Mansion Raiders

The interior of the old bungalow has been carefully renovated, the small courtyard is planted with quiet flowers and plants, and the walls are decorated with exquisite wall lamps.

Walking through the small courtyard into the living room, the auto-sensing ceiling light came on in response, and the soft light covered the cool-colored leather sofa, giving the empty living room a warm atmosphere, but Xia Leyang still felt that the place was inexplicably gloomy.

The living room is not big and has a closed structure. Except for the main entrance connected to the small courtyard, there is only one side door leading to the patio with stairs.

Xia Leyang followed closely behind Shang Tingzhi, for some reason the hairs all over his body stood on end.

At this time, there was a sudden "click" sound from behind the empty person, and Xia Leyang immediately jumped to Shang Tingzhi's side quickly, like a mouse meeting a cat, and nervously grabbed the strong forearm.

Looking back, it turned out that the door was not closed tightly when I first came in, but now it was blown shut by the wind.

Xia Leyang patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief, but at this moment Shang Tingzhi's voice came from above his head: "What are you arresting me for?"

Xia Leyang looked down along Shang Tingzhi's line of sight, only to find that his hand was tightly attached to Shang Ting's forearm like a suction cup.

I don't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that Shang Tingzhi's body temperature was abnormally high, and the skin in his hands was actually a little hot to the touch.

Under Shang Tingzhi's probing gaze, Xia Leyang's mind was spinning fast. He raised Shang Tingzhi's forearm without changing his face, looked at the emerald dial and said, "I'm checking the time."

Shang Tingzhi didn't directly pierce Xia Leyang, he withdrew his hand, pointed to the wall clock on the wall with his chin and said, "There's time there."

The tone was full of the meaning of "are you blind".

Xia Leyang coughed unnaturally, and walked towards the side door: "I'll go upstairs and have a look."

However, he had just entered the courtyard, and immediately retreated to Shang Tingzhi's side, and said politely: "You are the master, you go ahead."

Shang Tingzhi thought it was funny, he could see that Xia Leyang was afraid in his heart, but he still wanted to be brave.

Quietly grabbing the corner of his clothes, pretending he didn't feel it?

Thinking of this, Shang Tingzhi, who was walking up the stairs, stopped, pointed to the teak stairs with his eyes, and said lightly: "One died here and was stabbed three times."

There was obviously nothing on the stairs, but after listening to Shang Tingzhi's words, Xia Leyang immediately had a picture in his mind.

He jumped three feet high, but squeezed vigorously to Shang Tingzhi's side, hurriedly urging: "You go upstairs quickly, what are you doing here?"

The stairs in the patio were in the shape of a zigzag, and Shang Tingzhi was pushed up by Xia Leyang, and he came to the corner within a few steps.This is a pavilion located between the first and second floors. The space is small. It used to be rented to some literati, but now it has been transformed into a study.

Shang Tingzhi stopped again: "This is where I work, don't go in if you have nothing to do."

Xia Leyang shrank behind Shang Tingzhi and asked, "Here...?"

Shang Tingzhi said: "I have also died before."

Xia Leyang pushed Shang Tingzhi up again.On the second floor are two side-by-side bedrooms, sharing the same bathroom in the middle. The bathroom has double doors on the left and right, which can lead to the bedrooms on both sides, which means that the two bedrooms are actually connected.

"You live here." Shang Tingzhi pointed to the bedroom on the right with his chin, "I'm next to you."

"Wait." Xia Leyang raised his hand to interrupt, "Has anyone died here?"

Shang Tingzhi said calmly, "Of course."

Xia Leyang turned his head and left: "I can't stop, I want to go home."

Shang Tingzhi raised his eyebrows indifferently, he couldn't help thinking that it was just right and he was clean.But he thought about it, Xia Leyang just went back like this, maybe the elders would say that he was a bully, he was older than Xia Leyang after all, and his family told him to take good care of this young master, so he scared people back on the first day , it is really unreasonable.

"Aren't you superstitious?" Shang Tingzhi put his hands on the fence, looked at Xia Leyang's back downstairs and said, "Why, afraid of ghosts?"

Xia Leyang paused when he heard the words, and subconsciously wanted to find a legitimate reason to dismiss it, but he couldn't think of it for a while.

Of course he wouldn't admit that he was afraid of ghosts, no, to be precise, he didn't believe that there were ghosts in this world at all.

The reason why he felt guilty was that he was influenced by the Greater China culture when he was a child, and he had a little bit of this tendency in his ideology.

This tendency is only a little bit, and if he has to say it, he thinks it can be ignored.

Having lived abroad for more than ten years, Xia Leyang disdains superstitious behavior at home.If at this time because of "fear of ghosts" and ran back home, wouldn't it be a joke for the family?

After hesitating for a moment, Xia Leyang returned to Shang Tingzhi pretending to be calm, put one hand on the fence, looked at Shang Tingzhi with his head held high and said, "I'm afraid of ghosts? A joke."

"Oh." Shang Tingzhi glanced lightly at Xia Leyang's hand holding on to the fence, "People have died here too, just lying on the place where you were holding on."

Xia Leyang took her hand back with a whoosh.

A faint smile appeared on Shang Tingzhi's face: "I'll take you to the third floor."

Xia Leyang always felt that Shang Tingzhi's smile was full of sarcasm.

At this time, he belatedly realized that something was wrong, why was he standing there, where was the dead person, maybe this magic stick was trying to deceive him?

Xia Leyang followed Shang Tingzhi and continued to go up, and soon came to the open-air platform between the second and third floors. The platform has not been repaired, and there is no other leisure and ornamental purpose except for drying clothes.

Further up is the master bedroom with a separate bathroom on the third floor.This bedroom is much larger than the bedroom on the second floor, but because it is far away from the activity area on the first floor, Shang Tingzhi chose to live on the second floor even though a small three-story elevator was newly installed in the old bungalow.

After visiting the whole old bungalow, Xia Leyang was still struggling with the question of whether to live or not.

Shang Tingzhi didn't intend to tie Xia Leyang by his side at all, he confessed, "Don't blame me for scaring you away", and then went back to the bedroom on the second floor to rest.

Just after the summer solstice, Shang Tingzhi's body developed the same low-grade fever symptoms as before.I didn't feel it when I went out in the morning, but now my body is burning badly.

Shang Tingzhi's fate is too angry, and every time he reaches the age that ends in nine, he will definitely commit Guyang evil.

I thought that moving into the haunted house this year would be able to safely pass the hottest three months of the year, but it seems that he just avoided falling into a coma, and the low-grade fever is still inevitable.

Here Shang Tingzhi took a nap after taking the antipyretics, while Xia Leyang on the other side was still nervously nibbling his fingers in front of the computer screen.

At least before opening the webpage to check the information, Xia Leyang was lucky, thinking that Shang Tingzhi was trying to scare him.

However, when he entered the words "Gu Family Mansion" in Baidu, the page that popped up almost scared him half to death.

Famous Haunted House in China——Gu Family Mansion

The massacre!A family of six was brutally murdered by the nanny!

The mysterious woman lived in a haunted house and committed suicide by cutting her wrists in the bathtub!

Xia Leyang tremblingly clicked into the first link, which was a storytelling public account, which described the massacre of the Gu family mansion more than 40 years ago, and even the details of how the nanny's daughter was raped by the young master of the Gu family. Clearly.

There are also some pictures in the article, which look like they were taken directly from the newspaper, and they are very unclear, but look at the winding staircase and the pavilion in the middle of the floor, is it the Gu family mansion or somewhere else?

Xia Leyang swallowed, fortunately it was broad daylight and the sun outside could shine into the room, otherwise he really wouldn't have the courage to continue watching.

He clicked on the second link. This page is not a story telling, but an objective report on the case of that year. Some pictures are the same as those on the previous page, but there are still a few photos that should be taken by someone later.

These photos are much clearer than those in the newspaper, and bloodstains that were not processed in time can still be seen vaguely.

Xia Leyang took a closer look, isn't the room with blood on the head of the bed his bedroom? !

He swished his head back and looked around the redecorated bedroom. The bloody picture still couldn't be erased from his mind, so he had to get up and open the window again, letting the heat from the outside float into the room, giving himself some comfort. psychological comfort.

The cicadas on the banyan tree by the roadside were screaming loudly, and the piercing voices continued one after another. Normally, Xia Leyang would only feel annoyed, but in the current situation, he felt inexplicably at ease.

The Gu family mansion has been uninhabited since the accident, and has become a well-known haunted house.But strangely, in the 90s, a beautiful single woman lived here.

However, this woman only lived for less than a year, and finally committed suicide by cutting her wrists in the bathroom.

Xia Leyang turned his head stiffly and looked in the direction of the bathroom, yes, he died inside.

Although this house is not full of dead people, how do you live in it?

After the woman's death, the old bungalow has been abandoned and uninhabited until the construction team suddenly came in the first half of this year and began to renovate it.

Xia Leyang knew that Shang Tingzhi hired him, but he didn't understand, what is this feng shui swindler doing in a haunted house?

In order to prove that he can live in a haunted house, is he a serious Fengshui master?

Thinking about it this way, it makes sense.

Xia Leyang put his hands and elbows on the table, crossed his fingers and propped his chin, carefully thinking about what legitimate reason to leave here.

It is definitely impossible to be afraid of ghosts. As a staunch materialist, it is absolutely impossible for him to be afraid of ghosts. Besides, the feng shui scammer is not afraid of ghosts. What has he to be afraid of?He was just affected by the cultural environment, so he was a little guilty.

But this obviously cannot be a reason. Comrade Xia Leyang thought about it for a while, and finally decided to get through tonight, and then return home tomorrow on the grounds that he recognized the bed and couldn't get used to it. He didn't believe that his father could give his bed move here.

After making a decision, Xia Leyang nestled by the window and played games for a while.The sun submerged into the horizon unknowingly, and when Xia Leyang felt the coolness, the cicadas on the banyan tree had already weakened.

He glanced at the gradually darkening scenery outside the window, feeling inexplicably irritated and uneasy in his heart, but at this moment, there was a knock on the bedroom door without warning.

Boom, boom, boom.

Xia Leyang sat up straight nervously, staring at the bedroom door motionless.He didn't say anything, the room was quiet for a while, and then there was another hasty knock on the door.

He swallowed, but before he could speak, the bedroom door opened from the outside, and Shang Tingzhi leaned half his body in: "It's time to eat."

Xia Leyang exhaled calmly, and belatedly felt cold sweat on his forehead.

It's definitely not that he's afraid of ghosts, it's just that he doesn't feel safe in an unfamiliar environment.

After persuading himself forcibly, Xia Leyang followed Shang Tingzhi downstairs.

In addition to the living room, the first floor also has a kitchen, dining room and nanny room.However, no nanny dared to live here. Shang Tingzhi only recruited an aunt who was a little more courageous, who came to cook and clean when he was at home.

After sleeping, Shang Tingzhi felt better, but his forehead was still a little hot.

Seeing Xia Leyang sitting across from him and eating honestly without saying a word, he felt strange in his heart, and took the initiative to talk to him: "Just now I went to your room and saw that your luggage has not been packed yet."

"Well... I'll clean it up at night." Xia Leyang said perfunctorily.

Anyway, I'm leaving tomorrow, so there's no need to clean up.

"Okay, tell me what you're not used to." Shang Tingzhi didn't know Xia Leyang's careful thinking. When he knocked on the door for the first time just now, he thought the young master had slipped away, but unexpectedly he stayed in the room obediently.

Since Xia Leyang wants to stay, it is best for the two of them to coexist peacefully.

After dinner, the two went back to their bedrooms.

At this time, it was completely dark, Xia Leyang didn't close the windows, he didn't close the windows, he heard the sound of washing in the bathroom, he quickly grabbed an electric toothbrush and a towel and rushed in.

Shang Tingzhi was halfway taking off his clothes here, when he saw Xia Leyang coming in from the opposite door, he put the clothes down again: "You wash first."

Xia Leyang glanced at the fleeting eight-pack abs, and said, "It's okay, let's go together."

"Together...?" Shang Tingzhi asked slightly surprised, "You want to take a bath with me?"

"I mean brush your teeth." Xia Leyang went to the sink and squeezed toothpaste and began to brush his teeth. Anyway, he didn't dare to take a shower, so let's just let it go tonight.

With Shang Tingzhi's "accompaniment", Xia Leyang quickly solved the hygiene problem, and then returned to his bedroom.

Not long after, there was the sound of swishing water in the bathroom, and Xia Leyang knew that it was Shang Tingzhi taking a bath, and the sound was like the sound of cicadas, which made him feel at ease—at least he wasn't alone here.

However, it was impossible for Shang Tingzhi to take a bath all the time. After a while, there was no movement in the bathroom, and the cicada outside the window disappeared without a trace.

The old city is not like the city, there is the sound of traffic no matter how late it is, and it is only before nine o'clock, and the surrounding area is completely silent, no different from the wilderness.

Xia Leyang didn't realize until then that this night was not as easy as he imagined.

He didn't dare to go to bed. Although the bed in the room was completely different from the blood-stained bed in the photo, the location was the same.

How can I sleep here?

Xia Leyang nestled by the window with a tangled expression, thinking that it was impossible for him to sit here all night.

After struggling for a while, he finally tiptoed out of the bedroom, walked around to Shang Tingzhi from the corridor, and knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Shang Tingzhi's voice sounded, Xia Leyang took a deep breath and slowly pushed open the door, then poked his head in, and asked naturally, "Master, what are you doing?"