This small house, which was not big, did not change much after the old Taoist and the young man moved in.
When someone lives in a house that has not been inhabited for a long time, its popularity will take a while to grow. As long as the old house is left to dry out, and then people move in and live in it for a period of time, the popularity can be completely restored.
For example, the house where this old Taoist lives has been abandoned for a while, but the old man and the young man have lived here for three years. Logically speaking, it should have regained its popularity.
What's more, Xu Guodong has come here more than once to show off the old Taoist.
If you want to acquire knowledge, you must have a good attitude. Although it is communication, without a good attitude and placing yourself higher than others, it is not an attitude of learning.
Modesty and modesty, Xu Guodong does not lack these qualities.
When he came to this small courtyard in the past, Xu Guodong didn't feel anything. He just felt that the atmosphere of this small courtyard was slightly different. The arrival of the old Taoist seemed to add a calm flavor to this small courtyard.
But this time, I couldn't see the old Taoist, nor the young man who usually sat in the yard and didn't know what to do every time he came here.
From the moment Xu Guodong entered the door, he had a very strange feeling in his heart. This feeling could not find its source, but it became stronger and stronger.
As he walked through the yard and came to the door of the house, he stretched out his hand to push the door open, but there seemed to be a voice in his heart that kept preventing him from doing so.
It’s not just once or twice that he comes here to place the old Taoist, nor does the old Taoist happen to be in the courtyard every time, or come out to greet him, so entering directly is a default behavior, or the old Taoist has always
explained.
He said that when Xu Guodong comes again in the future, he will go directly into the house. He is old and his ears may not work well sometimes.
Unable to open the door to Xu Guodong in time, the old Taoist seemed very casual about this, so Xu Guodong followed the old Taoist's advice and had always done so.
But this time, when he walked into the room, he felt something different.
The door was pushed open, and the creaking sound of the door hinge echoed in my ears. It seemed to be much louder than usual, and there was also an echo, making the surroundings feel very empty.
This situation usually occurs when there is a new house or when moving. At that time, there is no one living in the house and there are few cluttered things. When the sound spreads, it will reverberate in the room, making people feel that the voice is louder.
Quite a few.
"what happened?"
Xu Guodong frowned, obviously he was a little uncomfortable with this situation, and the bad premonition in his heart was gradually increasing.
It seems like this
The house has been vacant for a long time...
Obviously the old Taoist lives here!
Xu Guodong's surprise did not last long. A large piece of dust fell from the roof of the shed. The dust fell softly, and the doorway of the house was filled with smoke.
"Cough cough cough"
Xu Guodong waved his hand to blow away the smoke in front of him and coughed violently. He really didn't expect that he would encounter such a thing.
"Taoist priest? Ahem"
He shouted, but no one answered. He took a few steps back and finally waited until the smoke and dust at the door dispersed. Xu Guodong felt that something was getting more and more wrong about this place.
The surroundings seemed to become chilly, and wisps of wind blew out of the room, which surprised Xu Guodong.
You know, it's cloudy now, and it's depressingly dull. Although black clouds cover the sky, there is no wind at all. So why is there wind blowing out of this room?
There was some fear and worry in his heart. Xu Guodong was worried that something unexpected would happen to the old Taoist, so he stepped in without any worries at all.
After stopping and entering again, Xu Guodong opened his eyes wide and looked at everything in front of him in disbelief. Is this house, this room, really the house where the old Taoist lived?
For a moment, Xu Guodong suspected that he had gone to the wrong place.
Not because of anything else, but because this room looks completely different from before. The difference is not due to the layout inside the house or any other place, but because the walls and floor of this room are full of
Everything is dust.
The dust was not ordinary, but very thick, as if no one had lived there for several years.
Although there is a lot of dust on the floor of this room and on the fire bed, you can see that there are still a lot of footprints here. You can even see many human traces on the fire bed, which seem to be
Who is sitting there.
On top of the fire pit, there was a small square table. There were many things on the table, including a bowl filled with rice and something similar to a spiritual tablet.
There were several burnt sticks of incense stuck in the bowl. The incense ashes accumulated a thick layer on the top of the bowl and were enshrined in front of the tablet. Xu Guodong was stunned again when he saw this situation.
Then he quickly turned his attention to other places. Not to mention, in this gloomy weather, coming to such a room felt like walking in the wilderness in the middle of the night and finally finding a cabin in the woods.
When I entered, I found that no one lived in this hut, but a ghost lived there.
Xu Guodong does not believe in this theory of gods and ghosts. The theory of gods and ghosts has long been defeated by science, and in that era, it was even advocated
Xu Guodong cannot believe that the leader defeated all demons and monsters. The most important thing is that he has never seen it with his own eyes, so how can he believe it?
When he glanced at the situation in the room, he noticed that the traces inside the house were very strange. Although many footprints and traces could be found on the dust in the room, these footprints were a bit strange.
What a strange method?
There are indeed traces left by someone on the edge of this heated bed. Judging from the marks in the dust, someone must have sat on this heated heated bed.
But this trace only stayed on one side, that is to say, there were traces on the side of the square table close to the door, but on the other side, there was only thick dust, and no traces left by anyone were seen at all.
The footprints on the ground are also very strange. Judging from the size, they seem to be the footprints left by a person. This person walked in from the door, then walked to the edge of the kang and sat down, and finally walked out of the room.
Apart from this, there is no trace left anywhere else in this room.
"Who left this behind?"
Xu Guodong had not yet reacted to the changes in the house and had not yet figured out why the house suddenly became like this. New doubts appeared in his mind.
Seeing these traces, Xu Guodong's first thought was that he was not the only one in this old Taoist's house, because many of the footprints still looked fresh, as if they had been left not long ago.
Although he has undergone a lot of training in Linjia Village, he is a teacher after all, and his physical fitness is not comparable to other people in this village. More importantly, he does not know how to fight.
"Do you want to exit from here first?"
Xu Guodong looked along the footprints and found that the overlapping identical footprints disappeared when they reached the edge of the kang after entering the room. Then they turned around from the edge of the kang and walked toward the door without going to other rooms.
He didn't go anywhere else, but left the house directly.
"Huh, has that person left already?"
This discovery made Xu Guodong feel at ease. The yard was not big. He had already seen it when he came in. There were not many places to hide people in such a small yard, so the person should have left. But what exactly was this?
What's going on?
"Did I really go to the wrong house? I shouldn't have!"
Xu Guodong was full of doubts. This old Taoist's house was in a relatively remote location. Not to mention that there were not many houses around it, so it was very easy to identify.
Just say that Xu Guodong has been here dozens or hundreds of times in the past three years. How could he go to the wrong door?