Hearing the expression 'always smiling', Gu Zhisang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.

The less courageous audience in the live broadcast room were also frightened:

[My hairs all stand up! ! I was drowsy at first, but now I'm fully awake. ]

[Help! Just listening to this description, my legs are weak. This is too weird. How can someone go to sleep in a dead person's room? The child is not at home and did not go to bed. Don't the adults know?]

【Based on the experience of so many previous cases, it is reasonable to guess that this family had offended the old man across the street in the past, and the old man held a grudge against him, so after he died and became a ghost, he came to seek revenge on the children?】

[It must have been carried away by a ghost! There are rumors in the countryside here that people are carried away by ghosts. It is said that it is most likely to be carried away by evil spirits or bump into something at noon or midnight.

When being carried away by a ghost, the person's head is dizzy and it feels like the soles of the feet are floating in the air and are being dragged by something invisible! If there is a deep well nearby, the person will be thrown directly into it. When the family finds out that the person is missing the next day, the person has already died in the well! 】

【……】

'Always Smile' Holding a mobile phone in hand, you can also see the highly praised replies in the comment section of the live broadcast room.

When she saw the words 'he was already dead when he was found', she felt infinite fear and panic in her heart.

At this moment, Gu Zhisang asked on the other side of the screen, "What happened next? Something else must have happened to make his fate line weaker and weaker."

"Always smile" hummed, and continued to talk about the strange things that happened to his son in the past two days.

"My husband and I were still skeptical at the time. We thought it was impossible for a living person to disappear from his own home and appear in another room?" said 'Laughing'.

"I am sure that I saw Xiao He getting into bed that night, and in the morning the bedding in his room was messy, having been covered by someone and not tidied up, which means I am not mistaken."

My son did go to bed the night before.

But no matter how naughty he is, he is still just a nine-year-old child;

Looking at his son who was crying loudly with a wronged look on his face and kept complaining that he had run away, "Smiling All the Time" didn't think that he would do such a bad thing as running out of the house in the middle of the night just to scare his parents.

Could it be that...

Is there really something weird in the room opposite?!

He hurriedly brought his son Xiao He back home, and told his father-in-law about the incident after he woke up.

'Dad, what's going on with that empty house across from you? Did an old man really die there?'

My father-in-law said "yes".

According to him, the resident of the mud house across the street is an old man named Wang, who is the same age as him, also 80 years old.

The two old men were born not long after the construction of the Xia Kingdom, when everything was in ruins and the country was poor and difficult. They are both from the same village and grew up playing together in the mud.

But Old Man Wang's family was poorer. He only had a lame old father and two and a half acres of land. Even after working diligently for a year, the harvest was barely enough to support their life.

Later, when he was in his twenties, he fell in love with a woman from the neighboring village and got married. He had a child early and lived a peaceful life for several years.

On the contrary, my father-in-law, who always smiles, had no children after marriage until he was in his early 40s, and he went to the hospital for check-ups countless times;

After he went to the Capital Hospital for a check-up, the doctor said that there was nothing wrong with his wife, but that the problem was with him.

I suffer from some kind of asthenospermia, so it's hard for me to have children.

During that time, the old man lived a very depressed life in the village because the villagers always said that he was a bachelor and that he would not be able to support him in his old age because he had no son. In a fit of anger, he moved out of the village.

Who would have thought that within two years, the middle-aged couple, both in their forties, unexpectedly became pregnant with the "always smiling" husband, which made her parents-in-law very happy!

After the child was born, the family was left with nothing. The father-in-law looked at his hungry and hard-earned child, and also at his daughter-in-law who was still in confinement after childbirth. He gritted his teeth and secretly followed a few daring local thugs to engage in speculation and profiteering.

There were a few times when the situation was extremely dangerous and I was almost caught and thrown into jail.

Relying on his honed courage and the original accumulation of assets, my father-in-law, who was half buried in the ground in his fifties, followed the trend of the times and went into business.

When he returned home in glory with his husband, who was only in his teens, and became a well-off family, he discovered that the childhood playmate he once envied was no longer as peaceful and happy as before.

The old man Wang was wearing a dirty, ragged jacket. He was less than sixty years old but his hair was already full of gray and messy hair. His face was full of wrinkles and his eyes were numb and sad. He lived alone in that old, dilapidated house.

After asking other people in the village, the 'always smiling' father-in-law learned that this childhood friend had a miserable experience after he left the village.

Their family worked in poverty and hardship on the loess. The only son wanted to change his fate. After hearing the description of a man from the neighboring village who went to the city to buy clothes to sell, he decided not to live a poor life farming all his life, so he went to the provincial capital with other people without telling Old Man Wang.

As a result, he offended the local bully and was hacked to death.

He's been dead for more than two years.

Because of the death of their only child, Wang's wife was devastated and passed away soon after. He was left alone in the village, living like a zombie, feeling numb.

Hearing about the tragedy in his old friend's family, the "always smiling" father-in-law was also very sad.

A few years later, his son grew up and he finally could no longer work, so he chose to return to his hometown to retire.

This time, the two old people are almost seventy years old, and they are neighbors again like they were when they were children, but their lives are completely different.

My father-in-law, who is always smiling, has a pension and his own savings. His house has been renovated and expanded, and is equipped with all kinds of electrical appliances and refrigerators. He usually stays at home listening to the radio and goes out fishing.

Life is so pleasant.

But old man Wang, who lives across the road, is dying and has a hunched back. He grows some vegetables in his small yard and occasionally goes to the vegetable market to pick up garbage and some wilted and broken vegetable leaves.

Until two months ago, Old Man Wang's health had become very poor.

When the "always smiling" father-in-law saw him walk out of the room, he thought he was as thin as a skeleton, and was afraid that this old man would not live long.

Sure enough, a few days later, he found his old friend's stiff and smelly body in **.

Old man Wang died of a sudden illness. He was in great pain before his death and his final expression was twisted.

He died alone, childless, and no one prepared for his funeral.

In the end, his "always smiling" father-in-law took pity on him, discussed with the village committee, donated money to buy him a thin coffin, and buried him in the back mountain.

After hearing about the strange things that happened to his grandson, the 'always smiling' grandfather still refused to believe it:

"No way. My old friend has always been honest and kind. In the past few years, he has helped our family in every possible way. I called on the villagers to donate money for his coffin. If he has any conscience, he should not mess with my grandson!"

"Besides, even if he has a grudge, it's against me. He's been gone for more than a month, and I haven't had any illness, any disaster, or any evil spirits..."

My family talked about it for the whole morning but still couldn't make the matter clear.

They finally decided to take Xiao He to a reputable psychic in the next village tomorrow and ask the psychic to take a look.

Xiao He was in a bad mood that day because he was suspected of lying. He didn't want to eat or talk to the "smiling" couple.

At night, 'Smiling Mother' didn't dare to let him sleep alone in the hut, so she put her son between herself and her husband and locked all the doors inside and outside the house.

Who would have thought that before the early morning, my son suddenly had a fever, and he was crying and making a fuss in the bed, his face flushed red, and he kept saying that he felt uncomfortable and was scared.

The 'always smiling' couple was so anxious that they turned on the light and got up in the middle of the night to find antipyretic medicine for the child and get water to wipe his body. Even the old man in the other room was woken up.

After feeding him the medicine, it took more than an hour for my son's body temperature to slowly return to normal. He no longer twisted back and forth like he had just done, or said he was feeling unwell. He just closed his eyes and whispered that he was scared.

After a long period of worrying about his son's smile, he had planned not to sleep tonight and just stay with his son.

I don't know if she was just too sleepy and tired, or what.

Her consciousness became increasingly blurred, and finally she fell asleep without even knowing when.

I woke up again because I heard a faint "creak" sound in my sleep, like the sound of a door hinge turning.

She sat up and found herself sleeping on the headboard of the bed.

Her husband was sitting on the sofa, also sleeping soundly with his head tilted against the cushion.

The bedroom door was open and the lights in the room were turned to a softer setting, but the living room connected to the door was pitch black and only a hint of moonlight could be vaguely seen.

'Smiling all the time' suddenly turned his head to look at the bed.

**Empty!

The place where my son Xiao He had slept was still warm and moist to the touch. It was the sweat from his fever that soaked through the sheets, but he was gone.

'Always Smiling' was immediately frightened and stunned.

The child, still running a fever, disappeared from under her nose again!

Thinking of the sound of the door hinge that woke her up, her voice broke with fear and anxiety, and she stumbled out on her numb and cramped legs.

"Xiao He? Xiao He?! "

She got goose bumps all over her body as she walked out of the bedroom and towards the front door.

She saw that the door, which had been locked from the inside and closed tightly before she went to bed, had been unbolted by someone, and half of it was ajar, while the other half was wide open, leading to an unknown and dark path outside the yard.

'Always Smile' ran to the door and looked out, and saw the back of a skinny little child.

It’s my son Xiao He!

He was walking towards the open wooden door of the shabby house across the road at a very slow and slightly stiff pace.

Looking at this weird scene, 'Laughing All the Time' almost collapsed.

She called her son twice in a trembling voice, but the other party did not stop.

Seeing that he was about to walk into the house that was considered cannibalistic in the eyes of 'Always Smiling', 'Always Smiling' finally became anxious, and she almost collapsed while shouting her son's name.

This hoarse, sharp and loud cry did stop the little boy who was still walking forward.

He paused and staggered slightly.

Then he turned his head to look at the dark door in front of him, then turned his head to look at the surrounding paths, and was so scared that he burst into tears.

The boy finally came to his senses and turned his head. When he saw his mother behind him, he opened his arms and ran over: "Mom..."

'Always Smile' wiped away a tear and went over to meet him.

But she had only taken two steps when she saw a horrifying scene that she would never forget in her life.

The expression on his son Xiao He's crying face was distorted, as if he was obviously sad, but the corners of his mouth were forcibly raised.

He stopped running towards the 'Always Smiling', kept his hands open, tilted his head stiffly, and let out a sharp 'hehe' laugh.

The moonlight above his head sprinkled on the boy's face, making his tear-stained face clearly visible as he cried and laughed. Such a weird and horrifying scene immediately made "Smiling"'s scalp explode.

She clearly realized that the 'person' in front of her was definitely not her son!

Her heart was already tense and she was extremely tired. She fainted before she could even catch her breath.

Her husband heard the noise and rushed out to help her up from behind. She was limp all over. But when he looked up, he was frightened by his son's strange look and felt a chill down his spine.

While one was dizzy and the other was distracted, the boy ran away towards the village with a strange expression on his face, shaking his head.

That night was a mess.

Many villagers knew that the old man who was about to celebrate his birthday was haunted in his home.

For some reason his precious grandson got possessed by an evil spirit!

The villagers are all kind-hearted. Although they are curious and gossipy, they still go out to help search.

It was not until dawn that the little boy was found with half of his leg submerged in the pond beside the ditch at the entrance of the village.

Others have fainted.

When the villagers picked him up with flashlights and shouted, they found that his body was badly burned!

All the people will be burned to ashes.

After waking up, 'Always Smiling' almost fainted again because of crying about her son running away. At this time, she staggered over, took her son from the villager's hands, hugged him tightly and cried heartbreakingly.

The villagers who had been helping to search all night said:

"Oh my, this child is going crazy from the fever. It looks like he must have been possessed by an evil spirit! Don't wait any longer. Send him to the next village and find a medium who can see things to cure him."

"That's right, this is too scary. How could such a good kid run into this? When I scanned him with the flashlight just now, he was next to the ditch. Look, his shoes are soaked! If he walks a few more steps into the ditch, he will drown! ! "

'Always smiling' The couple also realized the seriousness of the matter.

They picked up their son, got in the car, and drove to the next village.

Early in the morning, with a tired face, he went to the local psychic and asked him to help his son.

As soon as the medium touched the boy's hand, he said: "Your son has been possessed by an evil spirit! The thing that hit him is very fierce, and now it is squeezing into his body, squeezing out one of his three souls and seven spirits. It is obviously going to do evil and kill him."

"Touch his body and see how burnt it is. This matter needs to be resolved as soon as possible. The soul and the body are connected. If it is delayed for too long, the soul will run away and lose contact, and it will be difficult to find it back. People who lack souls will either become disabled for no reason in the future, or become demented or a vegetable!"

After hearing what the psychic said, the 'smiling' couple was so frightened that they were at a loss as to what to do. They just kept asking the psychic for help, asking the medium to help them save their son.

The medium said: "I would like to save him, but I have to drive out the ghost that "bumped" your son and squeezed into his body first. Its shape is very vague, and I can't tell whether it was a boy or a girl before birth. I can only feel that it is very fierce... Has your son been to any suspicious place, a place with heavy yin energy, or a place where people have recently died?"

'Laughing' told the psychic everything that happened last night and the night before:

"We haven't burned incense or visited a graveyard since we returned to the village. Apart from the old house opposite, we don't know where else near our home we could run into evil spirits."

After listening to it, the psychic thought for a moment and said, "It must be that old man who did something strange, otherwise your son wouldn't go to sleep in that dead man's den so many times."

"Well, I will first perform a ritual to stabilize the other souls in your son's body, so that they will not be squeezed out by the evil spirits."

After saying this, the medium took out a small silver bottle, used a willow twig to dip the water in the bottle which was mixed with unknown substances, and swept it over his son's face and body while muttering something.

After doing this several times, Smiley felt that her son's hand, which she was holding, was no longer hot.

After another ten minutes or so, his son Xiao He even woke up once.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he said to "Smiling" in a hoarse voice with tears in his eyes: "Mom, I'm so scared, I always have nightmares..."

'Always smile' Hearing his son say this, he shed tears and asked him what he dreamed about, but his son just said intermittently that his dream was very scary and that it felt like a huge rock was pressing on his chest when he slept at night and he couldn't breathe at all.

Then he would see a very thin, skeleton-like grandfather waving at him, as if calling him over.

He was actually still a little scared in his heart, but his steps slowly and uncontrollably moved towards the old man.

Xiao He didn't remember anything that happened after that.

Upon hearing the description from his grandson, the father-in-law, who was always smiling, glared and said, "It's the old man surnamed Wang!"

"This old beast is such an ungrateful bastard. I used to take care of him because I thought he had a hard life. I gave him one of the two extra fish I caught to replenish my body, and gave him a worn-out but still good radio to listen to."

"By the way, when the family was renovating and rebuilding, there were some bricks, tiles and cement left over. I saw that the roof of his dilapidated house was cracked and water was seeping in this afternoon. He even asked the craftsmen to use the remaining materials to repair the roof..."

The father-in-law became angrier and angrier as he spoke, his chest heaving with anger.

The psychic nearby heard this and sighed and said:

'Brother, don't get angry. Many people won't be grateful. They may think you are giving alms and humiliating them. Besides, you are the same age as him and you come from the same village. You have money and children to take care of him, but he is all alone. How can you not feel jealous after a while?'

What the psychic said was exactly what the "Always Smiling" couple thought.

The husband who always smiles said: "Dad, you and he were born in the same year. He is 80 this year and died miserably in a broken house. But our family is having a great time hosting banquets and performing arts. Seeing such a comparison, he must feel unbalanced."

"It's my fault for not considering this. If I had brought you to the city earlier, none of this would have happened..."

No matter how angry the old man was, it had already happened.

At the moment, the health and safety of my grandchildren is more important.

In order to exorcise the evil spirit for the boy, the psychic went to the village of the "smiling" father-in-law and went to the dilapidated house opposite their home.

The medium held the bell, chanted a spell, and shook it. He came out of the shack and said:

"There is indeed a ghost in the house. It should be that old man. He had a very hard life and died unexpectedly. His body was left there for two or three days after his death. He was somewhat depressed and turned into a ghost and stayed in the village."

"I'll show you how to get rid of it first. See if I can get rid of it."

The medium started the ceremony, jumping and chanting, saying, "If you are willing to leave and return to where you should go, this family will be grateful to you and burn incense for you..."

However, after the ritual was completed, he wiped the sweat from his forehead with a stern face and said:

"No, that doesn't make sense. This old ghost doesn't want to leave. It seems like it's quite resistant."

This made the couple, who always smile, furious. "What should we do, Master?"

Finally, the psychic told them that they could use forceful means to perform rituals on the old ghost's grave to exorcise the evil spirit. Doing so would hurt the ghost's soul and make it weak.

The best outcome would be if it was frightened and left on its own. If it still refused to leave, the boy would have to beat it apart for his own safety.

The 'Always Smiling' couple agreed to the suggestion, and the psychic went to prepare the tools and instruments for the ritual.

Because their son's lost soul was still in the village, they had to "summon the soul" immediately after driving out the evil spirit in his body. For the past two days, the couple and their son Xiao He stayed in the village and did not dare to leave.

With the psychic's 'holy water' and 'amulet', my son no longer has a fever.

But at night, he seemed like a different person, staring at the smiling couple with a ferocious look, growing insults and threats, and trying to break free from the medium's talismans several times.

In desperation, the couple could only reluctantly tie up their son with a rope.

After being tied up, his expression would change again, and he would cry out "Mom and Dad" pitifully, hoping that they would let him go. When that didn't work, he would squeeze out a creepy laugh with his shrill voice.

In just one week, 'Smiling Man' lost a lot of weight and his face showed signs of fatigue and collapse.

Fortunately, the medium has prepared all the supplies today and is just waiting for one quarter past three in the afternoon - the time when the yang energy is strong in the day, to go to the old man Wang's grave to perform the ritual.

'Always smile' I woke up early due to nervousness and anticipation.

When she was browsing her phone, she saw that the seventh episode of "Spiritual Affairs" was about to start filming. Thinking that what her son had encountered was also a true supernatural event, she participated in the interaction with the mentality of seeing if she could be selected.

I didn't expect that she was so lucky to be selected directly!

After telling all this, the smiling face asked earnestly:

"Master Gu, do you think the evil in my son's body can be successfully expelled? If it still fails, can I ask you to help take a look?"

Gu Zhisang thought for a moment and said, "I can help you take a look right now. Do you have a photo of the old man next door?"

"How could I have this..."

'Always Smiling' said this with a pause in his voice, and then he said, "No, there is. Wait for me."

After a few minutes, a new message popped up in Gu Zhisang's private message box. It was a photo sent by 'Smiley'.

Seeing the gray photo, she couldn't help but frown.

This is obviously a black and white photo framed by a wooden frame, used as a funeral portrait.

Seeing that the background of the photo was a cracked and slightly yellowed wall, Gu Zhisang realized that 'Always Smiling' was taken when he just went to the empty house next door and pointed his mobile phone at the photos on the wall.

To be honest, this behavior is not polite and is even very offensive to the deceased.

But thinking of the other party's current mood, Gu Zhisang didn't say anything for the time being.

The black and white photo is one of the few photos that the villagers found among Old Man Wang's belongings. It should have been taken more than ten years ago.

Although the middle-aged man above looks tired, his eyes still show his honesty and simplicity.

Judging from his face, his life was undoubtedly bitter. He had never enjoyed any happiness in his life, and lost his wife and son in succession in his later years.

But he was like an old cow in the loess earth, just accepting it all numbly.

Whether from the distribution of facial features or from the fate lines and the twelve zodiac signs on Old Man Wang's face, Gu Zhisang could not see any signs of great evil.

She didn't think that such a person would turn into a vicious person and murder his benefactor's descendants more than a month after his accidental death.

But "Always Smiling" was also very sure that except for the old street in their hometown, their family had not gone anywhere else, and the boy Xiao He did dream about Old Man Wang.

Gu Zhisang thought about it for a moment and felt that there was something strange and inexplicable about this matter.

Even if it was really done by Old Man Wang, there must be some hidden story behind it.

After thinking for a while, she said, "I can't tell much from the old man's face. Can you start a live broadcast and shoot some pictures of the house? Or take a few more pictures from inside and outside for me to see."

'Smiles' hesitated for a moment, fearing that the house would not be fully captured if only a photo was taken, so he responded:

"I'm starting the video now."

After the shaking video on her side was turned on, Gu Zhisang looked carefully at the building on the screen.

The house was really old and dilapidated; even the hinges of the front door were crooked.

'Always smile' After walking around with the equipment in hand, Gu Zhisang was sure that what the local psychic said was correct. There were indeed ghosts lingering in this house, but the resentment was not strong.

"This is all that's inside. That bed... is where my son lay."

After finishing the photo shoot of 'Always Smiling', I walked outside the old house.

Because she was walking and shooting, the camera in her hand was not very stable.

Just as she stepped out of the door of the old house and was about to tell Gu Zhisang in the live broadcast room to turn off the camera, the host's clear and somewhat serious voice suddenly came from the receiver:

"Wait, just keep doing this."

'Laughing' was stunned for a moment, but did as he was told, "What's wrong, Master Gu?"

Gu Zhisang narrowed his eyes slightly, with a strange look on his face: "Just keep this posture and hold the phone up."

"Okay, we can stop at this angle."

Looking at the shapes of the buildings in the video, Gu Zhisang was silent for a moment.

'Laughing' vaguely sensed something and became a little nervous:

"What's wrong, Master Gu? This is a photo of my home... Is there any problem?"

The author has something to say:

If I can finish writing (Part 2) tomorrow afternoon, I will update one chapter in the afternoon and another chapter in the early morning. If I can't finish writing in the afternoon, I will update 10,000+ chapters in the early morning.

So you don't have to wait, just come and watch it at night as usual qwq