Chapter 1009 – New Employee Reservation
The apartment building where Wu Jinpeng lived was very shabby, at least thirty years old.
Their family of three was crowded in a twenty-square-meter hut, with the toilet adjacent to the kitchen and the middle of the room separated by a cloth curtain.
”It’s a bit crowded, don’t mind if you do, I was going to wait until next month to get a bigger house.” Wu Jinpeng had just pushed open the door when a big yellow dog ran over with its tail wagging, it was affectionate towards Wu Jinpeng and Wu Sheng, but bared its teeth when it saw Chen Ge.
”Don’t mind if you do, Big Yellow is a stray dog and has been driven away by so many people, so it’s not that enthusiastic towards strangers, but after you get acquainted with it, you’ll realize that Big Yellow is a very docile dog.” Wu Jinpeng scratched the hair on top of Big Yellow’s head and invited Chen Ge to enter the house.
The cement floor was not tiled, and there were many things piled up, but they were all tidied up in a well-organized manner, and although it was crowded, it didn’t give people a dirty feeling.
”Little Kun, there are guests, go pour two cups of tea over!” Wu Jinpeng shouted towards the house, a few moments later the cloth curtain was pulled open, a demented looking young man holding an electric fan walked out from behind the curtain.
”Fan!”
”Got it, you go ahead and pour tea for the guests, I’ll fix the fan.” Wu Jinpeng wanted to take the fan from the young man’s arms, but the young man dodged to the side, holding the already broken fan in his death grip.
”Fan!”
”Brat, I’ll buy you a new fan when I get paid.” Wu Jinpeng looked at Chen Ge with some embarrassment, “This is my own brother, who had an accident as a child and suffered a head injury. You look at him very stubborn, in fact, people are very smart, elementary school that will be my brother’s grades are particularly great, it did not fall out of the top ten grades.”
Son can not speak, withdrawn character, pro brother head injury, dementia, life is difficult for Wu Jinpeng, but Wu Jinpeng is still proud of his family.
Chen Ge appreciated such a person, “Brother Peng, on my way here, I ordered some food for drinks, let’s eat and talk later, I have so many questions to ask you.”
”Look at this thing you’re doing, you come to my house surely I’m the one who invites you!”
”I came to trouble you, this meal must be my treat.”
The takeout was quickly delivered, and in addition to the meal, Chen Ge also ordered a few bottles of wine.
The family sat on a mat in the middle of the room, which was simple but extraordinarily cozy.
It seemed like Wu Sheng and Wu Jinpeng’s brother hadn’t eaten so many dishes in a long time, and the two of them wolfed down the food.
Watching the two of them eat so happily, Wu Jinpeng’s eyes softened a lot as he picked up the wine cup on the table and took a sharp gulp.
”Brother Peng, is that photo on the cabinet a group photo of your family?” Chen Ge pointed to the photo frame on top of the closet, which contained a group photo of three people, with the young Wu Jinpeng standing in the center, his brother on the left, and a pregnant woman on the right.
”En, that woman is Wu Sheng’s mom, she left after giving birth to Wu Sheng, but she’s really a very good woman, blame me for not being able to keep her.” Wu Jinpeng smiled and drank another glass of wine: “Older brother, let you break the bank today, feel free to ask whatever you want, brother I know everything, this idiom is used this way, right?”
”Brother Peng, you are so generous, then I won’t hide anything.” Chen Ge clinked a glass with Wu Jinpeng again, he lowered his voice: “Actually, that child from my relative’s house is not quite the same as ordinary children, he also has some rather special symptoms, I’ve been holding these words in my heart for a long time now, and I’ve been unsure of how to say them.”
”You say it slowly, we are not in a hurry.”
”You probably won’t believe me even if I say it.” Chen Ge came over to Wu Jinpeng’s side: “Once I slept late and inadvertently saw a door standing next to that child’s bed.”
As he said this, Chen Ge’s eyes were fixed on Wu Jinpeng.
He could clearly see that Wu Jinpeng’s entire body froze after hearing him out.
”I was shocked, how could a door appear in the house for no reason?” Chen Ge’s brows were furrowed together, as if he was still feeling fearful when he thought about it now, “I wanted to go over there, but the child woke up before I could get close, and that door disappeared after he woke up. At first I thought I was hallucinating, but the next night the door reappeared!”
”Have you ever entered that door?” Wu Jinpeng’s subconscious inquiry made Chen Ge once again certain that the other party definitely knew of the door’s existence.
Normally, the first thing someone would do when they heard something so bizarre would be to question the authenticity. Even if they didn’t question it, the question they asked should be related to the door, and they wouldn’t directly ask if they had ever entered that door.
The fact that Wu Jinpeng asked this question meant that not only did he know about the existence of the door, he might have even entered it.
The two men stared at each other for a while like this with their wine glasses, Chen Ge first poured a mouthful of wine to calm himself down, then shook his head, “I haven’t entered it.”
”That’s good.” Wu Jinpeng sighed in relief as he picked up his wine glass, but before his lips touched the wine, he heard Chen Ge’s voice.
”What about you?”
The arm holding the wine glass froze in mid-air, Wu Jinpeng reacted after a while, he got up and closed the door and window.
”Older brother, come over here and talk.” Wu Jinpeng waved at Chen Ge, and they lifted the cloth curtain to the other side of the room, where a single bed was set up with a cooler mat on the floor: “Usually, Wu Sheng sleeps in the bed, and my brother Wu Kun and I sleep in the living room, with a cloth curtain in the middle to cover it.”
”It was probably from the first few days that Wu Sheng always rolled over in his sleep at night, as if he couldn’t sleep well. I didn’t take it to heart at first, but one time at twelve o’clock at night, Wu Sheng started to constantly roll over again, so I glanced that way, only to realize that there was a dark shadow behind the cloth curtain!”
Wu Jinpeng waved his hands and was very emotional: “Just like what was played inside the TV, I quietly walked over and lifted the curtain to find Wu Sheng looking at me with his eyes open.”
”I squatted for several days in a row, and finally saw the true face of that black shadow’s hut, the same situation as you said, it was a door, standing in the middle of the darkness.”
”As soon as the light is turned on, or Wu Sheng wakes up, the door will disappear.”
”Whoever has such a door in their home would definitely be scared ah, I was ready the day before yesterday and wanted to go in to take a look, but I couldn’t push that door, that’s infuriating!”
Wu Jinpeng sat on the bed: “I didn’t dare to tell anyone about this, I’m afraid they’ll think I’m abnormal.”
”You can’t push it alone, why don’t the two of us try together tonight?” Chen Ge’s furrowed brows slowly stretched, “It just so happens that my family also has this situation, how about our two families help each other out and hug each other?”
”It’s fine, but I’m afraid that I’ll involve you in danger.”
”It’s fine, the two of us taking care of each other is better than facing danger alone.”
”Older brother, you’re such a wonderful person, brother doesn’t even know what to say.”
”I should.” It was dangerous behind the door, Chen Ge agreed to join Wu Jinpeng, but the moment he entered the door, he would stop Wu Jinpeng and go in alone.
”Let’s eat and drink enough and do it at night.”
Having solved a matter very smoothly, Chen Ge was now appreciating Wu Jinpeng more and more, and he was even considering that if the other party did have difficulties, he could come to work in his haunted house in the future.