The house is on the outskirts of the city, and it takes more than 40 minutes to drive. If I had gone to visit the house at night, my heart would have risen to my throat and eyes, and now that I am a battle-hardened, even I didn't expect that I could become so calm now.

When we arrived at the place, it was almost ten o'clock in the evening. The house is a little bigger than I imagined, with a total of three rooms, a main room and two wings, and it is not as compact as the courtyard house of old Beijing, and the overall design and decoration are completely antique, but it is just a façade, and the house is still modern style and layout.

After entering the courtyard, I followed Qin Yiheng around first and took a general look. Xu Chuanxiang also talked about the details of the house next to him, and finally the three of us entered the main room.

The main house is actually not very big, roughly calculated is only 100 square meters, the decoration is very luxurious, the furniture is solid wood, it looks a little antique. The main house should be regarded as a two-bedroom and one-living room structure, and the door is the living room, and there are two bedrooms on both sides.

After entering the house and turning on the light, Qin Yiheng immediately looked around, his brows were tightly locked, but he was silent. Xu Chuanxiang and I were next to each other, like two personal eunuchs, and we didn't dare to speak. After a while, he turned around and asked Xu Chuanxiang to turn off the light, and then turned something out of his bag. It's not big, he took it out and held it directly in the palm of his hand, and I didn't see it real.

When the lights were turned off, the room was so dark that I couldn't see my fingers. When my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I saw that Qin Yiheng had already approached the door on the right-hand side, and he didn't know what he was listening to with his ears on the door.

I looked back at Xu Chuanxiang, and I couldn't see his expression clearly in the dark, but I could feel that he was nervous. I couldn't help but straighten my legs with him.

Qin Yiheng listened very carefully, and after listening to one place for a long time, he changed to another. After listening for five or six minutes, he turned around and asked Xu Chuanxiang to turn on the light, pointed to the door and asked Xu Chuanxiang: "You hung this thing?" ”

As soon as I turned on the light, the light turned white in front of my eyes. I closed my eyes and slowed down, and when I opened my eyes, I saw that Qin Yiheng was referring to a large string of red peppers hanging on the door. This bunch of red peppers is very positive in color, and it looks very festive, and it hangs in the center of the door. The pepper skewers were so long that they dragged to the floor as soon as I saw them.

I heard Xu Chuanxiang say "um", which was an acknowledgement. I wondered if there was a habit of buying bunches of red peppers or garlic for storage in the north, but they were usually hung in the kitchen or outdoors, and I didn't see them hanging so casually in the living room. If you want to say that it is for good luck, it is not a festival now. Looking at Qin Yiheng's meaning, the question of scratching the door is this string of chili peppers?

I leaned over curiously, but he didn't stop me, and I guess there was no danger. I took a closer look and found that the peppers were very strange, and each pepper head had been cut off with scissors.

I pinched one with my hand and found that the inside of the pepper was empty, and the seeds seemed to have been pulled out of the incision. Now I'm even more muttering, what does that mean? Is co-authoring a handicraft ornament? It doesn't look like it!

I instinctively turned my head to look at Qin Yiheng, wanting to ask him what the mystery was.

Before I could speak, he said "tsk" and asked Xu Chuanxiang: "You taught yourself all this thing?" Xu Chuanxiang nodded, then shook his head again, and said, "These are all things I see from others, and if you want to talk about learning, you can only be regarded as stealing." After speaking, he asked rhetorically, "This thing doesn't work?" ”

Qin Yiheng listened to his question, but smiled, and said: "It works, it works, this is called 'Pan Sui' in the arts, the earliest is in ancient times, the men in the family were arrested to fight, life and death are uncertain, the family nailed a nail in the center of the door, and hung a string of 'Pan Sui', which means that the family is looking forward to the return of the family to their hometown every year." The cruelty of war is obvious to all, and few people who went to war can come back alive, and this thing eventually evolved into an object that beckons the soul of one's family to return to their hometown and gives dreams to their relatives. This pepper can't hang new ones in the first place, that is, the peppers that grew in the ground that year can't work, and they must be left over from previous years to be effective. Cut the head of the pepper and call it an opening. After opening the mouth, it is said that the souls of distant family members can see the door of their house at a glance and even hear the call of their relatives from thousands of miles away. However, this is just people's subjective imagination, and it does not have that much effect. The road is across the river and the mountains, in fact, the soul can't come back. Speaking of this, it has a lot to do with the leyline feng shui. ”

Qin Yiheng pointed to the chili pepper and told Xu Chuanxiang: "This 'Pan Sui' is mainly the homonym of the word 'chili', which is nothing more than to express the meaning of pulling the soul back and calling it back." You're hanging in your bedroom so swaggeringly, isn't that asking for trouble for yourself? Sensei said that it was sent, and it was good if I didn't invite a few back. As he spoke, he spread out his palms and told us both to see.

In the palm of his hand was a small ball the size of a fingernail, black and not slippery, but it didn't look like a ball of sheep dung. He told us: "It's the 'eye killer', which is made from the subcutaneous fat of newborn bats and mud from the graveyard, and is specially designed to listen to these evil creatures. In ancient times, this was the magic of those witch doctors who pretended to be gods and danced gods. It is said that by putting the 'harmful eyeballs' into the ears and eyes, you can hear some filth, especially when it is useful to distinguish whether someone has been subjected to a ghost, or if something has been attached to the body. Legend has it that if a person is put on the body, as long as he uses the 'harmful eye beads' to listen to the person's back, he can hear two heartbeats of different frequencies. If the upper body is a fox or a snake fairy, it can also be distinguished from the details of the heartbeat frequency. But you have to be a veteran. I'm only in the very early stages, and today is the first time I've used it, so I tried it like a cat. However, I don't know if it's a mistake in my own method, and I didn't hear any movement anyway. ”

I didn't dare to breathe, but he didn't hear anything for a long time. I leaned over and listened, and sure enough, there was no unusual noise. If there is, it is also because it is easier to conduct solid sound, which amplifies the footsteps of the two of them in the house. Other than that, there was a dead silence on the other side of the door.

Xu Chuanxiang was very jealous of this door, and he didn't dare to come over at first, but he probably saw that our expressions were so relaxed, and he couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he picked the chili skewers and pasted them on the door with me to listen.

Seeing this, Qin Yiheng handed the "harmful eye beads" in his hand to Xu Chuanxiang, and stood aside to smoke.

This door was not big, and Xu Chuanxiang squeezed me aside as soon as he put it up. I simply stepped aside, lit a cigarette and rested, and stood for a long time, and my waist began to ache.

Before he had taken two puffs of the cigarette, Xu Chuanxiang suddenly said "ah", and the person followed and took two steps back, pointing to the door and opening his mouth and unable to speak.

He was so startled that he almost didn't scare me to death. Looking at his expression, I secretly shouted in my heart: "Oh no, isn't this fucking fucking?" ”

Qin Yiheng was also taken aback, and asked "what's wrong" twice.

Xu Chuanxiang slowed down for a while, and finally calmed down, but he still couldn't understand what he muttered. I guess he was also helpless, so he simply took out the "Harmful Eye Beads" and handed it to me, pointing to the door with his hand, meaning that you should listen to it yourself.

The lights in the house are on, Qin Yiheng is next to them, I am not afraid, anyway, the beads are in my hands, I will go up and listen to them first.

When I put my ear to the door, I realized that something was wrong. I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but it seems that there is really some strange movement on the other side of the door, and I can't say what it is. If I have to describe it, it's a bit like the sound of horses' hooves coming from a far, far away, very rhythmic.

My heart began to pound, and the sound was so small that I couldn't make out for a while.

I got up and gave up the place to Qin Yiheng, he took the beads and leaned over to listen, and I kept observing his expression on the side. At first, he was calm, and I was relieved, but I guess we were a little bit of a soldier.

But before I could rejoice for a moment, his brow began to furrow, and he stared at the door with slanted eyes, not knowing what he was thinking. After a while, he stood up and carefully knocked on the door with his index finger, twisting the handle to pull it open.

I suddenly felt that long-lost sense of fear grabbed me, his behavior is really evil, I know that there is no one inside, he knocked on the door, who did he knock on? I instinctively took a step back, just bumped into Xu Chuanxiang, and looked back at him, also with beads of sweat on my face.

Qin Yiheng listened to the movement as if he had unscrewed the door lock, and I clearly heard a "click" sound of the lock cylinder popping open. After waiting for a while, I didn't see him open the door. He had his back to us, and I couldn't see his expression, so I shifted my position slightly to see what he was doing.

After a glance from a different angle, I wondered even more, Qin Yiheng seemed to want to pull the door open, it was obvious that the whole person's movements were forceful, but the door didn't move much! I said to my heart, damn it, the filth in here is so powerful, and he actually tuggs on the doorknob to compete with him inside?