As the sky gradually brightened, a thick white mist rose from all over the mountain, intertwined with each other, suddenly gathered, suddenly dispersed, rolled on the slopes, and finally poured into the valley with the cool morning breeze, enveloping the whole village.

Three steps away, there is nothing to be seen, drowsy, chaotic, as if heaven and earth are not divided.

Moisture collects into dew drops at the tips of the grass blades, and even when it doesn't rain, the dry soil on the ground quickly becomes moist.

The villagers get up very early, and even before the rooster crows, some old people who can't sleep have already walked out of the house, wandering on the village road, or carrying a shabby bamboo basket, going to the vegetable field to pick vegetables, rummaging through the chicken coop, and checking for overnight eggs.

The diligent village women were busy in the kitchen, driving the gray-faced old cat out of the stove, the ignited firewood and grass released red light and heat, steaming steamed bun rolls in the cauldron iron, boiling white porridge, taking out two bowls of pickles from the refrigerator, and cutting a few salted duck eggs, the family's breakfast was soon ready.

Liu Baoquan, who was called an unfilial son by the villagers, sat on the steps in front of the tin house with bloodshot eyes, his single clothes stained with dew, but at his feet was a cigarette butt, and the smell of smoke on his body lingered

From the moment the lights in the hall of the old house suddenly turned on, he fell asleep, returned to the door, and sat all night, staring at the old house not far away.

The money of the village party secretary is not so easy to owe, Liu Baoquan smashed all the money he had left into the two rooms of the old house, if he can't earn money, the old house will be repaid, and he will be completely penniless, and the old party secretary will be escorted to the labor camp to work as a coolie for a lifetime.

As a lazy bastard, how could he accept this kind of future, but the newly renovated old house was suddenly haunted and gave Liu Baoquan a slap in the face, which made him regret it, not because he smashed the last bit of money, but regretted that he should have been filial to his father in the first place, and now his father is still ghosted, and the opportunity to make money from the old house is obviously in front of him, but there is no way.

Looking at the lights that lit up from time to time and went out without warning, Liu Baoquan prayed silently in his heart, praying that his father's spirit in the sky would not hurt the innocent, and punish him for his unfilial son.

People's hearts are long, even when they encounter misfortune, they are pointed at by the villagers, coupled with the strict education of the village party secretary, this unfilial son has long had a trace of remorse in his heart, but his will is not decided, he is not forced to a dead end, and he has never been able to make up his mind.

The village suddenly became lively, many people came along the village road to Liu Baoquan's old house, and the figures in the undispersed mist were hazy, I don't know how many people there were.

In just one night, the news of two bold young men living in a haunted house spread throughout the village.

Like Boss Deng and Guo Wenkai, who opened a farmhouse, they are concerned about the safety of Li Bai and Officer Xiao Wang, and other people in the village want to see the excitement more, maybe it won't be long before there will be another haunted rumor in the village, which will become a topic of conversation after dinner.

By the way, it is also good to develop a haunted house attraction.

It was not only the villagers who were alarmed, but also the tourists who stayed in the village, and even the county leaders who heard the news.

Noisy human voices buzzed along the hillside, quickly alarming the occupants of the house.

Li Bai carried a towel, opened the door of the old house, and saw the crowds outside the courtyard, and felt a little inexplicable, he was not a monkey, and this was not a zoo, what was there to watch.

"Dr. Li, did you sleep well last night?"

Guo Wenkai leaned on the courtyard wall made of stones, climbed in directly, opened the courtyard door with his hand, and Boss Deng walked in with Lao Zhang and others.

"Very good!"

Li Bai completely drained the water in the towel, and the sound of Officer Xiao Wang stretching his waist and exclamations came from the guest room.

"It's noisy, I'll go, what's the situation?"

Officer Xiao Wang didn't think that he would encounter strong onlookers even when he slept.

"Have you ever met a ghost?"

At this moment, Liu Baoquan, whose eyes were red, opened the crowd and rushed into the courtyard.

"Liu Baoquan, what's the matter with you?"

Boss Deng scolded the reckless Liu Baoquan, and then frowned, this guy was covered in dew, his hair was messy like a chicken coop, but like a living ghost-like mandrill, it seemed that he had been keeping watch outside the old house all night.

Li Bai guessed what these people were most concerned about, and he didn't sell it, so he said calmly: "The ghost didn't see it, but he found something." ”

The crowd outside the courtyard walls let out an exclamation.

Is the famous haunted house in the mountain village finally about to reveal its secrets?

"Little comrade, did you really catch a ghost?"

The crowd parted left and right, and an old man with gray hair walked into the courtyard.

Boss Deng immediately introduced Li Bai and Guo Wenkai: "This is the old branch secretary of our village, Deng Yuan. ”

Most of the people in this village are surnamed Deng, and the old branch secretary was originally the branch secretary and the village chief, but later the policy changed, and the village chief was served by young people, and the village officials of college students were implemented, so they became the branch secretary of the iron beat and the village officials of flowing water.

The authority of the old branch secretary in the village is still unquestionable, and everyone is convinced.

Guo Wenkai, Li Bai and others greeted this respected old man one after another.

After a short period of cold noise, Li Bai continued: "Actually, it's not a ghost, but it can be confirmed that they are ghosts. ”

The villagers and tourists outside the courtyard wall exclaimed again that they had actually found something unusual.

The old branch secretary and Liu Baoquan and others asked in unison, "What is it?"

"Wait a minute!" Li Bai turned around and returned to the house, took out a bottle of mineral water, and said, "It's right here." ”

After tearing off the packaging, only the transparent mineral water bottle was left crawling dozens of creepy insects, the small ones were half an inch, the large ones were close to an inch, the black-brown body was oval, the abdomen had yellow stripes, and the head was slightly pointed.

"What kind of bug is this?"

Guo Wenkai looked at the strange insects crawling inside the bottle, and was able to distinguish the characteristics of the insects with six legs and three structures of the head, thorax and abdomen.

"Kiss of Death!"

Li Bai's voice was not loud, but the people inside and outside the courtyard wall heard it clearly, for a while, the flashes of cameras and mobile phones came and went, and the hairs on the backs of many people stood on end, and the name alone could make people have nightmares.

"Kiss of Death?"

The old branch secretary was so frightened that he took a step back.

"Haha, it's just a nickname, also known as a kissing bug, the scientific name is Tryone bug, it likes to suck blood in people's mouths and eyes, it can suck a lot of blood at a time, and sometimes it can infect diseases. ”

Thanks to the almighty Internet, Li Bai used his mobile phone to find the origin of these insects on the Internet, and it only took him ten minutes to catch these little vampires from the corners and corners of the room, stuff them into mineral water bottles, and arrest them all, which can be regarded as solving the strange blood stain case on the side of the mouth and pillow.

There may still be some insects hidden inside and outside the old house, but there is no need to worry, and the hidden dangers can be completely eliminated by killing them with drugs afterwards.

"It turned out to be a bug!"

Old Secretary Deng breathed a sigh of relief, since the original culprit was caught, then Liu Baoquan's old house could not be considered a haunted house, and this guy could finally make some money.

Thinking that he had been sucked by these insects, Liu Baoquan couldn't help but shudder, but he had other questions in his heart, and hurriedly continued to ask: "Then what about the lights, why do they flicker on and off, and these insects are also doing it?"

"This is man-made, or a mistake, the quality of the switch in the house is problematic, the wiring is not standardized, and the lights will be automatically lit or suddenly short-circuited and extinguished after a long time. ”

Li Bai handed the mineral water bottle containing the "Kiss of Death" to Guo Wenkai and asked them to pass it on, and the mineral water bottle quickly spread to the outside of the courtyard.

"So that's the case!" Old Branch Secretary Deng nodded, turned his head and said to Boss Deng: "Alai, find tools to dismantle those switches, and then bring Ah Chun and ask him to check the circuit here." ”

"Okay!"

Boss Deng immediately took out the phone to find Ah Chun, an electrician in the village.

Liu Baoquan, the owner of the old house, rushed to get a screwdriver, and the two of them divided it by two, removed several switches, and smashed them open with stones, and the reeds inside had ablation marks.

Ah Chun, who came with a toolbox, looked at the switches that had been smashed open, shook his head and said, "It's a copycat, and the thin copper sheets in it are all on fire." ”

The old branch secretary said angrily: "Did Boss Ma cut corners?"

Thinking that the village's acceptance responsibility also has its own share, and if there is a problem with cutting corners, it will be difficult to escape responsibility, Ah Chun hurriedly said: "It's not Boss Ma, he didn't purchase this brand." ”

Liu Baoquan's old face turned red, and he stammered: "I bought the switch in the town, one for one dollar, who knows if it's cheap or not." ”

The village's unified procurement of large factory switches, one at least four yuan, Liu Baoquan's capital is not much, I want to save a fortune, I bought a bargain from a small hardware store, but I didn't expect that something went wrong, and I scared myself and others.

Electrician Ah Chun carefully checked the wiring of the old house, and sure enough, he found two touching lines, because there was too much work in the village, and he was in a hurry to work, and the wire cover was pierced by air nails.

Speaking of which, in addition to the "kiss of death" triatom bugs, many coincidences have come together to turn this old house into a scary haunted house.

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