Merchant of the Underworld

In the blink of an eye, midsummer is over, and autumn is approaching, and the weather in Wuhan is gradually getting colder.

That night, I boiled a pot of Maotai wine and prepared some side dishes. I was drinking and reading in a leisurely manner when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." I threw a peanut into my mouth and shouted loudly.

As soon as the door opened, a middle-aged man wearing glasses walked in.

He walked in the door, looked back subconsciously, and then closed the door tightly.

He is tall, but very thin, and wears a pair of glasses as thick as the bottom of a bottle. The suit was well tailored and obviously worth a lot of money, but he was unshaven, his hair was a mess, there were thick dark circles around his eyes, and his face looked tired.

He glanced left and right in a panic, and when he saw that I was the only one in the store, he tentatively asked, "Excuse me, are you Master Zhang Jiulin?"

"It's me." I nodded and said, "Don't panic. If you have anything to do, sit down and talk slowly."

I knew from the look on his face that something evil must have happened to him. He was mentally and physically devastated, and he saw me as the last straw.

He responded and sat down, looking out of the antique shop again uneasily.

"Don't worry! Monsters and ghosts don't dare to step through this door yet. Just tell me what happened to you." Seeing his panic, I quickly comforted him.

"Oh, okay." Hearing what I said, he seemed to feel relieved a little, paused briefly, and slowly talked about the reason.

He introduced himself and said that his name was Ma Hongjun, that he was a collector, and that he specialized in collecting ancient coins.

But these days, he doesn't dare to go home, he can't even sleep well, let alone stay in a place with few people.

These days, he could only stay in shopping malls, supermarkets, and train stations. He was exhausted both mentally and physically.

He felt that if he continued to waste like this, he would be close to death...

"Just tell me, what happened to make you so scared?" Seeing that he was still a little scared, I took another wine glass, filled it and pushed it in front of him.

As the saying goes, drinking makes people brave. Ma Hongjun hesitated for a moment and finally drank it all in one gulp, but then he choked and coughed.

It can be seen that he is not good at drinking, but this action also clearly shows his thoughts at this time - it is death anyway, so he might as well fight!

Ma Hongjun wiped his mouth stained with wine vigorously, gritted his teeth and said: "My wife died early, my children are out of town, and I am the only one at home. But recently, there is an extra person in our family for no reason - every time In the middle of the night, an old lady will suddenly appear on the sofa!"

"Oh? Please explain it in more detail." I nodded at him.

Seeing that I didn't show any fear after hearing this, he was also very interested. He immediately gave up some of his worries and continued talking.

A dozen days ago, he was suddenly awakened by a rustling sound in his sleep. At first he thought there was a mouse in the house, so he clapped his hands a few times to scare the mouse away, and waited until daybreak to think of a solution.

However, something strange happened!

As soon as he stopped clapping, there was a burst of clapping in the living room.

The sound was very loud, as if someone was sitting there and learning from him!

He was suddenly frightened, and his sleepiness disappeared in an instant.

After he turned on the light, he slowly opened the bedroom door, took a peek, and was immediately frightened and fell to the ground.

There is a stranger in the living room!

An old lady with gray hair was sitting cross-legged on the sofa, flapping her hands constantly, making clear sounds one after another.

The dim moonlight came in through the window and shone on the old lady's pale face.

The old lady even looked towards him faintly, clapped her hands and showed a charming smile, as if to say: "Come on, let's take a picture together? Why don't you take a picture?"

Ma Hongjun was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat and almost peed his pants. He quickly locked the door, covered himself with a quilt and huddled up in a ball, shivering uncontrollably!

He was extremely worried that the old lady would break out of the door and strangle him violently!

Fortunately, the old lady just sat in the living room and clapped her hands, and other than that, she didn't make any other movements.

But Ma Hongjun was so frightened that his quilt was soaked with cold sweat.

It wasn't until dawn and the sound of clapping disappeared that Ma Hongjun cautiously opened the bedroom door, exposed a small crack and looked outside. After confirming that the old lady was gone, he quickly got dressed and ran out.

He had been wandering around all day, and the more he thought about it, the more something was wrong. Thinking about it later, he even wondered if there was something wrong with his nerves and he was suffering from paranoia? Or maybe you just got confused while sleeping and dreaming?

In the evening, he found a bar and drank late on purpose to build up his courage by being drunk.

But when he returned home, the moment he opened the door, he was immediately frightened and fell to the ground. The old lady was here again!

And he also brought a small black leather baggage, sitting cross-legged on the sole of his shoe!

The pale moonlight shone on her body, making her skin crawl.

The old lady seemed to have heard the knock on the door. She raised her head and looked at him, as if to say: "What are you waiting for? Come in."

How dare Ma Hongjun go in? The wine in my stomach turned into cold sweat and I suddenly felt cold.

He woke up suddenly, got up and hurriedly went downstairs. After leaving the community, a taxi happened to come from the opposite side, and he rushed over.

But before he opened the car door and sat down, he quickly slammed the car door with a bang and ran away!

It turned out that when he opened the car door and was about to sit down, he found that the old lady in the living room appeared in the back seat of the taxi like a ghost. She still crossed her legs and held the soles of her shoes. When he saw him opening the door, she moved further in, as if... Make room for him.

Ma Hongjun ran like a lifeless man, he was really exhausted. Just holding on to the street lamp to catch his breath, he suddenly found the old lady sitting in the shadow of the street lamp. She seemed to have finished loading the sole of one shoe and was lowering her head to bite the thread.

Ma Hongjun complained endlessly, but had no choice but to run away again.

It wasn't until he ran into a bar that the old lady finally disappeared...

He drank several glasses of ice water and poured it on his head several times before he finally woke up.

However, he was also completely convinced that what he saw was definitely not an hallucination or a mental problem, but something really dirty.

He never dared to go home again, and never dared to stay alone no matter day or night - during the day, he would sit in the busiest shopping malls, and at night, he would go to bars to get drunk.

Later, he discovered that other people's bars would close at dawn. He was afraid that the old lady would come after her again, so he simply stayed squatting in the train station.

Later, when he couldn't bear it anymore, he asked around for experts in this field and found me through connections in the circle.