Although the road was not far, it was delayed for a few tosses along the way, and it was already evening when I arrived in the city. I got off the train and called Qin Yiheng, but it was still turned off, so I had to go straight to the house with Liu Cripple, wanting to meet Qin Yiheng first, and then make plans.

When I took the car, I asked a few words when I showed the address to the taxi driver, the location of this house is really good, although it is not in the city center, but it is also on the side of the main road in the city, it is very convenient to go anywhere, plus there is a famous university next to the country, the environment and geographical location are very ideal. However, to my surprise, this house is not a murderous house, not only is it not fierce, but there are people living in it. After knocking on the door, it was an old lady who opened the door for us, not young, but still looking very energetic. I told her the purpose directly and asked her if she wanted to sell the house. The old lady nodded, and let us in.

At this time, Qin Yiheng hadn't come yet, I thought to myself that maybe he was delayed because of something, but I have already arrived, so I will briefly ask about the situation of this house first, and when Qin Yiheng arrives, I can save some time.

The old lady spoke unhurriedly, and she was quite self-contained at first glance, saying that this house was lived by their old couple before. But his wife died a while ago, and her children are all abroad, so she plans to sell the house and go abroad to live with her children, so that she can not only save herself from seeing things and thinking about people, but also have a dependency in her later years. I got up and walked around the house, the layout of three bedrooms and two living rooms, the visual measurement is about 140 square meters, although the decoration is not luxurious, but also elegant. After a brief look around, I was quite satisfied with the orientation, house type and so on, so I sat down and asked the old lady the price.

The old lady offered a fairly cheap price, and I was a little tempted at the time, but after thinking about it for a while, I felt that Qin Yiheng asked me to come to this house, I am afraid it was not so easy to pick up the leaks, so I asked the old lady bluntly if there was a problem with the house. The old lady hesitated for a moment, saying that there was actually no big problem with this house, but if she wanted to buy it, she hoped to add a condition to the contract, that is, she could only live in it by herself, and the bedroom inside should always remain the same.

Her conditions are too harsh, to put it bluntly, it means that I bought this house and smashed it directly, so I asked the old lady why she would have such a request.

As soon as she asked, the old lady's eyes turned red, and she pointed to the back room and said, their old man has not left, and now he is still in that bedroom, and she doesn't want to leave, but it is not a way to stay here all the time, and she is not not not allowed to let others move the bedroom inside, but their old man has a great temper, and from time to time he will drop things inside, smashing a teacup or something, if you don't give him something to fall, he will pace back and forth in it at night, and he can walk all night. She is also distressed that her wife is tired, so she can only send a few cups in for preparation. She was afraid that she would scare others when the time came, after all, this was her wife, who was scared, and she couldn't bear it in her heart.

I thought to myself, is this still not a big problem? It's not clear if it's haunted. But listening to the old lady's statement, except for dropping a few cups, that thing doesn't seem to have any great ability, but if you don't have the ability, it's also a trouble, so I hesitated to wait for Qin Yiheng to come over and then think about it in the long run, but I didn't expect Liu Cripple to be quite bold, and directly asked the old lady to take us into the bedroom inside, and I followed behind.

The bedroom was cleanly furnished, one wall had been beaten into a large bookcase, which was basically stuffed with books, and it was really as the old lady said, with several cups on the small bedside table next to the bed. I didn't actually feel uncomfortable when I entered this room, but Liu Cripple seemed to feel something, and frowned.

After a quick look, the three of us withdrew. Liu lame asked the old lady a question, how did the old man die?

The old lady opened the conversation box now, and I will briefly summarize it, basically that the old man of their family is a professor in the university, and he has two hobbies in his life, one is to study knowledge, and the other is to play chess. Just half a month before he died, he may have met a person with particularly superb chess skills, and the old man dragged that person home every day to play chess, and he was still unsatisfied at the end of each time. After coming down so many times, it was probably because the old man's body couldn't hold on, and one night he had a heart attack, so he left. At that time, the old man slept next to her, and she didn't know what to do when people died, but she still found it when she got up in the morning, and when she pushed the old man, her body was hard.

After listening to the old lady, I was also confused, he should be considered to be the end of his life, and it stands to reason that he should have to be reincarnated. I habitually turned my head to look at Qin Yiheng, but I only saw that Liu Cripple was also confused.

I saw that the matter had come to this point, and I could only wait for Qin Yiheng to come over to solve it, so I made an appointment with the old lady the next day and told her that if someone with long hair came to look for her, he would say that we had come and ask him to call me. When he went out, Liu Cripple seemed to be puzzled, and I asked him what was wrong. Liu Lame said that he felt that this matter might be a bit strange, because when we went to see the bedroom just now, there was a wall of books, strictly speaking, books can ward off evil spirits, because the words are all right, the so-called evil does not suppress the good, this is for what is usually a very clean place in the library. In this way, it is certainly unreasonable for the old man's ghost to stay in that bedroom.

Although Liu Cripple doesn't know how to do it, what he said makes people feel that there is some truth. Words can ward off evil spirits, this should be true, otherwise how can those words written on runic paper have the effect of driving away evil spirits? Unfortunately, both of us didn't know much about metaphysical arts, and we couldn't discuss it, so we had to find a hotel to stay in first. I didn't sleep very well, and I was always worried that I would miss a call from Qin Yiheng, and I woke up until dawn when I fell asleep, but he still didn't hear from him.

If Qin Yiheng doesn't come, there will be no way to start this house. Now, I'm in a pretty awkward position, go back, I'm afraid he'll come, and the two of us will miss it; If you don't go back, you can only wait here.

Liu lame suggested that I wait a little longer, and that we should go to that house and ask a little more carefully, maybe we can find a solution, because many times these strange things don't need to be solved with the help of magic, and the old man has not left, probably because he is nostalgic for something. When I thought about it, what he said also made sense, wasn't the previous Qing Dynasty official also unwilling to be reincarnated because of the holy decree? Maybe they have something in their house that the old man can't put down.

So, the two of us went to the house again, and on the way I was thinking, if the old man was nostalgic for their old lady, then this matter would be completely out of play.

The old lady is also hospitable, and it is estimated that she is really bored and panicked. When we sat down, we chatted about chess, and the old lady couldn't help but talk about how obsessed the old man was with this, saying that no one had touched the old man's chess now, and it was still in the bedroom.

I listened and thought about it for a while, could it be that the old man was nostalgic for the previous chess friend? Presumably he hadn't been addicted to it before, so he casually asked the old lady if there was any news about the chess friend, who knew that the old lady Lu Dao said that my head buzzed, because she said that the chess friend had never come since the old man died, and she couldn't contact him, and no one even knew what his surname was, only that the old man of their family called that person Xiao Liuzi, because that person was six fingers.

I think I may know why Qin Yiheng asked me to come to see this house, and I guess he may have received the news through some means. But now that he's not here, it's tricky.

I wanted to discuss it with Liu Cripple, but he didn't even know the origin of my relationship with the six fingers, and I really didn't have a clue for a while, so I had to take advantage of the day to take a look at the bedroom inside, and sure enough, there was a chess set on the windowsill, which should be wooden, and it seemed that the workmanship was very exquisite, and the estimated price was not cheap. I didn't dare to touch it with my hands, so I could only observe it closely, when suddenly a cup broke behind me, which startled me.

The old lady hurriedly ran over from the living room, and while skillfully cleaning up the broken glass, she reminded us not to touch the chess, saying that it might be that the old man of their family had played half of the chess game with someone before, and the old man would be very unhappy if he moved.

Although I was shocked, I felt that there was something about it, and the eighth problem was in this chess game. I'm not proficient in chess, but I'm probably okay with it. On the chessboard, Red has basically been killed by Black and there is no way out, I guess the old man should be holding the red disc, no wonder he is so aggrieved after his death, this chess he basically lost.

I told Liu Cripple about my guess, but Liu Cripple's eyes lit up when he heard it, and told me that he had always heard about some magic and gods before, and this time he really met him, and he was willing to give it a try.

I asked him, how to try it?

Liu Cripple posted it and said to me mysteriously, let's come over at night and continue to play this game of chess with the old man, won't it be over if we deliberately lose to him?