Long night dreams

Chapter 4 The Corpse in the Ceiling 1
"Hey...it must be those boring tourists. Why do they do such a boring thing to annoy my old lady who is half buried in the soil?" The old lady Jin complained and helped Ye Mei .

"Hey..." Guo Haoran seemed to have remembered something, and suddenly asked: "Old lady Jin, why didn't we see anyone in the village just now?"
The old lady Jin was stunned for a moment, and looked at Guo Haoran with sorrow. She opened her shriveled mouth slightly, showing her scorched teeth, and said calmly: "In this village, there is a legend that there is an evil spirit, that is, those The ghosts of the Hakka people hiding in the ground. They have been hovering over Shizuo Village for a long time. Didn’t you notice? The sky here is always gloomy. These ghosts are waiting for those who walk alone at night , They want to snatch the skins that passers-by hide in. Even the villagers cannot escape bad luck. It is said that every year someone dies in the cornfield by the roadside for no apparent reason, and that is the work of evil spirits. Such legends frighten the people in the village, young people The men all tried to find a way to go to the south to work. The young women found a way to marry to other villages. There are only old people left in the village, but time is not forgiving. They will only grow old and die one by one. The population of the village There are fewer and fewer. Now, Shizuo Village has become a deserted village, and there is no one else except my hotel."
After hearing what Mrs. Jin said, Xia Qingqing was obviously frightened. She tugged at Wang Yang's arm, shaking all over.But Wang Yang puffed up his chest and asked, "Since Shizhong Village has become an abandoned village, why do you still open this hotel?"
The old lady Jin sneered and said, "If I don't open this hotel, where will the five of you stay tonight?"
"We...we came here by mistake only because we misread the street signs." Wang Yang found a reason for himself.

"Hehe, since you will go the wrong way, others will naturally go the wrong way. To be honest, the road sign over the bridge has been knocked crooked for more than two months, but no one has come to correct it, so There are people who go to the cursed village and come to our corpse village by mistake. My hotel is specially prepared for you." The old lady Jin said triumphantly, and at the same time led Guo Haoran and his group of five people away At the door of the hotel.The old lady Jin turned off the flashlight, pointed to the hotel gate, and said, "There are still two passengers in the hotel who have gone the wrong way."
This hotel is actually an old-style villa with two floors and one floor, with blue bricks and green tiles, and the white exterior walls are very conspicuous.At the entrance of the hotel, a banner was fluttering in the wind, and two red lanterns were hung under the eaves. The light just reflected the large black characters embroidered on the banner - Hongmen Inn.

Holding Xia Qingqing in his arms, Wang Yang gasped, "Hongmen Hotel! Is it the same as Hongmen Banquet, come and go?"
"Tch--" Xia Qingqing stared at Wang Yang dissatisfiedly, and said, "You crow's mouth, what good things can't you say? Why do you want to say such unlucky things?"
"Haha——" Guo Haoran smoothed things over, "Tongyan Wuji, Tongyan Wuji!"
"Tch--you are the child. Wang Yang protested loudly.

Ye Mei couldn't help laughing: "Stop messing around, let's go to the hotel and take a hot bath and eat something." After she said this, Wang Yangxia Qingqing, the young couple hurried into the hotel with cheers.Guo Haoran stepped forward to help Ye Mei, but Ye Mei walked to the front on her own, leaving Guo Haoran standing there awkwardly.The middle-aged police officer Roger, who was on vacation, walked at the end without saying a word, his face livid, and he looked at the situation in the hotel while walking.

After all, this is a dilapidated Chinese-style villa. The floor is made of mottled pine boards, and the circles of wood grain on it are like open eyes. The vulgar pine planks, also with the same open eyes.These eyes always made Roger feel a little creepy, but the others didn't seem to notice it.

The first floor of the hostel is the lobby. A few dirty wooden tables have not been cleaned seriously for some time, and there is a layer of oily luster that seems to be there.

The guest rooms are located on the second floor of the hotel. Mrs. Jin led a group of people up to the second floor and arranged rooms for them.Today's college students are still quite open-minded. As everyone expected, Wang Yang and Xia Qingqing lived in the same room.Originally, Ye Mei wanted to continue to live in a separate room with Guo Haoran, but the old lady Jin said that there was no room left. In desperation, Ye Mei had no choice but to give Guo Haoran a hard look, warning him not to touch her, and then said gloomyly Face and Guo Haoran entered the room.

When arranging the room, Roger asked Mrs. Jin: "Are you the only one in this hotel? Why are there no other waiters?"
As soon as he said this, the old lady Jin wiped away tears.She cried and said that the hotel business is not doing well, and she can't afford to spend extra money to hire waiters.All this time, the hostel has been looked after by her and her 19-year-old daughter, a girl named Su Xin.Su Xin felt that staying in this hostel would be boring and unable to earn money, so she had long thought of going to the south to work.Of course, Mrs. Jin would not allow her daughter to leave her. It is really difficult for Mrs. Jin to take care of such a big hotel by herself.One day a month ago, the weather was good and the business was good. Several tourists who originally wanted to go to the cursed village came to them by mistake because they read the wrong sign, and all the rooms in the hotel were full.That night, Mrs. Jin was busy all night. After finishing her work, she lay on the bed and fell asleep as soon as her head touched the pillow.When she woke up, it was already noon the next day, and she was not in a hurry at that time, usually when encountering such a situation, Su Xin tied the tourists' accounts.The old lady Jin walked out of the management room, and saw that all the doors of the rooms were wide open, the corridor was empty, and there was a deathly silence, without a single sound.She called Su Xin's name a few times, but no one answered.She wandered around the hotel several times, but she didn't see Su Xin. When she returned to the management room, she found a note left by Su Xin, saying that a tourist last night promised to take her to the south to work. , she decided to break out of her own world alone.Su Xin made a promise that as long as she settled down there, she would call Mrs. Jin.What disappeared at the same time as Su Xin was the previous night's room fee for the hotel guests.

But after a full month, Su Xin didn't call back, she evaporated out of thin air like a drop of water in summer, leaving no trace.The old lady Jin often read popular literary magazines such as "Friends" and "Story Club". She guessed that Su Xin might have encountered a human trafficker. Doing the job she despises the most, or raising a bunch of children for rough men she doesn't know in a remote village in the northwest.

So when Roger asked, the old lady Jin's heart suddenly became sore, and her tears were like beads falling off the thread, and she couldn't help crying.

When Roger saw the old lady Jin crying, he was at a loss and didn't know what to do.In desperation, he had no choice but to carry his bag into the room. On the way to the hotel, he was drenched by the rainstorm, and now he just wanted to take a hot bath.

However, when Luo Jie, Guo Haoran and others were about to enter the house, the old lady Jin stopped crying very professionally, and said to them quietly that she remembered to come to the lobby on the first floor for dinner in half an hour.When she said these few words, not only was there no trace of sadness, but she returned to the dry tone she had when she first met the group of tourists.

Guo Haoran was very depressed.After he and Ye Mei entered the room, Ye Mei took off all her clothes in front of him and walked into the bathroom.

Ye Mei used to be a dancer, at least three months ago.Her figure is perfectly maintained, she is absolutely thin where she should be thin, and she is absolutely plump where she should be plump.The only thing that made Guo Haoran feel uncomfortable was that he saw two dark purple bruises below Ye Mei's collarbone.The two bruises were definitely not caused by bumping into any hard objects, and it is very difficult for the collarbone to bump into hard objects.Guo Haoran came out at a glance, the two bruises were hickeys—a small area of ​​bruises caused by a long kiss.

That damned man!
Guo Haoran secretly cursed the man who made him wear a cuckold in his heart. Although he didn't know who that man was, he still wished he could find him and kill him in the cruelest way.It would be best to kill the man and divide it into several pieces, build a part into the wall with the black cat that symbolizes evil, pick off the meat and eat the part, then grind the skeleton into powder and feed it to the chickens, and part of it Bury it in the cornfield and eat the tender and delicious corn when it waits for the next year's harvest.

When Guo Haoran was still immersed in the obsession with the plots of Edgar Allan Poe, Hitchcock, and Stephen King's novels, Ye Mei had already walked out of the bathroom in a milky white bathrobe.Although the bathrobe was loose, it still couldn't cover Ye Mei's arms and calves, which were as tender as green onions.

Although Guo Haoran's heart was full of anger at Ye Mei's affair, when he saw Ye Mei's body, his body still had the reaction that a man should have involuntarily.

Guo Haoran stepped forward and hugged Ye Mei, threw Ye Mei on the bed, and then pressed his body down.Although Ye Mei tried her best to resist, but the strength of a woman is no match for a man after all.Ye Mei thought to herself, as the saying goes, life is like rape, if you can't resist, then just enjoy it in silence.What's more, before divorcing Guo Haoran, she was still his legal wife.So Ye Mei spread out her arms, allowing Guo Haoran, who was still wet and cold before taking a shower, to move up and down her body.

Guo Haoran's act of suspected rape has never happened between Ye Mei and him during the five years of their marriage.For some reason, Ye Mei suddenly had a strange feeling in her heart - it seemed that making love this time was more enjoyable than ever before.

Maybe people like fresh feeling, this is a novel feeling, whether it is psychological or physical.When Ye Mei exhaled like Lan and moaned softly, she heard Guo Haoran say: "Let's not get a divorce, okay?" Ye Mei suddenly woke up as if cold water had been poured from head to toe.Regardless of Guo Haoran's unrelenting passion, she pushed Guo Haoran away and stood up on her own, saying coldly: "Impossible!"
Ye Mei stood by the bed and put on her underwear as quickly as possible.When Guo Haoran reacted, he saw Ye Mei wrapping herself tightly and standing by the door.Guo Haoran looked down at a part of his body that was still hard, and said with a wry smile, "Then what should I do now?"
"What should I do? Let's take a cold shower." When Ye Mei said this, the corners of Ye Mei's mouth curled up slightly, showing a mischievous smile.

Although Guo Haoran felt a little helpless, he finally shrugged his shoulders and walked into the bathroom.Facing Ye Mei, he always felt helpless.

Shizhong Village is located in the southwest, although it is early winter, the weather is not too cold, far inferior to the northern city where Guo Haoran and Ye Mei live, but it is definitely not a very wise thing to take a cold bath in this season thing.

Guo Haoran pretended to be relaxed in the bathroom while whistling while putting hot water in the bathtub.He saw the lavender bath salt left by Ye Mei when he took a bath just now by the bathtub, so he grabbed a handful and sprinkled it in the bathtub.Watching the water in the bathtub gradually turn scarlet, he raised his legs and stepped into the bathtub, then lay down on his back, immersing his whole body in the moderately warm water.

Guo Haoran lay in the bathtub with his eyes closed for a while, and gradually felt that the water was getting colder.He opened his eyes to add some hot water, and then he saw the ceiling above his head.

There is a pine ceiling on the ceiling, but perhaps because of the age and the thermal expansion and contraction of the seasons, there are several cracks where the ceiling boards meet.These few cracks are very obvious, like a piece of white cloth with a few black lines drawn abruptly with a marker.There are black holes in the cracks, and it is impossible to see how deep the ceiling is between the suspended ceiling and the ceiling.

Guo Haoran suddenly thought, if he could catch the man who seduced Ye Mei to make him wear a cuckold, he could definitely bring that guy here and kill him with one knife.Putting the blood in the bathtub is as scarlet as water sprinkled with lavender bath salts.As long as the oak cork of the bathtub is pulled away, the bloody water will flow into the sewer in a clockwise vortex without any trace.As for the corpse, it would be better to say that it could be hidden between the suspended ceiling and the ceiling.As long as you are lucky enough, God knows when it will be discovered by other tourists.

This kind of imagination made Guo Haoran feel very comfortable. After adding hot water, he continued to lie in the bathtub, closed his eyes and slowly rested his mind.But at this moment, he heard a rustling sound coming from the top of his head.

Guo Haoran opened his eyes and looked towards the ceiling...

He saw that the pine boards of the suspended ceiling were trembling slightly, and the cracks became more and more obvious, as if they were slowly getting bigger. The rustling sound came from the connection of the wooden boards of the suspended ceiling.There seemed to be something hidden between the suspended ceiling and the ceiling, and the weight of that thing was not light.

When Guo Haoran was surprised, he heard a "squeak", the pine ceiling above his head suddenly opened a hole, and then a black thing fell from it, just landed in the bathtub, a fishy mess Red water splashed out of the bathtub.Guo Haoran's arms happened to be spread out, and the thing that fell from the ceiling just fell into his arms.He only felt that the thing he touched was slippery and greasy, and the surface was covered with viscous liquid.A not too strong but very distinct stench rushed towards him, and before he could resist, it immediately got into his nostrils, and entered the internal organs along the nasal airway.As soon as Guo Haoran smelled the swift and fierce stench, he immediately felt like vomiting.

Fighting back the urge to vomit, he stared intently at the thing that had just dropped from the ceiling and was now lying in his arms.When he saw clearly, his first move was to throw the things in his hand aside, then turned sideways, holding the bathtub wall with his hands, and vomited profusely.He threw up the breakfast he had at the hotel in town that morning, as well as the dinner he had the day before.After vomiting everything in his stomach, he gasped heavily.He looked back at the thing that fell from the ceiling, and turned his head - he couldn't help throwing up again!
Mrs. Kim told all the visitors to come downstairs for dinner in half an hour.After talking about half an hour, it must be half an hour. She runs a hotel and deeply understands the importance of the concept of time, so after arranging the room, she hurried into the kitchen to get busy.

Although the few dishes made are simple, they are also exquisite and have a lot of weight.Stir-fried chicken offal with pickled peppers, stewed white beans with waxed pig’s trotters, spicy carp, stir-fried green peppers with bamboo shoots... Half an hour later, Mrs. Jin looked at the dishes on the table, blinked triumphantly, and was about to go upstairs Go and call the lodgers down to dinner.

In addition to the five people who had just arrived, two tourists who had gone the wrong way came earlier in the day.One was a bearded man with a paint palette. His registered name was Li Shoulian, and he seemed to be a painter.There is also a 24-year-old young woman whose registered name is Lian Zi. She is quite beautiful and wears a pair of bright yellow high heels. The pointed toe and narrow body style is the most popular nowadays.But there always seems to be a little sadness hidden between her brows.The old lady Jin couldn't guess what this young woman named Lianzi did, but she guessed from the sadness between Lianzi's brows that maybe Lianzi had just lost her love.

Nowadays, young people in the city like to take a trip to dilute the pain of broken love, while young people in the countryside are eager to change their destiny by going away with no end and result in sight.The old lady Jin thought of her daughter Su Xin all of a sudden, and her heart suddenly became empty, as if her heart had been wandered to a high place and could not return to its original place.She sighed faintly, then took off her apron, and walked out of the kitchen to call the tourists on the second floor to come downstairs for dinner.

The old lady Jin knocked on the door of Li Shoulian and Lianzi first, and then smoothly called out the young couple named Wang Yang and Xia Qingqing.When Luo Jie, a robust middle-aged policeman, walked out of the room, he saw Mrs. Jin standing in front of Guo Haoran and Ye Mei's room, knocking on the door gently.But the door didn't open, and there were faint noises and screams coming from the door.

Wang Yang joked: "They must be arguing again?" After hearing this, Xia Qingqing, who was hiding in his arms, couldn't help but giggled.Both of their faces were flushed. It seemed that they had used the half hour just now not only to take a shower, but also to do their favorite things by the way.

"Huh? There seems to be something wrong. Mrs. Jin put her ears on the cold door, with a look of doubt on her face.

(End of this chapter)