First Chapter 9 The Door That Cannot Be Opened
This feeling was really depressing. I wanted to speak but had to keep my voice down and swallow my saliva. After a while, I saw the sleeping sheepdog suddenly stand up and tilt his head to look at something. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. Even though I was mentally prepared, I was still startled.
Qin Yiheng was very calm and made a "hush" gesture with his hand. The knock on the door was not as loud as I imagined. It seemed to be knocking very gently, and the person knocking on the door seemed very elegant. I stared at the sheepdog, but the sheepdog did not bark. Even Qin Yiheng was stunned. I quickly looked down and was really scared. Because I really didn't pay attention just now, I don't know when Qin Yiheng's mobile phone was disconnected. At this time, the sheepdog suddenly spoke, and my heart sank when I heard it. Because this is a half-grown dog, not an adult, so the barking is too childish, and what chills me the most is that the sheepdog did not bark at the door, but at the bedroom where the male owner hanged himself.
Qin Yiheng slapped his thigh when he saw this and said, "Oh no, we have miscalculated. Damn it, the one knocking on the door every night is not him wanting to come in, but him wanting someone to open the door and let him out. There is probably a mezzanine inside this door, there is definitely something wrong with this house!"
I told you to stop shouting and tell me what to do, things are a mess now.
After listening to him, Qin Yiheng took out a handful of soybeans from his bag and told me to hold them tightly with my left hand. If I suddenly felt cold and wanted to have a shiver, I could sprinkle one soybean out, and so on. We are already here, so why not see what it is.
I was completely confused after all this, but since Qin Yiheng said I couldn't run, I had to hold on. The sheepdog was still barking, and I wondered why the neighbors didn't come to warn us not to disturb them. Could it be that they thought the house was haunted and it was getting worse?
As I thought about it, I actually felt a chill all over my body. I don't know if it was a psychological effect, but with Qin Yiheng by my side, I was very sober and immediately threw out a few soybeans. I originally only wanted to throw one, but I was so nervous that I couldn't control the intensity.
After I scattered the beans, the feeling of something approaching me disappeared. This feeling came two or three times, and each time I scattered the beans in the same way. I didn't have much beans left, and when I wanted to ask Qin Yiheng for more, the sheepdog suddenly stopped barking.
Seeing this, Qin Yiheng and I stood there for a while before we dared to move.
I asked him why he didn't feel anything coming in just now.
Qin Yiheng said he didn't know either, and said it might have something to do with the layout of the house. If we want to find out, we have to remove all the decorations of the house, and maybe we can find the answer. We were calm for a while, and Qin Yiheng took the lead to look in the bedroom. I followed him in and found that there was no change in the bedroom. My phone was still in the same place, but it was turned off. I turned on the phone again and found that it still had a lot of power. I have seen countless times in horror movies that dirty things can affect electronic devices, but I have never encountered such a thing in my life before, and I can't assert that it was that thing that affected it based on this time, because it is indeed possible that the mobile phone system has a malfunction.
After getting the phone back, nothing happened that night, and the knocking on the door stopped abruptly when the sheepdog stopped barking.
Qin Yiheng and I stayed until dawn before returning to the hotel. On the way, we talked about what happened that night and made various guesses. In fact, it was just him who kept guessing, and I just echoed the discussion.
Qin Yiheng guessed that the room was tampered by a master when it was renovated, so the male owner has been trapped in the room since his death and cannot get out, and he always repeats the process of death at the time of his death. Qin Yiheng said that this kind of thing is unlikely to harm people, but he feels wronged every day. If someone lives in it, the owner will get sick over time. As for why the male owner hanged himself, we don't know.
This is not the most important thing for us, because we are here for the value of the house. Qin Yiheng said: "The current situation will definitely not solve the problem, unless we buy the house and remove all the wallpaper and decorations, maybe we can find the answer. In fact, I am really interested in buying this house, but now it seems that there is indeed a certain risk. Because even if the house is bought, it is very likely that the problem cannot be solved. However, I also agree with Qin Yiheng's suggestion to buy it, after all, I am also curious." So, the two of us discussed it and felt that we could bargain with the hostess for a lower price. If the price is right, we will buy it.
After a night of exhaustion, I slept until the afternoon. We found the hostess and I finally negotiated the price down to an ideal one. After signing the contract, Qin Yiheng and I went back to the hotel to rest and decided to call a group of workers to come and fix the house the next day.
The next day, Qin Yiheng first sold the dog back to the pet shop at a discount, and then pulled four workers over to do the work. Straight to the point, he went in and dismantled the wooden door of the house. After a drastic chop, he found something strange. The wooden door should be specially customized, with a layer of something sandwiched between the wooden boards. I touched it with my hand, it was not very hard, and it had a bit of texture.
Qin Yiheng put it under his nose and smelled it for a long time, and then looked at it for a while, and told me: "This is probably made of cinnabar, donkey glue, sawdust, and some unknown things mixed together. If he guessed correctly, the sawdust must be made of the wood on the windlass that has been used for many years. The windlass runs along a trajectory all year round, and with the contact with human popularity, it is said in some theories that it can ensure reunion. Doing this is one of the reasons to ward off evil spirits, and the most important thing is to ensure the harmony between husband and wife. Judging from the current situation, I'm afraid that the modification of this door should be done by one of the couple, but they didn't expect to make things worse and trap the male owner in the house."
Then, we knocked off the wallpaper and ceiling one by one, but we didn't find anything new. Finally, Qin Yiheng left the doors and windows wide open for a few days and said, "The male owner should have left on his own." Although Qin Yiheng said that everything was fine, I was still worried about the male owner. He committed suicide out of nowhere. This is really a mystery.
Qin Yiheng said, "Many things have their destiny. Many people who commit suicide or have been ill for a long time will choose to die on New Year's Eve. Most people will think this is a coincidence, but it is not. To put it more deeply, it has something to do with fate, life span, etc. To put it more shallowly, it is the saying that the King of Hell wants you to die at three o'clock in the morning, and dare not keep you until five o'clock. Moreover, he made a bold assumption that if he had not accidentally scared the thief and made him fall down that night, perhaps the thief would have killed their whole family when he came to their house to steal. From the perspective of numerology, everything has a certain reason. Perhaps this is the choice of the male owner in the dark. In other words, it may also be that the psychology is greatly affected after putting someone to death, and over time he becomes depressed and develops a world-weary mood. But he might have made a mistake to choose to die on New Year's Eve. Firecrackers are used to ward off evil spirits, and every family wears red and hangs colorful decorations. If there is no little ghost to lead the way, the male owner might really not be able to find the door to reincarnation."
I didn't make any money from this house. A month later, I asked an agent to rent it to a few college students who were preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, and I only charged a very low price. At that time, I also told them directly that someone had died in this house, but I had asked a master to perform a ritual on it. Fortunately, these college students were not afraid, but moved in happily one by one. After this incident, I seemed to understand something, but when I thought about it carefully, I couldn't summarize any reason. In short, the matter of this house just passed. After that, our business was delayed for a while, and we didn't receive a house for more than ten days. This was mainly because Yuan Zhen went out of the country for some reason, so there was no news of a new house. Fortunately, the small business we did together also started to take off, and we didn't feel so empty when we were busy. We waited until Yuan Zhen came back before we took over the next house.
