The historian tried to calm himself, because this series of events came too suddenly-first the Taoist priest moved inexplicably, and now, how can he suddenly say that he is dead?

He looked at the frightened nanny in front of him, as if he had thought of something, so he hurriedly let her into the house, made her a cup of hot tea, and comforted her not to be nervous, and slowly explained the ins and outs of the matter.

The nanny drank a few sips of water, sat on the sofa without saying a word, her eyes were in a daze, and after about ten minutes, her face seemed to return to normal, and under the comfort of the historian, the nanny's feelings gradually stabilized, and then she told what had happened in the past few days without concealment.

After listening to the babysitter's story. Historians feel more and more that these things are really weird.

It turned out that the day after we visited the Taoist, the Taoist priest suddenly proposed to the nanny to move, and said that the sooner the better. And specifically instructed the nanny that the new address after this move must not be told to anyone.

This made the nanny very surprised, how can a place that has lived for decades be changed for no reason?

But the nanny didn't dare to ask more, because she had served the Taoist priest for nearly twenty years, and she knew the teacher's temperament - everything he told him to do was to do it, and never ask why.

But where to move to?

The nanny originally thought that it would take a lot of trouble to find a suitable place, but the Taoist priest told her mysteriously that the place she wanted to move to had already been found!

This shocked the nanny, because she really couldn't figure out when the Taoist priest had chosen the location.

Every day, the Taoist priest goes out for activities, about two hours or so, and in addition, he stays at home all day and rarely goes out. And when I was at home, most of the time, I was alone, hiding in that dimly lit little attic. And the nanny cooks the meal and sends him upstairs, but other than that, the two rarely communicate.

This nanny is a native of Suzhou, and when she was in her early twenties, she suffered a series of blows in her life - first her parents died of terminal illness, and then her son, who was just over a year old, also suffered from a strange disease and died unexplained;

What's even more tragic is that her husband also abandoned her, so she was desperate, so she committed suicide by throwing herself into a lake, but she was met by a Taoist priest who was visiting Suzhou at that time, and went into the water to save her.

In the coldest and most desperate time of her life, it was this kind old man who gave her warmth and hope.

Since then, she has followed the Taoist priest to Shanghai and willingly became the Taoist priest's nanny. She felt that this old man was fine except for his strange temper and little speech all day—he gave her at least double the salary of an ordinary nanny, and no matter what she did wrong, the Taoist priest never scolded her.

Even a few years ago, the Taoist priest once wanted to introduce the nanny to the object, but the nanny repeatedly refused to give up, but the nanny was still very grateful to the Taoist, because she knew that the Taoist priest did it for her good.

Although the nanny gets along with the Taoist priest day and night, she knows very little about the Taoist priest's past, she only vaguely knows that the owner used to be a Taoist priest and is good at feng shui and medical treatment; And in the box in the Taoist priest's room, there is an extremely terrible monster, which occasionally makes a few extremely miserable and terrifying screams; In addition to this, she also learned that the Taoist priest seemed to have children, but strangely, the Taoist priest never interacted with children.

The nanny's understanding of the Taoist priest is nothing more.

For the nanny, the Taoist priest is like a mystery, and a mystery that has no chance to solve it - the two have never talked deeply for more than 20 years, and the nanny can feel as if the Taoist priest deliberately kept a distance from her.

Although the Taoist priest suddenly asked to move, which made the nanny feel a little sudden, she was not particularly surprised, because with the strange temper of the Taoist priest, it is understandable to make such an abrupt decision.

But what surprised the nanny a little was that the newly moved house was bought by the Taoist priest more than 20 years ago. But there has been no one to live, and the Taoist priest only hires someone to clean it regularly, but before that, the nanny didn't know anything about it.

Also, this house is very weird:

First of all, the house is located in the middle of nowhere, which is considered to be a suburb. And it is a small courtyard with a single family, from the azimuth, it is neither due south and north, nor due east and west, and the orientation looks very chaotic;

Not only that, but even the shape of the small courtyard is irregular, crooked, and gloomy, which makes people feel indescribably frightened.

Somehow, as soon as the nanny entered the yard, she felt her heart pounding, and her hairs stood on end. It was as if the nanny's sixth sense had told her that this house was indeed unusual.

Sure enough, next, strange things happened in the small courtyard one after another.

The day after moving into this house, the nanny got up early to clean the yard. It may be that she has just changed to a new place, and the nanny barely slept all night, and when the day is just dawn, she wakes up, and she always feels that this house is very depressing and gloomy, although the layout is similar to the previous house - there is also a small attic in the house, and the Taoist priest still lives in the attic.

As soon as she walked into the yard, she took a deep breath of the fresh morning air and coughed and cleared her throat, but something unexpected happened - as soon as her cough fell, there was a faint cough in the corner not far away! At this moment, the nanny was so frightened that her legs were weak and she almost sat on the ground!

She rubbed her eyes and looked carefully into the corner, and although the light was still a little dim, she could clearly see that there was no one in the corner at all!

The babysitter wondered if she was hallucinating, so she grew up and coughed loudly again, this time she was sure she had heard correctly—just as she had finished coughing, there was a clear cough in the corner, just like last time! It seemed to be in response to her cough, and the cough sounded like that of an old man's hair.

The nanny said "Mom", and she was so frightened that she quickly ran back to the house, closed the door, and then got into the quilt and covered her head, she felt her whole body trembling under the quilt.

I don't know how long later, she heard the Taoist priest coming down from the attic, and then she hurriedly got out of bed—when she got out of bed, the nanny realized that she was so scared that she didn't even take off her shoes, so she got into the bed.

But when she came to the living room, she couldn't wait to tell the Taoist priest about the strange thing that had just happened; What she didn't expect was that after listening to it, the Taoist priest just said expressionlessly: "You don't have to be afraid, it's just the echo of your cough, you also saw it, the structure of this courtyard is very special, so some sounds will be reflected, and this sound reflection is also related to the temperature and air pressure, and the temperature and air pressure in the morning are relatively special, so it will especially lead to the appearance of this kind of echo." ”

The nanny went to high school all the time, and after listening to the Taoist priest's explanation, she also felt that it did make some sense, so after listening to it, she relaxed a lot.

But her memory seemed to tell her clearly, and it felt that the coughing sound was not like an echo of her own cough, but completely like another person's voice.

After breakfast, the sun had already come out, and the Taoist priest did not say a word, and went up to the attic alone. And the nanny came into the yard again, stood where she had coughed in the morning, and coughed loudly again, but this time, the "echo" of that cough did not appear.

She tried a few more times, but there was still no movement in the corner. The spirit, which had been slightly relaxed, suddenly tightened up again! If it's an echo, then why isn't it there now? Although the current temperature and air pressure may be different from just now, it is not as good as there is no echo at all!

The nanny plucked up her courage and walked to the corner, took a closer look, and oh my God, there was a tombstone!

The tombstone is half buried in the earth and half exposed. She felt her heart beat wildly—there was a grave here!

She took a deep breath, tried to calm herself, and carefully looked at a few words on the tombstone, which read: "Zhang Gongtao's Tomb"; There are also a few lines of small words next to it: "Zhang Gong is a loyal member of the Kuomintang, and was later killed by Ding Rebellion", and the words below are buried in the soil and cannot be seen.

After coming to Shanghai for so many years, when the nanny was fine, she would read some books about the history of Shanghai, and just from these words on the tombstone, she already understood the general situation.

This tombstone should be from a Kuomintang named Zhang Tao, and the "Ding Rebellion" mentioned in the tombstone should refer to Ding Mocun, a famous traitor and spy leader in Shanghai at that time.

At that time, this Ding Mo Village took refuge in Japan, and then set up a secret service in Shanghai, and the anti-Japanese people were hunted down and killed, and the methods used were extremely cruel, his secret service agency, in Shanghai at that time, was considered a hell on earth, and people knew that as long as they entered, they would shed their skin if they did not die. And this Zhang Tao is likely to be tortured to death by Ding Mocun and inhumane torture.

After looking at this tombstone, the nanny couldn't help but shiver, she seemed to remember something. Next, she wanted to prove that her conjecture was correct.

When buying vegetables in a vegetable market far away, the nanny specially inquired about the origin of this house from the local elderly, and the result was just as she guessed - this courtyard was one of the institutions where Ding Mo Estate used torture to kill anti-Japanese volunteers, and I don't know how many people died in this courtyard.

The old man also told her that it was said that this courtyard was a "haunted house", and that people inside were often heard screaming in the middle of the night. Therefore, almost all the people in the neighborhood have moved away, and only this house remains, which is left alone.

Knowing this, the nanny became even more frightened, and as soon as it was dark, she hid in her room, locked the door, and did not dare to come out again, and often woke up from nightmares.

Every day in this yard became an ordeal for the nanny, but then, something weirder and more terrible happened.

Another thing that shocked the nanny was that since moving to this new home, the Taoist priest had also undergone a lot of strange changes - his originally tough body quickly became thin and rickety. In particular, the hair, which was originally gray, has now quickly turned white in just a few days, and there is not a single black hair. In short, within a few days of moving here, the Taoist priest seemed to have aged by more than ten years.

In the early hours of last night, the nanny was woken up by an incomparably terrible, incomparably terrifying cry from the attic, she quickly got up, she knew that it was the cry of the monster in the Taoist house, but the monster had never screamed so loudly, so uninterruptedly, as if something had happened in the Taoist house!