Chapter XXIII. Break the feng shui

So Hu Zongren and I worked together to remove the water tank, because it was stone and full of water, and it was still very difficult to move. Moved to a position about five or six paces away from the original position, left the five ghost positions, and placed them next to a large flower pot. Hu Zongren drew another talisman, and the content of the talisman was mainly the meaning of suppression. Then he picked up two pebbles that looked about the same size, overlapped them on top of each other, sandwiched the charm between the two stones, and placed them in place at the base of the previous tank.

Hu Zongren explained to Miss Tian that because there was a water tank in this place before, and it was the relationship of this special water tank, the five ghosts have been placed in the yin, which means that it is not just a move to solve the problem, as if the thief has entered the house, if you lock the doors and windows again, the thief will not be able to get out. Therefore, the talisman here is used to "occupy a place", so that the ghost will no longer overlap with this ghost position, and the amount of power will naturally be dispersed.

Hu Zongren said that considering that the ghost had entered the house along the ventilation duct before, the house had to be changed again. Then we walked into the house, and Hu Zongren stood at the entrance of the entrance, and looked for the diagonal corner of the room with the location of the entrance. For example, if the door is on the southwest side, look for the corner of the wall on the northeast side. Hu Zongren walked to the corner of the wall, about 2 meters from the ground, drilled a soybean-sized eye with a nail, then lit incense, burned talismans, collected all the ashes into the Linglong gossip bag, and then used wine to melt cinnabar, and then mixed the ashes to form the slimy mud, and then used his fingers to fill the small hole in the corner of the wall. Then he pressed the nail up, and the end of the nail came out with a rope, and a copper coin hung from the rope. Hu Zongren said that the nail has been placed here for 49 days, and if the ash does not fall and it is not loosened, there will be no problems with this house in the future.

Later, Hu Zongren went outdoors to pick up some small pebbles and placed them in the living room on the first floor, the bedroom and bathroom on the second floor. After doing all this, we followed Hu Zongren to the backyard, and in front of the water tank, Hu Zongren lit incense, sprinkled rice, raised spirits, and then sent away the ghosts in this room. It wasn't until everything was clean that Hu Zongren said to Miss Tian, now that everything is done, you won't encounter the previous situation from today onwards, but because the house is big after all, and some old things are placed, the nail in the corner of the wall should be more observed, and if there is a situation such as falling loose as mentioned before, you must tell Hu Zongren in time.

After returning to the living room, I asked Hu Zongren, can I tell me the results of your questions? Hu Zongren sat on the sofa and then told us that the ghost in this room was a male ghost, a native of Langzhong, Sichuan, who had been a servant of the owner of this water tank before he died. The owner of this family is a large family in the local area, and his surname is Shan. When Liu Xiang pulled Zhuang Ding, Master Shan donated money to many young people in the village to be exempted from military service, and later these young people took the initiative to come to the Shan family to help, do long-term work, and become a householder in order to repay him. Hu Zongren said that although this old man Shan was a landlord, but his heart was still not bad, because there were many large families in Langzhong City at that time, Master Shan also tried his best to contact other large households and set up a clan association, and he himself was the most respected person among them.

Hu Zongren said that the manservant told him that in the early years of that society, the children of the poor either went to serve as soldiers, but most of the warlords could not come back, or they sold themselves to large families such as Master Shan's family to work as coolies and long-term laborers. Because the land was basically bought by the big landlords, and the peasants had no land of their own, at most they could only be tenants, so it was better to work as long-term laborers than to farm the land. Then there is the six relatives who don't recognize it, and they follow those uncles up the mountain and become bandits. But there are many kinds of bandits, some are pure bandits, that is, regardless of 3721, they will arrest people when they see them, rob them when they see women, and some rob the rich to help the poor. It is precisely because of this so-called "robbing the rich and helping the poor" that people like Master Shan's family who want money and grain have naturally become the main targets. Even if Master Shan himself is a good person.

Hu Zongren also said that in order to protect their property and families, these old men bought those replaced guns from the warlords to form their own armed forces, and then the last aunt of this single master began to smoke opium, and this time she began to lose, because she let the old man Shan get a son, so the old man Shan favored her the most, and even sold the musket he used to arm the family in order to buy opium for her.

I asked Hu Zongren, why did this servant refuse to leave because of his death, how could this own person sharpen his knife and kill him? When I heard Hu Zongren talk about this, I began to feel a little strange, because according to the era I knew, sharpening knives and fighting hard, how could I not attack my own people. Hu Zongren said that it was in this place, because when Master Shan sold guns at that time, it was this manservant who went to find the next family, another big family in the same city, who spent cheap money to buy it from Master Shan. And this manservant can deduct a little bit from it.

I snorted and said that it was an inner ghost, digging into the corner of my house. Hu Zongren said that there was more than that, the family who bought the gun had a lot of eyeliners, and when they received the news that the bandits were going down the mountain to rob things, they secretly discussed with the bandits, saying that if they wanted to rob them, don't rob their house, and let the bandits go to rob the old man's house. Because Master Shan's guns are gone, it's easy to start. As everyone knows, Master Shan's family was much inferior to the past because of opium, and even if it was robbed, it couldn't grab much valuable things. The most annoying thing is that this manservant actually colluded with the family who bought the gun to lead the way for the bandits. In the middle of the night, he broke into Master Shan's house with bandits to grab things.

Hu Zongren went on to say that although this old man is in the middle of the road, he is not a fool after all, someone calculates himself, and he has already received the rumor. But it hasn't been shown. On the night when the man-servant came to rob things with the bandits, Master Shan took advantage of the man-servant's departure and asked the family to prepare an ambush in advance. The manservant was arrested, and after killing some of the bandits, he captured some alive, and then sent the captured ones to the officer. And this manservant should be punished by Master Shan's family law, so on the water tank, he sharpened his knife and killed his head.

I asked Hu Zongren, so the ghost of this manservant has been left to this day because he himself died of guilt, right? Hu Zongren nodded, and said that not only that, but the blood from his beheaded at that time also stained the water tank. The stone was sandy, and although it was well sealed, blood was able to seep into the cracks. So that the soul of the grievance will not be gone. I asked Hu Zongren, did he only appear again at Miss Tian's house after so many years? Hu Zongren said that he didn't know about this, maybe he had made trouble before, but we don't know what to do, after all, this thing is just circulating among the people, and I'm afraid it's been almost 100 years.

I asked Hu Zongren, but this doesn't make sense, if the reason why this manservant stayed was only because he was killed on the water tank, then why did it make strange noises repeatedly, and at the end of the day, it still came to scare Miss Tian? Hu Zongren said that he also asked, and that was because Miss Tian had willow trees at home. I suddenly thought of the iron-carved willow tree I had seen earlier. Originally, it was nothing as an ornament, but in terms of meaning, the willow tree was a loser, so I immediately thought of my previous speculation about Miss Tian, although I felt that it was none of my business, but at this moment Hu Zongren had finished the matter anyway, and I had the courage to ask.

I asked Miss Tian, could you please tell me that you bought this house yourself, or did someone else buy it for you? When Miss Tian heard me ask, she first paused for a moment, and then she probably understood what I meant, so her expression returned to that indifferent look again. She replied that someone else had bought it in my name. I asked her again, is it your family or your husband? I asked this on purpose, because I knew that the Tao was definitely not. Miss Tian looked at me and said leisurely, no, it was bought for her by a very rich man.

I stopped talking, waiting for Miss Tian to finish speaking, she said that she had known this man since she was in college, and knew from the beginning that this man had a family, and she couldn't give her any promises. So from that time on, she has always regarded her body as a tool to make a living, and the man as a purse that can give her enough food and clothing. As she went farther and farther, she began to find that although she didn't like this kind of life, she couldn't escape it. Later, he ruthlessly told the man to break off the relationship, and from the man's hands, he asked for this villa under his name. Miss Tian smiled bitterly and said, most of the things in my third-floor attic are still left behind when I was studying, and I am reluctant to throw them away, but so what, I can't go back anyway. The family gradually became estranged from themselves because they had done such a depraved thing, and their former friends and sisters also learned that her money was a little wrong over time, and they slowly developed a sense of distance from each other. And although she has been out of contact with that man for a long time, because she has no job and her parents' family conditions are not superior, many men who originally pursued her gradually realized that she may have been adopted before, otherwise where would she have so much money to buy a house and a car. So she became withdrawn and began to dislike people.

I'm not in a position to judge anything about my attitude towards life. Miss Tian asked me if everything that happened in this house was related to my past experience, and I didn't answer her, because I didn't know what to do, although the two things didn't seem to be directly related, but if she hadn't gotten this house for nothing, inexplicably found someone to decorate it, and bought such a big water tank and iron willow tree herself, I don't think all this would have happened. At least not so soon.

Hu Zongren explained that the willow tree is the cause of feng shui. There is an old saying that "if you don't plant mulberries before, you don't plant willows later", although this willow tree is fake, it is one of the reasons why this ghost has never left. Miss Tian asked what was the matter, and Hu Zongren said, think about it, if your house is a closed environment, like a "mouth" word, then you put a "tree" in the mouth, what will it become?

"Sleepy". Miss Tian said, Hu Zongren explained that I also understood, even if it was an iron carved tree, it seems that in the future, this kind of thing in my house will be placed in a place where the sun can shine.

Hu Zongren and I are reluctant to continue to entangle Miss Tian's past life, to put it bluntly, what does it matter to me, I am just curious. Hu Zongren told Miss Tian that the nails on the living room on the ground floor are the "yang position" that can be seen directly at the entrance and exit of this room, which is the righteous position, and when the nails are tightened, it means that they are unbreakable. The pebbles on the second floor are filled with ghost slots separately, but leave an exit, otherwise it will not be good to seal them. In general, this is to make changes to the inherent feng shui environment, since the root cause of the haunting is due to the problem of feng shui, then if this feng shui is broken, it should be fine.

Miss Tian settled a large amount of remuneration. It's time for Hu Zongren and I to say goodbye and leave. Before leaving, Hu Zongren suddenly turned to Miss Tian and said, Sister, you are still young, live a good life. Life is a long life, rather than living in a muddle, it is better to be like us, endure hardships, but live happily.

Miss Tian didn't answer her, and we turned around and left.

On the way back to send Hu Zongren, he still rubbed his cheeks with his hands, and it seemed that the fall was really not light. I asked him if he wanted to see a bone-setting doctor, and he shook his head and didn't speak. Then he laughed lewdly, and I asked him what he was laughing at, and he said that when he fell down the stairs, because of the terrain, he saw the scene under Miss Tian's skirt.

I snorted and said, you pervert, you're in trouble, please help, you're still spying on people, you still have no humanity, you'd better tell me what color panties she's wearing, otherwise I'll tell you about it, Fu Yunni.

Hu Zongren smirked and said to me with a look of drooling that was about to flow out, flesh color!