Chapter 216. [Case 23] Rumors of ghosts
After I sat down, I pretended to be okay and listened to Hu Zongren and the shopkeeper for a while, and the two old men who were playing chess at the other table on the way asked the shopkeeper to add some tea, so the boss left for a while, but because his teacup was still in front of us, I expected him to come back. So I took advantage of this time to talk to Hu Zongren and said that Situ had called and asked us if anything strange had happened. Hu Zongren asked me, what is the strange thing? I'm talking about the... Oh, don't ask, just ask anyway, Situ still has these worries.
As he spoke, sure enough, the tea stall owner came back again, obviously, the chat just now made him unsatisfied. After Hu Zongren continued to talk nonsense with him, I reminded him with my eyes to ask quickly. So Hu Zongren glared at me, and then mysteriously stretched his head to the side of the boss, looked at the boss, and said softly, boss, ask you something. The boss saw that he was so mysterious, so he got serious and said anything. Hu Zongren looked left and right, as if to prevent someone from eavesdropping, and then continued to say softly, are those rumors true?
The boss was stunned all of a sudden, and he asked a little incomprehensibly, what... What are the rumors? Hu Zongren made a look like you don't pretend to be confused with me and said, isn't that the incident, it was so fierce before, you wouldn't know it, right? I couldn't help but laugh, because I knew that this was a trick by Hu Zongren, in fact, he didn't know anything, but the more you pretend to be mysterious, people will desperately dig out some things they know, so as to prove that they actually know. Hu Zongren's two consecutive questions made the boss realize that maybe Hu Zongren was talking about something that was secretly rumored by everyone, so he frowned and thought about it and said, Oh, it turns out that you are talking about that thing, I heard that thing is true, but I haven't seen it.
Hu Zongren looked at me, then blinked his eyes, and said to the boss, then what did you hear, tell us about it, and see if what we heard was the same.
So in this way, Hu Zongren and I, two people who had no idea what had happened here, took out an incident from the mouth of this tea stall owner that few people might know.
The shopkeeper also began to lower his voice, as if he was afraid that the two old men at the other table would hear it, and said, You are talking about the haunting of this place a while ago, right? Sure enough, Jiang is still old and spicy, Situ's caution may not be unreasonable, there is indeed a ghost thing here, but its authenticity needs to be judged. There will be a local rumor in every place, some of which are true and some are false, and they are talked about too much, and gradually it becomes a topic of conversation, and it doesn't matter if it's true or not. Hu Zongren slapped his thigh and said to the shopkeeper, isn't that what I said, I thought you couldn't understand it. Hu Zongren, this guy has been with me for a long time, and he is getting better and better at acting.
The shopkeeper whispered, "I've heard about it, too, but it really felt very strange during that time." At first, it was spread by some netizens who spontaneously organized to come here to explore, and then that group of people also used to drink tea at my place, and I just listened to them. He told us that the group of people were all young people, about the same age as the two of you, some of them looked like students, we are not a very famous scenic spot here, and most of the people who come here to play are people who live nearby, or some old people who come out for a walk, this kind of gathering so many people here, it is really rare. Later, when I inquired, I found out that they were here to explore, I had lived here for so many years, and I had never seen any dangers here, so I asked the group of young people at that time, is there anything worth exploring here? The group of young people told me, boss, you don't know, this place is haunted, and they are all dressed in a boil.
The shopkeeper's eyes widened, and he was very deep in the play, he said, it's all in an uproar, so how could I not know? The group of young people said that many people who had come here had already witnessed the incident, so it spread all of a sudden. Say that we have a place here, that place is a gazebo that was built in the past, often when people are in the gazebo to enjoy the cool, I don't know when a woman in red clothes will sit next to her, and the woman asked her without saying anything, her long hair covered her face, but when you ask a few more times, she will pick up the hair on her forehead, and then let you see her face. The shopkeeper said that the young people were so eloquent that even a man of my age sounded scared, and it was said that the woman's face was blue-white, her lips were very red, and there was blood dripping down, and there were eye holes, but there were no eyes!
When he said this, he deliberately accentuated his tone, as if his portrayal could frighten me and Hu Zongren. I wonder why most of the scary ghosts that appear are women, and they prefer to wear red, and based on this, I guess that this boss may not be true because of what he heard about this time. But Hu Zongren and I still cooperated very well and pretended to be frightened, but pestered the boss to let him continue.
The boss said, not only that, a few years ago, there was a place called International Village on the edge of this park, there was a case of corpse crushing, the deceased died very miserably, I heard that part of the body was brought here and then thrown under the cliff, that place is called Eryakan, not far from there, but it is still a little remote, when someone passed by, heard the sound of knocking heavy objects on the ground, as if someone was throwing something, but when I looked back, there was no one, Later, the young people told me that the deceased in the International Village seemed to be a woman with long hair in a red dress!
As the boss strengthened his tone again, I knew that Hu Zongren and I should cooperate again. Although his temple fair does not frighten me and old fritters like Hu Zongren, I have to say that the logical relationship in this still makes sense. If this place was really once a place where people were killed and corpses were dumped, then the appearance of ghosts here is also a very common thing. If the real deceased is a woman in red, she was killed and dismembered, and no one can leave with peace of mind, so based on the words of the group of young people relayed by the shopkeeper, I must say that there is still some credibility. So I interjected and asked the shopkeeper, was there really a corpse mutilation case in that international village? The owner said that this was true, because the local media reported it so much at the time, and such cases themselves were relatively rare, so they were easily expanded. I asked him again, did the murderer catch him? The shopkeeper said that it is not very clear, and these things are still far away. I glanced at Hu Zongren and found that he was also frowning at me, as if there was something stuck and I couldn't figure it out, so he also asked the shopkeeper, was this really a place to dump the corpse in that case at that time?
The shopkeeper said that he hadn't heard of this anyway, but since everyone said so, they couldn't make it up, it might be true, but they didn't care much so they didn't know, or the authorities deliberately blocked the news in order not to cause fear among the people.
I thought about it carefully, it's really not impossible, but this seems to be too absurd for me and Hu Zongren to deal with the case this time, we are obviously ghost catchers, but this time we said in advance that we would not let us catch ghosts, but that we should stop others from stealing things. Crossing? Just when I didn't know what to do, the shopkeeper suddenly continued, but the real thing, here is always happening, even I have encountered it a few times.
So I hurriedly asked him to talk about it carefully, and he told us that the place where he set up his stall is located in the middle impartially, and drinking tea is equal to drinking water, so when you drink water and urinate urgently and want to find a convenient place, there are only two options, either retreat to the entrance of the park, where there is a toilet, or continue to walk along this road, a few hundred meters away, there is also a toilet, the distance between the two is about the same, but the toilet at the door is slightly more people, after all, it is a place where everyone will pass. Sometimes I have an urgent need to urinate, and I don't dare to solve it on the spot, which is to be fined severely. So I usually go to the toilet at the bottom of the ramp to make it convenient, and several times over the years, after I walked in, I found that I couldn't find the way.
Hu Zongren said, isn't it just a public toilet? How could you not find your way? The owner of the shop said that this thing does not happen very often, but he has not encountered it alone, several people have encountered it, the toilet is divided into two parts, the left is the men's toilet and the right is the women's toilet, and this toilet is only a few years old when the park was ready to open. The toilet is a narrow passage, the left side is the urinal, the long kind, the right is the pit, there is a total of one entrance, no matter how confused the person, you won't get lost in it, right? When the shopkeeper said this, he revealed the deep puzzlement he felt. He went on to say that he couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time, and then he heard that several people had the same experience, only to find that he was not lost, but that he couldn't find the way at all.
Ghost hits the wall! The shopkeeper said to himself.
That's not right, if what the boss says is true, and if he really suffers a ghost hitting the wall.