When Shopkeeper Lin said this, he couldn't help but say: "My father said something to me later. He said: Some people! Without knowledge, they think everyone is like him. They always take what they think of as logic... …”
Ning Beile didn't wait for him to finish his words, then his face darkened and he said, "I'm not asking you to talk nonsense, so keep talking."
Shopkeeper Lin was startled and quickly continued:
At that time, someone couldn't stop laughing: "Do you think your father is the Dragon King? If it snows, it will snow."
At this time, my master came over and said: "I am not the Dragon King, but the Dragon King dare not not listen to what I say."
"There will be heavy snow tonight."
The man curled his lips and said, "What if it doesn't snow? Why don't you two come over and kowtow to me?"
My grandfather turned around and looked at him and said, "If it doesn't snow tonight, you can come and take over my house tomorrow. If it snows tonight, get out of the street."
My father's words are called "calling out and setting up wrists" on the East Street. After saying something, it is equivalent to making a bet. Anyone who refuses to admit his mistake will no longer have to hang out on the East Street.
My father dropped the words, but I was so anxious.
I have been staring outside since dark, and I haven't seen any snowflakes outside until midnight.
I was about to burst into tears, but my father acted like nothing was wrong, eating and drinking when it was time, and when he was full, he told me to go to bed.
Who would have known that after I fell asleep, it started snowing heavily outside, and the snow on the roof could accumulate more than half a foot thick.
The next morning, as soon as I went out, I saw a pheasant with red feathers hanging at the door of my house.
The pheasant didn't know how long it had been hanging there, and it was covered with frost.
My grandfather picked the pheasant and buried it in front of the door, then took me back to the house.
The person who called me brought a gift that day and invited some respectable people on the street to come over and make peace.
As a result, my father threw him and his belongings out.
From then on, people on East Street didn’t dare to mess with my master anymore.
It was in the second year when my father really scared them.
In the spring of the next year, my father first erected a pointed iron stick on the left side of the house, saying it was waiting for the dragon's plate.
He also built a two-foot-tall small house on the right side of the yard, waiting for the tiger to live there.
Finally, he dug a puddle behind the house and threw quicklime into it every day, saying he was waiting for Xuanwu.
Later, these things were really waiting for him.
Within a few days, a green snake as thick as an arm was strung to death on the iron rod.
The snake seemed to have climbed to the top of the pole by itself, piercing its head on the iron tip, and its body was still tightly wrapped around the iron rod.
The next night, a white cat got into the small house and couldn't get out. It screamed hoarsely all night and died in the house.
A few days later, when a turtle the size of a basin actually boiled to death in the pool behind, everyone on East Street panicked.
At that time, the Feng Shui master on East Street came to my house with heavy gifts, kowtowed to my grandfather when I entered the door, and begged my grandfather one after another to please me and stop harming East Street.
The man talked to my father for a long time, but I could only get a general idea.
The man seemed to say: My master has set up a four-elephant death formation. Once this formation falls, it can cut off the earth's energy for dozens of miles.
At that time, East Street was doomed.
People on the east street were willing to contribute some money as a family to support us and my husband, and begged us to move out as soon as possible.
But my father said: "I'm just doing my own thing and not staying with you. I'll leave in a year and we don't know each other."
"As for the feng shui on your street, I still look down upon it."
When the man saw that he could not help me, he had no choice but to go back.
At that time, people on the whole street were unwilling to talk to my family, but my father didn’t care. They didn’t talk to us, and my father didn’t want to talk to them.
In this way, my family lived on East Street for another year.
When I was planning to move my family out, a plague suddenly broke out in Abacus City. At that time, the entire East Street was killing people every day.
My grandfather doesn't let us go out, and he walks in circles in the yard all day long. Sometimes he can't stop mumbling: "What should we do? What should we do... Logically speaking, we shouldn't!"
None of us know what he is going to do? Asked him, he wouldn't tell.
One day, my father suddenly asked me: "If someone gives you a large sum of money, but it costs thousands of lives in exchange for the money, should you exchange it?"
I didn't know how to answer my father at the time, and my father also knew that I couldn't answer, so he said to himself: "You are still so young, why should I ask you these questions?"
That night, my grandfather locked himself in the room and sat there all night.
The next morning, the smell of stew wafted from his house.
At that time, the rice in Abacus City was almost sold out. Everyone was counting the rice grains to put into the pot. When the smell of meat came out, who could still sit still?
I wanted to eat meat, but my father slapped me out. He told me: "This meat is not for you. No one in our Lin family can eat it."
My father didn't let us, the Lin family, eat meat, but he invited four people who had nothing to do with the Lin family. After they had eaten and drank enough, they left with four big buckets.
A few days after the four people left, the people in Abacus City who had the plague came back alive one after another, as if they had recovered without medicine.
Abacus City came back to life, but my father put on a shroud and called our whole family together to arrange three things:
My father said that he was going to die soon. After he died, the four people who had eaten his food would come to see him off and bury him. No one in the family is allowed to follow me except my uncle.
You should remember the appearance of those four people. They will be the ones guarding Old Lin's family from now on. No matter what happens to Old Lin's family, they will come to help. However, you usually have to pretend that you are not familiar with them. Don't ask about their affairs. Just know who they are.
From now on, the Old Lin family will take root in Abacus City. If someone presses us about the origins of the Old Lin family in the future, if you can handle it, then speak out. If you can't, then speak out. Remember, don't be brave in everything. Saving your life is the most important thing.
After my father said these words, he kicked us out and locked himself in the house.
At night, the four men came carrying a thin wooden coffin, buried my grandfather's body and left the Lin family. My uncle originally wanted to go alone to see my grandfather off, but his son and daughter had to go to see him off. He couldn't resist them, so he had to take them with him.
When those people came back, only the four coffin bearers were left, but my uncle's family did not come with them. Those people said, "My uncle's family has all gone to serve my father," and said nothing more.
After that, my uncle never came back, and my aunt hanged herself a year later. We were the only ones left in the Lin family. My grandfather's skills were not passed down to my father, only to my uncle. Our Lin family's ability has just ended.
