Sister Yuan told me in her letter that she had actually known for a long time that I had injured someone in my hometown and ran away.
But my uncle did not die at the time. He was just knocked unconscious by me, but he was also seriously injured and lay in the hospital for a full month.
Not long after I arrived at the hotel, Sister Yuan saw the missing person notice posted by my aunt in the newspaper and learned the whole story.
But she liked me very much and always loved me like a younger brother. She didn't want me to leave, so she kept it secret and didn't tell me.
Sister Yuan apologized to me in the letter, saying that she shouldn't be so selfish and hoped that I could live a better life in the future. If I become rich one day, don't forget to visit her.
After reading the letter, I felt as uncomfortable as a knife, but I was also very happy.
If my uncle is not dead, I am not a murderer.
Moreover, my aunt will not be helpless, and her life will be settled.
I was worried about it for more than a year, and finally let it go.
But I have decided that since fate has made this arrangement for me, I will stay here from now on and wait until I can figure it out before I go back to see my aunt.
Although my life is destined to be full of ups and downs, I always feel that people still have to rely on their own hands to work hard.
No matter how bad my fate is, as long as I work hard enough, life will get better one day.
Even if there is a real disaster within three years, I will not lie down, let alone give in.
In the first few days after I arrived at the company, Brother Su didn't assign any tasks to me. He kept taking me around, saying he wanted to get familiar with the shopping mall and the working environment.
Oh, by the way, this company makes home appliances and has counters in many shopping malls in Harbin. My job is to be responsible for daily maintenance. To put it bluntly, I am a salesperson.
At that time, I was ignorant and didn't understand anything. I just thought that this job was very high-end and I could go to those bustling business districts every day.
When I had free time, I walked around the company. The place I visited most at that time was the Kek Lok Temple opposite the military industry.
This temple has a history of nearly a hundred years. It is said to be one of the four major temples in the Northeast. It is popular with tourists and has many folklore.
It is said that behind the Kek Lok Temple, there is a Fox Immortal Cave. The Great Fox Immortal inside is very spiritual. People often line up to go there to seek medicine.
Next to Jile Temple is the Harbin Amusement Park, which was originally called Cultural Park and carries many memories of generations of Harbin people.
And old Harbin people all know that there is a "Maozi Tomb" in the Cultural Park, which is the tomb of the Soviet Red Army martyrs. There are often rumors of being haunted.
But I just listen to these legends as stories.
The ticket to the amusement park is five yuan. I sometimes buy a ticket to go in and have a look, but I am afraid of heights and I am reluctant to spend money to play those projects.
Occasionally when I pass by "Maozi Tomb", I will be curious and stop there, but I have never encountered any haunting incidents.
I think the streets here are full of tourists and the city is bustling. Even if there is something ghostly, they would not dare to come out, right?
Counting me, there were three people in the dormitory. In addition to the manager, Brother Su, there was also a girl.
The girl is a salesperson in the company. Her name is Zhang Wenwen. She is about the same age as me. Her home is in Hulan, which is a bit far from Harbin, so she lives in a dormitory in the city to make it convenient for work.
She is fair and fair, with big eyes. She is very introverted and doesn't talk much.
Compared with Sister Yuan, she feels very good to me. She lives up to her name, like a quiet little rabbit.
I sometimes laugh at her, saying that girls from Harbin are all outgoing and cheerful, but she looks like a fake Harbin native. Every time she doesn't care, she just purses her lips and smiles.
Brother Su is a foreigner. When he has nothing to do in the evening, he will call his wife and talk on the phone for more than an hour.
He often shows me photos of his two children, a son and a daughter, taking a group photo of the whole family.
Whenever this happens, I feel unhappy because I have no home.
Peaceful days always passed quickly, but just when I felt that life was gradually getting back on track, something happened.
During that time, Zhang Wenwen was always absent-minded at work, even in a trance. He often hid in his room and cried alone at night.
This happened for several days in a row, so Brother Su asked me to ask because it would be easier to communicate with people of the same age.
I went to ask Zhang Wenwen. She was silent at first, but later she said that her mother was ill again.
She told me that the cause of the incident was that her mother went to Kek Lok Temple a few years ago and saw two foxes waving to her on the way back.
But except for her mother, no one in the group saw any foxes.
As a result, when she got home, her mother started to have a fever. Injections and medicines didn't work. It lasted for a month, and she was diagnosed with leukemia.
Later, he experienced several shocks. The most severe one required rescue operations all night long.
After waking up, her mother said she went to a very dark place. There was a door so high that it was impossible to see the end when looking up. Many people lined up to go inside.
Her mother followed her in line, and everyone could push the door open with a gentle push. But when it was her turn, she couldn't push the door open no matter how hard she pushed.
An old lady next to her told her that this was not the place she should be, and pushed her to go back.
Then she woke up.
Zhang Wenwen spoke very seriously, with a bit of panic in her eyes. She said that she never told people this, for fear that people would think she had a mental problem.
I comforted her and said, I believe everything you said. Your mother must have gone to the underworld. Don’t ask me why I know, because I have been there too.
Zhang Wenwen looked at me nervously and hesitated before continuing.
She said that her mother's illness was under control and she went home to recuperate. One night, she dreamed of her grandfather at home, who asked her to buy a nicer box.
When her mother woke up in the morning, she told her family, but no one believed her. They all said she was just imagining things. As a result, less than half an hour later, she received a funeral call announcing that her grandfather had passed away.
Only then did her family realize that the so-called box was actually an urn.
This happened three times that year. In addition to asking for the box, there was another time when her mother dreamed that she was by a very turbid river, and an acquaintance across the river called her and asked her to go over.
But there was no boat or bridge on the river. The man asked her to cross the river, but she was afraid that the water would not pass.
The next morning I got the news that the acquaintance had died the night before.
The family was very scared, saying that if she had crossed the river, she might have been taken away with her.
The scariest one was when her mother dreamed that a long-dead person from the same village was being held by two strange-looking people.
The woman was wearing a very tattered dark blue shroud. She asked her mother to ask for money from her family, saying she had no money down there and was being bullied by a kid.
Her mother went to ask, and the family told her that they had indeed not visited the grave for several years, and that the person was indeed wearing a dark blue shroud when she was buried.
She dreamed of dead people several times in a row, and her mother's state became more and more wrong. She was always dazed, her eyes were evil, and she often talked to the air alone.
Her family initially thought she was mentally ill and took a lot of medicine but it didn't work, so they took her to see a great immortal.
When the great immortal saw her, he said that she was "impermanent" because she owed a debt to the underworld in her previous life and would have to work for the underworld in this life. In the future, she might even help the underworld bring people down.
Her family was all frightened. After pleading, the great immortal sealed her orifice and made some talisman water, saying that it would be able to control her for a year.
After some troubles, her mother really got better, and her speech and behavior became normal.
But less than half a year later, he fell ill again, and it was more serious than before.
When having dinner a few days ago, her mother was fine one second, and fainted the next second.
The family members rescued her for a long time before she woke up, but when she opened her eyes, she said that she had just gone to the underworld to investigate a case.
In the past few days, Zhang Wenwen has been afraid and worried about this matter. She wanted to go home but didn't dare. Moreover, the company was very busy and she couldn't ask for leave.
I thought about it and told her not to worry about asking for leave, I would go talk to Brother Su.
Brother Su is a very nice person. After learning about this matter, he quickly approved it. Because he was worried that something might happen to Zhang Wenwen when she went home, he specifically asked me to go back with her.
But I never imagined at that time that accompanying Zhang Wenwen home this time would cause me great trouble. From a certain perspective, it would also change the trajectory of my life.
