Hearing the expression 'always smiling', Gu Zhisang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.
The less courageous audience in the live broadcast room were also frightened:
[My hairs all stand up! ! I was drowsy at first, but now I’m fully awake. ]
[Help! Just listening to this description, my legs are weak. This is too weird. How can someone go to sleep in a dead person's room? The child is not at home and did not go to bed. Don't the adults know?]
【Based on the experience of so many previous cases, it is reasonable to guess that this family had offended the old man across the street in the past, and the old man held a grudge against him, so after he died and became a ghost, he came to seek revenge on the children?】
[It must have been carried away by a ghost! There are rumors in the countryside here that people are carried away by ghosts. It is said that it is most likely to be carried away by evil spirits or bump into something at noon or midnight.
When being carried away by a ghost, the person's head is dizzy and it feels like the soles of the feet are floating in the air and are being dragged by something invisible! If there is a deep well nearby, the person will be thrown directly into it. When the family finds out that the person is missing the next day, the person has already died in the well! 】
【……】
'Always Smile' Holding a mobile phone in hand, you can also see the highly praised replies in the comment section of the live broadcast room.
When she saw the words 'he was already dead when he was found', she felt infinite fear and panic in her heart.
At this moment, Gu Zhisang on the other side of the screen asked, "What happened next? Something else must have happened to make his fate line weaker and weaker."
"Always smile" hummed, and continued to talk about the strange things that happened to his son in the past two days.
"My husband and I were still skeptical at the time. We thought it was impossible for a living person to disappear from his own home and appear in another room?" said 'Laughing'.
"I am sure that I saw Xiao He getting into bed that night, and in the morning the bedding in his room was messy, having been covered by someone and not tidied up, which means I am not mistaken."
My son did go to bed the night before.
But no matter how naughty he is, he is still just a nine-year-old child;
Looking at his son who was crying loudly with a wronged look on his face and kept complaining that he had run away, "Smiling All the Time" didn't think that he would do such a bad thing as running out of the house in the middle of the night just to scare his parents.
Could it be that...
Is there really something weird in the room opposite?!
He hurriedly brought his son Xiao He back home, and told his father-in-law about the incident after he woke up.
'Dad, what's going on with that empty house across from you? Did an old man really die there?'
My father-in-law said "yes".
According to him, the resident of the mud house across the street is an old man named Wang, who is the same age as him, also 80 years old.
The two old men were born not long after the construction of the Xia Kingdom, when everything was in ruins and the country was poor and difficult. They are both from the same village and grew up playing together in the mud.
But Old Man Wang's family was poorer. He only had a lame old father and two and a half acres of land. Even after working diligently for a year, the harvest was barely enough to support their life.
Later, when he was in his twenties, he fell in love with a woman from the neighboring village and got married. He had a child early and lived a peaceful life for several years.
On the contrary, my father-in-law, who always smiles, had no children after marriage until he was in his early 40s, and he went to the hospital for check-ups countless times;
After he went to the Capital Hospital for a check-up, the doctor said that there was nothing wrong with his wife, but that the problem was with him.
I suffer from some kind of asthenospermia, so it's hard for me to have children.
During that time, the old man lived a very depressed life in the village because the villagers always said that he was a bachelor and that he would not be able to support him in his old age because he had no son. In a fit of anger, he moved out of the village.
Who would have thought that within two years, the middle-aged couple, both in their forties, unexpectedly became pregnant with the "always smiling" husband, which made her parents-in-law very happy!
After the child was born, the family was left with nothing. The father-in-law looked at his hungry and hard-earned child, and also at his daughter-in-law who was still in confinement after childbirth. He gritted his teeth and secretly followed a few daring local thugs to engage in speculation and profiteering.
There were a few times when the situation was extremely dangerous and I was almost caught and thrown into jail.
Relying on his honed courage and the original accumulation of assets, my father-in-law, who was half buried in the ground in his fifties, followed the trend of the times and went into business.
When he returned home in glory with his husband, who was only in his teens, and became a well-off family, he discovered that the childhood playmate he once envied was no longer as peaceful and happy as before.
The old man Wang was wearing a dirty, ragged jacket. He was less than sixty years old but his hair was already full of gray and messy hair. His face was full of wrinkles and his eyes were numb and sad. He lived alone in that old, dilapidated house.
After asking other people in the village, the 'always smiling' father-in-law learned that this childhood friend had a miserable experience after he left the village.
Their family worked in poverty and hardship on the loess. The only son wanted to change his fate. After hearing the description of a man from the neighboring village who went to the city to buy clothes to sell, he decided not to live a poor life farming all his life, so he went to the provincial capital with other people without telling Old Man Wang.
As a result, he offended the local bully and was hacked to death.
He's been dead for more than two years.
Because of the death of their only child, Wang's wife was devastated and passed away soon after. He was left alone in the village, living like a zombie, feeling numb.
Hearing about the tragedy in his old friend's family, the "always smiling" father-in-law was also very sad.
A few years later, his son grew up and he finally could no longer work, so he chose to return to his hometown to retire.
This time, the two old people are almost seventy years old, and they are neighbors again like they were when they were children, but their lives are completely different.
My father-in-law, who is always smiling, has a pension and his own savings. His house has been renovated and expanded, and is equipped with all kinds of electrical appliances and refrigerators. He usually stays at home listening to the radio and goes out fishing.
Life is so pleasant.
But old man Wang, who lives across the road, is dying and has a hunched back. He grows some vegetables in his small yard and occasionally goes to the vegetable market to pick up garbage and some wilted and broken vegetable leaves.
Until two months ago, Old Man Wang's health had become very poor.
When the "always smiling" father-in-law saw him walk out of the room, he thought he was as thin as a skeleton, and was afraid that this old man would not live long.
Sure enough, a few days later, he found his old friend's stiff and smelly body in **.
Old man Wang died of a sudden illness. He was in great pain before his death and his final expression was twisted.
He died alone, childless, and no one prepared for his funeral.
In the end, his "always smiling" father-in-law took pity on him, discussed with the village committee, donated money to buy him a thin coffin, and buried him in the back mountain.
After hearing about the strange things that happened to his grandson, the 'always smiling' grandfather still refused to believe it:
"No way. My old friend has always been honest and kind. In the past few years, he has helped our family in every possible way. I called on the villagers to donate money for his coffin. If he has any conscience, he should not mess with my grandson!"
"Besides, even if he has a grudge, it's against me. He's been gone for more than a month, and I haven't had any illness, any disaster, or any evil spirits..."
My family talked about it for the whole morning but still couldn't make the matter clear.
They finally decided to take Xiao He to a reputable psychic in the next village tomorrow and ask the psychic to take a look.
Xiao He was in a bad mood that day because he was suspected of lying. He didn't want to eat or talk to the "smiling" couple.
At night, 'Smiling Mother' didn't dare to let him sleep alone in the hut, so she put her son between herself and her husband and locked all the doors inside and outside the house.
Who would have thought that before the early morning, my son suddenly had a fever, and he was crying and making a fuss in the bed, his face flushed red, and he kept saying that he felt uncomfortable and was scared.
The 'always smiling' couple was so anxious that they turned on the light and got up in the middle of the night to find antipyretic medicine for the child and get water to wipe his body. Even the old man in the other room was woken up.
After feeding him the medicine, it took more than an hour for my son's body temperature to slowly return to normal. He no longer twisted back and forth like he had just done, or said he was feeling unwell. He just closed his eyes and whispered that he was scared.
After a long period of worrying about his son's smile, he had planned not to sleep tonight and just stay with his son.
I don’t know if she was just too sleepy and tired, or what.
Her consciousness became increasingly blurred, and finally she fell asleep without even knowing when.
I woke up again because I heard a faint "creak" sound in my sleep, like the sound of a door hinge turning.
She sat up and found herself sleeping on the headboard of the bed.
Her husband was sitting on the sofa, also sleeping soundly with his head tilted against the cushion.
The bedroom door was open and the lights in the room were turned to a softer setting, but the living room connected to the door was pitch black and only a hint of moonlight could be vaguely seen.
'Smiling all the time' suddenly turned his head to look at the bed.
**Empty!
The place where my son Xiao He had slept was still warm and moist to the touch. It was the sweat from his fever that soaked through the sheets, but he was gone.
'Always Smiling' was immediately frightened and stunned.
The child, still running a fever, disappeared from under her nose again!
想到把自己惊醒的门轴声，她声音因为惊恐和焦急都有些破音，撑着发麻抽筋的腿跌跌撞撞往外走。
'小贺？小贺？！’
她走出卧室、走到前厅的大门方向时，浑身起鸡皮疙瘩。
只见原本被她睡前从里面拴上了杈，关得严实的大门不知被什么人解掉了门杈，半扇虚掩着，另外半扇则大开着，一直通向院子外未知而幽深的小路。
'笑口常开’跑到门跟前往外一看，就看到一个瘦瘦小小的孩子背影。
是儿子小贺！
他正在以一种非常缓慢的速度、并且略显僵硬的行动方式，往路对面那扇敞开的破屋子木门里走去。
看着这诡异的一幕，‘笑口常开’简直都要崩溃了。
她颤着声音喊了两声儿子，但对方的脚步依旧没停。
眼见着他就要走进那间在‘笑口常开’眼中能吃人的屋子，‘笑口常开’终于急了，她几近崩溃地喊着儿子的名字。
而这有些嘶哑尖锐、同时又很大的叫声，的确叫住了还在往前走的小男孩儿。
他脚步顿住，身体稍稍踉跄了一下。
紧接着他偏头看看面前黑漆漆的屋门，又扭头看看周围的小路，直接被吓哭了。
终于回神的男孩儿扭过头去，看到身后的妈妈就张开手跑了过去：‘妈妈……’
'笑口常开’抹了一把泪，也迎了过去。
可她才走了两步路，就看到了那一幕让她此生都难以忘怀的惊悚场面。
儿子小贺原本哭泣的脸上神情扭曲，就像明明是悲伤的，可嘴角却被生生提起。
他向着‘笑口常开’跑来的脚步停下了，保持着张开手的姿势僵硬地歪着头颈，嘴里发出‘嘻嘻’地尖锐笑声。
头顶的月光就这么洒在男孩儿的脸上，把他满脸泪痕又哭又笑的脸孔照得清晰可见，如此诡异而骇人的画面，顿时让‘笑口常开’头皮都炸了。
她清楚地意识到，眼前这个‘人’，绝对不是自己的儿子！
本就心弦紧绷、又过度疲惫，她一口气没缓上来直接被吓晕了。
身后听见动静匆匆赶出来的丈夫忙从后面扶起浑身瘫软的她，一抬头也被儿子诡异的样子吓得背后发冷。
趁着一个晕一个没工夫，男孩儿带着怪异的表情摇头晃脑，蹦跳着往村里的路上跑远了。
那晚简直鸡飞狗跳。
不少村民都知道马上要过寿的老寿星家闹了鬼。
他那宝贝孙孙不知咋回事撞邪了！
村人们都是热心肠，虽然好奇八卦但也都出门帮忙寻找。
一直到天都蒙蒙亮了，才在村头的水沟旁边发现了半条腿浸在水塘里的小男孩儿。
他人已经昏厥了。
村民们打着手电嚷嚷着把他抱起来的时候，发现他身上烫得不成样子！
人都要给烧化了。
苏醒后的‘笑口常开’差点因为儿子跑丢了哭得再次昏厥，此时她踉踉跄跄地跑了过去，从村民的手里接过儿子，紧紧抱着撕心裂肺地哭着。
身边帮忙找了一晚上的村民纷纷说道：
'哎呀这孩子都要烧傻了，看这个样子肯定是撞邪喽！你们也别等了，现在就把人送到隔壁村找能看事儿的灵媒给治一治吧。’
'就是啊这也太吓人了，好好的娃娃怎么碰上这事儿了，我刚刚手电筒扫到他的时候，可是在水沟沟的旁边，你们瞅瞅鞋子都湿透了！再往里头走两步岂不是要淹死了？！’
'笑口常开’夫妻俩也意识到了事情的严重性。
他们抱起儿子坐上车，就往隔壁村开。
一大清早就满脸疲惫地找上了当地的灵媒，请对方帮儿子看事儿。
灵媒一摸到男孩儿的手就说：‘你儿子这是撞邪了！冲撞他的东西非常凶，现在挤在他的身体里，把他三魂七魄中的一魂一魄都挤出身体了，明显是要做恶害命的。’
'你摸摸他身上烫成什么样子了，这件事得尽快解决，魂魄和人的身体是有联系的，拖久了魂儿跑远了失去了联系，可就很难找回来了。缺魂少魄的人要么以后身体会无缘无故残疾，要么整个人都变成痴呆、或是植物人哩！’
听到灵媒这么说，‘笑口常开’夫妻俩更是吓得手足无措，只一个劲儿地说求灵媒帮忙，让对方帮他们救儿子。
灵媒说道：‘我倒是想救，但也得先把’撞‘了你儿子、挤进他身体里的鬼驱出来。它的形体非常模糊，看不出生前是男是女，只能感觉到挺凶的……你儿子这些天去了什么可疑的、阴气比较重或是新死之人的地方吗？’
'笑口常开’就把昨晚和前晚的事情都和灵媒说了：
'我们自回到村里也没去上过香、没去过坟地，除了对门那间老屋，我们真不知道家附近还有什么地方能撞邪了。’
听完之后灵媒若有所思，说道：‘应该就是那个老头搞得怪，不然你儿子不会三番五次去那间死人窝里睡觉。’
'这样，我先做法给你儿子稳固一下身体里的其他魂魄，别让其他魂魄再被恶鬼挤出去了。’
说完，灵媒便拿出一个银色的小樽，用柳条沾着樽里不知道掺杂了什么物质的水，一边扫在儿子的脸上、身上，嘴里一边念念有词。
这样做法几次后，‘笑口常开’觉得自己握着的、儿子的手掌确实没有烫了。
又过了十来分钟，儿子小贺甚至清醒了一次。
他一睁开眼睛，就两眼泪汪汪地对‘笑口常开’哑声说道：‘妈妈我好害怕，我总是做噩梦……’
'笑口常开’听到儿子这样讲也落泪了，询问他梦到了什么，但儿子只是断断续续说自己的梦很恐怖，说他晚上睡觉的时候胸口上就像压了一块巨大的石头，根本喘不过气了。
然后他就会看到一个非常瘦、像骷髅一样的爷爷冲他招手，像是在招呼他过去。
他其实心里还是有些害怕的，但脚步却不可控制地慢慢朝着老爷爷的方向走去。
再然后的事情，小贺就什么都不记得了。
一听到孙子嘴里的描述，‘笑口常开’的公公就瞪了眼：‘就是姓王的那个老东西！’
'这个老畜牲白眼狼，亏我以前觉得他过得辛苦照顾他，多钓了两条鱼就分他一条补补身体，用旧了但还好好的没有坏的收音机送给他听。’
'对了，家里之前翻修重建的时候，不是还有剩下的砖瓦水泥，我看他那间破屋子顶都裂缝了，下午往里头渗水，还让工匠用剩下的材料给他补屋顶……’
公公越说越生气，气得胸口都在大力起伏。
一旁的灵媒听到了叹了口气说道：
'老哥哥你也别火大，很多人是不会感激的，你的接济人家可能就觉得你在施舍他、羞辱他。再说了你和他年龄一般大，又是从同一个村子里出来的，你有钱有儿孙孝敬他孤苦伶仃，时间久了心里能不生出羡慕嫉妒来么？’
灵媒所说也正是‘笑口常开’夫妻俩所想。
'笑口常开’的丈夫说道：‘爸你和他又是同一年生的，他今年也80了自己凄凄惨惨地死在破屋里，结果咱家热热闹闹地办酒拉戏班子，看到这样的对比难免让他心里不平衡。’
'也怪我没有考虑到这一点，早知道就把你接到城里办，就不会有这些事儿了……’
无论老爷子再怎么气急败坏，事情已经发生了。
当下还是孙子的健康和安全更重要。
为了给男孩儿驱邪，灵媒还专门去了一趟‘笑口常开’公公的村子，去到了他们家对面的破屋里。
灵媒拿着铃铛一边念咒一边摇晃，从破屋里出来之后说道：
'屋子里确实有阴魂，应该就是那个老头儿，他生前过得太苦了又是意外横死，死后尸体就这么放了两三天，让他多少有些郁结，就变成了鬼魂都留在了村子里。’
'我先给你们做法，试试能不能把它送走。’
灵媒说完就做起了仪式，一边蹦跳念咒，一边口中念念有词，说‘如果你愿意离开回到你该去的地方，这一家人都会感激你、给你上香……’
然而一通法事做下来后，他却绷着脸擦了把头上的汗说道：
'不行啊说不通，这老鬼不愿意离开，感觉它的态度比较抗拒。’
这可把‘笑口常开’夫妻俩气得牙痒痒，‘那可如何是好啊大师？’
最后灵媒告诉他们，可以用强硬的手段在老鬼的坟头做法驱邪，这么做能够伤到阴魂的魂体，让对方变得虚弱。
届时它若是被震慑了主动离开是最好的结果，如果对方还不离开，为了男孩儿的生命安全就只能把它打散了。
The 'Always Smiling' couple agreed to the suggestion, and the psychic went to prepare the tools and instruments for the ritual.
Because their son's lost soul was still in the village, they had to "summon the soul" immediately after driving out the evil spirit in his body. For the past two days, the couple and their son Xiao He stayed in the village and did not dare to leave.
With the psychic's 'holy water' and 'amulet', my son no longer has a fever.
But at night, he seemed like a different person, staring at the smiling couple with a ferocious look, growling insults and threats, and trying to break free from the medium's talismans several times.
In desperation, the couple could only reluctantly tie up their son with a rope.
After being tied up, his expression would change again, and he would cry out "Mom and Dad" pitifully, hoping that they would let him go. When that didn't work, he would squeeze out a creepy laugh with his shrill voice.
In just one week, 'Smiling Man' lost a lot of weight and his face showed signs of fatigue and collapse.
Fortunately, the medium has prepared all the supplies today and is just waiting for one quarter past three in the afternoon - the time when the yang energy is strong in the day, to go to the old man Wang's grave to perform the ritual.
'Always smile' I woke up early due to nervousness and anticipation.
When she was browsing her phone, she saw that the seventh episode of "Spiritual Affairs" was about to start filming. Thinking that what her son had encountered was also a true supernatural event, she participated in the interaction with the mentality of seeing if she could be selected.
I didn’t expect that she was so lucky to be selected directly!
After telling all this, the smiling face asked earnestly:
"Master Gu, do you think the evil in my son's body can be successfully expelled? If it still fails, can I ask you to help take a look?"
Gu Zhisang thought for a moment and said, "I can help you take a look right now. Do you have a photo of the old man next door?"
"How could I have this..."
'Always Smiling' said this with a pause in his voice, and then he said, "No, there is. Wait for me."
After a few minutes, a new message popped up in Gu Zhisang's private message box. It was a photo sent by 'Smiley'.
Seeing the gray photo, she couldn't help but frown.
This is obviously a black and white photo framed by a wooden frame, used as a funeral portrait.
Seeing that the background of the photo was a cracked and slightly yellowed wall, Gu Zhisang realized that 'Always Smiling' was taken when he just went to the empty house next door and pointed his mobile phone at the photos on the wall.
To be honest, this behavior is not polite and is even very offensive to the deceased.
But thinking of the other party's current mood, Gu Zhisang didn't say anything for the time being.
The black and white photo is one of the few photos that the villagers found among Old Man Wang’s belongings. It should have been taken more than ten years ago.
Although the middle-aged man above looks tired, his eyes still show his honesty and simplicity.
Judging from his face, his life was undoubtedly bitter. He had never enjoyed any happiness in his life, and lost his wife and son in succession in his later years.
But he was like an old cow in the loess earth, just accepting it all numbly.
Whether from the distribution of facial features or from the fate lines and the twelve zodiac signs on Old Man Wang's face, Gu Zhisang could not see any signs of great evil.
She didn't think that such a person would turn into a vicious person and murder his benefactor's descendants more than a month after his accidental death.
But "Always Smiling" was also very sure that except for the old street in their hometown, their family had not gone anywhere else, and the boy Xiao He did dream about Old Man Wang.
Gu Zhisang thought about it for a moment and felt that there was something strange and inexplicable about this matter.
Even if it was really done by Old Man Wang, there must be some hidden story behind it.
After thinking for a while, she said, "I can't tell much from the old man's face. Can you start a live broadcast and shoot some pictures of the house? Or take a few more pictures from inside and outside for me to see."
'Smiles' hesitated for a moment, fearing that the house would not be fully captured if only a photo was taken, so he responded:
“I’m starting the video now.”
After the shaking video on her side was turned on, Gu Zhisang looked carefully at the building on the screen.
The house was really old and dilapidated; even the hinges of the front door were crooked.
'Always smile' After walking around with the equipment in hand, Gu Zhisang was sure that what the local psychic said was correct. There were indeed ghosts lingering in this house, but the resentment was not strong.
"This is all that's inside. That bed... is where my son lay."
After finishing the photo shoot of 'Always Smiling', I walked outside the old house.
Because she was walking and shooting, the camera in her hand was not very stable.
Just as she stepped out of the door of the old house and was about to tell Gu Zhisang in the live broadcast room to turn off the camera, the host's clear and somewhat serious voice suddenly came from the receiver:
"Wait, just keep doing this."
'Laughing' was stunned for a moment, but did as he was told, "What's wrong, Master Gu?"
Gu Zhisang narrowed his eyes slightly, with a strange look on his face: "Just keep this posture and hold the phone up."
"Okay, we can stop at this angle."
Looking at the shapes of the buildings in the video, Gu Zhisang was silent for a moment.
'Laughing' vaguely sensed something and became a little nervous:
"What's wrong, Master Gu? This is a photo of my home... Is there any problem?"
The author has something to say:
If I can finish writing (Part 2) tomorrow afternoon, I will update one chapter in the afternoon and another chapter in the early morning. If I can't finish writing in the afternoon, I will update 10,000+ chapters in the early morning.
So you don't have to wait, just come and watch it at night as usual qwq