So Tian Deping rushed back to Tianjia Village in advance that day, originally to have a family banquet, but because I agreed to help, I didn't even eat a bite of food on a trip, which was really not cost-effective.

At the family banquet that night, I didn't drink a sip of wine, after all, I was going to Tianjia Village the next day, I was afraid of drinking and making mistakes, and I was not an alcoholic. So after returning to Aunt Xu's house that night, I carefully packed the necessary things, but I didn't bring anything that couldn't fit in my bag, such as the spirit flag. I'm afraid of being eye-catching, and if I can use it then, I'll be able to reprint it. Master also explained to me and talked about his own opinions, but he only gave me verbal advice and let me make my own decisions. I am particularly convinced of my master's teaching method, everything must be solved by myself, even if I suffer a loss, it is regarded as experience, at least the next time I encounter the same thing, I will not suffer again.

The village chief borrowed the only carriage in the village, and he drove it himself, and the two of us set off early the next morning, although the carriage was not much faster than a man's legs, but it was better to save effort, lest I go to investigate the matter after I walked fast and died, and my energy would be greatly reduced.

At about 10 a.m., we arrived at the entrance of Tianjia Village. The village chief told me that it would take a short walk from the entrance of the village to Tian Deping's house, where the carriage would not be able to go. So we put the carriage at the entrance of the village, gave the family a few cents, and asked him to help take care of the dismount, and the village chief took me towards Tian Deping's house.

Although the houses in the countryside look similar, Tian Deping's home looks pretty good. Everyone else is a mud house, but his house is a brick house. Judging from the degree of new and old, it seems that it has not been many years since it was repaired. The whole house is in the shape of a capital "L", with a hall and several rooms on one side and a thatched house and kitchen on the other. Not only did I sigh that even the houses and thatched houses in this countryside were more advanced than Master's. The house is surrounded by a bamboo fence, which is enclosed to form a rectangle with the whole house. In the open space between the kitchen and the hall, there is a stout but not very tall locust tree, this is the old locust tree that Tian Deping said, I can't understand how many years it has grown, but judging from the thickness, it roughly takes two of me to hug it.

On the other side of the yard there is a small grape trellis, if it weren't for the wrong season, it is estimated that their grapes will gradually disappear as I investigate. The ground of the yard is different from the hard mud floor of most farmhouses, but is paved with a layer of cement, which should have been made together when the house was repaired.

Tian Deping saw that the village chief and I were coming, and hurriedly came out to greet him with his wife and little daughter. His wife is the sister of the village chief, but she looks a lot younger than Tian Deping, and her figure looks similar to that of the village chief, tall and tall. When it came to his youngest daughter, it really caught my attention.

He looks like he is about sixteen or seventeen years old, his eyes are big, and his figure is more like Tian Deping, thin and tall. Wearing a dark red padded jacket, dark gray padded trousers, and a pair of cross-buttoned women's leather shoes. This unmatched dress makes me think that this pair of leather shoes is probably something that my sister can't wear. She has the youthful atmosphere of a girl of her age, and her appearance is indeed good-looking, perhaps because of the relationship between taking care of her sister, she still looks a little haggard, with two small braids on both sides of her head, and two pink steel clips pinned to her bangs, and the two braids are dangling when she walks, like a bicycle.

Tian Deping's wife poured us water to drink and told us to rest first, so the village and I sat down in the courtyard. His youngest daughter continued to go in to take care of her sister, looking at her back as she left, I asked Tian Deping, since you came home yesterday to now, is your eldest daughter still sick? Tian Deping said that he didn't arrive yesterday, but today was about an hour before we arrived, and he had a seizure, and now it has passed, and he fell asleep.

So I picked up my cup and walked over to the locust tree, the bark of which was marked by strips, but it must have been a long time, and the wound was gradually closing, and only some marks could be seen. The bark of old trees is generally thick, and if you don't use too much force, you won't have such traces. So it is not difficult to imagine how hard Tian Xiaofang hit this tree when she was sick.

After walking around like this, I still noticed some traces, but these traces actually have little to do with people, mainly focused on the layout of Feng Shui. It stands to reason that there should be no shelter at the door of the kitchen, because the kitchen is the territory of the god of the stove, and the god of the stove is in charge of the family's meals, which is the top priority, and he is also the main god of the family. There is this locust tree growing on the southeast side of the kitchen door, which has the meaning of blocking the door, probably saying that the stove god may not be able to enter because of this, causing the main god to be affected, and the family will naturally be implicated. However, looking at the conditions of Tian Deping's family, it seems that this is not a problem. But the kitchen is separated from the thatched house by a wall, and behind the thatched house is the feces and urine that are piled up in wooden barrels, probably used to water the crops. This has to be said to be a problem, because the thatched house is a dark and damp place, and such a place and the main god are together, to a considerable extent, it is called a collision with the main god. And the most important thing is to care about the locust tree outside the door.

The Chinese make words is very interesting, the "locust" character of the locust tree, the left wood and the right ghost, the direct understanding, that is, the meaning of the ghost in the wood. Usually the word "ghost" not only represents death, but also represents the aftermath of death. Since ancient times, the locust tree has been continuously selected as an excellent tree for hanging, and in Sichuan, people often talk about it when they quarrel; "Why don't you find a locust tree to hang yourself", as for why the locust tree and hanging are so closely linked, no one can say. However, in China, especially in the rural areas of the south, the trees at home are generally wild rather than self-planted, and the stakes are difficult to notice if you are not knowledgeable.

Because in ancient China, locust, willow, plantain, mulberry, banyan, are not suitable for planting in their own yards, the first is the locust tree, when the wind blows, the leaves will crackle, as if the ghost is clapping, plus itself often hanged, said ominous; Then there are the willow trees, which are said to gather shade. The mulberry tree is because the pronunciation of "mulberry" is the same as "mourning", and I don't know if it's the case itself, but the ancients always cared about these verbal things. The banyan tree is because of its lush branches and leaves, which is easy to gather essence and produce spirits. As for Basho, I don't know why, but there are more people who spread it, and whether there is a reason or not, everyone will believe it. The so-called "don't plant mulberry in front, don't plant willows in the back, and don't plant ghosts at the door to clap your hands." ”

This means that the strange changes that Tian Xiaofang encountered this time are likely to be related to the feng shui layout of this family, and even part of the reason is due to the old locust tree, even if the strange thing on Tian Xiaofang is not directly caused by the locust tree. It's winter now, and the wind in the countryside is already strong, and the locust tree slapping the leaves will also bring some yin to the family, but I don't understand for the time being, why this family has lived for so many years, but only Tian Xiaofang has encountered this kind of thing.

So I asked Tian Deping to tell me Tian Xiaofang's birthday, and drew a row of nine-square grids in the palm of my left hand, combining the date of her first illness and today's date, to get a hexagram.

Xun four palaces, the southeast belongs to the wood, the main wood number three, eight, the eldest daughter of the main family. In the palace, the main water is turbulent. The neck, chest, right arm, and abdomen of the master are the summer of the lord.

This hexagram confirms half of my guesses, and it is understood coherently that the eldest daughter of the family encountered something in the beginning of summer, which is related to the neck, chest, right arm, and abdomen somewhere or all of them, and the catalyst for this matter is due to the southeast wood attribute thing, and the water flow is turbulent, which means that the momentum is very fast, like surging water.

There is no doubt about the wood in the southeast, as evidenced by the old locust tree. According to what Tian Deping said, Tian Xiaofang happened suddenly, and it only appeared after returning to her hometown, which is also the meaning of the rapid momentum. But Tian Xiaofang was injured and hospitalized, and it was a leg that was injured, which seemed to be incompatible with the hexagram, Lixia was already more than half a year ago, and Tian Xiaofang was still in the city at that time, and only she knew what happened in those days. So I decided that I had to ask Tian Xiaofang in person while she was sober.

I asked Tian Deping how long Tian Xiaofang usually sleeps, and he said that it is usually about an hour, but no one has tried to wake her up in the middle of this, and the family thinks that the child is tired of tossing, so they feel distressed and let her sleep.

So I handed the cup in my hand to the village chief, asked him to wait for me outside, and then told Tian Deping and his wife that I was afraid that I would not wait for her to wake up on her own, and that I would have to try it in front of her while she was sleeping.