At seven o'clock in the evening, it was completely dark.

In the main hall of the Ruan family's mansion, Lu Li, Liu Hui, and Bai Baihua sat around a mahogany table, while the unsociable Xu Huairou sat in the guest seat next to him, putting one small foot on the other chair.

"Hey, surnamed Lu, what the hell is that little white face doing?" Bai Yueling looked at Li Changjing, who was sweeping the floor outside the door, and asked questions about the doubts that had been suppressed for several hours.

"I don't know." Lu Li replied truthfully. Since he came in the afternoon, Li Changjing seemed to be a different person, without saying a word, he took a broom in the corner of the wall and began to sweep the floor, and also wiped all the furniture in the main hall covered with a thick layer of dust, otherwise everyone present would not even have a place to sit.

It's just strange to say, this courtyard house has obviously passed nearly a hundred years, but the furniture in the house is readily available, although many iron things have decayed, but some porcelain pots and pans have been preserved, especially mahogany or hardwood tables, chairs, cabinets, beds in the room, etc., most of them are undamaged, but covered with a thick layer of ash.

The Ruan family's mansion said that it is not big, it is not small, it should be thousands of square meters, after six people came in in the afternoon, they checked the entire courtyard inside and out, and did not see any big snakes, but the ground was full of garbage, like a garbage dump, which should be brought in by those outsiders who explored.

When he came back for the last time, he carried a bag of rice, two fish, a chicken, a few Chinese cabbage, and some pork, saying that he had bought it from the villagers, and after putting the dustpan away, he went into the kitchen.

Bai Yueling said with a pale face: "What does that little white face want to do, is it difficult to live here?" Dozens of people died in this house! ”

Everyone present was surprised by Li Changjing's behavior, but Xu Huairou was heartless, chased Li Changjing into the kitchen, and did not help him clean up, but pointed to the chicken on the ground and said: "The surname is Li, Miss Ben wants to eat roast chicken, roast like she did on the island before!" ”

Li Changjing took out all the dishes and chopsticks in the cupboard, began to clean, did not raise his head, and said, "You can eat if you want, but you have to help me light the fire." ”

Xu Huairou sneered, "I'm a dignified body, you actually asked me to help you light the fire?" I'll tell you, surnamed Li, anyway, Miss Ben wants to eat roast chicken tonight, you hurry up and make it for me, if you starve me, I can't spare you! After putting down the threat, she swaggered out with her hands on her hips and her head held high.

Li Changjing didn't care either, he was still busy with himself.

At about nine o'clock in the evening, Li Changjing cooked a meal, a whole chicken, half of which was used for frying and half for roasting; Two fish are fried, one is stewed, and there is also a green vegetable, a green pepper fried meat, although it is not particularly hearty, but it looks very good, the aroma is overflowing, and with a bowl of steaming rice, it actually aroused everyone's appetite, even Bai Yueling, a woman with a knife mouth, rarely did not mock, and ate two large bowls in a row.

Xu Huairou was still sitting next to her, with her back to the others, and kept nibbling on half of the roast chicken with that cherry mouth, which seemed to be too fragrant, and then Li Changjing brought her a bowl of fish soup, and the dignified Miss Xu actually said thank you to him, so scared that Li Changjing almost couldn't even hold the bowl steadily.

Lu Li was full of praise for Li Changjing's cooking skills, and said that he had to ask him for advice when he had time.

When everyone had eaten almost enough, Li Changjing put the bowl on the table and said softly: "You have also seen that there are no big snakes in this house at all, and they are all spread by falsehood. After eating, you should hurry up, and you should still be able to find a car into Xuchang City outside the village. ”

Lu Li was surprised: "Brother Li, aren't you going with us?" ”

Li Changjing shook his head, "I still have some things to do, so I have to stay." He walked to the door of the main hall, looked at the darkening sky in the sky, looked a little anxious, and urged: "Let's go quickly, it should be raining heavily in a while." ”

Lu Li wanted to say something, but at this moment, the newly installed light bulb above his head suddenly exploded with a "pop", and sparks flew everywhere, causing Bai Yueling to scream in fright, "What's the matter!?" ”

Immediately afterwards, the other light bulbs in the mansion also burst one by one, and after losing their light, the courtyard fell into complete darkness, and the five fingers could not be seen.

Bai Yueling was so frightened that she took out her newly bought mobile phone, and as soon as she turned on the flashlight, she heard a sound of breaking the air in her ears, which flew her mobile phone out and fell under the wall in the distance, falling apart.

"This is my fruit fork, it's so expensive!" Bai Yueling's harsh scolding came from the darkness.

"Be careful, there's something around!" Bai Tianhua's voice rang out, "Listen carefully? ”

Hearing his words, everyone stopped talking, held their breath, and sure enough, they heard something crawling next to their ears, squirming, like the sound of a long object dragging on the ground, saying that it was not far away, saying that it was not close, as if it was under their feet, but the next moment it became far away, which was simply numb, and it was chilling.

"It's obviously a snake crawling!" Bai Yueling screamed: "I can't help it, I want to leave here!" ”

As she spoke, she walked in the direction of the door, but the next moment, she screamed, her body seemed to have been hit by something, she fell to the side, knocked over several chairs in succession, and made a deafening loud noise.