Holy Bone

Chapter 504 32 rooms, 32 stories

Although the shopkeeper has blind eyes and blind eyes, he can't see everything with or without form, but he can tell everything about this old inn like a few treasures without thinking.

"The previous tenant of Room No. [-], Qiuzi on the second floor, moved in a month ago. He was a rambunctious, vulgar man with a vulgar personality. Had a quarrel with the tenant next door. He said that the tenant next door was not sleeping at night and was demolishing the wall. The sledgehammer hit the wall one after another. It is said that he has been sleeping quietly and soundly since nightfall, it is impossible to make any movement, and this is an inn, where can he find a sledgehammer to smash the wall."

"Just like this back and forth arguing, the grumpy big man drove away the left and right tenants, but he still complained that every night there was always the sound of the sledgehammer hitting the wall. The big man said that the sound of the sledgehammer hitting the wall was still at the door at first, But it is getting closer and closer to the head of the bed every day. It seems that someone is smashing the wall to find something. Tonight, he will hit the wall at the head of his bed. He has a very bad attitude and asks me if this inn is a black shop. Is it because the dead are buried here and crying for grievances? After he finished speaking, he turned around and went to the backyard of the inn to find a big hammer, and smashed all the walls of Room No. [-] in Qiuzi, but he found nothing."

Jin An: "Then he checked out?"

The shopkeeper shook his head numbly and expressionlessly.

Jin An guessed: "He didn't check out, so he continued to live in Room No. [-], Qiuzi. That night, the sound of smashing the wall finally hit the head of his bed, and his head was smashed in his sleep. Will the inn collect his body?"

The shopkeeper still shook his head numbly and expressionlessly.

"He's missing."

"You can't see a person when you're born, and you can't see a corpse when you're dead."

Although two short sentences, it is a strange ending.

Jin An: "Did the inn not report to the officials?"

The shopkeeper said numbly: "What does the reporter do? One more thing is worse than one less thing. I saw that he didn't come to renew the room fee for ten days, so I directly took the luggage he left in the guest room as the room fee and compensation for smashing the wall."

Jin An frowned.

What a cold-blooded and numb answer.

Jin An: "What about Room No. [-], Dongzi?"

The shopkeeper opened his empty eyes and continued: "The previous tenant of Dongzi Room No. [-] was very special. He was one of the longest-lived tenants in the inn. They were a couple. Later, the wife went crazy and ate her husband. It also ate several tenants next door."

Uh.

This time it was short and clear, but it sent a chill down the spine.

Jin An: "How did you find out that the wife was crazy and started eating... er cannibalism?"

The shopkeeper: "The first two days were normal, the two were very affectionate, and there was no abnormality. It started on the third day, when the couple suddenly closed their doors and did not go out for two consecutive days. On the fifth day, the door of Dongzi No. [-] finally opened, but only my wife came out. On that day, the wife of the couple found me suddenly and said that her husband was weak and wanted to use the back kitchen to cook a bowl of broth by himself. I agreed to take it back to the guest room to nourish my husband’s body, and it’s strange to say that I’ve never seen her leave the inn, but she brings fresh meat and offal to make soup every day and brings it back to her room to nourish her husband. From time to time, the food will be improved and the stewed pig blood clot soup will continue like this for about a month..."

The shopkeeper seemed lost in thought and didn't continue.

Jin'an: "A woman who has never been out of the inn, but can use the back kitchen to stew meat soup every day, which is obviously weird and strange. As the shopkeeper of this inn, did you investigate without suspicion from the beginning? "

The shopkeeper still replied numbly: "Take care? Why do you want to take care of it? She pays, and I borrow the back kitchen, and I buy and sell it. Why should I take care of it? As long as you have money, you can do it."

Jin An frowned: "Is money more important than human life in your eyes?"

The shopkeeper: "You spend money to buy beef, have you ever felt more pitiful than the old cow who knelt down and shed tears under the butcher's knife? People don't kill themselves for their own sake."

Jin An didn't make any excuses: "Then how did you find out that she...killed her husband and other tenants?"

The shopkeeper: "As the number of tenants disappearing on the second floor increased, some tenants noticed the abnormality of the wife of the couple. After breaking in, they found a field of human bones that had been cleaned. The room was very clean, not even a bit of meat, internal organs, No blood at all."

No wonder no one smelled the smell after killing so many people. This is really thorough enough to destroy the corpses and wipe out the traces. After hearing the story that happened in Room [-] of Dongzi, I shuddered.

Jin'an: "There are still Room No. [-] on the second floor and Room No. [-] on the third floor. Could it be that people died in these two rooms?"

The shopkeeper still had that numb and merciless expression, especially after listening to two horror stories one by one, and then staring at his pair of dark eye sockets without eyeballs, one seemed to be standing beside the abyss and staring into the abyss .

Shopkeeper: "The previous occupant of Tibetan No. [-] was a woman who was troubled by love. Her face was full of sadness, and she shed tears every day. But since she moved into Tibetan No. [-], she was radiant and full of energy. She died suddenly in the Exhausted."

Jin An: "What kind of strange way of death is this?"

The shopkeeper: "There is only one woman in room [-] of Tibetan characters. Since she moved in, she has been singing and singing every night. When she goes out during the day, her face is more radiant every time, with happiness on her face...let's call it a happy smile. Some people say it's a happy smile. After a long drought and dew, she was nourished by a man, and she scolded her secretly for stealing a wild man in the guest room and not obeying women's rules."

"But it didn't take long for this incident. There was movement not only at night, but also during the day. At this time, she was no longer radiant, but pale and ugly, and she was extremely energetic. It's ugly, and it looks like a serious lack of energy."

Jin An: "Are you still ignoring death this time?"

Shopkeeper: "I reminded her that it's time to renew the room fee."

Jin An glanced at the empty eye sockets of the other party: "It's really eye-opening for money."

The shopkeeper: "After she renewed the room fee, she went back to the No. [-] room in Tibetan characters. A few days later, I reminded her again that it was time to renew the room fee. At this time, her spirit was even worse. She was thin and weak, and her skin was dull. It's like a field that lacks water and cracks in the dry season, and she has no money to pay for the rent extension. She decided to find a pawnshop to sell all the jewelry on her body to pay the rent renewal, and told me not to return the Tibetan No. [-] room. Leave room No. [-] in Tibetan characters for her."

"I asked her why, and she said that a few days ago it was supposed to be her and her fiancé's big wedding day, but when his fiancé was hanging a lantern with the Chinese character "囍", he accidentally fell off the ladder and fell hard on the back of his head to death. Heart died, but she dreamed of her fiancé in room No. [-] of Tibetan characters. She had too many things to confide to her fiancé, and her dead heart was revived because of love. Unchaste infamy."

The shopkeeper: "I asked her if she was not afraid of death? She said, 'You can't be with the person you love in life, and I hope that both of you will turn into butterflies after death. Ask the world what love is, and teach life and death to agree."

"She came to Room [-] because of her love, she rejuvenated herself in Room [-], was reborn for love, and finally died for love in Room [-], which is also a painting for her life. With a happy ending, why should I save her? As long as she pays enough for the room."

Jin An snorted disdainfully: "It's just some ghosts and monsters messing with people's minds. How come there is no such thing as two people who are in love with each other and treat each other with sincerity. Wishes exchanged for dreams will eventually be shattered one day."

Jin An: "What about the last room, No. [-], Yuzi, on the third floor?"

The shopkeeper: "Several guests who have lived in Room No. [-], Yuzi, on the third floor all said that they heard footsteps upstairs, tables and chairs moving, and things falling on the floor when they slept at night, but there are only three rooms in the inn. One-story building, where does the fourth floor disturb them?"

Jin An: "These people are also dead?"

The shopkeeper shook his head: "All the tenants are the same as the previous tenant in Qiuzi No. [-]. They disappeared for no reason, and no one was alive or dead."

Jin An frowned.

This is no inn.

This is clearly a haunted house.

Who lives and who dies.

One room has one story, there are 32 rooms here, isn't there 32 supernatural stories?
Since this place is so dangerous, why do those veterans of Xiaoshi Village have to come here?Is it so simple to take refuge here simply because you are passing by?

At this time, the shopkeeper who had finished telling the four stories saw that Jin An hadn't made a sound, so he looked directly at the direction where Jin An was standing with his dark eyes, and repeated: "There are still four vacant rooms. Room [-], Room [-], Room [-], Room [-]...and Room [-] on the third floor...Which one do you want?"

Jin An thought about it, and finally decided to choose the second floor. Anyone who leaves the inn will pass the second floor, so he can always pay attention to the movement.

"Which room on the second floor is near the stairs?" Jin An asked the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper said without hesitation: "Qiuzi Room No. [-]."

It was the room where every night there was the sound of hammers hitting the wall.

Jin An didn't think about it for long, and chose this room: "Okay, it's Qiu Zi No. [-], how much does it cost for a night?"

The shopkeeper got up to get the iron key hanging on the wall behind him.

Obviously no eyes.

But it can accurately touch the iron key.

"The girl next to you has already paid the room fee." The shopkeeper's words surprised Jin An and looked at the girl in red with an umbrella who had been very quiet beside her.

Next, the shopkeeper held an oil lamp in his hand and led them to the second floor.

The light on the second floor was very dim, and the only few windows in the corridor were all tightly nailed by wooden boards.

Jin An looked at the guest rooms on both sides and asked curiously: "Why are these windows nailed shut? If the inn catches fire, wouldn't there be no chance of escape?"

The guest rooms on the second floor are sorted by aligning left and right between cold and summer, autumn harvest and winter storage, and by aligning Runyu Chengsui and Lu Lu Tiaoyang.

The one closest to the corridor is "cold and summer, autumn harvest and winter storage".

The inn has been in disrepair for a long time, and the light leakage through the door cracks is a bit big. When he passed the No. [-] room, he found a light and shadow flickering under the crack of the door, as if the people in the room heard the movement in the corridor and were walking carefully. to the door position.

When he looked at the No. [-] Hanzi room opposite to the No. [-] Xiangzizi room, he found that the door of this room was sealed with wooden bars. When he inadvertently got a little closer, the amulet hidden in his collar was surprisingly hot.

Jin An asked calmly: "Why is this number room sealed?"

The shopkeeper is still leading the way with an oil lamp in his hand, with an attitude of being too lazy to deal with customers after taking money. He has no service at all and intends to develop repeat customers.

When passing through Room No. [-] of Shuzi, the light leakage under the crack of the door was half blocked, and someone had already hid behind the door to eavesdrop.

When passing through the No. [-] room, although there was candlelight leaking from the door, no one hid behind the door to eavesdrop, but there was a painful moan coming from the room, as if the mouth was gagged and was being beaten in pain.

Finally came to Room No. [-], Autumn. Jin An curiously took a look at Room No. [-], which was opposite to him, and found that there was no candlelight leaking from the crack of the door, and the room was very quiet. There was no sound at all. Not blowing out the candle on purpose is hiding behind the door to eavesdrop.

These rooms all have a characteristic. Whenever he approaches, the amulet on his chest will feel warm, but they are not as intense as the sealed No. [-] room with cold characters.

I don't know in which house the bloody handprints he was looking for and the two veterans from Xiaoshizhuang were hidden.

Jin An turned his head thoughtfully, uh, he was almost so frightened that he subconsciously punched the two eyeless black holes approaching.

There was no strange expression on the face of the shopkeeper who was very close, and he still said numbly: "You seem to be very interested in every guest room?"

If it wasn't for Jin An's boldness, he would have been frightened just now, and an ordinary person with less courage would have been frightened to the point where at least one soul and one soul were out of the body.

Jin An replied truthfully: "I was thinking, there are 32 rooms in the inn, does each room have its own story?"

The shopkeeper did not answer, but said without the slightest apology: "I forgot, the room No. [-] in Qiuzi was not repaired after the wall was smashed by the previous tenant, and now only rooms No. [-] and No. [-] are left on the second floor. Empty room."

Hearing this, Jin An frowned and glanced at Room No. [-] in Qiuzi in front of him, but he couldn't see anything unusual at the moment.

Jin An: "Shopkeeper, are you sure the repairs haven't been completed yet?"

The shopkeeper didn't look like a good person at first glance, he always felt that the other party was trying to trick him.

The shopkeeper nodded.

Jin An frowned slightly and looked at the Dongzi Room No. [-] and Zangzi Room No. [-] next to him. Because there were no guests staying, they were all dark, dead and quiet. The only difference between the two was that the door of Room No. [-] seemed to be Someone once hacked and broke into the door, and was nailed with a few wooden boards afterwards, which was perfunctory.

Although he felt that there was a big problem with this shopkeeper, it was not suitable for him to tear himself apart with others right away. After thinking about it for a long time, he decided to change to Dongzi No. [-] room.

It was the guest room where the couple lived. According to the shopkeeper, the couple was also one of the longest-lived guests in the inn.

It was a bit helpless for him to choose this room, because only this room could notice the direction of the stairs.

Then the shopkeeper went downstairs to change the iron key, and asked Jin An to wait for him where he was. Before leaving, he specifically told him not to run around, because some tenants were not friendly.

Taking advantage of the time when the shopkeeper went downstairs to get the iron key, Jin An quickly looked at the remaining guest rooms on the second floor, only to find that most of the remaining "Run Yu Cheng Sui, Lu Lu Tiao Yang" were sealed off , the rest of the guest rooms were too far away and the light was too dark to see clearly.

(End of this chapter)