王泥喜法介
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Hello everyone, today I will introduce another story in Chengdu, my hometown. In fact, it is a true story, and the plot of this story is highly reliable. However, I cannot guarantee all details here completely because it happened over 20 years ago.
Around 20 years ago, the Chinese economy started to increase while Chengdu remained undeveloped because it is located in the west part, where is far away from the coastal line. So, in contrast to Beijing and Shanghai, the normal train, which seems slow and not pleasurable, is the first choice for Chengdu's travellers. Every day, millions of people would arrive at or leave Chengdu, and a few citizens around the train station of Chengdu usually rebuild their apartments into inns to make some money. During that period, the price for one night was around 10-20 yuan. The owners usually wrote the price on a paper-board and spared no effort to show the board to customers when a train arrived at Chengdu.
However, among those owners, a woman around 30 years old only asked for 5 yuan for a night. At first, the woman's neighbours who also operated inns could not understand why her price was so good, and some guessed the woman was probably a prostitute who used a low price to hook customers. To figure out this concern, other owners asked the customers who have slept in the woman's inn secretly. In the customers' words, the woman's inn was clean, cozy and fragrant but the woman did not provide any extra service.
Customers' words solved other owners' concern but some owners could not stop inquiring the truth curiously. One day, they asked the woman why her price was so low, and the woman reluctantly told her story. The woman and her husband divorced a few years ago, and her daughter died afterwards. After that, the woman had nothing but an apartment. Because of her sad experience, she did not want to work but just made a living by renting a room. After hearing her story, other owners warmed to her and never talked about any gossip about her.
However, one day, police visited the train station suddenly and arrested the woman because a customer found a body of a young girl under the bed. Finally, the woman told the truth. She freaked out after the death of her daughter, and a fortune teller told her that there was a magic could revive her daughter. What the woman should do is to put the body of her daughter under a bed and invite 1,000 people to sleep on the bed. If she could make it, her daughter would revive. Knowing this, the woman's neighbours understood why her room was so fragrant because she attempted to cover the smell of the body by this.
Around 20 years ago, the Chinese economy started to increase while Chengdu remained undeveloped because it is located in the west part, where is far away from the coastal line. So, in contrast to Beijing and Shanghai, the normal train, which seems slow and not pleasurable, is the first choice for Chengdu's travellers. Every day, millions of people would arrive at or leave Chengdu, and a few citizens around the train station of Chengdu usually rebuild their apartments into inns to make some money. During that period, the price for one night was around 10-20 yuan. The owners usually wrote the price on a paper-board and spared no effort to show the board to customers when a train arrived at Chengdu.
However, among those owners, a woman around 30 years old only asked for 5 yuan for a night. At first, the woman's neighbours who also operated inns could not understand why her price was so good, and some guessed the woman was probably a prostitute who used a low price to hook customers. To figure out this concern, other owners asked the customers who have slept in the woman's inn secretly. In the customers' words, the woman's inn was clean, cozy and fragrant but the woman did not provide any extra service.
Customers' words solved other owners' concern but some owners could not stop inquiring the truth curiously. One day, they asked the woman why her price was so low, and the woman reluctantly told her story. The woman and her husband divorced a few years ago, and her daughter died afterwards. After that, the woman had nothing but an apartment. Because of her sad experience, she did not want to work but just made a living by renting a room. After hearing her story, other owners warmed to her and never talked about any gossip about her.
However, one day, police visited the train station suddenly and arrested the woman because a customer found a body of a young girl under the bed. Finally, the woman told the truth. She freaked out after the death of her daughter, and a fortune teller told her that there was a magic could revive her daughter. What the woman should do is to put the body of her daughter under a bed and invite 1,000 people to sleep on the bed. If she could make it, her daughter would revive. Knowing this, the woman's neighbours understood why her room was so fragrant because she attempted to cover the smell of the body by this.
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