The two of them held up oil lamps and searched the entire boudoir carefully. They checked all the places under the bed and in the cabinets that could hide people, but there was no one there, and the windows were closed properly. They also cautiously climbed up to the beams.

I held up an oil lamp and checked every place on the roof where people could hide. Of course, I found nothing, and the roof was intact. I came down and searched the floor again, but there was no problem either, which was strange.

He said to Qiu Wuhen: "It seems that you really have an illusion. You have been too tired these days, so it is understandable that you have an illusion."

Qiu Wuhen chuckled twice. After all, the little girl had accompanied him to check everywhere. If he was still pretentious, he would be making people laugh, so he said: "Maybe. Forget it, I will go to bed, and you will go too.

Take a break."

Qiu Wuhen sent Qian Jinzhi away, closed the door and lay down to sleep. The rain continued to fall outside, and Qiu Wuhen soon fell asleep. At this moment, he felt someone touching him again.

He woke up with a start and reached out to touch his head, but there was nothing. He immediately got up and walked around behind the head of the bed. Suddenly he saw someone standing there, and he was so scared that the hairs on his body stood up. Immediately

He took half a step back, put on airs, and shouted sternly: "Who is it? Who is there?"

The man stood motionless, without any reaction. At this moment, Qian Jinzhi had rushed to his door, knocked on the door and shouted: "What's wrong? What happened?"

Qiu Wuhen moved cautiously towards the black figure to the door and opened the latch. Qian Jinzhi rushed in holding a lamp and asked urgently: "What's wrong? What happened?"

With the help of her lamp, Qiu Wuhen took a closer look and couldn't help but smile. But it turned out that the raincoat and bamboo hat he wore earlier were hanging on the wall. The room was dark just now, so he couldn't see clearly. He thought he was standing there alone.

!

Seeing Qian Jinzhi's nervous look, thinking about a woman who was so nervous and frightened by him again and again, I felt a little annoyed, so I smiled and said, "It's nothing, I woke you up again, just now

I just thought someone was touching my head, which startled me. I got up and saw someone standing behind the bed. That’s why I called out. But you took a lantern and came over to see clearly. It turned out to be my raincoat and

A bamboo hat, a false alarm. Therefore, many things you find strange are just because you have not discovered the truth. Once you discover it, it is actually nothing unusual."

Qian Jinzhi used the light of the oil lamp in his hand to glance at Qiu Wuhen, who still had a look of shock on his face, and thought to himself, after all, he is a scholar, no matter how talented and knowledgeable he is, he is still timid, but on his face there is something different about him.

Obviously, knowing those ghost stories in the past still made the handsome man in front of him have a grudge in his heart, otherwise he would be always suspicious in the middle of the night, making people uneasy.

Qian Jinzhi took the oil lamp and turned over the raincoat again, but found nothing. She squatted under the bed and checked, but found nothing. She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Are you really a man? Then

You are timid, do you want me to come over and accompany you?"

"Okay, okay, I couldn't ask for it." Qiu Wuhen said with a smile.

"Okay, you big-headed ghost, go to sleep quickly. Next time you yell and scream, you will be pinched by the ghost. You deserve it." Qian Jinzhi naturally knew that Qiu Wuhen was just joking with him, so he scolded her twice.

She made a face at him and left.

Qiu Wuhen bolted the door and went to bed again. This time he paid attention. Suddenly he felt someone touching his head again. This time he deliberately didn't let himself fall asleep. He reached out and grabbed it very quickly, just in time to catch the person.

One hand.

I heard a squeaking sound, and the thing in my hand was struggling. Qiu Wuhen held it firmly, and Qian Jinzhi's exclamation came from the door: "What's wrong? It's so late at night, let me let you go."

Don’t let people sleep anymore?”

Qiu Wuhen didn't have time to pay attention to the footsteps approaching outside the door at this time. He immediately grabbed a stool beside the bed and threw it hard, flattening the thing with a bang, and then went over to open the door.

Open.

Fortunately, Qian Jinzhi didn't lie down yet. After all, the time was too short, otherwise she felt that she would really collapse due to this man's so-called illusion.

"Don't tell me, did you find another illusion?"

"It really wasn't the case this time. It was me who caught the ghost who touched my head."

Qian Jinzhi was startled and quickly looked around with the lamp, but found nothing. Qiu Wuhen pointed to the mosquito net beside his bed and said, "It's over there!"

Qian Jinzhi was startled, and hurried over to take a look, but it turned out to be a rat the size of a fist, which had been beaten flat and was covered in blood and flesh.

Qian Jinzhi was a little confused and looked at Qiu Wuhen.

Qiu Wuhen smiled and said: "The first two times I thought it was really an illusion, but the second time it was clear that it was not an illusion, but something was touching my head. So the third time I deliberately pretended to sleep, but it didn't

I fell asleep, and when it touched my head again, I grabbed it, then took a stool and beat it to death. It turned out to be a mouse. So I understood that there was a mouse crawling over my bed.

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"Because I sleep higher up, the gap between my head and the bedrail is smaller. So when the mouse squeezed in, it certainly put a certain amount of pressure on my head, and I felt as if someone was touching my head.

But the first two times I slept so deeply that of course I couldn't hear the sound of mice crawling. But the third time I heard it more clearly, there was something there, but I wasn't sure it was a mouse at the time, otherwise I wouldn't have wanted to catch it.

She didn’t want to slap her, just scare her away. I was so angry that it stained other people’s mosquito nets.”

But at this moment, because the noise was louder this time, Muramasa downstairs heard it. He and the chieftain rushed up and laughed after learning about this. The chieftain quickly ordered the attendant to take the mouse away.

When I went out and threw it away, the bloody Muramasa kept saying it didn't matter, just wash it tomorrow, and then went to sleep.

So they went back to their rooms to sleep. This time, Qiu Wuhen didn't encounter any weird things like someone touching his head. Qiu Wuhen slept until dawn, and vaguely heard a scream coming from the next door. It was Qian Jinzhi.

The voice. It was Qiu Wuhen who called her before. Unexpectedly, it was the other way around this time. What weird thing did she encounter?

Qiu Wuhen was panicked when she heard her scream. It didn't look like she was faking it. He immediately got out of bed, took his clothes and put them on. Without even wearing shoes, he rushed to the door with bare feet, unlatched the door, and reached her door.

Bang bang on the door.

The door opened suddenly, and Qian Jinzhi almost threw herself into his arms. Her face was pale, her hair was disheveled, she had obviously just gotten up from the bed, and she was still wearing close-fitting clothes. Qiu Wuhen hurriedly looked around the room, and at this moment

It was already dawn, but there was nothing in the house. It was still raining outside, but the rain was much lighter.

Qiu Wuhen said: "What are you calling? What did you find?"

Balu and Muramasa heard this and had already caught up with them, bringing their servants up with them.

Qiu Wuhen heard the voice and whispered: "Someone is coming. Go back and put on your clothes first." After saying that, he gently pushed Qian Jinzhi into the door, closed the door, and stood at the door waiting.

Qian Jinzhi quickly ran to the screen where the clothes were hung, took her own clothes, and went around behind the screen to get dressed in a hurry.

Qian Jinzhi had already put on her clothes and walked out from behind the screen. She said to the people waiting outside the door, "Come in." Qiu Wuhen and the others stepped into the house and asked Qian Jinzhi what happened? Qian Jinzhi was horrified.

He pointed to the window and said, "That's it, there's a ghost there."

Qiu Wuhen quickly walked to the window and looked at it. The window was not big, only the size of a washbasin. In rural areas, in order to prevent thieves, the windows were very small, and they could be completely covered with wooden boards from the inside and bolted. This window

The same is true for the windows. One window is opened upward, and a bamboo pole is used to support the inside.

Qiu Wuhen stretched his head out of the window and took a look. He could see water dripping from the eaves behind the house. There was already a lot of water behind the crackling house and was covered with moss. No one was seen behind the house.

Qiu Wuhen turned around to look at Qian Jinzhi in confusion and said, "What did you see?"

Qian Jinzhi pointed to the window with lingering fear and said: "When I moved in last night, there was a painting on the window. On the painting was a woman's head, smiling at me. I also said that the woman's head was painted on

It's so real. Of course, I didn't hold up the lamp to look up. Just as I was about to go over to look, I heard you barking. As a result, it kept making a fuss three times. When I came back, I found it was a mouse. Then I came back to sleep, so I just made this noise.

I forgot about it. I slept until dawn, and when I got up, I took another look and realized that it was a window and there was no painting at all."

Qiu Wuhen's scalp was numb when he heard this, and several other people shivered. It was raining outside the window, which meant that what Qian Jinzhi saw last night was not a painting, but a real person. This

The person appeared at the window, motionless like a painting. Because I held an oil lamp in the middle of the night, and if I didn't get close, I could only see it dimly, not clearly, and I didn't deliberately check the direction, so naturally

You won't notice that it's not a painting, but a person.

Qiu Wuhen came to the window again. Suddenly he discovered that there were two beams protruding an inch long, which were used to support the floor slabs on the second floor. The beams were two inches beyond the head of the house above. Such beams were

There is a beam one meter apart to support the floor, and the beams in other places are covered with dust. Because this is an old house, but there is nothing on the two beams under their windows.

The dust seems to be stained by mud and water. If you look closely, it should be left by a person standing there with his feet on the two horizontal pillars.

Because the feet of the person standing on the pillars have nothing to rely on, and there may be stairs below the two beams or pillars, or they may hold onto the open windows with their hands to support their bodies, otherwise it would be impossible to stand firmly on the windows.

.

Qiu Wuhen immediately touched the window railing with his hand, and immediately picked up several palmprints and fingerprints on the window railing.

He immediately asked Muramasa: "Is anyone living in this house?"

Muramasa shook his head and said: "This is a guest room, and only guests will be accommodated there. No one has stayed there recently."

Qiu Wuhen said: "Then do any of you come in to clean? Open the windows for ventilation or something?"

"My daughter came to clean it yesterday. Because she arranged for you to stay last night, she simply cleaned and wiped it."

"Did you wipe it with a cloth?"

"It should be. Do you want to call her over and ask her?"

"That's great, thank you for your work."

After a while, a little girl of thirteen or fourteen years old was called over and said that she had indeed wiped the entire guest room with a rag the night before, swept the floor, and even propped up the windows with bamboo poles.

Qiu Wuhen extracted the fingerprints of her hands and ten fingers, and after comparing the fingerprints on the window, they were not hers. After asking, she recalled that she did not touch the lower edge of the window with her hands, but opened the window with one hand and used a bamboo pole to

Just hold it up.

Qiu Wuhen asked Qian Jinzhi: "Didn't you close the window when you went to bed?"

Qian Jinzhi shook his head and said, "I feel very stuffy. Anyway, it's not too cold anymore. It's the second floor, so I left the window open to make it cooler, so I didn't close it."

Qiu Wuhen understood that Qian Jinzhi was an expert in martial arts and was very bold. If it were any other woman, she would have to close the doors and windows tightly. She didn't care about her martial arts, so she dared to open the door alone.
Chapter completed!