Chapter 23: Always by his side (Part 1)

April 10, 2023Ai Hrist

“The tombstone is cracked?” Gu Zhisang was a little surprised.

Yu Tongqiu hurriedly asked: “What is Sangsang’s opinion? Is it caused by that old lady’s obsession?”

“I’m not sure. Whether it’s the cracks on the tombstone or the scratched wreath, the event is not clear enough. I can’t be ruled out whether someone is playing a prank.” Gu Zhisang said: “But if it is not man-made, there must be evil spirits playing tricks.”

“Evil spirits?” Yu Tongqiu shivered, a little scared.

Gu Zhisang replied: “That’s right, evil spirits are a kind of ghost. They are all ghosts formed by people’s souls full of hatred and resentment after death. Although they sound powerful, they are the lowest level among all ghosts. Most of them only have hatred and obsession but no memory of their life, so they only have a vague thought, which basically can’t harm anyone.”

“For example, some people buy a second-hand house where someone died. Occasionally, they find that the items in the house have been moved, the vase on the table suddenly fell to the ground, or the door opened in the middle of the night. These are all done by the dead people in the house. It still thinks this is its own home, and wants to drive out the current owner of the house, but it cannot kill people. It can only use this method to scare the current owner of the house, and wants this owner to move away on his own.”

“If there’s a ghost at your friend’s funeral, it might be one of these kinds of events.”

Funerals were originally a ritual to send away ghosts, which gather the yin energy from the surrounding area. Yu Tongqiu’s friend called the funeral procession to play and sing. Wild ghosts were attracted to watch the play.

If it was a more powerful ghost, it would not be as simple as the wreath being scratched and people falling to the ground.

Yu Tongqiu understood. She said: “That is to say, that evil spirits don’t want the funeral to continue, and all it does is scare us and prevent the old lady from being buried?”

“It can be understood in this way.”

Gu Zhisang said: “Although funerals will attract many ghosts to watch the excitement, according to the unspoken rules among ghosts, they generally will not make troubles in funeral affairs. After all, if it doesn’t concern their family, one must accumulate some virtue for future generations.”

“So I am more inclined that there is indeed something strange about the death of this old lady.”

Yu Tongqiu took a deep breath: “Is this the case? Sangsang. You also know this friend I mentioned…”

Gu Zhisang asked: “I know this person?”

“Yes, it’s Director Liu Jin.”

Gu Zhisang was a little surprised, she didn’t expect it to be him.

Liu Jin, Xia Country’s most famous director, also became famous internationally with his debut work. The movies he made in these years were all hits that have gathered many awards.

“Legend of the Floating Sea” was the first TV series he took over to shoot. The original owner successfully earned the female No. 4 protagonist in the series with her face, but she was smashed in the head by the crew more than half a month ago, and now her body has changed soul.

Yu Tongqiu explained: “Actually, after the funeral that day, Director Liu invited several mystical masters to come to their house, but none of them had a good solution.”

Some mystical masters also said that funerals would attract many lonely ghosts, and it was difficult to tell which one was causing the trouble and suggested Liu Jin just destroy all of them.

But Liu Jin was afraid that his mother had turned into a ghost, so he was unwilling to use this method.

Some mystical masters also said that the old lady died suddenly, that’s why she was unwilling to accept it. So she caused trouble at the funeral, and as long as her resentment was overcome, she could be buried normally.

However, the method of opening the altar was still ineffective.

The day before yesterday, Liu Jin tried to bury the coffin in the cemetery he bought. It didn’t rain that day, and the cemetery ground was flat and clean, but two coffin bearers staggered suddenly and almost dropped the coffin.

Now he didn’t dare to act rashly anymore, so he could only choose to temporarily suspend the evil spirit.

During the period of the accident, Liu Jin stopped all filming work and fell into self-blame, and collapse.

He always felt that he had neglected his mother’s health. It was because he didn’t go home on a time that day, so he didn’t find his mother was sick. She was left lying on the cold ground for more than ten minutes and suffered from angina pectoris.

Such a painful death, who can not feel a little bit of resentment?

Yu Tongqiu said on the phone: “Actually, I know so much because Liu Jin is my senior brother. His mother is my mentor, an old senior who retired decades ago and focus on her family. I do have some selfishness, I don’t want to see my senior brother in so much pain, and I want my teacher to have a peaceful life after death. So I called to ask you, Sangsang, if you can help me find out what’s going on.”

Gu Zhisang pondered for a moment, she was hesitating in her heart.

Thinking of what the system just said, she said to Yu Tongqiu on the other end of the phone: “I can solve this matter, but I need a reward.”

Yu Tongqiu hurriedly said: “The compensation is no problem, no matter how much it is.”

“I don’t want money.”

Gu Zhisang’s tone was flat, “I only want the merits of the party involved. You know what merits are. You can tell Director Liu so that he can think about it. If he agrees, make an appointment tomorrow, and I will go and resolve the matter.”

She was sitting in front of the table, and there were three pieces of Emperor coins on the table. While making a phone call, she made another divination according t the ‘Heaven Divination Diagram’.

The problem of divination was still to deduce the way of heaven, plus what happened to the party involved. Although there was still no result, at least the hexagram was no longer a situation of three yins.

She saw two yins and one yang on the three imperial coins, which showed that the matter she asked about had turned around a bit.

Perhaps after gathering some meritorious power and performing divination again, the cloud can be removed.

When she handled this affair, the other party will contribute meritorious deeds, and the money and goods were settled reasonably.

About ten minutes later, a new message popped up on the phone.

Yu Tongqiu said: “Sangsang, Director Liu agrees.”

*

The next day, Gu Zhisang followed Yu Tongqiu’s guidance and came to a large European-style villa area. When Yu Tongqiu, who had been waiting for a long time, saw someone coming, she waved at her.

“Sangsang, over here!”

The gloomy middle-aged man behind her frowned and showed disbelief on his face when he saw Gu Zhisang.

“Junior sister, the master you are talking about is Gu Zhisang?!”

Yu Tongqiu said seriously: “Sangsang is powerful. Didn’t I tell you that she solved my previous problems? Don’t read and believe those dirty rumors on the internet, she is nice.”

Liu Jin still doesn’t believe it, and now there were only three points left in his high expectations.

Gu Zhisang, his senses were very complicated.

Liu Jin has an extreme personality. He was a well-known drama lunatic in the industry. In layman’s terms, he was an axis. As long as he encounters filming, he will be very dedicated and devoted, but he was an idiot in life, and he has not been in love or married yet.

Especially since this was his first time in charge of filming a TV series, whether it was props, location selection, or actors, he was extremely picky.

The reason why he was able to tolerate an artist with poor acting skills like ‘Gu Zhisang’ joining the group was really because of the particularity of that character, as well as the particularity of the artist herself.

The female Si Yujing in “Legend of the Floating Sea” doesn’t have many roles, but she was set as the number one beauty in the book, and every time she appears on the stage, she was bound to cause a sensation because of her appearance.

When casting roles, Liu Jin has been looking for suitable female artists but always feels that they were not perfect enough.

When he saw the photo of ‘Gu Zhisang’ on the internet, he immediately decided on that face. It was a face that could be called eye-catching anywhere, and it was the best face to cast as Si Yujing.

In Liu Jin’s opinion, a director who has directed countless international blockbusters and brought out several movie stars and actresses, how can he not train a starlet?

Facts have proved that ‘Gu Zhisang’ was his Waterloo in life.

He wanted to replace this artist many times, but he gritted his teeth and endured it after seeing that face.

Liu Jin knew that Gu Zhisang had participated in a Spiritual Affair variety show recently, but everyone in the circle said that Gu Zhisang’s company had written a good script. After all, she was notoriously unlucky in the circle before.

If she knew some metaphysics skills, she would have changed her luck a long time ago!

He felt that Yu Tongqiu must have been fooled by the other party, but he still nodded at Gu Zhisang, “I’m sorry to trouble you.”

Gu Zhisang confirmed it again: “Are you sure you want to exchange merits? Once the contract is established, you can’t go back on it.”

Liu Jin was stunned for a moment, but he didn’t expect the process to be quite good: “I’m sure, as long as my mother can be buried with peace of mind, I can exchange my life span.”