Chapter 85 - Mountain Village
It must be admitted that in modern society where information explosion, people have a big brainwalk.
Before Li Bai could find an excuse to fool his spells, Guo Wenkai actually completed the idea with practical actions. It can only be said that people in the city are really good at playing now.
Relatively speaking, Boss Deng, who runs a farmhouse in a mountain village, is more simple, but after Li Bai and Guo Wenkai's interference, the mysterious haunted house no longer seems to have become terrible, but instead makes people feel expectant.
Many so-called haunted houses are mostly caused by some unknown reason. Once the truth is revealed, they will only smile after a sudden realization.
Seeing Lao Guo and his two friends insisting repeatedly, Boss Deng had to call his friend Xiao Sizi again and take the three of them to the deepest part of the village.
The characteristic of the mountain is that you run a horse when you look at the mountain. Sometimes, you don’t think you are very close, but you actually have more roads than you imagined.
Liu Baoquan's home is next to the village, which is more remote. After more than ten minutes, the four of them walked away, they saw a small courtyard with dimly lit stone walls on the hillside.
Along the way, Boss Deng talked a lot about Liu Baoquan. He didn't learn well since he was a child, resigned, fought, and stealed things. Originally, the Liu family could have lived a good life because they always cleaned up the mess for the kid. Saving frugality for a year was not enough to compensate others. Liu Baoquan's mother died early, and his father became ill after overwork. He worked hard all his life but was left with a tragic wall by this incompetent son.
The village helped Liu Daddy to take care of the funeral. However, this unfilial son was detained by the Public Security Bureau to the detention center because of a group of gambling. The village held favors, so he asked the guy to come back to kowtow and attend the funeral at the county cemetery on the day he was buried in the urn.
After being released from the detention center, under the supervision of the village party secretary, Liu Baoquan, who had been in peace for a while, saved some money for the villagers and got a support loan, preparing to learn from others to build a homestay and make a lot of money.
Everyone thought that this rogue slut should always repent and become a new person. No one expected that this guy could not resist the temptation of a large amount of money in his hands, and soon the true form was revealed, just like the cold bird, today and tomorrow, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, eating and drinking all day long until the money in his hands was gone, and then he remembered the matter of having a homestay.
The village party secretary who was so angry that Adou was not as easy to talk to as Mr. Liu. He personally warned Liu Baoquan that if he dared to bring the remaining money to harm him, he would drive him out of the village and send him to a labor reform farm to work for the rest of his life, and he would never think of it even if he died.
The new homestay that was bragging at first was definitely not possible. Liu Baoquan was forced to make no choice but to build the old house and barely build two houses as homestays.
In this way, he finally owed a little off the balance, but the debt was in the hands of the village party secretary. Liu Baoquan's good days were over.
Although the village rules and regulations are more than the law, the creditor's rights are protected by the law. Liu Baoquan was forced to be on the list of deadbeats in the county government, and he was in the hands of the village party secretary.
With the suppression of the village party secretary, it is time for unfilial sons to learn well, but no one expected that the newly renovated old house would inexplicably make a spoil.
Not only are there strange noises at night, but the lights sometimes flicker. When people sleeping in the house wake up in the morning, they will find a small drop of dried blood left at the corner of their mouths or pillows. After staying there for a few days, Liu Baoquan's face turned pale and his spirit was dazed, as if he had been sucked away by a vampire.
At first I thought it was the dirty beams caused by the environmental protection level of the decoration materials, so the village party secretary and his people almost beat the decoration company boss. However, they asked the people from the Environmental Protection Bureau to conduct on-site inspection with the construction supervisor. Although some materials were found to cut corners and lowered the environmental protection level, they were still within the qualified range and the formaldehyde index did not exceed the standard.
In this way, Liu Baoquan's haunted house is famous in the village. Not only does it have no tourists to stay, but he himself has to build a shack nearby and no longer live in the old house.
There are countless legends of ghosts in the countryside, mostly spreading rumors. Guo Wenkai and Li Bai listened with relish, but they didn't take the haunt at all. Instead, the extremely sleepy Officer Xiao Wang followed behind, stumbled, looking like a walking corpse.
After all, it is a homestay building that the village party secretary asked about. After professional design and decoration, the Liu family’s old house adopts a large number of log styles. The inside and out are all the original characteristics of the ancient village house. It seems that it is back more than a hundred years ago.
The air was filled with the unique aroma of wood and the aftertaste of wood wax oil that had not yet dissipated. A few newly lit moxa ropes were pressed with stones on the low courtyard wall. The faint mugwort fragrance dispelled the mosquitoes and flies in early spring, and there was no gloomy presence at all.
Although Liu Baoquan, the owner of the old house, was just a guy who could eat, drink and have fun, he still spent a lot of effort on designing farmhouses and homestay decoration companies in the village.
When a thin middle-aged man in the yard saw Boss Deng, Guo Wenkai and others, he hurriedly came to see him and evaporate the smoke.
"Hey, Alay, I've cleaned up here, make sure it's clean."
After finally having a customer coming to the door, it means that he can make money. On Liu Baoquan's wrinkled face, the mouse beard was almost shaking, and he was rarely diligent.
"It's not necessarily true that we can't live, let's take a look first."
Boss Deng has no good expression on this unfilial and prodigal son in the same village.
"Okay, take a look first."
Perhaps because he was forced by the village party secretary, Liu Baoquan was particularly enthusiastic and nodded and opened the door, introducing his old house to Guo Wenkai and others.
Like most old houses in the village, houses are real estate heirlooms, and the quality is absolutely nothing to say. The soil walls that were compacted little by little by little by little by little by little by little by little by little by little. Even after decades of wind and rain, most of the walls are still intact, and even a single weed cannot grow.
However, the beams and roofs of the house were all stripped off. Liang Jin replaced them all again, laying large areas of new tiles, and repairing the rammed earth wall, which made the old house rejuvenate again.
“It’s all new, no one has lived.”
Liu Baoquan opened the door diligently.
The beds, tables and cabinets in the house are indeed all newly made, and modern bathrooms are also built. The solar water heater can supply hot water at any time. From the inside, it looks like a room that combines classical and modern.
"Have you arrived? Oh, it's so good, I can finally lie down."
Officer Xiao Wang finally couldn't hold on anymore, so he let go of the suitcase, threw himself onto the nearest bed, and snored loudly.
As for whether it is a haunted house? It doesn’t matter, let’s have a female ghost to sleep with you first!
Guo Wenkai glanced at the room, knocked east and touched west, checked it out with the eyes of an old criminal investigator, turned around and said, "Doctor Li, what do you think?"
Liu Baoquan didn't dare to say anything. He brought up the haunted house at this moment to make it difficult for him to find the guests he had finally found, so he could not be scared away.
"No problem, just here!"
Since there was a clean and empty room in the ready-made room, Li Bai was not picky either. He directly placed his travel backpack on the chair, unzipped the zipper, and a green shadow rushed out.
"snake?"
Boss Deng and Liu Baoquan saw the thing clearly and were shocked.
A green snake rushed into the TV cabinet and was about to roll out the remote control. The witch would not care whether there were mortals present. At worst, they could wipe their memories.
"It's okay, Dr. Li's pet snake!"
This is not the first time Guo Wenkai has seen Li Bai's green snake.
Some people like to raise cats, dogs, lizards, spiders, and even scorpions. Snakes are even more common. They look like ball pythons, but they look quite big, but in fact they are just cowards. Those who can keep them by others are basically not very dangerous.
"You people in the city are really good at playing!"
Boss Deng felt relieved and no longer shocked the little guy.
However, Liu Baoquan took a look at it more. The people in the city were so full that they would treat it as a toy. If he had been put in the stew pot, the snake meat was extremely delicious.
"You and Xiao Wang should rest first. If there is anything, call me."
Guo Wenkai made a phone call gesture and walked out the door.
"This is my business card, it's okay to call me!"
Boss Deng left a business card for Li Bai, but he was worried and turned around every five steps.
"You have to rest first. If something is wrong, I will live not far from the slope."
Liu Baoquan followed Boss Deng and Guo Wenkai away from the yard happily and worriedly, leaving the old house to Li Bai and Officer Xiao Wang.
Back in front of his tin house, he looked back at the old house until all the lights went out. After looking for a while, he patted his trouser legs and returned to the room.
It was late at night, and insects were chirping outside the house, and the lights in the halls of the old house suddenly lit up...
Chapter completed!