Over the past thirteen years, Grandpa's fame has grown.
There is an endless stream of people who come to him for Feng Shui advice, and there are even many wealthy families who come from provincial capitals.
One of the families, whose surname is Shen, is the richest man in Southwest China. I didn’t know what was wrong with their family, so I went to see my grandpa and gave him tens of thousands of dollars at a time, so our family instantly became a million-yuan household in the village.
That was also the last time my grandfather showed people Feng Shui.
"Laishun, do you still remember that thirteen years ago, my father took you to Longtan to get engaged? The eighth day of this month is your wedding day. Laishun... listen... your union with Miss Shen is... Destiny is also calamity..."
Grandpa paused.
"If Dad is not wrong in his calculations, our family will be in trouble this year. According to the hexagrams, life is death and death is life. Extreme happiness will lead to sorrow, but it will be peaceful if it fails! No matter what happens, I hope you don't hate Dad!"
My father seemed to understand something and knelt down in front of grandpa.
"My child understands! If it weren't for my father, my child would have died thirteen years ago. My child will listen to my father's orders!"
"Okay! Just understand! From now on, please remember that your wife's surname is Shen, and her natal family is a wealthy family in the southwest. As for the engagement in Longtan, from now on, you will completely forget about it! "
"By the way, tonight, my wife's family will come over to see you. You should change into clean clothes first."
After Grandpa said that, he stood up, took off the door god, and opened the door.
Afterwards, he moved an offering table from home and placed it in the middle of the yard. He also asked his father to go to the back of the house to pick fresh pears and place them on the offering table. Then, he took out a lot of paper money and sprinkled it in the yard.
It was midnight.
"Lai Shun, go and light these four pillars of incense!"
"Dad, why are there four pillars?"
My father looked puzzled, because he usually lit three incense sticks.
Grandpa poked his thigh with a cane, "You kid, why are you asking so many questions? Just order what you want!"
"okay!"
As soon as my father lit the incense, my grandfather shouted out the door: "The auspicious time has come, welcome to my mother-in-law!"
"Hehehe!"
In the night outside the courtyard gate, an old woman's laughter suddenly came.
"Long Changming, I haven't seen you for many years, but you are still so particular!"
Grandpa stood aside respectfully, lowered his head and said: "This is what it should be!"
"Easy to say!"
As soon as the woman finished speaking, the courtyard door was suddenly blown open by a gust of wind.
The father looked up and saw an old woman wearing a black robe and a ghost face mask walking in from the outside, still vaguely exuding black mist.
"Laishun, why don't you come over here!" Grandpa glanced at his father.
The father immediately stepped forward, knelt in front of the old woman, cupped his hands and said: "Junior Long Laishun! I have seen..."
"Hey? Is this the son-in-law chosen by our uncle?"
The old woman stretched out her withered hands and raised her father's chin with her long nails.
Suddenly, a cold air rushed towards my father.
The father was frightened and motionless. He didn't even dare to look at the old woman's skeletal face with his eyes.
"Don't be afraid! Let your mother-in-law take a good look!" After saying that, he started to look at it carefully.
"I said Long Changming, Long Changming, you have been practicing Taoism all your life, but you gave birth to such a weird son. It is really a trick of fate! If the old woman is not wrong, your wife is not an ordinary person, right?"
"He was born with a Taoist body, but he is also a short-lived ghost! No wonder my uncle chose him!"
Grandpa broke out in a sweat from nervousness and replied politely: "Mother-in-law, are you dissatisfied with anything?"
The old woman waved her hand and strode towards the main room of our house. Grandpa and father followed her into the room.
"This is the bride price that my mother-in-law wants. If you, Long Changming, can afford it, my uncle will send it to your door at midnight on the eighth day of the lunar month. By the way, I have already sent the younger ones to the Shen family. You guys are in Longtan Just pick up the kiss on the side."
Grandpa took the gift list and saw cold sweat on his head, and his hands couldn't help but tremble.
The old woman asked: "Is there a problem?"
Grandpa put down the gift list, his face turned pale, and he suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed.
"I didn't expect that I, Long Changming, who has accumulated good deeds throughout my life, would end up on this path. Is this my fate? I will personally prepare the betrothal gift you want, but I hope you will not embarrass my son in the future!"
The old woman took back the betrothal gift list, and when it came into her hand, it instantly turned into ashes.
"It's not difficult to talk about. With my uncle here, our master won't do anything to your son. But whether my uncle can accept your son in the end is not our master's decision."
"you……"
"What about us? When your son fell into Longtan thirteen years ago, you shouldn't have let him come back to life! Since you have chosen this path, you should think about the consequences you will face later!"
Having said this, the old woman reached out and took off the jade pendant from her father's neck, holding it in her hand to play with.
A golden light suddenly shot out from the jade pendant. The old woman threw the jade pendant far away as if struck by lightning.
I saw her covering her face with a ghost mask, and her whole body was wrapped in a black mist...
Grandpa immediately picked up the jade pendant and muttered a few spells in a low voice before the light on the jade pendant disappeared.
The black mist on the old woman's body dispersed, and she was seen standing aside angrily.
"I didn't expect that I would start to protect the master now! Forget it! It seems that this boy's life should not be cut off. If my uncle is willing to spare this boy's life, my master will have nothing to say!"
The old woman was obviously very frightened just now and did not want to stay at our house any longer.
"Okay! I've seen it too. Apart from being a bit honest and dull, I'm also impressed by everything else. Long Changming, go prepare the bride price in advance! As for the villagers, I will let them stay at home honestly that day. !”
After the old woman left, grandpa took out a handkerchief and kept wiping the cold sweat on his forehead.
The father asked in confusion: "Dad, who is that old woman from? Is she really from my wife's natal family?"
"Human? Boy, do you know what the gods, three ghosts and four are?"
After his father finished speaking, he walked outside the courtyard, removed the offering table, and threw the four pillars of unburned incense heavily at his feet.
"Four...four sticks of incense? She is..." The words came to my father's lips and he suddenly swallowed them.
But don’t my wife’s family live in Longtan?
How could that old woman be a ghost? Could it be...a water ghost?
"Laishun, it seems that dad is going to your grandma's house! You stay at home these two days, and I will leave a few doormen to protect you. No matter what happens outside, you just need to be patient Just stay at home!”
"Seven days, only seven days left!"
Grandpa sighed, took out a piece of paper, tore out a few little figures, and threw them on the ground.
The paper man landed on the ground and suddenly came to life, jumping up and down and running towards the outside of the courtyard.
This scene made my father's eyes wide open.
My father has known since I was a child that my grandfather has profound magic skills. But this is what my father learned from his grandfather's customers, but this time, he watched his grandfather perform the spell with his own eyes.
