"Oh, I know you!" The old lady's tone suddenly became excited: "Xiao Zhang told me about you, your house, or I found it for you, hehe, the landlord is also a good person, knowing that your family's conditions are difficult, and he deliberately reduced the rent, good man, hehehe." ”

When the old lady laughed, the laughter was like the neighing of an old crow, which made people's scalp tingle.

I saw my dad scratching his scalp too, and said with a forced smile: "Yes, yes, yes, I know all this, Xiao Zhang told me." You see, you have done our family such a great favor, and there is nothing to repay, this little bit of heart......" As he spoke, my father took out the two hundred dollars he had prepared in advance from his pocket.

The old lady refused: "If you don't help anything, you can take the money back, it will be the neighbors and neighbors in the future, and I, the old woman, will inevitably trouble you." ”

My dad is really a very good person who doesn't handle human feelings, and the old lady may have just been polite to him when she said this, but my dad put the money back in his pocket on the spot.

The old lady didn't seem to care much, but just asked my dad, "Look at you like this, it can't be that something happened at home, right?" ”

My dad immediately showed a surprised expression: "How do you know?" ”

The old lady didn't answer my father's question, and said, "If I'm not mistaken, did your family recruit that thing in the past two days?" ”

My dad pursed his lips and didn't speak. The old lady smiled: "Hehe, it seems that I said it." The place where you live, although it is an auspicious place, has not lived in it for a long time since the landlord moved out, and it is also a very common thing to recruit a few evil spirits to come in, and it is easy to deal with. But I'll have to wait until I've seen it. ”

Isn't this old lady clearly coming to my house? Although I haven't seen her yet, I don't know why, I feel very disgusted with her in my heart, and I am especially reluctant to let her come to my house.

But my dad didn't think so, as if he had found a life-saving straw, and he wished that the old lady would come to our house earlier, so I heard my dad say: "Otherwise, the family just cooks, or you come to my house to eat, and by the way, take a look at my house, what is wrong." ”

This time, the old lady didn't refuse at all, said "okay", locked the door, and followed my dad out of the yard. When the old lady went out, I saw her from a distance, in fact, she didn't seem to be any different from the usual old lady, but her gray hair looked messy.

I couldn't help but wonder why my dad had that expression when he first saw her.

When I was walking in the alley, my dad turned around and asked the old lady if she had a daughter, so why not call her to eat at home together, and the old lady smiled gloomily: "Hehe, she has already eaten." ”

To me, the old lady's laughter was gloomy.

After a while, my dad came back, and the old lady followed behind my dad, and when I saw her for the first time, I knew why my dad had that expression.

The old lady's face was white, as white as a piece of paper, and the wrinkles on her face were deep, as if they had been cut with a knife. And the most uncomfortable thing is her eyes, at first glance those eyes are very cloudy, even the whites of the eyes are a kind of yellow, but if you look at her for a while, you will find that although her pupils are very small, they are very black, like two deep holes drilled in the eyes with a chisel, and the depth is bottomless.

As soon as she entered the room, she stared at me with a smile on her face, and my scalp tingled.

At this time, my mother came out of the kitchen and was about to talk to my father, when she saw the old lady behind my father, and her face became very unnatural.

My dad hurriedly introduced to my mother: "This is Aunt Li, who lives downstairs in our house." Oh, yes, it's the Li Jushi I mentioned to you, we can move here, or she will give us the calculation. ”

My mother smiled at Mrs. Li very reluctantly, and then looked at my dad with a questioning look, as if asking my dad, "Why didn't you go to find Lao Chai Tou?" ”

My dad explained that Li Jushi was a high-ranking person, and when he heard that something had happened to our family, he came up to take a look, and asked my mother to fry two more good dishes to greet people.

In front of Mrs. Li, my mother didn't want to say anything more, but I could see that my mother had a good impression of Mrs. Li. That night, my mother didn't prepare much food, and dinner was still the same as usual, stir-fried two semi-meat dishes with little meat, cooked gruel, and heated steamed buns.

In fact, my mother calculated that Lao Chai Tou came back and bought a roast chicken from the market, but that night, I didn't even see what the roast chicken looked like.

My dad didn't say anything about this, and Mrs. Li didn't seem to care, she only drank a small bowl of gruel for this meal, and didn't even eat steamed buns. And when eating, she would stare at me from time to time, as if what she wanted to eat was not the food on the table, but my meat!

My parents saw Mrs. Li's behavior, my mother's eyes obviously became particularly disgusted, and my father's face was a deep worry. I knew what my dad was worried about, and the way Mrs. Li looked at me reminded him of Lao Chai Tou.

But when Lao Chai Tou stared at me, although his eyes were straight and he saw too much, I could always feel that his eyes were very kind, just like when my parents looked at me. But Mrs. Li is different, her eyes are always gloomy, which makes people shudder.

After eating, Mrs. Li was taken by my father to my bedroom, and I followed behind my father, and I saw Mrs. Li glance at the writing desk when she entered the room, and then the corners of her mouth twitched fiercely.

On the writing desk, there are all the gadgets that Lao Chai Tou gave me.

After that, Mrs. Li took a brief look in my room and said to my father, "It's not a big deal, it's just that this place doesn't live all year round, and it attracts some lonely ghosts to come to stay, this kind of thing is very common and easy to deal with." As she spoke, she took out a coppery object from her trouser pocket and handed it to my father.

My dad looked at the thing in his hand and couldn't help but frown.

It was a bronze lock that looked old, with a human face on each side of the lock. It is said that it is a human face, but in fact it is not very similar, because of the age, the pattern on the lock is not very clear, and only the outline of the "face" can be seen by music, but two deep holes are chiseled out with a chisel in the position of the eyes, which are exceptionally clear.

When I saw those eyes, I seemed to have a delusion, as if Mrs. Li was staring at me deadly. I think my dad must have felt something similar at the time.

I heard Mrs. Li say to my father next to me: "You hang this copper lock on the door beam, and from now on, evil people will not dare to enter your house." Okay, it's not early, I'll go back first, what's going on with you in the future, just call me upstairs, run upstairs and downstairs, it's troublesome. ”

When my father sent Mrs. Li out of the door, he came to see that she was old and wanted to help her downstairs, but Mrs. Li refused, saying that she was not old enough to help her.

When she went downstairs, her steps were indeed steady, and she didn't look like an elderly person at all, but I don't know why, Mrs. Li's posture when she walked always gave me a very stiff feeling.

Seeing Mrs. Li go away, my father closed the door, found a mace from the back balcony, and planned to nail the copper lock to the door beam.

When my dad smashed a nail on the door frame, my mom couldn't help but say, "Why do I always think that this Li Jushi is quite evil?" ”

My dad nailed the nails and hung up the copper lock, then turned his head and said to my mother: "I also think this person is very strange, but I just think about it, maybe they are like this, you remember the first time we met Lao Chai Tou, I thought Lao Chai Tou was also quite weird." ”

My mom looked at the brass lock on the door beam and didn't say anything more.

I was looking up at the brass lock, and the moment it was hung on the doorbeam, I had a very strange feeling, as if the whole person had become confused and groggy all of a sudden, and I remembered that I had tried to say something to my mother, but I couldn't remember what to say.

That night, there was no knocking on the window, and I slept until dawn, and when I woke up, I felt like I hadn't slept enough, and my upper and lower eyelids kept fighting.

Not only me, but my dad also looked sleepy when he got up, he smoked first thing every morning, but this morning, I saw my dad take the cigarette upside down, he had a cigarette butt in his mouth, and lit the filter with a lighter, and my dad didn't seem to notice anything wrong at all, so he sat on the bed, holding a cigarette in his right hand and an ashtray in his left hand, not knowing what he was thinking.

I knew that he had taken the cigarette upside down, and I didn't bother to remind him, because I felt very lazy at the time, whether it was my body or my brain, I didn't bother to move.

When it was almost half past seven, my dad hastily packed up and went out, and when he got outside, my dad turned to me as if he suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Was it okay last night?" ”

I didn't even want to lift my eyelids, so I nodded indiscriminately and said, "No." ”

My dad breathed a sigh of relief and hurried downstairs. I also heard my dad going downstairs, a man at the top of the stairs muttering, "It seems that this Li Jushi is really effective." ”

After my dad left, I just sat on the sofa and watched TV, as for what the TV was on, I don't know, just stared at the TV in a daze, and I felt very tired when I used my brain a little.

Today's sun is very good, I can only close all the curtains on the balcony, I don't know why, I don't want to see the sun today, I always feel that the sun is particularly dazzling, and the sun is particularly hot.

I stayed like this all morning, and it wasn't until noon when my mom got home that she pulled me up from the couch.