Chapter 62. [Case Eleven] The Second Floor of the Restaurant
Hu Zongren glanced at me and said to store manager Xie, "We have already guessed this. The old lady appeared at an unusual time and appeared again and again. The above actions can easily make people suspicious."
I added, especially when you came to us, we knew why you would find people like us, so we thought of it first. Hu Zongren asked the store manager Xie, what happened next?
Manager Xie crossed his hands across his chest and shrugged his shoulders, looking as if he felt a little cold. For this season, although the weather is not hot, it is definitely not so cold that he feels cold.
to the point. Manager Xie said that she was also in the store that night and happened to witness the whole process. She said that the temperature of hot milk is usually much higher than that of hot water. In the past, a child was injured by hot milk in the store.
There was a burn accident, so when she saw the male customer spilling the milk, as the store manager, she immediately stood up from the counter and wanted to coordinate the matter, but only then did she realize that a whole cup of hot milk had been poured.
On the old lady's face.
Store manager Xie said that the strangest thing was that usually when everyone would cry out in pain, the old woman didn't react at all. Instead, she looked up at the male customer with squinting eyes. Moreover, the dripping water on her face was also very different from common sense.
It just doesn't flow down along the contours of the face, but directly passes through the parts of the body that can be blocked. After stopping briefly on the face, it drips directly through the body and onto the seat.
Hu Zongren said, is it like when water is poured on the filter paper and then passes through, the old woman's whole body seems to be transparent, right? Manager Xie said, you can think so, but what you see in front of you is not the same.
Same, because if the old woman was transparent, she should be able to see the scene behind her through her body, but in fact, she couldn't.
I explained to Manager Xie that the so-called transparency depends on the state of the ghost's appearance at that time. Most ghosts do not have physical existence. In other words, the old woman you see is actually the ghost that gave birth to the ghost.
It is an illusion created by almost everyone in your store. It is indeed sitting there, but if you are not affected by this, you cannot see it. I went on to say, just like the street where we are standing now, say
Maybe there is a ghost squatting under that tree but we can't see it, or maybe among the people coming and going, there are actually people who have died long ago.
After saying that, I repeated a very classic saying that my master told me, how can you be sure that all you see in your life are people.
After hearing what I said, Manager Xie subconsciously looked around at the passers-by. In fact, I didn't mean to scare her, I was just stating a fact. Manager Xie went on to say, because the old lady was in a very serious situation at that time.
It was so weird that those of us who witnessed everything were able to notice something was wrong immediately. There were only a few customers left in the store at that time, and because the male customer was causing trouble, they were all looking over to watch the fun. As a result,
At this moment, the old lady suddenly stood up and rushed upstairs to us at very fast pace. Manager Xie stretched out an index finger and said, I mean, it "looks" like she rushed upstairs.
, that speed could not be the speed of an old man, it was like fast-forwarding the scene on a video tape, and it was only at this time that we discovered that her feet were not touching the ground at all, and they were indeed translucent, like film pockets.
I pieced together in my mind what Store Manager Xie said about the old lady running upstairs. I don’t know why I thought it was quite funny. Store Manager Xie said that because it was all so weird, all of us present were a little scared.
, the male customer did not continue to pester our student girl, but ran away in a panic. After seeing it, a female customer in the store also stood up in a panic and walked out of the door.
At that time, he said loudly to me, boss, if you don’t do it, run away, your store is haunted!
Manager Xie went on to say that since then, except for a few people, no one has seen the old woman again, and this incident quickly spread among our employees. During this period, two or three people were
I was so scared that I resigned. Before I left, I repeatedly promised that this matter would not be spread out, but I refused to continue working here. You said I am a small store like this, even though I am the store manager.
But I also have investors above me. Even if they believe in the strange things that happened in our store, there is no way for them to close down and stop doing business. So the next day we closed the business for a day, and then invited Taoist priests to work on the upper and lower floors.
A large bronze mirror was hung on the stairwell between the two floors. Talismans were also posted on many places on the second floor, including the door lintels and windows. We were also told to block the stairs with warning signs or cordons, saying that the talisman and
Bronze mirrors must be hung for at least fourteen days before they can be removed.
Hu Zongren interrupted and asked Manager Xie, what was your business on the second floor? Manager Xie said that the second floor was also a restaurant, but because there is no ordering counter and it is upstairs, it needs to be quieter.
, the place is also much more spacious, with a separate bathroom, and a special play area for children. After speaking, she pointed to the store behind her and said, now we still have to do business, and everyone is a little in a trance when doing things.
Yes, there are too few people that can be accommodated on the first floor. Our business is as high as in the sky and on the ground compared to before. And I also suspect that the Taoist priest's talisman may not be of any use at all. Even after he did some tricks, it is still very
Strange things happen frequently.
I quickly asked her what else happened. Manager Xie said that most of them happened at night, sometimes around 11 o'clock in the evening, which was probably the time when the old lady often appeared before, and sometimes later, even at three in the morning.
It may appear at four o'clock. After she finished saying this, I turned around and looked at the sign in front of their store. It said "Open 24 hours" in very eye-catching words. Manager Xie went on to say, for the first time
It was the third night after the Taoist priest came to do the ritual. On the second day, everyone was very wary of the movement upstairs, but they were quiet. At that time, everyone was still saying that the Taoist priest was really powerful and cleaned up the place so quickly.
But the next day, when their chef was preparing food in the kitchen for the customers who were still ordering in the store, they suddenly heard the sound of footsteps on the floor above their heads. It was said that the sound was
The frequency is very fast, which makes it easy for everyone to think of the old lady running upstairs. Moreover, the noise of the kitchen machine is relatively loud, but in such an environment, we can still hear this kind of footsteps. At that time, we
The chef stretched out his head and winked at the colleague outside, asking why there was any movement upstairs at this time. Another colleague also started to listen, but he heard someone dragging tables and chairs upstairs.
Walking, there is a squeaking and harsh sound when it is pulled on the ground.
Hu Zongren asked, were there any customers in your store at that time? Manager Xie said that it was fine at that time. There was only one man in the store playing with his mobile phone and eating at the same time. He might have worked until late and had not eaten yet. Hu Zongren said again
Asked, did the customer notice the sound? Manager Xie said, of course he did, but he didn’t think much about it, thinking it might be the sound made by our employees when they were packing things upstairs after work, and the customer was very
He left soon. Manager Xie went on to say that that night, all the waiters in the store tried their best to stay together and did not dare to disperse, but no one left.
Manager Xie also said that the only restroom in our restaurant is on the second floor. There is no restroom on the ground floor. Since this incident, even our own employees have to go to the nearby shopping mall if they want to use the restroom.
, and the shopping mall is closed at night, so if they want to go to the toilet, they have to run farther and go to the public restroom on the pedestrian street. This results in many customers, including those who come during the day, who want to go to the toilet but have no way.
Several times, guests ignored our persuasion and went upstairs to use the toilet. We all felt frightened. Fortunately, there seemed to be nothing wrong with them when they came down. It seemed that the old lady upstairs did not care about ordinary customers.
What had he done? Hu Zongren asked the store manager Xie, although the sound alone is very strong evidence, but there is no witness, how can you be sure that the one upstairs is the old lady? Store manager Xie said, this happened the night before yesterday
one thing.
She said that the student girl who first poured boiling water for the old lady did not leave her job because of this incident. Maybe it was because she was an educated college student and she believed it but not believed it, or because she felt that she had never been treated badly from beginning to end.
The old woman shouldn't harm her. She even volunteered to work the night shift, because it was very popular during the day and everyone was noisy, so it was hard to detect any movement. But just the night before yesterday, it happened to be...
The little girl was on duty, and when it was almost three o'clock in the morning, there were no customers in the store, and the chef also dozed off in her workspace. Since she was the front desk, she had been sitting on the small stool under the counter playing with her mobile phone.
She planned to say that if a customer came in, she would stand up and serve as soon as possible. But at this moment, she heard a clanging sound coming from a place not far above her head.
She said that the sound seemed to be that of tapping the table with chopsticks, but it was not very similar. When she heard the sound, she subconsciously realized that it must be the old lady upstairs. So she did not dare to look up at first, after all, she was still scared.
Well. But as the sound got louder and louder, as if just to attract her attention, she slowly raised her head and looked at the place where the sound came from.
Manager Xie said that the little girl saw an extra space on the ceiling at the top of our counter, which was the floor of the second floor. There was an old woman hanging upside down, with only half of her body exposed from the corner of the ceiling. She was holding a hand in one hand.
Holding the white hooked umbrella, he waved to the little sister with his other hand, with a smile on his face.
Manager Xie began to imitate this posture, and while imitating, he said in a weird manner, little sister, come on... come on...