Chapter 8: The Ghost Father

Old man Hu and I were holding a cigarette and squatting by the flower pond at the entrance of the Ziwei Lake Hotel, waiting for four hours before we saw Ran Baiquan walking out of the hotel surrounded by several people.

If it weren't for Li Fuhai's vast powers, where would we have squatted in the pit of the secretary of the municipal party committee.

After smacking the cigarette fiercely, Old Man Hu threw half of the cigarette butt on the ground without any quality, and slapped it twice with the soles of his feet, and then we walked quickly towards Ran Baiquan.

"Wait, what are you doing?" A young man who looked like an assistant reached out to stop us.

"I'm looking for you Secretary Ran, I have something important to tell him." Seeing that Ran Baiquan's car was about to drive away, Old Man Hu immediately stopped in front.

"It's a matter of human life." I added on the sidelines.

"Don't you see that our secretary has official business to do, let's go, don't get in the way!" The young man yelled at us impatiently.

"Xiao Li, what's going on, why don't you leave?" The window rolled down, and Ran Bai's authoritative voice came from inside.

"Secretary, there are two people making trouble here, I'll let them go immediately." Xiao Li's tone was extremely respectful.

"Hmm." Ran Baiquan glanced at us and snorted in his nostrils.

"Wait, what we're talking about has something to do with Ran Pingtai!" Old man Hu was holding a yellow cloth bag and smashed it on the hood of the car with a clatter.

The stinky old man didn't take it easy, it was the bones of a dead old ghost, and it wasn't a mallet. For some reason, no matter how I look at it, it feels like he did it on purpose.

"Stop, you dare to make trouble in front of the secretary of the municipal party committee, you want to squat, right?" Xiao Li didn't expect Old Man Hu to be so bold, so he roared angrily.

Hearing Ran Pingtai's three words, the expression on Ran Baiquan's face changed abruptly.

"Xiao Li, let them get in the car!" Ran Baiquan in the car said sharply.

Xiao Li looked slightly stunned, obviously he didn't expect that the secretary of the municipal party committee would let two troublesome passers-by A and B get into the car, "Yes, secretary." ”

Old man Hu glanced at Xiao Li with a smug expression, and greeted me warmly: "Silly boy, don't get in the car soon, the secretary of the municipal party committee has personally invited us, what are you still rubbing?" ”

"Stinky old man, I have a name!" I rolled my eyes at Old Man Hu, and the longer I stayed with him, the more I found that he was disrespectful.

In the carriage, I saw Ran Baiquan's appearance clearly: he was a middle-aged man in his forties, with black and dense hair, a Chinese face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a straight Mao suit, which set off his whole person with high spirit and majesty.

He didn't say a word along the way, and his expression was solemn.

The sedan eventually drove into an upscale neighborhood and stopped in front of a white garden house, and we walked inside.

The interior floor is clean and clean with fine marble, a magnificent crystal chandelier hangs from the ceiling, below is a set of leather sofas placed in the center of the living room, in front of a European-style carved coffee table, and a layer of luxurious wool carpet is laid on the floor, and the whole interior reveals an aristocratic atmosphere.

"Dad, you're back." In front of the carved railing on the second floor of the duplex, a girl in a white dress was leaning over to look at us.

Accidentally, I looked at her and her: this was a girl of the same age as me, with a pair of arrogant and cold eyes on her beautiful face, and she was looking at me indifferently at the moment.

It turned out to be an ice beauty, and I turned my head to the side uncomfortably, pretending to look around.

"Well, tell your mother that you don't have to wait for me, let her rest early, I still have things to deal with here." Ran Baiquan seemed to be a different person, and his voice became gentle.

"Oh, got it." The girl answered crisply, then turned away.

"You two, come with me to the study." Ran Baiquan said lukewarmly.

Old man Hu and I followed one after the other, and he still carried the bones of his father, the secretary of the municipal party committee.

In the study, Ran Baiquan sat at the desk and said with a bad face: "Who are you?" How do you know about Ran Pingtai? ”

Old man Hu didn't like him, so he went straight to find a chair, sat down with a golden knife, and raised Erlang's legs gracefully.

I was speechless Old Man Hu's appearance of being a hanger, so I had to take the initiative to act as a microphone, "My name is Yu Kangyang, this is Master Hu, and we are entrusted by your father Ran Pingtai today." ”

"Nonsense!" Ran Baiquan couldn't sit still now, his face was very ugly, "What do you want to say?" ”

"Hmph, there's so much we want to say! I want to say that you first lied that you had no father and no mother, and then left your old father who had cancer and left him to die of illness and no one to bury him. Old man Hu sneered on the side.

Ran Baiquan's face turned red and white, white and red, and his expression was very exciting.

"Nonsense! I don't know what you're talking about! "I didn't expect Ran Baiquan to beat him to death and refused to admit it, and played a scoundrel.

"Hehe, it seems that you don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin, so I have to ask your old ghost to come out and have a good exchange with you." Old man Hu smiled ill-willedly.

"You...... What the hell do you want to do? Ran Baiquan stood up in disbelief.

Old man Hu had already opened the yellow cloth pocket here, revealing a human skeleton with runes written in it, only to see him clasp his hands in front of his chest, pinched up a magic trick, silently recited a few terms, and finally said: "Out!" ”

At this time, a cold wind blew in from the window, and the lamp above his head began to shake, flickering and dimming, and the temperature of the whole room plummeted, and there were white frost flowers, and at this time no sound outside the window could be heard, as if this room was isolated from the world, and the silence was terrible.

Old man Hu stared at the corner of the wall with a calm expression, and I was shivering with cold on the side, and suddenly there was a rattling sound in the room, I looked in the direction of the sound, it turned out to be from the mouth of Ran Baiquan's grandson, and at this moment his upper and lower teeth were fighting with weapons, or the kind of world war.

"Xiao Quan—I'm coming—" An eerie old man's voice sounded in the room.

My days, have ghosts systematically learned how to create an atmosphere for appearances?

A frost mist slowly gathered towards the corner of the wall, and finally formed a humanoid shape, and a blue-gray old man's face appeared in a blur.

"Daddy...... Ghosts, ghosts! Ran Baiquan's face turned pale, and he looked at Ran Pingtai with a frightened expression.

"Xiao Quan—I'm your father—why haven't you come to see me for so long—I miss you so much—" Ran Pingtai said in a trembling voice.

"Hey, your dad asked you!" I stood aside and kindly reminded.

After the previous exercise, I feel that I am getting more and more courageous.

Old man Hu glanced at me appreciatively, but he barely gave me a thumbs up.

"Go away! Don't hurt me! Don't hurt me! "Ran Baiquan crawled to our side.

"You're my son—I won't hurt you—I miss you so much—" Ran Pingtai floated over.

"Ahh With a terrible scream, Ran Baiquan sat on the ground, waving his hands wildly in the air.

"Ran Baiquan, so far, are you still unwilling to tell the truth?" Old man Hu shouted.

Ran Pingtai in mid-air also stopped, as if waiting for his son to speak.

"Don't kill me, I say I say!" Ran Baiquan's body was like a trembling sieve.

It turned out that Ran Baiquan met a noble man when he was in college, and the noble man thought that he was very talented, clever and knew how to be flexible, and he was a good material who could take a career in office, so he recognized him as his godson.

Although that noble man is in a high position, his children are still young, so he intends to train Ran Baiquan to be his successor, so that he can support the nobleman's children in the future.

With this God-given opportunity, how could Ran Baiquan, who was bent on getting ahead, not be ecstatic? But it's a pity that his father was defined as a spy of J's forces in the past special years, and this matter has not been investigated clearly, so the political trial of Ran Baiquan cannot be passed.

Seeing that the Dragon Gate was in front of him, Ran Baiquan was willing to let go of the opportunity to leap, so with the guidance and help of the nobles, he became a peasant child whose parents died early.

After graduating from the office, he was prosperous in official affairs, rising all the way, and married the daughter of a certain official in the middle, and since then he has been even more comfortable in officialdom, and finally became the secretary of the municipal party committee. Because he was afraid of affecting his career, he never thought of going home to support his father, but he lived happily, and he didn't even know that his father had cancer and died.

"Dad, I was wrong, I was wrong! I beg your old man to forgive me for being an unfilial son! Ran Baiquan fell to his knees with a thud and cried bitterly.

"Fate, it's all fate! If it weren't for the Wang family framing me and saying that I was a spy, how would you have come to such an unfilial point today! Ran Pingtai finally appeared as a kind old man, and said with a sad expression: "And I, I have created so many evils, I am also wrong!" Lives should not be harmed! ”

According to Ran Pingtai's own account, he and the Wang family became enemies because of land disputes, but he didn't expect the powerful Wang family to collude with certain forces to frame him as a spy.

"You have harmed people's lives because of your attachment, and your son has abandoned you because of greed. Plant good to get good, plant evil to get evil, Ran Pingtai, now you should also bear your own mistakes, are you convinced? Old man Hu said with a frown.

"I know it's wrong, and now I can only wait until I enter the Netherworld to be punished." Ran Pingtai sighed, and then looked at me fixedly: "Thank you, young man, if it weren't for your willingness to help me, I don't know how wrong I would be." I got something in Juyin, and I want to give it to you as my thank you. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, there was an egg-sized jade mirror on the ground.

Can you ask for something sent by a ghost? Originally, I refused in my heart, but after seeing the thief in Old Man Hu's eyes, I decisively picked it up and put it in my pocket.

"Xiaoquan, you can't be wrong again and again, remember to be a good official, think about the people, and serve the people, so that I can also get peace underground." Ran Pingtai glanced at his son deeply, "I'm leaving, you have to do it yourself." ”

Ran Baiquan looked at his Lao Tzu with teary eyes and nodded solemnly.

"I'm sorry for you." Ran Pingtai nodded at Old Man Hu.

Old man Hu also nodded at him and began to do the rituals.

The hoarfrost in the room gradually disappeared, the temperature returned to the same as before, Ran Pingtai's figure began to fade, slowly became transparent, and finally turned into a light and shadow and disappeared without a trace.

Old man Hu returned Ran Pingtai's bones to Ran Baiquan, and then dragged me out of the villa with a swagger, saying that the pace of going out was much easier.

While we were waiting for the bus, Old Man Hu kept looking at me with sinister eyes, and when he was about to see me goosebumps, he finally spoke: "I see that you have a good talent, how about it, are you interested in learning yin and yang with me?" ”