After hesitating for a long time, the man surnamed Li looked anxious, "Wife, this is our private matter, there is no need to talk about it in front of the camera. Aren't we here to solve the supernatural incident at home?"
After he finished speaking, he looked at Gu Zhisang with a bad face: "As a contestant who solves supernatural incidents, what is your intention in exposing the privacy of the person seeking help?!"
Gu Zhisang raised his eyebrows and said innocently:
"I'm just helping you solve the problem you're having. The reason this snake spirit appeared in your life and beside your wife can be traced back to your father. How can I answer your request for help if I don't tell you?"
Following her line of sight, everyone present glanced at the question board next to them.
It was written: [Please see what happened to these two young men and why.]
Gu Zhisang stopped smiling and said to the host Liu Da: "The program team and the audience have seen that it was the person who asked for help who refused to answer the question. It's not that I have any problem with my ability."
Da Liu was about to break out in a cold sweat again.
He thought to himself, it's not that your ability is a problem, it's that your ability is too strong and you always hit the pain points of those seeking help!
Liu: “…if we skip Mr. Li’s father.”
Gu Zhisang shook his head and refused: "No, the origin of the snake spirit is closely related to his father. How can I explain the result without a reason?"
"And I need to remind you two that this fellow Taoist is not an ordinary animal spirit. He is very advanced in Taoism and has never harmed anyone."
She said in a cold tone: "You can simply understand that it is here to repay the kindness of its predecessors. It has the power of cause and effect, and it is a contract recognized by the laws of heaven and earth. Therefore, even if people from the Taoist and Buddhist sects come, they cannot force it to leave."
"If you have other ideas and ask someone to use improper means to exorcise it or even destroy its practice, the retribution will be passed on to your descendants."
Liu said with some regret: "Since this is the case, there is really nothing we can do. Since Mr. Li is determined to hide key information, unfortunately, we can only stop here for this request..."
【? ? This man must have a problem. He first said he was an orphan, and now it is revealed that his father was still alive three years ago. He also provoked a giant snake to take revenge. It seems that his wife doesn't know anything about it. Isn't this a complete deception?! 】
[Hiss… I smell a melon. Is there any resourceful netizen who can dig up this guy? ]
[Again?! Can the help seekers who come to the show be more honest? You don't want your bad deeds to be exposed, but you also want to ask a group of masters to tell your fortune and catch ghosts for free. How can such a good thing be possible? 】
[If you don't allow the investigation, doesn't that mean you are guilty…]
[The family in the east who worships the 'immortals' came out to say a few words. Generally speaking, among the five major 'immortals', Hu and Huang are the two most frequent visitors. However, once they are invited home and not properly worshiped or treated with disrespect, they also have the worst tempers and the strongest desire for revenge.
Among the Five Immortals, 'Liu Xian' is the most difficult to invite. They have profound Taoism and do not like to deal with humans. If Mr. Li's father can get the 'Liu Xian' to protect him, then he must have had a good relationship with him!
Similarly, anyone who can make Liu Xian feel disgusted and want to teach him a lesson and take revenge on him must have done something bad, so everyone can imagine it for themselves. 】
【……】
Just when the program crew and netizens thought that this was the end of the request for help, Xiao Ma, who had been silent all this time, suddenly raised his head and said:
"I need help."
Everyone:!!!
Xiao Ma's eyes were red, and he looked at Gu Zhisang and said with a nasal voice: "Master Gu, I want to know what is going on with the existence of this 'immortal' next to me. Please help me solve this puzzle."
The man surnamed Li became anxious, so he grabbed Xiao Ma's arm and pulled his wife over.
Although he tried very hard to control his expression and restrain his emotions, the fear that his secret was at stake still made him lose control.
"Let's go home and talk about it. I'll tell you everything you want to know. Can we stop making fun of others on the show? Honey, can we go home? Will it be good for our family if I lose face? Okay?"
He turned his head and glared at Gu Zhisang and the host. "We are very grateful to the program team for taking the time to come here, but I think the snake fairy you mentioned is too far-fetched. I'm sorry I can't accept this statement. If there are snakes in the house again, I will contact the firefighters to clear them out."
This is a disguised way of expelling the program team.
Gu Zhisang watched coldly, and the system in his mind said indignantly:
"This man has a lot of tricks up his sleeve. What he meant was that if the woman continued to ask, she would be ignorant and wanted to embarrass him. His whole family would be disgraced. This was simply coercion, induction, and a show of weakness!"
What the system said happened to be exactly what the man surnamed Li was thinking.
He knew that his wife was gentle and soft-hearted, and he had used the method of playing pitiful and showing weakness to get close to his wife little by little.
However, this time he was disappointed.
Xiao Ma struggled to break free from his pull and took two steps to the side. Although there were still traces of tears on her face, she had calmed down.
She felt a chill in her heart when she thought that if she hadn't been on this show, she might never have known that her husband was a fake orphan.
If she could conceal even the most important information about her family and parents, how much else had her husband concealed from her? !
What is true and what is false?
"If you haven't done anything wrong, why would you be embarrassed? What privacy do you have that even I can't know? We've been in love and married for almost six years. During this period, not only did you not bring me to meet your father, you also concealed all kinds of things and didn't even take me to your hometown. I always felt sorry for you and didn't want to expose your scars, so I never mentioned these things, and I never disliked you. Otherwise, how could I marry you? But you, you lied to me for six years!"
Xiao Ma insisted on knowing the truth: "The snake fairy appeared next to me, and it was me who came to participate in the show. I have the right to know the truth!"
Seeing that his wife refused to give in, the man surnamed Li finally couldn't hold back anymore.
"Why are you so stubborn? Stop it..."
He stretched out his hand again and tried to pull the pony over more forcefully, but at this moment something unexpected happened.
Before everyone could react, a shadow suddenly shot up from the rear and pounced on the outstretched arm of the man named Li, scaring Xiao Ma so much that he screamed and stepped back.
Gu Zhisang stretched out his hand and held her back firmly to prevent her from falling backwards.
At the same time, her husband cried out in fear and pain, shaking his hands, "There's a snake! I was bitten by a snake!!"
Even the staff around were frightened and jumped away screaming. The guy at the host position ran far away carrying the camera, and the lens was shaking.
In a panic, the snake was thrown to the ground by the man surnamed Li. It did not attack anyone else and crawled back under the sofa.
[Fuck, this is too scary. I believe this is definitely not the script arranged by the production team. Even the cameraman was scared away. If the script was arranged, the whole crew would be Oscar winners! ]
[Isn't that snake just now black and white? It's a coral snake, right? Am I seeing it right?! This must be the snake fairy showing off his power! ]
[For scientific knowledge, the coral snake is the most venomous snake found in the city. If you do not seek medical attention immediately after being bitten, you are likely to suffer respiratory paralysis or even death within a few hours due to the venom. However, generally speaking, they will not appear in places where humans gather or inside houses, and they are docile in nature and will not attack people unless provoked...]
"My arm is numb!" the man surnamed Li screamed.
A pair of tooth holes could be seen on his bitten forearm, and the surrounding area quickly became red and swollen, and even a few blisters formed under the skin due to the toxin.
The program crew didn't feel any delay and quickly called an ambulance to send the person to the hospital.
However, when everyone carefully searched the whole house again, the silver ring snake seemed to have disappeared out of thin air and could not be found anywhere. This made people believe that it was the work of the snake fairy following Xiao Ma.
Da Liu wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at Xiao Ma, who was pursing his lips, hesitantly: "Ms. Ma, do you want to go to the hospital to check on your husband's condition, or continue?"
"Go on, of course you have to go on." A gnashing voice came from the direction of the door, "I want to see what that kid surnamed Li has done to dare to deceive my daughter!"
Xiao Ma turned his head and asked in surprise: "Dad, why are you here?"
The person who came was Ma's father. He snorted coldly and said, "Your incident has become such a big deal that several of your uncles saw you on the Internet and came to ask me what happened. Why can't I come?"
Xiao Ma felt a little ashamed: "Dad, I embarrassed you..."
"What are you ashamed of? If you want to blame me, your father, for not keeping a close eye on you. Let's get this cleared up today." Father Ma gritted his teeth and said, "If he really did something to let you down or something unforgivable, I will support you and divorce that beast directly!"
As he said this, he looked at Gu Zhisang who was standing beside him.
On the way here, Ma's father had already seen the screen recordings made by netizens on the Internet, and only then did he realize how much his daughter had suffered during this period of time.
Because of his wife, he particularly hates those fortune-tellers who pretend to be gods, so he didn't dare to tell him that his daughter was going to participate in the show.
For the sake of his daughter's safety, although Ma's father felt it was strange, he still called Gu Zhisang, who was more than two years younger than him, "Master."
"Please help her find out what's going on."
At this time, the staff of the director team also stated that when they came to participate in the program, Xiao Ma and his wife had signed two agreements with the program team. One was "some privacy related to the request for help can be disclosed", and the other was the "waiver" of the program team.
When signing the contract, Xiao Li didn't blame his father for the strange things happening to him, otherwise he wouldn't have signed so readily.
With the guarantee of the agreement, Xiao Ma himself wanted to ask for help. Gu Zhisang nodded and said:
"Then I'll continue."
She prepared a pen and paper, recalled the face of the man surnamed Li, and asked Xiao Ma, "Do you know his birth date and time? If not, you can give me his handwriting, so that I can deduce his father's information and fate more accurately."
Xiao Ma nodded, "Yes, I have his record book at home."
She went into the house and took out a notebook with her husband's handwriting, as well as photos of the two of them taken together, and handed them to Gu Zhisang.
After about five or six minutes of deduction, when Ma's father was still doubting whether he could really know his parents' information by looking at their handwriting and birthdays, Gu Zhisang put down his pen and stood up.
She flicked the paper with her fingertips, thinking:
"I see. It's not that you haven't met your husband's father at all. On the contrary, judging from your fate, you two are definitely not strangers who have only met once. You have met him at least a dozen times in the past few years."
"I don't know the exact number or the meeting place, but one thing is clear: you don't know him, but he knows you and cares about you."
"It is indeed because of him that this snake spirit appears beside you."
Xiao Ma was stunned and blurted out: "How is that possible? My husband has never taken me back to his hometown!"
"Every time I suggested going back to visit, he was very resistant, saying that the people in that village had not been very nice to him in the past, and that going back would easily bring back bad memories. During our senior year, we lived in the house he bought at that time..."
As he was speaking, Xiao Ma's voice paused, and his expression gradually became incredible, as if he had thought of something.
Father Ma asked hurriedly: "What did you think of?"
"I, I suddenly thought of a person. If he is my husband's father, we have indeed met quite a few times." Xiao Ma said with difficulty: "Dad, do you still remember that the reason why I felt so touched and felt that he was the one for me in this life was that he worked hard for our future and bought a small house in his junior year of college?"
Father Ma nodded and said, "Of course, that's why I agreed to let you marry that poor boy."
When he learned about this, Ma's father felt that from a male perspective, this young man really loved his daughter and was a reliable person.
He was able to earn his first pot of gold when he was a junior in college, and he has good abilities, making him a suitable marriage partner.
Xiao Ma was stunned and said, "When we bought the house, he said that our names would be written there, and I would be the mistress of the house. He let me choose the decoration I liked. After it was finished, we would go to see it every weekend."
"One time I suddenly remembered that I forgot to take something, so I went there the next day. When I opened the door, I found a very strange uncle in the room. He kept staring at me when he saw me."
"I was very scared at the time because he looked very old, with grey hair and looked lifeless. I didn't know him and didn't know how he got into our house. I thought he was a homeless person or a thief, so I called Xiao Li."
When her husband heard about it, he told her not to be afraid and rushed over immediately.
Xiao Ma recalled the scene at that time and said, "He told me that uncle was a part-time worker he hired."
Xiao Ma also felt a little strange at the time, but her husband explained it this way:
'This old man is not in good spirits and has no one at home, so his life is very difficult. I saw that he works very efficiently, so I simply asked him to be a helper.'
After hearing this, she immediately felt that her husband was a kind man.
In addition, the old man never looked at him again in the following few times. Every time they met, he just buried his head in his work and didn't say anything. Xiao Ma gradually got used to it.
She felt that the old man was thin and dark, and looked very poor, so she sometimes gave him some of her father's old clothes and cooked extra food, hoping to make his life easier.
And every time, the old man would lower his head, be silent for a while, wipe his tears with his black fingers, and say "thank you".
Xiao Ma's voice was trembling: "Master Gu, is that old man, the 'hourly worker', my father-in-law?"
Gu Zhisang said: "You already have the answer in your heart, don't you?"
Father Ma was stunned and said in disbelief, "What is this? Why did that kid have to do this? He's an orphan and our family doesn't mind him. Even if he has an old father who's not rich, so what? Why is it necessary to hide it like this and say he's a part-time worker?"
Gu Zhisang sneered: "Of course it is necessary, because in his heart he has always felt that it is a shame to have such a father, and he would rather he never had one."
"According to my observation of his face, his cheekbones are slightly protruding, indicating that he is irritable and impulsive. Even if he usually disguises himself well, there are always times when he accidentally reveals his true colors. Although he has a good father, judging from his parent palace, he is not a filial son. The contributions of both parties are extremely unequal. If his father gave him a hundred, he might not even give him a cent."
"Secondly, his nose is pointed, his lips are long, thin and dark in color, and his lower face is somewhat wide. This kind of face is what is called a face prone to crime, and often has extremely morbid jealousy, cynicism, and indifference to the world. But fortunately, your husband has not committed any crime. His only sin is due to the relationship between father and son."
Gu Zhisang said as he examined it carefully.
After a while, she raised her head and said coldly, "From your appearance, your husband is not a capable person. On the contrary, he claims to be extraordinary, but he is actually a fool. He can earn very little money with his own hands in this life. Logically, he does not have the ability to earn enough money to buy a house through stock speculation or fund management."
As Xiao Ma and his father's eyes gradually widened, she continued:
"And I also saw something very interesting. Your husband's father was supposed to live to be 77 years old, but he died when he was in his 50s. All the time in between was converted into money and flowed into your husband's body."
"I guess that's how you got your so-called small house from stock speculation."
What gave Gu Zhisang a headache was that, without any information about the father of the man surnamed Li - photos, horoscopes, the word "garlic", etc., he could only see the result by deducing from his son's clan branch, but it was difficult to see the reason.
This also resulted in the whole thing being incomplete.
Just as she was frowning and thinking about how to get the old man's information, "Liu Xian" who had been standing behind Xiao Ma suddenly opened his eyes and looked at her with a pair of vertical pupils.
After a moment, the white snake spit out a ball of fluorescent light from its mouth.
Gu Zhisang was stunned for a moment, and followed the movement of the halo to receive it in her palm. As soon as it entered her palm, she felt the world in front of her spinning.
These are some fragmentary memories of White Snake.
A few years ago, the white snake had already become a great demon that had achieved enlightenment through spiritual practice. It had lived in the mountains and forests for an unknown period of time and had never entered the world.
When the day came for the tribulation, the White Snake actually felt vaguely that the situation was weak and it was very likely to fail, but it still tried its best and naturally failed.
It rained heavily that day, and its body was burned by lightning.
Logically, it should have followed the will of nature, died of its injuries, and had its body devoured by other spirits in the mountains.
However, when he opened his eyes, the white snake found that his body had become as thin as a stick, and the scales on his lower body had fallen off, leaving a bloody mess.
It was rescued by an old human.
The man was dark and thin, and it was obvious that he had been malnourished for many years. He sipped the low-quality tobacco and said:
"I've never seen a white snake before, and it's a pity that such a beautiful long insect had its tail pecked by a pheasant."
So old man Li chewed some herbs every day and applied them to the wounds and tail of the white snake, ignoring its disgust and resistance.
He would cook some noodles with cabbage stalks every day, and would also go to the mountains to catch pheasants and field mice, mash them into a paste, and then force the paste into the white snake's mouth.
"It's weird. I've only heard of people in big cities being depressed, but I've never seen a worm that refuses to eat."
White Snake: ...
Gradually, it was surprised to find that its body, which had been struck by lightning, was actually getting better under the effects of these medicines and foods that had no spiritual power.
It was no longer so resistant to Old Man Li. When it first carried a fat wild rabbit and threw it at the door, Old Man Li's surprised and delighted look made it very disdainful.
From Old Man Li's chatter, White Snake learned that he had a son who was very capable but not filial.
"My son is very smart and got into a good university. I, as a father, feel guilty about him because I have no ability and no money to buy him brand-name shoes, which makes him lose face in front of his classmates..."
'I understand that he doesn't want to call me dad, but I always feel uncomfortable. I just want to make more money for him to marry. If I have grandchildren in the future, I have to let them call me grandpa, right?'
"My son has a girlfriend, a girl from a big city! I have to send him 5,000 yuan a month. It's so frustrating. It's all my fault for not being capable..."
"Alas, raising a son is worse than raising a worm. White Snake, old man, I treat you as my grandson. It would be great if you could call me."
Looking at Old Man Li sighing, Baishe felt very disdainful.
In its eyes, the so-called son is an ungrateful person.
He never called Old Man Li dad since he was a child. He wants to suck all the blood out of Old Man Li every month, and acts like Old Man Li owes him everything. He doesn't even think about who he gets the money for his living expenses, tuition fees and girlfriend.
Old man Li is also a fool and wants to take advantage of me.
While it thought humans were boring, it would occasionally pick up some aged medicinal herbs from the mountains and leave them at the door for Old Man Li to sell.
Looking at Old Man Li's increasingly surprised look, it knew that he should have guessed it as well.
One day, Old Man Li sat in front of the broken door in silence, sucking on his cigarette butt, and said dryly:
"White Snake, I'm going to the city. My son wants to have a girlfriend and get married, so he should buy a house and settle down in a big city, but I don't have that much money, so I have to go to the city to earn..."
'I know you are not mortal, you are spiritual.'
The White Snake thought: Is it really coming?
It was rescued by humans, so it has already accepted a favor and karma. As long as the old man Li's request is not too excessive, it is not impossible for it to agree.
Anyway, it's time for it to leave and go back to the mountains, putting an end to this unexpected fate.
However, it heard Old Man Li say:
"It must be very difficult for you mountain animals to cultivate to become a god. I don't want you to repay me for anything. Don't ruin your cultivation. Just be like my little grandson. I hope you are well and hope that you can become a god and enjoy eternal life."
The white snake was shocked and looked at Old Man Li in disbelief.
There were a pair of cloudy eyes on the dark and yellow old face. When he smiled, his face was full of wrinkles and did not look very good, but his eyes were very warm.
At that moment, the White Snake heard some kind of shackles on its body cracking.
The blessings and expectations from an ordinary human being actually gave it some help in the dark and increased its possibility of success.
Old man Li murmured, "I hope you are well, just like I hope my son will be successful. If you can really achieve success one day, please bless my grandchildren to grow up safely and not become as cruel as their father."
As he spoke, he smoked his cigarette and wiped his tears.
The stunned white snake looked at Old Man Li for a long while, then nodded.
It thought to itself: I will protect Old Man Li's grandchildren like a brother and help them grow up.
The next day, the White Snake returned to the mountain, and Old Man Li also went from the mountain to the big city.
After waiting for a few years, it finally passed the most difficult hurdle. After stepping into a new threshold, it thought of Old Man Li a few years ago and returned to the wooden cabin from the mountains.
The dilapidated house had rotted away and collapsed, and Old Man Li still hadn't come back. The White Snake was bored and thought that maybe he had already lived a good life with his beloved son.
However, one day two months ago, the white snake that was napping in the mountains suddenly felt the formation of a contract.
It raised its head and looked outside the mountain, separating its spiritual sense.
Bai She knew that the promise she had made a few years ago had begun to take effect - because Old Man Li's grandchildren had finally appeared.
Induced by the contract, it slowly came to the city and found that the houses in the city were crowded with houses and people were close to each other.
It didn't know what was good here, and at the end of its destination, it finally saw the other end of the contract.
She was a pale and thin young woman who might fall down with a gust of wind, but she looked quite energetic. In her belly, the white snake sensed the power of the contract that had just taken shape.
They are the grandchildren of Old Man Li.
But strangely, it didn't sense much of Old Man Li's scent from the woman.
Until the White Snake saw a man.
It recognized at a glance that it was Old Man Li's son, and saw that he was carrying the heavy evil power of Old Man Li.
The White Snake saw from her evil power that Old Man Li, who had come to the big city, was still despised and scolded by his son.
He is in his fifties or sixties. He carries bricks at the construction site in winter and summer, and pushes a cart to set up a snack stall at the night market at night. He can earn nearly 10,000 yuan a month. He only keeps 500 yuan for himself and gives the rest to his son.
His son always claims that he is a gifted student at a prestigious university, but he can't even wash a pair of clothes or socks. Old Man Li has to come home at 11 or 12 o'clock every day, exhausted and sore all over, to wash for him.
This young man with hands and feet used his father's hard-earned money to establish himself as a talented investor in school, but he treated his father like a slave and a dog.
Until one day, the son stood in front of his father with an indifferent face:
"I am so unlucky to have a father like you. I don't have a house or a car. Do you know how well-off my girlfriend's family is? I have nothing. How could her family agree to this marriage?"
"I don't care. You have to fulfill your responsibilities since you gave birth to me. You have to find a way to deal with the house."
Old man Li's hands were shaking, "Son, can we buy a house a little further away? Dad has sold the land in our hometown to collect all his savings, but he still can't buy a house in the city center."
But the young man just sneered: "Don't tell me so much, I want to buy it in the city center, otherwise my girlfriend's family will look down on me. Can't you find a way to make money?"
"Other people's parents sell their blood and kidneys to give their children the best, why are you such a loser?"
Old man Li's lips were trembled, and he turned and left after a while.
More than a week later, he entered an underground clinic with a pale face under the arrangement of his 'guarantor'.
When he came out, he looked haggard, like a dying ghost. Something was missing from his body, but his wallet was full.
Old man Li used his organs and life span to buy his son a house in the city center.
He recuperated for a month, and with his weak body, he followed the renovation throughout the process, moving cement, replacing window screens, and plastering the walls...
Then what Xiao Ma saw was that he went to the house to do some repairs and cleaning while his son and his girlfriend were away, but was caught by Xiao Ma.
That was the first time that Old Man Li met his son's girlfriend. He couldn't help but take a few more glances at her, but was scolded by his son afterwards.
One day, he exhausted his last drop of energy and died quietly and painfully in the model house.
Until he closed his eyes, he never heard his son call him dad, nor did he see the grandchildren he missed so much...
Seeing all the evil forces, the white snake became furious as a mountain collapsing.
It thought that Old Man Li was a coward all his life, but it never expected that he would die in such a "cowardly" way.
There wasn't even a proper funeral after his death.
So it wants to repay the favor.
Also want revenge.
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