There was an eye in the crack of the door, a black agate-like eye. His eyes were fixed on Liao Caichen, and his gaze slowly climbed down his flat chest to the raised Adam's apple on his neck.

"You lied to me."

After three flickering words came from his ears, the candle on the table suddenly went out, and Liao Caichen suddenly fell into a chaotic darkness, and the only thing he could see was a wisp of white smoke rising above the candle.

The door of the house was slowly and heavily opened, Liao Caichen felt a gust of wind passing by him, coming to his back, he wanted to turn back, but suddenly a few cold fingers appeared on the back of his neck, pressing his neck tightly, unable to move at all.

"You're a man."

Qiu Ran's voice sounded behind him, colder than the autumn wind that suddenly blew outside the window. Liao Caichen shuddered, he felt that Qiu Ran's fingers were a little wet and a little wrinkled, as if they had been soaked in water for a long time.

"I didn't mean to lie to you, Mr. Qiu, I was also cornered by them, those people in the gambling house, their hearts are harder than knives, if I don't pay the silver, they will chop off my limbs and throw them into the pigsty"

"Are you afraid of them?" Qiu Ran sneered behind his back, and then said something that made Liao Caichen creepy, "Then do you know how I treated Song Huan?" He should have regretted his choice before he died, because it was better to die at my hands than to let those people in the gambling house give him a good time. ”

"Song Huan is dead?" Liao Caichen's voice trembled violently, and it took a lot of effort to say a complete sentence.

"There were a lot of bamboo shoots in the woods, so I threw him in, six, no, seven, and his body was pierced with seven holes, but he couldn't die for a while. But I had patience, and I watched him and watched his blood flow out of his body little by little and seep into the earth. Do you know? I always can't get fat in that bamboo forest, and the yin in it is too heavy, so the bamboo is yellow, which is really annoying. ”

"Who are you?" Liao Caichen snorted, tears washing away the incense powder from his face, revealing the light brown skin underneath, making his face look a little more weird.

Qiu Ran's voice seemed to float in the air, and it didn't sound real, "Life is the same, death is the same hole, the play says that husband and wife should be like this, but you are one or two, why do you want to do this to me?" Why do you always run away from me? ”

"I thought of her, so even if I died, I hurried home. But why she wasn't sad at all, I even saw a hint of relief on her face. Is she so happy without me? ”

"And her, I was so good to her, but she had a private meeting with Wang'er behind my back. I killed Wang'er for her to change her mind, but she still wants to leave me, why? Why exactly? ”

Liao Caichen was still confused, but when he heard Qiu Ran say that he had killed Wang'er, he suddenly shook his head: How could it be? Just this afternoon, Wang'er drove a small boat to send himself to this big boat, but listening to Qiu Ran's meaning, Wang'er had already ruined his poisonous hands?

All this is crazy, Qiu Ran is crazy, everyone here is crazy, even he Liao Caichen is no exception. If he hadn't been crazy for that bit of gold, how could he not have discovered the strangeness here earlier, and he hadn't discovered that everyone here was a dead person who crawled out of the ground and was so cold.

The hull of the ship suddenly shook violently a few times, and Qiu Ran behind him stood unsteadily, fell to the side, and his fingers left Liao Caichen's neck. Liao Caichen didn't think about it, and the cat's waist flew to the open window on the side and jumped onto the deck outside.

The moment he escaped from the house, he was stunned, for the hull of the boat, which had been freshly painted in red silk, was now completely changed, the mast was broken in half, the wood on the deck was rotten, and in some places the deck was even cracked, revealing the raging river below.

This is simply an old ship that has been adrift for many years, decaying and will be swallowed by the current at any time, but why didn't he see it?

"Click"

Behind him there was the sound of wood breaking, as if someone had stepped on the deck, breaking the whitened planks that had been blistered with water. Liao Caichen's half-hanging heart seemed to float into the air all of a sudden, crispy and numb, and it was difficult to fall.

Turning his head with his neck stalked, he saw the people of the Qiu Mansion headed by Wang'er staggering towards him, some holding trays, some holding a stack of freshly cut out "Xi" characters, and some were empty-handed, looking in his direction with two empty eyes.

They all died, but they died very unwillingly, but they had to be at the mercy of Qiu Ran, and they still do so after so many years.

Just when Liao Caichen was frightened by these things that looked like people and didn't look like people, a figure suddenly appeared in the window next to him: Qiu Ran poked his head out from inside, he was wearing a blue-green dress, a plain silver belt, and a long-eared black gauze hat, and smiled at Liao Caichen.

"Lady, I'm already wearing new clothes, just waiting for you, lady."

As soon as his voice fell, the subordinates behind him lost their objects one by two, raised their arms, and walked towards Liao Caichen, who came up to grab him by the shoulders and wanted to bring him back to the room.

"Dead madman", Liao Caichen scolded in his heart, turned around and ran forward. Although the kung fu learned in the tea garden has been abandoned a lot, his legs and feet are relatively fast compared to ordinary people. But as soon as he ran a few steps, he felt that someone had blown a breath into his right ear, which was cold and smelly with a faint watery smell.

"Lady, are you going to leave me too? You're all the same, you're all heartless stuff. Qiu Ran's voice floated from behind him, and Liao Caichen knew that he was so close to him, so close that he almost fell on his back.

Liao Caichen cursed indiscriminately in his mouth some vulgar words that could not be elegant, as if this could relieve the nausea in his heart a little.

But the people behind him were completely unmoved, and Liao Caichen even heard Qiu Ran laughing, and there was a sense of obscenity and vulgarity in the laughter. Liao Caichen shook his soul hard, and at this moment, he really felt the fear, and he guessed what Qiu Ran wanted to do to himself, and a dense goosebump floated behind him.

"Crazy dead man, stay away from Lao Tzu."

Liao Caichen roared, and his elbow slammed back, trying to push Qiu Ran away.

He didn't hit anything, but a rotten deck under his feet broke with a "clatter". With a scream, his body slammed down, smashing through the deck at the bottom of the ship and falling into the water.