Qingye Supernatural Office

It was still early when I woke up, so I went directly to the Sixth Village of Gongnong.

The early morning office is not much better than the night, and the feeling of coldness and desolation is still strong.

I recounted the dream, and for a long time, I could only hear my own breathing.

Feeling empty in my heart, I called Guo Yujie listlessly and asked her directly to meet in Gongnong Six Village.

Guo Yujie asked casually, "Aren't you coming to the office?"

"Well, I won't come." I didn't say anything about the dream.

"That's fine, I'll go directly to the Sixth Village of Gongnong as well."

About an hour later, Guo Yujie arrived at Gongnong Sixth Village, and we went to the neighborhood committee together to find Director Mao.

Director Mao was on the phone, holding back his anger, and said to the person on the other end of the phone: "This has nothing to do with demolition or not. The residents are still living here, and they all need water. How can they not be repaired?"

Guo Yujie pulled a staff member of the neighborhood committee, "What's wrong? What happened to the demolition?"

"The water pipe in a building burst. I asked the property owner to fix it, but they shirked it." The man was full of resentment, "It's not the first time. The water pipe is clogged, water leaks, there are green bugs, and the parking spaces in the community are given to outsiders. The vehicle is used...the property is very rubbish!"

Guo Yujie showed sympathy.

Director Mao finished his phone call and smiled apologetically when he saw us, "I'm sorry to keep you waiting. We'll go find Tao Hai right away."

"Excuse me, Director Mao." Guo Yujie and I thanked each other.

"Hey, no trouble. Prepare yourself mentally, this Tao Hai is not as good as..." Director Mao was vague in the middle of this sentence, with an ugly expression on his face.

I guess she was going to say "Uncle Wang", just thinking about the death of Uncle Wang, she felt a sense of fear.

"As long as he's short of money, it shouldn't be hard to convince him," I said.

Director Mao sighed, "Tao Hai is short of money. Will he come to our neighborhood committee to ask for subsidies as soon as he comes back?"

"What subsidy?" Guo Yujie asked suspiciously.

"The subsidy for the widowed and lonely elderly includes some grain, oil, food and daily necessities every month. There are not many things, but they are worth hundreds of dollars." Director Mao said, "He has a son who was not eligible at first, but he has been with us for a long time. It’s been a long time, and special circumstances have been treated specially. I told him about the demolition yesterday, and he seemed reluctant.”

"You said last time that he was unwilling to sell the house, but you never said the reason. Is there any special situation?" I asked.

Don't meet another Uncle Wang and give us problems.

"I don't know about that either. He's always shameless and can't talk about business." Director Mao shook his head.

After talking, we walked to the building where Tao Hai lived.

Tao Hai lived on the second floor.Director Mao knocked on the door, but there was no response for a long time, and he yelled a few more times, but there was no movement in the room.

The neighbor opened the door and greeted Director Mao: "Little Mao, where are you looking for Tao Hai?"

"Yes, Aunt Xu."

"I saw him go out when I came back from grocery shopping in the morning."

"Are you going to buy breakfast?" Guo Yujie asked.

Director Mao and Aunt Xu denied at the same time, "Impossible."

Director Mao added: "He doesn't eat outside."

"Is there something wrong?" I don't know Tao Hai well, so I can only analyze it from the usual way of thinking.

Aunt Xu pouted, "What can he do?"

No matter what happens, there is nothing we can do if people are not around.

Director Mao complained about Tao Haiyi, and then apologized to us, "I let you make a trip for nothing."

"It's nothing. You helped us too much." I said hastily.

While walking out, Director Mao suddenly pointed to the front and shouted, "Tao Hai!"

Walking towards him was a little old man, black and thin, with thinning hair and wrinkled face. He was wearing old clothes that had been washed white and had frayed edges. He looked very poor.

Hearing Director Mao's shout and looking up to see the three of us, Tao Hai turned around and ran away.

I hurried to catch up, but I didn't expect that the old man was very athletic, and his location happened to be not far from the entrance of the community. He left the community, turned a corner, and disappeared into the crowd.

I was dumbfounded and stood there for a while before walking back in a daze.

"Why don't you chase after?" Guo Yujie was anxious.

"He's gone." I shook my head.

Director Mao comforted: "Don't worry, that Tao Hai was chased for debts when he was young, and he has already developed his skills."

Guo Yujie and I looked at each other.

"He still has this kind of experience?" I sighed, "Director Mao, you have to tell us about Tao Hai."

Tao Hai's decisive escape was too suspicious.Uncle Wang knows everything and is willing to communicate with us. This posture of Tao Hai's refusal to communicate is not conducive to our work.

Director Mao scratched his cheek, "I heard it too. When he was young, he gambled and owed a lot of money. His wife divorced him and left with her son. He was often pursued by debtors, but they never came His family, so they are all hearsay from the neighbors in the community."

"Isn't he an employee of the Third Municipal Iron and Steel Factory?" I heard some questions.

"He wasn't. The house was allocated to his parents. He was buying and selling outside at that time, and he didn't enter the steel factory." Director Mao said this with certainty.

We asked Director Mao to keep an eye out for us, and if Tao Hai came back, he would call us.

"This is difficult." Guo Yujie sighed.

The four rooms in Qingye could still say that no property owner could be found, and finally put up a notice to deal with it. Tao Hai's room has a real owner, so it cannot be resolved by this method.

"Take it easy," I said.

My words unfortunately mean what I said.From then on, Guo Yujie and I started chasing and intercepting Tao Hai. He seemed to have been trained by the debt collection company. We couldn't catch this old guy who was older than us combined.

Guo Yujie became angry and decided to stay at the door of his house overnight.

Although Guo Yujie is a girl with strange strength, she can lift me up with one hand, but she is also an out-and-out girl, I can't let her squat alone, so I will risk my life to accompany the gentleman.

All night long, we didn't wait for Tao Hai to come back, and we didn't know whether he, a pauper, slept on a park bench or nestled in a bridge hole.

"I don't believe he won't come back forever!" Guo Yujie said angrily.

"Okay, don't go too far." I yawned.

Guo Yujie glared at me.

"He's really going to never come back, do you want to be on the headlines of social media?" I asked her.

Guo Yujie froze.

We are not a debt collection company, and even a debt collection company will not kill people.

Tao Hai is an old man who doesn't return home at night, who knows what will happen?At that time, it will definitely be our fault.

This method of squatting and guarding can only be given up.

Frustrated at work, I haven't been able to sleep well in the past few days, and I keep dreaming about the scene of Zhang Shanmei hanging herself.

Her falling posture kept repeating itself, and the dream became more and more grotesque.After Zhang Shanmei fell, she moved her fingers and kicked her legs a few times at the beginning, and then turned into a frenzied struggle, writhing in mid-air, her face distorted and painful, she stretched out her hand to grab the rope around her neck desperately, and let out a mournful howl , the sound echoed in the theater.

I subconsciously wanted to save her, but when I wanted to move, I realized that I was just a bystander in this dream, without a "body" at all.

Zhang Shanmei struggled in the dream all night, until I woke up and the dream disappeared, she did not give up or die.

I opened my eyes blankly for a long time, and dragged my tired body after a night of nightmares to Aoba again.