Chapter 30: The Ghost Brothel
Mr. Cai said that after that, similar things happened in the Goddess Hotel every three or five days, and after the news spread, some boring people quickly made up various versions of the story. The rumors are getting more and more evil, and the Goddess Hotel has had zero occupancy for several weeks. His relatives were dying of sorrow.
I haven't decided whether to take it or not, Hu Zhouzhou is already excited, and said, "Master, this business is decisively going to take it!" Where to find a good opportunity for this upward posture? β
Me: "......"
So, ahem, the next day, me, Hu Zhouzhou, and Yujing stood at the door of the Goddess Hotel in G City with Mr. Cai.
This building is quite exquisite, it is an old building with a strong Republic of China style. Sure enough, there is a solemn statue of Liberty standing in the lobby of the hotel.
Mr. Cai's relative, the owner of the hotel, is a man in his early forties, surnamed Zhou. looks very elegant, and at first glance he is a cultural person. The strange thing is that the staff of the hotel don't call him the boss, but Professor Zhou.
Mr. Cai explained that his relative was a professor in the Chinese department of Z University, and opening a hotel was just a side hustle.
Professor Zhou greeted us very politely. It was already dusk when we arrived, and he did not rush us to hunt ghosts, but thoughtfully arranged for us to go to dinner first.
After eating and resting, I offered to look around. Professor Zhou said that he had classes in the evening and could not accompany us in person, so he arranged for a minister to give us, so that we could tell the minister directly if we needed anything.
The minister led us through the floors, one by one. I took the Heavenly Dao Seal to take a closer look at every corner of the hotel.
The minister suddenly said, "Chief Chung, I know why these things happened in our hotel. β
I said, "Oh? What's going on? β
The minister glanced at Mr. Cai, as if to ask if he could speak. Mr. Cai said, "What are you talking about? That matter has already been reported in the news, and it is not a secret, so what is there to scruple about? Go ahead. β
The minister said that there was a murder in the Goddess Hotel a year ago. It's love killing. The minister remembers that incident very well. At that time, he had just come to work at the Goddess Hotel for a week, but he didn't expect such a bloody incident to happen.
The story is actually very clichΓ©, it is nothing more than a man being cuckolded, and he can't think about it, so he kills the adulterer and the woman. The two were killed in the middle of a fierce battle. The minister said that there was blood on the walls and floors of the room at that time, and the lower bodies of the two bodies were poked by sharp weapons, which was terrible. He had nightmares about that image for months on end.
He reasoned extremely seriously: "In my opinion, it must be that the original 'battle' of the pair of wild mandarin ducks was not completed, and they have stayed here to continue to work hard after death!" Chief Chung, are you right? β
Me: "......"
Hu Zhouzhou covered his mouth and snickered, and said: "Mr. Minister, you are so talented and don't want to be a screenwriter, it's just a talent of Lang Fei country." β
The minister raised his head, as if he was thinking about whether Hu Zhouzhou was praising or hurting him.
I glanced at Hu Zhou and asked the minister in which room the murder took place. The minister led us to the room at the end and said this was it. I searched for the Heavenly Dao Seal and didn't find anything abnormal.
The minister said: "Could it be that they are temporarily gone?" β
I said no, according to what you said, those two pairs of wild mandarin ducks are obsessed with the spirit of the earth. They can only stay in the same room where they were killed. But there are no ghosts in this room, which means that they are not detained here at all. In other words, the strange things now have nothing to do with the murder in the first place.
The minister was surprised and said, "What's going on?" β
I asked him in which room the strange thing had happened. "Every time something strange happens, the room is different," he said. So far, there have been two or three rooms on each floor except the first floor. β
Now it's my turn to be incredible. I originally guessed that there were passing wild ghosts coming in here to "make a fuss", but why did they have nothing to do in another room? That's boring, isn't it? If it's boring in the same place, isn't it okay to just change places? Why are you obsessed with this guesthouse?
At this time, the jade mirror had already come back in a circle. I asked him what he had found. He said that the situation of the place was strange and that he had never seen it before. He could feel the ghosts here, but he couldn't see any of the ghosts and undead.
When I helped Mr. Cai get rid of ghosts before, he already knew that I had a spirit helper by my side, so he was no longer surprised. But the minister doesn't know. Later, he told me that he had seen me, a Taoist priest, talking to himself in the air, and that the scene was very eerie, but the other two people in the same room did not care as if they had not seen it, and he suspected that he was hallucinating.
I listened to Yujing's words, and I felt incomprehensible.
Hu Zhouzhou said: "We can't know what it is or why it is wrong, but we can find out why it chose this place." β
I said, "Yes, your boy can still spit out ivory from his mouth occasionally." β
Hu Zhouzhou said: "It's not...... Well? Who do you say is a dog! "Hu Zhouzhou opened his teeth and claws at me.
I was humiliated, and my heart was refreshed, so I ignored him and asked him what the Minister's Hotel used to do. The minister came here a year ago, so of course he doesn't know. I asked Mr. Cai, and he said he didn't know.
I had no choice but to look it up online. Don't say it, I really found a post related to the Goddess Hotel on an urban forum in G City.
The name of the post is "The Past and Present Life of the 818 Goddess Hotel".
The post started with the name "Goddess Hotel", and then used a few words to bring about the murder a year ago, and then it was the main event. The poster said that the building of the Goddess Hotel was a famous "old village" during the Republic of China, that is, a brothel. It's called Yanyun Tower.
During the Republic of China, the prostitution industry in G City was quite prosperous. I believe that anyone who has watched "Rouge Buckle" played by Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui can have a general understanding. At that time, the "old village" was also divided into three, six, nine and so on. The most luxurious category is called "Dazhai"; followed by "semi-private Ming"; Down is the second or fourth village, ** village and so on.
Yanyunlou was a "big village" with infinite scenery at that time.
Most of the customers in "Dazhai" are warlords, bureaucrats, gentry, and tycoons, and they are generous, and the pomp and circumstance of brothel hospitality are naturally large. In the village, it was a night and night singing, drunk and golden.
The young man listened to the rain song upstairs, and the red candles were dim. It is not difficult to imagine how many stories of talented and beautiful women, red men and green women have been entangled in grievances.
However, a fire burned the famously gentle depraved country into a dilapidated ruin. There are countless merry benefactors and clouds with red faces who died in the sea of fire in their sleep.
The poster said that many souls who died in vain didn't know that they were dead, and they still lived their original days day and night in Yanyun Tower, which is now the Goddess Hotel.