My name is Chen Xiaofu, as the saying goes, people are like their names, and my name is as bad as myself.

I remember hearing my grandparents tell me that on the day I was born, the village was restless, the sky was full of black clouds, lightning and thunder, and just after I was born, a fiery red broom star pierced the dark sky and fell into the col behind my yard. The fortune teller in the village said that I was born as a lone star, and I would become a scourge in the future.

At first, the family did not take the fortune teller's words to heart, until the night of the first month of my birth, my father and mother suddenly fell ill and died on the way to the county hospital. After my parents died, rumors began to circulate in the village that I was a bad star and a great scourge, and some extreme villagers came to my house several times to make trouble, and even threatened the village committee to kick my family out of the village.

Fortunately, my grandfather had a good relationship with the cadres of the village committee, and by giving gifts everywhere, the village committee did not sweep our family out of the house in the end.

However, this good fortune came to an end by the time I was seven years old.

I still remember that it was a cold winter night in November 2003, and my grandparents and I were having a hot dinner, when suddenly, the courtyard was cloudy and windy, and a thick layer of hoarfrost condensed in the air. Grandpa sensed that something was wrong and was about to get up and go out to check the situation, when the kitchen door was blown open by the wind, and two black mist drifted into the kitchen.

The black mist gradually turned into a human form, and after seeing the comer, my grandparents' faces showed a frightened expression, and I pulled my grandfather's sleeve and asked in a low voice, "Grandpa, who are these two people?" Why did they come to my house? ”

Grandpa bit his lip tightly, he didn't dare to breathe, and grandma was even more pale and almost fainted. At that time, I hid behind my grandfather, looking at those two people who looked and dressed very strangely, and I was terrified to the extreme.

Since years have passed, I don't remember much about what happened, and I vaguely remember my grandparents kicking me out of the house and telling me never to come back. Later, I was caught by the villagers, and the fortune teller in the village said that my grandparents had more than ten years of life, but they were killed by black and white impermanence in advance, all because of my fate, the Heavenly Evil Lone Star.

According to the fortune teller, because my birth not only killed my own parents, but also killed my grandparents, I am a complete scourge, a broom star. At the strong demands of the villagers, the village committee finally decided to kick me out of the village and threatened that I would never be allowed to return.

Leaving the village where I had lived since I was a child, I didn't know where to go, so I got on a bus alone and came to the distant provincial city of Qingchen City.

After wandering in the early morning market for more than a week, I finally fainted on the street from hunger and cold.

When I woke up, I found myself lying on a warm bed, with a kind-faced man sitting on the edge of the bed with a bowl of hot pork rib soup in his hand.

The man smiled with relief when he saw that I had woken up.

"What's your name, kid?"

"I—my name is Chen Xiaofu."

"Little mourning? What an obscure name. ”

"The fortune teller said that I was a lonely star because my life killed my father, mother, and grandparents."

The man didn't feel frightened after knowing my background, but showed a very satisfied expression, and muttered: "God really help me, I have a successor to the Yinshan Sect!" ”

The middle-aged man who adopted me as his adopted son is named Chen Guozhong, a native of Longshan City, Yunnan Province, and his profession is Mr. Yin and Yang and a ghost master.

By the way, before I came, Chen Guozhong had already adopted a five-year-old girl named Chen Jiawen, who was two years younger than me. According to Chen Guozhong, Jiawen was beaten by his biological parents and abandoned on the street, he saw Xiao Jiawen standing alone on the cold and bleak street crying, his heart softened, and he took Jiawen home without saying a word.

Speaking of which, the name Jiawen was still taken by Chen Guozhong, the reason is that Jiawen's real name Huang Yaojing sounds very similar to Huang Goblin, Chen Guozhong felt that it was very unlucky for a little girl to take this name, so he took it upon himself to help Jiawen change her name, but fortunately, Jiawen likes the current name very much.

All along, I get along with Jiawen very well, she regards me as an older brother, and I also regard Jiawen as my own sister, although I am curious about why Jiawen was abandoned by her biological parents, and I have asked her about her parents, but every time I talk about my biological parents, Jiawen is very frightened, and a few times even cried and got into my arms and said that I didn't want to go back to my original home, and wanted to be with Uncle Chen and Brother Xiaofu forever. I knew that this was a piece of Jiawen's heart, a scar that could never be erased, and then I didn't ask anymore, and the only thought was that I would always be with Jiawen and never separate.

I have always been very curious about the identity and occupation of men, and Jiawen told me that my father is a "ghost master". At first, I didn't know what the new term "ghost master" meant. Until the night of the 18-year-old coming-of-age ceremony, the man lay on the bed sickly, held my hand tightly, and said earnestly: "Little funeral, my limit is approaching, I'm afraid my life will be short, I hope you can inherit my career, one day become the head of the Yinshan faction, let the Yinshan faction carry forward." ”

Before he died, the man took off a ring inlaid with a fuchsia gemstone from the middle finger of his right hand, stuffed it into my hand, and asked him puzzled: "Dad, what are you doing here?" ”

The man struggled to use his last bit of strength and said to me: "Xiao Fu, listen up, this ring is called the Power Ring, it is the symbol of the heads of the Yinshan faction in the past dynasties, and it is the treasure of the Yinshan faction. Before the previous head died, he must pass it on to the new head, which is an iron law set by the Yinshan faction since its establishment. Xiao Fu, I handed over the power ring to you, and from now on you will be the fifteenth generation head of the Yinshan faction. ”

I took the ring, looked at it carefully, and put it on the middle finger of my right hand, and when the man saw me put it on, he took his last breath with a relieved smile.

At that time, I didn't understand what the man said, how could I, an ordinary person, become the head of the Yinshan faction? Although I don't know it clearly, the man's words are still deeply rooted in my heart, and in order to repay him for raising me for so many years, I resolutely gave up the college entrance examination, determined to inherit his mantle and become a "ghost master".

In this way, I inherited the inheritance left by the man as a matter of course, and opened a shop called "Jiawen Feng Shui Measurement" on Yinyang Street in Guandu District, Qingchen City, whose main business is fortune telling, word measurement, physiognomy, and feng shui.

At first, I thought that Yinyang Street was located in a remote area with little traffic, and I wanted to move to the downtown area of Guandu District, but Jiawen persuaded me: "The rent in the downtown area is too high, we can't afford it, why don't we renovate the store opened by my father before his death, and then reopen it, brother, what do you think?" ”

After listening to Jiawen's words, I think it's right, after all, it is a store that my father has run for a long time, and it carries too many good memories for us.

After some simple renovation and the purchase of some brand new furniture, my father's shop was reborn under the name "Jiawen Feng Shui Measurement". Well, of course, I am the owner of the store, and Jiawen volunteered to contract the shopkeeper's wife, accountant, salesman, and cleaner.

When the shop first opened, few people came to pay attention, and life was very leisurely. I thought that it was not a way to mess around like this, I couldn't delay Jiawen's studies, so I could say that I would let her take the college entrance examination, this girl was also quite competitive, and it only took more than a month of review time, and finally she was admitted to Qingchen Normal University (the top five universities in the country, the only 985 and "double first-class" university in our province) with an excellent score of 680 points.

When filling in the volunteer, Jiawen said that she wanted to apply for a feng shui major, I checked on the official website of Normal University in the early morning, and there was no such major at all.

After Jiawen went to college, I was the only one left to look after the store, and although I sometimes felt lonely, as long as I thought of seeing her on weekends and holidays, I no longer felt lonely.

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One Saturday in September 2017, I accompanied Jiawen on the subway to university, and on the way back, I bumped into my friend Guo Blind on the subway.

Guo Blind is named Guo Jia, why do you call him "blind"? In his early years, this product was an expert in inverted fighting, and if it sounded good, it was a golden captain, and if it was bad, it was a tomb robber. The blind man followed his master around the country and stole many ancient tombs, and they sold the Ming utensils they "brought" from the tombs on the black market, making a lot of money, and living a nourishing life.

As the saying goes: "If you walk for a long time at night, you will hit a ghost". Especially in the tomb robbery industry, it is common to encounter any supernatural phenomena. The blind man is no exception, he has also encountered zombies, ghosts and other evil ghosts in the tomb, but every time he miraculously comes back alive. However, this good fortune did not last forever.

One day in June 2013, the blind man and his master received a commission from a large company to go to Fuxian Lake to rob the tomb of King Dian. As early as 2005, the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences had carried out a preliminary excavation of the tomb of the Dian King, but for some unspeakable reasons, the excavation work was forced to stop. Although the blind man knew the danger and strangeness of the tomb of the king of Dian, the conditions offered by the client were too rich, and driven by interests, the blind man and his master finally went to Fuxian Lake to rob the tomb of the king of Dian.

I still remember that before I went, this product swore that he would definitely touch a few valuable artifacts and come back to give them to me and Jiawen. I thought to myself, forget it, it would be nice to be able to come back safely. At that time, I calculated a hexagram for this product, and the hexagram showed that the blind man had died in this trip, and there was more luck in his life. As a good friend, I originally wanted to persuade him not to go, but then I thought about it, it would not be a bad thing to let him suffer a little loss, and maybe let him wash his hands and walk on the right path from now on.

I went for more than two months, and when the blind man came to my shop again, I was surprised to find that he had a pair of blind glasses on the bridge of his nose. After careful questioning, it turned out that this product was attacked by corpses in the tomb of King Dian and lost a pair of tricks, and since then he has been disabled. And the blind man's master was bitten to death by the corpse in order to save him. The blind man almost relied on his years of experience and the artifact "Dragon Hunting" left to him by his master before his death, so that he was lucky enough to pick up a small life.

Since then, the blind man has washed his hands and opened a "Shengtian Feng Shui Co., Ltd." in the downtown area of Yiling District, and the business is similar to my shop, but the business is much more popular than mine.

I wasn't too surprised to see a blind man on the subway. I said hello to the blind man, walked up and sat down next to the blind man, and handed him a cigarette.

The blind man took the cigarette, lit it and put it in his mouth, and said with some emotion: "Brother, the company's business has been too heavy in the past six months, and I can't spare time to visit you." By the way, how is Jiawen doing? ”

I took a puff of my cigarette and replied, "I just sent Jiawen to college today, what's the matter, I see if you have a business again?" ”

The blind man pretended to smile mysteriously: "Trade secrets! ”

I glanced at the yellow cloth bag that the blind man was carrying on his shoulder, which was full of it, and I asked half-jokingly, "Are you carrying so many things to catch ghosts?" ”

Unexpectedly, the blind man replied seriously: "That's right, it's to catch ghosts!" ”