Ren pointed to the house next to him: "My friend told me that the address of the deceased is here, No. 27, Highway Town, huh? Is No. 27 next door?"
Thinking that the child had always said he didn't know before, he added at the end.
Unexpectedly, after the child's mother heard that he was looking for the family next door, she looked wary: "Do you know this family?"
Ren shook his head honestly: "I don't know. My friend asked me to attend the funeral for her."
The other party's face became a little better. He put the child down, patted his head, and asked him to go back to play in the house. Then he said to Ren: "No one has lived next door for a long time, how can there be a funeral? You
My friend probably heard some rumors and played a prank on you, deliberately trying to tease you."
"rumor?"
Ren was curious about this, but the woman was unwilling to explain any more, and instead advised: "It's not a good thing anyway, you'd better not care about it."
Seeing her like this, I'm afraid she wouldn't say much more, so Ren could only say thank you and say goodbye.
Under the scrutinizing gaze of the neighbor next door, he tried knocking on the door of Room 27. As expected, there was no response and the door was locked tightly.
When he turned around again, the hostess of No. 26 had already entered the room. She was probably a little scared when she saw that he did not listen to his advice and was suspicious of his purpose.
Renn wiped off the dust on his palms from pushing open the fence door. As the other party said, this house had indeed been unoccupied for a while. Both the door and the windows were locked, and the windows were covered with curtains.
It's so tight that no one can see what's going on inside.
He left and tried to find people in other towns to learn about the so-called rumors, but most people kept it secret. From the only words revealed by a few people, there was a key word:
Haunted house.
This surprised Renn. With normal people's thinking, even if they see ordinary unusual things, they should just speculate on magic. And even if there are real ghosts, it is not something worth avoiding.
, the bigger police stations all have ways to deal with it, so why is everyone reluctant to mention it?
Ren was puzzled and called Yin Nide, but no one answered. He could only think of another solution.
...
In the evening, cars began to drive back from outside the town, and more and more cars came back. They must be people who went out to work and went home.
Ren asked some more people to inquire, but unfortunately these people also refused to say anything. Moreover, because they asked so many questions, when he walked in the town later, he would receive cautious looks from time to time.
If this continues, I'm afraid there won't even be a place to stay at night.
After thinking for a moment, Ren turned around and walked along the road towards the outside of the town. After going a few miles, he faced the direction of the town and squatted down under a roadside light.
At this time, the sky was getting dark, and the cars returning to the town became rare. From one car in the first few minutes, it was rare to see one in the next ten minutes. After all, there were less than a hundred households in the entire town.
The night was also completely deep.
Another car passed by, but this time it drove a few dozen meters before slowly backing up and stopping next to Renne.
The car window rolled down, revealing a man's face, shouting at Ren: "Boy, it's so dark, squatting on the roadside, you're not afraid of something happening!"
Ren waved his hand: "I know, I just want to take a rest when I'm tired and leave immediately. The area with the lights in front is Haiwei, right?"
As he spoke, he stood up, patted his clothes, and looked like he was about to move forward.
The man leaned his head out of the car window to see Ren's face. Unfortunately, the angle was inconvenient and the environment was dark, so he couldn't see clearly. But judging from his voice and body shape, he didn't feel like he was an acquaintance in the town.
"Are you going to Haiwei? Are you visiting? Which one?"
"It's not a visit." Ren said in a loud voice, dancing around like a kid: "I heard that there is a haunted house here, so I came here specially at night to stay in it for one night!"
The man looked at Renn up and down: "Who told you there was a haunted house here?"
Renn took two steps forward and reached the front of the car. He turned his back to the man and shook his hair: "I am a ghost lover, of course I know."
He is also afraid of revealing his secrets.
"No one has lived in that house for a long time." The man said the same thing as the people in the town before. It seemed that he hoped that Ren would back down.
But Ren was still carefree, as if he didn't take the man's words to heart at all: "I know, that's why it's called a haunted house."
The man further explained: "There are no ghosts there, so it can't be called a haunted house."
Renn didn't care: "I'll know if there are ghosts after I stay here for one night. I've encountered a lot of false rumors like this in the past, but you have to verify it yourself. This is called a ghost lover."
"You!" The man was a little angry: "I mean there are no ghosts there at all, it's just a strange family that moved in before."
"A strange family?" Renn turned around now.
The man hesitated for a moment, but he had already mentioned it, and it seemed to make no difference whether he said it or not, so he told Ren about the family.
It is said that more than 20 years ago, a family of three moved to Haiwei Town. The couple brought a three-year-old little girl with them.
This family is very friendly and generous. They took their daughter and gave small gifts to every household. In addition, the little girl is also pretty and lovable, so the family is welcomed by the people in the town.
The only thing that is strange is that this family rarely allows other people to visit his home. However, since he is a nice person and often helps everyone, the people in the town just regard it as a tradition of the place where they used to live. Maybe
I don’t have the habit of inviting people to my home.
Until one day, someone passed by his house and saw the daughter of the three people sitting in the yard holding a girl who looked exactly like her, who seemed to be sleeping, and asked curiously who the girl was.
My daughter said she was her sister and she hadn’t been out for a long time, so she took her out to bask in the sun.
The person who asked the question was surprised at the time. When this family moved here, they had only one daughter. They had not seen other children after living here for so long. How did these twin sisters, who looked how old they were, come from?
The man took a closer look at the sister who looked the same, and the more he looked at it, the more weird he felt. The girl was reluctantly held in his arms by a girl of the same size. It didn't look like she was sleeping, but more like she was in a coma.
This thought made him quickly walk into the yard, and when he took a closer look, he saw that the girl was not in a coma, she was obviously dead! There was no life at all!
"I scared that guy half to death at that time." The man in the car said with half surprise and half fear: "They said that the family's little daughter passed away and they were unwilling to bury the body, but they kept using some method to preserve it.
Yes, it was hidden in the luggage when we moved here."
Renn didn't expect that the rumors turned out to be like this. It had nothing to do with ghosts or anything like that: "What happened next?"
"Everyone can understand the mood of this family, and their senses are usually good, but it is not a problem to keep a child's body hidden at home. People around will inevitably feel a little uncomfortable. At that time, someone advised
But they didn't want to, and they said that his daughter was not dead. At first, everyone was considerate, but the longer time went by, and the thought of the family staying with a corpse like this, the more afraid everyone became of contact with them, and gradually they became more and more at ease with them.
People in the town are alienated."
"Did they move away later?"
"Not so fast. It was almost ten years ago. The couple had an accident, and his daughter left after handling the funeral." The man said and shook his head: "After that, someone went to their house to look for them, but there was no one there.
After seeing the girl’s body, I don’t know what they did with it in the end, maybe the daughter was taken away.”
After hearing this, Ren was thoughtful and seemed to understand somewhat about the invitation.