But my wife was also awakened by the knock on the door just now. If it was really an auditory hallucination, it would be impossible for two people to have auditory hallucinations at the same time.

If it's a prank...

The two of them had just arrived in this area and didn't even know the merchants on both sides, let alone offend anyone.

Therefore, it is unlikely that someone would be so bored late at night as to play such a prank.

Then, could it be that something was blown onto the door by the wind, causing the knocking noise?

Because there was indeed no one on the street and nothing strange was seen.

In the end, Lao Zhang had no choice but to close the door and go back to sleep.

Just as I lay down, there was another knock on the door.

This time, Lao Zhang didn't think twice and deliberately lowered his steps towards the door, then quickly opened the rolling door.

Planning to surprise the person knocking on the door.

Who knew that even though he moved very quickly, when he opened the rolling door, he still didn't see anyone at the door.

There was no one outside the door for two consecutive times, but there was a knock on the door. Lao Zhang finally got angry.

Moreover, he had just listened carefully and was absolutely sure that it was the sound of someone knocking on the door, not the sound of something hitting or banging on the door.

Since it's not a knock on the door, there must be someone there!

This time he not only checked both sides of the street, but also walked out of the store and went to the alley behind the store to look for someone.

The reason why the store he rented was different from other stores on the street was that it was an additional renovation later.

The place where his store was previously located should have been an empty lot, or a wider alley.

I don’t know what happened in the end, but the landlord turned it into a shop.

Because it is not a proper store when the street was first built, the store's area is not as large as others. There is even an alley less than one meter wide on the left side of the store, which connects to other alleys behind.

What Lao Zhang thought at the time was that the person knocking on the door might not have run out of the street directly after knocking, but instead went into the alley to the left of the store.

There were no lights in that alley, and it led to other alleys, so it was a good place to hide or escape.

But Lao Zhang went to check, but didn't see anyone.

I don’t know if that person has already run down another alley.

It was late at night and he had no way to chase after her, so he could only turn around with a sullen face and go back to the store.

Worried that the person knocking on the door would come again, he simply didn't go back to bed. Instead, he moved a chair and sat behind the store door without closing it.

In this way, if that person doesn't give up and comes back, he will be able to find the other person as soon as he appears.

However, I don’t know if the man had played enough pranks on Lao Zhang, or if he saw Lao Zhang from another angle and sat at the door and didn’t dare to come, but after that, there was no knocking on the door until midnight until dawn.

It was not until dawn when sanitation workers appeared on the street that Lao Zhang finally turned around and went back to sleep.

Knowing that he hadn't slept most of the night, his wife quickly asked him to go back to bed, while she quietly began to prepare things for the afternoon opening.

Although the night market has the largest flow of customers at night, customers actually start to flock in the afternoon.

Mr. and Mrs. Zhang wanted to make more money, so they planned to open their stall at noon.

On the first day of opening the stall, business was actually pretty good.

Business gets even better in the evening. Almost from noon to night, Mr. and Mrs. Zhang are immersed in the joy of making money.

When the crowd was about to disperse in the early morning, Lao Zhang suddenly remembered that someone had played a prank on him last night and had knocked on his door twice in a row.

He couldn't help but look around and found that the merchants on both sides were busy with their own business and no one paid much attention to them.

Isn't it the nearby merchants, but someone else?

Because he was really confused, Lao Zhang finally decided to find out the situation by looking around at the nearby merchants and ask them if they had encountered similar situations when they opened their shops.

After that, Lao Zhang went to the Bobo Chicken restaurant next door to inquire about the situation.

He did not directly tell the story of last night, but asked the owner of Bobo Chicken indirectly whether they encountered any difficulties or strange things when they first opened the store.

When the owner of Bobo Chicken heard this, he thought that Lao Zhang and his friends were opening a shop for the first time and were unsure, so they came to him for advice.

So he enthusiastically talked about his experience and mental journey of opening a store for the first time.

He talked a lot, but he didn't mention anything about the inexplicable knock on the door the night before the store opened.

Old Zhang listened patiently for a while, and then he realized that the owner of Bobo Chicken probably had not encountered anything similar.

After the boss of Bobobo Chicken found out about the situation, he went to another store to find out more.

However, another merchant had not encountered a similar situation.

Now Lao Zhang was even more confused.

So other shops on this street did not encounter this kind of thing in the early days of their opening, but he was the only one who encountered it.

He had been thinking about it all day, and thought that someone was coming to collect "protection money" and would not let him open his shop in peace unless he paid.

After asking around, I found out that this shouldn't be the case.

In the end, it was really hard to figure it out, so Lao Zhang could only observe and watch.

If this happens again tonight, he will go buy a surveillance camera early the next morning and quietly install it in a corner.

Let's see who is the one behind the scenes!

That night, he and his wife packed up and went to bed again.

Because they were still thinking about what happened last night, Lao Zhang and his wife did not sleep very soundly.

It was past three in the morning and the streets were quiet when there was another knock on the door.

This time, Lao Zhang moved quickly and opened the door immediately.

As expected, he didn't see anyone after opening the door. He didn't look around like he did last night, or run to the alley next to him to chase someone.

He just glanced at the door quietly, then closed the door and went back to sleep.

It has now been confirmed that someone is playing a prank in the middle of the night, and that person is dodging very quickly, so he can't catch up no matter how hard he tries.

If that's the case, then he might as well stop chasing her.

I went to buy surveillance cameras and installed them early in the morning!

He just doesn't believe that someone can avoid showing up under surveillance!

After he fell asleep and returned to bed, the knock on the door sounded again. Lao Zhang had already put on his headphones in advance, pretending that he could not hear the knock.

Early the next morning, he went to a nearby street to buy a surveillance camera and then had it installed.

The moment he saw that the surveillance camera was working properly, Lao Zhang began to look forward to the arrival of night.

If that prankster dares to come again, this time, he will definitely call the police!

After waiting for a long time until night, Lao Zhang and his wife turned on the surveillance on their mobile phones in advance and looked at the streets outside.