Chapter 152
"I comforted myself by saying that I didn't lose money and the things were still in my hands, so I shouldn't be afraid. Then a second customer came up to me and wanted to buy the earrings. I didn't know what was wrong with them, but they were obsessed with wanting the earrings. I didn't dare to agree, so they got angry and lost their temper with me, and overturned my stall before I could pack up my things.
I could only pick up things from the ground while begging him to stop doing this, and warned him that someone would definitely come to take care of this matter. He laughed and told him not to waste his energy, and that no matter who he was, he could not control whether the merchants went out and did not sell things to customers. After all, this was definitely my fault.
I was so scared, and I wanted to keep things quiet and make things less serious, so I had no choice but to follow his wishes and sell the earrings to him. But I refused to take the cash, fearing that I would be cheated again. What if he gave me cash and then turned around and found that it was ghost money? What should I do? I spent time and effort, but still got nothing. How painful it was!
I insisted on asking him to transfer the money to me. He was in a bad mood and snorted, but still agreed because I told him about the last person who wanted to buy the earrings. He was skeptical, but he liked the earrings very much, so he bought them and said he would take them home as gifts for his wife. However, after a while, he came back as if he was in a dilemma.
I would rather believe that he was just lost, so I pointed him in a direction, and he nodded and walked away with his hands behind his back.
I checked my drawer and found that the earring was back, and the money I had just transferred was still there. I was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but suddenly I realized something was wrong. If the person found out that the earring was still with me, and he transferred it back, wouldn't he find that my money had not disappeared at all? What would this matter mean to him?
He might think I was setting up a trap, taking his money, not giving him anything, sneaking away, and trying to cheat him. Then I'd be done for! He overturned my stall before he even thought I was cheating him. If he thought I was cheating him, wouldn't he chase me and beat me to death?
I wanted to run, so I packed my things and left in a hurry.
However, the earring was in my hand, and I always felt unsafe. I checked it on the road with great concern and found that the earring was not lost. But when I checked, it was discovered by the customers. The second customer beat me up and took the things away. Who knew that when I walked to the water, I fell down. Falling down was nothing.
Not only that, he happened to fall onto the water-stained surface and could not get up no matter how hard he struggled. It was as if there was a person sitting on his back, weighing more than a thousand pieces of gold. He twisted his body for a long time and almost suffocated to death. His face turned blue and purple and he looked very uncomfortable.
I was so frightened that I couldn't do anything. I was stunned. I could only stare at him blankly, and my breath was slowly dying.
For a moment, I seemed to see the shadow of a woman on his back. The person was wearing a pink long dress, which looked like a simple but old skirt, with a white belt and peach blossom pattern. It was not expensive, but not cheap either. It looked scary, but because I couldn't see her face, I inexplicably felt that this person had no face.
When it turned around, I couldn't see it.
But I suddenly felt very cold, and the earring fell out of that person's hand, landed on the ground, and slowly slid in front of me. I was scared and turned around and ran. People around me were making phone calls, looking for the hospital, or looking for the other person's family and friends. It was a mess. Fortunately, they all had eyes and saw how the person fell, and knew that I was not the murderer.
I ran out, but after running out of the crowd, the chilly feeling became even worse. I asked a passerby if he felt the temperature had dropped drastically. It was really too cold. However, the man asked me doubtfully, "Where is it cold?" He lowered his head to play with his phone, and when he raised his head, his face was flat and without any facial features, just like the feeling that woman gave me.
This is horrible.
I screamed in fear and ran away. After running, I finally ran to a place where there was no one. I thought I could take a rest, but before I could catch my breath, a dark shadow suddenly appeared from behind me. I turned around and saw that it was a person who had arrived at the place earlier than me. He was dirty and messy, and he reached out to pat my shoulder.
I asked him what was the matter.
He said he wanted my earrings.
I felt like everyone around me was that woman in disguise! They were all the same person! They looked exactly the same. But their clothes, looks, and even the things they were wearing were not similar, so I was confused and scared, and it got even colder. If it was still summer during the day, at that time, I felt like a fish that had escaped from the ice in the coldest days of winter.
I couldn't wait to give the earring to that person, but after he took the earring, I never saw him again. He seemed to have disappeared. I was scared and ran away again.
Soon, that person appeared in front of me. He obviously shouldn't be there! He left later than me, so how did he get in front of me? I couldn't run anymore. I sat down to catch my breath and rest. He came over and told me that he had just forgotten to pay me. He asked me how much the things cost.
I casually mentioned a number, and because I was afraid he couldn't afford it, I lowered the price a little. He didn't seem to doubt the price or the item. He was just a little relieved that he got such a cheap item and happened to be able to buy it.
He asked me what was wrong.
I said that I hoped he could transfer the money to me because the transfer has clear numbers and will not be recorded incorrectly. It also has a time record, so if something goes wrong, it will be easier to find it later. It is better than accidentally giving me less or more money.
I am mainly afraid that he will also give me ghost money. Although I no longer feel that I am at a loss when the person who buys the earrings gives me ghost money, I still cannot accept the fact that I have to replace the ghost money every time, or even that there are earrings hidden inside.
He agreed, he actually agreed, it was unbelievable, I happily exchanged accounts with him, I got his money, he took the earring, I got up and prepared to go home, but who knew, after taking only two steps, he also fell down, this time, blood flowed out of his head, eyes, ears and nose, blocking his nose and mouth, sticky and turned into blood scabs.
He died before me.
I was terrified, but I couldn't run this time, so I called to find someone to come and collect the bodies. But when they came, they said, "No, there was no body or person on the ground, but I saw it clearly! Is there something wrong with their eyes? Are they not my friends? Are they not human at all? Or am I being entangled? I'm still young! I don't want to die!"
Please, both of you, save me! Wuwuwu."
The car owner seemed a bit bored after hearing this, so he turned the phone to another direction and said, "It's not that we don't want to help you. You see, you know very well that you insisted on keeping the earring and received bad treatment. If we insist on taking the earring away, we might be the ones who get into trouble. We were willing to take it because nothing happened before. Are you taking us for a fool?"
When you want it, we go, and when you don't want it, we have to listen to you and go to you to take it away to help you solve your problems? We are not Bodhisattvas. When you ask someone to do something for you, it's just a few words. Who knows that after taking the things, you won't curse us to death in secret?
If we really took it, it would be a life-threatening transaction, and you would still ask us for the money for the earrings! Wouldn't we lose both the wife and the army? Why should we go there? Why should we be willing to accept your things? "
The stall owner cried, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, how about this, I'll give you all my money, a total of 30,000 yuan, I've made so much today, I'll even give you the money for my trip home! I didn't eat today, I can't eat anymore, 30,000 yuan includes my food expenses. I originally wanted to use this money to buy some new clothes, but after encountering something like this, there's no need.
I will lend you another 20,000!"
The car owner snorted, "What do you mean by lending us 20,000? What? You lend it to us and then ask us to pay it back? That won't do. We don't want to owe others money for no reason or in this situation. No one wants to be involved in this kind of thing. If you do this again, we will leave without any courtesy."
The stall owner yelled, "Don't go! Don't go! One hundred thousand! One hundred thousand! I will sell all my stuff and I will give you one hundred thousand."
The car owner opened the refrigerator, picked out a bottle of soda and handed it to Leyuan. Leyuan opened it for him and handed it to him. He took a sip and said calmly, "That's all. One hundred thousand yuan, if we divide it between the two of us, each of us will only have fifty thousand yuan. I don't know if this fifty thousand yuan can buy your life."
The stall owner cried, "Two hundred thousand! That's all the money I have. That's all I can give you. Please, please don't leave me, don't go! Wuuuuuu."
The car owner looked towards the park and asked, "Are you still accepting stuff?"
Leyuan nodded and said, "Collect."
The car owner said to the stall owner on the other end of the phone: "Did you hear that? We want the stuff. Where are you?"
The stall owner's breathing was interrupted for a moment, and then he said hurriedly: "Where are you? We, no, I will go over now! I will send the money and things to you, so you don't have to come out to look for me, and you don't have to walk for a long time to find me. I really want to see you sooner."
The car owner felt that his tone was not right, but he was not afraid. He told the address and waited for someone to come.
The sound came before the stall owner appeared nearby. When the sound came, there was no sign of the person. The car owner heard the stall owner shouting from outside the car: "Are you there? Where are you? Why aren't you talking? Are you ready to collect the money? Where are the people?"
The sound sounds strange.
The car owner turned his head and suddenly saw a woman in a pink dress appearing outside the car window. She was walking slowly, and suddenly turned her head to look at the car. When she saw the car, she appeared in front of the car in the blink of an eye, and asked through the window: "It's you? It's you! I found you. Why didn't you speak? Weren't you anxious to find me before? What's wrong?"
Change your mind? Hahahaha!"
Her face was pressed against the window, with blood seeping out. It looked dirty, sticky, and a little scary.
However, the face was blurry and almost devoid of features, as if covered by mist. It didn't look like a face as it should be. The woman touched her face and smiled at the car owner: "Did you see me? Great! My strength has increased. I will definitely walk on the road in the future! Hahaha! Thanks to you. Is it beautiful? I can't see."
It complained, "Why don't your windows have light functions? They're not even as good as mirrors. I need a mirror!"
Before it finished speaking, it suddenly saw the rearview mirror in the car, its eyes widened, it let out a cry, and suddenly disappeared, like a monster that was taken away by something.
The car owner thought it had been driven away and wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but suddenly he found in the rearview mirror that there were two people sitting in the back seat, one was Leyuan and the other was the woman in the pink skirt next to Leyuan.
A dark black shadow slowly fell from its body and landed on the ground, like a huge and extremely long tunnel-like snake tail entwined in the narrow space.
The car owner suddenly felt like he was being squeezed and couldn't breathe.
Leyuan's expression had changed. With his eyes downcast, he murmured, "Death."
The woman let out a cry, as if she was pricked by a needle while embroidering. She almost jumped up, and the black shadow like a tail disappeared. The car owner no longer had the feeling of being squeezed and lacking oxygen in his brain, and he began to breathe in big gulps. The woman turned her head angrily and looked at Paradise, as if she had not noticed that there was someone here at all. When she stared at Paradise, her eyes bled.
The woman covered her face, lowered her head, and screamed in agony. The sound echoed in the car for a long time.
However, it still left here because of this. The color of its body became much darker and it looked like it was dying.
The car owner murmured, "It would be better to die now. It would be better to die, so as not to cause any harm to me."
He looked at Le Yuan and asked, "Why didn't you save me before?"
Leyuan asked: "What do you mean? The thing that just appeared next to the car window and looked at you closely?"
The car owner took a deep breath and said, "Look, you already know this, right? Why are you asking me?"
Leyuan smiled and said, "There's a layer of car window glass between us. If I speak first, I don't know who will die first, you or it."
The car owner thought about it and thought it made sense. He snorted and reluctantly gave up the argument. He muttered, "Well, forget it this time. If you do it again next time, I'll kick you out of my house."
Paradise asked: "How much would it cost if you rented out your house?"
The owner thought for a moment and said, "I don't know. I've never rented it out. I've always let people live in it."
Leyuan asked: "Who did you let live there?"
The car owner looked at the park and said, "It's you. Apart from you, it's just me. There's no one else. I originally wanted to invite them to live with me, but they disagreed. They said it was too expensive or that I didn't have the qualifications. They told me to find someone else or they said sorry, I've already found a place to live. Or they said, this is such an expensive big house."
I can't do anything about it. They don't want to do it, what does it have to do with me?"
Leyuan thought for a moment and said, "So, the house must be very clean. It's strange that I didn't feel that when I lived there."
The car owner laughed and said, "What if you feel it? It's not really clean. If one day you feel it's particularly clean, you might have to check it carefully to see if there's a problem. What if there's something more terrible hiding inside? That would be the end of you! If you don't know you're being harmed, it's like a poisonous snake hiding in your home. You don't even know it, and one day you'll be attacked and killed by surprise.
That's such a loss!
Moreover, in this world where people are living in misery, it is good to be alive. Who knows when and where you will die? You can’t find a clean place. There are dirty places everywhere.”
Leyuan responded, “That’s right.”
There was a sound of heavy and chaotic footsteps outside the door.
The car owner looked over and saw that the stall owner had finally come nearby. The stall owner asked, "Where are you?"
The car owner replied: "Here."
The stall owner was not like the woman before. She appeared next to the car all of a sudden. It seemed that she did not hear the first sentence. She was still walking outside and asking, "Where are you?"
The car owner shouted, "Here! Are you calling for the soul?"
The stall owner was stunned for a moment, then quickly ran over and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, I thought I had taken the wrong road, and I almost ran out to look for it again. Fortunately, you are really here. That's great, that's great. Shall we start now?"
As he spoke, he took out the earrings from his clothes. The earrings looked even prettier than before. If the earrings before looked like green jade covered with a thin layer of gray, now they looked like sparkling emeralds, clear and bright, very lovely.
The stall owner looked at the earrings with a lingering fear and wanted to get rid of them right away. He frowned and stretched out his hand to the car owner and said, "Hurry up! Deal with it now! You really want to accept it and not just throw it on the ground, right? You don't want to walk home later, do you? Remember to watch the road! Don't fall. And don't lose your things, who knows how it will come back."
The car owner nodded: "Give it to me."
The stall owner handed the earring to the car owner, but the earring fell to the ground and he couldn't pick it up. The stall owner cried, "Oh my! What should I do? If I can't give it to you, you have to go home with me? I'm not the only one in my family. Something bad is going to happen. What should I do?"
The girl went to the amusement park, picked up the earrings, and asked curiously, "How did you pick things up before?"
The owner said: "It's not our problem. The earring chose you. It doesn't allow us to touch it, so we can't pick it up. It just sat there like a tree with roots, like a weight on a scale. It's heavy and hard to move. It's not our problem."
Leyuan blinked, doubtful: "Really? Okay."
He put away the earring and returned to his seat: "Maybe it will be useful later."
The stall owner thanked us profusely and ran away.
The car owner asked: "Where are we going next?"
The location where the beauty's back appears in the scroll.
The car stopped, the owner took a breath of fresh air, and said to the park, "It feels like it's going to rain. It's so gloomy. Look, the clouds in the sky are not bright, and the air below is humid, just like the feeling of blowing on the back of a frog. It's sticky everywhere, so humid that it feels like mushrooms will grow any moment."
Le Yuan said, “I understand.”
The car owner asked: "Are you really not going out to play? We still have a long way to go."
Paradise asked, "What are you going to eat after this?"
The car owner said, "What do you want to eat? A bowl of fried noodles. How about you?"
Paradise said: "I am still a red bean bun with cream filling."
The owner said, "Okay."
He walked around and played for a while, then closed his eyes, leaned against the pillow, and looked like he was almost asleep. The car owner tiptoed back to his seat and continued driving. The car moved forward and gradually entered a town-like place. Before entering, the car passed by something like a landmark, which read: This is Taohua Town.
When we arrived at the hotel, it was already after dusk. The driver stopped the car and tapped the park: "We're here."
Leyuan opened his eyes and said, "I understand."
They walked out of the garage one after another and arrived at the door of the hotel. Leyuan looked at the door, and the car owner also took a look and murmured, "Taohua Hotel, how interesting, I didn't see Taohua on the road, why is there Taohua's name everywhere here?"
Leyuan smiled and said, "It's interesting to have heard of him but never seen him. Maybe he had many peach blossoms in the past."
The car owner said: "I think that there was a woman with the word peach blossom in her name who died here, so this place got its name."
Leyuan said, “You can ask someone later.”
The car owner nodded.
They entered the hotel, and the front desk checked their identity information, collected their money, and let them upstairs. When they got to the room, someone knocked on the door a while later. The person said that the hotel was going to hold a bonfire party and singing competition that evening. The winner would get a bouquet of flowers, which would be beautiful. Everyone would go and eat snacks together. It was very lively and there was nothing unsafe.
"Aren't you going?"
The guest next door looked at the park and then at the car owner, and asked with curiosity on his face.
The car owner smiled and said, "If we had nothing else to do at that time, we would have gone over to take a look. Thank you for coming over to tell us this. We already know about it and you can go back now."
The guest nodded. "Oh, then you must remember that the morning and evening party is at six o'clock in the afternoon. It will be time soon. We will play until nine o'clock, and the morning party will end. At nine o'clock, a new round of evening party will start, which is the formal bonfire party. This party will last until twelve o'clock in the evening. After twelve o'clock, those who want to stay can continue to stay, and those who don't want to can go back to their rooms to rest."
He was about to leave, but suddenly stopped and asked, "Hey, do you like fruit platters? I can prepare it. You can come down and eat together when the time comes!"
The car owner said, "I don't mind eating fruit, but are you preparing a fruit platter because you are from the hotel?"
The guest smiled and said, "No, anyone who is willing to attend the party here is eligible to prepare food. My family grows fruit in the nearby farmland. This year's fruit harvest is abundant, big, sweet and beautiful, but there are too many and we can't sell them. There are people who are willing to buy, but the money they pay is too little, not even enough to cover the cost. So I can only go out by myself and look for customers everywhere, thinking that maybe I can find one.
If someone is willing to pay more than the cost to buy the fruits from my house, I will have a lot of money to stay here for two more days, have fun for a while, and then go home slowly without being in a hurry or rushing. I don’t have to worry about the fruits going bad, or not having money to go to school, or not being able to go to the hospital when someone in my family gets sick. I can even replace the rotten furniture in my house.
However, these are just my ideas now, and it is hard to say what will happen. So, I want to let the people who attend the party taste the fruits I brought. If they are willing to buy them, I will have no worries about food and drink. If they are willing to pay a little more, I will be very grateful. Do you like to eat fruits? It is okay to buy only a little. The fruits in my house are very cheap, not expensive at all.
Wholesale is good, but if you just need some fruit, I can sell it to you, but it's retail. I brought a lot this time because I heard that Taohua Town is going to hold a peach blossom festival soon. Many guests from other places will come to participate in the festival activities. Local businesses and residents will also participate in this event. It will be very lively at that time. With more people, things will sell better. Isn't it?"
The car owner asked: "What kind of fruits do you have?"
The customer saw that they seemed to want to buy something, so he turned around and said with a smile, "Watermelon, peaches, pears, apples, cantaloupe, durian, grapes, sugar apples, lychees, and many more. What do you like?"
The owner asked hesitantly, "I want a cantaloupe, a watermelon, and a peach. Oh, and do you have green grapes? The green, seedless kind that you can bite into without peeling. Do you have any?"
The customer smiled and said, "Yes, yes, I'll bring them over to you. A cantaloupe, a watermelon, and peaches. I'll give you one first. If you think you can eat them, come back and buy me another one or two pounds to take home. Grapes spoil easily, so remember to put them in the refrigerator, otherwise they won't taste good."
The car owner nodded: "Got it."
The guest said, "Wait for me a moment, I'll go get it. My room is right next to yours, it will be quick."
The car owner nodded: "Okay."
The guest returned to his room and rummaged around inside. Soon he came back with a bag of packed things, which contained watermelon, cantaloupe, peaches and grapes. The owner took the things and handed them to Paradise. Paradise took the things and put them on the table next to him. He washed his hands and asked the guest at the door, "Is this your first time here?"
The guest smiled and said, "This is not the first time. I have been here before with my uncle's family. At that time, I was still young, much younger than I am now. I didn't know why I came here with my relatives, and I didn't know why I was sad. Seeing them frowning all day long, I wondered what they were thinking. They didn't care about me much, so I had a lot of fun. They even took me out.
It just happened to be a festival, so there were people everywhere, it was lively and noisy. Some people were playing drums and gongs, some were singing and dancing, and some were having an eating contest. Anyone could participate. They just had to pay a little ticket money and then go on stage to eat. If they didn't win, they only had to pay half the price of the food. If they won, they didn't have to pay anything extra, their tickets would be returned, and there would be a first place prize.
What an interesting thing.
I still remember it, but now is not the time to go out with relatives, and I can't just think about having fun. If you have the chance to go, please take a look for me. Come back and tell me, and it will count as my trip again."
The guest smiled at the car owner.
The car owner nodded and asked, "Then do you know why this place is called Taohua Town?"
The guest smiled and said, "So that's why you ask me this? I know. A long time ago, this place was not a small town near the sea with a beach. At that time, there was a dense forest of peach blossoms here. It was not planted by anyone, but was an accident. It is said that a peach blossom seller passed by here, and the peach blossoms wanted to stay here. A gust of wind blew over, and the peach blossoms all fluttered in the air.
Later, peach blossoms grew here, lots of them, everywhere. Because they were beautiful, many people came to play. However, no one took care of the peach blossoms, so they gradually withered. People no longer wanted to come here to play, but avoided it, walking farther and farther away, because they felt that this place was eerie and definitely not a good place. Later, this place became a place for murder and robbery.
There was a Lady Peach Blossom, who fled with her husband and came to the nearby area. However, the people led by her husband rebelled, the soldiers mutinied and trapped them. Lady Peach Blossom had no choice but to flee, but was chased to a peach blossom forest and killed. Blood flowed everywhere, and the blood irrigated the soil. When people left, the peach blossoms gradually bloomed again, as if they had waited for the right time.
After that, this place was called Taohua Town. "
The car owner asked, "Do you know who Madam Taohua is?"
The guest laughed and said, "Only the locals know about this thing. However, I have been here several times and have inquired a little. Some say she is the wife of a general, while others say she is the concubine of a minister. She once wandered around and sang for a living. She was quite favored when she was young, but as she grew older and gave birth to two children, her appearance is not as good as before.
The husband wanted a woman who was talented, beautiful, virtuous and had a family, so he went to marry his sweetheart. It is said that they had met. The girl was said to be very beautiful and had lost her mother at a young age. She was not favored by her father and had many brothers and sisters. However, she was very rich and was a whole year younger than the man.
Madam Taohua was tortured by her husband's wet nurse and fell ill. She was bedridden at home. Her husband thought she was going to die, so he couldn't wait to propose to the young lady of that family. The young lady liked Lanhua, so she was called Miss Lan. Later, she was proposed to and became Madam Lan. Madam Lan didn't like Taohua, nor did she like concubines, and she disliked Madam Taohua, who was called Madam, even more. They quarreled whenever they met.
After the two people quarreled, they separated, no longer lived together, no longer met each other, and even walked in opposite directions. Only their husbands still lived in the middle. The man did not love Madam Taohua, and gradually stopped visiting her. He only went to Madam Lan's residence. Madam Lan was still young and became pregnant and gave birth to a child when she was not even seventeen. She almost lost her life, but she continued to do so afterwards.
It is said that Mrs. Lan and the man gave birth to 17 children in total, of whom seven died when they were young. The other ten grew up a little bit older and when the man escaped, five of them followed him. They were displaced all the way and died of illness on the way. The remaining five stayed at home and were hacked to death one by one by the soldiers who surrounded them near their residence. Not a single one was left alive.
Although Mrs. Lan was not killed, she was placed under house arrest. She waited for her husband to come home, but before she could wait, she fell ill and died.
However, it is said that when Madam Lan fell ill, her husband was on the run. When Madam Lan was bedridden, her husband was holding Madam Taohua and trying to persuade her, intending to reconcile. Madam Lan's illness became more and more serious. Her husband and Madam Taohua were very affectionate and happy. Madam Lan was almost dying. Her husband quarreled with Madam Taohua and drove her away, leaving only a daughter.
Madam Taohua left with her son. When Madam Lan died, Madam Taohua's son also died of illness. When their husbands heard the news, they were filled with remorse and wanted to compensate Madam Taohua. They led people to chase after her overnight and rescued Madam Taohua, who was heartbroken and about to jump into the lake. They showed their deep love for her and said some sweet words to her. Madam Taohua cried, but reluctantly accepted the words and followed them back.
Later, the soldiers mutinied and Madam Taohua escaped. Her husband was forced to pick up a sword to chase her, and he brought a group of people with him. Madam Taohua was desperate and surrounded. A young girl who looked quite similar to Madam Lan rushed out from the crowd, slapped Madam Taohua in the face, and called her a complete bitch who had no sense of shame. Madam Taohua then drew her sword and committed suicide.
The story doesn't get told after that.
I don’t know what’s going on.
Some people say that later, Madam Peach Blossom became the Peach Blossom Fairy here, guarding the peach blossoms every day, blessing the peach blossoms to bloom, the peach trees to bear fruit, the peach fruits to be sweet, and the townspeople of Peach Blossom Town to be healthy and long-lived.
Some people also said that Madam Taohua had become a ghost that could not leave this place. She was filled with resentment and killed anyone she saw, especially the woman who looked like Madam Lan and had cursed her before she died. She was tortured to the point of being unrecognizable and turned into a ghost before she died. disasters.
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