Ye Ning looked proud, "Kidding, do you think I'm afraid? I'll wear them, I don't believe you can still come up with anything."
Saying that, Ye Ning took the funeral clothing and put it on. I looked at Ye Ning with satisfaction and said, "Okay, let's go."
Saying that, I quickly left the room, heading straight to the stone tablet placed outside the house. Beside the stone tablet, my second uncle had already set up a chair and a table. Next to the chair was a paper umbrella.
Arriving at the stone tablet, I suddenly turned to look at Ye Ning and took out a candle from my bag. Then, I smiled and said, "But, Officer Ye, I must tell you, your responsibility is very great. Whatever you see later, you absolutely cannot run away, otherwise something will happen."
"Nonsense," Ye Ning said disdainfully. "When you were dealing with corpses, I wasn't even born yet. Hurry up."
"Okay," I smiled at Ye Ning, then suddenly reached out my hands to her shoulders and chanted a spell: "The sun fire leaves the body, the dark wind fills the top, the ghost fire on both sides, grudges arise from the heart."
After finishing the spell, my hands immediately felt a slight warmth, and then I pinched the wick of the candle with both hands, and the candle slowly began to burn. This was because the sun fire on Ye Ning's shoulders had been transferred to the candle.
After removing the sun fire from Ye Ning's shoulders, I reached out to remove the sun fire above her head. In this way, all three fires on Ye Ning's body had been removed.
At this point, I said to Ye Ning, "You are wearing funeral clothing and all the sun fire on your body has been removed. At this point, in the eyes of ghosts and monsters, you are just a dead person. Later, you will sit on this chair without moving. Someone will come to you for something. If they ask to borrow your umbrella, you lend it to them. If not, ignore them completely."
As I said this, Ye Ning's face had already become very unpleasant, but she still straightened her chest and said, "Okay, I will do as you say. Anything else?"
"Of course," I said again. "The person who asks to borrow the umbrella will leave something with you in exchange. Whatever it is, keep it. Someone will come to you later asking for that thing, and of course, they will offer something else in return. This will continue until eighteen ghosts have been appeased, then your task is completed."
"So simple?" Ye Ning looked at me disdainfully and then sat down.
At this moment, I suddenly took out a wooden board and wrote the words "Summoning Spirits and Appeasing Ghosts" on it, then placed the candle in front of Ye Ning, illuminating the wooden board. Turning back, I instructed Ye Ning again, "Officer Ye, you must remember not to run away, otherwise you will be possessed by a ghost. Don't think I'm just scaring you. Also, if the candle goes out, quickly replace it with a new one, the candle must not be extinguished."
"Got it, you're so talkative," Ye Ning said, somewhat impatiently, giving me a look.
Helpless, I said no more, turned and walked to the front door. When I reached the front door, I found a chair and sat down, leisurely observing Ye Ning.
At this point, although I hadn't opened my spiritual eye, I could feel a gust of yin wind blowing in Ye Ning's direction.
"Heh heh," I couldn't help but smile and began to curiously watch Ye Ning. When all three fires on a person's body are extinguished, they can directly see ghosts, so if there were any spirits, Ye Ning should have already seen them.
Sure enough, at this moment, Ye Ning's expression became unpleasant. It surprised me a bit, this policewoman's courage was indeed a bit greater than that of ordinary people. She just looked unpleasant, without showing much fear.
"Good," I nodded appreciatively.
At this point, my second uncle came up to me. "Xiao Mu, why did you assign the task of appeasing the ghosts to her? What if something goes wrong later?"
Hearing my second uncle's words, I turned my head and said, "It's okay, I'm watching here, if something goes wrong, I'll be the first to rush over."
"Okay," my second uncle was still a little worried. "I'll stay here with you. Appeasing the ghosts is no joking matter. With all three fires extinguished on her body, if a wandering ghost were to see, she would be in immediate danger."
I smiled at my second uncle and nodded with some concern.
At this point, the ceremony proceeded in an orderly manner. But after hearing my second uncle's words, I really was a bit uneasy, so I took out a candle and then reached for my own shoulders, chanting the fire removal spell: "The sun fire leaves the body, the dark wind fills the top, the ghost fire on both sides, grudges arise from the heart."
At once, I also had two fires removed from my body.
In fact, there was no need to remove all three fires, just removing two fires would allow me to see ghosts without needing the spiritual eye. Placing the fire on the candle, I looked in Ye Ning's direction.
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I didn't realize it at first, but when I took a look, I was startled. I saw that at this moment, on that stone tablet, at least seven or eight arms were densely extending, and at least four or five lonely wandering spirits had surrounded Ye Ning in front of the table.
"Miss, what I want is clothes, not an umbrella," one of the old women said, staring angrily at Ye Ning. Furthermore, this old woman had a terrifying appearance, with protruding eyes and a half-face already blurred and rotten.
"Not good," I said nervously upon seeing this scene, "Officer Ye, hold on."
Fortunately, just then, though Ye Ning's face had turned pale with fear, she still knew how to answer, "Ma'am, I only have an umbrella."
"What kind of office is this, with nothing we need," the old lady scolded angrily before turning away.
"Phew," I breathed a sigh of relief, feeling cold sweat brought on by Ye Ning's scare. But, I felt relieved in my heart— Ye Ning wasn't as fragile as I had imagined.
At this moment, a young man approached, "Miss, do you have a cigarette?"
"No, only an umbrella," Ye Ning's complexion was a bit better now, and her tone had softened.
After that, six or seven lonely wandering spirits arrived, but none of them wanted an umbrella.
Why just an umbrella? Because that is the rule for ferrying the spirits. Ferrying spirits is supposed to be difficult in order to truly ferry them. The more difficult it is, the greater the resentment that can be dispelled after ferrying them to the lonely wandering spirits later on. So, ferrying eighteen lonely wandering spirits, seemingly simple, is actually very difficult.
After a while, two or three more arrived, but they didn't want an umbrella either. Hearing that there was only an umbrella, they all shook their heads and left.
Just then, a boy of about two or three years old came swaying over, "Sister, I want an umbrella."
"Ah?" Upon hearing this, Ye Ning suddenly became joyful, looking as though she was about to cry, "Okay, little brother, sister will give it to you."
"This is for you," saying this, the little boy suddenly handed over a toy car, then hugged the umbrella, saying tearfully, "My mommy was rained to death. If sister had exchanged umbrellas with me earlier, it would've been so much better. We could have gone home earlier that day, avoiding the rain outside and the rising floodwaters, and my mom and I wouldn't have died."
Saying this, the little boy's face was already covered in tears and blood, and then he disappeared right where he stood.