"My husband died young, and there were no heirs in the family, so I lived in the whole house alone. My room was on the first floor, and the second floor above it had been empty for many years. You look like you're a student on a trip, right? How did you come to our poor place? "The hostess of the house looked to be thirty-five years old, and she still had a sense of charm, and she spoke Mandarin with a local accent.

"We studied history and did some research on the history of the local situation so that we could finish our graduation thesis." Zhang Chen hadn't figured out how to answer, but he didn't expect Xiang Yun, who had been thinking about things along the way, to give an answer that would have the best of both worlds.

"It's no wonder that our Luohe Town is indeed relatively old. Ask me anything about it, I'm kind of born and raised here. I'll take you upstairs first. ”

The hostess was extremely charming, but Zhang Chen didn't have any strange eyes, she just followed the other party upstairs.

Walking in the corridor, Zhang Chen thought that the room where the hostess lived alone would not have more time to clean the first floor, but the handrails on the stairs were very clean. This situation can't help but make Zhang Chen think of the old woman who hid her daughter's body in Xiashui Village, Jinxi County when she first became a prison envoy, but there is a little difference, the old woman is crazy because of her daughter's death, but the hostess is extremely normal.

"Although the second floor has not been occupied for many years, I clean it every week to make the house look clean. Unfortunately, I just cleaned it once yesterday. The hostess walked in front and said charmingly.

The structure of the second floor is simple, divided into two rooms, left and right. One large and one small, as well as a corridor connecting the two rooms.

"Three girls sleep in the big room on the right, and two big boys squeeze into the small room on the left. We don't have any wiring here, so the TV in the town can't be used, and if you need hot water, you can come downstairs to boil, and the toilet is also on the first floor. I'll go down and prepare dinner first, and you can tidy up your things, and you can come downstairs for dinner in half an hour. ”

"Thank you, hostess, we may stay with you for two days at most, will we give you the money now?" Zhang Chen said very politely.

"Don't be in a hurry, lad. I'll come back later. The hostess turned around. When he spoke, he also discharged Zhang Chen.

"Wow!" Zhang Chen felt a sharp pain in his back, and Wang Yizhi's hand twisted the flesh just right.

"I know that staring, it's just an old woman, I haven't seen you look at me like this. Don't hurry up and admit your mistake. "Wang Yizhi's jealousy habit is here again.

"Sister Yizhi. The small one is wrong. ”

"Hmph. Let's go in and tidy up. Wang Yizhi pulled the faintly smiling insect firefly and the impermanent Wan Yue into the room of the three of them, and Zhang Chen and Xiao Ni also entered the small room on the left as the hostess said.

"Huh? Although the furniture is a little old, it looks very clean and fresh. But this bed is a little too small! Zhang Chen looked at the small bed in front of him with a width of just one meter and five, and looked at Xiao Ni on the side very meaningfully.

"Rest assured, it should be no problem for us to squeeze at night." Xiao Ni said very seriously with a face as usual.

"Well, I thought you were going to say let me sleep alone...... Forget it. Zhang Chen said that it was the first time he was squeezed into the same bed with Xiao Ni.

"Master, don't you notice something strange about this place?" Nirvana asked.

"Oh? Is there anything else wrong with the mass grave other than the previous mass grave? Zhang Chen asked rhetorically.

"I'm just curious why the people here seem to be out of step with the times in the first place, as if they were born and raised in this paradise, right?"

"Huh?" Zhang Chen still didn't understand what Xiao Ni meant.

"The owner may have been looking for the inn and guarding against the ghosts sent by the website to attack us, and failed to notice the subtle anomalies in the town. From the time we entered the town to the time we moved in, I observed that the people of the town behaved very strangely, not like people who had lived here for a long time. ”

"Oh? How so? ”

"In front of a brick house, an old man came out of the house as if looking for something, only to find that it was behind his door. However, when a woman with a child cooks at home, she is also very rusty with raw firewood to burn the fire, and she can't find the dishes and chopsticks to put there, and there are many similar details. ”

"Little Nirvana, do you mean that the inhabitants here are not locals?"

"It's possible, of course it's just speculation, I wonder how much the master knows about our purpose this time?"

"According to the editor-in-chief of the news agency, the person lived in an orphanage here as a child and left when he was ten years old."

"That's all you know?"

"Yes, and it's only one day, so ask the proprietress when you have dinner later."

When Zhang Chen was arranging some daily necessities, he was thinking about the problem that Xiao Ni said before, and accidentally dropped the toothbrush on the ground. When Zhang Chen bent down to pick up the toothbrush that had fallen on the side of the bed, he happened to see a photo stuck under the bed board.

The photo shows a husband and wife together.

"Huh? Is this the hostess with her husband? Why didn't you feel as good as you do now when you were younger? Finding nothing out of the ordinary, Zhang Chen put the photo in an empty drawer.

"Ahh A scream came from the dormitory next door where Wang Yizhi's three girls were.

Zhang Chen stepped over in an instant, and as soon as the door opened, Wang Yizhi and Xiang Yun leaned against the wall in horror and looked in a certain direction in the room.

"Is it possible...... Fireflies! Zhang Chen thought that something had happened to Worm Firefly, and when he turned his head to look over, Worm Flyer stood in place like a little girl who didn't know why, clinging to a long-legged spider on her slender arm.

"Firefly, throw it out of the room, it's scared to death."

Zhang Chen suddenly realized that the two girls were frightened by the spider who broke into the room by mistake, but the insect firefly treated the spider as if she were her friend, and let it crawl around on her hands.

"Oh." The insect firefly nodded obediently and carefully placed the big spider on the windowsill, as if there was some communication between the two, and the big spider crawled away on its own.

"Sister Firefly, you're so amazing! Wouldn't that spider get that little red pimple on your arm? Xiang Yun seemed to have changed back to the stupid female man she used to be, and asked stupidly.

"No, spiders are friends of humans. It also came here to see pests in the room, and it won't hurt us. ”

"Alright, you girls are ready to come down for dinner." Zhang Chen smiled helplessly and shook his head and left the room.

Half an hour later, everyone met on the first floor, and there were six small dishes of the peasant family on some old wooden tables, and the rice was also cooked over a wood fire, which had a unique flavor. The six of them sat at the dinner table, talking, laughing and eating, and the atmosphere was happy.

"Boss, your skills are really good, you don't have any meat to cook the dishes so fragrant. By the way, I don't know what your name is, boss? In order to get some information from the hostess, Zhang Chen had a good relationship with the hostess under the pressure of Wang Yizhi.

"What an old man is not a boss, I am a village woman named Chen Qing. Seeing that you are not young, just call me Sister Chen. The hostess pulled her straight black hair and said very charmingly.

"I wonder how long Sister Chen has lived here?"

"I also married my husband, and I have been here for almost 20 years, counting the two years before I got married." Although the hostess did not express her regret for the death of her husband, the tone of her voice was as if she were recounting her own experience.

"I don't know, Sister Chen, have you ever heard that you used to have an orphanage here?" Zhang Chen directly asked the key to the problem.

"An orphanage? When did it happen? ”

"It's early, maybe the sixties and seventies, right? I don't know if Sister Chen knows? ”

"I don't know about orphanages in the sixties and seventies, but I've heard my husband say that something big happened here at that time. A public building built by the government of a country was set on fire, and the impact on the whole town was particularly great, and the mayor of the town was dismissed, I don't know if it was about the orphanage you were talking about. ”

"Killed by fire? Does Sister Chen know where the location is? ”

"It seems to be on the road east of the town, and by the way, there is a rice shop, which is very conspicuous. The place where the fire burned should be near the rice store, I don't know the specifics, you can go over and ask. ”

"Okay, thanks." Knowing so many questions has exceeded Zhang Chen's expectations.

After the meal, the glow of the sunset had already sprinkled on the ground, and Zhang Chen instructed Worm Firefly to take care of the two of them, and left dozens of blood beetles lurking in all corners of the house, and once the weird website made a move, he would return immediately.

This time, walking on the street, with Xiao Ni's previous reminder, Zhang Chen gradually noticed that these townspeople, who seemed to be plainly dressed and born and raised here, did have a lot of strangeness in their life and behavior.

Zhang Chen kept this phenomenon in his heart and soon came to the rice shop in the mouth of the hostess.

Indeed, this rice shop alone occupies five shops, and looking at the streets in front of the shops sprinkled with white rice, you can see how good business is here every day.

"Maybe all the residents of this town are buying rice at this rice shop, right? It seems that the rice shop has been here for some years, so maybe you know about the orphanage. ”

Zhang Chen and Xiao Ni were just about to step forward, and an old man who was taking care of the shop inside and dressed plainly wanted to close the store as if he was seeing a creditor when he saw the two of them. However, Zhang Chen, who was agile, grabbed the door frame and stepped into this bloody rice shop...... (To be continued......)