Trembling, I held the pillow and didn't dare to agree for a while.
He stared at the door tightly, his body shaking uncontrollably.
But the knocking on the door kept ringing, endlessly, and no words were spoken.
Finally, I gritted my teeth and shouted outside the house:
"Who, who?"
I just finished speaking.
The knocking on the door stopped.
After about two seconds, a strange woman's voice sounded outside the door:
"Exchange some money."
When I heard these three words.
In my mind, I instantly remembered the man I met at the intersection who asked me to exchange money.
The woman in white who was still following me and smiling slyly at me.
The whole person became even more frightened, and he stuttered back to the door:
"No, no money, get out of here..."
I was very scared to respond, and that fear made me close to collapse.
I held my head and squatted in the corner of the sofa.
But after I shouted like this, it worked, and the rapid knocking on the door stopped.
Outside the house, there was no movement.
Everything seemed to have returned to calm.
But I didn't dare to sleep at all, and I had no sleepiness at all.
Turn on the light and keep staring at the door.
Afraid that if I look away, the closed door will be pushed open...
It wasn't until it was almost dawn that I leaned on the sofa and fell asleep lightly.
When I woke up again, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.
The whole person was confused and spent another torturous night.
I was about to get up and wash my face, but found that I was covered with a thin blanket.
I was stunned on the spot.
I remember that the thin blanket was placed in the bedroom.
Last night, I didn't go to the house to get a thin blanket.
Why is it covering me now?
misremembered?
I twisted up the thin blanket and looked around.
Finally, he pressed his temples.
Maybe it was because my mental state was so bad during this period that I had poor memory.
But the knock on the door last night? How to explain it?
When I think of the woman at the intersection, I tremble all over.
Is that a human or a ghost...
Washed my face with cold water.
Looking at my haggard face, I sighed deeply.
Still have to go to work.
I cooked a bowl of noodles at home, picked up the garbage bag, and went out to work.
This is the second night shift before the shift change.
The day shift starts in two days, I thought to myself.
Just as I was about to go downstairs, my neighbor across the door, Aunt Wang, also opened the door and came out to put out the trash.
Seeing me going downstairs, he smiled and said:
"Xiao Qin! I was so embarrassed last night.
I don't have any change when I play cards.
When I saw you come back from get off work, your eldest daughter asked you to exchange money, which disturbed you."
When I heard this, my body trembled violently.
Very surprised and said:
"Last night, the one who knocked on the door last night was, was it your daughter?"
Aunt Wang saw my shocked look and was a little confused:
"Yes what's the matter?"
Hearing this, I felt relieved and even wanted to laugh.
I thought it was something dirty or a ghost knocking on the door.
As a result, I was really sensitive and thought too much.
The tense mood instantly relaxed a lot.
The stone hanging in my heart also fell to the ground.
Secretly smiling bitterly.
During this period, I really suffered from a nervous breakdown and was too sensitive.
After all, this is the 21st century, how can there be anything dirty?
I smiled and shook my head:
"It's okay Aunt Wang, last night, I didn't have any change last night, so I was in a bad mood, so I got a little irritable..."
Aunt Wang is still smiling:
"It's okay. But I have to say something to you.
Even though my girlfriend is beautiful, she still has to take care of her body.
Look, my face is so bad, I usually have to make soup to replenish my skin."
When I heard this, I was stunned on the spot.
Girlfriend? Still making soup to replenish your body?
I am single and have a dog, where do I start from?
I was very confused and replied:
"Aunt Wang, I, I don't have a girlfriend."
Aunt Wang looked like she had seen through everything:
"You're a big guy, and you're still shy.
I saw it all when you came back last night.
The one in the white skirt has very fair skin.
I entered the house with you.
Okay, let's go to work!
Hahaha..."
After saying that, Aunt Wang stopped paying attention to me.
"Clang!"
I just closed the door and went into the house.
But standing in the corridor, I felt as if I had been splashed with cold water, from head to toe.
The feeling of being stared at from behind appeared again.
My heart that had just been relieved suddenly became tense again.
Last night, there was a woman who came into the house with me last night...
I swallowed and glanced left and right in the dim corridor.
The corridors seemed to have become a bit spookier.
I was very scared and ran downstairs in a hurry.
How could a woman in white enter the house with me last night?
I was obviously the only one in the room.
Could it be that the thin blanket covering me was covered by someone else?
I was shaking all over, I didn't dare to think about it, and I didn't even know what to do.
I left the rental house and came to the intersection to wait for the commuter bus.
At the crossroads during the day, people come and go.
But it still makes me feel scared and restless.
The mental pressure of nearly a month has left me in this unfamiliar big city, and I don’t know what to do next.
The whole person seemed to be shrouded in fear and darkness. He didn't know if he had a mental problem or if he had really encountered something dirty.
The feeling of being alone and helpless.
The walking zombie got on the commuter bus, with melancholy written all over his face.
Until I was about to get off the bus, a middle-aged man suddenly sat next to me.
I didn't pay much attention, I was just thinking about what to do after get off work tonight? Should I go back to the rental house?
The middle-aged man next to me was playing with his mobile phone and said to me in an understatement:
"Qin Ze, right? I've been observing you for several days.
Have you encountered any strange and unexplainable things recently?"
This sentence seems to have penetrated into my heart.
I turned my head sharply.
The man looks familiar, but I don't recognize him.
It should be from the logistics department, not our assembly line.
I don't know what it's called either.
He looked calm and scrolled through Douyin without looking at me.
But I was shocked and said:
"You, how do you know?"
The middle-aged man just smiled lightly and didn't explain much.
I just reached out and touched it a few times in my pocket.
Finally, with great effort, I took out an older copper plate from my jeans.
He handed it to me casually.
"Here's this for you, in case anything weird happens again.
Just throw this old money on the ground and tell her to take the money and leave..."