I made Chen Liu kneel on the street. Helping him to exorcise the evil spirits was only one aspect, and the other aspect was to make sure that no one in the fortune-telling street would dare to mess with me.
My grandfather once told me: A person who travels the world must either be ruthless enough to scare the gods and ghosts, or be so cowardly that the ghosts bully each other. Even if the heir of the Half Life Dao does not claim to be a king, he cannot bow his head to others. If you want to travel the world, you must have this kind of ruthlessness.
I originally wanted to use Chen Liu to establish my authority, but the old man messed it up. However, I didn't care much. I was destined not to stay in the fortune-telling street for long. I came here just to experience the world of martial arts.
As I was smoking slowly, two girls helped Chen Liu, who had barely stood up, and walked towards me.
Chen Liu and Ponytail seemed afraid to talk to me. They stood beside me for a long time without saying a word. Finally, Wang Shiyu sat opposite me and asked, "Sir, what's your name?"
I said calmly, "Wu Zhao."
Although my grandfather named me with the meaning of "No moves are better than moves", he did not use the word "招" which means moves, but used the word "召" which means summons.
I asked my grandfather if he had used the wrong word, and he said it was correct, saying that I was still missing a hand, and that I could change my name once I found that hand. I never understood what he meant by the hand.
Later, I vaguely felt that what he was talking about seemed to be a certain technique, but he himself might not even know that technique.
Wang Shiyu didn't know what I was thinking. She bit her lip and said, "Mr. Wu, can you really help me?"
I said calmly, "I still say the same thing. You can not believe me, but there is no such thing as a third time."
Chen Liu was anxious: "Girl, don't hesitate! There is really no one who can catch ghosts on the fortune-telling street. No one can help you except Brother Wu."
Wang Shiyu nodded and said, "Mr. Wu, I recently encountered a strange thing. Every night, I felt that someone was watching me at the door. It was not an illusion, but a very real feeling."
"I have seen a psychiatrist and even had a psychiatric examination. But neither psychological counseling nor medication can alleviate my condition. Instead, my symptoms have become worse."
"These past few days, that person even pushed open the door, looked at me through the crack, and even wanted to walk in from outside. I have a feeling that if I see him, I will die, really die."
When Wang Shiyu said this, she couldn't help but shudder: "I could only ask a friend for help. She suggested that I find an expert in metaphysics to take a look, so I came to the fortune-telling street."
I looked at Chen Liu, who quickly said, "I went to her house the night before yesterday and felt it too. I didn't see what that thing was, but the talisman I hid on my body suddenly caught fire. My father said that it was because the talisman encountered yin energy that it became like that. Her house... her house is really haunted!"
I said in a deep voice: "That is to say, you have never seen the appearance of a ghost so far?"
When the three of them nodded in unison, I took out three large coins from my pocket and said, "Wang Shiyu, hold the large coins in your hand, shake them a few times and throw them out."
Wang Shiyu whispered, "How many times?"
"Just once."
There are many schools of thought on the money hexagram, and they vary from the technique to the number of coins. For example, the most famous "Zhou Yi" uses three coins to shake six times, arranging the yin and yang six lines to get the hexagram. The commonly used money lesson is to shake six coins once, and the fortune teller arranges the order by himself, and arranges the hexagram according to the front and back of the coins. Of course, there are also techniques such as eight coins.
However, the fortune-telling coins of the Wu family are different. Simply put, it is to use three large coins to touch a certain medium, and use the hexagram to present the past and the future. Of course, this does not mean that the past and the future can be seen clearly with just a set of money hexagrams. That is the magical power that only the Daluo Jinxian in mythology has, and no sorcerer can do this.
To be able to reach the level of the legendary Yuan Tiangang is already the limit of human power. Besides, there has only been one Yuan Tiangang in China in 5,000 years.
I can work out the general situation, and the rest is just a matter of doing things based on my ability.
While I was speaking, Wang Shiyu had already thrown three large coins onto the table. When I looked over, my heart couldn't help but skip a beat and I was speechless for a long time.
Wang Shiyu asked cautiously, "Mr. Wu, what did you see? Is it dangerous? Don't worry, as long as you are willing to pay, the price is not a problem."
I shook my head slightly and said, "I can't see anything. The destiny is messed up. It seems that something is blocking your fate."
Ponytail was anxious: "Mr. Wu, do you have any ability? You were pretending to be an expert just now, but now you can't tell what you are saying. If you are not capable, change someone quickly."
"Jiang Yi, shut up!" Wang Shiyu said, "Mr. Wu didn't talk nonsense, which shows that he is honest. What are you doing?"
I looked up and said, "According to the rules of our sect, as long as I make a move, I have to continue the business. I will take over your business. Take me to your home."
In fact, even if some force disrupts my hexagram, I can still forcefully deduce the secrets of heaven, but that must come at a certain price. The result of deducing it may be that I will be seriously injured. If the resentful ghost comes to my door at that time, can I still fight him
I can't bet on that kind of price.
Chen Liu was relieved when he saw that I agreed, and asked Wang Shiyu to drive us to a villa area. Just by looking at the grandeur of Wang Shiyu's house, you can tell that she was not bragging when she said "price is not a problem".
After Wang Shiyu led me into the villa, the first thing I saw was the Feng Shui layout at the door. This Feng Shui layout was well-organized, but too rigid, without any changes, and it looked like something that was just a script.
I turned to Chen Liu and said, "Cancel the Feng Shui Bureau for me."
"That won't work! That was something that Lao Zhang had worked so hard to set up." Chen Liu said hurriedly, "We were able to survive last night thanks to Lao Zhang's Feng Shui formation."
"This evil-repelling formation can stop shit. Get out of here right now."
It's not that I look down on Lao Zhang. As the saying goes: An expert can tell whether something is good or not with just one touch. No matter how big a Feng Shui house is, it doesn't mean the Feng Shui master inside is really capable. Take the fortune tellers on the street, eight out of ten of them learn from books, without a master, let alone inheritance. If they meet an amateur, they can still fool him, but if they meet an expert, they can make people laugh. Looking at the Feng Shui situation in front of him, even the disciples of the rumor sect who used to make a living by deceiving people are better than him.
“This…” Chen Liu looked at Wang Shiyu, and when he saw the latter nodded, he began to dismantle the Feng Shui bureau.
I stood in the hall and looked around: "You have surveillance cameras installed here? Then move to the surveillance room to rest tonight!"
"I moved the surveillance computer to the bedroom a long time ago." Wang Shiyu explained and took me into the bedroom. There was indeed a surveillance computer installed there, and the camera could monitor not only the living room, but also the garden and corridor.
I took out a roll of red rope from my backpack, tied a lot of money to the rope, blocked the main entrance and exit of the villa, but ignored the bedroom door.
After doing all this, I sat down in the bedroom. Wang Shiyu's bedroom is not small, even if there are ten people in it, it is not crowded. After I sat cross-legged, I closed my eyes and rested, and didn't say anything.
Jiang Yi whispered, "You're still learning to meditate. Do you really think you're a martial arts master?"
Chen Liu said quickly: "Don't talk nonsense. I tell you, those who can kill ghosts are all martial arts masters. Those who don't know martial arts can only communicate with ghosts and send them away, but they don't dare to fight with ghosts at all."
Jiang Yi was surprised and asked, "Are you telling the truth?"
Seeing that I didn't say anything, Chen Liu continued, "Think about it yourself. How fast can an average person run or jump? How fast are ghosts? You can't even catch up with them, so why would you kill them?"
"Also... did you see the bunch of sharpened coins on Brother Wu's waist? They're called Green Fly Darts, a powerful hidden weapon. If I ask you to throw a dollar, how far can you throw it? If you don't have the skills to use hidden weapons, even if I give you a basket of Green Fly Darts, you can't hit a ghost."
Although Chen Liu's words were a bit hearsay, they were basically correct. Sorcerers were divided into civil and martial. Civilian sorcerers generally did not use force, and would try to resolve the problem peacefully when encountering ghosts and monsters; martial artists were originally martial artists, and if they did not use magic, they could still travel the world.
My family's tradition is to cultivate both civil and military virtues, but I personally prefer martial arts. Which boy doesn't have a dream of being a knight
As the night deepened, the three people in the room began to feel more and more uneasy, especially Wang Shiyu, who couldn't help but stand up and pace back and forth in the living room.
As I was closing my eyes to rest, the string of green afly darts on my waist suddenly made a slight "buzzing" sound - that was the resonance between the green afly darts and the fortune-telling money hanging outside.
I suddenly opened my eyes: "Turn on the monitor, quick!"
The surveillance camera soon showed the image of the living room. Although the living room seemed empty, I felt that something was peeping at the living room through the door: "Zoom in the camera, aim at the door."
When Wang Shiyu moved the camera closer with shaking hands, I clearly felt that there must be someone standing outside. But the video pointed at the outside of the door was empty. Even if I painted cinnabar on the camera, the video did not capture anything outside the door.
A moment later, the door of the villa trembled slightly, opening a tiny gap in my sight, and the fortune-telling money hanging in the living room also began to tremble violently.
"Closer..." As I spoke, a strand of long hair floated in the crack of the door, as if the night wind blew the hair of the person who was lying on the door and peeping into the room into the door, and he didn't notice it at all.
"Ah--" Wang Shiyu let go of the mouse while screaming, and squatted on the ground with her head in her hands.
At this moment, the red rope I hung at the door of the living room suddenly broke into several pieces, and the fortune-telling money tied to it flew up into the air along the direction of the rope, and fell to the ground one by one in a flash. (To be continued)