When I suddenly saw this person standing in the corner facing the wall, I felt like my heart almost stopped beating, and I almost screamed out of fright. But before I could react excessively, I found that the figure didn't seem to be a ghost, but a person.
I immediately calmed myself down and looked carefully, only to find that the figure was an old lady. She was not very tall, wearing very old black clothes, and her hair had already turned gray. If I was not mistaken, this person should be the Grandma Feng that Uncle Liu had mentioned before.
An old man standing in the elevator in such a weird posture in the middle of the night would be scary. Although I understood the identity of the man in front of me, I still felt a little scared. If my cell phone hadn't been on the fourth floor, I would have turned around and gone back to sleep.
But I was very curious, how did she appear in the elevator? You know, according to Uncle Liu, this Grandma Feng should live by the stairs on the other side of the corridor, and if she came here to take the elevator, she would definitely pass by our room. According to what happened just now, she should have greeted us, but we didn't notice anyone passing by us at all
Perhaps I had been standing outside for too long without entering the elevator. Granny Feng slowly turned around, glanced at me, and said in an extremely gloomy voice, "Young man, are you coming in or not?"
I knew the other person's identity, so I wasn't that scared anymore. But when Granny Feng turned around, I couldn't help but gasp! Granny Feng must have been very old. Her face was covered with wrinkles, as if it was distorted. What was even more terrifying was that there were a lot of brown spots on her face. In short, when I saw this face in the middle of the night, I really thought I had seen a ghost.
Although I was scared, I thought it was a bit rude to treat an old man like this, so I immediately nodded and apologized, "Sorry, I'll come in right away."
After saying that, I immediately got into the elevator, but instinctively kept a distance from Granny Feng and stood in the other opposite corner of the elevator, not daring to breathe.
Neither of us spoke. After the elevator door slowly closed, I turned around and said, "Mother-in-law, which floor are you going to?"
"Fourth floor."
Originally, I thought she was going to the first floor to buy something, but who would have thought that this weird Grandma Feng would also go to the fourth floor. I suddenly became a little nervous. With a slightly trembling hand, I pressed the button for the fourth floor and waited quietly for the elevator to land.
Soon, the elevator arrived at the fourth floor and opened the door. I rushed out of the elevator as if I was running for my life, and went to the place where Ding Yang and I had just chatted to look for my dropped phone. Sure enough, the phone was left on the floor in the corridor.
After getting my phone back, I felt relieved and was about to take the elevator back to the sixth floor, but I found that the weird Grandma Feng was still standing in the elevator and didn't come out.
Didn't she just say she was going to the fourth floor? Now that she's on the fourth floor, why hasn't she come out yet
I don't know why, but I always feel that this Granny Feng exudes an inexplicable gloomy atmosphere. In this dark fourth floor, I am always on edge. I stood there for a while, and seeing that Granny Feng still didn't move, I couldn't help but step forward and ask, "Granny, didn't you say you were going to the fourth floor? This is the fourth floor, why don't you come out?"
Unexpectedly, when Granny Feng heard what I said, she slowly looked up at me and said, "I'll help you light it up. The lights in the corridor on the fourth floor have been broken for some reason these days. There's only light in the elevator. I don't know what you're going to do, but it's so dark here, so it's better to have some light."
When I heard what Grandma Feng said, I suddenly felt warm in my heart. It turned out that this kind old lady was thinking about me. Now I wanted to slap myself hard. Grandma Feng in front of me was so kind, why was I so afraid of her just now
It was then that I noticed that Granny Feng seemed to be holding a large black plastic bag in her hand. I didn't know what was inside. I immediately stepped forward and said, "Hello, are you Granny Feng? My name is Ji Wen, and I just moved in today. If you need any help in the future, just let me know."
At this time, I looked at Granny Feng in front of me. Her face didn't seem as ferocious as before. Instead, she looked kind and gentle. She smiled at me and said, "Hello, young man. It seems that Old Liu told you about me. This is the first time I have seen such a polite neighbor. Come to my house some other day and Granny will treat you to a meal."
I smiled shyly and said, "Okay, I will definitely try grandma's cooking some other day. But grandma, what are you holding? What are you doing on the fourth floor in the middle of the night? I see that the residents on the fourth floor have already moved out."
Granny Feng sighed and said, "Two young children just died here. No one came to burn paper for them. Their souls will never rest in peace. I just want to burn some paper money for those two children so that they can be reincarnated as human beings sooner."
After a long time, I found out what Granny Feng wanted to do. It is said that old people are superstitious, and it seems that Granny Feng also believes in this. Moreover, Granny Feng is kinder than I thought. She was willing to come to the fourth floor in the middle of the night to burn paper for two strangers.
Seeing such a kind old lady, I naturally would not leave her alone, so I decided to stay with Grandma Feng to burn paper and find out if Grandma Feng knew any clues about the previous two murders.
Grandma Feng and I stood at the elevator entrance. Grandma Feng took out a small iron basin from a black plastic bag, then took out a handful of printed paper money for the dead, put them in the basin, lit them, and began to mutter to herself.
"When will the cycle of revenge end? You died here at such a young age. It is your destiny. Keep these paper money and go to the underworld to reincarnate as soon as possible. I wish you to be born into a good family in your next life and live a peaceful life."
Granny Feng was muttering something while burning paper, as if she could really talk to the two dead people, but I heard it very clearly. I'm afraid that Granny Feng's words "When will the cycle of revenge end?" may have other meanings.
After the paper money in the iron basin had burned out and cooled down, Granny Feng put the iron basin and the ashes inside back into the plastic bag. I immediately took the plastic bag from Granny Feng and helped her hold it.
After burning the paper, we took the elevator back to the sixth floor, and I planned to send Grandma Feng back home before going back.
Walking in the corridor on the sixth floor, I couldn't help but ask, "Granny Feng, just now you said that revenge will never end. Do you know the cause of death of these two young people?"
After hearing this, Granny Feng looked at me meaningfully and said, "There are some things you'd better not pry into. After all, there are gods above your head. If you pry into too many things, sooner or later you will be contaminated by karma."
Although I don't believe in ghosts and gods at all, I still obeyed her and said, "You are right, but I am really curious about this matter. After all, I live here now. If you don't tell me, what if I offend that ghost and god?"
Granny Feng seemed to think what I said made sense, and she sighed and said, "It's not because of anything. I've lived here the longest, and I've heard a lot about this building. It's said that when the building was first built, many workers' wages were not settled after the building was completed, so the workers made a big fuss, not allowing anyone to enter the building, and demanding that the real estate developer pay their wages."
"But despite their commotion, the real estate developer still had no reaction, until one day, a migrant worker accidentally fell off the roof while hanging a banner and was killed on the spot. The incident was exposed by the media. Under pressure from the media, the real estate developer finally paid the remaining wages of the migrant workers and compensated the dead migrant workers. What a pity, the people were already dead, what was the point of asking for so much money? I think the reason why the two young people died so horribly must be that the ghost of the migrant worker who fell from the building was still lingering and came to seek revenge on them. It was really an injustice."
The more Granny Feng spoke, the more compassionate her tone became. Although the story of the ghost of the migrant worker who fell from the building killing people was not credible at all, this past event was worth investigating. After all, if this was really the case, perhaps this was the murderer's reason for killing people.
As we were talking, we soon arrived at Grandma Feng's house. Grandma Feng took the plastic bag from my hand, went back home, and invited me to have dinner at her house the next day.
Although I still have a lot of questions, it's getting late now and Granny Feng is old, so I'd better let her have a good rest. When I go to her house for dinner tomorrow, I will ask her in detail about the two murders.
After saying goodbye to Grandma Feng, I returned to my room and checked my phone. It was already past nine o'clock, almost ten o'clock, and the three Shamattes next to me didn't seem to have any intention of quieting down. Finally, Ding Yang couldn't bear it anymore, so he got up and rushed into their room. I didn't know what exactly happened, but when Ding Yang came back, the whole world became quiet.
Now that the three shamattes have behaved themselves, I can go to sleep peacefully. However, the problems I discovered today kept popping up in my mind, and I couldn't fall asleep no matter how hard I tried. In desperation, I had to take out my mobile phone and read a novel until I was sleepy before going to sleep.
Recently I became obsessed with a novel about express delivery. I haven't read it for a long time. Today I had the time to finish it in one go. I don't know how long I read it. I was completely absorbed by the story and for a moment I forgot that I still had to go to bed.
I was watching with great interest when I suddenly seemed to hear a faint cry coming from the room! It seemed that there was a person squatting not far in front of me, crying quietly. The sound was intermittent and ethereal, making the room, which was originally dark, instantly become gloomy.
It was only then that I realized that I was lying in a dark bedroom with a mobile phone in my hand. All the light was in front of me, but behind the phone was darkness and I couldn't see anything. It happened that the crying sound came from behind the phone. The crying sound hidden in the darkness instantly made me feel a little creepy.
Gradually, I found that I no longer had the courage to turn the phone around and use the light to illuminate the darkness behind it to find the source of the crying. But I just lay in the bed for nearly a minute, and I seemed to have a vague feeling that someone was standing behind my phone in the dark place, staring at me!
At this moment, the hand holding the phone began to tremble, as if there was a pair of blood-red eyes hidden in the darkness in front of me, staring at me and grinning secretly. This passive feeling really made me at a loss. After reading novels with my phone for so many years, I have never been as scared as I am today.
Finally, I couldn't stand the current atmosphere and the faint crying sounds anymore, so I gritted my teeth and turned the phone in front of me around. The moment the light shone to the back, I saw a pale human face standing less than a meter in front of me, staring at me and sneering!