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 worshipped 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, inducement, 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."
这时导演组的工作人员也表明，来参加节目时小马夫妻俩都曾和节目组签署过两份协议书，一份是‘与求助事件有关联的部分隐私可公开’，另一份是节目组的‘免责书’。
当时签署的时候，小李根本没把自己身上的怪事往父亲身上想，否则他也不会签得那么痛快了。
有了协议保障，小马本人又有求助意向，顾之桑点点头说道：
“那我继续了。”
她自备了纸笔，回想着李姓男子的面相，又问小马道：“你知道他的生辰八字吗，具体一点的，如果没有的话能给我他写过的字也行，这样我能更准确地推演出他父亲的信息和命理。”
小马点点头，“有的，家里有他的记录本。”
她进屋拿出了带有丈夫笔迹的本子，以及两人曾经拍摄一起的照片，都递给顾之桑。
大概推演了五六分钟、在马父还在怀疑看看字迹和生日真的就能看出父母信息么的时候，顾之桑放下了笔杆直起身。
她指尖弹了下纸面，若有所思：
“原来如此，你并非完全没有和你丈夫的父亲见过面，正相反从命理相交上来看，你们绝不是仅见过一面的路人，前几年至少见过十数次。”
“具体的数量和见面地址我不清楚，但有一点很清楚，你不知道他，但是他认识你，并且还挺关心你的。”
“这蛇灵之所以会出现在你身边，也确实是他的原因。”
小马懵了，脱口而出：“怎么可能？我老公他从来没带我回过老家！”
“我每次提出来回去看看的时候，他都特别抵触，说那个村子里的人以前对他不太好，而且他回去后容易勾起不好回忆。我们大四的时候一直是住在当时他买的……”
说着说着，小马的声音顿住了，像是想到了什么神情逐渐变得不可思议。
马父忙问：“你想到什么了？”
“我、我忽然想到一个人，如果他是我丈夫的父亲的话，我们确实见过挺多次。”小马语气艰难道：“爸，你还记得我之所以觉得特别感动、觉得这辈子就是他了的原因，是他大三那年就在为我们的将来努力、买了一套小房子吗？”
马父点头道：“当然了，我不就是因为这个原因才同意你嫁给那穷小子的。”
得知这件事时，马父觉得从男性的角度来看，这个小伙子确实很爱女儿，是个可靠的人。
他还能在大三的时候就赚下第一桶金，本身能力也很不错，是个合适的结婚对象。
小马愣愣道：“当时房子买下来的时候，他就说那里以后写我俩的名字，我就是房子的女主人，让我选择自己喜欢的装修，后来修好了我们每周末都会去看一看。”
“我有一次突然想到有东西忘记拿了，第二天就自己过去了，结果打开门发现屋里有个特别奇怪的叔叔，看到我就一直盯着。”
“当时我特别害怕，因为他年纪看起来很大了，头发都是灰的整个人看起来死气沉沉的，我不认识他也不知道他是怎么进我们家的，还以为是流浪汉或者小偷，就给小李他打了个电话。”
她丈夫听说之后让她不要怕，马上赶了过来。
小马回忆着当时的情景，道：“他告诉我那个叔叔是他请的钟点工。”
当时小马也觉得有些奇怪，但丈夫是这么解释的：
'这个老头精神不太好，家里也没有人所以生活很困难，我看他干活什么的都很麻利，索性就请他来当帮工了。’
这么一听她顿时觉得丈夫是个善良人。
再加上之后几次那个老头确实也没再用眼神看过自己，每次遇到都埋头干活也不说话，小马渐渐就习惯了。
她觉得那老人家又瘦又黑，看着身体很不好怪可怜的，有时候就拿些自己父亲的旧衣服、做多的菜给他，想让他的日子好过些。
而每一次那老人家都是低着头，半晌沉默着用黑黢黢的手指抹抹眼泪，说‘谢谢’。
小马的声音有些颤：“顾大师，那个‘钟点工’老人家是不是就是……我公公？”
顾之桑道：“你心里已经有答案了，不是么。”
马父惊呆了，不可思议道：“这、这是什么事儿啊？那小子这么做有什么必要？他是个孤儿我们家都不嫌，就算有个不富裕的老父亲又怎么了，犯得着这样遮遮掩掩还说什么钟点工么！”
顾之桑冷笑一声：“当然有必要，因为在他的心里从始至终都觉得，有这样一个父亲是耻辱，他宁愿自己从没有过。”
“据我观他的面相，此人颧骨微微突出，说明是性情易怒容易冲动的性格，就算他平时伪装得很好但总有一些时候会意外泄露。他虽然有一个好父亲，但从父母宫来看他并不是一个孝顺的儿子，两方付出极其不对等。如果说父亲给了他一百，他连一分都未必会给父亲。”
“其次他的鼻头形状尖，嘴唇长而薄唇色较深，再加上有些显宽的下半脸型，这种面相呢就是所谓的容易犯罪的脸，往往会有极端病态的嫉妒、愤世嫉俗、对世俗冷漠等情绪。但幸运的是你丈夫并没有犯过什么罪恶，他唯一孽力都在父子缘上。”
顾之桑一边说，一边细细查看着。
半晌她抬起头冷淡道：“从面相上看，你丈夫并不是一个有能力有本事的人，正相反他自诩不凡实际上就是个草包，这辈子能靠自己双手赚到的钱很少很少，按理说是没这个本事通过炒股、基金理财上赚到房钱的。”
在小马和父亲逐渐瞪大的眼睛的注视下，她继续道：
“而我也看到了一个很意思的事情，你丈夫父亲的阳寿本来该有77岁，但他却在五十多岁的时候就去了。中间的阳寿都折合成了金钱，流入了你丈夫的身上。”
“我猜你那个所谓的炒股得来的小房子，应该就是这么来的。”
让顾之桑有些头痛的是，因为没有李姓男人父亲的任何信息——照片、八字、蒜字等等，从儿子的族支推演只能看到结果，却很难看到原因。
这也导致了整件事并不完整。
正当她凝眉沉思该如何获取那老者的信息时，一直屹立在小马身后的‘柳仙’忽然睁开了眼睛，一双竖瞳定定看着她。
片刻后，白蛇从口中吐出一团荧光。
顾之桑微愣，顺着那光晕的移动接到掌中，刚一没入掌根她便觉得眼前的世界天旋地转。
这是一些属于白蛇的零碎回忆。
数年前的白蛇已经是修行得道的大妖，它久居山林不知几许，从不入世。
到了该渡劫的那天，其实白蛇隐约感觉如今天道势微，自己很有可能失败，但它还是拼上所有想试一试，结局自然是失败了。
那天下了瓢泼大雨，它的身躯被雷电打得焦烂。
按理说它该遵循自然，在重伤中死去、尸体被山间别的精怪吞噬。
然而一睁眼，白蛇发现自己身体变得只有木棍细，下半身的鳞片都脱落了，一片血肉模糊；
它被一个人类老头救了。
对方又黑又瘦一看就是常年营养不良，咂摸着劣质烟草说道：
‘白的蛇还没见过呢，多俊的长虫让野鸡把尾巴啄成这样了，怪可惜的。’
于是那李老头就天天嚼巴点药草，不顾白蛇的嫌弃和反抗，给它敷在皮肉翻卷的伤口和尾巴。
他自己每天就煮点白菜梗子就面条吃，还要去山里费劲儿抓野鸡、田鼠，捣成肉糊糊掰着白蛇的嘴巴给它灌进去。
'邪了门，只听说过大城市的人抑郁，没见过不吃食儿的长虫。’
白蛇：……
渐渐的，它惊讶发现自己被雷劈的身体在这些毫无灵气的药和食物的作用下，竟然好了起来。
它对李老头没有那么抵触了，第一次叼着肥野兔扔在门口时，李老头那种惊讶、惊喜的目光让它非常不屑。
在李老头的絮叨下，白蛇知道他有一个挺厉害、但是也不孝顺的儿子。
'我那伢子聪明得很，考上了可好的大学，是我这个当爹的愧对他啊没本事，没钱给他买名牌鞋子让他在班里同学面前抬不起头……’
'他不想叫我爸我也理解，可心里总是不得劲，我就想着多挣钱啊留给他娶媳妇，如果以后我有个小孙子小孙女，得让娃叫我声爷爷吧？’
'伢子谈女朋友了，大城市里的姑娘！我现在一个月得给他寄五千块，愁人啊，都怪我没本事……’
'唉，养个儿子还不如条长虫呢，白蛇啊老头子我把你当小孙子，你要是能开口叫我一声多好。’
看着李老头唉声叹气的样子，白蛇心里很不屑。
在它看来，那个所谓的儿子就是个白眼狼。
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 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.