Chapter 67. Missing Liang Fei
Arc 3 : Supernatural Horror Movie Nightmare.
The furniture and furnishings in Juren Residence were actually almost completely destroyed during the special period. The furniture in the house now was restored based on the memories of some old people and the picture albums left behind. Although it was modern restored furniture, it still looks quite fascinating when placed in this ancient house.
While everyone else was interested in the decorations in the house, Du Yan’s eyes fell on the three locust trees in the yard. The locust trees must have been quite a few years old, covering the entire backyard.
It was quite common to plant locust trees in the courtyards of scholars’ homes. Because locust trees symbolize good luck in imperial examinations, the year of examinations is called ‘Locust Autumn’ and the time for students to take the examinations is called ‘Tread on Locust’. But the problem is that if someone dies unjustly in this house, then these three locust trees will become the best weapon to gather negative energy.
Because the locust tree is a wood of the five yin elements, and there were three locust trees planted in this yard, which just blocked the entrance tightly, and the yang energy can not enter the house at all. But now it seems that this house was a little abnormally clean.
Logically speaking, Fan Shi did not die of natural causes when she hanged herself in her house. Even if she had no resentment in her heart, with these three locust trees, the house could not be so clean.
There can only be one explanation for the matter. When the house was being expanded, a celestial master was invited to set up a certain formation in the front part to suppress the yin energy in the backyard. That’s why the entire house now looks extremely clean. Even if there were three centuries-old locust trees, they had no special impact on Feng Shui.
From this point of view, things were somewhat interesting. If Fan Shi was willing to hang herself to follow her late husband, even if she had some resentment, it would not have much impact, at most it would make the place a little gloomy.
Why did they go to such great lengths to invite a master to perform a ritual to suppress the evil spirit? Du Yan stroked his chin and roughly knew the identity of the fierce ghost that appeared in the ancient village in the movie.
“What are you looking at?”
Xiao Lang’s voice brought Du Yan back to his senses. He pointed at the three locust trees and said: “This village has really good feng shui. There are hundreds of years old trees here and there.”
Xiao Lang smiled: “Yes, before the road was built here, it is said that the villagers lived in isolation from the outside world. Even now, they are still quite traditional in their thinking. They believe that ancient trees have spirits and should not be easily moved.”
Du Yan smiled and said: “Now that ancient trees were protected by the country, they will not be moved.”
Xiao Lang said: “That’s the truth.”
Zhou Tian happened to come in from the front yard and immediately became excited when she saw the locust trees. She ran directly under the locust trees and instructed Wei Zizhe to take a photo for her.
After taking photos for a while, Zhou Tian took her phone to check the results. She pouted and looked very dissatisfied: “The scenery and the house are good, but my clothes don’t match the classical style. If I had known earlier, I would have brought some ancient costumes with me to take the photos.”
Wei Zizhe said: “Then we have to put up a curtain to block you from changing. What a hassle.”
Zhou Tian rolled her eyes at him and said: “You know what? When our club was shooting ancient style photos, we went through a lot of trouble to find a place like this. But the ancient buildings we found were all out of place and could not be compared with this place at all.”
Wei Zizhe said: “Then when you return to school, look for a vacation and bring your club members here to take photos.”
Zhou Tian’s eyes lit up, and she said: “This is a good idea, but the journey is a bit far, and I don’t know if they will be willing to come.”
Liang Fei, who had just stepped over the threshold, happened to hear this conversation. He smiled frivolously and said: “This is easy. Just tell them that Xiao Lang will be the host and will accompany them throughout the meal and play. The seniors and juniors in your club will definitely be vying to come.”
When Xiao Lang heard Liang Fei say this, he subconsciously glanced at Du Yan, but the other person’s expression did not change at all, and he still looked cold and indifferent.
Xiao Lang felt somewhat relieved, but also somewhat inexplicably disappointed, but he still explained: “You are a group of girls coming to play, and it is not convenient for me to accompany you all the time. But I can ask my cousin to entertain you when the time comes. She is about the same age as you, so you guys should be able to play together.”
Zhou Tian smiled and nodded without saying anything more. Anyway, Xiao Lang was always polite and gentle to girls in school, but he always kept a certain distance.
To put it briefly, his principles are completely different from his appearance of attracting bees and butterflies
Everyone chatted and laughed and walked through the yard to see the residential part of the backyard. In order to prevent tourists from entering without permission and damaging the tiles, all the rooms were surrounded by railings, and everyone could only take a few glances through the open doors.
Xiao Lang and his group were very well behaved and did not try to cross the railing to enter the house. When they walked to the front of a room, Zhou Tian looked down at the brochure, then looked inside the room, looking very puzzled.
Wei Zizhe asked her: “What’s wrong with you? Is there something wrong?”
Zhou Tian pointed at the brochure and said: “Is there something wrong with this brochure? It says that this is the room of Juren’s mother, Fan Shi, but judging from the restored furnishings, it should be the room of Juren and his wife.”
Wei Zizhe said: “There shouldn’t be such an obvious mistake. Why do you say that?”
Zhou Tian leaned slightly into the room and pointed in the direction of the bed: “Under the bed, there is a pair of bright red embroidered shoes. How could a widow in ancient times wear shoes of such bright colors?”
After hearing what Zhou Tian said, everyone leaned over to look but saw nothing.
Wei Zizhe asked her: “Did you see wrongly? Where did the shoes under the bed come from?”
Zhou Tian was not convinced and stuck her head in to look again, then turned back and said: “I think it’s time for you to wear glasses, since you can’t even see a pair of shoes that are so conspicuous.”
Wei Zizhe looked again, then shook his head again: “There’s nothing.”
Zhou Tian heard this and thought Wei Zizhe was playing a trick on her, so she looked over again. Then, she turned around with a pale face and a trembling voice: “Yes, there is nothing, but I just saw a pair of very delicate embroidered shoes underneath. You know the kind that we sometimes wear when we cosplay in ancient costumes, so I know a little bit about it. That, that is the kind of shoes that people wear when they get married…”
Zhou Tian’s words were a bit scary. Normally, Liang Fei would have complained about her at this time, but his voice was not heard.
Everyone was feeling strange when Xu Yuan suddenly spoke.
Xu Yuan was a very stable person. He spoke slowly and steadily. It was rare to hear him speak in such a loud and hurried voice.
They only heard him say in a panic: “Liang Fei, where did Liang Fei go?”
Everyone looked back and found that Liang Fei was missing from the crowd. Xu Yuan and Liang Fei had always had a good relationship, and when a living person suddenly disappeared at this time, he became quite anxious.
Xiao Lang took out his cell phone and said: “Don’t worry, I’ll give him a call.”
Xu Yuan finally realized that if he couldn’t find the person, he could call. He watched Xiao Lang take out his phone and called Liang Fei.
But after waiting for a while, there was still no response. Xu Yuan became even more anxious and went back along the way he came to look for someone. Everyone went back along the way they came, but no one saw Liang Fei.
Xiao Lang came up with an idea at this time. It was very quiet in this ancient village. If he called Liang Fei, even if the other person didn’t answer the phone for some reason, he should be able to faintly hear the ringtone.
So he took out his cell phone and kept calling Liang Fei. When everyone found the big banyan tree, they seemed to hear the faint ringing of the cell phone.
Xu Yuan’s eyes lit up, and he pointed in the direction of the big banyan tree and said: “It seems to be over there. Could it be that the guy is still brooding over those wooden signs and sneaked over to study them?”
However, Liang Fei was still nowhere to be found under the banyan tree.
The group stopped and discussed for a while, thinking that maybe Liang Fei had dropped his phone. He had just bought the iPhone not long ago, and Liang Fei treasured it very much. When he found that his phone had fallen, he ran along the road to look for it in a hurry and forgot to inform everyone. Liang Fei was a bit impetuous in doing things, and there was nothing strange about his behavior.
Everyone analyzed that if Liang Fei’s phone was dropped near the banyan tree, he would find it anyway, so it would be better to find the phone and wait to meet up near the banyan tree.
So Xiao Lang continued to dial Liang Fei’s number, and everyone dispersed under the tree and started to help find the phone.
Tian Luo was very careful. He searched until he came to the dry well. He squatted beside the well, listened for a while, and said with some uncertainty: “Come here guys, did the phone fall into this well?”
Xu Yuan happened to be nearby and felt a little strange: “How could it be possible? There is a huge stone pressing down tightly on the well. No matter what happened, there is no way that Liang Fei’s mobile phone could have fallen into the well, right?”
Tian Luo hesitated for a moment, listened again, and said: “I’m sure the ringing sound seems to be coming from this well.”
So everyone gathered around it, and sure enough, as they got closer to the wellhead, the ringing became louder and louder, and finally, it came out clearly from the bottom of the well.
Everyone found it very strange and walked around the well, and found that the huge stone was indeed pressing down the entire well.
No matter how thin and light Liang Fei’s phone was, it was impossible for it to fall in accidentally, unless he took the initiative to push the phone in through the gap.
Zhou Tian said with uncertainty: “Liang Fei, this boy wouldn’t be trying to trick us, would he?”
Xu Yuan shook his head and said: “He has only bought this phone not long ago, it is very precious to him, he would never use his new phone to trick us even if you beat him to death.”
Tian Luo speculated again: “Could it be that Liang Fei accidentally dropped his phone on the road, and a tourist picked it up. Then that person saw so many of us looking for the phone and threw it into the well out of guilt?”
At this time, Xiao Lang spoke up: “Now is not the time to worry about the phone. The biggest question now is, where is Liang Fei?”
After hearing Xiao Lang’s reminder, everyone came to their senses and realized that the main point seemed to have gone astray.
Anyway, the phone is in the well, and no one can take it away, so everyone decided to find Liang Fei first.
The ancient village was not too big, but the crowd searched three times along the ancient village and did not find any trace of Liang Fei. In the end, they had no choice but to run to the exit of the village to ask the staff.
However, the staff guarding the entrance and exit did not even finish listening to their description, and waved their hands and said: “No, no, so far today, only people have gone in, and no one has come out. By the way, do you want to go out? If you want to go in again, you have to buy another ticket.”
So Liang Fei should still be in the village. Where did that person go? After thinking about it, everyone decided to go back to the ancient village to look for Liang Fei.
At this time, Zhou Tian remembered something and said: “I saw Liang Fei was very interested in this ancestral hall just now. He wouldn’t sneak into the ancestral hall, would he?”
Wei Zizhe thought about it and nodded in agreement: “It’s possible. Xiao Lang was there just now, so he was too embarrassed to run in. This guy is so bold and curious, he might have really sneaked into the ancestral hall.”
So, the group walked directly towards the ancestral hall, ready to find Liang Fei and reprimand him for his extremely irresponsible behavior.
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