Gu Zheluo Jiutian

Although it is winter, the heat at noon cannot be underestimated.The fiery red sun was shining on the sun, hitting the naked skin with scorching heat, it felt as hot as if it was about to burn.

Chen Yang tried to block some of the direct sunlight with his hands, and a fine layer of sweat beads had risen on his forehead.Standing on the main road with a cake box in one hand, looking at the map displayed on the phone, he walked and stopped as if looking for a way.

"Turn left 50 meters ahead, and the destination is about to be reached. This navigation is over."

Chen Yang looked at the place pointed by the navigation, and he couldn't help but get angry, "That's a wall, can it be turned around, can it be turned around, I'm asking you!" Sighing: "I knew I couldn't rely on you."

It is the hottest time of the day, and there are not many people on the road, and the few pedestrians who pass by occasionally also walk away quickly with expressions on their faces.

He saw an old man shaking a cattail fan to enjoy the shade under the big tree in front of him, his face suddenly became a little happy, and he hurried over, "Master, look at this place, sir, sir!?" Chen Yang pointed at the phone. The location shown, but the old man didn't even lift his eyelids, sitting on his grand teacher's chair with his eyes closed was very comfortable.

Chen Yang felt that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, he scratched his hair and felt bored, so he continued to find his way.

"44, 404th Floor, No. 43 West Gate, South Street..." Chen Yang muttered in a low voice, frowning as he looked at the location marked on the map, which showed that it was near him, but he managed to find it according to the house number of the street. No. 44 was stunned and didn't see where No. [-] was.

A sudden gust of cool wind blew from the alley by the side of the road, Chen Yang shivered, felt a little chill for no reason, and the heat on his face seemed to have gone down a bit.He walked the road back and forth twice, but he still couldn't find the number 44 sign.

Standing alone on the street, Chen Yang felt that his delivery life was challenged for the first time.

He originally specialized in delivering takeaways in the West Market area. This morning, a cake shop in the West Market called him and asked him to deliver a cake to South Street.

Originally, Chen Yang didn't want to make this trip. Firstly, he didn't know South Street very well, and secondly, today his son's school was closed early, and he wanted to finish work early and go to the vegetable market to buy something to go home, but the shopkeeper said that today was the reunion night. The out-of-town guy in charge of the South Street took leave to go home.He also said that the cake was ordered today, and he couldn't find anyone else to deliver the order for a while, and promised that he would give him some bread that was off the shelf that day for free next time after helping him this time.

Chen Yang seemed a little hesitant when he heard this. His wife was in poor health and stayed at home after giving birth, and his only son had just started primary school. The whole family's source of income was on Chen Yang's shoulders. However, no matter how hard he tried, it was only four or five thousand a month, and there was no room for tuition, living expenses, etc. to be used elsewhere.

The poor child hadn't eaten sweets a few times so far. Thinking of his son's expression of satisfaction eating bread, Chen Yang agreed, thinking that anyway, the delivery time ends early at noon and he can pick up his son from school.

But Chen Yang never thought that he would encounter the current predicament.

After calling the store to confirm the address and calling to no avail, he really doesn't know what to do now.

After searching helplessly for a while, I felt my mouth was parched, as if the only bit of moisture in my mouth had been baked away by the ruthless sun.

Chen Yang found a grocery store nearby. As soon as he opened the door, a gust of cold air hit his face, making Chen Yang who was still in the stove just now cheer up.

Walking to the counter, he took out a crumpled two-yuan note from his pocket and asked the store for a bottle of mineral water. As soon as he got the water, he stood by the counter and poured it.

"Hey, slow down, what are you doing in such a hurry, young man?" The proprietress was a talkative person, watching Chen Yang bring a tissue with a smile on her face.

"Ma'am, the air conditioner is so low in winter." Chen Yang took a tissue and wiped the sweat from his forehead, took another sip of water and looked up at the proprietress, "Hey, isn't it hot at noon, young man Why do you look like this, what are you doing here with a cake at this hour?"

The proprietress who spoke with a local accent made the tired Chen Yang feel a lot of intimacy. She twisted the bottle cap and said, "Oh, I'm here to deliver cakes, but I can't find their home when I get here," said Then he simply put down the cake and sat on the stone steps at the door.

The proprietress looked at Chen Yang's dispirited look, covered her mouth and smiled: "Hey, where is it? Tell me, I've been here since I was married when I was young, and I know almost everything about it. Say look at that."

"Do you know No. 44, West Gate, South Street?"

Chen Yang looked up hopefully, but saw the gloomy eyes of the proprietress.

"What's wrong? Number 44, is there something wrong?"

"Young man, did you just say that you sent cakes to No. 44?"

"Yeah, what's the matter?" Chen Yang was puzzled by the reaction of the proprietress, and saw that the proprietress seemed to be frightened by something after hearing this, and hurriedly ran out of the counter to the door and looked around as if afraid Surprised by something.

After watching for a while, the proprietress turned her head and looked at Chen Yang shyly: "Young man, you are not from this place."

Chen Yang nodded: "Well, I live in the West Market area, what's the matter, ma'am?"

"Well, No. 44 is an old-fashioned residential building. Everything was fine at first, and everyone was waiting for demolition. I don't know why, but one day two years ago, it suddenly collapsed," the proprietress said and looked up again. Looking around, seeing nothing unusual, she approached Chen Yang and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear clearly: "One day it suddenly started to be haunted!"

Chen Yang smiled and waved his hands: "How could it be haunted? Where did the ghost come from in this blue sky and white day?"

The proprietress jumped up in fright when she heard this: "Young man, don't believe it, people have died there since it started being haunted two years ago! One of them will leave every few months."

"Is it really that scary?"

"Who said it wasn't that," the aunt said and sat down on the stone steps. "Later, the people in that building began to move out one after another. You said wait for the day of demolition, but who would move if it wasn't for something serious?" let's go!"

Chen Yang swallowed unconsciously when he heard this, and looked back at the cake on the counter: "Then, there is no one there now?"

The proprietress gave him a sideways look: "That's not true, there is another household."

Chen Yang stood up in surprise when he heard this: "Really?" He just wanted to finish delivering the damn cake and go back early.

"The people in that family are actually suffering. There is a single mother with a child. I have no contact with them. I just heard that the mother still has some mental problems, so everyone else has moved away and only their mother is left. both."

The proprietress stood up and picked up a rag beside her and began to wipe the counter, with a sad expression on her face, she sighed, "It's not that I don't want to leave, it's that I can't."

Chen Yang had some empathy for this, the feeling that all the burdens were on him but he was powerless, he reached out and wiped the sweat from his brow: "Then how do you get to their house, I didn't find it just now 44 number."

"It's in the alley next to No. 43, you can see it when you walk through it." The proprietress handed a pack of tissues to Chen Yang, "Here, young man." The proprietress turned around and paused: "I can't go huh, lad?"

"No way, I have to support my family," Chen Yang smirked.

"Okay, thank you ma'am, I'll go now." He took the tissue, which was packed tightly. Chen Yang just glanced at it without thinking much, and glanced at the clock on the wall. At 13:35, I hurried away with the cake.

When I came out and looked back, I saw my aunt standing at the door holding a black umbrella and looking at him with a smile on her face. He waved at her and turned into the alley next to No. 43.

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Chu Zhe looked at the street sign on Xuancheng South Street, touched his stomach, and felt a little hungry. He didn't eat much at the reunion dinner just now, and now he can find a restaurant to eat bowls of noodles or something.

Xuancheng South Street is a century-old street close to Xuancheng University. Chu Zhe has been frequenting here since he went to university. Sometimes he will come here to eat something and go back along the road when he is late in catching up with the subject, so this old street It can be said that Chu Zhe is very familiar with it.

Usually there are many food stalls on both sides of the road at this point, but today is the reunion night, and the vendors have closed their stalls and returned home early, so there are naturally not many pedestrians on the road.

Chu Zhe skillfully turned into a small road. At the end of the road, there was a slightly rudimentary small shop with lights on. There was only a wooden board nailed to the door of the shop. decorated.

Chu Zhe asked the boss for a bowl of beef noodles and found an empty seat to sit down. There are basically no customers in the shop now, only two or three people sitting there munching on the noodles.

After waiting for a while, the boss came with noodles: "Xiao Chu, I haven't eaten so late, come here, I added a poached egg for you today for the holiday, eat it while it's hot," the boss smiled and handed the chopsticks To Chu Zhe.

"Thank you, Uncle Shen." Chu Zhe just felt warm in his heart, took the noodles and stirred them with chopsticks, and a pleasant smell of meat came out with the stirring action.

Uncle Shen is really good to Chu Zhe, and every time he comes back to eat noodles, he will always use excuses to add food to him.When Chu Zhe was eating noodles, Uncle Shen often sat on a stool opposite him, poured a small wine and chatted with him, looking at Chu Zhe like a kind father.

He is often difficult to grasp and measure, and when he is drunk, he will tell Chu Zhe what happened to him in the past, and Chu Zhe also listens quietly.

Uncle Shen said that he grew up in Xuancheng since he was a child, and his wife left when he was still young, and he didn't have any children under his knees.

He didn't want to leave this place, so he opened a noodle restaurant on South Street, hoping that his wife would have a place to stay when he came back when he was free.

Every time I talk about this, I will take out a photo of him and his wife from his breast pocket, the black and white photo paper is slightly yellow, and the woman sitting next to Uncle Shen in the photo is smiling faintly.He always held the photos carefully, as if the soft photo paper was a priceless antique in his eyes.

Looking at the photo, he was crying like a child.A person's life is only a few decades, and when he looks up again, his face is full of wrinkles. Tears just drip down along the lines of wrinkles into the wine, and ripples appear in circles. Those red eye sockets are still reflected in Chu Och's mind.

Uncle Shen said that he didn't leave because he was afraid that if his wife came back and couldn't find him, what would happen to his wife who was alone at that time.

"Xiao Chu, go home as soon as you finish eating. The world is not peaceful these days. I'm going to close the door early soon." Uncle Shen poured himself a cup of Erguotou and slowed himself down with a small plate of peanuts. speak slowly.

"Oh, what's wrong, Uncle Shen?" Chu Zhe slurred his mouth with food, and sprayed out while talking, "Hey, you can swallow what's in your mouth before you talk, I I don't want you to choke the noodles up your nostrils," said Chu Zhe with a smile, and took out a few pieces of paper to wipe his mouth.

"You didn't read the news, Yaoshou, a child drowned in the Yinyang River yesterday."

Chu Zhe paused while eating noodles: "I seem to be a little impressed by what you said, but what's wrong?"

"As a result, the police fished out another male corpse from that river this afternoon. I heard that the death was terrible. The news about this matter is not allowed to be broadcast. You said that this matter is not evil." Uncle Shen pretended to be terrified. He looked down and took a sip of his wine.

Chu Zhe nodded and remembered the dream he had last night: "Yes, well, recently, well, it's a bit weird."

"That's a ghost!" Chu Zhe was really startled by the sudden sharp voice, and suddenly coughed violently.

Uncle Shen quickly picked up a glass of water and poured it into Chu Zhe's mouth. He kept counting: "Look at you child, I told you not to talk while eating. Look, now your face is in your nostrils. let's go."

"Well," after a while Chu Zhe felt as if he had calmed down a bit, and his mouth felt wrong, looking at the empty glass in Uncle Shen's hand, he realized that what Uncle Shen just gave him in a hurry was wine.

Uncle Shen noticed Chu Zhe's eyes and then looked at the cup in his hand, touched his nose and smiled embarrassingly.

Chu Zhe had no other intentions, and turned to look at the "culprit" just now.

When he just entered the door, he just glanced at it casually, and now he noticed that besides them, there were two other people sitting at the opposite table, both of whom were wearing workers' blue uniforms.

And the one who yelled just now was one of the tall ones, and the tall one was looking at him with wide eyes at this moment, those eyes were covered with red bloodshot eyes, Chu Zhe could feel that the man was trembling now.

"Brother Gao, don't be like this," a slightly thinner man next to him gently pulled him to calm him down.

"Big brother, what do you mean by that?" Uncle Shen became interested when he saw the situation, and poured a glass of water for the tall brother to signal him to continue talking.

The tall man was trembling with the water glass in his hands, and his eyes were staring blankly in one direction. After a long time, the short man next to him patted the tall man on the shoulder.

"Brother Gao was frightened. In fact, I don't know the details. We were originally on duty at a construction site nearby. We just got off work and planned to go to the nearby construction site at about two o'clock yesterday afternoon. After rubbing for a while, on the way, Brother Gao urgently turned into an alley for convenience, and when he came out, he yelled about ghosts, "

"No! No! There are ghosts," the tall man suddenly raised his voice,

"I, I went into the alley to find a corner for convenience, yes, then! I saw a person lying face down on the ground at the door of the building inside, I, I thought something happened Just, let’s go, I want to take a look, I didn’t expect it!”

"Didn't expect what?!" Uncle Shen became more and more interested as he listened, and he was already sitting opposite the tall one.

"Unexpectedly, the man died. His body was covered in blood, and there was a woman on top looking at me. I, I was so scared at the time, and I fell on the pee I just urinated. It still smelled. Later, I ran out and called the police, but when the police came, they found that there was no body, not even half of the blood on the ground.”

"It's also possible that you stayed up late for too long and misread it?" Chu Zhe frowned and looked at the tall man who took a sip of water. Hearing this, the tall man stood up excitedly, his eyes seemed to be more red and bloodshot than before. Some, the widened eyeballs seemed to fall out of the eye sockets, and the teeth kept chattering.

"No, no, at first I thought it was me who saw it, but I was wrong. But later, when the police were salvaging the body in the Yinyang River in the afternoon, I, I saw that person, just, that was the one I saw before. The one who arrived!"

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If in the end you must leave me,

Please don't say goodbye to me,

Leave me with one last bit of fantasy,

that's it,

Just leave me alone,

Waiting for you where we used to live together,

I think,

Farewells are often more tearful than goodbyes,

me,

Just don't want to be that,

The one who let go of the opponent's hand first.

The author has something to say:

Chen Yang should be regarded as a pawn to promote the event...... Entering the real main plot, although I still can't completely convey what I think in my heart to you, I will still try my best.