Chapter 123: The House of Sinners
The lid of the pot raised its nostrils and introduced us.
"My name is Xu Haoran, and my home is from Huaishui City. I have a second-hand car store in Huaishui, 42 this year! ”
Xu Haoran is also in his forties!
I looked coldly at the four people except me. The middle-aged couple should be around 45 years old. Xu Haoran is 40 years old, Fang Zisiyi is 38 years old, these people are obviously middle-aged!
I'm the only one who pretends to be younger, and I'm already 34 this year!
I have a cold temperament, and I don't know what to say in the face of these elders who are different from me.
At this moment, Zhou Xin asked Fang Siyi curiously.
"Alas! Xiao Fang, I don't sound like a local when I hear your accent! It's quite hypocritical to talk, haha! ”
Fang Siyi was a little embarrassed when she heard this. She subconsciously pushed her glasses and explained.
"My hometown is indeed Southern! When I was in college, I went to school in Dongcheng, and when I graduated, I stayed in Dongcheng directly, and now I am also starting a family in Dongcheng. Although I am a southerner, my son is an authentic Dongcheng hukou! ”
The lid of the pot is spread out next to it.
"I don't know which immoral ghost brought us together! Well, let's not just stay in the yard and blow the wind! There are so many rooms next to it, so hurry up and choose a house to move in! ”
Hearing the proposal of the pot head, the five of us who did not know each other no longer stood in the middle of the garden and were pretending to be polite.
We took a tour of the next transept, an old-fashioned retro hilltop villa with a total of six transepts around the front yard.
We pushed open door by door and found that four of the rooms were bedrooms that could be occupied.
Although this old house looks antique from the outside, the structure of the interior of the room is relatively modern.
Although the furniture is mainly mahogany and solid wood, each bedroom has its own independent bathroom, bathtub, shower, including hair dryer, vacuum cleaner, and all the current household appliances.
Although the bed in each room is a retro wooden shelf embroidered bed, the mattresses on it are all super soft Simmons, and the bedding is also a modern four-piece set of silk.
To put it bluntly, this old house villa is a retro apartment hotel with an old-fashioned courtyard shell, but all modern facilities.
Zhou Xin and Yu Zhe chose the largest room, and the internal structure of the remaining small rooms was almost the same. Adhering to the principle of ladies first, Fang Siyi chose a side room, and the remaining two rooms, Xu Haoran and I were one by one, and we divided them casually.
We went back to our room and dropped off our luggage. From a distance, I heard the clattering of Zhou Xin's high heels outside the door.
Zhou Xin likes to hang out, and shouted in the courtyard in surprise.
"Oops! There's also a kitchenette! I see that there is a vegetable patch in the backyard, we can have a farmhouse here! ”
I put down my luggage and walked into the courtyard, only to see Zhou Xin standing in front of the door of the easternmost ear room, screaming excitedly.
She turned her head to look at me.
"Mr. Ji, look! And the kitchen! ”
I squeezed out an embarrassed smile in response.
There are six transepts, four bedrooms, a kitchen, and now only the last room remains, which we haven't visited yet.
Zhou Xin had already run to the door of the last room with great interest, she stretched out her fat white hand and pushed the door a few times.
"Oops! This door is bolted, why can't it be opened? ”
At this moment, the few people who were leaving their luggage in the room had all heard Zhou Xin's shouting, and everyone gathered in the courtyard again.
"What's wrong?" Yu Zhe asked his wife.
"Whoa! This door won't open! I don't know what's inside, it's mysterious! ”
When Xu Haoran heard this, he rushed forward directly.
"If there's anything you can't open, you can't kick it open!" His personality and dress are very compatible. The big gold chain pot lid looks like a social person!
Xu Haoran stretched out his arms and kicked his legs. Then he walked to the last door and flew up.
Suddenly, I only heard a "babbling" sound, and the door was really kicked open by him!
A few of us walked into this last room with great curiosity.
The decoration here is like an ancestral hall in ancient times.
In the boxy hall, a rectangular offering table is placed in front of the wall facing north and south, and several Luo hoop chairs are listed on the east and west sides.
"Why does it look like a council chamber?" Fang Siyi is worthy of being a female leader, and she can think of work and meetings everywhere.
At this moment, around us, an inexplicable male voice suddenly sounded.
"Hello everyone, welcome to the House of Sinners!"
The sound was supposed to be a pre-recorded recording, reverberating through loudspeakers throughout the villa.
"House of Sinners!" I muttered these words slowly. These words have a profound meaning.
When everyone heard this, they turned their heads to look around.
At that moment, the male voice of the horn sounded again.
"Now, there is an incense offering on every chair, please pick up the incense and make an offering to the deceased!"
Hearing this voice, a few of us noticed that on the top of those Luo Circle chairs, on each chair, there was really a very thin, dark gray long incense.
I walked over to one of the chairs and twisted a stick of incense from the seat.
"Who is the deceased?" I muttered quietly.
As soon as my voice ended, suddenly the offering table in front of the north wall of the house suddenly sounded.
The offering table was actually carrying a mechanism, and only a "click" was heard, and a large hole appeared on the offering table, and then something slowly rose from the hole.
Until the mechanism was fully restored, we only saw that there was an inexplicable image of a dead man on the table, and a wooden tablet, in front of which there was an incense burner that could be inserted, and next to the incense burner, there were five porcelain-white, about palm-sized clay dolls.
These clay dolls have brains and small bodies that look like Fuwa on New Year's paintings. But the only strange thing is that these dolls are all kneeling! One by one, their heads hung and their knees knelt on the ground, as if they were confessing, and they were distributed on both sides of the incense burner.
A few of us were taken aback by the extra image and the tablet of the dead.
Zhou Xin patted his chest in fright.
"Oh my God, what the hell is going on! It's like making a horror movie, it's scary to death! ”
I walked slowly to the offering table and looked at the black and white, somewhat old portrait.
In the photo is a beautiful girl who looks beautiful and is only in her teens. On the tablet in front of the black-and-white photograph are seven big characters - the lotus seat of the deceased An Ran.
I looked at the tablet and the black and white photos of the big girl, and I couldn't help but say.
"It seems that the girl's name is An Ran. Since the surrounding voices are asking us to incense the deceased, let's light a stick of incense for each of us! ”