After he growled, it nodded and said: “I didn’t provoke this kid. You might not know it, but what this brat did was so heartless. I even helped him!”
From the look of it, the ghost’s face was sticking very close to the camera. He looked like an unshaven little old man, wearing a worn leather jacket and baggy trousers, which shows that this person was not living a good life.
Although neither ‘Lie Down and Live a Peaceful Life‘ nor the audience in the live broadcast room could hear him, the old ghost was so close that it affected Lie Down and Live a Peaceful Life’s current and electronic equipment. And he looked like he wanted to get in and follow the network cable to find Gu Zhisang.
The picture shown in front of her had some inexplicable fluctuations, and there was even a sizzling sound.
[Did the screen move just now? There is a ghost, folks!]
[Has anyone recorded the screen? I seem to see a gray shadow on a part of the screen. Help, isn’t this too exciting?]
[I recited the six-character mantra under the quilt, Namo Amitabha, and all evil spirits will recede! retreat! retreat!]
At this moment, Yuanyuan, who was already whimpering, saw the old ghost. Her eyes widened as she cried loudly. She pointed in the direction of the old ghost and called her mother out of breath.
The effect of the show was even more explosive now, and countless netizens firmly believed that there was a ghost in front of the screen.
‘Lie down and live a peaceful life‘ held her daughter in her arms and looked in the direction of her daughter’s finger – that was the direction of her mobile phone. Her scalp was about to explode. She was trembling and about to cry without tears:
“This… how should I address this person? My son has offended you. As a mother, I apologize to you for him! Please don’t think too badly of him… …”
Fortunately, her husband’s workplace was not far from home. After receiving the call, he immediately asked for leave and hurried back.
As soon as he opened the door, the man saw that the house was in a mess. The two children were crying louder than the other, and his wife’s eyes turned red when she saw him.
He looked at the screen of his mobile phone, which was still broadcasting live, and picked up his eldest son from the ground: “What’s going on?!”
“Lie down and live a peaceful life” was no longer so nervous. She explained the matter again. Even though he was a worldly man, he couldn’t help but feel chilled when he heard that there was a ghost in his home.
Although he still had doubts about Gu Zhisang’s words, looking at his frightened wife, daughter, and son who were still shouting that he was hungry, the man still asked:
“Master Gu, what exactly is wrong with my son…?”
While the family was making a fuss, the old ghost in front of the screen had already complained aggrieved, explaining his ‘grievance’ with the little boy.
Gu Zhisang knew the cause and effect of the matter without any deduction.
She asked: “Where was your son around ten o’clock last night?”
“Last night?” The man was stunned for a moment and said, “We should have finished eating and gone home at that time.”
He returned from working overtime until after eight o’clock last night. Although he had eaten in the afternoon, he was still hungry, so he wanted to go downstairs to have some supper. Because his wife had to take care of their daughter and was unwilling to go out, he took his son to eat on the side barbecue stall.
Gu Zhisang said: “Recall whether you encountered anything on the way home.”
The man frowned, suddenly thinking of something.
It was quite late when he paid the bill last night. He and his son walked home from the barbecue stall. When they reached the intersection of the community, he smelled a faint smoky smell, like something was burning.
When he looked around, he found several circles drawn on the ground by the side of the road. Inside the circles were piles of burnt waste, with scattered sparks flickering inside.
The man didn’t realize what it was at the time, but he saw his well-fed son jumping around in several circles like hopscotch, stepping on sparks and causing the black ash inside to fly around.
He suddenly remembered what it was, and quickly yelled to stop his son’s behavior.
Isn’t that the circle that many people draw by burning paper at the crossroads every Qingming Festival?
Because today was not the Qingming Festival, he didn’t think about it for a while.
At that time, the man was still thinking that open fires were prohibited in the city, so who would secretly go to the gate of the community to burn paper in the middle of the night…….
Could it be?!
Gu Zhisang confirmed his doubts and explained the reason.
It turned out that a non-local family was living in this community.
Their local custom was that every year on the anniversary of the death of a relative, if they cannot visit the tomb to pay respects, they can burn paper on the roadside so that their deceased relative can receive incense.
If something happens, and you need the blessings of your ancestors, you can also prepare paper money and incense and burn them in this way.
Yesterday was the death anniversary of the immediate elder of this family. Their business had a big problem and was not going well. The family secretly prepared paper money and burned it at the intersection.
During the burning process, they drew a few more circles and called out the names of the deceased elders in the family, asking them to bless their family with safety and a prosperous business.
And this old ghost was also one of the relatives of this family.
It was just that he was not a direct line, but an old uncle of a clan branch.
The old ghost had no children when he was alive. He was very kind to the male owner of the family. He treated him as his son and provided him with a lot of help.
When he died, he also left a small amount of property to the male owner of the family.
When it was about to close its eyes, the male owner repeatedly promised it on the bedside that he was its son. In the future, during holidays and every death anniversary, he would burn a lot of paper money for it to worship it, so that it could live a happy life underground. Good times.
Unexpectedly, not even two years after his death, that boy had already forgotten all about him.
He visited his parents’ graves diligently during holidays, but he couldn’t remember his death anniversary or even bothered to burn paper when he did.
This time, he was unlucky in business. He went around praying to gods, Buddhas, and ancestors. He prayed to his parents and ancestors before he remembered his uncle.
After the old ghost and a group of relatives who had not been reincarnated were summoned by the unfilial nephew, they found that they had very little incense and could only watch other ghosts feast on it.
The next moment, a brat stepped on its circle while laughing.
This kind of circle meant the gap and door of the deceased’s tomb. Like a tunnel connecting yin and yang. If you step on it, the ghost will not hold a grudge as long as it is not of tiny size.
But this kid jumped up and down and even raised the ashes in the circle. Wasn’t he jumping on the tomb door of their tomb??
The boy didn’t know what the circles meant, he just found them fun.
But he didn’t even know that there were three or five old ghosts with gloomy expressions floating next to him and looking at him.
The angry old ghost suggested that he should teach this boy a lesson and let him get seriously ill or fall hard to relieve his anger. The uncle persuaded him to come back:
‘Forget it, what does a melon-headed man know? Don’t argue with him. ’
It was about to go back, but when it thought that it had eaten a piece of incense the size of a fingernail just after coming here, it was hungry and angry, so it set its sights on this little boy, wanting to go home with him and borrow his body to eat something.
He helped him avoid the disaster, so it wouldn’t be too much to eat some food as an offering, right?
He just didn’t expect that it would be such a coincidence that he would bump into Gu Zhisang’s live broadcast.
The old ghost cried out for injustice: “I am a good ghost who can’t do anything but abide by the law. I didn’t harm this kid at all. I just had a full meal. They can’t accuse me unjustly!”
After listening to Gu Zhisang’s explanation, ‘Lie down and live a peaceful life‘ was stunned, and suddenly thought of something: “It was past midnight last night. I heard the whizzing sound in the kitchen and thought there was a burglar in the house.”
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