Chapter 52 2. Have you seen my shoes?

Although Yuejin Guest House is simple, it is very quiet, so quiet that Zhu Neng can hear Bai Jingjing's breathing in the next room.It's been a long time, and there is only this sound in the next room, and she seems to be asleep. Zhu Neng couldn't sleep. His mind was in a mess, with countless questions - what is Bai Jingjing going to do?Are those three people her accomplices?Why did the old woman agree to hand over the things to him again?Why did he have to wait for three days? Maybe, three days later, all this will have the answer. Zhu Neng simply stopped thinking about it, he wanted to go to the bathroom, wash up and go to sleep.

The toilet is at the end of the row of houses, where there is also a tap.He took out a towel, toothbrush, and toothpaste and put them in the washbasin, then walked out of the room with the washbasin in hand. Zhu Neng was stunned for a moment—he saw the trash collector standing furtively in front of Bai Jingjing's room, bent over, with his ear pressed against the door, listening to the movement inside. "What are you doing!" he yelled subconsciously. The tatter collector straightened up slowly, and said calmly, "I'll see if there are any tatters." After finishing speaking, he kicked the woven bag under his feet, and it made a rattling noise as he didn't know what was in it.

At this moment, Zhu Neng saw the lights in Bai Jingjing's room turn on through the crack of the door. The trash collector picked up the woven bag and was about to leave. "Come here!" Zhu Neng said. The trash collector walked over slowly. Zhu Neng was so close to him for the first time, and saw him clearly for the first time.His face was long and dark, like a donkey's face, with deep wrinkles and rough hands. He looked like a hard-working man. But for some reason, Zhu Neng felt that he didn't look like a junk collector. Zhu Neng cut straight to the point: "Are you looking for someone?"

The trash collectors were as unresponsive as wood. He said: "I'm looking for junk, not people." Then he turned and left. After walking a few steps, he suddenly turned around and said, "Is there anything you don't want to sell?" Zhu Neng was a little flustered: "I..." The trash collector came back and approached him step by step: "If you have anything you don't need, remember to sell it to me." Zhu Neng stammered, "I, I didn't." The trash collector said calmly: "I also collect hair." For some reason, when he said this, his voice was loud, and he turned his face to Bai Jingjing's room, as if he was speaking for her.

Zhu Neng hasn't had his hair cut for a long time, and his hair is very long.A gust of wind blew over, and he felt his scalp numb, and Tianling Gai was chilly. He froze, terrified. He didn't even know when the junk collector left. That night, Zhu Neng had a nightmare. In the darkness, a man with a long and dark face followed him like a shadow with a gleaming sharp knife in his hand. The man said, "Is your hair for sale? Is your hair for sale? Is your hair for sale?" ? Are you selling your hair?..." In the end, the man took out a few Ming coins, drooling at the corner of his mouth, and said, "Do you want to sell your head?"

Zhu Neng shuddered and woke up. The next day, it was sunny, and the sky was as clean as if it had been washed by water. Zhu Neng didn't sleep well all night. When he woke up, he felt sore in his waist and legs, and he was irritable.Opening his eyes, the first thing he did was to send a text message to Niu Traditional: Where are you? Niu Tradition: I'm looking for a car outside, I'll come and find you right away. Zhu Neng was relieved. While getting dressed, he remembered that nightmare again, and his hands began to shake. When he walked out of the room, he saw that Bai Jingjing's door was closed tightly, and he didn't know if she was inside.After thinking about it, he decided to eat something first, and then go to the Earth Temple.

For breakfast, I ate shredded pork noodles made by Liu Yuejin. The meat seemed to have spoiled and had a strange smell. According to Liu Yuejin, the Earth Temple is on the hillside to the north of Wulibao Town, Wuli Road.To go there, one had to pass through Zhou Dagui's house and a cemetery. According to Liu Yuejin, the cemetery is very desolate, with a large expanse of impenetrable pine forest, and the inside is gloomy. Every night, there will be a strange cry, and I don't know what it is. According to Liu Yuejin, a few years ago there was a young daughter-in-law in the town who quarreled with her husband and ran to the pine forest in a fit of anger and hanged herself. The body was not found until a long time later.

When she died, she was wearing a red dress and only one shoe, probably lost on the way here. According to Liu Yuejin, in these years, in the middle of the night, people always saw a woman in red walking around the pine forest. She lowered her head, as if she was looking for something... For some reason, Liu Yuejin talked a lot today. Zhu Neng didn't want to hear what he had to say, so he paid the bill and went out. There is a fair in town today, and there are quite a lot of people.Among these people, are there any people with evil intentions? A hunched old woman is coaxing a crying child with a piece of rice cake.

Zhu Neng saw the flaw at a glance - the crying child was not wearing a hat.In such a cold day, a kind grandma who brings her grandson out to play will definitely put a hat on the child. He immediately concluded that the old woman was Bai Jingjing's accomplice. After experiencing so many things, Zhu Neng has become as sensitive and suspicious as a policeman, and looks like a bad guy to everyone.He wanted to go over, expose the old woman, and tell her that nothing could be hidden from his eyes. But he dared not do it. So, he walked forward and went to the Earth Temple to have a look. When he walked to Zhou Dagui's house, Zhu Neng took a look.They didn't seem to get up yet, the courtyard door was closed tightly, and Zhu Neng could hear a cat crying alone inside, the sound was very scary.

Going forward is the crop field, empty and cold wind blowing. There was a native dog squatting in the crop field, watching him steadily.It was dirty and had only one ear, which looked extremely strange.When it saw Zhu Neng, it didn't run or bark, it kept looking at him. Zhu Neng shivered for a moment, and continued walking forward. A man on a bicycle jumped out from behind him and scratched Zhu Neng's shoulder.Zhu Neng felt that the person's body was light and weightless, as if he was a ghost. The man was dressed in black. Zhu Neng found that his steps became very light, as if he was floating.Walking in this place alone, he felt the wind blowing, lifeless.

There is no way. There was a pine forest ahead, and it was dark inside.A bicycle was parked alone outside the pine forest, and the man in black went nowhere. To go to the Earth Temple, you have to go through this pine forest. As Zhu Neng walked, he looked around. There was no one wearing black clothes around. His heart relaxed a little bit, but the front was even darker, as if it was not daytime. As he was walking, the man in black suddenly appeared in front of Zhu Neng. He was carrying a basket with some paper money in it, a few dry fruits and a bottle of wine.There was no energy in his eyes, he looked at Zhu Neng dumbly, without blinking. "What are you doing?" Zhu Neng gasped. "I'm going to see my mother." The man said slowly. This reason is very good, Zhu Neng has nothing to say.He can only leave and continue to move forward. Behind him, the man suddenly said: "Here, no matter what you see or hear, don't be afraid." Zhu Neng stopped in his tracks, confused. "Everything is false!" said the man coldly. Zhu Neng walked forward tremblingly. After walking for a while, he looked back anxiously—the man in black was still standing there, looking at him numbly. After walking forward for a while, he looked back again, and the man disappeared out of thin air. Zhu Neng was dumbfounded. About ten minutes later, he walked out of the pine forest. Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he suddenly heard a faint sigh coming from behind him, the sigh of a woman. Zhu Neng felt chills down his spine, and he remembered what Liu Yuejin had said—— Is it the little daughter-in-law who was hanged?She's looking for her lost shoe again? However, Liu Yuejin said that she would only appear in the middle of the night, but now it is morning, the sun is abundant, everything is so normal, so beautiful... The sigh sounded again, as if worried about not being able to find the shoes. "Here, no matter what you see or hear, don't be afraid...everything is fake!" Zhu Neng suddenly remembered what the man in black said. This sentence seemed to be full of magic power, and it made Zhu Neng a lot more courageous. "Come here, I'll tell you where your shoes are." He said calmly. There was no more sound behind me. Zhu Neng suddenly realized: the trash collectors and the people in black are helping him! Last night, what the trash collector said seemed to be addressed to Bai Jingjing.Also, the person in black just now seemed to know what was going to happen, so he reminded Zhu Neng in advance... They are not Bai Jingjing's associates! Could it be that they did not appear in front of him to monitor him, but to monitor Bai Jingjing beside him? Could it be that Bai Jingjing is here too? Is that the woman who spoke just now?