Chapter 2 Chapter 1 The Midnight Cry

The cry was sad and frightening, as if the mysterious woman was right in front of her... However, the moment the light was turned on, the woman's cry disappeared mysteriously again... Cold sweat drenched Wang Dahai's clothes, an unprecedented feeling... Fear and fear enveloped his body and mind.That night, they sat on the bed for a whole night.However, strangely, the mysterious cry never appeared again. This is a night in early spring, the sky is pitch black, the night is as dark as ink, and the whole city is shrouded in the loneliness of winter and the chill of early spring.However, in a small building on the outskirts of the city, there is a warm and festive atmosphere: a resident on the second floor of the small building is holding a simple but lively wedding.

Amid the uproar of a group of young people, the bride and groom performed various funny and interesting shows non-stop. "Wang Dahai, give the bride a quick kiss!" A short and fat young man yelled, "I haven't seen you making out with the bride all night. Are you trying to trick us?" "Yes, hurry up!" The two guys pushed the groom Wang Dahai, and pushed the bride Li Xiaoman. Li Xiaoman was a little shy, her face was blushing, and she twisted her body awkwardly. "Kiss, just kiss, let you be envious and jealous!" Wang Dahai pecked Li Xiaoman's mouth hastily, making a loud popping sound on purpose.

"Cut corners, start over!" Everyone insisted. Around ten o'clock in the evening, the people in Hexi dispersed one after another.Most of the people who came to the wedding were colleagues of the bride and groom.A spring night is worth a thousand dollars. Everyone understands the profound meaning of this sentence, and they have to go to work the next day, so everyone left consciously after making a fuss. When the bridal chamber quieted down, Wang Dahai couldn't help feeling excited and excited: he had been looking forward to this wedding night for a long, long time. Wang Dahai and Li Xiaoman are employees of the same company.A year ago, the ambitious Wang Dahai began to pursue Li Xiaoman madly. Under his persistent and tireless pursuit, Li Xiaoman finally disarmed and became his girlfriend.However, Li Xiaoman is reserved and traditional. During the romance between the two, even though Wang Dahai tried his best, rhetoric, and resorted to countless tricks, Li Xiaoman always insisted on the last line of defense.

"Let's go, let's go to the hotel to get a room." During the love, Wang Dahai said this sentence the most. "When I get married and have a house, I will leave everything to you." Every time, Li Xiaoman replied like this. Every time at this time, Wang Dahai would sigh, and there would be an urge in his heart to scold, hit, and yell a few times. However, seeing Li Xiaoman's innocent, helpless, pure deer-like appearance, Wang All the impulses of the sea disappeared. Generally speaking, Wang Dahai is a hardworking and simple young man. He was not discouraged, but took Li Xiaoman's rejection as a positive motivation.For the early arrival of their wedding night, Wang Dahai worked like a clockwork machine and worked hard to save money. Finally, a year later, they rented a two-bedroom house on the outskirts of the city.

On the day she got the key to the house, Li Xiaoman no longer refused. She happily went to the Civil Affairs Bureau with Wang Dahai to get a marriage certificate, and invited more than ten colleagues and friends to the wedding. However, what Wang Dahai didn't expect was that that night, a mysterious woman's cry disturbed his and Li Xiaoman's wedding night and made them feel terrified. The crying first came from the bathroom.At that time, Wang Dahai's industrious hands were walking on Li Xiaoman's body. Under his active exploration, Li Xiaoman was short of breath, his face was flushed, and he looked even more beautiful.However, just when Wang Dahai wanted to move further, Li Xiaoman suddenly grabbed his hand.

"What's the matter?" Wang Dahai raised his head and asked in bewilderment. "It seems that someone is crying." Li Xiaoman listened for a while and said, "That's right, it's a woman." Wang Dahai could also hear it clearly. The crying was miserable and intermittent. It sounded very shocking in the silent midnight. "The crying seems to be in the bathroom." Li Xiaoman spoke again, and because of fear, the blush on her face quickly faded, and she became pale in an instant. Wang Dahai's passion plummeted like the ebbing sea water. He slipped off Li Xiaoman's body, put on his clothes, and walked towards the bathroom step by step.Li Xiaoman followed behind him, startled every step of the way.

The crying sound really came from the bathroom.Listening to the sound, it seems that there is a woman in grief inside. Although there is a glass door, her sadness is truly conveyed through the crying, filling the house of more than 60 square meters. Who would be in there in the middle of the night?Li Xiaoman clearly remembered that all the friends and colleagues who came to congratulate him left around ten o'clock, and there was no way anyone was in the bathroom! Is it a ghost?Thinking of this, she felt a chill rising from her spine, and her body shivered involuntarily.In order to strengthen her courage, she quietly turned on the headlights in the living room.

The light illuminated the entire room, and almost at the same time, the crying in the bathroom suddenly stopped, and the surroundings returned to deathly silence. In less than half a minute, everything seemed so weird and incredible! "I'll go in and see what's going on." Wang Dahai boldly pushed open the bathroom door and turned on the light inside. Under the pale light, the bathroom was empty, and there was no one there! "How could there be someone in the bathroom?" Wang Dahai yawned, and said disapprovingly, "It may be the crying coming from outside, let's go, let's go to sleep!"

Li Xiaoman was worried, she asked Wang Dahai to accompany her, carefully checked every corner of the bathroom, and returned to the bedroom after making sure that there was no one inside. Lying on the bed, Wang Dahai's hands became restless again.Driven by him, the passion deep in Li Xiaoman's heart rose like a tide again. "Woooo..." Just when the two were about to lose themselves, that mysterious cry reappeared.This time, the woman's cries were louder, and she seemed to be crying in the living room, which was separated from the bedroom by a wall. "She, she's getting closer to us..." Li Xiaoman was terrified, she hugged Wang Dahai tightly, and the hairs all over her body stood on end.

Wang Dahai also had a strong fear in his heart, but he knew that he couldn't shrink back at this moment, he wanted to comfort and protect his beloved woman! "Don't be afraid, I'm here." Wang Dahai gently pushed his wife away, opened the bedroom door, and rushed into the living room recklessly. The cry was sad and frightening, and that mysterious woman seemed to be right in front of her!Trembling, Wang Dahai touched the light switch. However, the moment the light was turned on, the woman's cry disappeared mysteriously again. There was no one in the living room! "Are you a human or a ghost!" Cold sweat drenched Wang Dahai's clothes, and an unprecedented sense of fear and dread enveloped his body and mind.He hurried back to the bedroom and closed the door tightly.

That night, Wang Dahai and Li Xiaoman turned on the light in the bedroom, and they sat on the bed for a whole night.However, strangely, the mysterious cry never appeared again. At eight o'clock in the morning, Lao Bi's figure appeared at the gate of the Municipal Public Security Bureau on time.As long as he doesn't go out to handle the case, the head of the serious case team will arrive at the office half an hour earlier every day and start his day's work energetically. The office building is unusually quiet. Except for the business duty department which needs to be on duty 24 hours a day, other personnel go to work relatively punctually.At this time, there was still half an hour before work time, and the corridor was quiet. Lao Bi's office is on the far left of the second floor. He had just stepped onto the corridor on the second floor, and he habitually scanned the corridor before he seemed to notice something. "This kid, he just sneaked back after going down for a few days." Lao Bi smiled and shouted loudly, "Xiao Chen, why did you come to the Municipal Bureau so early in the morning?" Following the shouting, a young man in his twenties stuck out his head from Lao Bi's office. He rubbed his eyes and muttered, "What are you shouting for? You woke me up when I fell asleep." The tall, handsome young man in front of him is Lao Bi's apprentice and assistant Chen Ran.Xiao Chen has been working with Lao Bi in the serious crime team.A few months ago, the Municipal Bureau selected a group of young people to train at the grassroots level. With the consent of Lao Bi, the bureau's party group dispatched Xiao Chen to the Xijiao Police Station as the deputy director. The training period will be half a year. "Good guy, you don't work in the office, are you running around?" Lao Bi took out a cigarette and lit it, took a puff and said, "You were on the night shift last night?" "Yeah, I'm so sleepy." Xiao Chen stretched his waist, and said with some doubts, "Old Bi, when I came this morning, I didn't know it. How did you know that I entered your office?" "You have been with me for several years, but I am not familiar with the smell on your body? I smelled your smell just now when I went upstairs. Besides, who else is there besides you for the big footprints in this corridor?" Old Bi was dissatisfied Pointing to Xiao Chen's feet, "You came directly from the institute, right? Look at your shoes, they have trampled such a clean corridor dirty." "No way, demolition is going on near our place, the streets are dirty, and my shoes haven't been cleaned since I went to work." Xiao Chen shrugged off the dust on his shoes and said, "That's right, I ran directly from the institute today." "Well." Lao Bi nodded, "I guess you have three main purposes for running today: one is to exercise, the other is to visit me, an old guy, and the third is definitely for work." "Then I won't hide it from you." Xiao Chen said, "At around 7:00 this morning, the 110 Command Center of the Municipal Bureau forwarded an alarm call to our police station, saying that someone called the police from a rental building in the western suburbs, and the caller was A newlywed couple, in a horrified tone, claimed that there was a strange crying sound in the new room last night, which disturbed them from sleeping all night." "Really?" There was a gleam in Lao Bi's eyes. "Our Director Zhao thinks that this call to the police is a bit inexplicable. It is likely to be a fake report by some boring people. He means that it can be ignored, but I don't think the caller is like lying. The mysterious crying may be hidden. It has a deep meaning, so I insist on coming to the Municipal Bureau to find you, I know, you must be very interested in this cry." "Have you contacted the police?" "I have contacted, but the mobile phone is turned off, and I have not been able to get through." Xiao Chen said, "I sent a text message to the owner of the phone, asking him to contact me in time." "There are generally two situations when the mobile phone is turned off. One is what Director Zhao said. Because the mysterious crying sound really appeared in the new house, in addition to calling the police, they will definitely call relatives and friends to report, which will cause the mobile phone to run out of power and automatically shut down." Lao Bi said, "Let's go, let's identify this phone authenticity." The two came to the 110 command center behind the office building.As soon as the attendant Xiao Zhang saw them, he immediately got up and called out respectfully: "Old Bi!" "You just greet Mr. Bi, but Brother Chen doesn't say hello?" Xiao Chen pretended to be aggrieved, and sighed, "It's so chilling to drink tea!" "We already talked on the phone just now, do we need to be more polite?" Xiao Zhang giggled, "Mr. Chen came here, and even invited Mr. Bi out of the mountain. Is it because of the alarm call?" "That's right, is that call recorded?" Xiao Chen said, "Play it for us quickly." Xiao Zhang pressed the recording switch, and the voices of the caller and the 110 operator came out clearly—— Caller: "Your place is the Public Security Bureau, right? We want to report the crime!" Operator: "This is the 110 command center of the Public Security Bureau. Please tell me if you have anything to do." Caller: "Last night was the wedding day of my lover and I. Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, a woman's cry appeared in the new room. It was like a ghost crying. It was so scary!" Operator: "Do you want the police to investigate?" Caller: "Yes, come quickly, the address here is No. 20, Guangming Village Street, Xijiao." Operator: "Excuse me, why did you report the crime now?" Caller: "In the beginning we were so concerned about being afraid that we forgot to report the crime..." Operator: "Hey, hello, why don't you talk, are you still there?" The recording ended here. Obviously, the caller hung up the phone. "Just like your analysis, the caller's call was cut off suddenly, and it is likely that the phone is out of battery." Xiao Chen glanced at Lao Bi and said, "He left a clear contact address, so it shouldn't be a false report. Bar?" "It's hard to say." Xiao Zhang interjected, "In the past, we also received a lot of calls reporting fake cases, which were made up to look like the real ones, and the address was also left. After the police on duty rushed away, Only then did I realize that I had been deceived. For this reason, some comrades even went to the command center to settle accounts with us, asking us to treat guests and compensate for their spiritual losses. To be honest, we are more wronged than Dou E.” "Is this operator already off duty?" Lao Bi asked softly. "Yes, after handing over the work at 7:30 in the morning, she has gone back to rest." Xiao Zhang replied. "Based on your experience, do you think the caller might have made a false report?" "It's hard for me to say this. Now some guys who report false cases have really extraordinary level of performance. The fake is true, the true is true, and it's a headache for us." Xiao Zhang shook his head. Just as he was talking, Xiao Chen's cell phone rang. He glanced at the caller ID and exclaimed excitedly: "Old Bi, he finally called!" Half an hour later, Lao Bi and Xiao Chen arrived at Guangming Village Street in the western suburbs. Due to historical reasons and inconsistent development speeds, the groups living in the four directions of the city are different.In recent years, the municipal government has stepped up the development of the west of the city. Many farmers have relocated, and the countryside is gradually disappearing. Guangming Village in the western suburbs can be said to be the last village in the city. "With the development of the city, this area has been planned into the urban territory." Xiao Chen pointed to the village in front of him and said, "I heard that a few years ago, real estate developers came here for development, and most of the farmers in the village have relocated. It was also levied, but later it was put on hold for some reason, so the relocated farmers came back one after another, rented their buildings to migrant workers, and they planted vegetables and crops on the idle land.” "Do you come to this place often?" Lao Bi looked around and said. "I have been here a few times. Most of the people living here are foreigners, and the security situation is relatively complicated. It can be said that it is the key target of our Xijiao police station. After I worked in the station, I went to this village to deal with two fights." The streets in the village are relatively narrow, and in many places, only one car can pass through the streets.On both sides of the road are small buildings, most of which were built in the 1980s. Under the influence of time and wind and rain, the color of the buildings is gray and the walls are peeling off, giving people a sense of vicissitudes and dilapidation. The whole village is very quiet. Most of the residents on both sides of the street have closed doors. On the street, except for one or two passers-by in a hurry, only a few chickens are strolling. Occasionally, a dog will let them run by. Panic and tweet. Entering from a narrow alley, within a few steps, there is a large vegetable field in front of you.Next to the vegetable field, stands a small building.Although this building has only two floors, it is more grand and spacious than the surrounding houses. In front of the building is a small yard.Some unnamed flowers and plants thrived in the yard, some of which bloomed red and white flowers, which added a little vitality to the dilapidated environment around; Camphor trees rose from the ground, and their luxuriant branches and leaves made the whole courtyard look a bit gloomy. Wang Dahai and Li Xiaoman rented the suite on the left side of the second floor.The door of the room was open, and Wang Dahai sat blankly on the small stool by the door.He didn't sleep all night last night, and he looked haggard and exhausted. Hearing someone going upstairs, Wang Dahai quickly stood up, looked at the two strangers in front of him, and said hesitantly, "Are you the police?" Lao Bi nodded: "We came here specially after receiving the report. Are you Wang Dahai?" "Oh, you're finally here!" Wang Dahai looked quite excited, "You don't know, my wife and I finally rented a house to get married, but I didn't know that this happened to me on the first night, I was really unlucky .” "Is there really crying in the room?" Xiao Chen asked. "It's absolutely true! The crying statement is clearly in the house, but I searched for a long time last night, but I didn't find anyone." Wang Dahai said dejectedly, "I've been looking forward to getting married for a whole year, but all the happiness is because of that crying statement." The sound is ruined." "Shall we go in and have a look at the house first?" Lao Bi comforted him, "Don't worry, we will give you an explanation." The layout of the new house is still maintained in the house. In the living room, two ribbons woven with silk thread are stretched obliquely, and the ribbons are covered with countless cute little red lanterns. The room looks warm and festive. Lao Bi and Xiao Chen went into the bathroom first.The area of ​​the bathroom is about five square meters. The floor is covered with milky white floor tiles. Due to the age, the color of the floor tiles is a bit yellowish, and some floor tiles have even cracked, exposing the gray-black concrete floor.In stark contrast to the ground, are the surrounding walls. The walls have obviously just been painted, and they look relatively white. Lao Bi touched the wall, and his hands were immediately stained with fine white powder. "I just painted the walls two days ago, using paint." Wang Dahai explained. Lao Bi nodded. He checked the toilet, bathtub and sink one by one, then stood up, lit a cigarette and smoked. "Mr. Bi, I don't think there is anything unusual about this bathroom." Xiao Chen also checked it carefully. "Well, look elsewhere." Old Bi led the way out of the bathroom. The living room, the bedroom, the utility room... They checked every place, but found nothing. They didn't find anything abnormal in the house, nor did they find any useful clues. "Are you sure that cry came from the bathroom?" Xiao Chen asked Wang Dahai. "Yes, first in the bathroom, and then in the living room about ten minutes later." Wang Dahai said, "The cries didn't last long each time, but they sounded terrifying." "Before last night, did you and your wife hear crying?" Xiao Chen asked again. "No, we only rented the house three days ago. After getting the keys, we cleaned the room and painted the walls briefly. We just moved in yesterday." "That is to say, you don't even know if there was crying in the room?" "Yes, if we had known that the room was not clean, we would not have rented it." Wang Dahai shook his head. Lao Bi didn't speak. He walked to the window of the living room, looked out with his head, and an imperceptible smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Old Bi, do you suspect that the crying is coming from outside?" Xiao Chen also looked out, and he couldn't help but exclaimed, "Camphor tree!" Yes, the branches of the camphor tree in the yard were very close to the building as it stretched upwards. Its thick trunk was less than one meter away from the living room window of Wang Dahai's rented house.If someone climbed up the tree trunk in the middle of the night, they should have easy access to the living room window. "The crying can't come from outside." Wang Dahai shook his head and said, "Xiaoman and I heard it very clearly. The voice came from the bathroom first, and then from the living room. If she climbed over a tree, It is impossible for crying to appear in the bathroom." "Don't talk about this now, we just want to ask you: were the windows in the living room open last night?" Xiao Chen looked at Wang Dahai. "This, I don't remember." Wang Dahai scratched his scalp, "It may be that a colleague opened the window at that time, and we forgot to close it later." Xiao Chen still wanted to say something, but Lao Bi waved his hand to stop him from continuing to ask. "Xiao Chen, how long will it take you to run quietly from the bathroom to the living room, and then jump from this window to the tree?" Lao Bi asked. "It should be fine within five seconds." Xiao Chen measured the distance with his eyes and said confidently. "Well, considering that it's a woman and she's very sad, let's give her eight seconds." Lao Bi said, "Assume that it's a woman with agility. Next, let's simulate the scene last night and see how it works theoretically." Is it possible for her to break into the room crying, and then escape by jumping off a tree?" In criminal investigation, there is a technology called scenario simulation, that is, the police reproduce the crime scene by simulating the scene at that time, and the investigators find clues about the suspect's crime through observation and analysis. Under the direction of Lao Bi, Wang Dahai and Xiao Chen quickly simulated the scene where the mysterious cry appeared last night. "Woooo..." As soon as Xiao Chen's simulated cry of the mysterious woman sounded in the bathroom, Wang Dahai opened the bedroom door and walked out. Live the trunk of the camphor tree. The whole process took Xiao Chen less than five seconds. He did escape Wang Dahai's eyes. However, while Xiao Chen was running away, he made two sounds one after another—— The sound of the bathroom door closing and the sound of the leaves shaking when they jumped on the tree!No matter how hard Xiao Chen tried, within a limited time, these two voices could not be eliminated. "Last night, when Xiaoman and I came out of the bedroom, we didn't hear these two voices at all." Wang Dahai said, "I don't think she could have come in from outside." "I believe you are telling the truth." Lao Bi nodded, "Did you close the bedroom door when you came out?" "No, the bedroom door is open." "That is to say, the light in the bedroom is reflected, and there should be a hazy halo in the living room. When your wife fumbled for the light switch, you kept looking in the direction of the bathroom. Did you notice the shadow escaping?" "No, absolutely not!" Wang Dahai said with certainty. "Well, this means that our scenario simulation failed, and the suspect cannot come in from the outside." Old Bi looked indoors again. However, he and Xiao Chen checked every corner of the bathroom and living room again, but found nothing. "Have you contacted the landlord?" Xiao Chen asked Wang Dahai. "I contacted you early this morning, but the landlord said he won't be here until noon." Wang Dahai replied. "It seems that we can only conduct further investigations when the landlord comes." Lao Bi said, "Now let's take a walk outside and come back at noon." Before going out, Lao Bi casually asked, "Where did your wife Li Xiaoman go?" "She went to her good sister early this morning." Wang Dahai said dejectedly, "She took all her clothes away, saying that she didn't dare to live in this haunted house again, and asked me to find another rented house, so she would let her go." Will move back in and live with me." Wang Dahai's face was full of frustration and disappointment, which made people feel sympathy for this poor newlywed man. Lao Bi and Xiao Chen went downstairs to the yard, and they looked at the old small building again.According to the architectural layout of the small building, it can be judged that there are six suites upstairs and downstairs, among which the suite Wang Dahai and others live in is slightly larger; judging from the clothes hanging in the window, there are residents in the three suites downstairs, while the one upstairs Among the three suites, only the left and right sides have residents, and the middle suite seems to be unoccupied. They were going to ask their neighbors to find out the situation, but the doors of the surrounding residents were closed and no one was at home.The small building and the surrounding environment are very quiet, except for the occasional chirping of birds, there is hardly a human figure to be seen, and no human voice can be heard. "It's so quiet here." Old Bi took a breath and said, "It's hard to find such a quiet place now." "The current quietness is only temporary." Xiao Chen said, "People who live here leave early and return late. If you come here again at night, you will know how lively it is here." The two walked out of the small courtyard and walked along a half-meter-wide path.Nearby are the vegetable fields, and the green vegetable beds exude a mixed smell of soil and dung; in the distance, a thin layer of mist covers the fields, looking ethereal and mysterious. "If the mysterious crying that Wang Dahai said really came from the room, what do you think is the reason?" Lao Bi asked casually as he walked. "Excluding superstition, I think there is only one possibility." Xiao Chen said, "The media at home and abroad have reported a mysterious phenomenon. The local people regard this phenomenon as ghosts and spirits. Later, scientists explored and analyzed it , that this phenomenon is actually not a mystery.” "You mean the earth recording and playback phenomenon?" "Yes, in some ancient battlefields at home and abroad, when the weather changes, people sometimes hear the shouts of killing and the neighing of horses, the most typical of which is a place called 'Ghost Valley' in southwestern Turkey. Ghosts The valley is a valley, usually it is very quiet and there is no sound, but when the weather suddenly changes and lightning flashes and thunders, sometimes there will be the neighing of war horses, the shouting of soldiers, and the clashing of swords and guns in Ghost Valley. A thrilling war is going on. Legend has it that someone once had the courage to go into the valley to check, but found nothing inside. Later, scientists finally revealed the secret after field investigation. It turns out that there is a huge cave under the ghost valley. The magnetite is equivalent to a large tape recorder. Hundreds of years ago, there was a tragic war in Ghost Valley. The magnetite 'recorded' all the sounds at that time. When the weather conditions are suitable, The big tape recorder starts 'playing back' the sounds." "Well, although the probability of this phenomenon happening is very low, it does exist objectively." Lao Bi took a breath and said, "Of course, for this phenomenon to occur, three basic conditions must be met: first, there must be Recording equipment, that is, the magnet-like material you mentioned above; second, there must be a sound source, considering this case, that is, there was a woman crying in the room; third, there must be certain weather conditions, which are The most critical factor is that according to scientific investigations, under normal circumstances, only when the meteorological conditions such as temperature, humidity, wind direction, and wind speed are completely consistent with the recording day, the recording playback phenomenon may occur.” "You mean to say that the cries in Wang Dahai's room cannot be recorded and played back?" "This kind of phenomenon is impossible in ordinary houses." Lao Bi shook his head and said, "However, it is still too early to draw conclusions-although we did not find obvious magnet-like substances in the house, we cannot rule out that there are hidden magnets in other places. The best way to verify it is to go to the field to investigate tonight, if the cry reappears when the weather conditions are different from last night, it will completely show that the cry is another matter." The two walked and chatted, and unknowingly came to a vegetable field.An old woman in her sixties was picking vegetables. When she saw Old Bi and Xiao Chen, she raised her head in surprise. "Are you from this village?" Lao Bi stepped forward and asked. "Yes." The old woman said vigilantly, "Is something wrong here?" "No, but something weird happened in that small building last night." Xiao Chen pointed to the back and said, "A woman's cry came from a room in the building." "The woman's cry?" The old woman was stunned for a moment, her face turned pale, and she then said something that surprised Lao Bi and the others—— "I knew for a long time that sooner or later something strange would happen to that building!" At noon, Li Xiaoman returned to the rental house.Like her husband, Wang Dahai, this sleepless bride was haggard, and the charming smile and charming demeanor of yesterday had long since disappeared from her face. At around seven o'clock this morning, Li Xiaoman ignored Wang Dahai's obstruction, hurriedly packed up her clothes, and left the new house she regarded as a haunted house without looking back.At seven thirty, she knocked on the door of her best friend Zhu Yuya's room. "What's going on? Did Wang Dahai bully you?" Zhu Yuya stood at the door and asked in surprise. "No, he treated me very well." Li Xiaoman looked very tired. "What's going on? The bride is running around early in the morning. It's not normal." "I don't want to run around, but there are ghosts in our house, and I dare not live there." "Is there a ghost? Wasn't it good last night?" Zhu Yuya couldn't believe her ears.Last night, she also attended Li Xiaoman's wedding and kept making noise until about ten o'clock before leaving. "Not long after you left, a woman's cry came from the bathroom and the living room. Wang Dahai and I searched for a long time, but no one was found." Li Xiaoman lifted the suitcase forward and said, "I am now I'm homeless, let me go into the house and talk about it later." "He hasn't gotten up yet." Zhu Yuya turned her head and looked into the room, with a look of embarrassment on her face. "You live together?" Li Xiaoman was surprised, "You have known him for less than three months!" "Yes, but he promised to marry me in the second half of the year." Zhu Yuya couldn't hide a happy and shy expression on her face. "Then I wish you happiness in advance!" Li Xiaoman shook her head, she bid farewell to Zhu Yuya, dragged her suitcase, and continued to walk towards the rented house of another close colleague. More than ten minutes later, Li Xiaoman, who was in a daze, came to the door of this colleague's room, but unexpectedly, the colleague had already left for work.Li Xiaoman stood blankly in front of her room door for a long time, tears streaming down little by little. The people coming and going looked at the weeping woman strangely, but no one thought that this haggard and helpless woman was a bride who had only been married for one day. At noon, Li Xiaoman finally found a fellow villager and left his luggage with her.Because she was still worried, she hurried back to the rental house again. In the room, Wang Dahai was arguing with a man in his sixties. This man was the landlord Ma Yueshan. He was short, fat and black, and because he was the third eldest among the three brothers, he was nicknamed Ma Laosan.In the morning, after receiving a call from Wang Dahai, Ma Laosan reluctantly rushed over from his home on the other side of the city. "How could there be crying?" Ma Laosan shook his huge head and said incredulously, "There has never been such a strange thing in this village." "If you don't believe it, we don't dare to live in this room anymore, so you can return the rent to me." Thinking of what happened last night, Wang Dahai felt angry. "Could it be that you didn't want to live here, so you deliberately made up the reason?" Ma Laosan said, "Many people have lived in my house before and after, and I have never heard of any strange things, but you came to stay for one night. I just heard crying, isn't this too bizarre?" "How can you say that?" Wang Dahai, who had endured the anger all night, finally found the outlet of the eruption like volcanic lava. He blushed and shouted thickly, "Are you going to refund the rent? If you don't, I will immediately The room was smashed to pieces!" "How dare you!" Ma Laosan glared, "On the territory of Guangming Village, it's not your turn to act wild!" "We've been tossed like this, why not dare!" Wang Dahai, who had never fought before, picked up the small bench on the ground. Ma Laosan did not show any weakness either, he picked up the thing beside him - a mop, and at the same time greeted Wang Dahai's mother in a dirty manner. Just when the two were about to start a fierce fight, Li Xiaoman rushed over, and her scream made the two red-eyed men stop. "If you don't believe it, you can come to the room tonight and try it out." Li Xiaoman said, "Is it what we want to do on the first day of our wedding?" "No matter what you say, it is impossible to refund all your rent." Ma Laosan hesitated and said, "If you go out and talk nonsense, how can I rent this room to others in the future?" "Whether you rent it to others or not is none of our business!" Wang Dahai pointed at Ma Laosan, "Whether you want to refund the rent or not?" "I just won't retreat, what can you do?" Ma Laosan played a rogue. Seeing that the dispute between the two was about to escalate, Lao Bi and Xiao Chen walked into the room at this time.After some persuasion, Ma Laosan finally agreed to refund the half-year rent prepaid by Wang Dahai and Li Xiaoman in advance. "Old Ma, we still want to ask you for some information." Lao Bi looked at Ma Laosan who was embarrassed and said, "I hope you will actively cooperate with us!" Ten minutes later, Ma Laosan opened the apartment in the center on the second floor, and led Lao Bi and Xiao Chen into it. This apartment is not big in size, with one bedroom and one living room, only more than 40 square meters.The room is not decorated, the walls are gray and black, and the floor is uneven.There were some crude furniture in the room, covered with dust, and a strong musty smell came out, making people sick. "Hasn't anyone lived in this house for a long time? You haven't rented it out?" Lao Bi asked. "I don't want to harm anyone, so I'd rather leave it empty than rent it out to others," Ma Laosan said. "You don't want to hurt anyone? Then why did you rather fight than refund other people's rent just now?" Xiao Chen said, "You have to tell the truth, why didn't you rent this room out?" “我说的是实话，我这人虽然爱财，但也明白财要取之有道，该我得的，我一定不会放弃；不该我得的，打死我都不会要。”马老三表情挺委屈。 “好，我们相信你。”老毕说，“十年前，你老婆就在这个房间里自杀的吧？” “是的。”马老三的表情有些沉重，“我们当时只是吵了几句，没想到她就寻了短见……唉，都怪我不好。” “她当时是采用什么方式自杀的？” “上吊……”马老三不想再说下去了，这个十分钟前还和王大海吵架的男人表现得很难过，让人不禁有些同情。 沉默了一会儿，马老三埋头走出了房间，老毕和小陈只好跟着走了出来。人来到外面的村道上，这时那个摘菜的老妇已经不见了，大片的菜地里空无一人。 “你刚才说不想害人，没有把那套房租出去，这是什么意思？”老毕再次问道。 “我们农村有个说法，凶死过人的房间不吉利，如果不请巫婆驱鬼，住进去的人会倒霉。”马老三说，“所以这么多年，那套房一直空着。” “你没请巫婆驱过鬼吗？”小陈插了一句，话一出口，他便后悔自己说得太唐突了。 “没有，我不觉得她是鬼。”马老三没有介意，他摇摇头说，“那套房我会一直为她留着，不会出租的。” “那套房过去出现过异常的声音吗？” “没有，这个我可以保证，不但那套房没有，我家所有的房都没有出现过。”马老三语气肯定地说。 “是吗？”老毕吸了一口烟，说，“那今天晚上你和我们一起，到王大海他们住过的屋里去感受一下如何？” 马老三听了这话，脸色微微一变，眼里很快闪过一丝慌乱。