C88 weirdo

I tried to be polite. After all, I had a favor to ask.

The shadow in the room froze for a moment, as if hesitating whether to open the door or not.

I was a bit nervous. It was too late to knock on the door, so I could only look through the crack in the door. I hoped that the people inside the mountain would be a bit more passionate, so Tang Rou and I wouldn't have to sleep in the wilderness under the heavy rain.

"What, you don't agree? If not, let's switch to another one."

Tang Rou stood to the side and put her hand on my shoulder. At the same time, she also looked into the crack in the door.

When I turned my head, a bolt of lightning suddenly descended from the sky, lighting up the surroundings as if it were day. Tang Rou cried out in surprise and immediately took a step back. She almost fell to the ground.

I reached for it.

"What's wrong?"

After asking, Tang Rou immediately pointed towards the entrance.

When I turned my head back, the shabby wooden door creaked open, revealing an old face within.

This was the face of a very common old man in the countryside. He was dressed in plain clothes and wore a rain cape over his clothes. Although his hair was already white, his eyes were surprisingly pale and radiant, very different from the other elders.

"What are you guys doing? Why did you come to our village so late at night?"

It turned out that the old man had already walked over to open the door. However, the courtyard was too dark, so I didn't see clearly.

The old man looked at me and Tang Rou. He didn't tell us to go in even though the door was ajar.

We were just visiting relatives in the city. We were planning to cross the river before nightfall, but we didn't expect that there would be some problems along the way and we got lost. Now that we're at the river bank, there definitely isn't a ferry, so we can only find a place to shelter from the rain.

Initially, I thought that since my words were so courteous and there was a weak girl beside me, this grandpa wouldn't reject it. However, I didn't expect that after hearing it, the old man would still have no intention of letting me in.

"Are you from the north? Our village is a long way from the river. "

It looked like a member of the Public Security Bureau was trying to interrogate a prisoner, which made me a little unhappy.

"Yes, Gramps, we came here because of luck. We only came here because we wanted to hide from the rain. If the rain stopped, we would have left."

After saying this, Tang Rou took out a few hundred yuan bills from her pocket and handed them over.

As the saying goes, money can make a fool of itself. It seemed like this method was more reasonable.

As expected, the old man's eyes landed on the banknotes in Tang Rou's hand. He didn't hesitate to receive them and carefully counted them.

I was speechless, when I noticed Tang Rou winking at me.

Since he had received the money, it meant that he could finally find a place to shelter from the rain tonight.

Sure enough, the old man looked us up and down once more, then leaned to the side.

Before I could get there, the old man suddenly shut the door a little more, and I nearly smacked my nose.

I was just about to scold him angrily, but the old man was very serious.

"I feel sorry for you, so I let you stay at home. But before I enter, I have to explain a few rules to you."

This is really troublesome. However, I can only look at his expression as I'm living under someone else's roof now. Thus, I hurriedly revealed a humble expression.

"Just tell us the rules, and we promise we won't trouble you."

The old man stuck his head out and looked at the door. The rain had almost formed a line and he could not see clearly in the surrounding white fog.

"The two of you can only stay in the woodshed, not make any noise. Before dawn, regardless of whether the rain stops or not, you must leave."

Hearing this, I really wanted to snatch the money from the old man's hands. If it really doesn't work, why don't we go knock on someone else's door? Why are you playing around with me like this?

Spending several hundred yuan to go straight to the woodshed and chasing us away before the sun rose was simply too much.

Before I could say anything, Tang Rou lightly pinched my arm and nodded her head in agreement.

"No problem, old man. Both of us will definitely leave here before daybreak."

The old man nodded and then opened the door. Tang Rou and I were finally able to enter the courtyard. There was a bang behind us and the door was closed.

The courtyard was extremely messy, as if it had not been repaired in a long time. Fortunately, the stone path was still clean.

"Come with me to the house and wait. I'll go get the key."

The old man turned around and walked in front of us. Tang Rou and I exchanged a look and followed him. When we pushed open the door and entered, we could smell a moldy smell mixed with a bit of a dead person's smell.

I lifted my nose and took a light sniff. Ever since I entered the village, I could smell a faintly discernible smell of death. The smell in the house was even stronger now.

The old man had walked into that room.

"Is there a problem?" Tang Rou whispered into my ear.

I shook my head and didn't say anything else. I finally got myself a woodshed. If I angered this old man, I'm afraid that he would immediately throw a tantrum and chase the two of us out.

There was a rummaging sound, and then the old man came out with a curtain, and just as the curtain was being drawn, a bolt of lightning fell from outside, and I saw that the interior of the house was also in disarray, but that was not what attracted me the most.

When the curtain opened at that corner, I curiously peeked inside. The scene inside startled me greatly.

If I'm not wrong, there are several coffins in the room.

That's right, it looked like a coffin, and there was more than one.

Could this old man be in the coffin business?

Even though it was just a glance, I could tell that the coffins were very old. Some of them were already in tatters.

The old man quickly put down the curtain and covered his face at the same time as he glared at me.