Chapter 17: The Haunted House Tragedy
Ling Fan smiled and bowed into the low bungalow, then turned back to Chu Tianyu and motioned for her to come in quickly. A speechless expression flashed on Chu Tianyu's face at this time, she didn't expect Ling Fan to open the old man's door in such a way, and let the old man open the door himself, she couldn't even think of it with a gun in this way, maybe even if Ling Feng didn't think of it, no, maybe she would think of it, but Ling Feng would definitely not use this way.
Thinking about it, Chu Tianyu still followed Ling Tong and walked into the low bungalow.
The interior of this small bungalow is very simple, with only a bed, a dining table, a few New Year paintings, and an old brown wardrobe with paint off. The old man was sitting on a small bench at this time, and Ling Fan was also sitting on the small bench with a smile on his face. Chu Tianyu saw that the bench was very dirty and sticky, so he didn't sit down, and stood straight behind Ling Fan, staring coldly at the strange old man in front of him.
"Old man, I know why you came here." The old man looked at Ling Fan, then sighed and said, "You guys are here for the haunted house!" ”
"Yes, sir, we're here for the haunted house, and we've heard some of the stories, but we want to know more about it." Ling Fan said straight to the point.
The old man looked at the gray and dilapidated haunted houses through the window and said slowly: "Speaking of which, this was also a year ago. It turned out that there was a family of four living in that building, the father's name was Zhang Desheng, the mother's name was Xu Cuilan, and they also had a pair of twin children, a boy and a girl, the younger brother was named Zhang Xiao, and the elder sister was called Zhang Ling, both children were senior high school students in Qingshui Town Middle School, and they learned and heard that it was not bad, and their sisters and brothers were also good-hearted, and they always sent me some good food and drink to the strange old man, and my younger brother Zhang Xiao always fed some food to the stray dogs nearby, it was really ...... for such a good sister and brother to die so young." Saying that, the old man sighed heavily, with an extremely regretful look in his eyes, and then said: "Although these two children are not born to Zhang Desheng and Xu Cuilan, they always treat the two children very well. ”
"Uncle, what did you just say?! Aren't the twin siblings the biological children of Zhang Desheng and Xu Cuilan?! Ling Fan suddenly interrupted the old man's memories.
"Oh, they're not, the biological father and mother of those two children have passed away a long time ago, leaving the entire building and a large inheritance to the two children, and entrusting Zhang Desheng and Zhang Cuilan to take care of the two children, and they have done it, doing very well, I often hear the sound of the family of four playing at home, which really makes me envious of this lonely old man." The old man's look of anticipation was presented on his face, it seemed that he was indeed a lonely person, and he should live on the country's subsistence allowance.
"On the day of the fire, did you see anything unusual in their house?" Ling Fan asked again.
"The strange thing that day, I think about it, seems to be not, the fire happened in the middle of the night, when the old man was already asleep. In the middle of the night, I was suddenly awakened by a disturbed and noisy voice, and was about to scold, but I was stunned by the scene outside the window, and the terrible fire came out of the window of the building, constantly spitting out flames like eating people, and faintly I seemed to hear the crazy laughter of someone in the room. The old man tried to recall, and the expression on his face became a little frightened.
"Uncle, can you hear who that laughing voice is?" Ling Fan didn't know why he was extremely interested in the sound of the wild laughter.
"I can't hear this clearly, it was late at night, and it was so drunk and restless outside, and the voice was so empty and ethereal, but it seemed to be a man's voice." The old man made a gesture of powerlessness, "Then the wild laughter suddenly disappeared, and then I heard a rush of sirens and the sound of fire trucks organizing to extinguish the fire, but the fire was so great that it took about four hours or so for them to put out the fire, and when they went up to the second floor to check, it was already burned inside, and what was even more frightening was that in the room on the second floor, they found ...... Their family of four was ...... The charred corpse ......" Speaking of this, the old man's eyes were a little moist, and his throat was choked and he couldn't speak.
Seeing the situation, Ling Fan hurriedly put the Coke in his hand on the table, and wanted to take out the tissue from his arms, but there was no none, and suddenly a tissue was handed to him by a slender hand, Ling Fan was stunned for a moment at the magnetic card Chu Tianyu, and then smiled and handed the tissue to the old man.
The old man looked at the tissue in his hand but it was useless, just held it with both hands, and said in a trembling voice: "I have seen this kind of soft tissue, just a few days before the fire, my younger brother suddenly ran to me and cried, crying very sadly, he used this soft tissue at that time." ”
Ling Fan suddenly caught another clue, and his younger brother cried! Ling Fan hurriedly asked, "Uncle, do you know why my brother came to you to cry?" ”
"This, I'm also strange, I asked him why he came alone, he came together on weekdays, what about my sister? He said, "My sister was sick, very sick, as if she was about to die," and then she lay down on the seat where you were sitting and cried. ”
The caring twin siblings, the stepparents who treated them well, the serious illness of the elder sister, the crying of the younger brother before the fire, the sudden fire in the middle of the night, the man's laughter in the fire, the four corpses, these are some of the clues to the haunted house obtained today, no matter how hard Ling Fan tries to hypothesize, he can't connect them together, because this is indeed a very strange case.
Ling Fan asked again, "What's the matter with the haunted building at the end of the old man?" ”
Speaking of haunting, the old man's face changed, and he trembled: "Maybe it's the resentful spirit of the family of four who were burned alive, since then I have often seen faint lights coming from that building, at first I thought it was just a car passing by and shining lights into the house, until one day I personally experienced it and really believed that the building was really haunted!" ”
"Uncle, tell me, what is your personal experience?" Ling Fan had already been a little unconvinced of the ghosts, but now that he had experienced it personally, he certainly hoped to find some clues from these haunted things.
"Speaking of which, it was one night half a year ago, and I went out for a little drink that day, so I came back late. There was no moonlight that day, and I had only a flashlight in my hand, and as I passed by the room, I suddenly saw a bright light streak through it, and then from there came a sound of footsteps. Maybe it was the strength of the wine, and I didn't feel scared at the time, just curious, and then I approached the door of the building with a flashlight, pushed the door open, and shone the flashlight in all directions but didn't find anyone, just as I turned around and was about to leave, guess what sound I heard?! The old man's face turned pale, his lips trembled slightly, and his cloudy eyes revealed a sense of horror.