Chapter 143: What the Hou Mansion Saw
My grandmother was not interested in the identity of the head of the old house, whether he was Li Lianying or An Dehai, she just wanted to know the whereabouts of the old eunuch and the whereabouts of the female ghost child.
My grandmother thought about it and asked the old man, is there only two people living in such a big old house, seven or eight rooms, and there is no one in the family, the maid or something?
The old man said, yes, in addition to the big girl, there are two little maids in the family, but there is no family, there is no man in the house, except for the old eunuch, who is neither male nor female, the rest are all women.
My grandmother asked again, where did the two maids go?
The old man shook his head and said, this is all decades old, some of them don't remember very clearly, only remember that after the old eunuch came to them, he first built a big house, and after marrying the big girl, he surrounded a big yard, and built a few wings in the yard, after the wings were built, he bought two maids from other places, and after that, the old eunuch rarely went out again, and because the house was remote, their family lived in the whole alley, and few people in the village saw him again, every time he bought food and vegetables, The big girl took the two maids out to buy it, and later, the big girl got along with others outside, and the old eunuch's reputation spread.
Later, it was more than a year later, once the house was crying and laughing, the villagers who heard it climbed the wall to see, the door was open, a big man in the door, sitting on the ground and sobbing, crying for a while and laughing for a while, the villagers who climbed the wall recognized the man at a glance, he was a famous second slipper in the village, he usually liked to steal chickens and dogs, and wanted to go to the old eunuch's house to steal things.
A kind-hearted villager brought Er Slip's family here, and Er Slip's family climbed over the courtyard wall and walked into the hall to drag Er Slip, but who would have thought that the people who entered it also became the same as Er Slip, and a few crazy people went in.
In the end, the village chief was also alarmed, and the village chief asked the people to hook up with the hooks that were fishing on the fishing boat, and dragged them out one by one.
It was only at this time that the village knew that there was no one in the old house, but after the fight, no one dared to approach the house again, and they all said that the old eunuch's family was killed in the house, and all of them became ghosts, and the house became a murderous house.
When the old man said this, my grandmother nodded slightly, thinking to herself, it seemed that it was impossible to know the whereabouts of the old eunuch from the two maids, and these villagers obviously did not know that the old eunuch had killed the adulterer and adulteress, and snatched their children and escaped. As for the two maids, the hostess had an affair with someone else, they must have known that the old eunuch might have forced them to die in the old mansion together.
When I heard all this, my grandmother felt that there was nothing left to inquire about, so she wanted to get into the carriage and greet my grandfather to leave.
At this moment, my grandmother suddenly remembered another thing. When I walked into the old house before, the grapes in the yard were crystal clear, as if they had been pruned, and there was a wing room in the backyard that also seemed to have been repaired, which showed that at least someone had lived in the house. However, this is somewhat in conflict with Hou Desen's statement, Hou Desen said that all the rooms in the house cannot be entered, and since there are no people, who can live there?
Thinking of this, my grandmother dismissed the idea of leaving, turned the topic to Hou Desen, and asked a few villagers about Hou Desen.
As soon as my grandmother said Hou Desen's name, several villagers immediately talked about it, saying that this Hou Desen nickname "Hou De Bowl", what does it mean, it is holding his own pot, and he is still thinking about other people's bowls, greedy for money, stingy, forcible and robbing, and he is not a thing anymore.
A villager of the same age as Hou Desen said that Hou Desen's father, when he was young, had friendships with several foreigners, bought "Fushou Cream" from foreigners, opened a tobacco shop in the county seat, and earned a lot of black money.
After the founding of the Republic of China, President Yuan Shikai ordered a ban on smoking, and those who opened tobacco shops escaped and were arrested, and some were even shot. I heard that when he returned to his hometown from the county seat, he still carried a lot of "Fushou Cream" in his luggage, and later those who smoked "Fushou Cream" came to his house to buy, until now, this Hou Desen is still selling "Fushou Cream" in private.
Insert a sentence here, at this time, the "Fushou ointment", that is, opium, was no longer bought from foreigners, but was really "made in China", at that time, opium poppies were grown in many places across the country, and there were many opium-making workshops, most of which were secretly supported by local officials.
Straight to the point. After listening to the villagers, my grandmother nodded, she also knew what "Fushou Cream" was, and my grandfather taught my grandfather and my grandmother that even if it was a knife on the neck, "Fushou Cream" could not be touched!
After listening to Hou Desen's despicable family history from the mouths of several villagers, my grandfather pulled my grandmother aside and said to my grandmother with a dark face: "Do you still want to help that surnamed Hou now?" ”
My grandmother smiled mischievously at my grandfather, "I didn't want to help him in the first place, let's go home after finding the child for that female ghost, okay." ”
My grandfather frowned, "How to find it." ”
My grandmother said, "Ask the female ghost again, maybe she knows the whereabouts of the child, if you hadn't interrupted me last time, I might have asked......"
To be brief, after saying goodbye to a few villagers, my grandfather drove the carriage and soon came to the remote alley where the old house was located.
As soon as the carriage turned into the alley, my grandmother lifted the curtain in front of the carport, looked through the deep alley, and saw two tall and big guys standing at the door of the old house.
These two guys can't be anyone else, it's the two family members who have been with Hou Desen yesterday, and before the carriage can get close to the old house, the two family members stop the carriage head-on.
I saw that these two family members looked a little abnormal, as if something had happened in the house. The two housekeepers told my grandmother that there was no need to go into the old house anymore, and the old man set up a banquet at home to wait for the two of them.
My grandmother asked, why don't you have to go in. Neither of the two housekeepers would say anything, urging my grandfather to turn the carriage around.
My grandmother felt strange, but there was no excuse to refuse, and the two family members led the way to Houfu.
This Hou Desen's house is not small, a large courtyard, divided into two small courtyards before and after, and the whole house is more than a dozen houses. My grandmother also learned from the mouths of those villagers that there were five wives and children in this Hou Desen, and there were dozens of people in the family.
After getting out of the carriage, the two family members led the way and soon came to the living room of the waiting house.
When my grandmother was a child, she followed my great-grandmother to the Cai Mansion in Weishi County several times, and the living room of the Hou Desen family was almost comparable to that of the Cai Mansion, which was very luxurious. However, Hou Desen's belongings are all obtained by harming the common people, and they come from the wrong way.
At this time, Hou Desen was sitting in the living room with a ten-year-old woman, the woman was dressed brightly, her face was full of foxes, you don't need to look at it to know, Hou Desen's little wife.
After my grandmother and my grandfather walked into the living room with the two family members, Hou Desen hurriedly got up to greet him, and the charming woman did not move, but her eyes fell on my grandfather for the first time.
As mentioned earlier, my grandfather's appearance concentrates all the advantages of my grandfather and my grandmother, and speaking of which, he is more beautiful than my grandfather when he was young, although my grandfather is thirty years old at this time, but he only looks twenty-five or sixteen years old. However, when the charming woman saw my grandfather's stump leg, she was first disappointed, and then pouted fiercely.
My grandmother finished the fox woman's pouting and looked at the book, her eyes turned red, and she bit her lower lip.
After a few words of greeting, Hou Desen instructed the two maids beside him to go to the kitchen to serve the food.
The villagers said that Hou Desen was stingy, but the meal he invited to my grandmother was very extravagant, perhaps because of my grandmother's request, or maybe it was deliberately displayed in front of my grandmother, after all, my grandmother was only nineteen years old at this time, and she was in her prime.
There are seven dishes and eight bowls of chicken, duck and fish, and there is a big table, and I see that I can't put it on the table, and the dishes are not finished yet.
In fact, at this time, it was already past the time to eat, and Hou Desen's wives had already eaten, and Hou Desen's little wife didn't sit down at the dining table, but stayed in the living room for a while, with no face, and got up and walked outside the living room, probably wanting to go back to the room for a nap.
However, it was very unfortunate that when I walked to the door, a maid with a big bowl of soup happened to enter the living room, and the eyes of the little wife were on my grandfather's face at this time, and I didn't notice the little maid outside, and I bumped into it directly, and the maid saw her and wanted to hide, but she didn't dodge.
The little wife directly collided with the soup bowl in the maid's hand, and the soup bowl was buttoned, and the thick soup inside splashed on her chest.
When she came back to her senses, she was so angry that she raised her hand and slapped the little girl. The Last Ghost Hunter:
The little maid hurriedly covered her face and apologized, of course the little wife did not give up, and pulled the little maid's hair to Hou Desen, like a mad, and asked Hou Desen to punish the little maid severely.
Hou Desen immediately sank his face and said to the family members around him, please "family law".
After a while, the "family law" came, which was actually a thumb-thick white wax pole, less than three feet, with red cloth wrapped around one end of the handshake, and half a foot hanging down below to a long sword spike-like tassel.
The little maid was fourteen or fifteen years old, kneeling at Hou Desen's feet and begging for mercy again and again.
As soon as the white wax pole went down, the little maid immediately let out a cry, which was worrying to hear.
At this time, the most embarrassing people were my grandma and my grandfather.
My grandmother frowned, and before Desen could hit her for a second blow, she got up from her chair...... -The Last Ghost Hunter-