mesbooks Chapter 199: Haunted House
Chapter 199: Haunted House
Shen Li shook her head, "It's okay, I just want these."
Manager Hao: "But, if you take these back, what if..."
These flowers are not cheap. What should I do if I lose any of them and have to take them back?
"It's okay. I have someone at home who can take care of me."
Seeing her insistence, Manager Hao stopped trying to persuade her. "That's fine, but you have to be extra careful with these flowers when you take them back. If there is any damage, our manor will not compensate you."
"can."
The plum trees that Shen Li wanted were cultivated only last year, and it has only been a year so far. Alas, I don’t know whose daughter it is, but these seedlings died directly after being taken care of poorly. Isn’t this a waste?
Although he had this idea in his heart, he had to do the business when it came to his door. Manager Hao used the abacus to calculate the money for Shen Li. The things Shen Li bought cost a total of 320 taels of silver, among which the peony was the most expensive.
However, after taking a look at the seedlings on the ground, Shopkeeper Hao silently gave Shen Li a zero, to prevent the girl from killing the flowers and trees later and coming back to settle the score.
"Miss, the total amount is three hundred taels of silver. Do you need me to deliver these flowers to your house?"
"No, I have a carriage."
Shen Li took out three 100-tael silver notes from her sleeve and gave them to him. After the servants packed the flowers, she drove away in the carriage.
After leaving the farm, Shen Ni put all the flowers into the space. Although she spent so much money now, the space will be self-sufficient in the future, with good quality and high returns.
Shen Li did not go back immediately. She planned to buy a house in the county town so that if something happened in the future and she could not go back to the county town, she would have a place to stay.
Shen Li went directly to the dental shop, the same one Cheng Jian had introduced to her last time. When Mr. Wu saw Shen Li coming, he greeted her warmly, "Miss Shen, what do you want to buy today?"
"I want to buy a house."
"Please come inside."
After hearing Shen Li's purpose of visit, he became even more enthusiastic. He quickly asked the waiter to serve Shen Li tea and snacks, while he went to get a stack of information.
"Miss Shen, you came at the right time. I do have quite a few houses. More and more people are settling in the county. If you had come a few days later, there might not be so many houses. I'll introduce some to you."
"Oh, are there more and more refugees coming here for resettlement recently?"
"Yes, our county town has become much more lively."
Shen Li nodded thoughtfully, and then listened to him talk a lot.
Chunni pointed to two of the houses, one was a four-courtyard house on Changqing Street, and the other was a three-courtyard house on Chang'an Street.
Boss Wu bared his big white teeth and said, "Then I'll take you to see it now."
"Ah."
He grabbed a bunch of keys from the table and walked out with Shen Li. The carriage they took was Yaxing's, so Shen Li's carriage was left here for the time being.
Next, Boss Wu took Shen Li to visit both houses for a long time, but Shen Li was not very satisfied. She always felt that the two houses were a little disappointing.
"Is there anything else?"
Boss Wu also noticed that Miss Shen was not very satisfied with the two houses, but these two houses were already in the best locations among those he owned.
No, there is one more, but...
Catching the look on his face, Shen Li spoke directly: "There are other houses, right?"
"Yes, but the house is a bit spooky, and no one dares to go in on weekdays, so..."
Hearing that the house was a bit spooky, Shen Li became interested in it.
"Where is this house? Can Boss Wu take me to see it?"
"This……"
When he heard her say that she wanted to go, a trace of fear flashed across Boss Wu's face. He hesitated for a while before saying:
"Miss Shen, I won't hide it from you. To tell you the truth, the location and style of the house are both excellent now, but in the past seven years, the house has never been sold because... it is haunted!"
The last two words were spoken in a very low voice. If it weren't for her good hearing, she would not have been able to hear it. When Boss Wu said this, he looked around, and he looked as if he had really seen it.
"Has Boss Wu ever seen it with his own eyes?"
"Yeah," he said, stretching out his hand to pinch the purse on his waist, "Two years ago, when I happened to pass by there, I heard a child's shrill scream coming from inside."
"That scream went deep into my eardrums and frightened me so much that I almost fainted on the spot."
"There was also a beggar who had nowhere to go on a rainy day, so he stayed there. As a result, he saw a figure in white clothes floating by in the middle of the night. When he was found the next day, he was so scared that he was stunned!"
Boss Wu didn't forget to observe Shen Li's expression while he was talking, and he found that the girl seemed to be getting more and more excited the more she listened? !
"Miss Shen, this house is really uninhabitable. In the past two years, the noise has been getting louder and louder, and several residents around have moved away."
"Really?"
"It's natural."
"Boss Wu, take me over there to have a look."
"what!"
Boss Wu shook his hands like rattles, "No, no, that place is too weird, we grown men avoid it, it's not good for a little girl like you to go there!"
Seeing his resistance, Shen Li frowned slightly, "Then how about this, Boss Wu, tell me where the place is and I'll go there by myself."
Boss Wu's face was full of anxiety, "No, why are you so stubborn, little girl!"
Then he saw Shen Li still looking at him with a smile, and asked through gritted teeth: "Do you really want to go?"
"Ah."
Boss Wu sighed deeply and looked up at the sky. Although there was no sun today, it was still broad daylight, so it should be no problem to go there!
He stomped his feet with determination and said through gritted teeth: "Okay, I'll take you there."
"Thank you, Uncle Wu."
Boss Wu drove the carriage over there and turned back to ask Shen Li more than a dozen times along the way, "Are you really going?"
Every time Shen Li nodded patiently, perhaps because he asked too many questions, he felt embarrassed.
Why do I suddenly feel that I, a man in my forties, am not as courageous as a teenage girl?
He suddenly felt embarrassed!
"Uncle Wu, tell me about the situation of that house!"
"Okay, that house was originally the private house of a high-ranking official. However, he made some mistake and was demoted. He returned to Qingxi County with his wife and children."
"Seven years ago, on a stormy night, I don't know where the enemy was provoked, but overnight, all the people in the Mo family were slaughtered. They were not discovered until the next morning. The Mo residence was covered in blood, and everyone who saw it sighed."
"Didn't the government find out?"
Boss Wu shook his head. "It was thundering and raining that day, and no one was outside. The traces had long been washed away."
That's it!
"Are there any survivors from the Mo family?"
Boss Wu had a complicated expression on his face. "According to the government, not really."