"You, you were talking to yourself just now, as if you were talking to someone, and I was terrified......"

The driver looked at me with some horror and said.

Only then did I realize that the driver could not see the ghost, and I was probably thinking that he was crazy when I was playing a game with the little boy Wanderer.

"It's nothing, rehearse it in advance, so that you can have a better effect during the live broadcast."

I smiled and said, "Master, you must keep it a secret for me." ”

Hearing me say this, the driver's face softened: "So that's the case, it really scared me, young man, you must pay attention to safety." ”

After that, the driver started the accelerator and drove the bus around, I looked into the back seat, only to find that the little boy had disappeared again at some point, and I didn't know where he had gone.

I didn't care, turned around, and observed my destination.

In front of him is a dilapidated community, dozens of low-rise buildings are lined up one after another, and the surrounding walls have long since collapsed, and you can see the scene inside the community from the road outside.

I don't know how long this community has been abandoned, it is mottled and displaced, overgrown with weeds, and the buildings in the community are pitch black, and there is no sign of living people.

On the other side of the road, there is an abandoned open-pit coal mine, and the deep pit is scattered with many tools and machines used by the workers of the past.

The community was built so close to the coal mine that needless to say, the people who lived in this community should have been coal miners and their families.

In this way, Zhen Zhigang, whom Granny Jinhua asked me to find, was also a coal miner back then?

With this clue in mind, I stepped through the open door and walked into the interior of the Four Seasons Community.

Although the houses here are not high, most of them are five or six floors, but there are dozens of them, and all the floors are pitch black, and it is difficult to find a person who only knows the name and approximate identity in so many buildings.

There is no way, Langnie and Bai Ze are not there, and I can't use the Ma family technique, so I can only use the stupidest method, looking for them one by one.

Once I had made up my mind, I walked through the passage in the middle of the neighborhood, intending to start at the back of the road.

I came to the last row of buildings, looked up, and was surprised to find a faint light from the windows of a building in the northwest corner.

Is this room occupied?

With a move in my mind, I figured out the location of the room where the light was located, and walked over.

Pushing open the rusty door of the unit, I walked down the dark corridor to the fifth floor, and the door on the left hand side was rusty and covered with cobwebs, and it didn't look like it was inhabited.

It's just that judging from the direction of the light just now, it should be this room, and there will be no mistake.

Knock knock!

Thinking of this, I reached out and knocked the iron door.

I knocked a dozen times in a row, and just as I was about to break down the door, I heard a squeak, and the iron door was slowly opened, and a person poked his head out of it.

"Who are you looking for?"

In front of me was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, dressed in an old-fashioned red sweater with a ponytail, and her face was very pale from the lack of daylight for a long time.

"That, I want to ask, do you Zhen Zhigang live in this community?"

I quickly smiled kindly and asked the girl.

"Zhen Zhigang is my father, do you know him?"

The girl asked me suspiciously.

"Yes, my surname is Cheng, and I am a co-worker with your father, and we worked together in the coal mine back then."

I didn't expect that this girl was Zhen Zhigang's family, so I hurriedly said: "After the coal mine was closed, we went our separate ways, and we haven't been in touch for many years. ”

"It turned out to be Uncle Cheng, please come in!"

I just made up a reason using Zhen Zhigang's possible identity as a coal miner in a hurry, but I didn't expect that the girl didn't have the slightest suspicion, and directly opened the iron door and invited me in.

I smiled and walked in, and the girl locked the iron door and followed.

As soon as I entered, I felt a dark and damp smell blowing over me, and the room was dark and cramped, reminiscent of the standard layout of an old-fashioned family building from decades ago.

The sofa and coffee table were covered with a thick layer of dust, exactly the kind of room that would only occur when it had been uninhabited for many years.

And strangely enough, the room was already very dark, and it was not yet night, but the girl had lowered the curtains early, obscuring the only glimmer of light.

If it weren't for the incandescent light, the room would have been like a deep cavern, dark.

"Uncle Gao, sit down."

Seeing that I had been standing on the ground and wandering, the girl said enthusiastically.

I nodded and sat down, then asked, "By the way, I don't know your name yet?" ”

"My name is Zhen Lihua, you can just call me Xiaohua."

The girl said with a shy smile.

"Okay, Xiaohua, do you live here by yourself, what about your parents?"

I then asked.

"Mom and Dad have gone to other places to do business, and now I am the only one living here."

Xiaohua lowered his head and said with some sadness: "After the coal mine was closed, my father and mother discussed going to the south to do business, and I was in school at the time, so I didn't go together. ”

I asked again, "I see that your community has long been deserted, and there is not even a vegetable market around, how do you usually cook?" ”

"I usually take the car to the mall to buy enough food for a month at a time, and I don't have any other needs, so it feels good to live here."

Xiaohua said with a smile on his face with a hint of flushing.

"Then your source of life ......"

"My father will send me a sum of money every month for living expenses, and they will write to me on time, so I will show it to you."

Speaking of his father, Xiaohua suddenly became excited, ran into the bedroom quickly, and walked out with a thick pile of stationery after a while.

"Uncle Gao, look, this is a letter from my parents to me, they have always cared about me, can I read it to you?"

Xiaohua looked at me expectantly.

I nodded noncommittally and did not speak.

Xiaohua immediately put the letter on the coffee table, sat next to me and read it.

"Xiaohua, remember to eat breakfast, you have a bad stomach, but you have to pay attention to your body."