Chapter 566: The Haunted Mansion in Los Angeles
"After all these years, can you still find it?" asked the fat man casually.
"I should be able to find a clue, I'll leave immediately, and I'll be back by noon. "Southwind prepares to leave.
"Why don't you just take him back with you, you don't have to run back and forth. The fat man raised his hand and pointed at the emaciated man, and the emaciated man raised his hand again to stop him when he wanted to take off the black crystal blindfold again.
"The situation is unknown, you can't be reckless," Nanfeng shook his head, "I'll go and come back quickly, don't mess with him." ”
The fat man nodded in response, Nanfeng looked at Zhuge Chanjuan, and when Zhuge Chanjuan nodded, the teleportation disappeared.
Luoyang is the place name of the former dynasty, now known as Luozhou, located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, for the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty to compete for the important place of the soldiers, during the period changed hands several times, is now the territory of the Northern Qi Dynasty.
Nanfeng had passed by Luozhou before, and knew the general direction, so he teleported to the outside of Luozhou City, and it was already Chenshi, the city gate was wide open, and after appearing, he walked into the city with the flow of people.
Nakju is a state city, and the city covers a large area, but due to frequent wars, the city is often dilapidated, and the scattered arrow shafts floating in the moat indicate that there was a war here not long ago.
After entering the city, Nanfeng began to look around looking for the elderly, Luoyang changed its name to Luozhou decades ago, and the street names were different from the past, only the old people could know the address of the previous dynasty engraved on the wooden plaque.
I asked a few people, and finally someone knew where the address on the wooden sign was, this person was a kind old woman, enthusiastically pointed the way for Nanfeng, in order to avoid mistakes, Nanfeng took out two silver rewards, and asked her to lead the way in person.
On the way there, Nanfeng asked, "Auntie, what is that place?"
"It's an abandoned house now. The old woman replied.
"What was it before?" asked Nanfeng.
"In the early years, it seemed like a game of darts. The old woman said again.
Nanfeng's heart sank when he heard this, "How many years ago was that?"
The old woman shook her head, "I'm old, I can't remember clearly, there are always decades." ”
"Think again. Nanfeng said.
The old woman tried to remember while walking, and after a long time, she suddenly remembered something, "The dart game is still there when the big dog was five years old, so it should be more than forty years." ”
Nanfeng nodded, and instead asked, "Can you tell me about the situation of the dart game?"
"I live far away from there, and I don't know the family very well, except that it was a very small dart game. The old woman said, and then asked, "Young man, what are you going to do there?"
"Searching for someone. Nanfeng replied casually.
"It's been deserted for years, and it's long gone. The old woman shook her head and said.
"What about the people who lived there before?" asked Nanfeng.
The old woman shook her head again, "It's all dead." Young man, I think you are a good person, listen to my advice, and don't go to that place. ”
"Huh?" Nanfeng frowned in confusion.
The old woman swallowed, "That place is not a good place, it is not very clean." ”
Nanfeng sideways away from a merchant carrying a burden, "You mean it's haunted?"
The old woman looked around and whispered, "Yes, someone has seen a hideous-looking female ghost wandering there. ”
"What kind of female ghost?" asked Nanfeng.
The old woman waved her hand, "I just heard about it, I haven't seen it, but the female ghost doesn't seem to be ordinary, someone once took a fancy to the house without an owner, and wanted to repair it to live, and also invited the mage and the Taoist to catch the ghost, but in the end it was all over." ”
"Since when did the house start to be haunted? Nanfeng asked again.
The old woman was old and had a bad memory, so she thought for a long time before saying, "It's been twenty or thirty years." ”
"Did that female ghost do anything evil?" asked Nanfeng.
"There is no devil who does not do evil. The old woman's answer was very vague.
Nanfeng asked again, and the old woman just said that the ghost looked scary, but as for how scary it was, and what bad things she had done in addition to scary, she couldn't say why.
Seeing that her knowledge was limited, Nanfeng did not continue to ask, and followed her to Xicheng.
Los Angeles was also the capital, no smaller than Chang'an, and the old woman walked slowly, and it took half an hour to bring Nanfeng to an isolated old house.
The reason why it is said to be isolated is because there is a ruined wall within a hundred steps around this old house, and a hundred steps away is a residential house, bringing Nanfeng here, and the old woman persuaded him to turn back, and Nanfeng thanked her and sent her a few taels of silver.
When the old woman left, Nanfeng moved his eyes to the old house in the north of the road again, the old house is not big, it is a set of courtyards, the dilapidated and white wooden door is pasted with a white official seal, because it has been posted for a long time, the seal has faded, and the handwriting on it can no longer be seen clearly. In addition to the two larger official seals, there are also some faded runes pasted on the lintel below the gatehouse, and the runes on the rune paper are messy, which should be from the hands of laymen.
From the outside, the two courtyards of the old house are quite complete, although dilapidated but not collapsed, there are a few locust trees outside the east wall of the old house, the leaves fall in autumn and winter, and the depression is very.
There were other houses around the old house, but they were demolished and the wood and masonry that could be used were removed, leaving the old house alone in ruins.
There were also old people basking in the sun in a sheltered place not far away, but Nanfeng did not inquire about the situation with them, but walked straight to the courtyard and entered through the door.
Before he entered, he had already determined that there were no ghosts in this old mansion, because there was no ghost yin qi, and he only entered the door to observe the situation inside the old mansion.
The yard of the old house was overgrown with weeds, and in autumn and winter, a thick layer of leaves fell, and a few birds and finches were gouging from the fallen leaves, and when they saw the south wind appearing, they fluttered and flew away.
The doors of the east and west wings were open, the door shaft was broken, and the door leaf was crooked, but it never fell off.
I went to the east chamber first, and found that it was covered with cobwebs, empty, and the ashes of the bonfire burned on the ground.
There are several decaying straw curtains in the corners of the west wing, which indicates that someone once stayed here a long time ago.
Inspected the front yard, and went to the back yard, there is a well in the northeast corner of the backyard, there is a stone mill in the southeast corner, there is a wooden table in the middle of the yard, there is still a crooked incense burner left on the wooden table, and the flag-shaped cloth strip is revealed in the fallen leaves under the table.
There are also two wings in the backyard, the east chamber is the kitchen, there are rice tanks and water tanks and some simple kitchen utensils, the top of the rice tank and the water tank is also covered with a lid, lift the lid, you can see that the rice tank and the water tank are empty, and there is still a little salt left in the jar, which shows that no outsiders have come here, because the salt is not cheap at this time, if it is seen, it will definitely be taken away.
In the west chamber is put some dart line and the stone lock and other utensils used by the martial artists to practice martial arts, there is a dart flag has not been eaten by rats and insects, and it is vaguely visible that it is embroidered with a plum character.
Look at the side room, and then go to the main house, the main house roughly maintains the original appearance of the year, there is a collapsed bed on the west side, the simple bedding is still there, although it is full of thick dust, but it is not completely decayed.
The table and chairs in the middle of the room were fairly well preserved, and on the table was a basket containing some thimbles, scissors, and other things for female workers. In addition, there is a clay pot for decoction of medicine, and there are some rotten and blackened medicine residues in it, which indicates that the owner was sick and took medicine before his death.
Although this house is not small, it has no decent living utensils, and it can already be described as a house with four walls.
This should be the former residence of the mysterious dart man, the biggest possibility is that he had an accident when he went out to dart, and the female dependents of the family could not make a living, so they could only make a living by pawning the utensils at home.
After a short look, Nanfeng walked to the bed that had decayed and collapsed, picked up a wooden stick from the bed, and provoked to inspect the pile of bedding that had begun to rot, the bedding was very thin, and there were many patches with distorted stitches, which showed that the hostess was not very good at female workers, and lived a very poor life at the last moment.
After inspecting, there was no discovery, so I wanted to throw away the wooden stick in my hand, just wanted to get rid of it, and suddenly found that the end of this wooden stick was very smooth, and the other end was bald, and then look at the length, it should be a wooden stick that has been held all year round.
Finding nothing, Nanfeng did not stay here more, but teleported away, to the city god temple in the city, the city god and the land are heavenly court officials, at this special juncture, he didn't want to have too much intersection with it, but out of the right, they can only go to the city god temple, they must know what happened here back then, if the hostess's soul has been stranded after her death, they should also know where she is hiding......