Yichang in August is the time of the heat.

For me, a native northerner, it was a torment.

That night, as usual, I walked out of Zhao Yier's former residence after dinner.

It's a good place to go, but I'm only wandering around this house.

Every night, the village is very lively.

The old aunt will get a speaker and dance square dances on the street in groups of three or five.

Listening to those "hot" songs, after a long time, even I, a music idiot, can't help but hum a few words.

As for those old uncles, they will sit under the big tree in front of their homes to enjoy the shade, and occasionally a few people will get together to play cards and chess, which is really a comfortable life.

Zhao Yier's house has a good geographical location, and it is surrounded by a square.

In these years, the countryside is under construction, so the square is not empty, and there are various amusement facilities.

Some couples who are just starting to fall in love usually take advantage of the night to hide in a corner of the square.

On the square, there is also a barbecue stall, which is made by Brother Wang in the village.

He also has a pain in the egg at night, so he did it.

How much money he makes, for him, does not matter.

I have to say that Brother Wang's skewer skills are really a must.

Every time I smell the aroma of his skewers, I can't help but buy a few skewers.

After coming out of Zhao Yier's former residence, I wandered around casually for a while, and unconsciously walked to the square.

Seeing Brother Wang grilling skewers there, I couldn't help it.

Tonight, Brother Wang's business seems to be good, and the few tables near the oven are almost full.

I casually ordered some skewers, then sat down at a table with a cigarette in my mouth.

At this table, there are two men, both in their thirties.

I still have a little impression of one of them, it seems to be called ****, not long ago, this person also asked me for help because his dead father always dreamed with him.

Seeing that I was coming, **** quickly stood up and politely greeted me.

I waved my hand, signaled that he didn't need to be polite, and handed him a cigarette.

Flattered, he lit the cigarette and introduced me to another person.

"Brother Dou, this is the Master Ma I mentioned to Mini just now, he is a disciple of Master Xu Yunfeng, and his Taoism is very profound."

The man named Brother Dou was slightly fat, but his clothes were very neat, and he looked like a job officer.

After he heard the ****'s words, he looked me up and down.

"Looking at the age of the little brother, it seems that he is just in his early twenties, at such a young age, he is so powerful, Dou really admires it. Lao Li, your luck is really good, you met a master who can help you exorcise evil spirits."

He looked at me with a slight appreciation, and halfway through his words, he turned his head to look at the ****, and in the end, his tone was a little sour.

"Stop, stop, let's not talk about this topic, I'm finally coming out of the shadows now"

As soon as he heard this, he immediately looked at him angrily.

"You kid, just be content, think about the time when I just graduated, what happened to me was much more serious than yours, if you want to talk about shadows, I have more shadows than you"

Brother Dou took a sip of beer and said with some self-deprecation.

"Listen to your tone, can't you have bumped into a ghost too?"

frowned, and asked with some uncertainty.

"I have been hit, I have personally touched it, and I almost lost my life"

Brother Dou sighed, and his eyes gradually blurred.

Brother Dou's memories: Curse of the ghost house

Nine years ago, I had just graduated from university, and I had not yet entered our unit, but I was looking for a job frequently in the society, and I frequently jumped from one bad to the next. As long as you are slightly dissatisfied with your work, you will change. Young people, try whatever you like. But my parents were disgusted with my behavior and thought it was not good for my career plans, so they nagged me in my ear all day long, which annoyed me a lot. So I made the decision to rent a house.

Rental prices in '06 are already on the rise. Any single room costs seven or eight hundred. At that time, I was working in a well-known Sino-foreign joint venture, and although the company was very famous, for me, a new graduate, the income was not high, only about 2,000 yuan. Therefore, the rent of three or four hundred and four hundred a month has become my first choice.

What kind of house can you rent for three or four hundred? Either it's a shared room or a small room in a bungalow for ordinary residents.

Sharing a house is unacceptable to me, this level of privacy is too low for me. So, the ordinary residents' bungalow became my first choice.

Through the intermediary, I met the landlord, Sister Xue, who is a middle-aged divorced woman, she has a bungalow that is divided after the divorce from her husband, with a front and back yards, a total of two floors, three families upstairs and two families downstairs.

Two of the downstairs units are available for rent.

Under the leadership of Sister Xue, I came to Sister Xue's rental office, which is in a good location, not far from the address where I took the factory car to work. But it's a bit of a detached feeling, and in the entire area, there is only Sister Xue's house. There is a blackened river on the east side of this bungalow, and a small alley on the west side, and on the west side of the alley is adjacent to many small villas, which should have been built by the villagers themselves after they had money.

Followed Sister Xue into the rental house, there was a small dark passageway, and the two rooms were located on the same side of the corridor. In the middle of the two rooms is a patio with two escalators up to the second floor, one to the north and one to the south. Sister Xue said that there were people living up there, so she didn't take me up to see it.

Sister Xue took me to see the two rooms on the first floor, the layout is similar, both of which are about 30 square meters. The room in the front yard had some simple furniture: a bed, a vanity cabinet, a simple sofa, a wardrobe.

And the room in the backyard is like a storage room, and there are a few things in it. Sister Xue told me that the room in this backyard has not been rented, and if you really like it, you can sweep it out.

I asked about the room price, and Sister Xue's answer surprised me, the furnished room in the front yard only costs 200 yuan a month, and the storage room in the backyard costs 300 yuan a month.

Why, I ask? Sister Xue said at first that it would take a lot of manpower and financial resources to clean this storage room, and there was no place to put the things that were cleared out, so it was not worth 200 yuan a month. But I felt that Sister Xue was a little hidden, so under my constant questioning, Sister Xue shook her head and said, "Okay, I might as well tell you." There had been a dead person in that room in the front yard, so the room was cheap. ”

I see. I hurriedly comforted Sister Xue and said, "Sister, don't worry about this, my seven-foot man will still be afraid of ghosts?" I'm going to want that dead room, I can save so much in a month, why not? ”