First Chapter 2: A Bad Start

The first place we chose was a villa in another city in the same province. The villa was built in the early 1990s. The owner of the villa was a local tycoon named Wang. It was a coincidence that Qin Yiheng and I met him. One day, Qin Yiheng accidentally saw a house sale post he posted on a real estate forum online. He called him with a try-it attitude. Unexpectedly, we bumped into each other and made an appointment to meet immediately. Today, the business of this local tycoon has been growing bigger and bigger, but he still can't change his nouveau riche temperament. When we met, I roughly estimated that the gold ornaments on his body weighed several kilograms. When he spoke, he pointed his fingers at the table, and the gold watch on his wrist made my eyes dizzy. According to the local tycoon, he took advantage of the good opportunity of reform and opening up to make a lot of money. After he had more money on hand, he naturally began to enjoy himself. This house was bought after he made a fortune. After living there for a few years, he moved to another new house. Because they were not short of money, they did not sell the villa, but sublet it to a painter as a studio. This painter was not famous and was said to be very strange. People who lived in the villa area were either rich or noble, and basically did not like to interact with their neighbors, so this painter was always mysterious and never appeared since the day he moved in.
A year later, when he came to collect the rent, he found that the painter had died in the villa. This is also the weirdest part of the villa. It is a bit like a fairy tale. The whole villa was decorated by the painter to look like a tomb. The walls were covered with murals, all of which were visions of ascending to heaven. There was not only a coffin in the middle of the hall, but also a coffin, which looked very high. The doors and windows of the whole villa were locked, with only a few long-burned lamps that had long been extinguished. At that time, the wealthy man surnamed Wang was scared to death when he saw this, and then called the police. After the police came, they didn't find out anything, so they determined that it was suicide, and the house has been empty ever since. Today, house prices have risen sharply. Even if he is rich, he feels distressed to see such an empty house. He thinks that no matter how much it is sold for, it is better than looking at it like this. So, he asked his assistant to post a post online and went to the real estate agency to register, intending to sell the villa at a lower price.

According to the local tycoon, this house is really mysterious. Qin Yiheng suggested that we go to see the house first before making any plans, after all, it is just talk now. The local tycoon seemed to be very afraid of the villa, and just gave us the key and let us go to see the house by ourselves. We didn't delay, and went there with the key according to the address.
When we went to see it, the coffin had already been emptied, but the murals on the wall were still there. Needless to say, haunted houses all have one thing in common, that is, you can feel the gloomy air when you push the door and enter.
The whole villa is not big in this villa complex, about 230 square meters. The living room is very magnificent, which is in line with the aesthetic taste of local tycoons. Qin Yiheng and I walked around, and he looked around for a long time, and then he was happy and told me that this house is not a haunted house at all, and there are no ghosts at all. We bought it and it was a pure profit. I was very happy to hear him say that, and I was not so nervous anymore, so I went to look at the murals on the wall curiously.
The murals are indeed strange. They are all painted with oil painting techniques. They are very realistic, but the painting is rather sloppy. The content should be the scene where the painter imagines himself ascending to heaven from this house, with a group of boys and girls as guardians following him to heaven. Because they are traditional Chinese things painted with oil painting techniques, they look a bit out of place. I looked at a few of them and felt something was wrong, because the person ascending to heaven in this painting is a woman. This is not a matter of hair length, although many painters have long hair, but because the painting is very realistic, you can still see that the woman has a good figure.
Although I felt strange, I didn't think about it too much. After all, it's hard for ordinary people like us to figure out the artist's thoughts. Besides, I'm not very interested in it. I just want to make my own money. So I had a brief communication with Qin Yiheng and planned to sign a contract with the local tycoon in the afternoon. The contract was signed smoothly, and the price was within our expectations. The market value of this villa should be more than 900,000 yuan, and we only spent a little more than 100,000 yuan to get it, and both parties thought they had made a profit. The local tycoon not only solved a worry but also got the money. We also got a great bargain, so several people were very happy and had a great time eating and drinking.
Next is the question of what to do with this house. I like this villa very much. Although it is old, it is at least a villa. For me, who was born in poverty, living in a villa in this life is something I dare not even think about, so I hope to renovate it and keep it for myself. Qin Yiheng did not object, but just told me that although there are no ghosts or gods in this house, it seems to have some meaning from the perspective of Feng Shui, but he does not understand it very well, so we have to find someone who understands Feng Shui to take a good look. Who knows that the next day, before finding a master who understands Feng Shui, the local tycoon came to us and said that he wanted to buy the villa back. As a businessman, of course I am happy to do so. As long as he gives a suitable price and makes me make a profit, it is like picking up money for nothing. After discussing the price, the local tycoon decided to offer 200,000 yuan. I thought that I would make a net profit of less than 100,000 yuan, which is about the same, so I agreed. However, I am very curious why he was so anxious to buy back the house that he just sold to us. In the evening, Qin Yiheng and I discussed it and felt that there must be something fishy going on, so we decided to put the contract off before signing it and first find out what was going on from the side.

So, I asked around in nearby mahjong halls, teahouses, and other places, and I learned that more than one painter died, and that a nude model that the painter was painting at the time also died in the same coffin as the painter. This does correspond to the woman in the mural, but why did the local tycoon tell us that only one person died? Could it be that he didn't know? This is obviously not right, and it's already a haunted house. He said that there is actually no big difference between the death of one person and the death of two people. Obviously, he was lying, and the reason must not be this. My curiosity was aroused, and Qin Yiheng was also very interested, so we decided to check it out more carefully. Finally, we discussed it and went to the villa again.
It was already afternoon when we got to the villa. We wandered around aimlessly, but found nothing. I went to look at the murals, but couldn't see anything. We stood on the balcony on the second floor, smoking and talking about this.
He said: "I guess the boss is afraid that we will find out his secrets."
I agree with this. If this is the case, then the boss must have discovered this secret recently, otherwise he would not have sold the house to us.
I guess the boss might have killed the woman, and then happened to see the painter turning the villa into a tomb, so he simply put the woman's body in to distract from the view, so that he could get away with it.
Qin Yiheng felt that this inference was not very realistic, because if so, it would be difficult to explain the woman in the mural. He was more inclined to believe that there might be something of the local tycoon hidden somewhere in the villa, and the local tycoon might not have known about it before the house was sold. After the house was sold, he suddenly discovered or remembered it, and then came to us to make up for it .
Something is buried in the house? I was quite excited when I heard it, and thought to myself: "If it is an antique treasure or something, does it belong to me legally now? Then I made a profit of 100,000 yuan, which is like picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons? If so, I will definitely not sell the house."
We chatted until the sun had already set. We were both so thirsty that we decided to go home, thinking about coming back the next day to look for the treasure. If it was really as we thought, we couldn't lose it so easily. After a while, we were ready to go downstairs. As soon as we reached the stairs, Qin Yiheng suddenly turned his head and winked at me, made a "hush" gesture, and then quickly leaned into my ear and said, "Something is back, you should quickly imitate me."
This sentence almost scared me to the point of peeing my pants. It wasn't completely dark yet, and I looked down. It was hazy and my vision was not very good. At this time, Qin Yiheng stuffed something into my mouth and told me to hold my breath and not swallow the things in my mouth. I closed my eyes and followed him. If I felt that I bumped into something, I should spit out the things in my mouth! Before I could listen clearly, he had already walked down, so I had to do as he said.

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