Just for this shabby house, the monthly rent is 3,000. Isn’t it a rip-off?
But I can't help it. I've already made the sign at the door. What else can I do?
Then the old man changed the subject and asked me what I did to stab the soul.
"It's just a tattoo." I didn't tell him that the soul tattooing was actually inserting the summoned ghost into the tattoo, for fear of scaring him.
Who knew that this old man was a man who had seen the world? He waved his hand and said: "Don't fool me, your signature is not an ordinary tattoo. Can ordinary tattoos be called soul-piercing? What you are doing is a sinister thing, right?"
Yin body tattoo, or yin and yang tattoo?”
I nodded in agreement, but unexpectedly the old man became interested.
"I heard that this thing is very evil, but the effect is really good. Why don't you give me a tattoo? If it's done, I'll give you one month's rent free."
"I'm not asking too much, you can give me a tattoo to help me get rich, so that I can have a taste of getting rich, hehe."
I remembered what Zhang Sangui told me before leaving that my first guest must be a woman, no more than thirty years old, and born in the year of Tiger.
There are some taboos that I dare not violate again. Because of my hesitation, Xu Jing suffered a series of misfortunes and Xiao Cui also died.
So I rejected the old man.
Unexpectedly, this offended him. He scolded me for being ignorant, turned around and left.
A few days passed in the blink of an eye, and there were still no customers coming to the door. I couldn't hold on any longer. I was thinking about printing some flyers, or advertising in the online circle of friends?
But when I think about it, the first customer must be a woman who is no more than thirty-three years old and belongs to the Tiger zodiac. This advertisement cannot be advertised. If other customers come in, will you accept it or not?
This makes me very distressed. If that woman never comes, will I have to continue to consume it?
That night, it was already past ten o'clock, and there was no one on the street in front of me. The street lights were all out. I was lying on the table, feeling very depressed. When will these days end?
I thought of Xu Jing again and my college days, but those beautiful things were already far away from me.
At this moment, I suddenly saw someone walking at the door. I thought it was the old landlord. This old guy always hangs out in front of my door from time to time, staring at me to see if there is any business. If he really can't afford the rent,
He was always ready to tell me to pack up and get out.
But I soon discovered that this person was not the landlord, because he had already wandered in.
I stood up immediately, and my intuition told me that something was wrong with this person.
This man was wearing a peaked cap, the brim of which was pushed down so low that his face could not be seen clearly.
After walking in, he did not raise his head, but asked angrily: "Boss, is it really possible to exorcise evil spirits here?"
When I heard that a guest was coming, I stood up quickly.
"Did something happen to you? Sit down first."
Unexpectedly, after hearing my voice, he suddenly raised his head and looked at me.
I finally saw his face clearly, and at that moment we both screamed almost at the same time.
"Lu Ming? Is that you?"
"Li Yang? Why is it you?"
The boy in front of me turned out to be Lu Ming, my college classmate and roommate.
Xu Jing told me before that Xu Lei committed suicide and Lu Ming was missing. The school called the police but could not find him. I didn't expect that he would appear here today.
"Lu Ming, you..." I was about to ask something, but as soon as I finished speaking, he suddenly rushed in front of me and grabbed my hand.
"Brother Yang, it's really you. Are you still alive?"
This statement made me stunned. What do you mean I am still alive?
"Brother Yang, you suddenly dropped out of school before. I thought you were going to die because of that incident. Now I see you are still alive. It's great."
My brows furrowed. What did he mean by these incoherent sentences?
"Brother, look at what you said. I dropped out of school because of family problems. Why am I about to die?"
I looked at Lu Ming and found that his eye sockets were sunken, his eyes were red, his face was pale, and he looked haggard. How could he become like this in a short period of time? No wonder he was wearing a peaked cap. This haggard look was really surprising to see unexpectedly.
Somewhat penetrating.
"Brother Yang, you really don't know what happened to me? Also, is it really not because of that incident that you suddenly dropped out of school?"
I felt that he was a little agitated, so I quickly asked him to sit down and poured him a glass of water.
He drank the water in one breath, still feeling embarrassed.
"Lu Ming, what's going on? Speak slowly."
"Two years ago, we were exploring the ghost building in school."
My heart skipped a beat, I didn't expect him to suddenly mention that matter.
That ghost building in our school...thinking about it gives me chills down my spine.
Two years ago, when we were freshmen, we didn't understand anything and were full of curiosity about everything. At that time, there was a lot of noise in the school's haunted building, saying that it was haunted.
Two senior students who were one grade above us said they were going to explore the ghost building at night. My roommate Lu Ming and his girlfriend Xiaorou forced me to go with them.
At that time, I was a newborn calf and was not afraid of tigers, so I went with him. Now that I think about it, I was completely deceived by the two senior students and became cannon fodder.
We went to the dark haunted building with a flashlight after 12 midnight, and as a result... an extremely weird and terrifying thing happened, which left a deep psychological shadow on me, so much so that I still can’t
I don't want to mention that matter.
So I shook my head vigorously and tried to bring my thoughts back.
"Lu Ming, why did you bring up that matter? It's been so long."
"It's been two years, and I thought it was all over, but it's not." Lu Ming's voice trembled.
"Brother Yang, the two senior fellow students who were exploring with us are dead."
I was stunned.
Two years have passed. Those two senior students had already graduated and started working. Why did they suddenly die?
"Just a month ago, two of them had a car accident, and one of them committed suicide by jumping off a building. Next came me, you, and Xiaorou. None of us could escape."
"Don't talk nonsense. You said it yourself. One of them had a car accident and the other committed suicide. What does it have to do with this matter?"
"It has something to do with it. Before they died, they had nightmares about our adventure in the ghost house. Also, an actor's mask appeared inexplicably on them."
"That's it, look." Lu Ming rolled up the sleeve on his left arm. When I looked at his arm, I was startled.
An actor's facial makeup suddenly appeared on the outside of his forearm. It was a female actor's facial makeup, the kind that uses a brush dipped in water and white powder to paint the entire face into a white face.
Then use a brush dipped in paint to thickly outline the facial makeup of the eyebrows and eyes.
"Why are you painting an actor's face on your arm?" I asked. When I mentioned actors, I not only thought of the actor who was hung in the cave by my grandfather and half eaten by my grandmother.
"Is this what I drew? It appeared inexplicably on its own." Lu Ming said in a trembling voice.
"This mask still moves sometimes, especially at night. It's so scary, and now I'm starting to have nightmares like the two dead classmates, about the time when we went exploring in a haunted house.
"
I finally understood what Lu Ming meant. He was saying that the actor's facial makeup first appeared on the arms of the two students, and then they began to have nightmares. In the end, they fell into a trance. One committed suicide by jumping off the building, and the other had a car accident.
And now it's Lu Ming's turn, and he will follow in their footsteps.