It's impossible that Guan Shigao brought this ghost upon himself, right?
Upon hearing this, Guan Shaochuan roared again, as if someone had stepped on his tail.
"Nonsense! You don't even know me, you've never even seen me before, yet you're so sure I did something wrong. Isn't that just making things up?"
"Shaochuan, get this swindler out of here right now! You're a college student, can't you even spot such a simple scam?!"
Guan Shigao, with a stern face, gave his son a direct order.
Guan Shaochuan looked at his father, then at Lin Xi, and his expression immediately became very troubled.
As a son, he naturally believed in his father.
After all, no son would want to see his father do something wrong.
At the same time, he felt that a master like Lin Xi had no grudge against his father and would not slander his father for no reason.
Moreover, he always felt that his father's reaction... wasn't it a bit too much?
In his mind, his father's temper didn't seem that bad; he wasn't like a firecracker, easily ignited.
After hesitating for a moment, Guan Shichuan decided to listen to Lin Xi continue.
Just as his father said, he's a grown man with his own ability to discern; he can tell the difference between what's true and what's false.
So Guan Shaochuan didn't listen to his father and send Lin Xi away. Instead, he looked at Lin Xi with a sincere expression.
"Master, could you please tell me what my father did? Don't worry, whether you're willing to help or not, we will pay you the appropriate reward!"
Guan Shichuan's attitude was quite good, so Lin Xi didn't mind telling him more.
She said, "Judging from your father's appearance, he has recently made a fortune, but it was obtained through improper means and is related to ghosts."
"If nothing unexpected happens, this money must have been obtained by your father from the ghost's side through seizure or robbery, which is why the ghost keeps bothering him."
As Lin Xi gradually revealed the truth, Guan Shigao's pupils dilated, and his expression grew increasingly shocked.
Guan Shaochuan and his wife looked on incredulously.
The two subconsciously looked at Guan Shigao and caught a glimpse of panic in his eyes.
Upon noticing this, Guan Shaochuan's heart sank.
As his own son, how could he not see what his father's expression meant at that moment?
In that instant, he had so much to say and so many questions to ask.
I want to ask his dad if this is true.
Did he really acquire a sum of ill-gotten gains?
If not, why did he have that expression just now?
But in the end, everything boils down to one sentence—
"Dad, please, just tell the truth..."
Guan Shaochuan's tired eyes made Guan Shigao not dare to meet his gaze at all, and he almost subconsciously turned his face away.
At this moment, Guan Shigao's feelings were also complicated.
He never imagined that there were such amazing people in the world who could know what had happened to him just by looking at him.
Shocked, but also feeling guilty.
Especially when he saw his son and daughter-in-law looking at him with disbelief, he finally understood what it meant to feel utterly ashamed and didn't even dare to lift his head.
Seeing that Guan Shigao remained silent, his daughter-in-law grew anxious and quickly spoke up.
"Dad, is what the master said true or not? Please tell us the truth! Shaochuan and I are only doing this for your own good. Think about how much your arm has hurt these past few days. Stop lying and tell us the truth!"
Now that things had come to this point, his son and daughter-in-law were waiting for him to tell the truth. Guan Shigao wanted to continue lying, but seeing their anxious and worried eyes, he finally had no choice but to tell the truth.
Guan Shigao let out a breath, then said in a low voice, "I... I did get a bracelet from a dead man some time ago..."
Let's go back a week.
Guan Shigao was farming at home when he suddenly received a call from a friend who said that someone in the next village had passed away and needed help, asking if Guan Shigao would go.
Guan Shigao's income in his hometown is roughly divided into two parts: one part is from farming and selling vegetables, and the other part is from doing odd jobs in town or nearby during the off-season, helping others and earning money by doing manual labor.
He would go wherever there was a shop in town that needed people to move goods, or wherever there was a need to gather people, or for funerals or weddings where people needed to carry things.
Although these jobs are unstable, the income per trip is not low, starting at least one or two hundred yuan.
If you happen to have a generous host family, you might occasionally get three to five hundred yuan a day.
Guan Shigao had participated in many similar jobs before, like the one his friend mentioned on the phone.
If someone passes away, they usually go over to help carry tables and chairs, or help wash and serve vegetables; the work is not difficult.
After making arrangements with his friend, Guan Shigao put down what he was doing and immediately went to the next village.
When he arrived at the house in the next village, the work he did at first was similar to what he had done at the funerals before.
Help with moving tables, chairs, benches, and tidying up the venue.
However, unlike the families he had helped before, the deceased old man only had one daughter, and that daughter was not yet married.
Moreover, there were very few male relatives in that family.
This resulted in a shortage of people to help prepare the deceased old man's body and dress him in his burial clothes.
The old man's daughter could only ask a male relative for help, but the male relative couldn't handle it by himself, so she randomly found someone nearby to help him.
Guan Shigao happened to be nearby at the time. When the male relative saw him, he immediately called him over and asked him to lend a hand.
Guan Shigao thought that he had come to help anyway, and since he was not afraid of the dead and did not believe in ghosts or gods, he went to help without hesitation.
While changing the clothes of the deceased old man, Guan Shigao overheard a conversation between a male relative and the old man's daughter, and learned that the daughter was not the old man's biological daughter, but a child he had taken in.
Although the father and daughter were not related by blood, the girl was very grateful to the old man because he gave her a second life.
Now that the old man has passed away, the girl is very sad and says she will do her best to give her father a grand and dignified funeral.
These things had nothing to do with Guan Shigao; he simply treated it as gossip.
But it wasn't until two days later that he realized what the girl meant by "letting her dad have some dignity."
The girl and her father didn't have many relatives, but she managed to put together dozens of tables and make the funeral a lively affair.
Not only that, the banquet was very well arranged, the gifts were very generous, and a performance troupe was specially invited to sing for two days, with the drum and gong team never stopping.
All of this must have cost a lot of money. In their area, only those families that can afford to hold such a grand funeral are either very wealthy or have many children.
At the time, Guan Shigao was very puzzled. After all, the deceased old man only had one daughter, and his daughter looked so young. Where did he get so much money to make such a big funeral?
I learned from others that although the girl was young, she had started working hard at a young age, saved up money to open her own shop, and is now the owner of several shops.
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