Detective Files II

Chapter 115
No matter how reluctant Lao Jiu was, he still did not refuse Tian Mi's request in the end, and led her and Lu Xiangdong towards the haunted house.

Lao Jiu’s house lived about ten minutes away from Niu Fu’s house. Leaving Lao Jiu’s house, the three of them walked towards a direction where the residents were sparser, then walked through the winding path in the field, and planned to go around half of the small road along the gentle slope. On the mountainside, head towards the shaded side of the mountain.

Along the way, they didn't meet a single villager. Tian Mi couldn't help feeling a little puzzled. Although Yunding Village is not a village with a particularly prosperous population, they can always meet a few people on the road, but they have left now. After ten minutes, no one has seen it.

"Are there no other people living around here?" She asked Lao Jiu who was walking in the front.

"Who is okay to live in this crappy place? It's inconvenient to do anything!" Lao Jiu walked up the path along the path, while picking a toothpick out of nowhere and picking his teeth: "One At night, it will be black at least, and you can't even see the tips of your own fingers!"

"How did the previous owner live in that haunted house?" Tian Mi asked him taking advantage of the situation.

"That family," Lao Jiu, biting a toothpick in his mouth, replied vaguely: "It didn't belong to us originally, it seems that the couple eloped with their backs behind their backs in the early years, and they left behind when they came to our village. Well, I was not very old at that time, and I remembered that the men in that family were very honest and useless, and they couldn’t make a loud fart with three poles. Maybe they couldn’t get along with other people in the village at that time, so they built the house on the back of the mountain went!"

"When did the family move out?"

"When did you move away...it must have been eight or nine years!" Lao Jiu counted on his fingers.

"I heard from Village Chief Niu that that house was burnt down? Was it badly burned? After so long, no one wants to go there!" Tian Mi waited for a long time, feeling that the old nine always had a grudge, and did not dare to act like the right one. Those college students like Piran talked about ghosts and anecdotes, so they had to induce him to cite that topic.

After all, Lao Jiu is a half-immortal as his profession, even if he has concerns, he feels itchy in his heart when he comes to this point, and can't help but say: "It's not just about being burned! Yes, according to the rules Well, there are not many people in our village, and no one who has his own house is willing to run to the back of this mountain. Besides, that house is too fierce! It is not suitable for people to live in. If it is light, it will be weak and sick. If it is serious, the family will be destroyed. The old banker who lived there before is an example!"

"How do you say that?" Lu Xiangdong seemed to be interested in Lao Jiu's words, so he interjected rarely.

"Think about it, in a place like Shanyin, the total amount of time you can be exposed to the sun for a day will not exceed two hours! That's still in time for good weather! This kind of place is cloudy and humid, and people live there. Is it okay? After a long time, some dirty things will gather!"

Once Lao Jiu opened the chatter box, he couldn't hold back: "The old Zhuang family didn't choose other places before, but they chose such a place. What happened? After living in it, life has been half-dead. Later, when the girl grew up, she went to the city to work as a babysitter, and she didn't know if she was obsessed with her. She hooked up with other people's children and was fired by her boss. He hanged himself at home. This incident just passed, and before he could wait for anything, the house suddenly caught fire! The man from the old dealer and his youngest son were burnt in a mess, and they were sent to the hospital. They didn’t know whether they were dead or alive. , Later I heard that the daughter-in-law of the Zhuang family seemed unable to bear such a life, and remarried and went elsewhere."

The girl that Lao Jiu said hanged to death should be the so-called female ghost that Pilan mentioned to Tian Mi before.

When Tian Mi heard what he said, she probably knew it in her heart.It's just that the story from Lao Jiu's mouth is to seek truth from facts, or to add fuel and vinegar, it's time to find out.

After all, he is a half fairy, and this kind of people usually rely on their upper lip to touch their lower lip, and just rely on one mouth to coax others into believing their own set of theories in exchange for food.

While speaking, the three of them walked around the mountainside and came to the shaded side of the mountain. Tian Mi saw the so-called "haunted house" from a distance.

Now she was not at all curious why that house was called a haunted house.

If there is a film crew willing to come here to shoot a horror film, Tian Mi definitely believes that a lot of special effects can be saved in post-processing.

After all, it is not a deep house compound, it is not as spooky as seen in the movie, but the dilapidated desolate house stands in a desolate and bare snow field, it still makes people feel a little creepy.

The brick wall that was supposed to be orange-red was burnt by the fire and became so black that no other colors could be distinguished. After the fire, the roof of the house had collapsed, leaving only a bare beam lying on it.

"Did you see it! That big beam!" Lao Jiu took Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong carefully across the messy bricks and stones on the ground, through the empty door frame that had long been without a door panel, and walked into the open-air room, pointing at the top of his head The horizontal black girder: "That fire burned the house like this. Why is the girder okay? Because that girl was still a big girl with a yellow flower, she died violently, and her ghost lingered on her forever! That's why the girder will not be burned by the fire." Burn it! I've seen her vaguely appear around here!"

He spoke in a soft voice, as if he was afraid of disturbing something. The cold wind from outside poured in along the open ceiling, making the dilapidated old house look even colder.

"When you brought a few college students to visit the haunted house that day, was it day or night?" Tian Mi asked suddenly, changing the subject.

Lao Jiu was stunned for a moment, his complexion changed slightly, he blinked for a long time before reluctantly saying: "When it's getting dark."

"It's evening?" Tian Mi thought about it in her heart. It's winter now, the days are short and the nights are long, and it will be completely dark at 04:30 in the afternoon: "Did all those people come? When did they stay?"

"They're all here," Lao Jiu heard that Tian Mi's repeated questions were all about those students, and he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable: "Didn't you also meet those students, they were curious about everything, I asked here and there, and then I felt that it was meaningless, so I went back."

"Go back together?"

"Ah, yes, it was dark when we left. Although these kids take themselves seriously, they have read a lot of books. When they come to us, they are all equal to imbecility! I was so afraid of something, I brought him out, so I must bear the responsibility, so I sent him back to the head of Niu Village." Lao Jiu answered without hesitation this time.

This answer is completely opposite to the information Tian Mi got when chatting with Pilan before. Pilan and Lao Jiu, one of them must have not told the truth.

"Don't tell me, this place really makes people feel creepy! If I knew it, I would have called a few more people to come together!" Tian Mi remained calm on the surface, as if she didn't doubt Lao Jiu's words, she just looked around Surrounded by folded arms, with a look of fear: "The last time they came, they definitely wouldn't be as panicky as I am now! How courageous they are!"

"That's not necessarily the case, you have to know, what time is it today? It's broad daylight, even if there's no sun here, it's much better! When the students came with me that day, even the light on the other side of the mountain was dark. When the wind blows, it’s much scarier than it is now!” Lao Jiu seemed to feel that others were afraid, and it was an honor for him not to be afraid: “Especially those little girls! Their scared faces changed color.”

"You are quite brave! Men are really different! Courage is greater than women!"

"That's not necessarily the case, let me tell you!" Lao Jiu felt a little dissatisfied with Tian Mi's confusion of himself with ordinary men, and hurriedly declared for himself: "I am very yang, and ordinary little devils have to go around when they meet me." Let's go!"

"It's the one with extraordinary talent, magical skills to protect the body, and the kind that can't be invaded by evil spirits?" Tian Mi said a few words commonly used by magic sticks.

Lao Jiu thought it was very useful after hearing it, and nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes! That's what it means! How about you have to study more! If you say this, it's in place!"

"Then it's no wonder you're so calm. Someone else might not be able to do this."

"You're right!" One of the characteristics of Lao Jiu's personality is that he is easy to get carried away, and after being praised by Tian Mi several times, he is a little cocky: "I brought a few students here that day, and those little ones Young, when he was at home, he was very capable, and he said that he was not afraid of the sky, but when he came here, he was frightened and stupid, not to mention the three little girls, even the four big boys, their faces changed. Especially the one who can't find anyone, and the one with the drooping head, these two are the most frightened, at first the kid who can't find anyone is still brave, but then he almost peed his pants!"

Tian Mi looked around the house while listening to Lao Jiu's eloquent narration. She found that because there were only four walls and no shelter from the roof, some snow inevitably fell on the ground of the "haunted house", just under the girders. The snow cover is obviously much thinner than other locations.

It stands to reason that snow is not like rain. It may be because there is a beam blocking it, and it is normal that there will be a small piece of dry ground at the corresponding position below.The snowflakes are very light, and they will be blown around with a little wind. In terms of the distance between the beam and the ground, it is not enough to cause a blocking effect.

As soon as a bold guess flashed in Tian Mi's mind, her body moved accordingly. She walked under the beam and brushed off the snow that had not been trampled on it with her hands, exposing the red brick floor below that had lost its original color.

Pressing around with her hands, Tian Mi soon found that some of the bricks were not as strong as other places, but slightly loose, so she lifted them up with great effort, exposing the ground below.

Between the soil and the bricks, there is a thin layer of frost.

"Looks like we're going back to get the tools!" Tian Mi stood up and said to Lu Xiangdong.

(End of this chapter)