Chapter 160: Wandering in the Night

When the sun first rose, the weather warmed up, and the mild sun shone through the dust and smoke, so that the land of Pingshui City began to recover as if it had been reborn.

In the southeast corner of the city, there is a special area, where the houses and courtyards are more luxurious and opulent than other streets.

As far as the eye can see, in addition to the neat and wide avenues along the street, there are many deep mansion compounds.

Among them, there is a wealthy mansion, which is proud of its special status.

It is the city lord's mansion of Pingshui City, which is not only the courtyard of the city lord's wife, but also the official office of the city's officials.

This city lord's mansion covers an area of about 1,000 hectares, and there are dozens of houses, no less than half a hundred, and there are other flower gardens and pavilions, gardens and lake views...... And so on, all kinds of magnificence, but also everything, everything is used.

After all, it is the mansion of the lord of a city, how can it not be extraordinary?

However, it is not the only big mansion in the city, and many of them can only be regarded as second.

In Pingshui City, the title of the first mansion is an old mansion next to the City Lord's Mansion.

It was Mr. Wanshu back then, Ren Pingsheng's house.

To say that this Pingsheng's house has really prospered for a while.

I think that back then, when he was in power, there was a lot of traffic in front of the door all day long, and the guests who came and went to visit were about to smooth the threshold of his house.

However, the prosperity and decline of the extreme, the extremes of things will be reversed, no matter how brilliant the glory, there will be a day of failure.

Later, Ren Pingsheng left quietly, and after disappearing without a trace, if he was in a big house, he could no longer find anyone who could bear the burden, and he watched it decay day by day.

The servants in his family, in order to make a living, also gradually left, and went their separate ways.

In this way, after a long time, this house, which has not been stained with a little smoke for a long time, somehow became a murderous house.

What is strange in this house, no one can say. Anyway, among the people in the city, if anyone mentions this mansion, Ren Pingsheng's servants will swallow and vomit, look panicked, and stop talking.

So much so that none of the domestic servants dared to live in it.

Nowadays, the carved mansion is gradually hung with a heavy dust net, and the pavilions and pavilions inside are becoming more and more desolate.

Only the weeds in the back garden are growing wildly, turning the entire mansion into their world.

However, it is not the same thing if the big mansion is so deserted.

There are many people in the city who want to take it for themselves.

Like its neighbors, the city lords are numerous.

As the new city lord, he didn't know much about the past situation, but he was unwilling to see that such a big mansion was empty and deserted.

But to his surprise, he wanted to sell the house and make some silver taels, but found that he couldn't sell it at all.

No one is a fool, and before buying a house, you have to inquire first.

But for some reason, after inquiring, the people who were originally tempted didn't dare to buy it, and they kept silent, as if they were afraid of something?

What's more, at night, when passing by the old house, they will speed up their pace and hurry away.

If someone asks curiously, most of them will get a surprising answer.

"This is a murderous mansion, if I walk slowly, there may be some danger!"

As a result, the deserted house of the Ren family has become a hot potato.

Since it can't be sold, there are many city lords, so I simply made a favor.

He found a day and posted a notice on the door of the Ren family's deserted house.

On the notice, there are such a few big words: Such a deserted mansion is frequent, and those who can live will be worshipped.

During the day, in front of the gate, people come and go, and when they pass here, they will probe their heads to look at it for a while.

However, this notice has been posted for a long time, and no one dares to expose it.

Later, time passed, the wind and rain, the sun and the sun, and the notice faded in color.

The original red paper has become a kind of indifferent light pink, and the large characters in the ink book are only faintly visible and speckled handwriting.

Until, that night, an ordinary-looking young man came to the legendary murderous mansion with a bunch of keys and lanterns in his hand.

After the dusty old mansion was opened, I saw that the courtyard was deep, the ancient trees were luxuriant, and there was no trace in the barren grass, only the fireflies flew by.

It is worthy of being the premier house in Pingshui City, after the young people entered, they turned around for a long time, and still did not go everywhere.

This made him a little anxious, thinking: This has to go on forever, when will it come to an end!

Anyway, after tonight, this mansion will be surnamed Wang, and there will be time in the future, wandering in it, and I am not in a hurry for this time!

Thinking of this, the young man turned and walked towards the vestibule.

As a rich man on the rich side, he always has to talk about pomp, not to mention that Ren Pingsheng, the old owner of this house, is often at home to solicit foreign guests.

Therefore, the vestibule of this house looks very vast, much larger than that of other houses.

However, it now seems that except for the stone paved ground in front of the house, which is relatively smooth, there are wild grasses everywhere.

These weeds, which are indomitable in any environment, seem to have nothing that can affect them.

At the moment, it is early summer, and even at night, the dullness in the air is still undiminished.

The young man came prepared, took out a bamboo mat from his bag, and spread it on the ground.

Then he changed into another garment, a cool and breathable linen coat, and sat cross-legged on the mat.

At this time, the moon has climbed to the branches, it is big and round, and there are no clouds around it, illuminating the courtyard, and most of the scenery is unobstructed.

The young man sat on the mat for a long time with a lantern in his hand, and he was bored.

Here and now, except for the crickets in the grass and the cicadas in the yard, the old locust tree, there was no more noise, and there was no unusual noise.

Gradually, in Pingshui City, the whistle who walked the street at night sounded the gong for a day.

"Bang Bang ......"

"The weather is dry, be careful of the candles, it's ...... day"

"Bang Bang ......"

The sound of the gong, melodious and dull, and the heavy and dull sound of the whistle, was vast and spread far away.

Listening to it in the ears, it is a bit of a hypnotic feeling.

And the young man, without any unexpected voice, remained unmoved.

After a while, he seemed to be a little tired from sitting down, and simply fell down on the bamboo mat, with his arms on his pillow, facing the hall, and fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took, and I don't know if he fell asleep or not, but in a trance, the gong of the second watch sounded again.

Unexpectedly, after being confused for a while, a lot of time passed.

The young man thought to himself, after waiting for so long, he didn't see half a ghost, most of them were the servants of the Ren family, scaring themselves, what strange things could be!

It's not a matter of waiting for this long night, it's better to just get a good night's sleep, it's really good!

In the middle of the night, he was about to find a thin blanket to cover his body, when he suddenly heard the back door of the house creaking.

At this time, the sound of the gong of the second watch had not yet ended, and the moon hid out of time and hid behind the clouds, making the deserted house suddenly a large area of black.

Unable to see enough, the young man had to listen carefully with his ears sideways.

"Squeak...... Ahh......h

Yes, it was the sound of the door, and in addition to the sound of the door, there was also the sound of rustling footsteps.

The young man's drowsiness was at once half gone, and he struggled to sit up from the mat, and was about to get up, when suddenly a little light swam from the back of the yard.

When the young man saw this, he jumped up and hid behind a big tree to watch what happened.

The light flickered and flickered, like the heart of a young man at this time, and it was in turmoil.

As the light drew nearer, the young man finally saw who he had come.

It turned out to be two groups of servants, holding candles in their hands, from the path in the backyard.

These people, after they had gone to the vestibule, stood in two rows with candles.

Under the flickering candle flame, the faces of these people, Aomori Mori, stood there, expressionless, motionless, looking so weird.

The young man was shocked and secretly nervous......

In the middle of the night, who will be a good person who will come here?

While the young man was hesitating, suddenly out of the backyard came dozens of servants, carrying all kinds of household goods in their hands, came to the vestibule, and began to sprinkle and sweep.

After a while, the originally deserted and decayed courtyard became neat and clean.

After cleaning, one of the servants walked over and opened the door to the antechamber.

Subsequently, a few young women came belatedly, took out a few things from the boxes they had brought, and began to hang Zhu Lian's embroidered curtains in the lobby of the front hall, and set up food utensils and wine glasses.

Each of those vessels was ingenious and exquisite, and in the blink of an eye, the cups, plates, and bowls were filled with fine wine and delicacies, as well as all kinds of rare and exotic fruits, and they were displayed on the table one by one.

At this time, a gust of wind blew, the curtain fluttered, the candlelight reflected, and the cheeks of a beautiful woman appeared, whose dreamlike and stunning posture made people feel in a trance, and they couldn't see her true beauty for a while.

And the delicacies on the table, full of fragrance, drifted away with the wind.

Just enough for the young man hiding behind the tree to sniff, which made him swallow his saliva.

He thought: Who are these people in front of him? How can they be so weird and inexplicable?

At this moment, he felt that he must not act rashly, and must wait for the opportunity to change.

Seeing him so cautious and cautious is also in line with his heart.

If there is someone who knows each other here, he will definitely recognize him at a glance, he is Wang Baoshan, who has been making a lot of noise in Pingshui City recently.

Why did he come here, did he really want this luxurious mansion as the notice said?