Chapter 1077: Tower Sweeper
I stared into the innkeeper's eyes and said, "Since you are afraid of death, tell me the truth quickly. Otherwise, I will definitely wait here for that thing to come out."
"When the time comes, we can run out, but you may not."
The boss said in a tearful voice: "You can ask whatever you want!"
I pointed to the window and said, "I'm just asking why this house faces the iron tower, and what happened after my friend came over? Please tell me carefully."
The hotel owner said: "This matter has to start with my ancestors. My ancestors used to be the people who swept the tower."
"Tower sweeper?" I frowned slightly: "There doesn't seem to be such a profession in the art of martial arts, right?"
The hotel owner explained: "The tower sweeper is indeed not a warlock. To put it bluntly, he is a cleaner."
"Tacheng, the most popular thing in this area is the ancient pagoda, and no one usually takes care of it. So some people paid to hire some honest and reliable people to come and clean the pagoda from time to time."
"There are four tower sweepers in total in Tacheng, one each in the southeast and northwest. My ancestors were the tower sweepers in the north. They worked for several generations until my father's generation stopped working."
I said in a deep voice: "Who paid for the tower sweepers? What else do you do besides sweeping towers?"
The hotel owner said: "The whole city is giving money! The older people here in Tacheng all think that the ancient pagoda is a great thing. If you have money, you will give more, if you have no money, you will give less. Everyone can contribute some money. This
It happened a long time ago. As time went by, no one paid for it."
"Besides, when my grandfather was alive, he originally wanted my father to follow him in sweeping the tower."
"But this job is tiring and there are many rules. My father doesn't want to suffer that and doesn't learn anything."
"After the founding of the People's Republic of China, my father still quarreled with my grandfather. When my grandfather asked him to sweep towers, he said it was feudal superstition, which made my father so angry that he never talked to him again. My family no longer does the job of sweeping towers.
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It seems that the tower sweepers are not just cleaning the house. What secrets are they guarding?
I said calmly: "Keep talking!"
The hotel owner continued: "My grandfather, before he died, he called me over and told me that I would like to explain something to your father in a while."
"Your father is a stubborn ass and never listens to me. He may not do what I tell him."
"I know you are a good boy. If he doesn't listen to me, you just do what I say. Do you understand?"
"My father also gave me a yellow schoolbag at that time and told me that you should hide the schoolbag first and then go to your father. Don't be in a hurry to see what is in the schoolbag. I will give you the contents in the schoolbag later.
Dad’s share. Everything inside is the same.”
"I did as my father said."
"Before my father died, he told my father over and over again that he left this house to my father. My father can do whatever he wants with this house, but he can't open these three doors. He can't touch the three doors on the door.
Lock it. Don’t let anyone live in the house.”
"Every year on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, you enter the house to clean it once at noon, and you can only enter the house for an hour. After noon, no matter whether the house is cleaned or not, you cannot stay in the house."
"When you go out, remember to take all your things with you. Don't leave anything behind. Don't take things out of the house."
"If something is really left behind in the house, just go and hide in the little dragon tower to the east, and don't come out until you're thirty."
"My grandfather finally told my father: After I die, don't bury me in a grave. Just carry me to the Little Dragon Tower and stuff me into the tower. Don't let anyone see me."
When I heard this, I interrupted the other party: "Where is the Little Dragon Tower?"
The hotel owner said: "The tower at the foot of the mountain to the east of my house has collapsed long ago, and now there are probably only one or two floors left!"
I nodded and said, "You keep talking!"
The hotel owner continued: "My father, although that man doesn't want to be a tower sweeper, he is very filial to my father in other ways."
"Let's put it this way! The reason why my dad doesn't listen to me when it comes to tower sweepers is because he thinks it's all superstition and trouble from the bottom of his heart."
"As long as it doesn't involve superstition, my father doesn't have to say anything to my father. He should eat the delicious food first and use the good things first. I would rather not buy new clothes for myself, but I should give them to my father.
The seasons bring newness.”
"My father and my grandfather have been stubborn all their lives when it comes to sweeping the tower. Even if my grandfather is dead, he will no longer fight against me. But he did not agree to my grandfather's last instruction.
In response to the call, my grandfather's body was cremated and buried in the cemetery."
I waved to Jiang Jiuyuan: "Bring him some water and let him take a sip before talking!"
I have a feeling that what the store owner said next must be what he said: His father didn't listen to his father's words, and something happened in a certain room.
From the perspective of warlocks, this is a natural thing. How many lives in the art world are caused by not listening to the elders?
However, things that are too logical can easily arouse suspicion.
Didn't Feng Ruoxing and the others ask about what the hotel owner said now?
Has Feng Ruoxing never done what I am doing now?
Chapter completed!