168, strange shop
The night inn was gloomy and dark, only the light of the candle in the old woman's hand lit up slightly, but the candle flame was dim, and everyone's faces were obscure, and there was really an indescribable ghostly aura.
When the old woman heard Qiye's questioning, she smiled slightly, revealing a black hole in her mouth, and there were not many teeth in it. At a time when he was in his fifties, the tooth fell out a little early.
"Don't be afraid, guests don't have many other things in our Xuannu Town, that is, there are many Xuanshi, they will divinate fortunes, and they will also invite gods and ghosts, and they will arrange some things in each room, and the owner of our night-walking inn is a Xuanshi, because half of the houses will invite ghosts and gods to rest. ”
The old woman spoke very calmly, but when she heard the others, her back was cold. A good inn actually invited a ghost to stay.,Isn't that unpleasant.,Is there still someone living in such a room?
Everyone didn't speak, but the old woman spoke: "This is the rule of our Xuannu Town, if the guests are not at ease, then please do it, a hundred miles out of the town is Fengbo Town, you can go there to stay." ”
Everyone was helpless for a while, they came here to look for Antong, what kind of storm town to go to, but this is indeed an evil door, I don't know if those Xuanshi are arranged.
Xiao Fei took out a piece of silver, handed it to the old woman and said, "We want one and a half rooms, and I will live in that half." ”
The old woman put away the money, still showing that grim smile: "Okay, that's good, I'll take a few people upstairs." ”
This inn has two floors, with a dining hall below and a wing room above. It's said to be a side room, but it's actually a bed, plus a table, and the room is very small.
Of course, Xiaofei's room is a little different, that is, there is a closet, there are no other furnishings on the closet, there is only a tablet, an incense burner, and the incense ash in it is actually fresh.
"Shopkeeper, we've been on the road for a day, we're a little hungry, do you have anything to eat?" Xiao Fei looked at the room, then turned his head and asked the old woman.
The old woman nodded and said, "There are still half a chicken and half a duck left in the evening, if the guests don't dislike it, I'll go and get it." ”
"What you don't like when you're out and about, what to eat, it's better to add a bowl of rice, it's perfect. Xiao Fei didn't ask for wine at this time, so he would fill his stomach first.
"Yes, yes, please come with me. ”
Under the leadership of the old woman, the group came downstairs again, and at this time, there was an old man in the guest hall, who was serving the dishes and chopsticks to the table.
It was eight large plates of chicken, duck and fish, all freshly made, but the strange thing was that each dish was lit with incense, which looked very weird.
Weiwei and Qiye thought that this was serving them food, and they originally thought it was leftovers and cold burning, but now it seems to be good.
But before they could sit down, the old man cried out, "What are you doing?
Slightly frightened, Qiye was also shocked, Wuye stepped forward a few steps and asked, "What's the matter?"
Before the old man could answer, the old woman stepped forward and explained: "They are all strangers, they just came to stay at the hotel, I haven't told them yet, you can go to sleep after you finish the ceremony, here I am." ”
The old man glanced at Xiao Fei and the others, then didn't say anything, put down what he was holding, and walked quickly to a room around the corner, the door was slammed shut.
Before she could recover from the strange old man, the old woman said: "Every day, we have to worship the lonely ghosts passing by, send meals and rooms, do business in the underworld, and accumulate yin virtues. Therefore, you can't move these meals, and you can't sit in your position, because they will collide with your ancestors. ”
Combined with the old woman's explanation just now, this explanation is also reasonable, but what kind of ghosts are worshiped in the middle of the night, this is also too evil, I really don't know who will come to stay except for their locals. But on the other hand, locals don't need to stay. So what's the point of this inn?
Looking at the green smoke slowly rising from the eight dishes, several people sat down on the adjacent table, and of course, this time the leftovers were cold.
While Xiao Fei was eating, he asked the old woman: "Shopkeeper, you said that there is only one and a half rooms now, but there are at least ten rooms on it, and they are all full of guests?"
The old woman nodded and said, "Yes, yes, they have already fallen asleep." ”
Xiao Fei was puzzled and asked, "Are they all from other places?"
The old woman glanced at Xiao Fei twice, and did not answer directly, but sighed: "It's not easy to travel at night, so the boss opened this inn for everyone's convenience." ”
No wonder it's called the name Nocturnal, but who travels at night, is it a human or a ghost?
Although Wuye and they are all children of the rivers and lakes, they still have a natural fear of ghosts and gods, and they can't help but swallow when they hear this. As for Weiwei, she was frightened and kept holding Xiaofei's arm.
At this time, the old woman bowed to the table of cigarettes dedicated to ghosts and gods, and then planned to do some needlework on the candles, but Xiaofei seized the opportunity to continue to ask.
"Shopkeeper, how many people live in the town, are they all Xuanshi?"
Regarding this question, the old woman did not doubt him, and while doing the work at hand, she replied casually: "Most of the people in Xuannu Town are Xuanshi, and almost every household worships ghosts and gods, but most of the young people have gone out, and there are more old people left in the town, and there are generally no outsiders to disturb them." ”
Xiao Fei nodded in understanding and continued to ask: "Xuanshi can tell fortunes to drive away trouble, but what about the people in the town, what do they do for a living?"
The old woman replied, "I can do everything, just like I stay in the store, do a little work, and sell to those people." ”
It was only when Xiao Fei noticed that what was sewn in the hands of the old woman was not clothes, shoes and socks, but a doll, an extremely weird doll.
It was a villain, wearing a red belly pocket, with a tiger head doll on its feet, and on the villain's head, there were dense strange symbols.
The villain's eyes were bright red, as if they could drip blood. When she looked at it slightly, she was also frightened, and it was the first time she had seen such a terrifying doll in her life.
The old woman's so-called little work is to make this kind of doll, but what is the use of such a doll?
Xiao Fei didn't know, but he didn't ask anymore, but changed the topic and said, "Shopkeeper, you said that there are generally no outsiders in the town, so have you seen many outsiders recently?"
The old woman stopped what she was doing slightly, and looked at Xiao Fei twice, her eyes were weird, as if some secret had been discovered by Xiao Fei. But soon the old woman returned to normal.
"Oh, there are still some passing by, like a few guest officers, after all, this is a town on the edge of the official road. The old woman's answer was ambiguous.
Xiao Fei asked, "So will the outsiders live in the town permanently?"
Xiao Fei's intention is Antong, according to the time, if Antong is really here, then the time will definitely not exceed a month.
The old woman continued to reply casually: "In a town like ours, how can outsiders choose to stay permanently? Most of them are just tourists, as I said, all the people who live here are old people, and they don't want to leave." ”
When Xiao Fei wanted to ask something, the incense and candles on the offering table had burned out, and I don't know if he was dazzled, Xiao Fei seemed to really see a blurred face, and quickly disappeared behind the offering table.
Xiao Fei felt that not only was this inn unspeakably weird, but the whole town seemed to be shrouded in a layer of fog, making it impossible to see clearly, was the key witness An Tong really here?