Herzstaub - Kapitel 8
Gu Feng stared strangely at the departing female corpse.
Suddenly, his eyes flashed and he was startled. He actually saw the female corpse open her eyes and smile at him.
Gu Feng stood there dumbfounded...
"Did you guys see that just now?"
What is it?
"That, that female corpse, she, she was smiling at me just now."
"Wow, Feng-ge, how disgusting! Even though she was pretty, she's still dead! How can you make jokes like that?"
"No, no, it's true." Gu Feng was still staring blankly at the coffin being pushed away.
"She's old enough to be your ancestor. You should at least pick a good partner before you daydream!"
Gu Feng stood there, eyes wide open, not understanding how he should face what he was seeing!
...
Taekwondo Club.
Shi Xin looked at the lifeless temple with a strange expression, as if it had lost its soul.
She shouted, she called out, but Gu Feng could only manage a few words: "Hmm? Hmm? Oh! Oh!"
Gu Feng wasn't stunned; he just couldn't accept it for a moment. His upbringing and consistent principles of conduct were about to undergo a complete transformation due to these two events.
It was too fast. His long-held beliefs were completely overturned, and he had no idea what was going on...
Shi Xinnai had no choice but to sit on the floor like Gu Feng, staring blankly at him.
"What's wrong with Gu Feng? Did I scold him too harshly this morning and make him stupid?"
Just then, two large, fat figures came running in, panting heavily.
Judging from their expressions, something important had clearly happened, but instead of shouting or making a fuss, they ran straight to Gu Feng.
"Brother Feng, this is incredible, take a look."
Ah Mao nervously handed over two photos.
Gu Feng took it blankly, and after just one glance, his nerves jolted, and he stared in astonishment, his eyes widening to their maximum.
Those are two photos Ah Mao took last night.
In the photo, Gu Feng is looking to the left, and in that originally empty space, a white shadow is also looking back at him...? It can be vaguely discerned that it is a woman, and that woman is the female corpse in the coffin today!
Gu Feng flipped to the second picture, staring blankly at the camera with a bewildered expression, while the strange figure continued to look at him...
Gu Feng stared in disbelief, and Shi Xin, who was standing next to him, also stood there dumbfounded, speechless for a long time.
"Brother Feng, was what you said at the Cultural Bureau true?"
Gu Feng nodded slightly, and after a long while, he finally uttered a few words through gritted teeth: "There really is... there really is a ghost!"
"What...what should we do?" Xiaobing trembled slightly.
Gu Feng shook his head
"She...she shouldn't have any ill intentions, right?" Ah Mao stared intently at Gu Feng.
Gu Feng shook his head again: "No, I need to go home and find out what's going on with Dad!"
"I'll go with you!"
Shixin suddenly called out.
"Young Miss, their family owns a funeral home!"
"I know!"
Gu Feng looked at her with a complicated expression, and finally nodded.
The two set off.
"Hey! Brother Feng, I need to return those photos to their owner."
Gu Feng paused, then stopped in his tracks: "By the way, Ah Mao, find a way to get your hands on the negatives. The fewer people who know about this, the better."
Ah Mao pondered for a moment, then nodded...
The funeral home is located at the foot of a mountain on the outskirts of the western district. The mountain is lined with tombs and is the only legal cemetery in the city.
The funeral home wasn't very large, just one main building and two buildings behind it. The only striking feature was the towering chimney, the passageway for the deceased to enter heaven...
The sun wasn't shining brightly today, making the already damp funeral home seem even more eerie. Gu Feng seemed used to it, but Shi Xin frowned deeply.
Gu Feng led Shi Xin straight into an office in the main building. The door was closed, but Gu Feng turned the handle and turned it on. There seemed to be a faint smell of smoke inside!
Gu Feng Huo saw his father, who was "carefully" smoking in the closed room, and laughed, "Haha, Dad, you're secretly smoking in your office again. What if Mom finds out..."
Gu Zhengtian was startled. Seeing it was his son, he quickly stepped forward and covered his mouth, saying, "Why are you shouting so loudly? Are you afraid your mother can't hear you?" Looking up, he saw the shy Shi Xin behind Gu Feng and asked, "And this young lady is...?"
Gu Feng said, "He is Shi Xin, the bishop's daughter."
Gu Zhengtian looked at her carefully for a while and said, "When Yuan Hong sent her abroad, she was only a teenager. Now she's grown up so much."
Shixin greeted him with a smile, "Hello, Uncle Gu."
Gu Zhengtian took another puff of his cigarette and said with a smile, "Mmm! Mmm! Okay, Gu Feng, didn't you have class today? Why are you back so early?"
Gu Feng's expression tightened, and he took out the two photos from his pocket: "Dad, take a look!"
Gu Zhengtian looked at his son with a puzzled expression, then took the photo.
His face instantly turned extremely ugly, and the cigarette butt accidentally fell to the ground.
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Chapter 10 of Volume 1: Possession by a Ghost
"What happened?" Gu Zhengtian looked at his son and then at the photo.
Gu Feng shrugged and said, "If I knew, I wouldn't have come back to find you."
Gu Zhengtian frowned and looked at the photos carefully a few more times.
"With technology so advanced these days, could it be that one of your friends played a prank on you using software?"
Gu Feng shook his head, and then briefly recounted the strange things he had encountered over the past two days.
Gu Zhengtian: "That's strange. Could it really be a ghost?"
Gu Feng looked at him solemnly but did not answer.
"Follow me."
After Gu Zhengtian finished speaking, he led the way.
Gu Fengshixin followed, and the exit was at the end of the corridor. Gu Zhengtian suddenly paused at the door and chuckled, "You guys wait here for a bit."
As he spoke, he opened the door and went into the adjacent restroom.
"It seems that Dad's mind is getting smarter and smarter. He doesn't forget to wipe his mouth after stealing food."
...
The residential buildings behind the funeral home.
When Gu Feng saw his mother knitting a sweater in the living room, he quickly went up to greet her and introduced Shi Xin to her as well.
Gu Zhengtian first breathed on his palm to make sure there was no more smoke in his mouth before taking the photo to Gu Feng's mother.
"Ningbi, take a look."
Seeing her husband's strange look, Zhao Ningbi reached out and took the photo, examining it carefully. Surprisingly, she showed no surprise whatsoever, simply focusing intently on the photograph.
“I didn’t believe in your family’s ways before, but now it seems really strange,” Gu Zhengtian said in a low voice.
Gu Feng knew that his mother was the daughter of Zhao Longteng, the 63rd generation disciple of the Dragon-Suppressing Path of the Thousand-Year-Old Demon-Sealing Mountain, and was deeply versed in the ways of ghosts and gods. However, neither her husband nor her son believed in this, so they never discussed it at home. But now the facts were right in front of him, and Gu Zhengtian's beliefs had already wavered since he became the director of the funeral home due to the strange things he had witnessed. Now he could only help his wife to dispel her doubts.
Zhao Ningbi said slowly, "It's just a wandering soul, nothing to be afraid of."
Gu Zhengtian was taken aback and said, "But..." Zhao Ningbi recalled the series of conflicts caused by Gu Zhengtian's distrust of her over the past few decades, and now he was so suspicious. She couldn't help but give him a cold stare.
Gu Zhengtian understood the meaning in his eyes and knew he was in the wrong, so he said to Gu Feng, "Xiao Feng, you speak."
Gu Feng asked, "Say... say what?"
Gu Zhengtian said impatiently, "Say what you just told me again."
Gu Feng said "Oh" and then told his mother the whole story again.
Zhao Ningbi said, "So, this ghost is still a benevolent one. It's just that its lingering attachment to the human world is puzzling."
Shixin asked curiously, "What do you mean? How does Auntie know that...ghost is good?"
Zhao Ningbi smiled at her and said, "If he were an evil spirit, Xiao Feng wouldn't have been able to escape so easily after assaulting him that night."
Gu Feng nodded and said, "That 'ghost' only scared me and made me afraid to open the coffin rashly, but it did not harm me."
Zhao Ningbi frowned and said, "If we set up an altar to help him pass on, this matter can be settled. However..." He then coldly stared at Gu Zhengtian again, "However, you burned all my Taoist artifacts. What about now?"
Gu Feng still remembers that when he was ten years old, his father found a large bag of talismans, Bagua and other things from somewhere. Ignoring his mother's advice, he put it in the yard and set it on fire. At that time, he was still young and did not understand the reason, but he also helped his father throw the registers into the fire!
Gu Zhengtian gave an awkward laugh: "Me? How was I supposed to know such a thing existed back then? Who told you not to catch a ghost for me to see sooner!"
"So you're blaming me now? Do you think ghosts and monsters are some little chicks or ducks that you can just catch whenever you want?"
"But... well, it's already burned, what's the point of saying this now!"
Zhao Ningbi suddenly raised her hand: "Wait a minute."
Gu Zhengtian noticed a strange look on his wife's face, and his heart tightened. He asked in surprise, "What, what's wrong now?"
Zhao Ningbi moved closer to him and sniffed.
What's this smell?
"Where, where is that smell? Did you stuff something in your nose?"
"Nonsense, the taste is clearly coming from your mouth, how dare you lie to me."
"No, there's no smell at all, Xiao Feng, right? Hey, hey, where are you going, you brat?"
"Gu Zhengtian, you want to leave without explaining yourself clearly."