A minute after seeing the residents of the deserted house, Yu Xing was hurriedly welcomed in.
The excitement of the welcome was almost too eager, like a wolf about to starve to death in the next second when he sees meat. The middle-aged man raised a false and charming smile, and dragged the three people in at the door. He seemed to
Even if you can't see it, it's clear.
When the middle-aged man stretched out his hand to pull him, Zhao Yijiu had a cold face and released a cold aura that kept strangers away from him. However, the middle-aged man seemed not to feel it at all.
"Please come in, please come in!"
The child who dropped the basket didn't go out either. He followed behind him and imitated: "Please come in, please come in!"
They were going to stay in the house for the night, so the three of them didn't resist, so they entered the house along with Qing Qing, who was slowly floating behind, looking around.
As soon as you enter the courtyard, you will see a small open space with a well in the center and a large tank filled with water beside the well.
Further inside, there is a somewhat shabby wooden table - it cannot be compared with the Eight Immortals Table in the Yin Yang Corridor room. It is completely a small wooden table made of wooden boards and nails. Even if one person is sitting on one side, it will be too crowded.
On both sides of the open space are rows of ancient houses, which seem to be indistinguishable from priority to priority. With the number of gatekeepers, this desolate courtyard can actually accommodate a dozen people.
The middle-aged man was obviously what the old man called the woodcutter. He grinned his yellow teeth and rubbed his hands: "We don't meet a living person here for eight hundred years. It's so rare. Hey, hey, you heard it too.
It’s probably just the legends from outside.”
"Yes, we are here to stay." The actor took the initiative to take over the conversation, patted the woodcutter's hand with a smile, "I encountered some things in the outside world, and I need to hide away."
"Understood!" The woodcutter waved his hand boldly, "The three brothers look a little strange in their attire, but it doesn't matter. There are not many people who come to our place to hide from trouble. So - you are staying in the guest room.
Or should you stay here and not leave?"
There is nothing to hesitate about this choice. They are just renting it, maybe only for one day, so naturally they choose a guest room.
The woodcutter was not disappointed either. He led the three of them to the townhouse on the right and introduced them as they walked: "Don't be surprised that I let you in without asking anything. We are very hospitable here."
"Very hospitable!" The child is still imitating human speech.
"Some people have come here to stay for a night before, stayed for a day or two and then left. They all know that our house is magical and enemies can't come in. Some of them don't look like good people. Xiao Song and Xiao Yun are still afraid of them...
"After passing the well, the woodcutter stepped aside, fear flashed in his eyes.
"Brother Song is a scholar, so he knows a lot!" said the child, "Sister Yun likes to be a prostitute. There are even embroideries hanging on the walls in the house. It's so beautiful!"
"Why didn't you see them two?" the actor asked.
"They are all in the house. They are relatively shy hahaha. They are not crazy like me and like to be lively." The woodcutter opened a door to show the three of them.
The inside of this room is much more comfortable than the outside. It has a bed, a table, chairs, and a wardrobe, which is enough for at least one night's stay.
But the bed is very small and can only sleep alone.
"One room per person, you can choose an empty room, it's the same anyway." The woodcutter wiped his hand on the door frame on his clothes, "But you can only choose the east row, which is for guests."
"By the way, there may be things in the house left by previous guests. Please don't throw them away. For us... these are all commemorations."
Yu Xing made a "hmm" sound in his nose and looked up at the sky: "I think it's getting cloudy too quickly. What time is it now?"
The woodcutter's expression suddenly froze for a moment: "...time? I, I don't know, since we moved in, we don't need to remember the time anymore."
"I see, I didn't think carefully." Yu Xing smiled politely, "By the way, I just heard from you that there are only four people in this house who have decided to live in this house forever, including this child?"
"Yes, some of those who stayed overnight had feelings for us and couldn't bear to leave us. They agreed to go out and write letters to us. I couldn't read, so I gave it to Xiao Song to read, but they left one by one.
It disappeared and there was no news again." The woodcutter shook his head and tugged at the corner of his mouth, "Hey, let's not mention it. There is nothing worth remembering in this wretched place."
It was obvious that the woodcutter was a talkative person, and as soon as they met, his resentment started to show up.
"Ahem, you guys choose a house." The woodcutter probably realized that telling the new tenants about the previous tenants was not very useful, so he coughed and asked the three of them to help themselves.
This courtyard adopts a loop-shaped structure. Except for the courtyard gate, the other three sides are houses, with four rooms on one side, for a total of twelve rooms.
There were only four rooms for people to stay. In fact, since the woodcutter couldn't see him, they just had one room each.
Each room corresponds to a room opposite. Presumably the guest room is on the east side, and the residences of the four permanent residents are on the west side. They are exactly one-to-one. In the eyes of the deducers, this is too foreshadowing.
However, the layouts of these rooms are exactly the same, and the selection time is too early. Which one corresponds to them can only depend on luck.
The actor was very gentlemanly: "You go first, it's the same wherever I live."
Yu Xing: "Oh, I won't be humble to you anyway."
He didn't choose, and after thinking about it, he chose the second room on the east side, and asked Zhao Yijiu to stay in the third room, while Yiqing went to the fourth room. With one of them and the other ghost there, the actor had no chance to deal with the weaker Zhao among them.
What can you do with just one drink?
The actor knew this well, chuckled with unknown meaning, and walked into the room.
The woodcutter saw that they had chosen a room and tapped his head: "I suddenly remembered that you also know the evil nature of my yard. There are some things that you must remember, which only people who stay here should pay attention to."
"First, don't go out after dark. Everything you hear is false. Don't run out to see it out of curiosity."
"Second, every day there is food on the table in the yard. You have to go and eat it. You can't pretend you didn't see it."
"Third, you must be in your own room when it gets dark, and you can't visit each other."
"Fourth, you cannot go to other people's rooms without their consent."
At four o'clock in total, the woodcutter understood the instructions and left them to rest. He returned to the house.
Yu Xing saw from the corner of his eye that the woodcutter entered through the fourth door on the west side, which corresponded to Yi Qing's room.
I'm afraid the woodcutter still doesn't know that a ghost lives in the fourth room on the east side.
The child hesitated on the spot for a while, as if he was about to run away, but the actor waved to the child, lowered his head very gently and said something to the child, and then took the child to his room.
Once the door was closed, the voice could not be revealed at all.
The remaining two people and one ghost isolated him and gathered in Yu Xing's room.
"Did you see anything?" Yu Xing asked Zhao Yijiao first.
Zhao Yijiu nodded: "The woodcutter is very malicious. He seems to want us never to leave."
Yiqing spread his hands: "Of course, he is a dead person after all. He may be just trying to harm others."
Yu Xing looked at Yi Qing: "Are you sure he is a ghost?"
"Of course." Yiqing fanned, still looking down on the other ghosts, "You don't even need to look at this. I smelled four ghosts as soon as I walked in. There's not a single living person in the whole yard."