Following the direction the woman was pointing, with the help of the dim light, I didn't feel anything worth discovering on the ground. Hu Zongren also asked, there is nothing on this land. The girl stretched out her foot and shook it to the ground and said, "Are you two blind?" Can't see such a big drain?

On the outside of the wall on the side of the factory gate, where the root of the wall extends outward about 20 centimeters, there is a long sewer parallel to the wall, and the horizontal plane is made of a small iron mesh to prevent people from stepping on it and getting their feet stuck, but because of the gap, it can seep water, and the width is about two palms wide. To be honest, I had been paying attention to the neighborhood at first, but although I knew that there was a long drain here, I didn't pay attention to it. It wasn't until the girl said that I took a closer look at the facility.

Because the distance from the trail to the factory entrance is a long downhill, plus the old road on the top, potholes and undulating, there are many pavements on the road that have been damaged to expose the part of the roadbed at the bottom, and the terrain of Chongqing was originally built on the mountain, so the uphill and downhill slopes are very common, which also leads to the sudden rain, the drainage function is not perfect, it is easy to produce water in the low place. In recent years, many underground garages in Chongqing have paid a painful price because of this, and every day 630 After the heavy rain, it will definitely be reported that the garage was flooded with water, resulting in heavy losses of private cars in the garage. After all, if it rains, the water will inevitably flow down the path, and this is a factory and a printing factory, so there is a lot of paper and valuable machinery in it, and it will definitely not be able to withstand the loss of being flooded.

I crouched down and took a closer look at the drain, and found that the topcoat was not very old, and the screw holes around it had been installed in recent years, and there were still mottled marks of cement left when I first knocked on the slot. So I turned around and asked Mr. Xia, who was standing not far away, "Did you make this sewer yourself?" Mr. Xia said yes, it was done many years ago when he just set up the factory here, and it was also because he was afraid of water entering the factory. Even though I figured out what the drain was for, I still didn't know what the girl was trying to say. So I was a little embarrassed and said, what the hell is wrong with this drain.

The girl said impatiently, "Use your brains, if it rains, it will definitely wash the water here, and this place is drained, so the water must also go down the pipe into the sewer." After saying that, she pointed to the place where she had been squatting at first, and said, Didn't you just slander me for coming to steal the manhole cover? You're right, there's a manhole cover there, and you've spent most of your days here, and you didn't even think of it. I gradually understood what she meant, so I asked her, do you mean that after a heavy rain, something was washed up here, but it fell down the drain? The girl shook her head and said, "You only guessed half right, not into the sewer, but stuck in the sewer, but in this place you can't see, if you want to find it, you can only pry up this manhole cover."

I asked her, what kind of stuff could rush down such a narrow gap and get stuck in such a wide sewer opening? The girl snorted, then said, high heels.

What are you kidding, how could such a big man with such high heels fall through such a narrow gap? It's a little hard to get my palm in. I began to disbelieve the girl's words. At this time, Mr. Xia said a little tentatively, well... That's right, when the iron mesh panel was laid, only the section at the door of the factory was laid, just to facilitate the workers not to step on the air when they entered and exited, and the side was a bare trough without a panel. After he finished speaking, I took a closer look at the iron fence and noticed that the colors of the other areas except the section at the entrance of the factory looked much newer. I asked Mr. Xia, when did the rest of the rest be made up? Mr. Xia said that it was a year and a half ago.

The girl took Mr. Xia's words and said, yes, it was one year, seven months and thirteen days when Yao Ting died.

Even though it all seemed like it was starting to get connected, I still couldn't figure out what it meant to be a heel. Yao Ting said, since you big men are here, I think it's okay to save me from priing up the lid by myself. I thought this would be good, so I said to Hu Zongren that let's go together. Hu Zongren and I tried a lot to pry the lid open, and then pushed it aside, and when the lid fell to the ground, it collided with the iron mesh on the panel, making a clanging sound peculiar to metal. Since it was a sewer, no one dared to go down when it was just opened, for fear of poisoning. So Hu Zongren and I left the lid open for a while, lit the lighter, and went to the side of the manhole cover to test it, and found that the fire showed no signs of getting stronger, and then we used the light of the mobile phone flashlight to shine it.

In the dark sewer, I saw a red high-heeled shoe that had faded red and was stained with all kinds of evil things, and the high heel was very familiar, and I soon remembered that it was the one worn by the woman with Erlang's legs in the painting that Mr. Xia showed us at the beginning. With this very figurative picture, I suddenly connected almost everything. At the earliest, the worker who witnessed the short-haired female ghost probably saw Yao Ting's ghost asking him for help, saying that his shoes had been washed into the sewer, but due to the different paths of people and ghosts, there was no very reasonable communication channel between them, and Yao Ting also tried to tell him with the picture of the printing press on that rainy night that day. This is a very valid clue, at least that the heels were washed in on a rainy night. In addition, the workers found that the film of the album could not be glued, and the pattern composed of that part was a rounded triangle and a small dot, and at this moment I realized that the figure happened to be the footprint of a high-heeled shoe.

Then the strange footsteps that Mr. Xia heard in the office, it must have been Yao Ting going upstairs at the beginning, and her stride was very slow, and I only noticed the smart reaction on the side of the stairs later, that was because Yao Ting may have jumped upstairs on one foot, so the speed was slow and loud. I took a closer look at the heel in the sewer, and yes, it was a right-footed shoe, and the reaction I found in the hallway was the left foot in the direction of going upstairs. But it made such a big movement that people could notice, and judging from the action of scratching the door and twisting the door, it was to find Mr. Xia, why did you want to find him? Soon I also thought that it was probably the same as when the worker was witnessed, it was asking for help, as for what it was to help, I guessed that Bacheng was helping me find this shoe, and even including Mr. Xia standing in this position before, Yao Ting's sentence: "You blocked me." ”

So far, there is one thing I still don't understand, that is, the worker whose hand was pierced by the punching machine, if Yao Ting is asking for help, why do you want to hurt people? I asked my doubts, although at this moment I felt that this Gu Nian in front of me was too young, but after all, she was closer to the truth than us, and even she knew the truth. The girl told me that it was because the night shift worker that day, smoking outside the factory in the middle of the night, had poured urine into the sewer opening.

Well, now I get it. When someone pees on something I love, I think I'll confiscate his tools too. Now that everything made sense, I asked the girl, how did you know all this? The girl took out a small straw figure from her sweatshirt pocket and tied her neck, hands and feet with a red rope, and then reached out and pulled out a small bamboo sign from the straw man's stomach, on which was written the word "Yao Ting". I know the Tao of this straw man, although I rarely do this trick on weekdays, but this is also a kind of stand-in boy, originally used for divination, and later used by a few bad people to curse others, the most used situation is this kind of writing on the nameplate, so that this straw man has a name and surname, and the deceased build a bridge to have a connection, so as to act as a spirit medium with the help of the Tao can ask the truth. But that must be the prophet Lu Dao's name and eight characters, so I asked her how did you know that Lu Dao's name is Yao Ting? The girl said, "Of course I know, because my client told me." I asked her again, who is your client, the girl snorted coldly and said, what does that have to do with you, what do you do?

choked on her words, I didn't speak, but if I was not mistaken, her client should know Yao Ting, maybe it is her family. Hu Zongren asked the girl, how did this Yao Ting die? The girl's eyes began to be a little resentful, and she whispered, "I'm sick and dead." Although dying of illness is not the end of life, it is not a well-deserved death. Coupled with the sudden plaintiveness of her expression, I think she must have understood, but she didn't intend to tell us. The girl paused and continued, "I could have sent her away today, but I was spoiled by you two fools, and I have to wait until tomorrow." After saying that, she wanted to turn around and leave again, but I stopped her again, and I said to her, you let us try.

I helped Hu Zongren with the flashlight, Hu Zongren climbed down the maintenance ladder to the sewer, took off the high heels hanging there from that staircase and climbed out, the first thing he said was that it stinks under my mother. Of course, I know that the road stinks, or I would have gone down by myself. Hu Zongren patted his body, then squatted down, put his high heels in his gossip bag, and then lit incense and candles, and recited a mantra to send his soul. There's nothing difficult about all this, probably because this girl is too programmed, and she has to do it when she is young, and I can judge from this that this girl has probably just graduated from the school and lacks experience, and I suddenly felt confident, hum, Jiang is still old and spicy.

Sure enough, Hu Zongren's set of soul sending techniques can be completely because practice makes perfect, but in this girl's opinion, she feels very powerful, in order to get out of the evil breath just now, Hu Zongren and I have been sarcastic to each other, saying that we fools, we can't wait until tomorrow, here and now, just send it like this, alas, it's too difficult!

Although I didn't know the story of the woman named Yao Ting until a long time later, that's a story for later. Since we intercepted this girl's beard, out of apology, we told her our contact information, saying that if we need to help in the future, we will call, and by the way, we also deceived her phone, and I learned that her name is Zhao Jing. At the same time, we also know that the noble person in Mr. Xia's mouth is not me or Hu Zongren, but Zhao Jing. So we confiscated the money and gave it all to her.

When parting, Zhao Jing was polite to me, but she gave Hu Zongren a slap in the face, and after scolding the hooligans, she turned around and left.

There are many things about Zhao Jing, and we will talk about it slowly in the future.