“When I went out, I saw my son next to the open fridge, eating roast chicken and drinking his father’s beer! I was very angry, I beat him while thinking that he had learned to drink secretly at a young age…”
Now it seems that it was this hungry old ghost who had possessed her son and was eating and drinking secretly.
She said that the boy had just eaten at night and was hungry again in the middle of the night.
After Gu Zhisang’s verification, this old ghost did not have any malicious intent. When he possessed the child, he had completely restrained his Yin energy. The couple were no longer afraid of the old ghost. They even found this old ghost quite interesting.
The couple brought out all the food and drinks from the refrigerator at home, and ordered takeout, inserting chopsticks into the old ghost’s hands.
‘Lie down and live a peaceful life‘ said: “Old senior, my son doesn’t know the meaning of that circle, and he didn’t do it on purpose. Thank you for always blocking the disaster for him. We will buy incense and paper money to burn for you right away. It’s our fault. Treat it as our small thank you.”
The old ghost also said that it originally planned to return to the underworld tonight and did not intend to pester the boy for a long time.
[The seemingly horrific incident is quite heartwarming. This old uncle is nice. His nephew is nothing and deserves to be unlucky.]
[Hahaha. Possessing the kid to eat something, is too miserable! I almost want to burn some paper for him.]
Just when everyone thought that the incident at the ‘Lie down and live a peaceful life‘ family had been resolved, Gu Zhisang suddenly spoke:
“Now that it’s clear what ghost follows your son, I’ll take another look at who affects your son’s ‘longevity lantern’ on his body.”
‘Lie down and live a peaceful life’: “???”
Her husband: “???”
The Audience: “???”
“Master Gu, what do you mean is…there is something wrong with my son?”
“Yes.” Gu Zhisang said, “You said it yourself. Your daughter has been crying and having a low-grade fever for more than half a month. This ghost only appeared last night. It was naturally due to other reasons before.”
In her eyes, the boy’s face had a light layer of gray air, which was not serious and would not affect his health. The two lights on his left and right shoulders were also normal and not weak.
But the strange thing was that there were two wicks in the soul lamp above his head!
One wick was burning with a normal translucent red flame, and the other wick hidden inside was also burning with a faint cyan-cold light.
The two flames mixed looked a bit weird.
No need to mention what this thing was. Even if people don’t understand metaphysics, they can understand the simple truth:
If two wicks were burning in a lamp at the same time, the ‘lamp oil’ would burn faster!
‘Lie down and live a peaceful life‘ was a bit broken. When she heard ‘longevity lantern’, she intuitively felt that it was not a good thing. But looking at her son, who no longer complained about hunger and looked confused, she knew that it was not his fault that such a thing happened.
Gu Zhisang on the other side of the camera looked at the boy’s face and deduced the time.
“18 days ago, the ‘lighting longevity lantern’ began to appear on his body.” Gu Zhisang raised his eyes looked at the camera and said:
“The so-called ‘lighting the longevity lantern’ is a means of borrowing longevity. It is to place a soul core in a person’s ‘celestial lamp’ and burn the vitality and soul power in the ‘celestial lamp’ to gain your son’s longevity. “
“To put it simply, your son’s life is being stolen.”
Even though the couple were mentally prepared, they were still shocked and unable to accept it: “How could this happen?! Who can be so cruel to attack a child!”
Gu Zhisang flipped the coins in her hand and said:
“I didn’t sense an overly sinister aura from your son, which means that this lamp is a ‘straight point’ and has passed through the underworld. To put it simply, it means that your son agreed to the other party’s act of extending his life.”
“But this kind of life-extending technique is not a good thing after all. ‘Lighting a longevity lantern’ on a living person will naturally make his breath cold. Your daughter is extremely sensitive to these things, so she was affected. She’s becoming weak and easily frightened.”
So Yuanyuan was not frightened by the ghost, but stimulated by the yin energy of her brother.
“Now, to know who the lamplighter is and to break this technique, we must first know what happened that day.” Gu Zhisang said.
“Lie down and live a peaceful life” wiped away tears and asked her son repeatedly.
But a seven or eight-year-old child was still at an age where he only cared about playing and eating. So the extremely serious expressions of his parents made him feel scared. He just shook his head in panic and said that he didn’t know anything.
Gu Zhisang calmed her down and suggested that she check her son’s things to see if there was anything unusual.
So the couple rummaged through the boy’s room, but they didn’t find anything unusual. However, they found several hidden comic books and finished snack spicy strip packaging bags.
‘Lie down and live a peaceful life‘ felt something was wrong.
She never let her son eat junk food or buy these idle books. Where did her son get the money to buy these things?
“Did you take the family’s money?”
The boy rubbed his neck and blushed, shouting: “I did! This is my own money.”
“Where did you get so much money yourself?”
Gu Zhisang, who was on the other side of the camera, looked suddenly enlightened. She interrupted “Lie down and live a peaceful life” and said, “I know what’s going on.”
“Kid, let me ask you, have you ever picked up some money on the roadside before? It was folded into a triangle and tied with a red rope. In short, it probably looks like this.”
This time, the boy’s expression was not so confident. Instead, he felt guilty and hesitated without speaking.
Seeing his expression, what else everyone still didn’t understand? ‘Lie down and live a peaceful life‘ said sternly: “You still don’t tell the truth?!”
The boy cried loudly and admitted with a groan.
“I picked it up. Look, I didn’t take anyone else’s money, nor did I take anything from the family.”
He couldn’t remember the specific time, but he remembered that it was when he was out of school one afternoon, and while playing with his friends in the woods behind the school, he saw a red thing.
He ran over and picked it up and found that it was a red envelope.
It was a red envelope given to children by the elders of the family during the New Year. It has a New Year picture doll with a red face and a smile on it. The seal was sealed with tape and there was a bulge inside.
He tore open the seal and his eyes widened when he saw what was inside. The red banknotes inside were stacked together, and when the picture was revealed, it was the founder!
The boy, who was already in second grade, knew what this was. It was a hundred-dollar bill!
After counting it, it was a total of 300 yuan.
His heart was racing.
There was no one around, so the carefree boy was confused for the first time in his life whether to leave the money to his parents or to keep it privately.
But thinking about the comics circulated by his classmates, the spicy snacks at the school gate, and the trendy racing toys, etc… In the end, he couldn’t resist the temptation and pocketed the money.
In those days, the boy was always in a state of panic, whether he was going to class or going home.
He was afraid that the owner would call the police and arrest him, and that his parents would find the money in the schoolbag, but gradually he became less nervous.
In those days, he spent a huge sum of money to buy comics and cards, treat his friends to spicy strips, and drink soda, and he was the king of children.
After hearing her son’s confession, ‘Lie down and live a peaceful life‘s eyes darkened, and she wished she could push him down on the stool and beat him up. She said angrily: “Why are you so brave? How dare you after picking up so much money? Who taught you to hide money?”
Gu Zhisang felt helpless and asked: “Do you still have the red envelope with money?”
The boy choked with sobs and said that he was afraid that his parents would find out after taking the red envelope home, so he crumpled it up and threw it away.
But he remembered that the three hundred yuan was indeed wrapped and tied with a red rope.
‘Lie down and live a peaceful life‘: “Where’s the rest of the money?”
The boy timidly said: “No, there’s nothing left. I spent them all.”
Gu Zhisang pinched her eyebrows and said: “That’s right, this money is the reason why this ‘lighting longevity lantern’ was planted on your son.”
“This is your son’s ‘life money’.”
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