“He is so stupid that he can’t even light an incense stick in the future. You can’t bear it, but I, an old woman who is about to die, have to do this! You two are still young and can have two healthy children.”
Then the second uncle’s wife took a shovel and was about to smash her cruel mother-in-law to death, but was quickly stopped by the nearby villagers.
Then she wanted to report to the police and put her mother-in-law in jail. The second uncle also mobilized all the aunts and uncles to beg her, saying that his mother was old and had a lot of bones. Wouldn’t it be like killing her to let her go to jail?
Other distant relatives and neighbors also persuaded her, saying that her mother-in-law was cutting the knot for the future of the couple.
But the angry second aunt insisted on reporting to the police and called the local police to arrest her dying mother-in-law.
Within two months, the old woman passed away, and the second uncle and the second aunt divorced.
The two families quarreled and became enemies.
This incident was a hot topic for more than half a year, and people talked about it after dinner.
Laughing Mouth Always Open‘s father-in-law was in his forties at that time and witnessed the whole incident in the village.
When the child who was born with a mental illness was carried out of the yard by his mother, he looked at him from a distance. The hands of the road outside were indeed black and purple, which was very scary.
In the next one or two years, some people in the village said that they could hear the crying and laughing of the child at night.
Then he left the village and went out to do business, and forgot about it.
When he returned to his hometown, he found out that the second uncle had remarried and had a pair of children.
No one mentioned the previous things.
Gu Zhisang’s description just now dug up the incident about the second uncle’s family in his memory.
After listening to the old man’s story, Gu Zhisang, who was rubbing the ancient coins, nodded and said:
“It should be this child who died and turned into a resentful ghost boy. He has resentment and unwillingness to be suffocated to death in his life. But because his soul is damaged, born with mental retardation and illness in his previous life, his mental state is only 3 to 5 years old. He doesn’t know how to vent his resentment at all, and he doesn’t understand what it means to be abandoned.”
“So he has been staying in the village all the time.”
Gu Zhisang speculated that this ghost boy was going to take revenge on his grandmother.
But the old lady was in poor health to begin with, and she was criticized by many people for suffocating the child herself.
Before the ghost boy could take revenge, she died.
The ghost boy who lost his revenge target was very confused and stubbornly became a wild ghost wandering in the village.
When ‘Laughing Mouth Always Open‘ first heard about the child’s experience, she felt pity for him, but when she thought about how he tortured her son, she became angry:
“Xiao He didn’t provoke it, right? Why did he harm my son?!”
Gu Zhisang said helplessly: “I said before that in Feng Shui, ‘horizontal houses’ are easy to gather evil spirits and attract ghosts. This house is in the middle of the road, which is even more eye-catching for ghosts. It is not strange to attract some ghosts.”
“It just so happens that this house was built like a children’s room. There are many toys and decorations in the house, and no one lives in it all year round. So after the ghost child was attracted here, he must have been very satisfied with this place and lived in this house. It is estimated that he has lived here for 2 or 3 years, or even longer.”
In the ghost child’s heart, this was his territory.
But this year, Laughing Mouth Always Open‘s son moved in.
After nightfall, the ghost boy returned to the room and found that his nest was occupied by an “outsider”, which was no different from someone digging up his grave and sleeping in his coffin.
How could such a scene not make the ghost boy angry?
So he took revenge on the boy Xiao He, causing him to have nightmares frequently and weighing heavily on his chest at night, making him breathless.
In the process of revenge, the resentment accumulated from its sudden death was aroused, and its methods became more and more vicious.
After being tormented for a day or two, Xiao He’s yang fire became weak, and the vitality and yang in his body leaked out.
This made the other lonely ghosts attracted to the vicinity more eager to absorb him and devour his yang fire.
When Xiao He was listless every day, had no appetite, and felt drowsy, the yang in his body had leaked too much.
Taking advantage of this moment, the ghost child who had been eyeing his body easily squeezed out his soul and spirit and took over the body.
The ghost child, who originally wanted to retaliate and bully Xiao He, found that he could feel the temperature and smell like a living person and bathe in the sun as soon as he entered the body;
Although his mental state was low, his instinct as a ghost still made him unwilling to leave.
He wanted to rob Xiao He’s body.
Xiao He cried and laughed these two days, looking crazy, but in fact, it was the ghost child who was controlling his body.
After briefly explaining the origin of the ghost child in Xiao He’s body, Gu Zhisang changed the subject:
“The reason why I told you that your deceased neighbor doesn’t have anything to do with this, and it’s all because of your horizontal house, is because I saw the deceased’s face when he was alive.”
“Honest, kind, and gentle, although these are not commendable characteristics. They have laid the foundation for him not to be a ghost that will do evil after death.”
Gu Zhisang paused and said with some complexity:
“According to my speculation and calculation, this old ghost became a ghost with weak ability because of a slight unwillingness after his sudden death.”
‘Laughing Mouth Always Open‘ took the portrait of old Man Wang. Although this behavior itself was not very polite, it made Gu Zhisang’s deduction more convenient and more accurate.
Because the portrait was a connection between a person’s life and death, it was closer than the connection that can be built by ordinary photos, and it can sense more energy.
Gu Zhisang had just put her palm on the black and white portrait when she saw the hunched and emaciated soul of old man Wang.
The deepest feeling she had when she empathized was numbness and bitterness.
And the faint reluctance that was deeply concealed – towards life.
From the perspective of Old Man Wang, he undoubtedly envied Laughing Mouth Always Open‘s father-in-law.
The other party was more courageous and capable than himself, and had a happy second half of life and family;
At the same time, he was grateful for the help from the neighbors.
A year ago, Old Man Wang could still walk outside with crutches.
At that time, he had seen the cute and well-behaved grandson next door and heard the couple say that they would hold an 80th birthday party for the old friend next door.
He counted on his fingers and found that he would be 80 next year, but he had no children and no one cared about him. For a moment, he was extremely envious.
Old Man Wang thought that the old neighbor next door would invite him, and he would go to the banquet to eat all the food, which would be considered an experience of celebrating a birthday.
But he didn’t expect that he wouldn’t be able to attend the banquet, he died suddenly.
Old man Wang, who became a ghost, sat on the kang, quietly watching his distorted body become stiff and smelly, and felt very sad.
One or two days passed, until finally, the old friend who was also a neighbor found that he was dead and collected his body for him.
He felt very bitter and wondered why he had lived like this in his life.
Before going to the underworld, his last wish was to wait for his old friend to hold a banquet for his 80th birthday. He still wanted to go to the banquet to see the scenery and excitement of the birthday banquet.
This was his last obsession in the world.
Who knew that before the birthday banquet was held, the little grandson of the old friend’s family suffered, and was entangled by a group of big and small ghosts to absorb the yang energy?
In just one or two days, the child’s face turned blue.
The old ghost felt sorry for Xiao He, who was so well-behaved and pitiful.
But he didn’t know how to inform his old friend’s family. He was grateful for the kindness he had shown him before, so he could only protect Xiao He in his way. The reason why those lonely ghosts could haunt Xiao He was because he slept in the rear room across the road.
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