Nine, the old house
"What do you mean? You mean my two dogs? ”
"I've been dead for more than ten days, and my bones are rotten, how can I still be alive?" Hu Xiao glanced at me vigilantly: "Don't talk about your house, you don't know anything about it." ”
I didn't quite understand what he was saying at the time, but I just shook my head: "After my great-grandfather passed away, our family moved, and the eldest uncle and the younger uncle also moved out of there later, and then the house couldn't be sold, so we divided some of the family property." ”
"Is there a door in the back of your yard over there?" Hu Xiao asked suddenly.
"yes!"
"Do you know what's in the mountains??"
"What do you know?" I became suspicious, "That mountain is logically my family's, and no one can enter it without permission?" ”
"No one went in, but a few years ago, a few people came here who were said to be buried here by the ancestors of their hometown, and they came to worship, and they asked Uncle Li who helped you manage the mountain, and Uncle Li said that you can go in to worship, but you can't burn paper, and as a result, both of them disappeared as soon as they entered the mountain. Trace. ”
"Who are you listening to all this stuff? Why are you still so feudal and superstitious after reading all the books in vain, those people may be stealing something from our house, and then they will come and tell you about it? I lay down on the bed, looked at the ceiling, and said, "Let's get a few people to go over there tomorrow!" It's my family's house after all. ”
"See? What to see? Don't you really know what's unclean inside the door at the back of your house? Hu Xiao suddenly sat up from the bed, "Don't say that I won't go to this matter, even if I know that I am going, my mother will beat me to death." ”
Hearing Hu Xiao's words, my heart suddenly cooled half, could it be that there are not only ghosts in the door? And even the inside of the house has a problem? But I always felt that something was wrong, but I didn't know what was wrong, so I squeezed over and arched his shoulder, "What's behind the door?" Isn't that door locked in my house? Who can open it? "I have the impression that the lock on the door of my house is a latch lock, and it cannot be opened without a corresponding key.
"Baiyun Guanguang Lock?" Hu Xiao suddenly said: "I have seen that lock engraved with the word No. 2 on it. My uncle said that such a lock was used by Baiyun Temple, one of the ten jungles of Taoism, to suppress evil spirits. ”
"What do you mean? Have you been to our backyard? I asked, frowning.
"I guess you didn't know about it at the time, and I don't know why there was a sudden dog barking in your backyard, that is, the two dogs abandoned by your family, they barked endlessly, from day to night, and finally we couldn't stand it anymore and decided to go up and have a look. After going up, I found that the door in your backyard was opened by someone who didn't know who had opened it, in fact, it wasn't opened but the bolt of the lock was broken, as if there was a very strong force squeezed out of it, and then the door was opened a gap, but it was very strange that the door was only opened a gap, but it couldn't be opened, at that time we thought that there was a chain behind the door that was bolted, but no, we checked the gap of the door up and down and found that there was no place that was locked from the inside. ”
"No, it won't." I shook my head and interrupted Hu Xiao's words, "Just think about it." If there were such chains, there would have been someone inside, but you know, no one has been in that room since our family moved in. And, in other words, who will lock themselves in? Unless. ”
"Unless what?"
"Unless there's another passage in that room, and someone locks the door and goes in and comes out somewhere else?"
"That's not right." Hu Xiao listened and retorted, "There is another explanation, that is, someone went in and didn't plan to come out." ”
I listened to Hu Xiao's more and more that the mystery of the house was far from being known to me, in fact, I also wondered if Feng Shui was really effective, and I heard my father say that our family's embarrassment began to change when my grandfather moved the house. Grandpa became the principal, and Dad was successfully admitted to the civil service. If all this has nothing to do with grandpa's actions, I'm afraid no one can say well, because just use my dad to talk about things! Originally, he didn't have a ranking, but in that civil service exam, the second place was found out and went through the back door, so he took his place.
I was thinking about it here, and Hu Xiao asked again, "Has anyone in your family disappeared before?" ”
"Missing? Don't talk nonsense. I said, "Don't you know that I don't have any memories until I was 7 years old?" That is, you look too individual, otherwise I wouldn't be able to remember you. I nodded and explained, "It's like when I was a kid, and although I don't remember anything, I at least know what a pig is and what a duck is." ”
"Yes!" Hu Xiao nodded. It seemed that his nervous and cellular brain did not notice the fact that I was hacking him, and he dug into his huge nostrils and continued, "But there is one thing I want to ask, that is, since you have no memory, why do you know that no one has ever entered that house." ”
"Stupid, of course I asked my dad." I scolded.
"Then here's the problem." Hu Xiao frowned and said to me, "Why does your father pay special attention to that house?" Or would he answer your question so positively? ”
"I don't know, but I don't think the door is as weird as you think. Maybe it's something behind the door that you can't see. I thought about it for a moment and said, "But why don't you force the door open?" ”
Hu Xiao shook his head: "My uncle said that it was your family's things, and we couldn't use it, but I think it was because your family was too poor and there was nothing in it." The gap in that door was so big. He gestured with his hand, "I looked inside from the outside and saw that there was nothing inside, it was a dilapidated house, maybe your uncle emptied the contents when he moved, and finally locked the door from the inside." ”
"I don't know, why don't we go see it tomorrow?" I threw out a decoy, "Just look, you want to know what's in my house, right?" ”
"Just see?" Hu Xiao seemed to be a little shaken.
"Yes." I nodded vigorously, like a weird guy who tricked a little girl with a lollipop. "Just look, besides, it's my house, and I can still let you turn the sky in it, right?"
"Then I'll take one more person tomorrow?" It's like a girl who knows that she wants to have a show when she goes out with her boyfriend on Tanabata, and she just says, "I can't go home very late at night~You have to promise me~"
I nodded and made an OK gesture, "No problem, let's go to sleep first!" I'll leave tomorrow afternoon. "It's very simple, generally speaking, many top students in school are brought by scumbags in this way to become the same kind. First to deceive, then to discuss with you, and finally to make you addicted, I covered myself with a blanket and hid under the covers and smiled sinisterly.
The next day we slept until late and didn't get up, and at noon Hu Xiao's parents left a table of food and left, and left a note that said, "Good baby should eat well!" Take care of Xiao Du's kid casually. Then he drew a smiley face "O(∩_∩)O~".
Looking at the note on the table, Hu Xiao touched the cold sweat on his head. He smiled at me and said, "Just get used to it." ”
After we had dinner in a hurry, Hu Xiao took me to find a few friends and said that they were the leaders of the school, and if they wanted to go to such a gloomy place, they would have to bring that kind of yang character. As soon as I heard this, I nodded decisively and found that this kid sometimes has a very reliable idea of doing things, at least not to mention that his appearance is extremely obscene, but with this mind, I look at him differently.
However, my thoughts were completely before I saw those people, because when I saw those guys, a yellow hair and a round guy, I understood that what he was talking about was just junior high school students. Sure enough, it was the thinking of elementary school students, and they knelt down when they saw junior high school students. I didn't speak, I just looked at the two guys with a friendly look, not a compromise. It's my instinctive worship of those noble royal families who kill Matt.
I remember "Huainanzi. There is an ancient saying in the "Mountain Training" that says: "When you see a leaf falling, you know that the year will be twilight." "That's what it means to know autumn! But now that I see the yellow hair, I immediately feel that my autumn is coming, no wonder I heard some friends who often go online say that the temperament of aristocratic people is generally bleak with a hint of autumn coolness, so it is called noble and cold. I think that's a good thing to say, because whoever sees that yellow hair knows that autumn is coming.
But if that yellow hair is the gloom of autumn, then the bearer next to him may be the cold of winter! It's not a sharp look, it's not an overt domineering, it's a bloated figure like a winter melon, and when I see this body, I not only think that winter is really coming. But if you have to compare him with Hu Xiao, you can only say that one can crush a person to death. The other can crush two people.
As if seeing my drunken eyes, Hu Xiao coughed very timely and said, "Let me introduce you." ”
"I'm Xiao Du, everyone, and Hu Xiao have the same surname as Hu." I smiled and stretched out my hand to learn from the appearance of adults, grabbed their hands and shook them twice, Chinese revolutionary movies often describe the situation that two people have not met for a long time, one explains the deep feelings, and the other shows the inner feelings. Of course, if it were placed today, I wouldn't think so, because I found a pattern after reading countless films, that is, the Yankees hate each other and hate each other. Chinese shake hands, Australians touch their noses, Africans meet for one yuan, and strange Japanese are more considerate in this regard, such as rolling beds and the like.
So I learned a philosophy. It's that when you see a beautiful girl or something like that, you must learn to look like you come back from studying in the United States, first say hello, and then kiss it hard no matter how others react, and then laugh and enmity.
However, the two handlers didn't seem to know much about my black humor, so they just glanced at me with a kind of sneering eyes, and then said coldly, "Under Dong Chao." ”
"Under Hu Zongwei."
As soon as I heard it, oh fuck, the two of you are even more humorous than me! But why don't you offer a hand? But when they said this, I was embarrassed to stand stupidly, so I could only bow my hands and say, "Fortunately, fortunately." ”
"Alright, alright." He hurriedly interrupted us and said, "It's not too early, let's go up and talk about it!" ”
In this way, a group of four of us started the journey, in fact, I had seriously asked them to give me a horse at the beginning, although Zhu Bajie was a little more, but I don't explain that there is no role of Sun Monkey.
It was not very far from Hu Xiao's house to our hometown's house, and it only took 20 minutes for us to build a good relationship along the way, talking and laughing, and when I walked down the mountain, I saw the road that had been dug out by my father and uncles with a shovel and a shovel. In less than two years, it has been overgrown with wild grass, not only lamenting the passage of time. Of course, my sigh here is to make a sound, because it is only less than 20 minutes away, and Dong Chao is already about to relieve his hands again.
But fortunately, today's weather is good, otherwise Dong Chao would have to run more than ten times to the toilet in half a day, of course, such weather is not only beneficial to him alone. It also greatly shortened the time for our footsteps, and it took us 5 minutes to climb up, and the vermilion gate and the blue brick and green tile door were reflected in my eyes again after 2 years.
"I remember that the bodies of the two yellow dogs were found here." When he walked to the door, Dong Chao said, "The bones are all out, and I don't know how many days I have been dead." ”
"It's only 3 days." Hu Zongwei said gloomily: "3 days ago, I was still feeding him leftovers at the door of my house!" ”
"My grandma said that the yin in this house is too heavy, otherwise no matter how bad the weather is, it won't rot in 3 days!"
Listening to them say one by one, I knew that they probably didn't want to go in, so I had to step forward and wave my hand at them, "I'll go in first to see the situation, and I'll come out later to tell you the result." After saying that, I ran in without looking back.
I don't know if it was because of the short rainstorm a few days ago, it was particularly damp, and there was a smell of rot in the air, so I looked at the empty room. But I couldn't find the source of that smell. In the long-maintained house, the lower and upper ceiling beams on the ceiling fell to the ground, and I could hear the crunching sound from time to time when I stepped on it, because the light transmission of the house was relatively poor, and at this time I was in the house like a cloudy porch corridor, pitch black.
The sound kept ringing, and I knew it was the sound of my footsteps, but I found that when I deliberately stopped, the voice lingered for an extra second before it stopped. That doesn't seem to be my voice, so what the hell is that? Hu Xiao, they want to scare me? It is unlikely that I ruled out such thoughts in the first place. Then he was stunned. For I saw a scarlet pillar in front of me, and then a little light shining in from the patio, and saw an illusory shadow behind me.
"No, it won't!" I shuddered, and my steps began to tremble. I'm just going to get out of here.
Our house is mainly a quadrangle, with the main house in the north, the wing house in the east and west, the inverted seat in the south, and the houses on the east, west, north and south. In the middle is the patio, and the whole is connected by a porch. And now where I am is is my grandfather's house, and if I want to get rid of that gloomy atmosphere, I must run to the patio.
Generally, the house is sitting north and facing south, but our family has changed the house to sit south and face north because of my grandfather, so the house looks particularly dark for a certain period of time. That is to say, the south side is the main house, and behind the main house is the small house that our family has never been touched.
I quickened my speed to get rid of the sound behind me, and ran straight from the main room through the patio and grandpa's house, and finally came to the door of the small room, I gasped, and looked up while complaining, and sure enough, I saw that the door of the house was opened, and I don't know when someone opened a gap. The gap is not big enough for a small child to enter and exit.
But at this time, I saw through the gap that there seemed to be something in that room, so I walked over slowly, since I was a child, I have always regarded this place as the most mysterious place in the house, but you must know that every child at this age has a heart of curiosity and gossip beating in his heart. Little by little, little by little, I finally came to the crack in the door, and I slowly poked my head over.
However, what I saw was actually Hu Xiao, yes, it was Hu Xiao, not only him, but also Dong Chao and Hu Zongwei, they were sitting on a stool in the room, sitting straight, looking at the wall with empty eyes, unusually engaged, expressionless. (To be continued......)