At dinner, my mother made a few dishes, although they were all ordinary home cooking, but it was already a life improvement for us.

While I was eating, there was a knock on the door, and I stood up and went to open the door!

Outside the door stood a man of about 50 years old, with a bare upper body, a large pair of pants underneath, and a wine bottle in his hand, unkempt and full of alcohol.

As soon as we opened the door, the man shook the bottle twice and said to us. "Hey, it's time to pay your rent, this month's electricity and water bills, plus three months' rent, a total of 1,600 yuan, I limit you to pay the rent to me before tomorrow morning."

Only then did I understand that this man was the landlord of the apartment building that my mother and I rented.

Mom stood up from the dining table and said to the landlord with a smile. "Oh, landlord, didn't we say that the rent is paid monthly? Why did you let it take three months this time? ”

The landlord said with a snort of wine. "I said three months for three months, 1,600 yuan and 1 cent can't be less, if you don't want to live, you can move out for me."

As soon as I heard it, I immediately became angry, why is this landlord so horizontal? It's a lot of urgency.

Mom said. "Brother landlord, you see that I am a small businessman, and I can't make much money selling egg scones, and I don't have so much money on hand for a while, or I'll pay you a month's worth tomorrow, and I'll make up the remaining two months for you after a while, do you think it's okay?"

Listening to my mother's tone, I didn't dare to offend this landlord.

But the landlord interrupted my mother without mercy. "No, what I just said was in vain? You don't understand? Before tomorrow morning, pay me three months' rent and this month's electricity and water bills of 1,600 yuan, otherwise I will get out of here immediately. ”

My mother's face immediately looked a little unsightly, and I suddenly became a little angry, and I stepped forward to defend myself, but my mother grabbed my arm hard, winked at me, and told me not to speak.

The landlord glanced at our mother and son, snorted, turned around and left with the wine bottle.

After the landlord left, the door was closed, and my mother and I went back to the dinner table.

Mom said angrily. "The rental contract clearly states that the rent is paid once a month, but now it is said that it has changed, and if we have to pay it for three months at once, how can we get so much money? Besides, this apartment building is haunted, it is a haunted house, and we are the only tenants left, and the landlord is still so us. ”

I said. "Mom, what are you talking about? You say this apartment building is a haunted house? There are no other tenants in this entire apartment building except us? ”

As soon as my mother said this, I thought about it carefully, and it was true, since I came to this apartment building, I found that it was surprisingly quiet, and I didn't see anyone since I came, it turned out that the three-story apartment building was all empty, and only me, my mother and the landlord lived here.

Haunted house? I was immediately interested.

Oh, I'm afraid of everything now, so I'm not afraid of ghosts.

So I pestered my mother to tell me what kind of haunting method this apartment building is? My mother glared at me and said. "Didn't you already know? You've lived here for so long, why do you still ask me? ”

I smiled. "I, I forgot, Mom, tell me again, why is this apartment building haunted? Why do you say it's a haunted house? ”

Mom said while holding the food in her mouth with chopsticks. "The female ghost in red, in room 302 on the third floor of the apartment building, there used to be a girl who lived in a red dress, I heard that she worked in a nightclub, and then she didn't know what was going on, and suddenly died in the room, and since then, the whole apartment building has become gloomy, and at night, many tenants heard the cry of the girl in red from room 302, it's scary!"

Mom shook her head, then looked up at me. "Haven't you heard the cry of the female ghost? It's quite miserable, they all say that the girl died strangely, but the police have been investigating for so long, and they haven't found out why, alas, who knows what's going on? Because 302 is haunted, the tenants on the third floor don't dare to live here, so they all moved out. Then, the female ghost became more and more noisy, and at night she would run to the doors and windows of other tenants, knock on people's windows, and sometimes knock on the door, and when they had the courage to open the door, they saw the female ghost standing outside the door with her hair disheveled and her face covered with blood, and almost scared people to death. ”

"After a few times like this, almost all the tenants have moved out, and no one wants to get into the bad luck and be haunted by that female ghost, right? As a result, we are the only tenant left in the entire three-story apartment building, and then the landlord! ”

After I listened, my interest became even stronger, a young lady who worked in a nightclub, died inexplicably, the female ghost in red? Hey, it's fun!

I said. "Mom, since that female ghost is so scary, everyone else has moved away, why do we still live here?"

Mom glared at me again and said. "What do you knowingly ask? You think we don't want to move out, but if we want to move out, we have to rent a new house, and we need money to rent a house, although the condition of this apartment building is a little worse, but the rent is cheap, but if we move out from here and rent a house again, it will be much more expensive, we don't have that much money, so we can only make do with living here. ”

Mom shook her head helplessly. "At first, I was also scared, I was so scared that I didn't dare to sleep at night, and in the middle of the night, the female ghost scratched the window with her fingernails, crunching, it sounded like it made people feel numb, but then I slowly got used to it, and the girl was not killed by us, she just wanted to find someone to take revenge, and it was impossible to find us, at most she scared and scared me, so we have been living together until now!"

"But it's also annoying, there is only one tenant left in this apartment building, and the landlord is still so unreasonable, and he urges us to pay the rent, and we have to pay for three months, alas......"

After listening to my mother's words, I suddenly felt a little sad.

O poor, sorrow of the poor.

My mother had no easy time selling eggs to pay for my college and had to continue living in a haunted apartment building to save money.

I looked up at my mother's beautiful but somewhat haggard face, and I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart, thinking that my mother had been captured by evil spirits before, forced to become a ghost mother, and suffered so much, and now her soul was attached to a woman who looked exactly like her, selling egg scones, and becoming a low-level working person still had to suffer a lot.

However, this time with me, I vowed not to let my mother suffer again, and I would no longer let her run around for money.

Mom sighed again. "This landlord asked me to pay three months' rent, 1,600 yuan, where are we going to make so much money for a while?"

I said. "Mom, don't worry, I have a way."

I have made up my mind in my heart that I will never let my mother worry about the rent of 1,600 yuan.

After dinner, my mother worked late again before she lay down in bed to rest.

The house is too small, there are two beds in the living room, one left and one right, and when you go to bed at night, you close the curtain in the middle to separate the two beds, and during the day, you open the curtain again.

This made me feel even more sad, I couldn't sleep in bed, and it was like a pancake tossing and turning.

Mom wasn't asleep either, she said. "Go to sleep, I'll be back to school tomorrow."

I asked. "Mom, do you really not remember the past?"

Mom said in a daze. "What was going on before?"

I said. "Before, you were the daughter of a witch, and then you were captured by an evil spirit, forced to marry him, and became a ghost mother, but then after you gave birth to me, you were affected and have been imprisoned at the bottom of a mountain with evil spirits......"

"Okay, don't talk nonsense, let's go to sleep." Mom yawned, rolled over, and stopped talking.

It seems that she really doesn't remember anything from the past, and now she has a new identity, and she has forgotten all about the past.

In fact, it is okay to do this, the past is too painful for her, it is better to forget, and now the old mother is just an ordinary working woman, who makes a living by selling egg scones and lives with her son, although this kind of life is simple, but simple.

Seeing that my mother was asleep, I quietly got up, opened the door and walked out, and I decided to talk to the landlord first, and then go to play with the female ghost.

The landlord asked to pay the rent? Oh, little brother, I dare to promise, I won't pay a single child, isn't the landlord going to drive us away? Wait and see, I'm going to get the landlord to beg us to stay.