Ordinarily, we did not visit the house at night once or twice, but I still retreated a bit in my heart. The incident at the ancestral hall last time really made me a little dizzy, and I haven't recovered yet. I hesitated for a while, but I still felt that I had to bite the duck that was full of mouth, so I finally agreed.
As usual, I followed Qin Yiheng to prepare things for the evening. However, there were very few things to buy this time. He just took me to the supermarket to buy a pair of chopsticks and a bowl, and then we found a drink shop to waste time. The day passed by quite quickly, and after dinner, it was almost dark. After we waited for a while, he took out a piece of yellow paper from his bag, asked for a glass of water to adjust the ink, and wrote something on the yellow paper. I didn't have much interest in it, so I didn't read it carefully. We didn't go to the house until he finished writing and the ink was dry.
When we arrived at the place, we realized that this area is full of restaurants, and they are still open at this point, and there are still many diners coming and going. We didn't know what to do, and sat in the car until almost 11 o'clock in the evening, and waited until the restaurants next to us were closed before opening the door of the house and entering. This house looks like a mess during the day, which makes people very uncomfortable, and it's even more so in the middle of the night. When I entered the room, I couldn't stop feeling cold all over. I don't know if it was a psychological effect or because the temperature dropped at night.
Qin Yiheng prepared things step by step as if nothing had happened, and didn't ask me to help him, so I had to sit beside him and smoke. He fiddled with the ground for a while, and it seemed that he connected the chopsticks one by one with a thread, and then glued both ends of the thread to the wall with transparent glue, and the chopsticks were all hung upside down. Up, it looks like a clothesline clip. I looked at it and thought it was very fresh, so I asked him what it was for.
Qin Yiheng smiled at me and said, you will know in a while. As he spoke, he took out the yellow paper he wrote earlier from his pocket and gave it to me, telling me to read the words on the paper aloud for a while.
There is still some light in the store, and there are street lights outside the store, but because of the distance, it is still very dim, and his handwriting is not very neat. What. I took out my phone and took a picture, and I was amused when I saw it. I thought that what he asked me to recite were mostly spells and secret words, but I didn’t expect that the content he wrote was similar to the purchase list of the back kitchen of a restaurant. etc. I was very surprised, thinking that he must have given me the wrong paper, isn't it playing tricks for me to read these words on this occasion
I asked him to confirm it, but Qin Yiheng nodded at me very seriously and said, yes, these are the detailed list of tributes, and we are here tonight to seduce the kid who was here the night before!
As soon as he said this, I immediately felt that this matter was not fun at all, and I immediately became nervous. According to what he meant, tonight the two of us are going to have a close contact with those little ghosts? Thinking about it this way, I didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly ran through the things on the paper, for fear that I would get stuck or mispronounce. About ten minutes later, Qin Yiheng looked at the time and said that it was almost time, so he took out the bowl he bought earlier, tied it with a rope and hung it upside down on the door, and then pulled down the shutter door.
The room was pitch black for an instant, and my heartbeat began to speed up. Qin Yiheng comforted me next to me, and lit another candle, and I calmed down. Seeing that I was not so panicked, he whispered "begin", and I quickly read by candlelight. To be honest, this was more nervous than defending my thesis when I graduated from college, which made me sweat profusely. Fortunately, there were no slips of the tongue. But after reading for a long time, my mouth was dry, and I didn't see any special signs in the store. I wanted to take a break, but Qin Yiheng didn't tell me to stop, so I had no choice but to continue reading. After reading for a few more minutes, I suddenly heard him say "hmm" over there, and then the whole house was darkened. It's hard to describe the eerie feeling, but I knew something had come in. Having dealt with these things for so long, even though I have somewhat adapted to the oppressive feeling of being in the same room with them, I still feel a little weak instinctively. I wanted to look back to see if there was something behind me, but I was afraid that I would read the wrong word when I was distracted, so I had to adjust my body a little, so that I faced Qin Yiheng's side, so that I could feel some comfort in my heart.
Qin Yiheng seemed quite satisfied with the current situation, paused for a while, and asked out of thin air, which direction is it? I knew in my heart that this question was definitely not for me, but no one in the room answered, and it sounded like a chopstick had dropped on the ground.
Qin Yiheng said "um" again, and continued to ask, is it a man or a woman? Soon another chopstick fell.
Now I finally understand why he hangs so many chopsticks, co-authored him to use this to talk to the kid. Facts have proved that my guess is correct. Qin Yiheng then asked several questions in a row. However, these questions sound a bit unpredictable, and they are all questions that have nothing to do with this house. But after each question is asked, A chopstick will fall to the ground. After asking for three or four minutes, he was silent for a while, and asked again, isn't it you? Still dropped a chopstick.
Qin Yiheng clicked his tongue and continued to ask, is it a dog spirit? The chopsticks continued to land. However, after asking this question, Qin Yiheng remained silent, as if thinking. As soon as he was quiet, I started to worry. I almost vomited blood when I was reading next to him. When will I stop? Reluctantly, he couldn't speak, so he could only stomp his foot to remind him. Only then did he seem to remember me, muttered "Damn", and then walked quickly to my side and said to me that he forgot to buy a broom, and now the kid can't give it away!
If I hadn't been busy with my words, I would have scolded them right away. How could he be off the hook for something so fucking life-threatening? But things have come to this, I had no choice but to hold back the indignation and ask him what to do with my eyes. Qin Yiheng thought about it for a while, and told me in my ear that there are two ways now, one is that he will go out and find a broom now and come back; the other is that the two of us will spend until dawn. I thought about it for a while, and felt that the first method was more feasible. If I kept reading like this until dawn, I'm afraid my tongue would be exhausted. I immediately stretched out a finger, gesturing to ask him to use the first method. Seeing this, Qin Yiheng gave a "hmm", told me to "be careful", and opened the door to go out.
After he went out, he didn't pull down the shutter door again, so I felt more at ease, at least if something happened, I would still have time to escape. It's just that I didn't expect that after a while, the wind started to blow outside. The wind was not very strong, but it happened to blow in from the outside, making the candle flame flickering. I was afraid that the candle would be blown out, but there was nothing I could do for a while, so I kept praying for Qin Yiheng to come back soon. Reluctantly, I guess God can't control me. The more I prayed, the more unstable the candle flame became. After shaking it twice, it actually went out. The room was dark in an instant, and the light from the street lamp outside could penetrate a little, but it could only illuminate the position by the door, and I couldn't see clearly where I was standing.
At this moment, my forehead started to sweat, not to mention whether the things in this room are dangerous or not, the main reason is that the light source disappears like this, I definitely can't read this list. I managed to answer a few more sentences from memory, but in the end I really couldn't catch up, so I just shut my mouth and hurried to the door. But as soon as I took a leg, I heard a "click" behind me, and another chopstick fell off. Now I was completely panicked, Qin Yiheng was not in front of me, I couldn't handle even the smallest situation. I hurriedly listened carefully again, but there was no special movement other than that. I thought to myself, could it be the gust of wind blowing it down just now? At that time, I didn't see how Qin Yiheng fastened the chopsticks. Maybe he just tied a loose buckle slightly, and the fastening was not tight. It fell off after a slight vibration, which is understandable. Thinking about it this way, I wasn't so scared anymore, so I just walked to the door and looked out, and happened to see Qin Yiheng walking this way quickly, so I quickly called him "Hurry up".
Seeing me appearing at the door, he was also puzzled and frowned at me. I leaned forward and told him what happened just now. After hearing this, he muttered something, then pulled me back into the room, closed the shutter door, and lit the candles again. When I entered the house, I noticed that what he brought back was not a broom, but a handful of ragged mops that I didn’t know where to find, and it was the kind that was almost rotten. He put the broken mop upside down in the corner near the door, looked left and right again, and then turned around and asked me, did I really drop a chopstick just now? Originally, I heard the truth just now, but after his question, I hesitated a little, for fear that I heard it wrong just now.
Seeing my hesitation, Qin Yiheng didn't continue to ask. Instead, he walked to the place where he hung his chopsticks, bowed his head to count, clicked his tongue, and turned to me and said, there are not many chopsticks on the ground.
Not many chopsticks? Did I hallucinate just now? I recalled it, and the voice was so real, I wanted to ask him to confirm it again. Qin Yiheng showed me his fingers suddenly, and said, damn it, who put one on the table! I immediately looked in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, there was a chopstick on the table at some point.
I saw Qin Yiheng's surprised expression. Obviously, he didn't put this chopstick here by mistake, and this table was specially lifted from the ground for the convenience of placing candles, let alone the chopsticks. It's possible. Judging from this meaning, I'm afraid it has a lot of background.
Qin Yiheng thought for a while, and said, according to what you just said, the chopsticks must not have been brought down by the kid, and the sound you heard at the time, the chopsticks clearly fell on the ground, and now they appeared on the table inexplicably, presumably It was also the intention of the other party to remind us of something. After finishing speaking, he pointed to the chopsticks all over the floor and told me that this bureau is called "Shoulian". It was originally used to calculate the life span of family members in ancient times. Then, they burn incense and pay tribute, and finally, the whole clan turns their backs to "Shoulian", and wait until the soul of the elder returns, and then turn around and count the chopsticks that fell on the ground. However, the scope of application of this bureau is not so limited. In fact, to put it bluntly, "Shoulian" is just a medium and way to deal with these ghosts, and there is no rigid requirement to ask anything, so tonight, he thought about using the list of tributes to hook the little ghost over first, and have a look. Can you ask some clues about this house? The result of the inquiry is not too unexpected. The previous boss was not killed by these little ghosts, nor was it the dog spirit who came to take revenge.
After Qin Yiheng finished speaking, he walked to the table again, stared at the chopstick for a while, and then said, if he guessed right, the chopstick must have been placed here by the late boss. The boss's cause of death is another hidden story. However, this still needs us to test after dawn. If it is as I guessed, then this chopstick will not be able to chop with a new knife, and you must use a blood-stained knife that has cut meat or killed chickens.
After listening to Qin Yiheng's analysis, I became even more confused. Could it be that there is a murder case behind this house? However, recalling the crying face of the proprietress, it didn't seem like she was pretending. I just wanted to ask his opinion, but he was just fiddling with the old mop beside me. Only then did I realize, didn't he say he went to find a broom? How to get such a thing back? After asking, I found out that it was really difficult to find a broom at this time, and he had no way to go to a public toilet to steal this mop. Qin Yiheng said that the things in this filthy place can actually ward off evil spirits, which is exactly the opposite of our usual impression. Most of us ordinary people are influenced by those ghost movies, and we always associate these filthy places, especially toilets, with ghosts, which is not the case in fact. Ghosts have an instinctive resistance to filth. In many places, there is still the custom of using rotten fish and shrimp to drive away evil spirits. And hanging a broom on the door meant seeing off guests, not a means of exorcising ghosts in alchemy, so he reckoned and hung the mop on it, and those little ghosts could understand it.
As he said that, Qin Yiheng told me to step back, glued the mop to the door with several layers of transparent glue, then held up the candle and looked around the room, and finally put the candle on the edge of the door, and told me that if the candle goes out in a while, , tell me not to panic, it proves that the kid has already gone out, so don't run out in a hurry, and be careful not to accidentally sneak into the team of the kid, and then lead me to some other road.
After saying this, he walked back to the table, put the chopsticks in his bag, and then stood beside me, staring at the candle. I saw that his expression seemed quite dignified, so I also moved my eyes to the candle. Sure enough, after a while, the candle went out.
Qin Yiheng reminded me "don't move", and the two of us continued to spend time patiently in the dark. After almost ten minutes, he said "you can go out", and I quickly followed him out the door. The darkness inside is really depressing. After I went out, I took a few breaths to feel better.
After working for most of the night, Qin Yiheng didn't intend to go back to rest, but told me to follow him to wander the streets, saying that he told me to let go of my yin energy, otherwise I would go back to sleep like this, and people would easily get sick. Anyway, I wasn't sleepy, and it was almost dawn, so I just walked around with him a few times. The last two had breakfast before returning to the hotel to rest.