"Mom, are you here?!"

Liu Jin followed Gu Zhisang's line of sight, suddenly turned his head to look to his side, and tentatively stretched out his hands.

He couldn't see or touch anything, but at this moment he seemed to be connected to some kind of telepathy, and his tears flowed even more violently.

From a perspective that only Gu Zhisang could see, she saw the gray-black evil spirit floating beside Liu Jin, trying to respond to Liu Jin's touch.

But as soon as it got close to Liu Jin, its soul trembled, as if it was in severe pain.

Gu Zhisang frowned slightly and exhaled gently in the direction of Liu Jin.

This 'qi' carried her power, and covered Liu Jin's body like an invisible net. Suddenly, the three spiritual fires on his head and shoulders dimmed a lot and turned green.

Now the evil spirit's soul no longer trembled violently and was able to touch Liu Jin's body.

Liu Jin only felt that the temperature in the room suddenly dropped and became a little chilly.

The scene in front of his eyes became gray, as if there was a layer of gray gauze blocking his sight.

He rubbed his eyes hard, and his pupils shrank in shock, because he really saw a gray human-shaped shadow!

"Mom, is that you?!"

Liu Jin reached out to grab it with his hands, and when his fingers touched the gray fog, it felt like being pricked by an extremely cold ice cone.

He was not afraid, but looked at Gu Zhisang with anticipation.

Gu Zhisang nodded and said, "This is your mother's soul."

A powerful ghost can condense into a physical entity, carrying an extremely heavy Yin energy, which can make people with weak Yang energy in their horoscopes see ghosts, commonly known as "encountering a ghost."

After encountering a ghost, these people are often affected by the Yin Qi, with a persistent high fever or vomiting and diarrhea. In serious cases, the three souls and seven spirits may be knocked out of the body, which is what people call losing the soul. At this time, they need to ask a witch or a medium to "call the soul back";

After the soul returns to the body, it is necessary to replenish qi and strengthen yang.

But on the contrary, if the ghost is too weak, it will be afraid of living people, especially men with strong yang energy.

Once you get close to them, you will be burned by the yang energy and your soul will be hurt.

Liu Jin's mother is such a weak ghost, without even consciousness or entity, and may die at any time.

Judging from Liu Jin's facial features, he has a strong yang energy, so it would be even more painful for Liu's mother to get close to him.

Even so, it still chose to stay with the child. Its obsession is very deep.

Gu Zhisang finished explaining and continued, "I just covered up the spiritual fire on your body and sealed all the Yang energy in your body, making you temporarily become more Yin-oriented. That's why you can see the ghost in the house, and it can get close to you."

"Thank you, Master."

In just one hour, Liu Jin's attitude towards Gu Zhisang completely changed, and he started calling him Master.

He even regretted his perfunctory attitude when they met just now.

Gu Zhisang said, "There is one more thing I have to remind you. Your mother had a good fate. She donated a lot of money to charity during her lifetime. Even if she stayed in the human world after death, she should have the good deeds during her lifetime to protect her body. It is impossible that she can't even condense into a physical form, and she won't be so easily injured by the yang energy in your body."

Liu Jin realized something, "You mean..."

"You should ask your good father what he did behind your back when you were away."

His red eyes slowly turned to the sofa in the living room and looked at his father who had become so frightened that his legs went limp.

Father Liu was already sweating profusely.

In fact, he has been regretting it since that day. Every night when he closes his eyes, he would think of his wife's eyes staring at him with anger and resentment as she lay on the ground crying and struggling.

Coupled with the strange things that happened at the funeral and the inexplicably cracked tombstone, it completely broke down his psychological defenses.

He was so scared, he knew that his wife had turned into a ghost and was coming to take his life!

Father Liu was afraid of death, and even more afraid that what he had done would be exposed, so when Liu Jin was not at home, he found some masters to secretly perform rituals and exorcise ghosts and evil spirits.

In addition, he also bought many amulets and placed related talismans and charms to exorcise evil spirits in the living room of his home.

The masters told him that his wife's spirit was still unwilling to leave, but it had been weakened a lot and could not harm him anymore.

He was still worried, so he spent a lot of money to hire a famous Taoist priest, hoping that he could disperse his wife's soul to prevent future troubles.

Who knew that the so-called master was nothing but a useless figure, and was beaten until he vomited blood by the girl invited by Liu Jin!

Listening to Gu Zhisang's words and seeing his son crying and hugging the air, Father Liu felt that the room was gloomy and terrifying. He felt that the dark coffin at the end of the living room was like an evil ghost, staring at him and ready to pounce on him and take his life at any time!

He supported himself on the ground and backed away, trying to escape from the house. "She was sick and died of her own illness. It has nothing to do with me!"

Gu Zhisang narrowed his eyes, thought for a while, and took out a thumb-sized jade bottle from his pocket.

When the bottle was opened, a sinister aura overflowed from it and a crystal clear teardrop was placed at the bottom of the bottle.

This is the ghost tear she got from Gao Lin, which contains powerful resentment and power.

She split the ghost tear into two, took out half and shot it into the body of Liu Mu's evil spirit. Immediately, Liu Mu's ghost began to surge with yin energy, and the temperature around it became even lower.

In just a few seconds, Liu Mu's damaged ghost became solid under the filling of ghost tears and gradually took on a human form.

It looks to be in its forties or fifties and must have been well maintained. Although it has white hair at its temples and wrinkles on its face, one can still see its youthful elegance and grace.

Mother Liu looked bewildered. When she regained consciousness, she looked at Liu Jin with eyes full of surprise.

When its sight fell on the panic-stricken man in the corner, its expression suddenly became resentful and ferocious, and it pounced on him with a sharp scream.

Father Liu had been feeling guilty and had been unable to eat or sleep well, and his spirit was depressed and his spiritual energy was weak.

Later, he was frightened by Gu Zhisang and lost his mind and broke out in a sweat. It was the time when his Yang energy was the weakest, and the Yin energy from Liu's mother directly hit his Yin eyes, which opened up, and he saw ghosts!

The wife's dead face was distorted and terrifying. She was face to face with him, "You beast, I told you I won't let you go even if I turn into a ghost!!"

Father Liu's face was as pale as gold paper, and his fat and old cheeks were trembling with fear. "No... I didn't hurt you! It was her, that bitch who didn't let me save you... I was wrong, Dong Ying, I know I was wrong, please forgive me!"

He admitted his mistake and begged for mercy, but he took out a talisman for exorcism and protection from his clothes and waved it around in an attempt to drive away Dong Ying's ghost.

"I didn't mean to hurt you! You are the one who is sick! I just didn't get you the medicine, you are just so angry... Get away! Don't come near me!"

But with Gu Zhisang around, and with Gui Lei's powerful strength, the talismans in his hands were directly corroded by the Yin energy and turned into a charred black.

Dong Ying's eyes turned bloodshot and she pounced on him and bit him.

The feeling of being attacked by a ghost was extremely uncomfortable. Father Liu's blood froze and his heart was beating as if it was about to explode.

His eyes rolled back and he didn't even utter a scream. He fell to the ground in a daze, his legs trembling and wet. He was so frightened that he became incontinent.

Dong Ying said with resentment, "Don't pretend to be dead, I won't let you go! It's ok that you disgusted me all these years, but you actually set your mind on my son. You are not worthy of being a father! You deserve a miserable death!"

Gu Zhisang, who had been folding his arms and remained silent, spoke up:

"He probably wasn't pretending. He had a stroke."

Stroke?

Dong Ying, Liu Jin and Yu Tongqiu were all stunned.

A closer look revealed that Father Liu's eyes were stiff, and his open mouth was crooked with saliva flowing out.

He was already old, but he ate and drank excessively and had sex frequently, which had drained his body;

He was so emotional at the time that he was frightened to the point of having a stroke.

Dong Ying was suddenly filled with powerful strength and resentment. He was blinded by the pleasure of revenge and wanted to pounce on him again but was stopped by Gu Zhisang.

"Think about it carefully. If a ghost kills, it will be infected with evil power. At that time, you will be on the wanted list of the underworld. After you are arrested, you will be thrown into the sea of ​​fire and suffer."

Dong Ying was still somewhat unwilling to let Liu's father go.

But after Liu Jin's repeated dissuasion and pleading, the resentment in its heart gradually subsided.

It floated in front of Gu Zhisang and bowed deeply, "Thank you, little master."

Gu Zhisang raised his eyes and said, "You don't have to thank me. Your son used all his merits to exchange for my help in solving this matter. We are just an employment relationship."

"What?!" Dong Ying was shocked.

As a ghost, it knew how important merit was. It did not expect that its son would pay such a high price. It said anxiously:

"Little Master, I give you all my merits, please don't take his!"

Gu Zhisang:?

"Do you think that making a pact is just playing house? You can change it at will. If you want to gain something through divination, you will definitely lose something. Whoever makes a promise will definitely have a result. Whether it is a good result or a bad result, he must bear it himself. This is the law of heaven and earth."

Dong Ying was struck by lightning, but Liu Jin was very calm. "Mom, as long as you have good merits, they will be gone. At worst, I can use the salary from the filming to do charity. If you do more good deeds, you will definitely be able to save up more in the future."

Both mother and son felt that they had harmed each other, and the atmosphere in the room was a little depressed for a while.

Gu Zhisang said bluntly:

“会造成今日这个后果，都是你们优柔寡断当断不断。董女士你自以为是为了孩子奉献，可你真的不知道柳导他是希望你离婚的么？长痛不如短痛这个道理你不懂么？”

董英其实都明白，但因为它出生的年代和成长经历，让它哪怕已经红极一时、成了家喻户晓的大明星，骨子里却还是个隐忍付出、瞻前顾后的性格。

所以它才会压抑自己，才会在丈夫的阻挠下放弃事业。

它一直觉得不离婚不闹大，都是为了让孩子有一个完整的家庭，让他不被周围的同学朋友瞧不起，是为了柳谨的名声和事业；

可这固执的‘奉献’中，又何尝没有它自己的逃避呢。

董英后悔了。

如果当年在柳父那个人渣第一次出轨的时候，它就能直接和他离婚，如果当年它能坚持内心的想法付出拍戏，是不是现在一切都会不同了？

可木已成舟，已经变成鬼魂的它却连眼泪都流不出来了。

于童秋叹了口气，走上前来说道：

“我一直在录音，刚刚你爸承认他没有给师父拿药的话我都录下来了，虽然不知道能否作为呈堂证据，但多少能有点用处。录音已经发给你了。”

“谢谢师妹，也谢谢顾大师！”柳谨说道：“要不是你们，我连妈怎么去的都不知道。”

听到有录音，僵直着躺在地上的柳父嘴里‘啊啊’叫着，似是想要阻止求饶。

柳谨权当看不到，又问道：“妈，和他厮混在一起的那个女人究竟是谁？”

一提到这个，董英的脸上又浮出怒意，像吃了苍蝇般恶心得不行，“是小王，我怎么也没想到她能做出这些事情！”

柳谨呆了许久，攥紧拳头走到柳父的身前，也不嫌地上脏抬手就往他脸上砸了几拳。

“你这个人渣！我妈怎么就碰到了你这样的畜生，你在外面乱搞还不够，还要这么恶心她！”

于童秋也被惊到了，“小王？是师父资助的那个学生吗？！”

董英虽然息影了，但手头钱财宽裕，常年资助大山中读不起书、家里重男轻女的女孩子。

那些女孩儿有不少考出了大山、上了大学改变了人生，这个姓王的女人也是其中之一；

却是考学失败的一个。

她家庭条件特别困难，有个酒鬼还家暴的父亲，董英资助过去的钱都被她爹拿去挥霍了。

她高中没上完就从大山跑出来投奔董英，求董英收留她帮帮她，说自己回去的话一定会被打死的。

董英一时心软，就让她暂住在自己家里。

虽然说是帮佣助理，但也和半个女儿没什么不同了。

于童秋之前来柳家吃饭的时候，好几次都能和那个姓王的女人碰面，大概三十多岁的样子。

她隐约听说过，这个王姓女子几年前还喜欢过柳谨，但柳谨是个心里只有电影的木头，最后这事也不了了之。

谁能想到，最后她却和柳父搞在了一起，还生出一个私生子！

难怪董英看到那一幕后，会被活活气到心脏病发作。

任谁发现自己掏心掏肺当晚辈的人干出这种事，会不急火攻心？

带入一下董英，于童秋都觉得胃里翻涌直犯恶心。

董英面色颓唐：“是我自己眼瞎识人不清，这么多年我不知道我哪里对不住她了，任何人做出这种事情我都能接受，唯独她不行。”

这时顾之桑道：“你错就错在对该狠的人不狠，不该烂好心的时候发善心。你资助了那么多人，难道那些女孩子的家里不困难、都没有阻碍吗？她们也不是都考上了大学吧，但除了这一个，还有谁找上门来了么。”

答案是没有。

那些孩子就算最后没考上大学，也在努力地生活，从大山走出来开店、做小本买卖。

每年董英都能收到她们的感谢信和各种礼物，反倒是小王这个住在她家里的孩子，很少说什么感谢的话。

“有的人生性里就带着‘恶’根，无论男女，你让这种人轻轻松松住进了大别墅，让他们体会到不劳而获，他们非但不会感激，久而久之还会更不满足。”

顾之桑：“他们骨子里的劣根和自卑，会让他们嫉妒、会想要把这些占为己有，你的帮助在他们的眼里反都成了高高在上的施舍。”

“不过有一件事柳老先生应该会感兴趣。”她眼底掠过一丝兴味。

这一男一女还真是恶人碰恶人，柳老头碰上王姓女子也是活该倒霉。

“从面相上说，泪堂往往能够看出一个人的子女运。右边有女缘左边是男缘，纵观柳老先生你的全脸，也就只有右边眼下有一条罗网纹，命宫中也只有一条子女线。线纹很深，说明这个孩子是个事业鼎胜、有孝心的男性……”

顾之桑忽然笑了一下，“不过只有一条子女线的老先生，是怎么又生出一个小儿子的？”

被打得鼻青眼肿的柳父闻言呼哧呼哧喘气，在强烈激动中，歪着嘴竟挤出了一句磕磕绊绊的话来：

“你……胡、说。”

“我骗你干什么。”

顾之桑：“‘相’术中有言，人中之上有斜纹，必养他人儿女。你人中短而小，本就不是子嗣丰健的命格，又有一条纹路从左到右贯穿，说明你势必会帮人他人养儿子。”

闻言董英大笑不止，一脸快意：“姓柳的你也有今天，你活该戴绿帽子，这就是你的报应啊！你柳家的‘皇位’终究是要断了！”

柳父脑海中掠过喜得麟子的兴奋快乐，掠过小儿子和自己的确不很相像的脸孔……

想到自己这些年如珠如宝地给他花钱、培养他，为此不惜算计大儿子，这一切竟然都是为别人做嫁衣！

大怒之下，他直接被气到两眼一翻昏死过去了。

顾之桑叫柳谨拿来了家里有王姓女子的合照，手掌贴住照片感应了一会儿，而后睁开眼眸道：

“这个女人很聪明，她说是要带孩子出去避避风头，实际上已经卷了一笔钱随时准备跑路。她和这张照片上的其他人之间没有联系，但仍然有淡淡的力量残存，我推测她应该是和帮你们拍了这张照片的人有关联，那个孩子应该就是他们二人的。”

董英回忆许久，终于想到了拍照时的场景，咬牙道：“当时是家里司机给我们拍的这张照片！”

顾之桑：“那柳导你最好先把司机控制起来，我能感觉到这个女人迁移宫还在动，她应该是在等司机当内应，如果你母亲的死没暴露她才会回来，一旦暴露了司机就会给她通风报信，她会连夜买机票带孩子去往国外，到时候你们再想找她就难了。”

柳谨咬牙道：“好，我记住了，我一会儿就报警要求重查这个案件，绝对不会让他们跑掉！我要把他们送上法庭！”

“嗯，那事情到这儿就解决得差不多了，你们还有什么问题现在可以提。”

柳谨想了想，说：“顾大师，我妈它的魂魄之前被伤到的话，去地府投胎会有什么影响吗？”

“对，差点忘了这件事。”

顾之桑从怀里包里摸出一张黄符纸和小剪刀，剪裁出一个巴掌大的小纸人出来。

“你母亲的魂魄受损严重，现在看着恢复了其实都是鬼泪的力量，力量耗尽后还会恢复原样。我会把她的魂魄收到纸人中蕴养一段时间，你可以贴身带着，也可以买些凉性的玉石把纸人放在上面。”

说着她一招手，董英的魂魄就不受控制地被吸引了过去，最后进入了黄纸人中。

片刻之后那黄纸人动了动，在顾之桑的手心中站了起来。

它十分惊喜：“我能摸到实物了，还能感受到温度！”

顾之桑说：“快的话一两周，慢也就两三个月魂魄就能养好，届时会有阴差来勾你去阴曹地府。”

自此柳谨的全部诉求都达成了。

顾之桑伸出手指，隔空在柳谨额头的方向碰了碰，一丝淡淡的金光从他的体内流出，沿着她的指尖没入扆崋身体。

那一刻柳谨说不上是什么感觉，他能感觉自己的灵魂深处少了什么东西，有种怅然若失感。

事情解决后，他先给信得过的老帮佣打电话，让他们过来收拾东西，把中风昏厥的柳父抬走。

停灵在客厅的棺椁也需要尽快下葬，他又联系了殡仪馆预约抬棺下葬的时间。

所有事情都处理完后，他心里的大石头才彻底落下。

经过此事之后，他彻底承认了于童秋的话，顾之桑真的是个深不可测的大师！

柳谨虽然知道功德重要，但毕竟看不见摸不着总觉得不够隆重，日后母亲魂魄蕴养若是出了问题，还得找顾之桑帮忙，还是要和这样的奇人打好关系。

He suddenly thought of something and said, "Master Gu, your agent Qian Zheng has contacted me several times in the past half month, saying that the scar on your forehead cannot be healed and that he wants me to give the role to a newcomer under his command. I don't think he has discussed this with you, right?"

Liu Jin glanced at Gu Zhisang's forehead calmly and found that there were still marks there, but they were far less exaggerated than Qian Zheng said.

To be honest, he had been thinking of replacing Gu Zhisang because his acting was so poor.

When I heard that the only perfect face had flaws, there was no reason to let her play the role of female No. 4 Yu Jing.

He was about to agree, but then this happened today.

It was impossible to change people, and Liu Jin even sold the money and certificates.

In fact, Gu Zhisang had no interest in filming, but this was the original body's greatest wish and obsession before his death, so he signed the contract;

In the 'plot' told to her by the system, 'Gu Zhisang' was replaced in role due to her disfigurement, and she felt that her life was completely hopeless, which led to her subsequent tragedy.

However, Qian Zheng and the newcomer, who stepped on her and sucked her blood to get to the top, became very successful in the circle because of this role.

Gu Zhisang has his own set of principles and has always attached great importance to "rules".

And she is a Buddha, she is not interested in the entertainment industry, but she is not a wimp.

Qian Zheng provoked her again and again, as if he wanted to bully her and bully her, which really aroused her disgust.

At this time, the yellow paper man who had been lying on Liu Jin's shoulder raised his head.

Dong Ying: "What do you mean by changing roles? Liu Jin, are you going to replace Master Gu?"

Liu Jin coughed and said, "What do you mean by replaced? Who said it's impossible! Master Gu is the most suitable candidate for this role. It's her agent who kept sending me false information and misled me."

Gu Zhisang: ...

"Director Liu, you don't have to flatter me against your will. My acting skills are indeed poor."

Although I don’t know how bad the original body’s acting skills are to be mocked by the whole network, it’s really a headache for the former Lord of Xuanmen who has never acted and has never needed to act and has always done whatever he wants.

Dong Ying became interested: "What role will Master Gu play?"

Yu Tongqiu introduced the general plot and said: "The character of Sangsang is a beautiful woman who meets a scumbag. She will become completely evil after being hurt by love in the later stage."

"Then I can teach Master Gu how to act." Dong Ying said with a wry smile, "Besides, no one can understand that kind of anger better than me."

Yu Tongqiu and Liu Jin: …

It seems to be true.

Yu Tongqiu's eyes lit up. "It's actually possible. Didn't Senior Brother give Sangsang a month to recuperate? And Sangsang has to go record a metaphysics program next, so he may not have time to find an acting teacher. If I bring Master over, I can improve my acting skills in my free time."

"My master is a great teacher. I have achieved my current success in the industry thanks to her guidance and polishing of my acting skills."

Liu Jin said, "If Master Gu agrees, I have no objection, and we don't have to shoot so soon. I expect this drama to take more than half a year to shoot, and the role of Yu Jing doesn't have many scenes, so we can postpone it to the end."

He had seen Gu Zhisang's abilities. If his mother could stay with her, her soul would definitely be better nurtured than if she stayed with him.

——

Twenty minutes later, Gu Zhisang left Liu Jin's villa.

There was a thin, tightly attached yellow paper figure on her shoulder.

As soon as I got a taxi home, two messages popped up on the phone in my pocket.

Gu Zhisang clicked on it and took a look. One of them was the script for the fourth episode sent by the "Spiritual Affairs" production team, allowing the contestants to have a general understanding of the program flow of the fourth episode.

The other one was from her agency, informing her to go to a meeting tomorrow...

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