Chapter 20: Nine Deaths
Li Juan lives in an old-fashioned attic in the center of the county, and most of this residential area is old houses from the thirties of the 20th century.
But if you get into it from an inconspicuous alley, it's like passing through the gate of time and space in an instant, and a few steps away from half a century. There are usually few people here, and most of the residents are young people who have just arrived in the city, or old residents who are financially strapped and cannot move out.
Li Juan belongs to the latter group, and the position of museum director looks glamorous, but the meager salary is not enough to cover the expenses of Li Juan's parents in the hospital.
Li Juan just divorced her husband a few years ago, her parents were diagnosed with terminal cancer, and last month her daughter failed the college entrance examination and needed to repeat it, all the bad things followed, Li Juan's fortune has been carried to the extreme, she is frustrated and has not died at home until now, which also shows that her life is not bad, and it is not easy to survive until now.
Hou San guessed that this trip might not be easy before he came, and told me to prepare a peach wood sword, chicken blood, talisman seal, and Taoist robe, and he went back to Guan Li to take the yin and yang mirror, and then followed me to Li Juan's house. In retrospect, this is the first time that the two of us have teamed up to face such a supernatural event.
When we arrived, Li Juan was sitting downstairs, it seemed that she had been waiting for us for a while, she was a little surprised to see the equipment we were carrying, but she didn't ask anything, Li Juan encountered something she also knew very well, if she could really use science to explain her recent experience, then it would not be possible to invite me and Hou San over.
Following Li Juan into the house, the house had no furniture, all kinds of books were stacked on top of each other, and there was no place to sit, so Hou San and I simply sat on the pile of books.
Li Juan smiled a little crampedly: "I'm sorry, there's no hot water." ”
Hou San waved his hand, got up and walked around the room a few times, Li Juan looked like she hadn't been at home for several days, the quilt on the bed was crumpled together, there were still messy clothes, shoes and socks at the door, and there were a bunch of bracelets, sachets, and talismans on the bedside that were messily entangled.
The talisman was opened by the master in Qinglian Temple, and ordinary people can't ask for this kind of good thing, it seems that Li Juan also understands that what she encountered is not ordinary, but unfortunately this thing is completely useless.
The talisman is used to ward off evil spirits, and what Li Juan is encountering now is obviously not something that is easier to clean up like evil qi.
Li Juan pointed to the corner of the bed and said to Hou San: "I was here and saw that thing......"
"What's that?"
"A woman in red...... Female ghost ......"
Hou San frowned, turned his face and asked me, "Senior brother, did you see anything after you came in?" ”
I shook my head: "Nothing." ”
This house is very clean, there is no earth binding spirit or anything like that, originally I thought that Li Juan's frustration could be found in her home, but now it seems that the source of frustration is not here.
"Indeed, there is nothing unusual in this room." Hou San stood in front of the bed and looked at it, and said after a while: "It's not necessarily a good thing that you can't see anything unusual." ”
"Come, senior brother, help me lift the bed away......"
I don't know what Hou San is going to do when he lifts the bed, and I want to ask Li Juan's opinion, but I found that Li Juan is already standing at the other end of the bed, this woman has no opinion now, I am sure that even if Hou San says that she wants to demolish her house now, Li Juan will not stop it, and the two of us are the last straw for this poor woman......
This bed is the old-fashioned mahogany bed in the past, both clumsy and heavy, Hou San and I took a lot of effort to move this bed away, the dust under the bed was piled up in a thick layer, and some confetti and coins fell inside, and there was a black and mushy thing in the middle, lying in the dust with a faint fishy smell, when Li Juan saw the appearance of the thing clearly, she couldn't help but sit on the ground in fright, and it seemed that the whole person was paralyzed.
It was a black cat that had just died, and he crawled into the room from nowhere, got under the bed, and was wrapped around his neck by wool, and he couldn't break free, and finally rotted under the bed.
The wool almost completely strangled the cat's neck, leaving only a finger's width of flesh still connected, so that it would not be in a different place, but how could the cat be strangled to death by the wool? Looking at the force on the neck, it seems that there is a force that pulls the two ends of the rope and strangles the black cat to death......
"It is said that cats have nine lives, but they were entangled to death by a ball of wool under your bed, and they died nine times in one night, so resentful, Li Juan, what are you getting on?"