Have you ever been afraid of something at a certain time? You don't even know what that thing is or what it looks like, but you're scared because you've never seen it?

I have.

I remember when I was about a few years old, I started to sleep alone in a room. At that time, the living environment was not as good as it is now, and buying a house had to depend on the choice of house type. So at that time, my room was very small, so small that I could only fit a single cot and a small wardrobe nailed up with wooden boards.

My room is close to the window, and I can directly see the staff hospital in the factory from the window. At that time, an arsenal-like unit like my parents usually provided more complete supporting facilities for employees, for example, we had a children's school, we had a special staff cinema, a staff hospital, and even a funeral home. So when I opened the window, I could see the funeral home directly, which I didn't particularly understand when I was a child. But I always heard someone crying in the courtyard, and later I realized that it was because of the dead people.

So since I was a child, I was afraid of death, of the sadness and the eerie silence that comes with it.

Sometimes when I go to bed at night, if I can't fall asleep just after going to bed, I tend to play in bed by myself with my eyes open for a long time, and in the small room, any slight movement can attract my attention, so I must admit that when I was a child, the place I was most afraid of was under my bed and in the closet.

I don't remember exactly when it started, but I always felt like there were monsters in my closet and under my bed, and they would come to my bed while I was asleep and quietly hurt me. Especially in my closet, because I've heard voices coming from it more than once, but I still can't tell if it's an illusion or not. But I never forgot the feeling of scaring myself, and several times, I could see that the wardrobe was about to open, and then a woman in a period costume with green fangs crawled out of it. I have to explain what ancient costumes are, because during those days, TV sets became popular, so I was particularly obsessed with a TV series that had little choice at that time, called "Journey to the West", in which many of the demons and monsters were women. And finally one time I was so scared that I couldn't stand it anymore, so I screamed in bed in the middle of the night, pretending that I had a nightmare, and called my dad to my room. I said I had a ghost in my closet, I said I was scared. But my dad got me out of bed and forced me to go to the closet and ask me to open it.

I didn't understand what my dad was doing, and I even thought he was trying to embarrass him because I was making him sleep, and reluctantly, I mustered up the courage to open my closet. Dad asked me, is there a ghost in there? I said no. My dad said, are you still scared now? I said I'm not afraid, I know that there is nothing in the road, what else do I have to be afraid of? My dad told me to remember, when you're afraid of something, the best thing to do is to face it directly.

That was the first series of things my dad said to me that stuck with me, and since then, I've even used it to check under my bed in the middle of the night and find nothing but a litter of rats. So basically from that time on, I kept reminding myself to be brave in this way until I became an adult.

After falling in love, I told Sister Cai about my story, because she was also afraid of some things, for example, for a while, she always thought that there was a crying woman in our family's unreasonable wardrobe, until I asked her to open the closet, and she was not afraid anymore. And what I'm going to talk about today is really related to the wardrobe, but this time the wardrobe is no longer only about clothes, but also about other things.

After sending Zhao Jing to take a taxi that night, I also left Hu Zongren in a good place to take a car, because I wanted to drive so far from Jiangbei to send him to the south bank, I thought it was a kind of disrespect for No. 93 gasoline, so no matter how Hu Zongren slapped the window or compared his middle finger after getting out of the car, I never stopped the foot that stepped on the accelerator, and when I left, I also deliberately raced his foot to empty the oil, so that he could feel the powerful engine of my "awesome 2010". After going home and resting for two or three days, I got a phone call.

This call was not from Hu Zongren, but from Zhao Jing. Although I know that Zhao Jing must have my phone number, but the cause and effect of the whole thing was provoked by Hu Zongren, I am at best a good buddy to help, and I shouldn't have found me directly if there is something wrong. So when I asked Zhao Jing on the phone what she was doing, she said that Hu Zongren didn't answer her phone. I smiled and said that of course he won't answer your calls, probably because he is afraid of being beaten by his wife. Because in those days, Hu Zongren had sent me a message saying that he had begun to take time to visit the hotel and was ready to hold the wedding as soon as possible, so that he could be down-to-earth. We know Fu Yunni's temper very well, when she is quiet, she looks like a girl, and when she is crazy, she is menopause. So it must be that Hu Zongren told Fu Yunni a lot of things about Zhao Jing, and Fu Yunni didn't have a good impression of Zhao Jing because of this, so Hu Zongren was not allowed to answer the phone.

Zhao Jing said, but it's not okay not to answer the phone, this case is all going to him. I said to Zhao Jing, then what's the use of you telling me, do I look like Hu Zongren? Zhao Jing said, time is pressing, I can only explain the matter to you first, you have a good relationship, you call him, he will definitely answer. I deliberately teased her, then why do you think I must help you convey this sentence? Zhao Jing was stunned and didn't speak, obviously she didn't expect me to say that. So I said to her, "Okay, if you have something, just say something."

Zhao Jing said that the new commission is like this, the employer is a returnee executive of a foreign-funded company, who is not very old and lives alone. Recently, the house is a little unclean, and I have not found a specific problem after looking for a master. He had been in the car for more than a week and had slept in his sleeping bag for more than a week, and he was afraid to go home. I asked Zhao Jing, is it a rented house or a bought house? Zhao Jing said that she didn't know about it, the house was haunted, and it belonged to the Yang Mansion, I thought it didn't seem to be very difficult, so I immediately contacted Hu Zongren, who knew that he didn't answer my phone. I snorted and said, don't tell me anything, it turns out that the previous dozen cases are more difficult to deal with one by one, and this is just over half of the number Hu Zongren and I have been injured several times, who knows if Lu Dao can survive to the last of the most, who knows if the old guys in your Xuanyuan Association are more perverted than the other.

Speaking of Xuanyuanhui, I suddenly felt bad.

Zhao Jing didn't respond positively to my words, but just told me that the time she agreed with the victim was to talk about it while eating together at half past six this evening, and I asked her why she wanted to delay it until that time, and it was night after eating, and it was not good to investigate at night during the day. Zhao Jing said that she also asked, and the other party's answer was because she had to go to work during the day. I said that if something like this happened at home, he still had to go to work, and we deserved to serve him, right? Zhao Jing said, that can't be helped, these things will always find me, I can't hide, I can't hide.

Although Zhao Jing's tone was still cold, she did tell the truth, even if Hu Zongren didn't answer the phone, this matter would need him to solve it after all, and there were still nine cases left, and there was basically no way to hide. So I told Zhao Jing that I knew the truth, and I would call Hu Zongren. After hanging up the phone, I called Hu Zongren, and the first thing he said when he answered the phone was, you finally called, how is it, what is the new case? I asked him how do you know that Zhao Jing called me, and he said that you are not talking nonsense, my phone is about to blow up to her, of course I know that she will look for you. I scolded him and said you don't answer the phone. Hu Zongren coughed loudly, and then said softly, I don't dare... The tone was like that of an underground party member who wanted to pass on information.

I couldn't help but feel funny, so I relayed what Zhao Jing told me to Hu Zongren, and told him the time and place of dinner, and asked him to find a way to ask Fu Yunni for leave.

Although I don't know what happened between Hu Zongren and Fu Yunni after Lu Dao hung up the phone, Hu Zongren finally showed up at the time and place we agreed on. It's just that I noticed a coin-sized bruise on his neck, and then when he saw me, he subconsciously covered it with his hand, and his face turned red. So I guess that the bruise was probably left by Fu Yunni. After Zhao Jing saw the marks on Hu Zongren's neck, she also deliberately held back her laughter. Hu Zongren and Zhao Jing didn't have much affection for each other, but when they met, they didn't even say a word. After waiting for the returnee executive that Zhao Jing said, he looked tired, looking close to forty years old, although he looked very tired, I guess it was caused by sleeping in the car for a week, but he still very politely invited us to sit down, which made me a little uncomfortable.

Zhao Jing introduced me and Hu Zongren to that gentleman, and then said that we are both relatively famous masters here, so if you have anything to say, it doesn't matter how absurd it is. The gentleman sighed and said, "It's a shame to say this, I have received nearly twenty years of science education, and my academic career has been very successful, and in the end, I have been planted in such a thing." Hu Zongren asked him, what do you call him, sir? He said that his surname is Du, a local, who has returned from studying at a prestigious British university, and is currently working as the managing director of the Chinese side of a very well-known multinational logistics company.

After taking a sip of tea, Mr. Du said, "I am looking for you to come to my house after dinner, and this night, all kinds of strange noises came from the wardrobe and the bedside, at first I thought it was the sound of pipes in the wall, but since this sound appeared, I have not slept all night, and I have nightmares that are small things, and most importantly, I have seen those things with my own eyes.

Of course, we know what the Tao is, so Hu Zongren asked directly, male and female?