Cao Xiaoyang returned to the room on the first floor and hurriedly dialed Yang Qian's phone, but the other party never answered.

This place is dozens of kilometers away from the city, Cao Xiaoyang has no car, and he doesn't dare to run outside easily at this time, so he has no choice but to stay up all night in the room to remind him.

The next morning, the sun rose, and the sound of a rooster crowing could be heard in the distance. Cao Xiaoyang felt that it should be safe to go out at this time, he heard some old people say when he was a child, and generally ghosts will leave after the rooster crows.

Cao Xiaoyang was about to go upstairs to find Sister Qian, but at this time he received a call from her.

"Hey Xiaoyang, it's not clear, I'm used to turning my phone on and silent when I sleep, are you in a hurry, you called me so late yesterday." ”

Cao Xiaoyang said with some excitement: "Sister Qian, something is wrong, our building is haunted, I guess the new tenant has been poisoned." ”

"Haunted?Xiaoyang, what are you kidding?"

"I can't tell you for a while, anyway, you just go downstairs first. ”

Seeing Cao Xiaoyang's panda eyes and tiredness, Yang Qian couldn't help but smile.

"I said Xiaoyang, you stole the chicken last night. ”

"I didn't sleep all night last night......"

So Cao Xiaoyang told Yang Qian about the girl he saw last night and the funeral he attended yesterday, Yang Qian was very calm and didn't seem to believe Cao Xiaoyang's words.

"Xiaoyang, are you sure you read that right?"

"It can't be wrong, I vouch for my personality, the girl I saw last night was definitely the girl at the funeral. ”

So the two went upstairs to the room where the rent was collected last night, Cao Xiaoyang trembled and hid behind Yang Qian, but Yang Qian was calm, he still seemed to think that Cao Xiaoyang was dazzled last night and was wrong.

"Hello, is anyone here?"

It was still the girl from last night who opened the door, but at this time, Cao Xiaoyang saw that she no longer had the fear she had last night.

The girl's skin was fair, but her face was ruddy and bloody, and she looked like an ordinary girl.

Yang Qian said to Cao Xiaoyang: "Xiaoyang, don't you have a question to ask others?"

If the other party was a ghost, it would never be possible to stand here and talk to them so calmly at this time, Cao Xiaoyang began to feel that he was really mistaken, and he was a little embarrassed for a while.

"You...... What's your name?"

"Zhang Xiaoyu. ”

Cao Xiaoyang clearly remembered that the girl at yesterday's funeral was called Tang Wenwen, and it seemed that she just looked like Tang Wenwen.

"What's the matter?"

Yang Qian also saw that Cao Xiaoyang was mistaken, so she smiled slightly and said, "His name is Cao Xiaoyang, he is still single, and he wants to ......."

"Sister Qian, don't talk nonsense!"

Cao Xiaoyang turned around with a red face and walked downstairs, thinking that he was really embarrassed today, how could he go to her to collect rent in the future!

But thinking about it, I think that this girl is indeed very beautiful, and her voice is good, anyway, she is rich now, and she is her charter father, if you chase her, maybe there will really be a show.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but laugh again, and an inattentive bumped into a person who walked up from downstairs.

"Ouch my head!"

Cao Xiaoyang was hit by the other party and sat on the stairs, and then the other party reached out and pulled him up.

Cao Xiaoyang took a closer look, the other party was a very handsome young man, his skin was smooth and snow-white, his facial features were delicate like a woman, and the strangest thing was that he had long gray-white hair and was wearing an ancient costume similar to Hanfu.

Although it looks a little discordant, but now you can see cosplay everywhere on the street, so Cao Xiaoyang is not surprised.

"I'm sorry to hurt you. ”

Cao Xiaoyang patted his buttocks. "It's okay, the big man's bones are not so brittle. ”

The other party smiled slightly: "You're new here, I don't seem to have seen you before." ”

This person not only dressed like an ancient, but even the tone of his speech was the so-called elegant and easy-going tone, this kind of voice may be liked by those young girls, but it sounds very responsive to Cao Xiaoyang.

"Well, your previous landlord, my second uncle, has passed away, and I'm the new landlord. ”

The other man nodded. "Oh, you are Cao Xiaoyang, Sister Qian has already told us, my name is Bai Xiaoyan, please take care of me in the future. ”

Cao Xiaoyang didn't expect that this person not only liked the ancients, but even his name was so literate, so he really didn't want to talk to him more, so he nodded and went downstairs.

But at this time, Bai Xiaoyan stopped him again.

"Charterer, can you do me a favor, the water pipe in my house is broken, can you help me fix it." ”

Cao Xiaoyang was a little reluctant, but he thought that this building was now his own, and he should solve the problem inside, otherwise he would really lose more than he would gain if the room was damaged at that time.

"What floor? I'll go down and get the tools now. ”

After going upstairs, Cao Xiaoyang's jaw dropped in shock, this Bai Xiaoyan was not only dressed like an ancient, but even the decoration in the room was completely ancient.

The reinforced concrete walls are wrapped in another layer of carved wooden walls with various patterns, and then all kinds of ancient paintings are hung around it, and the middle of the room is separated by two screens, and on the other side is a low table with pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc., and a guqin next to it.

There was only water and no electricity in the room, and the wires were strictly hidden by the wooden interior walls of the room, and there was a candlestick on the desk, which seemed to be his main lighting tool.

Cao Xiaoyang couldn't help but sigh to Bai Xiaoyan: "You really carry out cosplay to the end!"

Bai Xiaoyan smiled and said nothing.

After that, Cao Xiaoyang lived in this building for a while, but he found that there were many unusual things here, such as the tenants here almost never went out during the day, but at night the whole building was brightly lit, and Cao Xiaoyang sometimes heard all kinds of strange sounds.

Another example is that the tenant here only buys things such as fragrant wax paper money when he goes to his commissary, so that tobacco, alcohol, non-staple food and other things are almost never sold.

Cao Xiaoyang felt more and more uneasy in his heart, so he went to his former residence in the city and talked to his old neighbor Deng Bo.

Deng Bo was a neighbor of Cao Xiaoyang's parents when he was still alive, and later Cao Xiaoyang's parents died in an accident, Deng Bo took care of Cao Xiaoyang who was still a minor, often took him to his home for dinner, and sometimes bought him clothes.

Cao Xiaoyang was bullied outside when he was a child, and it was often Deng Bo who stood up for him, so for Cao Xiaoyang, Deng Bo was his relative, and he usually went back to talk to him if he had any troubles.

It has been half a year since the landlord was kicked out by the landlord for not having the money to pay the rent last time, and Cao Xiaoyang has not been here for half a year.

Deng Bo's family lives on the first floor, and the door usually won't be closed when he is at home, but today the doors and windows of his house are closed, and no one responded when Cao Xiaoyang knocked on the door.

At this time, I happened to meet another neighbor, Aunt Zhao, who came back from selling vegetables, and asked her if Uncle Deng had gone out.

Aunt Zhao looked at Cao Xiaoyang with a surprised face, and said: "Don't you know, Lao Deng died a month ago, he was an old widower, had no children and no daughters, and no one knew that he died at home, and then Lao Zhang and they smelled the stench coming from his house and called the police......

After hearing this, Cao Xiaoyang's mind suddenly became blank, and he sat directly on the ground with a soft foot.

Aunt Zhao was also frightened when she saw him like this, and hurriedly threw down the dishes in her hand to help him.

"Baby, I know that you and Lao Deng have a deep relationship, but people can't be resurrected after death, so you still mourn ......"

Deng Bo's death was indeed a big blow to Cao Xiaoyang, but more importantly, he had obviously met Deng Bo himself before, and the inheritance left to him by his second uncle was first told to him by Deng Bo, at most it happened ten days ago, how could Deng Bo die a month ago?

What happened recently was so weird that Cao Xiaoyang's head was a mess.

That night, Cao Xiaoyang sat alone in the commissary and drank alcohol, staring blankly at the big-headed color TV hanging on the wall with his two eyes.

"The evening news broadcast that recently, there was a homicide case in the city, and the victim was a sixteen-year-old female high school student Tang Moumou. According to the forensic examination, Tang Moumou had obvious strangulation marks on his neck, so it was determined that the cause of his death was mechanical suffocation caused by the rope strangulation around his neck, and the case is still under investigation. ”

Just then, a voice came from outside the window of the commissary.

"Hello, I want this, how much does it cost?"

Cao Xiaoyang lazily put down the wine glass in his hand, and found that the girl named Zhang Xiaoyu was standing outside the window, because she looked very similar to the dead Tang Wenwen, and Cao Xiaoyang had misunderstood her before.

Cao Xiaoyang picked up a handful of incense and a handful of wax on the shelf and handed them to her.

"It's six bucks. ”

The girl took out the money from her pocket and handed it to Cao Xiaoyang, at this time she inadvertently stroked her hair, and by the dim light, Cao Xiaoyang saw a crimson strangulation mark on her white neck, and her heart trembled.

He gasped for breath and opened the drawer of open money with a trembling hand, and suddenly found that all the rent he had collected before and the money the girl had just given him had turned into dark money.

Cao Xiaoyang was so frightened that he pushed open the door of the commissary, and then ran upstairs desperately, when he bumped into Bai Xiaoyan who walked down from the upstairs.

Cao Xiaoyang originally wanted to tell him that there was a ghost downstairs, but at this time, he saw Bai Xiaoyan slowly get up from the ground, and then put the white bone arm that was broken by Cao Xiaoyang back on his body.

Seeing this scene, Cao Xiaoyang almost didn't lose his breath, but the instinct to survive barely made him suppress the fear in his heart, and he continued to run upstairs desperately, coming to the room on the fifth floor where Yang Qian lived.

Her door was not closed, Cao Xiaoyang hurriedly rushed in and locked the door.

At this time, Yang Qian was wearing a red dress and combing her hair in the mirror, seeing this picture, Cao Xiaoyang's heart became nervous again, and when he moved his gaze, what he saw was an even more terrifying picture.

There was a human skin hanging on the chair next to Yang Qian......