[Bottle Evil] The Old Mansion's Strange Story

It was very cold in the northeast in late autumn. When I came out of the house, I was shivering with the cold when the wind blew in the yard.Walking to a big poplar tree, most of the leaves are yellow, and the tree is a bit of wind protection.

I took a deep breath and took out a cigarette from my arms.

Poker Ping and I arrived in Jilin the first day and attended a wedding banquet. My friend said that we would go back to our hometown to hold a banquet. The village was more lively, so we had to have another meal together.I happened to not really want to go back, and I thought it would not be easy to eat two meals with one red envelope, so I asked Poker Ping, of course he had no objection.

My friend graduated and returned to his hometown to start a business, and now he is also a wealthy boss.When I saw him again, I didn't recognize him. He had changed a lot. He used to be a gangster boy, but now he is a gangster brother.He doesn't look fierce, but he is tall and burly, and most people dare not mess with him.

What hasn't changed is that I didn't hide my jokes, and when I saw the boring oil bottle next to me, I asked: "Yo, didn't I say to bring my younger siblings over on the phone, why did I see a big man?"

Where did I say this, he probably looked at Poker Finger with a cold face, and wanted to relieve the awkward atmosphere, but he made me embarrassed by saying this, so I quickly waved my hand to mean that we should go in and sit down first.

Poker-Face gave us some face, nodded slightly at him, and he cheerfully handed us cigarettes.Before I had time to pick it up, Poker Bottle was already ahead of me and took mine too.I said I wanted to quit smoking, but he remembered it clearly.

My friend was taken aback when he saw this, and I withdrew my hand embarrassingly, so I had to say quit.

But there were too many people smoking at the wedding banquet, and I was itchy from the smell of smoke, and the oil bottle was poking at my side like an iron god, no matter how much I scratched my ears and cheeks, he was indifferent.Thinking about me made me feel a little depressed, so I used an excuse to go to the bathroom, slipped out, and ran into the fourth child at the door, it was my friend, he used to be the fourth child in the dormitory, so everyone called him that.

I secretly asked him for one, and the fourth child stared at me and asked me: "Didn't you quit?" Who the hell is that buddy, who even smokes, is he really a younger sibling? You don’t have to hide it from me, in fact, I’ve heard some gossip, and I’ve seen this kind of thing before, bro, so don’t be shy.”

Geying is a Northeast dialect, I understand what he means, but I was already a little anxious when I got the cigarettes, so I didn't have the heart to break up with him, so I joked: "Brother and sister, if I want to call you, I have to call you sister-in-law. "It seems to me that he is older than him.

The fourth child patted me on the back with a smile, and said, "Okay, I'll toast my sister-in-law when you come back." Although I knew he was joking, I still told him not to talk nonsense.

I went around to the back of the big poplar tree, put the cigarette in my mouth, reached out and took out the lighter that my fourth brother had just given me, my hands trembled a little when I lit it.

The yard is very spacious, with a row of brick and tile houses in the middle. The tiles are bright when they have just been built.The courtyard is surrounded by big poplar trees. Some years ago, the trunks are very thick and the branches and leaves are lush.Looking far away, there are still mountains, the sky is high and the clouds are light, the scenery makes people feel suddenly enlightened.

I took a deep breath, spit it out, and took another breath of the dry and fresh air in the northern mountain village, and suddenly I felt unobstructed.

As a result, when he turned his head, he almost screamed out in fright, but Poker Face was looking at me motionlessly.

I sighed exaggeratedly, and accused: "Brother, you are so silent, you will scare people to death."

Boyoufeng didn't say anything, and stretched out his unusually long two fingers, and easily snatched away the treasure I had worked so hard to find under my nose.I stared at his hand and almost blurted out a lie: "This is an alternative tobacco for quitting smoking, it's different."

Poker bottle, who was about to throw away the cigarette, stopped for a moment. He glanced at me and then lowered his head and took a puff.

I almost forgot that he can also smoke.

After taking a decent puff of Poker Bottle, he threw the cigarette on the ground, stomped it out, and didn't expose me, just looked up at me.

I looked at him for a few seconds, and he was still staring at me silently, and I wondered again, what does this mean, I really need to think about it?I sighed and prepared to change the subject: "Brother, you see my friend is not bad."

Poker bottle frowned, but said: "I seem to have been here before."

I froze for a moment, not knowing what this sentence meant.

Poker-face must have been to many places. In the previous hundred years, he traveled to various places across the country, mostly mountains and rivers and ancient tombs.But the places he has been to are related to his purpose. In other words, if he has been to this place, it means that this place is likely to be related to those mysteries.But this is a place I have never set foot in. Is it a link I missed?

I suddenly felt a numbness in my scalp, I haven't thought about the past for a long time, and now Poker bottle's words brought me back to some memories.

I asked, "Have you been here? When? What are you here for?"

Poker-face also looked towards the distant mountain, and said, "I don't remember, but this place feels very familiar to me, I may have been here before."

I also thought about it, and said: "Could it be because this side is very close to Changbai Mountain, and you passed by on the way to Changbai Mountain?"

Poker-Face just shook his head, pointing at those mountains: "The mountain shape is in good shape, suitable for burial."

I also looked carefully for a long time, but I didn't see anything.I didn't do much research on Fengshui, and I lacked knowledge in this area. In addition, most of the mountains in front of me have been reclaimed and planted with crops, and some places have been dug. It doesn't look like it has been preserved for hundreds of years. Yamagata in front.If there is an ancient tomb, it must have a history of more than a hundred years.But I can't believe what Pokerfing said. He knows better than me, and he never jokes. What he says is a golden word, and he won't adulterate, unless he deliberately hides it from me, and now there is no reason.

"If you want to be concerned, why don't you ask someone." I looked at Poker Ping, and suddenly found a different kind of emotion in his eyes, a bit like the feeling he had when he was standing on the snow-capped mountains. Seems to be in a trance.I shook my hand in front of his eyes: "Is there really a problem?"

Poker bottle turned to look at me this time, and said, "It's not necessary."

I thought so, even the bronze door was sealed by Lao Tzu, and the Wang family was basically collapsed, so I nodded.

We talked a few more words, and the fourth child came out of the door and walked towards us.His face was flushed, and it looked like he had been given a lot of alcohol.I laughed and said, "Why did you leave the bride and ran out by yourself?"

The fourth child came over and handed us cigarettes, just took it out and thought of something, gave me a weird smile, only gave the bottle of oil, and said: "Didn't I just pour it out to catch up with you?"

Reminiscing about the old days is actually almost the same on the phone yesterday, but basically I have been listening to him talking about what I have experienced in the past ten years, I really can’t explain it, and I don’t think he will be interested.I smiled, pointed directly at the opposite mountain and asked, "Are you familiar with it?"

The fourth child squinted his eyes and looked: "That's Team Nine, my uncle's house is over there."

"Team" seems to be the abbreviation of the previous production team, but it has been retained after the reform and opening up.

I nodded, and the fourth child suddenly asked me: "Are you tinkering with antiques now?"

I laughed out loud. He said it as if I was in the antique wholesale business, but it was about the same.I borrowed his words: "The market is not good, so you don't make much trouble. Does your family have antiques that need my appraisal?"

The fourth child said: "There are no antiques, but there is an old house over there at my uncle's house. People say it is old and it was built in the Qing Dynasty. All the old men and women in the village know about it."

I really didn't expect that there would be ancient buildings from the Qing Dynasty in this kind of village, so I asked, "Is there still people living there?"

The face of the fourth child changed color instantly, as if there was a sense of fear. "How can we live in people." The fourth child suddenly said in a very low tone, "It's so evil. In the early years when the fourth old was broken, someone took the lead in picking it up. I heard that it didn't work. Everyone who went there died. It has been empty since then. , no one dares to go."

He said it with a lot of seriousness, but few things interest me now.And thinking that he loved acting especially when he was studying, he always made a fuss.I thought to myself that old men in their late forties still tease me with this kind of thing that fools children, it's really boring.

Thinking about it, I turned my head to look at Poker Bottle, but unexpectedly he frowned, as if he was thinking.

I turned around and asked my fourth child, "Please explain in detail."