Chapter 162: Dead Man’s Money (please vote, please subscribe)
It was almost ten o’clock at night.
Pop!
The switch was pressed, and a white lamp on the ceiling was lit.
In the landlady’s room, everything inside is still the same.
It was originally said that they would move rooms, but the landlady suddenly disappeared, so Wei Xing remained still.
And according to what Wei Xing said, the things in the room are still exactly the same as what they saw that night. It can be seen that after the landlady rested that night, they were not touched again until she disappeared. something inside.
As soon as the two walked in, they immediately smelled a strange smell.
He Wenzhi moved his nose and looked at Wei Xing again.
“Have you smelled this smell before?”
Wei Xing shook his head and said, "Maybe my mother changed her perfume..."
He was confused.
In the impression, Wei Xing remembered that his mother seemed to have always liked the smell of lavender, and even the fragrance of her clothes was lightly scented with lavender.
Although he uses more than one brand of perfume, the smell is similar. The smell in the room now is the first time he has smelled it.
And his mother also likes to drink scented tea, such as rose tea, roselle tea, lavender tea and so on.
Because his mother often suffered from insomnia for a while, and then heard that lavender calms the nerves, so she has a soft spot for lavender since then.
Lavender is the most popular tea to drink, followed by Roselle tea, because Roselle tea is said to be good for the skin.
As a woman, it is natural to love beauty.
And she got married early and gave birth to children early.
At that time, she gave birth to Wei Xing when she was a teenager, and only twenty years have passed until now.
Listening to these things, He Wenzhi was also checking in the room.
In the glass cabinet in the room, there are indeed some small packets of scented tea bags, which are filled with dried flowers.
There is also a white porcelain tea set next to it, which is packed very neatly.
On the other side is the wardrobe. I opened it and took a look. Many of them were the boss ladies wearing clothes and trousers on the inside and outside. There were also many beautiful and sexy little skirts. The clothes on the inside looked good too. Most of the interesting ones are black.
I checked carefully in the closet and found nothing strange, so He Wenzhi stopped looking any further.
Next to the wall directly opposite the window, there is a square table with an incense burner on it and some fruits in front of it.
The fruit looks a little black and seems to have gone bad.
He Wenzhi frowned and confirmed with Wei Xing again.
"You saw your mother worshiping your grandfather and your father in the room last night, right?"
"Yes." Wei Xing nodded.
"Were all the fruits fresh at that time?" He Wenzhi asked again.
"It's fresh, because I drove there to buy it that day, so I have an impression..." Wei Xing explained.
Those fruits were from when he was about to go out during the day, and then the landlady asked him to buy some fresh fruits when he came back.
Wei Xing didn't think much about it, because Taoist Wang was going to do some rituals that evening, so he thought it would be useful at that time.
It turned out that it was of no use at all at that time, and then Daozhang Wang’s car broke down on the way. He went to find Daozhang Wang and sent him home.
When he came back, he saw that his mother had used the fruits he bought to worship his grandfather and father.
Hearing these words, He Wenzhi thought for a while.
Since the fresh fruit I just bought yesterday has only been stored for one day, even if it is summer, it will not go bad in one day, right?
He Wenzhi lowered his head and smelled, and could smell some moldy smell.
This is definitely more than a day-old fruit!
If the moldy smell is so strong, it definitely cannot be a problem when you buy the fruit. After all, such a strong moldy smell cannot appear in a day or two.
If the fruit was spoiled while being sold, there is no way Wei Xing would not have noticed it.
"Sir...this..." Wei Xing looked at He and asked: "Is there a problem with this too?"
"The fresh fruit you bought yourself became moldy in a day or two. Do you think it's okay?"
"Uh..." Wei Xing: "Maybe I was tricked..."
He didn't seem to think that way about the moldy fruit.
However, He Wenzhi didn't think so in his heart. First of all, these fruits were used to pay homage to the dead.
When he was still on Earth in his previous life, he had heard some theories about this.
But most of them are known through novels and old movies.
It is said that normal food is used to commemorate the dead. If it is really eaten by the ghosts, then the food will lose its original taste.
Even if it is reprocessed, if a living person eats it, it will just look like wax and have no taste.
This is one of the statements.
There is another way to say it.
If it has been eaten by a dead person, it will bring with it the energy of death, causing these foods to lose some of their original energy.
The complete loss of essence and the contamination of death energy will speed up the decay of these foods.
These fruits were clearly said to be fresh, but after they were used to commemorate two dead people, they became moldy and deteriorated over the course of a day and night. This was probably the second theory He Wenzhi heard.
I just didn’t expect that the sayings I learned from novels and old movies in my previous life on earth would actually come true in this world.
But if you think about it more carefully, the souls of Wei Xing’s father and grandfather should have been long gone!
After turning oneself into a corpse through the corpse sect, the soul and body are completely integrated.
It can also be understood that their bodies have swallowed up their souls.
Therefore, some soul-targeting methods do not have much effect on those corpses. If the opponent's strength is high enough, they may even have no effect.
However, as long as their bodies are destroyed and their heads are blasted, they will still die completely.
Wei Xing’s grandfather died long ago because he was a failure.
His father also died that day because he wanted to reveal who was behind the scenes, and was struck back by the curse planted in his body.
The father and son were already dead, so who could be the ghost that ate these fruits last night?
He Wenzhi thought to himself and looked at the photo of the father and son leaning against the wall. In the photo, their eyes were facing the window.
On both sides of the incense burner, there are two half-burned red candles.
The red candle oil flowed down and accumulated in a pile on the table, which had dried up and solidified.
At the same time, there was a brazier on the floor of the table, with some traces of ash left by burning paper money in it.
There is a small low table and a small stool next to it. There is indeed a wooden fish placed on the low table. I think the sound of knocking on the wood last night was indeed this.
But even though I can verify what I said yesterday, the weirdness in it is still too obvious.
Especially, you have to hide in your room to burn paper money?
He Wenzhi thought to himself and walked to the dressing table again.
Looking at the cosmetics on it, He Wenzhi said: "The cosmetics and perfumes your mother usually uses are all here, right?"
Wei Xing just said about his mother I like the smell of lavender the most. When I checked the closet just now, the clothes inside were indeed scented with lavender. You can smell it as soon as you open the closet door.
But when I first entered the house, I didn't know what the strange smell was.
That’s not the smell of moldy fruit.
"It should be so..." Wei Xing said, but he was not sure.
Wei Xing was not sure, so He Wenzhi could only check one by one.
Open the bottle cap and smell the smell, and then compare it with the smell when you just entered the room.
It's just that none of the cosmetics on the table have the same smell as the one I just smelled.
Think about it carefully, if you have to tell me what the smell was like just now.
It's like a smell mixed with fragrance.
In his previous life, He Wenzhi was still in junior high school. There was a female classmate in his class who had body odor.
Then in order to cover up the smell, the female classmate would spray a lot of perfume to try to cover up the smell of body odor.
But it seems to have had the opposite effect.
In short, when he just smelled that smell, He Wenzhi suddenly recalled such a thing.
However, the proprietress does not have body odor. He Wenzhi had close contact with her that day, and they had several more contacts later. There was no peculiar smell on her body.
So the smell I smelled when I just entered the room was not body odor.
Moreover, compared to body odor, He Wenzhi felt that the smell just now was worse, with a feeling of rotten flesh and blood, like a corpse.
He had smelled this smell before on a walking corpse.
"So...are you using the smell of perfume to cover up the smell of corpses?" He Wenzhi thought to himself.
"Could it be that the boss lady was turned into a corpse?"
The more He Wenzhi thought about it, the weirder he felt. It stands to reason that after they came out of the Spiritual Adjustment Bureau, both mother and son had passed If they have passed the test and undergone brand-new ideological education, they would not have been released.
In this case, how could the proprietress be turned into a corpse and so quickly?
"Wei Xing, has anyone else come in to your mother's room in the past few days?" He Wenzhi looked at him and said, "For example...dead people..."
Wei Xing's heart He jumped and said, "Sir, you...are you joking...Those things, before Haven't they all been cleaned up?
And, and... Taoist Master Wang also came to perform rituals yesterday evening..."
"I'm just asking, you. Think about it carefully, it's not a dead person, but a living person." He Wenzhi said.
He just wanted to confirm. After all, if it wasn't the boss lady who had a problem, then the corpse odor might have been brought in by something else.
If the source of the problem is not understood, the matter will naturally not be easily solved, and at the same time, there will be no way to find the boss's wife.
Wei Xing thought about it carefully and took He Wenzhi to check the surveillance video.
This surveillance video can be saved for seven days, and will be automatically deleted after seven days.
In other words, you can only see the content from seven days ago at most today, but it was almost the same time when the mother and son came back.
After careful observation, the surveillance video showed that no one else had entered or left the room, only the proprietress.
Then at this moment, He Wenzhi, who had been staring at the surveillance video, suddenly grabbed Wei Xing's hand.
"Go back, it's the picture of you driving past the entrance of the breeding farm when you came back that day!"
Wei Xing nodded and adjusted the picture there.
This is the scene of Wei Xing driving back with the proprietress, which happened to be recorded by the camera at the entrance of the farm.
It’s just that in his car, there was not only the mother and son, but also another woman!
This woman didn't look too old, maybe in her thirties, and He Wenzhi even looked a little familiar to her, but he couldn't remember who it was for a while.
"Who is the other woman in the car?" he asked.
Wei Xing: "These are employees in our factory! They usually live in the female employees' dormitory over there, the one next to the women's bathhouse."
He pointed In the direction over there, he said, "Sir, you were there that night."
Hearing this, He Wenzhi immediately recalled it.
He did go to the women's bathhouse that day. After all, the only way to enter the underground ghost realm was through there.
And when we came out, there happened to be several female employees taking a shower inside.
He Wenzhi felt familiar just now because when he came out of the underground ghost realm that day, he happened to see this female employee taking a bath in the pool.
“Her name is Liu Mei, she is from the same hometown as my mother.” Wei Xing said: “Sir, on the way to our breeding farm from Chunshi, there is a sloping forest and there is a trail that turns into it. Have you seen it?"
"Yes, I saw it when I came during the day." He Wenzhi nodded: "What's wrong with that path?"
"There is a village there called Liuye Village. Most of the people in the village are named Liu. My mother is from there. Many of the employees in my breeding farm are also from there..."
Wei Xing's mother, the boss's wife, was born in Liuye Village, and her name is Liu Yuqing.
Very early on, Wei Xing's grandfather set up a breeding farm here, and the business grew bigger and bigger. Later, he gave birth to a son, Wei Xing's father.
Maybe because of the close distance, many people in Liuye Village choose to work at the breeding farm.
Moreover, food and accommodation are included here. In those days, you had food, accommodation, and money. This treatment was really not low.
Later, Wei Xing's mother Liu Yuqing, who was only a teenager, could not support her in school due to family conditions, so she came to work on a breeding farm.
Because he is beautiful and has a good figure, Wei Xing's father took his fancy at almost one glance.
Following that, the two fell in love for a long time, and as soon as they fell in love, they became pregnant immediately.
His father was not the kind of irresponsible person, so he married Liu Yuqing directly, and then gave birth to Wei Xing.
People who were born in Liuye Village became the proprietresses of the breeding farms, so more people from Liuye Village came to work in the breeding farms.
After all, in a village, people may be related to each other. Even if they are not relatives, as long as they are fellow villagers, they will definitely take care of them a little bit.
So, almost from that time on, the people in Liuye Village, as long as the breeding farm really needed so many employees, basically came from there.
Only later, Liu Yuqing’s parents passed away.
To be honest, maintaining relationships, or walking around with neighbors, etc., are almost all done by the older generation.
Liu Yuqing has rarely been back since she got married.
If her parents weren't willing, she would have taken her parents out.
Now that her parents have passed away, for someone like her who left the village when she was a teenager, she no longer has a sense of belonging there.
But after all, there are still many people from Liuye Village in the breeding farm, so if something happens, Liu Yuqing will do her best to help.
Not to mention that she may have some problems in some aspects, but she is still very good to the people in the village.
At least on the surface, Liu Yuqing can do things so that those fellow villagers have nothing to say.
Just like that Liu Mei, she didn't originally work on a breeding farm because her children at home still needed someone to take care of her, so she relied on her husband to make money outside by doing construction work.
But something happened on the construction site. He was injured and could no longer work. Although the compensation was tens of thousands of dollars, the expenses for the children alone were not small. How long could these 100,000 dollars last?
After Liu Yuqing found out about this, she asked Liu Mei to work at the breeding farm, and she also took a lot of care of her.
It also happened that that year her child went to high school and needed to live on campus so she no longer had to take care of her all day long, so she came.
The reason why Liu Mei came back with her in the car that day was because she met him halfway.
Liu Mei's husband relapsed from an old injury and was now bedridden. Liu Mei took half a day off that day to go back and check on her husband. When she came back, she couldn't ride the electric scooter because she forgot to charge it.
Then she had no choice but to push the cart. Wei Xing happened to drive by at that time and took her back to the factory.
“You and your mother have been in contact with this person these days?”
“Didn’t this incident just happen, so my mother and I rarely go out, even if I don’t have much contact with outsiders when I go out. If I have to say I have been relatively close to someone, "Liu Mei was the only one I had close contact with."
Wei Xing thought, and said: "I helped her carry the battery car into my trunk that day, and my mother also followed her. She chatted for a while and talked about her family. ”
He Wenzhi was thinking in his mind and asked: "Have you contacted anyone in Liuye Village? Maybe your mother went back to the village to pay homage to the elderly?"
Wei Xing nodded: "I let Several of my mother's fellow villagers called back and asked, but my mother never returned to Liuye Village, and the old house in the village had not been lived in for who knows how many years. It was like a ghost house. My mother Even if she went back, there would be no place to stay, so it was impossible for her to arrive. He didn’t come back at night.”
“Have you heard about what happened at Liu Mei’s house?”
“Oh, this happened when my mother talked to her that day. I also heard that it was about her husband..."
Since her husband was injured on the construction site that time, he can no longer do many things, and he is still bedridden from time to time, supporting the family. The heavy responsibility almost fell on Liu Mei alone.
But even so, Liu Mei had no complaints.
But her husband was obsessed with the anesthesia of alcohol and also became addicted to gambling, which made the already poor family even worse.
Then a few days ago, I heard from Liu Mei that a very strange old man came to Liuye Village, looking for people to gamble everywhere.
Everyone thought he was a psycho and ignored him, but Liu Mei’s husband was a gambler.
No one wanted to have anything to do with the old man. Liu Mei’s husband was gone.
Moreover, it is said that the old man had a big bag of money.
Her husband was always a loser in every bet and rarely won, but that time, he actually won!
And he won all the old man’s sack of money.
This made him extremely happy, and he told Liu Mei immediately.
Liu Mei didn't believe it. Two days later, she went back to the village and took a look and found that it was really a sack of money.
It's just that the source of the money is unknown, and the couple don't dare to use it casually for fear of getting into trouble, so they still keep it at home until now.
Having money and not being able to use it, and being on tenterhooks every day is really tiring.
Moreover, for some unknown reason, Liu Mei’s husband’s body has become weaker and weaker since he won that sack of money.
During these days, her husband has been bedridden, so Liu Mei’s requests for leave to return to the village have gradually increased.
Just this afternoon, she asked for leave again, also to go back and take care of her bedridden husband.
Judging from this situation, I am afraid that I may have to take a long leave in the future.
After all, according to what Liu Mei is saying now, her husband can hardly even get out of bed. He is obviously a man who is not yet forty years old, but he turns out to be the same as he is eighty or ninety years old.
Hearing this, He Wenzhi suddenly wondered, would there be any problem with the old man who suddenly appeared in the village?
"You said the old man was strange, have you ever asked why he was so strange?"
Wei Xing thought for a while and said, "I heard from Liu Mei that the old man is always talking. , and he looks a little dirty. He is obviously an old man in his seventies or eighties, but he is wearing the clothes of a teenager..."
"An old man in his seventies or eighties, wearing the clothes of a teenager...?" He Wenzhi thought to himself, looking thoughtful.
"Do you have Liu Mei's phone number? If so, call her now. I have something to ask her personally!" he added.
Wei Xing nodded after hearing this.
After all, he is his mother's hometown, and he is an employee of the factory. Even if he did not leave Liu Mei's phone number personally, the factory will also record the contact information of the employees.
However, Wei Xing still asked: "Sir, you mean...my mother's affairs are related to the affairs of her hometown Liumei's family?"
He Wenzhi shook his head: "I'm not sure either, but there must be something wrong with Liu Mei's family."
He looked at Wei Xing and urged: "Why are you still standing there! Hurry up and fight. !”
“Oh, okay, I’ll go get the employee’s contact information.” With that, Wei Xing dialed the number of the person in charge of personnel in the factory, and then asked him to give it to him. Liu Mei's phone number was sent.
After getting the phone, Wei Xing didn't dare to waste time and dialed it quickly.
【Beep...beep...beep...】
The phone was on speakerphone and the call was indeed connected, but no one answered.
After a while, the call was automatically hung up because no one answered.
Wei Xing thought to himself and called his mother again, but he was told that the phone was turned off.
His heart sank and he looked at He Wenzhi again.
“Keep beating Liu Mei.” He Wenzhi said.
"Okay." Wei Xing nodded and continued to dial.
I just called three times in a row, but still no one answered.
Finally, on the fifth time, the call was finally connected.
"Hello?" A young girl's voice came from the other end of the phone, sounding timid and trembling at the same time.
It was as if he had just cried and looked very nervous.
Hearing this voice, Wei Xing was slightly startled, and then said: "Hello, I am the boss of Liu Mei's workplace. Are you...?"
"I, I am her ...Daughter..." The other end of the phone said timidly, with a hint of sobbing in her voice, as if she was holding back.
"Little sister, what's wrong with you?" Wei Xing felt that something was wrong with the girl's voice, and at the same time he felt a little weird: "You are not in high school, so you live on campus?"
"My dad was sick this weekend, so I came back..."
"Is your mother at home? Is it convenient for her to answer the phone?"
"I, I...wow!" The other end of the phone couldn't bear it any longer and cried loudly, saying at the same time: "My mother...my mother...she had money in her hand and was laughing all the time...she They look so scary...as if they were possessed...and my father..."
"What kind of money are they holding?" He Wenzhi asked hurriedly.
"Yes, yes...dead man's money..."
The girl sobbed and said in a weak voice.
“It’s the kind of money that has Tiandi Bank printed on it…”
I have been writing until now, and today there is only this chapter. The subsequent plot needs to be sorted out. I promised yesterday that I would give you 10,000 yuan today, but I have only written 6,630 words so far. I owe you more than 3,000 words. I will make up for it next time!
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