This theory is a joke to me. How well a person lives in this world has nothing to do with their own hard work, but rather depends on the dead ? What kind of logic is this?

Of course I wouldn't question him, nor did I continue the topic. I just kept talking about other things and soon forgot about it.

On the morning of the second day of the first lunar month, I woke up and saw Luo Tianbao and asked, "Second brother, can we talk about that?"

"Oh, tell me, what happened again?"

"This guy is my business partner. After his brother died, his three sons all suffered misfortune for some unknown reason. Two of them were imprisoned, and one had a broken leg. He said it might be something..."

Because I've been drinking too much these past two days, my brain has been a little slow to react. I couldn't recall what Lao Niu was talking about. After a while of humming and ahing, Luo Tianbao said, "Is he talking about Feng Shui?"

I clapped my hands and said, "That's right, that's what he said. He said he wants our family to come over and help out. If we can solve the problem, we will reward you handsomely."

Luo Tianbao said, "I understand. We'll have to wait until the New Year is over before we discuss this."

"As long as you agree."

"Of course I agreed. This is what we do. Fengshui for graves is also one of our services. Ask him if we can wait a few days. We'll go after the Lantern Festival."

"That's definitely no problem. Their family has been unlucky for days, why would they care about these two weeks?"

"We shouldn't be too confident about things that aren't our own. We should just call and tell them. What if they don't want to wait?"

So I called Lao Niu in front of Luo Tianbao. When he heard that we were willing to come, he was so happy that he kept thanking us and said that he would do nothing during the New Year and would just wait for us to come.

After staying there for another week, my father went to work and my mother went back first. I was going to go with them, but Luo Tianbao said that we should wait until the 16th day of the first lunar month to go to Lao Niu's house together to save the bumpy trip back and forth. I also wanted to stay in my hometown because the New Year atmosphere is strong in the countryside . If I go back to Shanghai, there will be nothing to do except playing games.

So I stayed in Longhua Village, living a life of drunkenness and dreams every day until the 16th day of the first lunar month. After the New Year, I had to go to work in the city and do work in the countryside, so Luo Tianbao, my seventh uncle and I went to Lao Niu's house together.

His hometown is not far from Longhua Village, in a town called "Dangxiang" near Weihai in Shandong Province.

Dangxiang is the changed name. It was previously called "Shitouxiang" because it is surrounded by strange mountains and was once the most important gravel site in Shandong Province. Later, after a more advanced gravel base was built, the large bluestones mined were transported to other places for processing, so Shitouxiang was renamed Dangxiang.

I didn't see my seventh uncle during the Chinese New Year in Longhua Village because he went to my seventh aunt's home to celebrate the New Year. So I still don't know the reason why "the golden line protects the tree body". When I saw my seventh uncle, I quickly asked him the question that had been lingering in my mind for many days.

Uncle Qi said, "It's not that complicated. The local Feng Shui layout is broken, and the ground energy is unstable. The pillars have no roots, so they are made of wood. The Five Elements are mutually generated and restrained. Wood restrains earth, so wooden pillars standing on the soil will definitely change. Metal restrains wood, so tying a golden thread to the wood is much more effective than using a large iron hoop to bind the pillar. This is called Five Elements Feng Shui, and it's a very important branch of Feng Shui. Those workers don't understand the tricks, and using ordinary methods to repair leaks and plug gaps in an area with unstable ground energy is definitely useless."

I said with envy, "Uncle Qi, Feng Shui is truly a magical skill."

"Our Chinese culture has a history of 5,000 years. How many wise men have emerged during this time? How many incredible and magical methods have been created? Feng Shui is just one of them. People who don't understand it think it's magical, but in the end, it's just a skill for making a living."

After interacting more with these truly talented people in my family , I finally understood one thing: truly talented people are actually very down-to-earth, while those who jump around are either clowns or liars.

After a day of bumpy ride, we arrived in Dangxiang after ten o'clock in the evening. The environment of towns and villages is different. Standing in Dangxiang, I felt like I was back in the old city of Shanghai, but there were no tall buildings and no wide streets. All the buildings were quite old, but the street environment was really dirty. The rows of small restaurants and breakfast shops had black doorheads. It was neither as prosperous and bustling as the city nor as beautiful as the countryside.

Of course, this does not mean that Dangxiang is a backward and poor place. In fact, Dangxiang's economy is still good. After all, it is one of the largest gravel processing bases in China, and employment of strong laborers is not a problem. Of course, Dangxiang has no shortage of stone roads and was built early, so many people in the town have gone out to start their own businesses.

Lao Niu's family is doing quite well in Dang Township. In addition to those of his generation who are bosses outside, there are also several who work in the township government. They are also considered a "prominent family" in the local area. The most powerful person in this prominent family was Lao Niu's brother who was in the coal mining business. His name was Niu Lin.

Sitting in a high-end teahouse in Dangxiang, with a pot of tea, four men sat in the mist and talked about a very sad thing.

"Alas, if you want to say my brother had a good life, he'd been plagued by illness since childhood, and at the age of twenty he became disabled. He finally made a fortune and got married, and his family was thriving, but then he fell ill and died. After that, his three children all suffered misfortune. What do you think of this?"

"What's Niu Lin's personality like?" asked Uncle Qi.

"He has a bit of a weird temper. He doesn't talk much, but he has a rather bad temper. When he was poor, people said he had a donkey temper and no one wanted to pay attention to him. Later, when he became rich, people said that he was born domineering." When Lao Niu said this, a hint of ridicule appeared on his face.

"How does he usually treat his family?"

"I wouldn't say he's particularly good, but he's not bad either. I've never heard of any scandals with him, and he's pretty strict with his children, because he has three sons. He usually educates them with either beatings or scolding. My three nephews tremble when they see their dad."

"If the discipline is so strict, why were two sons sentenced?"

"What these two guys did wasn't very glorious. The eldest has had a habit of stealing since he was a kid. His family isn't short of money, but he just keeps stealing. He's been to a psychologist several times, but it hasn't solved his problem. In the past, my brother would come forward to pay a fine and leave, but this time he deserved it. The thief was a special police officer, and not only was he beaten up, but he was also convicted of theft by the local police station and sentenced to two years."

"The second one was even worse. He molested a young girl. He followed a junior high school girl on the bus and did something to her... He was caught red-handed and taken to the police station. My sister-in-law was almost pissed off but she didn't protect him. He was sentenced to six years for hooliganism."

"The third child was a well-behaved child with the best academic performance. The family had hoped that he could get into college, but he was hit by a car on the way to school and his leg was broken. Even if he went to college, what else could a disabled person do?" At this point, Lao Niu sighed.

"Approximately how long was the interval between the accidents involving these three children?"

Lao Niu thought for a moment and said, "Not for long, no more than half a year at most."

"How long has it been since Niu Lin's death?"

"What happened to the boss three months after Niu Lin died."

Uncle Qi didn't ask any questions. He frowned and thought for a while. After a while, Lao Niu said, "Master, my sister-in-law had her fortune told. The blind fortuneteller said that there was something wrong with the feng shui of my brother's burial place. He refused to give up and is bringing disaster to the family. If we want to eliminate the bad luck of the family, we have to improve the feng shui around his grave."

What Lao Niu said is actually similar to what Luo Tianbao told me before about "Zu Meng", except that he is harming his family, but they are all "things that the dead do to the living after they are buried in the grave."

Is it true that people’s death will have an impact on future generations?

Uncle Qi said, "Judging from the time when his three children had accidents, there might be a connection. However, we still have to see if there are any problems with the feng shui of the grave before we can make a judgment."

"Thank you for your hard work, Masters. If this can be accomplished, it will help to resolve the bad luck of my brother's family. My sister-in-law said that she will give each of us a house in Beijing."

At that time, housing prices were not as outrageous as they are now, but they were still around 10,000 to 20,000 yuan per square meter. Even the smallest apartment of 60 or 70 square meters would cost more than 1 million yuan. This really scared me.

My seventh uncle said as if it was nothing unusual: "I'll talk about the money I owe after I finalize the plan tomorrow. I don't want a penny more than that." When I first heard it, I thought my seventh uncle was being polite, but later I learned that this was a big taboo in the family that everyone must abide by .