Part 2 Chapter 15 Shoes Outside the Door
I have been in this industry for so long and have seen too many similar things, big and small, but every time I see them, I still feel that this is a test of one's psychological quality. After all, it is something that cannot be seen or touched, but it will leave traces in a world that you can see and touch. This really makes people feel an indescribable panic, and this panic comes from your uncertainty about this known world.
However, in life, making money is the most important thing. Thinking too much will not make you hungry. We left the house and went straight to the best restaurant in the city. Anyway, even if the contract has not been signed, the money is already in our pockets. After eating and drinking, we made an appointment with Xu Chuanxiang to sign the contract in the afternoon.
The contract was signed smoothly, and Xu Chuanxiang was relieved. He treated us to a big dinner that night. Xu Chuanxiang drank a lot and insisted on introducing a business to us. I just treated it as drunken talk and told him to wait for his news. Unexpectedly, the next day, before Qin Yiheng and I returned, Xu Chuanxiang called and said that there was another house. If we were interested, we could go with him to see it in the afternoon.
According to Xu Chuanxiang, this house was also collected by him when he was speculating on haunted houses. At that time, the house had just been destroyed and the price was not high. Unfortunately, he looked at the house at that time and was troubled by finding an effective way to deal with it. In the end, the business was not completed. The house has not been sold to this day. Until now, the price is even lower than it was at the beginning. If we can take it over, the profit should be good. Moreover, this house is also in this city, the distance is very close, and it is very convenient to come and go. If it is easy to deal with, it will not even delay us much. The only thing is that he hopes that he can get a little commission from it after the deal is completed.
I was very tempted by Xu Chuanxiang's proposal. Actually, there is nothing serious to do if I go back now. Qin Yiheng and I have hired people to manage our small business. When we go back, we just sit down and discuss the affairs of Hongda Group.
To be honest, I instinctively resisted going back, and I didn't know why. I always felt a headache when I talked about the series of things that happened before. So, I immediately discussed it with Qin Yiheng and expressed my attitude, saying that since I was here, I would just make as much money as I could.
He didn't object, nodded, and asked me to arrange a meeting place with Xu Chuanxiang on the phone.
The two packed up, had lunch, and went to meet Xu Chuanxiang in the afternoon. The three of them didn't delay any longer, and got in the car and headed straight for the house.
On the way, Xu Chuanxiang gave a brief account of the house. This house was built three or four years ago. At that time, it was considered a very expensive building in this city. All the buildings were about 20 stories high. The house where the accident happened was on the 14th floor. At that time, a newlywed couple bought it as a wedding house. After they got married, they renovated it and moved in. A few days later, something happened at home. The hostess took sleeping pills and committed suicide. The woman committed suicide not long after the two got married. Obviously, it was strange, so this incident was widely spread in this area at that time. Everyone was speculating why the woman chose to commit suicide. Most people said that the woman found out that the man had an affair and couldn't think straight for a while, so she committed suicide.
However, this is just hearsay, and the specific reason can only be asked to the deceased. When Xu Chuanxiang was looking at this house, he did get some information from the family.
According to what the family said, it seems that after the two got married, the man found out that the woman was not a virgin or had had a miscarriage. In any case, it was similar to these situations, and the man was very upset. The two quarreled about this almost every day. The man was so angry that he simply moved to a friend's house. It was at this time that the woman chose to commit suicide.
Although the dead person was his wife, the couple was in a cold war before she died. It is not known whether the man felt guilty, was afraid of being reminded of the past, or was afraid of the haunted house. In short , the man did not dare to come back to live for several months, and put the house on the market with an agent, hoping to sell it. Unfortunately, no one dared to ask for the house after it was listed for several months.
However, as time went by, the man no longer had such , and finally moved back to live there on his own. To boost his popularity, he also brought his parents and his cousin who was looking for a job in the city to live with him.
However, not long after the family moved back, strange things began to occur in the house.
At first, they did not think of ghosts or gods as the cause of the strange incident, because the so-called strange thing was just that shoes would often be lost in their house for no reason.
This family has the habit of putting a shoe rack in the corridor outside the door. Before entering the house, they take off the shoes they wear outside, put them on the shoe rack, and change into slippers directly at the door before entering the house. This is more orderly and also prevents dust from being brought into the house.
When the family went out the next day and prepared to put on their shoes, they found that the shoes on the shoe rack were missing, and they were missing one by one, not in pairs. The family didn't care at first, thinking it was just a prank by the naughty children on one floor. They searched for them on every floor, but couldn't find them.
This residential complex is quite upscale, and the people who live there are not short of money. In addition, the corridors are patrolled and cleaned on time every day, so the possibility of theft is relatively small. Besides, even if a thief comes to steal, he will not take just one shoe.
The family could only try to remedy the situation by putting the shoe rack in the house. This time the shoes were not lost, but after that, something even stranger happened.
Every morning when this family opened the door, they would pick up shoes in front of their house every now and then. The shoes were all old, not the ones that had been lost before, and they did not appear in pairs, but one by one, placed next to the door.
At first, the family thought that this was a new trick played by the person who had stolen their shoes before, so they took the shoes to every household asking, but to their surprise, no one claimed the shoes.
Now the family really started to get scared. The old couple moved back to their own home first, and the male owner also found a place to live outside. The only one left was the male owner's cousin, who did not move out because he wanted the house to be close to his workplace at the time.
Although people had died in this house and some inexplicable strange things had happened, nothing that endangered anyone's safety had ever happened. So, the cousin was terrified at first to live there, but after a week and seeing nothing else happening, he settled down with peace of mind.
The male owner who moved out saw that his cousin was living alone and was fine, so he hesitated to move back. After all, renting a house outside is also a big expense. However, before he could move, the cousin committed suicide in the house. It is said that he took an overdose of sleeping pills. This has to be said to be a very strange coincidence, and the most frightening thing is that the male owner was the first to discover the cousin's body. At that time, one of the cousin's feet was not wearing a shoe, and that shoe was actually placed at the door of the house.
The matter of this house has now caused an uproar among the residents of the community. It is obvious that it is a wronged ghost seeking revenge.
The house couldn't be sold in the first place, and now there's no way I could sell it, so it's been put aside until now.
Xu Chuanxiang's story was clear and logical, worthy of someone who had been a swindler in the past.
However, I was completely confused. Shoes were placed by the door every day. Is there any meaning behind this?
I remember hearing a few old people say that shoes are very yin because they are in contact with the ground for many years. In addition, the soles of the feet are originally a part of the body with light yang energy and are easily invaded. Therefore, even now you can still see many old people who do not use the insoles in their shoes after buying new shoes. They have to replace them with insoles they prepared themselves to feel at ease. One reason is that it may make the shoes fit better; the other is that it also contains superstitious beliefs.
Thinking about this, I thought to myself: "Could the secret be in the insole? This family must not have paid attention to the inside of the shoe, and perhaps overlooked something."
I glanced at Qin Yiheng, who seemed to be thinking about something, so I told him my guess and discussed it with him. He listened, thought for a while, and said that anything he said now would only be guesswork, so he should wait until he got to the house and saw it in person before making any comments.
However, from what Xu Chuanxiang said, the cousin's death was indeed strange.
According to what Xu Chuanxiang said, it only took us 20 minutes to drive to the house, but we happened to encounter a huge traffic jam on the road, and it took us an hour to get there after stopping and going.
The property owner, who was also the male host, had been waiting downstairs. When we met, there was no greeting or even handshake. He just took us straight upstairs, opened the door, gave us a quick introduction, and then said we would go somewhere else to negotiate the price.
The decoration of the house is pretty good, and because the family has not lived in it for a long time, it looks like a new house at first glance. The house is about 130 square meters, a standard three-bedroom apartment, very similar to the house I live in now. Looking from the window, the surrounding environment is also good, and there is great potential for appreciation.
I was attracted at first sight, but I couldn't show any joy on my face until Qin Yiheng had passed by.
I gave Qin Yiheng a wink and pulled the man into the corridor to bargain.
I did some preparation before coming here, so I have some understanding of the market price of this community.
The male owner quoted a price that was slightly higher than I expected, but still within my acceptable range. Now I just had to wait for Qin Yiheng to finish looking at the house and say OK. Seeing how anxious the owner was, I was afraid the contract could be signed directly.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, Qin Yiheng finally came out.
I saw that his expression was quite calm, and I knew that there might not be any major problems with the house, so I winked at him to confirm.
He didn't respond to me, but asked the property owner out of the blue: "When the shoes were outside the door, were the toes facing the door or the corridor?"
The property owner was stunned by the question, thought for a while, and told Qin Yiheng that no one noticed this detail at the time, and since so much time had passed, he had no idea about it.
Qin Yiheng listened and nodded, then asked him: "Did you notice anything on the soles of those shoes, that is, it looks like they have been stepped on something?"
The owner still shook his head.
Qin Yiheng's words chilled my heart. Judging from the situation, it seems that this situation may be a bit tricky.
However, I couldn't get a word in now, so I just lit a cigarette and looked around the corridor.
There are four households on this floor, two on each side after exiting the elevator. The corridor is very clean, and the floor tiles are polished to a gleaming shine. The doors of the four households are all original doors of the building, and they all look the same, so it is unknown what kind of people live there.
I took a look at it and suddenly remembered a fairy tale I read when I was a child. It said that there was a group of thieves who would leave marks on the door of a house they wanted to rob the next day in the middle of the night so that they could find it easier in the morning.
I thought to myself: "If this is the case, then could shoes also have a similar function, used to point the way to some filth?"
