Although Xiangyun Hotel has an auspicious character, it is too inauspicious on this stormy night today.

A burst of lightning flashed, followed by a deafening thunder, the colored lights on the hotel's signboard were still flashing with a stingy light, at this time, I don't know whether I was afraid of thunder, or was poured into the rain, "squeak" a few sparks, then extinguished and never lit again, and then the 100-watt light bulb under the corridor also followed the "boom" sound, exploded.

After a while, the glass door of the hotel opened, and the body of the proprietress leaned out of it, she was a thin middle-aged woman, about fifty years old, she looked at the light bulb slag broken on the ground, sighed, and said, "It's raining tonight, what kind of evil is this?" Let's hope everything goes well tonight and we don't make any more trouble. ”

After saying that, he turned around and took out a broom from the room, and swept the broken light bulb clean in the dark.

There was another thunderclap, and the bright light not only illuminated the half-white hair and wrinkles on the forehead of the proprietress but also illuminated a middle-aged man standing behind the proprietress .

This middle-aged man seemed to be summoned by this lightning, he appeared silently behind the proprietress without saying a word, and his dead fish-like eyes stared directly at the broom in the proprietress hand.

The proprietress was slightly taken aback when she turned around and saw him, and hurriedly said, "What are you running out for, are you ...... Aren't you afraid that God will thunder and chop you? Get in, get in. ”

The man was unmoved, slowly looked up at the dark sky, and said word by word in a hoarse voice: "Old woman, in the next life, we can't be greedy for cheap and open the hotel on this deserted highway, otherwise we will ......"

"Got it," the proprietress interrupted him, "how many times have you said that?" ”

Another flash of lightning flashed, and through this strong light, the proprietress saw through the rain curtain a figure on the highway not far away, and a figure rushed towards this side.

"It's not good, this man should be staying, old man, let's go in and close the door, we must not let him stay here at night." The proprietress turned around and said.

But she found that her old man was sitting silently on the sofa next to the welcome desk in the blink of an eye.

The figure ran very fast, and before the proprietress could close the glass door, he had already run up the corridor and shouted at the proprietress: "Boss, what are you closing?" I'm here to stay and you'll clean the door when you see me, what's the point? ”

This is a young man in his early twenties, dignified appearance, strong physique, but his face is a little white as paper, it should be because he has been doused by the torrential rain, his whole person has been poured into a soup chicken, his clothes are attached to his body, and there is water flowing down his trouser legs, which is poured into the white travel shoes, and the cold makes people feel that he has peed his pants.

His hair had become a bird's nest, and his handsome face had been greatly diminished.

He was running in the rain with his travel bag just now, so his travel bag was already wet and miserable, and at this moment he just wanted to change his clothes, but he couldn't turn out a clean one.

In any way, the young man had to find a place to rest, and could no longer run wild in the rain, although it was now July, but the climate here seemed to be unusually cold, and a gust of east wind blew, and the young man shivered with cold, and his teeth chattered.

But the proprietress was determined not to let him enter the hotel, and said hurriedly: "No, young man, you must not stay here tonight, I don't want to say more about the reason, anyway, our hotel is no longer in business, you better find another place to stay." ”

Saying that the door was about to close, the young man saw this, hurriedly grabbed the door, and said noisily: "There are still seven or eight miles into the city here, and there is not even a dog kennel nearby except for your hotel, where do you let me stay?" Besides, I am an upright hotel, and I have an ID card to register you, so why do you push guests out? ”

He relied on himself to be a big man, clung to the door tightly, and let the proprietress exert her strength to feed, and did not want to close the door again.

The proprietress felt that this person was bullying her, and she was even more annoyed, grabbing the young man's chest and pushing it out, and kept saying, "Anyway, you are not allowed to enter the door, I ...... I'm doing this for your own good. ”

The young man felt that this push and pull was too unreasonable, so he said loudly to the boss on the sofa: "You are in charge, take care of your daughter-in-law, this ...... What is this? It's not like I don't live in a hotel and don't give money. ”

The boss showed an unusually weird smile and said slowly: "Young man, listen to my wife, there are demons and monsters in my shop, you better leave quickly." ”

"Demons and monsters?" The young man laughed, "What demons and monsters will I, Lin Hao, be afraid of?" To tell you the truth, I was in the graveyard when I was five years old......"

"Don't say it, if you believe us, leave." The proprietress didn't allow Lin Hao to finish speaking at all.

Lin Hao saw that the proprietress was crazy and pushed herself out, and he was inconvenient to resist, so he was pushed into the rain again. The proprietress threw him his travel bag, with sympathy in her eyes, and sighed: "My wife never wants to see anyone die here again." ”

Probably the rain was too loud, Lin Hao didn't hear this, and then pleaded with her: "Then let me take shelter from the rain under your eaves, the rain stops, and I will leave immediately." It's always okay, right? ”

"No, you can't." The hostess said it was heartless.

"Fuck your uncle's crazy bitch." Lin Hao scolded, "What a bullshit Xiangyun Hotel, it's better to call the Stinky Cloud Hotel to pull it down." ”

He put his travel bag on his head and was about to leave, when he saw a woman in yellow come out of it and asked, "Why is it so noisy?" Is it someone who wants to stay in the hotel? ”

The proprietress pointed to Lin Hao in the rain and replied, "He is clamoring for accommodation, and I won't let him in." He said to Lin Hao again: "Don't look at it, let's go quickly." ”

The woman in yellow glanced at Lin Hao and said to the proprietress, "It's okay, let him in." ”

The proprietress was stunned: "Didn't you say that I should guard the door tonight and no one will be allowed to live in?" ”

The woman in yellow smiled slightly and said, "It's raining so hard, I can't bear to throw people in the rain." ”

When Lin Hao heard this, he didn't wait for the proprietress to agree, and hurriedly went into the living room. sneered, and said to the proprietress: "See, your daughter is much more reasonable than you." ”

The proprietress rolled her scorched eyes and frowned, "What nonsense are you talking about?" Master Tang is a master outside the sky, how can he be my daughter? ”

She suddenly realized that this was wrong, and hurriedly changed her words: "Master Tang is a noble person who I can't invite for any amount of money, don't talk nonsense." ”

This "Master Tang" is about thirty years old, although she is no longer a girl, without the innocence and innocence of a girl, but she is still charming, full of energy, she seems to be doing some dirty work, there is some dust on her clothes, but she can't hide her high-end generosity, her whole person is so neat, whether it is the soft ponytail, or this dark yellow tights, and her whole person matches each other.

Her eyes were bright and magnetic, Lin Hao was unconsciously attracted by these beautiful big eyes, and couldn't help but take a few more looks.

"I think I heard you say what your name is Lin?" Master Tang smiled lightly and asked Lin Hao.

Her intoxicating smile made Lin Hao feel soaked in the hot spring, his whole body was warm, and his wet clothes seemed to have dried up a lot, and it was like a hearty stream of ice water, which extinguished all the flames that the proprietress gave him just now.

"Lin Hao." Lin Hao replied tightly, "I am from Shanxi, the first time I came to Xuancheng, I came to find a job to support my ......, I came to look for a job, who knew that the bus I was on did not enter Xuancheng at all and threw me on the side of the road." You look at this rotten weather, deliberately against me, thunder and lightning ......, well, thank you...... Thank you sister for taking me in. ”

Just now, he was angry with the proprietress about why he didn't let him stay in the hotel, and now it seems that it is completely Sister Tang's gift to let him in.

But Master Tang was not interested in his origin at all, and only asked, "Which 'Hao' character?" ”

"That's it...... It's a Japanese word ...... on it, so let's show you my ID card. ”

Before he could take out his ID card, Master Tang asked, "Ri Tianhao?" ”

"Hmm...... Hey, hey......, yes, yes. ”

Master Tang said the word "day and day" so directly that Lin Hao felt embarrassed. But Master Tang put away his smile and said very seriously: "Like the sun in the sky, the yang is prosperous and the yin is declining, the clouds are clear, and the charm is gone." Good name, good name. ”

Lin Hao asked puzzledly: "Sister, what are you talking about?" ”

"Master Tang said your name is very good." The proprietress interjected.

Lin Hao rubbed his nose and laughed twice, he didn't know how to deal with it, he didn't understand that the name that his mother gave himself when she was sitting on the kang had a magical effect in Master Tang's opinion.

Master Tang said to the proprietress: "Auntie, you clean up a guest room for him and let him live first." ”

"Hey, okay."

The proprietress said yes and went to work.

Master Tang turned around and walked up the stairs, and said to Lin Hao as he walked, "Remember not to run around at night. ”

Lin Hao asked mischievously, "What about me going to the toilet?" ”

"Just settle it in your own room."

Master Tang ignored him and went straight up to the second floor. Lin Hao saw that there was a Taoist priest embroidered on her yellow short-sleeved back, and a dancer had a sword, and the sword seemed to be carrying a piece of paper, and her movements were dashing and drifting. On the left side of the Taoist priest are also embroidered with three italicized characters "Tiandemen".

When Master Tang went up the stairs, Lin Hao's respectful face immediately changed color and became disdainful, and he muttered in his mouth: "Young women and Taoists don't learn well, so they have to pretend to be Taoist aunts to cheat money." Shameless. The bad idea of not letting people stay in the hotel is all up to you. ”

Lin Hao is not a fool, as soon as he enters the door, he finds that something is wrong, a red rope is tied to the railing of the stairs every thirty-three centimeters, this rope seems to be soaked in cinnabar, there are seven or eight guest rooms in the corridor, and this yellow rune paper is posted on each door. In addition, there were sixteen maroon candles burning at the staircase, entrance, window, and other places in the living room, and each flame was like a firefly.

The living room is brightly lit, I don't know what it means to light such an inconspicuous candle?

Besides, the floor of the living room was white and black, exuding a choking smell, and Lin Hao smelled it as soon as he entered the door. The white powder is obviously lime, and the black powder, if you guess correctly, should be charcoal. The Master Tang just now had charcoal ash on his clothes.

Lin Hao really can't understand, now the scammers are all full of tricks, the flickering boss and his wife are around, and a liar like "Master Tang" can only deceive a fifty-year-old feudal woman, otherwise he will be laughed out of his big teeth. What inn has gobliokes? It's completely the wind released by this shameless woman, and then pretending to be a good person as a Taoist aunt to exorcise demons.

He was about to quietly go upstairs to see what Master Tang was doing when the proprietress came over.

"Young man, I cleaned up a room for you, you barely stay overnight, remember, Master Tang just instructed, don't go out and run around at night."

"Got it." Lin Hao agreed casually.

The thunderstorm outside had no intention of stopping, and a lightning bolt followed a lightning bolt, and a thunderbolt followed a thunderbolt, which made people upset.

Suddenly, Lin Hao realized a strange thing, what about the boss? I remember that when the boss pushed him out, the boss was still sitting on the sofa, but since Lin Hao entered the living room just now, the boss has never appeared, which is definitely not normal.

When did he disappear?