Before I entered this house, I felt like a scrap yard, and after I entered, I realized that it was worse than a scrap yard, a garbage dump!

Such a big yard, full of wine bottles and some things that I don't know, exuded a rancid smell in the blurred sunlight, the moment I entered the house, it made Brother Chengxin, who had a habit of cleanliness, frown all of a sudden, 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 recovery and adaptability.

'Rough man', Brother Chengxin once felt that these five words were tailor-made for me.

The old man who walked in front didn't care about our reaction, he just opened the door and walked into his own swarthy room, and when he came out, he threw us two sets of keys, and said: "This is the key to the east wing and the west wing, you can live as long as you like, the money is settled every day, now give us today's money first." ”

After speaking, he stretched out his hand, and handed it to me, and I didn't shirk it, and directly gave him three hundred yuan, even if this is a garbage dump, we have no better choice.

After receiving the money, the old man was obviously very happy, turned around 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 are not a bad person, you should not go into my house casually." ”

After saying this, he left, I was a little depressed, this kind of thing doesn't need to greet us at all, right?

At this time, Brother Chengxin had already taken the key, opened the doors of the east and west wings, and before he entered the house, he was smoked by the pungent smell inside and coughed out, and then throughout the afternoon, this man with a cleanliness habit and Ruyue turned into 'cleaners', and began to clean the entire yard and the two wings.

According to Brother Chengxin's words, if he doesn't clean 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 house, then other things were fine.

Ruyue is a girl, of course she agrees with Brother Chengxin's statement, but it hurts me, and I am forced to fight for them.

I have to say that cleaning the house for this old man is a 'heavy physical' work, and this busyness makes us have no mind to think about anything else, and when the whole yard and house are brand new, to the extent that they can be inhabited, a crescent moon has hung in the sky, and it is already more than 7 o'clock in the evening

At this time, the whole town has been extraordinarily quiet, the strange thing is that even the dog barks can't be heard, if it is an ordinary place, at this time, not to mention very lively, the sound of the TV in each household can always be heard, the old man lives in a place that is not remote, but here you can't hear the slightest such sound, as if the people here don't even have the usual activities of modern humans, and live an ancient life.

After cleaning and cleaning a little, we are sitting in the east wing eating dry food at the moment, how can we not pay attention to such a weirdness? This makes me look forward to something that will happen at night, in my memory, the more decadent place than here is the village around the Black Rock Miao Village, and the one who can't go out at will at night is the lake village outside the Lake of Ten Thousand Ghosts, both of which hide the terrifying truth, could it be that this is also the case?

"It's funny." Brother Chengxin is not a good person, but he is a 'three-eight' person, always likes to join in all kinds of excitement, in this strange quiet, he habitually squinted his eyes, licked the crumbs of dry food on the side of his mouth, and commented.

He looks really 'perverted', I slandered in my heart, I am a man, and his appearance is not lethal to me.

Ruyue didn't bother to pay attention to the two of us, only she acted like a normal person, her face was full of worry, she thought about it for a long time, and couldn't help but say to me and Brother Chengxin: "Third brother, Brother Chengxin, this town is so weird, Uncle Ge hasn't mentioned it, will this matter be something for the three of us?" Otherwise, after tonight, we will contact you to do it again? ”

I shook my head and said, "I'm afraid it's not okay to make such a big deal when we investigate." ”

"It's not a real ghost bay, the three of us can do it, Xiao Ruyue. If you don't believe in yourself, you should believe in the beast that can fight, and your fat worm. Brother Chengxin comforted Ruyue gently, but his speech became more and more disgusting, and a small Ruyue made me can't help but glance at him, but he was very calm, I guess his style was influenced by the tender fox in the depths of his soul.

Ruyue is still a little uneasy, after all, women's resistance to strange things is always more afraid than men At this time, the courtyard remembered the sound of the door opening and some stumbling footsteps, I couldn't help but push open the window and take a look, and found that it was the old man who came back with a bottle of wine and a mouthful of chatter.

Seeing the clean and tidy courtyard, he muttered a dialect that he didn't know what it was, and then turned around and walked out crookedly, and after taking two steps, he seemed to remember something, turned around and looked at the courtyard carefully.

At this time, the three of us had already walked out of the house, and the master had returned, and we were still huddled in the room, somewhat inappropriate, although it was just a transaction, after all, this was the first day, and we had to be polite, otherwise we would really have to live on the street in this town.

"You cleaned it?" In the moonlight, the old man's voice seemed to have a big tongue, but his thinking was still clear, and he was obviously not too drunk.

Although the tone was disdainful, by the moonlight, I was still sensitive to the hint of emotion in his gaze.

I didn't speak, but Brother Chengxin leaned against the wall behind me, hugged his chest, and said lazily: "If you don't clean here, it's almost no different from living in a garbage dump." ”

"Anyway, if you clean up, I won't charge less." The old man turned his face and tried to pretend to be hard and didn't care, but a drop of crystal clear things hanging from the side of his face betrayed him.

I looked at this old man, and suddenly I was a little curious, the people in this town are extremely indifferent, this old man is not only indifferent but also a bit of a scoundrel, why cleaning a house can move him like this?

But evidently the old man would not give us an answer, and his wine seemed to have woken up a lot, and he wiped his face with what he thought we could not see, and then strode towards his room, and then closed the door with a heavy slam, and there was no more movement.

"Weirdos." Brother Chengxin shrugged, commented, and then turned around and entered the house, and I followed into the house, only Ruyue looked thoughtfully at the door closed by the old man for a while, and then followed us into the house.

After eating dry food, chatting for a while, the night was unconsciously deep, how long did not there be any movement in the town at 7 o'clock, but now it is more than 9 o'clock, it is even quieter, we are also used to this quiet, seeing that the time is almost up, I accompanied Ruyue to the old man's kitchen to boil some hot water, ready to wash up, and rested.

According to the arrangement, Ruyue lived alone in the west wing, and Brother Chengxin and I lived in the east wing.

Because Ruyue was scared alone, so when waiting for the water to boil, I had to accompany him, and in the process we were gossiping, and I heard footsteps behind me, and when I looked back, it was the old man who came behind us.

He looked at us and didn't speak, which made me very surprised, and I couldn't help but ask, "Is there something wrong with you?" ”

He still didn't speak, he took it out of his arms, and then took out two crumpled hundred-dollar bills and some scattered loose bills, stuffed them into my hand, and said in a somewhat stiff tone: "It's more than 9 o'clock in the evening, you can leave overnight, I won't take you in." I used forty-seven yuan to buy wine and drink the money you gave me, and I didn't have the money to pay it back, but the next time you come and find me, I will definitely pay it back to you. ”

I took the money, I didn't know what to say for a while, I didn't care about forty dollars, the problem was that I was curious about how you lived in the town without money? And I didn't panic at all because of his words, but stuffed the money back into his hand and said, "Trading, it's about both money and goods, and it takes root!" If you give it back to us, we won't ask for it, and the natural people won't leave, and we won't be able to drive it away, at least after tonight. ”

The old man was stunned, he didn't expect that a city man like me, who looked like Sven, would play a scoundrel, and he didn't know what to say for a while, after all, it was unrealistic for him to drive the three of us away as an old man.

I smiled and glanced at him, just as the water was boiling, I helped Ruyue bring the boiling water off the stove, while Ruyue was busy fetching cold water, and no one paid attention to the old man.

Seeing our attitude, the old man stomped his foot and said, "If you really leave, if you don't leave, you have your good life to live, what are you doing here?" ”

"Aren't you alive and well in this town? Why are you so scary? I looked at the old man, smiling innocently, in fact, I knew in my heart that something was wrong, but if I didn't say that, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to make up some words.

"Heh, how are you living? Do you think the people in this town are doing well? What do you think is normal? Listen to my advice, and you can go! What you see here, what you feel, don't spread it, otherwise no one will be able to help you if you get into trouble. "The old man was very serious.

I looked at the old man and said, "Are you isolated?" It's not just three of us strangers in this town, so doesn't anyone notice that something is wrong? ”

"Heh" the old man suddenly sighed, then turned and walked away, and said, "I have persuaded you, but if you don't listen, who can complain?" ”

"If there is no diamond, where can you dare to do porcelain work?" Suddenly, I picked up something that seemed unrelated.

The old man looked back at me for a long time, and then said, "Let's talk about it tonight." ”