The old lady was hospitalized for treatment and rented the house to the salesman.

The salesman was from another place and was in his thirties. As required by the company, he wore a white shirt every day and was well-mannered and spoke very politely.

The salesman appears to be amiable on the surface, but in fact he is deeply broken inside. He is a very unlucky person.

No matter what I do, I always fail for inexplicable reasons.

Sometimes some strange things happen around me, such as having a nightmare late at night, dreaming that my wife was dismembered and put in a drawer. I was entangled and worried all night, and only when I woke up in the morning did I remember that I didn’t have a girlfriend at all.

The sky was clear when I went out, but it started to rain heavily when I was halfway there. My clothes were soaked. I thought of going to a breakfast shop to take shelter from the rain and have breakfast, but when I touched my pocket, I found that my wallet was missing.

Unable to get a taxi, he had to walk to the company. He was scolded by his boss for being late, and all the customers he served throughout the day disliked him. The worst thing was that when he returned home, he found that the door had been pried open and a thief had broken into the house.

What may be a rough day for others is just a normal day for a salesperson.

Compared with those unfortunate things, what really made him despair was that the house he lived in seemed to be haunted!

He lives alone in an old house and watches TV at night to relax. Whenever he sees something happy, he hears laughter behind him before he can even start to laugh.

There are many similar things. When he is taking a shower, someone will hand him shampoo. If he goes to the bathroom without bringing toilet paper, a roll of toilet paper will roll in from outside the bathroom by itself.

He used to be a staunch atheist, but this experience of renting a house is slowly overturning his worldview.

In order to prove that he was not mentally ill, he bought a camera and filmed in the house.

After a week, he discovered that there seemed to be a ghost in the house, and the ghost was hiding in the drawer!

The salesman tried to seal all the wardrobes and drawers in the house with wooden boards, and the ghosts never appeared again. But he became more and more unlucky. About a month later, he was fired by his boss and had a car accident on the way home.

After the salesman died, people found out that he had an evil ghost in his body. Before that, the ghosts in the apartment had been helping to suppress it. Later, he sealed the drawers and wardrobe. The evil ghost had no other ghosts to check it, and finally killed him.

The protagonist of the fourth story is an old lady landlord. Several tenants in the house she rented out had accidents one after another. She felt extremely guilty and stubbornly believed that everything was her fault.

Gradually, the old woman developed mental problems. She always felt that her children and the previous two tenants had not left, and everyone was still living in this old house.

She asked the neighbors and people around again and again, and found out that the neighbors of the old house in the past avoided the old lady, thinking she was an ominous woman and deliberately distanced themselves from her.

Some people even moved out as if they were fleeing. There were fewer and fewer tenants in the building, and the old lady became more and more silent.

Gradually, legends began to spread in the neighborhood that a certain room was haunted, and the old lady herself became a symbol of ghosts and abnormality.

Everyone stayed away from her and no one wanted to associate with her.

After a while, the old lady met a poor painter under the overpass.

The painter had a bruised face and nose, as if he had just had a fight with someone. The old lady felt sorry for him and wanted him to paint a picture for her deceased son.

Originally, she just wanted to find a reason to sponsor the painter for a meal, but who would have thought that the character the painter casually drew was so similar to her son, not only in appearance, but also in temperament and eyes.

The old lady treasured the painter's painting and hung it in the house.

What she didn't expect was that in the evening of the next day, someone else came to rent the house, and the new tenant was the painter.

The painter didn't expect the landlord to be an old lady. He just searched the old town and found this house was the cheapest.

Life is a combination of countless coincidences. The painter met the first person in his life who appreciated him and gained his first fan, and the old lady also met someone who was not afraid of her and was willing to talk to her.

The painter became the new tenant in the old house. The old lady only charged him a symbolic fee. She treated the painter as her own child and her favorite thing to do was to listen to the painter talk about his dreams.

After a month or two, the old lady gradually discovered some strange things about the painter.

The painter often talks to his paintings, and late at night, all kinds of strange noises can be heard from the painter's room.

In the third month, the old lady was so curious that she sneaked into the painter's room to check while the painter was out submitting his work.

As a result, she found a handmade comic book in the drawer of the painter's desk, which contained four stories.

The weird painting style and terrifying plot make every character seem to come alive.

What is even more incredible is that the first three comic stories correspond to the old man’s son, English teacher and salesperson respectively.

The old woman became more and more frightened as she read on. Then she turned to the fourth story. What she didn't expect was that the protagonist of the fourth story was actually herself. It told the story of what happened after she met the painter.

The fourth story ends here, and the next one is the last one.

The fifth story is very short, similar to a side story. The protagonist is a cartoonist with a standard middle-aged frustrated face, looking very depressed and decadent.

The comic introduces his daily life. He wakes up at 5:20 in the morning, cheers himself up in front of the mirror with full of energy, then takes out the drawing paper from the drawer and proofreads the draft.

He was busy until 8:20, when he sorted out all his drawings, took his bag and went to a local publishing house in Jiujiang to recommend his comics to the editor.

The result was that his month's hard work was denied in fifteen minutes, and he walked out of the office like a zombie.

He sat by the road with his drawing, looking at the bustling city, and waited until it was almost dark before going home with a sad face.

He walked through the twisted and noisy city and entered the dark corridor, then opened the door of room 304.

The warm light shone on him. The landlady had prepared meals for him. The old lady said that she had seen his paintings this morning and they were very good.

The painter had forgotten how many times his work had been rejected. He apologized to the old man and said he was afraid he would not continue painting anymore.

Returning to his room, the cartoonist locked the door and sat alone in the corner with his legs hugged.

He looked at the drawer full of rejection letters and buried his head deep in his chest.

After failing again and again, he crumpled up the rejected paintings and threw them into the trash can.

He kept complaining and feeling wronged, saying that he had no talent for painting. He decided to give up everything and would never paint again even if he had to jump off a building.

The cartoonist kept talking to himself until twelve o'clock in the evening, and then he fell asleep on the mat, exhausted.

The light in the hut flickered and then suddenly went out.

The crumpled drawing paper in the trash can came out by itself, was unfolded and flattened bit by bit, and was carefully placed in the cabinet. The desktop was also tidied up again.

The last part of the comic turned into black and white. The cartoonist had fallen asleep in the cramped little house, but there were several "people" floating around him.

The leader was a tall and thin man. He grabbed a quilt with his only remaining right hand and covered the cartoonist with it, muttering that it was really a worry.

Next to him was a woman whose body was about to fall apart like a building block. The woman was very beautiful and frowned. She threw away the very few adult fragments drawn by the cartoonist, and then carefully smoothed out all the scraps.

There was also a man in a black shirt standing at the table, and he was holding a pen to fine-tune the cartoonist's draft.

The night passed quickly, and at 5:20 the next morning, the alarm clock rang on time, and the cartoonist suddenly woke up from his dream.

He turned off the alarm clock, picked up the mirror, looked at his face in the mirror, and began to cheer himself up.

"It's another day full of energy. Let's work harder! Even if you are poor, you can only beg for food. As long as you are not dead, you will always get ahead!"

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