First Chapter 7: The Hazardous Car
This old friend is a junior high school classmate of mine. Although we haven't contacted each other for a long time, we have never lost touch with each other. He also heard from others that I have been hanging out with a friend who knows magic recently, so he wanted to ask me for help with the idea of giving it a try. His relative encountered a big problem. Although this problem has nothing to do with the haunted house, it is also supernatural because the source of the problem is actually a haunted car.
The cause of the incident was very simple, just like the origin of many car accidents, it was a car accident. Let's call this old friend's relative A. A was also in the car that had the accident. They crashed head-on into a heavy truck carrying goods. They were only driving a small car, and the result was predictable. But A survived, but the driver was stabbed in the neck, and blood splashed on A's face.
Strangely, since A woke up in the hospital, she has always insisted that she was not A, but the driver at the time. More importantly, A's face began to have something similar to the bloodstain . However, the scary thing is not just that. This family lives at the junction of Hebei Province and Liaoning Province. When the family thought that she had mental disorders due to excessive stimulation, they wanted to send her to a large hospital in the provincial capital. They had to drive through the gatehouse of Shanhaiguan. As a result, A insisted that she could not pass the gate because there were ghost soldiers guarding the gate and would not let her pass. Finally, they had no choice but to find out that I was doing these haunted house transactions. In desperation, they hoped that I would take my friends to take a look.
Although I am a very materialistic person, I am still willing to help my friends when they ask for help. Besides, I didn't play a big role. I just acted as a go-between. So I persuaded Qin Yiheng to go and see A's situation.
Qin Yiheng was also very righteous and willing to help, so we simply packed our bags and boarded the bus to Shanhaiguan the next day. Although the journey was tiring, we just treated it as a trip and felt it was quite fresh. There is no need to elaborate on what happened on the road. When we arrived at Shanhaiguan, A's family went to the train station to pick us up. They were very enthusiastic and arranged for us to stay in the best local hotel. It seemed that they really regarded us as saviors.
After asking about the situation, I learned that they had also found a few so-called local gods to see him and used some methods, but there was no effect. Even a person with a three-character skill came, but there was no improvement. Now A can only be tied up at home. They are reluctant to send him to a mental hospital, and it is not a solution to keep him tied up at home.
After seeing off A's family, I chatted with Qin Yiheng in the hotel.
He said: "Based on what the A family said, it's nothing more than a ghost possessing the body, which shouldn't be a big deal. However, if it's really that simple, the gods they invited can probably solve it. Unless those gods are all swindlers, I'm afraid there's something fishy going on."
After hearing what Qin Yiheng said, I was not worried. Anyway, I couldn't help much, just watching the excitement. So the two of us went to bed early. The next morning, we went directly to A's house. A's family was already waiting for us. Entering the inner bedroom, we saw A tied to a single bed. I don't know if he was asleep, but he was lying limply on the bed.
I walked over to take a look, and sure enough, there was something like a birthmark on her face. Qin Yiheng walked around the room, took out a stick of incense, lit it and stuck it in a bowl of rice, then asked all of us to leave the bedroom, saying not to disturb A and let her sleep well. This matter can only be dealt with in the evening.
After hearing this, A's family members quickly retreated to the living room, gathered together and started smoking. Qin Yiheng pulled me to a corner and whispered to me, "This is interesting. Have you seen a fairy?"
I was stunned by this question. Does it mean that A is going to become an immortal? Is this how ancient people became immortals through cultivation?
I asked him, are you saying that the thing attached to A is not a dirty thing, but a god?
He smiled and said, "No." Then he glanced at the group of people smoking and said, "There are ghost soldiers among this group of people. Do you believe it?"
I was even more confused. I looked at A's family and counted them. There were exactly ten of them. Were there ghosts among them? Little ghosts? In broad daylight? And they were smoking together like normal people? And they were even chatting about stocks? Honestly, I didn't believe it.
I quietly asked Qin Yiheng, "Just tell me honestly, I can't tell. Logically, they are all relatives, so they must know each other. If someone is abnormal, they should be able to notice it when they get together."
He didn't keep the secret this time and said in a low voice: "What I just lit was a stick of Gongxiang, which is very expensive! Look at them, whoever is not smoking is probably smelling Gongxiang."
After listening to Qin Yiheng's words, I quickly scanned the room with my eyes. There were indeed four people who didn't smoke, but most of them were women, and only one was a man. I couldn't help but focus on the man, but after looking at him for a long time, I didn't find anything strange.
When I asked Qin Yiheng again, he curled his lips and said that he just felt that there was such a thing in the room, but he was not sure whether it was attached to a person or hiding somewhere. Just lighting that incense stick was like a bribe. It would not do us any harm to take care of it.
I felt a little nervous after hearing what he said, but then I thought, even if it was a ghost, it was just an official, so it shouldn’t be a threat to humans.
Qin Yiheng and I stayed for a while longer, but we felt it was inconvenient to talk in the room, so we made an excuse to go get something to eat, and then left. A's family tried to keep us, wanting to take us to eat some famous local dishes, but we refused.
After leaving the house, Qin Yiheng was still very excited, saying that such things are rare. He thought about it and thought that A must have lost his soul in extreme shock. There are many such sayings among the people, and it happened that the soul of the dead driver left his body and entered A's body by mistake. Now A's soul is probably still in the murderous car. The ghost soldier or the little ghost who came today was here to collect the soul of the driver, but now the body and soul don't match, so it is difficult for him to do it.
After listening to his explanation, I also got a little understanding. I remember when I was a child, when I was scared for something, the elders would always call my soul back to me. And it was not as simple as just calling my soul back. It had to be combined with many factors such as the position and direction, and the number of times it was called depended on the situation.
Qin Yiheng and I strolled around the ancient city of Shanhaiguan, had lunch, and returned to A's home in the afternoon. At this time, A had woken up and was making a fuss in bed, shouting to his family, "Don't let him take me away." Because Qin Yiheng explained it to me before, I immediately understood that the person A was referring to was actually the little ghost who came to take souls.
A's family members all surrounded the bed. It was not a good idea to take action or just watch. They all looked at the two of us with eyes asking for help. Qin Yiheng asked them all to leave, leaving only the three of us in the room. Qin Yiheng bent down and whispered something in A's ear. When he stood up, A was already crying with tears streaming down her face. When A had cried enough, Qin Yiheng nodded at her, then pulled me out and said to A's family members outside: " When it's completely dark, each of you go in and touch her forehead with your hand. No one can come in except one person. Only when one person leaves can the other come in."
Although A's family members were puzzled, they all nodded quickly. I don't know what Qin Yiheng's method is, he said it as if he was saying goodbye to a deceased person.
When I asked Qin Yiheng, he told me, "This is to give the ghost soldier a chance to take his soul away. I convinced the driver and he is willing to be reincarnated, but we can't let the ghost soldier take his soul away so brazenly. Although others can't see it, he must know that I can see it. After all, I have to give him face and give the ghost soldier a way out."
The theory he proposed was quite funny. I don’t know if all the people working in the underworld were so petty. Anyway, it seemed that the matter was resolved so easily.
When it was dark, Qin Yiheng went to talk to A for a long time again, and this time he didn't even let me in. When he came out after he finished talking, his face looked very bad, as if he was very tired.
Then, according to the previous plan, A's family members entered A's room one by one. After everyone had been there once, Qin Yiheng and I went in again, and A had fallen asleep. Qin Yiheng checked with his hand and found that he was still breathing, so he quickly went out and asked A's family members to take them to the murder car.
The group of people carried A on their backs and set off. The murderous car is still parked in the parking lot of the traffic police accident brigade. On the way, Qin Yiheng broke off a willow branch when he passed by a park. When he arrived next to the murderous car, Qin Yiheng asked A's family who A had the best relationship with among his family members. Then, he gave the willow branch to the man and asked him to draw a circle on the ground, while drawing a circle, he called A's name. The rest of the men had to stay away, and the group of people looked at this side from a distance of thirty or forty meters.
After about ten minutes, A began to regain consciousness. At first, she was still unable to stand and speak, but she could recognize her family. Qin Yiheng went to take a look and said that she just needed to rest and get as much sun as possible every day.
A's family thanked us profusely and almost knelt down for us. After staying for another day, Qin Yiheng and I returned. At this time, A was able to walk and talk normally, but she was weak, her memory was not very good, and the birthmark-like mark on her face could not be removed. But it didn't matter. She saved her life, so she didn't care about this.
Before leaving, my old friend insisted on giving me some money. I refused for a long time, but finally accepted it. Although the money was not much, it was a huge sum for the expenses of this trip.
Qin Yiheng and I took a break for nearly a month after that. During this time, we also received some news about haunted houses, but either the owners asked too high a price or the journey was too far, so we were too lazy to go back. In addition, the real estate market was particularly sluggish during that period, and many houses began to drop in price, which once made me give up the idea of continuing to do this business. However, people are always indifferent to fame and fortune at one time, and greed is always something they can't get rid of. In the intervals between taking on houses, we also took on a lot of small jobs. Although we didn't make much money, it was easy to handle. Many of them only required Qin Yiheng to give a few instructions on the phone to get it done. Among them, there was a matter related to demolition. Although we didn't solve it for the person, we still got paid.
This is a foreman introduced to us by a relative of A. He encountered a difficult problem. A very old house was to be demolished. It had been repaired many times. It should be easy to demolish, but the machine failed every time. He came to Qin Yiheng's house and wanted him to help solve it. He also promised to give him a considerable reward regardless of success or failure. Qin Yiheng went to take a look and came back to tell me that there was a very old turtle in the foundation of the house that could not be demolished. The house was shaking, and the earthquake could not collapse it. I also felt novel after hearing it. Some things really make no sense. Although technology is very advanced now, the buildings are probably not as strong as the houses in the past.
Qin Yiheng didn't dare to help because it could easily bring disaster to himself. But he said, "As long as you pour vinegar from the four directions of the foundation every day at the time when the yin energy is the heaviest, it may be effective, but no one can confirm this. But the house was eventually demolished. I don't know what kind of expert the contractor found."
Later, I heard a lot of new stories about this kind of demolition. Most of them were that when the demolition work started, there were always one or two houses that could not be demolished, and most of them were old houses. There were many reasons why they could not be demolished, such as the machine suddenly malfunctioned, the main operator suddenly fell ill, and even the developer was visited in a dream, etc. Qin Yiheng always said that we should stay away from it. Even if the other party gave more money, we could not make money. Moreover, the news that Yuan Zhen provided houses became more and more frequent, so we became completely busy and continued to concentrate on collecting houses.
