Chapter 351, Deserted House
The reason for accepting the bounty is to make up for it, but it is still a bit wishful thinking to buy the invitation to the Lingge test that is peddled on the black market.
200,000 pieces, the price is still rising, but for Luotian, the most important thing is to fill his stomach and take care of the team at the moment.
Based on additional information bought from the old man, this bounty is indeed not quite right.
Half a year ago, when this bounty was issued, many people took it, but they all disappeared, but half a year has passed, no one has accepted the bounty, and the bounty has not been raised, and no one has even investigated where those who have received the bounty in the past have gone.
"The manor in front of you is the manor on the bounty, why do I look so broken?" Yin Jiu looked at it from afar, the manor located next to the town was not small, I heard that the original owner of this manor was once an important minister of this small country in the past, of course, after so many years, the family has already fallen into the middle of the road.
When I walked to the gate of the manor, the plaque was gone, and the stone lion in front of the door was also broken.
"In such a dilapidated place, can the owner pay for it?" Luo Bi asked with deep suspicion.
Luo Tian stepped forward and knocked on the door, no one came to open the door at first, so that Luo Tian and the others thought that the manor was empty, and they were thinking about finding a place to climb in and take a look, just when Luo Tian was about to climb over the wall, the door was opened from the inside.
A pair of eyes full of dark circles and tired eyes appeared in front of everyone, it was a woman with messy hair, not very old, but perhaps because of her poor mental state, she looked a little old.
"How many are they?" she asked.
"We are the ones who received the bounty, is it the bounty you posted?" Luo Tian took out the bounty and handed it over, and the woman took it and looked at it and nodded.
"Can we go in?" Yin Jiu asked.
She hesitated, turned her head to look into the room, and then slowly opened the door of the house, revealing the dilapidated but still wide courtyard to several people.
It used to be very beautiful, but it didn't have time to take care of it, and it became like this over time.
Inside the hall, cobwebs were everywhere in the corners, and the thick dust covering the altar, the owner seemed to be accustomed to living in such a dirty and chaotic environment.
"A few of you, please have tea. The woman came over with tea.
Luo Bi took it and spit it out immediately, shouting, "What kind of tea is this, why does it smell like cinders?"
"Oh, maybe it's been a little too long, so I'm going to replace a few of them. β
"No, sit down, let's talk about the bounty, please tell us more about the bounty. Luo Tian motioned for her to sit down.
The woman looked a little restrained, even panicked, emotionally unstable, and stumbled in her speech, as if she was nervous because she was afraid of something.
"You don't have to be afraid, you don't have to panic in any situation, so take a deep breath and tell us exactly what we need to do and what's going on here. Luo Tian said.
The woman looked better after adjusting a little, and said: "In the past, this place was not what it is now, the family was still very rich, there were many servants and family members, although the lord is no longer an official, but he has been doing business, this is very close to the border of Yunshan country, the lord has been doing business on the border, and the family has a solid family and a worry-free life." β
"Oh, isn't that good, what happened next?" asked Luo Tian.
"About a year ago, the lord brought back a woman after returning from doing business on the border, in fact, it is not uncommon for the lord to take concubines, before this the lord has married several concubines, one can continue the incense for the family, and the other can also show the face of the family, the lord brought back a new concubine naturally to handle happy events, but this woman enters the house after the house Strange things happen every day. β
"What kind of strange thing?" Yin Jiu interjected.
"At the beginning, there were often dead rats or dead birds in the house for no apparent reason, cockroaches and bedbugs crawling everywhere, and the lord also punished the servants in the house for this, saying that they were not clean, and the lord has never been to other concubines to spend the night since he married that woman, so to speak, he has been with that woman all day long, and even later he didn't even care about business, as if he had fallen into an evil spirit. β
"Oh, maybe I'm seduced. Luo Tian muttered, "It's okay, you continue." β
"Later, finally someone died, I remember that the first one who died was an old slave who had been in the house for many years, and his father, who had served the master, was almost eighty years old, but in fact, he was very healthy, and he rarely had a headache and brain fever, but he suddenly died one night, and the death was terrible, and a large piece of his chest was scratched, and even ribs could be seen, and he was bloody, and many people said that they heard a low roar from the old slave's house at night, and there were screams, but no one went to see it, so no one knew how he died. β
"That's interesting. Luo Bi smiled.
"After the old slave died, it stopped for a while, and the house seemed to be back to normal, but the old man still ignored the business and was with the woman all day long, but after about half a month, someone died suddenly, this time it was a young man who died, and the death was similar to the old slave before, and then later, almost every once in a while, someone died, and the government also came to check, but nothing could be found, the people in the house were very frightened, some people said that it was a wild beast attack, and some people said that it was a monster encountered, and some people even said that the old lady came back to take revengeγ β
"Wait, what's the matter with the old lady's revenge?" Luo Tian asked.
"My lord's original partner died many years ago, and died very suddenly, she and the lord were officials in the national capital together, and then the lord resigned and returned to his hometown, and the carriage suddenly rushed down the cliff on the road, but only the lord survived the old lady but died, many people said that the lord killed the old lady, because when the lord was young, it was considered to be the old lady's house, the old lady's father was an important minister of the court at that time, or a royal family, in order to climb the high branches to marry the old lady, over the years the old lady was very unkind to the lord, not only did not let him marry a concubine, but even insulted and blamed at every turn, even if the old man became a big official, it didn't change this status quo, but later the old lady's family gradually declined, and without the support of the family, the old man was afraid that he was a killer because he was fed up with the old lady. β
Luo Tian laughed when he heard this: "Let's not talk about the ghosts and gods for the time being, you found that there are more and more people who are dead, and the government can't find out, so you put a reward, right?"
"Yes, a lot of people came after that, but ......"
"What about those people?"
"Those people died mysteriously on the night they came, and then the slaves of the family began to flee or quit their jobs, and the family gradually declined, and then the old man also died suddenly one night, and his concubine disappeared the next day, and many people came here to check on it, but they were all killed that night. β
"Oh, then why are you alright?" asked Luo Tian.
"I don't know, I'm a slave bought by my master, and I'm homeless when I leave here, so I'm staying here to take care of it now. "The whole house can be said to be dead, even outsiders have died here, but only the woman in front of him is safe and sound, which makes Luo Tian feel strange.
"Can I look around?" Luo Tian said, standing up.
"Yes......" The woman was about to lead the way, but saw Luo Tian wave her hand and signal that she didn't need to.
"By the way, I want to make sure, you should pay a thousand taels, right?" Luo Bi asked at this time, he was Luo Tian's Minister of Finance, and his main concern was the issue of commissions.
"This is the one thousand taels that the lord gave me for safekeeping, but there are only so many of them, so I have never had the money to raise the bounty. β
Luo Tian did not continue to participate in the discussion, but walked around the house, the room was large, but most of the rooms had been emptied, and it was clear that the house slaves did not leave empty-handed when they fled.
The sun is fine outside, but it's dark inside the house.
Luo Tian disdains the theory of ghosts and gods on the mainland, the soul is just the embodiment of consciousness, and the immortals are just masters after the catastrophe of heaven and earth.
How can anyone be born to dominate everything, isn't that like the sky?
Walking to the entrance of the corridor, Luo Tian was about to walk back, but when he turned his head, he saw a white shadow flashing in front of him.