Chapter 196
"But it will be difficult for you to come back, right?
It's not easy to get a taxi in this place. You can still find a taxi to get there, but if you get there, get off the taxi and walk to the place, it's not so easy to get back.
Have you thought about it? "
"Just go ahead, I've already thought about it. If I don't go, I won't be able to sleep. There's nothing I can do about it. Don't ask too many questions. If you ask too many questions, maybe you won't be able to sleep well tonight either."
"Okay, okay, I won't ask any more questions. We're already here, get off the car. Or how about we change our contact information? When you want to get out, give me a call and I'll pick you up. This way I can make two bucks and you don't have to wait here any longer.
This place is gloomy and dark, the roads are bad, there are few lights, and there are many people. Something might happen. It would be a good thing if I could leave early, right? "
"good."
Leyuan got off the car, paid the fare, waved to the taxi driver, closed the door, and drove away.
It's really eerie in here.
I could only hear the sounds around me, as if no one was around. I couldn't hear any chickens or dogs barking, or any cats or insects chirping.
If the driver says that there was a fight here during the day, it is also reasonable to say that it is quiet at night. Moreover, the absence of human sounds means that everyone is asleep, so it is not easy to be discovered, and it also saves the effort of explanation.
This is a good thing.
As they walked through the village, the amusement park became darker inside. He turned on the flashlight, but then thought it would expose his position and alert someone, so he hesitated and turned it off.
When a person walks on this narrow and muddy road, the wind blows past him, and he no longer gets goose bumps on his body. Instead, his hair stands on end, as if someone is blowing on his back, and beads of sweat roll down his forehead.
The body is hot inside and cold outside.
I don't know whether it's better to hope that someone shows up, or to hope that no one shows up. If someone shows up, I'll be startled, but if no one shows up, I'll be continually frightened.
My mind was full of random thoughts, but we finally arrived.
Le Yuan looked at the house and stood in front of the door.
Suddenly, the lights in the room came on and Leyuan took a step back. At first he thought there was no one inside. Although it was very late, it was too dark in here, just like the previous place.
He admitted that he was startled. The door opened from the inside, and the old man looked at him with a lamp in his hand and squinted his eyes.
"What are you doing here? I haven't seen you around here. You're not from this village, and you're not someone I know. Are you my grandson's classmate? But he's already in school and doesn't live here. You've come to the wrong place."
The old man stood up straight at the door and looked at him, like a door god, inexplicably majestic.
"I'm here to look for someone. I met some people before and they told me some names and addresses. I followed the addresses and came here. It would be best if I could meet them, but it doesn't matter if I can't."
Leyuan answered and gave the name and address.
The old man didn't move, and had no intention of inviting him in. The expression on his face was not cold, just serious. However, it was enough to keep people away, just like the ice on the river that was already hard in winter and could not be broken.
Leyuan suddenly had an idea and mentioned Zhou Ahui's name.
The old man's expression finally relaxed, like an old lock about to be pried open.
Leyuan struck while the iron was hot and mentioned other people's names.
The old man's eyebrows moved, as if he had considered for a long time, then he looked up at the person in front of him, turned around and said to Leyuan, "Come in."
Leyuan walked into the room. It was pitch black, as if there was no light in it. However, a candle was quickly lit on the table. The flame of the candle trembled slightly, as if it would soon go out. The wind outside the door became stronger, and it felt even colder when it blew against my back.
The old man glanced at him and said bluntly: "Please sit down."
Leyuan sat down on the bench next to the square table in the middle of the room. The bench was very long and it seemed that three to five people could sit on it at once. However, if one wanted to maintain a socially polite distance, two people would be enough to sit on the bench. If three people wanted to sit there, they had to be related to each other.
"What do you want to know?"
The old man asked.
As he spoke, he lit up a cigarette for himself. It was a very long cigarette, like an antique, so old that the surface was black and you could scrape out the rust, which suited the old man's age very well.
"I want to know about the people whose names I mentioned."
Paradise answered.
As he spoke, he looked up and noticed something hanging on the wall behind the old man.
When he was looking at something, sparks flashed on the table, and he inexplicably felt that something on the wall also flashed, as if his eyes were blurry, and someone happened to be carrying a mirror passing in front of him, and the mirror was facing the sun, and the sun's light flew through the mirror into his eyes.
He thought this was a clue.
He asked the old man about the origin of that thing.
The old man smoked in silence for a while before he spoke.
“So that’s what you did.
I can tell you that this thing killed a person, and I can’t just throw away something that’s stained with blood, nor do I want to give it to anyone else, so I just hang it up, hoping that one day the wind will blow hard enough to blow away the bad luck.”
The old man seemed to be thinking about how to say this.
"The person killed by this thing is the one you asked about. I can't remember whether it was Zhou Ahui or Zhou Amei. The two people looked very similar, wore similar clothes and walked in similar places.
I couldn't really tell the difference at first.
It was a long time ago, and I might be dead soon. It's annoying that you still ask me this.
The dead person was the living person's sister, who died at the beginning. Later, the younger sister married a man, and only then did she know that her husband was once her sister's fiancé.
The younger sister couldn't accept this and ran away, saying that she wanted to be alone for a while before coming back. During this time, the husband was very depressed and fell asleep after drinking some wine.
In the dream, he suddenly saw a child who looked similar to his sister. He felt that the child was his. The two of them quickly became close. They played together in the dream for a while before waking up, still feeling unsatisfied.
Later, the husband went out and found someone who looked very similar to his sister. At first glance, he thought it was his sister, so he went up to grab the person, but he didn't know that the person was not his wife.
That's how the two got to know each other, and after a while they became friends. Later they flirted with each other and almost became a couple, but because they were not divorced, neither of them took the next step forward.
After the younger sister came back, the two separated. It seemed as if they could still live their previous life, but with this episode in between, it was impossible for them to go back.
The two divorced, and the husband met the woman again on the street, so the two got back together and got married quickly. After the marriage, they felt more familiar and more strange.
One day, the younger sister saw her husband's new wife and was shocked. She felt that this person looked very familiar and wanted to test the blood relationship with this person to see if they were relatives.
Who knew that this person was pregnant? The examination showed that the child was not a relative. The sister left in disappointment. She died in a car accident on the road.
After hearing the news, the husband's new wife was shocked and had a miscarriage. After waking up, she couldn't accept the reality, divorced her husband and left. No one knows where she went because there is no news.
But one day, the new wife went back to see her husband, holding the thing on the wall in her hand, and committed suicide in front of everyone. Everyone who knew about this said that she was possessed by an evil spirit.
But what kind of evil could it be?
I'm afraid that the sister who died in the car accident forgot about it and attached herself to the new wife, and this happened when she came back to find her husband.
Who knows? I can't remember clearly. Is this what you are asking about?
There was another incident even longer ago, which involved a pair of sisters.
The elder sister died while saving someone, and the younger sister forgot about it after she fell ill and later married her elder sister's husband.
The elder sister's husband treats the younger sister very well, but there is always a layer of distance between them.
One day, the husband came home from a trip and told his sister that he had seen someone who looked very much like his sister. His sister didn't believe it, but the husband took her to see it, and she found that the person did look very similar.
Both of them were surprised and happy, and tried to get closer to that person, but that person knew nothing, so they were a little disappointed. Because of the great joy and great sorrow, the sister found out that she was pregnant after she had a miscarriage and was very sad.
They both said they needed to be apart for a while, so the younger sister left her husband. During this time, the husband was approached by that person.
The man suddenly said that he was interested in his sister's affairs, and the husband was overjoyed and told her everything. After a few exchanges, the relationship between the two became better and better.
They simply lived together, ate together, and went out together, just like a married couple. People who didn't know them would think they were a couple, and some even mistook the later person for the older sister.
This person suddenly got pregnant. And she was about to give birth. She couldn't find a doctor because they were in a very remote place, the signal was not very good, and they couldn't even make a phone call.
My sister happened to be driving by there. She heard that someone she knew was there, so she wanted to say hello, but it turned out to be my husband and another person. I should have been happy, but I wasn't.
My sister started to say she wanted to leave, but she was discovered. The two men stopped her and asked her to take them to the hospital. My sister refused to leave, but was stopped by the two men and could not leave. She could only stay with them on the road.
A passerby who lived nearby came out and saw it, thinking something had happened and wanted to help. After a lot of hustle and bustle, the younger sister died. Later, the other person was sent to the hospital, but it took too long and it was too late, so it was two lives lost.
That thing on the wall is the one that accidentally killed my sister.
Whatever the incident was, one of the sisters died here. I just don’t know which one you are looking for?”
The old man asked.
"I'm not sure, but thank you for telling me this. I think I can leave now."
Paradise stood up and said.
"Walking at night so late?"