Li Laosan took me to a small house. His niece followed along and closed the doors and windows, drawing the curtains.

The room instantly turned dark.

Li Laosan lit three joss sticks and two candles in front of the shrine, then sat on a chair and took off his shoes.

His niece squatted down and turned one of Li Laosan's shoes upside down and placed it neatly.

I thought it was about to begin, but to my surprise, Li Laosan started introducing me to his niece:

"This is Jin Chaoyang from Jindiao Village."

The girl glanced at me with a slightly red face and nodded.

Li Laosan then said to me:

"This is my niece, Caixiu. You should listen to her later."

I agreed.

After hesitating for a moment, I asked:

"Um... Is there a fee for this?"

Li Laosan glanced at me and said:

"What kind of talk is that? Can I charge you money? Let's be friends."

Li Laosan then closed his eyes and muttered to himself, reciting for a while. Slowly, he lifted his feet off the ground about an inch and started walking slowly.

While walking, he seemed to still be murmuring:

"Nanshan Province in Nanshanbu... Jin Qiuge."

After waiting for a while, Li Laosan suddenly shook his body as if he had been bumped by something, and immediately stopped moving.

Then he began to yawn.

After yawning, his body started trembling slightly. He closed his eyes and looked around, then suddenly looked at me.

Although his eyes were closed, I was still startled.

Because I felt that Li Laosan at this moment was completely different from the impression he had given me earlier.

Caixiu whispered to me on the side:

"Brother Chaoyang, he's here."

Looking at Li Laosan's appearance, I still felt a bit strange. After hesitating for a moment, I whispered:

"Is it Qiuge?"

Li Laosan's lips trembled, slowly opened his mouth, as if he was about to speak-

"Ah, ah, ah..."

I was startled by this sound. Li Laosan opened his mouth again, but the sound he made was still:

"Ah, ah, ah, ah..."

After shouting a few times, he became agitated, waving his hands as if he wanted to grab me.

I was frightened and took two steps back.

Li Laosan continued to reach out, but he was sitting in a chair and couldn't reach me. He just kept shouting, "Ah, ah, ah!"

He couldn't articulate properly, and then he started wailing.

While wailing, he painfully grabbed his own neck and made a gesture of wiping his neck.

It was the same motion I saw when we went to the grave.