According to the old man, the murderous mansion was abandoned when he was a child. In front of him, although the house collapsed, the shadow left on the house did not dissipate at all.

About the murderous house, the old man told two stories.

The first story was told by others, and as for the storyteller, he had already turned into a pile of bones and buried in the barren hills.

The protagonist of the story is surnamed Ma, and he is a small merchant who sells needles and threads. There is no place to settle down all the year round, and then I feel that the place is good, and it is close to Luoyang City, so I want to settle down in this village. So I bought this house from the landlord by virtue of the relationship. At that time, the house was not as dilapidated as it is now, and the three large houses were all neatly organized, but the courtyard was a little desolate.

The old man said, and pointed to the osmanthus tree in the center of the yard that had not yet fallen: "This tree is said to have been planted by the merchant, after he bought this house, he cleaned up the debris in the yard, and then got this osmanthus tree from the outside." Now this osmanthus tree is still there, every autumn, this osmanthus fragrance can be smelled across the village, but the little merchant is long gone. ”

"Old man, can you tell a story? Such a suspense is a suspense, and those who really listen to it are anxious! Xing Ruyi said and pointed to the sky: "Look at this yin wind, if you don't finish the words in a hurry, I'm afraid that we won't have time to listen to your story." ”

The old man was also a little nervous, he took two puffs of dry tobacco, and his expression relaxed again: "On the day that the little merchant planted this osmanthus tree, he also officially lived in this house." In the middle of the night, I was in a hurry, so I got up and came out. At that time, the weather was not cold, and the little merchant was out all the year round, and he was used to sleeping in the open air, and he did not develop the habit of going to the toilet, so he looked for a corner in the yard in a daze.

As soon as this was resolved, he felt cold behind him, as if something was looking at him from behind. The little merchant thought it was a thief, so he turned around and glanced behind him.

This look, I almost didn't scare the little merchant to death! I don't know when there was a person standing in front of the door of the house, an old lady with a somewhat vague figure. Although this figure is a little blurry, but the face is extremely clear, the little merchant can clearly see the old lady's gloomy smile from such a distance, but most of the vague body is hidden in the darkness in front of the door, giving people a special weird and terrifying feeling.

The little merchant thought of that word in an instant, ghost! He was so frightened that he immediately tightened his pants, and without even mentioning it, he ran in the direction of the gate.

In our rural area, the door is not as particular as in the city when it is closed at night, and it is inserted casually with a wooden bolt. The door of the murderous house was the same, the little merchant ran to the door, and went to pull the bolt there, but I don't know if it was because he was afraid, the hands and feet kept calling, and the door was opened for a long time, but it was not opened smoothly.

At this time, the little merchant heard the sound of the watch outside, so he hurriedly shouted for help. He shouted as he looked behind him, lest the old lady with a grim smile suddenly appear in front of him. As a result, he found something even more terrible.

In addition to the figure of the old lady in the courtyard, there was one more person, standing in the corner where he had just made it convenient. It was a man with a fierce face, not taller than the courtyard wall, standing in the shadows, staring at him with a pair of eyes that had no eyeballs but only the whites of his eyes.

Just when the little merchant was about to fall to the ground, the door opened, and the watchman stood outside the door with a puzzled face. saw the little merchant crawl out of it, took a lantern to shine on his face, and then asked: How dare you live in this house? ”

"Why can't you live? And who is the old lady in the courtyard and the man with a fierce face? Siniang shuddered when she heard this, but there were Xing Ruyi and Li Mao here, and her curiosity about the whole thing outweighed her fear.

"When I heard this story, I was about seven or eight years old. The person who told us the story at that time was the man in charge of the shift in the village. I can't remember exactly what his surname is, but I know that he died later is quite strange. The old lady and the short man in the house were told to us by this husband.

The original owner of this house was surnamed Gou, who was engaged in a leather business in the city, and his family was quite rich. This person, once he has money, he will be infected with a lot of bad diseases, and this man surnamed Gou is the same, when he has money in his hand, he goes to visit the flower building, and then he contracted that bad disease, and he can't stay in the city anymore, so he took his daughter-in-law who had just become pregnant, that is, the lady you city people say, back to the village and built such a house.

Before the child was born, the man surnamed Gou fell ill and died. Therefore, since the birth of this child, it has been a mother and son. Because they have money in their families, they don't look down on these poor people around us, they are all alone on weekdays, and they don't have much interaction with people.

But even if it is a mountain of gold and silver, there are times when they are empty, and when this child becomes an adult, their Gou family will be considered down.

Until one early morning, the people in the village were suddenly awakened by the sound of firecrackers, and when the big guy heard it, it seemed that the Gou family was setting off firecrackers. When Mrs. Gou saw that people were almost here, she said that the girl was the daughter-in-law she was looking for for her son, and today should be a day of great joy.

Although the girl was helped with her hands and feet, she was able to speak. Seeing that the people in the village were all around, they immediately shouted for help. At that time, it was not as stable as it is now, there were still wars in many places, and there were often singles who bought a woman from outside and came back to be a wife. After all, the world is chaotic, there are many people's teeth, and there are many girls who are trafficked.

At that time, in our whole village, there were many poor families who sent their own girls to the city to be wives and concubines. Nominally, it was given away, but everyone knew in their hearts that this was selling people. At that time, it was not easy to live, so everyone was not surprised, no one would care about that idle matter, not to mention that this was still the idle matter of the Gou family, and it would be dispersed after watching the excitement. Anyway, the old lady of the Gou family wouldn't really set up a banquet for the big guys to eat.

About the girl in the Gou family, everyone talked about it for a few days, and no one mentioned it anymore, after all, she still had her own days to live, and she had to think about how to live every day. But it is said that the girl's temperament is very strong, and when she first arrived at Gou's house, she was beaten and scolded, and even ran away secretly a few times, but she was found and arrested by the child of Gou's family. If you don't run, you will be beaten and scolded more lightly, and when you run back, you will be beaten to death, but no matter how hard you beat, you will keep a breath, after all, you spend money to buy.

The mother and son of the Gou family were not the kind of people who were easy to get along with, especially the old lady Gou, who had been widowed since she was young and had a strange temper, so she tortured the girl in private. You know, their family used to be in the leather business, and this work of skinning and removing the hair of animals was also done by the old lady Gou when she was young, so she knew how to torture people and still save people's lives.

This time is more than half a year, and this girl has been making trouble for almost half a year, until she is pregnant. After having a child, the girl seemed to be quiet all of a sudden. When the weather is good, you can also see this girl doing laundry and cooking at Gou's house, helping the old lady Gou beat her shoulders and pinched her back. From spring to summer, from summer to autumn, in the blink of an eye it was time for the girl to give birth.

This woman has to find a stable woman when she gives birth, no matter how mean and difficult the old lady is to talk on weekdays, she is still interested in her grandson, and after locking the doors and windows that day, she went out to find Wen Po. There is no such stable woman in our village, but there is one in the next village, with good skills and always delivering male babies.

Originally, everyone thought that the Gou family was going to add another happy event next, but who knew that it would be a disaster. The old lady Gou came home after looking for her mother-in-law, and found that the girl was hanging on the beam of the house, and the death was said to be very terrifying, as for what the horror looked like, the husband didn't say, and he probably didn't see it, as for us, we can't imagine it, anyway, the girl is dead, and the child in her belly is also dead, and the old lady of the Gou family was scared to death on the spot!

A few days later, the child of the Gou family also died, and it is said that he heard the voice of Mrs. Gou calling him that night, and fell to his death when he went out to check. At that time, people also came to the official palace, and they all said that the death did not look like he fell to death, but seemed to be scared to death. When he died, his facial features were distorted, and he was still holding his stomach with one hand. When the officials turned him around, they found that this man was ...... He actually ripped out his intestines alive.

After the death of the mother and son of the Gou family, the house became the imperial court, and the land protector was the master of the sale. The first person to buy the house was another rich man in the village, and in order to get rid of bad luck, he also specially invited a Taoist priest to do it, and even the layout of the courtyard was changed. But not long after moving in, the man died, and when he died, the whole family was there, saying that he was eating, eating, and suddenly collapsed, and when he woke up again, he kept scratching his stomach with his hands, if it wasn't for the people in the family to stop him, I was afraid that he would be scratched. Then, in less than half a year, the family died.

Before the little merchant bought the house, there was another person who bought the house and bought it. Later, he also died, and it is said that the death looks the same. After that, this house will become a murderous house, a ghost house, and no one dares to live there. ”

"What about the girl who was bought back by the Gou family? Have the people in the government ever checked her origin? ”

(Education 123 Literature Network)