"It's not superstition, you just say you believe it or not!" Kong Wu asked categorically.

"No...... Don't believe it...... "I hesitated to go back, if it was in the past, I would definitely not be due to it, but once last night's events passed, it is indeed impossible to explain it, so my previous materialist beliefs are now somewhat shaken."

"Don't believe me? Then I'll tell you, you really saw a ghost last night! Kong Wu said to me seriously.

"What? I've seen ghosts! Uncle Kong...... Don't tease me......" I felt my scalp tingle.

"Tease you? Hum! Let me ask you, do the women you see dress differently than the people they do now? Kong Wu asked.

I thought about it for a moment, nodded, and said, "They seem to be wearing that old-fashioned cheongsam, and I don't see anyone wearing those now!" ”

"That's right! You kid still don't believe it, I'll tell you slowly, I told you yesterday that this Tonggu Town was built during the Republic of China, until now, most of the buildings in this town are still in the Republic of China period, do you know what the three-story building opposite us did before liberation? Uncle Kong asked with a treacherous face.

"I don't know......" I shook my head.

"The building across the street was a brothel before liberation!! It's called Yihongyuan! At that time, our area was the most prosperous place in Tonggu Town! Kong Wu said.

I thought Kong Wu was going to say something, but I didn't expect him to say that the building opposite was a brothel, and what was even more strange was that the name was Yihongyuan, so I took it, why were the brothels in the Republic of China called Yihongyuan, so there was no other name? I burst out laughing when I heard the name.

Unexpectedly, Kong Wu scolded with a serious face, "You stupid boy, you don't die and still have the heart to laugh, you don't believe my words, you turn around and take a closer look, you see what words are on the arched signboard on the iron door."

I saw that Uncle Kong was so serious, so I turned around in disbelief, squinted my eyes and took a closer look at a few big words on the iron door, mother, it's really the three words of Yihong Courtyard, I didn't find out before that it was because these words were also made of steel bars, and the iron door was also made of steel bars.

"Well, I didn't lie to you!" Kong Wu said.

"Uncle Kong...... Don't scare me...... What are the female ghosts I saw last night?!" I hurriedly asked.

Kong Wu said solemnly, "Then is there any fake?" Let me tell you, this Yihong Courtyard was the most prosperous place in Tonggu Town before the liberation, but just a year before the liberation, this Yihong Courtyard was burned by a fire, none of the young ladies in it survived, and many prostitutes were also burned to death inside! ”

"What? All burned to death? How big of a fire can it be? Can't run out alone? I asked.

Kong Wu shook his head and said, "You don't know what happened back then, I heard the old people in this town say that there was a security team in the town back then, and the security team was headed by the captain and raised a group of wine bags and rice bags, not for the people's livelihood but everywhere to bully the weak, and is a frequent visitor to this brothel, the security captain in this brothel at once several good friends, and promised them that they would redeem them as daughters-in-law, those girls just waited day and night, and finally did not wait for the captain's ransom money, Instead, he was deceived by the captain of all his hard-earned savings, and finally these girls found out that they had been deceived, and they were all angry, and the old bustard was also a righteous woman, seeing that her girl was bullied like this, she went to the security team to theorize, how did she know that she didn't get the money, but she was taken to sleep by the security team, although the old bustard said that it was a brothel, but he was old and suffered such humiliation, and he hanged himself in a fit of anger, and the girls in the brothel saw that their mother was killed, So they decided to die with the mongrels of the security team, so they came up with a plan, and decided to set fire to them when the next time the security team came again, but in order not to attract attention and not let the beasts escape, they decided to use their lives to attract the security team members in the house, and then let the people outside lock the door, and finally set fire to the beasts to death, and at the same time they would be burned to death, at that time there were sixteen prostitutes, and there were eleven people in the security team, That is to say, there can be five prostitutes who survive, but none of them want to live, and no one wants to be the one who set the fire, because they don't want to burn their sisters with their own hands, although this is to kill the beasts, and in the end, they find an old man, this old man is also a common man in the town, the only son in the family was killed by the security team when he was setting up a stall to do business, and the old man lost his son in old age but had nowhere to redress his grievances, and he had a grudge against the security team, so the prostitutes asked the old man to be the arsonist. The old man admired the righteousness of these prostitutes, so he agreed, so that night after the women brought the security team into the house, the old man locked the door of the house one by one, and then set a fire to burn the Yihong courtyard to the bottom, and the old man had already prepared a rattan chair, sat at the door and watched the crowd burn, the old man sat on the rattan chair and laughed and cried, and shouted his son's name, and finally, the old man suddenly stood up from the wicker chair and collapsed into the fire. At that time, this story was very popular in Xi'an, and even in the entire northwest, Nanjing had the thirteen hairpins of Jinling, and these prostitutes were known as the sixteen hairpins of our northwest at that time. After the fire was extinguished, there was only an empty shelf left in Yihong Courtyard, and the old rattan chair in front of the door, and later after liberation, this was wanted by the local government as a government office building, but since the town government put it here, within a week, there were five clerks who were connected to work in the house and suddenly screamed and ran out of the house and jumped down from the upstairs and fell to their deaths, and then the government had no choice but to move the place, and then later, no one dared to enter this building, even the old rattan chair in front of the door did not dare to move, it is said that two years ago, A cleaning worker came from out of town, didn't know this rumor, picked up the old rattan chair as garbage and threw it away, but he didn't expect to be hit by a car on the way back and died, and the old rattan chair appeared in front of the iron gate the next day...... Some people even say that they can often see the building blazing in the middle of the night......"

"There's still such a thing!" I couldn't believe my ears, "Uncle Kong...... What was that what I saw last night? ”

"What else could it be, hell!" Kong Wu said.

"What the hell...... So what to do...... I've heard people say that if you see the hell, you won't live long......" I hurriedly shouted.

Seeing this, Kong Wu hurriedly comforted, "Don't panic, if you can come out of that building alive, it means that you will be fine!" To tell you the truth, before you, I also hired two male clerks, but I didn't come to my place for half a month......"

"What...... Gone...... You mean dead...... "I suddenly remembered that the woman who delivered the food had just come in and said to me, "Yo, Kong Wu has changed again!" So that's what happened.

Kong Wu saw that I was so frightened that cold sweat broke out on my forehead, and hurriedly patted me on the shoulder and comforted, "Don't be afraid, those two clerks didn't listen to my advice and went out in the middle of the night without permission, and they were all found dead in that building the next day, as far as I know, none of the men who were hooked into those things at night could come out alive, you can come out, there is a reason for it!" ”

Kong Wu's words reminded me of what the old man in black said to me last night, I was the first man to come out of this building alive in so many years!

"What is the reason...... Why did they let me go? I asked hurriedly.