Chapter 21 Old House
We stood outside the door of the old house, hesitant to push it open.
In fact, it was not that he didn't dare, but my cousin felt that there must be something fishy going on in the old house.
We were still struggling outside the door, not knowing whether we should go in through the front door or climb in through the window to see if someone was causing trouble.
But at this moment, someone suddenly ran out of the house.
Before we could react, Sun Ming behind us had already grabbed the man.
The man looked disheveled, with evasive eyes and looked crazy.
"It's you?"
Sun Ming was the first to recognize who that person was. We stood at the gate, looking at each other.
Only after the man was subdued by other villagers who had rushed back did Sun Ming tell us the man's identity.
It turned out that he was a homeless man. Since Sun Ming was a child, he had been begging for food in several nearby villages.
He had no home of his own, so when he was hungry he would ask the villagers for food.
"He was very strange. Some people in the village felt sorry for him and would give him money. But he never took any. He just asked for a steamed bun or a meal. More than 20 years had passed, and he was old and no longer able to work, let alone go out to the city to work. So when they saw him, they would give him a meal."
Sun Ming also sighed when talking about homeless people: "I spend my whole life like this. I think it's really a waste of time."
Having said that, everyone has their own way of living.
The village chief also arrived at this time, and when he saw that it was a homeless man, he also shook his head.
"How long have you been hiding in there?" asked the village chief.
He looked like he was about to cry: "It's been a week. I thought that the house was empty and I wanted to build myself a coffin in it."
After the homeless man said this, we knew what the knocking sound on the wooden board coming from the old house in the middle of the night was.
Dong Jing snorted coldly, looked at his cousin and said, "Brother Zhou, you wouldn't take the job without doing a thorough investigation, would you? Now that the person has been arrested, we have no work to do. Who should we ask for the 50,000 yuan?"
When my cousin heard this, his eyebrows twisted into a knot.
He obviously didn't think of this, but before we called Dong Jing over, we did make sure that there was no one in the room, and only then did we decide to start working.
After hearing what the homeless man said, the village chief asked again, "Then why are you running?"
"There's something cute inside...
The tramp's forehead was covered in sweat, and he became nervous when the old house was mentioned.
But no one knows what he went through in there.
Everyone was frightened by the homeless man's words, even the village chief was stunned when he grabbed his hand.
I don’t know why, but when I heard the homeless man say this, my cousin and I felt relieved.
At the very least, this matter does require our help, and the 150,000 yuan combined from the three of us has been found.
I walked up to the homeless man and asked, " What's in there?"
"I don't know. On the first night I went in , I was woken up by something that looked like hair. Then I smelled a woman's scent. From then on, I slept during the day and worked at night. When I was hungry, I picked some wild grass in the yard and cooked it."
The homeless man had always been a very rough man, he could easily fall asleep under an overpass, he himself had never expected that such a thing would actually happen.
I thought I could finish the work quickly, but I didn't expect something to go wrong tonight.
We asked him what happened, but he didn't dare to answer and just waved his hands nervously.
"Young Master, I really don't dare to say anything. Please give me something to eat. I am really hungry."
As soon as he finished saying this, he fainted.
I frowned. It seemed that I had to go in there myself to find out what was going on inside.
"Don't ask. There won't be any results anyway. Let's just go in and take a look."
I stood up, turned and walked towards the old house.
We have to go in anyway, sooner or later, and it’s not a good idea for us to just stand here.
I had only taken two steps when my cousin and Dong Jing caught up with me.
Before entering the old house, my cousin turned around and said to the village chief: "Let all the villagers go home. If you hear any noise tonight, don't come out."
The village chief didn't know who we were, but Sun Ming explained to him, and he quickly called out to the villagers who were gathered nearby and asked them to go home quickly.
Sun Ming is behind us, and we don’t know whether we should follow him or not.
The cousin waved his hand at him and said, "Take the homeless man home first, get him something to eat, and wait for us to come back."
After everything was ready, we entered the old house.
The old house had been uninhabited for a long time, and there was a musty smell everywhere.
I covered my nose and walked in.
With previous experience, we already have a general idea of how to divide the work and cooperate with each other.
As soon as my cousin entered the door, he found a place and drew a diagram on the ground with a coal pen, preparing to set up the formation.
Dong Jing and I looked at each other, and in tacit understanding, one went left and the other went right.
The decoration of this house is quite standard and there is no special decoration.
If I remember correctly, Uncle Wu's family should have grown up in this house for generations, so it is called the ancestral house.
If that's the case, then no one should have placed anything in this house.
"Did you find anything?"
Dong Jing had already patrolled around by then, and it was obvious that she didn't find anything either.
"If there's nothing here, go up to the second floor. I remember the homeless man said that he was on the top floor. It's very likely that the evil thing that messed with him also appeared on the top floor. You go up one floor at a time. I'll set up the formation here. If anything happens, just shout and I'll go up to help you then."
My cousin was right. Since there was nothing to find here, Dong Jing and I went to the second floor.
As soon as you get to the second floor, the style of the painting is really different.
The temperature downstairs was apparently normal, but when I got to the second floor, there were gusts of cold wind.
The wind was not strong, but bone-chillingly cool.
"There must be something dirty on this floor. We have to be careful." I reminded Dong Jing.
She suddenly turned around and looked at me: "Even you can feel it, how could I not know it?"
I was speechless for a moment, but what she said made sense and I couldn't refute it.
"You smell it!"
Dong Jing suddenly pulled my hand. I stood still and started sniffing the smell nearby.
really!
The musty smell in the old house was replaced by a woman's fragrance, and that smell was very much like a mixture of spices from Southeast Asia.
To be honest, the smell was terrible.
I couldn't help wanting to vomit, but I had to hold it in.
The human nasal cavity has memory. Once you smell a scent, you will remember it for a long time.
For the first time, I felt like a dog, sniffing around, trying to find the source of the smell.
