After checking the room, the secret guards came out. The leader of them saluted Zhao Yanzhen and said, "Your Highness, there is no one hiding in the room, but the room is in a mess. Chicken blood has been splashed in many places. It looks like Someone did it deliberately."
After hearing this, Zhao Yanzhen led Jiang Nianjiao into the inner room. At this time, the room was indeed in a mess.
The inner room and the small trees in the courtyard were splashed with black dog blood. When she smelled the smell, Jiang Nianjiao couldn't help but started to vomit again.
Seeing this, Zhao Yanzhen quickly patted Jiang Nianjiao's back, but Jiang Nianjiao didn't feel better until she vomited for a long time. Zhao Yanzhen knew that Jiang Nianjiao was suffering from morning sickness, and the slightest smell would make her sick for a long time, so he could only hold Jiang Nianjiao in his arms. out.
Suddenly being picked up by Zhao Yanzhen, Jiang Nianjiao was still a little at a loss. She quickly patted Zhao Yanzhen's arm and whispered, "What are you doing?"
"Jiaojiao, aren't you feeling nauseous? Let's go outside. After they clean it, can we come back tomorrow?" Zhao Yanzhen suggested.
Jiang Nianjiao didn't want to, but she patted Zhao Yanzhen gently and said, "Why clean it? Now this house is in such a mess, and the door to the courtyard has been pried open. You told me that we can just ignore it." "
Zhao Yanzhen smiled and said, "They will take care of it here. Besides, the person who came to cause trouble is just a timid mouse. Otherwise, why wouldn't they dare to do this when we are at home? Why should I bother with such a little thief?" Take it to heart.”
Jiang Nianjiao didn't say anything. She just patted Zhao Yanzhen's arm and said, "Put me down first."
After Zhao Yanzhen put her down, Jiang Nianjiao covered her nose with a handkerchief, and then only looked at the entrance of the courtyard. Their courtyard was locked with a bolt. Before leaving, Jiang Nianjiao also remembered that she was Locked.
So the top priority at this moment, Jiang Nianjiao felt that the most important thing she should do was to find out how the door was opened.
Thinking of this, she only walked to the door, and then she checked the door lock. The door lock was not damaged, the latch was opened directly, and the copper lock was only hung on the lion door knocker. It seems that the person who opened the door probably has his own key backup.
Thinking of this, Jiang Nianjiao felt a burst of anger.
On the other side, Zhao Yanzhen saw that Jiang Nianjiao insisted on investigating the matter. In order to prevent Jiang Nianjiao from going in and smelling the fishy smell, he naturally ordered the secret guards to continue checking the room.
Wait until Jiang Nianjiao finishes checking the situation outside.
Soon the guards came out to report, "Your Highness, Princess, and ministers have checked the inner room. Nothing is missing in the inner room."
Hearing this, Jiang Nianjiao and Zhao Yanzhen couldn't help but look at each other.
But soon Jiang Nianjiao thought about the scene she saw when she walked in.
Obviously this should not be the work of a thief. After all, if a thief is seeking money, then what he should do is to leave quickly after stealing the property.
Instead of destroying the place like this, and looking at this mess, that person is not so much here to destroy, but more accurately as a warning.
What was the man warning about?
Jiang Nianjiao thought that she and Zhao Yanzhen didn't seem to have offended anyone when they first arrived. So there shouldn't be anyone who specifically came to warn them.
If it's not aimed at them, what else could it be aimed at?
When Jiang Nianjiao was thinking this, her eyes once again fell on the four bloody characters on the door: Give me back my life!
Life? Whose life?
When Jiang Nianjiao looked at these words, she suddenly remembered one thing, that is, when her neighbor next door came to greet her home a few days ago, she had said that this house was a haunted house.
A luthier and his wife died here, and after that, it became very difficult for the house to be sold.
Even if the house is finally sold, the tenants will always be scared to flee because of these horrific supernatural events.
Jiang Nianjiao did not believe in ghosts and gods, so when she saw the mess in the inner room, her first thought was not that the dead couple turned into ghosts to drive away the residents, but that someone was pretending to be a ghost.
As for who is doing this kind of pretense and what is the purpose of such pretense, Jiang Nianjiao has no idea.
Got it.
But the most urgent task now seems to be to find out who has the key to his side, and when Mrs. Fang Ya or others have been here.
However, there are not many people in this alley, and the neighbors next door should have gone to bed by now.
So she can only go to the neighbor tomorrow.
However, the arrogant Du Zechi couldn't help being frightened when he saw this scene, "Cousin, what kind of house are you renting? This is too scary."
After hearing Du Zechi's words, Jiang Nianjiao only said, "I'm afraid you can't stay with me tonight, otherwise you should go back to Luo's house."
Upon hearing this, Du Zechi immediately retorted, "If you ask me to go back to Luo's house, you might as well hit the south wall. I really can't stand Luo Jingshan, so I won't go."
Hearing this, Jiang Nianjiao felt helpless towards him for a moment. Finally, Zhao Yanzhen added, "Since he doesn't want to go there, why don't we go find an inn outside to stay temporarily, and we'll find someone tomorrow."
After listening to Zhao Yanzhen's analysis, Jiang Nianjiao nodded cooperatively.
Then the three of them went to the city.
Fortunately, the curfew in Leiyang City was not strict, and the three of them were not caught while walking on the streets late at night.
Although this point. Almost every door has been closed, and the entire long street is almost shrouded in darkness and silence.
There was only one store called Yunhu Inn with two red lanterns hanging outside, and through the outdoor doors and windows, they could see a lamp in the lobby of the inner room. They thought that lamp should be Just stay for the guests.
Zhao Yanzhen knocked on the door and then said, "Is the store owner here?"
After hearing Zhao Yanzhen's words and the knock on the door, the store owner stood up in just one move.
The store owner just said loudly, "Yes."
After waiting for a while, the store clerk opened the door of the inn. ..
Zhao Yanzhen only said, "Open two guest rooms."
When the waiter heard this, he immediately said, "Your Majesty, I'll wait a minute."
In just a moment, the store owner went to check today's room availability. After checking the availability, the store owner only said, "We have two rooms left in this high-end house. I don't know if the guest wants it." Which two rooms should I rent?”
After hearing this, Zhao Yanzhen said directly, "Tianzihao has two rooms."
The store waiter said hello.
Then the waiter just said, "The two rooms cost a total of ten taels of silver."
After listening to the waiter's report, Zhao Yanzhen also took ten taels of silver and gave it to the store clerk.
After the shopkeeper collected the money, he personally led them upstairs with an oil lamp.
The waiter obviously rarely saw such guests who came to seek a place to stay in the middle of the night. He couldn't help but curiously asked, "Why are the three guests here to seek a place to stay so late?"
Zhao Yanzhen did not say anything, but Jiang Nianjiao answered, "We originally rented a pretty good house here, and we only planned to stay here in Leiyang for a while. We didn't want us to visit the old city of Leiyang today. When we came back, we found out The house we rented was damaged, and the door locks were opened. So for the sake of safety, we can only rest here for one night. We plan to report it to the official tomorrow. "
Upon hearing this. The waiter in the shop was amazed, and then the waiter seemed to have thought of something. So he took the initiative and asked, "Girl, do you live in Building 23, Zhuerchong Lane?"
Jiang Nianjiao nodded when she heard this, and then she said with surprise, "How do you know where I live?"
The waiter immediately explained, "Don't get me wrong, girl. The reason why I know this is naturally because that house is a famous haunted house. If not, many horrific things have happened in that house before. People say that this house is... The souls of the couple who died tragically are immortal and turned into ghosts and stayed in the house."
After hearing what the waiter said, Jiang Nianjiao only raised her eyebrows, not expecting that she would hear this rumor again.
But from this point of view, it at least proved that everything her neighbor said should also be everything she saw.
Afterwards, Jiang Nianjiao just pretended to be surprised and said, "Haunted house? Has anything happened in that house before?"
The waiter at the store had already heard that Jiang Nianjiao had a foreign accent, so he just assumed that Jiang Nianjiao didn't know anything, so the waiter at the store took the initiative to introduce, "Yes, a very tragic murder happened there, and a couple died. The man was a luthier and the woman was an oiran.”
Then the waiter in the shop started chatting with Jiang Nianjiao, and no matter where he heard it from, the version of the story was almost the same as the one told by his neighbor.
But there was only one discrepancy. The discrepancy was probably when the neighbors said that the couple had an accident. They didn't know what happened in the house, but the version heard by the waiter was that the couple had an accident that day. At that time, the surrounding neighbors actually heard the man's screams and calls for help.
However, it was already very late at that time, people were afraid, and they didn't know what was going on inside, so none of the residents in the house came out to check. Moreover, the commotion in the room was quite loud.
It is like saying that people heard that the family was exterminated. It was also for this reason that many residents who originally lived in Zhuerchong Lane did not know whether it was because of a guilty conscience or other reasons. Not long after this happened, they all I chose to move out of this alley.
The original Zhuerchong Lane has now become an area with fewer people and more houses.
Hearing the comings and goings here, Jiang Nianjiao couldn't help but asked curiously, "You said many people have left here, but if there are no people who have left, what do you think their mentality is?"
Hearing this, the waiter shook his head and said, "Either he has no money, or he is not afraid of this."
