Chapter 42: Day and Night
We didn't delay when we arrived at the place, and we directly contacted the proprietress of the dog meat restaurant. Waiting for the proprietress to come over, I took a brief look in front of the dog meat restaurant, the store is not particularly big, two floors, the decoration is OK, but it looks like it has been closed for a while, from the outside it seems that the whole house is very lifeless. Qin Yiheng also turned back and forth, but he didn't find anything. It was estimated that it would take a while for the proprietress to come over, so we inquired around the store, and it didn't matter, it really made us ask a lot of things.
According to the owner of the nearby restaurant, this store used to be a home-cooked restaurant, because the owner died a few years ago, so it was transferred to the dog meat restaurant family. Before the urban renewal, there was a river in front of their store, which was later filled into a road. In fact, if it is said to be a river, the depth of the water is only half a meter. One night, the owner of the home-cooked restaurant didn't know if he had drunk too much, so he drowned in the river, and his body was only found the next day. Originally, the home-cooked restaurant was not big, and the owner was actually a chef. Now, the boss is dead, and the hotel basically can't be maintained. The owner's widow sold the shop to the couple who owned the dog meat restaurant, and it is said that the price was also very low at that time, and the people around the neighborhood still talked about selling it so low, I am afraid that there is something wrong with the house. But after the dog meat restaurant opened for a few years, I haven't heard of any strange things happening, and their family's business is not bad. Over time, if it weren't for the death of another person this time, this matter would have been forgotten by people.
According to the people around, I'm afraid this house is really a murderous house. Qin Yiheng didn't say anything, but just said that when the boss lady came, let me try to ask how the boss died. After waiting for about half an hour, the proprietress arrived. The person looked quite young, and he was dressed very decently, but he didn't talk much, so he took the key and opened the door, briefly said the area and price of the house, and then stopped talking.
Frankly speaking, I was really taken aback when I entered this house, because the inside could not be described as old, it was simply dilapidated, the dining tables and chairs were crooked, and they were all incomplete, as if they had been smashed earlier. I saw that Qin Yiheng's expression was also muttering, so I casually asked the boss lady, what's going on? The proprietress was even more surprising in her answer, she said that she had found someone to smash them.
Find someone to smash it yourself? Isn't this full of food? I saw that the proprietress was in a good mental state, not like she had violent tendencies. I just looked at Qin Yiheng, but he nodded as if he didn't understand, turned his head and asked the boss, are you still dreaming? This question made me even more confused, but the proprietress seemed to understand, and shook her head at us twice, her expression looked aggrieved. Qin Yiheng did not continue to speak, but took a turn upstairs and downstairs.
At the beginning, I was still talking to the proprietress below, firstly, because Qin Yiheng had explained to me before; Second, I also want to see if I can take the opportunity to bargain. But the proprietress didn't talk much, and I didn't think it was interesting to ask two questions, so I simply shut up. Qin Yiheng turned upstairs for a while before coming down and glancing at me, I saw that his expression was quite relaxed, and his heart began to snicker, this time it was really not in vain, after all, it has not been opened for a long time, I am very excited. After speaking, he motioned to me with his eyes to look at the tables and chairs that had fallen to the ground, and asked me, would the boss lady smash her own yard?
Where can I know this, I told him not to sell Guanzi, and to say anything directly. Qin Yiheng sighed and said, because this restaurant is open day and night, this day and night is not the so-called 24-hour business now, to put it simply, it is a business for people during the day and a ghost business at night. He didn't hold back his voice when he said this, obviously intentionally saying it to the proprietress .
After saying this, the eyes of both of us turned to the proprietress in unison. Sure enough, the proprietress's face changed, and her eyes were still a little red.
Seeing this, Qin Yiheng said, you also have concerns, now you should know that the two of us are also understanding people, if there is anything, just say it directly, if it is easy to do, the two of us will buy the house. His tone was very sincere, and I saw that the proprietress was obviously moved by what she said, and after a few seconds of stunned thought, she told us about their store.
The proprietress is not very good at expressing herself, and things are said intermittently, but I understand the general meaning. Before the two of them took over the shop, the shop was already open day and night, and it was a restaurant during the day, and when it was midnight and the store door was closed, the boss hung an empty bowl upside down on the door, which was considered to be the start of "business". However, this ghost business is not to prepare meals like a restaurant, but to order incense on each table and set up "five stews". After a tribute incense is burned, it will be changed to a table of five stews, until the end of the day, that is, at three o'clock in the morning, the boss will take down the empty bowl hanging upside down on the door and hang a small broom, which means that the guests are closed. On the surface, it seems that opening day and night at the same time does not bring real benefits, but the boss at that time was also forced to do so, because the business was not in a recession when it first opened, and I don't know who the previous boss listened to and said that doing so could open up the financial road. Unexpectedly, after the boss tried it, the business gradually improved, and the store opened day and night. But it didn't take long for the boss to drown in the river and die. His family also knew early in the morning that he would be open for business in the middle of the night, and it was inevitable that he would have associations in his heart, feeling that the boss's death was inevitably related to this, so he didn't dare to sublet it at a high price, for fear of causing any trouble. The owner of the dog meat restaurant had a set of ancestral recipes for making dog meat, and he wanted to open a store at that time, but he didn't have much money. It's better to come by chance, and I don't know how the family of the boss before Lu Dao fell in love with the two of them, and they were decisively transferred to them when many people were chasing this set of stores. However, on the day the contract was signed, the previous boss's family may have some conscience and told them about the day and night. The owner of the dog meat restaurant himself is a bold and unbelieving lord, and he refuses to believe in these evil things, so he still resolutely buys the store, but he didn't expect that after the store opened, he would always have some strange dreams every night, and some faceless people came to ask him why the shop was not open.
After a few times, the owner of the dog meat restaurant also became a little suspicious, and the business at that time was really difficult to do, and later he was also eager to make money, so he opened it at night with the idea of giving it a try, and since then, their dog meat restaurant has been open day and night.
It took a lot of time for the proprietress to talk about such a thing, because she would be interrupted by choking every few words, and it seemed that the relationship between the two of them was really good. After her words were finished, I kept staring at Qin Yiheng's face, and he looked quite serious. I asked him, is this store still open like this?
Qin Yiheng said "um", this is yes, according to legend, inns and taverns and restaurants since ancient times have special tables and rooms, even if they are full or full, they must be empty and cannot be used by guests, because those are used to greet the little ghosts who come and go. However, it was the first time he had heard of the use of "five stews" to entertain him. The so-called "five stews" are the livers of five kinds of birds, which are taken from geese, sparrows, pigeons, geese and hens, which are said to have been used to worship the river god in the early days. This spirit has eaten his family's things, and it will definitely not stand in the way of wealth. It's just that this is not a long-term solution, because even if these ghosts are harmless, so gathered, the yin qi is still very heavy, and the time of the third watch in the middle of the night itself suppresses the yang and promotes the yin, and the boss has been guarding it for a long time, and it is inevitable to lose his life.
After listening to Qin Yiheng's explanation, I have gained a lot of knowledge, but what I am most concerned about is whether this house is good or not, after all, this is the matter in front of me.
When asked, he pouted, turned his face and asked the boss, how did the boss die?
This sentence really poked the sore spot of the proprietress, and she immediately burst into tears, saying that she was very disapproving of the boss doing such things at night, people, instinctively, would be jealous of these, but the boss refused to listen. Because she was worried, she waited at home every time until her boss came back to sleep peacefully. But one day, when the sky was bright and there was no figure of the boss, she was very uneasy, and found the store, but found that the boss died naked on the second floor, and there was a large steel basin for the back kitchen of the restaurant next to it. Later, when he was sent to the hospital, the doctor said that the boss had died of heart failure. But the boss has always been in good health before, why did he die? At that time, she thought that the previous boss also died inexplicably, but she couldn't prove whether it was related to the night business, but at least the store couldn't be opened, so she simply closed the door and went home, wanting to calm down for a few days and relieve the pain of losing her husband. But after closing the business, she even began to have the same dream that her husband had before, for several days, and then scared her so much that she didn't dare to sleep all night. After the end, I couldn't help it, so I found a knowledgeable person to show it, and the other party asked her to wrap the tables and chairs in the store in red paper, and she really settled down for several days after doing so. It's just that the good times didn't last long, and after a while, she began to dream again and night. This time the dream was even more evil, I actually dreamed of those things to scold her for not knowing how to be polite, and to drive people away so stubbornly. She saw that the ideas given to her by the knowledgeable person could not solve the problem, and those things made her afraid and hateful, so in a hurry, she found a few people and smashed all the tables and chairs in the store. This time, she really didn't have any strange dreams.
The more the proprietress said this, the more puzzling I became, why did these things focus on this house? If you want to die, you still don't give up? Qin Yiheng seemed to hear something, turned his head and looked around the room, but did not speak. He didn't say anything, and I couldn't make up my mind, so I quietly asked him what to do now. Qin Yiheng said, this, we have to go back and think about it first, but the death of this boss has nothing to do with these little ghosts who come to eat!
This sentence makes me shudder, is it okay? So the boss's death was a coincidence? But one person can be coincidental, this adds up to two bosses who have died before and after. However, since he said it, I had to tell the proprietress that we had to go back and sum it up first, and hoped that she would wait for us for a few days, and we would try to find out about her husband's death. The proprietress agreed, and did not wait for me to ask, so she generously gave me the key, saying that the next time we want to come to the scene to see, don't call her, this place is the two of them struggled together, and she will inevitably touch the scene.
It's convenient now, and there's nothing to steal in the house anyway, and I don't care if I lose something and get suspicious when I get the key. So, after saying goodbye to the hostess, we went back to the hotel first. When I got in the car, I asked Qin Yiheng, if it had nothing to do with the little ghost, how did the boss die? He said that he didn't know how the boss died now, but if you talk about this matter in detail, it is actually very strange, because the dog meat restaurant is not as good as the average restaurant, and most of the dog meat is sold by suicide, so the boss is at least half a butcher. It is said that it is difficult to attract evil spirits when this butcher is full of evil spirits, and most evil demons hide far away when they see it. However, the butcher who kills the dog is different from those who kill pigs and sheep, because the dog itself is a very spiritual animal, and can know the family, so most of the slaughtering dogs will be carried out when it is dark, and the fear is that it will be killed during the day, and it will remember the way back.
Hearing Qin Yiheng say this, I also muttered in my heart, and said in my heart, could it be because this boss killed dogs in broad daylight, and then recruited evil?
asked Qin Yiheng, but he shook his head, saying that it might have something to do with this, but the proprietress also mentioned that the boss burned something before he died, and if we really want to buy this house, it is necessary to go again tonight.