C2 One after Another

This time, I was really screwed. I braced myself and went to the door. I looked outside with my eyes. It was still the same woman with an envelope in her hand. I thought to myself, ‘What the hell is this? Why did she send me 20,000 yuan every midnight? What the hell is going on?’

The woman knocked on the door again. Then, she bent down and was about to leave. I opened the door and saw the woman running downstairs. I picked up the envelope and walked out barefooted. At first, I heard the sound of high heels. When I chased after her, there was no trace of the woman. ‘Damn it, did I meet a ghost?’

I threw the envelope on the bed when I got home. I knew that there was still 20,000 yuan and a note inside without opening it. I was unhappy about it, but I couldn’t help but open it. There was a bunch of keys in it. There were six of them, all the same. It seemed to be the keys to a house.

I looked at the note. It said, “Dad, I have the keys. Go home if you want to.”

I was anxious and murmured, “I’m not your dad. What the hell are you doing? This is so f*cking annoying. It’s only been four days, and I have already paid 80,000 yuan.”

I couldn’t fall asleep. I tossed and turned on the bed and thought about it. I had to take two sleeping pills before I fell asleep.

…

When I opened my eyes, I knew it was bad. I sat up straight and looked around. I thought, ‘I cursed the next door. Where am I?’

It was a very big bed with a snow-white bed sheet. The bedroom had a bathroom. After I went down, I found the closet. After opening it, I found clean shirts and suits. After I left the bedroom, there was a huge living room. I walked for a long time before I reached the tea table. There was a car key and a lock key on the table.

I slapped myself in the face. I didn’t wake myself up, but I slapped myself in the face again. I didn’t wake up, but I saw a note on the tea table. The handwriting was neat and powerful. It wrote, ‘Kid, it’s all yours now!’

I slapped myself in the face again. I still didn’t wake up. I thought, ‘This dream is so damn solid!’

I picked up the car key and the lock key. I turned around and saw a staircase leading up. Not far from the staircase was a big wooden door. I went over to open the door. There was a small path extending out from the grass. I walked out, turned around, looked at the house, and locked the door with the key. After that, I saw a Mercedes-Benz SUV beside me.

‘Is there someone filming the story of a loser suddenly getting rich?’ I looked left and right. ‘What the hell is going on?’ I pressed the key. The car started and I drove home.

The entire day was uneasy. Wasn't this illegal?

In the evening, I sent the car back to the owner and placed the key on the tea table. Only then did I feel at ease and took a taxi home. When I reached home, I immediately went to sleep, hoping to regain my original appearance when I woke up. However, the door was knocked at midnight.

The first thing I felt when I woke up was that I had to catch this woman and ask her what was going on. I flew like the wind and arrived at the door. I directly pulled open the door and grabbed the woman, afraid that she would run away again. I even locked the door.

She screamed when she saw me.

I held her arm and shouted, "Stop screaming, let me be quiet!"

She suddenly said, "Dad, you, why are you so young?"

This was the first time I saw her. She was about 1.7 meters tall, short hair, big eyes, and a sharp chin. She looked very spirited. It was obvious that this woman was in a trance. It seemed like she had a problem with her mental state. It seemed like she was a patient with a temporary mental disorder. I thought to myself that she wouldn't kill me, right? Anyway, she was crazy and wouldn't be sentenced to death.

I pointed at myself and said softly, "Beauty, look carefully. Do I look like your dad?"

She nodded and said, "Yes, not only do I look like you, you are also my dad. Dad, why are you so young?"

I was sure of it.

I started to look for my ID and handed it to her. "Look carefully, my name is Chen Youling. Is your dad also called Chen Youling?"

The woman looked at me and said, "Aren't you my father? Why did you call me to give you money?"

"Did I call you?" I asked.

"Do you not know your phone number?"

I took out my phone and started to check. In the end, I found out that every day at two o'clock in the morning, my phone would be fixed and I would call a number for three minutes. After that, I tried to dial that number. The phone rang in the woman's bag.

She took out her phone and raised it, "Dad, you really have returned to your youth!"

I looked at her and shook my head, "Beauty, this is not right. It's not your father who has returned to his youth, it's me who has been possessed by your father!"

At this point, I was so scared that my entire body was covered in cold sweat!

The woman seemed to believe me. She slowly sat on the sofa in my house, then covered her head with her hands and thought for a while, "Could it be that there really are ghosts in this world?"

At this moment, I realized the severity of the problem. I remembered that Zhang Jun's wife had told me that I hung her mother-in-law on the hanging lamp. Could it be that I was really controlled by the woman in front of me? I looked at her and said, "Beauty, this matter might be troublesome! The person in front of me is dead. My daughter-in-law saw me hang her mother-in-law on the hanging lamp. If this is true, I might have to go to court! Actually, your father did this."

"Even if my father is a ghost, he wouldn't kill someone, right?" The woman was unhappy.

"The money you sent over was taken away by Mrs. Zhao. Do you still remember that day? You knocked on the door, and she came out because she was annoyed by you. In the end, she took the money."

After that, the woman was stunned for a moment. Then, she hugged herself tightly in the summer and shivered. She asked me, "What should I do?"

I returned to the house and brought all the envelopes, as well as the car keys and the door keys. I placed them on the tea table and said, "Take these money and keys back. Regardless of whether your father called you or dreamt of you, tell him that he won't give you any money."

"But I have to respect my father. If I don't give it to him, my father will be angry. He said that only then will he be able to live."

I immediately shouted, "If he lives, I'll die!"

As soon as I said that, I realized that I had reached the root of the problem. That's right! If he lived, did that mean that I would die? Then I also knew that sooner or later, something would happen to this money. I picked it up and stuffed it into the woman's arms, but the woman pushed my arm away and said, "It's a pity that it's too late. Since you spent this money, you have to continue playing this game!"

I just remembered that I had indeed spent 100 yuan to buy beer. Didn't I just say 100 yuan? She said it was not 100 yuan, but 1000 yuan.

I went back to my bedroom and took out two 50 yuan notes from my wallet. However, when I came out, the woman was gone. I couldn't help but curse, wondering how she knew I spent 100 yuan. I didn't tell her. Could it be that she had been watching me all this time? One thousand yuan? I only spent 100 yuan.

I didn't dare to sleep. I kept staring until dawn. Then, I knocked on Zhang Jun's door. Zhang Jun's wife opened the door and cried when she saw me. "What happened?" She opened the door and let me see. I was shocked and sat on the ground. Zhang Jun was actually hanging on the chandelier.

Zhang Jun's appearance was very scary. His tongue was drooping outside. Zhang Jun's wife hugged me and whispered, "Report to the police, report to the police. Chen, it really wasn't me!"

I called the police. The police came and investigated the scene. In the end, it was concluded that he had committed suicide. After the police took the evidence and left, Zhang Jun's wife immediately called for the cremation site's car to take the corpse away.

I had been receiving an investigation for the whole day. They asked me about the relationship between Zhang Jun's wife and husband, whether I had seen Zhang Jun's husband coming to other men, whether I had seen the two couples quarreling, and so on.

I answered truthfully. The relationship between Zhang Jun's wife and husband was good to begin with. They had just gotten married a year ago and the child hadn't been born yet. I hadn't heard them quarrel.

That night, a large group of relatives from Zhang Jun's family came to visit. They all lived in Zhang Jun's house. However, Zhang Jun's wife knocked on my door at ten o'clock in the evening. When I opened the door, she came in without waiting for me to say anything. After she came in, she closed the door and pulled my hand. She cried and said, "Chen, you have to testify for me. I didn't kill Zhang Jun!"

I said, "Sister-in-law, are you too tired? Sit down and rest. I'll get you a cup of water."

After I poured a cup of water for her, she suddenly stood up and hugged me tightly. She squeezed me so hard that I couldn't breathe. I comforted her and said, "Sister-in-law, don't cry. If you keep crying like this, the police will really come to us and suspect that we killed Zhang Jun."

She suddenly let go of me and said, "Last night, I saw that it was me who killed Zhang Jun. It was just like how I saw you kill my mother-in-law that night. But how could I have seen that it was me who killed Zhang Jun? Last night, I was in a daze and heard some movement outside. When I got up and saw that Zhang Jun was not there, I thought that Zhang Jun was watching TV in the living room. However, I woke up and saw that there was another me in the living room. I hugged Zhang Jun's leg and hung Zhang Jun on the rope of the chandelier. I wanted to move, but I couldn't. I wanted to cry, but I couldn't. I just watched Zhang Jun die. It really wasn't me!"

At this time, I was also dumbfounded. I looked at Zhang Jun's wife and asked, "And then?"

At this time, she took out a stack of money from her pocket and said, "900 yuan. Zhang Jun's shoes fell out of his shoe. His salary card is with me, so it's impossible for him to have so much money."

I started to look through the money in the envelope and placed it on the tea table. With a glance, I could see that there was a stack of loose money. I counted it once and found that there was a missing 900 yuan. Zhang Jun's wife muttered, "He stole the 900 yuan in your envelope. It's the envelope my mother-in-law took back. He moved!"

I exhaled and threw the stack of money, "It seems that we have to talk to that girl. She'll come back tonight."

I had never paid attention to her before. In fact, Zhang Jun's wife was pretty good-looking. Although I knew that it was a little wrong to think about a widow, if I thought about it from the other way around, it seemed even more wrong to think about a young woman.