Chapter XVII. Rent
It was four o'clock in the morning, and we walked out of the dark street, and although the lights were on in our room, the doors and windows were closed, and the light could not be seen through.
The summer night was particularly hot, so we took our packages and walked out in the empty old alley building, ready to take the night taxi back to the apartment we had rented before Tofu. On the way, Tofu was very unconvinced, and said to me: "Comrade Chen Hang, you have done a very good job in today's matter, and I look down on you!" ”
I asked rhetorically, "What's wrong?" ”
Tofuqi's face turned red, and he said, "Why did the mushrooms that Lao Tzu worked so hard to dig out let them pick them up?" Forget about picking up leaks, at least be polite, you look at what we look like now, how do I feel like a mouse being swept away? ”
I said, "If it's you, what are you going to do?" ”
Tofu immediately said: "There is a way that a big husband can bend and stretch, if I am the only one, I will admit it." But today it's different, isn't it you? You kid has never been a fearful person, and when the sky falls, you should be covered with a quilt. According to your past temper, you must have fought with them. When I was in high school, when was it not you who robbed me of my pocket money with your fists, and you picked and pinched your persimmons softly, except for making a threat on my head, you ......"
I saw that the tofu was showing signs of pulling away, so I hurriedly coughed and said; "Stop, don't talk about the past. At that time, I was working on the construction site, eating steamed buns every day, and I never had a full meal. You, the eldest young master, what's wrong with sharing a little bit of my pocket money, are you still worried about it now? You tell me, at first, I was going to fight with them, but didn't you notice that they brought something? ”
"Something?" Tofu was a little puzzled and asked, "You mean that picture?" ”
Tofu also knew a little about me, so he said, "It's strange enough that the picture suddenly appeared, but it's not difficult for us to know where it came from, just subdue them." I remember when you chased those two little thieves in 08, they went up and beat them up, and they cried and shouted at their mother, one against two is no problem, right? Plus me, how can you settle the three of them, right? When the time comes, you will force a confession, and you are afraid that they will not reveal the truth? ”
After listening to this, I couldn't help but sneer and said, "Otherwise, you are like tofu, and you are too idiotic to think about things." You think I'm supposed to deal with those two guys, and then you deal with that old man, don't you? Miss by a mile! They all had real guys in their arms and guns. ”
Next, I told Tofu what I had found at that time.
In the process of confrontation, I was like Tofu speculated at the beginning, I am not a person who is afraid of things, and my heart is relatively dark, thinking that if these three people want to eat black, then I'm sorry, I'm not the four subordinates of Bai Laosi, playing hard with me, forcing Lao Tzu to throw the three of you directly into the thief hole and bury them alive.
But then, in the process of observation, I realized that something was wrong.
Summer clothes are easy to fit snugly, and I vaguely see the same silhouette on the side of the three people, a bit like a pistol, and because of this, I endured this breath and didn't come hard.
After hearing this, Tofu was dumbfounded and said, "It's amazing, these people dare to bring guns." After saying that, he seemed a little afraid. At this moment, we have walked to the middle of the road, we waited for a while, a night taxi came, Tofu and I stopped and reported the address.
The master of the taxi is a Northeast person, the characteristic of the Northeast people is to be able to Kan, plus it is a night train at the moment, the road is spacious, not afraid of accidents, so the driver let go of the chatterbox, and asked us east and west, and the mouth did not stop along the way.
He looked at our duffel bags and said, "Why are you moving in the middle of the night?" I see that the place where you got on the car was to live in the old alley building, could it be because you met a ghost and couldn't live anymore? ”
My personality is more random, and when I am interested, I can talk nonsense with a stranger, and I don't want to say a word when I am not interested, so I don't say anything.
When Tofu heard this, he probably remembered the ghost contract, and said strangely: "Brother, you are still in God, can you guess this?" That's right, the place was haunted, and we couldn't live there, so we moved overnight. ”
When the driver saw that someone was willing to cooperate with him, he was even more energetic, and said proudly: "That is, if you tell others that you have met a ghost, they will definitely treat you as a psychopath." I'm different, since the year of Shenzhen's reform and opening up, I drove a taxi here, and I heard the strange things in the old alley building. ”
Tofu, a kid, has always had little roots, and sometimes when he talks, he is really angry. After listening to this, he blinked and sighed: "Then you are not a mess, as far as I know, most of the entrepreneurs who first came to Shenzhen ended up rich." Why are you still driving a taxi, it's too out of tune. ”
I choked for a while, and said in my heart how can this kid sprinkle salt on other people's wounds, just wanted to remind him, the Northeast master is more generous, laughed twice, and said: "I have often pondered this problem, and then I figured it out, it must be that I am not good at eight characters, and I am not rich in life." However, it would be good for you to move out of that house sooner, and those buildings will be demolished sooner, haven't you heard about ghost rent? ”
Ghost rent?
Tofu and I looked at each other, and some of the second monks were confused. When the master saw this, he became energetic and immediately started talking to us.
There is an old folk saying that if people have low luck, they are easy to get entangled in some dirty things.
The former landlord of the old alley building was surnamed Jia, and he was a very greedy person, and there was a fire in the old alley building, which burned his wife and son to death, and he himself committed suicide by jumping off the building after that.
I've heard this about the little girl who eats barbecue before.
After that, there was a ghost rent.
Of course, not everyone who lives in the old alley will encounter it, but the kind of people whose luck has declined to the extreme will be charged rent.
Some people may ask, what is luck?
Luck refers to people's luck and fate; If a living person accumulates virtue and does good deeds, he can improve his luck; On the contrary, if you do evil for the sake of evil, no matter how vigorous your eight characters are born, they will be slowly suppressed.
Of course, I don't believe this, my ancestors have said: good people don't pay for their lives, they are a disaster for thousands of years.
So what is the origin of ghost rent? It is said that in the old alley building lived in a couple who collected rags. The couple was unlucky enough, they had done business before, set up a pancake stand, and their lives were quite smooth, but I don't know if it was too bad, in short, bad luck continued, and gradually began to do things unwell, and then the days became more and more difficult, so they moved from the previous new community to the cheap old alley building.
Strange things happened.
On the first night of renting, a knocker came at the door, and it was said that the man was bald, dressed very old, and chattered, claiming to be the owner of the building, and wanted to collect rent.
The couple was angry, and the rent had already been paid during the day, and at this time, where did the neurosis come out and actually came to collect the rent again? Now that I have bad luck and live a poor life, I am angry enough, and I immediately became angry and scolded the rent collector.
The man didn't refute, and the figure stood in the dark corridor outside the door, waiting for the couple to finish scolding, and then said, "I'll come back in five days." ”
"Neurotic!" The man cursed and slammed the door shut.
I didn't take this matter to heart, I just thought that I had met a homeless man with nervous problems, and the next few days were collected as usual. On the evening of the third day, there was another knock at the door, and through the door, someone asked, "Is the rent ready?" ”
The two were having dinner at that time, and when his wife heard it, she complained: "It's that neurosis again, what kind of bad luck did we go." The husband snorted, thinking that since this man himself did not know how to lift, he could not blame himself for being angry with him, and he slammed open the door, ready to beat the neurotic outside the door, and guess what?
As soon as the door opened, there was a man covered in blood standing at the door, half of his head was gone, and the other half of his eyes were still staring at the man, stretching out his bloody hand, and said, "The rent is ......."
The man was frightened by a myocardial infarction, and he didn't take a breath, and fell to the ground with a bang, and the woman was also scared and fainted, and went crazy the next day. Now this story is the crazy thing that the woman said.
While the driver was telling the story, I went to other places, but I felt my scalp tingle and cold sweat on my head. I remember, the guy who gave me the ghost contract.
At that time, in the security room, I paid half of the deposit, because I didn't have enough money at that time, and the man said that I would take it five days later, until a landlady came that night, and then I looked at the ghost contract, I knew that I had hit the evil spirit, so I also forgot about it, and now if I think about it, isn't tonight just the fifth day?
At night, the street lights on both sides illuminate the road ahead, and in this bustling city, even at night, it is still brightly lit, but in such a bright environment, I feel a little hairy. I'm already out of the old alley building at this moment, and that ghost thing shouldn't be able to find me, but at this moment, ...... The old man is still there!
Shall I go back and remind them?
Why have I been experiencing such things one after another lately? Could it be that as the Northeast master said, my luck has been extremely low? That cat, how can he have such a great ability?
I'm just going into the water to save a child, how can I cause such a lot of!