The locust tree, the ghost of the tree, is easy to attract ghosts because of its heavy yin energy, and it is forbidden to plant near houses in Feng Shui. But there is also a saying among the people, saying that it is planted in front of the door to attract treasure and wealth. Which one is true? Xing Ruyi believes that this trick is not a ghost, and a few locust trees are related to themselves, and they are also related to the feng shui of their house.

The Wang family's house, located in a dark alley, and a few points shorter than the surrounding houses, has already formed a pattern of gathering yin. The door of the house happens to open in the southwest direction, which is called the "ghost door" in feng shui, and it is easier to attract yin.

Wang Fu sells calligraphy and paintings, and he is also very elegant, so he planted a lot of bamboo, peach trees, and plantains in the yard. If this is in a big family, the design is exquisite, but in the courtyard of the Wang family, it is a little inappropriate. The Wang family was originally a house of Juyin, and the direction of opening the door happened to be on the "ghost gate", and planting these many evil plants in the yard was simply asking for a dead end, and the house where a living person lived became a dead house.

But the strange thing is that with such a poor feng shui, the Wang family can still live well. No! It's not that it's good, because Wang San said that he also had an older brother who died when he was seven years old.

Xing Ruyi closed his eyes and opened them, and the locust tree that had disappeared appeared in front of him again.

It was a luxuriant black locust tree, with lush foliage and greenery, but on one of the branches hung a boy of about seven or eight years old. The child was dressed in ordinary clothes, with his feet dangling in the air, his head down, but his eyes were wide as if he were looking at someone.

Xing Ruyi sighed lightly, closed his eyes again, and opened them again, the black locust was gone, leaving only a lonely stump, as if telling about the past.

"Your brother, you were hanged from this locust tree, right?"

Wang San was already standing in the door at this time, and was half-bowing down to welcome the punishment Ruyi into the door. Hearing her words, the whole person froze, and then raised his head.

"How does Miss Ruyi know? Could it be my father?"

"It has nothing to do with Uncle Wang, it's what I saw for myself." Xing Ruyi said, pointing to his eyes: "You forgot, the reason why your father asked you to wait for me at the door of the Splendid Workshop is to let me help your family solve these strange things." Although I am not particularly good at subduing demons and catching ghosts, I have learned some skills in Feng Shui in the early years, so there are some things, just use these eyes, take a look, you can see some cause and effect. ”

"What the girl saw was true, my brother was hanged on this black locust tree. This tree was created when my Wang family ancestor bought this yard, and no one can say how many years it has grown. It's just that at that time, the locust tree was still planted in the yard and not outside the door. ”

"There is an ancient acacia in the courtyard, it must be an old house! It seems that this sentence in the book is not false. Xing Ruyi read silently, raised his eyes and looked at Wang San: "It's okay, you continue!" ”

"This mansion is indeed an old mansion, just my Wang family, here have been lived for five generations." Wang San said, pointing left and right: "Ruyi girl, please see, the houses around here, the original land is also my family's, and it belongs to part of my Wang family's house." But my grandfather is a good gambler, and when he comes and goes, he loses this property piece by piece. My family now lives in the same place where the servants used to live, which is the backyard of the whole house. If you look at this door, it's not where the main entrance should be. This is because the front ones were lost, and the courtyards on the left and right were gone, so they had to change their course. ”

"I understand, the yard where your family lives now is actually the backyard of the whole house, and the alley in front of the door was originally just a path to the backyard, but because the surrounding houses changed hands several times, and then expanded and rebuilt, so the pattern in front of me was gradually formed. The buyers of the houses around this place must also know what is going on here, so they all built the houses so high, in order to suppress the momentum of the main house, so they artificially turned your Wang family into a house that gathers yin. ”

"Ruyi girl, a Taoist priest also told my father. It's a pity that my father didn't take this to heart at that time, and as a result, my brother died innocently! Wang San said, sighed, and welcomed Xing Ruyi into the house. Directly opposite the stump of the black locust tree, there is a stone with a large Taoist symbol drawn in red cinnabar.

"This is"

"This is after my brother died, my father specially asked the Taoist priest to draw it, saying that it was a town house charm. I don't know any of this, but I know that this stone has been standing here for many years, almost since I can remember, and the cinnabar on this talisman has not changed at all. ”

"It's no wonder that your family's feng shui is so poor, you and your family can still get along safely, it turns out that there are already masters who have set up a town house here. It's just that this cinnabar" Xing Ruyi was originally just curious, and glanced at it twice, but she didn't expect to really see some clues for her: "What you just said, this cinnabar hasn't changed for decades, so what's going on in this corner?" ”

Wang San glanced down, and saw that the blood-red charm on the surface of the stone was vaguely missing a corner, and it was impartially at the bottom right.

"Is the girl asking this? This was ruined by the kid from Wang Cheng's family who peed, and because of this incident, our two families also had a fight. Wang San said, pointing to a family on the wall on the right: "Oh, this is Wang Cheng's family." Originally, we were also of the same clan and clan, and even strictly speaking, this Wang Cheng's ancestor was still a slave of our family, and even this king's surname was given by my grandfather. Later, my family declined, and this Wang Cheng's family prospered step by step. In my lifetime, the whole thing has been turned upside down. To paraphrase a common saying, it is really 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi. ”

"The so-called rich is only three generations, and the poor is only three generations, which is probably what it means. It's just that such a precious thing in your family has made the children of Wang Cheng's family dirty. Could it be that this Wang Chengjia is deliberate? ”

Wang San scratched his head and didn't speak.

That's a long way to say. If the Ruyi girl is not in a hurry, she can go to the small pavilion to sit for a while, and I will bring some refreshments and slowly tell the girl about these past events. In addition, I also have to tell my father that the girl has come early and is patrolling the yard, so that he should not be in a hurry. ”

Xing Ruyi nodded, and went to the small pavilion to sit first. This pavilion is built in the corner of the courtyard wall, and it is estimated that it is also left behind. There are still shallow pools around it, but it is no longer alive, but stagnant. Next to the pond, there is also a scoop made of gourds and a small wooden barrel, which should be used for daily maintenance of the pond.

Connecting the pavilion and the courtyard is a hand-built wooden bridge, the workmanship is relatively simple, and it is estimated that the Wang family made it themselves. The length and width of the small bridge are about half a meter, which is relatively thick and suitable for people to walk. In the pavilion, there are tables and chairs carved in bluestone, but the workmanship and patterns are much more exquisite. The surface of the round table and the stone bench are worn to varying degrees, and it can be seen that the owner still loves this place very much.

Wang San's movements were very fast, and when he came over, he was still holding a tray made of mahogany in his hand. In the tray, there are three saucers and a teapot. Three white jade plates, respectively placed mung bean cake, crystal cake, chestnut cake and other things, look at the handiwork, it should be made by the hostess of the Wang family herself. The exterior is a bit rough, but the materials used inside are very realistic. The teapot is like an old object for some years, the workmanship is very exquisite, and the tea leaves taste good.

"These things are prepared by my father and my mother, ordinary people, they can't make any fine snacks, Ruyi girl makes do with it, don't dislike it."

"Brother Wang is polite, these things, in Ruyi's eyes, are better than those sold outside." Xing Ruyi said, picked up a piece of chestnut crisp, didn't care about any image, and took a big bite at once. Maybe it's because Xing Ruyi is not as particular as the ordinary daughter, or maybe it's because of that sentence Brother Wang, which shortened the distance between each other, and Wang San's whole person also seemed relaxed.

"The matter of my family and Wang becoming a family has to start from more than 20 years ago"

Twenty-one years ago, on the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, shortly after the Lunar New Year, Luoyang City was still filled with a lively atmosphere of festivals.

That year, Wang Fu had just turned sixteen years old, and he was a young man who had not yet married. Wang Shu next door is three years older than him, and his family is also an ancestral relationship, and the two have been playing together since childhood. On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, it was the day when Wang Shu got married, and Wang Fu, as a little brother, naturally got up early.

At that time, the surrounding houses had not been renovated and renovated, and Wang Fu's house was more spacious than what I see now, but Wang Shu's house was a little dilapidated and crowded. The courtyard where Wang Shu's family lived at that time was also zoned out of the Wang family's old house, but it was the one with the worst location. There are only two rooms in the courtyard, one is the main house, which is used as a new house for Wang Shu after repair, and the other is a home remedies, which is where Wang Shu's father and mother live. The kitchen is a shed, and even the ceiling is paved with straw. Although the house is broken, the bride is not ordinary, it is the famous tofu Shih Tzu in the tofu workshop in the west of the city, and she is known as the first beautiful purple jade girl in Luoyang.

The talent and beauty of the woman can be regarded as a match made in heaven. After three rounds of drinking, Wang Shu entered the cave room drunk. When I was drunk, I found that the bride was gone! Relatives and friends searched around, but they found nothing, and everyone was stunned.

Just when everyone was looking for a long time and was about to send someone to the yamen to report to the official, someone found the bride who committed suicide by hanging beam on the black locust tree in front of Wang Fu's house. At that time, the bride was disheveled, and there were scars on her hands and feet, and there was a king character written on her palm. Everyone thought for a while, and felt that what was written in the palm of the bride's palm was not the "king" of the groom Wang Shu, but the "king" of the murderer.

"So, Wang Shu's family suspects that it was your father Wang Fu who kidnapped the bride and even insulted the bride?"

Wang San sighed lightly and nodded: "Because the person was found on the black locust tree in front of my house, and at that time, my father was drunk at home, and his body was also disheveled, and there were even scars on his forehead. It's hard not to be suspicious. ”

"So, does the bride's death really have something to do with your father?"

"Of course not! Although my father has no fame, he has also been a poet and book etiquette since he was a child, how can this friend's wife be deceived? Don't say that it is Wang Shu's, even if it is the wife of an ordinary family, my father will definitely not have such a mind. Wang San said, shaking his head again and again: "This matter was later brought to the government, and the people in the yamen also detained my father and went back to investigate in detail." But in the end, it was confirmed that my father was indeed drunk at the Wang family, and after getting drunk, he also returned alone. The injuries on my body were formed by a collision with someone on the way back, and the person who collided was also found, and the other party confirmed that what my father said was not a lie. He also examined the body of the bride and confirmed that she had committed suicide, not by her, and although there were signs of violation, she did not show that she had anything to do with my family, so he acquitted my father. But Wang Shu's family was indomitable and always thought that my father was the murderer. ”

"And after that?"

"Wang Shu's family has been in trouble for more than half a year, and then it gradually subsided, but the two families have become enemies since then, and the brotherhood between my father and Wang Shu can be regarded as broken. Later, Wang Shu became an official in the army, and he used his power to take away nearly half of my family's real estate. In the following years, it was considered peaceful, but my family was always a little unpeaceful, until my eldest brother hanged himself on the black locust tree, and my father knew that the family had already been manipulated by Wang Shu. He is a righteous gentleman on the surface, but in fact, he will repay him! ”

"Wang Shu, what did he do?"

"He buried a cat under my main house!"

(Education 123 Literature Network)