Twenty years ago, wasn't that the time when Guan Xingyu's Yin fate broke out? Did that gentleman have already planned for this day to come
impossible!
My grandfather once said that no one can predict the secrets of heaven. In twenty years, the secrets of heaven change rapidly. Can he be sure that he will bring a person with a dark destiny here in twenty years
I couldn't help but frown slightly, but even such a subtle movement couldn't hide it from the matchmaker's eyes: "Young sir, you don't have to disbelieve it. Mr. Wu's ability cannot be explained in a few words. What he predicts will definitely happen."
I smiled faintly: "I just find it a little unbelievable. Please continue."
The old lady continued, "After Mr. Wu came back, he didn't see anyone. He wandered up and down the mountain by himself all day. Then he told us that we should do what we promised him. He would be back with people in a few days. We just had to do whatever he said."
"Mr. Wu left after he finished speaking. He returned with a group of people about half a month later. Those people were indeed impressive, especially the old man who led them. He looked very elegant and must be a person of status and position."
"At that time, Mr. Wu asked the old man to lead people to build a house in the village. They were only allowed to start working after dark and finish at the crowing of the rooster, even if they had to give up the work. I said at the time, how can they work like this? It will take a long time to build the house. But they had a lot of money, so they built the house in two or three days."
"Mr. Wu looked around the house several times, and after he left, he said one word: 'burn.' The old man really directed the workers to burn the house down. After the house was burned down, they even dug out the foundation."
"Mr. Wu had the door moved in a different direction and rebuilt a new house. But the house was still burned down by him. We were all heartbroken when we saw it! But Mr. Wu kept urging the workers to rebuild the house. After they built it, they burned it again. After it burned, they built it again. Each time the fire was more severe than the last. In the last few times, he even piled firewood on the foundation and burned it again."
"I remember clearly that after Mr. Wu burned down the house seven times, he finally stopped burning it after he finished building it for the eighth time, and had someone build a wall outside the house."
"After he finished repairing the house, he personally arranged a ghost marriage for the family. Other ghost marriages would be completed by burying the deceased, but he had two coffins carried into the house and held the wedding ceremony inside."
"That wedding was just like a real one. There was a buffet in the yard for three days and three nights. During the day, we could go and eat at will. Anyone could go. Not only did they not stop us, they also welcomed us openly. At night, they also set up a banquet, and the food was better than that during the day. But it was a ghost marriage. Who could go to the banquet in the middle of the night? No one wanted to eat, so they put the table there, and after one stick of incense, they would pour it all out, and then put it up again. There were ten banquets in one night, and not one was missed."
"During the days when the family was preparing the feast, none of us saw Mr. Wu. It was only after the three-day feast that Mr. Wu came out and nailed all the doors of the house with his own hands. He also told the old man to keep someone here to look after the house. Before the person who looks after the house dies, if the house is damaged in the slightest, he should send someone to repair it immediately; if the person who looks after the house dies, he will no longer have to take care of the house."
"The old man sent a man in his fifties to look after the house, and even built a house for him there. The man who looked after the house didn't like to talk much, and he would just walk around the house a few times every day and then go about his business."
"We talked to him a few times, but he didn't pay much attention to us. He just said that his family's surname was Guan and his own surname was also Guan. Later, the villagers saw that he was living alone and wanted to find him a matchmaker. He disagreed, saying that he was fine being alone. After that, no one mentioned this matter again."
I looked at the old lady: "Where is that person now?"
The old lady said, "He died a few days ago. The villagers arranged his funeral and sent a letter to the Guan family as he requested, telling them not to transfer money to his account."
I turned to look at Guan Qingyan and said, "Didn't you say this is the Guan family's old house?"
Guan Qingyan blushed and said, "Grandpa told me to say that. He said... he said that the gentleman arranged it that way back then, and that no matter who asked, they would say that it was the Guan family's old house."
I responded calmly, "I know."
Guan Qingyan thought I was unhappy, so she quickly explained, "Mr. Wu, I didn't mean to lie to you. This was indeed arranged by the old gentleman. We are also..."
I waved my hand and said, "I don't mean anything else, you don't have to think too much. There are many strange and unpredictable things in the art of magic. That gentleman asked Mr. Guan to say that it was the Guan family's old house. I think he must have his intentions."
Guan Qingyan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
I asked the old lady again, "Just now I saw you pointing outside. Is that the house you pointed to the Guan family's old house?"
The old lady shook her head and said, "No, that place is the house where the gatekeeper, Old Guan, lives. You have to go inside the mountain to see the old house of the Guan family. I will lead you there."
"Thank you." I followed the old lady out of the village and wandered all the way to the back of Nanshan Mountain, where I saw a strange house.
Regardless of the main building in the house, the outer high wall alone is puzzling. The walls of ordinary houses are built in a square or nearly square shape, not only to represent the idea of "the sky is round and the earth is square", but also to avoid taboos, because among all the objects used to hold people, only coffins are rectangular in shape.
However, the outer wall of this mansion was built in a rectangular shape, and it was higher than the main house.
When constructing a house, it is usually taboo to have the wall higher than the roof. In that case, the wall will become a trap, trapping people inside, and will also hide the house from light. Over time, the result will inevitably be that yin is stronger than yang.
Therefore, as long as it is a residential house, even if it is a prison, there must be a building higher than the wall. It is impossible to be completely hidden behind the wall like the house I saw.
After I took two steps forward, I discovered something even stranger. The rain shed on the outer wall of the house was built diagonally towards the courtyard. If you want to build a rain shed, you must be able to divert rainwater outside the wall to ensure that there is less water accumulation in the courtyard. Isn't it the same as bringing water into the courtyard if you build a rain shed in the opposite direction
The high walls block the sun and allow rain to enter the house, which is like adding gloom to gloom. Is this building a house or a tomb
The old lady walked past me and pointed at the gate of the courtyard and said, "When Mr. Wu left, he said that anyone who wants to enter this courtyard must solve the hexagram on the gate. Otherwise, once you enter the gate, you will bear the consequences yourself."
The old lady looked at me with a smile and said, "Mr. Wu, if you don't know how to interpret this hexagram, I advise you not to go in. Mr. Wu's ability is not something that ordinary people can compare to. If he says something is impossible, it is definitely impossible."
When I walked past the gate, I saw three large coins embedded on the gate. At first glance, it looked like someone had cast a fortune and then stuck the coins on the door according to the fortune.
If I was still doubting that Mr. Wu was my grandfather just now, now I am completely sure of the identity of that great gentleman. There is no other person except my grandfather.
Fortune telling may seem the same, but there are actually big differences. Some people look at the position and front and back of the coins, while others look at the fortune after the host arranges the fortune. The so-called fortune arrangement is to let the host arrange the order of the coins by himself, and once the order is arranged, a fortune is ready.
People who read the hexagrams usually have a book of hexagrams. However, the contents of the books are not exactly the same, especially those handed down in the family.
Our Wu family's hexagrams are different from those of other families. We have our own set of hexagrams. My grandfather said that there is only one copy of that hexagram book, and even if others look at the hexagrams, their interpretations will be different from those in the hexagram book.
If the hexagram on the door is interpreted according to the Wu family hexagram, it means "a little devil is knocking on the door." Did my grandfather know I was coming and left this hexagram for me as a joke
After watching for a long time, I pulled out the dagger from my body and stabbed it into the edge of the big coin, and lightly picked up the big coin. I didn't wait for the big coin on the door to fall to the ground, but reached out to catch it in my hand.
My action scared the old lady: "Mr. Wu, you can't do this! You can't do this! This was put there by Mr. Wu. If you just take the big money down like this, won't that offend him?"
I shook my head and said, "You don't have to worry, I'm just collecting divinations."
To put it simply, collecting divination is to collect the big money used for divination. Many people think that collecting divination is just picking up the big money. In fact, it is true for most fortune tellers. However, once the fortune teller reaches the level of peeping into the way of heaven, it is completely different.
When collecting hexagrams, there are strict rules for which one to collect first, which one to collect later, what method to use to collect, and what to do after collecting them. To put it simply, collecting hexagrams is a process for the fortune teller to eliminate the cause and effect between himself and his employer, and even with the way of heaven.
If you collect the hexagram well, the cause and effect will be eliminated; if you collect it badly, there is a possibility that there will be a trace of cause and effect. Even if it is just a trace, when the cause and effect appear, it may be very troublesome to deal with.
The old lady obviously knew what collecting divination meant. After hearing what I said, she obediently stepped aside and stopped talking.
I picked up the remaining big coins with two consecutive knives. When the last big coin fell into my hand, I held the coin up and shook it in the air three times, then lowered my head and blew towards the door.
I'm not being mysterious when I say this, but it means "let right and wrong go with the wind". As to whether it's useful or not, I don't know.
I have never read the divination like this before. Those times it was because the cause and effect were right in front of me, and no matter how good the reading was, what was supposed to happen would happen, so why should I bother
This time, I had to do it. (To be continued)