The warm yellow light illuminates the living room on the second floor. However, if you look from the outside at this moment, the light suddenly lights up in the vacant house. It is either haunted or a thief, and it is a stupid thief.
The headless female ghost moved very nimbly, holding her head in one hand and a rag in the other. It is said that she was a housekeeper in her lifetime, and she did not forget her rag when she died. She quickly wiped a wooden sofa clean and shiny, making Tang Xi is very greedy. She needs such a good ghost! Work neatly without paying!
When she sat down, there were crowds of people in front of the sofa, and at first glance, there were at least twenty ghosts.
"Most of you will disappear soon." Tang Xi said the first sentence.
The ghosts looked at each other for a while, and after a long time, the old ghost dressed up as the oldest in the Republic of China said: "Most of the ghosts here are ordinary people with no obsessions, and they will disappear after only seven days in the world. However, being implicated by the seal on the gate and suppressed in this house, and connected with the luck of the seal, this will always exist. Now that the seal is cracked, by dawn, everyone will go to where they should go."
"Dissipate?" Tang Xi frowned, puzzled and said, "As far as I know, only ghosts who linger in the world and escape from evil spirits will dissipate. I don't think you have such a strong obsession. Why don't you Go to hell?"
"Hell?" The old ghost smiled wryly, and said helplessly, "I can't go there. One hundred and fifty years ago, something major happened in the underworld, and the ghost gate was closed and never opened again. The world and the underworld were completely separated." Two worlds that are not connected to each other, the ghosts of the underworld cannot come to the human world, and the ghosts of the human world cannot go down to the underworld... This was told to me by an old ghost when I just died."
Tang Xi's expression remained unchanged, but her heart was filled with shock.
The ghost gate is closed! It turns out that this is the reason why the world is full of ghosts.
However, when asked why the ghost gate was closed, the old ghost couldn't explain why. Some other ghosts didn't even know the existence of the ghost gate, and thought that the underworld was a feudal superstition—even though he could change it. Ghosts are already very unscientific, but if you don't see black and white impermanence, you can always salvage the precarious three views a little bit. After all, most people here grew up with modern education.
"Forget it, let's talk about what happened in this house first, who made the seal?" Tang Xi simply brushed aside the question of the ghost gate.
"Let me tell." The headless female ghost came out, "I'm a housekeeper, I live at the end of the alley, and I've done cleaning for this house before, and I know their daughter-in-law very well."
Tang Xi nodded, motioning for her to continue.
The headless ghost sighed and told a clichéd story.
The old couple in this family are a bit patriarchal, but the daughter-in-law has gone to college and has disagreements. They live together, and the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has always been bad. The mother-in-law was extremely dissatisfied with the fact that the daughter-in-law gave birth to two daughters in a row. She said several times that she would give away the little granddaughter so that she could have another grandson. Of course the daughter-in-law disagreed. She quit her job and stayed at home with her daughter day and night, which took five or six years. The daughter-in-law thought that her daughter was growing up, but the mother-in-law finally gave up on this idea. Who would have thought that a mother-in-law who didn't care and had no legal knowledge... strangled the crying and annoying little granddaughter to death, and she justified her own child, It doesn't matter if you kill others! After the man returned home, although he felt sorry for his daughter, he couldn’t watch his wife send her mother to jail. The two husbands and wives had an argument, and the man accidentally pushed the woman down, and she died on the back of the wall-mounted TV. Was seen by the eldest daughter after school.
The eldest daughter, who was already a sophomore in high school, saw her mother lying in a pool of blood, but didn't realize it was her father's doing. She picked up her mobile phone and wanted to call 120, but the male owner thought she was going to call the police in a panic, and went forward to snatch the mobile phone. He knocked over the coffee table, and the fruit knife in the fruit plate accidentally killed his daughter by mistake.
Afterwards, the old couple helped their son hide the body, planning to go out to bury it in the middle of the night, and tell others that the daughter-in-law took her back to her natal home the next day. Unexpectedly, that night, the eldest daughter who turned into a ghost heard their discussion and knew Knowing the cause of death of his mother and younger sister, he was suddenly filled with resentment, and instinctively devoured countless lonely and wild ghosts nearby, turning them into fierce ghosts abruptly.
Tang Xi was stunned, no wonder the old couple and the hostess died half a day later than the mother and daughter, and the murderer has not been found yet, and it has become an unsolved case. How can the police, who are living people, investigate? After thinking about it, she asked again, "What about the seal at the door?"
"The one who stuck the seal is an old man, and he seems to have a lot of background. I've only seen that car on TV." The headless female ghost replied, "Since the seal is here, all nearby ghosts have been sucked in. Then you can't get out."
"Okay, I see." Tang Xi nodded. These ghosts don't know much, and they don't understand what happened when they saw it. She will have to ask herself in the future. Of course, with her current status, she might not be able to get in touch with people at that level, but it won't be long before her fame spreads, and people from that circle will naturally come to her, so don't worry.
It's just that other ghosts are easy to deal with, but the original owner of this house is a bit troublesome.
The souls of the old couple and the master have been torn to pieces by the eldest daughter, the mistress is locked in her mobile phone, and the most important little girl Yueyue... Although the elder sister wants to protect her, but for a long time Infected by resentment, if you can't go to the underworld immediately and wash away the resentment with the water of Wangchuan, it will dissipate at dawn.
However, the ghost gate was closed.
Rubbing between her brows, Tang Xi decided to put Yueyue's problem to the last place: "What about you? Is there any last wish left unfulfilled, let's hear it."
Maybe it's because after spending a while, the ghosts felt that this little girl was not afraid of them, and she wasn't that scary. If they were alive, they wouldn't be afraid of a little girl as old as their own granddaughter, so they immediately talked about it.
Tang Xi took a notebook and carefully wrote down each item.
These ghosts are basically ordinary people, and their wishes are all parents. Uncle Zhang wanted to take a look at his grandson who was not yet born when he died. Aunt Li wanted to tell her son that she had 5,000 yuan hidden in the interlayer of the bed. Grandma Wang missed it very much. The wife who left more than ten years ago wants her son to burn a photo of his wife so that she can take her on the road... zero and zero.
Tang Xi reckoned that it would take a weekend to finish all of them. Although these ghosts can't wait for that time, the things she promised, even if they are gone, will be done seriously.
Finally, the headless female ghost came over eagerly: "I, my business is a bit troublesome, can you really help me?"
"Tell me." Tang Xi turned the pen and said seriously, "You tell me, I'll think about whether I can do it. I may deceive people occasionally, but I never deceive ghosts."
"Actually... I, died quite unjustly." The headless female ghost showed her head, "Look, he was beheaded alive!"
"Hiss—" Tang Xi couldn't help gasping, and touched his neck. It seems to hurt a little.
"I came home from work that day. It was dark and I was very tired. In addition, the street lights in the alley were broken. I didn't see someone pulling a steel wire on the ground one meter high in the alley. The speed of the battery car was too high. Hurry up, before I can even react..."
"Stop it!" Tang Xi felt his neck go cold when he heard it. Is this equivalent to chopping off his own head? Too cruel!
"Do you want Ah Xi to help you avenge?" Yun Qi asked suddenly.
"Don't make trouble." Tang Xi rolled his eyes at him, "What time is it? For such a serious case, the method of committing the crime can't be said to be very sophisticated. The police must have found the culprit long ago."
"I found it." The headless female ghost cried, "It was a prank by the four punks from the vocational high school, because I saw them torture and kill stray animals and cursed a few times, so I wanted to pull a wire to make me fall, but I didn't expect to die. They Under the age of 18, the murderer was not intentional, and the head of the family was rich. Because there was no monitoring in the alley, one of them took all the responsibility. I died, and my husband was paralyzed in bed, my daughter was only in elementary school, but What about those little bastards? Not to mention paying for their lives, because it is 'negligent death', they will be released in a few years, and they can continue to live their own lives! The family who really did it would rather give a classmate a sum of money to let him Take the crime, and refuse to compensate my family for a penny! Am I going to die in vain? What will my husband and daughter do in the future?"
Tang Xi listened expressionlessly and sighed softly. No wonder this female ghost has such a deep obsession, she is one of the few ghosts that will not dissipate. However, why do vocational high school students who torture and kill animals sound so familiar? She frowned, took out her mobile phone and turned to the social news from the day before yesterday: High school student abused cat suspected of mental illness - this one is for the headless female ghost to read.
"It's him! It's him!" Although the boy's eyes in the photo were covered with a row of mosaics, the headless female ghost obviously had a deep memory of the murderer who killed her.
"I will take care of this matter, and I will help your family get the compensation." Tang Xi said in a deep voice.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you..." The headless female ghost knelt on the ground, weeping uncontrollably.
All the ghosts surrounded him, and two old men comforted him softly.
At this moment, there was a screeching sound of motorcycle brakes outside the window.
Tang Xi walked to the window, saw the dazzling car lights outside the courtyard, smiled unconsciously, turned around and said: "I accept all your last wishes, as the last night of your existence in this world, let's have a carnival and help you by the way." How about a favor for me?"
"I will do whatever Miss asks me to do!" said the headless female ghost immediately.
"Yes, girl, what can we do for you?" All the ghosts asked eagerly.
"Several students will come in later, please show your true colors and scare them so that they don't study hard and think about dying all day long." Tang Xi's eyes smiled into crescent moons, and her tone was gentle and sweet.
For a long time, no ghost made a sound.
"Why, this doesn't work?" Tang Xi was surprised, "Didn't you scare me just now?"
"That..." the headless female ghost said cautiously, "Can we... really scare people?"
Tang Xi was taken aback for a moment, and then burst out laughing, these ghosts were so shocked that they lost even their self-confidence.
"Don't worry, I'm unique," she said proudly.