Chapter 87 – Chicken Foot Woman – Northern School Tomb Raider’s Notes

Three Friends Inn guests are not many, the hotel corridor in order to save the store did not turn on the lights, once the door opened the smell of burning leather is even greater.

Without a flashlight in hand, I held up my cell phone for illumination and made my way out into the hallway.

This is the second floor, with a third floor above it, and in the middle of the hallway is the stairway to the third floor.

There was a communal green trash can at the top of the stairs, where the smell of burning skins wafted from, and a fire was still faintly lit around the corner.

It’s not really on fire, is it?

I grabbed my cell phone and walked over quickly.

“Who!”

“Who’s there!” I had just gotten here to the corner stairway when I suddenly saw a woman crouching on the floor.

There was a washbasin on the floor with something burning in it and some chicken feathers scattered around the washbasin.

When she heard me calling her, the woman who was burning the stuff looked up, and I saw her face in the cold, almost scaring me to death in the middle of the night.

This middle-aged woman was in her forties or fifties, with short hair, wearing a red plush nightgown, and what made it scary to look at her was her face, which was densely covered with red pimples, probably a skin condition like acne.

Crap …. I was so scared I cursed, I couldn’t hold back and kicked this woman in the head …..

She was kicked in the head by me and lay on the stairs oozing and screaming.

I then reacted to the fact that it was a person, and immediately asked loudly and bravely: “Scared to death! What do you do! In the middle of the night in the hallway burning things!”

The middle-aged woman sat up covering her head, and she spoke in a voice as thin and long as a rooster’s crow.

“I saw that you guys were dying and wanted to kindly save your lives, what are you kicking me for, it hurts like hell auntie.”

Hearing her curse us to death, I frowned and said, “Are you sick? I think you’re the one who’s dying.”

This woman in pajamas full of acne holding the railing stood up, pointing at me and said: “I know you do not believe, but ….. Young man, I see you have a prison sentence in the future ah, not only you have, in the future, all the people who follow you around the child, horizontal death of horizontal death, jail jail jail, if you want to crack the words, come to the live poultry market tomorrow afternoon to find me.”

When she finished speaking, the acne-ridden woman gave me a deep look, padded with a rag, carried the basin downstairs and left.

I froze in place, or rather, was stunned by her words.

“Death …. Jail …. Jail.”

These are the words that have always been the fear buried in the deepest recesses of my mind.

I went back to my room a little disoriented, tossing and turning, insomniac.

The next morning I got up and went downstairs, I saw bald hair in the first floor mopping the floor, so I asked him: “hair brother I ask you about a thing, you have this building there is a woman, forty or fifty years old, short hair, face are pimples acne, look a little scary.”

Bald hair holding the mop cloth, looked at me and nodded: “There is ah, brother you are talking about the chicken foot woman it, she set up a stall in the live poultry market to sell chickens, do not live in my hotel ah, how, brother you see her? Did she scare you?”

I shook my head and said it did scare me last night.

I took out my cigarettes and gave them to Bald Hair and asked him what this chicken-footed woman was from.

Bald hair to stand the mop to one side, pointing to the cigarette I handed over, took a bite and said: “She ah, you let me how to say, live in Lanzhou old city near all know her, some say that she is a magician, some people call her chicken witch, whoever child lost a soul, whoever old people died, hysteria, there is a letter in this area will go to find her.”

“Why, did she say something to you?”

I nodded and shook my head, saying I didn’t say anything, I was just curious and asking.

Probably getting a kick out of smoking, Baldy sent me a story about something that according to him happened just a few months ago.

At that time this was famous around the Chengguan district of Lanzhou.

Bald hair said Chengguan District, Ya Xinyuan have a family, a family of three, the man in the substation work as an electrician, the woman at home with a child, the child is nine years old, that is, last month, the child suddenly changed like a person, always take advantage of his father and mother do not pay attention to his parents with a key to lock the parents in the room, and then the child alone to open the house TV set, learning to dance on the TV set.

I frowned at that and said what does that mean.

Bald hair with one hand holding a cigarette, said Brothers you do not panic, I am not yet finished.

“This matter then made a big fuss, I heard that it even appeared in the morning newspaper, not only Yaxin Garden, even the West Dam, Renjiazhuang there spread the word.”