PTTP Ch. 52.1: Impermanence

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Editor: Dj22031

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Qiyang People Forum

[Qiyang Interesting Stories] Topic: Encountered a supernatural event again

Content: Wuwuwu The poster is still shivering and only dares to post during the day. Yesterday I went to my cousin’s house to play. My aunt said that my cousin was sick. He suddenly fainted some time ago and felt cold all over. The cause of the disease could not be found. He then woke up after being unconscious for two days and looked like he was fine. Everyone was discussing which hospital to send my cousin to for examination, and the host went to the balcony to make a phone call. Suddenly I saw my cousin and a man in black leaving the building. I didn’t know where they were going. I thought it was my cousin’s friend asking him to hang out. I was talking on the phone at that time and didn’t pay attention. After the call, I went back into the house and saw my cousin sitting on the sofa, but his face was white, his body was stiff, and his breathing was very weak. My aunt was calling an ambulance nearby, saying that my cousin had gotten sick again. If the cousin is in the room, then who was the person the poster saw on the balcony before? TAT My cousin is still in the hospital and hasn’t woken up yet. The author doesn’t know whether he should tell his family what he saw…

1L: Damn, I was drowsy at first, but I woke up after seeing the post.

2L: Is it true or false? Did you see it wrong? Or was your cousin lured away by a ghost? By the way, the original poster, you didn’t make it clear. Why is the title “again”?

3L: …Old Master, it’s you again.

4L: Don’t you know the original poster? He has posted this before, and I still remember that the first one was posted on the Ghost Festival last year

5L: What are you guessing? You are looking at the wrong person. You are scaring yourself. Send him to a hospital in a big city and ask an expert to see it.

6L: Hello, the author of supernatural novels, are you here to try again?

7L: If you really doubt it, why not go to Baoyang Temple or Taihe Temple to worship.

8L: The poster should not dare to go to Baoyang Temple. The first time she saw a ghost was at Baoyang Temple.

….

28L: This look reminds me of impermanence. There is an old lady in my hometown who knows how to go through the underworld, just to help with the underworld. So at that time, people often paid her to ask her about the underworld and see if the elderly in the family were doing well. As long as she knew where they were buried, she could even invite them up.

….

Before going to bed at night, Xie Lingya comforted Shi Changxuan in a vague way. No one was born omniscient and omnipotent and could make no mistakes. He was so good but he took the postgraduate entrance examination twice. An occasional overturn was nothing. Failure was the mother of success.

The result turned out to be surprisingly good. Xie Lingya had never realized that he was so capable of giving chicken soup before. Shi Changxuan felt much more relaxed, and he didn’t sleep showing him his back that night.

The next day, the return trip was scheduled for the afternoon, and they took some photos of the ancestral hall in the morning.

At noon, Xie Lingya was going to use his mobile phone to push WeChat, but this was more troublesome. He had to log into the computer version of the backend and then scan the code. He thus brought Shi Changxuan’s mobile phone. It would be easier to operate the two mobile phones together.

After using this, Xie Lingya discovered that Shi Changxuan did not have a WeChat ID, and the client was still owned by him, so he persuaded Shi Changxuan to register one, “During the meeting that day, didn’t the vice president also say that now they advocate the use of new media to get closer to believers and spread Taoist culture to the public?”

Shi Changxuan: “…”

Xie Lingya: “How about it?”

Shi Changxuan nodded, “It’s up to you.”

Xie Lingya lowered his head and started to help him register with his mobile phone number. Shi Changxuan saw Xie Lingya lowering his head and playing with his mobile phone. The sunlight outside the window shone on his cold white and delicate skin, making him want to touch it.

“Okay, I’ll add you to my account.” Xie Lingya turned his face coldly and happened to meet Shi Changxuan’s gaze staring at him. He was stunned for a moment, feeling that this look was a bit strange.

Shi Changxuan silently retracted his look and took the phone.

While Xie Lingya was thinking about it, Shi Changxuan raised his phone and said, “This name…”

Xie Lingya came back to his senses and said, “Hey, I picked one at random.”

He saw the WeChat name written: Taoist Master Gao Leng[1].

Shi Changxuan: “…”

Shi Changxuan clicked the screen a few times, saved Xie Lingya’s avatar, and then set it as his own avatar, but other than that, there were no other operations.

Xie Lingya’s avatar was a picture of the Phytolacca God and Liu Lingtong together. So, he could understand Shi Changxuan using his avatar, but…

“You don’t want to change your name?” Xie Lingya put his phone away after seeing Shi Changxuan change his avatar, as if he didn’t plan to change the name he had come up with, “Hahahaha, okay, don’t change it.”

When he was leaving, some villagers came to Director Pang’s house. In fact, several groups had already come in the morning, all wanting to watch them, after all what happened in the family hall was too interesting to talk about.

One of the villagers even took out his mobile phone: “Taoist priest, can you add your WeChat account? I would like to offer incense in the future.” This meant that they had already heard that Shi Changxuan was a Taoist priest, and everyone had spread the rumor that this Taoist priest was also a serious graduate student, how advanced!

What’s wrong with this? Xie Lingya took out his phone. The villager wanted to add Shi Changxuan.

“Excuse me, if you hold a salvation ceremony, how do you calculate the cost?” The villager asked. Although the local wind master worked in public, they couldn’t stop people from believing in other things.

Xie Lingya explained it to him.

The villagers asked: “Do different Taoist priests charge different fees? How much does it cost to hire Taoist priest Gao?”

Xie Lingya: “Taoist priest Gao? Who?”

The villager pointed at Shi Changxuan: “Isn’t this Taoist priest Gao Leng?”

Xie Lingya: “…”

Shi Changxuan looked indifferent, as if he didn’t intend to explain. On the contrary, Xie Lingya was very embarrassed. This WeChat name was read out seriously. The shame was too serious. He covered his face and said: “No, no, this is Daozhang Shi.”

The villagers were still confused: “Who is Gao Leng?”

Xie Lingya: “…”

After sending the villagers away, Xie Lingya blushed and changed Shi Changxuan’s WeChat name. He asked his real name, and then said: “Damn it, I won’t have fun anymore. I didn’t know how to explain it to that uncle!”

Although he knew that Xie Lingya’s “fun” was just a joke, Shi Changxuan still felt a little bit of ripple in his heart. If he still didn’t know the truth, he would probably be happier at this time.

“And why am I the one who is embarrassed? I have given you this name.” Xie Lingya was still unwilling and touched his face, “I am still too thin-skinned.”

Xiao Dian: “…”

….

Afternoon

The group got on the bus back to Qiyang. Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan sat in the same row again. Then Xie Lingya leaned against the window and said he wanted to sleep for a while.

The return trip lasted several hours. Halfway through, the bus suddenly stopped. Xie Lingya also woke up and found that he was in Shi Changxuan’s arms.

At first, if he was like this, he would have said sorry, but now that the two of them were so familiar with each other that they slept on the same bed, there was no need to say anything. Xie Lingya rubbed his eyes and asked, “What’s going on in front? Is there a traffic jam?”

Xiao Dian, who was sitting in the back seat, had already stood up and looked outside. When Xie Lingya asked, he said, “It seems there was a car accident in front. The driver also went down to take a look.”

“A car accident?” Xie Lingya glanced outside, but the car in front was blocking him, and he could only vaguely see people gathered around something.

Not long after, the driver came back and said, “I think there will be a traffic jam for a while. There was a bus in front of us that rolled over. Several people died there on the spot. It’s so tragic. It seems that the driver was tired.”

Everyone on the bus started to sigh. It was really tragic, the driver drove tiredly and harmed all the people on the bus.

Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan looked at each other and stood up together.

“Teacher Xie, what are you going to do?” Xiao Dian asked.

Xie Lingya turned around and whispered to Xiao Dian: “What do you think we are going to do?”

Xiao Dian thought for three seconds before he quickly stood up and said, “I’ll go too.”

When he walked closer, he saw that the ambulance had already arrived, and there were still bloodstains on the ground, and the bus fallen on its side. Some people were lucky enough to be slightly injured, but many of their fellow passengers were suffering and crying.

Xie Lingya opened his eyes and saw that there was still a ghost hanging on the car window, covered in blood. He stretched out his hand: “Brother, pull me out, brother…”

He was struggling to climb out of the bus door and trying to get into the ambulance.

This was a soul that had not yet realized that it had passed away. Its thoughts were still stuck in the fear and pain at the moment of death, and it was even still looking for a chance to survive.

The three of them stood not far away but began to recite the Taoist Rebirth Mantra and the Taishang Daojun’s wonderful sutra for resolving grievances and eradicating sins, hoping that they would be freed from pain.

They were chanting sutras very softly, but there were still people around them who noticed it. They might not understand what they meant, but they could guess that they were reciting sutras about salvation, and they couldn’t help but feel solemn. Although they didn’t know whether they were Buddhists or Taoists, and even if they didn’t believe in it themselves, they still had a good impression of this behavior.

After reciting it dozens of times, Xie Lingya saw two ghost messengers arriving to lead the dead souls.


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[1] Gao(supercilious, high-minded) + Leng (cold, indifferent)= Gao Leng