The two men locked the door and ignited gasoline in the house. Flames shot into the sky. When the middle-aged man rushed over, the entire house was in flames.
After this incident, the middle-aged man repainted the farmhouse and wanted to continue renting it out, but he failed. Later, weird events happened one after another, causing him to continue to lose money, and then he found it on my head.
Finally, the middle-aged man told me that there was a couple living in the farmhouse on the far left, and they had the keys to the house. I could look at the house with them after I went there.
"How long have the couple lived together?"
I asked with some curiosity.
"About more than a year ago, they moved in shortly after the previous couple committed suicide."
The middle-aged man answered truthfully.
"How can they stay here forever? Haven't they encountered some ghosts or something like that?"
I felt increasingly puzzled.
"I'm not sure about this either,"
The middle-aged man explained that he went abroad not long after he repaired the burned-down farmhouse. The couple completed the transaction with him over the phone because they had stayed there for a long time and paid the rent on time every month. Therefore, the middle-aged people have great trust in this couple.
Therefore, he asked them to act as second landlords for him, and when guests came to check in, he would show them the house and so on.
"Send me your address and I'll go there tomorrow!"
I briefly recorded it and then hung up the phone. Then I took out the map and found the location of the farmhouse, preparing to rush there to check it out early the next morning.
After finishing all this work, I went downstairs for a walk. An Jingjing and the others were gathering together, happily counting money. I smiled helplessly and went back upstairs to rest without saying anything else.
The next morning, I got up early. After eating something, I took a taxi with Lonnie and rushed to Luofu Mountain, where the farmhouse was located.
The taxi drove all the way west, nearly a hundred miles out of Fengdu, and finally stopped.
"Luofu Mountain is here!"
The driver reminded us.
I paid the money and walked out of the car with Lonnie. We saw a green mountain not far away. At the foot of the mountain, we could faintly see the spiers of three farmhouses, emerging from a dense forest.
Lonnie and I walked down the winding mountain road together, and after more than 20 minutes, we finally came to the three farmhouses.
For some reason, this place is only a few kilometers away from where we got off the bus just now, but when I stood in front of the farmhouse, I felt a little strange, as if I had entered a different world.
There was silence all around. Not only was there no movement, not even a sound of insects or birds could be heard. Everything fell into silence, as if they were afraid of disturbing something sleeping here.
I walked directly to the door of the farmhouse on the far left and knocked hard a few times. After a while, with a creak, the door of the farmhouse was pushed open.
"You are?"
A thin man with gold-rimmed glasses and a white T-shirt came out and asked doubtfully.
"We are tourists here to stay. The landlord said that you can show us the house."
I said quickly.
"Oh, it's for accommodation. Please wait a moment."
The man flashed, got in again, and closed the door tightly.
After a while, he came out with a few keys, looked at Lonnie and me up and down, and adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose.
"How dare you come here, aren't you afraid?"
I pretended to be confused and asked: "Brother, what do you mean by this and why are you afraid?"
The man pretended to be mysterious and said: "This place is often haunted. Many guests have been frightened into psychosis after staying here!"
"If it's haunted, why do you still live here?"
Lonnie glanced at him and asked with a smile.
"Hey, because I am an atheist, these evil things will naturally not get close to me."
This man looks gentle and polite, speaks well, and has no sinister aura about him. But for some reason, I always feel that he is weird, as if something is wrong.
While talking, the man told us that his name was Zhang Ye and he came here to travel with his girlfriend. Because he liked the environment here, he stayed here.
I couldn't help but ask: "Where is your girlfriend?"
Zhang also said: "She is sleeping."
It was around noon, and it seemed inappropriate to sleep at this time, but I didn’t ask any more questions and asked Zhang Ye to take us to the two farmhouses.
Zhang also nodded and walked to the door of the farmhouse in the middle. After unlocking the door, he led us in.
The yard is paved with floor tiles, with a mulberry tree planted in the middle and some eye-catching red azaleas planted in the corners.
There are three rooms in the house, the living room in the middle, the bedroom on the left, and the kitchen on the right. All kinds of furniture and supplies are available inside, but they are all covered with a thick layer of dust. It looks like no one has lived there for a long time.
Then, we walked around the farmhouse on the right. It was no different from the farmhouse in the middle, except that there was an escalator on the left side of the yard. After climbing up, you could see the scene in the middle yard.
I wanted to live in the farmhouse on the right, but Colonnie said directly: "We will live in the middle!"
Lonnie must have her own ideas when she made this choice, so I nodded in agreement.
Zhang didn't say anything more and handed over the key.
"We will be neighbors from now on. We are going to have a barbecue in the yard tonight, why not bring your girlfriend to enjoy the scenery together!"
Lonnie took the key and took the opportunity to say to Zhang Ye.
"No."
Unexpectedly, Zhang Ye shook his head and rejected her.
"My girlfriend doesn't like to be in the public eye, so let's forget it."
"Well, then, there will be plenty of time to get together anyway!"
Zhang also nodded and left with another key.
"Xiao Chengzi, do you feel that something is wrong with this Zhang Ye?"
As soon as Zhang Ye left, Lonnie whispered to me.
"Well, although he looks normal in all aspects, he is so normal that it doesn't feel normal!"
I spoke my mind.
"Yes, I doubt he has a girlfriend at all!"
I couldn't help but be stunned. Yes, it was noon. He said that his girlfriend was sleeping and we invited him to be our guest. He also said that his girlfriend didn't like to be in the public eye. It seemed that he was deliberately trying to avoid us seeing his girlfriend!
If Zhang doesn’t have a girlfriend, that is to say, the only one who lives in the farmhouse on the right is himself!
A person is helpless in this barren mountain. What does he rely on for a living? What does he do? Could it be that he is a murderer?
I couldn't help but guess that if he was really a fugitive, it wouldn't matter. I'm afraid he wasn't!
"Let's try again to see if he has a girlfriend!"
After Lonnie finished speaking, she took out a bottle of red wine from the package and walked to the door of Zhang Ye's house again.
