Chapter 64. [Case 11] first appeared
I have always thought that there are only three kinds of people in this world, men, women, and Hu Zongren. So I won't be surprised at all by the obscene expression that Hu Zongren showed when he saw a beautiful woman. I admit that I am also a person who likes to look at beautiful women, but in comparison, I am much more introverted than Hu Zongren, and I just stay at a level of appreciation for beauty, and Hu Zongren is more likely to be full of pictures of human desires.
Sure enough, when he saw his little sister, he immediately stood up and sat down on a seat on the side, and then wiped the seat he was sitting in with his sleeve, and said to the little sister very kindly, please sit here. After the little girl sat down, she looked a little restrained, probably because of her young age, and because she had encountered such a thing, and she was not familiar with our relationship. Hu Zongren waited until she sat down and asked her, I need you to describe to me carefully what that old *** looks like, to be specific, because you are the only one in this store who has seen her the most times, and she seems to take the initiative to greet you and call you over, so you should know best, by the way, what's your name? How old are you?
The little girl said that her surname was Tian, and she was a major student, a native of Hunan, who had just reached her sophomore year in the second half of this year. It's not because of poor family conditions or anything when I come to work part-time, but because I really don't want to waste time playing with computers and falling in love after school. Hu Zongren snorted and said, how can this falling in love be a waste of time, you have to grasp the youth of the great good! I saw that he was a little off-topic, so I coughed twice on purpose.
Oda said that if it weren't for what happened later, the old lady would not have looked much different from the old ladies she usually met on the street. The length of the hair is about the length of the neck, there is a black headband, the hair is tucked behind the ears, the hair is all white, and it looks like he is about 70 years old. I tried to think about the old *** appearance that Xiao Tian said in my heart, and I didn't know what Lu Dao was for, so I directly thought of the elderly version of Liu Hulan. After saying this, Oda was silent and did not speak for a long time.
Hu Zongren asked her, is this gone? Xiao Tian was a little embarrassed and said, what else can I describe the appearance of an old man, in short, if it weren't for that cup of hot milk, I'm afraid I didn't realize that she was no longer human, I was a little unbelievable about these things, and now you want me to keep recalling this, isn't it embarrassing for me. Hu Zongren looked at me a little helplessly, his mouth wanted to speak a few times, but he didn't know what to say. After a while, he said again, "Well, later, I heard from your store manager Xie that you saw her again the night before yesterday when you were on the night shift." Oda said that he saw that there were no customers in the store that night, so he sat on a small bench under the counter and played with his mobile phone. After saying that, she pointed to the counter and said, "The table is relatively high, and generally guests can't see me when they're standing, and I can hear it if someone comes in." All I heard was a thump, and I never saw her again until I looked up and saw the old woman and told her not to scare me. I asked her if the knock sound you were talking about sounded like something was coming from. Oda thought for a moment and said, if he didn't guess wrong, it should be the sound of the old grandmother tapping on the wall with the handle of her umbrella.
I followed Oda's gaze and looked at the floor on top of the counter, and in fact, if I looked up from where we were sitting on the first floor, I could see some of the tables and chairs on the second floor. That is to say, the partition between the two floors is tightly bound to a slab and a railing, so that the old woman hangs upside down from above, and I can figure it out, and I can change it to a thinner or a smaller one, and maybe I can do it. Oda went on to say that since she first brought a cup of hot water to the old woman, I think this is why the old woman paid more attention to me. Because she didn't take the initiative to scare others, but only communicated with me with a few words.
Xiao Tian looked at Hu Zongren and said, big brother, I don't think that old woman is a bad person, if you want to find her, can you not do anything to hurt her, after all, she is so old and dead. As soon as Xiao Tian's words came out, Hu Zongren and I still felt a little surprised. If it were someone else, he might be as enthusiastic as Xiao Tian to treat such a strange old man at the beginning, but he may not be able to have such tolerance and compassion after knowing that the other party is a ghost, and more likely to be like Store Manager Xie, after learning that the other party is a ghost, the main thing to think of is to ask someone to clean it up, as for the ways and means of cleaning it up, it seems that it is not so important to them. So when Oda said this, I was still a little moved, most of the girls of her age are more pampered, and as a generation of people with a one-child policy, most of them will be more selfish, even myself, and it is very rare to be able to maintain a calm analysis and objective judgment in such a sudden occurrence and beyond the scope of my understanding.
As he spoke, almost all the customers in the store had left. After the last customer left, the store manager Xie walked out of the work area, locked the door with a key, and hung a sign at the door, in order to prevent being seen by others, she also specially put the store used to advertise those X display racks or roll-up banners and other things at the door, blocking people from looking in through the transparent glass door, and then turned off the lights on the first floor very carefully, but turned on the second floor, and then took seven or eight clerks to walk to us together. This fast food restaurant, which claims to be open 24 hours, was forced to close because of the arrival of Hu Zongren and me.
We made it to the innermost part of the right side of the door, so if we pulled down the curtain, we would not be visible from the outside. A group of people gathered around us, but no one spoke first, perhaps because they thought it was too absurd for anyone to speak first. After a while, Store Manager Xie said to Hu Zongren, this is all the employees in our store, most of them have seen the old *** with their own eyes, of course, in the past when we didn't realize that she was a ghost, if you two masters have anything you want to consult, just ask.
Hu Zongren asked them a little basic situation, in fact, most of them are whether the grandmother behaves the same every day after entering the store, and who among them has direct contact with the grandmother, such as bringing her water, etc., in fact, the answer has been found in the mouths of Store Manager Xie and Xiao Tian before, so the statements of these clerks are basically just a supporting role. Except for one of the male clerks who suddenly said that on the second day of the incident, that is, on the day when the Taoist priest was invited, the water dispenser downstairs suddenly broke down, as if something was pressing down on the water outlet, and the water kept flowing out, but the water did not splash out at all, and it stopped by itself when it reached a position of about a cup.
Hu Zongren smiled and said to me, it seems that the old woman didn't take the Taoist priest in her eyes at all, you do your Fa, I will pour water and drink it myself. As soon as Hu Zongren said this, many people laughed, and the originally tense atmosphere was so relaxed. Hu Zongren stood up, walked to the spot near the door, and then asked everyone if she was sitting here every time she came in before she found out that she was a ghost. Everyone said yes in unison. Hu Zongren asked again, which side of the country was she sitting on? Because there were two seats next to each other, one by the window and one near the counter, and everyone said it was the one near the counter. Hu Zongren sat down in that position without a sound, and then curled up slightly, I knew that he was imitating the height of the old woman at the beginning, and then he looked around, calculated the distance and angle from the place where he entered the door to the seat, and then looked at this position to see if there were some reflective things, and finally he came to a conclusion that the reason why this old woman sat here every time was not for other reasons, but because this place was the only place where there was no reflection at all.
I also stood up, walked around and looked, and found that it was really what Hu Zongren said, and this location was also a straight line distance from the counter, and anyone who came in and out of the store would inevitably pass by and see this location. Hu Zongren continued to say that she chose this place not to pretend to be a ghost from the beginning, but to let you know that she is a ghost.
After Hu Zongren said this, everyone was in an uproar. Xiao Tian was the only one who was silent, just looking up at the second floor from time to time. Hu Zongren beckoned to me and said that you come and check the agility here, see the strength and weakness, and then calculate it according to the time everyone said, and see if you can judge the size of this ghost's ability and whether it is good or evil. I walked to Hu Zongren's side and took out the compass and began to check, there was a strong reaction in the seat, my so-called strong is compared to an old *** ghost. It stands to reason that people around the age of 70 already know the destiny of heaven, even if they are afraid of death, they also know that this day will come sooner or later, and it will come sooner and faster, so if this ghost has any obsessions, maybe the words are not very appropriate, what else can not be thought of when this age is old, so it is not necessarily an obsession, but some kind of memory.
Wife? Child? Why did she suddenly appear in this store on such a special day, and deliberately let everyone notice her, at least the clerks in this store, and the male customer who made trouble at the beginning and the other customer who fled in a hurry after the last one saw her, why should everyone see it.
At this time, Hu Zongren's eyes began to stare at the second floor, and then he beckoned to me, and then pointed in the direction of the second floor. We all followed Hu Zongren's fingers and found that on the second floor, near the stairs downstairs, there was an old lady sitting with her feet together, her hands on her knees, and an old dirty white umbrella with hooks beside her, just sitting like that, looking at Hu Zongren and me.
There was no expression on his face, and he didn't know whether he was happy or angry.