"You, you were talking to yourself just now, as if you were talking to someone. It made me scared..."
The driver looked at me in horror and said.
Then I remembered that the driver couldn't see ghosts. I was playing a game with the wandering ghost of the little boy just now, so he probably thought he was crazy.
"Nothing, just practice it in advance so that you can have better results during the live broadcast."
I smiled and said, "Master, you must keep it a secret for me."
After hearing what I said, the driver's expression softened: "So that's it. It really shocked me. Young man, you must pay attention to your own safety."
After saying that, the driver started the accelerator and turned around in the bus. I looked into the back seat of the car, only to find that the little boy had disappeared without knowing when, and I didn't know where he had gone.
I didn't pay attention, turned around, and observed my destination.
In front of him was a dilapidated community with dozens of low-rise buildings lined up in rows. The surrounding walls had long since collapsed. From the road outside, you could see the scene inside the community.
I don’t know how long this community has been abandoned. It is mottled and overgrown with weeds. The buildings in the community are pitch black, and there is no sign of any living people living there.
On the other side of the road is an abandoned open-pit coal mine. Many tools and machines used by workers in the past are scattered in the deep pit. Looking at this desolate scene, I feel that everything around me seems to be out of tune with this era, and I feel like I am in A few decades ago, I entered another world.
The community was built so close to the coal mine. Needless to say, the people who lived in this community at that time were probably coal miners and their families.
So, the Zhen Zhigang Granny Jinhua asked me to find was also a coal miner back then?
Keeping this clue in mind, I immediately stepped through the open door and walked into the Four Seasons Community.
Although the private houses here are not high, most of them are five or six floors, there are dozens of them, and all the floors are dark. It is extremely difficult to find a person who only knows his name and approximate identity among so many buildings. Just imagine.
There is no way, Lonnie and Bai Ze are not here, and I can't use the Ma family magic, so I can only use the stupidest method, looking for them one by one.
After making up my mind, I walked through the passage in the middle of the community, intending to start searching from the back.
I came to the last row of buildings, looked up and glanced around, and was surprised to find a faint light coming from the window of a building in the northwest corner.
Is there anyone living in this room?
With a thought in my mind, I calculated the so-called location of the bright room, and then walked over.
I pushed open the rusty unit door and walked up the dark corridor to the fifth floor. The door on the left was rusty and covered with cobwebs, and it didn't look like it was inhabited.
Just judging from the direction of the light just now, it should be this room, there is no mistake.
Boom, boom, boom!
Thinking of this, I stretched out my hand and knocked hard on the iron door.
After knocking more than a dozen times in succession, just when I was about to break in, I heard a creak, the iron door was slowly opened, and a man poked his head out.
"Who are you looking for?"
What appeared in front of me was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl. She was wearing an old-fashioned red sweater and a ponytail. Her face looked very pale due to the lack of sunlight for a long time.
"Um, I want to ask, do you, Zhen Zhigang, live in this community?"
I quickly showed a kind smile and asked the girl with a smile.
"Zhen Zhigang is my father, do you know him?"
The girl asked me suspiciously.
"Um, yes, my surname is Cheng, and your father and I are co-workers. We worked in the coal mine together."
I didn’t expect that this girl was actually Zhen Zhigang’s family, so I quickly said: “After the coal mine closed, we went our separate ways and haven’t contacted each other for many years. I passed by here on a business trip and planned to come and have a look. Zhigang."
"It turns out to be Uncle Cheng, please come in!"
I just made up a reason out of desperation, using Zhen Zhigang's identity as a coal miner. Unexpectedly, the girl opened the iron door without any suspicion and invited me in.
I smiled and walked in. The girl immediately locked the iron door and followed.
As soon as I entered the door, I felt a dark and damp breath blowing against my face. The room was dark and cramped. At first glance, it looked like the standard layout of an old family building from decades ago.
There was a thick layer of dust on the sofa and coffee table, exactly the kind of condition that would appear in a room that has been unoccupied for many years.
And the strange thing is that this room is already very dark, and it is not yet night, but the girl has lowered the curtains early, blocking the only glimmer of light.
If it weren't for the incandescent lamp, this room would be like a deep cave, completely dark.
"Uncle Gao, sit down quickly."
Seeing me standing and wandering on the ground, the girl said enthusiastically.
I nodded and sat down, then asked: "By the way, I don't know your name yet?"
"My name is Zhen Lihua, you can just call me Xiaohua."
The girl said with a shy smile.
"Okay, Xiaohua, do you live here by yourself? Where are your parents?"
I asked next.
"My parents have gone to other places to do business, and now I am the only one living here."
Xiaohua lowered his head and said with some sadness: "After the coal mine closed, my father and mother discussed going to the south to do business. I was in school at the time, so we didn't go together."
I asked again: "I see that your community has been abandoned for a long time. There is not even a vegetable market around. How do you usually cook?"
"I usually go to shopping malls outside by car and buy enough food for a month at a time. As for other aspects, I don't have much needs, so it feels good to live here by myself."
Xiaohua's face was flushed and he said with a smile.
"Then your source of livelihood..."
"Dad will send me a sum of money every month for living expenses, and they will also write me letters on time. I will show it to you right now."
Speaking of his father, Xiaohua suddenly became excited and ran into the bedroom quickly. After a while, he came out with a thick stack of letter paper.
"Uncle Gao, look, this is a letter written by my parents. They have always cared about me. Can I read it to you?"
Xiaohua looked at me expectantly.
I nodded noncommittally and said nothing.
Xiaohua immediately put the letter on the coffee table, sat next to me and started reading.
"Xiaohua, remember to have breakfast. You have a bad stomach, so you should pay attention to your health."
