Since Li Damin failed to become an immortal and was rescued from the trick, we rarely see each other. I always wanted to see him, but he didn't see anyone, and locked himself in the house all day. Even his cousin Li Yang went to look for it, but he refused to leave. However, it is understandable that he suffered a catastrophe and was paralyzed, and now he is a waste and can only rely on nannies to serve. He wears a urine ring in his crotch all day long, and he has to be fed one bite at a time, he is quite a big man, and it is understandable that he is in a dark and autistic mood when he falls to such a point.

Today he called out of the blue and asked for my help, no matter what, I had to help with this favor. Regardless of whether he is my best friend or not, I always feel a little sorry for his current situation, and I am partly responsible.

The next day, at the appointed time, I arrived at the address. This place is also quite familiar, not far outside the garden community, and the first-floor house that Li Damin fancied used to be a small public bathhouse. During that time, Li Yang and I lived in the garden community, and I often saw many residents bathing here, but I never went in once. After a while, this bathhouse is actually yellow, the door number is gone, the door is demolished, there is a pile of garbage at the door, and there is a pile of air-dried cement next to it, and the light inside is very poor. I saw that in the dark room, Li Damin was sitting in a wheelchair and talking to two people, and he saw me and beckoned me to enter.

Walking into the bathhouse, you can see that the decoration inside has been completely removed, and the ground is full of cement bags, logs, broken cardboard boxes, waste newspapers, etc., which is very messy and messy. The four walls were full of hammer eyes, and there was a choking smell.

What he is talking about with Li Damin is a middle-aged couple, the man is very thin, wearing gold-wire glasses, his face is sallow, his thin shoulder blades are exposed, and he looks sick at first glance. The woman was in her fifties, with a big oily yellow face, what age was this, and she still had a red headscarf tied around her head, and she was also sickly, coughing twice at every turn.

The man was asking Li Damin what he wanted to do when he rented this place. Listen to the tone, he should be the landlord here.

What surprised me was that after not seeing him for so long, Li Damin was able to move his hands, paddled his wheelchair, looked at the man and said, "I told you that day, I want to rent this place and decorate it into a guest house." Just on the first floor, the area is quite large, and it is close to the newly developed community, which is very suitable for opening an inn. ”

The man said, it's not easy to open an inn, can you keep busy yourself?

Li Damin pointed at me: "This is my friend, and I did it in partnership." I hurriedly shook hands with the middle-aged couple: "My name is Liu Yang, and I am a good friend of Li Damin, please take care of the matter here." ”

The man was a little embarrassed, looked at his wife and said, "Although I have some unrealistic rumors here...... The last bathhouse was moved out in a hurry, but you can also see that the topography of this place is very good, and you can make a lot of money in any business. Now it's not just you, but there are other people who want to rent here, and the rent is expensive......"

Li Damin shook his wheelchair and smiled bitterly: "Brother Chen, you look at me like this, I have no ability to stand on my own at all. Now I rent your big house, and the rent is all cut out between my family's teeth, just so that I can have an independent livelihood in the future. Being a guest house is a deliberate consideration in our family, and a waste person like me can only register guests or something. If you don't rent it to me, my life will be over. As he spoke, his eyes were red, his nose twitched, and he looked very pitiful.

The man and woman looked at each other and rubbed their hands in embarrassment.

"Li Damin, you are out now." I only heard someone talking outside the door, and as soon as the light was blocked, two people came in from outside.

I was stunned when I saw it, and the people who came were actually Li Yang and Ma Danlong, a master who hadn't shown up for a long time. It was Ma Danlong who spoke just now, and he looked at me and said with a smile: "Brother Xiao Liu, we meet again." ”

Li Yang looked at me and then at Li Damin and stammered: "You guys...... You're going to rent a house here too? ”

Li Damin's expression became quite fast, his tears were gone, and he said coldly: "What? Li Yang, are you going to steal business with a waste person like me? ”

Ma Danlong grinned: "Big brother and sister-in-law, we are all acquaintances, negotiate and solve it ourselves." ”

Without anyone's consent, he walked over and pushed Li Damin's wheelchair to the back room. Li Yang and I glanced at each other and followed from a distance. The inner room was empty, surrounded by dirty white walls, a pile of tattered on the floor, and the windows were small, although they were open, but no light came in, and it was very gloomy.

Ma Danlong pushed the wheelchair and stood by the window with Li Damin.

Li Yang and I leaned over to listen, and Ma Danlong said, "Say, what do you want to do?" ”

Li Damin sneered: "Renting a house and running an inn, a waste person like me can support himself." ”

Ma Danlong walked to the northeast corner of the room with his hands behind his back, stepped on it with his foot, and suddenly said, "This is the Outer Ghost Gate." ”

None of us spoke, we were all looking at him. Li Yang and I were surprised, while Li Damin was disdainful and sneered.

Ma Danlong walked to the southwest corner again and stepped on it: "This place is called the Inner Ghost Gate." He narrowed one eye, like a carpenter's hanging line, and gestured: "The line from northeast to southwest is called the ghost line, also called the ghost gate." In fact, this place should be the most suitable for a yin house, but it was repaired into a private house. It's just a matter of cultivating a dwelling, but it just caught up with the very rare ghost gate to open wide, causing yin qi to gather here and become a polar fierce. I don't think the big people and small friends don't know the way, right? ”

Li Damin shook his wheelchair and sneered: "You want to scare me? ”

Ma Danlong said: "I just want to advise Xiaoyou." ”

"What do you persuade me?"

"We are all understanding people, Xiaoyou really wants to rent it, if you take advantage of the special feng shui of this place to do three or four, I have to advise, against the heavens and will be punished by God, God is not blind, and every account is remembered."

Li Damin turned to him in a wheelchair: "Violating the peace of heaven or not, what you say doesn't count, and you can't represent the will of God." You are so vain about your own heart, I think your realm is nothing more than that. He didn't say much. looked at me: "Lao Liu, please invite Brother Chen over, I have something important to say to him." ”

Ma Danlong grimaced, ignored us, and walked out of the hall with his hands behind his back. Li Yang stomped his feet: "How can I say this, Master Ma entrusted me to do such a thing, and there was such a big mistake." ”

I invited the landlord's eldest brother, surnamed Chen, to the back room, and Li Damin whispered to him. As he was talking, the landlord's eldest brother's face changed: "You, what you said is true?" ”

"Your daughter is a ghost child." Li Damin, who was in a wheelchair, said indifferently: "In this city, I am the only one who can save your daughter." ”

"Okay." The landlord, Brother Chen, sighed: "I'll rent it to you." When are you going to show it to my daughter? ”

"Tomorrow night, here."

Brother Chen walked out, discussed with his wife, and then said to Ma Danlong: "Old Ma, I'm sorry, we decided to rent this place to Li Damin, and we will sign the contract." ”

Ma Danlong nodded and said, "Calamity." Then he shouted to the back room: "Li Damin, you can do it yourself." After saying that, he left with his hands behind his back, and Li Yang hurriedly followed behind and chased after him.

After signing the contract and paying the deposit, these formalities have been completed, and it is already noon. Li Damin rarely showed a smile: "Lao Liu, thank you, thank you, I will invite you to dinner in a while." ”

I put the torn newspaper on the windowsill, sat across from him, crossed my shoulders and asked, "Now there are no outsiders, let's say, what the hell is going on?" ”

Li Damin rowed his wheelchair around the ground twice, and then slid straight out: "Come out, I'll show you something." ”

I took two quick steps, followed behind, and we came to the door together. Li Damin struggled to row out the wheelchair, and I quickly held on to the handle behind me and slowly helped him push him out. Following the direction he instructed, I kept pushing him to the back of the building. When I got here, I was shocked.

I saw a deep pit in the ground, which was estimated to be more than two meters long, and the black Bu was in the middle of winter, and I could barely see the water below. The hole is quite large, located right at the base of the building's wall, half of which is outside the wall and the other half extends into the wall. I looked at the location, and the half of this cave should be in the house rented by Li Damin.

I crouched on the ground, my hands on the ground, and I could barely look into the hole, but I couldn't see anything clearly. I wondered, "How could there be such a big hole?" It's not going to move the foundation, is it? ”

Li Damin didn't answer, but said to himself: "This turned out to be a bathhouse, and you already know the way." ”

I nodded and didn't speak.

"The business of this bathhouse has been good, last year suddenly the hot water supply could not be supplied, the boss was in a hurry, and found someone to check and investigate the reason, and it is estimated that there may be a problem with the underground water inlet pipe. The boss said hello to the property and spent a lot of money to hire a construction team to dig up the ground to inspect the water pipes. ”

"And then?" I asked.

Li Damin said: "The construction team didn't take it seriously, and continued to dig down, just at the bottom......" He pointed to the bottom of the hole: "They dug a big vat." ”

"Vat size?" I laughed, it was weird.

Li Damin took out his mobile phone, fiddled with it a few times and handed it to me. I took it suspiciously, and there was a large blue-gray vat on the screen of my phone, sealed in a glass cover, very carefully protected. The jar looks very thick and sturdy, with the ends chiseled into a lotus shape, and what caught my eye the most was the strange texture pattern on it. The lines and composition are simple, depicting one person after another, and it is impossible to see exactly what they are doing.

"What is this?" I asked, pointing to the pattern above.

Li Damin said lightly: "If you look closely, it doesn't look like a picture of hell crucifixion." ”

I listened to the cool air, walked to the well-lit place, looked closely, and shuddered violently, feeling creepy. The patterns on it are indeed hellish torture, or tongue pulling, or intestine washing, or cannon branding, although the lines are simple, but everyone has vivid expressions, with big mouths and howling, distorted facial features, staring and struggling, lifelike, as if they are about to walk down from that jar.

After watching it for a while, I seemed to be able to hear the terrible howl of the characters above, my whole body was numb, and I returned the phone top-heavy.

Li Damin said: "This jar is two meters high, one meter wide, and 90 centimeters high, and after being unearthed from the pit, it was pulled away by the Cultural Relics Bureau as an important antiquity collection." Experts believe that the age of this jar can be traced back to at least the Song Dynasty. ”

"Is this for sacrifice?" I asked.

Li Damin shook his head: "In ancient times, there would be a tank at the door of the house, one is to store water, the other is to prevent fire, and it is more meaning to guard the door." This jar is guarding a portal. ”

"What portal?"

He shook his wheelchair, looked at the garden community that was being developed by the black miasma not far away, and said word by word: "The gateway of the ghost gate." ”