Midnight Restaurant

Chapter 166 The Haunted House Legend
I don't know what's wrong with the proprietress, I really don't know.

Qiao Man just wants to use this old place to stimulate her father's memory, so what does it have to do with me?Why should I stimulate my nerves?Why do they all believe that I am Qiao Man's father?

It made me feel very mysterious, and I wanted to go home and ask my parents if I was adopted, and how old I was when I picked it up...

Pooh!I shook my head vigorously, it was impossible, my memory from childhood to adulthood was full of pages, how could I do something that I didn't even know about?Besides, how many times has the vampire girl's desire been magnified, so that she can't think about having a one-night stand with me?I really don't want to blackmail myself, I basically have no advantages.

There are a lot of disadvantages.

"What are you thinking about shaking your head, young man?" The proprietress approached me: "You are on vacation today, go back, pack up your things, get some sleep, and leave early tomorrow morning."

"Me, I'll go too, okay, Sister Lan?" Yin Guoer also came to join in the fun.

The proprietress shook her head: "You stay, Guo'er, my shop can't always be closed... Oh yes, when the time comes, I will bring Chou Le who lives in your house, and that kid is pretty quick at work."

"Oh..." Yin Guoer nodded reluctantly.

My face was full of black lines: "No, Sister Lan, do I have a grudge against you? Really? No, I didn't think much about it at first, it doesn't matter if I go... But you told me just now, what are the top ten? The head of the ghost house, no one who enters will come out alive, the army is stationed, and half the city is sealed! You, you really want me to go?"

"Yeah, and I'm going too...in fact, I'm quite curious."

I have black lines all over my face.

Curiosity can't be a joke.

Anyway, I don't want to go...

In the end, the lady boss oppressed me by saying that it was a business trip. I felt that my life was full of shadows. Who did I offend?I also forgot how I agreed in the end, but I was forced to go home by the lady boss.Of course, the proprietress also promised me that she would let me come back safely.

I choose to believe... nonsense, I have a second choice!
However, when I got to No. 13 Majia Street, Xinze Old District, Zhuohang City, I realized one thing.Sometimes, rumors and hearsay are unreliable. The story is that the more time travels, the more human beings like bragging is a common problem.

Why do I say that?

It turns out that Zhuohang is not a big city, but a small county, and it is located on the border, and there is already a garrison. As for why half of the city was sealed off because of the ghost house... that is because this small county is so backward, you can go out All of them have gone out, and the rest are incompetent, old, weak, sick and disabled.

The whole city looks like a big village.

"It's not Sister Lan, can you be more reliable in your words? Do you really understand the information about this ghost house? Can we stop listening to the wind and the rain... You almost scared me to death before, you know? We Walking to the door of this haunted house now, is there an army stopping me?" I was standing at the door of the house at No. 13 Majia Street with black lines at the moment, scolding the proprietress.

"Huh? Young man, you've spoken very hard today, do you want to rebel?"

The proprietress glared at me, and then circled the old house leisurely. From the outside, the high walls made it hard to see what was inside, but it should be a ghost house because of the strong yin.

However, there is no warning sign or anything around here. Will the proprietress say that it is so scary?I was skeptical, so I complained about the proprietress.

"I haven't been here before, it's my first time... But, that's what the rumors say, and the rumors also say that those who go in don't leave alive." The proprietress said quietly.

As a result, after saying this sentence, the door of the ghost house opened with a creak, and several boys and girls carrying travel bags came out noisy.

"Haha, what a ghost house, it's meaningless at all!"

"Yeah, how can there be a ghost..."

"Okay, okay, let's go eat."

……

My face was full of black lines, and I turned to look at Du Youlan: "Sister Lan, this is... none of those who went in came out alive?"

The proprietress raised her eyebrows: "Perhaps... the rumors mean that there are usually a group of people who go in and a group of people who come out, and no one comes out alone..."

"It's ok, stop making trouble, let's go, go in quickly, turn around and go back to Ningnan, this place where the birds don't shit, no one travels!" Impatiently, I pushed the door of the ghost house, But he was held back by the proprietress.

"Wait, boy, don't rush in."

"What's the matter? I've been watching with my ghostly eyes. I have nothing but Yin Qi and resentment. Didn't you say that ghosts are especially easy for you to deal with?"

The proprietress nodded: "That's right, it's easy to deal with... But I always feel that there seems to be something wrong. I seem to have seen those children just now, but I can't remember."

"Hey? When you say that, I also feel familiar... Then we won't go in because of them?" I looked at the proprietress wonderingly.

"Go in, but you have to go in the haunted house at night to feel it. Now I'm a little hungry, so come with me for dinner." After finishing speaking, the proprietress directly dragged me away.

I just want to say three words, are you sick?
I found a place to eat at random, and ordered two side dishes, which tasted pretty good. After eating for a while, I saw that the proprietress was in a daze, so I asked her, "Hey, what are you doing? Are you hungry?"

The proprietress only looked at me at this time, and then at the customers sitting in the store: "Strange...why I also feel that the people sitting here are very familiar, as if I have seen them somewhere, but why can't I remember them?" gone?"

The proprietress frowned, showing a rare look of confusion.

I originally ate naturally, but after hearing what the proprietress said, I also started to look around. Indeed, seeing these people talking and laughing, eating and drinking, I really felt a very familiar feeling.

But to say that they look familiar... I raised my eyebrows, and suddenly found that there were a few boys and girls sitting on the table behind us. They were really familiar, and they were the ones who had just left the haunted house.

At this moment, several people are chatting.

"Hey, what kind of broken ghost house did you say we went to today, without even a ghost, it's boring!" one of the boys complained.

Then a girl giggled: "Then who just heard the mouse cry and fell down the stairs in fright?"

"That...that's different, being afraid of mice is not the same as being afraid of ghosts, you know that?"

"Haha, don't be funny, you are just cowardly. But to be honest, if some ghosts really come out, I guess everyone doesn't want them. Ghosts, just stimulate them. Don't complain. We will go to other places to play together later. .” The girl smiled.

While these people were talking, I kept squinting at them. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed that the proprietress was also listening.

At this time, a restaurant waiter came over, also a boy in his early twenties, and while serving dishes to a few young people, he asked with a smile: "Are you just going to play at No. 13 Majia Street?" Bar?"

"Yes." One of the girls replied.

"I knew it... Hehe, in fact, that place is almost becoming a tourist attraction in our small county, and people often go there... However, there are really not many people in hell."

Originally, this was just a random sentence, and most people don't care about it, and won't continue to say anything.

But the little girl seemed to be a little careful. When the waiter was about to leave, she suddenly grabbed the waiter and said, "Hey? Serving boy, you just said that there are not many hells. That means that someone has seen it." me?"

I turned around at this time and saw the waiter brother smiling: "Who are interested to know?"

"Yes, yes!" The girl nodded, and others also cast curious glances.

I reckon that the guy who serves food is just being lazy. Hearing what the guests said, he actually sat on the empty seat at the back table and said quietly, "Because you went at the wrong time, so naturally you won't be able to see ghosts... ..."

"What do you mean?" the girl asked.

"Several guests want to know, then I will tell you in detail, including the origin of this haunted house..."

Those boys and girls nodded excitedly, and the proprietress and I also took the opportunity to listen to a few words...

From the mouth of the little waiter, I know that this house was probably built more than 100 years ago. At that time, it was still in the Qing Dynasty.The person who built this ghost house was not a Chinese, but a middle-aged foreigner. Although he was only middle-aged, he had gray hair and was not in good health. He had to rely on crutches when he went out for a walk every day.

At that time, it seemed that the Eight-Power Allied Forces had just finished looting, and the common people were quite afraid of these foreigners. However, it is said that this sickly foreign uncle was different from other foreigners. something else.

Zhuohang was originally a poor place on the border, with a population of only a few hundred households and no other foreigners. Everyone knew this person quite well and got along well all the time.

But then, something happened in Zhuohang County.

People are missing, and they keep disappearing.As I said before, there were not many people in total, and the lack of a few was too obvious. The local government later intervened in the investigation, but found nothing, and could not find any clues.

It wasn't until one morning at the biggest market in Zhuohang that a strange man with two legs cut off, naked body, skin and flesh split apart, and beyond recognition appeared, and the truth came to light!

This man was dying at the time, and no one dared to go forward when he was discovered, because it was too disgusting... But in the end, he was brave enough to help him up, but he was so completely unrecognizable that he was sent to a hospital or something Local treatment.At first he thought he was going to die, but this person had a strong sense of survival and miraculously came back to life.

After he came back to life, this man confessed everything. He turned out to be a local scholar in Zhuohang. At that time, the Qing government had just abolished the imperial examination, which dealt a heavy blow to these scholars. The middle-aged man rescued him, and after that, he was taken in by a foreign middle-aged man.

Everything was fine at first, but the reason why it became like this is because one day, when he was tidying up the bedroom for foreigners, he found a secret door under the bed. Chamber of Secrets!

That secret room is hell, hell is full of mutilated human bodies hanging on iron hooks like slaughtered animals, and a pervert who is eating raw human flesh and drinking raw human blood...

(End of this chapter)