Hundred Ghosts

"Then you are really careful in your observations." Lin Zi raised his eyebrows, and asked the old man, "As the saying goes, 'When a man is about to die, his words are good' What mistakes did you make, it's better to say it, forget it A pity."

"I……"

"It doesn't matter if you don't say it. You will meet the blind ghost when you die. If you have anything to say, you can go to the underworld. At that time, it's hard to say whether the king of Hades will give you a heavier sentence."

The old man was anxious, "No... well, you let outsiders go out, I say yes."

After driving away a group of onlookers, there were not many people left in the room. The old man touched his stomach with his skinny hands and said to his son, "Qinger, your father is hungry, go and bring him a bowl of rice. Before leaving, I will leave after my father is full."

The gray-haired old man tremblingly went out to serve his father a meal. The rumors were true. The old man was in good health. No matter how he looked at it, he looked like the kind who could kill his son first. If it wasn't for the ghost... It was he who sent his son to his death.

"Hey, it's good that you are all here. There are so many people who gave me the last ride before I died. I am not in a loss, old man..." A few tears welled up in his cloudy eyes, "It's a pity that my Sister, she was really kind to me, she passed away decades ago...she was only in her 20s at the time, I really wanted to give her half of my life, what a pity..."

Here comes the important point, Lin Zi pricked up his ears to listen to him rambling about the past.

When he was a child, his family was poor, and when there was a famine, only he and his sister were left in the family.After surviving the famine, the family environment did not improve much.

Fearing that he would starve to death, his sister sold herself to a local wealthy businessman as a concubine.The rich businessman is lustful and married more than 20 side rooms, but only the main room gave birth to him a son.

His son was born extremely beautiful, but he didn't know how to do business. He only knew that he was indulging in his own beauty and ignored the outside world.

It’s okay if it’s a girl, she’s so beautiful, she must be protected by a good man, and she won’t suffer no matter what, but he is a man, good-looking, not smart, and has a bad temper. The rich businessman is very worried that he will inherit family business problems.

Just at this time, his sister's stomach reacted. The rich merchant treated her very differently from before. She was enshrined with delicious food and silk, and boxes of golden hairpins and precious jade were delivered, but she was hated by the principal.

The main house is a big beauty nearby, beautiful but cruel.

Once when a rich businessman was away, she drowned his sister in a pond, and then slandered that she had a private meeting with another man, maybe the child in her belly was not his.

Although there was something wrong with the governor, seeing the aggrieved look on the beautiful face of the main room, the rich businessman couldn't say anything, so he just let him take away all his sister's things.

The things his sister bought with her life are naturally very precious, but he doesn't want them.

When I was leaving, I happened to see the rich businessman's son. He was about the same age as me. Since my sister married, he also moved here, and we can have fun with him on weekdays.

He is so good-looking, I have been stunned by this face countless times.

But now looking at his face, which is more beautiful than his mother's, I just feel sick.

Without knowing it, he greeted himself, "Do you think I am beautiful again today? Well, it would be great if I could be this beautiful forever, even if I die now! But after death, the corpse will rot. It doesn't look like... No, no, it won't be beautiful like that."

A plan suddenly appeared in his mind.

He pointed at the old man and said stealthily, when a person grows to a certain age, he will become uglier and uglier no matter how beautiful he is, and no matter how beautiful a person is, he cannot escape the ravages of time, and you are at your most beautiful now.

Sure enough, seeing him for several days was sullen.

This is when he pretended unintentionally to say that he had heard that there was an expert who knew the art of retaining the face, and the foolish boy who had no face believed it, and kept asking him where he could find an expert.

He sold his sister's jewellery, and bought a slave who was sold because of debts from the black market at a high price. He made the slave dress up as a Taoist priest, and gave the poison to that idiot boy.

He happily returned home with the medicine, and the next day there was news that he committed suicide by taking poison in bed.

The wealthy businessman who lost his two sons was furious, and paid a lot of money to send someone to find out the culprit, but he was so angry that he had a cerebral hemorrhage and never woke up again.

The slave was captured and handed over to the government to be beheaded.

The wealthy businessman's belongings were handed over to his brothers, while the concubines packed up valuables and left.

And the handsome boy who was deceived by him didn't even have anyone to collect his body.

To die alone.

It had been seven days since everyone moved out, and he ran into the boy's room every day in the dark. The corpse was rotten on the bed, the smell was extremely stench, and flies were circling around.

Seven days ago, he was still saying hello to himself... If he knew that he actually became like this after death, he must be very sad, right?

He panicked in his heart, sobbing loudly.

This time, there was really no one around me.

He spent some money to buy a thin coffin, ready to put the body in and bury it.

Anyway, it's safe to bury.

However, when he went there again, he couldn't find the body.

It wasn't that he couldn't find it, but that the room was gone, and the second floor was empty, full of traces after the sweep. He walked into the room where the corpse was supposed to be, but he couldn't see anything inside.

And the coffin that was brought there was nowhere to be seen.

For several days in a row, he searched the house every day, but still found nothing.

Helpless, he bought a house in a nearby place with the remaining money, and went there from time to time until he got married and started a business, until the two of them forgot each other.

He seemed a little sleepy, lay down and closed his eyes, "Over the years, I have always heard people say that I saw a peerless beauty in that haunted house, but I never saw him again, does he still remember me?"

Lin Zi thought that after the death of that idiot, he was only obsessed with his own beauty, so he had no time to grudge others.

But Lin Zi still said, "Who knows, you might as well ask him."

His tone became weaker, "Yes, I will see him soon..."

When the firecrackers went off outside the house, the sons and daughters cried together. Thinking that it was a happy funeral, they forcefully smiled and said to everyone that their father was actually very lucky...

A group of people seemed to be relieved, and someone whispered happily, "Fortunately, I left early, I don't want to wait until midnight to get up..."

Entering the coffin and placing it in the mourning hall, the incense ash in the "cornucopia" was piled up layer after layer, and the little grandson who burned paper for the great grandfather went to play somewhere, and the rest of the relatives drove their children to burn it for him, babbling My children have burned so much paper for you, the old man wants to bless his children to make a fortune in the future...

In the middle of the night, the sons and daughters kept vigil, and the nearby neighbors went home to sleep first, and the distant relatives lived in his house, but there were too many people, so they had no choice but to light a fire in the yard to keep out the cold.

He Huai asked Lin Zi to warm himself up by the fire, but he sat far away. It may be that the temperature suddenly dropped at night, and many night cats nearby were "meowing" from the cold.

Lin Zi looked at the mourning hall worriedly - several people who were guarding the mourning were dozing off.

Lin Zi grabbed the Taoist they invited and said, "Tell them to watch the spirit well, it will be bad if a wild cat jumps in."

"Hey, no, no, there are so many people!"

"If you don't go and remind them, I'll tell them that you missed two chapters when you sang the mourning." Lin Zi said expressionlessly.

Some Taoist priests became monks halfway, and some eulogies were sung to make money after they didn’t memorize them. Originally, eulogies were sung for the dead, and ordinary people couldn’t understand them. They would repeat what they sang just now in an attempt to get away with it.

His face suddenly panicked, and he stammered, "You... What nonsense are you talking about? This Taoist priest doesn't have one!"

"Then you go and swear in front of the dead," Lin Zi sneered, "I'm sorry, I'm in this business too, I can understand everything you mourn, do you want me to translate it for your employer again? "

"...No, no, I'll just say it in the past," he walked into the mourning hall in a daze, but the children of the deceased didn't care much about this matter, and the appearance of the promise was perfunctory.

Lin Zi had no choice but to sit outside the mourning hall with He Huai and watch over them.

After more than an hour, He Huai got up suddenly, and Lin Zi looked over, and he caught a black cat and came out.

"Hey, thanks to my quick reaction, I almost got it mixed in!"

The black cat stared at the two of them and growled, with a hint of anger in its eyes.

"Hey, you are a little wise, why do such outrageous things?" He Huai patted it on the head, "Take your cat and go away quickly, this family is not something you can afford, tomorrow I will Can I pack the leftovers for you to fill your stomachs?"

The black cat nodded hesitantly.

For the rest of the night, everything was easy to talk about, but in the early morning, when the old man's great-granddaughter had dinner, they thought about what they dreamed about last night.

"I dreamed about Grandpa Zeng last night."

"Oh? What did he tell you?" Lin Zi pricked up his ears with great interest. You must know that sometimes people in the underworld will tell mortals in their dreams when they know something precious.

"Grandpa Zeng left in a hurry, so he just told me that I'm going to be reincarnated!"

He Huai asked, "Did you say anything else?"

She tilted her head and thought for a while, "Where did he say he would be reincarnated? Well... I don't seem to remember clearly, but he also said, what's his name? Li?"

There are so many people surnamed Li!

Lin Zi smiled, "It doesn't matter if you don't remember clearly, it's a good thing, your great-grandpa is in a hurry to reincarnate."

Reincarnation ghosts are ghosts who are ready to reincarnate.It can conjure dreams and tell others the place and name of its reincarnation.

Because it is rushing to reincarnate, it is most afraid of delaying the time of reincarnation, so it often appears in a hurry.

After Lin Zi told them these things, everyone didn't know if they were serious, and they said in unison that the old man was blessed.

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