Chapter 6 Chapter 6 The Woman in the Painting

I got a job.I can't describe my mood, I can only say that I am a little confused and a little excited.When I applied for this civil investigation firm, I had no idea what to do.However, when I walked out of this company, I already had a lot of responsibility. It's all fate.My application was almost unimpeded. After the staff read my profile and sized me up, they took me to see the general manager.The general manager's surname is Liu, and he is a tall and powerful middle-aged man.He also looked at my personal information first, then looked at me across the desk for a full minute, and then he said he wanted to keep you.The company has a business for you to do.Mr. Liu briefly introduced the nature and business scope of the company to me.My understanding is that all kinds of people need to investigate various things, so they pay and entrust this company to do it.Mr. Liu said that is exactly the case, now there is such a business, someone wants to know a person's dynamics.Specifically, the person under investigation owed our client 3 million yuan and is currently unable to repay it.The creditor is worried that the debtor may run away and hide in the last two months, so we need to keep track of this person's dynamics, and notify him immediately if we find that this person is really going to run away.The creditor only asked us to monitor for two months, and then sign another contract if necessary.

When I heard this thing, my heart jumped wildly.I remembered that in the application form that I was asked to fill out, there was a column for the books you like to read-I filled in several titles in this column, one of which was "The Collection of Sherlock Holmes".I really like this book.Afterwards, people in the company told me that a chaotic girl like you has knowledge and analytical skills, which is exactly what our company needs. The task I received was to get in touch with a man named Zhao Kaimiao and become friends.Mr. Liu called up the photo and information of this person on the computer.This is a middle-aged man wearing glasses, forty-six years old, the general manager of the building materials company.

Mr. Liu said, during the two months you have been in contact with him, you have met him or talked on the phone at least once a day, and if you find that he has the idea of ​​running away, please notify me immediately.You will be paid 10,000 yuan after the work is completed, and you will be paid 2,000 yuan per month for living expenses first, and the bill will be settled after the rest of the work is completed.The transportation and other necessary expenses incurred during the work shall be reimbursed. Don't worry, Mr. Liu finally said that this work has no legal problems and does not involve any pornography.The team leader of the investigation team will tell you about the specific method, and may even do some packaging for you.that's it.

So, I did such a mysterious job.It meets my own requirements for arranging working hours, so that it will not affect Xiaoni's homework tutoring.As for the salary, it far exceeded my expectations.That night, I was inexplicably excited all the time when I slept on the bed, so that when I heard the sound of footsteps going upstairs in the middle of the night, I lost the interest and feeling to explore it. Xiao Ni is also very excited about my new job.Especially after seeing me put on a dark blue suit and short skirt, Xiao Ni said that I suddenly became a white-collar beauty, like a senior executive in a bank.

At eleven o'clock in the morning, I took out the mobile phone provided by the company to call the person I wanted to contact.After the call got through, I first checked the name of the other party, Zhao Kaimiao, yes.I said I found your driver's license next to a trash can on the side of the road, probably thrown there by a thief.There happens to be one of your business cards in the driver's license.I thought you must be very anxious about losing something, so I called you. The other party was very grateful and asked me where I was, and he immediately came to pick up the lost property.I said I was doing some shopping on the street, I couldn't be sure where.Well, I'll send it to you.

The other party thanked me again, told me his company address in detail, and then said that he was waiting for me in the office. After turning off the phone, I told Xiaoni that I went to work.Spend a little more time today, and it will be easier later.Xiao Ni stuck out her tongue to me and said that you really look like a detective, and you are so calm when you make a phone call. In fact, everything was arranged by the investigation company, and I was just an executor.Including this driver's license, I suspect that the company and the thief conspired to do it, but no one in the company admitted this to me, and only said that in this line of work, don't ask about things that have nothing to do with you.

I came to the building materials company, and soon someone led me to the general manager's office.I glanced at the man sitting behind the desk, wearing glasses, in his 40s, similar to the one I saw in the photo.It's just that when we met, I still felt a kind of elegance in him. Are you Mr. Zhao Kaimiao?I know why.The other party was a little surprised when he saw me. Maybe he didn't expect that the person who returned the lost property to him was a white-collar beauty with extraordinary temperament.He nodded in agreement and beckoned me to sit down.After taking over his lost driver's license, thank you grandly as usual.Then he asked, Miss, what's your name?

I said that your surname is Lan and your name is Jingjing. Heh, Jingjing, what a nice name.While pouring me tea, he asked where I was from and where I worked. I said I am a local but work in a foreign bank in Shanghai.This time I came back because my mother was sick. Sure enough, the other party became interested and asked me about my specific job. I said I was a small supervisor of a department.He kept nodding, then looked at his watch and said, it is already twelve o'clock at noon, I invite you to lunch and express my thanks. I said Mr. Zhao, you're welcome. In fact, it was planned to meet before noon.The next progress was as expected.He insisted on a treat, and we soon became acquainted over a table in a fancy restaurant.I said that I would stay home for two months this time, and then fly back to Shanghai.He said it was nice to meet you and hoped to see you often, but I just smiled and didn't answer.Before parting, he had sent out an invitation for coffee tomorrow night.

I'm off to a good start at work.Of course, to be precise, it was the investigation company's successful planning of action.Sitting in the taxi back to Xiaoni's house, thinking of my current name and identity, I felt as if I had changed into a different person. The next night, when I sat in the cafe with Mr. Zhao, I was very comfortable with my role.I expressed my admiration for his career and said that those of us who work in banks should make friends with people in the corporate world.He was very happy and said how lucky he was to know me.I pretended to be casual and asked about his business situation, but he was silent.

I thought he would cover up his business difficulties. Unexpectedly, after being silent for a while, he said frankly that it was very bad, and more than 8 million yuan of material funds were stuck in a project.There is my own money, the money owed to the material manufacturer, and the 3 million yuan I borrowed from a friend, all of which are now trapped in this project.The project has been suspended for three years, and the builder has no money to pay me, saying that the developer has collapsed and the boss has gone abroad. The debt chain he talked about made me a little dizzy.I ask, what kind of projects are your building materials supplying?His answer surprised me, the twenty-nine-story building near the provincial capital middle school!It made me feel as if I couldn't escape a shadow.

I suddenly remembered a phone call that Xue, the keeper of the building, once called me, and said, if the building is auctioned, wouldn't all parties be able to recover some of their investment? He said, it is very difficult, the recent auction has failed, no one dares to take over. I advised him not to worry, things will be resolved.He said that there is no rush, and the 3 million yuan he borrowed from a friend at the beginning has already been demanded to be returned within two months.Otherwise... the words are already very ugly.No way, everyone has difficulties, but where can I find this money?He paused and said, Jingjing, if you can help me accommodate the bank and save me an emergency, I will always be grateful to you. I immediately expressed that I would do my best, but I had to wait two months before returning to Shanghai before I could try to handle it.Of course, I can also call first to lay the groundwork, hoping that he will keep in touch with me at any time.He said of course we should keep in touch. My work is going very well.It was late at night, and when I was about to propose to leave, he suddenly sighed and said, I am so unlucky, maybe because I met a ghost. I said Mr. Zhao, are you still superstitious? He said, I am not superstitious, I will explain it to you.More than a year ago, a bungee jumping resort opened in Beishan, and I went to experience it once.I'm an adventurous and exciting person, so I couldn't do without bungee jumping.When returning to the city, on the mountain road not far from the bungee jumping entertainment place, I saw a young woman sitting on a stone by the roadside, as if she was crying.I stopped the car and asked her what happened?She doesn't speak.I felt she was very depressed and helpless.I asked her where she was going, and she said back to the provincial capital.I let her go back to the provincial capital together in my car, she hesitated for a moment, and got into my car. The woman was about twenty years old.On the journey of more than three hours, she slowly talked about her situation.Her name is Qingqing, and she is a model at the Academy of Fine Arts.She suffers from depression, so she wanted to bungee jump here. It is said that this method has a therapeutic effect on depression.She said she read in the book that the ancient Greeks treated depression by throwing the sick person from the cliff into the sea, and then the people on the boat rescued the person.This strong stimulation has a significant effect on the treatment of depression.So, she came here and wanted to try it, but she was timid again when she arrived at the scene, and finally dared not try it.She said she couldn't do anything about herself. Mr. Zhao took a sip of coffee, and then said, at that time, I had special sympathy for this girl named Qingqing.After returning to the city, we exchanged phone calls, and I said that I would definitely invite her when I came to bungee jumping next time, and I would encourage her to try it.The matter was originally so simple. Unexpectedly, when I called her a month later, the people from the Academy of Fine Arts said that she was missing and might have committed suicide because someone heard her say that she didn’t want to live anymore. I asked how long this had happened. Yes, the other said, it has been two months.Based on this time, when I met Qingqing, it was already after she committed suicide.You said, didn't I meet a ghost?So things have been getting worse and worse over the past year or so. This was my unexpected panic when I met Mr. Zhao.Qingqing, I heard this name from the artist. She is the character in the painting hanging on the artist's wall.She is facing us with her naked back in the painting. The artist said that this model is a cold beauty. That night, after returning to Xiaoni's house, I was restless.It was almost midnight, and I was again worried about the sound of footsteps coming upstairs.Xiaoni once saw a woman on the stairs, could she be Qingqing? On this day, I unexpectedly received a call from Fang Qiang.He said he hadn't contacted for several days, what are you doing?Of course I couldn't tell him I was doing a civil investigation.This work is highly confidential.So I said I should still be a tutor, nothing too busy.He said that he wanted to ask you for help with something.Let me tell you, I will do my best. What Fang Qiang said was actually very simple.He was going to fly to Hainan for three days, of course to do some field research to realize his dream of becoming a plantation owner.During the three days after he left, he asked me to help him guard the house, that is, just stay at his place at night.He said that he mainly considered it from the aspect of preventing thieves from stealing. The house was empty, and he always couldn't let it go when he was on a business trip. I can't make up my mind about this.After asking for Xiaoni's opinion, she said go ahead, that is, sleep in another place, without affecting other things.Of course, I understand Xiaoni's thoughts. For such a person with tens of millions of assets, visiting his house can also satisfy a certain curiosity. However, when Xiaoni and I went to his house to get the house key, the house he lived in surprised us.This is the second floor of an ordinary apartment building, one bedroom, one living room with kitchen and bathroom.The interior is very simple, it is completely a rented place for wage earners. Fang Qiang said that the house was rented. Since his wife Xiao Ke and his girlfriend Bei went to a coastal city to start a company, he closed the company here and sold the house because he was going to Hainan to start a plantation .I'm temporarily staying here now, and I'll be flying away soon. A person with tens of millions of assets lives in a rental house. Is this absurd or a legend?What surprised Xiaoni and me even more was that there was a large oil painting hanging in the living room at the entrance of this house, which was a portrait of a woman with a naked back.Xiaoni and I could tell at a glance that this was the work of the painter above Xiaoni.Some time ago, the artist said that someone offered 50,000 yuan to buy this painting, but he did not expect that the buyer was actually Fang Qiang. Xiao Ni screamed and was about to ask about the origin of this painting.I quickly squeezed her hand, which meant to tell her not to reveal her identity as a sensible person.I said first, this painting is not bad, where did you buy it? Fang Qiang said, I didn't buy it, but I asked a famous artist to paint a portrait of my wife Xiaoke. Of course, I also paid the artist a lot. your wife?I exclaimed in surprise. Yes.Fang Qiang said that she likes to be mysterious by nature, so she only paints the back when painting portraits.But isn't it better?Fang Qiang walked up to the oil painting while talking, pointed to the woman's smooth back and said, look, the artist has painted the elasticity of the skin.Coupled with the size of the painting and the ratio of 1:1 to the real person, it makes people feel that the person in the painting will turn around and walk out at any time. I nodded appreciatively.At the same time, I told Xiaoni with my eyes to keep her as silent as possible, because I have already felt that there are more and more secrets hidden in this painting, and it takes enough patience to understand the truth. Fang Qiang said that he was going on a business trip, and what he was worried about was this painting. If it was stolen or damaged, it would be an irreparable loss.He said it wasn't about money, but that he loved his wife. At this moment, in this somewhat gloomy rental house, the knife marks on Fang Qiang's left cheek also appeared softer.I suddenly asked, do you know a girl named Qingqing? Fang Qiang looked at me inexplicably and said, who is Qingqing, I have never heard of this name. I raised this question mainly because I considered whether Xiao Ke's nickname would be Qing Qing.After confirming that there was no connection between the two names, I had no choice but to explain that I knew a girl named Qingqing, and she said she knew Fang Qiang. Impossible, Fang Qiang said, maybe it was another person with the same name. Fang Qiang gave me the door key.He said he was leaving tomorrow, thank you very much for guarding the house for me. There are so many things in the world.This is a weirdo.Xiaoni told me on the way home that the artist said that the person in the painting was a full-time model named Qingqing, how could she become Fang Qiang's wife now? It was in this way that I was tempted to spend three nights in his house.At the same time, I understood why the midnight of the past few days was silent.The painting had been taken from the painter's room, so there was no sound of footsteps on the stairs in the middle of the night. The things that have happened to me lately no one believes.Modern psychology and psychoanalysis often refer to people with my findings as patients.It may be years before people understand that it is not so simple.So far, human consciousness can only understand 10% of this world, and most of the rest are icebergs under the sea that no one knows. Xiao Ni and I went to the painter's house, and the portrait of a woman with a naked back had disappeared.The painter was lying on the deck chair on the balcony, looking a little lost.Xiao Ni asked, who bought that painting?The artist said it was a young man with scars on his face, which seemed a bit fierce, but in fact he was a shy man. The painter glanced at me when he spoke, in order to show me his ability to analyze people.I admit that a painter has this ability. He not only sees the appearance of people, but also sees what is hidden under the appearance.So his paintings have an aura, which is part of the artistic intuition, which is nice and scary. Xiao Ni asked the painter, do you know the person who bought the painting?The painter shook his head and said he never cared about the identity of the buyer. That night, under the dim light, I recalled my acquaintance with Qiang.In a public chat room on the Internet, someone mentioned the age-old question of whether people have a past life or a future life.I couldn't help but cut in and said a paragraph, to the effect that only beings higher than him can understand the truth of each life.Just like a silkworm, it knows neither the chrysalis in the cocoon nor the winged moth, its past and present lives are known only to humans.At this time, Qiang appeared, and he refuted my point of view, he said how do you know that silkworms have no memory of chrysalis and moths.Since you are not a silkworm, it is impossible to know the silkworm's mind.It's an interesting paradox.Just like any research on what happens to people after death is vulnerable, that is, how can you tell what happens after death if you haven't died.The problem is, people who are really dead never speak again. Since then, Qiang has become my opponent in online chats.Unexpectedly, he showed up at the place where I was keeping vigil for the building.It seems that acquaintance is fate.However, this fate is divided into yin and yang, and I am a little confused when I think of this.Especially the painting and the woman in it, who connects us all now. Xiao Ni proposed to live with Fang Qiang with me tomorrow night, she said she was very curious.I said will your mother agree?Little Niton felt depressed. I heard Xiaoni talk about it before.Not only that, even going out at night to reunite with classmates is not acceptable.She is very envious of many students who can move freely at night. They come to KTV to sing, or have a big meal on someone's birthday, or even have a tryst with a young lover.Xiao Ni could only sigh in dismay at all this. Maybe one day, I will run away from home.Xiao Ni said to me half-jokingly. Seventeen years old, I have also been at this age.It is just like the age when plants sprout and grow wildly, with many dreams and sufferings, others don't know.So I understand Xiaoni very well, and I even applied for a short-term trip this summer to her mother on her behalf.It's just that I'm currently entangled in the affairs of the investigation company, so it's difficult to set a date with Xiaoni for a while.I thought Xiaoni would blame me for this, but she encouraged me instead, saying that earning money is the most important thing. I think Xiaoni is a wayward child with her mother, but she is like a sensible sister when she gets along with me. Indeed, making money matters. At the age of 21, I have experienced many vicissitudes of life.I am a child without a mother, as I deserve to be.Right now, I'm doing a somewhat risky job to pay for my final year of university tuition.I had a dual identity for the first time, even my name changed, and I felt like a detective, or a spy, or a bad guy. Thinking of this, I suddenly remembered that I haven't contacted Mr. Zhao of the building materials company today.According to the arrangement of the investigation company, I must keep in touch with my surveillance target every day, so as to know whether he has any tendency to escape. It was Fang Qiang and that painting that influenced my thoughts.It is now 7:30 in the evening, and I hurriedly called Mr. Zhao, but a terrible thing happened, his mobile phone was not answered, and the voice prompt said that the number you dialed has been turned off. Has he already fled?When I had coffee with him yesterday, I didn't feel that he had such motives at all.Moreover, I made friends with him as a foreign bank business executive, and he should discuss with me what he thinks.After all, I am now his lifeline. Of course, for a person who owes others three million and is driven around by creditors, I may not be able to quench his near thirst for him.In this way, it is also possible that he chose to flee without telling me. I was anxious and immediately called their office.Knowing that no one was in the office after 7pm, I still tried my luck and called.Of course, no one answered, and sweat broke out on my forehead. According to the arrangement of the investigation company, I have to report the situation of the day at ten o'clock every night.But today I will not be able to explain.If Mr. Zhao really ran away, and I didn't even know where he went, this serious dereliction of duty would cost me all my salary. At this time, I found a major flaw in my work, which is that I don't even know where Mr. Zhao lives now and his home phone number.According to the information obtained by the investigation company, Mr. Zhao was divorced half a year ago, and his temporary residence is very erratic, and this is a sign that a person will flee, so I took on the important task of keeping track of his whereabouts.And I ignored the need to visit his house.Now, his phone is off, and I'm at a loss for what to do. I had no choice but to bite the bullet and go to Mr. Zhao's company, because the first time I went to his office, I saw him listening to his landline phone ringing and not answering it.I can only go to see it tonight with this lucky possibility. I hurriedly changed clothes and went out.Xiao Ni said worriedly, Sister Jun, you have to be careful.I forced a smile and said it's okay, I'll find him.It's just that your mother hasn't come home after working overtime tonight, so you have to pay attention to safety and don't go out by yourself.When I said this to Xiaoni, I thought of the woman on the stairs. Xiao Ni nodded sensiblely, and said, sister Jun, you can go to work with confidence. When I walked out the door, it was getting dark, and the city's street lamps and advertising lights had already turned on.I took a taxi and went straight to the office building where Mr. Zhao's company is located. The radio in the car was playing a missing person notice, which made me feel the chaos of life. It was already 8 o'clock in the evening when I arrived at Mr. Zhao's company.Unexpectedly, there are still people in the company who have not left work.In the long corridor, the doors of several offices were open, and lights poured out, making the corridor appear half-dark. I went straight to Mr. Zhao's office and raised my hand to knock on the door, but no one answered.At this time, a middle-aged man walked out of the next office. He looked at me and asked vigilantly, who are you looking for? I said to find Mr. Zhao.He said in a cold tone, Mr. Zhao is not in the company, what can you do with him? I said that I was from the bank, and I would discuss with Mr. Zhao about the loan. The man's face immediately became more pleasant. He said Mr. Zhao was too busy, but he immediately contacted Mr. Zhao.I breathed a sigh of relief, which shows that Mr. Zhao did not escape.The man asked me to sit in his office, and I noticed that the sign on the door was "Deputy General Manager's Office." He handed me tea, sighed and said, we just need some working capital urgently. You see, it's so late There are still people who work overtime after leaving the company. It’s all about clearing up the payment. We have not recovered a lot of payment. This is a temporary difficulty. If the bank can support us, this hurdle will be overcome. I nodded my head pretending to be an expert.The vice president went around behind the desk and started dialing the phone, and quickly dialed. He said, Mr. Zhao, there is a lady from the bank looking for you, let her answer the phone. The moment the vice president dialed the phone, I was already standing at the desk. I saw that he dialed a mobile phone number, but I didn't remember the last few digits.It seems that Mr. Zhao is carrying two mobile phones.I only know the phone number on his business card, so I can't do anything when the phone is turned off. I answered the phone, and I said that I am Jingjing, and I have already called the relevant person in charge about the loan, but I can't explain how to guarantee it, and I need to hear your opinion. Mr. Zhao was very happy after hearing this. He said that he was accompanying the guests in the restaurant, and he would rush back to the company to meet me in a while. In fact, I don't need to meet him anymore, I just need to know that he is still in this city today.However, I couldn't change it when things came to an end, so I had to bite the bullet and wait for him to come back to the company. The vice president opened Mr. Zhao's office, and he asked me to sit inside and wait.He respectfully said that he couldn't accompany you anymore, and there were still many business matters to deal with.I said you are busy, nothing. I am sitting in this spacious office, the desk and sofa are very elegant, and the three bookcases against the wall are full of hardcover books on economics and management.As I browsed, I thought, this Zhao who wears glasses always likes the refined ones.However, not all knowledge in business is written in books.Mr. Zhao has made himself so embarrassed now, maybe he is still a little angry.I couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic to his situation. Suddenly, what I saw tonight made me alert—is Mr. Zhao really going to escape?There are so many people working overtime at night to clear the payment. Is it a harbinger of the company's closure? I walked out of the office, went to the bathroom and walked down the long corridor to check.When I passed by an office with an open door, I suddenly saw Aunt He, who was sitting at the desk and sorting out the materials.I hurriedly turned my head and left, I couldn't reveal my current identity. Back at Mr. Zhao's office, I closed the door and felt a little panicked.Before, I only knew that Xiaoni's mother worked in a building materials company, but I didn't expect such a coincidence.I hope she doesn't see me, or my investigation is ruined. I picked up a magazine and flipped through it, trying to calm myself down.Time passed unconsciously, and I suddenly felt that it was surprisingly quiet outside.I opened the door a crack and looked into the corridor. All the offices were closed, the lights were dimmed, and everyone in the company was off work.Why hasn't Mr. Zhao come here yet? My cell phone rang suddenly, and it was Mr. Liu from the investigation company.He said that it was past 10 o'clock in the evening, why didn't you report today's situation, I hurriedly said that it's all right, everything is normal.I'm waiting for Mr. Zhao's meeting in his office now, so I missed the report time.Mr. Liu said, watch closely, as long as he doesn't run away.You have worked hard. My dedication has been appreciated by Mr. Liu.However, the taste in my heart is really uncomfortable.What kind of job am I doing?At times like this, I feel like a bad person. The office was unusually quiet when I suddenly heard a woman coughing.I was startled, looked around, and my eyes stayed on a small door in the corner of the room.The house is a suite, why didn't I notice?At this moment, there was another cough, clearly coming from the small door. who's in thereI asked in a bit of horror. No one answered. I went to the door and took the handle.I gritted my teeth and pushed the door open.Inside was a bathroom with a bathtub, and a towel fell on the floor.I walked in and saw that the bathtub was still half filled with water, as if someone had just taken a shower. Other than that, it's empty.Who was coughing in there just now?I could hear it clearly, it was a woman coughing. I can't stop here. I ran out of the office and slammed the door shut.The light in the corridor was turned off by someone, and I groped forward in the dark, until a wall blocked my way, and I didn't know that I was going in the wrong direction in a panic. At this moment, the lights in the corridor suddenly turned on.I turned around suddenly and saw a woman in a white bathrobe standing a few steps away from me.Her hair was wet, obviously from the shower. Are you going downstairs?Should go over there.The woman said to me quietly. I took a step back, leaning my back against the wall and asked, who are you? The woman was about to speak when she suddenly coughed. I heard the coughing sound in Mr. Zhao's office just now.She covered her mouth with her hands, as if she was chewing on her own fingers while coughing. I should have run away from her immediately, but my legs were weak and I couldn't move as if I was stuck against the wall.After she finished coughing, she raised her sad face and said to me, I am on duty here, I know you are going downstairs, I will take you away. The woman turned and walked in the other direction of the corridor.I followed her, and suddenly noticed a strange thing—there was no wind in the corridor, but her bathrobe was fluttering, as if there was no real body inside the bathrobe. I couldn't help shouting, Qingqing! I think she should be Qingqing, a woman who has been a model for painters.Mr. Zhao met her a year ago, and Mr. Zhao said that she was missing, which may not be true.Just now, when I was sitting in the office, she was taking a bath in the bathtub in the bathroom.I saw towels and half a tank of water on the floor... She turned around, stood in front of me as if blocking my way, and asked coldly, who is your name? I said with some embarrassment, oh, aren't you Qingqing? Just then, my cell phone rang.I took off my backpack as if I was saved, lowered my head and hurriedly took out my mobile phone from the bag. Hello - I called into the phone.At the same time, I found that the woman had disappeared the moment I lowered my head to pick up the phone. The corridors were empty.I yelled again into the phone, hello It's Mr. Zhao calling.His voice was very vague, he said he was drunk and didn't rush back to the company to see me, and he was very sorry.He also asked where am I now?Already home? I said angrily that I had waited for him for a long time, and I was still not looking for an exit in the corridor of the company. A young woman on duty showed me the way, but suddenly disappeared again. At this moment, the lights in the corridor suddenly went out again.I let out a scream as I plunged into darkness. Mr. Zhao kept asking me what was wrong on the phone, and I said, why is there a power outage in your damn place, and the corridor is completely dark. Mr. Zhao said on the phone, don't worry, don't worry, you can call Xiao Wang, he is the company's security guard, and he lives in a small room near the elevator entrance. Did I say that the person on duty was not a young woman?Mr. Zhao said don't be kidding, the company has no young women on duty. So, I shouted loudly in the dark, Xiao Wang Soon, a flashlight came to me. I said to the flashlight, what are you doing here, the lights turn on and off for a while? who are you?A man's voice. I said that I was Mr. Zhao's guest, and I didn't wait until he was about to go downstairs now. Oh, sorry, it's the circuit's fuse that's broken, and I'm fixing it. The flashlight led me through the long corridor, turned a corner and arrived at the elevator entrance.The lights here are bright, and I see that Xiao Wang, the security guard, is a tall young man. I wanted to tell him what happened in the corridor just now, but I held back after thinking about it.That erratic woman in a white bathrobe, I have decided that only I can see her. In the slowly descending elevator, the aluminum alloy wall panel reflected my figure like a mirror.When I came to the company just now, I wore a little makeup, my eyes were dark, and my lips were painted with a little lipstick. I thought this face was very strange.Whether this face is from my past life or this life, I don't know. I thought that if someone walked into the elevator at this time, he would definitely be terrified of an unidentified woman standing in the elevator late at night. Am I scary?I'm not sure. Back at Xiao Ni's house, I gently opened the door with the key Xiao Ni gave me.Both Xiaoni and Aunt He are asleep.I walked softly into the study and lay down on my makeshift bed.I am homeless, like a shadow in the world. However, I have determined that I can see things that others cannot, including dead people, adults and children.The whistling wind sounded again in my ears, which was the sound of approaching death when falling from the building.This kind of memory always flashes in the night. I don't know if it is my mother's memory or my own memory. Before going to sleep, I went to the bathroom to take a shower. In the misty mist, I heard slight footsteps outside.Is Aunt He or Xiaoni up yet?I wiped off the shampoo foam from my face, and saw a figure passing by in the frosted glass square on the door. If it was Aunt He or Xiao Ni, why didn't they speak?I think there is something strange about this shadow.I quickly took a shower, put on a white bathrobe and walked out of the bathroom. The lights in the hallway and living room were not turned on, but I didn't see anyone in the half-light. The doors of Aunt He and Xiaoni's rooms were closed, and they were both in a deep sleep. It suddenly occurred to me that maybe that woman followed me to find a home.I looked down at my white bathrobe, which was exactly the same as that of the woman who appeared in the company corridor. I'm a little dizzy. I once asked her, is your name Qingqing?She just looked at me coldly.Maybe, I should ask, is your name Jun?Jun is my own name, will she nod at me when she hears this name? In school, Mi, who shared my dorm room, encountered a similar situation.A very rich man in his fifties fell in love with her.But he said that when he heard the name "Xiao Mi", he was out of his mind.It turned out that when he was a teenager, he had a crush on a girl next door in the same yard, and that girl was called Xiaomi. The hazy emotions of his youth were like flowers in early spring, which withered in loneliness.More than 20 years later, the girl next door died in a car accident, and the name Xiao Mi drifted away with the wind, until my classmate appeared in this man's sight.Everything is similar or reincarnation, only God knows. Now I am lying on the small bed, thinking of Aunt He's dead daughter, she came back here on the day of her death, if this little girl is alive, she should be about the same age as me. If she was alive, what did she do?Like Qingqing, who worked as a model and then disappeared; or like me, who relied on part-time jobs to support himself in college? Life cannot be predicted. I turned off the lights and went to sleep, listening to the sound of cars in the distance in the dark, as if the modern ghosts were lingering in the midnight of the city...