Chapter 19: Haunted Hill House (19)
In the void, it seemed as if something was crying and trembling.
And there are still people who need my protection! I can't leave here.
You live in my room, I know you are a good person and I trust you.
I don't want to hurt anyone, but I can't leave. My lady...she's still here.
She is still trapped in the hatred of the past.
Please don't hurt her.
Please don't hurt her...
Please, save her.
Yan Shixun paused as he stretched out his hand, then slowly retracted it.
"I have indeed received your commission." His voice was calm and low. "Then these two meals will serve as advance payment. I have accepted them."
As Yan Shixun finished his words, a breeze blew from the space beside him from the kitchen to the outside.
The wind blew up a corner of his shirt, but he didn't reach out to stop the wind.
His slender body is like a towering pine tree, unbreakable.
"Brother Yan?" Looking at Yan Shixun who had been standing quietly at the kitchen door, Zhang Wubing, who had just directed everyone to take care of Liu Yiyi who was injured again, walked over with some surprise.
"Brother Yan, what are you looking at here? Could it be..." Zhang Wubing suddenly thought of a possibility. The smile that had just appeared on his face suddenly disappeared and he quickly stopped.
"Yes, is there something wrong in the kitchen?"
Yan Shixun did not answer Zhang Wubing immediately.
He lowered his eyes and stood there silently for a moment, then raised his eyes.
“No problems in the kitchen.”
Zhang Wubing immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Brother Yan, why didn't you tell me earlier? You stood here without saying anything, and almost scared me to death..."
"The problem is..." Yan Shixun said with a smile: "Since there are no ingredients in the kitchen, what was the food you originally wanted to give us?"
After careful selection, Liu Yiyi ended up living in a room controlled by the old butler and those blood-red monsters. Her own arrogance resulted in her being seriously injured and on the verge of death.
The simple room next to the stairs that she had originally assigned to Yan Shixun in order to humiliate him was actually the room where the wet nurse lived a hundred years ago.
Therefore, Yan Shixun unexpectedly gained further trust and favor from the wet nurse, which made the wet nurse willing to reveal to him old stories about the villa and the "young lady".
This unexpected result helped Yan Shixun find the clue to leave Guishan Villa.
The information conveyed by the ghost of the wet nurse in the kitchen just now made Yan Shixun understand why the meals were normal after he ruined the pot of human flesh yesterday.
——Because it was the long-dead nanny who was still wandering around the villa because of her obsession before death. Even after experiencing suffering and death, the nanny still had a heart as hardworking and worried as a mother.
She couldn't bear to see young people of the same age as her children eating the human flesh prepared by the old housekeeper, so she deliberately made a noise in the kitchen to attract Yan Shixun's investigation.
Moreover, Yan Shixun's act of destroying the pot of human flesh symbolically represented his victory over the old housekeeper in this villa with strict territorial divisions, allowing the nanny to take control of the kitchen on the right side of the villa.
A hundred years later, she stood in front of the stove again, preparing meals for people of the same age as her children.
Although Yan Shixun's sudden investigation prevented the nanny from leaving the kitchen in time, she was only trying to use the warmth brought by the illusion built up by old memories in panic to make Yan Shixun lose his guard and take the opportunity to leave the kitchen.
The reason why Yan Shixun let go of the seal in his hand in the end was because he saw this clearly.
In return for the food, he accepted the commission that was turned into the nanny's obsession.
Moreover, Yan Shixun also verified a rumor about Ghost Mountain through hallucinations.
——A hundred years ago, there was indeed a villa here where a beautiful lady lived.
Yan Shixun experienced two hallucinations.
One time was last night in Bai Shuang's room, the woman named Xi Shuang wanted to kill him with illusion, but he saw what happened in the villa in the past. He guessed that Xi Shuang was the mistress of this villa a hundred years ago, and was waiting for her lover who had not returned home for a long time.
One time was just now in the kitchen. The nanny wanted to use the illusion to relax Yan Shixun's nerves and take the opportunity to escape, but she instead completed the missing part of the illusion created by Xi Shuang, allowing Yan Shixun to fully understand what happened in the villa a hundred years ago.
Judging from the similar method of using old memories to create illusions, and the overlapping information points between the nanny and the woman, the young lady who was depressed because her husband did not come was Xi Shuang. And the husband mentioned by the nanny was Xi Shuang's lover.
The opera tune sung by Xishuang using Baishuang's voice was mournful and sad, which was by no means something that an ordinary person without practice could achieve. Instead, it was more like that of a famous actor.
In the hallucination, Yan Shixun also saw the exquisite and complicated costumes collected in her closet.
Combining the rumors about Ghost Mountain from that year, Yan Shixun pieced together every clue and finally deduced the truth that happened a hundred years ago.
A hundred years ago, a wealthy businessman hid a famous Cantonese opera actress in a remote mountain and built a large-scale villa to make her smile. The actress also loved the businessman deeply and was willing to lock her phoenix crown and bridal robe for him and wait in the villa for her lover.
However, on the night of the bombing, the wealthy businessman who was supposed to come to the villa to meet the famous actress broke his promise and never showed up at the villa again.
Most likely, he died in the explosion on the way.
The famous actress who was leaning against the railing and gazing into the distance, what she was waiting for was not her lover, but a ferocious bandit.
The famous actress and everyone in the villa died tragically, but out of hatred and unwillingness, they formed an obsession and were trapped there.
A hundred years later, the program group that originally planned to go to Guishan accidentally entered the Ghost Mountain, the place of ghost graves...
However, in a flash, Yan Shixun had sorted out all the causes and consequences concerning the villa and Xi Shuang.
It was because of this that another question arose in Yan Shixun's mind.
——What exactly was the food that the old housekeeper wanted to give to everyone in the program team at the beginning? And where did he put it?
Zhang Wubing, who was carried over by Yan Shixun, was dumbfounded when he saw the empty and dilapidated kitchen.
"What the hell?"
"Without food, then, if we can't leave here quickly, won't we starve to death here even before those things come to kill us?"
Yan Shixun slapped Zhang Wubing on the head, ruffling the little fool's hair.
Facing Zhang Wubing's tearful gaze, Yan Shixun sneered nonchalantly: "I was able to save you for six years, so of course I can save you again. Starving to death? No way."
Zhang Wubing's eyes suddenly burst out with strong hope and trust: "Brother Yan!"
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