Following the direction the woman pointed, with the help of the dim light, I didn't feel there was anything worth discovering on the ground. Hu Zongren also asked, "There is nothing on the ground." The girl stretched out her foot and shook it towards the ground.
Say, are you two blind? You can't see such a big drain?
It's like this. Outside the wall on the side of the factory gate, extending about 20 centimeters from the base of the wall, there is a long drain parallel to the wall. The horizontal surface is made of a small iron mesh.
It is to prevent people from stepping on it and getting their feet stuck, but because there is a gap, water can seep in. The width is about the width of two palms. To be honest, I had been paying attention to this area at first. Although I knew this place
There is a long drain, but I never paid attention to it. It wasn't until this girl mentioned it that I started to observe this facility seriously.
Since the distance from the entrance to the factory entrance is a long downhill slope, and the old road at the top is bumpy and bumpy, many of the roads on the road have been damaged, exposing part of the roadbed underneath. In addition, Chongqing’s
The terrain was originally built on mountains, so uphill and downhill slopes are very common. This also leads to the possibility of water accumulation in low areas if it suddenly rains and the drainage function is not perfect. In recent years, many underground garages in Chongqing have
As a result, I paid a heavy price. Every day after a heavy rain, there will be news that a certain garage was flooded with water, causing heavy losses to the private cars in the garage. So I immediately thought of the rain at the door of the factory.
The water inlet should also be used to discharge sewage. After all, if it rains, the accumulated water will inevitably flow down the path. This is a factory and a printing house, so there are a lot of papers and valuable machines accumulated inside. It is absolutely impossible to
Withstand the damage caused by flooding.
I knelt down and took a closer look at the drain. I found that the topcoat was not very old, and the screw holes around it were only installed in recent years. There were also mottled cement marks on the side from when the trough was originally drilled.
.So I turned around and asked Mr. Xia who was standing not far away, did you make this drain yourself? Mr. Xia said yes, it was done many years ago when he first set up the factory here.
It was also because I was afraid of water entering the factory. Even though I understood the purpose of this drain, I still didn’t know what the girl wanted to express. So I said with a little embarrassment, what happened to this drain.
The girl said impatiently, use your brains, if it rains, the accumulated water will be washed here, and this is drainage, so the water will definitely flow into the sewer along the pipe. After saying this, she walked towards
He pointed to the place where she was squatting at first and said, didn't you just accuse me of coming to steal the manhole cover? You are absolutely right, there is indeed a manhole cover there, and you spent most of the day here.
I didn't even expect this. I gradually understood what she meant, so I asked her, do you mean that after a heavy rain, some things were washed here, but fell into the sewer?
The girl shook her head and said, you were only half right. It didn't rush into the sewer, but got stuck on the opening of the sewer. But this place cannot be seen. If you want to find it, you can only cover the manhole.
Pry it up.
I asked her, what kind of thing can rush down from such a narrow gap, but get stuck in such a wide sewer opening? The girl sneered, and then said, high heels.
Are you kidding me? How could someone with such big high heels fall from such a narrow gap? It was difficult for me to even put my palm into the gap. I started not to believe what the girl said. At this time, Mr. Xia was a little tentative.
He said, well... it's like this. When the iron mesh panel was originally laid, only the section at the entrance of the factory was laid, just to make it easier for workers to go in and out. There was a bare trough on the side.
There is no panel. After he finished speaking, I took a closer look at the iron mesh and found that except for the section at the factory gate, the color of the other areas looked much newer. I asked Mr. Xia, what about the remaining areas?
When was the part added? Mr. Xia said it was a year and a half ago.
The girl took Mr. Xia's words and said, yes, Yao Ting died at one year, seven months and thirteen days.
Although it all seems to be gradually becoming related, I still can't figure out why they are high heels. Yao Ting said, since you grown men are here, I think it's a good idea to save me the trouble of lifting them up myself.
Here comes the lid. I thought that was good, so I told Hu Zongren that we should go together. Hu Zongren and I tried many ways to pry open the lid, and then pushed it aside. When the lid fell to the ground,
The iron mesh on the panel collided, making a clanking sound unique to metal. Because it was a sewer, no one dared to go down when it was just opened for fear of being poisoned. So Hu Zongren and I left the lid open for a while.
, lit the lighter, went to the edge of the manhole cover to test it, and found that the flames showed no signs of getting stronger, so we used the light of the mobile phone flashlight to shine on it.
In the dark sewer, I saw a red high-heeled shoe that had faded red and was stained with all kinds of disgusting things. The high-heeled shoe looked familiar. I soon remembered that it was Mr. Xia from the beginning.
In the painting shown to us, the woman with her legs crossed was wearing one. After having this very concrete picture, I suddenly connected almost everything. At the earliest,
The worker who witnessed the short-haired female ghost probably saw Yao Ting's ghost asking him for help, saying that his shoes were washed into the sewer. However, due to the different paths between humans and ghosts, there is no very reasonable communication channel between them. Yao Ting
I also tried to tell him using the picture of the printing press on that rainy night. This was a very effective clue. At least it showed that the high-heeled shoe was washed in on a rainy night. Furthermore, the workers discovered
The picture album film couldn't be adhered, and the pattern formed by that part was a rounded triangle and a small dot, and only then did I realize that the pattern happened to be the footprints of a high-heeled shoe.
Next, Mr. Xia heard strange footsteps in the office. It must have been Yao Ting who was going upstairs. Her steps were very slow. Plus, I only noticed a smart reaction on one side of the stairs later. That was because of Yao Ting.
Maybe he was jumping upstairs on one foot, so the speed was slow and the sound was loud. I took a closer look at the high-heeled shoe in the sewer. It was correct. It was a right-footed shoe. The response I found in the corridor was smooth.
The direction I walked up the stairs was my left foot. But it made such a loud noise that people could notice it, and judging from the action of scratching and twisting the door, I was looking for Mr. Xia. Why should I look for him? Soon I also
It occurred to me that it was probably the same as the worker who first witnessed it, that it was asking for help. As for what it was helping, I guessed that it was probably to help me find the shoe. It even included Mr. Xia’s words from Yao Ting when he was standing in this position.
: "You're blocking me."
Until now, I still can't figure out one thing, that is, the worker whose hand was punched through by the punching machine. If Yao Ting was asking for help, why did she want to hurt others? I asked my doubts, and now I
Although I feel that the Gu Nian in front of me is too young, after all, she is closer to the truth than us, and she even knows the truth. The girl told me that it was because the night shift worker that day smoked outside the factory in the middle of the night and went to court.
He peed into the sewer opening.
Okay, now I understand. When someone pees on my favorite thing, I think I will also confiscate his tools. Now everything makes sense, I asked the girl again, these situations
How did you know? The girl took out a small straw man with a red rope tied around its neck, hands and feet from her sweater pocket, then reached out and pulled out a small bamboo sign from the straw man's belly, which said "Yao Ting"
"Two words. I know this straw man. Although I rarely use this trick on weekdays, it is also a kind of stand-in boy. It was originally used for divination, but was later used by a few bad people to curse others.
, the most commonly used situation is to write a name tag, so that the straw man has a name and a surname, and establishes a connection with the deceased. In this way, he can act as a spiritual medium and ask questions with the help of Taoism. But you must first know the name of the person.
It only works with Chinese characters, so I asked her how did you know her name was Yao Ting? The girl said, of course I know, because my client told me. I asked her again, who is your client? The girl was cold.
He snorted and said, "What does that have to do with you? What the hell are you doing?"
I was choked by her words and stopped talking, but if I am not mistaken, her client should know Yao Ting, maybe her family. Hu Zongren asked the girl, how did Yao Ting die?
The girl's eyes started to look a little resentful, and she whispered, "I died of illness. Although death of illness is not the end of life, it is not a well-deserved death. Plus her expression suddenly looked so sad, I think she must have understood it, but she didn't
She was going to tell us. The girl took a break and continued, saying that she could have been sent away today, but you two idiots ruined it and she had to wait until tomorrow. After saying that, she wanted to turn around and leave again, but was blocked again.
I stopped her and said to her, let us try.
I helped Hu Zongren turn on the flashlight. Hu Zongren climbed down the maintenance ladder into the sewer, took off the high-heeled shoes hanging there from the ladder and climbed out. The first thing he said was, damn, it smells so bad down there. I
Of course I knew it was smelly down there, otherwise I would have gone down there by myself. Hu Zongren patted himself, then squatted down, put the high heels in his bag, then lit incense and candles, and chanted mantras to send the soul away. All this was nothing.
It was so difficult, probably because this girl was too programmed and had to do it when she was young. Based on this, I could tell that this girl probably just started training and lacked experience. Suddenly I felt confident, hum.
, ginger is still spicy when old.
Sure enough, Hu Zongren's technique of sending souls is completely possible because practice makes perfect, but this girl thinks it is very powerful. In order to get rid of the bad temper just now, Hu Zongren and I have been sarcastic to each other, saying that we are fools, we
There is no way to wait until tomorrow, here and now, just give it away like this, alas, it is too difficult!
Although I didn’t know the story of the woman named Yao Ting until a long time later, that’s another story for another time. Since we had cut off this girl’s profile, out of apology, we told her our contact information and said that she would need it in the future.
She called us for help, and by the way, she got her phone number, and I found out her name was Zhao Jing. At the same time, we also found out that the noble person Mr. Xia mentioned was not me or Hu Zongren, but Zhao Jing. So we
The money was confiscated and all the money was given to her.
When we were leaving, Zhao Jing was quite polite to me, but she gave Hu Zongren a slap in the face, called him a gangster, and turned away.
There are still many things about Zhao Jing, and we will talk about them later.