Chapter 21: The Old House
We stood outside the door of the old house, and we didn't dare to push the door in.
In fact, it's not that I don't dare, it's my cousin who feels that there must be fraud in the old mansion.
We were still struggling outside the door, and we didn't know whether we should enter through the main entrance or through the window to see if someone was doing something.
But at this moment, someone suddenly ran out of the house.
Before we could react, Sun Ming behind him had already arrested the person with his backhand.
The man looked unkempt and gray-faced, with dodgy eyes and a look of madness.
"Is that you?"
Sun Ming first recognized who that person was, and a few of us stood by the gate, looking at each other.
After the man was subdued by the other villagers who had driven him back, Sun Ming told us about the man's identity.
It turned out that he was a homeless man, and since Sun Ming was a child, he had been begging for food in several nearby villages.
He didn't have a home of his own, so when he was hungry, he went to ask the villagers for food.
"He was very strange that there were people in the village who saw that he was pitiful and would give him money. But he never wanted it, just a steamed bun or a meal. Seeing that more than 20 years have passed, he is also old, and he has no ability to work, so he has no way to go out to work in the city. So when they saw him, everyone would give them food. ”
Sun Ming also sighed again and again when he talked about the homeless: "My life has passed like this, I think it's really a waste of time." ”
That being said, everyone has their own way of living.
The village chief also arrived at this time, and when he saw that it was a homeless man, he also shook his head.
"How long have you been hiding inside?" The village chief asked.
His expression looked like he was about to cry: "It's been a week, and I want to say that there is no one in that house, and I want to make myself a coffin in it." ”
As soon as the homeless man said this, we knew what the sound of knocking on the wooden planks in the middle of the night was in the old house.
Dong Jing snorted coldly, looked at his cousin and said, "Brother Zhou, you won't take the job without a clear investigation, right?" Now that we've been caught, we don't have any more work to do, so who is going to go for the 50,000 yuan? ”
When my cousin heard this, his eyebrows twisted.
He obviously didn't think of this, but before we called Dong Jing over, he did ask clearly, and there was no one in the house, so we decided to start working.
The village chief listened to the homeless man's words and asked again: "Then what are you running for?" ”
"Inside...... There's something lovely in there! ”
The homeless man's forehead was covered with sweat, and the mention of the old mansion made his whole body tense.
But no one knows what he went through inside.
Everyone was frightened by the homeless man's words, and even the village chief grabbed his hand.
I don't know why, but when I heard the homeless man say this, my cousin and I were relieved.
At the very least, this matter really needs our help, and the 150,000 yuan that the three of us have combined.
I walked up to the homeless man and asked, "What's in there?" ”
"I didn't know that I was awakened by something resembling hair after falling asleep on the first night I went in, and then smelled a woman's scent. From then on, I slept during the day and worked at night, picking a little when I was hungry, and cooking the weeds in the yard. ”
The homeless man had always been a very rough man, and he could fall asleep under the overpass at will, and he himself did not expect such a thing to happen.
I thought it could be completed quickly, but I didn't expect something to happen tonight.
When we asked him what had happened, he didn't dare to answer, waving his hands tremblingly.
"Little master, I really don't dare to say it, give me a bite to eat, I'm so hungry."
As soon as he said this, he fainted.
I frowned, and it looked like I had to go in myself to find out what was going on inside.
"Don't ask, it won't lead to anything anyway, let's just go in and see."
I stood up and turned and walked in the direction of the old house.
Anyway, you have to go in, you have to go sooner or later, and it's not a way for everyone to stand here.
I didn't take two steps before my cousin and Dong Jing followed.
Before entering the old house, my cousin turned back to the village chief and said, "Let the villagers all go home, and don't come out if you hear anything tonight." ”
The village chief didn't know who we were, but Sun Ming explained to him from the side, and he hurriedly beckoned the villagers gathered around to hurry home.
Sun Ming was behind us, and I didn't know if we should follow.
The cousin waved his hand to him: "You can take the homeless man home first, get him something to eat, and wait for us to come back." ”
After finishing up, we entered the old house.
The old mansion has been uninhabited for a long time, and there is a musty smell everywhere.
I covered my nose and walked inside.
With our previous experience, we already have a rough idea of how to work together with each other.
As soon as my cousin entered the door, he found a place where he drew a picture with a coal pen on the ground and prepared to set up a formation.
Dong Jing and I glanced at each other, and the tacit understanding was that one went to the left and the other went to the right.
The decoration of this house is all decent, and there is no special decoration.
If I'm not mistaken, Uncle Wu's family should have grown up in this house for generations, so it's called the ancestral house.
In that case, there shouldn't be anyone who put anything in this house.
"Did you find anything?"
Dong Jing had already made a round at this time, and it was obvious that she hadn't found it either.
"If you don't have one here, go up to the second floor, and I remember the homeless man saying that he was on the top floor of the board. It is very likely that the filthy thing that engaged in him also appeared on the top floor. You sweep up layer by layer, I'm here to set up a formation, shout if something happens, and I'll go up to help you when the time comes. ”
My cousin was right, since there was nothing to be found here, Dong Jing and I walked to the second floor.
From the first to the second floor, the painting style is really wrong.
Obviously, the temperature downstairs is still normal, but after reaching the second floor at this time, the wind is gusting.
The wind was not strong, it was bitterly cold.
"There should be something filthy on this floor, we need to be careful." I reminded Dong Jing.
She suddenly looked back at me: "Even you feel it, will I not know?" ”
I was speechless for a moment, but she made sense, and I couldn't refute it.
"You smell!"
Dong Jing suddenly took my hand, and I stood still and began to smell the smells nearby.
Really!
The musty smell of the old house was replaced by a woman's aroma, and the smell was very similar to the smell of those spices in Southeast Asia.
To be honest, it smells terrible.
I couldn't help but feel like throwing up, but I had to endure it.
A person's nasal cavity has a memory, and as long as you have smelled this smell, you can remember it for a long time.
For the first time, I felt like a dog, sniffing around and starting to look for where that smell came from.