Jiangtian Apartment.
fifth floor.
Apartment 509.
Pat, clack, the sound of quiet footsteps sounded in the concrete stairwell at four o'clock in the morning.
Fangzheng walked into the apartment building with a luggage bag containing personal toiletries. In an apartment building without an elevator, he had to go all the way up to the fifth floor.
before he came.
Gao Shuhua had already arranged a place for him to live.
Gao Shuhua kept the Gao family in the apartment, who were responsible for monitoring the situation in this old apartment building, and the coming and going of various people.
At this time, Fangzheng only had a luggage bag in his hand.
The knife case and the guitar backpack were not on his back.
Controlled knives are naturally not allowed on the plane.
Therefore, Fangzheng used the internal arrangement of the Gao family to transport it by land, and the Gao family brought it to Nanyue for him. However, it will take about two or three days for land transportation, and it will arrive tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
After all, this apartment building has been established for a long time.
Walking in the space feels a little depressing, and the stairs are not well ventilated, and the smell is not pleasant.
Although lime powder has just been painted and decorated in recent years, the southern Guangdong area is near the sea and hot and humid. It is estimated that mold has already grown in the wall tiles behind the lime powder, and there is a lingering musty smell in the nose.
In Fangzheng's mind, a passage that he learned in Chinese textbooks when he was a child jumped out.
"Gold and jade are outside, and ruins are inside."
According to some simple information he found on the Internet.
Jiangtian Apartment was built in the 1960s.
The building is eight stories high.
The investor is a big boss of Xiangjiang.
Later, due to various reasons, the apartment building changed owners several times. Some hotels, restaurants, and shopping malls were developed, but the business was bleak every time, and it closed within a year.
It seems that Feng Shui is not right, and all businesses are closed.
It was not closed until it was converted into an apartment building rented out to tenants from all over the world, and it has been in operation since the 1990s.
So, the apartment building is very old.
If calculated according to the lifespan of a person, it is considered to be approaching old age now, and in another ten or twenty years, it will be a dangerous building waiting to be demolished.
Slap.
With a crisp sound, Fang Zheng's figure with his luggage bag finally came to the corridor on the fifth floor.
A minute or two later, Fangzheng saw a bowl of raw rice at the door of a house with incense sticks stuck in it.
And beside the raw rice, there are two incense candles lit.
In addition, there is a copper basin, which contains the ashes of paper money and ingots that have been burned.
Fangzheng looked surprised.
"I heard that people here still retain a lot of traditional culture. They believe in metaphysics and feng shui. Many people will burn paper money and ingots at the door of the house in the first seven miles after death, and place dead food to call back relatives back home. Get together, meet for the last time, talk about the pain of missing... I never thought that I would encounter this unique tradition when I first came here."
Coincidentally, 509 is next door to that family.
The apartments on the left and right sides of 509 are 511 and 507 respectively.
The apartments on both sides of the corridor have odd numbers on one side.
The apartment numbers on the other side are all even numbers.
This is very convenient for people to find the apartment number.
And the resident who burned paper money at the door to set up a meal for the dead was Apartment 507. Opposite Apartment 507 is Apartment 508.
Maybe it's because it's still early, the office workers haven't woken up yet, the doors of every house are closed, and the whole corridor is deserted, only Fang Zheng is wandering around.
"The dead are the big ones, so go all the way. I'm just passing by, so it's no wonder."
If Fangzheng wanted to walk to the door of apartment 509 and knock on the door, he must first pass through apartment 507, so when passing incense candles and meals for the dead, Fangzheng did not disrespect the dead, and he did it with sufficient courtesy.
And when they came to the door of apartment 509, they knocked.
Knock, knock.
Fangzheng held the luggage bag in his left hand, raised his right hand, and tapped on the door with his knuckles, but no one came out to open the door after waiting for two minutes.
Knock knock.
Fangzheng knocked on the door a few more times, and he stood there waiting for a few minutes, but still no one opened the door for him, and there was no sound of footsteps in the room, even a human voice responded.
The room behind the door was silent.
As if no one lives there
Fangzheng tried a few more times, but indeed no one in the room responded.
"Could it be that the room number of the apartment was given wrong? This Gao Shuhua is too unreliable in her work." Fangzheng frowned.
He came here overnight, and the journey was full of dust and dust, but he didn't know that the door was shut for him as soon as he came to the ground.
Fangzheng took out his mobile phone and checked the apartment room number again.
That's right.
It is indeed apartment 509.
The man stood at the door, pondering for a moment.
The eyes of the first fetus!
There was a cold light floating in Fangzheng's eyes, but nothing abnormal was found.
Nose sniffed a few times.
There was no smell of blood in the air at the door either.
The possibility that Gao's surveillance point was wiped out due to exposure has been ruled out for the time being. It seems that he went out on a temporary basis.
Fangzheng stood with his luggage bag in his hand and waited for another ten minutes. At this time, many tenants living in the apartment building were already preparing to get up early for morning exercises, or get up early to go to the nearby vegetable market to buy vegetables.
People looked at Fang Zheng standing in the corridor with doubts and surprises.
At this time, a very fashionable young man who was about to go for a morning jog saw Fang Zheng waiting at the door of apartment 509. He first took off the wireless sports earphones on his ears, and then enthusiastically asked, "Brother, you are here to find someone." ?”
Fangzheng saw the enthusiasm of the other party, so he pretended to have a wry smile and said: "Yes, I just graduated from university, and I originally planned to come to Nanyue to join a friend introduced by my relatives. But I seem to come at the wrong time, so I stood outside the door and waited for more than ten years. No one came out to answer the door for a few minutes, as if someone was not at home just now."
The young man jogging in the morning said with a smile: "At this point, he should have gone out to buy takeaway."
After finishing speaking, the young man who ran in the morning raised his wrist and looked at the time on his watch, and then said, "He will be back in about five minutes."
Hearing this, Fangzheng was surprised: "How do you know so clearly?"
The young man who ran in the morning said with a sunny smile: "I go out for a morning run at about this point every day. The new resident of apartment 509 has moved in. For the past ten days, I have seen him buying food every day during the morning run. return."
It turned out to be a bit of detail control.
Fangzheng thanked the other party: "Thank you, we may be neighbors in the future, and I still don't know how to call them?"
"You can just call me Chen Yi. Chen from Erdong Chen, the righteous Yi." The young man who ran in the morning introduced himself.
"Oh, what a coincidence, my surname is also Chen, unexpectedly we are still in the same family, my name is Chen Chichi."
Fang Zheng cheekily extended his hand to shake each other's hands.
Chen Yi was also very happy to meet his family, and the two chatted happily.
When Fangzheng watched Chen Yi go downstairs for a morning jog, at this time, a man in his thirties with a plastic bag in the stairwell walked into the corridor on the fifth floor.
The man went straight to apartment 509. When he saw Fang Zheng standing at the door, the man was taken aback.
This obviously recognized Fang Zheng's identity.
(end of this chapter)