Chapter 18 A Big Trouble
Tan Xuan watched the so-called activities outside for a while and then leaned back in his chair. He didn't care about a group of wandering ghosts. They couldn't cause any trouble even if they wanted to do evil. Besides, Li Jianyang must have learned some half-baked skills from somewhere. As long as they didn't make too much trouble, nothing would happen. They just wanted to be happy, and those ghosts were also happy.
Knowing that the "Yin God" was in place, the people sitting around the white cloth suppressed their excitement and continued their spiritual pursuits.
Li Jianyang was the first to speak. He closed his eyes and asked, "Yin Shen, Yin Shen, can I succeed in getting promoted this year? Please tell me clearly."
After a moment's silence, the plate on the white cloth moved again, still slowly, sliding from one word to the next, as if visiting every household, neither hurried nor slow, occasionally taking a few steps back.
The plate didn't stop, and everyone was a little anxious, especially Li Jianyang. At this time, the calmness taught by his master was completely wishful thinking. Now this kind of waiting was completely a torture for him. Li Jianyang closed his eyes tightly and didn't dare to open them, nor did he dare to urge. His master warned him not to be disrespectful to the Yin spirit, otherwise he would get into trouble. His anxiety was reflected on his face. After a while, his fingers on the bottom of the plate began to tremble unconsciously.
Finally, the plate stopped and stopped sliding. Li Jianyang felt it again and again for a while and then quickly opened his eyes, staring closely at the words pointed by the arrow on the plate. Others also opened their eyes.
"Yes." The arrow pointed straight to the point.
After seeing the corresponding text, Li Jianyang clenched his left hand, which had been resting on his leg, and his face was instantly filled with joy. At the same time, others were also happy for him with smiles on their faces, especially those who came with him in the same car.
"Go on, next one."
After the excitement, Li Jianyang spoke, the activity continued, and everyone closed their eyes again.
"Ahem!" The order must have been arranged in advance. This time it was Su Cheng who spoke. She cleared her throat before speaking, then asked in a pious voice, "Yin Shen, Yin Shen, can I meet my prince charming this year? Please tell me clearly."
After saying that, Su Cheng closed his mouth and sat up straight.
Hearing Su Cheng's question, Tan Xuan in the car also sat up again. He was not interested in what answer would appear in the future. After all, as the saying goes, ghosts are full of lies. People lie to ghosts, and ghosts are not sincere to people. Now these people are trying so hard to ask ghosts for answers, which can only be said that they are really unique. Tan Xuan was just curious about what expression Su Cheng would have after getting the answer.
The skinny old man riding on Li Zhengyang's shoulders was having a lot of fun. Although the smile on his face was sinister, it never stopped. He kept touching the white cloth with the branch in his hand to let the little ghost on the white cloth grab it. Back and forth, left and right, the old ghost teased the little ghost to crawl back and forth on the white cloth. When Su Cheng on the opposite side was no longer so straight and his expression was a little relaxed, the old ghost touched the branch to a place on the white cloth and stopped moving. The little ghost hugged the branch and lay there sucking it, as if the branch was coated with honey.
Feeling that the plate was no longer moving, Su Cheng counted three words and quickly opened her eyes to see the answer. However, when she saw the answer pointed by the arrow, her eyes widened and her brows furrowed, because the arrow was not pointing to the word "can", nor the word "yes", nor even the disappointing word "no", but to the word "wood". What kind of answer was this? It was completely irrelevant to the question, and Su Cheng was confused.
This answer was really incomprehensible. Su Cheng quickly closed his eyes and asked again: "Yin Shen, Yin Shen, can you give me a clearer hint? Is the other party's surname Mu or his name contains Mu?"
The Yin Spirit did not reply to Su Cheng. Zhang Yanan, who was sitting next to Su Cheng, spoke directly, "Su Cheng, why don't you follow the rules? Didn't we agree to ask one question each? Why did you ask two questions in a row?"
Su Cheng was stunned, and then his expression immediately turned very ugly, "Why did you call me by my name? You can't call me by my name, don't you know what the consequences will be? Do you understand the rules?"
"What's wrong with calling your name? You were the one who broke the rules first."
Facing the accusation, Su Cheng showed no intention of backing down. "How did I break the rules? The Yin God didn't give me a clear answer to the question I asked just now. I'll continue to ask what's wrong..."
"Why didn't I give you a clear answer? Isn't it all pointed out, Mu?"
"I just want to ask what Qingmu means."
"Why are you asking? I've clearly told you that there is no such thing. You can't read or your brain is not working well."
Tan Xuan was sitting in the car trying to hold back his laughter. He could even speak in dialect. This explanation was too good. Someone who could come out in the middle of the night to invite ghosts was definitely not an ordinary person. But he couldn't tell that the skinny guy was related to the people of Qingdao.
Tan Xuan shook his head and could only find an excuse for himself, "Maybe he came from Guandong."
Su Cheng was stunned for a moment after hearing Zhang Yanan's explanation, and then loudly refuted, "You are the one with a problem in your brain, not that you don't have any..."
“Why not…”
Everyone was dumbfounded. Even though they had done the necessary homework beforehand, they had not expected such an emergency to occur. For a moment, they didn't know how to dissuade him. The only thing they knew was that they should not move their fingers against the bottom of the plate.
Not only were people dumbfounded, but even the skinny old ghost riding on Li Jianyang's shoulders had a look of surprise. His narrow eyes looked back and forth between Su Cheng and Zhang Yanan, and the smile on his face gradually became eerie.
"That's enough, shut up!" Li Jianyang said in a low voice. After all, he was the organizer of the event and knew more about the seriousness of the matter than those ignorant people. He glared at the two people who were quarreling fiercely and asked, "Do you know what you are doing? Don't you know that you will make the Yin God angry?"
Li Jianyang's words worked very well. Su Cheng and Zhang Yanan immediately shut up and stopped talking. Their expressions became respectful and cautious again.
After everything was quiet again, Li Jianyang lowered his head, closed his eyes, and began to chant softly, "Don't be upset, Yin God, don't be upset, it was unintentional, please don't blame me..."
The plate on the white cloth shook slightly, and everyone else quickly sat up straight, staring at the plate in the middle, their expressions becoming extremely serious.
Li Jianyang let out a long breath, his expression finally relaxed, "The Yin God is not angry, and he didn't blame us for being unreasonable. Let's move on to the next person."
"Is it my turn?" Zhang Yanan asked Li Jianyang.
"Yes, hurry up."
"Okay." Zhang Yanan nodded, pouted at Su Cheng as if to protest, then closed her eyes and said, "Yin Shen, Yin Shen, I want to ask if the person I love deeply loves me? When are we going to get married?"
Hearing Zhang Yanan's question, Su Cheng and Li Jianyang frowned. Although they closed their eyes, they were obviously dissatisfied with Zhang Yanan's question. Each person could ask one question, but she asked two at once, which was obviously not in line with the rules. But now the ceremony was in progress, and they did not dare to remind or stop it casually.
After waiting for a few seconds, the plate didn't move, and everyone was shocked.
"Yin Shen, Yin Shen, I want to ask if the person I love deeply loves me?" Zhang Yanan asked again, as if she realized that her cleverness had displeased Yin Shen, so this time she only asked one question.
After waiting for a few more seconds, the plate still didn't move, and everyone opened their eyes.
Li Jianyang motioned for everyone to close their eyes, then asked softly, "Yin Shen, are you still there? Please answer."
After a moment of silence, the plate trembled again, and the answer was obvious: it was there.
"Yin Shen, Yin Shen, I want to ask if the person I love deeply loves me?" After making sure that Yin Shen was still there, Zhang Yanan hurriedly repeated the question, fearing that if she asked too late, Yin Shen would go off work.
The plate remained silent and motionless.
Zhang Yanan felt unhappy, and her tone of voice was no longer as respectful as before, "Yin Shen, are you tired? Answer me."
Again the plate did not respond.
Zhang Yanan was annoyed, opened her eyes and shouted at Li Jianyang: "Li Jianyang, is this you who did this?"
Li Jianyang opened his eyes upon hearing this, glared at Zhang Yanan and scolded, "What are you yelling about? Didn't I tell you not to say... that word? If you can't get the answer, it means you're not sincere. What does it have to do with me?"
"You are lying. It is obvious that you are playing tricks on me. You dare not answer my questions."
"Shut up and stop talking nonsense, or you'll be blamed by the Yin Spirit."
"What crime can you blame? There is no such thing as a ghost. I have been asking for a long time but there is no answer. If there is one, call her out and let me see. I don't believe your nonsense. If you don't want to marry me, just say it directly. There is no need to be so secretive. If you don't say it, I don't want to listen."
As she said this, Zhang Yanan was about to withdraw her fingers and stand up. But she was immediately dumbfounded, because she found that her fingers seemed to be stuck to the bottom of the plate and could not be removed at all. She stretched out her other hand to pull it, but it didn't work. The plate was motionless on the white cloth.
"Asshole, what did you do to the plate? Why can't I get my hand back?" Zhang Yanan yelled at Li Jianyang, even angrier than before.
"I didn't do anything." Seeing that Zhang Yanan didn't seem to be acting, Li Jianyang was stunned for a moment. He tentatively pulled back his fingers and found that his hands could not move. At this time, the candles at the four corners of the white cloth were also shaking vigorously, and the flames became slender as if they were about to jump out of the lampshade.
Li Jianyang was sweating profusely, and said in a panic: "Don't be upset, Yin Shen, don't be upset, Yin Shen, she didn't mean it..."
Zhang Yanan thought Li Jianyang was playing tricks again and continued to shout, "Stop acting! Let go of my hand immediately. If there is a ghost,
"Shut up! If you keep talking nonsense, I'll tear your mouth apart." Li Jianyang was also angry. Everything was beyond his expectations. He knew the seriousness of the matter better than anyone else.
"Hurry up and apologize to the Yin God, quickly!"
Zhang Yanan sneered, "You are still pretending? Even if there is a Yin spirit, why should I apologize to it? If anyone should apologize, it should apologize to me. Since they have received our incense, why don't they answer my questions? Don't they know these rules?"
Before Zhang Yanan finished speaking, the plate on the white cloth suddenly moved in full view of everyone, and it moved quickly and forcefully, pulling everyone's hands and sliding directly to the "hit" position.
Seeing the word "beat", Zhang Yanan went crazy and shouted, "Do you want to beat me? Who are you trying to scare? I'm not scared. If you have the guts, just beat me. Who do you think you are if you want to beat me?"
"I told you to be sticky, I will just crush you to pieces." As he said that, Zhang Yanan pressed down hard.
It was too late for everyone to stop it. There was a "crack" sound from under the plate, and then the plate bounced up and out of everyone's hands. It bounced more than a meter high before falling down. After falling, it didn't stop, but stood in the center of the white cloth and kept spinning.
"This..." Everyone was stunned and froze there. This phenomenon was much more magical than the pointing at words just now. Although they were a little scared, they were more happy because their trip tonight was not in vain.
But Zhang Yanan was completely dumbfounded. When she realized that it wasn't Li Jianyang who was behind this, she immediately became scared. She sat there staring at the endlessly spinning plate. She wanted to cry but didn't know how to cry.
"The Yin God calms down, the Yin God calms down..." Li Jianyang was still sober, and he kept repeating those words with his hands clasped together, but the speed of the plate's rotation did not slow down at all. He also felt that his body was getting heavier and heavier, as if a big stone was pressing on him, and it was getting heavier and heavier, pressing him so hard that he could hardly stand up.
"It's over. We have angered the Yin God. Are we going to be punished? Yin God, please calm down..." Li Jianyang was completely panicked.
"God, please calm down..." After begging several times with no response, Li Jianyang pulled out a knife from his pocket with all his strength and slashed it towards his left middle finger.
"Snapped!"
Li Jianyang was startled because someone patted his shoulder, and then he felt a lot more relaxed. Turning his head, he saw Tan Xuan, who he thought was a nuisance, coming to him.
Tan Xuan looked around and said sternly, "It's getting late. We've had enough fun and noise. It's time to go back to where we should go."
