Before I entered this house, I thought it looked like a junkyard. After entering, I realized that it was worse than a scrapyard. It was like a garbage dump!
Such a big yard was filled with wine bottles and some unknown things. It exuded a rancid smell under the dim sunlight. The moment he entered the house, Brother Chengxin, who has a mysophobia, frowned. , Ruyue tried her best to restrain herself, but she couldn't help but cover her mouth and nose. Only I could barely show adaptation. After all, in their eyes, I was a 'wild animal' with amazing resilience and amazing adaptability.
'Rough man', Brother Chengxin once felt that these five words were tailor-made for me.
The old man walking in front didn't care what our reaction was, he just opened the door and walked into his dark house. When he came out, he threw us two sets of keys and said: "These are the keys to the east wing and the west wing. Do you like them?" You can stay as long as you want, and the money will be settled every day, so please give today’s money first.”
After saying that, he stretched out his hand and handed it to me. I didn’t refuse and gave him three hundred yuan. Even if this was a garbage dump, we had no better choice. .
After receiving the money, the old man was obviously very happy. He turned back and locked his main house and was about to go out.
But before going out, he suddenly turned around and said to us: "Seeing that you are not short of money and you don't look like a bad person, you should not enter my house casually."
After saying this, he left. I was a little depressed. You don't need to say hello to us at all for this kind of thing, right
At this time, Brother Chengxin had already taken the key and opened the doors to the east and west wing rooms. Before he even entered the room, he was coughed repeatedly by the pungent smell inside and left. Then throughout the afternoon, this The mysophobic man and Kisaragi transformed themselves into 'cleaners' and began to clean the entire yard and the east and west wing rooms.
According to Brother Chengxin, if he doesn't clean it up, he won't be able to live here at all. He will be smoked to death here. How can he find the master? Since the old man only said hello and could not enter the main room, other things were allowed.
Ruyue is a girl, so of course she agrees with Brother Chengxin's statement, but it's just a pain for me, being forced to do something for them all my life.
I have to say that cleaning the house for this old man is a "heavy physical" job. Such busyness makes it difficult for us to think about anything else. When the entire yard and house are brand new and ready for habitation, , a crescent moon is already hanging in the sky, it’s already past 7pm... .
At this time, the whole town was extremely quiet. The strange thing was that not even a dog barked. If it were an ordinary place, not to mention it was very lively at this time, you could always hear the sound of the TV in every house. Some, the place where the old man lives is not too remote, but you can't hear any such sounds here at all, as if the people here don't even have the normal activities of modern humans, and live an ancient life.
After cleaning up and washing a little, we are sitting in the east wing eating dry food. How could we not notice such a weird thing? This makes me look forward to something happening at night. In my memory, the places that are more decadent than here are the villages around Heiyan Miao Village, and the people who are not allowed to go out at night are the villages outside the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts. This Both places hide horrific truths, could it be here too
"It's really interesting." Brother Chengxin is not a busybody, but he is a "three-eight" person who always likes to join in all kinds of fun. In this weird silence, he habitually squinted his eyes, He licked the dry food crumbs near his mouth and commented like this.
He looked really 'perverted', I cursed in my heart, I am a man, his appearance is not harmful to me.
Ruyue was too lazy to pay attention to the two of us. Only she behaved like a normal person, with a worried look on her face. After thinking for a long time, she couldn't help but said to Brother Chengxin and me: "Brother Three, Brother Chengxin, this The town is so weird, and Uncle Ge has never mentioned it. Will the three of us not be able to do this? Otherwise, after tonight, we will contact everyone to do it again? "
I shook my head and said, "I'm afraid it won't work to be so grand during the investigation."
"This is not a real Guidawan. The three of us can do it, Xiao Ruyue. If you don't believe in yourself, you should also believe in the beast that can fight, and your fat insect." Brother Chengxin comforted her gently. He looked at Ruyue, but his words became more and more evil. I couldn't help but roll my eyes at him when he said "Ruyue", but he was very calm. I guess his style was influenced by the young fox deep in his soul.
Ruyue was still a little uneasy. After all, women are always more afraid of strange things than men... At this time, I remembered the sound of the door opening and some staggering footsteps in the yard. I couldn't help but open the window and take a look. I took a quick look and found that the old man came back carrying a bottle of wine and talking about something.
Seeing the clean and tidy yard, he muttered an unknown dialect in his mouth, then turned around and walked out staggeringly. After taking two steps, he seemed to remember something again, turned around and looked at it carefully. Come to this yard.
At this time, the three of us had already walked out of the house, and the owner came back. We were still huddled in the room, which was somewhat inappropriate. Although it was just a transaction, after all, it was the first day, we still had to be polite, otherwise we would be in trouble here. In the town, we really can only live on the street.
"Did you clean it?" Under the moonlight, the old man's voice sounded a bit loud, but his thinking was still clear and he was obviously not too drunk.
Although the tone was disdainful, under the moonlight, I was still sensitive to the hint of emotion in his eyes.
I didn't speak, but Brother Chengxin leaned against the wall behind me, hugging his chest, and said lazily: "If you don't clean here, it's almost the same as living in a garbage dump."
"Anyway, if you clean it, I won't charge you less." The old man turned his face away, trying to pretend to be tough and indifferent, but a drop of crystal clear stuff hanging on the side of his face betrayed him.
I looked at the old man and suddenly became curious. The people in this town were extremely indifferent. This old man was not only indifferent but also a bit rogue. Why could cleaning the house move him to this point
But obviously this old man would not give us the answer. He seemed to have sobered up a lot. He wiped his face with movements that he thought we could not see, then strode towards his house, and then The door closed heavily, and there was no more movement.
"Weird." Brother Chengxin shrugged and commented, then turned around and entered the house. I followed suit. Only Ruyue looked at the old man's closed door thoughtfully for a while, and then followed us into the house. .
After eating dry food and chatting for a while, the night got late without realizing it. The town, which had been quiet for a long time since 7 o'clock, has become even quieter now at around 9 o'clock... We have also adapted to this kind of quietness. Look When the time was almost up, I accompanied Ruyue to the old man's kitchen to boil some hot water, prepare to wash up, and then rest.
According to the arrangement, Ruyue lived alone in the west wing, while Brother Chengxin and I lived in the east wing.
Because Ruyue was afraid of being alone, she had to accompany me while waiting for the water to boil. During the process, we were chatting, and suddenly we heard footsteps coming from behind us. When we looked back, we saw that it was the old man. Came behind us.
He looked at us without saying anything, which made me very surprised. I couldn't help but ask, "What's the matter with you?"
He still didn't say a word, but he dug out from his pocket, and then took out two crumpled hundred-yuan bills and some scattered loose bills, stuffed them into my hand, and said in a stiff tone: "It's after 9 o'clock in the evening. You can leave overnight. I won't take you in. I spent 47 yuan on drinks and food from the money you gave me. I have no money to pay back, but Next time you come and find me, I will definitely return it to you."
I took the money and didn't know what to say for a moment. I didn't care about forty yuan. The question is, I'm curious how you can live in this town without money? And I didn’t panic at all because of his words. Instead, I pushed the money back into his hand and said: "Trading is all about getting money and goods back and taking root! You give it back to us." , we won’t ask for it, and naturally people won’t leave, and we can’t drive them away, at least we’ll have to wait until tonight.”
The old man was stunned. He didn't expect that a polite-looking city dweller like me would act rogue. He didn't know what to say for a moment. After all, it was unrealistic for him, an old man, to force the three of us to leave.
I glanced at him with a smile, and the water happened to be boiling. I helped Ruyue take the boiling water off the stove, while Ruyue was busy getting cold water, and no one paid attention to the old man.
Seeing our attitude, the old man stamped his feet and said, "You really should leave, or else... Hey... you have a good life to live, what are you doing here?"
"Aren't you living well in this town? Why are you saying so scary?" I looked at the old man and smiled innocently. In fact, I knew something was wrong in my heart, but I didn't say that. I'm afraid I can't come up with some words.
"Oh, are you living well? Do you think the people in this town are living well? What do you think is normal? Listen to my advice, let's go! Don't tell anyone about what you see and feel here... . Otherwise no one can help you if you get into trouble." The old man said very seriously.
I looked at the old man and said, "Are you isolated from the world? There are always more than three strangers coming here in this town. Doesn't anyone notice that something is wrong?"
"Ha..." The old man suddenly sighed, then turned and walked away, saying: "I have advised you, but you don't listen, who can you blame?"
"Without diamonds, how can we dare to take on the porcelain work?" I suddenly answered a seemingly unrelated question.
The old man suddenly looked back at me, looked deeply at me for a long time, and then said: "Let's talk about it after tonight."