Chapter 163: A Special House
Today is destined to be an extraordinary day, for many people, including Hou Xiaojun.
He caught the first rural bus with Jimbo early in the morning and came to the city, and then according to the address given by Liu Gang, they took a taxi to another place. However, after arriving at the place, Hou Xiaojun and Jin Bo had the urge to scold their mother. Because they came to the vicinity of Babaoshan, the most famous cemetery in Beijing. There is basically no real estate around here, and the only few communities are also twenty or thirty years old, which are still the residences built during the old industrial production houses, but most of them are five- or six-storey slab buildings without elevators.
"Liu Gang, what kind of place are you talking about? Where are you now?" said as soon as Jin Bo dialed Liu Gang's phone.
"Brother Bo, you're here! Who said it's only a residential area! There is an old office building on the side of the industrial plant, and there is a nineteen-story building in it, I'm waiting for you here Come over quickly! Uncle is a little impatient to wait!" It seems that Liu Gang on the other end of the phone is even more impatient.
Jin Bo hung up the phone, looked at Hou Xiaojun, and then briefly repeated what Liu Gang said just now to him.
Hou Xiaojun is also very helpless, that Mr. Liu is right to find this kind of strange house, even so, in such a remote place, even if the floor of the house is right, how could he pay for it in this place. Unless Mr. Liu's head is funny, but since he is here, let's go and see, he also wants to see if there is really that kind of house in this world.
Because there was no longer a good way to walk around, Hou Xiaojun added an extra hundred yuan to the driver, and he agreed to move on, but Hou Xiaojun didn't know how much more money he would have to add if he let the driver wait for him for a while, and he didn't want to be unable to get a car in this wilderness.
After a long time of wandering around this somewhat deserted place, they finally saw a lonely 20-story building, in stark contrast to the low-rise buildings around it.
"It should be there!" said to Hou Xiaojun, pointing to the building.
"Well, let's go over and take a look!" Hou Xiaojun also discovered this somewhat strange building.
The car stopped at the gate of a community, this community looks a little strange, not like the old communities in the city, although it is dilapidated but there are many people living here, it seems very deserted, Hou Xiaojun doubts whether there are still people living here.
It may be that the taxi driver is worried that he will go back with an empty car after such a long journey, so he also wants to agree to Hou Xiaojun's request, but Hou Xiaojun only wants to add an extra hundred yuan for him to wait for them here. In the end, the two sides still did not negotiate, and Hou Xiaojun and Jin Bo could only watch the taxi drive away.
As soon as he walked to the bottom of this building, Hou Xiaojun heard Jin Bo's voice:
"I'm going! It's Building Four!"
Hou Xiaojun looked in the direction of Jin Bo's finger, and really saw a sign hanging on the wall on the side of this high-rise building that had almost lost its wall skin, and it was already vaguely written "Building 4 of Ping An Community".
Hou Xiaojun couldn't help but feel a little funny in his heart, this is next to the cemetery, and it's safe! This developer is really interesting, is it worried that the residents living in this community are worried that the night will not be peaceful?
Now that I've found it, there's no need to talk nonsense, and the house is definitely on the 18th floor. So they walked into the lobby of the building. Because it belongs to that kind of old building, there is no resident on the entire first floor, but a very wide hall, and there are still two table tennis tables on the ground of the hall. There were also two sofas next to the table that had been worn to the point that the skin was torn and leaked out of the sponge, which seemed to be used for resting after being tired from playing ball.
"Such an old building, there won't be no elevator!" Hou Xiaojun, who was curiously looking at the surrounding scene, was startled by Jin Bo's words, he couldn't help but turn his head and look at Jin Bo, who was looking around, and he really said that Hou Xiaojun didn't see the elevator. This joke is too big, if you have to climb the eighteenth floor, you have to exhaust them to death.
The two walked around the lobby on the first floor several times, but they didn't see the elevator door. Only the entrance to a fire staircase was found, and the two couldn't help but look at each other and smile bitterly.
Don't say anything, let's climb! So Hou Xiaojun and Jin Bo went directly to the fire staircase.
"Monkey ...... Monkey! You ...... You...... Slow down! Oops! It's really crawling...... I can't climb anymore!" Before he reached the tenth floor, Jin Bo was already out of breath and out of breath, his shirt was already tightly attached to his fat body, and he was panting and shouting at Lu Chen, who was walking in front.
"You...... You...... Just hold on a little longer......! It's almost there!" "Although Hou Xiaojun said that you are relatively thin, he is no better than climbing so many floors in one breath, but that curiosity still overcomes exhaustion.
"I ...... I...... I can't do it! I'm going to take a break!" Jimbo suddenly sat on the platform on the tenth floor and waved his hand repeatedly. Although there was a smelly garbage can next to it, he didn't care.
"I ...... I said you ....... Just when Hou Xiaojun was about to cheer up Jin Bo again. The door to the fire escape on the tenth floor creaked open, and then the face of a pale, somewhat frightening middle-aged woman peeked out. Because the corridor itself is a little dim, and the woman has only leaned out a face, and her body has not yet come out, it looks a little infiltrating.
Jimbo felt the sweat on his back seem to turn cold for a moment, which was also a little too scary, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, wanted to ask a question, but nothing came out.
The woman looked at Jin Bo who was sitting on the ground, and then at Hou Xiaojun who was halfway up the stairs, and without saying a word, she shrank back again.
Jin Bo and Hou Xiaojun looked at each other, and then, Jin Bo let out an exclamation, and he didn't know where the strength came from, the fat body suddenly became flexible, and he stood up from the ground with quick movements, and then, stepped out of two steps, and after a while, he overtook Hou Xiaojun and ran straight upstairs.
Hou Xiaojun was stunned for a moment, and after being unwilling, he began to step out of three steps in one step.
"The eighteenth floor is here! Hurry up! Hurry in!" Jin Bo looked at the number written on the open door, glanced back at Hou Xiaojun who was following behind him, and said a word, and flashed into the door.
"I said, how did you two get out of here? Okay, okay, hurry up, the uncle is impatient!" As soon as Jin Bo and Hou Xiaojun walked into the corridor on the eighteenth floor, they saw a young man who was as thin as Hou Xiaojun and had thick eyes, and said with some surprise, naturally it was Liu Gang, it was obvious that he knew Hou Xiaojun, so he didn't be polite to him.
"Let's go...... Let's go in and take a look!" Hou Xiaojun didn't want to waste time here anymore, he was really a little afraid of this place, and he couldn't care about the legs that were no longer obedient.
Liu Gang pushed open a door, and Hou Xiaojun was the first to walk in, but as soon as he entered, he let out an exclamation:
"I'll go! This is also called a house?"
Hou Xiaojun felt that he had entered a strange space, the whole room was very dimly lit, and only the little light from the window that he had never knew could barely see the general structure of the house.
The first thing that appeared in front of Lu Chen's eyes was a long aisle, and at the end of the aisle was a solid wall. He didn't see where the living room was, but he was sure that the roof of the aisle was indeed a dome, and it was a very high dome, a bit like the roof of a European church, and the rooms were supposed to be distributed on both sides. Looking at the few black holes, Lu Chen simply counted them, no more, no less, just four, could it be four rooms.
Just as Hou Xiaojun was about to go to verify his idea, a scream from Jimbo came from behind him
"Oh!"