Era: I have a two-world door

Chapter 21, Exploring the Haunted House

After coming out, Wang Qingsong frowned.

My cotton-padded shoes were a little damp from walking today, and my feet felt cold and painful from the cold.

Ignoring this, I came to the team committee and found Zhao Datian.

Seeing him, Zhao Datian glanced at him: "How are you? Have you gone to the hospital?"

"Well, go."

"How to say?"

"I opened some soybeans and some protein meat. I think it's almost ready after eating."

Zhao Datian sighed after hearing this. This situation is actually the same in the whole village.

The team also has soybeans, but they are grown in the village and cannot be touched anyway. Once they are touched, something will happen.

There are so many people in the village!
  There are still planting tasks next year.

He took a puff of dry cigarette and asked: "Then why are you here? I will go to the commune for a meeting tomorrow about your household registration, and I will get one for you then."

"Oh, let me borrow a shovel and a sickle to tidy up Wang Laoxi's house."

Zhao Datian nodded when he heard this: "Okay, the custodian is not here. I will take it for you. Remember to return it after use."

After saying that, he got up and took him out.

He came to the door of a brick house in the compound, took the key and opened the door.

There are various farm tools inside.

Wang Qingsong took a shovel and sickle, smiled at Zhao Datian and said: "Captain, please borrow a box of matches. I will return them to you after I receive the matches."

This family only gets one box a month.

Their home is naturally at Sun Xiuhe's place.

In fact, there is no ticket in the city, but you are limited to buying one box at a time. I forgot to buy it this time when I went to the city because of my second brother's affairs.

However, the city limits the quantity you can buy, but not the place.

There are so many shops in the city!
  There are also people in rural areas who go to the city to buy matches and resell them, and many of them are arrested.

Zhao Datian smiled and took out a box of matches from his pocket and handed it to him: "Okay, take it. You don't have to pay it back. When your household registration is completed, you can also get the match tickets."

In fact, there are not many strands left inside, and even the skin on the outside has been rubbed soft.

"Thank you, Third Grandpa."

Wang Qingsong thanked him after hearing this.

He took his things and left.

Returning to Wang Laoxi's yard, he put the sickle aside and looked around the yard with a shovel.

It looks a bit dilapidated. The adobe wall is weathered in many places and is covered with dead grass.

No rush to work.

Stepping on the snow and dead grass at the intersection, he walked into the house.

Looking at the fallen doors on both sides, he ignored them and asked a carpenter in the village to help repair them after a while.

no way.

This is not a mountainous area. Most of the trees nearby have been cut down for steelmaking and fuel production in the past few years. Some of the trees now have grown in the past three years.

not very big.

If you buy it, the cost is very high.

If that doesn't work, we can only apply to cut down those small trees.

I definitely won’t buy it, I’ll hire someone to do it. There’s no such thing as buying it in rural areas. How much money do you have to be willing to buy it?

After entering, I looked at the empty main room.

Only the incense table directly above was untouched, and everything else was gone.

You don't need to think about it to know that it was moved away by the people in the village.

When he came to the door where the incident occurred, he looked up and down.

An ordinary wooden door with a Bagua mirror attached to it.

This Bagua mirror is the same as the one on the door of the main entrance. It is not unusual in rural areas. After all, Bagua mirrors ward off evil spirits.

It's just that this is a bronze Bagua mirror.

A layer of green patina has developed on it.

I guess I didn't have the money to buy a mirror, so I got an old-fashioned bronze Bagua mirror.

Wang Qingsong didn't pay attention and continued to look elsewhere.

But after looking for a long time, he couldn't find anything special.

After hesitating for a while, he tried to walk into the room.

It's still the same inside.

Except for a fire bed, there was still no furniture inside, except for a lot of withered weeds growing out of the cracks in the bricks.

There is nothing else.

Take a shovel and shovel down the tall withered wormwood.

There are a few spots with snow in the house, which are caused by holes in it and falling down.

After a few simple shovels, the view inside suddenly became much clearer. He looked around and saw nothing suspicious, so he turned around and left and went to the next room.

It's the same situation as the other side.

There is still only one kang left, but this is the real fire kang, and the one opposite can only be regarded as a kang.

This is a custom here.

There are two kangs in the house.

One is an ordinary earthen kang, and the other is a fire kang.

When the weather is hot in summer, they sleep on two sides. In winter, they sleep together on the heated kang, because this can save firewood.

It’s not that easy to burn firewood for a whole winter.

Every winter during the slack season, corn cobs and corn stalks were not enough to burn, so we had to go out and get some firewood.

After doing some processing here, he went out with a pile of shoveled weeds.

Go to the main room and open the baffle under the stove.

He stuffed the dry grass inside, took out the match given by the captain, and opened it to find a dozen matchsticks inside.

He took one out and started rubbing it.

This thing has been used so many times that the skin of the match is soft and soft. It takes several times to light the fire.

Carefully light the dead grass under the stove.

A puff of thick smoke came out, but it disappeared after a while, and it began to slowly burn inside.

Seeing this scene, Wang Qingsong felt relieved.

If there is no smoke, it means that the smoke from the chimney is coming out normally and is not blocked.

He just took a look and found that except for slight cracks on the fire bed, there were no other symptoms of collapse.

If there are no gaps in the fire pit and smoke is coming out, it means there are no cracks and it should be able to be used normally.

After getting some dead grass and stuffing it in, he hurried out to take a look.

I saw white smoke coming from the chimney outside. It was very light. That was because there was less firewood.

"Well, cooking is no problem."

Wang Qingsong muttered, returned to the back room, came to the fire pit and looked at it for a while.

There's no smoke coming from the crack, so it should be fine.

As for the temperature, it probably hasn't come up yet.

After confirming that the room was habitable, he returned to the yard with confidence.

Can cook and burn the kang.

All that's left is to repair the roof and slowly buy things in the house. This is a new home.

Wang Qingsong was shoveling dry grass in the yard with a shovel, muttering: "This Wang Laoxi is really rich. The house is paved with bricks, just like the landowners and old wealthy families."

While working, I listened to what was going on in the house.

I even go in from time to time to see what’s going on!
  But after entering so many times, there was no reaction at all.

He doubted whether he could get there, because it had something to do with the "ghost noise" that happened before.

This is the only connection.

He really couldn't think of anything else.

He cleared a lot of dead grass in the yard and piled it in the corner, waiting to be taken out when he had time.

"Is it useful to wait until it's almost dark?"

After thinking about it for a while, he realized that Widow Feng was the closest to here, so he quickly put down his things and ran back.

Xiao Zao is sewing clothes in the house.

Widow Feng and Xiaomai were lying on the kang and fell asleep.

"Xiao Zao, let me ask you something."

When he came here, he hurriedly whispered to Xiao Zao.

Seeing him in such a hurry, Xiaozao felt strange for a while: "What's going on?"

"I want to ask, you are very close to Wang Laoxi's house. Have you heard any sounds?"

They live so close, so they must have heard noises over the years.

"I heard it! What's wrong?"

Hearing this answer, Wang Qingsong felt happy and quickly asked: "What time? Do you still remember?"

Xiao Zao made a thinking movement, thought for a moment, and then said, "I have encountered him twice, once after school at noon, and once when I went out to play in the afternoon."

This sentence made Wang Qingsong's eyes light up, and he quickly asked: "Do you still remember the specific time?"

Hearing this, Xiaozao shook his head: "I don't know about that."

Wang Qingsong was also disappointed when he heard this.

But it is understandable. Except for the captain who has an old watch in the village, the entire production team does not have a second watch.

Everyone judges the time by looking at the sun.

Then he pondered over there that what happened to him that day happened when it was almost dark. Xiaozao said it was noon and afternoon. The rumors he had heard before were that it happened at night and during the day.

In this case, there is no pattern at all!
  what happened!
  (End of this chapter)