Chapter 68: Different Paths for Humans and Ghosts
Gu Yunshuang insisted on becoming a Heavenly Master and would not listen to any other reasons.
Director Lin had no choice but to endure the chill on his back and go through the normal procedures to complete the Tianshi training procedures for him.
Director Lin coughed lightly and said, "We just received news from Kyoto that your father has indeed been cursed by the evil spirit. Now that the evil spirit has been destroyed, the curse on him has been lifted. He will wake up soon, in just a day or two."
Gu Yunshuang was very happy: "I want to go to Kyoto as soon as possible."
Director Lin agreed and said, "You can stay there for a while longer. Stay as long as you want and spend time with your parents." This way, he would temporarily have no time to come to the Special Management Bureau for training.
It would be best to wait until the two of them can talk things out on their own.
However, before Gu Yunshuang left, he asked him for a set of Tianshi training materials.
When Director Lin brought him the teaching materials, he felt cold from head to toe.
Gu Yunshuang pretended not to notice his hesitation to speak, took the book and left the Special Management Bureau.
I received a text message from an unknown number on my phone. It was all in English and looked like a scam.
Gu Yunshuang glanced at it indifferently, then deleted the text message and went back to pack his things. He asked Zhou Sheng to book him the fastest flight. He never asked Qi Yue from beginning to end, and even booked the tickets only for him and Zhou Sheng.
Qi Yue didn't dare to say a word from beginning to end, and remained silent and dark.
When Gu Yunshuang boarded the plane, he found that there was an empty seat next to him. Zhou Sheng was sitting behind him.
Gu Yunshuang glanced at Zhou Sheng indifferently and said nothing.
Zhou Sheng broke out in a cold sweat when he looked at him.
Before today, he never knew that Gu Yunshuang, an ordinary person, could frighten him more than Qi Yue.
As an assistant, he couldn't disappear like Qi Yue, nor could he hide from Gu Yunshuang like others. He could only bite the bullet and appear in front of Gu Yunshuang.
He was ready to continue questioning Gu Yunshuang, but he didn't expect Gu Yunshuang to just look indifferent and never mention Qi Yue again from beginning to end.
For some reason, he not only couldn't relax, but became even more frightened and uneasy.
Gu Yunshuang ignored the anxious assistant and took out the Tianshi teaching materials given by Director Lin and started to read them.
After reading only a few lines, I felt my vision was a little blurry. The words on the pages were separated and twisted into a ball, forming a pile of garbled characters that was completely unreadable.
He calmly turned to the next page, and the words on the next page began to twist, run and jump, separating from the head and tail to form a mosaic.
Gu Yunshuang didn't flip through the pages anymore. He closed the book, took out his cell phone, and started reading a novel that he had downloaded from the Tianshi Forum given to him by Director Lin before boarding the plane.
Qi Yue took a few more anxious glances to confirm that it was indeed just a novel, telling the story of a Taoist priest and his childhood sweetheart who had turned into a ghost and was on a killing spree.
Qi Yue finally felt relieved and stopped making trouble.
What he didn't know was that although the plot of this novel was dull, it was written by a real Taoist priest. The content and knowledge about ghosts and Taoist magic were all true and very basic, making it very suitable for people who want to learn to be a Taoist priest while having fun.
Qi Yue breathed a sigh of relief temporarily, but soon became dark and twisted in Gu Yunshuang's shadow.
What should I do? What should I do? What should I do?
He even had the urge to just be frank with Gu Yunshuang. But as soon as this thought came out, he quickly rejected it.
Absolutely not!
Shuangshuang will definitely be very sad, upset and blame herself if she knows the truth!
The most important thing is that humans and ghosts are different. He couldn't imagine that after Shuangshuang knew the truth, they would show expressions of fear and terror towards him. He would really go crazy.
He recalled the first time he took an order as a child without telling Grandpa Qi.
He was only in the third grade at that time, and he saw an old lady wandering aimlessly on the road.
Qi Yue recognized her; they lived in the same residential complex. Every day when he and Shuangshuang went to and from school together, the old lady would also ride a tricycle to pick up and drop off her grandson.
I heard a few days ago that she was seriously ill and passed away. Now it has been the seventh day, but I didn’t expect her ghost is still wandering around in the world.
While he was distracted, his eyes met with the old lady's.
The old lady immediately followed and said, "Little Qiyue, can you see me?"
Qi Yue took Gu Yunshuang beside him into consideration and did not say anything, but just nodded slightly in a subtle way.
The old lady was very surprised. "Great! I've been wandering around here for almost a day, and finally someone sees me and listens to me. It seems the rumors in the neighborhood are right. You two are really mysterious. Are you the celestial masters who can catch ghosts and exorcise evil spirits that we see on TV and in books?"
Qi Yue did not answer.
The old lady continued, "Little Qiyue, I know I'm not human anymore and can't stay in the sun for much longer. I just have some unfulfilled wishes. As for my grandson, you know his parents are always busy from morning till night, just focusing on work. I raised him from childhood to adulthood. When I'm not by his side, he can't eat or sleep well.
"I've only been away for a few days, and he's already so thin he's almost unrecognizable. He cries and makes a fuss every day asking for his grandma. I was about to leave, but seeing him like this, how can I leave with peace of mind? I just want to see him one last time, tell him to eat well, sleep well, and grow up quickly. I even hid the three golds the old man gave me when I got married, somewhere his parents don't know, to keep for him when he gets married."
The old lady kept chattering all the way, her heart full of love for her grandson.
Qi Yue couldn't help but be moved and agreed to her request.
After returning home, he found an excuse to go out alone and followed the old grandmother to find her grandson, who was said to have become so thin that he was almost unrecognizable.
Qi Yue was speechless as he looked at the junior high school student in front of him who was very tall and strong, almost three times his height.
The old lady was still wiping away tears sadly: "My poor darling grandson, he has lost so much weight in just a few days, he is almost as thin as a stick!"
Qi Yue looked at the fat man with a twitching mouth, and called the fat man to a corner where no one was.
The fat man is very afraid of Qi Yue. All the children in the community have heard of Qi Yue's vicious reputation.
The reason was that although Gu Yun and his wife were beautiful, like a doll, the clothes they wore were rustic and shabby, which reminded people of Disney's princess in distress. People couldn't help but want to bully them because they saw his tearful eyes and scared look.
So, not long after Gu Yunshuang started elementary school, he was blocked in the sports equipment room by a few bad boys during physical education class.
They also wanted to pull down Gu Yunshuang's pants to see if he was really a man.
However, before they could do anything, they were beaten by Qi Yue, who had always been inseparable from Gu Yunshuang.
That's right, Qi Yue, who was only in the first grade, beat up five boys from the fifth and sixth grades. They were all beaten black and blue, crying for their parents.
Not only was Gu Yunshuang not afraid, he also colluded with others to help close and lock the door, preventing any of them from escaping.
This incident caused quite a stir at the time and was even reported in newspapers. People suspected that the parents of those senior students bribed reporters to shift the blame in order to shirk responsibility. This was outrageous.
I heard that the school even called the parents of both parties, including Mr. and Mrs. Gu and Mr. Qi. Mrs. Gu was very ruthless when she spoke, and every word was like a knife, drawing blood.
Dad Gu was standing by pretending to be a peacemaker, appearing weak and trying to make peace, but in fact, every word he said was sarcastic and left the other person speechless.
Grandpa Qi was even more sympathetic, crying loudly but without action, and constantly talking about how difficult it was for an elderly widower to raise a little Sen Sen. They were ganging up on him and his grandson, and he was going to call the director of the Education Bureau, the TV station, the police, and the court. He was also going to complain to their leaders about them. At worst, he would just throw his grandson in his arms and die in front of their company.
In the end, the person who beat up the victim didn't have to pay a penny, and the victim had to compensate the two children for mental damages.
Qi Yue and Gu Yunshuang became famous in one battle.
Even the junior high school department heard about it.
It is said that the school bully in the junior high school once said that he was interested in Qi Yue and Gu Yunshuang and wanted to recruit them as his younger brothers.
And then, nothing happened.
A few days ago, Fatty saw with his own eyes that the school bully hid like a mouse seeing a cat as soon as he saw the figures of these two people from afar.
So the children in the community, no matter how old or young, are very scared when they see Qi Yue.
The fat boy was usually spoiled by his family, but when he heard Qi Yue calling him, he immediately came over obediently. Along the way, he was very nervous and reflected in his heart, wondering if he had offended Qi Yue in some way, so Qi Yue wanted to call him over and beat him up?
Then he heard Qi Yue ask him: "I heard that you miss your grandma so much that you can't eat or sleep. I can let you see her for the last time. Do you want to see her?"
The fat man didn't believe it and thought Qi Yue was looking for an excuse to beat him up. He didn't dare to refuse and nodded quickly, saying that he wanted to.
Qi Yue immediately lit a piece of talisman paper, flashed it before his eyes, and then stepped aside.
The old lady immediately came over and looked at her precious grandson with joy and anticipation: "My dear grandson, I am your grandma! Can you see me?"
The fat man felt his eyes getting hot, he closed them, and when he opened them again, he saw his grandmother who had died a few days ago appear in front of him. The blue-gray face of a dead person was almost touching his face.
"Ghost!——"
The little fat boy let out a very terrified and shrill scream, stumbling and running away, bumping into the wall and the door along the way, his face was bruised and swollen. He had a high fever when he returned home, and kept shouting that there was a ghost and that his grandmother had turned into a ghost to catch him.
The family invited Taoist priests and monks to perform several rituals, but not only did they fail to help the old lady to enter the spiritual realm, but they also made her angry and turned her into a vengeful spirit, which followed the family around. The family's luck was affected and became increasingly worse and more unlucky.
It was Old Man Qi who forcibly sent her away.
Soon the family moved away. But rumors spread in the neighborhood that Qi Yue could summon ghosts. Someone saw him use talismans to summon the old lady's ghost to scare the fat man.
Some people also said that he looked ghostly, and his dark eyes did not look like a living person at all. Maybe his parents were killed by him.
When someone in the community is unlucky or has bad luck, people think that it is because of him, or that there are other ghosts around him, and the ghosts' negative energy will bring bad luck to everyone around him.
People around him looked at Qi Yue strangely, pointing and talking behind his back. Even the elderly neighbor who used to be so kind to him, like treating his own grandson, now kept a distance from him.
They were also secretly instigating Gu Yunshuang's family to stay away from him.
For the first time, Qi Yue felt the feeling of being feared, suspected, and guarded against by everyone, and finally understood the difference between humans and ghosts.
Unexpectedly, Gu's parents firmly stood by him, loudly scolding those who had pointed fingers at Qi Yue behind his back, firmly saying that they were all feudal and superstitious. There were no ghosts in the world, and only people with guilty consciences were afraid of ghosts. Don't blame the children for everything that goes wrong; they should look for the problem in themselves.
Gu Yunshuang hugged him tightly, patted his back, and comforted him like a little adult: "Brother, don't be afraid. The police uncle said that there are no ghosts in the world. They are just feudal superstitions. They are too bad."
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