Jiang Lin entered the room through the wall and indeed saw the soul of an old man slowly detaching from his body.
The speed at which the soul was leaving suggested a reluctance to depart.
On the hospital bed, the old man's body lay motionless.
Beside the bed, his three pairs of children, along with their own children, knelt by the bedside.
They cried inconsolably, their tears streaming down their faces, facing the silent elder.
"Dad, how could you leave us like this!"
"Nannan, quickly call Grandpa, this is your Grandpa!"
The group of middle-aged people, all married and established heads of their own families,
now cried like children.
The viewers in the live stream were also infected by the atmosphere and fell silent.
This hospital room looked quite luxurious; the old man must have lived a comfortable life.
Damn it, I'm a grown man, and I'm almost tearing up.
In this world, the most helpless thing is that the deceased are gone, and the living continue on.
I remember when I was sixteen, one day my mom suddenly told me, "Mom doesn't have a dad anymore."
Watching the adults cry their hearts out.
The children, with their innocent, wide eyes, obediently did as they were told by the adults.
The little boy called Nannan was no exception.
He obediently faced the hospital bed and called out "Grandpa" in a clear voice.
After calling out, he looked at his father, who was still crying, and tugged at his sleeve.
"Dad, if Grandpa is gone, will we not have this big house anymore?"
His clear, innocent voice echoed in the room.
The child did not understand what "gone" meant.
He only thought that his father was crying so sadly because they would no longer have the big house.
As soon as the words fell,
all the adults in the room stopped crying and looked over in unison.
Tears still lingered on their faces.
Before Nannan's father could speak, a middle-aged woman on the other side of the bed suddenly stood up.
"Second Brother, what do you mean! Are you trying to monopolize Dad's house!"
Nannan's father's face turned grim. "Third Sister, what are you talking about? What monopolize or not, aren't we all family?"
Beside him, the eldest son, who had been nudged several times by his wife, stood up. "That's right, that's right, we're all family."
Seeing him try to play the peacemaker, the eldest son's wife stood up herself.
"Second Brother, for so many years, you've received the most care from Dad. Don't think we don't know. Dad has been secretly subsidizing you."
She said, wiping a tear from her eye, "My two children, how much hardship did they suffer outside back then..."
Nannan's father, who was the second brother of the family, also grew cold.
"Sister-in-law, what do you mean by that?"
"And Third Sister, I've been taking care of Dad for the past two years. What's wrong with Dad subsidizing me? It shows I've served him well!"
The seemingly harmonious facade was immediately shattered by a child's innocent words.
The old man had left behind a lot of real estate.
The most valuable of which was the large villa with a farm where he was currently living.
The location was good, the scenery was beautiful, and the agricultural and livestock industries within it were also developing well.
The annual income alone was in the six to seven figures.
The discord among the three siblings was not a new issue.
Seeing the three siblings arguing over a house, the old man became furious.
He wished he could grab his cane and hit each of them.
"I'm not even completely dead yet, and you're already starting to divide my estate!"
"I haven't even enjoyed my retirement, and here you are, thinking about how to divide things as soon as I die!"
He had worked hard his entire life to accumulate this wealth.
And he had raised three children.
Now that his children were all married and had their own careers,
he understood that he would be happy if his descendants visited, and he wouldn't bother them if they didn't.
He would live out his remaining years peacefully.
Who would have thought that he would slip and fall on the road?
And when he woke up, he was gone!
He had only been retired for two years!
Two years!
He had lived frugally for most of his life, and his fortune of tens of millions had only been enjoyed for two years of leisure!
The old man felt a tightness in his chest.
It hurt!
Seeing his children below, arguing over dividing his assets, he almost fainted from anger.
"Not only are you not giving me a proper funeral, but after shedding a couple of tears, you're already dividing my property in front of me!"
"You'll really make me come back to life from anger even after I'm dead!"
The viewers in the live stream were stunned by the sudden shift in tone.
The tears of emotion were still on their faces.
"I looked at the tissues in my hand, what use are they?"
"Old man: I'm not completely dead yet! Believe it or not, I'll perform a zombie resurrection right here!"
"Why do I feel like the old man is just heartbroken about the money?"
"The person upstairs is right, but nowadays, elders and children mostly live separate lives. If the elderly take good care of themselves, the children would probably be grateful."
"I have a friend who has to support four elderly people after getting married, with two children still in school and a job to manage daily."
"I want to know, how much money does it take to start arguing about dividing assets right after the elder's death?"
The viewers started to spectate.
While secretly wondering how much inheritance the old man had left behind.
Although they were poor, they were experts at spectating!
"It must be at least a few million, right?"
"I think. Poverty has limited our imagination. Maybe it's tens of millions!"
In the hospital room.
The three siblings were arguing incessantly.
If it weren't for the soundproofing of the private room, the nurses might have been banging on the door.
Jiang Lin could hear the voices through the door earlier because of his strength.
The old man was angrily pacing back and forth.
He wanted to hit them, but his hands passed through his children's bodies.
"Viewers: Hilarious! They can't hit them at all."
"That's so smooth!"
Jiang Lin stood aside.
Seeing the old man's flushed face and his agitated movements, he suddenly said,
"Do you want to go back and struggle a bit more?"
The old man was stunned. "Go, go back where?"
Jiang Lin gestured towards the old man's body on the hospital bed.
"Of course, back into your own body."
The soul had only just emerged from the body, and the vitality within had not completely ceased.
It should be able to hold on for a while longer.
If it were in the past, Jiang Lin wouldn't have done this.
Firstly, due to limitations in strength, and secondly, due to limited authority.
But now, he possessed the strength of a Great Ghost General.
And he had been promoted to a Second-Class Ghost Messenger.
As long as the soul and others were not harmed, Jiang Lin could do much more than before.
"My two children! I must leave something for them too!"
"Are you a sister-in-law like this! Then we'll have to have a second and third child too!"
By the end of the argument, the three siblings could no longer communicate with words.
They resorted to physical blows, and the eldest son, who tried to mediate, also got involved.
The children all huddled in a corner of the room, and two of the more timid ones had already started crying.
The entire room was in chaos.
"Ah!"
Just then, Nannan, the child closest to the hospital bed, suddenly cried out.
This cry didn't attract anyone's attention until Nannan cried out a second time.
"Dad! Grandpa is awake!"
Young children do not have a clear concept of death or dying.
Before, seeing Grandpa's eyes closed, he thought Grandpa was just sleeping.
"???"
"Awake?"
"What's awake?"
Nannan's father was confused.
After all, it was his child, and he was the first to stop and look over.
Upon seeing this, he was stunned.
"Dad?!"