Chapter 1 Picking up money on Halloween
Everyone loves money, even black money. But if I say that you have money in your hand, it may be money, do you believe it?
Dead money, also known as paper money, dead people's money, or ghost money, can also be understood as the currency used by the dead in the underworld. My name is Chen Ergou, because I once mistook the money for real money, and as a result, I entered a nightmare road of no return......
It was on the night of the 15th of July, and I went out to play mahjong with my neighbor Wang and fellow villager Xiao Liu, and it was already midnight when I came home.
I still remember very clearly that when I came out of the mahjong parlor, the street was empty, there were no cars, no people, under the dim street lamps, and the streets were full of piles of burned yellow paper money, which was gloomy.
Coming out of the mahjong parlor was a crossroads, but Lao Wang's eyes suddenly lit up, pointed to the front and shouted: "Look, what is that?" ”
I looked at the place pointed by Lao Wang, and saw that there were a bunch of red things scattered on the edge of the intersection in front of me.
We couldn't have been more excited, I swear, I've never seen so much money, and it's a lot of money scattered on the ground, all red hundred-dollar bills.
I wondered how there was so much money on the street. The first instinct is that the money can't be fake, right? That's a lot of money.
But when I picked one up and looked at it, I was surprised to find that the money was all genuine. And Lao Wang and Xiao Liu on the side also said that it was all true.
When so much money suddenly appeared in front of me, my little heart was pounding, and I looked around, and there was still no one on the empty street.
I asked Lao Wang, who would drop so much money?
Lao Wang said: "Lao Tzu cares so much about what to do, anyway, this time we are considered rich, so much money is estimated to be at least tens of thousands, the three of us divide it equally, and everything we lost in mahjong this month is back." ”
As they spoke, the two of them picked up all the money on the ground, and it was a big pile. If you count it carefully, there are 60,000 yuan.
I advised them not to pick it up, or they would take it to the police station.
Now that they have fallen into the eyes of money, where will they listen to my advice. They gave each of them 20,000 yuan, and at the same time gave me 20,000 yuan, I didn't want it, but they forced it, so I took it. To tell the truth, I'm also half-pushing, I'm a poor **, and suddenly I see so much money, and I don't think it's a lie.
Lao Wang told us not to tell anyone about picking up money, including colleagues around us.
After dividing the money, we broke up. But what I didn't expect was that this would be the beginning of my nightmare......
The old Wang next door is actually not old, less than forty years old, from Sichuan. The reason why I know him is because we work in the same restaurant, I am a waiter, he is a chef, when I was looking for a house, there happened to be an empty room next to the house he rented, so we were not only colleagues, but also neighbors, and we got along for more than half a year, and we had a very good relationship. And Xiao Liu is my fellow countryman in this city, although they don't rent a house together, they usually get together together.
After returning to the rented house, I put the money in an iron box, if the owner really came to the door, I will return the money to the owner without saying a word, we don't make that cheap.
For some reason, I had a strange dream that night. I dreamed that I was holding a large pile of bills in my hand, and I was happy, but when I was about to count how many of them, I found that what I counted was not money at all, but all of them became dead people's money.
Although I was in a dream, I was very awake in the dream, and I knew that it was dead man's money, so I was so frightened that I wanted to throw away the dead man's money in my hand. But no matter how I throw it, the dead man's money can't be thrown away, and it will fall into my hands again.
With this fall, I realized that I had fallen out of bed. Even though I woke up, I still got goosebumps all over my body, and I felt that I was so bad that I had such a bad dream, so that I felt chills down my spine.
The moonlight outside the window shines into the room, which looks very cold. I looked at my watch and saw that it was only three o'clock in the middle of the night.
My head was a little dizzy, so I climbed back into bed and tried to go back to sleep. But at this moment, in the confusion, I glanced at my eyes, and suddenly saw a black figure standing next to the bed.
The dark shadow stood with his back to me, facing the wall, so ghostly that I couldn't see his face clearly.
At that time, I was shocked, I didn't dare to move. My heart was finished, it was haunted, and in the middle of the night, I suddenly saw a person standing in front of my bed, not to mention how terrifying this feeling was, and I was frightened and frightened, and this panic made people feel suffocated.
Just when I was terrified, the ghost slowly turned his head, and when I saw it, I was even more startled, only to see that this ghost turned out to be the old king next door.
I saw that Lao Wang was dressed in black at this time, standing in the dark room, his face was as white as paper, bloodless, and his appearance was very gloomy and terrifying. Well, the first thing he gave me was that he was dead.
Lao Wang appeared next to my bed, and suddenly took out a stack of banknotes in his hand, this pile of banknotes is familiar to me, it seems to be the money we picked up on the side of the road last night.
Lao Wang just stood beside my bedside, and then took the money and threw it into the air, and the money fluttered in the air, and fell to the floor of my room all over the floor.
I was scared, and I didn't know why he was throwing dead money in my room. Just when I was terrified, his neck was suddenly covered by a hemp rope, and immediately he showed a hideous expression, sticking out his tongue, struggling desperately with his hands and feet, and making a terrifying sound of "squeak" in his throat.
I was so frightened at this moment that my heart suddenly jumped, and a spirit sat up directly from the bed.
I turned on the electric light suddenly, and then immediately hurried to the edge of the bed, but to my surprise, I saw that there was no trace of Lao Wang anywhere by the bed, and there was no dead man's money on the ground.
Now I was dumbfounded, and I wondered why it suddenly disappeared? Was I dazzled just now?
But I was very sure in my heart that what I had just seen was very real, and it was definitely not dazzling, let alone a dream. I glanced at the doors and windows, and they were still well closed, and they were locked, which meant that it was impossible for Lao Wang to come in. Since it is impossible for Lao Wang to come in, what is the matter with Lao Wang I just met?
I suddenly felt scared, and a chill ran down my spine, could it be that the ghost I just saw was really a ghost?
Recalling the scene I just saw, I got goosebumps again, and my heart was oozing panic, and I always felt that this thing was very evil.
I sat stiffly on the bed, not daring to sleep anymore, and cold sweat kept pouring out.
It was getting brighter and brighter, and then I got up and knocked on Wang's door as soon as possible, wanting to ask him if he had been to my room last night.
But when I knocked on his door, there was no movement in the room, as if there was no one in the room at all.
Could it be that he had already gotten up and gone out for breakfast?
At that time, I didn't think much about it, I went out for breakfast and went to work, anyway, I worked in the same restaurant as Lao Wang, and then I asked him about the middle of the night last night.
However, what puzzled me was that Lao Wang didn't come to work that day, and he was absent from work.
What can I do if the restaurant lacks a chef, and I didn't answer Wang's phone, so the restaurant owner told me to go back to Wang. When I returned to the rental office, the landlord's eldest sister happened to come to Wang to collect the rent, asked me where Wang had gone, and asked me to meet him and ask him to pay the rent for this month quickly.
I told the landlord that I was looking for him too.
With that, I knocked on Lao Wang's door, but there was still no response from the door.
I thought about it, so I took out my mobile phone and dialed Lao Wang's phone again, although the phone was connected, the other party still did not answer. However, to my surprise, at this time I heard the ringtone of Lao Wang's mobile phone.
I frowned, and when I listened closely, the phone ringtone was actually coming from the room.
With this discovery, my brows furrowed, and I was very puzzled. Because Lao Wang's mobile phone is in the room, it means that he is most likely in the room. But why didn't there be any response to the knock on the door?
Is he sick?
For some reason, maybe it was because I saw Lao Wang in the room in the middle of the night, so I always felt a bad premonition in my heart, and I was faintly uneasy.
Wang's mobile phone continued to ring in the room until he hung up. I knocked on the door again, but there was still no response.
I asked the landlord if she had a spare key, and the landlord nodded, and then helped me open the door of Lao Wang's room.
But as soon as the door opened, the landlord's eldest sister let out a heart-rending scream, as if she had seen a ghost, and rushed out a few meters away.
I asked her what was wrong?
The eldest sister of the landlady turned pale, pointed to the door with a frightened face, and cried out with a disillusioned face: "Death...... Die...... Dead ......"
Seeing the frightened appearance of the landlord's eldest sister, although I don't know what she saw to be afraid, but I already felt bad in my heart, and said in my heart, who died, it can't be that Lao Wang is dead, right?
At this time, the landlord was so frightened that she couldn't even speak, so I had to quickly open the door and look into the room.
The door was ajar, and although it was sunny outside, the light in the room was poor. I glanced inside, but I was not scared to death by being paralyzed, only to see a person hanging from the beam in the room!
The face of the man was facing the door, dressed in black, although the light in the room was poor, but I recognized the hanged man at a glance, this person is not Lao Wang, who else could it be?
I saw that Lao Wang's face was frighteningly white, like a blank piece of paper, and there was no blood anymore. Because it was the reason for the suffocation of hanging, a pair of pupils bulged out of the eyes like two pigeon eggs, and their eyes were wide with anger, and their faces were full of painful and hideous expressions.
What's even more chilling is that he is grinning and smiling! It was as if he had thought of something happy before he died, and his death was very strange.
I am not very bold in the first place, but when I saw Lao Wang's terrifying death, I was immediately shocked, and I sighed in my heart, and almost screamed like the landlord's eldest sister. I only felt a chill on my back, and goosebumps all over my body. <