Chapter 9 Chapter 7 Feet to the door

"Thank you." "Nothing. If you want to thank me, just waive my rent." "Hey, that's not acceptable." Zhang Wenyi's face was full of sadness, and finally a faint smile appeared. Night fell again.Think about it, I have been in Heishan Town for two days, and I haven't started any of the things that should be investigated. I have been entangled in this family's messy trifles, and I have no way to find opportunities from this mess. Ask about any Li Shuren. "That man's name is Qi Shimu, the eldest son of the Qi family. The Qi family is a big family with power and power. More than half of the people in our town depend on his family for food, so even if people from his family bully us like strips Dogs, there are still not many people who dare to resist. My sister is so stupid, she knows that the bastard is just playing with her, but she is just obsessed with it."

Most of the people who worshiped were afraid of the so-called ghosts, so they found excuses and slipped away.The soul room was empty, and only Zhang Wenyi and I were left. She sighed and stared blankly at the ceiling: "Actually, why am I not stupid? A moth jumps into a flame, knowing that it will get hurt, but it will never hurt." I rushed over without hesitation, but at least I won't be like my sister, who would foolishly commit suicide for that kind of person!" I smiled wryly: "People in your family seem to be very temperamental." "Believe it or not? My sister is the best for me in this family. No matter what she has, she will leave the best to me, whether it is food or clothes. I remember that when it snowed that year, I was in the mountains. Lost, the rescue team organized by the town refused to go up the mountain because of the heavy snowstorm, my sister almost went crazy, she begged them for a long time... Finally she risked the night to go to the mountain to find me, almost died Throw them all away, sister is so stupid, in fact, I am not lost at all, I am just angry with her..."

Zhang Wenyi stared blankly ahead, a sweet smile appeared on her wet face, suddenly, as if thinking of something, her face changed, she became full of anger, and said in a very nervous voice: "But after that man appeared, My sister has changed, that man, that bastard! She must have killed my sister, that kind of playboy, he must die!" "Calm down!" I was holding her shoulders and trying to release her, when I suddenly heard a "pop" from the Lingtai. what sound?I scratched my head and walked over, only to see the corpse's left hand hanging from the altar, dangling under the force of gravity.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Wenyi asked in a hoarse voice. "It's nothing, maybe some bastard touched the corpse, her hand was not stable, and now it fell." I carefully picked up the left hand of the corpse with three fingers and tried to put it away, but suddenly felt that something was wrong, and grabbed it. Only the left hand was raised in front of the eyes and looked carefully. "Strange, come and take a look." I waved to Zhang Wenyi, pointed to the white jade bracelet on the corpse's left hand and said, "When I saw the corpse yesterday, the white jade bracelet was obviously worn on the right wrist. , why are you wearing it on your left hand now?"

"What did you say?" Zhang Wenyi's face turned pale immediately, she grabbed my arm tremblingly and asked loudly: "You said that my sister's white jade bracelet is worn on the right hand? Are you sure you read it right?" I said sternly, "I have only one redeeming feature, which is my strong memory and observation skills." "Damn it! That damned guy." At that moment, I almost felt that Zhang Wenyi's beautiful face became hideous again.She grabbed my arm more and more tightly, and finally turned around and ran to the inner hall. What's wrong with that guy?I scratched my head and looked around.This mourning hall was originally the lobby of a hotel, and it is very large, but now it is only illuminated by a few flickering lamps, and it is indescribably gloomy. On the ground, still tightly holding the swollen arm of the corpse...

I shivered violently, and I laughed dryly. Putting his arms in place, he casually wiped his hands on the white drape, took a deep breath, and shouted loudly: "Wait for me. Damn it! What the hell is this place!" After shouting, he hurriedly chased after Zhang Wenyi The figure went. After walking through the inner hall and the room used by the Zhang family, they saw a glimmer of light. Zhang Wenyi's whole body was stiff, and she stood blankly in front of the basement door. "Bed!" She stared inward intently, repeating the word over and over again. "What bed?" When I squeezed over to look into the room, I was also stunned in surprise.sky!In this large guest room with an area of ​​more than 30 square meters, everything has been emptied, only a single bed is placed alone in the far right corner of the room, which looks very strange, and this bed is placed at an angle. The feet are facing the door of the room. This situation is exactly the same as Li Shuren and Zhang Xiuwen's bedrooms!

"The bed is facing the door again!" I muttered to myself. Zhang Wenyi came back to her senses, and looked at me in surprise: "You also know the legend about feet facing the door?" "What feet are facing the door?" I frowned. She hesitated for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "By the way, you are a foreigner. How could you know this legend!" "What legend? Is it related to the placement of the bed?" I became inexplicably excited. By the way, Li Shuren and Zhang Xiuwen stayed in Heishan Town, and the other was originally from Heishan Town. If there is such a related custom and legend, then they would put the bed in a strange position, just It's not that there's no reason, following the reason, maybe we can find the murderer who killed the two of them, even Li Shuren's 86-year-old physique...

Suddenly, I felt that all the answers were so close to me, as if I could get them at my fingertips. "It's not a big deal legend." Zhang Wenyi shook her head with a strange expression on her face, "We have a custom here that as long as you put the bed in the position facing the door, and sleep with your feet facing the door, the man you like will turn into a man." You have to be hard on yourself." "It's that simple?" I looked at her suspiciously, "Then why were you so surprised just now?" Zhang Wenyi's eyes showed pain, "I'm just surprised that my sister would believe such an idiot's legend."

"Where is the white jade bracelet?" I always felt that what this little girl said was not true, and I asked unwillingly: "I said it was originally worn on your sister's right hand, why did you immediately think of coming here?" "It's also related to that legend." Zhang Wenyi closed the door gently, and signaled me to go up to the second floor, "Put the white jade bracelet on your right wrist, and you will get double the effect." "What kind of custom is this? Why is it so strange? It's like playing a role-playing game." I sarcastically said.

Zhang Wenyi stopped immediately, she stretched out her hand to stop me, and said coldly: "Ye Silent, I want to guard my sister alone tonight, you go to bed early, my sister was very shy when she was alive, I don't think she would be raped after she died. An outsider interrupted!" "When did you become so polite?" I snorted coldly, and my tone became stiff. "Just beg me." Zhang Wenyi opened the door of the guest room and pushed me in, quickly closed the door, took out the key, and locked the door of my room. I was startled, slammed on the door and shouted, "Hey, what are you doing, let me out!"

Through the keyhole, I saw her leaning her back gently against the opposite wall, and took a deep breath, "No matter what happens tonight, I hope you don't come out, I don't want to hurt you!" Go downstairs. "By the way." Turning around suddenly, Zhang Wenyi smiled gently at me, a beautiful smile with a trace of tiredness and sadness: "Thank you. Actually, I really wanted to commit suicide that day by the river , but after seeing you, I lost my courage. Heh, how good it would be if we could meet sooner?" She smiled and shook her head bitterly, tears streaming from her eyes.It was crystal clear, but there was still a crescent moon smile on the corner of his mouth. "Goodbye. Goodbye for real this time!" Seeing her figure disappear at the end of the corridor, I kicked the door angrily.What the hell, she said as if she was about to say goodbye to life and death, she is such a willful little girl, she just arbitrarily excluded me from everything without even asking me, does she even know who I am?I am silent at night, known as the most thick-skinned and curious in the world, I am the only one who tricks people, no one can make me silent at night! After kicking wildly for ten minutes, I surrendered to the door. "What the hell, isn't it that the quality of products is getting worse and worse? Why is the quality of this door so good? Damn! The guy who made this door is really unprofessional. Do they know what a door is? The meaning is to only guard against gentlemen, not villains!" I cursed incoherently angrily, and after a while, my mind began to gradually cool down.By the way, what am I doing with all my strength here, don't I still have a special skill of pressing the bottom of the box? If it wasn't for rationality trying to remind me that now is not the time for self-reflection, otherwise I would really like to give myself a slap in the face!After finally breaking open the rotten lock with a piece of wire I carried with me, I ran downstairs like flying. Zhang Wenyi was not downstairs, and the corpse on the altar was gone. The dark mourning hall was empty, the door leading to the outside of the hall was half open, and the "creaking" sound blown by the cold wind kept ringing. , and outside is the silent night.I shuddered and walked slowly to the altar. The white cloth that originally covered the corpse was thrown on the ground indiscriminately. When I picked it up, I saw a large piece of scarlet liquid.is blood!whose blood?Could it be Zhang Wenyi's?What happened to her?I looked around nervously, and found a black cat lying down not far from the Lingtai. The cat was dead, but it still had body temperature, and it seemed that it had just died. Huh?Who on earth is so cruel that he would slit a cat's throat with something so blunt?I inspected its very uneven wound, just like seeing the cat dying, struggling constantly, enduring the severe pain and watching the blood flow out of the throat, which is very cruel the scene... Suddenly, he felt something quietly coming behind him, and a chill suddenly surged up his back.My mouth became dry for no reason, fear, endless fear swallowed me like darkness. Forcefully suppressing my fearful heart that was about to jump out of my chest, I slowly wanted to turn my head, but suddenly my eyes darkened, and I passed out... In my ears, there was a constant noise, so noisy that I couldn't sleep anymore, so I woke up and found myself lying in the guest room on the second floor with the door closed, as if what I experienced last night was just a A wild dream. But the head still hurts, I touched it with my hand, and there was a bag!Sure enough, what happened last night was definitely not a dream.I was indeed knocked out by something in the hall, but who was so kind to carry me back to the guest room, and covered me with a quilt for fear that I would catch a cold?Could it be Zhang Wenyi? I was so shocked that I jumped off the bed and ran to the lobby on the first floor. The noise came from the hall, where many people gathered, and my aunt was crying loudly on the altar, muttering something constantly. As soon as the group of people saw me, they all fell silent. They stared at me expressionlessly, and there seemed to be some kind of unfriendly emotion mixed in their eyes. The scene was very cold!In order to ease the atmosphere a bit, I scratched my head and said with a smile: "Are you all waiting for me? What happened here?" "What happened. Hmph!" The third son next to the sorceress came up with an angry face, and without warning, he punched me hard, and he shouted: "We should ask you this question! Last night What happened? Where did Wenyi go? And sister Xueyun's body? Didn't you say you would keep watch all night? Answer me!" "I'm sorry." I covered my face and smiled wryly, "But I also want to know what happened last night, I really want to know! Since I accidentally told Zhang Wenyi that when her sister was caught, the white jade bracelet was worn on her right hand After that, she became very weird, first she locked me in the room, and when I went down to find her, she was stunned by something!" "What? What did you say?" Aunt Zhang and the sorceress stared at me with wide-eyed eyes as if they had heard something appalling. Auntie stopped crying, and asked tremblingly: "You said that Xue Yun's white jade bracelet is worn on the right hand, are you sure you saw it right?" "Zhang Wenyi also asked me the same question at the time." I was very curious. Isn't it a habit of people to wear decorations on the left and right?What the hell is the big deal that would surprise them so much. "Did you hear that? Xue Yun's bracelet is worn on her right hand, and she is on her right hand!" Auntie laughed nervously, and she walked up to Qi Shimu, who was always submissive, and grabbed his arm fiercely. He laughed and said: "My daughter died so badly! I think everyone knows when the women of our Zhang family will wear the ancestral bracelet on their right hand. Hey, when she had a child, she already had a your child!" Qi Shimu pushed her away forcefully, pulled her messed up clothes with his hands and said contemptuously: "I know, that bitch came to show me a few days ago. I didn't expect her mental endurance to be so poor, I just dumped her Well, I kindly gave her some money to ask her to have an abortion, but she actually committed suicide by jumping into the river. Hmph, I don’t even think about it, how many women like her are around me, and I want to be responsible.” "Bastard, you're going to die!" Aunt Zhang grabbed Qi Shimu's neck with a ferocious face and pinched it hard. The lackey brought by that guy immediately rushed forward to punch and kick her, and pulled her away. A man who came with Qi Shimu squatted down, took out a tissue and handed it to her, "Auntie, this was an accident, please forgive me. " "You have to die, bastard! Xue Yun will come to you even if she is a ghost, and she will definitely come to claim your life!" Aunt spat out a few bloody teeth from her mouth and murmured.She didn't seem to feel pain at all, and there was no sadness on her face. Suddenly she laughed, giggling, and there was a trace of strangeness at the corner of her blood-stained mouth, and the people present couldn't help shivering. "Are you still going?" I lifted my aunt from the ground, carefully wiped off her blood with a paper towel, and then coldly shouted at Qi Shimu. Qi Shimu snorted coldly: "Are you getting impatient, little bastard?" I opened my mouth and smiled innocently, "I'm sorry, I'm not good at talking to animals. I believe you also know that dogs are not allowed in this hotel, please be more conscious and take your dog legs out together, otherwise don't blame me for being rude .” I'm afraid no one has dared to scold him like this since he was a child. The guy rolled his eyes white in anger, but he couldn't say anything. "Damn it, I want to see how you are rude to me!" As soon as he raised his hand, his dog legs surrounded me. I fully understand the principle of attacking first, so I quietly took out a 200,000-volt electric shock anti-wolf device from my trouser pocket and held it in my hand. I rushed forward and pressed the neck of the nearest running dog. The lackey's whole body twitched, and suddenly went limp. "Who else wants to try it? This taste is really good? Addiction, like taking drugs, very cool!" I smiled like a middle-aged salesman, but I kept thinking about what would happen if they rushed up manage. "Damn it, useless guy." The boy kicked the dog's leg that fell on the ground fiercely, and said sharply to me: "Don't be complacent, be careful!" It turned out to be a paper tiger. I didn't expect it to be so scared!I hit the iron while the iron was hot, and shouted loudly: "I advise you that it's better not to touch me. If you want to move, you'd better check my details first. Hundreds of people know about my coming here. If I don't A few hairs, I'm afraid your family will be restless for the rest of your life!" For such a courageous person, this is probably the best threat. The man who came with Qi Shimu murmured a few words in his ear, and then smiled politely at me: "Little brother, maybe my young master and you have some small misunderstandings. , let's treat it as even, and we will be friends in the future." After speaking, he extended his hand to me. "Thank you for not being sensitive." I snorted. Seeing that I didn't intend to shake hands with him at all, the man didn't show any embarrassment, and kept laughing: "Where is it, our Qi family is unlucky, here is a little money, let's buy supplements for my aunt." He took out his wallet and put it on the table. The aunt grabbed the wallet and threw it behind them fiercely, "Get out! I don't want your Qi family's money! There is no good person in your Qi family, and your whole family will die!" The man picked up the wallet with a smile, turned around and walked away with Qi Shimu's minions. I let out a long breath, and finally let go of my hanging heart. "Who is that man?" I whispered to the person beside me. "His name is Qi Wei, and he is the second son of Mrs. Qi. He is the only one in the entire Qi family." The third son looked out the door angrily. I said "oh".Chiwe, this man is not an idiot like his brother at all. Judging from his words and deeds, he is very good at wooing people and has a lot of brains. This kind of person is the most difficult to deal with in my memory.Ha, it seems that my trip to Heishan Town was really rewarding. Not only did I not find out anything, but I even got into trouble. "In fact, the legend of feet facing the door has been passed down in this small place for hundreds of years. People here believe that the door symbolizes auspiciousness, and sleeping with feet facing the door can turn evil into good luck and avoid evil. If you wear a jade article, you can make the person you like like you, with the same heart, life and death." The sorceress said slowly after taking a sip of wine. I was immediately disappointed. I originally thought that the legend of feet facing the door should be the key to all doubts, so I pestered the sorceress and asked her to tell me about this legend. I didn't expect that what she told me, she actually told Zhang Wenyi Much the same!Is there really something wrong with your intuition? The sorceress saw my disappointed face, paused, and continued: "But in the past thirty years, there has suddenly been one more legend about the door. The extra one is very uncomfortable... No, it can even be said is evil." "Let's hear it!" I immediately regained my spirits. "Thirty years ago, a village girl jumped into the river and died in the town. At that time, she was more than five months pregnant. Her husband abandoned her after he owed a butt debt. The village girl was afraid that the creditor would sell her to a brothel to pay off the debt. , she scratched her face with a kitchen knife. Seeing that she had become so ugly, the creditor really let her go. He just moved away all the things in her house, leaving only the broken bed. "The village girl saw that there was only one piece of furniture in the big room, and the small house seemed even more empty, so she put the bed on a slant, and purposely put the foot of the bed facing the door, comforting herself that it looked better that way, As long as I am still alive and have my hands, everything will be available. But you can't imagine that such an optimistic woman actually committed suicide and jumped into the river seven days later." The sorceress knocked the pipe on the table, He also said: "Unexpectedly, on the night when she was rescued, the night watchmen saw scarlet blood flowing out of her eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and seven holes, and then another night later, her body suddenly disappeared, disappeared. Since that day, there have been sudden sudden deaths in the town, and every face of those dead people, without exception, showed an expression of extreme fear, as if they saw something so terrible that they could not accept it before they died. thing." The sorceress glanced at me slowly, her eyes full of strange expressions, which made me shudder. She laughed and continued, "Seven days later, a night watcher suddenly saw a dark figure, and walked into the village girl's house with very slow steps. He was so afraid that he died, so he went to kill himself The friends of the family called Qiqi and broke into the house of the village girl together. Guess what they saw? It was the corpse of the village girl! The body that had been missing for several days was lying quietly on the bed, while she soaked The swollen corpse had already begun to rot, emitting an astonishing stench. Only then did the people in the town realize that in the seven days since the corpse disappeared, all the people who died were creditors who had collected debts from the village girl, and, her husband." The sorceress sighed, "Therefore, there is a saying that spreads in the town. It is said that as long as the furniture in the room is emptied, only the bed is left, and then you can sleep for seven consecutive days with your feet facing the door. During these seven days, you must desperately hate those who have wronged you, and commit suicide by jumping into the river in the middle of the night on the seventh day, then you can become a floating ghoul, repaying grievances for grievances, and revenge for revenge!" I shivered again, suddenly thought of something, and asked in surprise: "In the past thirty years, how many times have similar things happened? Is it true that as long as the conditions in the legend are met, strange things will really happen? " The sorceress thought for a while, then shook her head and said, "I don't know either. Because in the past thirty years, only that village girl has turned into a ghost. Afterwards, many people have followed suit, but in the end they are all dead bodies. They will never die when they lie down." stand up." I immediately breathed a sigh of relief, "It seems that that time was just a coincidence, or someone was pretending to be a ghost. Ha, I was fooled by you just now, and I almost thought that Zhang Xueyun's body would turn into a ghost and come out to kill people. Ridiculous! That Zhang Xueyun is really Crazy, to believe such nonsense rumors, and to lose one's life in vain." "What do you mean? You are not allowed to insult sister Xueyun!" The third son gave me a hard look. I snorted coldly and said, "I'm serious, she arranged the basement exactly as your grandma just said, and she doesn't know what she's thinking!" "What!" The sorceress was full of fear. She stood up and took a messy step that didn't match her age. She quickly walked to the basement, opened the door, and her face full of fear became even more frightened. "Do evil, do evil, why is that girl so stupid!" The sorceress drew a few talismans in the air with her hands, and kept muttering something in her mouth.He suddenly turned his head and asked the aunt behind him: "How long has that child slept in this room?" "Seven days! Seven days!" Auntie laughed nervously. Kill all the guys, dear daughter, your mother has always been cowardly and afraid of things, and this is what hurt you, I will not be afraid in the future, I will not be afraid of anything!" She sat down on the ground, crying and laughing, and I, who was the least good at coaxing people, coaxed her for a long time before I coaxed her into bed.After giving her two sleeping pills, the aunt finally calmed down. call!I don't get it, why am I here?None of the doubts brought about have been solved yet, and now I have plunged headlong into another cloud of confusion.In Li Shuren's and Zhang Xiuwen's dormitory, the bed was also placed directly opposite the door, but that obviously had other meanings, and it should not be the same as the legend of feet facing the door here.Hmph, my mind started to get confused again, is there another legend about the foot towards the door?Some legend that most people in this town don't know? "Little Sanzi, go to Qi's house and tell them to be careful at night and never go out!" the sorceress ordered. "Those bad guys, dying early is simply to accumulate blessings for the people in the town, so why bother with so many of them!" said the young man angrily. The sorceress shouted angrily: "Damn boy, how did I educate you in the past? No matter how evil a person is, life or death is still a life. We must save if we can, and do our duty!" "Yes, grandma." The third son walked out of the door very reluctantly. "Young man." The sorceress glanced at me, "Your blessing is very heavy, and ghosts and gods do not invade. Can I trouble you with one thing?" "Since you have praised me like this, can I still say no?" I laughed. The sorceress ignored her and continued: "Please try to find Xue Yun's body within five days. The ghost is haunted. It doesn't happen so quickly. Maybe this matter can be salvaged!" I frowned, and asked suspiciously: "Didn't you just say that in the past thirty years, many people have learned from that village girl, but they all failed in the end? Why are you so worried now?" "You are an outsider, so let me tell you the truth." The sorceress looked worriedly at the basement and recalled, "This hotel was built twenty-five years ago on the land of that village girl. If I didn't I remember wrongly, the location of the basement where Xue Yun's girl slept happened to be the bedroom of the village girl, I don't know if it was a trick, even the arrangement of the beds was exactly the same!" "What!" There was only a "boom" in my head, and my whole body was stunned by what I just heard. Many things in this world have similarities. Logically speaking, there must be some inextricable connections between two or more similar events or objects.And now, Zhang Xueyun has been in contact with that village girl, so will there be any similarities?If, just if, if there is a similarity, what will happen to Zhang Xueyun's body?Even thinking about it gives me chills down my spine! "I understand! I will get her body back as soon as possible, no matter what method I use!" My face rarely became serious, "So if any drastic method is used to annoy the people in the village, the aftermath should be done. I'm going to ask you to go out." After waking up in the morning, although I kept encountering messy things, there was still a doubt lingering in my mind.Where did that little girl Zhang Wenyi go?Did she take the body with her?What did she mean by what she said last night, it was like saying goodbye to me!Most importantly, what did she do last night? Maybe after finding her, many doubts will be solved...