"The tombstone is cracked?" Gu Zhisang was a little surprised.
Yu Tongqiu asked hurriedly: "What do you think, Sangsang? Is it caused by the old lady's obsession?"
"We can't be sure. Neither the cracks on the tombstone nor the torn wreaths point to anything clearly. We can't rule out a prank." Gu Zhisang said, "But if it wasn't human error, then there must be an evil spirit at work."
"Evil spirit?" Yu Tongqiu shuddered, a little scared.
Gu Zhisang: "That's right. Evil spirits are a type of evil spirits. They are all ghosts formed by the hatred and resentment of the soul after a person dies. Although it sounds powerful, it is actually the lowest level of all evil spirits. Most of them only have hatred and obsession but no memory of their previous life, so they only have vague ideas and basically can't harm people."
"For example, some people buy second-hand houses where someone has died. Occasionally, they find that items in the house have been moved, a vase on the table suddenly falls to the ground, and the door opens by itself in the middle of the night... These are all because the dead person has become a grounded spirit in the house. It still thinks this is its home and wants to drive the new owner out, but it doesn't have the ability to kill people, so it can only use this method to scare the owner and make him move out on his own."
"If there was an evil spirit at your friend's funeral, it would be this kind."
Funerals are ceremonies to send away ghosts, which will gather negative energy in the surrounding area. Yu Tongqiu's friends also called a funeral procession to play musical instruments and sing. The funeral songs can often be heard from miles away, attracting wandering ghosts nearby to come and watch the show.
If the evil spirit is more powerful, then it won't be as simple as things being scratched or people falling to the ground.
Yu Tongqiu understood, "That means the evil spirit doesn't want the funeral to continue. Everything it does is to scare us and prevent the old lady from being buried?"
“That’s understandable.”
Gu Zhisang said: "Although funerals will attract a large number of ghosts who come to watch the fun, according to the unspoken rules among ghosts, they generally won't cause trouble at funerals. After all, every family has funerals and red events, and they have to accumulate some virtue for their descendants."
"So I am more inclined to believe that there is something fishy about the old lady's death."
Yu Tongqiu took a deep breath, "Is that really the case? It's actually like this, Sangsang. You also know the friend I mentioned..."
Gu Zhisang: "I know him?"
"Yes, it's Director Liu Jin."
Gu Zhisang was a little surprised. He really didn't expect it to be him.
Liu Jin, the most famous director in Xia country, shot to fame at a young age and made his mark on the international stage with his debut film. The films he made in recent years have all been award-winning hits.
"Legend of the Floating Sea" was the first TV series he took over to shoot. The original owner relied on her looks to get the fourth female role in the series, but her head was smashed on the set more than half a month ago, and now a new soul has been replaced in her body.
Yu Tongqiu explained: "In fact, after the funeral that day, Director Liu invited several masters to come to the house to perform rituals, but none of them could provide a good solution."
Some mystics also said that funerals would attract many wandering ghosts and it would be difficult to tell which one was causing trouble, and suggested that Liu Jin disperse them all.
But Liu Jin was afraid that his mother was among the ghosts and was unwilling to use this method.
Some mystics also said that the old lady died suddenly and did not know or was unwilling to accept that she was dead, so she haunted the funeral. As long as her resentment was relieved, she could be buried normally.
However, all the practices were ineffective.
The day before yesterday, Liu Jin tried to bury the coffin in the cemetery he had bought. It did not rain that day and the ground of the cemetery was flat and clean. However, two of the coffin bearers suddenly stumbled and almost dropped the coffin.
Now he no longer dared to act rashly and could only choose to temporarily suspend the funeral.
During the period of the accident, Liu Jin stopped all filming work and fell into self-blame and collapse.
He always felt that he had neglected his mother's health. It was he who did not return home in time that day to find his sick mother, so that she lay on the cold ground for more than ten minutes and died of heart pain.
Who wouldn't feel a little resentful after leaving in such pain?
Yu Tongqiu said on the other end of the phone: "Actually, I know so much because Liu Jin is my senior brother, and his mother is my mentor, an old senior who retired from the entertainment industry decades ago and returned to her family. I do have some selfish motives. I don't want to see my senior brother suffer so much, and I don't want my teacher to have troubles after his death, so I came to ask Sangsang if you can help me find out what's going on."
Gu Zhisang pondered for a moment, feeling very hesitant.
Thinking of what the system had just said, she said to Yu Tongqiu on the other end of the phone: "I can solve this problem, but I need a reward."
Yu Tongqiu said hurriedly: "The reward is fine, any amount is fine."
"I don't want any money."
Gu Zhisang said calmly, "I just want the merits of the victim. You know what merits are. You can tell Director Liu to think about it. If he agrees, let's make an appointment tomorrow and I'll go over to resolve the matter."
She sat at the table with three Tongbao coins on it. While she was on the phone, she did another divination called "Asking the Sky".
The question he wanted to divine was still about deducing the laws of nature and what had happened to him. Although he still got nothing, at least the hexagram was no longer a three-yin situation.
The three imperial coins showed two yin and one yang, which meant that the matter she asked about had taken some turn for the better.
Perhaps if I gather some merit and power and divine again, I can dispel the dark clouds.
She does the work, the other party does the good deed, and the transaction is reasonable and both the money and goods are cleared.
About ten minutes later, a new message popped up on the phone.
Yu Tongqiu: Sangsang, Director Liu agreed.
…
The next day, Gu Zhisang followed the navigation sent by Yu Tongqiu and came to a large European-style villa area. Yu Tongqiu, who had been waiting there for a long time, saw the person coming and waved to her.
"Sangsang, here!"
The middle-aged man behind her, with a frown on his face, saw Gu Zhisang and showed an expression of disbelief.
"Junior sister, the master you are talking about is Gu Zhisang?!"
Yu Tongqiu said seriously: "Sangsang is really amazing. Didn't I tell you that she was the one who solved my problem before? Don't listen to the negative rumors on the Internet. She is a really good person."
Liu Jin still didn't believe it. His original high expectations were now only three points lower.
He had complicated feelings towards Gu Zhisang.
Liu Jin is a person with a rather extreme personality. He is a well-known drama maniac in the circle. In layman's terms, he is stubborn. Whenever he encounters filming, he will be extremely focused and dedicated, but he is an idiot in life and has never been in love or married.
Especially since this was his first time directing a TV series, he was extremely picky about props, location selection, and actors.
The reason why he could tolerate an artist with poor acting skills like 'Gu Zhisang' to join the crew was because of the special nature of the role and the special nature of the artist himself.
The fourth female character Yu Jing in "Legend of the Floating Sea" does not have many scenes, but she is set to be the most beautiful woman in the whole book, and every time she appears, she is bound to cause a sensation because of her appearance.
When casting, Liu Jin had been looking for suitable female artists, but always felt that they were not perfect enough.
It was not until he saw the photo of 'Gu Zhisang' on the Internet that he immediately made the decision to choose him based on that face. It was a face that could be called dazzling anywhere, and it was the best choice for Yu Jing.
In Liu Jin's opinion, as a director who has directed countless international blockbusters and produced several best actor and actress awards, how could he not be able to train a little star?
As it turned out, 'Gu Zhisang' was the Waterloo of his life.
He wanted to replace this artist many times, but when he saw that face, he gritted his teeth and endured it.
Liu Jin knew that Gu Zhisang had recently participated in a psychic and metaphysical variety show, but people in the circle said that it was because Gu Zhisang's company wrote a good script. After all, she was notoriously unlucky in the circle before.
If he really knew some metaphysics, he would have changed his luck long ago!
He felt that Yu Tongqiu must have been fooled by the other party, but he still nodded to Gu Zhisang and said, "Thank you for your help."
Gu Zhisang confirmed again: "Are you sure you want to exchange it for merit? Once the contract is established, you can no longer regret it."
Liu Jin was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect the process to be so formal. "I'm sure that as long as my mother can be buried peacefully, I can even exchange my life for it."
Gu Zhisang nodded and took the lead to walk into the villa area.
She didn't ask for directions, as if she was very familiar with the winding paths in the villa area, and arrived at the door of Liu Jin's house with ease;
Although Liu Jin was a little surprised, she didn't think much about it and thought that Yu Tongqiu had sent her his home address.
After opening the door of the villa, Gu Zhisang could feel a faint yin energy coming out of the house.
Liu Jin, who walked in first, saw the scene in the living room and immediately frowned, "What are you doing?!"
In the inner part of the living room, there was a fine nanmu coffin, which looked very expensive.
At this time, a circle of yellow talismans were placed around the coffin. A Taoist priest with long eyebrows and wearing a gray Taoist robe was holding a small incense burner in his hand. He must have just lit the incense and was twisting the incense ash and sprinkling it around the yellow talismans.
There was a little Taoist boy about eleven or twelve years old following him, who should be his disciple.
In addition, a short and fat old man with gray hair stood several meters away from the coffin. When he heard Liu Jin's voice, his body trembled, and he turned around and said with a guilty tone:
"Now that you're back, those masters said your mother had an obsession, so I found a very powerful master to help her transcend, so that she can be reborn into a good family without pain or illness in her next life."
Judging from what he said, this old man should be Liu Jin's father, but the two of them are not close.
Liu Jin sneered, "My mother needs your fake kindness? Why, she was dying yesterday and you're looking for someone to come and save her soul today? Who knows what your intentions are! You must have something on your mind and have nightmares in the middle of the night, so you want to kick my mother out quickly!"
After the funeral is over, the coffin needs to be placed in a container.
Although there are places to keep coffins in funeral homes, Liu Jin heard that it is better to keep the coffin in the deceased's home when he was alive, so that the deceased can rest in peace. He also didn't want his mother to sleep in a dark shop, so he kept the coffin in the living room of the villa.
Unexpectedly, his father reacted so strongly and was very resistant to this matter. He yelled and smashed things at home yesterday.
Liu Jin has hated his father since he was a child.
His mother was a very famous actress at the end of the last century. She was very popular at the time and was the leading lady in major TV dramas. The dramas she starred in were played in every street and alley.
Liu's father was a nouveau riche who made his fortune in coal mining and real estate. He regarded his mother as a goddess and pursued her relentlessly for two years before he successfully married his mother.
Unexpectedly, his bad nature was exposed after marriage. He did not cherish his hard-earned marriage at all. Not only did he not allow his mother to continue to go out to film, he also cheated on her during her pregnancy.
He grew up under the scolding of his father. Later, when he became famous as a young director, his father became much more restrained.
Liu Jin has always wanted his mother to divorce him and has tried to persuade her many times but his mother always said that if he just endured it, it would pass in this life and there was no need for a divorce.
He knew that his mother was actually doing this for her career.
If they really get divorced, his father will definitely go online to make a fuss for money and make up all kinds of rumors saying that this big director is unfilial, affecting his reputation and box office.
Because of this, his mother has always been at odds with him.
As a result, a week ago, Liu Jin was filming on the set when he suddenly received a call from home saying that his mother had died of a sudden heart attack.
During the more than ten minutes of the illness, my mother lay alone on the bedroom floor. The medicine was in her handbag but she didn't even have the strength to take it out. No one noticed during that time!
The doctor said that the mother's illness was caused by myocardial colic due to excessive emotional excitement.
There were only her father and a few maids at home at the time. What could have happened to make her so emotional?
Liu Jin always suspected that something was fishy, but he had no evidence.
Hearing his accusation, Father Liu suddenly flew into a rage, "Is this how you, a rebellious son, talk to your father? Who would keep a coffin in their home and bury the dead quickly? Do you want to make your mother restless in the grave?"
"Master, don't worry about this rebellious son. I am her legal spouse. Even if the police come, I have the right to handle my wife's funeral!"
Liu Jin was furious as he walked towards the old Taoist priest with long eyebrows, "Get out of here and don't touch my mother's coffin!"
The old Taoist with long eyebrows shook his head as if with pity, "My friend, you have been blinded by your emotions. You should step aside and don't interfere with my practice."
As he said this, he swung the whisk in his hand, creating a gust of wind that was about to knock Liu Jin back.
This blow was powered by internal force. If it hit an ordinary person's sternum, it would most likely cause internal injuries.
Gu Zhisang, who had been silent at the entrance, suddenly raised her hand. A Tongbao coin flicked up from her fingertips and hit the Taoist's whisk with a sound of breaking wind. It then hit the floor with a 'dong' sound, leaving a small hole.
The old Taoist priest with long eyebrows took a step back with a look of shock on his face, lowered his arms to relieve the numbness, and stared coldly in the direction of Gu Zhisang:
"This Taoist friend looks unfamiliar. I wonder which family he is from. How can he have such a strong aura at such a young age?"
Liu Jin, who had come to his senses, was also shocked. After coming to his senses, he suppressed his excitement and said:
"This is the master I invited to perform a ritual for my mother, Gu Zhisang. I told you I don't need your fake kindness!"
"Gu Zhisang?!"
The old Taoist with long eyebrows opened his eyes and said gloomily, "So you are Gu Xiaoyou. You are indeed young and promising, but you are so ruthless and disrespectful to your seniors because you rely on your talent. You should learn a lesson."
Gu Zhisang lazily lifted his eyelids and chuckled, "To be honest, this is the first time I've seen such a thick-skinned Taoist priest. You're an old bastard who abuses magic and has a heart as vicious as a scorpion. You deserve to go to hell. Are you worthy of trying to get close to me?"
"How dare you! You are courting death, you little yellow-haired girl!"
The old Taoist priest showed a ferocious look on his face. He picked up the whisk in his hand and attacked without leaving any strength. It was obvious that he wanted to kill Gu Zhisang. "Today, I will teach you a lesson on behalf of your parents!"
Yu Tongqiu was so shocked that he grabbed the table beside him, "Sangsang, be careful!"
Gu Zhisang looked calm. When the old Taoist with long eyebrows came close to him, he took out a yellow talisman from somewhere and held it between his fingertips.
She didn't even recite any spells, she just used her Qi to activate the talisman and threw it forward.
The yellow talisman fluttered without wind and leaped forward, from which emerged a roaring fire dragon as thick as a human thigh.
The scorching flames wrapped around the old Taoist's eyebrows and hair, instantly singeing several tufts. When he was horrified and wanted to put out the fire, a jade-white hand just ignored the flames, came out from the fire dragon, grabbed his magic whisk and pulled it hard.
The old Taoist was shocked to find that he could not stand in front of this girl with an extremely tender face, and was lightly pulled forward and flipped.
The next second, that hand struck his chest and abdomen with such speed that he couldn't react at all.
Severe pain flowed through the veins in his body, and the old Taoist spat out a mouthful of blood. He instantly fell backwards with a look of dejection on his face. The Taoist boy holding the incense burner rushed over in horror, "Master!"
The old Taoist covered his chest with his hands, his eyes bleeding: "You, you evil cultivator! So cruel!!"
Gu Zhisang:?
"Do people in the Xuan Sect like to blame others so much nowadays? You also know Elder Chen who exchanged lives for the Sun family and arranged a ghost marriage. It seems that you two are really a nest of snakes and rats. When he lost the battle with me and I abolished his Taoism, he was just like you."
Yu Tongqiu looked at the old Taoist in his twilight years spitting out blood, and felt a little reluctant to watch it. But when he heard that the old Taoist was in cahoots with Elder Chen, all his sympathy disappeared immediately.
The Taoist boy wiped his tears, glared at Gu Zhisang and said, "You bad woman, my master's ancestor will come and take you away!"
"Thank you for your good wishes, kid. I was just afraid they wouldn't come."
"The so-called righteous way of Xuanmen has long become a joke. It's time to rectify it." Gu Zhisang raised his eyebrows and smiled, but his voice was cold: "Little ghost, you think I'm bad, but do you know what your master is doing?"
She pointed at the short and fat old man whose face had turned pale with fear and said, "This man cheated on his wife and killed her. He is worse than pigs and dogs. His wife is stuck in the world with resentment and will go to the eighteen levels of hell after her death. He was also afraid of his wife's revenge because he felt guilty, so he found a group of mystics to perform a ritual to shatter his wife's soul. Only a little bit of remnant is left to support it."
"Even so, he is still not satisfied. He wants to beat his wife to pieces. This is such an unkind and unjust guy. Your master knows what kind of person he is, but he still colludes with him for money and helps him set up a formation to disperse the poor ghost."
"Let me ask you, didn't you read the master's instructions on the first day you entered the Xuan Sect? Don't you know that a Xuan Sect master cannot abuse his abilities and commit evil deeds?"
As the boy looked incredulous, Gu Zhisang said coldly, "The founding ancestor precepts of Xuanmen say that anyone who violates the precepts will be stripped of their cultivation and expelled from Xuanmen. Have I done anything wrong? What is there about your master that deserves sympathy?"
The Taoist boy stammered and was unable to utter a word. There was no more admiration in his eyes when he looked at the old Taoist.
Gu Zhisang waved her hands impatiently, "Alright, I am a vicious and cruel evil cultivator. You two should leave quickly and don't get in my way here, or I, a demon girl, will kill you if I get upset, and you won't even have the chance to go back and report the incident."
With a sarcastic look on her face, she said to the old Taoist priest: "You can call your master over again. If one is not enough, you can call your ancestors. I will just clean up the door for Xuanmen."
The old Taoist priest was already furious, and he almost choked to death when he heard that. His face was full of resentment, but he gritted his teeth, stood up and walked out the door.
After the two Taoist priests helped him leave, Liu Jin asked in a trembling voice, "What do you mean by... killing your wife?"
At this time, the old man in the living room was sweating profusely, and he kept shaking his head: "Liu Jin, I am your father, don't, don't listen to an outsider's nonsense!"
"Oh, really?"
Gu Zhisang pulled the corner of his lip, "But from my observation of your face, the two Taiyang acupoints are completely sunken, and accompanied by sores and ulcers. That is the location of the marriage palace, and it has completely collapsed, which means that your marriage will end in death. Don't you think that the red sores on the two acupoints are extremely painful when touched, and accompanied by the bursting of pustules? Those are not acnes that grow due to lack of rest, but 'karma'."
"You have fate and karma on your hands. Karma is taking revenge on you. It will start with just two spots, but if it spreads, your head, forehead, and cheeks will all be covered with red sores, which will burst and cause lochia."
It would have been fine if she hadn't said anything. As soon as she started talking, the old man felt his temples throbbing, and the sweat that seeped out got on the red and swollen sores, causing unbearable pain!
Gu Zhisang: "I see that there are swelling and blue spots under your eyes, which is a sign of confusion between the male and female uteruses. It seems that you think you are free and easy and rich, and you often indulge in romantic affairs. It's a pity for your wife..."
"You evil woman are simply slandering me! You are making up stories! Liu Jin, don't believe what she says!"
Liu Jin's voice trembled, and his fists clenched tightly, "Master, how did my mother... die?!"
Gu Zhisang restrained his expression and said, "I know that the marriage between your mother and this man is dead in name only. She endured it entirely for your career and reputation. The thing she is most proud of and cares about the most in her life is her own children. How can she tolerate your great reputation being tarnished by her failed marriage? Therefore, she would rather suppress her nausea and sleep in a separate room from this man..."
At this point, Liu Jin was already in tears, unable to control her sobs, "Mom, it's all my fault... it's all my fault!"
Gu Zhisang continued:
"That day, your mother came home early because of something, and ended up catching this man cheating on her. If that was all, she would just feel disgusted, but... this disgusting couple rolled around in her bedroom in order to seek excitement and humilate your mother... She stood outside the door and just wanted to rush in and scold them for being shameless."
Yu Tongqiu, who had been listening the whole time, felt as disgusted as if he had eaten a fly just by thinking about the scene.
She gnashed her teeth and stared at the sweaty old man, "How could you treat Master like this? Are you still a human being?!"
Gu Zhisang: "Then, your mother suddenly heard them mention you, the only son she cared about. She heard how the couple plotted against you. It turned out that they had been together for a long time, and had an illegitimate child for so many years, who had been secretly living in this family. Your father said that he would leave all the family property to his most precious youngest son, and he would also let the youngest son join your crew in his father's name to play the male lead when he was a child, and use you as a springboard to enter the entertainment industry..."
Looking back and perceiving these images and hearing these disgusting plots with his own ears, at this moment Gu Zhisang was completely immersed in the wrath of the evil spirits and felt the same way.
After hearing her so-called husband say:
"Liu Jin is my son, he should listen to me in his career. A rebellious son who knows nothing but acting, and who won't get married and wants to cut off the incense of my Liu family, who will take care of his body when he gets old except his brother? Isn't it only natural that all these resources and property should be given to his brother!"
It couldn't bear to listen any longer, so it pushed the door open and rushed in, pounced on the couple, picked up things and started smashing and cursing at them, but was pushed to the ground.
"You crazy bitch, you dare to hit me in the face?!"
It was in so much pain, its heart was twitching as if it was about to explode, and it wished it could tear the two bitches in front of it to pieces. However, it was so angry that it suddenly fell ill and didn't even have the strength to take the medicine.
It saw its so-called husband's face full of fear, 'She's having a heart attack, go get her some medicine!'
"Hubby, she saw and heard everything we did just now. Do you think she won't tell Liu Jin when she wakes up? Then I will definitely be kicked out! Our son will have no future!"
'What do you mean…?'
"Anyway, let's just go all the way..."
Soon the man and woman calmed down. They watched it curl up and struggle in pain on the ground, and began to make up the bed, put down the sheets, and clean up the traces.
When it was the only one left in the room, pain, agony, despair and resentment filled its entire body, and it died in pain within a dozen minutes of the attack.
Because he was worried about his child and afraid that he knew nothing and could not notice anything, he was plotted against by the couple and turned into an evil ghost and stayed in the human world.
It wanted to remind its children to be careful, so it kept ruining its own funeral and stayed around him for a long time, refusing to leave.
Gu Zhisang opened his eyes and ended his flashback.
Liu Jin was already squatting on the ground, crying and pounding the ground.
Father Liu, whose legs were weak, was covered in cold sweat.
He was so terrified because this young woman recounted every detail of that day, the day he tried so hard to forget, and every word he had said, as if there had been a fourth person present!
He was still shaking his head and saying stubbornly, "I didn't do it. You can't frame me without evidence!"
Gu Zhisang suddenly turned his head and looked at the old man intently, "Your wife is in this room right now. Do you need me to ask her to confront you?"
The old man's brain buzzed and a chill rushed to his forehead. He was so frightened by these words that his legs went limp and he fell to the ground.
Liu Jin suddenly raised his red eyes, "Master, Master, is my mother here? Is she here?!"
"Yes." Gu Zhisang looked towards the middle-aged man whose face was red from crying. There was a gray human-shaped shadow.
"She was afraid that something might happen to you, so she stayed by your side to protect you."
The author has something to say:
Woohoo, I will never make promises easily again. I originally planned to write 5,000 words and post it at 12:00, but for the sake of the completeness of the plot, I increased it to 7,000 words... That's why it's so late. Considering that I have updated 13,000 words in total today, please forgive Zhuzi for not being punctual for once (cat acting cute)
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