Ms. Xu nodded repeatedly after hearing this: "Master, you are right. My father did pass away a while ago, and some things happened after he passed away..."
Halfway through her words, Ms. Xu seemed to suddenly realize something, and suddenly opened her eyes wide and asked:
"Did the Master just see my father? Is he by my side?!"
Xi Haihong shook her head and said, "There is indeed a ghost following you, but it is not your deceased relative. It should be because you often go to places with strong yin energy recently, and you are weak in body and weak in yang energy, so you are entangled by some lonely ghosts with evil intentions."
What she saw in Ms. Xu was a woman in her thirties with little ability and a resentful look.
After learning that Ms. Xu had been traveling back and forth between her home and the cemetery almost every day for the past two weeks, Xi Haihong confirmed her guess.
This female ghost must have seen that Ms. Xu burned incense and paper every day and was weak and easy to bully, so she followed her from the cemetery and absorbed the incense that Ms. Xu bought and the yang energy in her body.
During this period, Ms. Xu suffered from body aches and depression, which was actually partly due to the influence of the haunted ghost.
Xi Haihong then added: "But this also happens to show that your deceased father did not go to the underworld to reincarnate."
She explained that as soon as she entered the house, she felt that it was filled with a gloomy atmosphere and a ghost residual aura;
Since these ghostly auras are exactly the same as the traces and breath of life left by the homeowner, they are not easy to detect.
This shows that Ms. Xu's father still had obsessions after his death and had returned to this room.
It is precisely because there is the lingering breath of the owner in the house that the existence of Ms. Xu's ghost is concealed, making it extremely difficult to discover.
If Xi Haihong had not been the Grim Reaper with a pair of eyes that could see through any soul, this wild ghost would have probably fooled her.
When Ms. Xu heard that the ghost following her was not Mr. Xu, she actually showed a hint of disappointment on her face:
"Is there any way to make my father appear?"
Xi Haihong was a little surprised: "You want to find him?"
After receiving Ms. Xu's affirmative answer, Xi Haihong thought for a moment and said:
"It's not impossible. I can try to help you 'summon the spirit'."
She performed some magic in this house, using Xu's father's horoscope and identity information to cast a 'soul-calling spell', but failed to summon Xu's father's soul.
At this time, Ms. Xu told the program team that the property left by her father happened to be not far from the cemetery where he was buried. It was only about three kilometers away and could be reached by turning a few corners.
So the program crew took her and Xi Haihong and drove for a few minutes to the cemetery where Xu's father was buried.
When they arrived at Xu's father's grave, the photographers did not point their cameras at the tombstone to take pictures of the deceased's portrait, which would have been a very disrespectful act.
From the black and white image on the tombstone, we can see that Xu's father was very old when he died, and his expression was a little serious.
Xi Haihong cast the "requiem spell" again.
This time she squatted down and put her palms on the soil in front of Xu's father's tombstone, her brows furrowed more and more.
After a while, she withdrew her hand, stood up and looked a little serious:
"It's a bit strange that your father's spirit cannot be summoned."
"In theory, the tomb of the deceased is equivalent to his residence after death. Unless it is an extremely special situation, eight out of ten times you can "summon the soul" in front of the tomb."
Ms. Xu was a little anxious: "How could this happen?"
Xi Haihong said: "There are two situations now. One is that your father's soul has left the world of the living and has been captured by the underworld and is being judged.
Second, it has deep resentment and is very resistant to the spirit summoning technique, so it doesn't want to be summoned."
After gently brushing off the dust in her palm, Xi Haihong shook her head and said:
"You can't summon the ghost to ask questions. I can't see much. I hope the contestants behind you can help you."
"But I can sense that your father's death is not peaceful."
After thanking Xi Haihong, the program staff returned to Ms. Xu's home, and soon Liu announced the next contestant: He Mi Tu.
When the Thai sorcerer He Mi Tu appeared, what he saw was almost the same as what the previous two people saw.
Everyone could see that someone in the Xu family had died, but they couldn't find the soul of Xu's father.
For a while, some comments said that the previous contestants were not good enough, but there were also many rational viewers:
[The person in this incident was not even Ms. Xu herself, nor her relatives, but some neighbor or friend. The program team did not give any clues at all. Isn't this deliberately making things difficult for the contestants? ]
[I also think that if someone gets into trouble, they should just go to that person's house and let the contestants look after the person... The three of them are the kind of contestants who "can't look at people, look at ghosts."]
[Wait a minute, two powerful people who can turn a person inside out are about to appear. ]
【……】
Soon Daisy made her final appearance.
After she arrived at the room, she hugged the host Liu first, said hello to the live camera, and then looked at Ms. Xu:
"Can you give me your hand? Will you resist me holding your hand and sensing the energy in you?"
Ms. Xu shook her head and held out her palm to Daisy, "Of course I don't mind."
Covering Ms. Xu's palms with her hands and behind her back, Daisy muttered something with her blue eyes closed.
"I can sense that you are a very friendly lady. This is related to your personality and occupation. You are very popular with children and often interact with them. I guess you should be a teacher."
"But you always have a lot of pain in your heart... My God, ma'am, you never have your own children, right?"
Ms. Xu's eyes were red, and she nodded: "It's like this, I'm not in good health and can't have children."
Daisy looked a little reluctant.
She could sense that the woman in front of her was very fragile inside, lacking in affection and love. How could someone who loved children so much not have the rights to have family members?
Daisy continued, "I can sense that you had a very good relationship with the owner of this house. There are traces of your life here for many years. He was your most important relative. But you lost him, which was a big blow to you."
"Besides that, when I was sensing your power, I always felt that there was a young boy in your subconscious..."
Daisy looked a little confused when she said this.
Her ability is to project the energy of others into their inner world and see some of the most profound images hidden in their memories.
"That boy looks to be in his early twenties..." Daisy roughly described the man's appearance. "For some reason, you feel full of remorse for this person. Because of him, you have been hesitating and struggling about something for a while."
After hearing Daisy's description, Ms. Xu pursed her lips and nodded:
"Master, you are so accurate. The person you mentioned is the reason why I asked the program team for help this time."
"He is the child of a very good friend of our family. This time, at my father's funeral, this family helped me a lot, but...but after the funeral, this child fell ill. It's all my fault!"
Looking tired and apologetic, she finally told the program team the whole reason why she asked for help and the strange things that happened not long ago.
"I don't know if there are any funeral traditions and taboos in your hometown, but we do have them here. When an elderly person dies, we have to find someone to take care of the funeral. In addition to the traditional customs of 'sealing the coffin' and 'wrapping the clothes', the most important ceremony here is 'funeral banners'."
In Ms. Xu's hometown, the grandness of the funeral procession is an important symbol of whether a person will be happy in the underground after his death.
The grander and more complete the rituals of the funeral procession, the more it represents the filial piety of the family, and the more blessed the deceased will be in the underworld.
For this reason, after Xu's father passed away, Ms. Xu immediately went to the local funeral team to arrange for her father's funeral.
There were six people carrying the coffin at the funeral.
There were also four masters playing suona, and a team of several people carrying "fangxiang" - large paper objects, "mingqi" - burial items and some tribute food in front of the coffin.
We hired more than twenty people.
Even though the event was a grand occasion, there was still one thing that troubled Ms. Xu deeply.
In their local area, in the "funeral" procession, the eldest son is required to walk in front holding the deceased's portrait, and the eldest grandson is required to walk beside him carrying the "soul-calling banner".
It is said that waving the banner in this way can guide the souls of the dead who are about to enter the underworld to arrive safely at the Ghost Gate, and will not be dragged into the mud and lose their minds by the evil spirits on the road to the underworld.
This tradition has been passed down in the local area for thousands of years.
Every time an elderly person dies in the county, you can see relatives wearing mourning clothes, crying and scattering money while holding the portrait and waving banners to "carry off" the deceased.
What worries Ms. Xu is that she is the only descendant of Mr. Xu.
In their small place, the idea of valuing sons and believing that only having sons can provide roots is still deeply rooted.
Originally, the eldest son and grandson were supposed to hold the portrait and carry the soul-calling banner.
If one or both parties are women, even if the funeral of the deceased is grand and spectacular, there will still be some stubborn old people who will point fingers behind the back and say that the deceased is "unlucky".
As for Ms. Xu, as a daughter, she can hold her father's portrait.
But she had no children, not even a grandchild to carry the spirit-calling banner for her father.
When the funeral was still being planned, she heard some neighbors whispering, saying something like, "Old man Xu lived a whole life, but in his end he didn't even have children or grandchildren to see him off to the grave."
Say that Mr. Xu is pitiful.
Although Ms. Xu knew clearly in her heart that there was no need to take what these old people said to heart, as it was just the old-fashioned way of thinking.
But she still felt very uncomfortable when she heard people describe her father as "unlucky" and "rootless".
In addition, my father had a stubborn temper when he was young, and because of this girl, he had a lot of conflicts with his relatives on the other side of the family;
Ms. Xu knew that among the relatives who came to attend the funeral, there would definitely be some who would say unpleasant things.
After much thought, she decided to find a young man with good character in the local area to serve as the "funeral messenger" for her father.
Hearing this, Liu, who had never heard of this custom, asked:
"What is a funeral director?"
Ms. Xu said: "It is equivalent to finding a fake grandchild to act as the male descendant of the deceased, carrying the banner and leading the way for the deceased in the 'funeral' procession."
"It is also a funeral custom here. If an elderly person has no male offspring, the family can pay someone to 'send the soul'."
According to her, not just anyone can be the 'spirit escort', and it is certainly not the case that one can just carry the banner once they are found.
First of all, the 'person who escorts the spirit' must be a boy, so that his pure yang energy will not conflict with the corpse in the coffin.
Secondly, his birth date and eight characters must match those of the deceased, and they cannot conflict with each other.
Finally, after selecting the 'soul escort', he must, with the help of the master performing the ritual, open up the connection with the deceased, so that when the deceased goes to the underworld, he can see the banner guiding him.
After such a selection and process, the "soul sender" is actually equivalent to the godson or grandson of the deceased.
The deceased will protect him in the underworld in the future. If he burns some paper for the deceased during holidays, it can be regarded as a filial piety and offering to the deceased.
In order to prevent her father's relatives from gossiping, Ms. Xu paid the funeral master who was helping to arrange the funeral to spread the news that she was looking for a "funeral escort".
Soon many people came to the door.
Finally, Ms. Xu chose the son of a close friend to be the funeral director to carry the banners for her father's funeral.
Ms. Xu said: "In fact, I am not familiar with this family. Their elders are good friends of my father. Both of them were soldiers and were comrades in arms."
"But the old man had a hidden illness when he was in the army and passed away very early. After that, except for the annual festivals when our two families exchanged gifts, we rarely interacted with each other."
Therefore, Ms. Xu was very happy to see that the family's son was willing to carry the banner for his old man.
This boy just graduated from college two months ago and is said to have returned home to prepare for the local civil service exam.
When his parents heard that Xu's father had passed away and was looking for a "funeral escort", they thought that the two families had had some interactions before, so they asked their son to come.
Although they were acquaintances, Ms. Xu insisted on following the rules and gave the boy 25,000 yuan as a reward for his last journey on behalf of Mr. Xu.
Everything went smoothly until the master helped with the rituals and arrangements for the funeral.
On the day of the burial, the funeral procession began with the sound of music and six strong men carefully carrying the coffin towards the cemetery.
Ms. Xu, who was at the front of the team holding her father's "portrait", burst into tears. Listening to the wailing of relatives and friends behind her, she felt extremely sad and felt that she had lost her last relative.
Then, just around a corner, a scream was heard from the funeral procession.
Ms. Xu, who was in mourning, heard the noise and turned around holding the portrait, and was also startled!
One of the masters who were carrying the coffin somehow tripped on the ground, stumbled and lost control, and the front corner of the coffin fell to the ground.
This is a big taboo at a funeral!
As the saying goes, "the coffin should not touch the ground." Once the coffin touches the ground during the "funeral procession," it means that the deceased in the coffin does not want to be buried.
Either there is some dissatisfaction or there is resentment in the heart, either way it is not a good thing.
The master in charge of the ritual also changed his expression and kept scolding the master carrying the coffin for being careless.
The team stopped for a while and nothing happened, so they started moving again.
This time, no accidents occurred until the coffin was buried.
But because of what had just happened with the coffin falling to the ground, everyone was still feeling a little uncomfortable.
At this time, the master in charge of the ritual pulled Ms. Xu aside and said:
"Just now your father's coffin touched the ground, which is very unlucky in a funeral. Tonight, we need to find a male from your family to guard the grave all night, so that the filial piety of the descendants can offset the bad luck brought by the coffin hitting the ground."
This request made Ms. Xu feel troubled again.
Not to mention that there are no close relatives on my father's side, even if there were, they might not be willing.
She asked: "Can't I go and guard it?"
The master who performed the ritual shook his head and said, "It is a rule that men should keep watch all night, and also because men have stronger yang energy, so it is not a big deal to keep watch at the ancestral grave all night. But Ms. Xu, you have a weak body to begin with, and women have stronger yin energy, so it is easy for you to attract dirty things."
Just when Ms. Xu was in trouble, the young man who acted as the "funeral escort" heard it nearby and offered to keep watch.
This touched Ms. Xu deeply.
She thought from the bottom of her heart that the boy was a good boy, so she bought a tent, an alcohol lamp and other things, and asked him to help guard the place for one night.
The next day, when the boy came out of the cemetery, he was still in good spirits.
Who would have thought that after he returned home, he developed a high fever and fainted. He also had nightmares continuously during the high fever.
The boy's family asked a local fortune teller to look for their son. The fortune teller said that the reason the boy suddenly had a high fever was because Ms. Xu's father turned into a fierce ghost after his death and was haunting the boy.
The boy's parents were extremely angry and thought that Xu Jiaen was ungrateful, and Ms. Xu herself was also very shocked.
In theory, although her father was a stubborn and somewhat eccentric old man, he never made enemies with anyone.
What's more, this boy is the grandson of his old comrade-in-arms, and he even came to serve as the "funeral escort" for his father. How could such a thing happen?
Even after two or three days, the boy's condition did not improve, but became more and more serious.
Gradually, all the residents nearby knew about this incident, and various speculations became more and more outrageous.
Some said that Xu's father was angry with the boy because the coffin fell to the ground during the funeral.
Some also said that Mr. Xu had no sons or grandsons, so he had evil thoughts. When he saw other people's boys, he thought it would be better to have a root, so he wanted to take the young man who "sent his soul" away...
In short, because of this incident, Father Xu was suddenly described as a "devil" by the neighbors, and Ms. Xu was also criticized when she went out these days.
She felt very uncomfortable after hearing those words about her father.
Because she felt that Mr. Xu was not that kind of person.
There must be some hidden story behind this!
Ms. Xu also brought a lot of nutritional supplements and fruits to the home of the boy who was "sending the spirit", but the other party was unwilling to let her come to his house at all.
Before she even entered the house, the boy's parents threw out everything she brought with her and scolded her:
"We felt that the old man had no children or grandchildren, not even someone to carry the banner, so we sent our children over to help out. And this is how grateful you are to us?"
'My son still has a low-grade fever and has a headache all day long. If we weren't so educated, we would have beaten you up if we saw you!'
Ms. Xu, who was driven away, felt devastated and guilty.
She never imagined that her good intentions could lead to such a bad outcome.
His father's funeral was not perfect either, which seemed to have upset him;
Even the young people who helped to 'send the spirit' suffered.
Ms. Xu repeatedly went to her father's grave to burn paper for him, hoping that her father would appear in her dreams and tell her anything he was dissatisfied with.
But she could never dream of Father Xu.
In order to resolve the matter once and for all, she had no choice but to write a letter for help to the program team, hoping that the contestants would help her see what her father's unfulfilled wishes were.
Why on earth would he pester the young man who was sending the spirit away?
After listening to Ms. Xu's appeal, the audience in the live broadcast room started making various speculations.
Daisy thought for a moment, and tried to use Western witchcraft to summon the soul of Xu's father.
This time she didn't come either.
Liu Da asked, "Daisy, do you want to go to the grave of Ms. Xu's father and see if you can summon him?"
Daisy shook her head slowly. "It shouldn't work. I can't sense the owner's presence at all. Even if I go to his tomb, it won't help."
"I'm sorry to disappoint you, Ms. Xu."
Ms. Xu forced a smile and said, "Actually, I have already made preparations. I think my father might be blaming me. He doesn't want to see me."
Daisy said, "Don't think like that. The problem can definitely be solved."
Liu sighed, raised the microphone, looked at the camera and said:
"Dear audience, contestant Daisy, through her unique ability as a witch, sensed that Ms. Xu has always had a young man in her heart. Her desire for this young man has made her unable to sleep or eat, which led to an ancient local funeral custom: funeral procession."
"We then learned that when Ms. Xu's father was buried, the coffin mysteriously fell to the ground, and then entangled the young man who was keeping vigil for his coffin."
"What dissatisfaction and last wishes did Mr. Xu have? Can we help Ms. Xu seek help and untie her knot?
Please welcome the last contestant: Gu Zhisang!"
Soon, Gu Zhisang came to the house under the guidance of the program staff.
As soon as she stepped over the threshold, she raised her eyes and looked around.
Seeing this, Da Liu couldn't help but ask, "Sangsang, what did you find?"
Gu Zhisang retracted his gaze and said calmly, "The owner of this house is not at peace."
Mr. Liu/Ms. Xu:!
Liu: “Why do you say that?”
Gu Zhisang: "After you entered this house, didn't you feel a sense of boredom after staying there for a long time? The air in this room is not circulating, or it carries some foul air. Living here for a long time is not good for your health."
"But these foul energies are not from outside, but overflow from this house on their own. The owner of this house has passed away, and the property certificate should not have been changed to a new owner in time, so this house is not completely a yang house."
The owner of the household is dead and lives in a tomb.
The property it owned during its lifetime is still under its name. Although it is a yang house, it is also connected to a yin house.
If the deceased died of natural causes and his soul returned to the underworld, then the body would be relatively peaceful underground.
But if it cannot rest in peace after death, the gloomy and corrupt smell that will naturally overflow from the tomb will also flow into the owner's other "mansion".
Living in this room for a long time is like living in a half grave, so your health will naturally not be in good condition.
This is the secret of Feng Shui.
So Gu Zhisang was certain that something must have gone wrong with the head of the household when or after his death.
Gu Zhisang said, "Replace your ID as soon as you have time, or just stop living here."
Hearing these inferences, Ms. Xu was amazed. At this moment, she heard Gu Zhisang ask her:
"What is your relationship to the deceased?"
Ms. Xu was stunned for a moment: "He is my father."
Hearing this, Gu Zhisang studied her face and said, "You are not his biological daughter."
Liu/audience:?!
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