Chapter 115 Chapter 115
After we sat down in the restaurant, the servants placed the food on the table.
The dishes on the table were not much different from before.
Except for the largest plate.
On that plate was the largest animal on the table.
Li Qingshan was not sure what it was, maybe it was a roasted whole pig, the surface was shiny as if it was coated with honey, someone couldn't wait to reach out fork and knife, and you could hear the crisp sound of the fork when it went in.
Someone stabbed the knife into it and the gravy flowed out, golden and shiny, with round fat floating on the surface, giving off a meaty aroma, and then the meat hidden behind was revealed.
According to the people who ate it, the meat was really white, tender, thin and smooth, as if it was just cooked when it was served, not a single bit of time was wasted, and not a single bit of overcooking was used.
Some people even praised the chef's cooking skills.
As they ate, they began to talk about the past when they were not here, either eating in five-star hotels or small roadside restaurants, and it seemed that they had never eaten such good food.
"If you haven't eaten anything like this, you've lived most of your life in vain."
"You don't know that I've been to a five-star hotel and it was so bad and expensive. I hated it. I wasn't happy at all. There were people taking pictures next to me. I don't know if they were taking pictures or eating. It was so annoying."
"The food here is so delicious. I almost think it's good to live here forever. If I can eat such good food every day, there's nothing wrong with it."
"I didn't get to eat such good food until today. I really envy the people who already live here. They must be able to eat such delicious food every day, And they are not like us who can only eat the same dishes."
People nodded and discussed while eating, as if everything that happened before was in the past, and gradually immersed themselves in eating and discussing food. Some people waved their hands to ask the servants for wine.
Li Qingshan was shocked.
"I didn't expect that they could still drink in this situation." Li Qingshan whispered to Taylor.
Taylor nodded: "I am also surprised. They were very scared when something happened before, but now they are not afraid all of a sudden. It's as if they were drugged in the food."
Li Qingshan agreed.
Guihua sat next to those people, a little afraid that they would go crazy after drinking, and felt that their current behavior was very abnormal. After hesitating for a while, she whispered to persuade them: "After all, this is not home, nor is it a real restaurant. If you want to drink, you should wait until you leave here. Otherwise, what if something happens? We can't leave here tonight."
Those people had already started to think about making fists after drinking. They were either too loud to hear Guihua's persuasion, or even if they heard it, they didn't care and didn't even look in that direction, as if no one was talking.
If they didn't plan to drink, they would be fine.
He knew his own body well. He couldn't run fast to begin with. If he drank, he would feel even worse. He might die suddenly even if nothing happened after sleeping all night.
That would be a pity.
So he heard Guihua's persuasion and turned around and said, "It's hard to persuade a damned ghost with kind words.
I know you are a kind person, so don't say anything more, lest they get angry and raise their fists to hit you. It's unreasonable to be angry.
Besides, how can you reason with a drunkard? It's getting dark, and when you drink, your mind will be even more confused. Who cares what you are like?"
Guihua nodded awkwardly and didn't say anything else, just eating.
Li Qingshan was eating and listening to their discussion. Suddenly, he saw the same teeth he saw yesterday in the mouth of the roasted whole pig. He was stunned.
At the same time, the mouth of the roasted whole pig was opened.
The head of the young girl emerged from inside, with disheveled hair, dark body, and smaller than normal, as if it was burnt, or as if it had just rolled over on the ground. It smelled burnt and bitter.
Two black eyes stared straight at Li Qingshan.
Li Qingshan also stared straight at the face of the young girl.
The young girl smiled at him and said softly but firmly: "See you tonight."
After that, the young girl lowered her head and lay down, disappearing in the dark mouth of the roasted whole pig.
Taylor pushed Li Qingshan's shoulder and asked: "What did you see just now?"
Li Qingshan frowned and whispered.
Taylor laughed and said, "I'm just playing tricks, but I don't have the ability to kill you directly. Don't be afraid. Even if something happens, we have to wait until night."
Li Qingshan said worriedly, "But night is very close, it will be here soon. I can't just wait, can I?"
Taylor thought for a while and said, "What else can I do except wait? Maybe things will be clear at night, and there's no need to worry."
Li Qingshan sighed, "Okay."
After dinner, everyone went back to their residence in groups of three or two.
At night, Li Qingshan was tossing and turning in bed, and he couldn't fall asleep. Suddenly, he heard screams from outside.
Taylor sat on the bed and said, "It sounds like the room of the person with dark circles under his eyes during the day."
Li Qingshan said, "I'm afraid it is."
Taylor nodded, "Isn't that perfect? We don't need to worry about danger, because the danger has already appeared and is not here."
Li Qingshan frowned and said, "But I still feel unsafe."
"Are you not sleepy now?" Taylor looked at him and asked.
Li Qingshan nodded, "I don't want to sleep, but I'm worried and can't sleep."
Taylor smiled and said, "Then let's recall what happened during this time. Maybe we can find an immediate solution. Of course, I don't have any hope for this. But it's still good to kill time."
Li Qingshan thought about it and nodded, "Okay."
In the second half of the night, the room not far away suddenly became hot and a blazing fire ignited, as if there was a fire inside.
Li Qingshan was startled.
"If there really is a fire, we will all be burned to death here." Li Qingshan said, looking at the door.
"The old housekeeper didn't seem to say that we can't go out at night." Taylor thought for a moment.
"Although the old housekeeper didn't say it, we usually don't go out at night. After all, we all know how dangerous it was before. Let's wait a while. If the fire doesn't reach here, we don't have to go out." Li Qingshan hesitated and said.
Taylor nodded.
There were miserable wails coming from outside the room, as well as the sounds of rolling and thrashing.
There seemed to be a lot of people in the room where the fire started. Those people got up because of the flames and screams. Seeing that something was wrong, they were putting out the fire. Therefore, there was a chaotic sound of footsteps and conversations, and even through the door, one could see that there were many people outside.
After a while, it gradually became quiet outside.
Li Qingshan suddenly felt very sleepy.
Taylor put him on the bed and said, "Go to sleep. It's getting late. You have to get up and work tomorrow. Even if something really happened outside, it's okay now. When you get up tomorrow and open the door, you'll know everything."
Li Qingshan nodded in a daze, and couldn't help falling asleep.
He returned to the house in his last dream.
The eldest aunt and sister-in-law were bringing out dishes from the kitchen with smiles on their faces.
The second aunt smiled and pulled him up, walked to the table and sat down, put her hand on his shoulder and said to him, "You haven't been to our place for a long time. You came here today and brought gifts. You are a guest. You don't need help. Sit here, okay?"
The body was skeptical, nodded, and really sat there.
Second aunt let him go, sat next to him, grabbed a handful of melon seeds, cracked them while watching the dishes being served, and Li Qingshan suddenly felt that she was afraid that he would run away.
The doorbell suddenly rang.
Someone was coming.
Second aunt stood up suddenly, as if she had been waiting for this moment, and walked over immediately after hearing the sound. The others were still doing their own things, as if they didn't hear it.
Li Qingshan was a little surprised, so he asked the person next to him: "Aren't you going to open the door?"
The man smiled and said, "Didn't someone already go to open the door? Why does it take so many people to open the door?"
Li Qingshan nodded and asked, "Do you all know who is coming?"
The man laughed even more: "How could we not know? You know too. I just told you, have you forgotten now?"
Li Qingshan was stunned for a moment , suddenly squinted his eyes, quite surprised, and asked: "Could this person be the one that the second aunt mentioned before?"
The man laughed and said, "That's right, I thought you forgot. Who else could it be besides this? Our whole family is here. Your mother won't come over now."
Li Qingshan nodded doubtfully and looked at the door. The second aunt just walked there and was opening the door. Now she couldn't see the person outside.
He retracted his gaze and asked the person next to him: "Then have you seen that person?"
The person next to him nodded, with a smile on his face that you know: "Yes, we have all seen it, only you haven't seen it, but you should recognize it after today."
"What does he look like?" Li Qingshan asked tentatively.
"You can tell by looking at the appearance of your second aunt. What else can the relatives of the same family look like? Your second aunt is a beauty. She looked even better when she was young. Of course, the relatives in the family are also good-looking." The person next to him said with a smile.
When he said that, Li Qingshan looked at him and felt that his face was very similar to that of his second aunt.
"If you look like you, I really can't do it." Li Qingshan smiled.
"Who are we? You are too familiar with each other, I know. But you have never seen this before. And you look different from me. I promise that you will not suffer any loss, and you will like it very much, okay?" The person next to him put his arm around his shoulder and smiled as if he was coaxing a child.
Li Qingshan suddenly felt a little nervous.
At this time, the second aunt had already walked over with the person outside.
Li Qingshan looked up.
That person had the same face as a young girl.
Li Qingshan was startled and woke up from his dream. Taylor woke up too and approached him and asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Qingshan closed his eyes and said, "Nightmare."
Taylor nodded, "It's dawn, time to get up."
Li Qingshan sighed, slowly stood up and said, "These dreams should be related to what will happen in the future. Although I don't know what will happen in the future, it is definitely not a good thing."
"You can imagine that it's not a good thing. If there was a good thing here, would we come here?" Taylor laughed.
He stood up and walked two steps outside, turned to look at Li Qingshan and asked: "Can I open the door? I want to see what happened last night, and now is a good time to see it."
He said and looked outside again: "It should be daybreak, I'm not sure, but it is definitely safer than at night."
Li Qingshan nodded, wiped his face, stood up, walked to his side and said: "Open the door, let's take a look together."
Taylor smiled: "You can see it even if you are not standing next to me. Aren't you used to that perspective?" He spoke the second half of the sentence in a very low voice, and only the two of them could hear it.
"Let's make a distinction," Li Qingshan lowered his eyes, seeming a little hesitant, "It's good for our respective safety, isn't it? I hope that other people know as little about us as possible, so most of the time, we still have to pretend."
Taylor looked at him with a smile: "But you don't like it."
Li Qingshan raised his eyebrows, didn't look at him, and whispered: "So what?"
"Not so good," Taylor whispered in his ear, "but I can judge from your words what my position in your heart is, and by the way, confirm whether you have been possessed by a strange thing."
Li Qingshan suddenly raised his head and looked at him and asked: "Do you think I'm fake?"
Taylor pulled away, squinted his eyes and smiled: "Of course not."
Li Qingshan stared at him: "Then do you think you can't recognize that a fake thing has become me?"
Taylor shook his head and said: "No."
Li Qingshan asked: "What is it?"
"It's quite interesting to see you angry," Taylor said in a very low voice.
He quickly glanced at Li Qingshan's expression.
Li Qingshan couldn't help laughing and said, "Just for this?"
Taylor raised his eyebrows: "Isn't this enough? There's nothing interesting here. I can't be happy even if I want to."
As he spoke, he made a sighing expression.
Li Qingshan was a little angry at first, but seeing him like this, that bit of coldness disappeared, and he could only smile helplessly: "Whatever."
Taylor pushed open the door and looked out. The room of the man with dark circles under his eyes yesterday was very quiet, without the sound of footsteps or breathing, as if no one was there.
Li Qingshan tried knocking on the door, but no one answered, so he said I'm going to open the door, and pushed the door open. There was no one inside, just some bloodstains.
It looked like he was missing again, but Li Qingshan thought that this man was probably dead.
"How do you think he died? If he's dead?" Taylor asked standing next to him.
"Yesterday, the mirror in the dressing room was different from other things. I think if something happened, it was probably because of the mirror. Maybe he was too scared when he saw the situation in the mirror, and had a nightmare at night, so he simply summoned the mirror over. Or maybe the mirror pulled him over. There were so many hands in there, and it would have been easy to pull him alone." Li Qingshan replied.
"Let's just leave it at that for now," Taylor nodded. "It seems like a room caught fire yesterday.
Shall we go check on that room?" Li Qingshan nodded. A strong smell of alcohol and occasional snoring came from the room. Li Qingshan hesitated at the door, then took a step back and said to Taylor, "I don't think there's anything to rush. Why don't we go wash up first? Maybe they will wake up when we come back. We can just take a look inside then. I don't think knowing about their situation will solve the problem."
Taylor nodded and said, "Okay."
They went to wash up and walked on the road. Taylor asked, "Then what do you think if someone died in the fire last night, what caused the fire?"
Li Qingshan thought for a while and said, "Maybe they secretly He brought a bottle of wine and accidentally dropped a lit cigarette butt while drinking in the room. It is also possible that the food on the table had an impact on them. Each of them could have died because of the impact, but it was randomly selected and only one person was picked and it ended. There is
another possibility that they were affected by the candlelight when they were eating, so they burned at night. "
Taylor raised his eyebrows and asked: "We also ate, why are we fine? Will they be in trouble tonight? They must have eaten today, as long as they are not dead."
Li Qingshan smiled: "We didn't drink, and we were not affected as seriously as them, so it's okay. I don't know whether they will be in trouble tonight."
Taylor nodded.
After washing up, he returned to his residence. The door of the room where the fire started was already open. Li Qingshan looked inside and saw a black patch on the floor. It looked like the fire started last night, or the place where the person who died in the fire last night was.
The people living in that room were drunk and drowsy. They seemed to be awake but not yet awake. Li Qingshan didn't want to ask them anything, so he walked away.
The old housekeeper came with the servants to inform them: "Today you have to wear the clothes made yesterday and perform a show. You can have breakfast after the show."
He took everyone to a place that looked like a stage. The servants brought the clothes made by the tailor shop to the living people. The housekeeper asked them to change into the clothes. After they changed their clothes and walked out, the housekeeper stood in front of them and told them the content of the show.
"What you are going to perform is very simple. A young man came back from outside and met his relatives. During the meal, they met each other and fell in love at first sight. The relatives helped to hold the wedding." The housekeeper said to them.
Li Qingshan frowned when he heard it, thinking that this story had no ending.
After the housekeeper finished speaking, he asked them to go on stage.
"I have never learned acting before, can I just act casually?" Guihua was a little confused.
"According to the roles you are assigned, you can act however you want. As long as the story is carried out according to what I said, you can go downstairs to have breakfast after the performance." The housekeeper stood by and said expressionlessly.
Li Qingshan was assigned the role of a young man. The others were his relatives. As for the blind date, it was Guihua.
Guihua tugged at her clothes, feeling a little uncomfortable with such an outfit. She blushed and said, "I didn't expect that at my age, I would still have the opportunity to wear such clothes and act such a play with others. It's ridiculous!"
The old housekeeper shouted, "After going on stage, you are not allowed to say any nonsense that is irrelevant to the plot, otherwise, you are not allowed to have breakfast!"
Li Qingshan thought he would say something terrible and cruel, but when he heard this, he didn't care.
The housekeeper urged them to go on stage and perform immediately.
A group of people went on stage one by one like ducks being rushed onto a shelf.
At first, they didn't think it was a big deal, and they smiled happily, probably thinking, anyway, there are no lines to say, no expressions to make, no movements to do, just act however you want, and the person I am playing is just like me, what's there to complain about?
A man with a strong smell of alcohol on his body came up to Li Qingshan with a smile and said loudly with bad intentions: "You are so lucky to marry such a charming old widow at such a young age!"
Li Qingshan glanced at him and said: "She is not an old widow, and she is not married yet. Whether she is lucky or not has nothing to do with you, so stop meddling in other people's business."
The man was stunned for a moment, blushed and sneered: "How dare you challenge me, little bastard, when you are not even grown up yet? Do you know who I am? I am your great-grandfather! In terms of seniority, you should be the one who takes charge of the family. Kneel before me and beg me to give you a penny or two when you get married. How dare you be so arrogant? Do you have any manners? I don't know where you learned such a hooligan habit!
No wonder you have no future in your life and can only return to this small village to get married. You chose such a person. If someone is good-looking and rich, he will definitely not get together with you, right? If someone has a little ability, who would not want to go to the big city and stay here? What are you pretending for? "
He raised his hand and rubbed his nose, and was about to spit on Li Qingshan.
There were tables, chairs and benches as props next to him.
Li Qingshan frowned, picked up a stool and smashed it on him. Taylor came over with a smile. Xianting Xinbu also picked up a stool and smashed it casually, just like he smashed Beiji with a drawer before, knocking the man unconscious without hesitation.
Afterwards, Li Qingshan kicked the unconscious man twice and kicked him to the side.
Everyone else looked at him in amazement.
Guihua whispered, "Although those words are indeed unpleasant, it shouldn't be necessary to beat him to this extent, right? How can we perform the play after he does this?"
Li Qingshan sneered, "Do whatever you want, what does it have to do with me?"
Another drunken man whispered, "Then how can we perform the play after that?"
"Isn't that so? As if you have standards!" Li Qingshan looked at him coldly.
The man looked at the housekeeper and tried to ask for help: "He beat the actors on the stage, shouldn't he be held responsible?"
The housekeeper said expressionlessly: "Once you are on the stage, you are acting. I don't care how you act, as long as you finish the plot I said."
The people on the stage looked at each other and had no choice but to continue the previous play.
Because something happened, they all wanted to leave here as soon as possible to eat. They acted quickly and tried their best to reduce the plot. No one was dawdling, and they almost finished the performance and rushed off the stage immediately.