Seeing that Lin Xi had finally agreed to help, the boss was overjoyed and quickly invited Lin Xi to her office to chat.
Although there weren't many customers in the store at the moment, it wasn't exactly a good place to discuss business.
Especially after they began to suspect that someone or something was targeting their store, the owner wished he could take Lin Xi to a vacuum so that no one could hear their conversation.
Since Lin Xi had agreed to help, she naturally didn't hesitate.
I got up and followed my boss to her office.
There is a corridor behind the cashier, and the boss's office is in one of the rooms.
Her office has a great location, closest to the cashier, and the side window faces the street, so it's well-lit.
Upon entering the office, the boss quickly invited Lin Xi to sit down and then immediately asked her how to find the root of the problem and how to resolve the current predicament.
Lin Xi did not answer immediately, but instead channeled her spiritual energy into her eyes and scanned her surroundings again.
The spiritual energy gathered in her eyes helps her see the gases in the entire environment more clearly.
Although one can see the general atmosphere around without mobilizing spiritual energy, one cannot completely separate each gas.
At this moment, in Lin Xi's eyes, every kind of aura seemed to have its own unique color, and the entire space was filled with auras of various sizes and colors.
Apart from the anger of a few employees and customers, the most pervasive atmosphere in the store was a layer of gray and white.
This aura was exactly the same low and uncomfortable aura that Lin Xi had sensed earlier.
The aura didn't emanate from inside the shop; rather, it drifted in from outside.
Lin Xi looked outwards and saw that the aura was getting stronger and stronger, and the color was getting darker and darker, gradually changing from grayish-white to light gray, then to dark gray, and finally to blackish-gray.
And the source of that dark gray color—
It turned out to be a place across the street.
Lin Xi frowned and quickly pinpointed the source of the dark gray aura.
It was a Bagua mirror, and a convex Bagua mirror that was facing the store directly.
In Feng Shui, Bagua mirrors have various functions depending on their type.
The most common types are convex Bagua mirrors, concave Bagua mirrors, and flat Bagua mirrors.
The flat Bagua mirror is the gentlest type, mostly used to adjust or balance the energy field. Whether it is pointed at a person or an object, it will not have any negative impact on it.
Concave Bagua mirrors are used to gather energy, attract wealth, and bring good fortune.
The concave Bagua mirror has an inward-curving mirror surface, similar in shape to a bowl, which implies absorption and holding.
Hanging such a mirror facing people and objects will not have any negative effects, because its main purpose is to gather various kinds of good "qi".
Finally, there is the convex Bagua mirror, which is also the most common and frequently used type of Bagua mirror for most people.
This type of convex Bagua mirror is quite sharp and is used to ward off and neutralize negative energy.
The convex surface acts like a shield, reflecting away all the negative energy that shines through.
If a convex Bagua mirror is facing a house, and that house is also being attacked by negative energy, then all of that negative energy will be reflected back to the area directly opposite the mirror.
That is, the family across the hall.
Actually, this kind of "evil aura" is not the kind of evil aura that Lin Xi often encountered, but rather a kind of energy field, a form of energy expression.
This kind of "negative energy" can cause endless interference to the originally normal energy field, producing many negative effects.
Affected by this "inauspicious energy," the fortunes of people, buildings, shops, and companies within this energy field will be disrupted and impacted.
Things like the most common ones, such as wealth and career luck, will naturally be affected.
Coincidentally, the place across the street with the convex Bagua mirror is also a restaurant, a two-story establishment.
The Bagua mirror was hanging just above the signboard on the first floor, sandwiched between the signboard and the decorations on the second-floor window sill.
Furthermore, the convex Bagua mirror was not large, only slightly larger than the palm of a hand, and its color was very similar to the main color of the restaurant across the street.
If you don't look closely, you can't even tell that there's a Bagua mirror hanging there.
Lin Xi really didn't believe that the person who hung the Bagua mirror in such an inconspicuous place was doing it on purpose.
Moreover, business people like them, in order to make their businesses more prosperous, even if they don't understand matters related to feng shui and energy fields, will ask a master to take a look and adjust the feng shui first.
She believed that no feng shui master would be unaware of the effects of hanging a convex Bagua mirror facing someone else's front door.
So the restaurant across the street that hangs a Bagua mirror is probably there because they're after this restaurant.
Having found the source, Lin Xi finally looked away.
She looked at the boss in front of her and asked.
"Have you ever dealt with that restaurant across the street?"
Upon hearing this, the boss instinctively looked out the window and immediately spotted the restaurant across the street.
He then shook his head, his expression turning somewhat grim.
“We haven’t had any direct dealings with them, but when our store opened, we launched several original dishes created by our head chef. Not long after, we heard that the restaurant across the street had similar dishes.”
But because they weren't exactly the same, even if she noticed this, there was nothing she could say.
Besides, they haven't applied for a patent for this dish, and each chef's version tastes different. If there are similarities, there's no way to accuse the other party of plagiarism or anything like that.
But because of this incident, the boss didn't have a very good impression of the people at the restaurant across the street.
Fortunately, they are separated by a street, and the other party's audience is more inclined towards family gatherings, business dinners, and so on.
Her restaurant caters to a younger demographic, making it suitable for couples or groups of friends.
Moreover, the restaurant across the street opened several years earlier than them and has been established here for many years, with a large number of regular customers.
She knew she couldn't win against them, and she never even considered competing with them.
Fortunately, after the other party and her restaurant launched their "new dishes" one after the other, no similar incidents occurred again.
So she didn't pay much attention to the restaurant across the street, and the two sides have kept to themselves ever since.
However, during this period when business was slow at their shop, she would sit in her office, look out the window, and see how business was going at the restaurant across the street.
Her intention was to see if there was indeed little foot traffic today, and not many people were out dining out, which was why their business was so bad.
When she looked across the street, she saw a bustling restaurant with people coming and going, and business was booming, which made her feel even more heartbroken.
In comparison, her shop's business seemed even more miserable.
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