When telling stories, old men always like to drink a few pots of wine and chew a plate of peanuts.
The uncle was unwilling to say anything to them at first, but Gu Mian coaxed him out with a few words.
Now a few people were sitting in a small restaurant nearby. The old man sat in front of the table happily, not even looking at the door.
He picked up a peanut, threw it into his mouth and chewed it uncontrollably. As he listened, several people around Yuwen swallowed their saliva.
"As for Zhou Guanglei and Zhao Wen, they both disappeared two years ago, but they were separated by more than two months."
"Let's talk about Zhao Wen first. Zhao Wen stopped working here before his death. At that time, people in our factory thought he had gone somewhere to make a fortune. Unexpectedly, we heard that he was gone in less than three months."
"Life and death are common things. Although people in the factory were surprised when they heard about this, they didn't remember it for long."
"It wasn't until Zhou Guanglei, who was very close to Zhao Wen, died two months later that some people suspected that their deaths were abnormal. They didn't know how Zhao Wen died, but Zhou Guanglei's death was quite strange."
"Before he died, he always said that someone knocked on his door, and he suspected that it was us. Later, he did nothing else but call people in the middle of the night. I also received calls from him..."
"Later, I heard that he died in his own house. He was strangled to death by a telephone cord while lying on his bed. Do you think it's strange that a living person can be strangled to death by a telephone cord while lying on his bed?"
"We all know that his death was unusual, and we usually don't dare to talk about it. Some people always think that the deaths of Zhao Wen and Zhou Guanglei are strange, but they can't find any connection."
"But they don't know how Zhao Wen died, but I know, old man! My nephew works in the bureau."
"I heard my nephew tell me that when they investigated Zhao Wen's family members, his family members also said that Zhao Wen always heard knocking on the door before he died."
Gu Mian and the others knew all this, but they didn't interrupt the old man and let him continue.
The uncle took another bite of side dishes and took a sip of wine before continuing: "Others may not know the origin of the knock on the door, but I know that my nephew is in the bureau."
Hearing this, Yu Wenhao and Qing Huan looked at each other, and the origin of the knocker was finally revealed.
"Speaking of this knock on the door, I have to mention a fire in our factory seven or eight years ago. A person was burned to death in that fire. I was also here at that time, watching that person.
People were carried out after being burnt black.”
When Yu Wenhao and the others were investigating Zhou Guanglei yesterday, they also heard someone mention that three people died in this factory, one died in the fire, and the remaining two were Zhao Wen and Zhou Guanglei.
"Seven or eight years ago, around 1995, our factory had just been built not long ago. It was very new. At that time, working in the factory was a very popular job. Many young people were vying to get in."
"The one who was burned to death that year was a young man named Yu Hai. I heard he came from a rural area not far from here. He wanted to come to the small county town to try his luck, but he lost his life as soon as he arrived."
"The fire broke out at night. We were a new factory at that time, and the leader was the leader for the first time. The little guy was so angry that he was worried that someone would sneak in in the middle of the night and tear down the door in the factory."
"Then our leader arranged for a few people to work the night shift. I was also in the factory that night, and I was guarding the gate."
"Yu Hai, that young man, works the night shift in the office. There is a small bedroom in the office with a bed, and there are people watching even in the workshop."
"I was napping when the fire started. It must have been around two o'clock in the middle of the night. I was woken up by the night shift worker in the workshop."
"When I woke up, the fire was already raging! I hurried over there and saw the entire row of offices burned down! That was so fierce..."
When he said this, the uncle clicked his tongue and shook his head, as if he was still marveling at the ferocity of the fire back then.
"It was 1995. Telephones were not widely available in our small county, let alone mobile phones. Only the leader had a big brother, which was as long as a newborn child."
"We couldn't call the police, and we didn't know where the fire brigade was, and the police station was too far away, so we had to run out to find the leader so that he could call the police with his big brother."
"But it was too late. The person who went out to look for the leader asked me to guard the row of offices where the fire broke out. After he left, I heard a sound in that row of offices..."
"That's Yu Hai's voice inside... Sigh, he must be trapped in the small bedroom in the office."
"I heard him screaming inside, screaming! He was still banging on the door. It seemed that the bedroom door couldn't be opened. He was screaming desperately inside."
"I also wanted to rush in to save people, but the fire was so strong that it flooded the entire row of offices. I couldn't even see the door. It would be a dead end if I went in."
"I could only listen outside as Yu Hai kept banging on the door, but couldn't open it. Finally, his voice became smaller and smaller, but he still kept banging on the door..."
"When the fire truck came, there was already silence inside. The fire brigade had to use all the efforts of the boss to put out the fire. When the person was found, he was as black as coal..."
"In the past seven or eight years, people in the factory have changed one after another. No one knows much about the fire that year. I only know that one person was burned to death."
"But I still remember it clearly. I still remember Yu Hai knocking on the door desperately in the fire that night, trying to come out. So when I learned about Zhao Wen and Zhou Guanglei, the first thing I thought of was Yu Hai."
When he said this, the uncle put down his chopsticks and sighed, unable to swallow anything in his mouth.
Gu Mian touched his chin. It seemed that Yu Hai was the ghost who followed him. However, Yu Hai's death was strange, and he might have been killed by another ghost.
He looked at the uncle: "What did the police say later?"
"My nephew said that this fire was very strange. It didn't look like an accident or man-made, but it seemed like a fire appeared out of thin air..."
"Did Yu Hai experience any supernatural events before his death?"
Now that the ghosts corresponding to the five of them have come out, it seems that they are not far from the source. Maybe the ghost that killed Yu Hai is the source of the curse.
"I didn't know that. He is a bachelor. I heard that his parents died long ago. He grew up eating a lot of food. He is a stupid guy and doesn't talk to people very much. But I think he has never encountered any supernatural events before.
Otherwise, I would have been scared to death."
"Then has anything weird happened in this factory before?"
"When Yu Hai died, the factory was still very new. It had just been built not long ago. How could he experience any supernatural events in such a short period of time? If we want to find you, we have to start from the time when the factory was not built. I heard that this area
There used to be a textile workshop on the ground."
