The ghost who got quite a few scares

As more and more netizens followed the incident, some even recognized Huang Hongyuan in the video.

[Holy shit, the guy in the video is our company's general manager. He looks simple and honest, but he's incredibly rational and shrewd. He became our general manager just ten years after graduating... how does someone like him get taken in by a scammer?]

[Worry clouds your judgment, I guess.]

[Sigh.]

[Our company discussed a partnership with him before. He's pretty formidable. Never thought he'd end up getting scammed by Qi Gu.]

At Huang Hongyuan's home in the Fourth Ring Residential Community.

Upon receiving confirmation, Huang Hongyuan suddenly felt as though his heart would explode with rage. Even Wang Li, who always presented a gentle, gracious face, was so furious that she nearly grabbed a kitchen knife and went off to dance on Old Lady Bai's grave.

Qi Gu had no desire to be arrested for endangering public safety just yet, so he talked them both down, saying he had another way.

Only after hearing this did the couple calm down somewhat. Following his instructions, they went to Xiao He's pink princess bedroom and fetched one of her favorite dolls, one she often held in her arms.

Qi Gu took the doll and casually adjusted its limbs, wanting to make it look more normal. But the moment his fingertip touched its arm, its eyes shone red, and it said in a mechanical voice, "Gently! My arm!"

Qi Gu had never seen such a lively toy before. It startled him so badly that he nearly threw it away.

His childish reaction piqued Wang Li's curiosity. "Master, you're not even afraid of ghosts. Why are you afraid of a doll?"

"I'd never seen one before." Qi Gu lowered his eyes, his expression calm.

Looking at his delicate, handsome profile, Wang Li thought, If I had a child that good-looking, I'd buy him not just one doll, but ten.

Qi Gu sent the two of them out to buy chicken blood, incense, candles, and other supplies.

The nearby supermarkets were all upscale stores where everything came cleaned and prepared. Unclotted chicken blood was genuinely hard to find. Huang Hongyuan had to travel over ten kilometers before he managed to buy a live chicken and have someone slaughter it on the spot for its blood.

Once everything was ready, Qi Gu lit the incense and candles in front of everyone. Holding three sticks of incense, he fumigated both floors of the house before dipping a brush in chicken blood and writing Huang He's birth date and time on the doll.

This would make Old Lady Bai mistake the doll for the real Huang He and come to the house.

After setting the doll, covered in bold, sweeping blood-red characters, in the middle of the living room, Qi Gu carefully warned everyone not to touch it under any circumstances. Then he took out his phone and opened Meituan.

Seeing this, Huang Hongyuan assumed they were still missing some crucial tool and hurriedly asked, "Master, just tell me if you need anything. I'll go find it right now!"

Qi Gu shook his head. "We have everything. I'm just hungry, so I was going to order some takeout... after all, Old Lady Bai probably won't come until tonight."

Qi Gu spoke so casually about a ghost coming to the house, and was even in the mood to order takeout. Such a masterful demeanor immediately put the anxious couple considerably at ease. Huang Hongyuan said instead, "Master, you're here to do work for us. Naturally, I should treat you to a meal. Use my phone and order whatever you like!"

Delighted to save money again, Qi Gu promptly opened the capital food guide he had put together while waiting for his flight and ordered the dishes that interested him.

When Grandpa and Grandma Huang returned home full of worry, they were greeted by the sight of their son, daughter-in-law, and Qi Gu sitting at the dining table, which was covered in all kinds of fragrant takeout.

Grandpa and Grandma Huang: ?

The two elders immediately glared at the younger couple, their eyes saying, Xiao He's in this state, and you two are still in the mood to eat?

Huang Hongyuan hurriedly protested his innocence. "Mom, Master Qi ordered all this. He just finished setting things up. He said that with everything arranged like this, Old Lady Bai will mistake the doll on the table for our Xiao He tonight, and then he'll drive her away."

He wasn't in any mood to eat.

With an evil ghost before them, Qi Gu was still in the mood to eat. Clearly, exorcising ghosts was child's play to him.

At this thought, Grandma Huang promptly smacked her son on the head and scolded him. "You two have no manners! How could you make Master Qi eat takeout in our home? I'll go cook him a few good dishes right now!"

With that, Grandma Huang rolled up her sleeves and went into the kitchen.

Before long, Qi Gu received yet another addition to his meal and ate with great enjoyment.

Night deepened. The honking on the roads, the conversations downstairs in the residential community, the chirping of insects, and the humming of machinery all gradually fell silent.

Qi Gu smeared Ox Tears over everyone's eyes, then told them to hide in their rooms and not act rashly and let Old Lady Bai notice anything amiss. He concealed his own presence and sat upright on the sofa, waiting for her arrival.

After an unknown stretch of silence and darkness, rustling came from the window they had deliberately left ajar. Before long, a mass of dense darkness squeezed itself through the window and landed soundlessly on the living room floor. It wore a blue-and-white burial shroud, with two pitch-black holes for eyes, and no longer looked human.

...She actually entered the Evil Ghost Path through her obsession with wanting a child.

Qi Gu remained seated upright, not even bothering to lift his eyelids.

He watched as the evil ghost brushed past him and headed straight for the doll on the table, which bore Huang He's birth date and time.

She reached out a thin, pitch-black arm, still dripping pus and rotten flesh, and seized the doll by the neck. Opening her mouth wide, she tried to absorb its life force.

But how could a doll have any life force? Abruptly grabbed by the neck, it immediately cried out in a mechanical voice, "Gently! Gently!"

Old Lady Bai could not understand human speech, but she could hear sounds. She had thought she was alone in the living room, so hearing Huang He still make a sound while being strangled gave her a terrible fright... and even more rotten flesh fell from her body.

"What is that?!" Old Lady Bai instinctively wanted to let go, only for someone to give her a sudden pat from behind.

She turned around in horror and saw that a living human had appeared at some point in the living room, where there hadn't been a single ghost before. He was simply sitting there with a placid expression.

"What... are you?!"

"A worker doing a part-time job," Qi Gu answered truthfully.

"Why can you understand what I'm saying?!" Old Lady Bai received another fright and felt very fortunate that she was already dead.

Otherwise, at this rate, she might have died another couple of times.

Not wishing to say more, Qi Gu used his finger as a brush and swiftly traced a golden, glowing talisman in midair, then gently pushed it forward. Initially only half a water bottle tall, the talisman grew larger as it advanced. By the time it reached Old Lady Bai, it was as tall as a doorway. In an instant, it descended and bound her tightly, wrapping her up like a rice dumpling.

Seeing this, the Huang family members hiding in the rooms hurried out one after another and stared at the black evil ghost before them.

The sudden sight of an evil ghost did frighten them.

But when they remembered Qi Gu was there, they weren't quite so afraid.

Grandma Huang let out an angry shout and pulled a freshly broken peach branch from behind her back. She rained blows down on Old Lady Bai, her once-close square-dancing partner, striking her all over.

"That's for stealing my granddaughter! That's for strangling her! That's for trying to take her away!"

Grandma Huang had once been one of the best in the village at threshing soybeans out of their stalks, and she was just as deft at beating someone. With sharp cracks, the peach branch landed solidly on Old Lady Bai again and again.

After only a few blows, Old Lady Bai began begging for mercy, tears and snot streaming down her face.