Chinese Folktale

In the world of the Internet, all kinds of stories are shared every day. The story to be told today is adapted from an event contributed by a netizen. The story is full of eeriness and mystery, making people can't help but feel in awe of those unexplainable phenomena.

Mr. Cheng's friend, Lao Chen, returned to his hometown from another place to start a business. He runs three companies and is usually busy with work, so he lives with his employees. In June this year, his girlfriend was coming back from another place, so Lao Chen planned to rent a house near his company.

There was a real - estate agent next to the company. Sister Wang from the agency introduced a house to him. It took only about three minutes to walk from the house to the company. The house had an area of 150 square meters and was fully furnished, but the rent was only 1,000 yuan. In their area, even if it was not a big city, the rent for a similar house was at least about 2,000 yuan, unless the location was extremely remote or the house was very old. Although the location of this house was not very good, it was large and the price was low. After Sister Wang showed Lao Chen the photos and videos of the house, Lao Chen decided to rent it on the spot and paid the rent for half a year. After all, such a cost - effective house would be gone if he was slow.

On the second day after renting the house, Lao Chen got the key and went to see the house. There were high - rise and low - rise buildings in the community. He rented a house on the second floor of the fourth floor without an elevator, with a structure of one living room and two households. As soon as he entered the house, Lao Chen felt a bit strange. There was an odor in the house. His colleague who went with him analyzed that it was caused by the mahogany furniture not being ventilated and getting damp. The light in the house was dim. Although the equipment was complete, the whole house felt gloomy. At that time, they thought that changing the light would be better. After walking around, Lao Chen was quite satisfied at first. However, when he was about to leave, he saw a large round convex mirror hanging above the door of the opposite neighbor. The mirror was hanging high and slanting downwards. He felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, but since he had already paid the money, he didn't think much about it.

A few days later, Lao Chen moved in. He also hired someone to clean the house and change the light, and changed the smoky - gray curtains into white ones, hoping to make the house brighter. He was not present during the cleaning and moving, and arranged for the company's financial sister to supervise. That night, after 11 o'clock, Lao Chen, who had finished his social engagements, returned home drunk and fell asleep immediately.

However, strange things happened the next morning. When Lao Chen woke up at about 9 or nearly 10 o'clock to wash up and go to work, he found that the tooth mug, razor, facial cleanser, and shampoo were all on the ground in the bathroom, and the toothbrush was thrown into the toilet. The tooth mug seemed to have been thrown out with great force, rolling several times on the floor before stopping. The blade of the razor had fallen out, and the bottles of facial cleanser and shampoo were lying around randomly, with some of the liquid flowing out. He picked up these things and went to the sofa in the living room to call the financial sister to ask. But he found that the living room floor was also full of things, such as ashtrays, tissues, and disposable cups. After the call was connected, the financial sister said that she had cleaned up everything yesterday and was afraid that he couldn't find his things, so she had taken a video and sent it to his mobile phone. The video clearly showed where things were placed. This made Lao Chen very strange, but he thought that he might have made such a mess when he was drunk.

After a busy day, Lao Chen returned home at about 9 o'clock in the evening. He took off his shoes and lay on the sofa. Less than a minute later, a strong sense of sleepiness swept over him, and his upper and lower eyelids were fighting. He was watching a Yinjian video on his way home and was at the climax when suddenly he was so sleepy that he could hardly hold his mobile phone, so he just fell asleep.

Not long after falling asleep, Lao Chen had a dream. He dreamed that three people came out of the second bedroom, an old man with a walking stick, an old woman leading a child. As soon as the old man came out, he used his walking stick to sweep all the things in the house onto the ground. The sound of the walking stick waving was particularly clear in the silent dream, "clang clang" as if hitting Lao Chen's nerves, and the sound of the cup on the table being swept off and broken seemed to be right next to his ears. Then the three people walked towards Lao Chen and stood in front of him. The old man was wearing a black printed jacket and black trousers, the old woman was wearing a dark red printed jacket and black trousers, and the child was wearing a navy - blue jacket. Their faces were pale, and the color of their eye sockets was neither black nor blue clearly, and their eyes seemed to be covered with a fog, looking gloomy. Lao Chen realized that he was dreaming and wanted to wake up but couldn't. The feeling of being stared at made his whole body numb, as if there were countless cold little bugs crawling on him. In extreme panic, he suddenly remembered the Nine - Character Mantra that I had mentioned once, and he recited it crazily in his heart. As he recited, he rolled off the sofa onto the floor. Because the sofa was not high, but he used too much force and it hurt a lot when he fell, but at that time he couldn't care about the pain because he found that the living room light was off, and the first thing he did when he entered the room must be to turn on the light.

He got up and turned on the light, and was startled again. The things that had been tidied up when he left in the morning were all on the ground again, just like in the morning. When he came back, he used the tissue on the coffee table to wipe his face, and the used tissue was in the wastebasket, but now the tissue on the coffee table was also on the ground, and those tissues seemed to have been crumpled up and then spread out, scattered messily on the ground. Looking at the time, it was 11:33. He felt that he had only slept for about ten minutes, but in fact, more than two hours had passed.

Lao Chen was also a bold person. He gritted his teeth and directly opened the door of the second bedroom, the room where the three people in his dream came out. There were boxes and sundries still on the bed and on the ground in the room. Except that the light in the room was a little dim, there was nothing special. But when he walked into the room, he felt a cold wind blowing towards him, and there seemed to be faint whispers in the wind, but when he listened carefully, there was nothing. After looking around, he returned to the living room and wanted to call Ding, his partner in the company, to ask him to come out for some midnight snack and talk about this matter. While he was on the phone, the light in the second bedroom on his left suddenly went out. At the moment when the light went out, it seemed that a black shadow flashed in the room. The open door slowly closed in front of his eyes, making a "creak creak" sound during the closing process, as if something was pulling hard, and finally only a slit was left. Lao Chen said that his teeth were chattering, and he wanted to run but didn't dare to move. Until the door was completely closed, he rushed downstairs like Usain Bolt, without even wearing his shoes.

There was a 24 - hour convenience store at the entrance of the community. Lao Chen went in and bought a pair of slippers, and then stood at the entrance of the store and called Ding again, asking him to come quickly. After Ding arrived, the two went to have barbecue. Lao Chen told Ding about this matter, but Ding didn't believe it. After the two drank a lot of beer, they decided to go back and have a look, emboldened by the alcohol. They called a designated driver to the entrance of the community. After getting off the car, Lao Chen found a more - than - one - meter - long stick from the bushes. The stick felt heavy in his hand, as if it carried an unknown power. Then the two entered the house. Lao Chen held Ding's clothes all the way and followed behind him. They walked around the house but didn't find anything abnormal. Ding planned to comfort Lao Chen and then go home. Lao Chen couldn't keep him, so they could only go downstairs together and planned to find a hotel to stay.

At this time, Ding's wife called. Ding was answering the phone while following Lao Chen. Lao Chen went down a few steps first. Suddenly, there was a movement from Ding behind him. Ding pushed Lao Chen away and rushed downstairs. Lao Chen was stunned for a moment and then also ran downstairs, asking while running. Until they reached the convenience store at the entrance of the community where there was light, Ding stopped, took a few breaths and told Lao Chen to move out quickly. He said that when he was walking out while answering the phone, he looked up and saw an old man, an old woman leading a child standing in the mirror on the opposite door. The three figures in the mirror were blurry but their outlines were clear, exactly the same as what Lao Chen had described.

That night, Lao Chen slept in Ding's living room. The next day, he asked someone to move his things back to his own home. He didn't bother the real - estate agent either. He thought that it was his own greed that led to this, so he took it as a lesson. The house is still empty until now. Lao Chen said that he was asked to do a live - stream in that house, but after thinking about it, he gave up. After all, it was asking for trouble.

Although this story is full of supernatural elements and makes people's hair stand on end after hearing it, it also gives us some inspiration. Lao Chen rented the house because he was greedy for the low price, but he encountered a series of unexplainable eerie events. Sometimes, there may be unknown risks hidden behind overly attractive appearances. In life, when we make decisions, we should not be easily deceived by superficial benefits. We should be more cautious and thoughtful, otherwise we may get into unexpected trouble. At the same time, this story also makes us keep in awe of those mysterious and unexplainable phenomena. After all, the world is so big that there are all kinds of strange things.