C2 Deceiving ghosts

The moment I saw the copper coin, cold sweat emerged from my back. This jade copper coin was the one that I stuffed into Zhu Lao Liu's dead daughter-in-law's mouth. Why is it in my room now?

I panicked. Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law was already dead, then the person who came just now must be her ghost. Why did she come looking for me? Could it be that she wanted to harm me? But I didn't offend her.

Just as I was at a loss for words, I heard someone calling my name from outside. It was my grandpa's voice.

After hearing grandpa's voice, my panicking heart immediately calmed down. My grandpa had a wide range of knowledge, so as long as I tell him about this matter, he would definitely know the reason. Thinking of this, I ran out to open the door for grandpa.

I opened the door and saw grandpa standing at the entrance with a yellow bag in his hand. I then received grandpa's yellow bag and said, "Grandpa, you're back."

Grandfather ignored me and stared at me. Being stared at by Grandfather, I felt a little scared, so I asked Grandfather what was wrong.

Grandfather grabbed my right hand and asked me in a deep voice, "He's been away for a few days, what did I do at home? Why is there a wave of yin aura enveloping my body?"

Grandfather said that I was shrouded in a dark aura and it must be related to Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law. I didn't dare to hide it and told Grandfather what I did yesterday and what happened this morning.

After my grandfather heard this, his eyes widened and he immediately slapped me in the face. He pointed at my nose and cursed, "You brat, how much ability do you have? Don't tell me you don't know and still dare to take up this useless matter. I think you're really tired of living."

I didn't understand why my grandfather suddenly got so angry. Looking at him, I didn't dare to ask, but I knew that I must have gotten into trouble.

Grandfather gave me a fierce glare before walking into the house.

When we reached the living room, my grandfather asked me to tell him everything from the beginning to the end of yesterday. I couldn't afford to leave anything out, so I told him everything again.

Pappy sighed. Tell me, this is all life.

Grandfather said, the reason you don't teach me abilities is because my fate is naturally weaker than others and I have a lot more Yin Qi than normal people. If the ghost knows, he will naturally think of ways to harm me and get my Yin Qi. Once he teaches me my ability, I will have more opportunities to interact with the ghost.

Then I understand, the ghost of Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law must have wanted my yin aura, so she came to find me. I don't understand, Grandpa and I also took on many useless jobs and were fine in the past, why did something happen this time, I asked her about my doubts.

My grandfather told me that before, he had always been by my side and never let me come in contact with a dead person. Those ghosts naturally wouldn't notice that I had a large amount of Yin Qi on me, but this time it was different, I came in contact with Old Zhu's sixth son's wife's corpse.

I anxiously asked how I was going to settle this matter. I didn't want to be the center of attention for a female ghost.

Grandfather said to me in a bad mood. Now that he knew I was worried, he had already left. However, he immediately told me not to worry. He naturally had his own ways to deal with it.

When I asked him what solution he had, he kept his mouth shut. He said, "It won't work if I say it out loud, I'll know when it's night time."

After he finished speaking, his grandfather went into the house to rest.

It's already late autumn now, and the sky is almost dark. When I saw that my grandfather had come out, I asked him how he was going to settle the matter of how Zhu Lao Six's daughter-in-law pestered me.

Grandfather yawned and said what was the hurry.

How could I not be anxious? The sky quickly darkened, but my grandfather still had an indifferent expression on his face.

Seeing me so anxious, Grandfather walked into the kitchen. He took out a lot of straw and tied a paper man, which was extremely rough. He took out a yellow talisman and stuck it on the paper man's head, then told me to bite the middle finger of the yellow talisman and drop a drop of blood.

I knew that my grandfather was trying to save me, so I didn't dare to hesitate before biting open the middle finger and dripping a drop of blood onto the yellow talisman.

After doing this, Grandpa led me to my room. He placed the paper man on my bed and took out some of my clothes to put on the paper man.

I couldn't help but to ask my grandfather what he was doing.

Grandfather told me that he was going to be my substitute again. At night, Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law would treat this paper man as me, and Grandfather also told me not to ask too many questions. As long as I was instructed to do it, I would be safe.

Grandfather dressed the paper man and told me to take him inside. He went out, not knowing what to do.

After a while, Grandpa came back into my room. He had two white candles in his hands and a foot of paper money, so he placed the candles on both sides of the door and told me to go over to him. He told me to light the candles when it was dark, and then to light the paper money in the middle of the door, and to burn them one by one until I finished burning the paper money and ran to lie down under the bed. No matter what I heard, I would not come out until I heard the crowing of chickens.

I nodded, and Grandpa told me again that I must hear the crowing of a chicken and come out again, and then he walked out of the room.

After Grandpa walked out of the room, the sky darkened after a short while.

I followed Pappy's instructions and lit up two white candles by the door. Then, I placed a piece of paper money in the middle of the door and lit it up. I looked at the white candles and the burning paper money.

After I burned all the paper money, there was a large pile of ashes at the entrance. I turned around and hid under the bed.

As soon as I hid under the bed, there was a cold wind at the door. The weak flame of the two candles was almost extinguished, and a large amount of ash and paper flew out from the door.

Then, I saw something that surprised me. A pair of footprints appeared on top of the ashes on the floor, but I saw something. The footprints seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, and they weren't large, like a woman's footprints.

I couldn't see the footprints as they came out of the ash-covered area, but I could feel that there was an extra person in my room, and the temperature in the room had dropped a lot.

"Creak!" Suddenly, the bed above my head started shaking, as if something jumped on it. After a while, I unexpectedly heard a sound similar to a woman moaning. I couldn't help but think, could it be that the ghost of Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law is currently with my grandfather's paper man? At the thought of this, I felt a chill down my spine, and didn't dare to think any further.

After about ten minutes, the moaning stopped and the bed stopped shaking. Just when I thought the ghost of Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law was about to leave, a soft 'ah' sound came from the bed.

I thought to myself, 'Could it be that Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law found out that the one on the bed wasn't me, but my grandpa's double?' Thinking of this, my breath quickened.

But after waiting for a long time, I still couldn't hear anything. The coldness in the room also slowly disappeared, as if the ghost of Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law had already left. I wanted to climb out to take a look, but remembering what my grandfather had told me, I held back and waited for the chickens to crow.

Just as I was about to fall asleep, I suddenly heard grandfather's voice. The female ghost had already left, you can come out now.

I heard my grandfather say that the ghost girl had left, and I stuck my head out without thinking, because it was so stifling to hide under the bed.

Just as I stuck my head out, I saw a pale face. It was Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law. She was lying on my bed, looking down. There was a weird smile on her face as we looked at each other.

I realized that I was tricked by the ghost girl. It wasn't my grandpa's voice just now, but this ghost girl imitated my grandpa's voice and tricked me out. I had to pull my head back.

When the ghost girl saw that I was going to pull my head back, she opened her mouth and let out a breath of black air, which I inhaled, and then my head felt very heavy and I fainted.

When I opened my eyes, I was lying on my grandfather's bed, and my grandfather was sitting in an armchair looking at me, frowning.

Seeing me wake up, Grandfather's brows relaxed. He stood up from his teacher's chair and asked me, "How did I get discovered by the female ghost? Did I not do as I was told?"

I hastily shook my head and tricked me out to tell grandfather that the ghost girl imitated my grandpa's voice.

After my grandfather heard this, his face instantly darkened. He told me that Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law definitely didn't die of illness.

I asked my grandfather why, my grandfather said that it was impossible for normal ghosts to see through his paper man double technique, only ghosts with extremely dense yin qi would be able to see through it, if Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law could mimic the sound and blow me out, she would definitely be able to see through the paper man on the bed, but the ghost aura of the dead would not be enough to see through the paper man double technique, so Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law definitely wouldn't die from a disease.

Initially, I also suspected that Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law didn't die, but since Zhu Lao Liu was his daughter-in-law the entire time, I believed him. Now it seems that Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law's death was rather strange.

After listening to grandpa's words, I asked him where the ghost of Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law went. Yesterday, Zhu Lao Liu's daughter-in-law breathed out black air, so I didn't know anything.

Grandpa sighed and said, "Last night, I noticed that something was wrong, so I went into your room to look around. I found that the female ghost was trying to harm you, so I cast a spell to chase her away."

I immediately asked Grandpa if the ghost girl would come back to find me. He nodded at me and said yes.