Miss Tian may not have understood what Hu Zongren meant, but since he was asking, Miss Tian replied that this was when it was renovated at that time, and the decoration company said that if this brand new house did not have something to live in, it would be easy to make some trouble, so she spent thousands of yuan to go to the thrift market to find it.

The big water tank that Hu Zongren said was exactly where I noticed something was wrong. Because the whole environment of this house is very new, although this tank is placed by the pond, it does not look incongruous, and it is filled with water, and there are a few small golden fish as long as an index finger. Originally, this method was correct, the stone was a dead thing, the water was a neutral thing, and the fish was a living thing. And many families have a penchant for keeping fish, and that's because fish live in water, which is a very sensitive substance that can sense almost any slight change in energy within a range. So if the fish in the tank die, usually the family will be relatively careful. Of course, this is only done by many exquisite families, and most people just want to have fun raising fish.

And the water tank in front of me is an old object, I mean the very old kind.

As a result of this trip, it is inevitable that we will learn more about and discern these things. This water tank is rectangular, the opening is as big as the base, and there are carvings all around, but the content of the carvings is nothing more than some folk patterns that express Ruixiang, such as more than every year, and the wealth is widely entered, etc., which itself is just a good omen. Judging from the old degree of the stone water tank and the moss cover on it, plus the traces of bumps and bumps around it, as well as the water stains of water seepage at the cracks, it seems that this tank was also an object in the Republic of China at the earliest. In addition, there are some traces on the edge of the water tank, which in the eyes of many laymen are probably deliberately carved by the stonemason when he made it, but this is not the case. Because in the folk customs of eastern Sichuan, if people in the old days could afford such a water tank at home, it would definitely not be the ordinary poor people. The scratches around there are not the handiwork of the stonemasons, but the marks of sharpening the knife.

Eastern Sichuan was relatively chaotic in the old days. Especially during the warlord melee, people like Sichuan warlords such as Liu Xiang and Liu Wencai, and Hunan and Yunnan warlords have been in a state of melee for a long time. Therefore, in those days, large families generally raised a family, and the main responsibility of the family was not only to take care of the family, but also to defend against bandits and hooligans. Sichuan people have been relatively strong since ancient times, and coupled with turmoil, it is not uncommon for a person to die at all. Whenever the host's family learns that there are bandits coming down the mountain and is ready to take the family to protect the family property, they will often sell wine for everyone in advance, and the family will also sharpen their knives on the water tank of the master's house. Those traces show that there was a battle in the original owner's house of this water tank, and so many traces show that there are a lot of family members, and the combat effectiveness is naturally not weak. So it must have killed people because of this, and the haunting of Miss Tian's house, in addition to some of my analysis above, there is also a very important evidence.

That's because the moment I saw the tank, I realized that it was in the wrong place.

When it comes to Feng Shui, I've learned it superficially. But Hu Zongren told me earlier that the entrance of this room faces northeast, and the northeast position is the Gen position, which is also known as the "ghost position". Because it's an entrance, it's still quite easy to crack, you only need to hang a reflective thing in an inconspicuous place at the door, so that the northeast becomes southwest, and let the ghosts pass by to see their ugly appearance in the mirror, and retreat from the difficulty, you can crack most of the houses in this direction. This is also the reason why a mirror will be attached to the door beam of many old houses in old streets. In addition, in terms of the orientation of the backyard, the door leading to the outside by the garage side is in the southwest direction, if you imagine the area of the entire backyard as a square, and divide this square into nine squares, the location of the water tank is exactly in the lower right corner of the southwest side, which is not difficult to explain the reason why this place is haunted, because that direction is exactly the five ghost position, the murder position.

Generally speaking, if the floor plan of a house is put into a square according to the way of cutting on both sides, you can get a grid diagram divided into 9 pieces, and among these 9 small grids, there is a grid that belongs to the evil position, which is what we often call the "five ghost positions". In the five ghost seats, it is best not to make it a kitchen or bedroom, which is a taboo and very unlucky. And if you put each room into nine grids, you can also get five ghost slots, and in these five ghost slots, you can't hang photos or make beds. Otherwise, it is also a big culprit. However, if the ghost position echoes each other according to the direction of opening the door, and the things of the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth are placed in the five ghost positions according to their attributes, then the five ghost positions will be broken, and it will be more auspicious. In recent years, the five ghost fortune that has been particularly fierce is such a principle, and the five ghost fortune is based on the water law to adjust the water and water of the five ghosts to make a layout, turning the evil star into a wealth star. But don't forget, it's always the killer until you get lucky, so the ones you buy aren't necessarily the real stuff you buy. But if the pattern of the family is destined to be unchangeable, for example, the five ghosts have been installed on the bed and cannot be changed, try hanging a gourd at the head of the bed, which can also block the evil qi to a certain extent. And Miss Tian's house, it looks like the five yellow evil qi that happened to meet the flying star of the Nine Palaces fell on the position of the Five Ghost Palaces, and the murder on top of the murder led to the occurrence of the incident.

However, in the current situation, it seems that this house is haunted because something fills the ghost position here, and it is an old water tank with a sharpened knife, and there are live fish in the water tank, which is very unreasonable. Although Hu Zongren is reckless, he is not a fool. So from what he said to Miss Tian, I knew that he was actually the same as I thought. When Miss Tian said that it was bought for thousands of yuan, Hu Zongren and I both felt that this woman was too willing to spend money, and this kind of water tank was sold for 1,000 yuan.

Hu Zongren told Miss Tian the reason for the haunting in the house and the origin of the water tank occupying the ghost position. Judging from Miss Tian's expression, she could still hear it in a fog. But that's okay, she doesn't need to know so carefully anyway. Hu Zongren told Miss Tian that in this case, we must first determine the origin of this ghost, and secondly, we must change the things on the ghost position here, that is, we have to move the water tank, put other things, and then move some hands and feet in the house according to the situation after recombination.

I asked Hu Zongren, what are you going to do now, do you just move away and ask again, or do you ask first and then move away. Hu Zongren said, let's ask first, although the ghost is scaring people, but it has not harmed people, although it is unreasonable to appear, but to figure out the ins and outs, so as not to accidentally hurt good people... Well... Good ghost.

So Hu Zongren asked me to put the compass to the side of the water tank to check, and I found that the supernatural reaction on this water tank was stronger than anywhere else in the house, which showed that this water tank was indeed the source of this haunting. After I told Hu Zongren the result, he told Miss Tian to go to his kitchen and grab a small handful of rice for him. Miss Tian asked puzzled, what do you want rice to do, Hu Zongren said, this is to salute the rice, after the salutation, the question.

Miss Tian quickly brought a handful of rice, and Hu Zongren picked a few, put them in his mouth, and then spit them into the water tank. The rice quickly sank in the water, and several small fish in it scrambled to eat it, and Hu Zongren sprayed the rice one by one until he made sure that every fish in it had eaten the rice, and then he loosened the gossip bag and placed it flat in front of the water tank. Then he took out his bristle quill, which I had not changed since I had known him, dipped it in the water in the tank, and wrote around the tank like a book, and by the time he made sure that the first word had not dried, he had written a full circle around the edge of the tank, so that the words were connected from beginning to end.

I know that this is the secret method of their Yao Mountain, so I haven't inquired about the content of the specific words. But obviously, it is a mantra, the Taoist mantra is not quite the same as us, we are more practical, so often the posture is not so good-looking, the Taoist mantra is to recite the scriptures in the heart, that is to say, a mantra is like 100 words, then in these 100 words from the beginning to the end of the writing, just in the heart to finish a paragraph, in order to achieve the unity of the person who casts the mantra and this mantra. Even when it comes to Taoist calligraphy, it's not just a hasty drawing. I have always respected the rigor of Taoism, but when these tricks appeared on Hu Zongren, they always looked a little discordant.

After writing, Hu Zongren dipped some water again, as if throwing ink, threw all the water into his gossip bag, and then, in the posture of holding a brush, the tip of the pen was about an inch away from the water surface of the water tank. And at this moment, we all found that several fish in the water tank were all facing Hu Zongren, side by side, floating motionless on the water surface, and I only counted them at this time, it was 4 fish, like 4 vertical lines, floating quietly.

This is the first time I've seen Hu Zongren play such a cool trick, if I knew him when I was a teenager, I guess I could soak up the beautiful girls all over the world with this trick alone. Hu Zongren proudly raised his chin at me and began to ask. The content of his questioning is roughly focused on the following aspects, one is what the identity of the ghost brought by this water tank is, the second is why it died, the third is what it is left behind, and the fourth is willing to leave. Each time he asks a question, one of the four fish will swim with its tail swing, float up, or dive down, and the tip of Hu Zongren's pen will always follow the trend of the fish to finish a word. After so many repetitions, I could toss for nearly half an hour, and I see that Hu Zongren is already a little impatient, and it is estimated that his hands are sore, and it is over.

After asking, everyone admired Hu Zongren's hand, even including me, I felt that at this moment Hu Zongren no longer looked like a Taoist priest, but like a magician. Hu Zongren proudly told us that he had learned this from Master Xing Yazi in his early years, and that he was as surprised as us when he first met, but then gradually understood that this was a question and answer that was generated by the fact that the pen stained with water, the fish, the water in the water tank, and the ghosts brought by the water tank were related to each other and became the medium of each other. Hu Zongren told us that fish farmers generally do not raise singular numbers, because they are only auspicious if they are in pairs. And if there are six or eight fish in this tank, then only four will float to the surface of the water to write. I asked Hu Zongren what this was for, and Hu Zongren explained that because these four fish were the medium between the ghost and him at the moment, and the emotions of animals, especially people, were nothing more than four kinds of joy, anger, sorrow and happiness, so the fish that moved were different, and they also corresponded to the emotions of the dead soul, so as to be able to judge whether it stayed because of resentment or reluctance.

I couldn't help but give Hu Zongren a thumbs up, and then asked him, what did this ghost say? Hu Zongren said to me, don't worry, don't worry about people in front of people, don't talk about ghosts in front of ghosts, let's move this water tank first, I already almost know how to get it, and when I finish it, I will explain it to you.