The distance of ten meters was not very far. Julian Yu and the other three only took a few steps and arrived at the door of the house next to the haunted house.
It is a family-style restaurant, and the first floor is completely opened up to entertain guests. The boss is a kind-looking middle-aged man. It is dinner time, and he is cooking. The open kitchen looks very clean at first glance, and there seems to be a pot of meat stewing on the stove, and the aroma is fragrant.
"It's still so delicious!" The long-lost fireworks made the three college students calm down a lot, and they recalled the good cooking skills of this middle-aged man.
Just then, a trembling old lady pushed the door open, looking dirty and a little crazy.
She seemed not to have seen Julian Yu and the others. She walked straight from the door to the kitchen, stared at the middle-aged boss, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Have you seen my daughter? Have you seen her?"
When Julian Yu heard this, he turned around and looked at her face carefully, then frowned subconsciously.
The disordered tear trough lines indicate that she was in poor health when she was young and it was difficult for her to have children. She would probably have to wait until middle age to have children. However, the crossed wrinkles on her forehead clearly affected her offspring palace. Even if she had children, it would be difficult for her to keep them when she was old.
At the moment, the old lady kept saying that she was looking for her daughter. However, Julian Yu felt that her daughter was most likely in danger.
But the other people who were eating in the restaurant didn't care about this, instead they all showed disgust. But the middle-aged boss was in a good mood, and took the initiative to greet and ask softly: "We didn't see your daughter, Auntie, would you like to have a bowl of soup?
"Okay, okay." The old lady took the soup from the boss tremblingly, then staggered out with it, taking away even the bowls in the store.
"Hey, she comes here every day, and you can't tell whether she's really crazy or not. Why do you have to do this?" An old customer saw this and couldn't help but advise the boss.
"Hey, everyone gets old one day! It's really pitiful to lose your daughter." The boss smiled and shook his head, then went back to the kitchen to busy himself.
He has a beautiful cooking posture, his fingers are long and slender, and he is very skilled in using kitchen utensils. He can make a table full of delicious dishes with just a broad-backed kitchen knife.
But when Julian Yu looked at him, she always felt that there was an indescribable sense of disharmony about him.
"Brother Yu, what are you looking at?" The second of the three college students couldn't help but whisper in Julian Yu's ear, "Although this shop is not big, this big brother is a nice guy. The last time we saw this old lady, he also gave her a bowl of soup."
"Did you see her last time?" Thinking of the customer next to him saying that the old lady came every day, Julian Yu's heart moved, and he felt that some clues seemed to be connected. He quickly asked, "Did you see her drinking soup?"
"No." The second brother shook his head. "And it's so strange. We were afraid it would be too late for her to go back alone that day, so we secretly followed her. But she turned a corner and poured the soup on the ground. She even got down and kept searching inside, muttering 'No, no.'"
"He must be really crazy! Why would he look for someone in the soup?" The third brother joked.
But Julian Yu smiled and continued, "Maybe she thinks her lost daughter is in the soup."
What's in the soup? The three of them were stunned and looked towards the kitchen in the direction of Julian Yu's sight.
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but what the middle-aged boss just took out of the pot seemed not to be fried chicken feet, but... twisted fingers of a young child.
Holy Sh!t! The three of them shuddered with fear, but after rubbing their eyes, they realized it was a false alarm.
But Julian Yu seemed to be afraid that he could not scare them to death, so he added, "By the way, do you know what you ate that day?"
Of course it was chicken feet and sour bamboo shoot soup! However, the words that were originally justified in this situation inexplicably made people doubt themselves. The three college students couldn't even remember what shape the food they ate was when they ate that day.
If this is also the case...
Ugh! The three of them ran out and found a corner to vomit all over the floor. The middle-aged boss in the kitchen saw them running out and hurried out of the kitchen.
"What's going on here?"
"Maybe it's because the weather is too hot and he has heatstroke. He'll be fine if he vomits it out." Julian Yu said calmly.
"Really? Then I'll serve you a bowl of mung bean soup later, so it's convenient to cool down." After saying this with concern, the man went back to the kitchen. He didn't notice the coldness hidden in Julian Yu's eyes at all.
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The short episode was quickly turned over. With a knot in their hearts, the three college students said they would never eat in the middle-aged boss's restaurant again. But Julian Yu said that she was joking, and actually asked the man for five meals and packed them up to take away.
"Brother Yu, is this really edible?"
"Of course. We're staying in the haunted house next door tonight. Don't yell in the middle of the night if you don't have food."
"That's too much. There are only four of us."
"Isn't the fifth one on your back?"
Three college students: Jiuyin Dad, I beg you to be kind qaq
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After a few jokes, when night fell again, Julian Yu finally took the three college students back to the haunted house next door. They climbed over the collapsed wall and entered from the back of the haunted house. After passing through a place similar to a utility room, they finally arrived at the living room on the first floor of the haunted house.
It can only be said that things have changed. The three college students who were eating hot pot and live-streaming last time are now trembling with fear. Even just standing there, they feel like they will faint at any minute.
But Julian Yu acted as if nothing had happened and asked them to put the food they had bought on the ground.
"Let's eat together!" Julian Yu said this, but he had no intention of eating. Instead, he took out several pairs of chopsticks and stuck them vertically into the prepared food.
The somewhat strange action immediately caused confusion among the three college students. Julian Yu did not keep them in suspense this time and answered their questions directly.
"I'm inviting ghosts to dinner." He smiled and pointed to the ground. "In the Taoist profession, sticking chopsticks vertically in the rice is the rule for inviting ghosts to dinner. In fact, this happens quite often. For example, you may have had this experience: after getting food from the cafeteria, you put chopsticks upright in the rice for a while, and the rice lost its fragrance. That's because the ghosts who passed by have already eaten it, so it's tasteless."
...Very good, they have all done it, and the three of them have pale faces.
Seeing this, Julian Yu's eyes became even more vicious, and he added, "What a pity, they won't eat it even if you invite them, because the things in it are despised even by ghosts."
So, is it really human flesh? The three unfortunate children felt like vomiting again.
This time, Julian Yu finally stopped teasing them. Instead, he took down his chopsticks, put his hands together and bowed in the house. Then he stood up and looked around.
In fact, after he met the middle-aged boss, he roughly guessed the whole story, but he just couldn't accept it mentally.
Although his master had told him when he was very young that human hearts were scarier than ghosts and gods, he had been in the Taoist temple for many years and had seen some human disputes, but in the end, they were just big good and small evil, so he just needed to be vigilant.
However, today, he truly felt how despicable human beings can be.
When the stick ghost left the human skin doll last night, he also left a message for Julian Yu. Unlike what others imagined, he wanted to harm people and take their lives. What Julian Yu saw from the broken face of the stick ghost was only endless despair.
He took out the copper coins he had prepared long ago from his pocket and placed them in several fixed positions step by step. Although only a few years had passed, there was very little information about the haunted house on Chunming Road on the Internet. If Julian Yu wanted to solve the problem here, he had to know the truth of that year.
The stick ghost is the evil ghost here, so the easiest way is to ask him directly. As Julian Yu placed the last copper plate, the soul-calling formation was completed, and the temperature in the whole haunted house suddenly changed. The tragedy that had been sealed for many years finally revealed the tip of the iceberg.
Blood, scarlet blood. Unable to escape, the ignorant little girl was pulled by her brother to run forward desperately. Behind her was the muffled sound of a machete cutting bones. Then, there was the sound of footsteps, neither hurried nor slow.
She couldn't run away. The door was shut tightly, and her sobbing throat couldn't utter a single syllable.
"Help... Save us..." The voice was spoken silently, with only the sound of breath, while the unhurried footsteps behind it meant that the executioner was about to come.
The iron hook pierced through the skin on the neck and hung on the short tree in the yard. But the murderer was so skilled that he could easily turn the murder into a brutal torture with just a pair of scissors. The blood fell into the basin, the children cried silently, and the old man cursed in his death.
Their father was tied to a chair, watching the scene in front of him. His eyes gradually became mechanical and distracted. Even hatred could not keep him awake.
By the time the police arrived, the father, who was holding a knife, had been driven completely crazy.
Julian Yu turned his head away, a trace of pity flashed in his eyes. The three college students were so shocked that they were stunned and cursed directly, "What a Fcuking beast!"
Who would have thought that the sensational case of extermination of the whole family was not caused by the father's mental breakdown and slaughtering the whole family, but by the murderer who forced him to go crazy. What's more tragic is that the hostess who has been abused as the fuse of the family tragedy did not run away from home because of irresponsibility. Instead, she was killed by the evildoer early on.
The scene gradually faded, and finally the ghost finally revealed its true face. The stick ghost's face was fake before. In fact, there was only a kind old man and a pair of timid twins.
The girl was a little shy, hiding behind her brother and watching them secretly, but she couldn't say anything when she opened her mouth.
"Her tongue was cut off before she died, so she couldn't speak after death. No wonder she always sings nursery rhymes." Julian Yu walked closer and touched the little girl's head affectionately, and understood the song that accompanied the stick ghost when it appeared before.
That wasn't some ghost nursery rhyme, but a replay of scenes from her lifetime.
After hearing this, the three college students felt even more uncomfortable and their eyes turned red.
"Do you know where your mother is?" Julian Yu asked them patiently.
This time, it was the little boy who responded. He nodded slightly, floated to the window, and pointed at the neighbor's house from a distance.
"As expected." Julian Yu sighed, turned to the three college students and said, "Get ready to call the police."
"Okay." The three agreed and quickly took out their phones to dial 110. But just as the call was connected, there was a sound of something heavy falling in the yard. Then, dull footsteps came from outside the gate.
"Who is it?" the boss asked, and took the initiative to walk to the door to check. However, just when his hand was about to touch the door, he heard a loud "clang" and the axe blade with a cold glow suddenly chopped through the wooden door and directly pressed against the boss's nose.
The boss was so frightened that he dared not move, but the scene he saw through the cat's eye made him even more frightened and he almost peed himself.
Outside the door, I saw a pair of sinister eyes sticking there, with malicious intent written all over the rolling eyeballs.
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