Story 17 Renting a House (5)

Nie Zhijun said with a smile: "In fact, there are many things, we all have to be respectful, maybe we can save our lives at a critical time, it's hard to say!" ”

Zhang Liang nodded as if he didn't understand and went to bed.

At two o'clock in the morning, "click...... Click......"

Nie Zhijun walked out of the room, slowly sat down in front of the locked door, and said in a mechanical tone: "He is a simple person, we should probably let him go." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the broken glass on the door creaked in a gust of wind, and something seemed to be losing his temper in the locked door......

Nie Zhijun said in a gentle tone: "Good, don't be angry, you are right, no one is innocent!" ”

The next morning, after Zhang Liang got up, he didn't see Nie Zhijun as usual. The single bed he slept in was still neat...... It's neat like no one has ever slept on! Zhang Liang suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen Nie Zhijun when he got up in the morning, could it be that he really got up too late?

When she came to the cram school, Sister Zhao asked Zhang Liang to fill out an employee form. After he filled it out, he handed it to Sister Zhao casually, who knew that she let out an exclamation when she looked at it and said, "Xiao Zhang, it turns out that you live there!" ”

Zhang Liang asked puzzledly, "What's wrong?" ”

Sister Zhao said with a shocked face: "That house, the locals know it." No people have lived in it for many years. ”

"You mean the yard where I live?" Zhang Liang finally understood what Sister Zhao meant.

"Yes! Surely some unscrupulous real estate agent will rent it to you if he bullies you into a foreigner and doesn't know what is happening in this house. Not to mention that yard, even the yard next to him can't be rented! ”

Zhang Liang's heart tightened when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked Sister Zhao: "Sister, don't scare me, I'm naturally timid, what's going on in this yard!" ”

Sister Zhao said: "The matter of this house is because when we were disobedient when we were children, adults came to scare children. One of the words I was most afraid of when I was a child was: If you are disobedient, you will be thrown into the yard of Lao Nie's house! ”

As soon as Zhang Liang heard that the original owner of this courtyard was surnamed Nie, his heart was cold. It can't be the family surnamed Nie that Nie Zhijun said, right? He hurriedly said to Sister Zhao: "Sister, tell me about this house quickly, let me have a bottom in my heart." ”

Sister Zhao nodded and continued: "As early as the 80s, it was rumored that this yard was haunted. said that several families lived in a row, and in the end, they all ended up with a broken family. Later, it was empty for more than ten years, and just when people were about to forget about it, it began to make trouble again. It is said that the owner of a supermarket at that time wanted to use the yard as a warehouse because he saw the cheap rent in this place. But when he went to pull the goods, he found that the old man who was there at night had hanged himself in that yard for some reason, and he didn't know how many days had been dead before he was found. ”

Zhang Liang poured a glass of water and said to Sister Zhao: "Does the family surnamed Nie have a son named Nie Jianguo?" ”

Sister Zhao shook her head and said, "How do I know this, it's all about the sixties and seventies, don't talk about you, I'm not even born!" It was from the old people in the family who knew that the family was surnamed Nie. It is said that he was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, and the whole family died. Since then, the yard has been divided several times, but none of them have been able to live for long. The owner of the supermarket didn't believe in evil at the time! I had to continue to use that yard, but then there was a fire next door to the yard, and the fire truck came to water it. Although the goods he put in the warehouse were not burned by the fire, they were all blistered and lost in vain! After such a catastrophe, it didn't take long for his supermarket to go out of business. ”

The more Zhang Liang listened, the more scared he became, if the rumors were true, then he really couldn't live anymore, but he had collected Brother Nie's rent. When Zhang Liang thought of Nie Zhijun, his heart was full of doubts...... He is also surnamed Nie, is there such a coincidence in the world?

Usually, Zhang Liang doesn't go back at noon, because the road is too far and it is not convenient to run back and forth. After listening to Sister Zhao's words today, he decided to take a leave of absence to go back and take a look, in broad daylight, it can't be haunted!

As soon as Zhang Liang entered the gate of the courtyard, he knew that there was no one at home, he knocked on the door, and sure enough, Nie Zhijun was not at home. He glanced at Nie Zhijun's bed, it was very tidy, this was unreasonable, even if a person was able to tidy up housekeeping, it was impossible to do it as if no one had slept with it!

If he remembered correctly, when he came back from work for the first time, he saw Nie Zhijun standing in front of the locked door, could there be something wrong inside? Thinking of this, Zhang Liang pushed the door out of his room and came to the courtyard.

He found that the windows of both rooms were pasted with newspaper from the inside, and he couldn't see anything from the outside. Zhang Liang observed outside for a while, but did not find anything unusual.

Suddenly, a piece of broken, somewhat cracked glass alerted him. This broken yard, usually no one comes at all. Even if a piece of glass breaks, it's nothing. He looked around the courtyard, then picked up a brick in a corner, aimed it at one of the glasses, and smashed it down......

There was a "bang...... sound, and the glass shattered. A strange smell caused by long-term air circulation emanated from inside, and Zhang Liang, who was smoked, ducked back. When the smell was almost gone, he dared to look inside.

At first glance, Zhang Liang was completely blinded, and there were several photo frames covered with black cloth on the wall of the room...... One, two, three, a total of five picture frames. Could it be that this is the remains of the five members of the Nie family?

Zhang Liang looked inside the room again, and he found that the room was not full of dust as he imagined, but very tidy. It's like someone has been living in it, but Zhang Liang knows that this is impossible.

He looked at the time, and it was one o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was shining. At this point, his curiosity was far greater than the fear in his heart. So he reached through the broken glass window, felt the latch on the window, and pulled it hard, and the window opened.

Zhang Liang jumped into the house without much effort, and when his feet hit the ground, he found that there was no dust on the ground, and this house was simply drier and quieter than the one he lived in, which was obviously unscientific.

He looked around first, and it was all old and broken furniture. In the end, he decided to look at the portraits first, so he walked over to the five frames, took a deep breath, and suddenly lifted the black cloth.

But what surprised him was that what was covered under the black cloth was not what he thought before, it was a terrifying and abnormal black and white portrait, but a group photo of the whole family.

The people in the photo were smiling happily, and they should have lived happily at that time. It's just that the people in these photos are gradually decreasing, at first it was a family of five, then it became a family of three, and finally only one person appeared in the photo.

Alone? It's him! Zhang Liang was surprised to find that the person in the last photo turned out to be Nie Zhijun! Although his clothes and hairstyle are much different, his face is Nie Zhijun!

Impossible, how can a person not grow old and not die? Unless he's not human! Zhang Liang looked at each photo carefully, and the two photos taken in this courtyard when he was a family of five. This proves that the conditions in their home were not bad at that time, and the later portraits of the three people were obviously taken in the photo studio, and the smiles of the three people were a little reluctant, as if they were squeezed out.

Zhang Liang walked into another room and found a huge object covered with a white cloth in the room, which looked like a coffin with a large end and a small end, one high and one low.

At this time, Zhang Liang was bold, and he didn't dare to lift the white cloth to see. He turned around and walked out of the house in fright, and was just about to jump out of the window where he had entered, when he suddenly found that there seemed to be a little girl under the old dining table!

"Who is it?" Zhang Liang screamed in fright, but when he looked closely, there was nothing. He knew that this place could not stay longer, so he quickly jumped out of the window in a panic.

But as soon as he came out, he was stunned, and when he entered the house just now, he clearly glanced at the time, and it was only one o'clock in the afternoon. Why is it getting dark now? He tried to check the time on his phone again, but found that the phone was out of battery.

So he ran back to the house without thinking about it, trying to find a charger to charge his phone. But as soon as he entered the house, he felt wrong, the furnishings in the house were obviously wrong, there was a lot more furniture, and they were all very old styles, a bit of a feeling of the sixties and seventies.

Zhang Liang was blindsided at once, he glanced at his bed, and was even more frightened! I saw a woman sitting on the bed, knitting a sweater with her back to her, and he felt that the hairs on his body were standing up one by one.

Suddenly, a little boy ran out of nowhere and shouted at the woman, "Mommy, Mommy, sister bullying me!" ”

"Mom...... I didn't bully him! Manly man, cry when you touch it, what a bear bag, look at big brother! It's a real man, he's in college! A little girl in a floral cotton jacket also jumped up and ran to the bed and said coquettishly to the woman.

The woman gently touched the little boy and said, "Jianjun, my sister is playing with you." Don't cry, I'll buy you candy for a while. ”

The two children were instantly quiet......

As soon as the picture turned, the warm colors around him changed, and a group of Red Guards in green uniforms rushed into the house, and they captured the woman, and the two children cried earth-shatteringly, but the Red Guards were unmoved. still smashed all the valuable things in the house, and burned a lot of books.

Then the picture changed again, and the little boy said to the little girl, "Sister, where has the eldest brother gone?" I'm hungry, why is it so cold in our house! ”

The little girl got up from the bed, walked to the stove, opened the lid and said, "Sister, turn on the stove, and it won't be cold for us to bake the fire!" The eldest brother said he was going to get us some cabbage to eat! ”

The little boy's eyes lit up and he said, "Cabbage! Great! There is cabbage to eat! ”

Zhang Liang saw the two children turn on the stove to bake the fire, so he shouted anxiously: "It's going to be turned off, it will be gas poisoning!" ”

But the two children didn't seem to be in the same space as him, and no matter how much he shouted, neither of them could hear them. Zhang Liang watched the two children fall to the ground little by little......

Then the color of the room became even darker, and a man was lying on the table and kept writing something, looking at the back a bit like Nie Zhijun. After he finished writing, he put a notebook in a drawer on the table, and this drawer was the one that Zhang Liang couldn't open.

Suddenly, the man turned to look at Zhang Liang violently...... Sure enough, it was Nie Zhijun. No, it should be Nie Jianguo. Just when Zhang Liang thought that Nie Jianguo saw him, he actually walked through Zhang Liang's body and walked out.

Zhang Liang hurriedly followed, but he slammed his head on the door, and suddenly felt like the world was spinning...... It took him a long time to get up from the ground, but the scenery in the house had long since returned to its original state.

He sat on his bed and thought about what he had just seen, which must have happened in this room. Suddenly, Zhang Liang thought of the drawer that couldn't be opened, so he took out the screwdriver from the toolbox and pried open the broken drawer.

There was nothing but a black notebook inside. Zhang Liang reached out and took out the notebook, sat on the bed, and slowly opened the notebook. The first page above reads, "The first place in the 100-meter speed run" in the spring sports meeting of a certain university - Nie Jianguo.

This is indeed Nie Jianguo's notebook, which records all his mental journeys from going to college to dropping out of school and returning home, and then to the death of his father, mother, younger brother, and sister. He went from a sunny boy at the beginning, to the end of the development of full of grief and anger, hatred of society, and extreme depression and suicide.

Zhang Liang looked at each of his diaries, and he could feel the strong hatred between the lines. This kind of almost perverted hatred made Zhang Liang's heart chill, getting colder and colder. Just as he was flipping through it, a cold voice sounded......

"You shouldn't be looking at this stuff...... You were supposed to be a simple person. ”

Zhang Liang was shocked, and when he looked back, it was Nie Zhijun standing behind him, his face was blue at this time, and he didn't look like a living person.

"Huh...... Brother Nie, are you back......" Zhang Liang smiled dryly and Nie Zhijun was dumbfounded.

Nie Zhijun said coldly: "You really shouldn't look at these things, I wanted to let you go, but my younger brothers and sisters disagreed, because no one is innocent!" ”

Zhang Liang was horrified and said, "Brother Nie, don't scare me, I don't know what you're talking about......"

Nie Zhijun sneered and said, "I don't know what I'll say?" Haven't you read all my diary? I am Nie Jianguo. ”

Zhang Liang turned around and wanted to run out, but when he looked at the door, he was completely stupid, a little boy with a pale face, holding a small toy cart in his hand, and making a "......click" while pushing it ...... sound, he innocently blocked the door and said to Zhang Liang: "Brother, I'm hungry......"

A month later, Sister Zhao from the cram school and Officer Wang from the Criminal Police Brigade came to the courtyard rented by Zhang Liang.

Officer Wang looked at the dilapidated courtyard in front of him and asked, "Ms. Zhao, are you sure Zhang Liang lives here?" ”

Sister Zhao nodded and said, "This is the address registered before Xiao Zhang's disappearance!" ”

Officer Wang had no choice but to take out the prototype from the car, and smashed the broken lock on the door in a few clicks! The two of them walked into the courtyard and immediately smelled a foul smell coming from the house.

Sister Zhao covered her nose and said, "What a smell, so stinky!" ”

Officer Wang seemed to have a premonition that something bad was happening, so he asked Sister Zhao to stand still and not move, and he walked in alone to check...... Everything seems to be normal in the house, but where does this stench come from?

Suddenly, a pile of black objects attracted Officer Wang's attention, and when he stepped forward, he saw that it was a highly decomposed corpse. Later, it was forensically identified as Zhang Liang, who had been missing for a month, and it stands to reason that it is winter now, and the body will not decompose so quickly.

Strangely, most of the musculature on the corpse was gone, and on the surface, it looked as if something had bitten it off.

Since then, the Nie family's old mansion has had another headless case......

Half a year later, two young people, accompanied by real estate agents, once again pushed open the dilapidated door......

"The End of this Story"