Dou Po and I have been staying at Ye Jin's house for more than two months. Autumn is approaching, and we have done nothing except practicing martial arts. It may be a bit of an exaggeration to say that we are so idle that our bones are itching, but it is true that we are bored and uncomfortable with doing nothing all day.
Ye Jin said that he was thinking about opening a detective agency for me and taking on business in the future. However, private detectives are not legal in China and need to be operated. If I am really bored, he has many friends in the business world and I can go and tell their fortunes and look at their affairs. I can make a lot of money in a year.
I tried to go twice, but I found that they all came to me for fortune-telling out of curiosity, so I didn't want to go again. As the saying goes: poor people tell fortunes, rich people burn incense. There is nothing they have to tell fortunes for, they just ask you to go to satisfy your curiosity, why should I risk revealing the secrets to perform for them, so I just don't bother to go.
I was just bored that day when Ye Jin ran in excitedly: "Zhaozi, there's a big deal coming up, do you want to do it? If you do it, you'll get at least this much!"
I looked at the three fingers Ye Jin stretched out and said, "Let's talk about business first."
The custom in the art of magic is: the more money you spend, the bigger the job you do. No matter what the business is, the higher the price the employer offers, the more dangerous the business is. Of course, if a magician has a good relationship with the employer, or owes the employer a favor and is willing to help, that is another matter.
Ye Jin said: "I have a friend who was able to become rich thanks to the Feng Shui of his ancestral tomb. In recent years, there seems to be something wrong with his family's Feng Shui, and everything has gone wrong. He wants to find an expert to change the Feng Shui."
"I have found several so-called experts, but none of them can do anything. I talked about this matter with another friend of mine at a party the day before yesterday, and that person found me and asked me if I could solve it. The first person I thought of was you. Will you take the chance?"
After spending a long time with Ye Jin, I learned that he was quite famous in the local business circle, and half of this fame came from his Feng Shui skills. However, Ye Jin was not a sorcerer. To be precise, he was more like a sorcerer's broker.
There are brokers and middlemen in every trade. In a sense, brokers in the art of magic are more important. After all, it is difficult to convince people directly about mysterious things. Having a person who knows both parties to act as a matchmaker can often achieve twice the result with half the effort. If the middleman also understands Feng Shui and magic, the effect will be even better.
Ye Jin is just such a person, he knows a little about magic but he is not a magician, but he likes to help others solve problems, so he became a magic broker. Monk Shi is not the only magician he knows, but Monk Shi is the most skilled one he can find, otherwise he would not drag me into the Guan family's business.
I gestured with my hands: "Does this number matter when it comes to feng shui?"
"I still think it's too little!" Ye Jin shook his head and said, "That buddy was so poor more than ten years ago that he couldn't even afford to eat steamed buns. Later, his family changed the Feng Shui and he became rich little by little. Now he is not the best in our area, but he is almost there. Do you think that the amount he paid is too much for the Feng Shui that can prosper the family?"
Sorcerers are generally unwilling to help people move graves or dig up the ground. Changing or relocating a grave is equivalent to changing the fortune of a family, and the bad luck of the family will also be returned to the sorcerer. The larger the feng shui of the tomb, the greater the retribution it brings, and sometimes even the sorcerer's family will be implicated.
When a warlock modifies a tomb, he will always keep some tricks up his sleeve, so as to leave himself a way out.
According to Ye Jin, the price offered by the other party was not too high.
I hesitated for a moment and asked, "What is your relationship with him?"
"We have a friendship, but not a life-and-death friendship." Ye Jin said bluntly, "We can negotiate the price with him. Brother, if I didn't think you were in a hurry to use the money, I really wouldn't want to take on this business."
Ye Jin was talking about me wanting to buy information from Dou Po.
"Okay, call the monk and let's go and take a look." I stood up, packed my things, and followed Ye Jin.
Ye Jin brought us into a mansion and introduced us to a boss who was about fifty years old: "Lao Heng, this is the expert I found for you, Wu Zhao. You can just call him Mr. Wu."
The other party did not look down on me because of my youth. He bowed to me according to the etiquette of the martial arts world and said, "My name is Hengfei, nice to meet you, Mr. Wu."
"Boss Heng, you are too polite." I asked straight to the point, "I want to ask, Boss Heng, have you visited your ancestral grave recently? How do you know that there is a problem with the grave?"
"This..." Heng Fei hesitated, "To be honest, I have never visited my family's ancestral tomb, but I can guarantee that it was the problem with the ancestral tomb that caused my business to plummet."
I couldn't help but frown. "But I heard that Boss Heng had invited many experts to come and look at the ancestral tomb. Could it be that none of them have ever been to the cemetery?"
There are many experts in the art of clairvoyance who can tell whether a grave is evil or in conflict without being there in person. However, clairvoyance alone cannot tell where the problem lies. Without going to the grave, who dares to say on the spot that he can definitely get the job done, or directly say that he can't take the business
Boss Heng said with difficulty: "Well, they really haven't seen it... Actually, I want to establish another ancestor. Mr. Wu, what do you think..."
To establish a new ancestor means moving the coffins of one's parents out of the ancestral tomb and reburying them in another place. From then on, one's own lineage will no longer be buried in the original ancestral tomb, but will be buried following the tombs of one's parents. After several years, a new clan ancestral tomb will be formed, and the first person buried there will become the ancestor of this lineage.
Normally, even if brothers split up, they would not move the cemetery and establish a new ancestor. Unless there was a natural disaster or war that forced the whole family to move, or the person was expelled from the family and was not allowed to enter the ancestral tomb, otherwise, it was rare to establish a new ancestor.
Regardless of Heng Fei's considerations, he wanted to establish a new ancestor, which was equivalent to asking the sorcerer to help him destroy the past Feng Shui and restart his luck. Moreover, he was evasive in every word he said, and I'm afraid it's not just Feng Shui.
My face darkened and I said, "I can't do this business. Boss Heng, please find someone else!"
Ye Jin was also unhappy: "Lao Heng, this is your fault. I spent a lot of time talking to you to invite someone here, but you didn't even tell me the truth. Is this how you do things? Is this how you do business? I tell you the truth, if Zhaozi and I weren't friends for life, he wouldn't be willing to take on your job. You know Jiang Yan, right? Go and find out who Zhaozi is."
Heng Fei's eyes lit up immediately after hearing this: "Mr. Wu, please stay, please stay! I think there is really no other way to establish another ancestor! If I knew that you were Mr. Wu, who was admired by the Jiang family, I would have told you a long time ago."
After I came here, I did a business deal. Among the local wealthy families, apart from the Guan family, the only one I had contact with was Jiang Yan.
The Guan family would never promote anything for me, and they wouldn't even mention me. However, given Jiang Yan's personality, he might brag about it outside.
Hengfei smiled and pulled me to sit down: "Let me tell you about this slowly."
"To be honest, my grandfather was also a Taoist practitioner. He followed the path of a great immortal. Before he passed away, he told my parents that his time had come and he would go up the mountain to choose a grave for himself in a few days."
"It will take at least 20 years for the effect of that burial site to be seen. During these 20 years, no matter how hard or difficult it is, he must hold on. Even if he becomes penniless, he cannot burn incense and tell fortunes to change the feng shui of his house. Otherwise, the burial site he chose will be in vain. After that, my grandfather went up the mountain by himself."
Hengfei looked up at me when he got to this point. Seeing that there was nothing unusual on my face, he continued, "We only know that my grandfather's grave is on the mountain over in my hometown, but we don't know exactly where it is. Because none of us went to bury him."
"You are burying yourself." I couldn't help but frowned. "Go on."
Hengfei continued, "Although this matter seems unbelievable, my parents believed in his words and did what my grandfather said. They gritted their teeth and supported me for 25 years, and my family's fortunes finally turned."
"When my father was dying, he specifically called me to his side and told me that he didn't want to be buried after his death, but to keep his ashes in a funeral home. When the family business was going badly and was about to be unable to recover, he would find a Feng Shui master to establish a new ancestor for him. He also said that this was what my grandfather had instructed. And..."
Heng Fei looked at me and said, "My father also said that my grandfather repeatedly reminded me that before establishing a family, we must cut off the connection between the ancestral tomb and our family's luck. We must cut it off completely, otherwise, there will be endless troubles."
Heng Fei sighed and said, "I have met many so-called Feng Shui masters over the years. They have the ability to move graves and establish ancestors, but no one dares to cut off the luck! If Mr. Wu can lend a hand, I will never treat him unfairly."
"So that's how it is." I pondered for a moment, "Cut off the fate and destiny, the involvement is too great. Besides, you don't even know where the real ancestral grave is. If you want to cut off the fate out of thin air, the price you pay will probably be even greater. No wonder no one is willing to take your business. And..."
I paused on purpose, and Hengfei quickly said, "Mr. Wu, as long as you are willing to help, you can tell me what you want. As long as I can do it, I will do it without hesitation."
I said in a deep voice: "It is not possible to succeed in one go if you interrupt your luck out of thin air. Once you fail, the consequences will be extremely serious. Moreover, the retribution will not be on me, but on your family. Are you sure you want me to try?"
"This..." Heng Fei said hesitantly, "Mr. Wu, may I ask you a question? If I ask you to cut off your luck, how likely are you to succeed?" (To be continued)