Chapter 71: Down the Well You Go

  After getting on the bus, the old Taoist sat in the innermost position with some panic, and we three people still maintained our previous positions without changing. Chen Yan 'Lu' suddenly said: "I just asked clearly, you ask again."

  I frowned at the old Taoist, noticing that his eyes were shifty and uncertain. I immediately knew that this person was not someone to be trusted. Collecting my thoughts, I asked: "What did you see last night?"

  The old Taoist twisted his body in difficulty, Chen Yan 'Lu' let out a cold hum, and he immediately wilted. I saw the look in his eyes, amidst the fluttering, there was still a thread of fear. Had Chen Yan 'Lu' just scared him with her eyes and teeth?

  The old Taoist's voice was a bit hoarse, and he sighed: "I'll say it again, you listen, and after listening, let me go."

  Morning study 'Lu' did not speak, I nodded, the old Taoist's face lit up with joy, and he said: "Originally, I took this order just to make some living expenses, you know, now incense...".

  "Get to the point." I interrupted him somewhat impatiently, and the old Taoist scratched his head awkwardly: "I'll get straight to the point, but actually, I don't know what it is either. I haven't seen anything, just my intuition tells me that there's really a ghost here. Just as I was about to run away, suddenly, it felt like someone poured a mouthful of cold air down my neck, and I almost got scared to death."

  I widened my eyes and stared at him: "That's it?"

  The old Taoist almost cried out: "Miss, ghosts are not to be trifled with. If you see them, it's equivalent to being haunted by them. If I'm haunted by them, how can you still see me?"

  As I listened to the old Taoist's words, my eyelids suddenly began to twitch violently, and a cold sweat dripped from my forehead.

  The old Taoist suddenly turned pale and said: "You... you can't be..."

  I nodded, the old Taoist let out a strange cry and said: "You adults have a lot of nerve, I'm just 'mixing' to eat, seeing ghosts is not fun, it's a life-threatening thing, my family has eighty..."

  The old Taoist was about to start yelling again, and I gave him a somewhat disdainful look. Chen Yan 'Lu' waved his hand and said, "You can go now, remember what I told you."

  The old Taoist was overjoyed, his buttocks "urine" flowed out as he opened the car door and rolled down. Xia Bing didn't say a word until the old Taoist left, then swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said, "Is there really a ghost?"

  Morning study 'dew' silence, I made a round of the field: "People are old and timid..."

  Xia Bing shook her head, and her phone suddenly rang.

  She glanced at her phone and said somewhat unnaturally: "It's Hai Yun."

  Chen Yan nodded slightly and I indicated there was nothing.

  "Hey, boss?"

  "Uh-huh, uh-huh, I know, I'll tell them in a minute."

  "Alright, okay, no problem."

  Hanging up the phone, Xia Bing suddenly felt powerless and fell onto the car seat, weakly saying: "Tonight we were supposed to go to the scene to take a look, Hai Cang had obtained the consent of the homeowner, and was going to open the 'doors' of the other rooms."

  My eyelids twitched twice, and Chen Yan 'Lu' narrowed his eyes: "Go. Not only do we have to go, but also get a rope and go down into the well..."

  Half an hour later, the car stopped at the entrance of the yard, and Chen Yanluo was the first to get off the bus.

  We just went to the grocery store and bought some stuff like nylon rope flashlights, so it's already around six o'clock now.

  Hai Ang and others had been waiting for a long time, and even left us three boxed lunches. We didn't refuse, originally we hadn't eaten much at noon, after eating the meal, it was already somewhat late in the day.

  A Qing fiddled with her camera and said, "What a wonder, I actually forgot to turn off the machine?"

  He was one step ahead of us, no one else had touched the camera, and the three of us knew what happened last night, so naturally we didn't say anything.

  "The script isn't fully ready yet, it'll be done by tomorrow. Tonight's main purpose is for you to take a look at the location. We won't touch anything inside, we'll just use the natural environment as is and try to get it done in one take. The artificial stuff always looks unnatural and doesn't have that eerie feeling."

  I shivered and the eerie atmosphere around Hai suddenly grew thicker, I didn't know if this woman would still be so excited after knowing that there really were ghosts here.

  Hai suddenly received a phone call and then said he had something to attend to and left, leaving only the three of us in the room, plus editor A Qing.

  "After exchanging greetings, Chen Yan 'Lu' directly said: "Are you two interested in taking a look at what's inside the well?""

  A Qing furrowed his brow and said: "Dry well, there are also some rotten mud."

  The editor, however, showed interest and said: "Not necessarily. I've heard that in such old mansions, there are usually some vengeful spirits or something, like the concubine who jumped into the well to commit suicide, the wife who was wrongly accused and died, or those who were murdered and thrown into the well."

  Xia Bing glared at the editor with an unsatisfied expression and said, "Be careful, when it gets dark later you'll run into a ghost hitting the wall."

  He burst out laughing and said: "Go beat him up, I have a mouthful of pure yang blood, directly spitting him to death."

  A'qing also laughed and said, "That's right, after shooting so many ghost films for years, if we don't know how to deal with ghosts, it would be a waste. Who knows, maybe we even understand the nature of ghosts better than those Taoist priests in the temple."

  "What is 'habit'?"

  A Qing got excited. Quickly ran into the living room, pulled out a stick of incense and shook his head: "Hungry ghosts eat incense, there are ghosts with families, people offer sacrifices, they eat their fill every day, no evil thoughts, but lonely wild ghosts starve all day, see incense and gobble it up, always eating different lengths. And then there's giving ghosts water, you have to call out his name three times on one side, then pour water on the ground, that way you can give her water. But if you want to tease him, of course, you have to splash water on him when he's not paying attention, of course, I wouldn't be so unkind."

  "Be careful tonight, they'll come looking for you."

  A Qing licked his tongue and said: "I couldn't find what I was looking for, it's best to come with a female ghost."

  I shivered, but Chen Yan 'exposed' the rope and then opened it, then put it into the well, handed me a section of the rope, and said: "When I go down, you hold on to it, and when I call out, pull me up immediately.

  "I'm a bit worried," I said, "Why don't I go down? I'm lighter."

  Xia Bing nodded and wanted to go down herself, but was too afraid. Chen Yan 'Lu' frowned and said: "You pull the rope."

  If it were just Xia Bing and me pulling him, it would still be a bit of a risk to pull him over, but with the addition of the screenwriter and A Qing, it's a different story.

  Chen Yan 'Lu' held the flashlight and went down the well, we stood at the mouth of the well, carefully watching his movements, as soon as there was a problem, Chen Yan 'Lu' would be pulled up immediately.

  The screenwriter swallowed his saliva and said: "Actually, it's really 'exciting', if it's after dark, it might be even more 'exciting'."

  Xia Bing glared at him discontentedly and said: "Then why didn't you go down earlier."

  He awkwardly smiled and said: "I'm heavy, also fat, it's inconvenient for me to move around, you guys can't pull me either."

  A Qing nodded in agreement and said: "That's right, I'm too thin. If there's something on the other side of the door, I won't be able to pull it open, so going out 'exposed' is the most suitable."

  Xia Ice-coldly smiled and said: "Coward."

  I smoothed things over, these three people didn't have any malicious intent, they must be used to being like this normally, so I looked and there was nothing out of the ordinary, just as we were absorbed in our conversation, the rope on my hand suddenly loosened.

  I anxiously looked down into the well, and Chen Yan waved his flashlight and said: "It's okay, it's dry here, there's nothing."

  I let out a breath, just about to call out to Chen Yan 'Lu' to come over, when suddenly Chen Yan 'Lu' crouched down and muttered something under her breath, then immediately said: "It seems like there's a passageway here, I'll go take a look."

  Having said that, before I could stop Chen Yan, 'Luo' had already disappeared without a trace. However, from my position, the passageway was nowhere to be seen.

  Xia Bing looked at me worriedly, and the screenwriter Ah Qing said: "It's okay, you're not new to filming these things. There are always such things in old houses, like hiding a corpse or treasure. Ah, I mean it's really nothing, corpses are just our props too." The screenwriter smiled apologetically.

  I noticed Xia Bing seems to be in favor, elsewhere, wherever there are screenwriters trying to curry favor with the director's assistant.

  Xia Bing didn't say a word, but was staring intently at the bottom of the well. For a moment, the courtyard fell silent, and all that could be heard were the sounds of our breathing. The sky had completely darkened, but the moon still hadn't come out!