The boss continued, "On the day the gambling den opened, the town of Beishui was packed with people. Hundreds of well-known masters of the arcane arts came!"

"Hua Lianqing set up a ring and invited people to the stage, with the condition that they gamble with their lives."

"If anyone could expose her secret to immortality, she would give up Beishui Town, even herself. If they couldn't expose her secret technique, they would leave their lives behind."

"As a result, Beishui Town became a river of blood that day. The heads of the sorcerers piled up like a mountain."

Ye Yang said in a deep voice, "What was Hua Lianqing trying to prove by killing so many people?"

Ye Yang asked this not without reason. Logically speaking, there were countless rumors in the martial world. Who wasn't talked about behind their back, and who didn't talk about others to their face?

Given Hua Lianqing's status in the martial world, she shouldn't have needed to care about those baseless speculations. There must have been a reason for her to make such a big show of it.

The boss chuckled, "Since you added extra ingredients, I'll say a bit more."

"Hua Lianqing seems to have wanted heads."

The boss said, "After Hua Lianqing killed people, she threw all the bodies into the river in Beishui Town, but she piled the heads at the entrance of the town for three days."

"According to the rules of the martial world, even if there is a deep hatred, you can't hang corpses for public display for a long time. At most, the heads can be piled up for three days, and then someone must be responsible for collecting them."

"Those heads did disappear overnight. Everyone thought that Hua Lianqing had taken them away to bury them. However, someone discovered that Hua Lianqing had transported those heads away."

Ye Yang said in a deep voice, "Where were the heads transported to?"

"I don't know!" The boss shook his head and said, "The person who said this was also sitting at a noodle stall, chatting while eating noodles. As a result, before he could say where the heads were, his head fell into his noodle bowl."

Xiao Ying, who was eating noodles, almost choked on a mouthful of noodles. She coughed for a long time before she managed to swallow the noodles.

Ye Yang said in a deep voice, "You said there were three mysteries in Beishui Town. What are the other two?"

The boss pointed into the distance, "The second mystery is the mystery of the river channel."

"When you came in, you should have seen that Beishui Town was built along the river, right? There is a section where the houses are close to both sides of the river, and half of the houses are suspended above the river."

"That place is where the second mystery of Beishui Town lies."

Ye Yang carefully recalled that after he came in from the direction of the town entrance, he really saw that section of the river with houses built on both sides.

That kind of building is not strange in the water towns of Jiangnan, but there is no such way of building houses in the Northeast.

Even if the people of the Northeast want to build houses along the river, they will try to stay as far away from the water as possible. This practice has nothing to do with feng shui, but the climate of the Northeast determines the way of building houses.

The Northeast has a dry climate and cold winters. If you build a house close to the water, there will inevitably be moisture in the house. People in the Northeast are not used to this humid environment, especially in winter.

Therefore, the people of the Northeast will not build houses close to the water unless there are special circumstances, let alone suspend the houses over the water.

The boss smoked a cigarette and said, "Since that house was built, no one has lived there permanently, including Hua Lianqing herself."

"Hua Lianqing also asked people to hang white lanterns at the door of the house and write secret words. It means that whoever lives in this house is responsible for the consequences."

"But! Most of the people in the martial world don't believe in evil. In the past, there were really many people who lived there. As a result, they all floated in the river the next day."

"Moreover, they were floating on the water around the protruding corner of the house. No one used a nine-inch hook to pull them, and the corpses would not float away even if they rotted."

Ye Yang said in a deep voice, "Did those martial artists sleep in that house alone? Has no one ever escaped?"

The boss laughed and said, "How many people in the martial world are alone? Of course, they invited friends to live in that haunted house. Some people even made bets before going there."

"Indeed, some people have escaped. However, all the people who escaped have lost their ability to speak."

"Moreover, no matter what you do to watch those people, they will still go back. Then die there. Oh, right!"

The boss paused here and said, "A few days ago, a few young people also went to live there. One of them is missing, and the remaining few are waiting for news after calling the police."

"Those people were all frightened. Their families also have some strength. If you want to make a fortune, you can go to them. Maybe you can get a business deal."

"I'm not interested in this!" Ye Yang flatly refused.

If I were there, I would definitely go to those people. This is easy money. Why not do it? Who would refuse money! At the very least, I have to earn back the 500,000 that I spent, right?

Ye Yang refused it outright. This spendthrift child doesn't know how expensive firewood and rice are until he's in charge of the household!

Ye Yang said, "Was the house along the water built by Hua Lianqing, or was it there before?"

The boss shook his head again, "I'm afraid only Hua Lianqing can answer this question. All I know is that Hua Lianqing herself has never lived in that house."

Ye Yang nodded, "What is the third secret of Beishui Town?"