Hailing barren city

Today happens to be Wangri, and a full moon hangs brightly on the horizon.I didn’t find it in the melon field just now, otherwise I really answered Lu Xun’s words: “There is a golden full moon hanging in the deep blue sky, and below is the sandy land by the sea, all of which are planted with endless green watermelons. "

Zheng Qinglong put four watermelons in buckets into the well, and three of them immediately floated to the surface of the water.Xiao Li came over and argued with Zheng Qinglong about "who picked the fourth raw watermelon".

Tao Rujiu went back to the house and took the charged recording pen with him, and when he went out, he met Big Brother Wang, who was in charge of Baihu.He happened to walk outside with a basket full of candies.Tao Rujiu went out with him and helped distribute pastries.At this time, Master Lu also came out of his room.

"Everyone is here."

The members of the troupe said hello to Master Lu, and started chatting.

At this moment, Tao Rujiu remembered the question in the melon field just now, Brother Zheng really kept his word, told him to set up a stool and sit beside him, and started talking.

"The Nether Underground Palace area used to be just a photography base. There were only above-ground buildings and no underground palace. The current underground palace was built in 96 by the previous Mr. Ling, Ling Muzhong. He is the current Mr. Ling's father."

Hearing that he started to tell the story of the underground palace, a few more people came over.Everyone was shaking cattail fans, and the 80-watt incandescent lamp above their heads attracted a group of mosquitoes and moths, which looked like they were leaving a story meeting.

"People who have read the architectural drawings said that the underground palace was originally designed to have only two floors. But after it was almost completed, Ling Muzhong proposed to build a third floor under the second floor to make it look like a mausoleum. Some 'treasures' to let tourists experience the feeling of tomb robbery. At that time, everyone in the park thought it was a good idea. However, something went wrong during construction."

"Ling Muzhong? Wasn't the park under strict management at that time?"

Hearing this, Tao Rujiu asked a question.Someone immediately answered with a smile:

"Ten years ago Ling Li's father wasn't dead yet, so how could it be his turn to grow up? Moreover, Ling Li only graduated from high school ten years ago, so you thought he got an ID card as soon as he was born."

Everyone including Tao Rujiu burst into laughter.Zheng Qinglong cleared his throat and continued: "It turns out that when the underground palace was built, a big pit was dug and then built from the bottom up. Now the third floor has to be dug from the second floor. This kind of project is not like building a building. Instead, it was digging a mine. Although it was very difficult, Boss Lao Ling invited a lot of people to study it and started work. But on the seventh day after the start of work, an accident occurred."

Having said that, someone interrupted again.

"This matter caused a lot of trouble in Xiyao back then, and it was reported in the newspapers, but it was all paid off by Mr. Ling later."

"This matter, people from the city government have been involved in it, and it would be strange if it can make a big deal."

"Who said that in those years, it could be suppressed, but you can try it this year? The central government is gnashing its teeth when it comes to the mine disaster. Thirty-five thousand per person is really cheap!"

Hearing this, Tao Rujiu also saw some clues.

"Did it collapse?"

"No, it's water seepage."

Master Lu came over shaking his fan.

"The underground of Hailing Island is connected to the land, and there happens to be an underground river inside. During the construction, the river channel was dug through, and the six construction workers didn't even have time to call for help, and they were swept away by the current. The bodies are still there. turn up."

"Tsk tsk..." There was exclamation all around.Tao Rujiu was also startled.

Incidents such as mine accidents have been exposed more frequently in recent years, but it is still unacceptable that they actually happened to me.

The young man immediately recalled the gurgling sound he heard in the underground palace. It turned out that he was so close to the underground river where the tragedy happened.I even saw the pale backs of construction workers in that darkness...

The shuddering feeling surged up again, and it was only at this time that he felt the horror of the underground palace.

Master Lu continued.

"Half a year after this incident subsided, the underground palace was opened to the public. Because it was arranged as a haunted house, tourists would not be surprised even if strange things happened, but old employees like us naturally know which ones are true and which ones are false .”

"Someone has seen 'good brothers' at the entrance of the third floor, and there are more than one. We walked on the second floor, and they floated with us on the water surface of the third floor. Many people who saw it were scared to death Yes. Later, the garden invited Taoist monks to go down to do the practice. By the way, a gossip barrier was built at the door of the third floor to block the sight. The door was originally intended to be sealed, but the monk said that it would block the yin energy, so he modified it. Door."

After sighing for a while, the atmosphere quickly returned to the state of telling stories. The excitement on Tao Rujiu's arms has not faded, but he still listens with gusto.

"Where is the most wicked one?" Xiao Li leaned on Zheng Qinglong's back, holding foxtail in his mouth. "The old man Ling Muzhong flew back to Hong Kong after finishing the matter here, and fell into the Pacific Ocean on the way. That's when the park started to suffer."

"Xiao Li, don't talk nonsense." The cattail fan in Master Lu's hand greeted Xiao Li like a moth, "Reporter Tao, don't put these in the newspaper."

Tao Rujiu smiled and shook his head, let alone the "China News Award" is not the "China Ghost Story Award", even a regular newspaper would not promote this so-called "feudal superstition".

On the one hand, Xiao Li was still arguing unconvinced, saying, "Ling Muzhong is the homonym of 'in the mausoleum', so he deserves to be unlucky. But for other people whose appetite has been whetted by ghost stories, you can chat with each other about Hailing." The topic of haunted towns.

"In Hailing City, are there really so many strange things and taboos?"

Unknowingly forgetting the identity and responsibility of the reporter, Tao Rujiu listened to everyone's ghost stories dubiously.The reason why he was dubious was not because he cared about the existence of ghosts and gods, but because he suspected that the people in the troupe were trying to scare him.

"It's true!"

Wang Baihu slapped his chest loudly, as if bumping into a ghost is not terrible, but very honorable.

"If you don't believe me, Brother Wang, I still have a lot of ghost stories to tell you. Come on, you can help me take this to the front of the stage, and then lift the curtain and put it on the ground."

As he spoke, he grabbed two pieces of peanut cakes and stuffed them into Tao Rujiu's hands.Hearing what he said, the people around him let out muffled laughs that didn't make sense.

The stage in the front yard is a tall building similar to a waterside pavilion, and there is a large space under the elevated four corners.It was covered with a red cloth curtain.

Tao Rujiu was a little overwhelmed by Wang Baihu's inexplicable request.

"Put the peanut crisps on the ground under the counter? Why do you do that?...Is there a dog under the counter?"

Everyone originally thought that Tao Rujiu had seen through Wang Baihu's trick to scare him, and was about to be disappointed, but when they heard such a naive conclusion, they all struggled to hold back their laughter.Xiao Li covered his stomach with one hand and came over to pat Tao Rujiu on the shoulder.

"That's right, little brother Wang likes to keep that kind of thing under the table the most. Go and come back quickly."

Tao Rujiu took the peanut crisps and went there suspiciously.

For a long time, there was no movement and no one came back.Master Lu was a little worried, so he asked Xiao Li to follow him to have a look.After a while, everyone heard Xiao Li's screams instead.

Zheng Qinglong immediately got up and rushed to the front yard, seeing Xiao Li squatting on the ground covering his face.Tao Rujiu beside him looked at a loss.A corner of the red cloth hanging under the stage had been lifted, and the peanut crisps were also placed on the ground.

"What's going on here?" Zheng Qinglong helped Xiao Li up, and saw three scratches on his right cheek.

"My contact lens fell off." Tao Rujiu stood aside and replied, "There was a gust of wind just now, and I felt sand getting into my eyes. I rubbed my contact lenses and they fell off. I am highly myopic and it was dark. I was able to half see and half touch under the stage, and lost the peanut cake. It seemed to take a little longer, and then I heard Xiao Li's voice."

Zheng Qinglong looked at Xiao Li.

"When I came here, I saw Tao Rujiu touching something under the stage without saying a word. I thought something happened to him. I went over to look, but I didn't expect..."

He was weeping.

"I stepped on Big Ah Fu's tail."

Tao Rujiu also recalled:

"When I threw the peanut crisp just now, I felt like I touched something. The fluff looks like a cat's tail."

Da Fu is an old tomcat raised by the theater troupe, with white hair and golden eyes, he is about to grow up with a straw dog.In the theater troupe, Master Lu ranked first, and Da Fu was second.Usually he is very good at catching mice and killing pests, so he has a big temper. Except for Master Lu and Huakai, he doesn't touch anyone.

"You deserve it for messing with Da Fu. Let's go, I'll help you with the medicine."

Zheng Qinglong rumpled Xiao Li's hair with a smile, and at the same time said to Tao Rujiu, "What about you, Tao Tao? There is no optical shop here."

"It's okay, I have a spare."

Tao Rujiu answered with a smile.

The two people here went to apply medicine, and when they came back, Xiao Li almost painted a flower on half of his face with mercury red; Looking at the things under the stage, he also went.

After a while everyone got his wish and heard a cry of surprise.

One, two, three, three coffins, large and small, were parked under the stage.

"This is the superstition of Hailing City."

Master Lu shook his cattail fan.

"Cuiying Pavilion, in addition to being used as a Goulan theater, was also transformed into an ancestral hall when filming in the past. In some places, the ancestral hall also had a stage. The ancients always liked to buy birthday materials in advance. After buying birthday materials, there is not necessarily a place to store them in the home, so they are often placed under the stage of the ancestral hall, and sometimes people will stop here temporarily after death. So if you still have the courage to go over and take a closer look, you can You will find that the black one on the left is empty; the brown carved one in the middle has already been nailed, so it is naturally "material"; the little red coffin on the far right is also nailed, and the unmarried girl is lying inside .”

After finishing this long paragraph, Master Lu stopped to ask someone to pick up the watermelon from the well, and when he looked back, he saw that Tao Rujiu was still pale.

"Silly boy, of course these are all fake, they are props."

Although it was a prop, Tao Rujiu couldn't retreat for a while with excitement all over his body.At this time, Xiao Li with a painted face stuck to him like a piece of brown candy.

"In the script, there was no scene of stuffing the coffin under the stage of the ancestral hall. The director invited Mr. Feng Shui to arrange it. The master said that the three courtyards of the Cuiyingge Mansion just happened to be a word 'mu' from the sky. At the bottom of the item, if you use the custom to stuff it into the coffin, it will fit the metaphor of "get rich right now". It is said that the film became really popular later, and then Mr. Ling took this It was kept as soon as it came out, but curtains were added to the outside for fear of scaring tourists.”

Tao Rujiu listened to it, but felt as if he was dreaming.I have heard that architecture emphasizes Feng Shui before, but I have never seen a practical example.At this time, the only thing in his head was under the stage, the bottom floor of the underground palace, and the sound of running water. It wasn't until Xiao Li iced his face with a watermelon that he came back to his senses.

After eating a few pieces of watermelon, faint music suddenly came from the backyard.Tao Rujiu realized that it was his cell phone ringing, so he ran to answer it.

The phone call turned out to be fierce.

This trip to Hailing City was not in Ling Li's plan.The seaport negotiation project was urgently pressed, and Ling Jinbo was also waiting for his reply.As for why he would spare almost the entire day for a person he met for the first time and the conversation lasted less than ten minutes, Ling Li himself didn't quite understand.

He doesn't want to waste time on things he doesn't understand, as long as he grasps everything he knows, it is enough for him to gain an important position on the Ling's commercial aircraft carrier.

Even becoming a future captain is only a matter of time.

The generation in charge of the Ling family is arranged according to the five elements. Although Ling Jinbo, who is in charge, is in charge of the highest command of the Ling family, he has no children under his knees.The second eldest, Ling Muzhong, died at the age of 40. Ling Shuishu and Ling Huoji, who were ranked third and fourth, were twin sisters. The second sister gave birth to a daughter, and the third sister's son just graduated from university.The youngest Ling Yijun is an illegitimate child and has no right to inherit property.In this way, in the next generation, besides Ling Li, the one who may hold the power in the end is the third sister's son Ling Feng.

Ling Feng didn't have much status in the family business yet, so he wasn't afraid at the moment; the only thing that displeased Ling Li was Ling Birkin's attitude towards him.

Hailing City is an industry owned by Ling Muzhong, and Ling Jinbo was not optimistic about it when the construction started.He even believes that "the mainland has no future for development."However, the fact that Hailing City recovered its cost three years after its completion and started making huge profits made him envious.So after the Lingmuzhong Air Crash in 96, he took Hailing City under his own banner and managed it in the name of Lingli's guardian. Unexpectedly, he encountered the Asian financial crisis in the second year.

Hailing City, which was handed over to Ling Li after he reached adulthood, was already a barren land.

From that moment on, Ling Li knew that towards his uncle, he should never do purely "please" activities.

After returning from Hailing City and having dinner again, Secretary Han Fei prepared the preliminary measured data and environmental information of Xiyao Bay.The situation seemed to be much better than expected, and the sharp mood became clearer.

It was about nine o'clock in the evening, and the work at hand had come to an end.Ling Li unintentionally scanned the caller screen of the phone on the table, and saw a string of unfamiliar mobile phone numbers.He thought of that malnourished Tao Rujiu again.

I don't know if the night in the imitation ancient city suits his "taste".

With the mentality of listening to jokes to relieve boredom, he called back the string of numbers.

Tao Rujiu's voice was very nice, with some Wu accents in the gentle, but when he heard the sharp voice on the other end of the phone, he immediately changed into hard standard Mandarin, as if he was welcoming the chief's inspection.

Ling Li laughed in his heart.

"Is Hailing City not bad?" He asked, "You seem disappointed in the morning."