02¤¤¤¤¤ After Hu Yang's classmates disappeared, he went to the mansion to look for someone, but none of the workers in the house were willing to answer Hu Yang's questions. He went to the housekeeper. But the housekeeper said that he had never seen Populus Hu at all, and even asked Hu Yang if he could guarantee that two people would clean it together at noon tomorrow.

Hu Yang could not give guarantees, and at noon the next day, the housekeeper arranged a new companion for Hu Yang. A worker who is not smiling, yellow-skinned, and thin.

For the week after that, Hu Yang spent as much time as he could in the mansion after work, and he used that time to ask around looking for his classmates.

In the process, he discovers a strange room on the second floor of the mansion with a red double-open carved wooden door. When the workers went to work, the housekeeper always stood in front of the red gate, and if someone approached, the housekeeper would wave them to leave. Toyo Shuaisuke.

Hu Yang suspected that the room might have something to do with his missing classmates. So a day before, he hid in the house after his work at noon, and sneaked to the door of the strange room while the housekeeper was not looking. And pushed open the red door.

It was pitch black inside the door, and in the darkness there seemed to be an inexplicable force pulling poplars. Hu Yang tried to fight against that force, but all the struggles were in vain, and he couldn't even make a sound. Just as he felt like he was about to be swallowed by the room, a hand grabbed him by the shoulder.

It's a housekeeper!

The butler stood on the side of the gate, pulled the poplar out, and then closed the door tightly.

Afterwards, the housekeeper gave Hu Yang 350 yuan, which was a week's salary, and told him not to come back in the future. Hu Yang also wanted to ask about his classmates, but the housekeeper didn't want to hear it at all, so he closed the door of the mansion directly, and no matter how Hu Yang knocked on him, he wouldn't open it.

In the afternoon of the same day, Hu Yang called the police, and the police said that they would investigate, but the so-called investigation was just a police officer who went to the mansion to ask a few words, and that was it. Hu Yang didn't want to give up, so he asked for help on the Internet, and then someone told him that he could try it at Le Yi Tang, so he came to me this morning and told me everything he had encountered.

An old mansion, a mahogany door, a room that almost swallowed a person, a missing college student, although this incident did not make my eyes light up and my heart moved, but it was undeniable that I really wanted to find out the truth to satisfy my long-lost curiosity.

Hu Yang's family conditions are average, and he doesn't have any savings of his own, but I don't like to serve for free, and if this news spreads, it will definitely be a big blow to my business. So I decided to hire Hu Yang and ask him to work as a helper with Luo Wei, to help me reply to the comments on the website, and his salary was converted into my labor fee in full.

Hu Yang resolutely agreed, and signed a one-year labor contract with me.

Towards noon, I contacted the mansion according to the information posted on the recruitment website, and I was a candidate.

The person who answered the phone was a man with a vicissitudes of voice, and he briefly asked me about my personal situation. I told him that I was a student at school and wanted to work and study, and he believed it, and then asked me to go to him for an interview at 9 a.m. tomorrow, and told me in detail about the transportation route.

The next morning, I pedaled my carbon road bike to the outskirts of the city, where the mansion was built in a grove at the bottom of the hill.

By the turn of winter, the trees in the woods had long since lost their leaves, leaving only bare trunks. Today's weather is not very good, the sun has never appeared, and the fog in the woods has not cleared for a long time, which makes the ancient mansion in the forest look particularly eerie.

As I rode into the woods, the clatter of the wheels crushing against the ground echoed through the woods, and nothing else could be heard in the woods.

As soon as the car reached the door, the ivory-white wooden door opened left and right, and an old man in a dark coat came out from inside. His hair is already gray, and the beard on his upper lip is also gray, which looks a bit like Lu Xun in middle school textbooks, but it is an elderly version.

I waved at the old man, glancing at the mansion in front of me. The house is double-storey, antique, very Chinese characteristics, it can be seen that the owner of the house is very protective of this house.

"Your name is Changle, right?" The old man asked me with half-closed eyes.

"Yes, I called you yesterday, I shouldn't be late, right? I don't like to come by car, by bike. I replied.

The old man looked at my bicycle, then at me, and then continued to say to me in his cold attitude: "It's better to take the car, although the work here is simple, but it is quite physical, and this road is far away, and you may not be able to bear it." "

"Don't worry, I'm in good health, I don't believe you." After that, I hooked one finger on the girder of the bicycle, and then lifted the whole bicycle up with a slight lift, in fact, it is not difficult, even if I change to a weak woman, I can also do it, because my bicycle is very light, only 6 kilograms.

The old man was frightened by me, he nodded at me, and then motioned for me to come into the house with him, apparently to introduce me to the working environment.

I followed the old man inside.

The inside of the house was very dark, and there were no electric lights everywhere, and you could see the windows from the outside of the house, but all you could see from the inside of the house were the walls, and it seemed that all the windows were just exterior decorations.

"It's so dark in the room." I said.

"It's good to get used to it. Come with me and I'll show you the room you're responsible for. The old man gave me a perfunctory remark in a low voice, and then continued to lead me in front.

Because there were no windows and the corridors turned so many turns, it felt like you were in a labyrinth, and the farther away from the door, the darker the house became, with only the candlesticks hanging on the walls providing faint illumination.

The house was as quiet as it was in the woods, and the sound of our footsteps echoed crisply in the hallway, and even the sound of breathing could be heard clearly.

"How many people live in this house?" I asked behind the old man.

"Four. The owner of the house is a family of three, and I am in charge of taking care of this big house. During the day, the owner's family would go out, and I was the only one here, so it was a little too quiet, but by noon it was lively, and many people would come to work. The old butler explained, then resumed his silence and continued on his way.

I followed the old man up to the second floor, and stopped at the door of the first room on the right.

The old man pushed open the door, and a foul smell immediately poured out of the room, and I couldn't help but tighten my nose.

"You are in charge of this house, originally each room had to be cleaned by two people, but the people who worked here before have resigned, if you agree to work here, then you will do it alone at noon today, and then I will arrange someone to come over." The old man did not explain the source of the smell, but simply explained what was related to work.

I pinched my nose and glanced around the room.

As Poplar said, the room was dirty, with moss-like things hanging on the floor and walls, and some filth that I couldn't tell what it was. As for the stench, I can be sure that it is not the smell of corpses, but a bit like the stench of the soil thatched pit in the countryside.

"There's a uniform, right?" I asked.

"Yes, everyone wears the same onesie, and gloves and brushes and water. If you can, you will go to work at noon today, give 50 an hour, the end of the day, come? The old man asked, looking at me with squinted eyes.

"Come!" I resolutely agreed.

"Okay, then I'll get you work clothes first. By the way, there's one thing I have to tell you beforehand, something happened recently, and I don't want something like this to happen again. As he spoke, the old man pointed to the inside of the second floor, and motioned for me to follow him inside, I guess he was going to show me the room of the Red Door Monster.

The truth is exactly what I expected. We walked down the corridor to the inside of the second floor, where the old man walked to a very large carved mahogany door, and then pointed to the door and said, "Don't open this door anyway." "

The wooden door was closed tightly, and a faint wisp of yin was faintly revealed from the crack in the door. However, this does not explain anything, many old houses will have a small amount of yin qi, especially the ancestral hall for the ancestral tablets and the like, if you don't go into the house to see, it is difficult for me to conclude that Hu Yang's classmates are missing in this room.

"There's the owner's valuables in there?" I asked tentatively.

"No, it's just a tablet for the ancestors, and the owner of the house doesn't want the workers to disturb the ancestors, so it's better not to get close. If you don't believe it, you can take a look, it's really nothing. As he spoke, the old man pushed open two mahogany doors in front of me.

The door opened, and a dark wind blew through the hallway and poured into the dark room.

The old man stood in the doorway with a candlestick, and then stretched out his hand to stretch the candle into the house. By the light of the candles, I saw that there was indeed a shrine in the innermost part of the room, where Guanyin Bodhisattva was enshrined, and there was an incense burner in front of the Bodhisattva, on the left was the tablet of the ancestors, and on the right was several Arhat statues.

There is not much of a problem with the placement of the gods, at least from the perspective of feng shui. In addition, this is a place where the owner of the house worships his ancestors, and he should not want outsiders to enter, and the ancestral hall of my ancestral house is not allowed to outsiders to enter.

But Hu Yang said that he almost got sucked into the room when he snuck over, and I don't think he had to lie to me, but at the moment, there doesn't seem to be anything strange about this room.

Did this old man change the place of the things hidden in the house? Or am I still not looking for the crux of the problem?

I didn't dwell too much on this issue though, as this was just the beginning, and I had plenty of time to take a closer look at the place, especially the room that Hu Yang said couldn't be cleaned anyway.