for being so good. As we spoke, we arrived at the building.

Although the building was built around 2000, judging from the falling tiles on the exterior wall, it must have been relatively cheap when the developer chose materials for the construction of the house. Otherwise, even if it is affected by environmental weathering, it will never fall so badly.

When he was downstairs, Hu Zongren called the property management company, saying that we had arrived, and asked the other party how to get there, but after hanging up the phone, Hu Zongren said that they came down to pick us up.

The weather in March is not cold, but it is not warm either. Hu Zongren and I stood downstairs and smoked cigarettes, while waiting for each other to arrive. From afar, we saw a slightly chubby woman about forty years old, wearing a floral sweater and sleeves on her hands, and then walked towards us. I asked Hu Zongren if he was this eldest sister, and he said that he didn't know if he had never seen it. But soon the eldest sister came to our side, and then said to me very politely, you are Mr. Hu, you can be regarded as looking forward to you.

I said, I'm not, this is Mr. Hu, we are companions, and I came with him to help. The eldest sister was a little embarrassed, then stretched out her hand to shake hands with Hu Zongren, and then led the way, detoured to the back of the building, followed the stairs, and walked from the Pingjie floor to the first floor to their property management office. There were originally two young male staff members in the office, but after we entered the house, the eldest sister said that they should avoid it for a while, so that they could talk about something.

It is not difficult to see that this woman is a leader. At least in this company. When the two young men came out, we sat down, and the eldest sister was very enthusiastic to bring us a glass of warm water, and then sat back in her place, and introduced herself first, she said that her surname was Zhang, so Hu Zongren and I both called her, Sister Zhang.

Sister Zhang began to tell us the detailed process of the whole thing. Here's the thing, almost half a year ago, the first complaint they received about this matter was a female landlord in her 20s who lived on the 17th floor of this building, saying that she came home from work, and after parking the car, she went upstairs from the garage elevator, but after the elevator was opened for a while, suddenly there was a cool air on the top of her head, and then her hair seemed to be pulled by something, and she was pulling it up. The lady said that the force was not particularly strong at that time, so it was not very painful, and she was able to break free, so she looked up while breaking free, and found that her hair seemed to be sucked by a vacuum cleaner, along the ventilation hole on the top of the elevator that is used to balance the air pressure inside and outside the elevator car, and was sucked in. The lady said that she broke free at the moment, but she didn't think about it at all, she just felt that the elevator should be overhauled for too many years, otherwise the hair would really be sucked up and stuck in the elevator cable.

When she said this, Sister Zhang handed us a product manual from the table when the developer bought the elevator when the house was repaired. Looks like she had these things ready before we went. Hu Zongren took it and took a look, although he couldn't understand those inexplicable parameters, but the style of the elevator was the same as the elevator we take every day, and I didn't see any difference.

Sister Zhang went on to say that after receiving the complaint, they first apologized to the owner, and then immediately actively contacted the workers of the elevator equipment maintenance unit to inspect. Sister Zhang said that because before that, the elevator had just done an annual inspection not long ago, even if there was a problem of aging parts, then the annual inspection should have been discovered. So this time I invited the workers to check again, but said that there was no problem with the elevator, and the ventilation hole that sucked the female owner at the beginning was not directly connected to the outside of the car, but there was a corner pipe similar to the Z-shape, that is, it only played a role in dredging the air, so that the elevator would move up and down because of the cable during operation, so that there was a slight wind in the closed space of the elevator. And even if it's windy, it's from the outside in, and it's impossible to suck things out of the car.

Sister Zhang went on to say that although the professionals gave the inspection results and the property management company also told the owner on the 17th floor of the results, it was difficult for the two parties to reach an agreement, and the owner did not have to worry too much, so the matter was closed. But since then, almost every month, owners on different floors have complained about the same problem, and the property management company has hired someone to repair it again, but the conclusion is still the same: the ventilation hole is impossible to suck anything out.

Hu Zongren and I glanced at each other, and we both understood in our hearts that the more categorical this kind of professional theory is, the more likely it is that Hu Zongren and I should take care of it.