After solving Xie Huaiyu's problem, the few of us returned to the basement I rented. My room was very small, and it was a bit difficult to accommodate three people. But there was nothing we could do. The three of us were as tired as dogs, and we didn't care.
One, fall down and go to sleep.
When I woke up, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon the next day. I was worried about the bloody fingerprints on my back, and worried that the Bai family would come after us for revenge, so I quickly urged Lao Mao and Da Huang to go to the Bai family's ancestral home on the outskirts of the city.
look.
I don’t know the origin of this Bai family at all. No matter how prosperous their ancestors were, they seem to have declined in the past hundred years, otherwise they would not live in the outer suburbs.
We first took a long-distance bus and changed several bus lines before finally finding the village where the Bai family was located. This village was in the mountains on the outskirts of Beijing. It was quiet and had a backward and gloomy atmosphere.
The bus stop was four or five miles outside the village. It was already past six o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived. Old Cat Dahuang and I got off the bus and started trekking towards the village.
The village is located halfway up the mountain. There is a mountain col in the distance. I asked a few questions on the bus just now. The ancestral graves of the Bai family should be in the col.
There are currently less than thirty households in this village, and most of them are elderly people. The young people have moved to nearby counties, so the whole village seems a bit lifeless.
We walked along the mountain road, and Dahuang looked at it and muttered: "Why are the suburbs of this big city so desolate? It's even more desolate than my hometown."
I shook my head helplessly and said: "Every city has its desolate side, and not all cities are good."
Just as we were talking, we had arrived at the edge of the village. Looking from here, the village on the mountainside looked very distinctive. The houses were lined up in rows, all of which were typical northern large tile-roofed houses. Among them, the houses on the east side of the village were particularly eye-catching because of their
The design is very simple and all in black style.
The old cat only glanced at it and said immediately: "The east of the village should be the ancestral home of the Bai family. Let's go there."
Dahuang smacked his lips and said, "Master is master. You can tell the right master at a glance."
We walked eastward along the cement road in the village. On the road, we could occasionally see a few gray-haired old people sitting at the door chatting. It was almost seven o'clock now, and the light in the mountain was dim. Basically, there would be no lights at all in half an hour.
Sorry, especially since there are no street lights in this village, it’s really terrible.
It looked like it would be completely dark by the time we entered the Bai family's ancestral home. Thinking of this, I shuddered a little.
Fortunately, the three of us walked quickly, and it was not completely dark when we reached the Bai family's ancestral home.
I stood at the door and looked up. The ancestral home of the Bai family in front of me was a typical northern courtyard design. Although it was halfway up the mountain, it still had noses and eyes.
Looking at the design, this ancestral house must be old, and it doesn't look like the post-liberation style. It is surrounded by a circle of walls, nearly one and a half meters high, which is very thick and gives a sense of security.
There is a large black door on the front, and there are even door nails on it. It can be seen that the Bai family was a wealthy family at that time. However, due to the traces of time, the color of the big black door is no longer bright, and has even begun to fade.
Despite this, it still gives people a solemn feeling.
There are probably several rooms in the courtyard. The house in the north is neat and straight. It looks like a meticulous work that pays attention to Feng Shui. I can't help but admire the exquisiteness of the Bai family's ancestral home. It seems that even if they live in the suburbs, the Bai family is not an ordinary person.
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Dahuang shook his head and said, "Do you think it's strange? This family all have the surname Bai, but they chose to design their house in black. Could it be for humor?"
The old cat said: "What do you know? This is the principle of the five elements mutually reinforcing each other. Black is water. The Bai family should be related to wood in the five elements, so the ancestral house is designed in black, which means that water can prosper wood. Furthermore, water
Among the five elements, it represents wealth. Designing your ancestral home in black can also ensure that your wealth will always be prosperous."
Dahuang nodded with a vague understanding. Actually, I didn’t understand it too well. Anyway, there are too many ways in the Five Elements Feng Shui. It seems that Lao Mao is indeed a knowledgeable person, and he can explain so many truths just by talking.
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After watching for a while, Dahuang asked: "Master, should we go in directly, or should we go to the Bai family's ancestral graves first?"
The old cat thought for a while and said, "Just go in." After that, he took a step forward and walked towards the big black door.
As soon as Lao Mao pressed his hand on the door, a cold voice suddenly sounded from behind us: "Who are you? What do you want to do?"
I looked back and saw an old man with all white hair standing behind us, leaning on a crutch, with a hint of sternness in his eyes.
I quickly explained: "Uncle, we are relatives of the Bai family. Aren't we going back to our ancestral home to visit..."
When the old man heard this, his expression immediately changed and he said angrily: "Fart! The Bai family has been dead for a long time. How can you be relatives of the Bai family? It's just a fart!"
I was stunned. I didn’t expect that the Bai family was no longer here. This was beyond my expectation. Although this house did look like no one had been here for a long time, and it didn’t look like someone was there, the Bai family was a wealthy family back then.
It is not normal for a prominent family to become extinct so easily.
Dahuang quickly came over to smooth things over for me and said: "We are distant relatives, distant relatives, old man, don't get excited..."
The old man paused with his cane and said, "What kind of distant relatives are you three? Or who is it?"
Da Huang quickly pushed me and said, "He is, but we are not. His name is Bai Yang, and he is a distant relative of Lao Bai's family."
The old man walked around me, looked at me for a while, and then nodded and said: "Distant relatives... Why haven't I heard that there are any distant relatives in Lao Bai's family?"
I quickly changed the subject and asked: "Old man, isn't the Bai family a big family in this area? Why are they all gone suddenly? What happened to them?"
The old man sneered and said: "A rich family? That was during the Republic of China! The Lao Bai family did not leave any room for anything and made many enemies. The last wave of descendants survived by luck. They originally wanted to do some good deeds and accumulate good deeds.
, I didn’t expect that God would be merciless... I remember it was more than ten years ago. The last family of four in the Bai family was on the hillside in front of them. Their car overturned. None of the four people survived. The youngest baby
How old is Meng Erbai... He just left like that... Sigh..."
When I heard the words Meng Erbai, I trembled all over. I immediately understood that we were in the right place. It seemed that Meng Erbai had died more than ten years ago. The little boy I met on the subway who loved to shoot balls.
Girl, if she lived longer now, she would be in her twenties...
The old man kept talking for a while, talking about nothing more than the reincarnation of heaven, good and evil being rewarded, etc. From the lines of his words, I could probably understand the rise and fall of the entire Bai family.
The Bai family had already risen in the Qing Dynasty and had always been a big family in Shangjing. During the Republic of China, they had too many enemies and suffered a lot, so they came here to build the Bai family's ancestral home. They wanted to be alone, but unfortunately their enemies still came after them.
After another generation of revenge, only Meng Erbai and his family of four are left in the Bai family.
Unfortunately, just over ten years ago, a family of four was traveling by car and had a traffic accident before they even left the ravine. The Bai family was thus cut off.
The old man talked for a while, maybe he was a little tired, and he didn't want to waste time with us anymore. He pointed at the Bai family's old house and said with a smile: "It's not impossible for you to go in, but let me remind you, old man.
There's a ghost in that house!"
After saying this, without waiting for our reaction, the old man walked away on crutches.
I looked back at the old cat, and saw that the old cat still had a calm face, as if he had no idea about what the old man said just now. He stared at the Bai family's ancestral home quietly with his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
Dahuang folded his arms and kept whispering to himself.
I asked: "Dahuang, what are you talking about?"
Dahuang said: "You don't understand this. I am chanting a spell. It will be dark in a blink of an eye, and the evil ghosts will come out of their holes. I have to chant some spells to scare them first."
I pointed to the gloomy Bai family's ancestral house and asked: "Then do we still want to go in? Didn't the old man say that there is a ghost in the Bai family's ancestral house? What if the bloody handprint on my back is not solved yet and a new ghost is provoked?
, what should we do?”
Dahuang glanced at the old cat and said, "Listen to my master."
The old cat still said nothing, quietly looking inside the Bai family's ancestral house. It was already dark at this time, and with the remaining sunlight, we could still vaguely see the scene inside the Bai family's ancestral house.
Because this house is built on the hillside, and the house in the courtyard is higher than the outer wall, so when we stand at the door, we can see the windows of the northern row of rooms in the ancestral house.
I glanced at the old cat twice and found that his eyes were always staring at a window in the room due north.
I couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Old cat, what are you looking at?"
The old cat ignored me and just stared quietly.
I couldn't hold back my curiosity and followed the old cat's gaze. As soon as I looked, I heard the old cat say to me: "Don't look, or I'll scare you to death."
But what he said was too late, I had already stared at him. This look really frightened me so much that the hairs on my body stood up.
I saw a pale human face plastered on the window of the house directly to the north!
That face was obviously a human being, but there was no color at all on it, and it was as pale as a piece of white paper.
The man was wearing a big red flower cotton-padded jacket, hiding behind the window, looking at us coldly!