C11 An old man in a chinese tunic

Brother Zhou said, "Then open the trunk. I'll take the umbrella now and go upstairs to see if anyone has returned." I smacked my lips and said, "Tsk! Brother Zhou, if you go down now, you'll be drenched even before you reach the back of the car. It's better that you wait a bit longer."

"No need." Brother Zhou was very persistent. I tried to persuade him, but to no avail, I let him go. Brother Zhou walked to the back of the car, took the umbrella, but didn't go upstairs immediately. Instead, he came back and asked me to give him a pack of cigarettes.

"I want to smoke a cigarette, I finished it by noon." Brother Zhou stood there and whispered. I touched a bag of Yuxi and passed him the lighter along with it. Brother Zhou took the cigarette, then turned around and went upstairs.

Looking at his back, I sighed in my heart. It wasn't easy for Brother Zhou to bring a child. He had to read books and eat and dress. Half of the one month's salary was spent on little Tingting, and the rest had to pay rent to live on.

"Hai." I sighed. How should I put it? After all, the doll still calls me godfather.

In less than three minutes, Brother Zhou came back with an umbrella. I frowned. I felt that it was really weird. Three minutes wasn't even enough for a cigarette. What was going on with Brother Zhou? Could it be that Wu Xiuying had already returned?

"There's an old man wearing a Chinese tunic standing at the door of the fourth floor. Is that Zhang Bo's father?" Brother Zhou asked while holding his umbrella.

"I don't know." I shook my head and glanced at Goddess Wang through the rearview mirror, her face still dark.

"Let's go, I'll accompany you to take a look." After getting off the car, Brother Zhou and I walked into the residential building.

On the second floor landing, I pulled Brother Zhou over and handed him a cigarette. "Smoke before you go up," I said with a sigh.

Brother Zhou's eyes were dim. When he lit a cigarette, his movements were stiff. He said, "You also think Goddess Wang is a bit too much, don't you?"

I nodded and exhaled slowly. "I do have some opinions about her."

"Heh." Brother Zhou patted my shoulder, "After all, Nanny Wang is here to help us, so don't be too sensitive. We are both men. We will just have to wait for this matter to end."

On the fourth floor, I didn't see the old man in the Chinese tunic that Brother Zhou had mentioned. He probably went into the house, so the two of us went to knock on the door.

After a long time, there was no sound from inside. Brother Zhou said that the old man's ears weren't good and that the knocking sound wasn't loud enough.

He pounded on it again, loud and clear, upstairs and downstairs, but the result was the same.

"Could it be a crazy old man from some family?"

Brother Zhou looked at me and shook his hand, sighing.

Since we couldn't open the door, we had to go downstairs. Just as they reached the ground floor, Goddess Wang walked in. He looked up and saw that the rain had stopped.

"How is it, is he back yet?" Goddess Wang frowned and asked.

Brother Zhou and I looked at each other and shook our heads at the same time.

Goddess Wang frowned as she walked up the stairs, looking up at the floor above.

"This is strange, the two of you knocking on the door was so loud just now, I could even hear it from below. Why is it that no one has come out of these floors?"

Returning to the taxi, Goddess Wang asked Brother Zhou to recount the details of the old man's arrival. She said that it was easy to see ghosts in the rain, and we had bad luck recently, so we might not have seen people.

Brother Zhou was shocked, saying that he didn't see the old man's face at the time. On the stairs he saw the old man standing in the doorway and hurried down.

Goddess Wang sighed and then immediately drove to the funeral parlor to buy some incense wax and paper money to burn.

By six o'clock in the afternoon, most of the funeral parlors were closed. We drove out, looked for a few houses, and finally found one that was still open in an alley near Guanghua Road.

The store was a mess. There was incense wax, paper money, longevity clothes, paper men, everything.

He bought some things and then burned them on the fourth floor. When I burned the paper, I was worried that the landlady would come and make trouble.

He didn't expect to get what he wanted. The old landlady had just arrived after burning half of the incense and paper money.

"Sigh, it's you guys again, I really met ghosts. Who asked you to burn paper here, hurry up and kill it!"

The landlady was angry, she said, glaring at us.

Brother Zhou and I were stunned. Goddess Wang stood up and explained to her.

At first, the landlady didn't listen. She kept scolding and telling us to get lost and crawl. However, when she heard "the old man in the middle mountain suit", she was stunned. It could be said that she was shocked.

She whispered, "Did you really see him?"

Brother Zhou immediately asked back: "Who is he? Do you know that old man in the middle mountain uniform?"

"Yes, he's my father-in-law. I didn't expect that after so many years, even if the house was demolished, he still hasn't left." After the landlady finished speaking, she did not make any more noise and squatted down to quietly burn the paper.

After burning the paper, Goddess Wang asked her, "Your father-in-law won't harm anyone, right?"

The landlady shook her head, "Don't worry. After so many years, many people have seen him. Nothing bad has happened to them. They've just had a few days of bad luck."

Goddess Wang nodded, glanced at Brother Zhou, then asked her where Wu Xiuying had gone to and why she had not come back yet.

The landlady asked Goddess Wang what she wanted from Wu Xiuying. She told her that she was looking for Wu Xiuying because of Zhang Bo. She didn't tell her in detail, but it was clear that it had nothing to do with her.

After the landlady heard this, she shook her head and said, "She might have already gone back. You shouldn't come here again. She won't have any good influence."

Goddess Wang knew that she was just giving in. Since she didn't want to say it, she would definitely not be able to get an answer out of her.

At this moment, Brother Zhou's phone rang. He took it out and took a look.

"It's Big Sis Liu." Brother Zhou said as he put the phone to his ear.

Big Sis Liu asked Big Brother Zhou when he would be back on the phone, and also said that little Tingting cried and asked her why her father hadn't come back yet, and whether her father was angry and didn't want little Tingting anymore.

My heart stopped. I saw that Brother Zhou's eyes immediately became moist.

Driving out, I went straight to 90.

It was 7: 30 in the evening, and the sky was already completely dark. The street lamps on both sides of the street were lit up.

After returning to the residential area and parking the car, just as the three of us were about to go upstairs, a familiar person sneakily walked out from the corridor with a panicked expression.

When he saw us, he ran straight out.

Brother Zhou and I looked at each other. Both of us were very surprised as we turned around to look at his back.

At that time, I was thinking, why would Luo Yuping's brother appear here?

"Hey, Big Sis Liu, did anything happen between you and Little Tingting?"

He looked at Brother Zhou and nodded before hanging up.

"So, should we chase him back?" Brother Zhou shook his head, "No need, it has nothing to do with us."

Relieved, I frowned. Since it has nothing to do with us, why would he come to this district? Was he here to steal something?

Impossible, he could even drive an Audi. How could he come here to steal?

Just as I was thinking, Brother Zhou patted my shoulder and told me not to think too much. He was still a little hesitant in his heart. He kept feeling that something was wrong there. He asked Goddess Wang if she had seen anything wrong with her eyes.

When we went upstairs, Goddess Wang still let me and Brother Zhou walk in front. Thankfully, the lights on the corridor didn't go out this time. On the other hand, Brother Zhou almost fell when he went upstairs.

"Daddy!"

Opening the door, little Tingting threw herself onto Brother Zhou's body.

"Good girl, come. Daddy will hug you." Brother Zhou had a smile on his face as he bent down and picked up little Tingting. I touched her little face and asked her if she had been good today at kindergarten.

"Good boy, godfather!"

"Ai, Little Ting Ting's mouth is so sweet."

After coaxing Little Tingting, Brother Zhou asked Big Sis Liu to stay for dinner. Big Sis Liu shook her head and said there was no need. When it was 6 PM, she saw that Brother Zhou still hadn't come back. She was afraid that Tingting would be hungry so she made dinner. Both of them ate.

Dong dong dong, dong dong dong.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door.

Brother Zhou walked over and opened the door. There was no one outside.

Just as Brother Zhou opened the door, I noticed that the lights outside were extinguished.

Just a moment ago, it was still bright, but in the blink of an eye, it was gone.

"Who, who's outside?"

Brother Zhou asked, poking his head out to look. Big Sis Liu echoed, "It might be someone's naughty little kid."

"Oh my god, it's pitch black. Why are the lights out?"

At this moment, a gust of cold wind blew in from the corridor.

Big Sis Liu was standing in the doorway. She took two steps back. Following that, Goddess Wang abruptly raised her head, pulled Brother Zhou back, and slammed the door.

Brother Zhou looked at Goddess Wang with a puzzled expression.

Goddess Wang ignored him and asked Big Sis Liu, "Are you alright?"

Big Sis Liu patted her chest and shook her head. She also felt it was strange. She said that she didn't know why, but it felt like someone had pushed her before she took two steps back.

"Yes, it has its uses."

As she spoke, Nanny Wang walked in front of Big Sis Liu. "What are you wearing on your neck?"

Big Sis Liu pulled out the red rope around her neck, pointed at the jade pendant and said, "This piece of jade was given to me by my grandma before she passed away. She said she can dispel evil, but I don't know if she can."

"Good …" Alright, if there's nothing else, I'll head back first. "

Big Sis Liu said and was about to leave. I saw that her face was red, so I was sure that she was mistaken. She thought that Goddess Wang had closed the door just now to make her stay a little longer.

Brother Zhou didn't say anything.

It was Goddess Wang who stood up and refused to let her go.

"Auntie, Auntie, don't go."

Little Tingting also became sensible. She hugged Big Sis Liu's leg and wouldn't let go no matter what.

At the critical moment, it was this little guy that played a role. She held the monkey puppet in one hand and Big Sis Liu in the other. She walked into the room with a smile on her face.

He watched as the door closed.

Goddess Wang got Brother Zhou to bring out an incense stick and placed it behind the door to pay his respects.

Brother Zhou touched the back of his head and said: "It must be that old man in the middle mountain uniform. Just now when I was walking upstairs, I was wondering why I almost fell down."

Goddess Wang shook her head. "Hard to say. Let's see if this incense stick can burn out."