In the entire Shanglin community, there are almost no houses without lights.

Lin Zhao also said: "Didn't Little Chengzi say: Not many people live here?"

I responded: "There is only one entrance to the community, and we have been guarding there. How many people have you seen coming back?"

"There are less than a hundred people in front and behind, how many houses are there in this community? Where did the rest of the people come from?"

"These residents with lights on have either been staying in the community or have just climbed out of the ground."

Lin Zhao pushed me: "Don't scare people! Where can they crawl out?"

Lin Zhao's voice suddenly became much softer - her eyes had already fallen on the flower pond in front of us: "Why do I think this flower pond looks like a tomb?"

Before Lin Zhao finished speaking, Xia Mengying suddenly drew a brush from her sleeve and swept it towards Lin Zhao's eyes.

Before Xia Mengying's pen tip reached Lin Zhao, I grabbed her wrist and said, "Don't touch your righteousness! We are not here to fight."

I am sure that this community is a place where people and ghosts are mixed together. The fact that they can live in peace with each other means that there is something in Shanglin Community that maintains the balance between the two parties.

Once this balance is broken, the consequences will be disastrous. At least, the more than one hundred living people who came back from the outside will become dead.

Xia Mengying's awe-inspiring righteousness is the easiest thing to break the balance.

People and ghosts have different paths. Under normal circumstances, each has its own space and does not interfere with each other. Even if you walk across from each other, you will pass by!

However, once one party disturbs the other, the outcome is hard to predict.

Most of the time, this kind of disturbance is not necessarily targeted, but an accident.

Let’s take the simplest example: Why do some places tie a red cloth strip in an inconspicuous place on the body when attending a funeral in a funeral parlor, but do not wear magic weapons or amulets to ward off evil spirits?

In fact, red cloth strips have no effect in warding off evil spirits. If red cloth can ward off evil spirits, why do you need magic charms? If a warlock pulls a few feet of red cloth, can't he kill evil spirits?

The biggest function of the red cloth is to hang a lamp on the person, so that ghosts can be seen from a distance, and to prevent the ghosts of the deceased in the funeral parlor from accidentally bumping into the person.

A reminder is a courtesy and also represents awe.

However, some people, because they are timid and frightened, purposely bring something to ward off evil spirits, or simply get a magic talisman to hide on their body, and that's bad.

Those things can hurt ghosts, but ordinary magic weapons can't make ghosts disappear.

We are originally on someone else's territory, but you hurt the other person, and the ghost doesn't care what your original intention is? I have no grudges with you, but if you hurt me, I will definitely cause trouble for you.

Once Xia Mengying's awe-inspiring righteousness is released, it is equivalent to lighting a fire in the community.

At that time, we would really have endless troubles.

Xia Mengying also knows what I mean: "There is a Confucian secret technique here called 'suspiciousness'. Don't think too much, otherwise, you will easily fall into fear."

"I know!" I had already noticed the sign in the community at that time, and it had indeed changed its position.

As expected, there was an extra property office in the direction pointed by the arrow above, and the person who opened the door for us happened to be the security guard during the day.

After the other party took me into the office, I was about to sit on the bed, but the security guard said: "Don't sit down, someone has died on that bed! The manager will be here in a moment."

I glanced at the single bed in the duty room and said, "Someone died on the bed. Didn't you even change the sheets?"

There are so many people dying at home. According to the rules in the Northeast, people have to die and change into old clothes before they can be lifted to the ground. So, it is equivalent to people dying on the bed or kang.

You can't just change the bed or make another kang when someone dies.

Then the only option is to take out the sheets and bedding used by the deceased and burn them, and let the deceased take them with him.

This is a rule and a taboo. If the used items are not burned but are still placed on the bed and continue to be used by living people, the dead person who cannot find bedding may have to come back and lie on the same bed with you.

The security guard glanced at me and said, "If you understand, don't violate taboos. If you violate taboos, it will be of no benefit to anyone."

I glanced down at the security guard's feet. His reflection on the ground showed that he was twisting his neck.

I'm talking to the dead!

I deliberately stepped aside a little and gave Butcher Wang and the others a wink: "The place here is too small, you go out and wait for me!"

Before I finished speaking, a man who looked like a manager walked in: "The place I have here is not big, but it's enough, so there's no need to worry about it. What can I do for you?"

I said directly: "We plan to rent a few houses here, and it's best if the price isn't too high!"

The manager pulled out a few contracts and said: "Unit 4, fourth floor, No. 44, no rent required. As long as someone of you can live there for seven days, the house will be given to you."
Chapter completed!