I don't know if the long-faced young man recognized me, he just looked at me lazily and walked past me. Liu Zhen saw my reaction, and after going downstairs, he asked me, "What's the matter?" Do you know that person? ”

I shook my head and said, "I don't know each other, but I've met once, and I'm not sure if it's the same person right now." ”

Liu Zhen didn't ask much, we asked for a few dishes of home-cooked food at a small restaurant near the old apartment.

It was overcast, the air was dreary, and I looked up at the old apartment, which looked out of place in contrast to the new, red-walled new-style buildings that surrounded it, and the white-gray walls looked ghostly like shrouds.

I asked for two bottles of beer to drink by myself, Liu Zhen only drank tea on the side, he was famous for not sticking to alcohol. As for Bu Jin, she was as quiet as ever, but I peeked at her from time to time and found that her eyes were lowered, her two beautiful eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and she was no longer as expressionless as before, but obviously thinking about something.

I didn't ask her much what she was thinking, and in the past few days with her, I have already figured out her temperament. For Bu Jin, you can only passively wait for her to speak, if you want to take the initiative to chat with her, it is even more difficult than ascending to the sky.

I drank and said to Liu Zhen: "I still have one more thing that I don't understand. ”

"Say." Liu Zhen took a slice of sausage and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Since my father knows that Yunnan is dangerous, why don't you let me go back as soon as possible, but continue to stay in Yunnan?"

"I also asked this question," Liu Zhen said, "but the teacher's answer was a little vague, he said that if you appear at the major railway stations or airports in Yunnan now, they will immediately find out." ”

"They? Who are they? ”

Liu Zhen waved his hand and said, "Who else can there be, of course, the group of people who are pretending to be your father and Wang Chengbao." ”

I frowned and said, "According to what you say, the power of that group is still quite large?" ”

"That's probably the case, he didn't say much about those people, and the main conversation he had with me that night was to ask me to help you find this Duan Yuwen, and especially instructed me, don't write the address on paper, you can only remember it in your head, and then meet you to find Duan Yuwen together." Liu Zhen sighed, suddenly lowered his voice, and said, "However, I think that the power of that group of people should be very strong, otherwise the teacher would not say anything to me about being careful of phone tapping." ”

I nodded, in life, I am afraid that the only people who have the right to listen to other people's calls are the police. Of course, that's not to say it's hard to listen to someone's calls, and it's easy for many electronics experts to listen to someone's phone calls, especially my old-fashioned landline. It's just that this kind of thing is suspected of violating privacy, and in serious cases, it may even constitute a crime.

At this time, the proprietress of the small shop brought a plate of fish in a casserole. Liu Zhen is smarter than me, so he hurriedly stopped her and said, "Boss, I'll ask you something." ”

The proprietress smiled, said in a thick Yunnan accent: "What do you want to ask, you say." ”

Liu Zhen pointed to the old apartment and asked, "How old is that building over there?" ”

The proprietress glanced in the direction of Liu Zhen's finger, thought about it in her heart, and replied, "Why do you have to have more than thirty years, what are you asking for?" ”

"Oh, it's okay, just ask." Liu Zhen didn't say anything about finding someone, "I'm just a little curious, you see that the location of this old apartment is so remote, and it doesn't seem that many people live there, and new buildings have been built around, so why don't you demolish that old building?" ”

After hearing this, the proprietress smiled stiffly, looked at the store except for us, there was only one table of people, and it was not too busy, so she sat down next to us, and said in a low voice: "There used to be many people living in that building, but since a crazy woman lived in that apartment more than ten years ago, somehow, the residents of that building have moved out one after another. ”

"Crazy woman?" When I heard this, I immediately thought of the old lady with a terrible face, and my curiosity was aroused at once. However, what surprised me even more was that even Bu Jin seemed to be stunned after hearing this, and looked at the boss lady. I said in my heart, did Bu Jin understand the words of the boss? But at a second glance, I knew that my conjecture was wrong, because with the proprietress telling the story, Bu Jin gradually lost interest, probably because he couldn't understand Chinese.

The proprietress responded to me, "That's right, that's what everyone calls her." Although I have never met the crazy woman, I have heard a lot about the strange things about the crazy woman. ”

"Weird things? Let's hear about it. "I don't like people to make me hungry, so I often push people like that.

The proprietress looked at Bu Jin and said, "Oh, that story is a bit scary, and there is a girl here, it's not good to scare her." ”

"She?" I pointed at Bu Jin and said, "Don't worry, the courage of our brothers may not be as big as hers, so you can talk about it quickly." ”

The proprietress rolled her eyes and said, "This story is a bit interesting, I see that I will give you two more bottles of wine, and I will tell you while you drink." ”

I waved my hand and said, "No, this guy doesn't drink." ”

"Nope." Liu Zhen retorted to me and said to the proprietress, "Then take two more bottles." With that, he gave me another look. I immediately understood what he meant, and dared to see that the proprietress was trying to make us buy two more bottles of wine under the pretext of telling stories. I drank a decent amount of my own alcohol, so I said, "That's fine, let's have two more bottles." ”

The proprietress was very happy to fetch us wine, and when she came back she began to tell us what she knew about the mad woman. Here's what she said:

I heard a lot about that crazy woman when I was young. The people around here more or less know a little bit about her, and there are many parents who use her story to scare disobedient children.

I'll start from scratch. More than 20 years ago, all the people in our town lived in such old-fashioned apartments, but now, the town has developed, and many old-fashioned apartments have been demolished, and now there is only that one that has not been demolished, and one of the important reasons is that there is that crazy woman here.

As I told you before, there were a lot of residents in that apartment before, because the building was built early, and almost all the old families in the town lived there, and life has always been peaceful. But suddenly one day, a woman on the third floor hanged herself at home. The reason for suicide is also very simple, it is the kind of negative story that we can often hear, I don't want to tell it.

The husband asked for a divorce, and although the wife was very sad, she did not react excessively at the time. The neighbors often came to persuade the husband, but in vain, and the husband was determined to leave his wife. Eventually, the wife agreed to the divorce, but only on the condition that their children would be raised by the wife, and the husband happily agreed. So, the two went to the Civil Affairs Bureau to go through the divorce procedures. However, the husband had clearly deceived his wife, and on the night of the divorce, he quietly stole the children and everything of value from the house, and fled from him, never to be heard from again. The wife was so anxious that she probably hanged herself on impulse. By the time the neighbors found her body, she had been dead for three days, and with her already thin figure, the whole person was floating around like a paper figure hanging on the ceiling. You can probably imagine the death of a person who hanged himself, so I won't say much more.

The woman was helpless, and everyone didn't know what relatives she had, so they gathered some money together, hastily cremated the body, and found a place to bury it, and the matter was over. And that room, naturally, no one will live in it.

At first, those adults and children were still a little scared, although everyone said that they didn't believe that there were ghosts in the world, but no one was sure that they wouldn't be involved in the evil sect.

However, several years passed, and there was never a haunted thing in the old apartment, so over time, everyone stopped talking about it.

But at this time, the crazy woman appeared. Her appearance immediately attracted the attention of others, because her appearance was too terrifying. Her hands were drooping in front of her, but her back was very hunched, and from a distance, she felt that she was crawling on the ground instead of walking.

I heard from others that the crazy woman claimed to be the mother of a dead woman, and that her daughter had died and that she wanted justice. They told her that her daughter's husband had been running away with their children for several years, and no one knew where they had gone. But the crazy woman was convinced that the bad man would definitely come back, so she insisted on staying in the room where her daughter had committed suicide, and no matter how much others tried to dissuade her, it was useless.

However, people soon found out that many changes had taken place in the old apartment after the crazy woman moved in. First of all, since the crazy woman lived in the old apartment, people obviously noticed that the number of stray cats around the apartment was increasing day by day, and most of them were some old black cats. The older generation knows that there must be ghosts in places where black cats haunt, and the number of those stray cats is increasing day by day, and everyone is a little uneasy. Secondly, many residents said that in the middle of the night, they often heard the sound of someone shoveling the soil downstairs, and at the same time, it was often accompanied by the screams of many cats, which sounded like babies crying, and they did not know whether the cats were in heat or frightened. Strangely, although almost all the residents heard the sound of shoveling, there was no sign of a dirt pit around the apartment the next day.

In addition, people are also aware of the strange appearance of the crazy woman. One of the first families to notice was surnamed Liu, and their family had a newborn baby boy, the baby boy was very strong, and he almost never cried on weekdays, but as long as the baby boy saw the crazy woman, he immediately cried, and sometimes even coaxing for an afternoon could not solve the problem. At first, the Liu family didn't pay much attention, but after a long time, they found that the baby boy's crying didn't seem to be because the crazy woman looked scary. Sometimes, even if the Liu family passed by the door of the crazy woman with the child in their arms, the baby boy would point to the iron door and cry, his face would be purple and blue, as if he had been frightened by something.

Of course, none of this is surprising, but what really scares the people in the old apartment is that more and more people claim to have seen the crazy woman in the hallway in the middle of the night.

Since old-fashioned apartment buildings generally have a public restroom on one floor, a bit like a dorm room, it is inevitable that someone will get up late at night to go to the bathroom.

It is said that almost every one of those who got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet saw the crazy woman, and everyone did something different when they saw her.

Some people said they saw the crazy woman standing stupidly at the end of the hallway, others said they saw the crazy woman wandering around the hallway of the apartment building like a ghost in the middle of the night, and the strange posture of her walking made it really creepy to watch; Some people even said that they saw the crazy woman chatting with a strange woman in the corridor in the middle of the night, and when they got closer, it turned out to be the woman who had hanged herself several years ago.

However, these are all my hearsay, and the people who told me about them also heard from others, so I don't know if there is any oil and vinegar in them. However, I once heard a client tell me about a crazy woman who met him late at night.

The party's surname is Cao, because he broke a leg while riding a bicycle when he was young, so everyone calls him Cao Cripple. At that time, Cao Cripple was in his thirties, working in a factory, not very old but very honest and capable.

That night, in the early hours of the night, he suddenly had a tummy upset and desperately wanted to. Don't be surprised by this, don't disturb your appetite.

Cao Cripple had naturally heard all kinds of strange things about encountering a crazy woman in the apartment late at night, and their family happened to live on the third floor, but he really couldn't control his stomach that night, so he had no choice but to come to the corridor.

He pushed open the iron door of his house, looked left and right, but found that he did not see the shadow of the madwoman. I thought that maybe the crazy woman fell asleep tonight, so I walked towards the toilet with confidence and boldness.

The public toilet is at the end of the hallway, where there is the only window in the hallway.

Cao Cripple walked and walked, and suddenly, a cold sweat broke out. When he looked up, he saw a dark shadow on the windowsill of the window at the end of the corridor. Through the moonlight outside the window, when he looked at it again, Cao Cripple only felt creepy. The black shadow on the windowsill turned out to be the crazy woman.

What's even more chilling is that the crazy woman got a shroud to wear on her body out of nowhere, and she was wearing that dress at this time, squatting on the windowsill, as if looking at something outside the window.

Immediately afterward, a cat meow came from downstairs, which seemed very harsh in the silence of the night. And the mad woman seemed to have received some reaction, and even echoed the smirk.

This sly laugh echoed back and forth in the empty corridor, so frightened that Cao Cripple almost became incontinent, but fortunately, the crazy woman didn't seem to notice the existence of Cao Cripple. And Cao Cripple also took the opportunity to run into the toilet at once, he didn't even dare to breathe, he ran into the toilet cubicle, plugged in the door and squatted down, but at this time he had already run out of stool. He just crouched in the cubicle and didn't move, he said it was the weirdest thing he'd ever experienced in his life, and he was so frightened that he even shivered.

But, anyway, he was a man in the prime of life after all, and although he was scared, he soon used his willpower to try to control his emotions.

Just as he had barely calmed down, suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps in the toilet. Cao Cripple's scalp was numb, and he suddenly broke out with white sweat, and he heard the footsteps getting closer and closer, and it sounded like he was going straight to him.

After a while, a pair of eerie navy blue cloth shoes appeared in the gap under the toilet baffle, which was obviously a pair of women's shoes. At this time, Cao Cripple was so frightened that he couldn't make any sound, he didn't move, or rather, he was completely frozen there.

However, after a long time, the cloth shoe did not move again. Cao Cripple couldn't help but lower his head, taking a closer look at the shoes, it didn't matter, through the faint light, he found that there was only one pair of shoes there, and the horror was that there were no people's feet in the shoes.

At this time, the door panel of the toilet suddenly sounded a rustling sound, and when I heard it, Cao Cripple's brain exploded, and it sounded like the sound of a woman scratching the door with her fingernails. He followed the sound and looked up, and the madwoman's face had crossed the top of the baffle at some point, and was staring at him deadly, with a mouth full of black and yellow teeth, and a ghostly grin.