Chapter 164: Exploring the Ancient Mansion
The shopkeeper thought I was scared, handed me a cigarette and said, "Little brother, if you want to eat anything, just ask, the shop opposite is opened by one of my brothers, and everything delicious is not expensive." Let's not eat this big crab, it's not that I blow this thing and the dog won't eat it. ”
The shopkeeper said as he pinched out a crab and trampled it to death, and threw it to the big yellow dog who closed his eyes and recuperated on the side.
The big yellow dog noticed that someone had been startled by its good dreams, and looked at me with disgust, then looked down and sniffed the crab, got up and continued to lie down with his eyes closed.
"See? That's it! The shopkeeper reluctantly picked up the crab and threw it into the bag and said, "Let's throw it in the trash." ”
I saw that this was really the case, and nodded again and again and said, "Then you can fry a few plates for me at your old buddy." ”
Then I ordered a few plates of meals with a mixture of dark and vegetarian food, and went upstairs with a complicated mood, and as soon as I entered the door, Xiaoyue looked at me expectantly and asked, "Ready?" ”
"No, let's eat something else later!" I went back to bed with a wrinkled face and lay down, not to mention how bad it was! It's not that I feel sorry for the hundred or so yuan, but I think that Director Zhang and they are very likely to be more auspicious!
As soon as I talked about money, I remembered one more thing, and hurriedly took out the fifty yuan from the cloth pocket that the old fisherman had just asked me for.
"Mom! Ghost money! ”
I looked at the ghost banknotes with a face value of four or five zeros in the back, and I almost didn't take my breath. I was bullied by a ghost!
As night fell, we slipped out quietly after dinner. Satsuki seemed to be doing this for the first time, and she was very excited, so I wasn't embarrassed to ask her to go back.
We turned left and right into a small remote alley, where a row of old houses lived by most of the elderly who were half a hundred years old, so this place was particularly deserted compared to the lively street just now.
These old houses are in disrepair and have a great sense of vicissitudes, and a few sparse lights seem to pull our thoughts to that stormy era.
At this time, a gust of wind blew the fallen leaves on the ground, and the wooden planks that were about to fall out of nowhere were also blowing.
"Wow, wow, wow, ......"
A frightened bird also flew out of the Shang family's ancient house.
The ancient house of the Shang family is a lonely courtyard-style wooden building, two stories high. It is said that the surrounding buildings have been divided and demolished in the Red Era, leaving only this haunted house that no one wants to move for Shang Yulin.
"Master He, is there still a light in that room?"
Zhang Jun straightened his arm sideways and pointed to one of the huts on the second floor of the ancient mansion.
I also noticed that there was a slight light in the carved wooden window, and there seemed to be a candle there.
"Let's go over and have a look."
With that scene in the morning, I was now a little timid, and I unconsciously turned around and grabbed Satsuki's hand, trying to use my perception to get a little comfort from her.
Of course, Zhang Jun didn't know, he slept all day today and was in good spirits, and he was the first to walk towards the ancient building.
The old building was dilapidated but sturdy, and the two carved wooden doors were tightly locked by a rusty iron chain and a large lock.
Zhang Jun picked up the big lock and looked at it, obviously it was not advisable to violently open the lock here, so he turned his attention to me for help.
I asked Satsuki to stay alone for a while, then removed a small bunch of keys, and used one of the small wires to fumble in the lock cylinder for a while, finding the lock position and pulling it hard.
It's not open!
It's not that I'm not capable, but this lock has already rusted to death after wind and rain, and it is obviously impossible to open it without making a little noise!
"Forget it, let's go over the wall!" After saying that, I saw Xiaoyue and regretted it, how can I take the lead in teaching my daughter-in-law to climb over the wall? This is simply too inconsistent with Satsuki's ladylike image.
"Then I'm going home."
Satsuki understood my mind and got into the bracelet in the blink of an eye. In fact, I also know why Xiaoyue is reluctant to stay inside, the reason is very simple, because Xie Hong and the others have all been left in Hongyuan Mansion by me, and being alone inside is obviously no different from confinement.
We chose a lower building and climbed up to the roof by a human ladder, and the strange thing was that the window with the light had fallen into darkness, and there seemed to be a large black coffin parked in the middle of the gloomy courtyard.
"Oh, Mom, this Shang Yulin is really a weirdo! There was such a large coffin in the middle of the courtyard. As soon as Zhang Jun came up, he rode on the roof and said.
I motioned for Zhang Jun to be quiet, then pointed to the second-floor corridor not far away, and whispered, "Let's go up from here." ”
After confirming that there was no abnormality, I quietly stepped on the roof tiles to the ridge of the house, which was only a gap more than a meter wide from the corridor on the second floor, which was not an obstacle to me.
I leaned forward in gravity, and as I was about to grasp the wooden railing of the hallway, I grabbed a round wooden post with one hand.
The arms were lifted up with a hard blow, and then the other arm was buckled to the railing, and a pull-up rolled up and rolled down the hallway.
After that, I squatted in a dark place to observe that no one was there before I waved my hand at Zhang Jun, and Zhang Jun also turned over in the same action as before.
After a short break, we leaned against the wall, moving little by little, hoping that this dark corner would bring us enough concealment.
"Squeak!"
With a turn of the wooden door, we all stopped, our pupils dilated to the extreme, hoping to catch a little wind and grass in this dark night! But we were disappointed, and no matter how we looked at it, we found nothing alive.
After a long time I tried to move again, and behind me were closed and locked rooms, and I checked them one by one, but found no trace of them being opened.
Just as the hallway entered the ninety-degree corner, I found a carved wooden door that was not tightly closed, and I guess it was the sound of the door opening.
I turned around and made a warning gesture to Zhang Jun, then felt the short sword on my waist with my hand, and leaned towards the door little by little.
Leaning against the door, I peeked through the crack in the door and saw that the room was indeed lit with a white candle, but it was blocked by a screen.
I searched quickly and found that this was a well-dressed embroidery room, and there was a picture of a bride wearing a red cheongsam on the wall, with a big red hijab on her head, and a clever mouth looming, which at first glance looked very much like Xiaoyue.
But she's not Satsuki, and although she's beautiful, what I see is more bewitching. If you don't believe it, just the cheongsam with a slit that reaches the base of the thigh, and the bare half of the thigh is enough to explain the problem.
"What's wrong with Master He?"
Zhang Jun couldn't help but come over when he saw that I hadn't moved for a long time.
(End of chapter)