Hu Zongren glanced at me and said to Store Manager Xie, we have already guessed this, the time when the old grandmother appeared is not logical, and she appears again and again, and the above actions are easy to make people suspicious. I add, especially when you look for us, we know why you're going to find someone like us, so we have a preconceived idea. Hu Zongren asked the store manager Xie, what happened next?

Manager Xie clasped his hands across his chest, then shrugged his shoulders, looking as if he felt a little cold. For this season, although the weather is not hot, it is definitely not to the point of chilling. Store manager Xie said that she was also in the store that night, and happened to witness the whole process, she said that the temperature of hot milk is usually much higher than hot water, and there had been an accident in the store where a child was burned by hot milk, so when she saw that the male customer spilled the milk, as the store manager, she immediately stood out from the counter and wanted to coordinate the matter, but at that time she found that a whole cup of hot milk was poured on the face of the old ***.

The strangest thing, Mr. Xie, said was that usually everyone would cry out in pain, and the old woman didn't react at all, but looked at the male customer with her eyes squinting upwards. And the dripping water on her face is also very different from common sense, that is, it does not flow down the contour of her face, but directly through the part of her body that can be covered, and after a short stay on her face, it drip directly through her body to the seat.

Hu Zongren said, isn't it like water is poured on the filter paper, and then through it, this old woman's whole person seems to be transparent, right? Store Manager Xie said that it can be so, but what you see in front of you is different, because if this old woman is transparent, then she should be able to see the scene behind her through her body, but in fact, she can't see it.

I explained to Mr. Xie that the so-called transparency depends on the state of the ghost at that time, and most of the ghosts are non-existent, that is to say, the old woman you see is actually an illusion caused by it to almost all the people in your store, it is indeed sitting there, but if it is not affected by this effect, you can't see it. I went on to say, as if there might be a ghost crouching under the tree on the side of the street where we are standing now, but we can't see it, and maybe there are people coming and going, some of whom are actually dead a long time ago.

After saying that, I repeated the very classic sentence that my master told me, how can you be sure that all you see in your life are people.

Hearing me say this, Store Manager Xie subconsciously looked left and right at those passers-by, in fact, I didn't mean to scare her, I was just stating a fact. Manager Xie went on to say that because the situation of the old lady was really weird at that time, so that those of us who witnessed everything could notice that something was wrong at the first time, there were not a few customers left in the store at that time, and because of the troublemaking of this male customer, they were all looking over here to watch the excitement, but at this time, the old woman suddenly stood up and rushed to our upstairs with very fast steps. Store Manager Xie stretched out an index finger and said, I mean, "look" up like rushing upstairs, the speed can't be the speed of an old man at all, like a video tape fast-forwarding picture, and at this time we found out that her feet didn't touch the ground at all, and it was indeed translucent, like a film pocket.

I pieced together in my mind the way the old lady ran upstairs that the store manager Xie said, and I didn't know what the road was about, and I thought it was quite funny. Manager Xie said that because all this was so weird, everyone present was a little frightened, and the male customer did not continue to pester our student girl, but ran away in a panic. There was also a female customer in the store who saw it, and she also stood up in a panic and walked out of the door, and said loudly to me when she opened the door, boss, if you don't run quickly, your store is haunted!

Manager Xie continued, since then, except for a few people, no one else has seen the old lady again, and this matter quickly spread in our employee circles, during which two or three people resigned because of fear, and before leaving, they repeatedly assured me that this matter would not spread out, but they refused to continue to work here. You say that I am such a small shop, although I am the store manager, but I also have investors above me, even if they believe in the strange things that happened to our store, there is no way to let them close their doors and not do business. So the next day we closed for a day, and then invited a Taoist priest to hang a large bronze mirror on the staircase between the upper and lower floors, and also pasted charms on many places on the second floor, including the lintels and windows, and told us to stop the stairs with warning signs or cordons, saying that the charms and bronze mirrors should be hung for at least 14 days before they could be removed.

Hu Zongren interjected and asked the store manager Xie, "Then what are you doing on the second floor?" Manager Xie said that the second floor was originally a restaurant, but because there was no ordering table above, and it was upstairs, it was quieter, and the place was much more spacious, with a separate toilet and a special play area for children. After speaking, she pointed to the shop behind her and said, now we still have to do business, everyone is in a trance, the number of people who can receive on the first floor is too small, and our business is simply a heaven and an underground than before. And I also suspect that the Taoist priest's talisman may not be useful at all, even after he came to do tricks, there are still some strange things very frequently.

I quickly asked her what else was going on. Store manager Xie said that most of them appear at night, sometimes it is more than 11 o'clock in the evening, which is probably the time when the old grandmother often appeared before, and sometimes it is even later, even three or four o'clock in the morning. After she said this, I turned my head to look at the sign in front of their store, which read "Open 24 Hours" in bold letters. Store Manager Xie went on to say that the first time was on the third night after the Taoist priest came to practice, and the next day everyone was very wary of the movement upstairs, but it was quiet, and everyone was still saying that the Taoist priest was so powerful that he cleaned up this place so quickly. But the next day, when their chef was in the kitchen preparing food for the customers who had left the restaurant to order, he suddenly heard the sound of thumping footsteps on the floor overhead, and the frequency of the sound was said to be very fast, which made it easy to think of the old grandmother when she ran upstairs. At that time, our chef stuck out his head and gave a look to the colleague who was receiving outside, meaning that there was still movement upstairs at this time, and another colleague also began to listen, but heard the squeaky and screeching sound of the table and chair being dragged away and pulled on the ground from upstairs.

Hu Zongren asked, were there any customers in your store at that time? Store manager Xie said that it was okay at the time, and there was a man in the store who was eating while playing with his mobile phone, probably the kind who worked late and didn't eat. Hu Zongren asked again, did the customer notice the voice? Manager Xie said that of course he noticed it, but he didn't think much about it, thinking that it might be a noise made by our employees when they were cleaning up upstairs after work, and the customer left quickly. Manager Xie went on to say that the waiters in the store tried their best to get together that night and did not dare to disperse, but no one left.

Manager Xie also said that the only toilet in our restaurant is on the second floor, and there is no bathroom on the ground floor, since this incident, even our own employees have to run to the adjacent shopping mall if they want to go to the bathroom, and the mall is closed at night, so they have to run farther to go to the public toilet on the pedestrian street. As a result, many customers want to go to the toilet but can't do it, including during the day. There were several times when guests went upstairs to the toilet without permission despite our persuasion, and we all felt frightened, but fortunately they didn't seem to be anything unusual when they walked down, and it seemed that the old lady upstairs had not done anything to the average customer. Hu Zongren asked the store manager Xie and said, although there is a sound alone is very strong evidence, but there is no witness, how can you be sure that the one upstairs is the old woman? Manager Xie said that this was what happened the night before.

She said that the little sister of the student who poured boiling water for the grandmother at the beginning did not leave her job because of this incident, perhaps because she was a literate college student and seemed to believe it, or because she felt that she had never treated the old woman badly from beginning to end, and the old woman should not harm her or something. She even took the initiative to ask to work the night shift, because during the day she was very popular, everyone was noisy, and it was not easy to be noticed if there was any movement. But the night before yesterday, it happened to be the little sister on duty, and when it was almost three o'clock in the morning, there were no customers in the store, and the chef was dozing off in his work area. But at this moment, she heard the sound of Dang Dang not far overhead.

She said that the sound seemed to be tapping the table with chopsticks, but it was not particularly similar, and when she heard this sound, she subconsciously realized that it must be the old woman upstairs. So I didn't dare to look up at first, after all, I was still afraid. But as the voice grew louder and louder, as if to get her attention, she slowly looked up and looked with her eyes into the place where the sound was coming from.

Store Manager Xie said that the little sister saw that there was an extra space on the ceiling at the top of our counter, that is, the floor on the second floor, and an old woman hanging upside down and only half of her body peeking out from the corner of the ceiling, holding the white hook umbrella with one hand, and waving to the little sister with the other hand, with a smile on her face.

Store Manager Xie began to imitate this posture, and said in a weird manner while imitating, little sister, come on... Come on...