Volume 1 Chapter 045 Warlock
Old Man Qian showed a trace of sadness on his face. He said, "At that time, everyone thought that the old policeman's death was related to my uncle, so they locked him up in the police station and interrogated him every day. In the end, my uncle couldn't stand the torture, so he jumped off the building and died when no one was paying attention."
I was silent for a while, thinking back, this was indeed a tragedy. I asked Old Man Qian, "What happened next?"
Old Man Qian laughed and said, "What else can we do? These people don't believe in evil. Later, some people bought this house to live in, but none of them had a good ending."
"Whose house was this originally?" I asked. From what Old Man Qian said, it seemed that the house had already been abandoned at that time.
Old Man Qian said: "It is said that the earliest owner of this house was a local fur trader, who later fled to Taiwan. The house was then sold to a man named Bai."
I don't know why, maybe because I was extremely sensitive to people with the last name Bai after what happened to Liu Nan, so I asked, "What's the background of this person with the last name Bai? Is there anything special about him?"
Old Man Qian said, "This Bai is said to be a scholar named Bai Wenli. He originally made a living in the capital, but later, somehow, he came here to settle down. He has a beautiful wife and a son and a daughter. He rarely goes out and just stays at home reading and writing. There's nothing special about him."
I said, “What happened next?”
Old Man Qian said, "Later... later, my uncle's incident happened. According to the neighbors, they hadn't seen the Bai family go out for a long time. However, the family didn't have much friendship with the neighbors and usually kept a low profile, so no one paid attention. So after the incident, no one knew where the family went."
"That's strange!" I couldn't understand why this family of four disappeared for no reason.
Old Man Qian sneered and said, "This is not the most bizarre thing, the best is yet to come!"
I was extremely curious and urged him to continue.
Old Man Qian said, "After my uncle's incident, Bai Wenli's family disappeared again, and the house was vacant for nearly two years. Later, a businessman named Duan came and moved into the house with the house deed. He said that he met a man named Bai Wenli in Shanxi and mortgaged the house to him."
"So, the Bai family actually went on a long journey?" I asked in confusion.
Old Man Qian glanced at me and didn't answer. Instead, he continued, "About half a year later, late one night, the residents nearby suddenly heard a loud rumbling noise while they were sleeping, as if something huge was passing through the ground. At that time, many people thought it was a dragon turning over, so they hurriedly climbed out of bed and ran out of the house."
"But the sound only lasted about a quarter of an hour before it stopped. Later, many people outside the house said that they saw the small western-style building at No. 87 suddenly light up upstairs and downstairs. It was brightly lit, and then there were the cries of children and the scolding of women."
I listened and felt something was wrong. Old Man Qian sneered and said, "That house is a separate house in a very remote place. The nearest neighbor is dozens of meters away. But the crying, shouting and scolding of the child and the woman were clearly heard by everyone."
"What's more, this Duan family has only one 16-year-old daughter. Where did this child come from?" Old Man Qian said, "The residents nearby were all terrified at the time. The sound lasted for about half an hour before it disappeared, and the lights also dimmed."
"What happened next?" I couldn't help but urge.
Old Man Qian's face turned pale, and he said, "Guess what? The next day, the Duan family was found dead in the house. Three people, each with a wooden barrel hanging from their bodies and hemp ropes tied around their necks, were neatly hanged from the beams of the house."
"Why hang a wooden barrel?" I have seen many people who died by hanging before, and their appearance was really not good to look at, but I have never seen a person who died by hanging with a wooden barrel hanging on his body.
Old Man Qian said, "You haven't seen it, have you? Hey, don't say you haven't seen it. I've never seen it in my life. This bucket is used to hold blood! The necks of the three members of this family were almost broken by the hemp rope. When they were found, blood was flowing from their necks, filling up more than half a bucket."
I saw Old Man Qian gesture the size of the bucket with his hands, and I couldn't help but wonder. Even if the man's neck was broken by the rope, it would be impossible for him to bleed so much. Almost all of his blood went into the bucket.
Old Man Qian looked at me with some surprise and said, "You may not be that old, but you know a lot. This is what's strange. At that time, the blood of these three people was almost completely drained, leaving only a shriveled piece of skin."
Although I am used to seeing corpses, I couldn't help but feel cold all over when I thought carefully about the scene of these three shriveled people hanging on the beam with a blood bucket tied to them.
" What happened next?" I couldn't help but ask.
Old Man Qian sneered, "What else can we do? Who can investigate this kind of thing clearly? The police came to see it, and in the end they just hastily ruled it suicide and closed the case."
"After this incident, the house was vacant for about ten years. Later, the city cleared out vacant houses, and since the owner of this house could not be found for a long time, the authorities sent someone to auction it off. This was also a sin. At that time, an outsider who didn't understand the situation inside bought the house rashly for the sake of cheapness."
When old man Qian said this, he looked at me deeply. Of course I understood that this old man was using this to teach me not to be greedy for cheap things and rashly lose my life. I could only smile bitterly. I had no right to question what Qingzi, that woman, had decided.
"What happened to that outsider later?" I laughed dryly and changed the subject.
Old Man Qian chuckled and said, "What else can we do? He's dead! But he was lucky. His wife and children were all in their hometown and couldn't come over. He was living alone in the house. When he was found, his head and body were separated. The headless body was lying upstairs, but the head was found downstairs."
When Old Man Qian said this, he probably saw that I was not too scared, so he said "Huh" in surprise and said, "You are so brave, aren't you afraid after hearing this?"
I chuckled a few times and said, of course I am afraid. Then I asked, "Did that person bleed to death?"
Old Man Qian shook his head and said, "You guessed wrong this time. Not only did this man not bleed all his blood, there wasn't even a trace of blood on the ground!"
I didn't believe it: "This man's head was even lost, how could there be no bleeding?"
Old Man Qian chuckled a few times and said, "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it."
After hearing what he said, I realized that old man Qian had actually been to the scene in person.
"Although this person's head and body are one downstairs and one upstairs, the broken ends are unusually smooth and have a very strange color, as if they were cooked. People who go in can even smell the aroma of meat."
"Is it really cooked?" I was very surprised. I have been following Uncle San for many years, and I have never heard of such a strange corpse.
Old Qian looked pale, nodded and said, "I was there at the time, I saw the body with my own eyes, and I vomited on the spot!"
Thinking of this, even I, who am used to seeing corpses, feel a little nauseous. If most people saw it with their own eyes, they would probably vomit.
Old Man Qian said: "Later, the incident became a big deal. The wife and children of the stranger came to the house after hearing the news. When they heard about the tragic death of their husband, they burst into tears. In the end, no one dared to live in the house. The stranger's wife was also a strong-minded person. After taking care of her husband's funeral, she decided to tear down the house to avoid leaving trouble for future generations."
"That's a good idea!" I praised. Since we know it's a haunted house, we should tear it down and put an end to it. But since the house is still there, it means that there must have been some problem at the time, which led to the house not being torn down.
Old Man Qian said: "We were indeed planning to demolish it, but just when the hired workers were about to start, several prominent figures in our Tan City came over, along with a one-armed middle-aged man and a child of eight or nine years old."
"I heard that this one-armed man's surname is Wen, and he is a famous sorcerer in the Jiangbei area."
