Chapter 1: Re-employment of the Unknown
The night is dark, with stars scattered across the pitch-black sky. The hot and windless midsummer is like a huge furnace that bakes people.
Qi Gu, who has a handsome appearance but a cold temperament and looks very indifferent when he has no expression, sits in a wheelchair.
He held a purple gold gourd in one hand and the crispy pork belly and starch sausage he had just bought in the other, and waited anxiously for the milk tea shop clerk to prepare his cup of fruit tea.
The clerk felt pity for him because of his good looks and difficulty walking, so he added a large spoonful of coconut flakes to his cup of fruit tea before covering it with the lid.
Qi Gu thanked him gratefully and whispered an order to the blue ghost behind him that was invisible to ordinary people. The wheelchair under him then automatically sped forward, at one point surpassing the speed of the electric vehicles on the road.
This caused passers-by to exclaim, what a good wheelchair it is, they were attracted by it.
When he returned to the downstairs of the rental house, Qi Gu stood up from his wheelchair under the sympathetic and regretful gazes of the uncles and aunts who were taking shelter under the trees on the roadside, and strolled into the corridor with food in his hand.
Uncle and Auntie:? ? ?
Qi Gu: Don’t ask. If you ask, it means I’m just too lazy to move.
Ever since he found that the harder he tried, the more unfortunate he became, he really wanted the meals to be fed to him by the little ghosts he had subdued.
The building he lives in is an old self-built building by nearby residents. It was converted into three single rooms on one floor for the convenience of renting out. He lives in a single room on the second floor on the east side.
Handing all the things to the slave boy behind him, Qi Gu took out the key from his trouser pocket while going upstairs.
As soon as the key was inserted into the keyhole, there was a click and the key broke in the keyhole.
Qi Gu:?
This shouldn’t be the case. Didn’t I control the balance on my phone to less than 5,000 yuan today? Why am I still unlucky?
As if remembering something, he touched the other pocket of his trousers and indeed pulled out a fifty-yuan bill.
Qi Gu: “…”
He was in a stable mood. He went downstairs with ease and found Huaimin's locksmith, who was still awake. He paid fifty yuan and asked him to help him open the lock and make a key.
Because this was the third time in the past six months, the other party was curious about where he got all his energy from every day, and even wanted to compete with him in arm wrestling.
Qi Gu declined and took the newly made key.
Finally returning to the room which was so small that it could only accommodate a table and a bed, Qi Gu turned on the light, placed the food on the table, and opened the purple gold gourd. The green ghost consciously slipped back into the gourd, and a chill stronger than the air conditioning came out of the purple gold gourd, blowing away the scorching air in the room.
He washed his hands, took out three incense sticks and lit them, then bowed towards the southwest where the Fuai Temple was located.
After his master passed away, he couldn’t bring his master’s tablet with him when he rented a house, for fear that the landlord would dislike it.
Qi Gu was an abandoned baby and was picked up by the abbot of Fuai Temple, so Fuai Temple naturally became his birthplace.
Fuai Temple is a Taoist temple, but he has never seen his master look like a Taoist priest. Taoism emphasizes inaction, but his master is a man with strong subjective initiative. He renovated the temple countless times during the more than ten years that he was there, hoping that more pilgrims would come so that he could raise enough money for his college tuition.
Of course, there was also the intention of his master to really expand the Fuai Temple.
However, the location of Fuai Temple is too remote. It is not near any famous mountains or rivers, and there are no immortals practicing here. Naturally, no matter how much it is renovated, it will not attract many pilgrims.
Qi Gu wanted to fulfill the wish of his deceased teacher.
It's a pity that he was born unlucky. He had just graduated from university and was originally guaranteed a job, but the relevant policy was cancelled in the year he graduated. He went to work in a company, but before he had worked for a few days, his boss packed up his bags and ran away with his brother-in-law.
Later, Qi Gu entered the entertainment industry with his good looks. He worked hard to study and acted in accordance with the gentle persona created by the company, but his persona was often ruined because of his naturally cold face.
Before he could even start promoting the Taoist temple, his agent completely blackened him from head to toe just because he refused to accompany drinking.
Qi Gu left the entertainment industry after that and relied on part-time jobs here and there to make money to support his life.
The master once commented on his unlucky fate: Even if you committed murder, arson, rape and looting in your previous life, it is not necessarily that you will have this fate.
His fate can be summed up in one word: poverty and a life of hardship.
Because he was used to being poor, Qi Gu even summed up a pattern and knew that once the money he had exceeded five thousand, various things would happen to make him lose money.
He had always been stuck in the bug of the laws of nature, and today he got into trouble simply because he forgot that he had fifty cash in his pocket.
Qi Gu dipped the crispy and fatty pork belly wrapped in green lettuce leaves into the dry sauce and stuffed it into his mouth. He thought that if his master was still alive, he would definitely fight with him for this delicacy.
He took a bite of crispy pork belly, a mouthful of starch sausage, sipped a big sip of fruit tea, and ate all the food on the table with a happy look on his face.
When he saw that it was already nine o'clock, he remembered the director's instructions and went on Weibo.
The father of the victim he had helped before did not despise his identity as a corrupt artist and introduced him to a job as a guest on a supernatural variety show.
He said that he could make a net profit of 50,000 just by talking and introducing some metaphysical knowledge, and the producer also agreed to pay him in increments of 5,000.
This was undoubtedly a great joy for Qi Gu, who was poor and didn't want to work hard, so he agreed without hesitation.
On Weibo, the official production team of "Exploring Ghosts" has directly posted on Weibo.
Explore the Mystery V: Explore the mysteries and have a cool summer. We are very happy to invite the master of metaphysics @戚故咕咕咕, program guests @6part慕星辰@根本不尽花的薇薇安@沙川@user11111111 to explore with the program team!
As an online variety show that has been launched for a month but no one cares about it and its number of followers on Weibo has not even exceeded 100, it should not have caused any waves on Weibo.
Until Qi Gu also reposted the official Weibo.
At the beginning, many netizens followed Qi Gu just to scold him, and some even labeled him as a die-hard fan because of his excessive comments. Later, when Qi Gu retired from the circle, that group of righteous netizens gradually forgot about it and stopped following him.
But today, Qi Gu’s account, which had been silent for a year, suddenly came alive. Not only did it change its name, it also reposted a Weibo post.
Qi Gugugugu (Master of Fuai Temple) V: Looking forward to it/Reposted from @探诡.
The former haters and online pranksters suddenly revived and rushed to the program team's comment section and Qi Gu's comment section for team building.
[The Internet really has no memory, right? It’s been less than a year and the unethical artist Qi Gu is out again to defraud people of money? ? ? 】
[It’s so funny, if it weren’t for this Weibo post, I would have forgotten to unfollow it]
[I just realized that he changed his name. What the hell is the master of Fuai Temple? Can Qi Gu, a thing like that, become a Taoist monk and the abbot of a temple? 】
[I searched Baidu and found no such view...]
[This is so funny. You just made up a nice-sounding name for a Taoist temple and then used it to cheat people, right?]
[Uh...Qi Gu, is he giving up his previous gentle and polite big boy persona and adopting a metaphysical persona? 】
【That character has already collapsed】
[Metaphysical character setting, this guy is really creative. By the way, what happened to the agent who was bullied by him before? That little brother was so miserable. He cried so hard in the live broadcast room. I can relate to him.]
[The agent has now joined a big company and has brought up some big stars. He is living a good life! 】
[That’s great, it really makes me feel better!] 】
[As expected of you, Entertainment Juan. You always have ways of establishing characters that I can't think of. Qi Gu's metaphysical character of messing around with men, isn't he afraid that God will not be able to bear this and strike him with lightning?]
[Uh, program team, are you sick? Why is our Xiao Mu's name listed after Qi Gu? Qi Gu's number of fans on Weibo is nowhere near as many as our Xiao Mu's! 】
[The people above please don’t bring bad things to our Xiao Mu ah ah ah]
[Vivian, a wealthy woman, actually participated. The program crew has some great connections.]
[What the hell is that last one? They don’t even have a name. This is not the way to fill in the gaps, right? 】
[Shachuan, I’m so attracted by his looks, my internet-connected long-haired male wife! 】
…
In short, the popularity of the ghost-detecting program group has really increased visibly.
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