Chapter 30: True and False Statues
"Feng Shui?" Xu Tian asked in surprise.
"That's right, they saw feng shui in a very small temple in the western suburbs of Dong'an City." Yu Yi said.
"I know there, it's still quite famous in the local area, but I haven't heard rumors about that place since two or three years ago." Xu Tian said.
"That's because their nest was taken by the police." Yu Yi said.
"Is the feng shui gentleman in that place the one who is encouraging those parents?" Xu Tian asked.
"It's fine if it's just to encourage those parents to mutilate their children, but that feng shui gentleman has other purposes." Yu Yi said.
"For what purpose?" Xu Tian asked.
"According to the police investigation, that feng shui gentleman has controlled all the people who go there to see feng shui, that is, the means of psychological suggestion and hypnosis, that feng shui gentleman has achieved the means of controlling people's hearts, and even the means of controlling the behavior of others." Yu Yi said.
When Yu Yi said this, a cold wind suddenly came from Xu Tian's back, because Xu Tian remembered that when he was in junior high school, his parents were obsessed with that feng shui gentleman for a year, and in that year, Xu Tian's parents would go to the temple in the western suburbs almost every other week to find Mr. Feng Shui, that is, from that year, Xu Tian's parents began to alienate Xu Tian.
"Did that feng shui gentleman get caught?" Xu Tian asked.
"I was caught, and I'm still in prison, but two months ago, that feng shui gentleman disappeared from prison." Yu Yi said.
"Prison break?" Xu Tian asked.
"Dead." Yu Yi said.
"Is this true? Why do I think there's something wrong with this? Xu Tian asked.
"Stranger things are yet to come! After the death of that feng shui gentleman in prison, the bail prisoners you met on the island began to be released from prison one after another, do you think this incident could be a coincidence? Yu Yi said.
"Of course, it can't be a coincidence, but what does this matter have to do with Zhinian Tai Sui?" Xu Tian asked.
"This statue of the god is exactly the same in the temple in the western suburbs of Dong'an City, and the connection is here." Yu Yi said.
"Exactly the same?" Xu Tian asked in surprise.
"When that feng shui gentleman was arrested, the police confiscated everything from his temple, and it was precisely because the person who investigated the case at that time was Lao Chen that Lao Chen noticed this statue." Yu Yi said.
"So Lao Chen called you there and let you see the statue of the god that was looted from the temple?" Xu Tian said.
"That's right, at first I thought it was a little unbelievable, but when I saw the statue, I suddenly remembered that there was a dent in the base of the statue that Master had passed down to me a few years ago, and the dent was so shallow that I couldn't even remember it. But when I arrived in Dong'an City and took the statue in my hand to inspect it, I suddenly remembered this incident in my mind. Yu Yi said.
"That means that on the day your master passed the idol to you, someone did transfer the idol from the front hall of your shop." Xu Tian asked.
"I can't believe it, I feel very guilty about my mistakes, it turns out that the idols I have kept are all fake, and the real idols have been stolen a long time ago." Yu Yi said.
"If it was the idol that was dropped in your store back then, instead of the paper in the box on the base of the idol, then it should be easy to determine who transferred the idol back then, right?" Xu Tian asked.
"The only people who had the opportunity to commit crimes back then were Lao Chen and the orthopedic surgeon, and I remember very well that Lao Chen didn't bring anything when he came to my shop, and the orthopedic surgeon was carrying a big backpack when he came." Yu Yi said.
"Then it's obvious that the person who transferred the idol back then was the orthopedic surgeon, and this is no longer a controversial thing." Xu Tian said.
"But it was too late for me to know about it, four years had passed, and if I had investigated the orthopedic surgeon at that time, he would not have admitted what he had done back then." Yu Yi said.
"That being true, I have a question, since the orthopedic surgeon had already re-ordered your idol, why did he come back to your shop a year later to buy the fake idol?" Xu Tian asked.
"I also thought about this question back then, and Lao Chen was also very helpful, that orthopedic surgeon worked in Dong'an City back then, and after Lao Chen arrested him, he didn't ask anything valuable." Yu Yi said.
"That should also ask why he bought the idol, right?" Xu Tian asked.
"The answer he gave was that someone had paid a lot of money on the black market to buy back the statue, and because the orthopedic surgeon had come to my shop and seen the statue, he came to me after he received the news of the black market." Yu Yi said.
"Something is wrong! If the orthopedic surgeon had taken the idol away, then he should have known that the idol in your shop was a fake, and there would be no need for him to come back to you! Xu Tian said.
"So after discussing with Lao Chen, we agreed that the orthopedic surgeon didn't actually want to buy the fake god statue in my hand, he must have wanted to draw attention to me." Yu Yi said.
"I understand, when it was rumored in the black market that someone wanted to recycle the idol at a high price, the orthopedic surgeon should have been targeted, since the orthopedic surgeon was able to transfer and steal the idol back then, then he must have some kind of connection with the idol, so he must be targeted by people who want to get the idol. When he realizes that he is being targeted, he comes to your shop to talk to you about buying the idol, and as soon as the news spreads, everyone who wants to get the idol will be eyeing you, and the orthopedic surgeon is already secretly laughing at that time. Xu Tian said.
"That's the truth, I also figured out this truth back then, but it's too late, the fake god statue in my hand has been stared at, and even the people around me have been personally attacked, at that time I sent Xiao Ai away, and the store was closed." Yu Yi said.
"And what about later? What happened next? If that's all there is to the story, you wouldn't have taken me to the basement to see this false idol, would you? Xu Tian asked.
"Under my pleading, Lao Chen promised to return the real idol to me, so I gave the fake idol to Lao Chen, until now, the idol in the police's evidence storage room is fake, and the real idol is back in my hands, which is the idol in front of us." Yu Yi said.