C96
At dusk, the afterglow scattered on the riverbank. The water was suffused with a red glow. The wind blew, causing the river surface to sparkle.
Two men were sitting on the rocks on the riverbank, and a little girl was rolling up her trousers and playing with the odd stones in the shallows.
"You mean you want to buy the land my factory owns?" The man who spoke was the owner of the factory, Mr. Wu. When he received Lin Xiao's call, he was sitting on the riverbank. He looked decadent, with a beard that covered his chin and half his cheeks, high cheekbones, and messy hair that had not been washed for a long time.
"Yes, I want to buy that factory." Lin Xiao nodded his head.
The man let out a heavy sigh. He raised his spirit to Lin Xiao and said, "You're lucky. If you were just a few minutes later, I would have been there." He pointed his finger at the wide river, his eyes deep and desperate.
"Listen to me finish the story, I'll give the factory to you. I don't want a single cent." The man's eyes narrowed. Right now, he just wanted to let people know about his past.
Lin Xiao silently nodded his head. Perhaps this man had once received a great injury. Listening to him was the greatest help to men. He felt the loneliness of having no one by his side.
"After graduating from high school, I didn't choose to go to college. I chose to do business with my family. After working for almost ten years, I also have some savings. When I was thirty I met her in my life, we were together, the next year we had children, and I wanted to work hard to give my daughter a happy future. When everything was ready, I took out all my savings and built a food processing plant. I bet everything on this factory. "
The man pointed across the river, where an abandoned factory loomed.
"It was this factory that left me with nothing. For the first few years, I managed the factory with great trepidation, but as I stood my ground, everything was moving in the right direction. One day, however, I received a notice from the Food and Security Agency that the processed food in my factory had poisoned the food of a large number of citizens, that the factory had been ordered to cease operations, and that there were no problems with the inspection conducted by the security services. However, within a few days of the operation of the factory, another person was poisoned. This time, the factory was shut down and reorganized. Many of the partnerships could not be completed on time. I owed a lot of money, my wife took my daughter home, and the workers and creditors plowed, painted, and cursed at my house every day. This factory is too strange. " There was still fear deep in the man's eyes. He closed his eyes and didn't speak for a long time.
When Lin Xiao heard this, he was a little suspicious. How could a factory be so strange? Someone was definitely up to no good, or a man was up to no good. He had never believed in any evil things.
The man opened his eyes after a long time. Nothing was left in them. Despair, sadness, and dejection. Everything had vanished into thin air. He took out a crumpled land deed and handed it to Lin Xiao.
"My daughter is about the same age as yours. She is also very lively and fond of playing."
Looking at the land deed in front of him, Lin Xiao did not extend a hand to receive it. He was afraid that he would have nightmares day and night after picking it up.
"Tomorrow, someone will come and sign the land transfer agreement with you. You can make use of this money to rebuild your life. With your strength, you will be able to find yourself everything, love, and kinship."
The man shook his head and said, "No, that's impossible. I might have been plagued by bad luck. The factory is a good example."
Taking a deep breath, the man stood up and walked step by step towards the riverbank. Lin Xiao did not move. When the man came to Lin Xuan's side, he couldn't help but bow to touch Lin Xuan, who was playing with small stones with her head lowered, before continuing on.
"Uncle, are you going to swim?" Lin Xuan looked at the man strangely. The water had already reached his thighs. Shouldn't he be undressing after swimming? But why was this strange uncle wearing clothes?
Hearing the soft and tender voice of a child behind him, the man's body paused for a moment, his shoulders twitched, and he once again took a step forward.
"Hua!"
The man fell into the bottomless river, splashing water.
"Dong, dong, dong!"
The door was knocked non-stop. Wang Hai got up impatiently and opened the door, only to see Lin Xiao completely drenched and carrying a slovenly man on his back.
"Lin Xiao, where did you get that beggar from?" Wang Hai frowned and reluctantly stepped aside, while Lin Xiao walked into the living room.
"Sigh, wait!" "Don't..."
Before Wang Hai could finish his words, Lin Xiao threw the man onto the sofa. He groaned in his heart. Damn, the sofa was about to be washed again.
At one point, the atmosphere in the living room was awkward. Wang Hai speechlessly turned his gaze between Lin Xiao and the man on the sofa. As for Lin Xiao, he used his hair to wipe his body, his thoughts in a mess. What a man said was too ridiculous. If there really wasn't someone messing with him, then was it a ghost?
After handing over the man to Wang Hai, he decided to go back to the factory and take a look. Previously, he only took a glance and didn't find anything abnormal, and if it was a ghost, then wouldn't it only appear at night?
"Hai Yang, whether you move away or not depends on him. When he wakes up, you can have a good chat with him. At the very least, don't let him find fault with you. I'll explain the details to you when I get back." Lin Xiao went back to his room to change into a clean set of clothes. Seeing that he was about to leave, Wang Hai couldn't help but ask.
"It's already so late. Why are you out? Who is this man?" Wang Hai and Lin Xuan squatted in front of the man. The former turned his head to ask Lin Xiao, while the latter used a piece of scrap paper to poke the man's face, expecting him to react.
"When he wakes up, you can ask him for his identity. I have something to do outside and will probably be back a little late. First, bring Xuanxuan to rest." After Lin Xiao said this, she left in a hurry, causing Wang Hai to stare at her back in silence.
"Achoo."
In a daze, the man suddenly sneezed and spit, arcing through the air in a perfect arc across the face of a vast ocean. The man wiped his face and took a deep breath, a murderous look in his eyes.
Outside the city, wild grass and rocks littered the ground. This was an abandoned food processing plant, and now the abandoned land that should have been deserted was moving.
Lin Xiao, who had just arrived, hurriedly found a shelter to hide and his mind raced. Was there really a ghost?
There was a faint blue light in the factory, like a ghostly flame flying in the air, and shadows moving. Lin Xiao swallowed his saliva and decided to sneak over. He had heard from the old man that ghosts did not exist. Then, who would be unable to sleep at night in such a sinister factory?
If it were before, he would have been scared to the point of running away on his hands and legs, but he was a brave man with a full body of skills, and after experiencing so many battles and seeing so many deaths, he was no longer an ordinary person who was afraid of the dark.
Lin Xiao carefully tiptoed closer to the factory, sticking close to the wall and not daring to breathe. This was too exciting, what if they really met a ghost? It worked!
While he was lost in his thoughts, a strange noise sounded from the other side of the wall. It was the sound of voices.
Lin Xiao pressed his ear against the wall and widened his eyes in shock. His guess was right, there was no ghost at all. Instead, someone was up to something!
Based on the voices, Lin Xiao guessed that there were three or four people on the other side of the wall.
"The hopes for this season are about to bloom. I didn't expect this place to be a treasure land. Once the housing area there is demolished, this place will become our territory. Hope that this place only belongs to us."
"That's great. It seems like there's nothing wrong here. Let's go back and report. We'll check again tomorrow night."
After a few words of conversation, these people left. The eerie blue light also dimmed down.
After a while, the factory lit up again with a green and purple light, and three figures appeared on the wall.