My Years in the Folklore World

Chapter 189 The haunted house
"You have triggered the special talent of 'Ghostly'."

"Take out three incense sticks and place them in front of the corpse. Then place white paper on top and sprinkle some wine on top. Then activate the power of 'asking the ghost'."

"Not long after, the three incense sticks burned out in an instant, and wet writing appeared on the white paper on the ground."

"You read the handwriting carefully and learned about the deceased's life and why he died here."

"The deceased was a poor scholar who had studied sage books for decades, but he failed the imperial examinations repeatedly and lived in poverty all his life. Sometimes he had to pay for a plate of fennel beans at a tavern."

"However, the old scholar never gave up. He participated in every autumn examination and almost went crazy."

"The old scholar actually knew in his heart that he was not the material to become a general or a prime minister, but he just couldn't let go of his obsession. He outlasted his parents, his brothers, and his friends..."

"In the end, perhaps even God couldn't bear it anymore, so he finally allowed it to pass the imperial examination when it was over 70 years old, and even won the first place."

"However, what makes people sigh is that just when the old scholar won the first place in the imperial examination and was preparing to go to Beijing to participate in the next year's imperial examination, news came that the Lord of the Secular World had fallen, and the old dynasty order completely became history."

"How could the old scholar bear such a blow? He became crazy that night. He had endured for his whole life and was about to get through it, but reality gave him a heavy blow!"

"In despair and madness, the old scholar jumped into a well and committed suicide, leaving behind only a dried corpse and a topic of conversation for others after dinner."

After reading this text message, Jiang Xinghuo thought to himself that he was so unlucky. He had endured a lifetime, but in the end, everything was in vain. No one could bear it.

"The old scholar has lived a lonely life, with no children. Today you have collected his remains. He has nothing to repay you with, but some of his little belongings as a reward for collecting his remains."

"Those things were buried under the crooked tree outside the Imperial Examination Hall. I don't know if they are still there. You can go over and try your luck."

"You have obtained the clue to the old scholar's treasure hiding place."

"You poured all the wine in the pot onto the ground, and then burned a few pieces of yellow paper money to send away the old scholar's soul. Then you walked outside the Imperial Examination Hall and found the crooked tree."

"You took out an iron hoe, dug up the tree roots, dug three feet into the ground, and found a rotten box."

"You opened the box and took a careful inventory. You found something."

"You found a thousand gambling poison, a method of returning the snake, a book of happy and funeral music, a method of improving eyesight, a book of Five Animal Play, a method of lion dancing, and an umbrella for the people."

"Thousand Gambling Gu (common item), a Gu insect developed by a Miaojiang Gu Master. It is mainly used on the gambling table. You can use the special Gu insect to control the dice and control the number of dice as you wish."

"But later I heard that the Miaojiang Gu Master who developed the Thousand Gambling Gu was assassinated by major gambling houses with a huge reward, and his disciples were also banned, so the Thousand Gambling Gu has almost disappeared from the world."

"Snake Returning Technique (Ordinary Skill). Lingnan is a warm and humid land, and people are often bitten by venomous snakes. This gave rise to the profession of 'snake catcher'. The Snake Returning Technique is a spell created by snake catchers after they were bitten by venomous snakes.

"It is said that as long as the snake catcher draws a circle on the ground and burns a few talismans, the poisonous snakes within a few miles will automatically gather in the circle and be caught without resistance."

"Happy funeral music (general props). According to folk customs, the death of an old man over 70 years old is considered a happy funeral. Red cloth should be hung, red paper should be pasted, red candles should be lit, and happy music should be played."

"Eye-brightening Technique (Ordinary Skill), a method of protecting the eyes and improving eyesight recorded in medical books. It stimulates blood circulation by massaging acupuncture points. If you can persist in doing this for a long time, even when you are old and weak, you can still keep your eyesight clear and not blind."

"Five Animal Exercises (common skill), a method of strengthening the body recorded in medical books, has the effects of digesting food, increasing energy, eliminating all diseases, and prolonging life. If practiced for a long time, even if you are over 90 years old, you will still have sharp ears and eyes and strong teeth." "Lion Dance (common skill), a lion dance technique that was passed down in the secular world of Yanzhao. If divided by region, it should be considered the northern style of lion dance, which emphasizes meaning rather than form, and is also good at close combat."

"The Umbrella of All People (excellent item), an oil-paper umbrella that gathers the incense and wishes of all people. As long as you inject magic power into the umbrella, it will turn into a two-meter-tall umbrella. Standing under the umbrella, all evil will not invade, and all ghosts will retreat."

Jiang Xinghuo counted the harvest. Apart from the Umbrella of All People, the rest of the things were somewhat useless to him and there were not many places where he could use them.

After finishing the work here, Jiang Xinghuo controlled the game character and came to the deepest part of the Imperial Examination Hall.

"You took out the Yellow Springs Lantern."

"You triggered the effect of the Yellow Spring Lamp."

"Under the light of the imperial court, a chilly atmosphere emanates. A dilapidated and desolate grave quietly appears before your eyes."

"You got it, the Haunted House."

"Look at this spooky mansion. Do you want to go in and explore it?"

"You walked into the haunted house."

"The spirit of the Maoshan elder also floated out of the apricot yellow flag. You learned from it how to send the evil ghost back to the underworld and free its family."

"You need to go into the funeral hall of the Yin house, break the tablet that is trapping the evil ghost, and then use the soul-binding chain to trap it in the peach wood puppet. Then take the white paper boat into the underworld and sink the peach wood puppet into the underworld."

"The Maoshan elder has told you the method, and the soul has completely dissipated. As for whether or not to fulfill its last wish, it is entirely up to you."

"What are you going to do next?"

"Are you planning to search the tomb and leave with the treasures you find?

"Or will you choose to accept the trust and fulfill the last wish of the Maoshan elder?"

"Be careful. If you take the money of a dead person, you will have karma with the dead person. Good and evil will be rewarded, and if you do something wrong, the karma in the dark will naturally affect you."

"Of course, if you are confident enough in your own abilities, you can ignore those imaginary bullshit principles."

Looking at the game text on the screen, Jiang Xinghuo was speechless, thinking that after all the roundabout ways you said, you still have to complete the follow-up tasks and fulfill the last wish of the Maoshan elders.

"You chose to fulfill the last wish of the Maoshan elder."

"You walked into the mourning hall and looked at the memorial tablet on the table. What are you going to do?"

"If you want to regret now, you still have a chance to turn back, but if you smash the spirit tablet, there will be no turning back."

"How are you going to choose?"

(End of this chapter)