Episode 7 Chapter 062 Footprints
The urn and the black and white cloth shoes were placed on the coffee table. Shan Ranjin asked me not to worry about these two things for the time being. He then came to the door again, but he did not move behind the door. Instead, he looked at his watch and said that there were still two minutes to midnight. As I thought, Shan Ranjin chose to come to my house at this time after precise calculation.
The two minutes of waiting seemed very long, as if they were not two minutes. During this time, Shan Lanjin asked me to squat aside and look the place where the paper man had stood. Time passed by minute by minute, and after midnight, I suddenly saw a footprint on the originally clean ground. I looked at Shan Lanjin in surprise, but Shan Lanjin made a gesture to me to keep quiet.
I saw the footprints going into the living room, and that direction seemed to be towards my room. After a while, I heard light footsteps in the living room, but Shan Lanjin and I were still squatting there. I looked towards the source of the sound and saw my mop walking out of the room by itself, as if someone invisible was wearing it.
If Shan Rankin hadn't been by my side at that moment, I would never have dared to stay in the room alone. Then I saw the mop walk all the way to the sofa, and then, just like what I saw when I woke up in the morning, it was placed neatly in front of the sofa, as if someone had put it there on purpose, and after that, there was no movement in the whole room.
It was at this time that Shan Lanjin whispered to me, so we have always been misled, thinking that many things were done by the hanged middle-aged man. In fact, that thing has not been disturbed until now, and has been hanging there quietly. All these noises in the room should be caused by this thing.
After listening to Shan Lanjin's words, I said that I brought the paper man back later, but this phenomenon existed before it came. Shan Lanjin did not comment, he just asked me a question, he said before the paper man was brought back, did I hear the sound of the living room door being opened in the middle of the night, but when I got up to check, I found that the living room door was clearly closed?
I looked at Shan Ranjin and said that this was really the case. During that time, I thought I was having a nightmare and hallucination, which made me a little nervous. It turned out that this was not an illusion, but the truth. Shan Ranjin then said that in the past, it would come up from 721 every night and come in, but after being carried back, it could directly stay at home.
When Shan Lanjin said this, some images suddenly flashed through my mind, such as the incense print on my mother's hand, the footprints with paper ash that I saw at the door, the marks next to the sofa, and the scene where Master Nan asked the person behind the door "Who are you?", etc. It turned out that this thing was causing all the trouble.
Before this, I always thought that it was the middle-aged man hanging on the ceiling who was causing all these problems, because my grandma showed me it in the mirror that time. Unexpectedly, until now, it has not really appeared. Does this mean that the complexity of this matter is far beyond what I thought?
My mind was surging with thoughts for a moment, and at this time Shan Lanjin was knocking on the floor tiles. I heard that the sound of one of the tiles was indeed different, as if it was hollow underneath. Shan Lanjin asked me if I had any prying tools or something like that at home. He thought the strange thing was under this hollow floor tile.
I have to admire Shan Lanjin's carefulness. I have lived in this house for such a long time, but I didn't notice that there was a hollow space under the floor tiles. He only came two or three times and found it completely. Shan Lanjin said that it was not only his credit, but also Shi Hu, because it was Shi Hu who told him that there seemed to be a hollow space behind the door, so he paid more attention to it. It turned out to be Shi Hu, no wonder, he often came in and out of my house, which once again proved that Shi Hu was really good at hiding things, because if it weren't for Shan Lanjin's performance tonight, I'm afraid I wouldn't know that he already knew this secret.
So I found a big screwdriver for Shan Lanjin, and he pried along the four sides of the floor tile for a while and managed to use it. Finally, the tile became loose, so he pried up a corner of the floor tile with the screwdriver, and then tried to pick it up little by little. This process took a long time. While we were doing this, Shan Lanjin suddenly received a phone call, so he put down the work in his hands and answered the phone. I saw that the person calling was Shi Hu.
Because I was beside Shan Lanjin at the time, I could vaguely hear Shi Hu's voice on the other end of the phone. I heard Shi Hu seemed to say - be careful, there is someone watching you in the living room when you turn your back. Shan Lanjin didn't say anything, but just said "hmm" and hung up the phone. He turned his head to look at the living room, and I looked over there, but the living room was empty. I was about to ask something, but Shan Lanjin made a gesture to silence me again, saying that he would explain to me when he was free.
Then Shan Ranjin told me to keep an eye on the living room. The situation seemed strange and a little wrong. I just heard what Shi Hu said and knew that it might be the same as the last time when I was in the bathroom but Qiao Jie was standing in the living room staring at the bathroom. Then I stared at the living room while Shan Ranjin was responsible for prying up the floor tiles.
After that, I heard Shan Lanjin say "OK", and I looked over. Sure enough, there was a secret compartment under the floor tile. In the secret compartment, I saw something very familiar, a statue of Guanyin, which was exactly the same as the one my mother brought back. Shan Lanjin took the statue of Guanyin out, then looked at me and said it was a ghost Bodhisattva.
When Shan Lanjin was talking about these things occupying the house, I was wondering why he didn't mention the place where the ghost Bodhisattva was originally enshrined on the table. Now that I have seen this Guanyin statue, I know what is going on. Shan Lanjin said that the earlier Guanyin statue was possessed by this thing. Although Master Nan smashed the Guanyin statue in the end, he failed to hit the original owner and instead implicated himself.
Hearing this, I couldn't help but gasp. It seems that there is a lot of knowledge involved in this kind of thing. Sometimes, if you make a slight mistake or lack the ability, you may put your life in danger. It is indeed true. But in the past, I didn't believe it and thought that those gentlemen were just fooling us.
Shan Lanjin carefully placed the statue of Guanyin on the coffee table. Now that the things in the two places in the living room have been found, the next thing is the things in the room. I looked at Shan Lanjin, and what I was most concerned about was what was in the room. However, I didn't expect Shan Lanjin to keep me in suspense at this time. He said that we'd better not provoke that thing now, because the biggest problem we are facing now is how to deal with these three things.
As he spoke, Shan Lanjin touched his chin. My eyes swept over the three objects one by one, and finally landed on the urn. I wondered whose ashes this urn contained. Anyway, I didn't think it was Old Man Liu's, because I had seen his urn before, and it didn't look like this. As for whether there were ashes in this urn, it was hard to confirm now, but judging by the weight, there should be ashes. But Shan Lanjin said not to open it easily, in case something happened, it would be bad, so it was better to be careful.
Speaking of this, Shan Lanjin said that the urn should have been delivered together with the sofa when I bought it. It is unlikely that someone cut the leather surface of the sofa and put it in, and then repaired the leather surface. So I didn't know anything about the urn and the dead person's cloth shoes being placed in the sofa for so many years.
What frightened me even more was that these strange things in my family that seemed to have happened recently were actually planned several years ago. When I thought of this, I couldn't help but feel a chill all over my body. If it weren't for Shan Ranjin revealing the mystery tonight, I don't know how long I would have been kept in the dark. The ghost Buddha statue was also there. It had been there all along and had never been discovered.
Later, Shan Ranjin thought of a way to deal with these things temporarily. He said that these three things could be temporarily moved to 721. The things that supported their existence in this room were gone, and they could not enter freely. This way, I could feel more at ease tonight. I felt that this was a bit inappropriate, but Shan Ranjin asked me to trust him and it was okay, so I said let him do it.
