Chapter 361 Two Taboos
The atmosphere suddenly turned tense after Gao Min said this, and Ye Wanxi quickly coughed twice to remind her.
Gao Min then realized that what she had just blurted out was indeed inappropriate, and immediately said with annoyance, "Sorry, I didn't mean anything by it..."
"It's alright, there's really nothing wrong with talking about this." Ning Anquan smiled. "The person I just mentioned, strictly speaking, is she my stepmother?"
Gao Min froze, unable to help but gasp: "Stepmother?"
The scent of a juicy scandal from a wealthy family has intensified!
"Um."
The Ning family's situation is actually not that complicated. There are no hidden secrets like those in melodramatic idol dramas, such as marital infidelity or mistresses taking over. All they have is helplessness and the predicament of reality.
Ning Anquan's mother passed away from illness ten years ago, and Ning Anquan's father lived alone for several years after that.
Three years ago, Ning Anquan's father remarried through a friend's introduction; she is the stepmother Ning Anquan just mentioned.
So far, this seems normal enough. The only thing that needs to be complained about is that Ning Anquan's father married a new wife who is too young, only a few years older than Ning Anquan.
"You just said that your stepmother was introduced to you by your father's friend?"
"Yes, Uncle Li and my dad have been friends for decades."
"Friends of decades..."
When Ning Anquan heard Ye Wanxi drawl, his heart skipped a beat.
"Is something wrong? Uncle Li, he..."
"It's nothing, I was just asking casually."
Ning Anquan: "..." Your casual question is really making me nervous!
Ye Wanxi glanced at the construction site in front of her again, but didn't go in. She just wandered around the entrance twice.
"May I ask, what is the intended use of this building after it is completed?"
"A shopping mall and an office building. After the building is completed, the bottom three to five floors will be a shopping mall, and the floors above will be office buildings."
Ye Wanxi nodded: "In the engineering design, where is the main entrance to this building planned to be located?"
"The main gate?" Ning Anquan pondered for a moment, then led Ye Wanxi forward and pointed to an unfinished open space in front of them, saying, "Here."
"Here?" Ye Wanxi glanced in the direction Ning Anquan pointed, then turned to look at the busy road not far behind her, her expression slightly somber.
"No?"
"Of course not. The main entrance is not only the face of the entire building, but also the place where people come and go, and the air vent of the entire building. From the perspective of feng shui, air represents wealth. The better the location and the larger the door is, the more wealth will flow in. You just said that after your building is completed, the bottom floors will be used as a shopping mall. Those are shops, and you should pay more attention to this when you open a shop to do business."
Ye Wanxi paused, her eyes narrowing slightly: "But your building has two taboos in the design of its main entrance."
Ning Anquan's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly asked, "Which two taboos?"
"Firstly, the orientation is wrong. As I just mentioned, the orientation of your land is not good. According to what you just said, the main entrance faces here, and the entire building faces east, which violates the taboo that the door should not face the right direction. After completion, it will be exposed to the scorching sun in summer and be exposed to the north wind in winter. If you were in that situation, would you want to move into a shop like this?"
Ning Anquan pursed his lips, but he already had the answer in his heart.
"Secondly, and more critically, the door is located here, directly facing the road in front of us, or more precisely, the intersection."
"This intersection..."
"You noticed? It's a Y-shaped intersection. Y-shaped or even T-shaped intersections facing the main entrance are prone to creating negative energy. Your house already has a bad orientation, and now it faces such an intersection. If you don't have bad luck, who will?"
Ning Anquan's expression changed drastically: "What... what should we do?"
Ning Anquan knew this land was bad, but it was acquired by his father before his death, and construction had already begun before his father died. It wasn't something he could just abandon with a few words.
Otherwise, the initial investment alone would have been enough to break the cash flow of their small company, and it wouldn't have taken long for them to go bankrupt.
Therefore, the construction on this land is imperative. However, if Ye Wanxi's statement is true, if construction is carried out on this land, it will likely bring him endless trouble even before it is completed.
Even though he had already taken over his own company and was able to handle things on his own, Ning Anquan couldn't help but feel a little flustered.
“It’s alright, we can just change the direction the gate faces.” Ye Wanxi took the design drawings from Ning Anquan and pointed to a certain spot on the side. “Have the designer redesign it. Move the gate here, and after it’s built, build a pool in this spot outside the gate.”
"Place a goldfish tank and some bonsai trees in the lobby on the first floor. The goldfish tank represents water, and the bonsai trees represent wood. The combination of the two can greatly reduce the impact of unfavorable orientation."
A young assistant accompanied Ning Anquan. Upon hearing Ye Wanxi's words, the assistant quickly took out a pen and jotted them down without Ning Anquan needing to give any further instructions.
"That's pretty much it for the two main issues at the gate. As for the rest, we'll probably have to go inside to find out."
"Then I'll have to trouble you, Miss Ye." Ning Anquan hurriedly asked his assistant to find a few new safety helmets, and the group went into the construction site together.
Ye Wanxi did not linger on the lower floors, but instead had Ning Anquan take them directly to the top floor.
As soon as the servant entered the floor, Ye Wanxi's eyes flashed when she saw a spot in the wall that hadn't yet been filled in: "Just as I thought."
Zou Hanming had just heard Ye Wanxi's analysis of the gate and he really didn't expect that there were so many things to consider when building a house. He was extremely curious about these so-called feng shui theories.
Upon hearing Ye Wanxi's words, she immediately rushed over, asking, "What happened here?"
"Look over there."
Following the direction Ye Wanxi pointed, the group looked and found two towering office buildings standing about a hundred meters away from the wall.
"What happened over there?"
"Mr. Ning, according to the original design, wouldn't this wall have a window that faces the main entrance below?"
“Yes, yes,” Ning Anquan said truthfully. “This wall is designed as a floor-to-ceiling window. If the original design had been followed, the bottom of this wall would have faced the building’s entrance.”
"Then that's it. Look at those two office buildings over there. They're less than twenty meters apart, but their heights are nearly a hundred meters. Doesn't the narrow gap between these two tall buildings look like a knife that has cleaved the sky above them in two?"
"A knife?" Ning Anquan seemed to realize something, his expression changed drastically, and his gaze at the gap was filled with fear and apprehension.
(End of this chapter)
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