Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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It was obvious that the second disciple was injured! Wei Xi felt so distressed that he could no longer care to touch Tuan Tuanyi’s head who was unharmed.
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Bai Hao agreed to let the original ghosts make up for the hastily performed ceremony many years ago, because the mediation activity was put together by Uncle Shen and Tuan Tuanyi. In addition to the Liandu Temple that he initially entrusted to him, he also allocated a budget to join the Taicang Sect for the next ritual.
Wei Xi’s business since he came down from the mountain had been to catch ghosts. This was the first time he had performed such a serious ritual. He felt that his sect had finally taken the first step towards formalization, and he was more confident about reviving the Taicang Sect. Although it was a little difficult in the early days of starting a business but after that period, wasn’t the scope of business getting bigger and bigger now?
The local ghosts had a big appetite, and the old men and women were quite unreasonable. They asked for a long list of offerings. The procurement work was handed over to Bai Hao and Kuang Zhiming. Kuang Zhiming took the ghostly form written by Uncle Shen and bought out all the pig heads distributed in a local slaughterhouse. He felt very sad. Every time he went back to his own Taoist temple, he would chant incantations and wash his hands several times, for fear of being discovered by the ancestor worshipped in the temple.
There were so many pig heads that they needed a pickup truck to haul them. Seeing them piled up outside this unfinished building in the city was quite a sight, attracting the attention of passers-by and shoppers.
Bai Hao had no objection! It had been nine years! It had been nine years! If he had known that a truckload of pig heads would be enough to restart the construction of his company’s loss-making property, he would have used a train car instead of a pickup truck!
Xiao Ke had woken up, so he had come here with gauze wrapped around his head and plaster casts on his hands and feet. He was wheeled here by his colleagues, and he still recalled the horrible experience he had while unconscious, still in shock.
“I was totally unconscious at the time. I was sleeping when suddenly an old man I didn’t recognize appeared in my mind! The old man was floating in the air and staring at me grimly. After a long while, he suddenly said “I’m sorry for the offense”. I was so scared that I ran for my life. I woke up with a start. Do you think this dream is weird? Am I really possessed by evil spirits?”
Bai Hao: “…”
A haunted construction site was not a good thing, and he didn’t intend to let more people know about it, so after Xiao Ke woke up, he chose to hide the truth from him.
Therefore, at this point, he could only answer with difficulty: “Maybe it’s because you were too scared that it led to fantasy.”
Xiao Ke was still a little scared when he entered the construction site. He looked around with his arm hanging down: “But I really saw a white shadow before I fell that day. Is there really a ghost here?”
“I told you that the rooftop wasn’t finished yet and you stepped on the edge and fell off. Manager Bai brought us to take a look. The concrete on that piece is indeed a little cracked and loose.” The other colleagues were also naive and cute, and they all comforted him, “It’s probably a plastic bag or something that was blown up by the wind and scared you. How could there be ghosts in this world, don’t you think so, Mr. Bai?”
Bai Hao looked at the group of old people who somehow managed to come out during the day and were gathered around the pile of pig heads and meat, discussing the matter: “… Yeah.”
However, no one in the inspection team knew why this ceremony was suddenly held. However Xiao Ke felt very moved and thought that Bai Hao did this to reassure him.
While he was feeling touched, he couldn’t help but hunch his shoulders suspiciously and quietly ask other colleagues around him: “Do you feel that it’s a bit cold inside the construction site?”
“Indeed.” Colleagues also rubbed their arms, “The temperature in Beijing has dropped too quickly in winter.”
Bai Hao was just thinking about finishing the ritual as soon as possible and asking the master to restore the eyes to normal, when a bunch of even stranger things appeared in his sight again. Tuan Tuanyi was leading the way, and when he saw him, he pulled him aside with a playful smile: “Mr. Bai, thank you so much for your generosity.”
They actually agreed to use the property as dormitory for Taicang Sect’s employees.
Bai Hao looked at the bulging plastic bag in his hand and asked, “…What is this?”
Tuan Tuanyi opened the paper bag, revealing the various funeral supplies inside. He happily explained, “Before, we were embarrassed to buy furniture for them without your consent. Now that the interns are officially moving in, of course we have to buy some tables, chairs, benches, and bunk beds. We can’t just let them sleep on the floor.”
Bai Hao: “…”
Tuan Tuanyi saw his expression and quickly added, “Don’t worry, our company has rules and regulations, and it will definitely not affect your daily construction and subsequent operations.”
Bai Hao didn’t feel comforted at all. However, after the ghost employees of Taicang Sect learned that this was their future landlord, they took the initiative to come forward to thank him and say hello. Some drowned ghosts who came from a poor family were even very grateful to him: “Boss Bai, thank you so much. You don’t know how cold the Huitong River is in winter. It will be frozen in a few months. Compared to this, your accommodation conditions are simply heaven. I will never forget your help when I am reincarnated one day…”
Bai Hao was frightened and confused by the handshakes that kept passing through his body. But he couldn’t help but think that these ghosts were quite polite and spoke in an orderly manner…
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The process of the ritual was not troublesome. After the offerings, incense, candles and incantations were chanted, they naturally fell into the hands of the original ghosts. The old men and women, holding the paper money, gold ingots and pork heads they had obtained, became more friendly. Some ghosts even took the initiative to return the stolen money and food to the intern from Taicang Sect who had lost the things. In the future, they will be neighbors under the same roof. Although the two sides had a big fight not long ago, it was better to live in peace in the future.
Many old lady ghosts showed their maternal instincts and held the hands of the young ghosts to ask them how they died. When they talked about the sad things, they even wiped away their tears.
Seeing that the employees and landlords were getting along well, Wei Xi felt relieved. He secretly ate a few apples placed on the altar and did not forget to give one to the apprentice behind him.
The second apprentice held the apple and looked at him calmly.
Wei Xi touched his arm distressedly: “Your leg is injured, you need to eat more, don’t let your senior brother see it.”
It was not that he was biased. If he took it again, the customer would find out.
After hearing this, the second apprentice quietly put the apple away and stuffed his coat’s pocket.
Wei Xi glanced at Tuan Tuanyi in the distance with an apologetic look. Tuan Tuanyi was surrounded by ghosts burning furniture. While the company interns moved the chairs he burned into their rooms in an orderly manner. The original ghosts were envious: the bodies buried in the mass graves, those with coffins were definitely from the middle class, most people were sleeping here with a roll of straw mats, after sleeping on the floor for dozens or hundreds of years, where had they seen such good treatment? A few of the thicker-skinned ones even asked if they could bring some belongings to them in a few days.
Tuan Tuanyi was busy dealing with them, and at the same time he looked at his master with confusion. What were his master and fellow apprentice doing behind his back? Were they doing something special for him?
As he was thinking about it, he didn’t expect that the big iron gate on the outer wall of the construction site was suddenly knocked.
When he opened it, he saw several policemen standing outside with law enforcement tools.
Bai Hao was stunned when he saw this: “Comrades, is there anything wrong?”
The leading police officer looked over his shoulder suspiciously and frowned after seeing the situation at the construction site. “Someone nearby reported to us that someone was carrying out feudal and superstitious activities here.”
Everyone: “…”
The policeman then saw clearly that Kuang Zhiming and his wife were wearing Taoist robes, and their expressions became more serious: “What are you doing in there burning paper and offering pig heads to Buddha?”
Bai Hao immediately became nervous when asked this question. What the hell, what kind of a development is this? The local people in Beijing are too kind-hearted, right? They even reported it to the police?!
“I, we…” Bai Hao didn’t know how to explain for a moment. At this moment, a sharp scream suddenly came from the commercial street in the distance, breaking the stalemate.
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